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Sep 14 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
🚨 EV COLLAPSE: Ford & GM just waved the white flag.

After years of hype, mandates, & billions in subsidies, America’s biggest automakers are slashing electric vehicles — & refocusing on gas trucks & SUVs.

There's enough demand for Tesla.

But most people don't want EVs. 🧵👇 Image
2/ Trump kept his promise.

In July, he signed the Big Beautiful Bill ending Biden’s $7,500 EV tax credit scheme.

Without the taxpayer cash bribes, EV sales are collapsing. Automakers are panicking. Image
3/ EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is rolling back Biden’s “endangerment finding” — the legal trick used to justify over $1 TRILLION in Green New Deal regs.

Why? Because is was pure politics dressed up as "science".

4/ Americans never wanted EVs.

📊 Only 8% of new vehicles sold in Q1 2025 were fully electric.
💰 On average they cost $11,700 more than gas cars.
⚡ Most buyers don’t want the hassle, the chargers, or the fire risk.

But Democrats tried to force us all to buy them. Image
5/ GM finally admitted reality.

🚨 Cutting EV production in Tennessee.
🚨 Spending $5B expanding gas vehicle production.
🚨 Quietly pivoting back to trucks & SUVs that actually sell.

They overcommitted to the EV cult — now they’re paying the price. Image
6/ Ford is in even deeper trouble.

❌ $2.2B lost on EVs in just the first half of 2025.
❌ Pushed back major EV launches by years.
❌ Converting Canadian EV plant back to gas truck production.

Their CFO admitted Biden’s EV targets were “irrational.” Image

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Sep 16
🚨 BREAKING: The Fed is set to cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 — after months of pressure from President Trump.

Markets expect a 25-point cut — about 1/12 of what's needed — as job creation collapses...in large part due to the Fed's much-too-high rates.

THREAD 🧵
2/ The jobs picture is grim:

– August: only 22,000 jobs added
– July: revised to 79,000
– June: revised down, 13,000 jobs LOST

Weak labor markets are forcing Powell’s hand. But it's his fault: he's kept rates high to hurt Trump, while relying on bogus BLS data on jobs. Image
3/ Trump has brought in pledges of more than $10 TRILLION in new investment, mostly foreign, to build huge new factories across America.

But that will take time. The economy needs relief NOW.

Yet Powell played politics, cutting to help Kamala last year, hiking to hurt Trump. Image
Read 6 tweets
Sep 16
🚨 Mamdani: I will arrest Netanyahu.

NYC’s Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani just vowed to order the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to the UN.

Yes, he's threatening break diplomatic immunity to jail the PM of our closest ally.

🧵👇 Image
2/ Mamdani — a self-described Democratic Socialist — says he’ll enforce the leftwing International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu, even though:

– The U.S. does NOT recognize the ICC’s authority
– Cities have ZERO power over foreign heads of state
- Diplomatic immunity is still the law

This is just lawlessness. But as with the people cheering the assassination of Charlie Kirk, leftists no longer feel bound by the law.

And that's extremely dangerous. Ask Charlie.Image
3/ He doubled down Friday:

“This is something that I intend to fulfill. This is a moment where cities and states have to demonstrate what it looks like to stand up for our values.”

Translation: He thinks NYC should dictate U.S. foreign policy.

How can New York host the United Nations if it rejects diplomatic immunity? And what right does it have to do so? This is a federal matterImage
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Sep 16
🚨 JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk was killed by an assassin’s bullet — fueled by a destructive far-left movement.”

The Vice President vowed to dismantle Antifa and other domestic terror networks that organize riots, doxxing & political violence.

DETAILS 🧵
2/ On Kirk’s show, Vance & senior Trump official Stephen Miller called it a “vast domestic terror movement.”

They listed:

– Doxxing campaigns
– Street violence
– Dehumanization & vilification
– Online cells inciting attacks

“This is why Charlie was murdered. And it ends now.”
3/ The killer left a note: “I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

DNA tied him to the gun.

And the shell casings? Engraved with Antifa slogans & extremist memes — mocking, taunting, celebrating the act of killing.
Read 6 tweets
Sep 16
🚨 BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court just ENDED Fani Willis’s case against Trump.

The court rejected her last appeal, upholding her disqualification over her affair with her lead prosecutor.

It’s the death blow to the corrupt Georgia RICO case. 🧵 Image
2/ Reminder: this was always political lawfare.

Willis indicted Trump & 18 allies under RICO for questioning the 2020 count—something Democrats from Al Gore to Al Franken have done without ever facing questioning, much less prison.

But then, Willis's bias and corruption turned the already-corrupt case into a circus.Image
3/ The 4–3 Supreme Court ruling leaves the door open for a further prosecution.

The Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council could appoint a new prosecutor to the case. But that seems highly unlikely. Willis’s sprawling indictment is dead in the water.

Trump’s lawyer: Willis’s “egregious misconduct” doomed the case.

Yes. But it was a dishonest case from the beginning.Image
Read 6 tweets
Sep 16
🚨 BREAKING: 66% of Russians now say publicly they want Putin to end the war immediately.

Fuel stations are running dry. Food prices are spiking.

Ukraine’s drone strikes are breaking the Kremlin’s war machine — and Russians are finally feeling it at home.

DETAILS 🧵 Image
2/ Ukraine just pulled off its boldest strikes yet:

• Hit Primorsk oil port — Russia’s largest Baltic terminal, handling $15B/yr in oil revenue.
• Knocked offline Kirishi refinery, supplying St. Petersburg & NW Russia.

These aren’t random attacks. Ukraine is targeting Putin’s war chest.Image
3/ The fallout:

• Gas stations rationing to 5 gallons per car
• Long lines, fights at pumps
• Truckers can’t get diesel → food shortages & higher prices
• Emergency services choosing which calls to answer

For the first time Russians, are paying the war’s price directly. Image
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Sep 15
🚨 The US is preparing its largest military offensive in years.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said strikes are planned against Venezuelan drug lords—officially designated “narco-terrorists.”

Trump on the destroyed drug boat: “There’s more where that came from.”

THREAD 🧵 Image
2/ Venezuela is the main source for billions in narcotics entering America.

▪️ Rural drug hubs, hidden airstrips, trafficking networks—now military targets.
▪️ 10 F-35s deployed to Puerto Rico, naval forces off Venezuela’s coast.

Interception isn’t the plan. It’s destruction. Image
3/ Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth to troops: “This is the real-world exercise to end the poisoning of the American people.”

Rubio calls Maduro a “fugitive from US justice.”

CNN says likely strike zones: Zulia, Falcón, Sucre—key corridors linking Venezuela to Colombia’s cartels. Image
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