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@HawleyMO @HawleyMO How many Senate pro forma sessions have you gaveled in to prevent President Trump from appointments? Sounds a bit like back stabbing.

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@WyzeCam Fun commercial! Excellent meme and follow up by Wyze with the product placement👀

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@darren_stallcup Genesis 22:12 - Trust in God in all things, commit to His ways.

[Jay Dias @JayDi08396708]

@FinalTelegraph Democratic leader like Obama and Clinton have implemented Alinsky’s playbook to destroy America

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it.

The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts.

But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build.

272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market.

The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills.

The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction.

And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them.

The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price.

That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third.

And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth.

That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral.

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@0hour1 Anecdotally, pot turned some of my normal relatives into basement dwellers. Not a fan.

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@dignityact Absolutely not! @dignityact should never be brought up for a vote. There is a process to becoming an American citizen now. Have the illegal immigrants return to their own countries and apply for citizenship the legal way.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Pretty much all media and political commentary regarding the Iranian mullahs leaves out the very important fact that they are all “Twelver Shias” and deeply devoted to the idea that someone known as the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom, Iran to precipitate the Apocalypse and convert the entire world (what is left of it) to Islam.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the mullahs’ likely purpose in trying to obtain nuclear weapons was to use them aggressively in order to precipitate the Twelfth Imam’s appearance, starting with the Great Satan and the Little Satan as their targets.

This was not like North Korea getting nukes, which, despite how crazy that country is, was an act of rational self-preservation for a diabolical regime. Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons for rational reasons.

Everything about Trump’s actions must be understood in this context.

It is quite possible that Donald Trump just saved humanity.

(Scoff all you want, but before you scoff, study up on the Twelver mullahs and the fanatical nature of their beliefs.)

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@FalkTG My uncle served the US Army and died at Anzio in WW2 . His sacrifice for a free Europe feels in vain. Few shared values exist anymore between the US and Europe

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@CynicalPublius Easter sunrise - and the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus

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@Devon_Eriksen_ Some Southerners pronounce their drink as a 'co-cola'

[Gummi @gummibear737]

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem).

This has been explained over and over since day one.

Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying.

The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea.

During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul.

Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it

Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb.

The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability.

So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult

Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world.

Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage.

Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions.

This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

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@SenateGOP No one believes you, @SenateGOP. You don't seem to work for the American people, just yourselves. Booooo!

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@LeaderJohnThune You seem to answer to corporate lobbyists, and not to your constituents and most importantly, the American people, @LeaderJohnThune

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Rethinking ever visiting San Francisco again. Tourists are not safe.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

SF Judge Linda Colfax let Grandpa Vicha's killer walk free yesterday and said imprisonment would have a "poor impact" on him.

Her term runs to 2029. California law allows a recall. It's time to organized.

https://t.co/4cAKLqt0m0

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@Timodc When you quote the @nytimes as your source, the ‘information’ is always 100% baloney. This is a ridiculous and untruthful story, @Timodc .

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

G. K. Chesterton explains that reading gives a man more lives than he was born with:

“A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never visited, spoken to men who died centuries ago, and walked in worlds that no longer exist. Reading does not merely inform him; it enlarges him. It stretches the boundaries of his own experience until he becomes something more than himself.”

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@LeaderJohnThune From @DataRepublican - "YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy."

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@athenaeumbc Updated # 1 for today’s writers - stay off screens.