Sol Waters

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[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Was just here last month. What the heck

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Outrage in Japan as Muslim immigrants are now intimidating Japanese people at Shinto shrines.

Fushimi Inari in Kyoto is one of Japan’s holiest Shinto sites, with over 1,300 years of religious history.

Muslim men are deliberately standing on both sides, blocking the path and leaning against the pillars, making visitors uncomfortable and intimidating women and girls.

It’s like they are demanding that visitors ask their permission before passing through. Muslims have absolutely no respect for other religions.

Japanese people are now even saying they’d rather see the shrine closed down than risk seeing it burned down.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@DataRepublican @mattvanswol It's too much on the nose, isn't it? Hollywood pulp. Sexy Chinese spy lures the otherwise most solid guy in tech into helping her quietly move GPUs into China. What's the real scoop?

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Good context

[Project Constitution @ProjectConstitu]

‼️Someone Who Was ACTUALLY In The Room At Dave Chappelle’s Show Has Now Released The FULL Context Of What Was Said About Charlie Kirk. 😱

In the footage and breakdown, Chappelle states that ever since Charlie was murdered he has felt better, adds that he knows Charlie is looking up at the audience from hell, and then goes into a rant calling Charlie racist based on a heavily clipped comment about black pilots as well as calls @RealCandaceO a "Scooby Doo Ass Bitch" who will not let the case go.

This was not presented as a setup or a punchline. It was stated plainly, with no bit attached, in front of a crowd that had already had their phones locked in pouches. The person who recorded it notes how awkward the room became and confirms that many people walked out mid-set. Dave Chappelle even got angry and made the comment that "This Crowd Sucks"

The breakdown includes Charlie’s original full comments on the pilot remark so viewers can hear the actual argument instead of the shortened version that has circulated. Be sure to watch the OP's FULL video linked down below for their perspective. 👇

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[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

How many more of this classic will they crank out?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Cybertruck order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try to make as many as possible before shutting down the line in about 8 months, but will have to return deposits for a lot of people.

This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media, but rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

👀👀👀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Turns out that the Starlink software, built for managing the movement of vast amounts of data through space and to the ground, is also very well suited to training super intelligence

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@ConceptualJames Candace wants a Chappelle interview. He's crazy, but not that crazy.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@FischerKing64 Eurasian power couples.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Hard one to accept

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Try to explain the sphynx moth caterpillar via any existing evolutionary model. No way this is merely natural selection. Some camouflage & mimicry is too detailed NOT to be intelligent design, driven by the visual systems and other senses of highly-adaptive species themselves.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@JanJekielek Please explain the sphynx moth caterpillar via any existing evolutionary model. No way this is merely natural selection. Some camouflage & mimicry is too detailed NOT to be intelligent design driven by the visual systems and other senses of highly-adaptive species themselves 🤷🏼

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Stephen Miller will be 100X better as Chief of Staff than anyone Trump had before. This is a genuine glimmer of hope and invitation to finish the mission 🏆

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

When you put it that way 🤔

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Yikes 🤔

[Fan Commentary: Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

Joe Rogan just hosted his most important episode ever after Republicans lost the midterms as White House insider Calley Means just exposed the real people who are running Trump’s presidency and lists key inner circle names like Susie Wiles, Jame Blair, Richard Walters, and the most powerful lobbying firm known as Ballard Partners:

MEANS: “Susie Wiles is the most powerful chief of staff in modern American history. She has taken a stranglehold on any policy decision. No policy decision gets done without her office giving it the okay. She was one of the top lobbyists in the country. It is impossible to describe to you how demonic this culture is.”

CONTEXT: Means, who resigned from the administration in OCTOBER, says he witnessed an extraordinary concentration of power inside the White House.

He alleges that cabinet secretaries and senior officials spent enormous amounts of time attempting to win favor with Wiles' office because of its influence over which policies could advance.

He then identifies several people he believes were central to that power structure:

SUSIE WILES: White House chief of staff.

JAMES BLAIR: A longtime Trump political strategist and former deputy White House chief of staff.

RICHARD WALTERS: Deputy White House chief of staff and longtime Republican political operative.

WALKER BARRETT: Senior White House adviser with extensive congressional experience.

But the most consequential part of his accusation concerns the CORPORATE LOBBYING INDUSTRY.

Before entering Trump's White House, Wiles had a career representing corporate clients, including working at the influential Washington lobbying firm BALLARD PARTNERS.

And the money involved in that industry is staggering.

According to federal lobbying disclosures, Ballard Partners collected approximately $88 MILLION in lobbying revenue during 2025, more than QUADRUPLING its reported revenue from 2024.

That made Ballard one of the highest-earning lobbying operations in Washington.

And in MAY 2025, the watchdog organization Public Citizen identified SIX FORMER WILES CLIENTS that had reported lobbying White House offices during the administration's first three months.

Those clients included companies involved in tobacco, automobiles, fertilizer, and other major industries.

The White House disputed suggestions of improper influence and said Wiles generally did not participate in meetings or decisions involving former clients.

Those disclosures establish real corporate lobbying relationships.

They do NOT, by themselves, prove that Wiles improperly favored those companies or directed policies for their benefit.

But Means argues that the broader culture of Washington is precisely what Trump promised to confront.

Now consider the extraordinary political timing.

IMPORTANT NOTES: On NOVEMBER 3, Democrats won control of BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS in a sweeping midterm defeat for Republicans.

And TODAY, NOVEMBER 6, Trump announced that Susie Wiles will leave the chief-of-staff position, with Stephen Miller taking over on November 9.

Trump PRAISED Wiles for her service and said she would continue working for his political operation.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@AlecLace If Chappelle is Rogan's longtime friend, what does that say about Rogan?? Celebrity matters more to him than character?

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@ConceptualJames Rubio cuts through the BS. He will blow the doors off 2028.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

@jamesfishback Rubio cuts through the bullshit. He will blow the doors off 2028.

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

What's this 🤔

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@XFreeze When we unveil the details of the Starmind computer next year, it will blow people’s minds

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

Trump making hard decisions but not explaining

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Post-midterm clarity

[Sol Waters @SolWaters]

America's next Head of State - for better or worse. No one else operating at Rubio's level

[Kosher @koshercockney]

This is a leader. This is how it’s done.