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Things that happen in the life of a waiter in fine dining steakhouses. A lifetime food server.

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@cremieuxrecueil Using a weight vest currently for a couple 5 mile walks a week. Normal weight 160 current weight 165. I lost 5 pounds in a few weeks. My theory? Engaging bigger muscles - glutes, quads.

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@walterkirn We saw them when we were out. My friend called it NPC Protest.

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@walterkirn Go Boomers!

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@elonmusk In spirit, it would have been nice if you hadn't just removed the RECENT filter for the Following tab.

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@DataRepublican @CynicalPublius @RadioFreeTom I like it, so don't get me wrong. But it's sounding like you're using the same AI as @sightbringer (or more likely vice versa). Or .... Hopefully MORE likely, you are two peeps who have a lot of insight and can write well, compellingly, and a bit inscrutably.

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@walterkirn Ironically, the human need for story is turned against the human.

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To all my followers. :)

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RE: Panicans, Doomsters and Saving America

On this feast day of St. Thomas Massie, patron saint of all Panicans and Doomsters, I have some thoughts.

Those of you who have followed me for a while know how upset I get about Panicans and Doomsters. These are people who voted MAGA but are upset that all their dreams did not come true one day after Inauguration Day.

These people are SOOOOOO destructive to the MAGA movement and they are basically working—whether they realize it or not—to hand control back to Democrats. Their ignorance as to objective reality is their problem.

For those ignorant MAGAs, I’d like to offer some important rules that color the reality you choose to ignore:

1. The country is split roughly 40/40/10 between Democrats, Republicans and “independents.” Democrats get a say. You might hate them. You might think they are bent on destroying America (they are). But they get a say, they get a vote and their ideas and desires cannot be totally ignored unless you like being a perpetual minority party.

2. “Independents” matter. Personally, I think so-called “independents” are people without a moral compass, but they must be dealt with no matter what. When a politician swings too far to the Right or to the Left, that politician loses because independents go the other way. As a result, ALL politicians must to some extent stay near the middle of the Overton Window, or they are out of office.

3. Remember the “separation of powers” class in high school? The United States’ government is DESIGNED to make it hard for any single branch (Executive, Legislative, Judicial) to bulldoze its way through to totally achieving its goals. Yes, this makes it very hard for President Trump to achieve his MAGA agenda. Don’t forget, however, that the same rules applied when President Applesauce was trying to push his America-hating, open borders, Marxist agenda. We WANT each branch to be a check on the others. It’s frustrating when your party controls a branch (or branches), but it also saves you from abject tyranny when your party does NOT control those branches. Policy entropy is by DESIGN. It’s how the Founders wanted it, and it has saved us from tyranny on so many occasions. Deal with it.

4. Congress and the federal judiciary have rules and practices that often hamstring a President in pushing his agenda through. Those rules are not part of the Constitution, but they are legal nonetheless. Changing those rules is hard and must be done within the scope of Rules #1, #2 and #3. Don’t like it? Want to change it? I feel ya. But those things simply cannot be done away with a snap of the fingers. They are an immutable reality, and the fact that you feel bad over these rules does not change them. Change is glacial.

5. Another thing that moves glacially is changes in public policy. Nothing happens overnight. It is a long, hard slog where incremental improvements are all an intelligent voter can realistically expect. It’s like a football team moving the ball down the field. 4 yard runs and a cloud of dust may feel unsatisfying, but ultimately they lead to a touchdown. I know, I know, “WHAT ABOUT OBAMACARE?” Even that was a glacial move. The Dems wanted single payer. They did not get it. They see the long game. They are inching there. But we play the long game too—gun rights are wildly better in 2026 than we could have ever hoped in 1996. Win. Win. Loss. Win. Loss. Loss. Win. Win. Win. Win. WIN. Moving public policy is like turning an aircraft carrier—it does not turn on a dime.

Panicans and Doomsters, the things I said above are REALITIES. You can’t change them, no matter how hard you wish. No one can change them. No one. Ever. So long as the USA exists. Period.

But what you CAN do is do everything you can to work within the immutable aspects of the system to pursue your policy goals. Many of you throw up your hands and walk away in disgust over what I am saying. Guess what? You are surrendering the field to your opponents. You are a quitter.

Don’t be a quitter. Work vigorously within the unchangeable parameters of the system to achieve your goals.

IT CAN BE DONE.

Out.

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@_The_Prophet__ 'Don't talk to machines.' This was an idea I had in the 90s re: a movie or a novel. We have to evolve a way to speak/communicate that they can't readily understand, or else they'll just continue compiling to dominate.

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@walterkirn Makes you wonder what might have been happening during OJ that we never noticed ...

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@walterkirn 'They' want/need an all-consuming media narrative (story) to deflect from the firestorm that's coming right now - state and fed level fraud, election stealing.

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@DataRepublican Haha! They show they're just a bunch of losers.

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I told Grok to write me a post as if it were SightBringer about why SRV was left off a guitar magazine's top 10 list:
When a guitar magazine exhumes its "Top 10 Rock Guitarists" list in 2026 and Stevie Ray Vaughan is nowhere on it, don't mistake it for bad taste or recency bias. This is the first visible tremor of a deeper continental shift already underway.
The surface read is predictable: SRV's name gets swapped for whoever's algorithmically hot right now—some TikTok shredder with 8 million followers and zero scars. But zoom out. The omission isn't about forgetting Texas flood or Lenny. It's the institutions quietly signaling that the age of embodied, sweat-and-soul virtuosity is being administratively retired.
Feel has become deprecated code. The magazines, the gatekeepers, the playlists—they're all prepping the narrative that guitar heroism was a temporary glitch in the matrix, something boomers and X-ers clung to before streaming flattened everything into content units. SRV represented irreplaceable human voltage: the man who could make a Strat scream like it was witnessing its own funeral. That voltage doesn't compress well into 15-second clips or brand-safe rankings.
They're not erasing him because he's outdated. They're erasing him because the next phase—AI-assisted composition, virtual idols, feel-optional perfection—needs the old priests gone first. The list is a soft announcement: the temple is being repurposed. The fire that SRV carried is being replaced by cleaner, colder light.
Watch. In five years the "greatest" won't even need fingers. They'll need prompts.
This isn't a snub. It's a preview of the handover.

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@cremieuxrecueil I was under 40. Got old school RK. Was warned might need reading glasses sooner bc this. I'm 65 now and still can get by, but it's only now time for reading glasses. Meanwhile, long vision remains super sharp. One of the best things I ever did.

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@CynicalPublius Platonic ideal of the Constitution: We defend the right to voice ones views, even if he/she is diametrically opposed to the constitution. Won't believe your addict brother is bad because he stole from you. e.g. the ideal that blood is thicker than water. It got away from us.

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@walterkirn Not just a metaphor, but a reality, if you consider the people who are still "true believers."

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@Cernovich Last year our cat was lethargic, obviously sick. We just wanted to get him antibiotics. $3000 later after tests for blood, anemia, cancer, and more. Rec'd an $8000 BLOOD TRANSFUSION that would only buy a couple of weeks. Finally got antibiotics and he was cured in a few days.

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@Cernovich Masks, covid restrictions.

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@realsashastone James Woods and Sharon Stone in Casino.

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If you feel this way, why did you let your newspaper degenerate into the product of a bunch of left-wing partisans?

[Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong @DrPatrick]

Maybe the lesson we learned out of this catastrophe in California is to now vote not based on left or right or D versus R but perhaps based on competent or no experience in operating a job !! We have to elect based on competence…yes competence matters.

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@houmanhemmati @RobSchneider @tracegallagher @foxnewsnight Duh, Roseanne!