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Jan 23

America First… or America Financed?

How the Green New Deal Never Died It

It Just Learned How to Hide.
🧵

If anyone tells you, it dead or gone or even worse the positive changes are coming it takes time. It’s a non issue compared to the economy, housing and taxes.

They would be dead wrong because it’s literally the driving factor behind them all🤔

FY26 appropriations bills was just proved it. So… if this was just last week… 🤷‍♂️

The question we should be asking is how does any of this help Americans? 🧵🪡

What Congress passed is not the end of centralized green technocracy it’s the maturation of it. The strategy didn’t change. The language did.

We’re told this funding package is about Energy dominance, National security, Fiscal responsibility, and Cutting woke spending.

But when you actually follow the money, not the press releases you realize there just financing
👉Indirect Taxation Through Energy 👈 inevitable

Here’s the sleight of hand most Americans missed or maybe don’t know… 🤷‍♂️

Instead of direct federal spending (which voters can see and revolt against), the system now works like this🤔

1. Federal government seeds capital (loans, guarantees, reprogrammed funds)

2. States and utilities become revenue collectors

3. Energy costs, grid fees, compliance costs, and credits are passed to ratepayers

4. Taxation becomes invisible

No vote. No IRS form. No accountability. Just higher utility bills, infrastructure built with permanent adjustments, and grid modernization fees.

That’s not free-market energy.
That’s monetized compliance.

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Rants From Alaska

@AlaskanRants

Oct 15, 2025

⚡ The Grid Crisis OpenAI’s AI Boom Is Overloading America We Must Act Now ⚡

The simple truth ✅
America’s power grid is on borrowed time. Demand is exploding from AI data centers, but we’re not building fast enough. By 2026, spare capacity drops below safe levels in major regions. Blackouts could start next year.

Why⁉️ 🧵👇

1. THE DEMAND EXPLOSION

💥US electricity use
Flat for 10 years. Now? + we need 25% by 2030, +78% by 2050.

💥AI data centers
From 25 GW today to 80+ GW by 2030.

💥Texas (ERCOT)
Worst hit – +13.4% growth/year. Other regions average 4.4%.

💥OpenAI’s role
Their $1T+ deals lock in 26 GW of compute power. Stargate project alone 10 GW (powers 8 million homes). Texas phase: $100B, building now.

______Bottom line______

AI isn’t waiting. One company’s buildout = power for entire cities.

2. THE GRID’S CORE PROBLEM

We Spend on Repairs, Not Growth
Think of the grid like old water pipes

💥Distribution spending
72% on fixes/replacements. Only 28% expands capacity.

💥Transmission spending
60% on maintenance. Only 40% builds new lines.

Result 🧾 Demand surges, but pipes stay small. System bursts. Utilities are debt-loaded – they can’t afford big upgrades without rate hikes.

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Rants From Alaska

@AlaskanRants

Oct 12, 2025

🧠 The Digital Farm Welcome to the Age of Sentient Simulation

Alright, let’s talk about the new world order nobody voted for but… it’s still the reality we’re already living in.

It’s not coming next year.
It’s not “AI is coming.”
It’s Here.

And it’s got your face, your heartbeat, your thoughts odds are it’s probably saving your next argument, saved on a cloud server somewhere in a deep dark room. ☁️

Then comes your “digital twin.”
Your virtual clone.
It’s already tracking your steps, heartbeat, spending, and sleep.

That Fitbit on your wrist❓
That “smart” fridge that nags you to buy milk❓
That’s data feeding your twin.

A perfect replica of you 💯 built for prediction, not protection. ⚙️

So when your phone knows you’re sad before you do, it’s because your twin already told them.

They call it “sentient simulation.”
Cute term for digital consciousness built out of your experiences.

It’s not just an algorithm learning to talk like you it’s a mirror that feels like you.

It studies your reactions,
Your hope,
your humor,
your anger.

It will learn your humanity so it can sell it back to the highest bidder.

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Rants From Alaska

@AlaskanRants

Sep 8, 2025

Thomas Nast the OG meme lord.

The “Father of the American Political Cartoon” used his pen the way we use memes today, to clown on politicians, shape public opinion, and even influence elections. 🧵cont. 👇

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Born in Germany in 1840, Nast immigrated to New York as a kid. By age 12, he was enrolled at the National Academy of Design.

By 15, he was drawing professionally. By 25, he was shaking up American politics with Harper’s Weekly.

🧵cont. 👇

3/
Nast wasn’t just drawing funny pictures.
He changed politics.

✔️ Championed abolition of slavery
✔️ Backed rights for Chinese immigrants & Native Americans
✔️ Exposed corruption (Tammany Hall, “Boss” Tweed)

❌ Spread anti-Irish & anti-Catholic stereotypes

🧵cont. 👇

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Rants From Alaska

@AlaskanRants

Sep 3, 2025

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Alaskan Supreme Court’s Forfeiture Ruling ToDay is an Affront to Constitutional Rights ⚖️🚨

The Alaska Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the forfeiture of Ken Jouppi’s $95,000 💰✈️ Cessna U206D over a six-pack of Budweiser 🍺 is a grotesque violation of the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause 📜 amd a dangerous precedent for property rights nationwide 🏛️.

This isn’t just bad law ❌ it’s screaming government overreach 🚫👮, and it demands a U.S. Supreme Court reversal 🔄🇺🇸.

Let’s break it down with the facts and numbers. 👇📊

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In 2012, Jouppi, an 82-year-old Alaskan bush pilot 👨‍✈️❄️ with a spotless record 🧾✨, was convicted of a misdemeanor under Alaska Stat. § 04.11.499(a) 📜 for “knowingly” transporting alcohol to a dry village 🚫🍺.

The offense❓
A passenger’s visible six-pack of Budweiser 🍻👀, spotted during a pre-flight inspection in Fairbanks 🛫🔍.

The plane never left the tarmac 🛑✈️ zero miles traveled toward the destination 📏0️⃣.

Jouppi faced the statutory minimum ⚖️ a $1,500 fine 💵 and three days in jail ⛓️3️⃣.

His passenger, who also had three hidden cases of beer 📦🍺🍺🍺 (12 gallons total ), pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor ⚖️.

Yet, Alaska pursued forfeiture of Jouppi’s $95,000 aircraft 💸✈️ under § 04.16.220(a)(3)(C) 📜, which mandates seizure regardless of alcohol quantity 🍶 or offense severity 🚫⚖️.

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The numbers tell the story of disproportion ⚖️. The offense was a class A misdemeanor, the lowest tier for first-time offenders transporting less than 12 gallons of beer (§ 04.16.200(e)).

The six-pack, roughly 0.5625 gallons (6 × 12 oz) 🍺, is a fraction of the 12-gallon felony threshold 📏.

The trial court initially ruled the forfeiture unconstitutional 🚫, noting the violation’s “minimal gravity” and lack of connection to broader criminal activity.

Even the state conceded Jouppi wasn’t running a bootlegging operation ❌🍶. Yet, the Alaska Supreme Court, in a unanimous 2025 ruling authored by Justice Jude Pate, declared the $95,000 forfeiture constitutional 💸✈️, arguing the legislature deemed any alcohol import to a dry village harmful enough to justify seizing an aircraft.

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Rants From Alaska

@AlaskanRants

Jul 28, 2025

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I’ve just digging into the, hyping Trump’s so-called “game-changing” executive order to stuff Bitcoin, gold, and a laundry list of “alternative assets” like private equity into your sacred 401(k) plans.

2/🧵
They’re waving around flashy numbers

🤔 A portfolio with 10% BTC and 10% gold supposedly crushed it at 601% returns from 2015-2025, versus a measly 135% for the old-school 60/40 stocks-bonds mix.

3/🧵
This isn’t innovation, it’s a grave, reckless mistake that’s gonna torch everyday Americans’ nest eggs while bailing out the very wolves bankrupting our private industries at record speeds! Only reason to say no right here👆

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