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@ModelOfFitness

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Joined August 2023

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Freedom

@ActionFixesFear

about 12 hours ago

$IBRX In 2003 a doctor walked into the World Health Organization and set a goal the room thought was insane: three million people in the poorest countries on HIV drugs within two years, at a time when a year of those drugs cost around ten thousand dollars and the places that needed them could not pay ten. Everyone knew the medicine worked. The problem was never the medicine. The problem was the check. So he spent years building the machine that made the checks get written - the funds, the deals, the relentless price pressure - until a year of treatment fell under fifty dollars and stayed there, and more than thirty million people lived who would have died. That doctor went on to run the World Bank for seven years. His name is Jim Yong Kim. Yesterday, he went to work for @DrPatrick THE HOLE IN EVERY MAP WE DREW For a year on this account we have been drawing one map from different angles, and every version had the same hole in it. We mapped where this cancer medicine actually lands, and found the two dials that decide it - regulatory speed and ability to pay - pointing everywhere except the country that invented it. We counted the patients and found a keyhole: a lung therapy cleared for roughly 350 people in the Gulf while something like 590,000 who need it, 146,500 of them in the wealthy world, are locked out where they live. Behind those numbers sits one specific person: a last-line lung patient in Boston, or Munich, or Manchester, whose oncologist has run out of standard moves, while the one therapy that might buy more time sits approved on the far side of the world, out of reach. Needing the drug, and unable to get to it. EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE DEAL And every time we have traced this global push, one half of it works and one half hangs. Go looking for the machine and it is all there: - a drug approved in thirty-four countries - an AI-driven robot built in Italy to mass-produce the immune cells off the shelf - a Gulf sovereign fund that has poured billions into biotech - a manufacturing partner in India whose entire business is making medicine cheap enough for the poorest countries on earth - summit after summit with health ministers and heads of state. Every part of it is real, and built, and in place. THE EASY HALF And here the Gulf matters, but read it precisely. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the kind of buyer this whole model needs - rich governments that pay for their own citizens out of their own treasuries. The drug is approved there, and the launches have started. But as of the company's last quarterly report, not one dollar of that had reached ImmunityBio's books: its revenue still came, to the last cent, from the United States. The Gulf engine is real, and it is only warming up. As it spins up it could grow into a second engine - still small against the size of the disease, but on a full run perhaps more than double what the company sells now. That, though, is the easy half: a wealthy government paying for its own people, the same sale he will make in any rich country. THE HALF NOBODY HAS PAID FOR The vision he keeps describing rests on the hard half - the billions who live in countries that cannot write that check for themselves. And there, every single time, the same piece is missing: a funder who has actually signed to buy this, at scale, for the people who cannot pay. There is a second door held shut, the biggest one of all, the United States. But that is a different fight, and a familiar one: not a missing check, but a slow regulator still holding its own patients back, the story we have told many times over. It is also, tellingly, the one door Kim was not hired to open. His mandate begins where America ends - markets outside the United States. And across every one of them, the machine is missing exactly one thing. Not the science. Not the demand. The check for the world that cannot afford it. THE NAME WE TOLD YOU TO HOLD Five weeks ago we went looking for who could fill that space. We took apart Soon-Shiong's plan to carry his platform into the countries that cannot pay for it, and we said it all came down to one question - not is the market big, but who writes the check. We circled a single name. What we wrote, word for word: "The one human being alive whose entire career has been getting funders to pay for expensive medicine for the poor, and he's worked with Soon-Shiong for a decade. That is not a coincidence. That is a playbook." Then three words: hold that name. The name was Jim Kim. Soon-Shiong has just made him Vice Chairman of ImmunityBio. THE RESUME IS THE POINT This is not a celebrated name rented for a letterhead. Look at what he actually is. - He co-founded Partners In Health in 1987, building treatment programs for drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS in the poorest villages of Haiti and Peru - He ran the "3 by 5" campaign at the WHO, the first global target ever set for AIDS treatment - He was president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019, where he built an emergency financing facility designed to move money at outbreak speed. - And right now, on top of all of it, he is a vice chairman at Global Infrastructure Partners, the arm of BlackRock that moves capital into emerging markets Line those up and one picture forms: he is wired into every checkbook that matters for medicine in the developing world: - The Gates Foundation - The Global Fund - The World Health Organization - Gavi, the alliance that buys vaccines for the world's poorest countries - Sovereign wealth - And, through BlackRock, the largest pool of investment capital on earth. HE NAMED IT AFTER HIM Here is the detail that should stop you. For months now, Soon-Shiong has had a phrase for the global network he wants to build, the one that ships off-the-shelf killer cells to cancer centers anywhere on earth. He calls it the "World Bank of Natural Killer Cells." Now read the thing he just did in real life: he named his vision after the World Bank, and then he hired the man who ran the actual World Bank. The metaphor walked in the door and asked for a desk. THE JOB IS THE THESIS Read the mandate they handed Kim and it is our July thesis, almost verbatim. His job, in the company's own words: relationships with governments, health ministries, multilateral institutions, and global health partners, to support access to its therapies where authorized, in markets outside the United States. That is not the description of a board seat. That is a word-for-word description of the machine we said had to exist - global-health procurement, where a funder buys in bulk and the maker gets paid - handed a driver. The question we told you to wait for, Soon-Shiong answered by hiring the answer. THEY BUILT HIM A ROOM They did not just give him a title. They built a room: a new Office of the Executive Chairman, reporting straight to Soon-Shiong, meant to gather the people who will carry the global build. Kim is the first name in it. Read that as a promise that he will not be the last. WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGED Now the discipline, because the rule we have held all year still holds tonight. An appointment is not a purchase order - and a purchase order is the exact thing every one of these posts has been waiting for. Kim does not write the check himself. He is the man who gets it written. As of tonight there is still no named global funder, no signed order to supply this at scale to the countries that cannot pay for it. Nothing in the arithmetic changed yet - and the arithmetic is not gentle: the company still runs a heavy quarterly loss and still carries, in its own filings, a formal warning about its ability to keep going, so whoever fills this role arrives with the clock running. What changed is quieter, and if you have read this far, bigger: the one hole that sat in the middle of every map we drew now has, standing over it, the single most qualified person alive for this exact job, no questions asked - and there is no close second. A man who ran the World Bank and spent his life getting the world to pay for medicine for the poor. The apparatus finally has its operator. And note where they put him. Not in one of Soon-Shiong's private ventures, the ones that never touch the public company. Inside ImmunityBio itself, pointed straight at the medicine it has now cleared in thirty-four countries and still cannot get to most of the people in the world who need it. This one is aimed at exactly the gap the whole map exposed. THE MAN WHO MAKES THE WORLD PAY For a year, every map we drew ended in the same place. The medicine is real, and it works. Where a government can pay for its own citizens, the money was never the hard part. But for the billions who cannot pay, the check has never been written - and that, every single time, was the only thing missing. Yesterday, the man who has spent his life getting that check written walked into the building. We told you the whole game came down to who writes the check. Soon-Shiong just hired the man who makes the world write it.

ActionFixesFear's tweet photo. $IBRX In 2003 a doctor walked into the World Health Organization and set a goal the room thought was insane: three million people in the poorest countries on HIV drugs within two years, at a time when a year of those drugs cost around ten thousand dollars and the places that needed them could not pay ten.

Everyone knew the medicine worked. The problem was never the medicine. The problem was the check. So he spent years building the machine that made the checks get written - the funds, the deals, the relentless price pressure - until a year of treatment fell under fifty dollars and stayed there, and more than thirty million people lived who would have died.

That doctor went on to run the World Bank for seven years. His name is Jim Yong Kim. Yesterday, he went to work for @DrPatrick

THE HOLE IN EVERY MAP WE DREW

For a year on this account we have been drawing one map from different angles, and every version had the same hole in it. We mapped where this cancer medicine actually lands, and found the two dials that decide it - regulatory speed and ability to pay - pointing everywhere except the country that invented it.

We counted the patients and found a keyhole: a lung therapy cleared for roughly 350 people in the Gulf while something like 590,000 who need it, 146,500 of them in the wealthy world, are locked out where they live.

Behind those numbers sits one specific person: a last-line lung patient in Boston, or Munich, or Manchester, whose oncologist has run out of standard moves, while the one therapy that might buy more time sits approved on the far side of the world, out of reach. Needing the drug, and unable to get to it.

EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE DEAL

And every time we have traced this global push, one half of it works and one half hangs. Go looking for the machine and it is all there:

- a drug approved in thirty-four countries

- an AI-driven robot built in Italy to mass-produce the immune cells off the shelf

- a Gulf sovereign fund that has poured billions into biotech

- a manufacturing partner in India whose entire business is making medicine cheap enough for the poorest countries on earth

- summit after summit with health ministers and heads of state.

Every part of it is real, and built, and in place.

THE EASY HALF

And here the Gulf matters, but read it precisely. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the kind of buyer this whole model needs - rich governments that pay for their own citizens out of their own treasuries. The drug is approved there, and the launches have started.

But as of the company's last quarterly report, not one dollar of that had reached ImmunityBio's books: its revenue still came, to the last cent, from the United States.

The Gulf engine is real, and it is only warming up. As it spins up it could grow into a second engine - still small against the size of the disease, but on a full run perhaps more than double what the company sells now. That, though, is the easy half: a wealthy government paying for its own people, the same sale he will make in any rich country.

THE HALF NOBODY HAS PAID FOR

The vision he keeps describing rests on the hard half - the billions who live in countries that cannot write that check for themselves. And there, every single time, the same piece is missing: a funder who has actually signed to buy this, at scale, for the people who cannot pay.

There is a second door held shut, the biggest one of all, the United States. But that is a different fight, and a familiar one: not a missing check, but a slow regulator still holding its own patients back, the story we have told many times over.

It is also, tellingly, the one door Kim was not hired to open. His mandate begins where America ends - markets outside the United States. And across every one of them, the machine is missing exactly one thing.

Not the science.

Not the demand.

The check for the world that cannot afford it.

THE NAME WE TOLD YOU TO HOLD

Five weeks ago we went looking for who could fill that space. We took apart Soon-Shiong's plan to carry his platform into the countries that cannot pay for it, and we said it all came down to one question - not is the market big, but who writes the check.

We circled a single name. What we wrote, word for word: "The one human being alive whose entire career has been getting funders to pay for expensive medicine for the poor, and he's worked with Soon-Shiong for a decade. That is not a coincidence. That is a playbook."

Then three words: hold that name. The name was Jim Kim. Soon-Shiong has just made him Vice Chairman of ImmunityBio.

THE RESUME IS THE POINT

This is not a celebrated name rented for a letterhead. Look at what he actually is.

- He co-founded Partners In Health in 1987, building treatment programs for drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS in the poorest villages of Haiti and Peru

- He ran the "3 by 5" campaign at the WHO, the first global target ever set for AIDS treatment

- He was president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019, where he built an emergency financing facility designed to move money at outbreak speed.

- And right now, on top of all of it, he is a vice chairman at Global Infrastructure Partners, the arm of BlackRock that moves capital into emerging markets

Line those up and one picture forms: he is wired into every checkbook that matters for medicine in the developing world:

- The Gates Foundation

- The Global Fund

- The World Health Organization

- Gavi, the alliance that buys vaccines for the world's poorest countries

- Sovereign wealth

- And, through BlackRock, the largest pool of investment capital on earth.

HE NAMED IT AFTER HIM

Here is the detail that should stop you. For months now, Soon-Shiong has had a phrase for the global network he wants to build, the one that ships off-the-shelf killer cells to cancer centers anywhere on earth.

He calls it the "World Bank of Natural Killer Cells."

Now read the thing he just did in real life: he named his vision after the World Bank, and then he hired the man who ran the actual World Bank. The metaphor walked in the door and asked for a desk.

THE JOB IS THE THESIS

Read the mandate they handed Kim and it is our July thesis, almost verbatim. His job, in the company's own words: relationships with governments, health ministries, multilateral institutions, and global health partners, to support access to its therapies where authorized, in markets outside the United States.

That is not the description of a board seat. That is a word-for-word description of the machine we said had to exist - global-health procurement, where a funder buys in bulk and the maker gets paid - handed a driver. The question we told you to wait for, Soon-Shiong answered by hiring the answer.

THEY BUILT HIM A ROOM

They did not just give him a title. They built a room: a new Office of the Executive Chairman, reporting straight to Soon-Shiong, meant to gather the people who will carry the global build. Kim is the first name in it. Read that as a promise that he will not be the last.

WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGED

Now the discipline, because the rule we have held all year still holds tonight. An appointment is not a purchase order - and a purchase order is the exact thing every one of these posts has been waiting for.

Kim does not write the check himself.

He is the man who gets it written.

As of tonight there is still no named global funder, no signed order to supply this at scale to the countries that cannot pay for it. Nothing in the arithmetic changed yet - and the arithmetic is not gentle: the company still runs a heavy quarterly loss and still carries, in its own filings, a formal warning about its ability to keep going, so whoever fills this role arrives with the clock running.

What changed is quieter, and if you have read this far, bigger: the one hole that sat in the middle of every map we drew now has, standing over it, the single most qualified person alive for this exact job, no questions asked - and there is no close second. A man who ran the World Bank and spent his life getting the world to pay for medicine for the poor. The apparatus finally has its operator.

And note where they put him. Not in one of Soon-Shiong's private ventures, the ones that never touch the public company. Inside ImmunityBio itself, pointed straight at the medicine it has now cleared in thirty-four countries and still cannot get to most of the people in the world who need it. This one is aimed at exactly the gap the whole map exposed.

THE MAN WHO MAKES THE WORLD PAY

For a year, every map we drew ended in the same place. The medicine is real, and it works. Where a government can pay for its own citizens, the money was never the hard part.

But for the billions who cannot pay, the check has never been written - and that, every single time, was the only thing missing. Yesterday, the man who has spent his life getting that check written walked into the building. We told you the whole game came down to who writes the check.

Soon-Shiong just hired the man who makes the world write it.

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@ModelOfFitness

1 day ago

@dandinohill Wow! She’s just like all the other RINOs that gaslight us about why they are such failures.

FitWit

@ModelOfFitness

5 days ago

Why don't you get off your ass and push @LeaderJohnThune out, so we can get the #saveamericaact passed? I hope every Repulican Senator knows... we will not forget when you are up for reelection and @VP better get it in gear and take the Senate over or he can forget being the next President of the United States. I will vote for ANY OTHER Republican that has a spine.

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@ModelOfFitness

6 days ago

@mapana20097 @libsoftiktok Where did you learn English… at the Learing Center?

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Pamela Hensley🇺🇸

@PamelaHensley22

7 days ago

🚨BOMBSHELL: Audit just found 228,000 FRAUDULENT votes in the NY mayor race. Mamdani's winning margin? Only 207,570. • 7% nonexistent records • 6% fake SSNs • 10% don't even live in NY • 1% no SSN at all Mamdani is illegitimate! Revoke his citizenship and deport.

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Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

6 days ago

BREAKING: Rep Shri Thanedar from India who can barely speak English and made it his mission to impeach Trump, has LOST his primary

libsoftiktok's tweet photo. BREAKING: Rep Shri Thanedar from India who can barely speak English and made it his mission to impeach Trump, has LOST his primary https://t.co/IvltiJ573q

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@ModelOfFitness

6 days ago

@w_terrence The head of the snake. A Manchurian candidate if there ever was one.

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@ModelOfFitness

6 days ago

What’s the difference? In many ways I believe RINOS are worse. They are liars and deceivers and hold the power that doesn’t allow our party to do what we voted for. Voters in their state end up keeping them in office because the politician throws them a bone every now and then, but they never do what is right for the Republican Party or ultimately our country. They can all burn in hell for all I care.

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FAFO™

@theoriginalfafo

7 days ago

@ScottPresler I heard a Republican Senator say that the August recess is a good opportunity for them to spend time with the people of the state they represent. Senator, we don't want to shake your hand. We want you in DC doing your job and passing the Save America Act!

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CycleCKay

@CycleCkay

7 days ago

@ScottPresler You are right! @SenateGOP @LeaderJohnThune If you leave now you will be losers and lose your seats. We will NOT forget!

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ThePersistence

@ScottPresler

7 days ago

It will be worse for Senators to return home to their respective states empty-handed than if they stay in DC, fund the gov’t with a continuing resolution, & pass a budget resolution to include SAVE America Act funding. Am I right?

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Dr. Simone Gold

@drsimonegold

11 days ago

Fauci was wrong about virtually everything. We were right all along. -Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine worked—safe, early treatments that were deliberately suppressed. -Masks were theater, not science. -Lockdowns caused far more harm than good. -Remdesivir was, and remains, harmful. -The mRNA injections carried serious risks that were never honestly disclosed. -Six-foot “social distancing” was an arbitrary invention with no rigorous basis. -PCR testing was massively overused and produced huge numbers of false positives that were treated as real infections. -The case fatality rate for most people was low. -COVID originated from the Wuhan lab, and NIH funding flowed into gain-of-function research there. Fauci funded and defended that research while publicly denying it. He lied to protect his position, his funding streams, and his power. He harmed ordinary Americans—patients, families, children—to advance his own money and control. This man should face real accountability. Put the villain in prison.

drsimonegold's tweet photo. Fauci was wrong about virtually everything. We were right all along.

-Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine worked—safe, early treatments that were deliberately suppressed.

-Masks were theater, not science.

-Lockdowns caused far more harm than good.

-Remdesivir was, and remains, harmful.

-The mRNA injections carried serious risks that were never honestly disclosed.

-Six-foot “social distancing” was an arbitrary invention with no rigorous basis.

-PCR testing was massively overused and produced huge numbers of false positives that were treated as real infections.

-The case fatality rate for most people was low.

-COVID originated from the Wuhan lab, and NIH funding flowed into gain-of-function research there.

Fauci funded and defended that research while publicly denying it.

He lied to protect his position, his funding streams, and his power. He harmed ordinary Americans—patients, families, children—to advance his own money and control.

This man should face real accountability. Put the villain in prison.

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ThePersistence

@ScottPresler

10 days ago

OH MY GOSH! CBS 21 came by our @EarlyVoteAction booth at the York State Fair & I used EVERY second to spit facts on television to the American people: “In 2008, Al Franken was elected by 312 votes. In New Jersey, Governor Mikie Sherrill — democrat — said that 6,600 illegal aliens are on the voter rolls and 400 of those voted. 400 is more than 312. Anyone that says 400 is a low number: a statewide election was decided by that. Congressman John Duarte lost by 187 votes. Congresswoman Michelle Steel lost by 653 votes. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by 6 votes. I know my stats.” CRUSHED IT! @JoelDReports

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@ModelOfFitness

13 days ago

@HawleyMO You need to pass the Save America Act. Fauci is evil and nothing will come of it, but we can vote you out of office. Thankfully. Grandstanding no longer works for us. You’re all talk and do nothing.

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Gina Milan

@ginamilan_

14 days ago

CNN. MSNBC. ABC. NBC. First they refused to air Trump’s speech on election integrity and China’s interference. Now they’re refusing to cover Dr. Fauci’s COVID diary bombshells. When every major network goes silent on the same story at the same time, people notice. The silence is the headline.

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Catturd ™

@catturd2

13 days ago

Dr. Fauci is one of the biggest mass murderers in history. Every thing he said was a lie. His hospital protocol was what really drove the death count. The history books should put him in the same breath as Hitler and Stalin. He’s pure evil.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

13 days ago

The Real Anthony Fauci became the #1 non-fiction hardcover bestseller despite being the most censored book of the decade. Bookstores, including national chains, refused to carry it. Libraries refused to carry it. Every major newspaper declined to review it. The New York Times refused to publish a paid advertisement for the book and made it #7 on its bestseller list, even though it outsold any other book by thousands of copies. YouTube took down videos of a book signing. Amazon shadow banned it. Twitter wouldn’t let the publisher promote it. Despite all of that, 1.4 million Americans bought the book because they were tired of the lies and they wanted their freedom back. Then today, with hundreds of millions of Americans demanding the truth, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at his Senate hearing. The American people waited six years for answers. Today, they got silence. But that silence told us all we needed to know. Thank you, @SenRandPaul, for your relentless pursuit of truth, transparency, and accountability. 🇺🇸

RobertKennedyJr's tweet photo. The Real Anthony Fauci became the #1 non-fiction hardcover bestseller despite being the most censored book of the decade. Bookstores, including national chains, refused to carry it. Libraries refused to carry it. Every major newspaper declined to review it. The New York Times refused to publish a paid advertisement for the book and made it #7 on its bestseller list, even though it outsold any other book by thousands of copies.

YouTube took down videos of a book signing. Amazon shadow banned it. Twitter wouldn’t let the publisher promote it.

Despite all of that, 1.4 million Americans bought the book because they were tired of the lies and they wanted their freedom back.

Then today, with hundreds of millions of Americans demanding the truth, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times at his Senate hearing. The American people waited six years for answers. Today, they got silence. But that silence told us all we needed to know.

Thank you, @SenRandPaul, for your relentless pursuit of truth, transparency, and accountability. 🇺🇸

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Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong

@DrPatrick

13 days ago

So excited that United Arab Emirates (UAE) Emirates Drug Establishment (EDE) @EDE_UAE took the lead to approve the broadest indication to date for both non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in patients who had failed BCG therapy and for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in patients who failed chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors. The power of NK cells. https://t.co/rXsqpFuqBK

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@ModelOfFitness

13 days ago

@RonDeSantis Here’s an idea for the best Governor in the country… How about suing Fauci for the state… criminally and civilly? Even if he gets off, at least he’s not sitting on a beach somewhere sipping piña coladas. I would make his life a living hell.

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@ModelOfFitness

13 days ago

You start by arresting the lowest person on the totem pole, throw the book at them with life in prison and watch how many squeal. When someone is doing illegal work for a superior, if they are smart, they cover their ass by retaining incriminating evidence as a “get out of jail free” card. That what I would do. Gratefully, I was raised with ethics and a savior.

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