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[SheThinksFreely @L08818]

Anyone and everyone claiming that Trump or Pam Bondi ordered the Epstein investigation to be closed is a LIAR.

There is not now, nor has there ever been proof that the Trump administration closed any investigation into Epstein.

To the contrary, in February Pam Bondi indicated the DOJ was investigating possible Epstein conspirators.

I'm so sick of the bullshit and lies coming from this circle jerk of nefarious operatives.

Ask them for proof - not a single one of them can produce it.

[Tom Luongo @TFL1728]

@dlacalle_IA Until yesterday they were holding a floor on Brent at $91-92 and RBOB gasoline at $3.04-3.07.

Brent kept getting pulled down by falling WTI... Gasoline futures (another British scam market) will fall as well.

Then the CPI will fall and the whole rotten story will collapse.

[miguelifornia @miguelifornia]

Panicans destroying themselves one by one is so much fun to watch

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

The thing that makes these discussions so exhausting is that people start with a conclusion and then work backwards until every problem in society somehow becomes "fiat."

Government overspending? Fiat.

National debt? Fiat.

Housing shortages? Fiat.

Low productivity? Fiat.

Demographic collapse? Fiat.

Pension crises? Fiat.

Stagnant growth? Fiat.

At some point it stops being economics and starts looking like medieval medicine where every disease is blamed on an imbalance of humours.

Yes, fiat money has serious flaws. Governments abuse monetary systems. Politicians are short-term thinkers. Monetary expansion can distort investment signals. These are real problems.

But none of that means fiat is the cause of every economic ill.

National debt exists because governments spend more than they collect. They borrow because voters demand services while simultaneously demanding lower taxes. You can denominate that debt in dollars, gold, seashells, or Bitcoin. The political incentive structure remains.

An aging society remains an aging society.

A shrinking workforce remains a shrinking workforce.

Bad investment remains bad investment.

Productivity problems remain productivity problems.

The fantasy is that changing the money changes reality.

It doesn't.

If you have two retirees for every worker, Bitcoin doesn't fix it.

If nobody is building houses, Bitcoin doesn't fix it.

If capital is allocated into unproductive projects, Bitcoin doesn't fix it.

If your birth rate is below replacement for decades, Bitcoin doesn't fix it.

Reality eventually sends the bill.

The biggest economic issue facing much of the developed world isn't monetary policy. It's demographics. Entire countries have inverted population pyramids. Fewer young workers. More retirees. Rising healthcare costs. Rising pension obligations. Falling productivity growth.

An economy is people.

Not tokens.

Not charts.

Not slogans.

People.

Workers produce. Engineers build. Farmers grow food. Entrepreneurs create businesses. Scientists innovate. Those activities generate real wealth.

Money merely measures and facilitates exchange.

The tragedy is that many people have become so obsessed with monetary theories that they've forgotten where wealth comes from in the first place.

You cannot trade your way to prosperity.

You cannot speculate your way to prosperity.

You cannot HODL your way to prosperity.

Someone, somewhere, must produce.

The uncomfortable reality is that demographics, productivity, education, capital formation, infrastructure, and technological progress matter vastly more than whether a balance sheet is denominated in dollars, gold, or digital tokens.

Money matters.

But it is not the economy.

And anyone who reduces every economic problem to "fiat" is advertising that they understand neither money nor economics. They're repeating a slogan because it feels satisfying, not because it explains anything.

The world is more complicated than a meme.

And reality has a nasty habit of ignoring memes.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨 Trump just ASSASSINATED the leader of Tren De Aragua

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

A nation without its history loses its identity.

President Trump knows and understands that better than anyone.

That’s why he’s restoring, preserving, and celebrating the American story that built the greatest country on Earth.

While others try to tear it down, he’s fighting to keep it alive.

Through every attack, every challenge, and every obstacle, he keeps moving forward.

For millions of Americans, that’s something truly special to witness.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. forces continue to strictly enforce the blockade against Iran. CENTCOM has redirected 139 compliant commercial ships and disabled 9 non-compliant vessels since April 13.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐓𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐎’𝐒 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄 — 𝐒𝐎 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐎 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄

Tucker Carlson went on a livestream claiming he had proof — private texts from Dan Bongino — that President Trump 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 into the Butler ass∗ssination attempt.

So Bongino did the one thing Tucker didn't plan for: he 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐢𝐫.

Nowhere in them does Bongino say Trump shut down the probe. He says the opposite — that Trump is a victim who was briefed and satisfied, and that the case stays open but inactive only because no new leads have panned out.

Then came the receipts. A November 21 Fox News report — published 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 Tucker claims the two even spoke — quotes the FBI calling the Crooks case “𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦,” not closed. Trump himself told the Daily Caller he is satisfied with the Butler findings.

One man brought screenshots and dates. The other brought a story.

𝐓𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐜. 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬.

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

No, moron. Adoption requires utility. Utility requires scale. And scale is precisely the thing BTC deliberately crippled.

A payment system does not become a standard because people stare at a price chart and dream about getting rich. It becomes a standard because people can actually use it.

Nobody adopted Visa because the share price went up.

Nobody adopted the internet because Cisco stock appreciated.

Nobody adopted email because they expected their mailbox to moon.

People adopted those systems because they worked, at scale, for ordinary activities.

The obsession with price is what happens when a technology stops being a technology and starts becoming a cult of speculation.

"If Bitcoin doesn't incentivize people to possess it, it will fail."

No. If Bitcoin doesn't incentivize people to use it, it will fail.

Possession is not adoption.

Speculation is not adoption.

Hoarding is not adoption.

A million people buying something and locking it away is not evidence of utility. It's evidence that they hope somebody else will pay more for it later.

Real adoption is invoices.

Real adoption is payroll.

Real adoption is contracts.

Real adoption is data exchange.

Real adoption is micropayments.

Real adoption is millions and then billions of transactions occurring because the system solves a problem.

BTC cannot do that. Its entire architecture was redesigned around artificial scarcity of transaction capacity. It took a system intended to scale through competitive processing and transformed it into a system where users compete for limited block space.

The result is predictable. Fees rise. Capacity stagnates. Activity migrates elsewhere. Then the same people responsible for creating the bottleneck announce that the solution is another network, another gateway, another workaround, another abstraction layer.

A man breaks your legs and then sells you crutches.

The truly absurd part is the claim that price appreciation creates adoption. By that logic, every speculative bubble in history should have become the foundation of civilization.

Tulips didn't.

Beanie Babies didn't.

Thousands of dot-com stocks didn't.

Because speculation and utility are not the same thing.

A network becomes valuable because people use it.

People do not use it because it is valuable.

Getting that backwards is how you end up believing that a permanently congested system somehow becomes a global standard by making itself harder and more expensive to use.

That isn't a scaling strategy.

It's a suicide note written in economic illiteracy.

[Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA]

Winston Peters today from Field Days :

“It’s not a FTA, that Indian deal is an immigration deal, have a look at Ireland and the UK, loose immigration is a disaster and i’m not having it”

“National signed us up-to the Paris agreement which could cost us $22 billion, and if that wasn’t bad enough National have again signed us up to $35 billion to pay India for this deal”

“Luxon doesn’t know what he’s talking about, ask the Australians how much meat they’ve sold to India since their India deal - it’s been pathetic, and it will be the same for us”

When asked about treasury modelling, WP is the only Politician i’ve heard question Superannuation forecast in 30 years “ Everything will be different, what about AI ? it’s here now, also the Cullen fund was there to counter the aging population, but National won’t mention it, because they want to privatise it”

Our Paris accord obligation payments will end up spread between China and India. Our commitment National has made to India for the free trade deal is to promote 35 billion more to them. What’s the bet that the $92 billion in the Cullen fund, a fund built by our taxes from workers, designed to help smooth out OUR super commitments - ends up in Mumbai.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Today, I am sanctioning Cuba’s state-owned energy company, Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), under President Trump’s EO 14404. Cuba’s Communist elites have weaponized energy as a tool of social control and kleptocratic profit.

For decades, the regime has stolen and hoarded available fuel — using it for the Castros’ private jet, the security services forces used to repress the Cuban people, to keep empty tourist hotels lit up, and to bus people in for fake protests and political stunts — all while the Cuban people have suffered blackouts and waited weeks to fill their cars.

President Trump wants a new future for the Cuban people with greater economic and political freedom and opportunity. Until then, we will continue to target the Communist regime’s ability to leverage its energy trade to further its corrupt agenda and violently repress the Cuban people.

[David H Prichard @1herald0Fm4ny]

@TFL1728 Yes! The Iranians that the Trump Administration has been isolating and tearing down are mere pawns in a war of Sovereign nations versus Globalist-Psychopathic elites.

God help those who are caught in the middle, to extract themselves from this web, and preserve their families!

[Tom Luongo @TFL1728]

Iran's fundamental mistake is thinking they are the real target of Trump's hostilities.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

The idea that “natural = good” falls apart the moment you learn what nature actually is.

Arsenic is natural.
Botulism is natural.
Smallpox was natural.

Insulin, vaccines, and clean drinking water are not.

Nature doesn’t care if you live.
Science does.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Notice that chemophobia rarely comes from chemists?

The people who spend their careers studying molecules, toxicology, exposure, and risk tend to be the least afraid of “chemicals.”

Why do you think that is?

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Trump dropped an absolute bombshell yesterday. The media focused on him saying "I love the inflation." But did you hear the Venezuela raid-sized news he announced AFTER THAT?

The U.S. military has been secretly taking millions of barrels of oil OUT of the Strait of Hormuz in a massive operation. Not even Iran knew this. Everyone thought the tankers were just sitting there. THEY WEREN'T. That's why oil prices didn't reach deadly levels. That's why gas prices are dropping.

This is one of the most impressive military operations I’ve ever heard about. So why announce it to the world now? Why not let it keep going in secret? Here's my guess: It was a massive poker move against Iran, showing them that they have NO LEVERAGE, it let China know that America still controls the seas, and it let the American people know that Trump has a plan and it's WORKING.

That sure sounds like America First to me.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

The Strait of Hormuz remains open for transit.

[Tom Luongo @TFL1728]

When you realize that every group in the Middle East has some tie to either London or Paris. Details like this make SOOO much more sense.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

I am in awe of what the @POTUS has done in Washington, DC

The American 🇺🇸 People are blessed to have this:

[ΛЯIΣᄂ @Prolotario1]

Genius level: Surgical Manuever

Trump weaponizing a must-pass $350B Pentagon reconciliation package untouchable defense funding as the Trojan horse to ram through the Save America Act.

It forces Democrats into a corner: block military funding or swallow sweeping domestic reforms (debt restructuring, election integrity levers, financial reset tools).

Pure legislative jujitsu turning opposition’s sacred cow into the delivery system for the Republic’s reclamation.

No debate. No filibuster theater. Just raw, bundled dominance.

The machine never saw the freight train coming.

~Stop Crying In My Comment Section