14 thoughts on “News/Politics 6-13-26”

  1. But muh narrative….

    https://x.com/i/status/2065548299809997084

    “Leftist publication The Intercept blamed Donald Trump and his supporters for multiple bomb threats on Jewish institutions in February 2017. It turned out the threats came from one of The Intercept’s staff reporters, Juan Thompson. He was convicted and sentenced to 60 months in prison.”

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  3. “Earlier this week, the @DeptofWar — in full collaboration with Venezuelan security forces — conducted a kinetic strike on a Tren de Aragua (TdA) compound in Venezuela. TdA founder & leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka “Niño Guerrero,” was confirmed killed during the strike.

    The operation underscores the shared U.S. and Venezuelan commitment to take the fight to narco-terrorists and deny them any safe haven in our hemisphere. We will continue to work closely with security partners, like Venezuela — and counties in the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) partners — to take the fight to our enemies.”

    https://x.com/i/status/2065613430074065246

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  4. Not at all surprising…

    https://x.com/i/status/2065583725484589451

    “New study shows Conservatives are happier than Liberals

    “Mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes”

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    https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/conservative-liberal-mental-health-differences/

    “Decades of research literature establishes that political liberals have poorer mental health and are less happy than political conservatives. Scholars are unclear why, as Columbia University’s magazine reported in 2023, “American adults who identify as politically liberal have long reported lower levels of happiness and psychological well-being than conservatives.”

    But scholars working from the Universities of Florida and Toronto contend, based on four different studies, this disparity could be because conservatives demonstrate a more positive outlook on life and greater personal agency, religiosity, moral clarity and self-worth than their liberal counterparts – all qualities which are associated with greater mental health, happiness and flexibility.”

    “A new study published in the journal Political Behavior supports this conclusion. It shows that mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes”

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  5. Sanders is from the parasite class, who give us nothing of value, but they take plenty.

    Musk on the other hand….

    https://x.com/i/status/2065582882735751603

    “Elon Musk’s contribution to the national economy:

    Over 2021–2025, Musk’s companies (Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company) reportedly injected ~$338 billion directly into the U.S. economy via:

    • $110.7 billion in wages/salaries (supporting

    • 200,000+ employees at competitive pay).

    • ~$46 billion in taxes (corporate, payroll, etc.).

    • $182 billion+ in supplier spending (e.g., Tesla alone spent heavily on U.S. batteries, chips, steel).

    Source: odaily.news/en/post/5207545

    – – – – -During his lifetime, Bernie Sanders has contributed approximately $0.00 to the national economy.”

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  6. Remember kids, trust the experts….

    https://x.com/i/status/2065390399498150051

    “The year is 1949.

    The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

    The year is 1956.

    Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother’s shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

    The year is 1966.

    A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author’s word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.”

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    Click and read on…

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  7. Again, there are productive people, and there are parasites that seek to live off the hard work of the productive.

    https://x.com/i/status/2065734419537592387

    “Apollo manages over $1 trillion in assets and employs more than 4,000 people worldwide. The firm has roughly 944 employees in New York and says the bulk of its future hiring will be in Austin.

    Let’s do some simple math.

    If just 500 future jobs that would have been created in New York are instead created in Texas, at an average compensation of $300,000, that’s $150 million in annual payroll leaving New York’s future tax base.

    That’s potentially $15–20+ million a year in lost state and city income tax revenue alone, before sales taxes, property taxes, business taxes, and all the economic activity those workers generate.

    Nice job, @ZohranKMamdani.

    Nice job, @KathyHochul.

    The people who create jobs, invest capital, and fund New York’s tax base are sending a message loud and clear.

    And this is just one firm.

    Who’s paying for all the free stuff when the jobs, investment, and tax revenue are heading to Texas?”

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  11. Oh look, we’re up to 120, in 30 countries.

    Man, it’s a good thing you can’t do gain of function tests in the US, huh?

    Stopped it cold it did.

    Not… just offshored, but it made it here anyway….

    Our govt was complicit in Covid, as many said all along.

    And still are….

    https://x.com/i/status/2065465905753264145

    “Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

    In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

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  14. But… but…

    https://x.com/i/status/2065583123233177995

    “Actually, about this:

    Elon once offered the UN $6 billion for World Hunger in 2021 – on the condition that the UN provided Open Source Accounting and allowed him or anyone else to track and audit exactly where the money was spent on.

    Which I think is a fair request considering that UN had multiple high-profile embezzlement cases such as what happened in Somalia in 2010 and Ethiopia in recent years. There’s even one being actively probed right now in Sudan.

    UN has not have a good track record of monitoring where other people’s money go to, and that’s an understatement.

    The UN’s response? They said they would at best, offer summaries and high-level category reports…which is not very helpful. It was also not going to be an open ledger, so no one outside of UN leadership could see where the money would go to.

    So…the offer fell through because the UN was unable to provide trackable details on where the money goes to, making auditing extremely difficult. The rest is history, which is now being actively memory-holed by you OP.

    Sure hate Elon that he bought Twitter, at least be fair.”

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