Greg Wilson

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[Desirée Townsend @Cheering4Change]

Senator Mitch McConnell has now been hospitalized for three weeks. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated, especially given that his wife, Elaine Chao, appeared in China just days after his hospitalization to meet with high-ranking Chinese officials. The question now is about national security: if Senator McConnell has been unable to independently perform his duties, what safeguards exist to ensure classified intelligence briefings, defense appropriations information, or other sensitive congressional matters could not be accessed, discussed, or shared by individuals operating behind the scenes? And given the timing of Chao’s meeting with China’s vice president, what exactly was discussed?

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

Wow! Great article everyone should read.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Jennifer Arcuri @Jenniferarcuri]

Conspiracy theorists right now 🥂

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

Extremely interesting post. I checked this with Grok and it is mostly accurate with the exception about the PG donating 1.7 million to AHA. Instead they sponsored shows that got listeners to donate 1.7 million. Not sure which is worse. But still the conflict of interest is real.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded.

1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material.

The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color.

The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911.

Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better.

The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard.

But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil.

1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice.

Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison."

1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge.

Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent.

Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds.

These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels.

But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start.

Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history.

We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease.

The soap company won. Your health lost.

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@DrewLMG @barstoolsports It appears to be directly above the upright. I thought it had to be between the uprights to be good.

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

Let’s do the math and see if the reported revenue numbers are consistent with a 40% drop in consumption.
Reported numbers
• Tax increase: +$2.00 per pack (effective July 1, 2025)
• Old state tax: ≈ $0.9995 per pack → new state tax ≈ $2.9995 per pack
• For simplicity, treat it as “old tax ≈ $1” and “new tax ≈ $3” (the difference is tiny and doesn’t materially change the conclusion).
Revenue comparison (July–October):
• 2024 (old tax): $68 million
• 2025 (new tax): $188 million
Step-by-step calculation
Let P = number of taxed packs sold in July–Oct 2024
Let Q = number of taxed packs sold in July–Oct 2025
2024 revenue:
P × $1 ≈ $68 million → P ≈ 68 million packs
2025 revenue (two components):
1. The old $1 tax on the remaining packs: Q × $1
2. The new $2 additional tax on the remaining packs: Q × $2
Total 2025 revenue ≈ Q × $1 + Q × $2 = Q × $3 = $188 million
→ Q ≈ 188 / 3 ≈ 62.67 million packs
Consumption drop:
(P – Q) / P = (68 – 62.67) / 68 ≈ 5.33 / 68 ≈ 7.8% drop in taxed packs sold
That is nowhere close to the 40% drop the Indiana Department of Health reported.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨

This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.

Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn't new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.

But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."

They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, "international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces," and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.

At what point does this become treason?

As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
👇

[Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll]

Well look at that - truly bi-partisan media spook suspicion

https://t.co/mKT6n5Hmux

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 02:06 PM EST 09/13/25

"Message for President Trump"

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@HicksCBER Those of us who graduated from Purdue are not surprised

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

But on the plus side, they cook themselves 😂

[IndyStar @indystar]

FDA warns of radioactive contamination in some frozen shrimp sold at Walmart https://t.co/VTxdSYXw6L

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@HicksCBER She’s been doing a lousy job for over 4 years. She had to reduce the number of jobs the next month in almost every report in 2024. The only question is whether she was incompetent or following orders. She should have been fired on Jan 20.

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@ClubAiworld There are female pronouns usually used to describe women. i.e. she hers

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@RealEJAntoni Most companies would rather reduce profit margins than market share. At least in the short term. There are lots of ways to increase profit margins but increasing market share is much harder.

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@HicksCBER What goes into your effective tax rate?

[Ted Nugent @TedNugent]

Precious

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@Funnyworld840 I know a good golf course

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@RoleighMartin I’m old enough to remember when my girlfriend’s father paid $400 for the most basic one that just added, substracted, multiplied , and divided.

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

Interesting and worth thinking about. I’m not sure if it would do as much for car prices as he thinks. However I do know that big pharma keeps patents going much longer than 20 years by making minor changes to the drugs. To be fair they don’t get the full 20 years at first because of the time required for government approvals.

[Roleigh Martin @RoleighMartin]

Many big MAGA influencers are unaware of the total (not partial) control of Congress by lobbyists!
https://t.co/GgqwSBKp9O

Some think outlier legislators exist in Congress who are not controlled. The truth is that these outlier Representatives or Senators are duped, unaware they’re controlled.

The proof is simple. These legislators all swore to uphold the US Constitution where the public could freely benefit from expired patents as our Founding Fathers intended when they penned Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution—to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by granting inventors exclusive rights for a limited time, after which their creations would enrich society at large.

Many of these legislators should have childhood memories (or historical knowledge) of how cheap electronic calculators became once their 20-year utility patents expired. For sure, lobbyists took notice. They successfully got enacted since the 1970s a web of modern regulations, often dressed up as "beneficial and protective," that prevent us from enjoying expired patents in automotives, housing, trailers and RVs.

We should see in every large town a car dealer offering newly made cars of all patent-expired components for about $10K to $12K but such are not available because of these prohibitive laws/rules. AI shows the cost of living is nearly double what it should be. The exact laws are detailed in this X Article.

Yet, is there even one Representative or Senator speaking about this? Nope!

The Hidden War against Expired Patents is so successful it took an outlier retired system analyst using AI in X’s largest DOGE-related community, the DOGE/MAGA/MAHA Amplified! To discover and report on this scam.

Grok estimates the financial taking from consumers over the many decades is around 11 Trillion $! No other financial scandal comes close to this! The USAID discovery is pennies compared to this! But why the silence?

This proves that lobbyists are able to control the entire Congress without one exception!

They are either all sold-out or duped. It’s probably a mixture of the two. Whether crooked or stupid, what’s the difference? The average citizen has to earn twice as much money because of this!

Help me bring this awareness to a larger audience. Obviously, nobody in Congress is talking about the war against expired patents. Neither are large influencers on X are except for this community.

Most of us in America need MALA – Make American Living Affordable! Grok notes that a comfortable income for a single adult who does not own a home range from $78,790 in West Virginia to $116,022 in Massachusetts with $89,461 as the median. Owning a home makes life even more expensive. A comfortable income for a single adult owning a home is $15,000 to $20,000 higher in Kentucky (lower range) and $25,000 to $30,000 higher in Massachusetts (upper range) compared to a non-homeowner, with a median difference of $20,000 to $25,000 across states.

Contrast the above monetary needs with one’s annual income! The national median annual individual income in May 2025 is approximately $43,000 nationwide, with West Virginia having the lowest at $30,500 and Massachusetts the highest at $55,000.

How does an outlier-writer in history get the society around him or her to see things differently and cause significant improvement in society?

History shows that hard science-fiction has been most effective in the past. Hard Science-fiction conveys a future that is based on science and logic and could really happen. Fantasy science-fiction, in contrast, never gets beyond being a fantasy. Hard science-fiction portrayed the downfall of the Soviet Union before non-fiction did. Hard science-fiction envisaged the 9-11 terrorist event before non-fiction did.

This recent X Article of mine, a science-fiction novel, puts President Trump in the historical vein of US Presidents (such as Lincoln or FDR) who declared a national emergency and in an Executive Order takes dramatic action.

Then Trump would be able under those powers to enact massive deregulation and without the hindrance of lower courts. I got Grok and Claude Sonnet AI engines to help with the text and images. Grok fed me prompts to give to Claude Sonnet.

This X Article delivers this whole science fiction future reality but it states that for it to become real and affect us in our own lives, that we need between 850 and 900 readers to communicate to the White House to read this X Article. How to do this is laid out in the Article. The link to communicate to the White House is also given. Old fashioned letters get the most attention. I’ve written about this before.

The idea that physical letters get "more attention" isn’t codified in law but reflects practical dynamics: lower volume, formal processing, and human perception of effort. If your goal is impact, a physical letter could indeed have an edge in being noticed, though it’s still subject to the same staff screening as emails.

I’m going to be 100% disappointed in this community if we don’t get at least 900 letters or messages generated to the White House about this. Who wants their cost of living to be double what it should be?

Last, X has promoted my account and I now have a subscribe button on my profile page. I’ll be hosting space events for subscribers.

It would be fun to talk to some of you all and know what’s more important to you: MALA (Make American Living Affordable) or DOGE?

To me, if we focus on MALA and cut the size of government massively, that reduces the scope of DOGE and hopefully we can once again, reduce the debt, last done by Congress in 1957 (per the US Fiscal Treasury history dataset on the debt). But as the science fiction article here explains, for MALA to be amplified into Law, Congress has to revert to pre-1970 operations.

[Greg Wilson @gre60716]

@JamesEBriggs Never believe anything from NBC news unless you verify it with a separate credible source. Remember Dateline in 1992 rigged a GM pickup truck with remote control explosives to show the truck was unsafe. That was the last time I believed anything from nbc news.