Terrible Toes Jones

Bass guitar player, General class amateur KK7JAL

[Terrible Toes Jones @TTJonz]

@mwfoutch1 2022, Yaesu FT-60, Yaesu FT-710 Field.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

The Iranian regime will lose the zero-sum game it is playing.

Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian Accounts.

Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts.

Every attack Iran launches will only deepen the economic and financial consequences it faces.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

The Senate parliamentarian works for the Senate—not the other way around.

She doesn’t rule; she advises.

The Senate’s presiding officer is free to accept or reject her advice.

And regardless, 51 senators can overturn any procedural ruling in the Senate.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

About 8 months ago, I warned that “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” This take was controversial at the time; now look how many people are saying it.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

I’m a Trumper because I think people should vote in person (or have a reason if they don’t)? This was standard pretty much everywhere in America before Trump

[Terrible Toes Jones @TTJonz]

@TheChironSky 😂

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

The Iranian Air Force is down to their last guy.🤣

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

People acting like we didn’t institute radical changes to elections in 2020-2022 - it’s infuriating.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Social media has the power to make 5% of people look like 50%.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Take a step back and think about what is actually happening.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI are building the most consequential technology in human history. All American companies. All funded by private capital. All terrified of each other.

No government mandated this. No committee planned it. No five-year industrial strategy allocated the capital.

Competition did it.

Every few weeks a better model ships because someone in a free market decided they could not afford to be second. The supply curve of intelligence shifts right with every release. Demand expands to meet it, because every price drop unlocks use cases that were impossible a year earlier.

And the price of intelligence keeps falling anyway.

Demand is exploding and prices are still collapsing. That only happens when competition forces supply to move faster than the market can absorb it.

This is capital allocation at its purest. Hundreds of billions deployed voluntarily this year alone, priced by risk, disciplined by the threat of obsolescence.

That is not an accident. That is the system working exactly as designed.

There is a lesson there.

[Terrible Toes Jones @TTJonz]

@MCCCANM OK now that’s funny 😎

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

I'm going to have to break with NRO on this because I fundamentally disagree with this sentence from the editorial:

"...Trump’s unworthy and abusive campaign to investigate and prosecute his political opponents."

Trump didn't make these individuals his "political opponents" -- that reverses the causation.

The fact that individuals launch misguided and/or illegitimate efforts at a sitting President, or at an individual out of office with an intent to run for office again, does NOT then become provide them with a cloak of immunity from their own potential criminal behavior.

To dismiss all the investigations as "retribution" - and declare them illegitimate based on that label -- is de facto immunity they purchased for themselves by going first.

The cautionary tale in this is as follows:

Do not employ the criminal justice system as a political tool to stymie the implementation of policies you disagree with after losing an election.

Political motives should not provide protection from an investigation as to whether your own conduct was, in fact, legal.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇰🇪 Starlink helping schools in Kenya 🇰🇪

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

I asked him about it as well.

[LindellTV @RealLindellTV]

THUNE ON DEFUNDING THE TALIBAN: “I HAVE NOT SEEN IT.”

LindellTV’s @Alisonintheknow asked @LeaderJohnThune why the Senate has yet to act on @RepTimBurchett's bill to stop U.S. taxpayer dollars from reaching the Taliban - despite the House passing it nearly a year ago.

Meanwhile, every week of delay means another estimated $40 million flows into Afghanistan.

When asked when the Senate would finally vote on the bill, Thune responded:

“I don’t know when. We don’t have that currently on the schedule here... I have not seen it... that’s something that we'd consider putting on the floor at this point.”

Eleven months later, the bill still hasn’t received a Senate vote.

The House passed it. The Senate hasn’t acted.

How many more months - and how many more millions - will pass before this gets a vote?

Pass the bill. Stop the money flow. Now.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has announced their new Gigasat factory in Bastrop, Texas, which will start producing AI satellites by the end of 2027.

• 1,000+ acres of land owned/under contract
• Over 11 million square feet of building potential
• Solar ingots and wafer, solar cells, and AI sats will also be produced here.

[Terrible Toes Jones @TTJonz]

@TheChironSky Yes there is… 😎🤚

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

There’s a person somewhere who still cuts flowers from their garden
and puts them in a glass on the kitchen table.
Not for guests.
Not for social media.
Just because life feels better when something beautiful is nearby.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

My Six Penny Plan is simple: cut 6 cents from every projected dollar for five years and balance the budget. No gimmicks. No tax hikes.

[Terrible Toes Jones @TTJonz]

@FrankBr05713205 Well done sir! Thanks for adding value to the world

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Governor candidate Steve Hilton just revealed the stunning reality of California fraud: They ALLOW mail-in ballots to BACKDATE by HAND so they can be counted late, and not invalid

"It's NOT just the postmark. YOU CAN HAND-WRITE THE DATE!"

"Just to be really clear: you can BACKDATE YOUR BALLOT."

"BY HAND."

"And it will be counted."

"That's how insane this system is."

This is MADNESS!! 🤯

BILLY BUSH: "That is OUTRAGEOUS."

@hotmicsbilly

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

🚨For those who say there is NO election fraud in California:

The DOJ just prosecuted Brenda Brown for paying homeless people to register to vote under FALSE addresses.

OMG caught her on hidden camera doing this illegal activity in LA.