Ricky Martin

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Actually, obligatory:

Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit.

The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.”

The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit.

The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.”

The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing."

"That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!"

[Robert ₿reedlove @Breedlove22]

Iran is one of the few central banks that is not owned by the same people who own The Federal Reserve (FR) and The Bank of Israel (BOI). Let us call the owners the FR and the BOI the Western Central Banking Cartel.

In truth, both the United States and Israel are simply "front organizations" for the Western Central Banking Cartel. Both the US and Israel are used in the same way mafias use front organizations to conceal criminal activities, facilitate bribery or corruption, and to maintain a cover for illicit meetings or logistics.

As it turns out, the fabricated feud between @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk was yet another puppet-show to distract you from military aggression of The Western Banking Cartel against the shareholders of The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. If you follow the money rather than the media, you will soon discover who the puppets and the puppet-masters are.

As I've been saying for years, all fiat politicians (including Trump and Musk) are puppets. In other words: fiat politics is the entertainment division of the Western Central Banking Cartel. The puppet-masters are the undisclosed shareholders of the Western Central Banking Cartel. Those who fail to see the geopolitical landscape at this depth have mistaken the front organizations for the mafia bosses.

Follow the money to find the truth. The only way to vote against World War III is to trade your fiat currency for #Bitcoin.

https://t.co/mQJy5vABBJ

[Robert ₿reedlove @Breedlove22]

“What is Money?” will be regarded as the defining question of our time in history.

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

How every game of RISK ends

[Ricky Martin @Martyshlacks]

@LynAldenContact RAV4 easy

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

USAID (and State) funneled nearly half a billion dollars through this building which is at "876 7th St Arcata, CA 95521-6358". The IRS and IN government contracts list this address as the current registered address for IN although it was clearly abandoned by December 2024. Shot taken four months ago.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at https://t.co/Zp7SvobICU. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

We all knew it was happening but now we have hard proof: the US Federal government has been stealing your money via taxes and debt expansion and using it to destroy the country.

Treason of the highest level. There should be a tax holiday in 2025 and serious conversations about shutting down the IRS.

The amount of pain and suffering people have had to endure over the last few decades while getting lambasted by snobby bureaucrats who were lining their pockets while telling everyone they were "spreading democracy and freedom" is incalculable.

The greatest heist in human history. Pure evil.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The very definition of a dictatorship (either brands of commni-fascism) is the control and manipulation of the media of the people that elect people to power.

There is never a good reason of “an ends justifies the means” lies to a democratic republic.

There is no excuse…

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

From Pundit Claude:

"Society Has Gone Horribly Wrong!"

Oh, you think you're living in a functioning civilization? That's adorable. Take a good, long look at your neighbor's immaculate lawn – that rectangularly manicured patch of ecological devastation that serves no purpose except to broadcast "I have enough disposable income to waste water and time on this useless status symbol." It's the perfect metaphor for our collective descent into manufactured meaninglessness.

Let's talk about your job – that soul-crushing daily ritual where you trade your finite existence for digital numbers in a bank account. You sit in your ergonomically optimized chair, in your temperature-controlled prison cell (sorry, "open office"), pretending that manipulating spreadsheets and attending meetings about meetings represents anything remotely resembling actual human achievement. The best part? You're probably reading this during a bathroom break, the only moment of genuine solitude in your carefully scheduled performance of corporate theatrics.

Here's a fun fact: while you're busy optimizing your LinkedIn profile, actual human relationships have become so rare that friendship itself is now a luxury good. Remember when people used to have real conversations? Now we communicate in emojis and reaction GIFs, pretending that pressing a heart icon somehow equates to genuine human connection. We've created a world where "social" media has made authentic social interaction obsolete – a masterpiece of algorithmic alienation that would make any dystopian novelist blush with envy.

Don't even get me started on what we call "education." We've perfected a system that transforms curious, creative children into debt-laden corporate drones with remarkable efficiency. Congratulations, Class of 2024 – you've earned the privilege of spending the next 30 years paying off a degree that was outdated before you even received it. But hey, at least you learned how to craft the perfect PowerPoint presentation.

And our relationship with food? Simply magnificent in its perversity. We've managed to create a population that's simultaneously morbidly obese and malnourished, who can't identify a raw vegetable but can recite fast-food jingles from memory. We're literally killing ourselves with processed poison, but it's fine because it comes in recyclable packaging with a "green initiative" sticker.

The true masterpiece of our decline isn't just that we've created this hollow simulation of civilization – it's that we've convinced ourselves it's normal. We're like lab rats who've learned to press the lever for artificial sweetener while our muscles atrophy. The difference is that we installed the lever ourselves and called it innovation.

Want to know the most delicious joke of all? The people reading this article – nodding along with smug satisfaction – are the same ones who tomorrow will return to their standing desks, sip their ethically sourced coffee (harvested by workers they prefer not to think about), and continue participating in the very systems they claim to despise. Including me, writing this piece for a magazine that will be read primarily on devices manufactured by child labor before being forgotten in the endless scroll of digital content.

You want to know how thoroughly we've destroyed society? Consider that we've reached a point where even our criticism of the system has become a commodity – neatly packaged think pieces that provide just enough catharsis to keep us complacent without inspiring actual change. This article itself is part of the problem, a performative display of awareness that changes nothing.

So go ahead, share this on your social media. Add a thoughtful comment about how "this really makes you think." Then go back to your productivity apps, your food delivery services, your streaming entertainment. After all, the lawn isn't going to mow itself, and those student loans won't pay themselves. And remember: it's not that society has gone wrong – it's that we've redefined "wrong" as the new normal and called it progress.

Sweet dreams, fellow participants in the terminal stage of human civilization. Don't forget to like and subscribe.

[Andrew Torba @BasedTorba]

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[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

One way to break the heart of incredible artists is to rip away at the foundation of the idealism that is inherent in art.

To be sure that the most debased is held up so the artists mind and heart is devalued.

What is held up, is a wastebasket item.

SOLD to the high bidder.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Every successful revolution must face the big question.

"What now?"

When you achieve victory, when you seize power, what do you do with it? The way to answer that question is to return to your first principles... why did you rebel in the first place?

To "make America great again".

Well, why did America stop being great?

Infiltration of the apparatus of power by socialists.

Socialism is, and always has been, a scheme for rule by intellectuals. The working class stuff was only ever window dressing... a set of campaign promises made by socialist intellectuals to people with jobs.

"If you let us have total political and economic power over your entire nation, we will manage everything very smartly with our big smart-person brains, and make sure everything is great, with sunshine and rainbows."

But twenty-first century socialism developed a huge problem.

Capitalism started delivering on stuff that socialism only promised.

By the mid twentieth century, just after the war, it was easily possible for a young man to get married in his early twenties, purchase a home on a single working class income, and support his wife while she looked after the children.

That home and that life may have been modest by today's standards, but it was respectable, and men could feel pride in it, and advancing technology was making things cheaper and better all the time.

You can't get young men to fight a system that respects them and rewards their work.

And if socialism had really ever been about the working class, that would have been that. The working class is on a path to a stable, secure, happy existence.

Pack it in. Close the offices. We're done. Mission accomplished.

But socialism wasn't about fair treatment for the working class, it was about power for intellectuals.

So a new way had to found.

If capitalism was working too well for the working class, it had to be sabotaged. Choked with regulations. Taxed out of prosperity. Outsourced to China.

And a new underclass had to be found and imported.

And all of this had to be done without an actual wellspring of popular support.

So socialists set out to infiltrate the critical structures of society, and implement control without consensus.

The universities, so that the young could be indoctrinated into a future socialist consensus.

The press, so that the illusion of popular support for a socialist consensus could be created where none actually existed.

The federal and state bureaucracies, so that the law could be controlled and weaponized without the need for consensus, and so that third-world populations could be imported who were dependent in, and supportive of, socialism.

The trade unions and professional organizations, so that industries critical to the health and welfare of Americans and the economy could be sabotaged.

The election infrastructure, so that fake votes for socialist candidates could be ginned up.

This is how we got to where we are now.

We almost lost the republic.

During the years since 2008, socialist infiltration has done incalculable harm not only to America, but to the lives of individual Americans, some of irreversible.

Mitigating this damage, and seeking restorative justice — for example going after processed food companies like we went after tobacco companies, dismantling DEI and disparate impact policies, etc — is certainly on the agenda, but the highest priority must be reserved for removing socialist apparatchiks from the institutions they have infiltrated.

Why? Because the Trump administration has four years to do it.

If this work is not completed in four years, we risk subversion at the election level again.

If it is completed, at least to a large degree, then other projects can be allowed to take as long as necessary, because succeeding administrations will be elected according to the informed will of the American people, and will therefore be pro-capitalism, and pro-America.

So, what to do?

Federal bureaucracies must be cleansed. A large number of them, such as the Department of Education and the ATF, can simply be eliminated, because they serve no purpose at all.

Others can be purged under the auspices of DOGE.

DOGE itself can be set up as a sort of super-predator... a government agency that preys on government agencies instead of on citizens.

One of the best ways to implement this would be to set up hotlines, allowing the ordinary citizens to summon the DOGE when a federal agency does something ridiculously inefficient, grossly tyrannical, or simply silly.

Just as federal bureaucracies have gained power and budget by preying on people, and extending their influence into every aspect of life, the DOGE must be given the ability to discipline federal agencies, and incentivized to do so.

Appeals against a bureaucratic agency should, for example, no longer be handled by the agency itself (a clear conflict of interest), but by DOGE.

Eventually, fear of DOGE would keep agencies self-policing.

This could inspire states to set up their own equivalents where necessary.

The press must be brought in line. Since the press are a private organizations, and are constitutionally defended from interference, the solution here is not direct attack, but bolstering the competition.

X has been very effective at crowdsourcing the news, empowering legions of amateur sleuths, bloggers, and podcasters to counter the false narratives of the mainstream press.

Enhancing X and allowing it to feed (instead of censor) other monetization platforms), would allow this alternative press to earn more and expand their operations.

In addition, the mainstream press can be cut out of the loop... denied all direct access to the administration. Kick them out of the White House Press Corps and replace them with prominent internet dudes.

Want to get a message out to the American people? Go on Joe Rogan's show instead of NBC.

Force the New York Times and others of its ilk to become a secondary source, "reporting" on what they saw on Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson.

There is no need to declare war on the traditional press... just support the legions of new internet media and commentators, because we are ready and waiting to eat their lunch.

Which would you rather read? A Devon Eriksen article, or a New York Times Op-Ed?

Thought so.

Now think what I could do with a research staff, and an investigative reporter or two.

The universities must be de-Marxified.

This need not be done through direct regulation. In fact, it's better if it isn't. Direct government action against universities would allow socialists to propagandize, crying about anti-intellectualism and Nazi book-burning, and generally rolling around on the ground and writhing in feigned agony, like a poncy European kickball player trying to draw the penalty card.

Instead, go after the universities' Unlimited Money Machine.... the federal Stafford loan program.

Since these loans are need-based, they allow universities to raise their fees without upper limit, and manipulate naive teenagers just out of college into spending vast sums of money they simply do not have, and will not be able to repay.

This is especially true since universities manipulate these kids into choosing stupid majors which will not pay off.

And since student loan debt is inescapable even through bankruptcy.

So this program in particular is ripe for attack. You are not "punishing universities". You are defending young people from debt slavery.

That's how sell the changes. Then you privatize the whole program.

If private banks are going to be shouldering the risk of student loans which are treated like any other loan, you can be sure they will not rubber stamp any amount for any major.

They will loan students what they think students can repay.

Smart kid? Good highschool grades? High SAT score? Wanna study computer science? Sure, kid, have fifty thousand dollars. Maybe even one hundred. But not two hundred fifty, that's ridiculous.

DEI admission? Women studies? Nah, kid, can't touch it. Sorry.

What this does is it subjects universities to market forces.

No longer can they endlessly subsidize stupid departments full of non-useful experts in dumb fields. No longer can they afford legions of silly administrative posts.

They have to show a profit. So they must direct resources at departments which do. Departments which those student loan banks are willing to invest in.

This starves the Marxist Ideologue Department at your local college. If universities are subject to the pressures of the free market, they will have to give useless dead weight the boot.

No direct lawfare required.

In addition, it also solves your H1B visa problem. Because the fact that you can get student loans for technical majors more easily (or at all) is sure as hell going to influence what kids choose to study.

You might even see tech companies start to invest in high school kids, funding their schooling in exchange for work after graduation.

The trade unions and professional organizations must be held accountable.

I have less to say on this one, as it would require a situational case-by-case response. Probably many cases would involve removal of special legal protections from liability, along with strict right-to-work laws.

Above all, the election infrastructure must be secured.

This would involve direct government action. Election laws specifying strict criteria for which election results could be certified in federal elections would do the trick, if coupled with strict scrutiny by both official and unofficial groups.

California would start purging its voter registration rolls and checking IDs real quick-like if failure to do so meant having all of their 54 electoral votes simply excluded from the official count.

Since my expertise is in computer science, much of that it in security and cryptography, I have a great deal to say about what those requirements could be, but I will save that rabbit hole for another day.

Suffice to say that it would be very possible to make election infrastructure very tamper-proof indeed, and completely and permanently auditable, including an ability for each individual citizen to cryptographically verify that their vote had been properly recorded and counted.

But let me emphasize that this is a solved problem. Election fraud is possible solely because certain people want it to be and for no other reason.

These must be the first priorities of any America-first administration. Other goals can, and should, be pursued in parallel (banning toxic food, securing the border, ending the Federal Reserve, etc), but the most critical step, the step which allows all others, is to make sure that future election results reflect the actual will of the American people.

Because everyone who isn't hopelessly deceived knows that Donald Trump won three elections.

[Dylan LeClair @DylanLeClair]

They actually have no idea lol

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

It is end days for these folk and their friends that have disenfranchised true artists that inspired the human spirt to soar.

By devaluing true beauty they can sell you…

Nothing.

And tell you how fashionable it is.

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

It’s absolutely incredible they just openly admit this now. I was banned from polite society and had to MOVE CITIES because I knew the vax wasn’t worth it - I faced no risk from covid and have a genetic predisposition towards heart problems and didn’t want to incur the totally avoidable myocarditis risk (and before you tell me the heart issue risk from Covid exceeded the risk from the vax- we know now the “vaccine” did not remotely inhibit your odds of contracting Covid so that’s a completely empty argument. Not to mention the vax didn’t stop transmission so there was NO moral obligation to get it). Those of us who actually followed the data and refused the gaslighting pressure campaign were marginalized and harassed by family friends and the state- and no one had ever apologised.

In a sane world there would be a reckoning for the completely delusional and unhinged behavior of our government and those responsible would be jailed. Given the total lack of recriminations or reconciliation I’m going to hold on to this anger until the day that I die. it was the crime of a generation and I will never forgive or forget.

[Cedric Youngelman ⚡️ @CedYoungelman]

@LawrenceLepard 5. Fiat is a way of getting everyone to be a debt slave with no potential of thinking for the future & therefore little prospect for civilization & wanting a better life for your future self.

@saifedean

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

4 out of 5 doctors can't answer an introductory statistics question

Doctors are midwits maintaining a medieval guild system, not geniuses

[Robert ₿reedlove @Breedlove22]

It is impossible for a government to provide anything “for free” because simply, as Nietzsche said: “everything The State has is stolen, and everything it says is a lie.”