Not that you asked, but I have a few quick recommendations for some worthwhile viewing and listening this week, beginning with my conversation with @JonErwin13 the terrific director of a really good movie called Young Washington, which premiered in theaters on Independence Day. Modesty aside, the conversation is excellent, the movie is thrilling, and I encourage you to enjoy both at your leisure. We say it all the time, but it’s worth repeating – Washington was without question, the most indispensable American to ever live. It’s super interesting to see what shaped him as a young man, and the mistakes he made on the road to his remarkable presidency, especially in the wake of our semi quincentennial.
Also, though I had nothing to do with it, I heartily recommend another very patriotic movie called “Pressure,” that tells the weirdly riveting story of a very unpopular weather forecast from a very disagreeable meteorologist whose instincts might very well have altered the outcome of WWII. I have no idea how this one got greenlit, because the treatment must have looked ridiculous on the page...
“A WWII thriller that takes place almost entirely in a drawing room, wherein two meteorologists of differing opinions argue over the best day for Eisenhower to invade Europe.”
There’s no way this movie should be as good as it is, but it is. And Brendan Fraser as Eisenhauer is terrific.
And finally, I just got around to listening to @pmarca Marc Andreessen on @joerogan. It’s another three-hour marathon that was recorded a month ago, but don’t be dissuaded. This is a must-watch for anyone who is open to the possibility that data centers and AI might not be the encroaching Armageddon that so many believe it to be. Or at least curious to understand how the genie got out of the bottle, and why it will never be returned. (I listened to it at 1.75 speed, which takes some getting used to, but knocks the running time down to less than two hours. You can also start listening to an hour in, and still come away with a lot of useful insight.)
My conversation with Jon Erwin is here. https://t.co/DZLlmiEFy9
Get tickets to watch Young Washington in theaters here. https://t.co/88sDcdYapG
Pressure is somewhere on Amazon Prime.
Just google Rogan & Andreessen.
You’re welcome!
Consider these words from 1920, written by French author Hilaire Belloc:
“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”
The world's first trillionaire built Starlink, reusable rockets, and killed Biden's censorship regime.
Mamdani says he has the "soft hands" that steal from workers.
America just answered him. 👇
Who at the @StateDept is going to tell us where Elaine Chao is & whether or not she has violated the Logan Act?
This is a national security issue and we deserve immediate answers today!
We also need proof of life of Senator McConnell!
@McConnellPress@SecRubio@LeaderJohnThune
I think this whole situation surrounding Mitch McConnell just became far more serious.
What authority was Elaine Chao acting under when she met with a senior CCP while her husband, a sitting U.S. senator, was hospitalized following a reported medical emergency?
Elaine Chao hasn’t held a U.S. government position since January 7, 2021, when she resigned as Secretary of Transportation.
The Logan Act prohibits unauthorized private citizens from conducting correspondence or negotiations with foreign governments regarding disputes or matters involving the United States.
If Elaine Chao was representing the United States with authorization from the U.S. government, the State Department should say so.
If she was acting solely as a private citizen while discussing U.S.-China relations with senior Chinese officials, it raises legitimate questions about whether the Logan Act could apply.
The State Department should immediately explain whether this meeting was officially sanctioned, what capacity Elaine Chao was serving in, and whether she had authorization to engage in those discussions.
President Trump has previously criticized Elaine Chao over her family’s business ties to China. Regardless of politics, the American people deserve transparency about the purpose of this meeting.
These questions are even more important because there are still serious unanswered questions about Senator McConnell’s condition. We still do not know the status of a sitting U.S. senator while his wife was meeting with the CCP.
Finally, has anyone confirmed whether Elaine Chao has returned to the United States? If so, when? If not, where is she now?
This is a national security issue. The American people deserve answers.
Pictures like this are so misleading .
This was a picture from Freedom 250 fair. They didn’t open it till noon yesterday.
By that point, everyone was in line for the Salute to Americas 250 event aka the Trump Rally next door.
They keep trying to bill this event as a bust…
Why 🧐
I just met Desiree Townsend in DC & was impressed - she has forced/shamed the mainstream media into covering this by doing her job the way they should have been doing theirs, tracking down the 911 calls, constantly going back to the hospital for updates, keeping pressure on his office/staff etc. If you’re interested in this, folo her reporting.
McKinley championed tariffs and American industry. In 1901 he was assassinated. Susan Kokinda argues that's the moment the American System got erased from our history — until now. https://t.co/F17dL0M667
In 1901, divers pulled a lump of corroded bronze out of a two thousand year old shipwreck. It took the next century to understand what it was, and the answer broke the timeline of human history.
It's called the Antikythera Mechanism, and it is the oldest known computer on earth.
It was built by the ancient Greeks, around 100 BC, and it should not exist. Nothing else of its sophistication would appear anywhere in the world for more than a thousand years after it...
It was found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera, in the wreck of a trading ship that had sunk in the first century BC, surrounded by bronze statues and pottery.
The corroded fragments looked like nothing at first, and sat largely ignored in a museum in Athens. Only over the following decades, and especially with modern X-ray and CT scanning in our own century, did researchers finally see inside it.
What they found was a machine. Behind its bronze face was a system of at least thirty interlocking precision gears, cut and arranged with a sophistication that would not be matched until the geared astronomical clocks of medieval Europe, well over a thousand years later.
It was, in the words of the team that studied it, a mechanical computer that worked by turning astronomical theory into bronze...
And it did extraordinary things. You turned a hand crank on the side, and the mechanism calculated the positions of the sun, the moon, and the five planets the Greeks knew. It tracked the phases of the moon. It predicted solar and lunar eclipses years in advance. It even displayed the four-year cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. A person standing in the ancient world could set this device to a date and watch the heavens be calculated in front of them, by gears, by hand.
Roughly a third of the original survives, in 82 corroded fragments. We still do not know who designed it, or how a civilization without anything resembling industrial machinery achieved this level of precision engineering. What is certain is that it was not a one-off accident. A device this refined implies a tradition behind it, generations of knowledge and earlier attempts that have been lost completely.
The Antikythera Mechanism is proof of how much the ancient world knew, and how much of what human beings have achieved has simply vanished without a trace, leaving us to stumble on a single piece of it at the bottom of the sea...
The so-called 'elite class' of globalist traitors target the native population of any country they wish to subjugate and exploit with FOUR SPECIFIC strategies:
1. The strategy of DEMORALIZATION. [Pratt lays it out really well in the post I am responding to. This involves the deliberate turning of America's cities into crime and squalor-filled shitholes to demoralize the public and make the public live in fear so they are more easily controlled]
2. The strategy of DECULTURALIZATION. [A big result they want from demoralizing you is to separate you from your real history & your real culture/heritage by swapping that out with a fake version to be ashamed of]
3. The strategy of DEPOPULATION. [Not just promoting abortion/illness/health crisis, but also making it ever more expensive to have children, buy a home]
4. The strategy of DESTABILIZATION. [When the first 3 strategies have reached certain benchmarks, and the native population is adjudged to be sufficiently demoralized, & deculturized, they now move to collapse the nations borders and implement a mass replacement migration from other lesser developed nations]
This is a DELIBERATE STRATEGY. It is implemented by an elite class that is playing THE LONG GAME against the nations they wish to subjugate, and having subjugated them, maintain iron-fisted control.
You are currently watching Donald J. Trump and American patriots as they attempt to DELIBERATELY REVERSE over 100 years of the so-called elite class's policy of American subjugation.
Trump and Team Patriot are reversing the damaging effects wrought on this country over the past century by Team Traitor via FOUR SPECIFIC COUNTER-STRATEGIES of their own:
1. The strategy of REMORALIZATION. [Reducing the crime, stopping the drugs, cleaning up the cities, turning the water back on, giving people hope and safety]
2. The strategy of RECULTURALIZATION. [Taking the native culture back and affirming it and elevating it, and ditching the false history, returning the nation to it's real heritage]
3. The strategy of REPOPULATION. [Fixing the deliberately broken inflationary financial system engineered to endlessly increase debt, returning to an asset-backed currency, and making children and home-buying affordable again]
4. The strategy of RESTABILIZATION. [Restabilization will involve strengthening and rebuilding the nations borders, and then removing the millions that were induced to come here with a mass remigration]
Whether or not Trump and his team of American patriots are going to be able to pull this off depends on how much support they get from the American people as they attempt to do this.
This version of The Star Spangled Banner is dedicated to the 322 men and women who will learn this weekend that they received a work ethic scholarship from MRW. A total of $3 million is being awarded this quarter. Details to follow, later today. In the meantime, please join me and a few of our past recipients in a gentle reminder that our national anthem can - and should - be sung in under a minute. And feel free to sing along!