Don Draper ☠️☠️

Finance, economy and some politics. Tweet en français aussi.

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@kkrrbllcc @fleur18rose Seul sport avant 2 extensions: les patins et le hockey.

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@andrearthurciel Le psyché, le "body language" de ce gars m'inquiète profondément. Mon planificateur financier ne comprend pas que je veuille faire des retraits rapides de mes REER (burndown). Tsé quand t'as un feeling?

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@tvanouvelles Fermé dans quelques années, ils se demanderont ce qui a bien pu arriver.

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

The real war between capitalism and Marxism isn’t rich vs. poor.

It’s one elite class against another.

On one side: builders, entrepreneurs and innovators—the pioneers of the market.

On the other: professors, community activists, left-wing political operatives—the parasites who despise markets.

Marxism turns the resentment of the parasites into a political program: if you can’t beat the productive class, seize control over it.

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@LP_LaPresse Sépulcre blanchi: une expression métaphorique désignant une personne hypocrite qui affiche une apparence vertueuse, noble ou belle, mais qui cache une corruption morale ou une méchanceté intérieure.

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@Jefffillion @PLuc_Brillant Le retour de la ToileduQuebec?

[André Arthur Live du Paradis ✨ @andrearthurciel]

Le satellite PACE de la NASA, lancé en 2024, fournit des images hyperspectrales à haute résolution de la végétation mondiale les plus précises jamais obtenues.

Le projet PACE confirme l’augmentation massive et mesurable de la chlorophylle et de la photosynthèse de la biosphère. Ce phénomène est attribué à l'augmentation progressive des niveaux de CO₂ au cours des 175 dernières années.

Une analyse datant de fin 2025 confirme que depuis 1960, le CO₂ a fait augmenté la photosynthèse du blé d'environ 35 % et celle du soja de 18 %. Des études plus récentes (2024-2025) menées dans des régions arides montrent que même là où les températures augmentent, les plantes restent vertes car le CO₂ leur permet d'utiliser l'eau beaucoup plus efficacement.

La NASA a commencé à publier des analyses critiques qui mettent explicitement en évidence les avantages liés au CO2, des données scientifiques qui contredisent le narratif des alarmistes qui prédisent des catastrophes et l’apocalypse climatique.

Boom!

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[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Only taxpayers should be allowed to vote.

Anyone on welfare benefits should forfeit their right to vote until they are off of government assistance.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Three-year-old just told me how she was hit by a train today, but she hit the train with her fists and it died and she was fine. Anyway, according to every single health body in Canada, as well as multiple government agencies, I should "affirm" her if she ever tells me she's a boy.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

"The impact of the fall of the Iranian regime will be far bigger than most people realise. It will be a genuine “cut the head off the snake” moment.

Because once the Ayatollahs fall, the entire political ecosystem they’ve been propping up starts to collapse with them. It will instantly strip away, and I cannot believe I’m even saying this, a huge amount of the fake “legitimacy” groups like Hamas have managed to gain over the last few years. It will drag into the light all the ties, funding routes, training links, and ideological coordination that the IRGC has had with terrorist organisations across the region.

And yes, it will absolutely delegitimise the modern “pro-Palestine” movement as it currently exists in the West, because so much of it isn’t actually about Palestinians at all. It’s about Islamist propaganda, anti-Israel narratives, and the constant repackaging of extremism as “social justice”. The fall of the regime would rip the mask off that entire performance.

But perhaps the biggest slap in the face of all will be that it will expose the one subject liberal leftist activists fear the most, because it destroys their whole worldview.

It will prove, in the clearest possible way, that the biggest struggle the Iranian people have faced was not “Western imperialism”, not “Zionism”, and not some abstract geopolitical grievance.
It was life under Islamist oppression....

And once millions of Iranians are free to say that openly, without fear of prison, torture, or execution, the activist class won’t be able to spin it anymore. They won’t be able to pretend that political Islam is “resistance”. They won’t be able to sell the lie that terrorists are the oppressed heroes of history.

The fall of the Iranian regime will create an ideological earthquake."

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[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@KobeissiLetter @grok , what does this graph look like if you do it on a per capita basis, keeping the same age groupings?

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls, not boys—and we’re paying a steep price.

Little boys (ages 3–6) surge with testosterone. They need to run, jump, play, burn energy.
Instead, we sit them in circle time, demand emotional regulation, and label normal boy behavior as ADHD or “behavioral problems.”

Result? Marginalized, stressed, diagnosed early, and tracked that way through school.

Her fix if she ran the world:
Separate boys and girls in the early years.
Boys get multiple recess periods, short focused bursts, and space to move.
Girls get a calmer environment where they feel safe taking STEM/math risks.
Both thrive when not forced into the opposite gender’s learning style.

Single-gender early education: Boys try art/music without teasing. Girls try science without self-consciousness.
Evidence already shows it works.

Parents/teachers: Do you see boys struggling more in today’s classrooms—or is this overblown?
What’s one change you’d make to education for boys right now?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The British Establishment has a simple rule:

The problem is never the problem. The problem is people who dare to point out the problem.

Grooming gangs, illegal immigration, terrorism, men in women's prisons, Net Zero.

Same playbook every time: "racist", "denier", "Nazi".

You'd think when you're calling a beloved children's author a Nazi, you'd maybe stop and pause. But no.

Another part of the rule is that no matter how right the "bad" people turn out to be, they remain tainted by having been right.

Feminists like JK Rowling were vilified for opposing puberty blockers being given to children. The government rowed back on the policy. But the women who spoke out against it are still considered bigots.

Grooming gangs turned out to be racist anti-white hate crimes. If this had been done by an invading army, it would be rightly treated as a war crime. But the people who covered it up and ignored it are still the "good" people and the people who complained about it are still the "bad" people.

The same is true of illegal immigration. Islamism. Net Zero.

And this is why the country is screwed. Because we live in a society where the golden rule is that you must tolerate the intolerable or you'll be made a pariah for caring about the safety of British women and girls, for wanting a cohesive society, for wanting a strong economy.

I've had enough of this and my sense is so have the British people. We won't keep quiet anymore. Call us all the names you want. It doesn't work anymore.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Big Tech is spending $700 BILLION on AI this year.

But their cash flow is collapsing. Amazon is going into debt. Google's free cash flow is dropping 90%.

And they're literally paying influencers $600,000 each to convince you AI is worth using.

If this technology was as revolutionary as they claim, why are they spending half a million dollars per creator to sell it?

Here's what's actually happening behind the scenes:

This week, all four tech giants reported earnings at once and every single one dropped a spending number that made Wall Street lose its mind.

Amazon: $200 billion in capex. The largest corporate capital expenditure in HISTORY. Stock dropped 9%.

Google: $185 billion. Wall Street expected $120 billion. Stock dropped 5%.

Meta: $135 billion. Double what they spent last year.

Microsoft: down 17% this year, worst performer in the group.

Combined 2026 AI infrastructure spend: almost $700 billion.

But here's where it gets ugly.

Amazon's free cash flow collapsed 71%. Morgan Stanley projects they'll burn through $17 billion in NEGATIVE free cash flow this year.

Bank of America says the deficit could hit $28 billion.

Amazon quietly filed with the SEC on Friday saying they might need to raise debt to keep building.

Google's free cash flow is projected to crater 90%, from $73 billion down to $8.2 billion.

They already did a $25 billion bond sale in November and their long-term debt QUADRUPLED last year.

These companies are spending everything they have, then borrowing more, then spending that too.

Now here's the part that got me thinking:

CNBC just reported that Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are paying influencers between $400,000 and $600,000 EACH to promote AI products on Instagram and YouTube.

AI platforms spent over $1 BILLION on digital ads in 2025, a 126% jump year-over-year.

Google and Microsoft's AI ad spending jumped 495% in January 2026 alone.

Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads.

OpenAI is flying creators to private events and covering all expenses.

When was the last time a truly revolutionary technology needed a $1 billion ad campaign and $600K influencer deals to get adoption?

Did the iPhone need influencer campaigns? Did Google Search need Super Bowl ads in 1998? Did email need a billion dollar marketing push?

No. People just used them because the value was obvious.

You know what DOES need massive paid promotions? Pharmaceutical drugs. Crypto exchanges. Online gambling apps. MLM companies.

Products where adoption is driven by hype, not utility.

And now, apparently, AI.

So the pitch from Big Tech is:

"This technology will eliminate your job. Also please use it. Here's $600K if you tell your followers it's cool."

They need HUMANS to sell a product they designed to REPLACE humans.

They need creators to promote a technology that will eventually make creators obsolete.

They need influencers to build trust in a system that will eliminate the need for influencer marketing entirely.

The question everyone should be asking:

If $700 billion per year in spending can't produce a product that sells itself, when exactly does this start making money?

Because right now the math is messed up.

$700 billion in spending, cash flow crashing, stocks tanking, SEC filings about raising more capital, and the best growth strategy they've got is paying tiktokers to demo features.

Either AI is about to deliver the greatest economic transformation in human history, or we're watching the most expensive corporate Hail Mary ever thrown.

And the fact that they need to pay half a million dollars per influencer to convince you it's the first one isn't a good sign.

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@frankdedomiseur Je combat cette ideologie a ma façon. Dans un recent sondage de StatCan pour notre entreprise de 250 employés, j'ai mis 100% de nos employés comme non-genrés! 😀 (Up yours!)

[Gloriane Blais @blais_gloriane]

Avec l'appui de son chef @PierrePoilievre, je suis très heureuse pour le Canada et surtout le futur des enfants Canadiens, que le député Conservateur @jamiljivani ami personnel du @VP JD Vance apporte son aide au gouvernement actuel, afin d'éviter que le show de boucane, la bévue, le trip d'ego de Mark Carney avec son discours irréaliste et destructeur à Davos ne viennent détruire le Canada pour toujours.
Merci à Président Donald J. Trump @POTUS de laisser une 2e chance au Canada, de laisser la porte ouverte à un futur gouvernement Conservateur du Canada.
❤🇨🇦❤

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@AnitaAnandMP What a fucking waste, all for showboating.

[Don Draper ☠️☠️ @Crackerdave]

@nacroix La vraie question sera: devenir anglophone ou Arabe?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

The European Commission once offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal. If 𝕏 quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine 𝕏.

The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.

This is the reason why they attack 𝕏.

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

Benedict Lust warned everyone about this over 100 years ago.

Long before COVID. Long before social media.

Lust, the father of naturopathy in America, warned that once medicine became centralized, individuals would lose their voice.
He warned that “public health” could be used to override consent.
He warned that questioning medical authority would be called dangerous. He warned that fear would be used to force compliance.