GemStateSurfer

Christian. Husband. Father. WaveRider
25+ years Semiconductors & Telecom
*I have a Wild Turkey Hen for a guard dog*

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

Mini Ponto awhile back

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A rare photo of the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4th 1989.

[Donut Operator 🍩 @DonutOperator]

Karmelo Anthony actually has supporters and they’re as violent and feral as he is.

[Barchart @Barchart]

Silver will soar as high as $309 by the end of the year says Bank of America's Metals Desk 🚨🚨 Dear God 🤯

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

@BreannaMorello @morgancap 🙏🙏❤️🇺🇸

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Goldman Sachs reportedly forecasts SpaceX’s AI division revenue will grow 9,900% within four years, reaching $322,000,000,000.00 by 2030.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Clark may have paid the highest personal price. Almost nobody knows his story. Buckle up.

He was a New Jersey farm kid considered too frail for farm work, so he taught himself math, then surveying, then law. He never got rich from it because he kept defending poor farmers who could not pay him. His neighbors called him "the Poor Man's Counselor."

In the early hours of July 4, 1776, while Congress debated independence in Philadelphia, Clark wrote a letter to a friend with one of the most chilling lines of the Revolution: "Perhaps our Congress will be exalted on a high gallows."

He signed anyway.

Then the British made it personal. Two of his sons were officers in the Continental Army, and both were captured. They were thrown onto the prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor, the deadliest place of the entire war. More Americans died on British prison ships than in every battle of the Revolution combined.

One son got it even worse. He was locked in the dungeon and given no food except what other starving prisoners could push through the keyhole of his cell.

The British reportedly offered Clark a deal: renounce the Declaration, switch sides, and your boys go free.

He refused.

Here is the part that breaks me. Clark sat in Congress through all of it and never once brought it up. No special pleading, no favors. Congress only found out through other channels and threatened retaliation against a British officer, which finally got his son out of the dungeon.

After the war, he kept choosing the little guy. He fought for debt relief for struggling farmers and refused to support the Constitution until he was assured a Bill of Rights would protect ordinary citizens.

In September 1794, at age 68, the self-taught surveyor who outlasted the British Empire died of sunstroke after a long day working on his own farm.

No statue on the National Mall. No musical. Just a small town in New Jersey called Clark, and most people who drive through it have no idea why.

Some men signed the Declaration with ink. Abraham Clark signed it with his sons.

[Skscartoon @skscartoon]

How "right wing extremism" works in the US:

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

@SenateGOP
feckless and worthless

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

Any Republican senators calling out Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell or Collins? Any Republican senators calling out Majority Leader Thune? Nope. None. It's political cowardice. Hold them all accountable. Every single Republican senator who refuses to call out and condemn Thune and the 4 RINOs should be primaried.

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

@TulsiGabbard 🙏🙏👊

[Jukan @COMPUTEX @jukan05]

Reuters: SK Hynix tells investors its U.S. listing plan has won strong backing, source says

- According to a source familiar with the matter, SK Hynix told investors this week that its plan to list in the U.S. has received a “tremendously positive” response.

- The company has confidentially filed for a U.S. listing this year, and some sources have said the offering could raise as much as $14 billion.

- The company also said it is currently in price negotiations with customers for next-generation HBM, and expects the favorable pricing environment to continue into next year.

- It added that demand for LPDDR memory used in Nvidia’s next-generation AI platform, Vera Rubin, is growing strongly.

- According to the company, strong Nvidia LPDDR demand from 2027 could make overall memory market supply-demand conditions even tighter.

- In response, SK Hynix plans to adjust its investment plans and product portfolio to maximize production volume.

- Nevertheless, the company emphasized that it remains difficult to say with certainty that it will be able to fully meet all demand.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

One of the most shocking things I witnessed today was this woman in pink screaming “you gon end up like Metcalf, you gone be pushing up daisies”.

I caught the tail end of her saying this to Metcalf supporters in the clip below.

I also witnessed several Karmelo supporters get extremely aggressive when ANY media tried speaking with them.

One female reporter went up to the group to ask questions (linked below) and they immediately got angry saying “we told y’all to stop coming the f*ck over here” (this was her first attempt at speaking to them).

At this point I started warning every reporter who was trying to speak with this group, as earlier, another local reporter had tapped on the shoulder of the man who leads their chants. This man immediately squared up and acted like the reporter had punched him.

I’ve been covering protests for 7 years and this is some of the most violent and racially charged rhetoric I’ve ever encountered.

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

@SenMcConnell But you won’t support his plans or the Save Act.

Kick rocks

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Fidelity lowers the minimum account requirement for the SpaceX IPO from as high as $500,000 to just $2,000.

[Reuters @Reuters]

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, a major Nvidia supplier, said investor feedback on its proposed US listing was 'tremendously positive,' with a source saying the deal could raise $14 billion as its market value topped $1 trillion last week https://t.co/9W8VPBqwDp

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

@grahamformaine
sounds like quite the
violent Nazi Homersexual

He fits the @DNC @TheDemocrats party perfectly

🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[AF Post @AFpost]

Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriend alleges that the Democratic Senate candidate repeatedly said he would “rape” men who broke into his home, adding that it would be “not in a gay way,” but rather to assert dominance.

Follow: @AFpost

[GemStateSurfer @GemStateSurfer]

@visegrad24 More peaceful #Islam 🙄🤦‍♂️

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

A 21-year-old man from Saudi Arabia has shot a lecturer at Surrey University with a crossbow.

The lecturer suffered life-threatening injuries. It’s unclear whether the lecturer was handcuffed before being taken to hospital 🇬🇧🇸🇦

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

US inflation is set to rise further:

ISM Services Prices rose +0.6 points in May, to 71.3, the highest since August 2022.

Since February, the index has risen +8.3 points, the biggest 3-month increase since 2021.

Diesel, gasoline, oil, and related commodities were the most frequently cited as "up in price" in the survey.

In May alone, no commodities were reported as "down in price."

Historically, rapidly rising services prices have led CPI inflation with a ~3-month lag.

The current reading suggests CPI could rise above 5.0% for the first time since early 2023, from the 3.8% seen in April.

Inflation pressures are mounting.

[Handre @Handre]

The 1920-21 depression was the sharpest economic contraction in American history, yet you've probably never heard of it. Industrial production collapsed 32%. Unemployment spiked from 4% to 12% in twelve months. By every measure, this downturn dwarfed the initial shock of 1929.

President Warren Harding faced enormous pressure to "do something." Labor leaders demanded public works programs. Businessmen begged for bailouts and trade protection. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Harding to slash government spending and let wages fall. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (yes, that Hoover) pushed for massive federal intervention.

Harding chose Mellon. The federal budget dropped from $6.4 billion to $3.2 billion in two years. No stimulus packages. No bailouts. No alphabet soup of new agencies. Government employment fell 40%. When you let markets clear, they clear fast.

The recovery started in July 1921. By 1923, unemployment had dropped to 2.4% and industrial production reached new highs. The entire episode lasted eighteen months from peak to full recovery. Compare that to Japan's lost decade of intervention, or the European debt crisis that dragged on for years, or our own jobless recovery after 2008.

Most economics textbooks omit this episode because liquidating malinvestments and allowing price adjustments works exactly as free market theory predicts: a fact that destroys the Keynesian narrative that government must spend its way out of recessions. Politicians today claim they learned the lessons of the 1930s, but they studiously ignore the more important lesson of 1921.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

Black people stand outside the courtroom and demand for Karmelo Anthony to NOT serve prison time..

He literally stabbed Austin Metcalf to death.