Count of Monte Cristo

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING - ERIKA KIRK UNLEASHES, DEFIANT: "They should all know this. If you THOUGHT that my husband's mission was powerful before? You have NO IDEA. You have no idea what you've just unleashed across this entire country, and this world. You have no idea the fire you've ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry."

"The evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination have no IDEA what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God's merciful love."

"The movement will NOT DIE. I refuse to let that happen."

"All of us will refuse to let that happen. No one will ever forget my husband's name, and I will make sure of it. It will become stronger, bolder, louder, and greater than ever."

[Count of Monte Cristo @CountMonteC]

@VictorTaelin Using CC Opus 4.1 and Codex GPT-5-high. Same prompts. Opus gets stuck fixing bugs every now and then. Codex hasn't gotten stuck once yet. When I copy and paste Codex's bug fixes in CC, it has the humility to admit: "You're absolutely right!"

[Count of Monte Cristo @CountMonteC]

@thsottiaux I'm quite surprised with codex using gpt5 high reasoning. It's been able to fix bugs CC using Opus 4.1 was not able to.

[Count of Monte Cristo @CountMonteC]

@RorateCaeli It's not a bug. It's a feature.

[Count of Monte Cristo @CountMonteC]

@JamesWashngton @BishopJaxi The irony is indeed humorous. A protest presenting his interpretation of a passage from Scripture as authoritative teaching and the only real valid one. That's why there are more than 40,000 different protestant denominations.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨NEW: Trump's powerful closing remarks. This is one for the history books. 🇺🇸🔥

"This will be our greatest era. With God's help over the next four years we are going to lead this nation even higher. We are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this Earth.

We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest, wealthiest, and healthiest and most vital communities anywhere in the world.

We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science and lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the face of Mars and even beyond.

And through it all we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit and we are going to renew the unlimited promise of the American dream. Every single day we will stand up and FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT for the country we believe in and that our people deserve.

My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future because The Golden Age of America has only just begun. It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America."

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today.

And for three years, the concerns of people who were obviously right were ignored. What is Niall's actual plan for Ukraine? Another aid package? Is he aware of the reality on the ground, of the numerical advantage of the Russians, of the depleted stock of the Europeans or their even more depleted industrial base?

Instead, he quotes from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period and a different conflict. That's another currency of these people: reliance on irrelevant history.

President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts. And here are some facts:

Number one, while our Western European allies' security has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the United States, they pursue domestic policies (on migration and censorship) that offend the sensibilities of most Americans and defense policies that assume continued over-reliance.

Number two, Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages. Again, the aid is *currently* flowing.

Number three, the United States retains substantial leverage over both parties to the conflict.

Number four, ending the conflict requires talking to the people involved in starting it and maintaining it.

Number five, the conflict has placed--and continues to place--stress on tools of American statecraft, from military stockpiles to sanctions (and so much else). We believe the continued conflict is bad for Russia, bad for Ukraine, and bad for Europe. But most importantly, it is bad for the United States.

Given the above facts, we must pursue peace, and we must pursue it now. President Trump ran on this, he won on this, and he is right about this. It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as "appeasement" every acknowledgment that America's interest must account for the realities of the conflict.

That interest--not moralisms or historical illiteracy--will guide President Trump's policy in the weeks to come.

And thank God for that.

[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

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[JD Vance @JDVance]

Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships.

This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at https://t.co/Zp7SvobICU. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

I opened my NYTimes app today. They’re trying, but they can’t keep up. News that broke just hours ago is already off the homepage.

THIS IS CRUCIAL

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Count of Monte Cristo @CountMonteC]

@_Zero_Knowledge @CryptoDevil Well... they disclosed a new CSW forgery, so I guess the day was not wasted 😂

[Robin Nakamoto @RobinNakamoto]

Alright, the weekend is over. I hope you all rested because tomorrow is Monday, and we're ready to enter the 3rd week of COPA vs. Wright. For those not up to date, I spent some time making a video summary to recap the first 2 weeks of the trial. Enjoy 😉

[coderdan (马卡龙) @coderdannn]

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[Count of Monte Cristo @CountMonteC]

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[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

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