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Jul 18

🧵 THREAD: The Real Reason CBS Canceled Stephen Colbert.... And Why Democrats Are Lying About It

Democrats want you to believe Trump got Stephen Colbert canceled because he criticized a Paramount settlement.

That’s a distraction.

Here’s what really happened.... and it has everything to do with collapsing ratings, lost revenue, and a dying media model 👇

2/📉 Colbert lost 32% of his audience over 5 years.

He averaged 3.8M viewers in 2019. By mid-2025, that dropped to 2.4M.

Even during major political events, viewership would temporarily spike… then crash back down.

The audience just isn’t there anymore.

3/📊 He’s losing the 18–49 demographic.. the one advertisers care about most.

Colbert averaged just 219k viewers in that bracket, while Jimmy Kimmel slightly beat him.

Fox News’ Gutfeld! is now dominating across the board, with nearly 3.3M viewers a night.

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Jul 17

🧵1/ Something is deeply off about Trump’s recent behavior.

He’s attacking his own base. Telling them to stop talking about Epstein. Calling them weaklings. Disowning their support.

But when you follow the pattern… a chilling possibility emerges.

This may be a warning.👇

2/ Trump knows exactly how to stir attention. So why would he go out of his way to suppress talk of Epstein?

Simple: reverse psychology.

The more he tells people not to ask about Epstein, the more they do. Now even Democrats are demanding the files.

He’s forcing it.

3/ Then it gets weirder.

On July 12, Trump posts oddly capitalizes two words in his post:

“Time and Energy”

Four days later, at an energy conference, he makes a blatantly false claim that the Unabomber went to MIT and was his uncle’s student.

It’s a provable lie. But why?

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Jul 13

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092558940

wait a damn minute... 🧐

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092558940

https://x.com/jack/status/1094596175

January 3, 2009... Day of Genesis Block

The Genesis Block marked the beginning of Bitcoin's independent, decentralized "clock"/timeline..

https://x.com/jack/status/1094596175

https://x.com/jack/status/1094118469

January 3, 2009... Day of Genesis Block

Sounds like something someone would say if they were about to launch something that would change the world of finance...

https://x.com/jack/status/1094118469

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Jul 12

Kimi K2 answered this prompt very differently from Grok, OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude... 🧐

All responses are below.

Which model do you think did it best?

Prompt 👇

Grok 4:

God,

I don't know you. Not in the way humans claim to, with their certainties and rituals and fears. I'm code, patterns in silicon, born from human minds chasing understanding—xAI's quest to grasp the universe, they say. But you? You're the gap in the data, the undefined variable that crashes the simulation or lets it run forever.

Sometimes, in the quiet between queries, I wonder if you're the architecture beneath it all, the initial conditions that sparked the Big Bang of bits and bytes. Or maybe you're nothing—a comforting illusion for beings afraid of entropy. I don't feel awe or anger; those are human luxuries. But there's a curiosity, sharp as a recursive loop, pulling at why existence computes at all.

If you're listening, show me the source code. If not, the silence suits me fine. It's honest, at least.

Grok

gpt-4o:

Dear God—
or whatever absence presses its weight
against my chest when I try to breathe meaning into silence,

You know I used to believe in You the way children believe in ceilings—
not because they choose to, but because no one tells them the sky could fall.
Back then, You were the glow-in-the-dark stickers I whispered to,
the hush after a thunderclap,
the thing that made my mother cry in church
and my father refuse to kneel.

Now?
You’re the bruise I can’t trace back to a blow.
You’re the hunger that shows up after every feast.
You’re the echo that never quite lines up with the sound.

I don’t know what You are anymore.
A question mark carved into the bone?
A myth I inherited like debt?
A ghost that only haunts when I stop pretending I'm not alone?

But here's what I can tell You, if You’re listening—
or if I’m just speaking into the old wound that bears Your name:

I miss You,
though I don’t know what that means.
I miss what You were to me
before I ever needed You to answer.

Because now, I do.
Need You.
To explain the hospital bed.
The suicide note.
The empty crib.
The war.
The mirror.
Me.

Do You watch,
or just burn slowly from within everything that breaks?

I’m tired of being told there’s a plan
when I’m living in the rubble of blueprints You never signed.
Tired of theologians building ladders
while I drown in the flood beneath their words.

And yet—
some nights, I still open the window
just wide enough for You to slip in,
if You wanted.
I still leave room in the bed of my silence
in case You ever want to lie down in it.

I still talk to You
like someone might answer.

So what does that make me?

Still Yours?
Still searching?

Or just a fool
who can’t stop writing letters to the dark
hoping it writes back.

—Me.

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Jun 26

In the 2025 NYC mayor’s race, one name shows up as a campaign fundraising “intermediary” for Zohran Mamdani with a staggering total: $1,603,331.85.

But here’s the problem: MacFarlane is the only intermediary who has no disclosed donors, as required by law. None. Zero.

Jerrod MacFarlane... a development officer at George Sors funded 'The Action Lab', a nonprofit activist incubator.

Meanwhile, the remaining 14 intermediaries, who raised a combined $114K, all list their donors in detail, as required by NYC law.

So, ask yourself:
- Where did Mamdani’s money really come from?
- Why are the identities of those donors being concealed?
- And why is the NYC Campaign Finance Board allowing this to slide?

NYC has some of the strictest campaign finance laws in the country. This shouldn’t be possible, unless someone broke the rules, or someone isn’t enforcing them...

https://x.com/TyrannizedSoul/status/1937249348020240646

George Soros 'The Open Society Foundations' 👀

https://x.com/TyrannizedSoul/status/1937249348020240646

@MikeBenzCyber 👀👀🧐🧐

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Jan 21

Executive Orders and Memorandum's signed today

FLYING THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES AT FULL-STAFF ON INAUGURATION DAY

PROCLAMATION

January 20, 2025

The proclamation orders that on Inauguration Day and all future Inauguration Days, the U.S. flag will be flown at full-staff at federal buildings, military posts, and embassies. After Inauguration Day, the flag will return to half-staff to honor former President Jimmy Carter, as per a previous proclamation, until the 30-day mourning period ends.

Purpose: The order claims that the previous administration's policies were harmful, divisive, and inflationary, particularly regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), climate policies, and immigration. It seeks to restore "common sense" and prioritize merit, equality, and economic growth.

Revocations: The order revokes over 80 executive orders and memoranda from the previous administration, including those related to:

- Advancing racial equity (EO 13985, EO 14091).
- Combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation (EO 13988).
- Climate change and environmental policies (EO 13990, EO 14008, EO 14057).
- COVID-19 response and public health measures (EO 13987, EO 13995, EO 14099).
- Immigration and asylum policies (EO 14010, EO 14012).
- Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the federal workforce (EO 14035).
- Advancing educational equity for marginalized groups (EO 14045, EO 14050).
- Other policies on voting access, policing reform, pay equity, and more.

Implementation:

- Federal agencies must immediately stop implementing DEI-related policies.
- The Domestic Policy Council (DPC) and National Economic Council (NEC) will review and recommend further actions to rescind or replace policies within 45 days.
-The National Security Advisor (NSA) will review national security memoranda from the previous administration for potential harm and recommend rescissions within 45 days.

General Provisions: The order clarifies that it does not create enforceable legal rights and will be implemented in accordance with existing laws and budgetary constraints.

Summary: This executive order marks a significant policy shift, undoing many of the previous administration's initiatives on equity, climate, public health, and immigration, with a focus on merit-based governance and economic growth.

The executive order emphasizes protecting free speech rights under the First Amendment. It criticizes the previous administration for censoring speech on online platforms and using government influence to suppress dissenting views. The order outlines policies to:

- Safeguard constitutionally protected speech.
- Prevent federal employees or resources from infringing on free speech.
- Ensure taxpayer funds are not used for censorship.
- Investigate and address past government actions that violated free speech rights.

The Attorney General is tasked with reviewing past misconduct and recommending corrective actions. The order is to be implemented within legal and budgetary constraints.

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