Suburban Blissters

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this

California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.

Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.

They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up

The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.

Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.

Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.

We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”

I looked more into this and he is 100% right

Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries

Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.

This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure

If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Nurses practicing their TikTok hantavirus dances

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

A once great institution that provided a healthy balance of Virginians, along with a fun rivalry with Virginia Tech, and an academic reputation that rivaled many Ivy League schools.

The annual football game had the entire Commonwealth glued to their TVs every Saturday after Thanksgiving. Brothers arguing, fathers and sons taking jabs, but it was so much fun watching Virginia’s two major Universities representing our state with honor.

Nowadays UVA is a shell of its former self, being a DEI infested cesspool crawling with carpetbaggers. There is nothing unique anymore, just another one in a long list of institutions captured by mouth breathing Marxists who couldn’t change a flat tire.

If it weren’t for the history that Thomas Jefferson (a history many students/faculty tied to the University would erase) brought to the school I doubt anyone would care if it existed or not.

Don’t even get me started on how Virginia Tech has fallen🙄

[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.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Teacher: “What are the 3 branches of government?”

Student: “Central Bankers. Pedos. The Military Industrial Complex.”

Teacher: “That’s wrong.”

Student: “I know. We really should abolish the entire thing and start over.”

[Dale Stark @DaleStarkA10]

The GOP is a fake political party. Its main function is to vacuum up conservative energy, votes, and donations, then ensure those resources are never used to actually fight back against the left.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Let me explain why people from the third world are often prolific scammers. This time with sock puppets for the literary challenged:

The first world assumes rules will be enforced. The third world assumes they won’t, and plans accordingly.

The first world is built on trust and delayed reward. The third world survives on speed, extraction, and immediacy.

The first world teaches civic duty because law protects effort. The third world teaches survival because law cannot be trusted.

The first world rewards cooperation over time. The third world rewards whoever gets there first.

The first world invests. The third world extracts.

The first world builds systems meant to last. The third world learns to live inside the ruins of broken ones.

Assimilating people from these areas is almost impossible. Certainly not worth the risk. No reward is worth it.

War veterans have so much experience with this.

Listen.

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

Worse. If taxes were just wasted it would be one thing. It goes to people who make our lives worse, and it’s increasingly clear that it’s done on purpose. They used to say taxes are the price you pay for civilization, but it’s actually the forced subsidy you pay to dismantle it.

[Carly Teller @carlyteller]

1 RT = 1 #ProBowlVote for Wyatt Teller 🥞

[James LANKlin @PryKnowsBall]

#BeatUVA

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This man is a GenX’er and he realized a long time ago that there was going to be no retirement for him.

“I sold all the things that I had, cashed in my retirement, and purchased some land out here in Tennessee to live on.

And now what I have to do is pay for permission to live on this land, buy permits, and I also have to pay taxes, every year, whatever amount they decide, forever, in this land of the “free”.

You can never escape this system they have built for us. There is no end to it. It goes on forever, until you die. This system, where we’re constantly paying a tithe to the government in hopes that they will do the right thing at some point, ever.”

"Whatever price they decide" is the icing on the cake.

Property Taxes are the biggest scam ever to force people to stay in the Matrix, in my opinion. We are never free. You're only as free as what you can afford. Perpetual property taxes should be abolished. You get taxed once when you buy it, and that should be it!

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

I took this iconic photo of the east wing of the White House many years ago. I can’t believe it’s gone. No Kings.

[CalCentel @TheCalCentel]

Virginia Tech QB Kyron Drones has been taken by the Mothman in remote Appalachia and has been ruled OUT for tonight’s game vs. Cal, per sources

[Suburban Blissters @chuckwwinters]

@BarstoolVTech Tonight!

[Suburban Blissters @chuckwwinters]

@StillMikeBarber What? No! Whit is gone, but he should rage fire Pry on the way out tonight

[Suburban Blissters @chuckwwinters]

@hokiesports @cmgleasing If @CoachPryVT doesn't resign, he has no honor. I pulled for you coach, but do the right thing.

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝑩𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉

Four months removed from life-changing procedure, Norm Latona & coach Robie are thriving. Read the journey, hear the story of selflessness, gratitude, & family. Ut Prosim.
🔗 » https://t.co/gAIafeFjH6

#ThisIsHome #Hokies 🦃

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This post has 411k Likes. It’s clear Americans have had enough

“I'm so sick and f*cking tired of hearing about privilege. Privilege isn't being white — Privilege is living in government housing and calling people oppressors while they pay your f*cking bills

- Privilege is being able to protest every little thing that offends you without worrying about calling in sick to work because you don't have a f*cking job
- Real privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you haven't worked a day in your life
- Privilege is walking around with $300 Beats headphones while you're living on f*cking food stamps
- While you're on public assistance, and it's paid for by people who wake up and grind every day
- Privilege is having the latest smartphone with unlimited data and having zero idea where the bill goes because somebody else is always picking up the tab
- Privilege is being able to cheat, lie, fail over and over again in life and still get bailed out while people who play by the rules get punished. That's privilege

This isn't about race. This isn't about class. This is about accountability. We've got a culture that rewards victimhood and demonizes work ethic and responsibility.

Meanwhile, the people holding everything together for the rest of society, they get taxed into the f*cking ground, their businesses get choked by regulation, and they get personally vilified for speaking up and saying that this is bullsh*t.

You want to talk about privilege? Then start with the people who've never paid the price, but who also scream the loudest. Because they've never had to build anything, they've never had to defend anything, they've never had to carry any real weight.

And the reason they get away with it? It's because we don't live in a society of strong men anymore. No. That's been dismantled on purpose over the last 50 years because a society of strong men would never put up with any of this bullshit. And that's exactly why they came after us first”

“I'm done pretending that any of this bullsh*t makes sense”

[Virginia Tech Wrestling @HokiesWrestling]

𝑼𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒎 🧡

Please keep two of our own in your thoughts and prayers today as Norm Latona undergoes a long awaited, much needed kidney transplant. The donor none other than head coach Tony Robie.

We all thank you for your support and love.
#ThisIsHome #Hokies 🦃

[Libertarian Party of Pinellas County @PinellasLP]

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