Got put down an interesting Diddy rabbit hole by a friend who worked for Warner Music once upon a time.
Apparently Diddy's dad worked for Frank Lucas, running heroin into the US during vietnam. Familiar with the movie American Gangster? That's Frank Lucas.
Interestingly enough, Diddy was awfully close to the Bronfmans, the wealthy family that owns Seagrams and got its start bootlegging from Canada during the prohibition. Back then, Edgar Bronfman Sr. was the CEO.
How close to the family was he? Well, he hung out with Edgar Jr quite a bit.. Apparently Jeffrey Epstein got his start
And it shouldn't be surprising that Combs, who was essentially the Jeffrey Epstein of the music world, would be so joined at the hip as the made man of the same family as the sisters who ran the NXIVM sex cult, which engaged in trafficking, Sara and Clare Bronfman.
Epstein and the Bronfmans had all the same friends as well. With massive investment in legal human trafficking (immigration) and illegal human trafficking (prostitution). It's good to see the rumors that have been floating around about Diddy finally hit the mainstream.
He was also pals with Naomi Campbell, a known Epstein collaborator according to Virginia Giuffre in her testimony against him.
This video has a good explanation of extra fine details I won't repeat here, as he sums them up pretty well.
There's nothing particularly organic about Sean Combs position. His dad was part of a highly organized crime syndicate with adjacent links to the CIA via the French Connection to the heroine trade. He was born into his profession and uplifted further by wealthy crime families.
And in unraveling the current state of the world in my research, it feels like everything keeps coming back to two families. The Pritzkers, who created Obama from cradle to grave, and the Bronfmans. Two chicago mob families of massive influence.
And in turn, Obama studied under weather underground founder Bill Ayers in Chicago, who introduced him to Penny Pritzker at a house party. Penny would go on to become his commerce secretary, and currently she rules Harvard with an iron grip as its senior fellow to push DEI.
The Pritzkers are a real rogues gallery of assholes, but that's probably a story for another thread. Particularly the only "trans billionaire", "Jennifer" Pritzker.
A friend once told me that every taboo being normalized starts as a billionaires fetish and/or blackmail.
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My father in law has worked construction his whole life, concrete and safety inspection mostly.
Became a heat casualty at work last year, fell out and had to get a pacemaker put in. They laid him off as soon as he got out of the hospital, and he spent a few months looking for another job.
He's a hairs breadth away from 67 and got a job paying far less than what he was used to because nobody wants to hire a guy his age for the less labor intensive jobs as an inspector he's been doing for years and years.
He has to wait till the end of this year when his wife, who aside from being a part time paraprofessional at a school, has been a homemaker all her life. If they apply for social security early, they're penalized. If he doesn't apply jointly with her, she loses 30 percent of her benefit, permanently.
Without social security/retirement, he'd probably die on the job sometime in his early 70's out in the summer heat one day at this rate.
They're simple but good people, who grew up extremely poor and worked their way up and raised 3 kids. He was never in a position to go get some desk job he could do until 80 or whatever, the man can barely use a computer. He's nowhere near the only person in his position.
It's really easy to make an argument like this when you're a college educated desk enjoyer for your entire life. But that isn't how everyone or even most people live.
He's waiting till 67 because that is the age you wait to claim social security till to get your max benefit. I did the math for them and if they both retire at the max age, they'll get about 5.5k as their fixed income to figure out for the rest of their lives.
But it's an idiotic take, yeah if you have some laptop class job you can and probably *will* work past your 60's because it's physically easy and people like money.
But social security can't distinguish between how much labor you've done in your life.
The thing Elon doesn't understand is that the value of DOGE isn't saving money.
The value of DOGE is in bypassing normal bureaucratic back and forth to dismantle enemy institutions and human capital that act as sinecures for the left that finance their apparatus with tax $$$. 🧵
The "Fork in the Road" early retirement isn't a useful means of reducing manpower or saving money.
It was useful for ejecting federal employees who had so much TDS they couldn't stomach working for this administration or were lazy and ran away from being held to high standards.
@elonmusk is crashing out about the debt ceiling and spending, but this runaway ponzi scheme was basically written into the firmware of our economy when Bretton Woods happened.
And to redesign our economy and govt into something healthy, we need roadblocks gone.
USCIS just gutted the Special Immigrant Juvenile program, which one lawyer I spoke to referred to as the "MS-13 Visa Program". I talked to a few lawyers on both the Govt and Private side of the issue and I'll explain what this is and what this means: 🧵
The SIJ program is designed to cover cases of child abandonment, such as a child under 21 being abandoned by one parent in their home country, while the other resides in the United States. In reality, it's a gigantic fraud scheme. USCIS explains their reasoning:
Being classified as an SIJ was rendering these youths subject to "Deferred Adjudication" where while waiting years for a verdict on their status, they were conferred a sort of deferred legal residence/work authorization.
What this is actually about is revenge, it's revenge season.
Trump is buck breaking big pharma over the entire industry collectively not telling the truth about COVID, botching the response on purpose out of greed, as well as turning what he wanted to be a cornerstone of his career, the COVID vax, into one of the biggest question marks that gets aimed at him from his own base.
You can count on the fact that several appendages of big pharma *knew* it was a lab leak, *knew* it wasn't all that lethal to most of the citizenry, and *knew* that it wasn't a good idea to deploy an untested technology like mRNA vaccines to hundreds of millions+ of people.
The one thing you do *not* want to do to a guy like Trump is embarass him. Obama did that at the correspondents dinner, and look how that went for him and his legacy.
I think that's the reason behind a lot of the actions regarding Israel of the last few days as well. Israel snubbed Trump within 72 hours of the 2020 election despite all the support he extended them during his first term.
In response there's been rebuke after rebuke of Israel, motivated by past insults and fresh ones, like AIPAC bragging about their access to Tim Waltz, and the likelihood that SignalGate was orchestrated by them to discredit Hegseth.
All of these things inconvenienced and embarrassed Trump, and the only thing worse than that which you can do to him is not reciprocate gestures of loyalty or friendship which he has shown. "Project Warp Speed" will always be a controversy, the economy was rocked onto its heels by the COVID response that wasn't actually necessary, lives ruined, childhoods crushed, and the idea that people knew and not a single one was able to tell him the truth of the matter burns a guy like Donald to his core.
Trump tolerates some incompetence and even some collateral damage/embarrassment from his fellows (see Guiliani) if they are loyal. This is one of his traits that I don't particularly admire, but it's true.
But what I do admire is his capacity for revenge against those who engage in pettiness, betrayal, or disloyalty.
Let me clarify a bit about the vax.
Big Pharma lied about the efficacy trials and sued to hide the data to get the vaccine released, albeit after slow walking it to keep it from being released before the election.
Trump will never stop talking up project warp speed as being "stupendous" because Trump has gone on record saying *many* times not to admit mistakes, and even when you're losing to act like you are winning. He's never going to turn around and apologize, or admit something didn't work out as planned, or take fault/blame/responsibility for something bad. It just is what it is, it is his psychology.
But you can guarantee the fact that things didn't go the way he wanted *irks* the man incessantly. The same way what Israel did irks him. This is not a man who you want to dump a mess in the lap of (even if he makes tons of messes on his own that he tends not to clean up)
Donald Trump, for better or worse, is a man who *never* admits that he is wrong. If he has to, he fakes it till he makes it and will swear the sky is purple if need be.
Which seems to be a common trait in famous businessmen (see Elon etc)
So when you make something he is attached to go tits up, it pisses a guy like that off, because now he has to avoid admitting that something went tits up.
The only facts about the new Pope I've been able to glean thus far as a non catholic:
-He's American
-His timeline reads like leftist coal
-He's made statements disapproving of gays, gay marriage, and women in the clergy
-He's from Chicago (ick)
-He's publicly countersignaled JD Vance on ordo amoris and immigration but also vehemently stated the catholic church shouldn't be endorsing open borders and mass migration, but taking in refugees as they are able to
Some snippets of his:
My overall assessment from looking at a ton of other takes is that this guy appears to be a milquetoast moderate who leans left on immigration but leans right on some social issues like gays and abortions.
Feeling I'm getting is he will be a much less vocal pope than Francis overall
I think we're in the middle of the greatest epistemic re-sorting/unraveling of our lives right now. Shiloh Hendrix, Karmelo Anthony, Tariffs, the Civil Rights Act, White Guilt, TFR, WW2, it all ties together.
The death of boomer neuromythology: 🧵
There's been a lot of collected momentum over the last decade of people in the west realizing that things are *really* not ok, that the world doesn't work as it should. One of the most perturbing are many sets of punitive, unfair, illogical double standards.
Which is what the Shiloh Hendrix incident is really about, a refutation of one of those double standards. Don't focus too much on the event itself, the point is not to justify a mom calling some black kid the gamer word, it's not about what type of person she is or is not either.