CoffeeGreg

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[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

“How are you a black conservative?!”

“How are you a Black Democrat?

You mean the same party you say has been helping you for decades, but your communities look worse, not better?

You mean the same party that started the Ku Klux Klan and somehow convinced you they’re your savior?

You mean the same political machine where LBJ, after signing the Civil Rights Act, said, ‘They’re going to keep these nigg*rs voting for generations’? Sixty-two years later, and you’re still predictable?

They dangled a Black male president in front of you who did nothing for Black people and everything for gay people, and a Black female presidential candidate who appealed to you with white-people tacos and Megan Thee Stallion twerking onstage, and you never stopped to question it?

They told you they were fighting poverty, but really, they knocked on the doors of Black families and told them that if they got rid of the man in the household, they could have this money through what we now know as the welfare system. They strategically demolished the nuclear family, leaving more than half of the mothers in our community as single mothers for generations through policies that incentivized broken homes and dependency instead of independence, they made it so you systematically rely on them. Now, more than half of Black households are dependent on the government.

They tell you crime is someone else’s fault while your neighborhoods keep getting worse in the very cities they run.

They build organizations and collect millions in donations, yet somehow your community is still struggling while that money goes toward million-dollar homes, DoorDash, and new cars.

Now they’ve got you fighting for illegal immigrants who take your jobs and have been killing your people, and they still give you nothing.

So let me ask you again… How are you a Black Democrat?”

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@DHSgov Does she get thrown into prison for awhile first?

[Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik]

🚨🚨FULL STATEMENT on Jack Smith’s Illegal Weaponization Spying on Congress and Subsequent Perjury 🚨🚨

“The American people have long known that Joe Biden’s hand-picked prosecutor weaponized government at the highest levels, and I have long suspected that he unconstitutionally spied on Members of Congress — including me — and then perjured himself in front of Congress.

The newly declassified records confirm exactly that. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team unlawfully and unconstitutionally accessed my private text messages, along with 43 other Members of Congress, in clear violation of the Constitution.

As President Trump has said, the illegal weaponization and abuse of power was not just against the President, it was against all his supporters who spoke out against it, and now we see it extended to duly elected Members of Congress. This is not an isolated incident. It is the latest and most egregious example of the most widespread and dangerous weaponization of the federal government in our nation's history that I have spent years fighting to expose. As a leading voice in Congress on the House Intelligence Committee and the Select Committee on Weaponization, I have worked to investigate and expose the Biden Administration’s collusion with Big Tech to censor Americans, the FBI’s illegal targeting of parents at school boards and traditional Catholics, the Russia collusion hoax, lawfare against President Trump and his allies, and the broader pattern of the deep state illegally targeting political opponents.

These bombshell records confirm that unaccountable special counsels and federal agencies used their power to secretly and unconstitutionally surveil elected representatives without proper legal process. Accessing the private communications of lawmakers is an assault on the separation of powers, Congressional independence, and the Constitutional rights of every American.

There must be criminal consequences for this egregious, unconstitutional, and illegal abuse of power targeting duly elected Members of Congress and the American people. Those responsible must be held fully accountable, and we must enact strong reforms to prevent any future administration from weaponizing government tools against the American people or their elected representatives.

The American people sent us to Washington to defend the Constitution, not to allow it to be shredded by politically motivated prosecutors. I will continue leading the fight against this weaponization and abuse of power until real accountability and lasting reforms are achieved."

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The company from India known as “IBM” had a huge negative day after issuing a Q2 warning on earnings.

The CEO from India has been firing all of the Americans as quickly as he can and shifted jobs to his family and friends in India. 140,000+ jobs now in India, compared to about 40,000 remaining in the USA.

It’s no surprise that the company is failing dramatically.

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@jenvanlaar Family. So important.

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@UncleWalt1971 And we're hoping for an Yzma coaster.

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@lamps_apple @ossoff I like your pictures. Really eye catching. Caused me to start reading your articles.

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@TonySeruga Is CCP trying to destroy New York?

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@icreatelife Getting back into AI film after a long absence taking care of family.

[Jobs.Now @JobsNowPR]

Going through the Sunday PERM classifieds today, I'm honestly feeling quite sad.

Every week when we do this, we are confronted with the truth - almost all of corporate America is built on American Visa Replacement.

Each one of these (hundreds) of ads represents a wealthy owner or executive who decided it was worth eliminating the livelihood of one of his countrymen to serve his own wealth.

The Visa Replacement Industrial Complex is one of the greatest betrayals of Americans in history.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

I am watching the Argentina vs. Switzerland match, and an idea just occurred to me that perfectly illustrates how ridiculous the communist utopia is.

There are only 70,000 seats in the stadium. Some seats are better than others.

Someone will sit on the fifty-yard line, someone else behind a concrete pillar. Someone will be close enough to hear the players talk, while another person will watch through binoculars.

How do you decide who gets what?

In a market economy, the people who value those seats the most pay for them. It may not produce equal outcomes, but it provides a clear and voluntary mechanism for allocating scarcity.

An egalitarian system has a much harder problem.

If everyone is equal, why should one person sit in the front row while another sits in the upper deck?

Should everyone enter a lottery? If so, should the winner be allowed to win again?

Should families be treated differently from individuals? Should people who contribute more to society receive priority?

If they do, equality has already disappeared. If they don’t, incentives begin to disappear.

Scarcity creates hierarchy.

The same problem appears everywhere.

There are only so many beachfront homes. Only so many tables by the window in a restaurant. Only so many appointments with the best surgeon. Only so many parking spaces close to the entrance. Only so many tickets to a sold-out concert. Only so many places at the country’s best universities.

Every society must answer the same question: who gets the scarce resource?

Markets answer through voluntary exchange. Bureaucracies answer through rules. Political systems answer through power. Lotteries answer through chance.

Egalitarian utopias constantly collide with reality.

Human beings differ in talent, effort, preferences, luck, ambition, and the value they place on particular goods.

Scarcity ensures that not everyone can have everything they want.

The irony is that societies built in the name of equality rarely eliminate hierarchy. They merely change who sits in the front row. Instead of customers choosing with their own money, officials choose through political influence, connections, or administrative power. The privileged class does not disappear; it simply changes its name.

The front row always exists. The only question is who decides who gets to sit there.

[Israel Army @IsraelArmyX]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇮🇷 Iran: "We have thousands of ballistic missiles ready."

🇺🇸 US Cyber ​​Command: Launched a massive cyberattack that disabled Iran's digital launch codes mid-operation.

They didn't even need to shoot the missiles down; they turned Iran's missiles into expensive paperweights.

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@lamps_apple @brian_armstrong Why? I believe they are achieving their goals. Their goals, however, are not your goals

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If I were the Department of Homeland Security,

I would acquire the non-juror list from the most populous counties in each state in the country.

You would obtain a list of non-residents.

Many of these non-residents are registered to vote &/or have voted.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

@RepTenney @RepTenney It's interesting to see that the fraud he found is concentrated in exactly the same geographic region that has the highest number of cloned voter roll records in NY.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

I lived in the Netherlands when the migrant crisis started. By the time I left 8 years later, it still hadn't hit it's peak.

Things changed during that time, and it wasn't subtle.

For the first 5 years, zero incidents. Then it was every year, then multiple per year, then, "whew, I just missed that one." However, they didn't all happen in the Netherlands.

The first two incidents I "just missed" happened on a photography trip I took to Thailand in July and August of 2015. On August 17th, days after visiting a shopping area near the Erawan Shrine, it was bombed by Muslim separatists. The next day, a pipe bomb loaded with TNT was tossed at pedestrians in line for the boat taxi at Sathorn Pier, the same pier I used almost every day due to its proximity to my hotel. Luckily, it missed and detonated in the water.

On August 21, 2015, heavily armed Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded the Thalys high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, intending to kill as many passengers as possible. He was foiled by a number of passengers, including two off-duty US soldiers.

The incident was made into the film, "The 15:17 to Paris." It was the same train my family took to go to Paris on the first leg of our trip to Paris Disneyland that same week.

Less than a month later, on September 18, 2015, my train to Rotterdam had a significant delay as a Dutch anti-terror team had closed the Rotterdam train station to investigate a man who had locked himself into a washroom on the same train used by the Paris attackers, claiming to have a bomb.

March 21, 2016, a good friend and his family arrived at Brussels airport for a flight to the US. Exactly 24 hours later, two suicide bombers hit that same terminal; a third bomb struck the Maalbeek metro station an hour after. Together, the attacks killed 32 people.

March 22, 2017, shortly after doing my dissertation defense at King's College, London, just two blocks away, Khalid Masood ran down about 50 people with a rented car on Westminster Bridge.

June 3, 2017, shortly after a trip to King's College, and having lunch at the Borough Market, three attackers first drove their vehicle into pedestrians, then emerged to attack as many pedestrians as possible with ceramic blades. They killed eight people.

June 17, 2018, my train to Rotterdam was delayed by the police. After arriving in Rotterdam, I discovered that a major terrorist plot had been foiled just 30 minutes earlier at the Rotterdam train station.

August 31, 2018, a week after I was there for a basketball game, an "asylum seeker" attacked a couple of American tourists with a knife at Amsterdam's main train station.

In addition, there were the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, and the Bataclan theater attack, part of the coordinated November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 and injured over 400.

That is what living in Europe at the time was like; stories like these seemed to happen every month, while smaller incidents, just as scary, but usually nipped in the bud or with smaller casualty counts, only made the local news.

I moved to the US in late 2018. What I see here, particularly in migrant-rich areas like Dearborn, MI and New York City, remind me of the early years of the crisis in Europe, before the incidents became commonplace.

[Old Vet @OldVetvp]

I decided not to go with windows 11 almost a year ago. With only a few exceptions, I was happy with Windows 10, had a perfectly good older laptop W10 ran well on, but Microsoft said nope, you got to buy a new PC. So I said nope I don't want Microsoft's intrusive, nosy fingers in my business anymore. I asked Grok how to install Linux on my old laptop and got a list of easy to understand and easy to follow instructions, and based on how I use my laptop Grok recommended Linux Mint Cinnamon. (there are several versions ranging from simple plug and play installations like cinnamon for casual users to more complex setups for power users). The instruction started with how to shrink the portion of my memory Windows was using on my laptop to leave a big hunk free for installing Linux, a simple three step (three clicks) process in Windows 10 that took 10 minutes. Then I just followed Grok's instructions for downloading Linux Mint Cinnamon from the website, saving it to a thumbdrive first so I could boot it up and play with it a bit to decide if I really wanted it or not. The final step was simply clicking on 'install alongside Windows', and the install program installed Linux with a dual boot menu allowing me to boot up windows 10 or Linux Mint Cinnamon when I turn on my computer. Windows 10 and all my Windows files are still there as an archive if I ever need it. Cinnamon comes with Libre Office with all the apps Microsoft office has and they all work very similar to Microsoft office. The whole thing worked great out of the box. Result: Except for moving all my windows 10 files to my Linux cinnamon, which is simply drag and drop, I've never booted up windows 10 again. No fees, no forced updates, no forced Microsoft account, no Microsoft spyware, and my old reliable laptop Microsoft rejected is still going strong with Linux and doing everything I need. Best move I've made in years.

[Palm Beach Film & TV @PBCFilmandTV]

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[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@data_republican My solution is to bring another suitcase.

[CoffeeGreg @TheCoffeeGreg]

@UncleWalt1971 Maybe highlight where the book is so I can look for it next time?