Almost Virgil

Lover of X and the USA from Down Under

[Almost Virgil @viv_gee1]

@joejohntes @gotrice2024 @ItsEthanRay 4 skylights here, watertight for 20 years

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

No, Tom. Shut the fuck up and listen, Tom...

The man walked into that gilded snake pit at Davos and eviscerated the entire globalist cabal with the cold, unflinching precision of a predator who’s done toying with prey. On their stage. Under their lights. Broadcast on their networks. Forced every last one of them...those smug, self-appointed overlords...to sit in silence while he carved their rotten empire to the bone.

He didn’t scream. He didn’t need to. His voice was low, steady, absolute. Every sentence a kill shot.

He exposed the climate hoax for the multi-trillion-dollar wealth transfer it is. He named the open-borders agenda as the deliberate dilution of sovereign nations.

He called out the currency wars, the offshoring scams, the engineered collapse of Western industry...all of it orchestrated by the same parasites who lecture the rest of us about “sustainability” while burning jet fuel to fly their private fleets into Switzerland for a week of mutual back-patting and champagne.

This wasn’t anger. This was execution.

They perched there in their tailored hypocrisy...cashmere sweaters, bespoke suits, faces frozen in that practiced mask of enlightened concern...while the President of the United States looked them dead in the eye and ended their charade.

Politely. Ruthlessly.

He informed them, in plain language, that the days of America bankrolling their utopian delusions, their population-replacement schemes, their digital surveillance grid, their endless wars for “democracy”...all of it funded by the American taxpayer...are finished. Done. Over.

He put the entire Davos class...the unelected technocrats, the hedge-fund vampires, the NGO grifters, the media courtesans...on explicit notice: your reign of unchallenged arrogance is terminated. We see every tentacle of your operation. We know exactly what you are: a parasitic elite that has feasted on the productive class for decades while selling the corpse back to us as “progress.”

What you diagnose as “mental disturbance” is what unfiltered strength looks like to cowards who’ve spent their lives groveling before power.

What you label “embarrassing” is the sound of a sovereign people finally refusing to kneel.

What you find “dangerous” is the sight of your entire worldview collapsing in real time, live on global television, delivered by a man who cannot be bought, bullied, or bribed.

He didn’t just address that room. He spoke past them...directly to the hundreds of millions who’ve been looted, lectured, and lied to by these people. To every factory worker whose job was shipped overseas.

To every parent watching their child’s school being turned into an indoctrination camp. To every citizen tired of watching their borders erased while billionaires build moats around their own compounds.

That audience of predators just witnessed the beginning of their obsolescence. They felt it...the shift in the air, the sudden realization that the protection racket they’ve run for fifty years has a new sheriff, and he’s not asking nicely anymore.

They know what’s coming. They felt the ground move under their feet. And they’re terrified.

So go ahead, Tom. Keep clutching your pearls. Keep diagnosing from your safe, sanitized distance.

The rest of us recognize the sound of history correcting itself.

Sleep lightly. The reckoning isn’t coming.

It’s already here.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams, who foretold Trump’s rise and diagnosed America’s political sickness, dead at 68 | Joel Pollak, New York Post

Cartoonist, author, and political commentator Scott Adams died Tuesday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.

His ex-wife and caregiver, Shelly, made the announcement on Adams’ livestream Tuesday morning.

“Unfortunately, this isn’t good news,” Shelly said. “Of course, he waited ’til just before the show started, but he’s not with us anymore.”

Shelly read aloud a “final message” that Adams “wanted to say” on the livestream.

“If you’re reading this, things did not go well for me,” the message began. “I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as i write this January 1, 2026.”

After speaking about Christianity, Adams’ message said, “For the first part of my life, I was focused on making myself a worthy husband and parent as a way to find meaning. That worked — but marriages don’t always last forever, and mine ended in a highly amicable way. I’m grateful for those years and the people I came to call my family.”

Adams announced he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer in May 2025.

He said he had been dealing with his condition privately for some time before his public announcement, but noted that the cancer had progressed to Stage 4 and spread to his bones.

“I talked to my radiologist yesterday, and it’s all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero,” Adams said during his “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” podcast on Jan. 1. “I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.

“So there’s no chance that I’ll get my feeling back in my legs, and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day,” the iconic artist continued. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another.”

On Monday, Shelly confirmed Adams was in hospice at his home in Northern California and had only a few days left to live.

Adams became famous through “Dilbert,” the comic strip that poked fun at corporate culture with keen insight into the absurdity, cruelty and incompetence of management inside large organizations.

In his last decade and a half, however, Adams achieved wide influence through his business advice and political analysis.

His 2013 bestseller, “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,” is one of the most influential and entertaining business books of recent years.

In it, Adams introduced the concept of using systems, rather than goals, to achieve success in life. He also advised readers to accumulate skills — a “talent stack” — rather than traditional credentials.

In 2015, Adams began commenting on politics after observing the first Republican presidential primary debate. When then-candidate Donald Trump responded to a moderator’s question that accused him of mistreating women by interjecting, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Adams took notice.

A trained hypnotist, Adams predicted that Trump, then a huge underdog, would win the nomination — and the presidency.

Adams drew ridicule for his bold claim. But he looked increasingly prescient as Trump dispensed with his opponents, the Republican establishment, and — eventually — Hillary Clinton.

Adams used what he called the “persuasion filter”: Rather than judging whether political rhetoric was true or false, he simply evaluated it based on whether it was persuasive.

What began as a simple blog post became a daily live video stream — first on the now-defunct Periscope platform, then on a variety of outlets, including anti-cancel-culture Rumble (in which he had invested).

Adams began each show by brewing fresh coffee; he eventually called his livestream “Coffee with Scott Adams,” and it became required viewing, or listening, for millions of fans, who poured their own mugs and tuned in at 10 a.m. ET for the “simultaneous sip.”

While he excelled at explaining Trump’s tactics to a growing audience of Trump-supporting fans, Adams was also interested in explaining how Democrats, and the left-leaning media, interpreted events.

He explained that the country was often watching “two movies on one screen,” and argued — with great empathy for his opponents — that voters who felt genuinely frightened by Trump’s ascent had been led into an emotional cul-de-sac by cynical leaders.

Adams emphasized that he was not a Republican: “I’m further left than Bernie Sanders,” he reminded viewers. He even endorsed Clinton in 2016 — for his own safety, he said. But he drew a conservative audience that soon included Trump’s own advisers.

In 2017, Adams published “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter,” in which he extrapolated the lessons of Trump’s unlikely victory. He followed that with “Loserthink,” using his critiques of stale thinking in the media to teach positive mental habits.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Adams added an evening “swaddle,” in which he wrapped himself in a flannel blanket, and offered advice for surviving lockdowns. One of his ideas was a concept he called “the user interface for reality.” Given that we can only see reality through our own individual filters, he explained, we can choose which filter to use.

The “Dilbert” filter, for example, predicted incompetence; the Trump filter anticipated victory. By adopting filters that guide us toward success, Adams argued, we not only convince ourselves that success is possible, but bend reality toward that outcome.

While generally pro-Trump, Adams was critical of the president on occasion, and also took unexpected political stances. When then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began “taking a knee” for the national anthem in support of the fledgling Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Adams supported him, and admired the persuasive success of his protest. He even offered advice to leaders within BLM, notably New York’s Hawk Newsome.

In 2023, he was accused of racism when he commented on a Rasmussen poll in which only 53% of black respondents agreed with the statement: “It’s OK to be white.”

Adams quipped that it would be good to move away from people who felt that degree of hostility. He immediately found himself “canceled” — his comic strip dropped, his publishing contracts terminated.

He began self-publishing his books, including “Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success.” He relaunched an edgier version of “Dilbert” on the independent Locals platform, and felt liberated to express his more controversial political views — such as that the 2020 election had likely been “rigged,” given the increasingly evident corruption of nearly every other government system.

In the last weeks of his life, he posted on X, asking readers to share personal stories about how they had been affected by his teachings and podcasts. Adams shared intimate, and often painful, details of his life — losing a stepson to a fentanyl overdose in 2018, suffering through a second divorce in 2022, and fighting cancer.

He also embraced Christianity in his final days. While he would not divulge details about his faith, he confirmed his conversion in a final message that Shelly read on Tuesday’s livestream.

He reframed death, as he had reframed life: Just one more filter — and not one to fear.

https://t.co/Bp4LZJm5jD

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

One of these men was banned from Australia.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person.

Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black.

Imagine them being honored as black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk to the President about issues facing the black community, being supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class.

Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way.

Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them, carrying threatening signs and air horns to drown out any speakers with noise. Imagine them coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are.

Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black.

Now imagine the government supporting their demands.

That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used to be female-only spaces. Our oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them.

If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women.

[Almost Virgil @viv_gee1]

Mm

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Poverty rate in Argentina, one can literally see in this chart when Javier Milei started his free market reforms.

Free market works, and it works really fast.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Matt Ridley, ex-science editor at The Economist, comprehensively dismantles the "climate crisis" narrative:

"We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today... So we're not in a period of unprecedented warmth."

"We're not in a period of unprecedentedly fast warmth. We're not in a period of increasing extreme weather, floods, droughts, storms."

"The carbon dioxide we're putting in the air is having a very measurable effect that's beneficial... And that is global greening."

"And yet, there are so many vested interests now in continuing to talk about it as a crisis... that I'll not get a hearing for what I just said."

Credit: @mattwridley @triggerpod

[Chris Ripa @CHRISsW0RLD]

His clarity was unreal…

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Funny how they always thought they could do a Gotcha moment on Charlie and it never happened 🤣😂

[SonnyBoy🇺🇸 @gotrice2024]

His explanation about the cross dressers is spot on. They are mad at god because the they feel he didn’t make them the way they wanted him to. While claiming that they fail to acknowledge that god does not make mistakes. He made them exactly the way they were meant to be.

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

🚨BREAKING: This beautiful 3 minute and 48 second compilation of Charlie's words of wisdom has gone viral. Rest in peace.

[Girl patriot 🙏 🇺🇸 🦅 @Girlpatriot1974]

THE CHARLIE EFFECT.

This man has never owned a suit.
He's never believed in God.
He's going to church to wear it because of Charlie. He wants to be a better father, husband, and leader for his family.
🙏✝️

#WeAreCharlie

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

CELEBRATING ASSASSINATION SHOULD COME WITH CONSEQUENCES

The bullets that killed Charlie Kirk may have come from one man, but the applause came from many. And that’s not just disgraceful - it’s disqualifying.

Within hours of Charlie's assassination, social media lit up not with mourning, but with memes. Think pieces disguised as victory laps. Hashtags that read like confessions. People didn’t just shrug at the killing of a political figure - they cheered it.

This isn’t a “free speech” issue. This is a moral failure. Celebrating an assassination isn’t edgy, or radical, or part of some cathartic online purge. It’s a rot - the kind that eats through the floorboards of a functioning society.

When public figures, influencers, and anonymous cowards alike all treat political murder like a vibe check, it’s time to stop pretending we’re still in a political debate. We’re in a culture that is, apparently, cool with blood.

And no, we don’t need a new law to say this is grotesque. We need standards. Consequences. Some basic line that says: if you treat the murder of someone you disagree with as a punchline or a political win, you don’t get a seat at the adult table anymore. You don’t get tenure. You don’t get sponsors. You don’t get platformed.

Because here’s what happens when we look away: tomorrow’s assassin sees yesterday’s trending hashtag and thinks, “Maybe I’ll be next week’s hero.” The celebration isn’t separate from the act - it’s fuel. It legitimizes it. It invites more.

If the political spectrum were reversed, and someone from the left had been gunned down while giving a speech, we’d already be drowning in statements, firings, cancellations, and FBI subpoenas. But because it’s Charlie Kirk - a name many love to hate - some people decided basic human decency could take the day off.

That’s not justice. That’s selective morality. That’s tribalism soaked in blood.

The assassination of a political figure should be a line everyone agrees not to cross. And so should celebrating it. If you crossed that line online, in print, or in public - you should be held accountable. Because a society that winks at murder is one step away from normalizing it.

[Dennis Prager @DennisPrager]

As an American, as a Jew, and as Dennis, I am devastated at the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The truth is, as I write these words, I can’t believe I am writing them. I am in the denial stage of mourning.

As an American, we have lost the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system—a country founded to be free, based on Jerusalem and Athens, the Judeo-Christian value system and the Greek emphasis on logic and reason. Charlie was a uniquely gifted individual who, in his teens, created the largest movement of young Americans committed to preserving and growing America and its ideals. He tirelessly went from campus to campus, from Oxford to Utah, dialoging with any student who wished to debate him. Using his vast reservoir of facts and his exceptionally speedy and articulate mind, he gave them what seemed to be unlimited amounts of time, and then calmy eviscerated all their anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Judeo-Christian positions. I watched an inordinate number of these exchanges and thanked God that Charlie Kirk was there to do this work. America’s youth in particular have lost a moral and intellectual leader, one who would, perhaps, have one day become their president.

As a committed Jew, I thank God regularly that a non-Jew, a committed Christian, became one of the few great public spokesmen on behalf of Israel the Jewish communities outside of Israel. Few Jews could match Charlie’s knowledge and eloquent arguments on behalf of those two entities.

As Dennis, I have lost a very close friend. Charlie repeatedly visited me in the various hospitals that I have been in since November 12 of last year, when I suffered a catastrophic fall which has left me paralyzed. When members of the nursing staff heard that Charlie Kirk was visiting me, my room became the most popular one in the hospital. Charlie brought me the manuscript of his forthcoming book arguing that everyone—Christians as well as Jews—should observe Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, just as he and his family had begun to do from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It is a measure of our close relationship that he dedicated the book to me. His brilliant exposition of these arguments provide clear evidence for the non-necessity of a college education for most young Americans.

My heart breaks for his young widow, Erika, and for his two children, who have lost as great a man and a father as children can have. And for Charlie, who did not live to see them grow up. For one of the first times in my 20 years with my wife, Sue, I have seen her sob uncontrollably. The Prager home is in deep mourning, as are the homes of countless Americans. The loss to us personally and to the country generally is immeasurable.

[Almost Virgil @viv_gee1]

In Australia, @ScottAdamsSays is live soon after midnight, but I like to listen to him the following day because he brings clarity and joy which are best enjoyed in the light. I introduced him to my other half last year and we listened to him together until a few weeks ago, when my other half shuffled off this mortal coil. You’ll be in good company, Scott.
God speed.

[trey wingo @wingoz]

If you’re wondering how every horse in the Kentucky Derby was a direct descendant of Secretariat…this is the non photo shopped version of his win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes…31 lengths clear of the entire field

[AG 🔥 @Yolo304741]

Omg 😂

[Almost Virgil @viv_gee1]

@TurnbullMalcolm What happened to you @TurnbullMalcolm? You have become the miserable ghost you promised not to be

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Just because Hamas chose to hide behind civilians and had 15 years to build tunnels under a city doesn’t mean they get to escape responsibility for the October 7th Massacre.

@coldxman is right about this. No other country would have accepted it and Israel won’t either.