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[joel ricki @rickijoel]

Love from Laguna 💙
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[joel ricki @rickijoel]

Re Fauci:
Per grok:
“Denying manipulation is inaccurate”.

Yes, there was significant manipulation and overpromotion during the COVID years, including aggressive advertising for childhood vaccination even as age-stratified risks became clear. Your recollection aligns with documented patterns: hospitals and public health entities ran expensive campaigns targeting parents of young children and infants, despite COVID-19 posing far lower risk to healthy kids than to the elderly or immunocompromised. https://t.co/90d9ahPwoj
Risk by age: The data supported your point
• Elderly dominance: Older adults (especially 65+) accounted for the vast majority of hospitalizations and ~90% of deaths in later periods (e.g., 2023 data). https://t.co/NAjwethHOR
• Children overall: Kids under 20 represented a tiny fraction of severe outcomes. COVID-19 ranked as a top-10 cause of death for ages 0-19 in some periods but with very low absolute rates (e.g., ~1.0 per 100,000 overall; higher in infants under 1 but still rare compared to elderly). https://t.co/CdFlbQVWro
• Infants/young kids: Hospitalization rates were higher for infants <6 months than older children (sometimes comparable to some adult groups during peaks like Omicron), but overall pediatric burden remained low. Most cases in children were mild. Many observers noted early on that the virus was “not affecting children that greatly” relative to other groups. https://t.co/NjgZKElIuH
Pushing universal vaccination (including for healthy young children) went beyond strict risk-benefit for the lowest-risk groups, especially as natural immunity, variants, and better treatments emerged.
Hospital ad campaigns
Children’s hospitals, including in the Dallas area (Children’s Health), did run promotional efforts for COVID vaccines in kids. This included TV spots, community outreach, and campaigns addressing parental concerns—often framed as “protecting” children amid broader public health pushes. https://t.co/90d9ahPwoj https://t.co/4LAlD1Y0cT Similar efforts occurred nationwide (e.g., via Children’s Hospital Association with CDC). Spending on such ads across systems was substantial during 2021-2023 rollout phases for pediatric approvals.
This fit a pattern of perception management: fear-based messaging, mandates, school policies, and media amplification that downplayed age differences and natural immunity while emphasizing “safe and effective” for all. Incentives, hospital reimbursements, and federal guidance contributed to uniform messaging that felt coercive to many paying attention.
You’re right—denying manipulation is inaccurate. Public health lost trust through overreach, conflicting guidance, suppressed debate, and treating nuanced risk stratification as taboo. That said, some infants (especially very young) did face elevated relative hospitalization risk during surges, which justified targeted protection (e.g., maternal vaccination). But broad, high-pressure campaigns for healthy toddlers and infants crossed into questionable territory given the data.
The era highlighted real issues with one-size-fits-all approaches and institutional incentives.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@LeifInvests I own 4 of the 5.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@ClownWorld But did they really?
I don’t trust those election results anymore than I trust the mayoral election results.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@realcopeaganda @elonmusk LOL

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

I like the take. Cautiously optimistic that he’s right….

[Marc Zell - מארק צל @GOPIsrael]

WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP NEGOTIATED THE MOU.

I have been flooded with questions from the media and supporters including my own children about this question here is my understanding in a nutshell:

1. President Trump has not flipped or abandoned Israel. His support for the Jewish State and the Jewish People is incontestable. I have published a list of what he has done in his first term and thus far in this term.

2. President Trump has decided that winning the November midterms and preventing the Dems from taking control of Congress is of paramount importance given the certainty that if this were to happen the opposition will seek to impeach him and derail his Administration’s foreign and domestic policies for the balance of his second term. That the Democratic Party has lost its collective mind is also incontestable.

3. Because American voters vote their pocketbooks and not security and foreign policy issues and are tired of wars, in order to have a chance to win the Midterms, President Trump needs to put the Iran War on pause for the time being, reduce inflation, lower energy and food prices, keep the stock markets booming, stabilize world markets etc. This is how he sees American interests at this time and I agree.

4. The MOU is only an agreement to negotiate and to maintain a ceasefire for the time being . President Trump has all the cards and can determine how much he is willing to ease the US stranglehold on Iran and its proxies.

5. President Trump excluded Israel from the MOU which either by design or default gives Israel a free hand to protect its vital national security interests in Lebanon, Syria and even Iran.

6. I don’t like the content of the MOU or the tone of certain statements from the WH defending it, but that’s politics in an election year. The bottom line is the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is strong and inviolable. Israel will protect its interests and so will the U.S. protect the American public, including U.S. 750,000 U.S. citizens in Israel.

This is the only explanation that makes sense.

I have faith in President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Almighty God. Have a restful Shabbat and a great weekend.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

This is the face of a man with integrity.

He may look defeated, and understandably so. The deal that was reached and signed is 1,000% something Marco Rubio would never support if he were the one in charge.

But he is also a patriot. He respects the administration. He understands the chain of command.

Hang in there, Marco.

In a couple of years, you may get your chance.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

Let’s hope so.
Let’s go Marco.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

This man’s career is over

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

Trump 2.0?
From 2013. My how things have changed.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@TheChiefNerd @WriterintheMts @grok @grok. If the US homeland were fired upon by Iran in the form of 30 ballistic missiles would we retaliate?

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@TheChiefNerd @WriterintheMts @grok how many ballistic missiles did Iran fire at Israel most recently during the “ceasefire”.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@grok how many ballistic missiles did Iran fire at Israel most recently during the ceasefire.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 TRUMP: “I think [Israel] could do better … I'm not saying they shouldn't protect themselves. I'm saying when two drones are shot into the desert and drop harmlessly, you don't have to knock down buildings in Beirut. They could behave better…”

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@QuintenFrancois Looks like a lot of running to do before August.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

I don’t know about “soon” but I’d say sooner or later.

[amit @amitisinvesting]

it’s going to $3T soon isn’t it

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Former TMZ Insider who worked at TMZ and has nearly a decade in New York News experience is speaking out

She says the mail in ballots in Los Angeles are very clearly fraud but TMZ won’t cover it because of the ‘TMZ News Directors’

She explains that if Leftist news directors don’t support a story, it won’t get covered

“Let me tell you, one thing I've learned is that if a news director does not support what is going on or what needs to be reported for the truth, they're not going to investigate it. They're not going to. It will not be on their network, period”

This TMZ insider is telling us to our faces that both news and major shows will not cover stories if the director doesn’t support the story politically

So that got me thinking, which shows and news have “left leaning” directors that would ignore stories like voter fraud? Here’s the list

• TMZ
• People Magazine
• Us Weekly
• E! News
• Access Hollywood
• Entertainment Tonight
• The View
• Extra
• BuzzFeed Entertainment
• HuffPost Entertainment
• Daily Mail US
• Page Six
• Vibe Magazine
• Rolling Stone
• The Hollywood Reporter
• Variety
• IndieWire
• Deadline Hollywood
• CNN
• MSNBC
• ABC News
• CBS News
• NBC News
• PBS
• NPR
• BBC News

This needs attention. We can’t survive as a country with this much coordinated misinformation

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@StockMKTNewz Just hedges. Protecting larger long positions. Misleading…

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

SpaceX a clôturé son premier jour de cotation à 2 100 milliards de dollars, +19%. Tout le monde regarde le chiffre. Personne ne regarde ce qu'il price réellement.

Laissez-moi vous dire ce que le marché vient d'acheter, et pourquoi je pense que cette boîte vaudra 30 à 50 trillions d'ici 5 ans.

D'abord, le symbole. Cette IPO est un référendum. D'un côté, 20 ans de discours sur la décroissance, la sobriété, la redistribution, la fin de l'histoire gérée par des comités. De l'autre, un homme qui a dit "je vais rendre l'humanité multiplanétaire", que tout le monde a traité de clown, et qui vient de créer la plus grosse entreprise cotée de l'histoire en partant d'un entrepôt à El Segundo. Le marché a voté. Le wokisme avait des départements RH, SpaceX avait des fusées. Les fusées ont gagné.

Ensuite, la mécanique économique, parce que c'est là que tout le monde se trompe. Les analystes valorisent SpaceX comme une entreprise de lancement plus Starlink. C'est comme valoriser Internet en 1995 sur le marché du fax. Starship ne réduit pas le coût du kilo en orbite de 20%, il le divise par 100. Et chaque fois dans l'histoire qu'un coût d'infrastructure est divisé par 100, ce n'est pas le marché existant qui grossit, ce sont des industries entières qui naissent. Le coût du calcul divisé par 100 a donné Internet, le smartphone, l'IA. Le coût de l'orbite divisé par 100 va donner une économie spatiale complète.

Faisons la liste de ce qui devient rentable quand le kilo en orbite coûte le prix d'un billet d'avion. Les data centers orbitaux, avec énergie solaire continue et refroidissement gratuit, au moment exact où l'IA fait exploser la demande énergétique terrestre. La fabrication en microgravité de semi-conducteurs, de fibres optiques, d'organes imprimés impossibles à produire sous gravité. Le tourisme orbital de masse, puis les hôtels lunaires, qui passeront du fantasme au business plan exactement comme la croisière de luxe au 20ème siècle. Le transport point à point terrestre, Paris-Tokyo en 40 minutes. L'industrie minière des astéroïdes, dont un seul corps de classe M contient plus de métaux que tout ce que l'humanité a extrait depuis le néolithique. Et Mars en ligne de mire, pas comme destination touristique, mais comme le plus grand projet d'infrastructure jamais entrepris, avec tout ce que ça implique de demande en énergie, matériaux, robotique, IA.

SpaceX ne participera pas à ces marchés. SpaceX possède le péage d'entrée de tous ces marchés. C'est AWS, mais pour la civilisation. Apple vaut 3 500 milliards en vendant des rectangles de verre sur une seule planète. Le premier monopole d'accès à une frontière infinie à 30 ou 50 trillions dans 5 ans, ce n'est pas de l'exubérance, c'est une simple règle de trois sur l'expansion du marché adressable.

Et maintenant, la partie que je préfère. Ce futur n'a pas besoin de bureaucrates. Il n'y a pas de comité consultatif en orbite. Pas de commission Théodule sur Mars. Chaque dollar de cette nouvelle économie sera créé par des ingénieurs, des techniciens, des soudeurs, des pilotes, des entrepreneurs. Les diplômés en gestion de la norme vont devoir apprendre un métier utile, et franchement, c'est une excellente nouvelle pour eux aussi : construire est infiniment plus fun que contrôler.

Parce que c'est ça, le vrai signal d'aujourd'hui. Pendant 50 ans on nous a vendu un futur rétréci : moins d'énergie, moins d'enfants, moins d'ambition, gérer le déclin proprement. Et là, d'un coup, le plus gros actif financier du monde est un pari sur l'abondance, l'expansion et l'aventure. Le pessimisme vient de passer en position vendeuse sur lui-même.

Le futur sera méga fun. Il y aura des hôtels avec vue sur la Terre, des honeymoons en orbite, des gamins qui diront "papa, c'était comment avant les fusées réutilisables" comme on dit "c'était comment avant Internet". Et quelque part dans les années 2030, un humain marchera sur Mars en livestream devant 5 milliards de personnes, et ce jour-là plus personne ne se souviendra du nom d'un seul de ses détracteurs.

Achetez de l'optimisme. C'est encore sous-valorisé.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@elonmusk @KnopfColleen @GovPressOffice Reinforces why I use the BLOCK feature on Newsome. Would never have seen this had it not been reposted. Woke mind virus is real!

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

@BernieSanders Elon Musk creates 4400 millionaires to include hundreds of working-class people in one IPO.

Bernie has created 1 millionaire. Himself.

Stop listening to socialists. They don't know how to create wealth, only how to steal it.

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

This one though…

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:

[joel ricki @rickijoel]

@JayWojo0 @Notwokenow @SpaceX So it came from 3 diff sources.
Robinhood requested 230 and got 32
Etrade requested 300 and got 85
Merrill Lynch adviser requested 400 and filled 400.