BRΛVCMO 🇺🇸

Engineur, entertainer, contrarian. @mo4ca congressional candidate. free thinker. never vaxxed or pronouned #maga

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

Somebody else needs to help me do this with charts and graphs but I’ll try with words first.

- In a normal election, you have 2 candidates, R & L. People cast votes. Proportionally, the votes of each candidate rise and fall in little chunks but take an overall steady line due to the force of averages. One of the lines eventually tops out, and that candidate wins on election night.

- In a mail in election, you have 2 candidates R & L. In this instance, some mail ins (if allowed) may come in after Election Day. But still, due to the force of averages, their lines with have little ups and downs but maintain a steady upward trajectory both during and after the election until one wins.

Now it has become the norm that after the election in mail in states, Dem candidates tend to go from tied or losing to drastically ahead AFTER the election, against the force of averages. How?

There are two legal, non fraudulent explanations:

1) that “Dems vote late by mail.” Dubious, considering that it used to be that Rs were known as absentee voters, but technically possible that for some never explained reason, Ds vote later than Rs by mail and that explains the statistical anomaly of why Dems lines shoot up after Election Day.

2) ballot harvesting. The far more likely explanation. Legal in California, this is when huge amounts of ballots are collected by political activists (unions, NGOs etc) and submitted on behalf of large populations of people in churches, workplaces etc. Both sides do it, but it is technically possible that Dems are much better at it. This is how insiders explain the “red mirage” statistical anomalies in 2020 and that have become so common since. Also explains why the prediction markets clinched Raman as winning while she was still down.

However, there is something different happening in Pratt v Bass election. A third candidate, a second, much less popular and less well known Dem is in the race, Nithya Raman. And this time, the late mail in ballots—mailed on Election Day or just before which is why they are “late mail in”—didn’t go to “the dems” they went specifically to Nithya Raman. Pratt stayed flat. Bass stayed flat. Nithya went way up after the initial count was reported. Unprecedented.

Oddly, the mail in mailed any time before Election Day did not favor nithya at all. Only the late mail ins counted after initial numbers were reported massively favored her. So we’re meant to believe that Nithya voters specifically voted not just by mail by late by mail, while the other Dem and Pratt voters did not. Bass voters stopped voting late mail in entirely, as they had last election against caruso, and Nithya voters started?

Could it be “Dems vote late by mail?” No, because then both Nithya and Bass, both Dems, would have risen at roughly the same rate, only without Pratt. But nithya massively over performed just enough to oust pratt, which would not have been possible had she and bass split the votes.

Could it be ballot harvesting? Also no. You can harvest a church or workplace and predict roughly that your harvested votes will favor Dems, but how could you feasibly predict which Dem out of two? Nithya’s support, always squarely in third place during the polls, is mostly educated white women, definitely not the type to vote late or be harvested. But that’s actually besides the point. How could a vote harvester, who is supposedly delivering filled out and sealed ballots from a constituency the harvester believes will lean left, know which left wing candidate this or that batch favors? And moreover, why would they then send only those batches after the election, while submitting all the other mail in ballots for bass before the election?

Occams Razor points to the much simpler explanation. Whoever is harvesting the votes isn’t just harvesting them, they’re somehow controlling the votes themselves, whether by filling them out or throwing away competing votes they don’t like. This is the definition of voter fraud.

[BDW @BryanDeanWright]

Fmr CIA officer here.

Let me share how elections get stolen — and the role of intel agencies.

We all know that the CIA and NSA create and execute clandestine operations that are designed to go undetected. That ranges from recruiting human spies, tapping phone systems, and altering devices of all kinds.

Yes, that necessarily includes voting machines.

The CIA and NSA have teams to execute all of these operations and missions at the direction of a President, even those ops that are deemed impossible… like machines locked in rooms that are inside secure facilities, unhooked from the internet or whatever device that could tether them to the outside world.

Those tough intel operations require extensive planning, exquisite trade craft, supporting operations (HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT), and a degree of luck.

For many years, everything that I’m saying was understood by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Historic footage from Congressional hearings show both Ds and Rs saying that they were alarmed about voting systems with so-called “unhackable machines.” They knew then — correctly — that such a suggestion or claim was ridiculous. They were briefed by NSA and CIA teams on how they “hack the unhackable” every month without leaving a trace.

This is why Taiwan and others are resolute on conducting elections the old fashioned way: same day voting only, in person, IDs, paper ballots, a counting process that is open to the public to watch and monitor, and results announced that same night.

If Taiwan can do it with ~24M people, any US state can do it. Refusal to do so is an intentional choice to open your electoral systems to vulnerabilities.

That's what we’re now seeing across the United States, and primarily in Democrat-dominated locales. Including Los Angeles. Those politicians choose broken systems.

California’s ~30 day process to tally votes is obviously and intentionally vulnerable that a reasonable person understands that it allows for manipulation and assured electoral outcome by a dominant power (Democrats, in this case).

And like any good intel op, you do it such that there are no fingerprints left behind — whether that be with machines, mail-in ballots, harvested ballots, etc. If you own the ops environment, anything is possible.

Still, mistakes happen in any op. In the event of disclosure, you do what we often see Democrats and the media do: deny, smear, and make counter-accusations to preserve intentionally broken systems.

Folks, this is not about Spencer Pratt. This is about the future of what’s left of our Republic.

Evil, seditious forces have broken our electoral systems and gained great power using them. Mayor Bass is but one, using the machine that her Democrat Party has built to sustain her and Leftist power. It’s the modern, Golden State version of old Chicago, NJ, or Huey Long corruption.

They will deny it, obviously. Because admission means loss of power, money, and likely prison time. There’s no incentive for them to clean up what’s broken.

Bottom line: Mr. Pratt’s earnest desire to run a righteous race to fix his city faces long odds. He didn’t just run against Karen Bass. He ran against a corrupt machine.

But if nothing else, he has shown his fellow Angelinos and the nation that, once again, we have an existential problem in our electoral system with intentional vulnerabilities and electoral fraud that naturally flows from the brokenness.

Now it’s up to the rest of us to fix it.

There are solutions, none easy or polite. But we must do so — and by whatever means necessary — or the Republic falls to Communists and Cuba-trained agitators like Karen Bass.

Those are the stakes. Time is short.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Five days after the LA election, Spencer Pratt falls to third place and a woman who hardly anyone voted for in person, Nithya Raman, totally dominated in mail voting to come in second. No one with a functional brain believes these results.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

California: the most accessible election in America. Also the easiest to attack and commit fraud.

California spent the last year in federal court fighting to stop the Justice Department from inspecting its voter rolls. They won.

I'm not alleging fraud. But if there were, no one could catch it or prove it. That's the problem with the system they built.

You would have to be a fool to look at this and be ok with it.

They mail a ballot to every active voter, regardless if you want it, it happens automatically at the DMV.

You don't need to show ID. So the person voting and the name on the file never have to match.

You can register and vote the same day, before anyone confirms you should.

You check a box swearing you're a citizen. Nobody checks it against anything. Honor system.

Everyone's a boy scout so its ok.

Your signature is the only check on a mail ballot. One worker glances at it, decides it matches, counts it. To reject it, two more have to agree it's fake beyond a reasonable doubt.

The whole thing is built to say yes.

Anyone can collect your ballot. No cap. One person can carry 5 ballots or 5,000 and the law doesn't care.

The whole thing trades security for access. It accepts as many ballots as possible and questions almost none of them.

Stack California up against the rest of the country.

36 states make you prove who you are at the polls. California is one of 14 that don't.

36 states want your ballot in hand by election day. California gives 7 extra days.

Most states cap how many ballots one person can collect, or ban it.

On every single control that exists to verify an election, California sits at the most permissive end.

And there's no real audit. The only one the law requires is a 1% hand count from 1965, and it can't change a result no matter what it finds. California tested the real kind, the kind that can confirm a winner, then let that authority expire in 2023 and never brought it back.

So in 2025 the Justice Department asked to inspect the rolls. Around 23 million names. California refused, took it to federal court, and in January a judge let the state keep the list sealed.

I trust California can count. The count isn't my worry. It's how they built the rolls and the voting around them. These elections could be manipulated and no one would catch it.

China. Russia. Iran. They have money and patience. They already have people inside the country. Say one of them decided to touch a California race. What catches them?

Not an audit. There isn't one that can change a result. Not the rolls. No outsider can see them. Not the signature. One clerk waves it through.

Every system that matters is built assuming the person inside it can be bought, pressured, or just wrong.

California's elections assume everyone is honest. Honest people are great. They are not a security plan.

That is the case for why this is dangerous.

If you still don't get the risk of the attack surface, here are some examples:

A man isn't a citizen. He checks the box that says he is. He votes. Nothing ever checks that box against a citizenship record, because by law nothing has to. Who catches him? Nobody.

A son runs the house. Grandma has dementia. His parents barely follow politics. 4 ballots show up in the mail. He fills out all 4 the way he wants, signs them, sends them in. Same hand that signs the family's checks, so they pass. Who catches him?

A guy works Skid Row. Pays homeless people a few dollars to register, sometimes to his own address, so the ballots come back to him.

Not hypothetical. A woman pleaded guilty to exactly this in LA, and the only reason anyone knows is a journalist filmed her. Who catches the next one?

Every one of these gets caught only if the victim knows and speaks up. Look at who the victim is. Dead. Demented. Undocumented. Unhoused. Or never real to begin with.

No ID. Anyone can sign your ballot. No citizenship check. So how do you know the only people voting are the ones who should be, voting the way they actually want?

I'm not alleging fraud. I mean that literally. Fraud could happen here, foreign or domestic, big or small, and nothing's left that would catch it or prove it.

They pulled the checks out one law at a time, framing it for accessibility. Then they went to court to make sure no one could check.

This is why people question the mayor race with Bass, Pratt and Raman. The highly suspect skid row mail-in ballots.

You should want an election you can verify. Win or lose.

California built one you can't.

Ask them why.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

California's election system is a joke. A state that would be the 4th largest economy on earth if it stood alone, run into the ground. Can't even count ballots in a day.

Gavin Newsom spends more time virtue signaling and morphing into whatever muppet the week needs than doing anything for the state.

There are elections in California today. Last time they counted, it took them a month.

India counted 642 million votes in a day. California can't count 22 million. The 2024 race wasn't certified until December 13th.

A country where millions don't have running water, reliable electricity or toilets outshined the broken state of Cali.

The slow count is the least of this circus.

The DMV signs you up to vote when you renew your license. It once botched 23,000 registrations. One landed on a Canadian who got a postcard reading:

"Congratulations, you're registered to vote."

He threw it out and assumed it was a scam.

Watchdogs found 11 counties with more registered voters than voting-age citizens. San Diego hit 138%. It took a lawsuit to force them to clean the rolls.

Anyone can collect your ballot and turn it in for you. No limit. A stranger can knock on 400 doors, walk off with 400 ballots, and drop them in a box, no questions asked.

Legal since 2016. LOL.

San Francisco lets noncitizens vote in school board elections. Undocumented included. They keep a separate voter roll for people who aren't citizens.

Then they look you in the eye and tell you it's illegal for a poll worker to ask who you are.

Every country you've been trained to pity does the basics we can't.

India inks your finger purple so you can't vote twice. They've done it since 1962 and export the ink to 35 countries.

Mexico hands you a biometric voter card with a thumbprint, implemented when they found their own fraud.

Our federal form just asks you to pinky-swear you're a citizen while we import illegals every year.

France counts paper ballots by hand and has results that night. They banned mail-in voting in 1975 after fraudsters bought ballots and voted in dead people's names.

All of Europe's 47 countries require photo ID. We're still arguing about whether checking is racist.

Canada, India, the UK, and Australia hand their elections to independent referees. They check IDs. They clean their voter rolls.

None of this is futuristic. India does it poorer than us. Mexico is run by cartels but fights fraud better than us.

So I'm supposed to believe:
California's the tech capital of the world.
The count is honest.
The rolls are clean.
Every ballot is real.

And the loudest voices screaming that voter ID is racist are looking out for your vote, not the padded rolls and the bags full of ballots.

Sure.

[CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BOMBSHELL ALERT: TREASON UNRAVELING IN REAL TIME?! 🚨
WELL… ISN’T THIS THE MOTHER OF ALL COINCIDENCES?!
What if the URANIUM Hillary Clinton sold to Russia — while she was Secretary of State — somehow ended up in Iran’s nuclear stockpile… right after Obama shipped them plane-loads of cash?!
The enriched uranium Iran just surrendered?
If forensic tests MATCH it to the Uranium One batch…
GAME OVER.
Hillary. Obama.
JAIL. TREASON. HISTORY BOOKS.
No more hiding behind “controversy-free” fairy tales. Obama’s legacy is cracking wide open — and the American people are finally waking up to the greatest scandal of our lifetime.
This isn’t a conspiracy. This is karma catching up.
Trump was right all along.
Who else is ready for the TRUTH to drop like a nuke?! 🔥🇺🇸
#UraniumOne #LockThemUp #ObamaGate #MAGA

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.

Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

AND MY FAVORITE:

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!

The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.

Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.

How many people can YOU send this to?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Full breakdown of the new January 6th report

- The FBI deployed 26 paid confidential informants in Washington DC on January
- 4 entered the Capitol building during the events
- 13 entered the restricted areas around the Capitol
- This means over a dozen FBI-linked informants were actively in the “riot” or restricted zones
- CHS provided intelligence that Jan 6 “was gonna get a little hairy.” FBI HQ allegedly did nothing to prevent escalation and later claimed otherwise to Congress
- ZERO charges against any of their FBI informants

FBI covered up details before the election, confirmed Director Christopher Wray announced his resignation timing tied to report release

- Media and Democrats pushed the “inside job by Trump” while dismissing FBI and Antifa involvement, despite early knowledge of CHS numbers (THEY KNEW)
- Jan 6 politically benefited Democrats with impeachments, indictments, criminalizing MAGA, Jan 6 Committee focus
- No accountability for uncharged informants despite “greatest attack on democracy since 9/11” rhetoric

- There were allegedly payment made. Congress needs more details on CHS (Confidential Human Source)’s conduct, payments for hotels and more and pre-event activities
- Says the FBI, media, and prior investigations are all not credible

This only means one thing. Democrats used the FBI to stage an insurrection against Donald Trump. They tried to cover their tracks by hiring outside people to be agitators, then have those people they hired immunity against prosecution for doing the same activities they prosecuted Americans for

All to steal the election and rush certification of their stolen election

Inside job. Treason.

[Ramin Ekhtiar @raminrealtalk]

California gave ONE nonprofit $1 BILLION.

To put solar panels on poor people's roofs.

You know how much solar they actually installed?

$72 million.

That's it.

So where the FUCK is the other $928 MILLION?

I'll tell you exactly where.

The same nonprofit that WROTE the law that gave them the money ALSO got the contract to run "community outreach."

Same guy runs the nonprofit AND the program. Chris Walker. Two paychecks. Look it up.

And their SISTER organization — same building, same staff, same donors — is a 501(c)(4) that endorses Democrat candidates and runs door-knocking operations in the EXACT SAME NEIGHBORHOODS.

Connect the dots, idiot.

You pay $7.50 a gallon for gas.

Cap-and-trade takes a cut at the pump.

That money flows to "climate justice nonprofits."

Those nonprofits funnel it into Democrat get-out-the-vote machines.

You. Are. Funding. The. People. Who. Are. Robbing. You.

Every time you fill up your fucking tank, you're paying for a Democrat campaign volunteer to knock on a stranger's door and tell them how amazing Gavin Newsom is.

$928 MILLION.

GONE.

And not one journalist in this state asked a single question until @jennyraeca and CAL DOGE pulled the receipts.

You think this is the only one?

There's a hundred more like it.

This is how California works now.

This is how a "blue state" stays blue when only 48% of the voters are Democrats.

Wake the fuck up.

@patrickbetdavid @VincentOshana @FoxNews @WallStreetApes @CalDOGEgov @elonmusk @libsoftiktok

We're standing in front of the building right now.

https://t.co/bYQD11T69M

[One Bad Dude @OneBadDude_]

The left will blindly take the covid jab because the government told them to, then turn around and call you a sheep.

They’ll try to indoctrinate other peoples children and claim you’re in a cult.

They’ll support a candidate that didn’t receive a single vote in the primaries yet call a duly elected president a king and dictator.

They will tell you that everyone has a right to exist and then support late term abortion.

They claim you’re against women’s rights while they advocate for men in women’s bathrooms and sports.

They tell you to trust the science as they disregard simple biology.

They advocate for open borders yet put blockades in the streets to check your ID to determine if you’re ICE.

They’ll claim peace and tolerance and then attack you for your opinion.

Just one contradiction after another.

The fatigue is real.

[Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 @jason_meister]

They arrested the President of the United States of America 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, spied on his campaign, sabotaged his first term, jailed his supporters, raided his private residence, censored him, gagged him, tried to bankrupt him, and attempted to remove him from state ballots.

When all of that failed they tried to assassinate him not once but four times.

And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for them to save democracy.

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

We're not saying that Charlottesville itself is a "hoax."

We are saying the SPLC allegedly *HELPED* to engineer the conditions for it happening, and then materially aided-and-abetted a Unite the Right organizer and thereby promoted a clash between protesters and counter-protesters.

Then the SPLC fundraised off it, successfully, and the Democrats weaponized it to push a bogus narrative in the 2020 election.

So the SPLC benefited financially and the Democrats benefited politically. That is why the Biden administration shut down an investigation into the SPLC after banks flagged its suspect activities.

I don't know why you leftists continue to pretend that we're all stupid. It's a tired act.

When you flail with these vapid counter-arguments, it just makes you look like a huckster, in addition to a race grifter.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Fewer than 3 years.

That’s all the time we have left.

If we lose 2026, we are likely to lose 2028.

Our Republican Senate majority hasn’t passed any meaningful legislation, which means many of President Trump’s policies aren’t codified into law.

If a democrat president wins 2028, then these 4 years won’t mean anything.

The next Department of Homeland Security Secretary will reopen the border — just like Alejandro Mayorkas did.

Then, when democrats regain control of the Senate, they will nuke the filibuster

& pass legislation to implement automatic mail-in ballots in all 50 states. Ballot harvesting will be the law of the land.

They will stack the Supreme Court, add 2 new democrat Senators with the creation of DC as a state, & establish a permanent democrat majority.

We have the power to stop this, but the question is whether or not @LeaderJohnThune wants to be remembered as a hero or a villain.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Have you ever walked into a room of liberals and felt a chilling shift in the air? The smiles are utterly fake. The tension is palpable. You exist as an unapologetic conservative in a space dominated by progressive orthodoxy. Carl Jung diagnosed this exact psychological phenomenon decades ago. He called it the shadow. The modern left is completely consumed by it.

Every progressive alive wears a mask. They project a curated public persona of endless tolerance, virtue, and equity. Beneath that fragile veneer lies the shadow. It contains their suppressed rage, their gnawing envy, their profound insecurity, and their absolute terror of personal failure. They bury these vile traits to maintain the illusion of moral superiority. The shadow remains and festers forever. When a grounded conservative walks into the room, our very presence shatters their entire illusion.

Awareness makes you an existential threat to the liberal order. Seeing their patterns, their hypocrisy, and the glaring gap between their noble rhetoric and their destructive actions makes you terrifying to them. Speech is entirely unnecessary. Your calm indifference to their performative social theater registers as a direct attack. They realize you see exactly what they are desperately hiding.

To avoid facing their own internal rot, the liberal mind panics and projects. They label you a fascist, a bigot, and a threat to democracy. These accusations are the pure manifestation of their own shadow desperately looking for a target. They ignore reality and attack the mirror your independence holds up to their pathetic stagnation.

The progressive worldview relies entirely on unspoken agreements to maintain comfortable fictions. Society must pretend men can become women. The public must accept open borders as secure. Citizens must view crippling inflation as a sign of prosperity. By refusing to participate in these collective delusions, you become a massive problem. You break their fragile agreements. You withdraw your need for their worthless approval. You ignore their predictable guilt trips. Losing their control over you forces them to attempt your destruction.

Cease shrinking yourself to keep these weak people comfortable. Allowing their resentment to dictate your behavior is a complete surrender to their mental illness. Let those relationships die. You are outgrowing them. Your political and spiritual individuation is a quiet, devastating indictment of every coward who decided to remain asleep. We will continue to grow, build, and conquer. Let them choke on their own reflections.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just showed the world what happens when you walk into the vault and start counting.

They don’t debate you.

They try to end you.

We are told government waste is an accident. A byproduct of incompetence.

Musk proved it is a business. Defended. Coordinated. Worth hundreds of billions a year. Guarded by every institution that feeds from it.

Musk: “You turn off the money spigot to fraudsters, they get very upset to say the least. My death threat level went ballistic.”

The press had a villain ready before the ink dried. Politicians moved in unison to brand him a monster. The whole apparatus collapsed on one man with mechanical precision.

It is not cancellation. It is annihilation.

We were told this was about protecting democracy.

It was about protecting the invoice.

Joe Rogan: “The whole machine turns on you because you were getting in the way of this amazing graft.”

Musk: “The goal was to destroy me absolutely.”

Without his own platform and unlimited capital, they would have buried him and walked back to the vault.

He survived. And he brought numbers.

His work already prevented $200 to $300 billion a year in fraud. That is not a rounding error. That is a shadow economy the size of a G20 nation hidden inside your paycheck.

Then he said the sentence that should keep every taxpayer awake at night.

Musk: “Probably cut the federal budget in half. And get more done.”

Half.

Half of what they take from every cheque is not paying for civilization. It is not building roads. It is not funding schools. It is feeding the thing eating it from the inside.

They did not come for him because he lied.

If he had lied, they would have promoted him.

They came for him because he counted.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

8000 BC: "Plants are what we eat when the hunt fails."

3000 BC: "Grain and vegetables are what we feed the slaves."

500 BC: "Lentils and barley are the diet of the poor."

100 AD: "Bread and circuses for the mob. The legions get meat."

1200s: "Pottage and roots are what the serf gets. The lord eats venison."

1700s: "Vegetables and porridge are what the starving eat."

1800s: "The Irish are surviving on potatoes. The landlords are exporting the beef."

1900s: "Plants and grain are wartime filler. We're rationing the real food."

1950s: "Plants are cheap. Feed them to the poor."

1970s: "Plants should be the BASE of the pyramid. This is science."

1990s: "Plant-based is emerging as extremely healthy, actually."

2010s: "Plant-based is optimal. Meat is the problem."

2020s: "Plant-based is saving the planet!"

2025: "Plant-based is the healthiest diet on earth. The science is settled."

You: noticing that the diet currently being sold as enlightened and optimal is the same one every ruling class in recorded history fed to the people it was trying to keep weak, compliant, and grateful.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late.

The right stack is always taller.

On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN.

I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS.

The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881.

He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts."

I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes.

The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200.

I waived it.

I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness.

Let me show you what I processed this year.

January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%.

February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed.

March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file.

I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again.

In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not.

I want to tell you about the soldier again.

He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in.

In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on:

Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee.
Defense appropriations they voted on.
Trade policy they negotiated.
Pandemic response measures they drafted.
Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public.

None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012.

Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases.

My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that.

The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop.

She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed.

I want to tell you about the fine.

$200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk.

Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself.

On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office.

The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year.

The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million.

The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write.

He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million.

The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised.

In my field, we call this self-regulation.

The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate.

Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return.

I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process.

As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello @TomSteyer,

California gas prices are “outrageous” — we agree. It is unfortunate that our customers are not only paying high prices for gasoline but even more to just to feed the voracious appetite of a bloated state bureaucracy.

But let’s stick to the data instead of the usual Sacramento script.

As of April 2026:
• CA average: ~$5.89/gallon
• National average: ~$4.08/gallon

• Difference: +$1.81 that has ZERO to do with any war or “Big Oil.”

That premium has existed for decades — long before this conflict began.

Highest gas taxes & fees in America (~71¢ excise + sales + cap-and-trade + LCFS credits = nearly $1.80/gal in total state burden).

CARB’s boutique “California-only” fuel blend that no other state can supply.

Decades of refinery closures, low-carbon mandates, and permitting hell that slashed in-state capacity while CA imported more crude from foreign sources.

Nevada imports 85-90% of its fuel from those same strangled California refineries. Arizona gets ~33%.

Green ideology isn’t just screwing Californians — it’s pricing out your neighbors too. (Sound familiar, @AaronDFordNV?)

You and Governor Newsom keep blaming Trump and producers for the mess Sacramento engineered.

Meanwhile, the same CARB regs you cheered are now a national security issue for DoD bases on the West Coast. Trump’s Defense Production Act moves to fix what ideology broke. That’s not “Big Oil” — that’s basic energy security.

And while we’re on the topic of who really benefits:

It is our understanding that you built your ~$2 billion fortune running Farallon Capital, a hedge fund that delivered big returns in part through investments in fossil fuels — including coal mines and power plants abroad.

Then your fund pivoted to climate investing via Galvanize Climate Solutions, raising hundreds of millions for “decarbonization” plays and profitinh handsomely from the subsidies, mandates, and regulations.

In political science terms this would be called rent-seeking.

Energy security isn’t optional.
American oil & gas delivers it — when Sacramento gets out of the way.

But it sounds like if elected you're not prepared to get out of the way.

At any rate, thank you for sharing your views on this important issue.

[Blondelady2024 @arva61138]

I’m still trying to process what just happened.

The highest ranking US intelligence official, just released smoking gun docs proving that Obama and his underlings committed treason/sedition.

Meaning Trump was right about everything, the news is fake, and the Deep State is real.

Meaning that all of us “conspiracy theorists” were right about the conspiracy against Trump… it wasn’t a theory.

Meaning the shadow war is real, and all our efforts over the last 10 years were not part of a “LARP”.

Meaning that we are not crazy. We were right.

It was all real.