Concise Investor

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[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

EXCLUSIVE:

🚨Senator John Thune’s daughter was the Director of a PAC that gave money to anti-Trump and radical leftist Democrats🚨

Senator John Thune’s @SenJohnThune daughter Brittany Thune Lindberg served as Director and vice president of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers PAC, aka Council PAC from February 2013 - June 2021. 

During Brittany Thune-Lindberg’s tenure at the PAC, multiple anti-Trump radical leftists were rewarded with generous monetary contributions, including:

Nancy Pelosi
Mikie Sherrill
Hakeem Jeffries 
Jamie Raskin
Jon Tester
Katherine Clark
Sherrod Brown

How can Thune be trusted as the Senate GOP leader, a position that would allow him to have control over Senate funds, when his own daughter, who he referred to as “gifted” and “an accomplished professional” on X, gave money to the same people who tried to destroy Trump and jail him?

I’m sure Brittany enjoys a lot of political benefits from her father being a top ranking RINO senator. I wouldn’t trust the Senate GOP leader if his daughter was tied to PACS funding the nastiest Anti-Trump Democrats in our country.

It’s worth noting that Senator Thune has never condemned his daughters’ anti-Trump and pro Democrat political activities.

Disqualifying conflict of interest for anyone trying to assume the role of Senate GOP leader.

RECEIPTS 👇🏻cc: @CcpSkipTracer

@SenRickScott @SenateGOP

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Amazing how greedy and uninventive Apple became.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The level of fraud here is mind-blowing

[Aeolus @Aeolus247]

@nicksortor

[Concise Investor @ConciseInvestor]

@Savsays If “protestors” turn violent, they are NO LONGER protestors and LOSE ALL 1st Amendment rights because they have become RIOTERS and insurrectionists. Rioters should be put down with deadly force. ZERO tolerance for this behavior

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

I believe the majority still doesn't understand the momentous threshold humanity is facing.

Anthropic itself states quite clearly that even if development ceased entirely, if all development were frozen, they would still witness massive societal changes:

"Even if model capabilities were frozen at today’s level, we would expect major changes to occur in the world. (...) And we are still early in the diffusion of today’s models into the wider economy, where a 100-person company can increasingly do the work of a 1,000-person one, because each employee will sit atop a pyramid of agents."

But there's no question of stagnation. Anthropic itself still maintains that development has exceeded its own internal assumptions. Take that statement seriously for a second and consider it. Although Anthropic models internally and assumes exponential development, even this trajectory lags behind actual development, which is even faster.

"It's happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention."

and

"The rate at which AI models improve is accelerating. The length of tasks that they can reliably complete on their own has been doubling roughly every four months, up from an earlier trend of doubling every seven months. In March 2024, Claude Opus 3 could complete software tasks that take humans about four minutes to complete. A year later, Claude Sonnet 3.7 managed tasks that took about an hour and a half. A year after that, Claude Opus 4.6 managed 12-hour tasks.1 If this trend holds, tasks that take a skilled person days could come into range this year.

So again: there can be no question of standing still.

The models are not only getting better, they can also work autonomously for longer. Certainly numerous breakthroughs are still needed, context window is still a problem. But the most likely direction is that the models themselves will find the solutions to the underlying problems. This opens up unforeseen possibilities, and Demis Hassabi's statement that the golden age of science is not a dream, not a utopia, but a purposeful reality, is now confirmed.

And finally, it's not just Anthropic, but also OpenAI, that sees this development, considers it feasible, and is moving forward.

Most people don't know what's coming. But one thing is certain: it's coming even faster than expected. And it will be even bigger.

Myth was just the beginning.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Concise Investor @ConciseInvestor]

@joeroganhq No shit?? You don’t say Capt Obvious? Thanks for admitting what most of us have known for 5 years

[bbowden18 @Bluestown901]

@EndWokeness California will let us know the election results as soon as the Democrats are in the lead..

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Time to get election results:

🇧🇷 Brazil: 2 hours (124M ballots)
🇫🇷 France: 4 hours (34M ballots)
🇮🇳 India: 24 hours (640M ballots)
🇩🇪 Germany: 8 hours (51M ballots)
🇦🇷 Argentina: 6 hours (25M ballots)
🇺🇸 California: 37 DAYS (10M ballots)

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. SEC. SCOTT BESSENT JUST WENT THERE 🔥

SEN WYDEN (D): We don't want ramblings about the most corrupt regime in history, we want facts

BESSENT: "And we'd like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey EPSTEIN talked about. Your son's largest investment position was Rick's Cabaret. So, did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?"

ASSASSIN.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department used helicopters to fly in ballots from vote centers across the region

“They're picking up ballots from 8 cities including Lancaster, Santa Clarita, Palmdale, Lakewood, Santa Monica, Van Nuys, Pomona, and Torrance. Once they arrive, the ballots are securely transferred inside where election workers are receiving and processing millions of ballots”

The reason they do this is because LA is huge, over 4,700 miles big

There are 5.8 million registered voters that has a single Ballot Processing Center in the City of Industry

All ballots from vote centers across the vast county are brought here for counting after polls close. Driving from remote areas like the Antelope Valley, Lancaster, Palmdale takes hours, so helicopters get ballots in faster, reducing delays in reporting and minimizing time ballots sit in transit

What I find interesting is this seems like the perfect opportunity to introduce as many mail in ballots as needed without any questions

This also use one processing center. This means they wouldn’t have to coordinate rigging elections across multiple offices. If could be one easy to control operation at this one facility

We need a federal audit of California elections

If there’s no fraud, great. But I think we all know there’s massive fraud

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen says elections are being stolen in America with electronic voting machines

He describes there are teams of statisticians, mathematicians and hackers who map out every county and identify where percentages of votes can be quietly adjusted

Different techniques are used in each location so nothing matches in a recount. When a 70-30 county becomes 68-32, nobody notices. But when you add up these differences across an entire state, those tiny amounts of fraud decide outcomes

Both former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen and author Ralph Pezzullo explain the strategy. They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits

Elections are being stolen all over the country and the CIA is confirming it

“They know where they can find the dead people... Mm-hmm.”

“They plan this, It's meticulous. It's meticulous. These guys are experts at this. It's not just a few guys in a back room. You're talking about hundreds of statisticians and engineers, and they work it, you know, for a year to plan and mathematicians and hackers.”

“We had a map out of Colorado when we were talking to our engineers, the guys that designed it, that stole the elections.

— We just go to every one place where Trump wins 70-30 and — Shaved it off.

We shave in every other place. We don't go near a Democratic place, because when they wanna do recounts, they're gonna go to the Democratic places. They don't realize we shaved in every other committee. We know every other county.

We know how to do this. And then in each of those things where they shave, they shave with a different technique in each one of those. So if you found something in one county, there's no continuity around the state that way.

So this is why the Republicans are so much at fault, because they have the power and the ability to show in their areas they can allow access to the machines, they can allow access to the source code”

People need to go to prison. Democrats are stealing elections nationwide in every county, in every state of America

- Ban Mail in ballots
- Ban electronic voting machines
- Mandatory voter ID
- Same day voting and counting
- Mandatory proof of citizenship

It’s all common sense

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

This confirms what I always suspected: the distribution of saline shots versus hot shots was deliberately planned to target military, law-enforcement, and conservatives in general.

Media got something watered down.

And politicians got water. Saline water.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The media is an absolute joke

Spencer Pratt is explaining how his priorities with fixing Los Angeles

After every statement NBC makes it about Trump

No matter what Spencer says, the NBC asks another Trump question. There is nothing he can say that doesn’t prompt another “Trump” response from the media

Spencer gets frustrated because NBC won’t shut up about Trump, he says “This conversation is what's destroyed local elections”

And he’s right because the media makes everything about tribalism and not about doing what’s best for everyone in a city

No matter how many times Spencer says he’s only focusing on LA, it’s brought back to Trump by the media

We need to restore the Smith-Mundt Act and end mainstream media propaganda

[Concise Investor @ConciseInvestor]

America - here are your choices:
1. Vote Dem and become France/Europe
2. Vote anyone BUT Dem and remain America
Socialist/communist politicians 100% guaranteed will do this to our country. It’s already happening. NY, LA, Chicago, Seattle, all of CA, Minnesota… Wake TF up

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

🚨 FRANCE DESCENDS INTO CHAOS: Rioters torched businesses, looted stores, and left parts of the city in ruins as unrest spiraled out of control.

Import the Third World, become the Third World.

h/t @RadioGenoa

[Concise Investor @ConciseInvestor]

@gervaisclips @rickygervais By far the greatest awards show host event in the history of mankind 👏👏

[The Ricky Gervais Clips @gervaisclips]

Honestly, how many times have you watched this now?

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.