NEW: Ken Griffin on Paris riots, Chicago and JB Pritzker
I think Paris should be a real wake up call to every single young American. France is the dream the left talks about. That dream is the nightmare I left from Chicago. That dream doesn’t belong in our country. A society that comes down to how much you can take from others.
Do you see candidates that you’re actually fearful that’s the path they’re going down:
J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois. Yes, 100%. 100%
As much as last night was an indictment of the Democratic Party for misleading party members and the country about the mental acuity and health of the president, the media deserve far more derision and scorn.
I and others were repeatedly criticized by the media for questioning the competency of the president. Among other false accusations, I was accused of spreading misleading videos which clearly showed Biden’s deterioration.
Do you remember the heavily excerpted and edited @POTUS Biden @60Minutes interview where the interviewer covered for the president by saying he was ‘very tired?’
@60Minutes knew.
The @nytimes knew.
@CNN knew.
@MSNBC knew.
Left wing media have had total and complete access to the president, his staff, and his administration.
They all knew, but they told you otherwise. They outright lied to you.
When Robert Hur, the special counsel who deposed the president, said that the president was not fit to stand trial and therefore chose not to bring charges, the media described him as a tool of the Republican Party and character assassinated him.
When the @WSJ recently published a several-thousand-word, carefully researched, front page piece on the president’s mental and physical health, it was described by left wing media as outright propaganda.
Now consider who has been feeding you propaganda.
A favored technique of some of the most evil leaders in history was to mislead the people by constantly repeating the Big Lie.
The Big Lie is so audacious that people accept it as truth because it is repeated so often that how can it be that something so important and material could be an outright falsehood?
In this case the Big Lie was our president’s fitness for office, let alone a second term.
A media organization is not supposed to be a branch of the Democratic Party.
The media have a profound obligation to tell the truth to the American people, particularly about something as critical for the country as the president’s mental and physical health.
People very close to me, my closest family and friends, trusted the media on Biden until the @CNN commentators finally owned up to the truth about Biden last night.
For months I have been accused by many friends and family of being misled by an @X-based ‘right wing echo chamber.’
The sad reality is that one of our most important institutions, the so-called ‘Fourth Estate,’ fourth only after the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, has destroyed any remaining credibility it has.
Consider how your perception of @POTUS Biden and @realDonaldTrump has been manipulated.
The media can no longer save itself.
A suggestion. Rely on empirical data as much as possible. Listen to what someone actually said, rather than a headline summary or article about what someone said.
Get your news from people who have a track record of telling the truth, people who do so at significant personal cost like whistleblowers.
I follow broad constituencies on @X on multiple issues. That has led me closer to the truth. Citizen journalism has been a much more accurate representation of reality.
Thank you @elonmusk for saving this platform. It gives us a fighting chance to save our democracy.
A home invader broke into a Lincoln Park residence and stabbed a man late last night. Police arrested the suspect, who has a history of violent crime allegations, nearby.
https://t.co/dqKOyECKqd
BREAKING: American attorney Jonathan Turley refutes ruling on $364 Million fine and 3-year disbarment from doing business in New York in civil fraud case against Trump, says they couldn’t find a case which gives precedent to the penalty handed to the former President, and calls the penalty “excessive”, Turley expects a major appeal on behalf of the Trump team.
JUST IN: Texas National Guard DENY’S ACCESS to United States Border Patrol agents at Shelby Park..
DEVELOPING.
"The current posture is to….restrict access to organizations that perpetuate illegal immigrant crossings."
VIDEO CREDIT: @GriffJenkins
BREAKING REPORT: ⚠️ Department of Homeland Security issues EMERGENCY OVERNIGHT FILING to the Supreme Court to BLOCK TEXAS from taking over border operations in Eagle Pass.
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP..
This is poised to become a LANDMARK case...
The United States government is attempting to STOP TEXAS from protecting the citizens of this great country..
In our nation’s history, we’ve never seen anything like this before.
How can Secretary Mayorkas remain silent when his Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed and the Southwest border is being overrun?
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW:
Brighton Park residents are suing the city of Chicago for a temporary restraining order on the 38th and California migrant tent city.
At the hearing, it was revealed the city never issued construction permits for the tent city
The city is arguing that residents can't hold the city accountable to follow its own zoning and building codes.
The Brandon Johnson administration is basically saying that the city doesn't have to follow its own building codes and laws.
The city is also arguing that the soil is safe as long as you don’t eat it.
Newly-released city surveillance video shows a Chicago police squad car arriving as armed robbers targeted a man on the North Side in August.
Even though the cops saw the robbery in progress, a CPD supervisor ordered them to stop chasing the suspects.
https://t.co/g5PCsTlL1x
The man accused of throwing a log like a javelin into a woman's head on the Mag Mile was ordered detained to await trial this afternoon.
The victim, a flight attendant from out of town, remains unresponsive with significant brain and head injuries.
https://t.co/bo5y8YkKdf
People accused of beating, and robbing woman and another charged with punching a Chicago cop in the face are just some of the folks who are being released without restrictions under cashless bail.
https://t.co/8YuMsTp1IC
A real-life example of how wasteful our government is:
A federal agency placed a $5k catering order w/ one of my stores. They asked for net-30 invoicing...done, no problem. All the standard rules apply, ie 10% late payment charges after 30 days, every 30 days.
Catering day comes, food goes out, everything was smooth, everyone was happy. We get to day 29, & we still haven't received the payment, so I email the lady in charge so they don't get hit w/ a late fee. She emails me back to say that the date on the invoice was wrong (it only had 2/5...not 2/5/18). So I send it back & don't hear anything for a week.
1st late fee goes into effect, so now the bill is $5.5k. She then informs me she has to get new approval for the updated total...4 more weeks go by. This cycle goes on for 10 months. The bill is now 10k (5k food, 5k late fees).
She finally gets someone else involved to help settle the bill. He reviews the invoice, and I crap you not, finds a .30 cent error, and asks for an updated invoice. Another month goes by, so now we're at $5k food, $5.5k late fees. I threatened to send them off to collections (no idea how to even do that) & they finally get it paid off at $10.5k
And that ladies & gentlemen is how the federal government stewards your tax dollars