Wait, so we were told to take shorter showers, turn off the tap while brushing our teeth, and conserve water at every opportunity… but data centers can show up and use millions of gallons like it’s nothing?
I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.
An old cowboy owned a small ranch in New Mexico. The New Mexico Wage & Hour Dept. claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.
“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded the agent.
“Well,” replied the rancher, “There’s my ranch hand who’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $600 a week plus free room and board.
The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $500 per week plus free room and board.
Then there’s the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.”
“That’s the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit,” says the agent.
“That would be me,” replied the rancher.
I just got off the phone with someone who's worked in congressional opposition research in Washington for over a decade. What they told me should end every "Massie just lost a primary" framing permanently.
"Every single member who pushed the Epstein files got the same private message from leadership. Every single one was told the donor networks were watching. Every single one was told there would be consequences. Every single one who stayed quiet kept their seat."
Massie and MTG didn't stay quiet. They co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act. They forced the DOJ to release documents over White House resistance. They named the Israel lobby out loud, on the record, while still sitting members.
He chose to do it knowing $34,000,000 would be spent against him in a single primary.
He chose to do it knowing Trump would endorse his opponent.
He chose to do it knowing pro-Israel donor networks had already removed members for less.
He chose to do it knowing MTG had already been made an example of in the same cycle.
A former Hill staffer I know who watched this from the inside put it this way: "The difference between Massie and every other member who had the same files on their desk isn't information. They all knew what was in those documents. The difference is he actually released them."
Read that again.
Every member of that coalition had access to the same evidence. Two of them acted. Both of them are now out of Congress, in the same cycle, removed by the same donor networks.
MTG said it herself: "Releasing the Epstein files was our demise."
That's not a loss speech. That's a receipt.
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1912: A book dealer accidentally found a 600 year-old book in an Italian villa
Inside:
- A language no human speaks
- Alien plants
- 240 pages of mystery
But, still after 114 years nobody could crack a single word.
The chilling story of the Voynich Manuscript:🧵