Howdy, my name is Robert Chick. I’m running to represent the TX-26 Congressional district on the Republican ticket March 3rd.
I’ve worked as a mechanic, a bouncer, an office supply salesman, & now I own my own small business, advocating on behalf of nurses & other healthcare 1/
Absolute bombshell. Glenn Greenwald reveals that in 36 US states you cannot get a government contract unless you sign a pledge promising never to boycott Israel. You can boycott American states or any other country but criticizing Israel is strictly forbidden.
Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast. https://t.co/4ylHljmiFs
Joe Kent: "As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people"
You're a 15 second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish, your long term memory is mainly fake, and it's a minor miracle you can get out of the door in the morning.
President Trump said that it was “not a good thing to do” to attack Iran “out of habit,” but he did it on behalf of “good allies” in the Middle East, naming “Israel” specifically.
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I look forward to future generations watching this clip in order to get some sense of how proudly stupid the self-proclaimed Great Men of our time actually were
this has been an open secret in tech for years and if you’ve been following my threads you already know where I stand on this
I genuinely believe Palantir was never just a government contractor it was always designed from day 1 to embed itself so deep inside the intelligence & defense apparatus that ripping it out would be like trying to remove the nervous system from a living body
you need to understand how this works on a technical level to really grasp the scale of what I’m describing
Gotham & foundry are data integration platforms that plug into every single information source an organization has, internal databases, intelligence feeds, comms, satellite data, financial transactions, social media…everything gets funneled into a single ontological knowledge graph and here’s the key, once you’ve connected 5y of an intelligence agency’s data or a defense ministry’s operations into Palantir’s architecture you’ve created a technological dependency that is virtually impossible to reverse bc migrating that graph to another system would mean rebuilding the ENTIRE institutional memory of the organization from scratch
I’m telling you this is vendor lock-in at the scale of a nation state & I’m personally convinced it was designed to work exactly this way from the beginning
by the way palantir is just the most visible case, you should know that the same exact playbook is running across the entire deftech ecosystem right now, companies building AI systems for surveillance targeting & predictive intelligence are quietly rotating former employees into regulatory agencies & defense departments
the revolving door between silicon valley & the pentagon has literally become a conveyor belt at this point & I think the boundary between private tech infrastructure and state power is dissolving way faster than anyone wants to acknowledge
and I’ll add something that I believe makes it even more concerning these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making recommendations that humans inside gvt are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic
I’m deeply convinced that the most important power shift of this decade is happening in complete silence and I think most people have absolutely no idea, this is the moment where the companies building the tools of governance become indistinguishable from governance itself & believe me by the time the general public figures out what happened the integration will be too deep too complex & too classified to ever be unwound
REPORTER: "What did you advise the president initially as he considered his actions in Iran and what are you urging him to do now...do you express any concerns like those you've expressed in the past on the possibility of these extended wars?"
VP VANCE: "Imagine the situation, we're in the Situation Room...and the president and I, and the entire senior team, are talking about the options..."
“I hate to disappoint you, but I'm not gonna show up here and in front of God and everybody else tell you exactly what I said in that classified room.”
“Partially because I don't wanna go to prison, and partially because I think it's important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to his advisors without those advisors running their mouth to the American media.”