🧵 I always react pretty negatively when people crap on cyclists for 2 reasons: 1 it’s basic bully behavior, which I hate, & 2 because of how much cycling has meant to my life, & how intertwined it is with my love of this country & its people. Oh, you drove cross country & it was
@Thaulus@ayeejuju You would bet wrong. The machines are extremely involved, as are the molds. And the filling lines would have to be changed as well, and the bottles would not stack well.
I’m sorry your friends were convicted. But it wasn’t a “noise demo.” It was an Antifa ambush shooting. They brought 11 firearms with them and shot an officer in the neck. The cell members who flipped and testified at trial spoke about the secret planning, radicalization and firearms training that happened before the attack. They admitted to being inspired to action through antifa ideology in stipulated statements.
I hope you or your friends don’t succeed in killing people.
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How many people has Elon Musk personally murdered via his work helping defund USAID? I've run the numbers.
USAID, as people outside of CNN's viewership already know, operates largely as a CIA cutout, placing assets on the ground in countries where the U.S. govt is intervening politically.
USAID was instrumental is helping seed the following revolutions/coup d'états/civil wars:
Serbia — Bulldozer Revolution (Oct. 2000)
Venezuela — coup attempt + sustained OTI funding (April 2002)
Georgia — Rose Revolution (Nov. 2003)
Ukraine — Orange Revolution (2004)
Haiti — Ouster of Aristide (Feb. 2004)
Lebanon — Cedar Revolution (2005)
Belarus — opposition funding, "Jeans Revolution" and after — attempted, failed (2006)
Honduras — Coup against Zelaya (Jun. 2009)
Cuba — ZunZuneo / "Cuban Twitter" — attempted, failed (2010–12)
Tunisia — "Arab Spring" (2011)
Egypt — "Arab Spring" (2011–12)
Ukraine — Euromaidan / Revolution of Dignity (2014)
Bolivia — anti-Morales funding; 2013 expulsion; 2019 ouster
Kyrgyzstan — Tulip Revolution (March 2005)
Without U.S. intervention, it's hard to see how any of these would have gotten off the ground. Some back-of-the-envelope math on these conflicts' bodycount:
Venezuela (2002): 19
Haiti (2004): ~300
Maidan event (2014): ~100+ killed.
Bolivia (2019): 36
Donbas war (2014–2022): 14,200–14,400 military & civilian deaths.
Ukraine full-scale war (2022–present), deaths, both sides, mil + civ: roughly 350,000–500,000 killed.
So far we're up to somewhere north of 365,000 deaths, more likely north of 500K.
What else do we have?
USAID also helped fund poppy (heroin) farmers in Afghanistan. Unfortunately I haven't seen estimates of how many have died as a result of this taxpayer funded drug dealing, but I'm assuming they're not small numbers.
USAID also worked with groups sexually abusing/trafficking children in Kenya (2021), and the Central African Republic (2013).
Much earlier, during Vietnam, USAID helped the CIA arm & feed Hmong guerrillas fighting communist forces (not the worst thing). USAID also helped the Hmong militia & other warlords smuggle opium (a far less forgivable thing).
While the final tally is hard to properly calculate, if past is predicate, in helping shutdown USAID, @elonmusk could be saving hundreds of thousands of lives, thousands of African children, & millions of people around the world susceptible to opiate addiction.
Get this man a Peace Prize, @NobelPrize
@redheadranting We were on the SE corner, in the 2nd building in St Paul to go condo. Funny enough, I was playing golf one day and randomly got grouped up with the guy whose family condoed our building. He even lived in our unit. But we moved after our girls were born.
When you claim men are women because they have had their penis surgically turned into a hole for other men to ejaculate into, at least it tells us exactly what you think a woman is.
Evil is not a red-faced devil with horns.
Evil is a liberal woman laughing at the idea of little white girls being raped by foreigners.
This is the face of evil.
I carry a pistol when I ride my bike, not because I’m worried about psychotic drivers. In a 1.5 hour ride yesterday I saw one car, and waved because we’re neighborly out here. I’m more worried the coyotes will think I���m the sickliest antelope (easy mistake).
If we turned off all Federal and State government handout programs for 1yr we could each pocket $15,000. 15k. Not bad. Best part? We can do it next year too.
The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.
As the journalist who reported on this case and paid a high price for it, I’ll tell you that Karmelo did not just k*ll an unarmed white kid.
The family started a GiveSendGo, raising over half a million dollars. They did not even pay for bail; a friend of the advocates did. Their advocate threatened the school that he would hold public protests if they did not give Karmelo his diploma, and the school buckled. Karmelo was able to be at home on house arrest and is able to go to the barber and the library. He has been able to spend the holidays with his family, while the family he destroyed has spent the holidays mourning their son. The victim's parents have both been threatened, doxxed, and swatted.
Both the Anthonys and their advocates have lied and targeted me and my family. I have been doxxed. My husband has been doxxed. I have been swatted. I have been targeted with CPS. My children’s lives have been threatened to the point that one Anthony supporter said that he was going to sl*t my child’s throat.
A man who had to be investigated by the FBI and CID is currently sitting in my county jail because he was counting down the days until I gave birth to my child so that he could “end me.” This man was a social media friend of the advocate for the Anthony family.
All because I dared to thoroughly report on a black 17-year-old who stabbed a white 17-year-old at a track meet.
No one knows this case better than me. And I know just how dark and evil these people truly are.
And yes, I am FULLY fatigued.