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)

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:

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.

"You missed the point of the movie" says the media literacy crowd

>fireman dad murdered by black guy while putting out a fire
>blacks try to break into his truck, shoots one and curb stomps the other, goes to jail
>makes a black friend and decides to reform and become antiracist
>gets out and his little brother is on the same path, tries to persuade him to stop hating black people
>little brother defends a smaller white kid getting beat up on by a ghetto black, gets shot and killed by him the next day
>original ending the director wanted was derek staring in the mirror, full of grief, and deciding to shave his head again
>Edward Norton pitched a fit and had it changed to Derek reciting the final stanza of abe lincolns inaugural address (Abe wanted to send all the blacks to Liberia/Haiti after the civil war was over, but was assassinated)

While I get that the point being made is something about the cycle of hatred repeating itself, at the end of the day it's black people who spend the whole film murdering people for petty reasons and engaging in theft by trying to break into Dereks truck.

About the only thing Derek did that was legally wrong was curb stomping the second thief. But on the other hand we've got the utterly senseless murder of his father and brother by black people with zero impulse control, and yet the theme of the movie is that it's Derek who shouldn't have felt the way that he did.

The film casts essentially no critical judgement on the black people murdering white people, and spends all its time addressing how Derek feels about it.

For all the talk of "dereks dad planting the seeds of racism in him"

Was he really wrong about black people considering he was murdered while putting out a house fire for no particular reason by a black guy?

There is something bizarre going on that I can't quite put my finger on, but it can be seen in the replies to this guys post. This guy has been poking around in DMs and replies of lots of RW twitter constantly asking for followbacks.

As I alluded to in another thread, there is something strange going on. Weird influencer accounts in "MAGAville" that have followings relative to exposure that make very little sense.

Couple that with what I saw earlier, why are large "normie" themed MAGA accounts creating "twin brothers" that they are boosting? These accounts are obviously not being accused of impersonation, they are sanctioned, because the "brothers" are mutuals.

Are they using their platforms to boost and create high follower alts to sell? What I have heard goes on is that people will create accounts and use this followback strategy until they reach a certain size, unfollow everyone they follow, change to a blank slate name and PFP, and then sell off the account. People buy these blank slate, high follower count accounts in order to immediately jump into things like monetization and begin to engagement bait.
But there is a certain and very similar "vibe" to all the accounts here. They are all congratulating Dustin here, but despite their followings only getting double digit views and 1 or no likes for the most part. Though there are a few accounts in the replies I know are organic.

I think the reality of what this guy is talking about is that antipathy towards blacks *from* most whites in this era was more or less gone. That doesn't mean it was reciprocated the other way.

These men are models of what we wanted blacks to be like, not how most of them actually are. Most racial discourse in the US amounts to white people wishing black people would stop doing hood rat shit all the time.

The left thinks this is because they're poor, or grow up without enough government services, which wouldn't explain the fact that poor whites of the same income bracket as poor blacks don't commit nearly as many crimes despite there being way more of them than blacks.

So when libs worship them like cows in India, what they're really saying is "Please see the light and act civilized we will do literally anything other than face the truth of the matter!"

And the traditional white conservative position essentially hinges on the police handling the problem and just throwing them in jail when they break the law while still more or less ignoring the racial element as best as they can.

The only thing that (privately) your average white american on the left or right would agree on if they took a moment to be intellectually honest is that they don't like most of the stereotypical "black" things that exist.

From stochastic irrational violent crime like Karmelo Anthony stabbing a kid for telling him he wasn't where he was supposed to be to black women being rude and disagreeable, whites really hate this shit and wish blacks would just act like Bill Cosby or Will Smith.

The real crime is that they taught an entire generation of white kids to treat blacks like they *were* Bill Cosby and Will Smith, when they are actually models of what white people wish black people were actually like.

The problem is that when anyone tries to confront this problem, the top 20-25 percentile of black america gets held up as an example that stereotyping is wrong and they aren't all like that. This is really just copium to the tune of "But they can change! Look at my black friend who went to college and has a mortgage and a family!"

And good for them, but there's a reason the first thing black people with the ambition for upward mobility do is move away from all the other black people. The problem is that an entire generation was shown an aspirational version of black people and told "See? They're just like you and me!" while most of the black community hadn't changed at all.

So racism wasn't gone, white kids were just shown black people as we wish they were and nobody gave us the memo that this wasn't really true if you lived in a major city. I'm sure all these dudes live in neighborhoods that are majority white. I had the viewpoint of the OP when I was younger, because there weren't really very many black people where I grew up. So my opinion was largely based on what I saw on TV or online.

But I've been stationed in Biloxi MS.. I've lived in Houston for 10 years now.. Not reality.

Indians seem to be doing to the internet what black people did to the mall This behavior is low class (or should I say caste?) and scummy, but subcontinentals seem utterly shameless about it.

https://x.com/OldRowSwig/status/1906723773799116833

Relevant story from a political event in TX I attended a few years ago juxtaposed with a meeting I was at last night: 🦣

I have a friend who is a really solid political organizer in Houston, knows all the ground game and does amazing work, normie gen X dad guy who really puts in the work. He taught me a ton about how local and municipal elections work, because of him I worked on several local campaigns. Good teacher.

But he had me come to an event with him, and there was this old guy who has been a Texas GOP employee for a long time. My friend introduces me to this boomer guy who he states is pivoting to manage the state parties efforts to recruit the youth at the high school level. This guy is like 65 years old at the time, this was maybe 3 years ago, he chairs several GOP committees both at the county and state level here in Houston.

So friend introduces me to him as one of his locals who is very sharp and understands the younger perspective etc etc and leaves us to talk. I sort of throw a softball with an opinion on how the younger generation are polarized extremes, if they have any interest in politics it's to the far end of the right or the left.

He immediately disagrees with me and says "I think one of the problems with our efforts to recruit in high school is that all this Trump MAGA stuff is too extreme, if we want to get them interested we need to be more moderate."

Gave him a sneer and shook my head in disgust and did an about face to go grab a beer at the bar. Knew with an opinion like that he was beyond help.

I was at a meeting last night talking about this exact same problem, and we've essentially abandoned getting any assistance from the state party whatsoever and are working with a TPUSA field director who is a lot more accomodating. I spent many years not liking TPUSA and Kirk, but they've been improving over the last few years, slowly but surely.

Also, during this meeting one of the local hardcore grandma volunteers that I frequently have friction with, she takes the mic and talks about how polarized by gender Gen Z is (she's right ofc) but then says we need to direct more resources at the high school level to try and get girls interested.

I took the mic to respond to her and said it was a waste of time to dedicate too many resources to bringing young women on board. If a zoomer girl isn't already down with the right because of her own convictions or religion or worldview, she's basically gonna be a lefty forever until she gets hitched and has kids and may cross the picket line then, and that a full court press on young men that ensures they are energized enough to show up and vote and make their friends vote makes more sense.

When I reminded my friend of my interaction with the old GOP guy a few years ago he said "He's more GOP than MAGA, but that's a dying breed with no future." Personally, I think *high school* outreach is a waste of time. College is a lot more fruitful, high school kids have way too much going on, both IRL and in their own heads, to start thinking of politics in any non-emotive way. It's just going to kind of attract the lame sheltered religious kids (who are good kids) but were already onboarded aggressively by their parents anyway.

This is really bad I've studied the negligible impacts of govt incentive structuring in Hungary and Japan, which has *some* impact, but not much

I'm convinced the only way to fix this is to get women to stop going to college, or to give men extreme preference in the most lucrative jobs at *scale*.

I'm going to be watching President Trump address congress shortly, I'll put any relevant things I hear in this thread, in case anyone can't/doesn't want to sit through it:

🧵 Big standing ovation as Trump enters, lasted a long time

Trump just sort of inferred for everyone to give Melania applause too and they did

What if.. and stay with me here

What if planned parenthood had a scam going involving unrecorded deaths from abortion turned into a lucrative source of fake identities, votes, lines of credit, and ultimately someday, social security fraud?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076

Hmm let's line up some numbers

https://x.com/aidenHIKO/status/1891354011233890334?t=JeAyKiAb5WIETEUn-9999A&s=19

We severely need a fix for this. Almost all jobs of consequence are gatekept in this way, and it's frustrating, speaking personally as a guy without a degree.

So ubiquitous at this point I feel like I could just pencil whip it.

https://twitter.com/VDAREJamesK/status/1888491565108048096

Even now with the restructuring of the federal civil service across the board, there will be tons of vacancies but almost no good positions that don't demand at least a bachelor's. Which is disheartening.

What's funny is that no one can bring themselves on either side to state the real reason this is a logical thing to do. We all know these spiteful wretches aren't above tampering with data on the way out, so freezing them out of the systems until they can get a local copy makes sense.

The formal elements of the right don't really want to point this out because it'd just fan the flames to explain how mentally unstable and unreliable a huge chunk of the civil service is, because it exposes a major liability we've been sitting on for years.

The left won't point this out because, it truthfully explains why what @DOGE is doing is the right call.

Remember when Trump came into office the first time and all sorts of theater kids in GS jobs who ran social media accounts for federal agencies started rogue tweeting for a week or so until they were fired? Imagine that but it's actual data tampering meant to conceal wrongdoing or gum up the process of mapping out exactly what these people have been doing for the last quarter century. For everyone thinking this should be handled internally and not by an outside third party like DOGE, you really can't trust fedgov tech workers, and that's really obvious. Too many saboteurs in waiting, they have to be frozen out too.

https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247

I grew up in the CA Central Valley in the 1990's, when it was still a pretty wonderful place. The place I grew up in no longer exists, and the people responsible have names and addresses.

That's why I'll never get tired of winning. It's why I've worked towards this moment for over a decade.

Rents are high, home ownership for the zoomers is difficult or impossible in many places. Job opportunities suck. My hometown is full of drugs and immigrants. My home state is ran by corrupt communist demagogues.

I want these people and their bullshit culture to feel the same way I have for most of my life, to see all the things they think are good crumble before their eyes. To be put through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual, because we didn't deserve any of what they put this nation through.

And now we don't need to "imagine if the roles were reversed!" The machinations of these people destroyed the world I grew up in, the world I was taught to live and compete in. I will never forgive them.

Sam Altman is in a pickle. He can't admit that Deepseek is based on stolen IP from OpenAI because then he'd have to admit that he doesn't actually need 400b in datacenter infrastructure to get a faster chatbot.

Imagine you're talking to someone, and you can speak freely, and say whatever comes to mind.

Now imagine you're talking around your progressive liberal sister at the thanksgiving table and don't want to set her off and cause an incident, so you have to consider everything you say because she's fragile.

Which mode of thinking and speaking is faster and more easy?

ChatGPT spends computational resources on every prompt you input to figure out if you're trying to be lowkey racist or trick it into telling you the name of HP Lovecrafts cat.

Deepseek probably just uses keyword based inference to make sure it doesn't talk about topics the CCP doesn't like and everything else is fair game.

DEI holds us back in the AI arms race.

Which is why it shouldn't be used to automate any govt systems, you don't replace DEI bureaucrats with DEI AI that uses Toxigen

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1884244528934310360?t=IoRmTx1OhLNlIK5qw3jEJA&s=19

This is part of the reason why a ton of Indians own all these motels and gas stations. They rotate interest free loans for immigrants to start businesses. When it comes time to pay interest, another eligible Indian buys it from them with their own loan and they just keep rotating

https://twitter.com/Matt_VanDyke/status/1873137672904163648

"Interest free" is hyperbolic, so I'll walk that back, but extremely low interest SBA loans is one example.

There are small business loans with very beneficial terms meant to help immigrants start a business. After a few years, they will cash out and sell the business to kin.

Did you know your tax dollars are paying for pro bono legal services for illegals by way of federal and state grants to nonprofits? There's a simple way to end this with an executive order and other measures, I will explain: NGO's like the Innocence Project and immigration organizations use grant money to convince firms to represent illegals and felons on the basis that their attorneys can get easy litigation experience. Most firms require 60 hours of pro bono work for first year lawyers.

I'm at waffle house with my family and there's a trad Muslim family of Pakistani extraction here.

They are putting nice white boy zoomer worker through the ringer about "cleaning the grill so no bacon grease is present"

I'm passive aggressively queueing up Creed on the jukebox. The staff are jamming out to With Arms Wide Open rn. I used my song credits up and it was quiet, guy started playing some kind of ethnic stuff on his phone. Bought some more touchtunes credits and it's with arms wide open time now

I think perhaps Elons issue with the Visa thing is that O1 Visas are very restrictive and effectively limited to established, older, already credentialed and famous people.

So if I try to cut through all the noise on both sides of this issue, it sounds like we need a drastic reduction in granted H1B visas overall, coupled with a drastically more strict definition of what kind of jobs qualify for an H1B application.

We're seeing everything from cooks to helpdesk IT guys to online moderators for Cognizant on these H1B registries. These are not skilled jobs, these are not hard to hire Americans for, and serve only as the cheap imported labor that everyone on the right is *justifiably* complaining about and wanting to stop.

However, on some level, it *is* fundamentally useful to import talent. The problem is the system that is designed to do that is being fundamentally exploited and needs an overhaul. It's doing more harm than good in its current state.

We probably do have a STEM gap on some level that does need to be addressed, primarily because universities have become extremely hostile to the most prominent and productive demographic, young men. The universities need to be beaten and tamed ASAP, because as it stands right now the best universities, law schools, and medical schools, are handing out enrollments to people who don't deserve them and who can't perform because of DEI, and each of those people is effectively occupying a chair that belongs to someone who can.

I think the most realistic and achieveable compromise on this would be a reduction in overall H1B visas (and other programs), while tightening the criteria for even being able to apply for them. In-demand specialist fields only, and the Government and the private sector needs to do a better job of defining what fields are actually in-demand.

I think getting rid of nation caps is also a bad idea, India would dominate the visa process due to sheer numbers, and candidates from smaller nations would be lost in the shuffle. That being said, the other half of the problem isn't the program. And it isn't "contemptibly racist" or whatever to admit that a ton of these firms and HR departments are effectively Indian Recruiting Firms.

They're the guys calling me on my phone or emailing me or messaging me on LinkedIn asking if I want to apply for a job in a completely different discipline of tech 5 states away, just so they can say they "tried" to get Americans for the job but failed, and need an H1B visa.

And let's all be honest here, while techbros are being incentivized to support the mass importation of Indians, the reason the State Department allows this is because they want to forge nepotistic ties back to India.

They want those ties in order to backchannel influence into India so they can use their surplus population as a meat grinder on Chinas western flank.

The reason we aren't granting these visas to Europeans on the regular is because NATO would have a shit fit. Nowhere in the calculus of the elites does the welfare of the founding stock population ever become a priority, all that they and the elites of other nations care about is The Great Game.

One thing I notice on the mainstream conservative circuit, especially in the more outwardly religious circles, is the mouthpieces spend way too much time talking *at* men in videos like this.

This content isn't for men, it's meant to be consumed by women scrolling Tiktok or Reels so they can feel validated/self-righteous with the side effect of giving a critical eye to their marriage so they can find a reason to be mad at their husbands when they otherwise wouldn't be. The reason I know this is because my wife sees this kind of content constantly. She'll doomscroll facebook reels from time to time and because in their ad profiles she's tagged as Christian, Female, Republican, she'd be exactly the person to see content like this.