Happy_Nerd

Well, we made it to the Finals in '24! So, Nico traded Luka! What a travesty!

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

Love the rangers, even if they suck at baseball, they rock at life!

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

🚨PRIDE MONTH🚨

The Texas Rangers are the ONLY MLB team not acknowledging “Pride Month.”

The Rangers are again not hosting an LGBT night event.

Instead, on June 18, they will be hosting a Faith and Family Night.

According to their website, the event will feature “personal testimonies from Rangers players Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung, Cody Bradford, Jacob Latz, Jalen Beeks, and others, sharing how faith impacts their lives both on and off the field.”

[Jon Najarian @jonnajarian]

Charlie is exactly right

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

It’s Friday. Another week gone, and another 40 million of your hard earned tax dollars were sent to the Taliban.

In fact government does this every week.

Pass the no Tax Dollars for Terrorist Act, and end this humiliation ritual.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

There is a lot of noise surrounding the potential US/Iran deal.

Here’s what the rumors are so far:

- Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Iran currently has 400 kg of highly enriched uranium. Enough for 11 nuclear bombs.

- The US would begin a phased unfreezing of Iran’s $6b to $30b in cash.

- The Strait of Hormuz will open up.

- Iran won’t charge a penny for ships to pass through. No $2m toll fee.

- The US agrees to relieve some of the sanctions.

- War ENDS on all fronts with Lebanon.

- US forces near Iran to withdraw.

- 30 to 60 days to finalize the nuclear deal.

If true, that’s a massive victory for the President.

Here are the winners and losers.

Winners:

1. American people. Oil prices will likely fall. Shipping insurance costs drop. Inflation pressure eases.

2. The President

3. Global markets.

4. Stock market.

5. Gulf states. Temporary tension eliminated. I have them as both winners and losers.

6. IRGC gains legitimacy. They’re not Venezuela. Whether anyone likes it or not. Including myself.

7. China is a major winner. The Strait of Hormuz hurt them the most. They can spin this to their people that the deal got done after the President left China.

8. Russia relies on Iran being a bit more stable.

9. NATO nations were starting to worry. They were pansies shivering about having to help the US. (They’re also big losers in my eyes)

Losers:

1. Iranian people. No one knows what the IRGC will do after this deal to their own people. Their media outlets will say they beat America. That message will 100% be pushed. The Iranian people will be under even more scrutiny by the IRGC.

2. Obama’s administration. This sounds like a much stronger deal than Obama’s administration made.

3. Netanyahu. He wanted regime change or collapse for his legacy, but Trump wasn’t on the same page at the end.

4. NATO was exposed. They showed they don’t have America’s back if shit were to hit the fan. Terrible moment for them.

5. Reza Pahlavi. Another year of not being able to help his people become free. This point will lead to more memes by the RP loyalists but it’s the truth.

6. Gulf states. The IRGC still controls a neighbor capable of firing rockets at surrounding Gulf nations.

7. Iranian proxies and non state actors. Hezbollah, Houthis, and Shia militias will not receive the same funding flow if sanctions are removed under limitations tied to the agreement.

8. Defense contractors and war hawks. They wanted this thing to continue so they could land massive contracts. I’m sure they’re not happy.

9. Oil producers benefiting from high prices.

10. Political extremists on both sides. Those who wanted to see the President lose (woke right) and those pushing for nuclear war.

11. Democrats. They desperately needed this to continue heading into the midterms. They will HATE this deal. Don’t worry, they’ll still find a way to blame Trump. But independents won’t fall for the BS. Democrats and the woke right will follow suit, but not reasonable independents who can see through the nonsense.

I predicted this would be done before June 14th. Lots of people pushed back. Obviously, it’s not done yet, and anything can happen, especially when dealing with Iran, but if the President pulls this off, the news outlets, pundits, and influencers will move on to the next issue after they’re done crying nonstop.

The greatest 60 days of positive distractions are around the corner.

President Trump’s birthday: June 14th
US 250 year anniversary: July 4th
World Cup: June 11th to July 19th

The world will move on, and the President can focus on driving results toward the midterms, Cuba, affordability and other issues.

Love him or hate him, he continues to show how fluid his mind is and that he can change his approach depending on whether things do or don’t go his way.

Future Looks Bright.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bingo

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

Everyone should read this

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gilles, je vais démonter ta prémisse de départ, parce que tout le reste de ton argument s'effondre avec elle.

Tu pars du principe qu'il faut une « sensibilité de gauche �� pour ne pas laisser créver les gens de faim. C'est l'inverse total de ce que dit l'histoire économique des 50 dernières années.

Les chiffres bruts.

1990 : 2,3 milliards de personnes en pauvreté extrême. 38% de l'humanité.
2025 : 831 millions. Environ 10%.

1,5 milliard d'êtres humains sortis de la misère absolue en 35 ans. La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l'histoire de l'espèce.

Qui a fait ça ?

Pas l'aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la « sensibilité de gauche ».

Le marché. L'ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng en 1978 qui abandonne le maoisme. L'Inde en 1991 qui libéralise. Le Vietnam, l'Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s'ouvrent au capitalisme.

Les seuls endroits où l'extrême pauvreté a EXPLOSÉ sur la même période ? Le Vénézuela socialiste : de 27% de pauvres en 2008 à plus de 80% en 2018, avec une inflation de 130 000% et un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos par dénutrition. La Corée du Nord. Cuba. Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.

La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres. Elle les fabrique.

Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique. Un pauvre US a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, l'air conditionné, internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.

Ton argument selon lequel « le social aux USA est un désastre » repète une légende française. La réalité : le PIB par habitant américain est de 80 000$. Français : 45 000$. Un Mississippien — l'État US le plus pauvre — a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen.

La vérité que la gauche française refuse de regarder : dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.

ÊTRE de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n'est pas avoir de la « sensibilité ». C'est ignorer 35 ans de preuves accablantes. C'est préférer la posture morale au résultat.

La compassion sans résultats, ça s'appelle de la vanité.

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

Facts

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque.

Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation.

Quelques exemples concrets :

— San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité.

— Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider.

— L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher.

Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise.

La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable.
Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même.

L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

The challenge for people that live and pay taxes in California, regardless of politics, is their state is a mess. It's a complete mess at the state level, the governmental level, the mayor in LA, the people leaving based on policy. The policy's terrible. And I think we've come to the tilting point as we start to debate who's gonna be providing management skills, executional skills for the state going forward. This is an important tilting point in the sense, what's coming next? I mean, it can't get worse.

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

Follow the money!

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

Why is there suddenly such an aggressive push against American data centers and AI infrastructure? After seeing a major spike in coordinated opposition campaigns around our Utah projects, we conducted a digital audit and traced a large amount of the activity back to an organization called Alliance for a Better Utah, which has been pushing misinformation throughout Box Elder County about our data center developments. What’s even more concerning is where the funding appears to originate. After reviewing IRS Form 990 filings and tracing the network behind it, the money appears tied to Chinese linked funding channels connected through an organization called Arabella. Think about the incentive, if China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, why wouldn’t they want to slow American infrastructure down?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, I warned that Fauci and his inner circle buried the truth about Wuhan. Now his closest adviser has been indicted. Fauci lied to Congress under oath. The statute of limitations expires in 5 days. Will the DOJ finally indict Fauci?

https://t.co/h8cicrqrQc

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

5 days from now, on May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

6 days from now, on May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic.

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

@SenRandPaul @SenRandPaul i agree with you most times. In this case, I think that Iran posed a significant threat.

With their history of terroristic attacks & supporting terrorism. I don’t think it is far fetched to think that they would do as they promised and wrote Israel off the map.

[Mark Penn @Mark_Penn]

Iran Schizophrenia 2

As was suggested, Iran’s leadership has splintered as is typical when the top leadership is gone.

The old revolutionary fundamentalist leadership was taken out and you have some who want to make a deal and then the IRGC which should not be confused with the mullahs — they are just plain old military dictators who have the guns and think they will be thrown overboard in any deal.

They either have to preserve some power in a deal or be decisively defeated. Likelihood is that that there will be another round of fighting here but nothing is certain. They know they can only strike out at the world economy but face certain defeat with no air cover if the president goes all out here.

The media remains in its negative spin all the time and the Europeans continue to show their worthlessness as allies in a battle against Iran.

Don’t take anything the president takes at face value as disinformation is a key strategy at defeating Iran. But the basic strategy remains, continue to step up economic and military pressure until they buckle one way or another. And the Schizophrenia of Iran now is just another phase in the collapse of the regime that still can’t turn on the Internet for fear of real communications and continues to suppress the will of its people with heinous acts of mass executions on the streets and in the gallows.

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

@RishiDevArya6 @EricLDaugh Shut down the shadow fleets. Enforce the sanctions instead of just announcing them with no consequences. That’s what is different.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

No…you fucking idiot...this wouldn’t be some tragic “historic error.”

It would be the single greatest…most cathartic parting of ways in the history of great powers… the moment America finally stops playing wet-nurse to a continent of castrated free-riders who’ve spent seventy years perfecting the art of strategic impotence.

You Europeans are not allies.

You’re velvet-gloved parasites with excellent table manners and zero spine.

You lecture us about “rules-based order” while hiding behind the American nuclear umbrella you refuse to pay for.

You virtue-signal your moral superiority from Berlin cafés and Brussels salons…then beg Washington to bleed treasure and lives every time a real predator shows up at the gate.

Two percent GDP on defense?

Most of you can’t even hit that low bar without creative accounting and American-supplied artillery shells.

Your militaries are museum pieces...beautiful on paper…hollow in the field.

Precision munitions? Logistics trains? Integrated command?

You’ve outsourced all of it to us while you fund your welfare utopias and lecture Texans about climate change.

You’re the textbook case of learned helplessness dressed up as enlightened cosmopolitanism.

Decades of American security theater have atrophied your warrior culture into performative weakness.

You fear strength the way a eunuch fears testosterone.

When push comes to shove...Hungary… Balkans…Libya…Syria…now Ukraine...you fold… preen…and wait for the 101st Airborne to save your sorry asses again.

Russia at least understands the ancient grammar of power:

respect is earned through credible violence and unbreakable loyalty to those who deliver it.

They don’t stab allies in the back while smiling for the cameras at NATO summits. They don’t freeload on someone else’s blood and treasure then call it “solidarity.”

So yes...rip the Band-Aid off.

Let the transatlantic divorce be loud…final… and ugly.

We’ll keep our oceans…our industrial base…our actual military…and our willingness to use it without apology.

You can keep your exquisite hypocrisy…your empty rhetoric…and your creeping demographic irrelevance.

History will record this not as America abandoning Europe…but as America finally refusing to subsidize a civilization that has already committed cultural suicide.

We’re done carrying you.

Find your own balls...or learn to speak Russian fluently.

Either way…the age of American patience with European pussies is over.

💀⚔️

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

And there idiots, and yes you are, who would actually vote for this fool.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🤔

[🇺🇸 𝓐𝓟𝓡𝓘𝓛 𝓢𝓟𝓐𝓡𝓚𝓢 🇺🇸 @AprilSpark1890]

Sounds about right to me.

[Happy_Nerd @NerdHappy]

@GregAbbott_TX Amen!