Chousey

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.

Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.

A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.

Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.

[Chousey @Cphousey]

@mrunknown327 @TomBradyEgo

[Chousey @Cphousey]

@DaLizardPeople @waitbutwhy If just 1% of the world picked blue 70+ million people would die. Anyone who picks red is okay with that outcome which I find crazy.

[Chousey @Cphousey]

@DaLizardPeople @waitbutwhy It is statistical impossibility for everyone to pick red. For whatever reason some will pick blue. How your options should read:
Red - You WILL live. Others WILL die.
Blue - Everyone lives. You may die.
There is only one option that guarantees nobody dies.

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

When Trump pussies out tonight, his message will go something like this:

"I am pleased to announce that Iran has agreed to save the lives of its great and wonderful people and make a deal! Therefore, I am postponing the Total and Complete Devastation of their bridges and nuclear powerplants for one week. There is still a chance for Iran to become a respected country, the likes of which the world has never seen, if they do the right thing. We have already won this war, Totally and Completely. Do the right thing! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

What do you think? Did I miss anything? 😏

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

Jon Stewart on Donald Trump:

“This is who he’s been from the start. When people say, ‘I’m upset now, I regret my vote because he lied,’ he was lying from the moment he came down that escalator.”

[Yet another commodity guy @tleilax___]

Trump is casually proposing one of the biggest strategic own-goals imaginable: NATO more or less done, and any country that wants Persian Gulf crude can go secure it for itself. That is a spectacularly reckless thing for an American president to say. It is a half-drunken invitation to roll the clock back toward the old colonial game, where every great power armed itself around resource access and shipping lanes.

The whole reason the U.S.-led order worked is that Washington took the military question off the table for its allies. Europe and East Asia could think about trade, industry, growth, supply chains, and cheap energy. They did not need to wake up every morning thinking about convoy protection, choke points, naval escorts, forward bases, and who might try to cut their oil line. That was the deal, and for all its flaws it was an unbelievably powerful one.

Put that burden back on every importing state and you do not get some elegant new realism. You get the old imperial logic creeping back in. The barrel is no longer just a barrel. It comes with freight risk, insurance risk, naval risk, basing risk, and eventually war risk. The whole achievement of the postwar order was that America suppressed a lot of that rivalry by sitting on top of the system and making the security decisions for the wider alliance.

The Gulf is particularly ugly terrain for this kind of thinking. The infrastructure is concentrated, the sea lanes are narrow, and much of the population depends on fragile physical systems like desalination. Once states decide energy security is too important to leave to markets, they start looking at places like this in very hard terms. Somewhere in Paris, one of the old colonial ghosts is probably already unfolding a map of the Gulf and reminiscing about protectorates in embarrassingly enthusiastic detail.

History is full of great powers making exactly this kind of mistake. The cleanest analogy is Germany after Bismarck. Bismarck built a diplomatic architecture that kept Germany secure and prevented hostile coalitions from forming. Kaiser Wilhelm II inherited that system, got impatient with its constraints, started freelancing, and slowly turned a position of strength into encirclement. He did not lose Germany in one move. He set in motion a process that made Germany less secure with every passing year.

There is also an interwar British echo here. Britain remained enormously important, but it no longer wanted to fully bear the burden of policing the wider order it depended on. That did not produce a neat handoff. It produced opportunism, rearmament, and eventually a much nastier bill. And if you want the broadest analogy, it is the breakdown of the old European concert system: once the central restraining architecture weakens, states go back to fleets, blocs, balancing, and military planning around economic survival.

What is so deranged about this is that it weakens the U.S. first. America’s edge was never just the size of the Navy. It was that nearly every major industrial power operated inside an American security architecture. Tear that up and over time you get fewer reliable bases, fewer aligned allies, larger independent militaries, more hedging against Washington, and much more room for China and every ambitious regional power. That is how dominant positions are squandered in history: not all at once, but by dismantling the very order that made you dominant in the first place.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

it’s hard to illustrate how it felt at the time if you were too young, but this happening right after the shock bernie primary win in michigan was a nuclear hopium bomb. it felt like the world was on the precipace of something better

[IREN @IREN_Ltd]

$IREN is pleased to announce the signing of a $9.7bn AI Cloud contract with @Microsoft

Key details of the transaction:

- $9.7bn AI Cloud contract value
- 5-year average term
- 20% prepayment
- 200MW (IT load) data centers
- NVIDIA GB300 GPU deployments

Refer to the press release and accompanying presentation below for further information

Press Release: https://t.co/3pG9N2HfkF

Presentation: https://t.co/uyysnL9ffS

[Jim Cramer @jimcramer]

We doubted IREN and Nebius at one point while we liked Coreweave but now it just doesn't matter... there is that much demand

[IREN @IREN_Ltd]

$IREN is pleased to announce the closing of its $1.0 billion convertible notes offering.

Key details of the transaction:

- Oversubscribed $875m offering, plus $125m greenshoe
- Net proceeds of approximately $979.0m
- 0.00% coupon, 42.5% conversion premium
- No put option for investors in the notes (other than a customary put right in the case of certain fundamental changes)
- Capped call transactions are generally expected to provide a hedge upon conversions up to an initial cap price of $120.18 per share, which represents a 100% premium (as compared to the 42.5% conversion premium under the notes)
- Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as active bookrunners

Refer to the Press Release for further information: https://t.co/r1tvL1eyH1

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

“We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Gasparino: I want to tell you right now Donald Trump outsmarted the world, trust me, I'm an American and I support my president but that is not what happened here… What happened in the bond market… from what I understand, this is what forced the 90 day reprieve

[#NoMusicNoIntro @askmetostay323]

#NeverForget

[Andrés Fuentes @news_fuentes]

NASA has the best view of all the Louisiana sneaux ⚜️❄️

@FOX8NOLA

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

RFK Jr searching Donald Trump and the Oval Office for junk food day 1 on the job

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Freaking about Football @FreakyPeezy]

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