GoldenRam715

A fit and healthy boomer hoping common sense prevails

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

[GoldenRam715 @GRam715]

@Schwarzenegger I thought you were going to make this an analogy for getting fit. You won't see any change after one workout but keep coming back to the gym and eventually it will pay off.

[Mrs B @attackdogX]

Look Gen Z, we hear you. There is an affordability crisis in America.

Everything is too expensive. People can barely live.

But, when we tell you the way to fix it is: mass deportations, you don’t wanna hear it.

I’m not gonna be a jerk & tell you to “just eat ramen”.

I’m gonna not gonna comfort you with a lie & blame billionaires either.

I’m gonna give you the truth:

ALL illegals must go, ALL benefits for illegals must end. Visa abuse must end.

Remittances must end.

Reel in the Nanny state, stop the fraud, waste, & abuse & again:

Mass deportations!

Stop fighting us on these things, stop voting against your own best interests & then whining that you can’t afford rent or food.

Rent is way too high because we have tens of millions of illegals in the country that require housing.

It’s supply & demand.

We know how to fix it, you just have to be on board with it.

Voting for socialism is not the answer. It never has been.

Don’t be an idiot

[Mike Rogers War Room @RFSWarRoom]

Happy to provide a few quick examples @daveweigel:

"By the time we are done, you (Mike Rogers) are not going to have safe quarter." -@AbdulElSayed (August 5, 2026)

“When they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out." -@AbdulElSayed (August 23, 2025)

Oh, and of course our personal favorite from top campaign surrogate @hasanthehun:

“Kill those motherf*ckers, and murder those motherf*ckers in the street … let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.”

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

We desperately need to leave the crypto bubble for five minutes.

Dice? Entropy? Air-gapped devices? Seed phrases stamped into steel?

Nobody knows what the hell we are talking about.

If securing your life savings requires the average person to become an amateur cryptographer and cybersecurity expert, the product is not ready for the average person.

And screaming “not your keys, not your coins” doesn’t solve that.

Self-custody is incredibly powerful. It is also completely non-viable for 99% of people in its current form.

Until self-custody becomes so easy that your parents can use it safely without understanding what entropy means, we have not solved the problem.

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

If you think these two cultures can coexist, then you are part of the problem.

[GoldenRam715 @GRam715]

@stevecortes @SecScottBessent Excellent article, clear, concise and accurate. I hope the White House is listening.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Contrast two kinds of men now arguing over America's future.

One looked at empty Texas scrubland and saw the largest building on Earth, then summoned $16.8 billion in capital, thousands of construction tradesmen, and 3,000 permanent minds to raise and run it. Before that he saw rockets landing upright when every expert called it fantasy, and electric cars people would line up to buy, and he materialized those too. His tools are reason, vision, and trade. Every dollar he commands was handed to him by a customer who got something better in return.

The other kind is the politician who could not pour one yard of that concrete. But he holds the one tool of his trade, the state's gun. He calls the building excess, drafts the wealth tax to seize its output, and names the seizure compassion and justice. Ask the senator demanding Musk's billions what he has ever built. His one skill is the forced transfer of what abler men have made.

When Terafab rises, understand what you are looking at. The unforced human mind, made visible at scale. The looters will still demand their cut, and the demand itself is the confession. Nobody loots an empty desert. Wealth must be created before it can be seized, and it is created by men like Musk.

[Nate Friedman @NateFriedman97]

I am releasing my full documentary on the islamic takeover of Michigan. We are likely to see our first muslim senator in the United States of America. You want to know what Dearborn is actually like?

Watch this video. It starts with a loud call to prayer, it gets broadcasted 5 times a day in Dearborn. This is by far the most important documentary I've ever made.

A man tells me he wants Hezbollah to be allied with the United States. This is just a Wednesday in Dearborn. I went around for 6 hours and found less than 10 people who said they spoke English. Are you watching closely? Do you see how we will lose our nation like this?

Have conversations about this footage with people you've avoided politics with in the future because you'll lose your freedom to do so sooner than you think.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind...

The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life.

Everything is in the way they sit.

The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything.

His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre.

Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy...

And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did."

It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

🚨Seven Steps to Election Security

1. Call up the SAVE America Act.

2. Announce that we’ll keep debating it for at least a few weeks, working through weekends and scheduled recess time until it passes.

3. Require filibustering senators to speak, with the understanding that if they fail to do so the rules allow us to “call the question” and pass it at 51.

4. Stick to the plan—especially when it draws complaints from senators and becomes tedious—waiting at least a few weeks before even thinking about filing cloture.

5. This is how the Senate worked before we zombified the filibuster, making it automatic, silent, and free of obligation.

6. Filibuster abuse has become rampant, insurmountable, and even debilitating as we’ve stopped requiring filibustering senators to do *anything* other than oppose cloture—or even simply announce an intent to oppose cloture!

7. Human nature and over two centuries of Senate history tell us that when senators are required to engage in hard work and continual speaking to sustain a filibuster, they tend to wield it more responsibly.

[Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville]

The Senate has done NOTHING to deserve a five-week break. We haven’t funded the military, we are about to let Democrats shut down the government, and our elections STILL aren’t secure. The House has passed hundreds of bills. Other than the One Big Beautiful Bill, all the Senate has done is pass bills rebuking Trump and giving Democrats handouts. We have lost sight of the fact that our job is to deliver RESULTS for the American people.

There is no issue I hear more about when I’m back home in Alabama than securing our elections. Under Communists Joe Biden and Barack Obama, more than 15 MILLION third-world illegals invaded our country. These illegals are costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars and are planning to vote in our midterm elections in just 99 days.

Because of this, the ‘traditions of the Senate’ should no longer apply. The American people didn’t vote for a Republican party obsessed with preserving their own power through the manufactured filibuster. They voted for a Republican party that campaigned on fighting back against the TENS OF MILLIONS of third-world illegals who came here under Joe Biden and are looking to destroy this country.

If we do not pass the SAVE America Act before November, Democrats will steal the 2026 and 2028 elections, and we will go back to Joe Biden’s immigration policy on steroids under the new Communist Democrat party. Now is the time to dig in, eliminate the manufactured filibuster, and start a new Senate tradition of actually getting things done for the Constitution and the American people.

I’ll be joining Senator Mike Lee in voting against any attempts to adjourn for recess. Americans didn’t send us to D.C. to take a vacation. They sent us here to preserve the greatest country on Earth.

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BOMBSHELL THE MEDIA IS DESPERATELY HIDING IT 🚨
While the corporate press looks the other way and protects their Democrat friends…
A state employee working directly under Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs — Joshua Castro from the AZ Department of Agriculture — was arrested for smuggling two illegal immigrants across the border in his car.
They paid him $20,000 cash for the ride.
He was in uniform. On the job. Under Hobbs.
And the media? Dead silent.
Because they’re all in on it.
The politicians. The press. The open-borders machine.
They buried this story so you wouldn’t see what’s happening right under their noses.
Bet you never heard a single word about it… until right now.
Share this before they scrub it.
The truth is out. 🔥🇺🇸

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Cheers to every $TSLA investor who's holding through thick and thin... especially those who took advantage of today’s -14% discount.

I know it isn’t easy watching so much of your wealth disappear on a screen in a single day. Trust me, I felt it too... many times. But nothing about today changed why I invested in Tesla, and I still believe patient, long-term shareholders will be rewarded massively.

A fall this large has happened only 11 times in Tesla’s history since IPO. Had you bought at the closing price on each of those previous days and simply held, you would still be in the green today.

That doesn’t guarantee the future, but it should teach you an important lesson... the stock and the business are two completely different beasts.

Wall Street is focused on the pain of today.

Tesla is building for the opportunity of the next 5-10 years.

It's true... Tesla is spending heavily, and it's going to increase. Capital expenditures reached $5.8 billion, free cash flow fell to negative $1.1 billion and operating margins took a hit.

That is exactly what Wall Street hated.

But you have to ask yourself... where is all this $ money going?

It's going into AI training infrastructure. It's going into Cortex 2. It's going into the Terafab. It's going into the Cybercab, Robotaxi, Optimus, battery production, the Tesla Semi, Megafactories, and more. This is the physical infrastructure needed to scale real-world AI around the world AND to be the leader of it.

You can dislike the short-term financial hit while still understanding the long-term reason behind it.

On the positive side, Tesla also delivered 480,126 vehicles, up 25% year over year (the strongest Q2 in company history).

Revenue grew 26% to $28.2 billion (an all-time quarterly record).

Active FSD subscriptions grew 56% to 1.48 million.

Energy storage deployments grew 41%.

Cybercab production officially began.

Robotaxi is now operating across seven major metro areas.

Tesla still has approximately $43.5 billion in cash and investments.

Honestly, this does NOT look like a broken business to me... to me, this looks like a company choosing to eat its vegetables today so it can feast in the future.

There will be ugly quarters. There will be missed expectations. There will be delays and painful red days.

This is the price of trying to build things that have NEVER existed before... especially at this scale... and the Tesla team and Elon are going for it, whether you like it or not.

Let the weak investors panic.

Let all of them sell.

Let Wall Street worry about the next three months.

Those who have done their homework should be focused on where Tesla is going to be in the next decade.

Personally, I actually love days like today. I welcome them with an open heart... bc when the business remains intact and fear crushes the stock, that is where true opportunity exists. Generational wealth in investing is RARELY made when everyone feels comfortable and agrees with you.

They are built when conviction meets fear.

I see volatility as the price of admission.

Patience is the advantage.

And time will reveal who truly understood what they owned in the long run.

I'm still all in $TSLA till the day I die.

[GINGERSKOL💜💛 @GlowSurfing]

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

$109,990 Tesla Model S Plaid vs $640,000 Ferrari Luce EV

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system:

"Stop patenting everything."

"The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you."

" We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system."

"I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights."

" We need to massively expand that program."

Via @HooverInst

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

I'm replying to your post from yesterday: "Despite Democrats' partisan games, we're still going to get the entire federal government funded."

Today, you sent the Senate home... not because of Democrats. Because of you.

Here's what actually happened.

On May 18, the DOJ announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund: $1.776 billion to compensate Americans harmed by Biden-era DOJ abuse. Your own caucus revolted. After a two-hour closed-door meeting, you departed for Memorial Day recess without a vote. ICE and CBP funding, punted to June 1. The "partisan games," it turns out, were yours.

Your stated objections: no congressional authorization, no eligibility standards, no legal precedent, executive overreach. Fine. But let's talk about November 2025, when you tucked a provision into the government funding bill.

The FBI had quietly seized phone records from eight Republican senators without notice, under an investigation codenamed "Arctic Frost."

Your provision gave those senators, and only those senators, $500,000 per violation, retroactive to 2022. The House voted 426-0 to repeal it.

The critics weren't opposed to compensating victims of DOJ abuse. They were opposed to senators compensating themselves while doing no other structural reforms.

Lindsey Graham held the Senate hostage to preserve it. He delayed a spending deal in January 2026 to secure a floor vote on his revised version.

Let's put the two columns next to each other:

➤ DOJ abused senators: $500K/violation payout, senators only, no hearings, no process, no eligibility debate, no floor vote on substance.

➤ DOJ abused Americans: "very legitimate questions," two-hour meeting, Senate goes home, reconciliation punted, June 1 deadline in jeopardy.

You told Punchbowl News you "did not personally see a need for this fund."

You personally saw a need for the fund when the targets were you.

Go cry harder to your Punchbowl friends @JakeSherman and @AndrewDesiderio, because at this rate, they'll soon become the only people who are buying what you're selling.

[Sami Nathaniel @NathanielSami]

She is not going to live this one down.!!!

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

I am going to explain this as simply as I can for those that still don't understand.

You do not get the results you got in Indiana, Louisiana, and Kentucky with a sitting President in the low 30s approval rating.

Therefore, the polls are fake.

The reality shows Trump's approval is very high. What the final number is no one knows because the polls are so fake anymore, but it's certainly not in the 30s. The results tell you that in flashing neon letters.

Everyone in power that believed the polls should immediately do a gut check and change course because the media siren polls are driving you all into the rocks.