Shalom Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph.

I hope this finds you well.

I was No Fan of Lindsey Graham; but in this thread I’ll explain why he was a Net Positive, despite being a “DC Swamp Creature.”

Quoting @DataRepublican, “patience as I assemble it.”

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https://x.com/FinalTelegraph/status/2076306805135712751

@FinalTelegraph: First off, preserving the Supreme Court is crucial to the survival of our Constitutional Republic.

Say what you will about Mitch McConnell, he recognized this…And he & Senator Graham saved the 2018 nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

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https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2076301142749798580

@Lamps_Apple, here is your test in a 4-tweet thread🧵
1/4🧵 x.com/i/grok/share/0… Repeated 2/4🧵
~x.com/i/grok/share/0…

@JeffClarkUS @Phase2Deport: Here are several good articles on President Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" plus the original 1951 NYTimes series that gave Ike the original idea.
1/🧵 @JeffClarkUS @Phase2Deport, from August 25, 1993:
Clinton Promise to Curb Illegal Immigration Recalls Eisenhower's Border Crackdowns
Operation Wetback's methods were effective, but might not pass court challenge today
2/🧵csmonitor.com/1993/0825/2506…

@Hebro_Steele, I looked at the video full screen 5-6 times, and to be honest in the first few seconds Iryna did not look to be badly injured (let alone fatally wounded).
Perhaps —and I emphasize Perhaps —that is why nobody intervened?

(1/2🧵)

https://x.com/i/status/1965434312029086174

@Hebro_Steele, I ride the @MARTAtransit subway almost every day, and this is not like someone whipping out their sidearm in an argument (which I’ve seen):
It looks like the bystanders were somewhat stunned, not realizing how badly Iryna was injured.

(2/2)

https://x.com/i/status/1965434312029086174

@DataRepublican, this corruption of officials over illegal immigration has been going on since WWII, earlier. Short🧵with history:
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico (2006)
1/🧵csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s… @DataRepublican: Clinton Promise to Curb Illegal Immigration Recalls Eisenhower's Border Crackdowns (1993)
Operation Wetback’s methods were effective, but might not pass court challenge today

@JoeyMannarinoUS 2/🧵csmonitor.com/1993/0825/2506…

Time to dust off my 2016 @ClintonFdn
“Pay to Play” collection.
Be my guest sharing!😀
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CC @DataRepublican, @SamAntar, @CharlesOrtel, @ClariceFeldman7 More from my 2016 @ClintonFdn “Pay to Play” collection.
Be my guest sharing!😀
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CC @DataRepublican, @SamAntar, @CharlesOrtel, @ClariceFeldman7

@data_republican, our relationship with Israel today is transactional: Our war-losing DoD is wasteful and misdirected; while Israel has given us many Tens of Billions of $$$ worth of R&D on their F-35I Adir variant of the disastrous $1.7T F-35 Lightning II program. (1/🧵) @data_republican @frederikdeboer @DataRepublican @data_republican, we provide about $3B in aid to Israel: They buy our weapons systems (F-35A Lightning II, Patriot, etc…), refine and battle-test them (like Iron Dome), and give us back the R&D. (2/🧵)
CC @DavidPGoldman

@DataRepublican @DataRepublican, Alger Hiss was indeed a Soviet Spy:
@RealDianaWest documented this in her book “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”
This has been going on since the start of WW II and Soviet mole Harry Hopkins. 1/🧵
amzn.to/3HtDz54 @DataRepublican @realDianaWest @DataRepublican, here is the 5-part @RealDianaWest
series on Soviet penetration of the FDR Admin including Alger Hiss& Harry Hopkins:
• Why Did FDR Fail to Relieve MacArthur and 151,000 Troops Fighting the Japanese in the Philippines? 2/🧵breitbart.com/national-secur…

@DataRepublican, an actual Georgia Tech Engineer here:
Even without resorting to quantum physics, solely using Newtonian physics and taking into account significant digits the way you presented the quiz, there is actually a range of correct answers!

Let me explain 1/🧵 OK, @DataRepublican presented this problem:
A traveler must make a 60-mile round trip between two towns, Aliceville and Bobtown.

The distance each way is 30 miles. Going from Aliceville to Bobtown, the traveler drives at exactly 30 miles per hour.

By the time they reach Bobtown, they decide they want to average 60 miles per hour for the entire 60-mile journey. 2/🧵

@DataRepublican @EYakoby @DataRepublican, if it wasn't for this Mar. 2016 @realDonaldTrump speech (written by Prof. F.H. "Frank" Buckley & his wife Esther Goldberg) to #AIPAC easing Jews he was Good for Israel, that support & $$$ would have gone to Hillary from @BillAckman & c.

~ @DataRepublican @EYakoby @realDonaldTrump @BillAckman Also @DataRepublican, #AIPAC is bipartisan: They funded successful multimillion-dollar primary challenges to anti-semitic Reps @CoriBush ($15M) & "Fire Alarm" Rep @JamaalBowmanNY $9M) in 2024. (2/3🧵)
CC @RuthPapazian.x.com/i/grok/share/A…

If the day ends in a "Y" @JonhKonrad is bitching about something.
Today's whining?
"I live in the People's Republic of Taxachusetts and Marc Andreesen says my kid with great grades can't get into an 'elite' private university."
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~

https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1944232249488011663

@JohnKonrad, what would you do if I told you there is another alternative; and if you play *your* cards right, your kid can go to one of the very top Engineering schools for FREE, without even paying some "consultant?"
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With the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) & USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) moved to CENTCOM plus these C-17 flights, it’s Showtime at The Apollo, folks.
Hat tip: @CherylWroteIt
@DavidPGoldman @JohnKonrad @MercoglianoS @ELuttwak ⬇️

https://twitter.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1913972024566833311

As @CherylWroteIt pointed out above & @Mercoglianos points out below, it’s Showtime at The Apollo.
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ on X: “Two carrier ops in @CENTCOM”

Take note, @DavidPGoldman @JohnKonrad @ELuttwak ⬇️

https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1913985246053249048

@MonicaLMarks @MonicaLMarks, you unintentionally have shown your comprehensive ignorance for STEM education and Engineering colleges selecting students: Raw numbers matter for the *statistically proven* Projected Grade Point Average (PGPA).
1/🧵 @MonicaLMarks @MonicaLMarks, let me ask you this, as we welcome @Zach_Yadegari to @GeorgiaTech with our 54,300 students:
Would YOU board a jetliner where the Engineer who designed it believed 2+2=5?
We admit, and weed out, as there is No Such Thing as a “Gentleman’s C” here.
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@JoshFL321 & @DefiyantlyFree: @JamesMiltonjoy1
is correct. It’s called an “Excise Tax;” and it’s a “Value Added Tax” as in Europe. It would be MINIMUM 25% here, on top of State & local sales taxes. Exempting food—like many States do—makes it more progressive. 1/🧵

https://twitter.com/JoshFL321/status/1874126002009289019

@JoshFL321 & @DefiyantlyFree: Not only would a Value Added Tax—VAT—be on goods, but also services. Comparing to Britain at 20%, they spend 10.9% of GDP on health care, while we spend 17.6% of GDP, 6.9% just on Medicare & Medicaid alone. 2/🧵

@hsu_steve @DavidPGoldman, the H-1B debate is in four broad classes:
1) University eggheads like @Hsu_Steve & @GrahamTAllison (below) pontificating from the ivory tower: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872856…
My reply to Allison:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872865… 1/🧵 @hsu_steve @davidpgoldman @GrahamTAllison @DavidPGoldman, the second group of H-1B commenters are from older victims like myself and Karen @KWStewart94, who supported @realDonaldTrump as “OG #MAGA”
[Old Guard or Original Gangster]

Here is Karen’s story: @KWStewart94: 2/🧵

https://x.com/kwstewart94/status/1872312088254619920

@GrahamTAllison @GrahamTAllison, first off, you are conflating the O-1 Visa for “Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement” for the “top 0.1%” with the H-1B visa, which is for average talent, for coders and bookkeepers.
Start here:
(1/🧵)uscis.gov/working-in-the… @GrahamTAllison @GrahamTAllison, now let’s talk about H-1B visa abuse: See this from @StClairAshley about H-1B visa body shops: (2/🧵)

https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1872671451163087150

@elonmusk @MarioNawfal I’m calling BULLSHIT on you, @ElonMusk, as I’ve seen this movie before, as I was an RCA Engineer while you were jacking off in the 2nd grade: YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO TRAIN, HIRE OR RETAIN AN ENGINEERING STAFF. 1/🧵 @elonmusk @MarioNawfal 2/🧵First off, as I learned at RCA, and then at Scott Paper (and bought by Kimberly-Clark), you do NOT lay off an Engineering staff it takes years to build up when a big project—such as Apollo—ends, as it takes YEARS to put it back together again. →

@davidpgoldman Sorry @DavidPGoldman, @SamDunningo is 95%🎯: Blowing up Nordstream 2 was only the coup de grace, as German industry was ALREADY headed to China.

Read WHY the BASF Toluene Diisocyanate built in 2015 moved to China. (1/2)

~ brusselssignal.eu/2024/05/german… @davidpgoldman @samdunningo @DavidPGoldman, read *why* BASF petrochemical plants moved to China:
“BASF to shut [11] plants at home while investing billions in China”
Bad German energy & labor policy pushed them out; while US BMW, VAG, MB, + Jap & SoKo auto plants are kicking ass.
~brusselssignal.eu/2024/05/german…

5-part 2013 series by @realDianaWest; plus independent verification🧵
Part 1: Why Did FDR Fail to Relieve MacArthur and 151,000 Troops Fighting the Japanese in the Philippines?
(1/6🧵)breitbart.com/national-secur… Part 2 by @realDianaWest: Did the Roosevelt Administration Send Uranium and Other Atomic Materials to Stalin?
(2/6🧵)breitbart.com/national-secur…

@SohrabAhmari 1/ Sohrab, it's more complicated than you think—And I've been in the cockpit of one, and the simulator in Toulouse in February 1976 when it entered service.

Here's a fun fact: Repair crews were cannibalizing parked TU-144 "Concordski" birds for spare parts! 🧵 @SohrabAhmari 2/ I spent a month in `76 NW of Paris as a HS sophomore…and the father in the host family was an Air France 747 captain who was training to fly the Concorde!

For an av geek who frequented the USAF Museum @ Dayton, it was an unbelievable stroke of luck.
nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-E…

1/7 BREAKING: Biden Admin Department of Homeland Security to create a 'Disinformation Governance Board' dedicated to 'countering misinformation.' 🧵

thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden… ~ 2/7 The DHS board will be headed by Nina Jankowicz, who once claimed militarized Trump supporters would show up to the polls with weapons to intimidate voters.