Mark LeBel

Husband, Dad to 3, Engineer, Retired, REPS Quality Manager, Va Tech BSME, Purdue MSM

[Mark LeBel @YTesla7]

Awareness?!

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Levels of Awareness in politics

Level 1

They believe what their preferred news say and do not sample other sources. Not aware of counter arguments. Not aware their news is mostly narrative.

Level 2

Sample news from multiple sources but believe only their own sources are accurate. Think the other side is all narrative, but familiar with all sides of issues.

Level 3

Aware that ALL news is fake, at least in the sense of missing context and spin. Also known as Gell-Mann Amnesia. But still believe the experts in various fields are usually correct.

Level 4

Understand that NONE of our experts are reliable. Some might be right, not none can be trusted without verification. The distortion of money makes no expert credible.

Level 5

They see the gears of the machine, Mike Benz style. The Republic no longer looks like whatever the Founders intended. The control of powerful billionaires and intelligence professionals is now obvious.

Level 6

You are dead because you know too much. Also known as Epstein Level.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

The Biden team fought for years to keep the public from hearing tapes with his ghostwriter that were part of the investigation of Special Counsel Robert Hur. We now know why. Biden gave Hur a virtual confession, and Hur gave him a pass. https://t.co/AeSkgj8V1S

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Sens. Rick Scott and Mike Lee are moving to ABOLISH the Senate's 3-day work week, and instead work 5 days MINIMUM so must-pass bills like the SAVE America Act are finally approved

This is common sense!

LEE: "Most Americans don’t get 3 day work weeks, and Senators shouldn’t either."

SCOTT: "Hardworking Americans work five days a week — why should Congress be any different? You elect your representatives to act in your best interests! It’s time they WORK FOR YOU and join our fight to PASS THE SAVE America Act."

💯💯

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Fastest manufacturing expansion in 4 years

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

One reason why young people think Communism is OK is because most of them spent their entire lives from Kindergarten to post-graduate schooling never once being informed that Communism has genocidally murdered more humans than all other "-isms" in world history combined.

Another reason why is because their "teachers" were almost all Communists themselves who made sure the facts were hidden.

It's high time we treated Communists, Socialists and Marxists (or however they confusingly label themselves) with the societal disdain currently reserved for actual Nazis, pedophiles and serial killer cannibals.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla registrations were up 86% in France in July (second best July ever) and ​52% in Denmark from July 2025, according to new data.

Tesla appears ​to be prioritizing incentive-rich markets such as France and Germany, where volumes could rise ​sharply in the second half of 2026, said Matthias Schmidt, European auto market ‌analyst ⁠at Schmidt Automotive, adding that weaker sales elsewhere (Sweden, Norway, Spain) could be reflecting that.

[jimmah @jamesdouma]

This isn’t a technical issue so all I can offer is an opinion: I think they’re being more careful than they thought they would have to be because hostility to self driving is greater than it was a few years ago. I also think that nearly 0 at fault accidents didn’t seem possible before, but it does now.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Not many people know this, but SpaceX has already launched two American commercial spacecraft that successfully landed on the Moon

First, Falcon 9 launched Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus
Seven days later, Odysseus touched down near the lunar south pole, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to successfully soft-land on the Moon and returning America to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972

Then Falcon 9 launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost
Blue Ghost landed successfully, delivered 10 NASA science and technology instruments, and operated across an entire lunar day before continuing several hours into the lunar night

Think about what SpaceX has restored to the United States:
• Falcon 9 and Dragon returned human spaceflight to American soil
• Then Falcon 9 helped return American spacecraft to the Moon

Not once but Twice

SpaceX restored capabilities America had lost, reopened the road to orbit and became the bridge carrying the country back to the Moon

Now Starship is being built to carry the people, cargo, habitats and equipment needed to establish a permanent human presence there

Falcon 9 brought America back to the Moon
Starship is being built to help humanity stay there

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

CNBC: "On manufacturing — comes in much better than expected, 55.6%. That would be the best read in over four years, since May of '22." 🔥

[Mark LeBel @YTesla7]

My first as well, Commodore VIC-20, tape drive for memory.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Jason My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20
https://t.co/1FqBXQj4vp

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Jaw-dropping fraud report just found that 9.2 million people — including ILLEGAL ALIENS — do NOT meet the federal requirements to qualify for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion program...that's nearly HALF of those enrolled

50% FRAUD 🤯

The problems are the worst in CA and NY. IMAGINE THAT.

"The study says New York and California have some of the biggest problems, finding up to 62% of people enrolled in California are not eligible. And the states might not even be incentivized to fix the issue."

"This study says some of those people actually make too much money to qualify for this Medicaid expansion program and others are getting these benefits, even though they're here in the country illegally!"

The entire system has to be gutted! Purge the rolls!

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

When I say “Never Sell Your Bitcoin,” I speak as one saver to another. I have never sold mine. Not one satoshi. Strategy is a public company, not my wallet. Since 2020, it has disclosed it may buy or sell $BTC to manage capital. Our shared conviction in Bitcoin remains unchanged.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Jason What they’re doing won’t matter.

AI & robots will actually deliver the free goods & services that those thieves pretend to offer, while actually stealing from others.

Mamdani is a thief and a liar, plain and simple.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

🚨CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS🚨

Did you know that President George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes?

Yes.

Florida decided the presidency by a mere 537 votes.

So, when states — like New Jersey — are registering non-citizens to vote & hundreds of fraudulent votes are being counted,

it presents a constitutional crisis & a National Emergency.

👉537 votes👈

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth noting that any USAID funding that appeared to have the slightest merit whatsoever for helping people in need was moved to the State Department.

Only the funding where they provided no evidence at all for who would receive the money was stopped.

https://t.co/qGUew8TyKD

[Zynx @ZynxBTC]

You need to view everything Strategy are doing through the lens of getting into the S&P 500.

They are demonstrating complete optionality.

-Increased the USD reserve by $250M.
-Repurchased $81M of $STRC.
-Sold 1,638 Bitcoin to fund dividends and the repurchase.

This is a deliberate demonstration for S&P Global.

It shows they can access capital markets, monetise holdings and meet obligations in any environment, including a Bitcoin drawdown.

Every move addresses a box S&P asked them to tick back in October.

The wider context is everything.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: RINOs Cornyn and Tillis have DROPPED their opposition to Todd Blanche's confirmation as Attorney General

This comes after a HEATED back and forth between Trump and the RINO pair, who were blocking Blanche to spite Triump.

Blanche will likely be confirmed THIS WEEK.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Pretty hard to dispute this logic.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: The Trump White House just MIC DROPPED socialism 🫳🏻🎤

KEVIN HASSETT: "Countries that adopt socialism within a few years have skyrocketing death rates, both because of violence and because of starvation."

"Venezuela became socialist. Their energy production got cut down to almost ZERO. The grocery stores, whenever somebody's socialist, they get empty."

"And so the history of socialism is really a history that should be gone, and the fact that there are many, many people of the political party that think that they should support something, they don't know what they're supporting. They should go back and read the chapter!"

Down with Communism!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nice work

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Jason He wants a propaganda tool to undermine the free market and does not care about logic arguments