Craig

[ADONIS @adonispara]

> be microsoft
> hire Indian CEO
> fires all the most loyal competent staff
> replaces them with Indians
> company goes to shit

As a Microsoft employee describes the situation..

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The curious case of Mohammed Alfatih Naim is worrying evidence that Britain really has lost the plot.
His father was a senior Hamas politician.
He’d been a bodyguard for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
He’s been detained in Egypt on suspicion of helping Hamas smuggling.
He entered Britain illegally in 2014.
Yet a year later we granted him asylum.
Then British citizenship.
Facing trial for an altercation with a bailiff at his Brum home, some numpty of a magistrate ruled he couldn’t be named for 100 years.
Thankfully The Sunday Times challenged that, which is why he can now be named.
He is now facing extradition to Germany, where prosecutors accuse him of orchestrating a planned massacre of Jews in Berlin and Vienna last year.
This is how he thanks us for asylum and citizenship.
Which he was given under a Tory government.
But has this Labour one, as it welcomes ‘refugees’ from Gaza, learned any lessons.
Not if we’ve lost the plot.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Mrs. Badenoch, resorting to words like "arse" as the leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition shows how rattled and out of your depth you are.

Despite enlisting the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Times as propaganda arms for your party, you still have *less* public support than when Rishi Sunak had his behind handed to him by the British people.

That takes a special type of (absent) talent.

You lobbied for *more* immigration.

You lied about getting an offer from Stanford.

You are an establishment creation.

And your party will soon be consigned to the history books.

Richly deserved for importing 11 million people against the wishes of the British people.

Our Boriswave inquiry will put you and your colleagues under oath.

We will get to the bottom of how you betrayed this country.

Your reckoning is coming.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

New blog (link below): AI and power.

Silicon Valley and DC. The EU burning. Collapse of Project Ukraine. And a bit on the rancid tragic-comic grotesque farce of Westminster driving the country to violence, bankruptcy and Yookay Third Worldism (‘modern British values’) replacing the old English civilisation — a process driven by the Tories as much as, and in many areas (e.g destroying our borders to import Third World Boriswave, importing jihadis at vast scale and paying them millions secretly, lawfare against SAS, supporting the *superior legal rights* of ISIS beheading squads over British citizens via the ECHR) MORE THAN, Labour…

AI:

- We’ve automated spikily superhuman intellectual work in some areas, especially maths, coding, physics.
- A tiny minority (weirdos and misfits mainly) predicted this.
- The overwhelming ‘mainstream serious experts’, political-media-academia elites: ridicule, ‘slop’, ‘scam’, ‘stochastic parrot’, ‘plausible nonsense and hype’. Cf. Ciaran Martin ex-GCHQ, ‘professor’ Ben 'it can't reason' Ansell paid by BBC to talk nonsense about technology and ‘disinformation’ for perfect specimens of the ‘mainstream’ total failure (generally academic social/political ‘science’ has humiliated itself and shortly they’ll wake up to their students and internet randos exposing their bullshit papers using the AI which has *much* better maths skills and much lower ‘hallucination rates’ than the ‘professors’, finally some good news! Someone get onto Ansell and Portes asap. Watch how they denounce this as ‘a crime’ and call for ‘controls’ to protect ‘expert credentials’).
- Even after the last few weeks, the overwhelming response from the ‘serious mainstream’ is to continue ignoring the fact the intellectual foundations of our civilisation are crumbling and being rebuilt.
- Elite polarisation is already more extreme than in living memory and will rapidly accelerate. Next: the old regimes will, after laughing at it, try to seize control of it.
- They will be greatly helped by the strategic failure of the Right to build alternatives. Much of the ‘dissident’/new Right concluded that the collapse of trust in the competence and integrity of the old regimes meant that competence and integrity don’t matter, rather than trying to build something better.
- So, a combination of the old regimes’ Third Worldism sabotage + the dissident Right’s failure (both MAGA and Brexit project thanks to Trolley sabotage and Boriswave) + everyone collides with the AI-robotics revolution.
- SW1 has kept saying every year for a decade ‘can we get back to normal politics’. They think they’ve done it by instantiating their psychic desire in the form of Mr 1998 as PM. Wrong again.

MAGA:

- MAGA about to get smashed and show trialled. Why?
- MAGA should have stopped the UKR war, stopped the flow of money, investigated the flow of money from DC/NATO to UKR, gripped *the CIA, FBI etc*, focused daily on *the cost of living* which is the reason they won in 2024, and dismantled the vast NGO-leftist complex that runs much of America. They should have done DOGE properly and shown Americans how changing the regime makes their lives better, instead of listening to the GOP mainstream in DC who didn’t want to interrupt the $$$. They should have focused INTERNALLY on their own political situation.
- Instead, they ploughed more cash into the dumbest war in modern history, encouraging and actively providing intel for UKR to fire missiles at Moscow. They started another imperial war of the kind *DC always loses and abandons and structurally cannot fight given internal politics*. They abandoned DOGE and changing DC, failed even to win the argument on the border & immigration, failed to focus on cost of living (and made it worse with the 2 dumb wars), failed to dismantle the domestic Left extremist networks.
- They’ve done a Trolley-Sunak and *machine gunned* the electoral coalition which formed from hatred for the old regime and sustained their victories.
- MAGA’s rewards for fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of their domestic politics, for strategic failure, will be *show trials and jail* as elite polarisation intensifies.
- Get ready for another wave of energy combining race-trans-BLM-communism combined with show trials for MAGA and a plan for total control of AI and the tech stack from 2029. The Democrats’ conclusion from losing in 2024 has been ‘next time, we do it properly, jail for enemies and total control of technology and censorship’. The comments by Hillary and Kerry about ending the First Amendment will be back after today, bigly.
- Strategy and campaigns are simple but not easy. FOCUS is the critical element. I look at the permanent shambles of political communication and AI.

The UKR war becomes an ever bigger shame and disaster for the West:

- The West encouraged Zelensky to escalate. As missiles and drones hit Russia, how the NPC crowd cheered: Putin will have to make a deal, Slava Ukraine, they all chirped over summer. I told you: Putin will not do a deal, he will escalate and smash UKR.
- Finally this provoked Putin to side with those arguing for systematic destruction of UKR systems which Putin had rejected. Now energy, transport, water, logistics is getting smashed to pieces. UKR is screwed. It’s heading for winter, power crisis, refugee crisis.
- Meanwhile billions we’ve sent have gone to Ducati dealers in Monaco and gold toilets. Zelensky demands billions more.
- Yesterday, there was a raid in Kiev of a secret prison-torture chamber run by the West’s favourite actual NAZIs, Azov (rebranded by the Ministry of Truth, aka NYT and BBC ‘freedom fighters’). Children brought out under camera lights. Budanov himself showed up (speaking Russian) to ask ‘what the fuck is going on’. You won’t see ‘what the fuck is going on’ on the BBC and you won’t see MPs - except maybe Rupert Lowe - ask in the Commons, ‘what the fuck is going on’.
- On ‘what the fuck is going on’ - remember that the Zelensky regime now openly celebrates *famous actual dead NAZIs who worked with the SS* in TV ceremonies. This gets no coverage in Yookay where we used to be able to agree on one thing: our history is defined by beating Nazis. No more. Now ~100% of MPs support *funding Nazis* and keeping it quiet from voters. I didn’t think I could loathe SW1 more in 2020. I was wrong.
- Our Idiocracy can always start a World War but they cannot save UKR. They could machine gun their own financial systems by trying to steal Russian assets and this is a logical next step for Europe - with Yookay trying to ‘lead the debate’ to show what good Europeans SW1 are. Watch Kemi-kasi attack Burnham for not giving UKR Nazis enough money, for not bouncing more UKR rubble, for not firing more missiles into Russia, and not stealing Russian assets fast enough. Watch all ‘the serious grownups’ who babbled so much about ‘the rule of law’ decide that, actually, fuck that, steal the cash from the Belgian trust to try to keep the war going while the neocons, SW1, DC deep state try to wait out Trump then restart with a DEM President, rather than face the epic failure we’ll all be paying for for decades. Slava Ukraine.

Is this enough winning for you all yet? No?

The EU:

- France is literally burning thanks to importing the Third World, just as we predicted a decade ago - much to the laughter of the FT and Economist.
- French bonds are puking.
- The riots spread across Europe. Importing Third World has logical effects.
- Europe machine gunned itself on AI and pushed its young talent abroad.
- Europe has bleated since 2022 - finally we’ll start building the things we need. heavy lift, missiles, space, ISR assets etc. I said: bollocks, they won’t build, I’ve watched it all since Lisbon 2000. Right again. France switched off its only factory making 155 artillery shells. Europe remains mired in a can't build anything culture, just write essays about US tech being fake and trying to shake down US tech companies with fines. Slava Ukraine.
- Poland did a coup while the President was flying to Africa — to suppress Brexit-y tendencies according to the neocon stooges like warmonger Radeski. Obviously Kemi-kasi is silent because SW1 is pro this coup and the neocons write her speeches.
- So obviously SW1 decided they want to spend the next decade debating how many hundreds of billions to pay to give this collapsing shitshow power to make our laws and import even more Third World here. VERY LOGICAL. SLAVA UKRAINE.

Is this enough winning for you all yet? No?

In Yookay the fruits of cross party consensus across Tories, Labour and Whitehall continue to enrich us with sooooo much ‘diversity is our strength’

- Importing of jihadis continues at scale. We’re even importing the very WORST and most dangerous terrorists - including ISIS beheading squads — because this is totally logical with our human rights laws, they are at the most danger at home, LOGICAL! We then house them and give them new identities and go to court to keep it all secret. If they’re not happy, they bring secret cases in the courts and we pay the terrorists millions in classified payments hidden from Parliament. Tories very happy with this and don’t want Burnham spilling beans.
- Kemi-kasi, super-duper utter vacuous rubbishness, lapped up by Tory NPC world where going backwards from your worst ever defeat means (v logically) ‘morale never been higher’.
- Kemi-kasi explained why the Tories did the Boriswave: ‘We wanted to lower immigration. But there were so many other things that people were looking at and focusing on that actually as the numbers increased, MINISTERS DIDN'T NOTICE, civil servants didn’t notice until well after huge numbers had come into our country.’ To all the people who tell me ‘Kemi is serious’, JUST READ HER IDIOTIC BABBLING AND STOP TRYING TO PERSUADE YOURSELF OF ‘THE NEED FOR SOME OPTIMISM’. You don’t need ‘optimism’, you need finally some realism about our real situation, the constant refusal to face reality for >20 years combined with vacuous morons like her babbling about 'my ethnic Nigerian enemies' is why we’re screwed.
- Farage’s meltdown. A billionaire will have to pay him to sod off to America so the situation can be saved or between NF and Kemi-kasi, the LGTBQH++ alliance will rule from 2028-9.
- SW1 Idiocracy laughed at the AI-robotics revolution. They wouldn’t listen on the models. They wouldn’t listen on drones. They wouldn’t listen on LEO satellites. Remember I forced Westminster to buy them in 2020 when SW1 was still laughing at @elonmusk over SpaceX and Starlink? Haha who needs satellites! Now turns out Starlink is crucial for war and they’re screaming ‘Elon has all the satellites and we can’t do anything’. Why? The Tories and civil service SOLD OFF the satellites I forced them to buy! You can never hate the Tories enough.
- And as the models automate solving the deepest maths and physics problems, STILL SW1’s ‘serious grownups’ are babbling ‘hype’, no need to change our disastrous budgets, no need to change Whitehall, ‘our message is reassurance’ on cyber.
- Mr 1998 and Kemi-kasi are the logical product of SW1’s evolution over decades: politics in the old sense gone, government in the old sense irrelevant and handed over to the permanent state - SW1 ‘politics’ has become an entirely closed Oxbridge social network game, the same pattern you see in other countries before someone kicks the door in and the walls come down..

Is this enough winning for you?

No?

Well read the whole thing and get your heads around the chaos we’re heading into…

Abysmal and destructive as the last decade has been politically, we’re accelerating into an even more grotesque absurdism.

Get ready for the North Atlantic Zone of Safe AI and Democracy, down with Putin-Trump-Brexit-Fascism and all disinformation, hurrah for Cadwalladr, long live Azov, the ECHR, may we import all ISIS beheaders here to show how much we believe in ‘modern British values’, Slava Ukraine

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https://t.co/kSNeiXuZnQ

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 FSU VICTORY!

A Scottish FSU member was driving on the M80 with his four-year-old son after a day at an amusement park when another car cut him up, nearly causing a collision.

Under his breath, he muttered something racist. The windows were down, but the other driver wasn’t looking at him. The only witness was his young son in the back seat.

Convinced the dangerous driver had been drinking, our member contacted the police. They eventually stopped both cars and reviewed his dashcam footage.

A week later, the police contacted him to say that an offence had been committed — not by the dangerous driver, but by our member, for words he had muttered under his breath in the privacy of his own car.

He was prosecuted for allegedly causing alarm and distress, even though only he and his young son were in the car. It is extraordinary.

The Free Speech Union found him an excellent barrister, and he was acquitted by the Justice of the Peace within minutes.

This is the closest we have come to defending someone prosecuted for thought crime.

This is the extent of police overreach in speech and thought policing. They need to get their priorities straight.

Watch the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, below 👇

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

Slash a rubber boat? You’ll be locked up pre-trial.

Rape schoolgirls? Nah, you’re fine mate, free to go 👍🏻

Absolutely disgusting🤬

We have our priorities completely wrong as a nation….

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[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Why the hell were they released on bail???

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The amount that food prices have risen is just insane.

They’re up 40% since 2019!

Much of this is directly due to the Tories’ and Labour’s crazy energy policies and big hikes in National Insurance.

They’re also both responsible for the ‘Packaging Tax’. The Tories created it, Labour enacted it.

It costs the average household £52 a year.

We’ll scrap it in our first Budget.

Altogether, with lower taxes, cheaper energy and less mad regulation, we’ll cut your food and shopping bills by £140 a year.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

Look no further than Sophy Ridge’s post this morning to see how easily the Westminster lobby is taken for a ride on Net Zero. Sky’s lead presenter breathlessly announces £12bn for two offshore wind projects "off the east coast of Scotland". They aren’t in Scotland. They are Norfolk Vanguard East and West—50km off East Anglia. No 10 slipped "Scotland" into a press release, and the lobby typed it out without checking a map.

If they won’t check which country a £12bn project is in, they certainly won’t check the balance sheet.

Strip away the slogans from Ed Miliband’s zealots and look at the financial engineering. We are told this is "homegrown British energy." In reality, it is a 50:50 joint venture between German giant RWE and New York private equity firm KKR. Taxpayers are handing over £1bn from the National Wealth Fund to de-risk their equity, while locking households into a 20-year inflation-linked Contract for Difference at £91.20/MWh in 2024 prices—well over £100/MWh today. For two decades, your energy bill will legally underwrite the guaranteed yield of a Wall Street fund.
Where do the industrial jobs go? Not here. The 184 turbines come from Denmark’s Vestas, backed by Danish export finance. Worse, the steel monopile foundations were promised to the SeAH factory at Teesworks in Redcar. In April, RWE pulled the plug on the Teesside contract for Vanguard West—triggering North East job cuts—and outsourced fabrication to Bilbao in Spain and Nordenham in Germany, underwritten by German export agency Euler Hermes. British taxpayers put up the £1bn subsidy; German and Spanish factories get the heavy engineering.

Then look at the environmental reality Net Zero ideologues ignore. Building 184 15MW turbines requires over 400,000 tonnes of virgin blast-furnace steel, thousands of tonnes of copper, and Chinese rare-earth neodymium and dysprosium mined in toxic conditions. To connect it, developers are using compulsory purchase powers to rip a 60km, 45m-wide trench—wider than a motorway—through prime Norfolk farmland from Happisburgh to Necton, pouring tens of thousands of tonnes of concrete into 150 jointing bays and a 300m converter substation.

Before a single blade turns, the embedded carbon from smelting steel, curing concrete, and running diesel jack-up vessels across the North Sea is vast. The switchgear relies on sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)—a gas 23,500 times more potent than CO2 that lingers for 3,200 years. And when these turbines hit the end of their 20-year subsidy life? We are left with 552 epoxy-resin blades, each 115m long, which cannot be economically recycled at scale and end up shredded, incinerated, or buried in landfill, while 400,000 tonnes of rusting steel stay driven into the seabed.

Yet Kemi Badenoch and the Tories now tour studios calling Net Zero "fantasy politics," hoping we have amnesia. Look at her record:
In June 2019, she waved through Theresa May’s statutory Net Zero 2050 target in 90 minutes without objection.

In 2022, she boasted at the dispatch box that Net Zero would cost "under 2% of GDP."

She sat in the Cabinet that passed the Energy Act 2023, expanding the exact CfD subsidy racket behind this £12bn RWE/KKR stitch-up.

The uniparty built this machine together, mortgaging our industrial base to foreign utilities and private equity, giving Britain the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world while paying gas stations to sit on standby when wind drops to 4%.

Only Reform UK—led by Nigel Farage and Richard Tice—will rip up the Net Zero mandates, scrap the CfD racket, fast-track domestic North Sea oil, gas, and modular nuclear, and stop treating British billpayers as a cash cow for global finance.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The media is obsessed with slimeball celebrity predators- latest allegations are against David Walliams - while Maggie Oliver has to sue the government to get action for tens of thousands of victims of Pakistani rape gangs.

I know which story I think is more important.
@MaggieOliverUK

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@Polymarket A $127 million fraudster who literally steals from New Yorkers

Mamdani, silent. Hochul, silent.

Meanwhile they are getting mad at Amazon.

[Rant @ranttilwecant]

Why #RussellBrand really went to prison

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The BEST description you will read of how our country committed a monumental act of self-harm and trashed a once reliable energy system and built a lot of windmills leading to almost certain - and richly deserved - blackouts.
👇

[mary poppins @ozgal1965]

Regardless of personal opinions about Russell Brand, on the exact same day he received a prison sentence of ten years and six months, an Afghan national appeared in court for three counts of rape and penetration of a child under 13, but received a two-year suspended sentence.

🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Some rapists are treated more leniently than others.
Why would that be?

[corgo @wordsdematthew]

Ross Douthat: “mr. president, thank you so much for doing this. we're gonna start with the midterms. two years ago you won a big, some might say historic, victory. just now the republican party in the midterms suffered a big, some might say historic, defeat. give me your political analysis of what just happened.”

Donald Trump: “well, number one, i was not on the ballot, but i campaigned hard for some people, and i think if i was on the ballot, it would have been a much different situation, because you saw the level of popularity and love. there was love, with massive rallies. nobody's ever seen rallies like that for midterms, and there wasn't one room that didn't have thousands of people outside, couldn't get in. so you had to transfer those voters, however, to candidates that they didn't like. but there's something beyond that. they didn't like the war. they didn't like the fact that gasoline went up, because i had it down at a low. in iowa was 185 cents a gallon, dollar 85 a gallon, and when you look at 185 and you go up to three and a half, four dollars, still lower than biden, lower than obama, but the war was blamed for that, and they didn't like the war. i think mostly for that reason, because i think everyone agrees that iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they will never have a nuclear weapon. they won't have that. but, and there's a great dislike, incredibly, for israel. there seems to be a dislike for israel. so you have that, you have the war itself, you have the gas prices, and i think those are the primary reasons. and you know, maga, and i always, i want to keep out of wars. i've settled eight wars. i've settled eight wars. i mean, india, pakistan would have been a nuclear war. i got it settled before it got going. at 11, planes shot down. they were ready to go. the prime minister of pakistan said trump saved 30 to 50 million lives. i settled a lot of wars. so let's answer by john.”

Ross Douthat: “let's go, let's go through those then, one by one. start, start with the candidates, right? you said it was tough to transfer your own appeal to candidates. but in a lot of cases you picked the candidates. you picked, you endorsed ken paxton. well, texas, he had a tough time.”

Donald Trump: “sure.”

Ross Douthat: “you endorsed darlene graham.”

Donald Trump: “it would have lost also. darlene, i did that in honor of a man named lindsay, who was a friend of mine. it was a good politician, good guy. he was a very good guy, and she fought hard. she fought hard. she really did. she, she, she lost a very republican state.”

Ross Douthat: “oh, to a very liberal challenge.”

Donald Trump: “i won south carolina by the highest vote in history, by far. i won texas by the highest vote in history, by far. i won florida, who, by the way, i did endorse, and he's going to be a great governor, and a great senator. i would endorse both of them, and had i not endorsed him, they wouldn't have won, because there was a wave. you know, i also brought a lot of people to a lot closer to victory. if you look at ohio, he was, john, you said it was a good guy, but he was 15 down. he ended up losing by a point, maybe less than a point. it was, he almost won. but i don't make excuses for that. i won ohio by the most votes in history.”

Ross Douthat: “you're only talking about it. i just, why can't it transfer? you, you were out on the trail, and it didn't vote like i'm on the ballot.”

Donald Trump: “yeah, it didn't. people didn't. or, or did they, did they vote because they were mad? i know that. i think they didn't vote, really. i think they didn't vote. i think in some cases they didn't like the candidates, and that's, you know, their prerogative. look, three times they've not necessarily listened to me. the two other times i didn't go as much out as i did this time. i went all out. i did, i think, 30 rallies in like 28 days or something, and there were massive rallies, and they were very good, and they loved me. i mean, you saw the, it was like unbelievable.”

Ross Douthat: “but there's no question that part of the country loves you. but as you said, there's another part of the country, i think, that just by your own description, right, was unhappy with the war in iran.”

Donald Trump: “yeah.”

Ross Douthat: “i'm happy with the economy. talk about the economy for a moment. you handed me the jobs numbers that just came out a couple days after the election. they're very good job numbers, low unemployment rate. that's been true throughout your second term. but in poll after poll, people say they're unhappy with this economy in a way they weren't in the first term. cost of living, inflation, and so on. is that all just the iran war, or are there other things that haven't been fixed?”

Donald Trump: “well, it's not really the iran war, because the numbers are phenomenal. the numbers that we have are historically good numbers. i think it was bad messaging, maybe by me, but i would talk about it all the time. so i don't know, how much can i talk about it? look, the press doesn't cover, americans, the press doesn't cover positive news for republicans. they don't cover, certainly, positive news for me. so i have to do it myself, have to get it out there. one of the reasons i did rallies was to do that. but i would talk about how good, we have historically good numbers. we have the highest stock market in history. now, we lost yesterday because of the election, three trillion dollars. the market lost almost 5,000 points because of the democrats. they got in, and the world said, i don't want to invest with these people, because they, look what happened in france, they look what happened in italy, and all over the world, and they say this is the same ideology. but we have had, let's go, be the day before yesterday, right before, where the election, you know, and we're talking about now, a day before the election, we picked up 25 trillion dollars in worth, in the worth of our, in value. nobody's ever done that before.”

Ross Douthat: “but why don't americans feel it?”

Donald Trump: “they don't.”

Ross Douthat: “why don't they? because there's obviously, like, you in the press, you in the media, you and our business have been in tension throughout your career, correct, but you still won elections, right? so why couldn't you win?”

Donald Trump: “i think it was bad messaging.”

Ross Douthat: “what was the bad message?”

Donald Trump: “we couldn't get the word across. look, you just seen job numbers that came out the day after the election, right? too bad they didn't come out the day before the election. but they came out, and the numbers are way beyond anybody's expectations, by, by over a hundred and twenty, five hundred and thirty thousand. we had a hundred and sixty-five thousand jobs. i mean, just a minute. what is this, in like, there, when you look at polls, they are upset about their, i think they're gonna notice it in the next two, three, four months.”

Ross Douthat: “okay. now, tariffs.”

Donald Trump: “let me just, so we have trillions of dollars right now being built in factories and everything else. that's why these numbers, the construction numbers, the job numbers, are through the roof. if i, you know, i listen to these people, and i'm really good at money and finances, probably, maybe my best thing, although i was very good on the border. i was good in a lot of things. but in terms of that, you take a look at the kind of numbers that we're doing. we're doing numbers that have never been done before. 401ks are at their all-time high, by a lot. under other presidents they were a disaster. 401ks have made people rich, and for some reason, remember during rallies, i'd say, please look at your 401k before you go to vote. maybe not everyone has a big, for, but a lot of, it's wages, it's gas prices. i'd say, who has a 401k, and almost half the room, lots of people have them.”

Ross Douthat: “let's, let's, on gas prices and iran. a couple days ago your vice president, jd vance, wrote a social media post where he says the reason we lost is the war, meaning iran, and he said things in that post about israel. yeah, so you agree with his analysis. did you know he was, one thing, did you know first, did you know he was gonna write that post?”

Donald Trump: “he told, he asked me, what do i think? i said, you write what you, i said, right, you write what one feel. by the way, what are you gonna write? okay. so, but what he said, the one thing he left out is that i would say, and maybe he wouldn't say it, i don't know, i never asked him really, but if you had it to do again, would you do it? and that's iran. would you go and attack iran and take away there? because we won that war. that war has been won. now they're withering away as a country, and they'll come and they'll make a deal. they'll definitely, they want to make a deal. we, by the way, just before we get, they want to make a deal just before the election, and that gives them a little bit of a hope certificate now. but we were close to making a deal. if we didn't have this election, we might have even had, or within the next few days, we would have a deal, and let's give some hope. let's go with that. but i just, before, yeah, the only thing i wish you would have said there, if he felt it, and you'd have to ask him about that, but if you had it to do again, would you do it? you know, he's part of a decision-making process, and my answer is an emphatic yes, because you can't let iran have a nuclear weapon. i think, historically, this will be a very good decision. is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? maybe not. but i would, you know, i have to go with what's right for our country. if they had a nuclear weapon, you and i would not be speaking the way. oh, then i'd really be excoriated. if they had a nuclear weapon during my term, i would be excoriated far worse than what's happened. so let's, let's come, but rest, i've stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. that's a big thing. just stay, they were ready to make a deal with me. we would have had a deal except for this election, and we'll make a deal anyway, because they'll get over there.”

Ross Douthat: “so you're not going to escalate the war now that the midterms are.”

Donald Trump: “looking to, i don't think there's any reason to. i don't think there's any reason to. look, they still have, they still have nuclear. they still have nuclear material. they have, they have nothing. it's buried under thousands of tons of rock, and we have, through space force, which i created, we have, we have telescopic lenses that are unbelievable. i can, i can tell the color of the red dots on your tie, and we watch every one of those sites, the three that we blew up, and also pickaxe, pickaxe mountain.”

Ross Douthat: “so there's still stuff in pickaxe mountain?”

Donald Trump: “well, we don't know that. there wasn't. there's been very little activity there. they have other problems. they're not looking at pickaxe mountain. but so, what if we need is, if we needed to do pickaxe, if we needed to do pickaxe, we'll watch it. if we needed to do pickaxe, which we don't at this moment, we would have that done in one hour. it would be taken care of.”

Ross Douthat: “so what's the deal in the end with them that gives it, gives the strait open? because it's important.”

Donald Trump: “it's important. the strait is open. the strait has traffic moving through it, because the u.s. military sitting there.”

Ross Douthat: “your, your favorite newspaper, the wall street journal, two days ago had an article that said there is more oil going through the hormone strait than there was at the beginning of the war. think of that.”

Donald Trump: “we have ships going, but the ships that are going through are being babysat by a large u.s. military presence.”

Ross Douthat: “so how do we make it not very, not very expensive, out of there?”

Donald Trump: “not very expensive. we can just leave, and at the end of this whole thing, those countries that we've protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we've had for the war. we're gonna get all that money back, and i've told them, and they're gonna do it 100%, because without us they wouldn't exist. without us, israel wouldn't exist. let me tell you, israel.”

Ross Douthat: “tell me about all.”

Donald Trump: “would not exist except for donald trump, because we went in with those beautiful b-2 bombers more than a year ago, and we hit the three sites. at, at the time, you know, i call it nuclear dust. they were loaded up with nuclear dust. they were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, and if i didn't hit them, and it was an incredible raid, and people said, oh, well, maybe they hit, it turned out to be, when atomic energy went in and they said it was the most accurate imaginable. i mean, they were totally destroyed.”

Ross Douthat: “you took, you, you say you have no regrets about that decision. do you have any regrets on, but on israel? do you have regrets about the decision to help the israelis do decapitation strikes on iran? because that changed the iranian regime, and it seems like it made them escalate. you could have just kept hitting the new, the nuclear facilities, right? you could have done that.”

Donald Trump: “but we had people that would, would have gone further. look, this, i want to have it for the long term, not for the short term. we decapitated their nuclear arsenal. if i didn't do that, there would be no israel right now. israel would be gone, in my, look, i deal with these people. i deal with a lot of people, and that's what i've done my whole life. i make deals, and obviously i make good deals, because i became, i made a lot of money, and i became president. bill, you know, it's just a deal, too. i became president of the united states. a lot of smart politicians thought, oh, gee, this should be easy, but it wasn't easy for them. i became president as an, easy, i became president easily. so that's what i do. i deal with the iranians. they would use a nuclear weapon in 24 hours, just like the democrats will terminate the filibuster immediately, and i'm trying to get that knowledge imparted into the republican senate. but the democrats will, immediately, or as soon as they have the right opportunity, they will terminate the filibuster and do things to our country that are very, very bad. i'm trying to weave.”

Ross Douthat: “yeah, so let's, let's do the weave and talk about the democrats. thank you. came out after the midterms, you congratulated the democrats. you said that you were open to working with them, true. what is one thing you would like to work with a democratic majority?”

Donald Trump: “i'd love to do something on immigration.”

Ross Douthat: “what, because, well, so do you think immigration hurt you?”

Donald Trump: “i think in the midterm, i think the crackdown, i think it both helped and hurt. i think i got an a-plus for closing up the border, because we had 25 million people come in through biden over a four-year period, and many of those people were, as you know, they were from prisons. they were drug dealers. they were from mental institutions. they were from all over the world, not just south america. and some, as you once said, are good people. you know, i said, yes, i'm a good, and some are really bad. you had eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight murderers, most of whom, more than half of whom, committed more than one murder. they were allowed into our country. we've gotten most of them out. so the book, so close, plus, and i think you would agree that i get an a-plus for that. i get an a-plus. what, closing, nobody in the last 17 months, just came out, zero people came in through a southern border, as opposed to 25 million people. 25 million people, they came in through caravans. nobody ever saw anything like it. okay, for getting people out, i get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but i get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that, that created one violation, were breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally. now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out, and there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people, working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right, and in some cases paying taxes. and there's a large group of people think that they should be allowed to stay.”

Ross Douthat: “so, so you think your deportation policy went too far? it was too tough?”

Donald Trump: “i think it might be too tough. yeah, and a lot of people would say that it's great. but a lot of people think it's too tough.”

Ross Douthat: “what would, and i think, what is the deal look?”

Donald Trump: “i think ultimately that hurt me. i think it, well, the deal would be we would work something out, and i think it's something, i think that's something that's actually doable.”

Ross Douthat: “but a lot of people, doable to create some kind of legal status for the landscapers.”

Donald Trump: “yeah. when you go into a hotel and you say, let me see your pass, and you have a woman that's worked there as a, you know, as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as that, as a waitress, a lot of good things, great job, and all of a sudden they're being taken out of the country. it's tough. it's a tough thing. also, 25 million people came in through, but that's a lot of people to take out. but there's a group of people that i would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out. there's a group of people.”

Ross Douthat: “and do any of those people work in your administration? are they in the building with us right now?”

Donald Trump: “no. no. well, there are a lot of those people. yeah. then there's also people that are more modified on that. in other words, get the killers out, get to, get the rapist out, get all the rough ones out, get the drug dealers out, but let the people that are here, and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years, work a deal for them.”

Ross Douthat: “okay.”

Donald Trump: “so that's another group. and then you have a group that, so you have the group that wants to get everybody out, then you have the group that wants to modify it, and then you have a group that's a very dangerous group, the sanctuary city group, that want to let murderers stay. they want it. they don't want to give us the criminals. we have, they have murderers that they know are murderers, and i don't understand that group. they don't want them out of our country. they want to protect them, and they've literally murdered people. they're drug dealers. they're really bad people.”

Ross Douthat: “and, but do you think, but you think the democratic party right now has people in it who would be interested in this kind of deal?”

Donald Trump: “i think so. yeah. people have already called me.”

Ross Douthat: “who?”

Donald Trump: “you know, i guess i get along with a lot of the democrats, a lot.”

Ross Douthat: “so i saw, so i'll say, i saw james tallarico, the new democratic senator from texas. i saw him on fox news, and he said immigration was one of the things he wanted to work with. others, to, south carolina said.”

Donald Trump: “you did, you did.”

Ross Douthat: “people that didn't, in the course of the campaign, you did occasionally call him tallarico.”

Donald Trump: “yeah, i did.”

Ross Douthat: “do you think you could work with the democrats without insulting them?”

Donald Trump: “yeah, consistently.”

Ross Douthat: “you think you also call, but you also call many of them, democrats. you did that just the other day. if, if it took six months of not insulting the democrats to get a deal done, do you think you could do it?”

Donald Trump: “very easily.”

Ross Douthat: “okay, that'll be interesting to watch. do you think, i'm here to help the country. think you could do it if they're investigating you, if they're running investigations into your administration? can you work with them?”

Donald Trump: “well, i did it for four years. you know, i think what they did with me was, there's never been weaponization. they impeached me twice, and there are those that say that worked out to my advantage. i mean, you know.”

Ross Douthat: “because you think they'll impeach you again?”

Donald Trump: “i can't imagine it. you know, they did. hey, look, what have i done? i've had the best two years in the history of the presidency. you just read the numbers. you just read, in terms of the economy, in terms of everything, up until her public opinion. well, the only public opinion, that's, you also saw public opinion with the rallies. i mean, i had the largest rallies in history. i had the greatest amount of love, if you want to call it love. those people love what i'm doing. they love what i've done. but, but you see, understand, you make, in two years, think of it. we have, for 91 days, the highest stock market in history. we have more jobs created than ever before in history. we have the highest amount of exporting. we're exporting.”

Ross Douthat: “so, become a big part. let me ask you about that economy. a big part of that economy has been the success of artificial intelligence. i know we call it super intelligence in this house, and you have said repeatedly, whoever wins super intelligence wins the future. but again, if you go into polls, americans, they don't love data centers. they're pretty negative about ai, super intelligence. what does the average american get out of ai?”

Donald Trump: “first, let me just tell you that when you say a big part, yes, it's a part, but we're also building automobile, sure, factories like we've never built before. audi just announced four billion.”

Ross Douthat: “does, i know, but you have to know, but you said a big part.”

Donald Trump: “automobiles. how about pharmaceutical? eli lilly, merck, pfizer. they're building hundreds of billions on the economy. but i would have never been, but there has never been a time where there is the activity. trillions and trillions of dollars right now, as we sit, is being built. in a year from now, because they started a year ago, in a year from now many of those plants are going to be open, operating.”

Ross Douthat: “but i want, i want, what do americans get? you, you have, i talked to people in silicon valley who say that the decisions you make around ai are the most important things that you'll be remembered for. that's what, that's what they, that's what they think. but at the same time there is all of this anxiety and concern, and i just want you to know, as someone, you are an ai bull.”

Donald Trump: “i am.”

Ross Douthat: “what do, what does the average american get out of that technology?”

Donald Trump: “excuse me, before i answer that, the reason i'm an ai bull, yes, one of the reasons is because president xi left here two weeks ago. we had a great meeting. he's all in to si, as i call.”

Ross Douthat: “yes, it really is super intelligence. it's a, it's a much better name.”

Donald Trump: “i think, because it's not artificial. it's, it's.”

Ross Douthat: “that, at least, is what, it's what they think they're racing towards.”

Donald Trump: “yes. so china, what, we're in a race with china, and if, and i've said, whoever wins that race wins. the level of power of winning that race is very important.”

Ross Douthat: “what is, the china has no problem with data centers, right?”

Donald Trump: “china has no problem with electricity, and by the way, we don't either, because i'm letting, i'm demanding that they build their own electric plant. every one of those centers that goes up now, under me, is building their own electric. you had to be giving the excess electric. they're giving the excess electric right now. they're giving it into the old grid that we had. we have an old broken grid, and that juice is pouring into the grid. it's gonna lower a lot.”

Ross Douthat: “you had all of the ai tycoons in here.”

Donald Trump: “i did.”

Ross Douthat: “and elon musk said then, as he said often, the end game with ai, super intelligence, is that we're incredibly rich and nobody has to work, and everyone gets paid a universal high income. yeah, you like to work? does that sound like a good future to you?”

Donald Trump: “no, what, what he meant, i think, is that when a data center, as an example, goes to a community, look at west virginia. they're going wild. they love it. they say, come on in. and many, many country, many places like it. by the way, other countries like it. they're building them in finland all of a sudden, because if we lose that, we're losing a cash cow. it's a cash cow. but here's the thing. i think you're saving, so look.” 1/4
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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage lays a wreath at the Cenotaph for the first time after Reform UK reached enough MPs

[FullBreed 🇺🇸 🏈 🍺 🚘 @breed_full]

The Polish shooter the media ia claiming is "far right" is actually a far left antifa loser.

The story will disappear in 3...2....1....

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Kill your parents. Kill your sister. Then drive out and shoot random people in your own city. You are a far-right ultranationalist. Drive a truck into a crowd screaming Allahu Akbar? You are just mentally ill. Got it? This is how it works now.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

For a working family with kids and a mortgage to pay, 5% inflation and mortgage rates of 7-8% are existential. They've already cancelled the holiday, cut the takeaway, and given up on Netflix.

They cannot afford more. Lives will be ruined.

Why has the Bank of England increased interest rates and mortgage repayments?

Because Labour is sending prices through the roof – now estimated to be 5% by January. Mad policies like net zero and Labour's taxes and regulations are increasing the price of everything. The Bank raises interest rates to get on top of that incompetence.

And it's working families, not politicians who really suffer. Honestly, the old parties in Westminster just don't get it. The Tories don't even mention the Cost of Living – I guess it doesn't affect them or their friends. And Labour don't care about you unless you’re on benefits, and they're too busy with nonsense like banning smoky bacon crisps.

This madness can't go on! Any competent government that cared about people would do the obvious. Cut people's bills with common-sense policies.

Within 100 Days, Reform would:

•⁠ ⁠Scrap net zero subsidies and price-raising policies
•⁠ ⁠⁠Eliminate Labour's jobs tax for British workers
•⁠ ⁠⁠End the mad policies that are driving up rents and the cost of doing business
•⁠ ⁠⁠Give the average working family £1300 in tax breaks and lower fuel costs.

We don't need to keep getting poorer. Let's cut bills instead!