Gustav311

The World is my Chessboard. Retweets cannot be presumed to constitute endorsements.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The fact that you need a bachelor's degree to answer phones and schedule meetings is genuinely insane. Receptionists in 1985 had high school diplomas and bought houses. Now you need $60k in debt to do the same job for less money after inflation. We made credentials expensive and called it progress.

[pet5rx @pett5r]

Phil Ivey just put Eelis Pärssinen in a brutal spot.

One decision. Zero room for error.

Would you make the call?

[Triton Poker @tritonpoker]

No prep, no pretending, and $20 million on the line against one of the greatest of all time, Patrik Antonius.

Step inside the mind of Ossi 'Monarch' Ketola before the biggest match of his life.

The https://t.co/GKaQVmGLJJ Heads-Up Match streams soon, don't miss it.

[The Spectator 🇺🇸 @TheSpectator]

Kushner bought the land for $120 million from a suspected Albanian drug trafficker, Artur Shehu, who fled to Miami after a gunfight in his uncle’s bar. It is alleged that Shehu used fraudulent Ottoman-era land records to claim great swaths of coastal property for himself, though Shehu’s lawyer has insisted that he is neither a drug dealer nor a land thief.

✍️ Ian Thomson

Article | https://t.co/pPYx0HqJpW

[Sola 🇨🇦 @SolaTheAnalyst]

IKEA selling a full breakfast for $5.99 while a Toronto brunch spot will charge you $22 for two eggs and still look at you like you should be grateful.

Eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries and pancakes. All of it.

The furniture store is feeding people better than half the restaurants in this city.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

As Premier, I was attacked for refusing to give FIFA a blank cheque to host a couple of World Cup matches in Edmonton.

We were open to supporting a host bid within reason, but not to give into FIFA’s ridiculous open-ended demands.

It looks like our prudent approach has saved Alberta taxpayers several hundred million dollars.

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

“What the fuck are you doing?!” Trump lit into Netanyahu over the Lebanon bombing:

“You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

@BarakRavid & I

https://t.co/b1lEZEmN6p

[Gustav311 @Gustav3113s]

Both players deciding to turn their hands into a bluff with the queen blocker to the straight.

[TableSelection @ClearTradeoffs]

pro tip for online poker players. really for anyone who works from home.

one of the best things i did for my game and mental health was start treating my day like i had a real job. wake up, shower, shave, get dressed. look like someone who has somewhere to be, even if you don't.

i even rented office space to play online poker. showed up like a 9 to 5.

admittedly some nights i ended up sleeping there. but that comes with the territory.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

This is so rich coming from Jamie Dimon.

It's the sound of a man who rode the China gravy train to the end of the line, pocketed the loot, and is only now saying the "right things" because it led his country straight toward a cliff.

He and his fellow elites sold out America's industrial heartland, its workers, its security, and its future, all while making themselves and some commies very rich and powerful.

How many of you know about the "Sons and Daughters" program scandal?

From 2006 to 2013, JP Morgan created a special fast-track hiring program that gave cushy internships and full-time jobs to the unqualified kids and relatives of powerful CCP officials and state-owned company bosses. They're collectively known as the "princelings."

Bankers kept spreadsheets explicitly tracking which princeling hire led to which big deal. Hooking up the right connected kid suddenly brings you IPOs and investment banking business worth over $100 million in revenue in China.

America's biggest bank systematically sold out its hiring standards to suck up to the Chinese regime's elite, bribing them with prestigious Wall Street jobs for their spoiled kids in exchange for lucrative contracts. This is textbook corruption. The US government called it what it was - violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and JP Morgan had to pay a $264 million fine to settle the scandal.

For years, JP Morgan made billions in China. Dimon himself joked that JP Morgan would outlast the Communist Party. Now Xi has tightened capital controls, imposed more restrictions and retaliatory regulations, showed state favoritism toward SOEs, and the macroeconomic environment (slowing growth, property sector woes, etc.) has now changed so much that returns for US companies in China are diminishing while compliance and legal risks increase exponentially.

So the cynic in me says this isn't a real Come to Jesus moment; that fateful decision to court and do business in China wasn't a well-intentioned error in judgement to "democratize and bring freedom to China."

It was just greed. And now the taps have run dry and the bill is coming due for the rest of America.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

For those keeping track:

Elon has proposed Universal High Income.

Trump has proposed a Tariff Dividend.

Andrew Yang has proposed UBI.

The writing is on the wall you guys.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

The end of office jobs will be very difficult for a lot of people. https://t.co/6829id3TX6

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

It’s clear that AI will wind up funding universal income. Let’s make that happen ASAP.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WOW! JD Vance just said LOUD AND CLEAR that we are NO LONGER pretending that "America First" includes ANY other country

"[A Ukrainian-American] was sticking his finger in my face saying 'you need to support my country!'"

"I said, 'sir, with all due respect, if you're an American, your country is the United States of America—NOT a place that you immigrated from.'"

"Whether your family's been here for 300 years or one second, to be an American means to look out for Americans FIRST — and that's the perspective we have to take to our immigration policy."

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

In an alternate 2025, Russia never invaded Ukraine.

Russia played the long game instead. Slow economic integration. Energy dependency as strategy. A seat at the table rather than a war outside it.

Then Trump wins in 2024 anyway.

NATO fractures under Trump. Europe builds its own defense architecture. And Russia, stable and trade-integrated, becomes the obvious partner.

The energy infrastructure was already there.

The geography was always there.

In that timeline, Russia is inside Europe’s single market by 2030. A partner in a European army. Collecting tariff-free revenue while Washington retreats into itself.

Instead, Putin chose tanks.
He made Russian gas a liability overnight. And he ensured that any future Russian leader who wants back into the Western economic order starts the negotiation from rubble.

The irony is almost too large to look at directly.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Iran wants to control the Strait of Hormuz and charge a fee until they get compensated for war damages

Sounds like a fair deal to me!

Trump should take it and avoid a global humanitarian and economic catastrophe tomorrow

The U.S. barely even uses the strait. It’s actually the rest of the world that ends up footing the bill for Trump’s war

Sounds like a good deal for both Trump and Iran!

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

Sir John Glubb, a British Lieutenant General, spent 36 years commanding armies in the Middle East.

He studied every major empire in recorded history and found something he didn't expect.

Every single empire (Assyria, Persia, Rome, the Arabs, the Ottomans, Spain, Britain) lasted about the same length of time.

250 years.

And they all died the same way. (thread) 🧵

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

NEW: Man who went viral for looking like Jeffrey Epstein speaks out.

"I'm not Jeffrey Epstein, I'm Palm Beach Pete."