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Blogger, youtuber, low carb enthusiast.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@Alleyesonmela1 And LA voters are stuck on stupid.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

This is one of the best westerns Hollywood ever made.

[John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC]

Last night's movie...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), A

I love this movie the more I watch it, even though it really shouldn't work. It's stage-bound, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart are 30 years too old for their roles, and some of the performances are pretty broad.

Its themes are what work, the underlying story of how a wilderness becomes a garden (as Vera Miles' character tells it); the idea that legends (or lies) can lead to more good than a truth, even when the carrier of that lie -- a good man -- is left to burden it; the tragedy of Wayne's character Tom Doniphon, another of Ford's men who civilized the West but find they have no place in civilization.

Also satisfying are the hat tips to "Stagecoach" (1939)...

How Wayne's characters in both classics light cigarettes with a lantern and can only promise the woman he loves a half-built cabin.

How Aces & Eights (Wild Bill Hickok's famous dead man's hand) foreshadows the death of characters.

How Andy Devine's character in "Stagecoach" is working to save money to marry Julietta, even though she has a larger family than he would like. Then, in "Liberty Valance," his character is married to Julietta and her massive family.

How the "Overland Stagecoach" is used in both.

And both are basically four-act movies. After the Stagecoach survives the Indian attack, there's the fourth act with the famous shootout between Ringo and the three Plummer Brothers. After Liberty Valance is killed, "Liberty Valance" has a fourth act with the vote for a DC representative.

Wonderful stuff.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Meet Doris, she lives in California and is registered as a 126 year old who has voted in 51 elections and has NO IDEA.

California’s voting system is so corrupt that by simply knocking on the door of the “126 year old” proves election fraud.

EXPOSE IT ALL.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@JamieBonkiewicz It is exactly what I voted for

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@pubity This is self deportation of illegals

[Ben Hart @BenHart_Freedom]

IRAN WAR UPDATE & WHY THE PRICE OF OIL KEEPS DROPPING

The media has not been covering this.

According to the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, approximately 1,000 commercial vessels have crossed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months.

Iran has not been able to do anything about it. And commercial traffic through the Strait is slowly increasing.

Meanwhile, the U.S. blockade on Iran's use Strait of Hormuz is costing the Iran Regime $500 MILLION per day. The Regime's entire annual budget is about $56 BILLION. The Regime can no longer pay its soldiers or security police.

Mass protests against the Regime are now starting up again in cities across Iran, as the people are now sensing the Regime can's do much about this.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced that the $24 BILLION in Iranian assets that we have frozen will be used to reimburse and compensate countries in the region Iran keeps hitting with its missiles and drones.

The damage Iran has done to airports, power grids, buildings, and infrastructure, as well as casualties inflicted by Iran in the region, will be billed to Iran's account.

Iran has been saying any deal Iran strikes with the U.S. hinges on the U.S. unfreezing $24 BILLION in Iran assets.

Welp, so much for that idea. This $24 BILLION will be used to compensate Iran's victims in the region.

There is no reason for the U.S. to negotiate anymore with Iran's Regime.

It's quite cheap for the U.S. Navy to keep patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, escorting ships in and out. Our Navy has to be somewhere. Might as well be there, conducting occasional target practice on whatever is left of Iran's military capabilities.

No one fears the Iran Regime anymore. It's proven itself to be a toothless tiger.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Arab World has joined with the United States and Israel in an alliance against the Iran Regime, which is now completely isolated.

That's pretty amazing. Thanks to President Trump, the rest of the Arab world is now allied with Israel.

Who would have thought that possible?

We should allow Israel to do whatever it wants to do to the Iran Regime. We should also continue arming the Kurds and pro-freedom groups inside Iran.

When Epic Fury started, the prediction was that oil would rise above $200 per barrel.

This has not happened. Oil is around $90 a barrel and will continue to drop.

The reason we have not seen anything close to $200 a barrel is the United States has ramped up its oil production.

Thanks to President Trump, the United States is a net oil and energy exporter.

With Trump's arrest of Venezuela's Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro, the United States also now has an oil production partnership with the new government of Venezuela, which as the world's largest oil reserves.

Oil production by Venezuela will only continue to increase.

Trump has also chased China out of Panama. China is no longer running the Panama Canal. We are.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait are increasing their pipeline capacity to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, further rendering Iran irrelevant.

Only about 20% of Iran's people are practicing Muslims. The strange theocratic ideology that has been imposed on the Iranian people for 47 years is an alien minority force.

We can just continue to watch the Iran Regime implode financially under this economic pressure we've imposed.

Eventually, the IRGC leadership and Mullahs will receive the Gaddafi treatment.

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

When Thomas Massie lost his primary, MTG blamed the “old guard” and prayed we still have a country left after “these creatures” are gone.

Tucker told NYT boomers are “the most loathsome, mediocre generation this country has ever produced.”

The meme ‘OK Boomer’ isn’t just a generational grievance — it’s a toxic Marxist revolutionary idea, now dressed in right-wing clothes. And it only leads to destruction.

Boomers were flawed like every generation. But burning the past to rebuild from zero is how civilizations die.

Gen Z: There’s one thing you must do instead — the opposite of what the left and dissident right are telling you:

https://t.co/CYLYRUazJu

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@earlyvotedata Exactly, because Californians are stuck on stupid.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Three straight minutes of Tucker contradicting things he said, often within a few weeks.

He does this because the goal is to demoralize and subvert, not tell the truth. So consistency is not needed.

The lies are intentional.

Gia @TheMilkBarTV

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@Conservatarism @Oilfield_Rando Not everyone is a grifter. But too many Americans don’t know how the branches of our federal government are designed to work.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@yoUsaama And Sam’s point still stands. Hamas is too damn stupid to know it, as are you.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@TheChiefNerd 2 idiots. Yes the US spies in Israel. We spy on our allies. We spy on our enemies and our rivals.

Stop posting stupid shit.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@BlackVanguard7 Well now he can be a model prisoner.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Musk found a way to measure institutional stupidity in dollars.

That is why this matters.

The “magic wand number” strips a product down to its physical floor.

What are the atoms?

Aluminum. Titanium. Copper. Steel. Carbon fiber. Silicon. Energy. Labor at its most irreducible. If a perfect god-machine could rearrange those atoms instantly into the finished product, what would it cost?

That number is the floor.

Everything above that floor is the cost of arrangement.

Manufacturing. Design. Procurement. Labor. Tooling. Supply chain. Bureaucracy. Regulation. Meetings. Defects. Rework. Legacy assumptions. Vendor margin. Managerial cowardice. Bad engineering. Complexity worship. Institutional drift.

The “idiot index” measures the distance between the physical floor and the actual delivered cost.

That distance is where civilization leaks.

This is a devastating idea because it turns vague inefficiency into a ratio. It gives stupidity a number. Once stupidity has a number, it can be hunted.

The highest-level principle:

Reality is cheap. Bad coordination is expensive.

The atoms are often not the problem. The process is the problem. The raw material is cheap. The finished object is expensive because human systems are full of accumulated nonsense: inherited designs, supplier lock-in, procurement rituals, overengineering, compliance theater, fake expertise, management layers, and nobody willing to ask the humiliating question:

“Why does this thing cost 100 times more than the stuff inside it?”

That question is nuclear.

Most institutions cannot ask it honestly because the answer usually indicts the institution itself.

SpaceX could ask it because Musk had no reverence for the inherited aerospace priesthood. The old industry reasoned from precedent: rockets are expensive because rockets have always been expensive. Musk reasoned from matter: if the atoms are cheap, the price is mostly coordination failure.

That is the whole fracture between first-principles operators and legacy institutions.

Legacy institutions protect the accumulated explanation for why things are expensive.

First-principles operators attack the cost delta.

The idiot index applies everywhere.

In healthcare: why does a procedure cost 50 times the physical input?

In defense: why does a part cost $13,000 when the material is $200?

In housing: why does shelter become impossible when wood, labor, and land do not explain the whole gap?

In education: why does knowledge cost six figures when distribution cost is near zero?

In software: why do companies spend millions on tools whose underlying functionality can be rebuilt for pennies in compute?

In government: why does every public project become a ritual sacrifice to process?

In corporate America: why do ten people need three weeks to create what one focused person with AI can produce in a day?

The idiot index is not just manufacturing math. It is a civilization diagnostic.

A high idiot index reveals where reality has been buried under process.

That is why this ties directly into AI. AI is going to run this audit across white-collar work. It will ask the same humiliating question:

“What is the magic wand number for this output?”

A memo. A model. A dashboard. A legal draft. A recruiting screen. A support response. A market brief. A strategy deck. A codebase. A finance process.

If AI can produce 80% of the output for 2% of the old cost, the human coordination layer has a catastrophic idiot index.

That is the real white-collar repricing.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

Remember, the police were not created to protect us from criminals. They were created to protect criminals from us.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️Canadian men have had ENOUGH

patriots on Toronto subway confront man

who was walking around brandishing a knife

and FORCE HIM off the train, and to run away.

[Dot @Dot2TrotBlog]

@ChrisMartzWX Grandma no!

[Papii🥤 @ammalusty]

Ben Franklin didn't plow through dozens and dozens of French whores so that you could abide by fireworks ordinances

[Dr. Steve Turley @DrTurleyTalks]

The two presidencies in a single image.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Trump agreed with Bernie. Bessent trashed free markets. Wall Street missed the jobs number by 64%. Something bigger is happening.

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

Pratt can’t be allowed to advance to November by the California Dem machine. Here’s why:

His marketing style, given five more months to compete in a two-person race, will capture the attention of too many. He’s not likely to win a two-person general election, but something over 40% would be highly damaging to the influence the demons need to hold over the electorate.

The ballot harvesting would cost Pratt the race in November, but the more success he has then requires the system to work even harder, with more exposure with each passing day. When someone has an awakening in the modern era, they don’t go back to sleep.

Waking up 40% of LA sets up for a future the Dems can’t control.

That’s why Pratt will be in third by Sunday. Can’t risk it.