Joseph Mazzone

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Joseph Mazzone @jmazz_248]

@realEstateTrent @DailyREITBeat Go to Gene and Jude’s in River grove… do NOT ask for ketchup. They will kick you out

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

USA. A convenience store. We had not yet reached the drinks, and conversation was already arriving.

“What’s up?”

Unrequested. Casual. Dangerous.

I stopped the man. “Above me?”

He laughed. “It’s just a greeting, man.”

Just a GREETING. In my land, greetings arrive with clear borders. Good morning means morning. Thank you means gratitude. Excuse me means I am trying not to trouble your path. Here, a stranger asks about the condition of the sky before he even knows my name.

This is not small talk. This is a declaration: look up. Report.

I looked with the gravity the moment deserved.

Ceiling. Lights. Air conditioning. A small camera watching me become foreign in real time.

“Several things,” I said.

And then — I must report this calmly — he answered his own question.

“Not much.”

Not much. He requested a vertical survey, then dismissed the findings. The conversational discipline of this nation is beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. “Don’t actually answer, dude.”

Too late. I had accepted the question. Honor demanded accuracy — an incomplete ceiling report is an insult. By the time we reached the soda machine, I was a ruined man.

I was not relaxed. I was not normal. I had been defeated by a greeting.

A question that arrives before friendship cannot be ignored. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with “What’s up?” Just nod. Say “Not much.” Do not look at the ceiling.

Who am I deceiving. I look up every time. The ceiling has been summoned, and I intend to honor it.

[Chris Gawlik @TDChrisG]

Never gets old.

[Steve Shultz @elijahliststeve]

BREAKING: This nurse blows the lid off of the Covid Shot. Now you know what happened in the hospitals as Covid happened!!

Follow this account for more

[This Day in Chicago Sports @ChiSportsDay]

𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎

Kris Versteeg scores the GWG with 1:30 left to tie a critical Game 2 for the Blackhawks

Steeger came up huge in the 2010 Playoffs

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

It’s kinda insane that our racist grandpas and grandmas were just buying cars for a nickel and buying entire houses for $18,000 and now they act like they worked really hard to have money (not mine, mine are dead/still don’t have money). That “I worked hard” is mostly bullshit to me and keep in mind I don’t know what I’m talking about. And also don’t give me that adjusted “what $18k was back then compared to today” crock of shit, because it was still like 51k for a 4 bed/4 bath house. Income to home price ratios are horrendous now. They werent back then. Thanks Obama. Back in the 60’s everyone was inhaling dust at Pink Floyd concerts and shooting ropes everywhere and then the population skyrocketed too. And then there was less land and more demand because all these Woodstock babies showed up. Tougher to build places too because old people started making restrictions on where things could get built. This isn’t a complaint either, life is life and we just gotta ball through it and keep going to Miami and Croatia strictly on credit, because who cares. I’m just pointing out that I’m getting tired of some old people thinking they worked really hard or out worked us. You didn’t. I’d know, I have a podcast. You know who worked hard? Egyptian dudes. The ancient people building shit with pulley systems. Lifting up gigantic fuckin boulders and rocks with a rope that their wife had to spend 18 years sewing so it could withstand the pressure of a pulley/axel system and also a 3,000 pound rock. All that shit just to build a pyramid to bury a 26 year old Asian dude with a crown on that was the king of the land because he was the first one to have 6 pack abs. What the fuck am I talking about bye

[This Day in Chicago Sports @ChiSportsDay]

𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎 | 🤯

Patrick Kane ties it shorthanded with 13.6 left, then Marian Hossa wins it in OT!

What an unbelievable game.

[Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn]

Not sure I've ever seen a full circle of dudes celebrating in the penalty box lmao

[This Day in Chicago Sports @ChiSportsDay]

𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟗, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒

Brent Seabrook crushes David Backes.

'Wakey Wakey, Backes' comes about

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

The stuff of nightmares…

🚨Hillary Clinton was asked recently about a certain “Insurance File” that was discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop named “FrazzleDrip” and she covers her face in absolute Panic.

This “Insurance File” is believed to include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aide Huma Abedin (Weiner's then-estranged wife) engaging in a satanic ritual of a young girl, f*lleting her face off while she was alive.

• Remember — Sidney Powell said Anthony Wiener’s Laptop would bring down the entire government. — “NYPD officers saw some of it and literally had to go throw up.”

Many of them ended up committing “suicide”.

• There are 3 Q drops that directly relate to this… in 2018 Q shared there was a Raw Video regarded as an “Insurance File” linked to HRC (Hillary Rodman Clinton), that would put the nail in many coffins.

• This also ties into the 2016 election — Remember— Why did Comey came out a week before the election in 2016?

Because of #WeinerGate & the sexting Scandal, the NYPD began investigating it through a subpoena via warrant…. They Found:

• Torture videos
• 650,000 emails, including state department emails & classified information
• Money laundering
• Underage Sex Slaves & Crimes
• Pay for Play
• Criminal activity of Hillary, her immediate circle, & other democratic members of Congress
• The Clinton’s visited the Epstein sex island (Bill went + 20 times & Hillary at least 6 times)

Hillary Clinton
https://t.co/1pCdlreS4q
Sidney Clip
https://t.co/9SiQXKgi1N
NYPD saw the Laptop
https://t.co/T3TmhiOXvR

[Şirin Baba @smurfypappa]

Ben bir şey fark ettim. Çin'in müttefiklerine bakın.

Rusya yaptırım altında. Ukrayna ile savaş halinde.

İran bombalanıyor. Lideri öldürüldü. Hürmüz krizi devam ediyor.

Venezuela'da Maduro yakalandı. Petrolü ABD kontrolüne geçti.

Kuşak Yol Projesi İran üzerinden geçiyordu. O hat şu an bombalanıyor.

Çin'in enerji kaynaklarının %20'si İran ve Venezuela'dan geliyordu. İkisi de devre dışı.

Çin'in BRICS ortakları baskı altında.

Çin'in ticaret yolları kesiliyor.

Çin'in enerji hatları kesiliyor.

Çin'in müttefikleri teker teker zayıflıyor.

Ama Çin'e doğrudan dokunulmadı. Savaş yok. Bomba yok. Sadece tarife.

Bu tablo size bir şey hatırlatıyor mu?

Anlatıyorum.

1941. İkinci Dünya Savaşı'nın hemen öncesi.

Japonya yükseliyordu. Asya'da güçleniyordu. ABD için tehdit oluşturuyordu.

ABD ne yaptı?

Japonya'ya doğrudan saldırmadı.

Önce müttefiklerini ve kaynaklarını kesti.

Temmuz 1941'de ABD Japonya'ya petrol ihracatını yasakladı. Japonya petrolünün %80'inden fazlasını ABD'den alıyordu. Bir gecede ana enerji kaynağı kesildi.

Aynı anda İngiltere ve Hollanda da Japonya'ya petrol satışını durdurdu. ABD'nin baskısıyla.

Japonya'nın Güneydoğu Asya'daki ticaret yollarına baskı uygulandı.

Japonya'nın müttefikleri izole edildi.

Sonuç: Japonya'nın ordusunda 12 aylık, donanmasında 18 aylık yakıt kaldı.

Japonya iki seçenekle karşı karşıya kaldı.

Ya geri çekil, tüm işgal ettiğin topraklardan çık, ABD'nin şartlarını kabul et.

Ya da savaş.

Japonya savaşı seçti. Pearl Harbor'a saldırdı. Aralık 1941.

Ama dikkat edin. ABD Japonya'ya ilk bombayı atmadı. Önce enerji hattını kesti. Müttefiklerini baskı altına aldı. Ticaret yollarını kapattı. Japonya'yı köşeye sıkıştırdı.

Japonya köşeye sıkışınca savaş kaçınılmaz oldu.

Şimdi bugüne bakın.

Çin'in enerji hatlarına ne oluyor?

Venezuela hattı kesildi. Maduro yakalandı. Günde 800 bin varil petrol Çin'e gidiyordu. O hat kapandı.

İran hattı kesildi. Savaş başladı. Günde 1.5 milyon varil Çin'e gidiyordu. Hürmüz krizi devam ediyor.

Rusya hattı baskı altında. Yaptırımlar sıkılaştırılıyor.

Çin tükettiği petrolün %73'ünü ithal ediyor. Kendi üretimi yetmiyor.

Dünyanın en büyük motoru enerji ithal etmek zorunda. O enerjinin geldiği hatlar teker teker kesiliyor.

Çin'in ticaret yollarına ne oluyor?

Kuşak Yol Projesi'nin Ortadoğu ayağı İran üzerinden geçiyordu. Pekin'den Avrupa'ya uzanan kara ticaret ağının kritik bağlantı noktası İran'dı.

O bağlantı noktası şu an savaş bölgesi.

Demiryolları, boru hatları, liman bağlantıları. Hepsi risk altında.

Çin'in müttefiklerine ne oluyor?

Rusya Ukrayna'da savaşıyor. Kaynakları eriyor. Batı yaptırımları devam ediyor.

İran bombalanıyor. Altyapısı zarar görüyor. Ekonomisi baskı altında.

Venezuela ABD kontrolünde. Maduro tutuklu. Petrol artık ABD'nin.

Pakistan arabulucu rolünde ama hareket alanı sınırlı.

Kuzey Kore izole.

Çin'in yakın müttefiklerinin tamamı aynı anda baskı altında.

Ama Çin'e dokunulmadı.

Doğrudan savaş yok. Bomba yok. İşgal yok.

Sadece %145 tarife.

Şöyle düşünün.

Bir ağacı kesmek istiyorsunuz. Ama ağaç çok büyük. Doğrudan kesemezsiniz.

Ne yaparsınız?

Önce dallarını budarsınız. Köklerine su gitmesin diye etrafını kazarsınız. Güneş almasın diye çevresini kapatırsınız.

Ağaç hala ayakta durur. Ama her gün biraz daha zayıflar.

Dallar: Müttefikler. Rusya, İran, Venezuela. Teker teker budanıyor.

Kökler: Enerji hatları. Venezuela, İran, Hürmüz. Teker teker kesiliyor.

Güneş: Ticaret yolları. Kuşak Yol, Hürmüz geçişi. Teker teker kapatılıyor.

Ağaç hala ayakta. Çin hala dünyanın ikinci büyük ekonomisi. Hala üretim devi. Hala güçlü.

Ama dalları budanıyor. Kökleri kuruyor. Etrafı kapatılıyor.

1941'de ABD Japonya'ya aynı şeyi yaptı. Önce petrolü kesti. Sonra müttefiklerini baskıladı. Sonra ticaret yollarını kapattı.

Japonya köşeye sıkışınca saldırdı. Pearl Harbor.

Çin köşeye sıkışırsa ne yapar?

Japonya gibi saldırır mı?

Yoksa sabreder mi?

Çin'in Japonya'dan bir farkı var. Çin tarihten ders çıkarıyor.

Japonya 1941'de sabırsızdı. Saldırdı. Kaybetti.

Çin 2026'da sabırlı. Savaşmıyor. İnşa ediyor. Yuan'ı yayıyor. Altın biriktiriyor. Hürmüz'de yuan ile ticaret yapıyor. Afrika'da altyapı kuruyor. mBridge ile dolar alternatifi oluşturuyor.

ABD dalları budarken Çin yeni kökler salıyor.

Soru şu: ABD dalları Çin'in yeni kök salma hızından daha hızlı budayabilir mi?

Eğer evet: Çin zayıflar. ABD hegemonyası devam eder.

Eğer hayır: Çin dayanır. ABD yorulur. Ve güç dengesi değişir.

1941'de Japonya 18 aylık yakıtı vardı. Sabredemedi.

2026'da Çin'in ne kadar sabrı var?

Bu sorunun cevabı önümüzdeki dönemi belirleyecek.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

This should be headline news EVERYWHERE.

A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected.

He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine.

This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany.

So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere?

Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔

[🇺🇲 Patriot For the Love of God❣️ @tctiptop]

@JoshHall2024 President Trump loves America. They don't! 👇

[Craig Brockie @CraigBrockie]

America’s richest man built the healthcare system to keep you sick.

He turned healing into a money-making machine, burying natural medicine along the way.

This man is John D. Rockefeller.

Here’s the dark story of how he did it:

[Jordan Schmaltz @J_Swish24]

“Deserve” is such a funny word. USA didn’t deserve to win. Canada deserved better. I didn’t deserve to get cheated on by my ex wife. I deserved to play in the NHL longer. Deserve is such an entitled word stroked by the ego for those who feel sorry for themselves and can’t face the music of harsh truth or reality. Last time I checked, life isn’t fair. Sports aren’t fair. And shit happens. What a rueful way to go about your life. Looking at your own chin in the mirror can be scary for most. And last time I checked a goalie is still a massive piece of a hockey team. Dont take the shine away from what us Americans should be happy about today. “Deserved” lol.

-Swish, the moral compass of this app

[think like a real estate appraiser @ThinkAppraiser]

I wanna go back to the 1960s and 1970s and see what life was like

Who else wants to do the same?

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

-Yes, Trump knew Epstein. He admitted it himself.

-The photos of them together are from before 2003.

-In 2004 Trump not only barred Epstein from Mar-a-lago estate, he also placed a bid on property (and won) in Palm Beach that Epstein was looking to purchase.

-In 2005 Trump revealed Epstein secrets to PBSCO investigation.

-In 2006, two of Epstein’s victims confirmed they knew Trump had barred Epstein from his estate in mar-a-lago.

-In 2009 Bradley Edwards (Prosecutor on the Epstein case) made a public statement that Trump was the only individual who helped in the prosecutions against Epstein.

-Per victim testimonies on the newly released Epstein/Maxwell documents reveal that Trump was not seen on Epstein’s island or anywhere with Epstein.

-The newly released documents show that the FBI withheld victim evidence in 2009 and in 2014.

-Who was the President in 2009 and 2014?-Obama.

-Who was the FBI director in 2009?-Mueller

-Who was the FBI director in 2014?-Comey

-Who led the Russia Collusion Hoax against Trump?-Mueller and Comey.

-Who was Muellers key witness during the Russian Collusion?-George Nadler

-Who was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for Pedophilia/Dozens of imagines and footage of children being sexually abused?-George Nadler

-Who was the Secretary of State under Obama?-Clinton

-Who did Epstein’s victims list on the pedo island?-Clinton

-Who funded the Russian Dossier?-Clinton

-Who fired Comey in 2017?-Trump

-Who praised Weinstein for being a great human being in 2013?-Obama

-Who was Obama’s VP?-Biden

-Who is running for President against Trump?-Biden

-Who received campaign donations from Epstein’s law firm?-Kamala

-Who is Biden’s VP?-Kamala

Research and educate yourself because if you vote for Biden, the victims of Epstein will never see justice for what they have endured.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Jim Simons
>born 1938 in Brookline, Massachusetts
>shark eyes, warm smile, galaxy brain
>age 3, realize numbers double infinitely
>age 4, obsessed with Zeno's paradox
>parents: "what is wrong with this kid"

1950s:
>MIT at 17
>graduate in 3 years
>too easy
>Berkeley PhD in 2 years
>thesis is 20 pages
>advisor doesn't know if it's genius or insane

1964:
>join the NSA
>job: crack Soviet codes
>coldest war, hardest puzzles
>you're very good at this

1967:
>write a letter to the New York Times
>call Vietnam "a stupid war"
>NSA: "you can't do that"
>you: "just did"
>fired immediately

1968:
>become math professor at Stony Brook
>age 30, youngest department chair ever
>do actual math
>invent Chern-Simons theory
>physicists use it for decades
>you treat it like a footnote

1978:
>get bored of academia
>everyone says markets are random
>you: "what if that's bullshit"
>start trading with math

1982:
>found Renaissance Technologies
>strip mall office in Long Island
>no suits, no MBAs
>hire physicists, astronomers, codebreakers
>Wall Street experience? disqualifying

1988:
>launch Medallion Fund
>close it to outsiders almost immediately
>only employees can invest
>this matters

the method:
>find patterns humans can't see
>trade thousands of times a day
>tiny edge × massive volume × time = infinite money
>nobody knows exactly how
>employees sign insane NDAs
>secrets go to the grave

the returns:
>66% annually before fees
>39% after fees
>for 30+ years
>not a single losing year
>2008 financial crisis: +82.4%
>best track record in history
>better than Buffett, Soros, everyone
>not even close

the money:
>net worth hits $31 billion
>all from math
>no oil, no inheritance
>just patterns in the noise

tragedy:
>son Paul died in 1996 bicycle accident
>son Nicholas drowns in 2003
>two sons gone
>pour billions into autism research, math education, basic science

May 2024:
>die at 86
>never wrote a memoir
>never explained how Medallion works
>never needed credit

the codebreaker who cracked the market.

66% a year.
30 years.

the greatest investor who ever lived
and nobody knows how he did it.