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Every billionaire's "started in a garage" story conveniently skips the parental loans, elite connections, and safety nets. Bezos got $300k from his parents. Gates' mom sat on IBM's board. Musk's family owned an emerald mine. The garage is just aesthetics; the capital was inherited. Stop calling it self-made when it's generationally funded.
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So here's what happened in today's Stupid Olympics.
There are two people named Dana White.
One is President and CEO of the UFC
The other is Dana W. White, who served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary James Mattis
Their pictures are below. He's the white guy. She's the Black woman. I'll call them UFC Dana and DOD Dana to make it easier for you.
Suzie Wiles, shortly before being replaced by Count Stephen Miller, advised Trump that his new Press Secretary should be Dana White.
And Trump in all his finite wisdom, immediately assumed the UFC Dana, who has never done anything to prepare him for press secretary, and not DOD Dana, whose entire career has been in preparation for that.
Now you might be saying, "Kelly, not everyone knows about DOD Dana. It's an honest mistake."
But he's NOT just "everyone." He's the President of the United States. And this is a man whose administration has been firing Black people, women, trans people, and so on, insisting that none of them got their job based on merit.
And then he's going to name someone completely unqualified to be Press Secretary because the President is a fan of the UFC.
And he didn't even think to ask anyone. It never even occurred to him to ponder whether UFC Dana is the person he should pick as Press Secretary.
Stupid and incurious are a dangerous combination, and this man is both of those things.
And that got me to thinking about the two Dan Sullivan in Alaska. And I get it now. The man who is too stupid to know the difference between two Dana Whites thinks Alaskans are too stupid to know the difference between two Dan Sullivans.
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Got to love you trashing the credibility of the guy who you partied with in June when he wrote this book about you.
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Dan Wootton
Piers Morgan
Good Morning Britain
The Daily Mail
The Sun
You all platformed Thomas Markle to attack Meghan
Your f*cking hypocrisy is nauseating.
#BBCBreakfast
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Misleading, and you know it. Undoing the economic damage of Brexit will increase tax revenues by far more than we will pay to Brussels.
You need to wake up. The first senior Tory to admit Brexit was a mistake will be the next Tory prime minister.
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Hilarious
BREAKING: Trump may have accidentally chosen the wrong Dana White for his White House Press Secretary offer.
There is a woman named "Dana White" who is the former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, more commonly known as the Pentagon's chief spokesperson, from April 2017 to the end of 2018.
She briefed the press from the Pentagon podium, and served as the principal media adviser and communications lead for the Secretary of Defense. She also was a Fox News publicist and worked at the conservative Heritage Foundation. She even started her career as a press secretary for the House Republican Conference.
Someone at the White House likely recommended her to Trump and he thought they meant UFC CEO Dana White, then went ahead and announced it on Truth Social thinking it's his UFC friend, and nobody around him was willing to correct him.
Furthermore, Trump is actively searching for a new press secretary after Karoline Leavitt left and Katie Zacharia lasted five days, so names are being pitched to him right now.
Per CNN, UFC's Dana White has declined the offer, and one aide now claims Trump was "joking."
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For years, @danwootton attacked Meghan for going no-contact with her father, exploited their estrangement, and repeatedly platformed Thomas Markle.Now he’s rewriting history. She was told by police in 2019 about the allegations and advised not to go public. It doesn’t look bad for her, it looks bad for people like Dan who spent years promoting the man now facing these charges. Also, the police were the ones who told her! #MeghanMarkle
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Anyone else enjoying the irony of Reform UK accounts claiming that Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain have a deal with the Conservatives?
When Nigel Farage actually did a deal with the Conservatives to hand them power in 2019, standing down over 300 of his candidates!
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Hi @McivorJaymey, are you part of the George Madgwick coverup?
What did you know, and when?
#MadgwickCoverUp
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Your war heroes wore field grey, had 'Gott mit uns' on their belts and dragged millions of people into the death camps.
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🤩 I do look forward to @Scaramucci compiling the British version: everything that broke Farage, the Conservatives and Brexit.
Because Brexit, Trumpism and tech oligarchy were never separate stories. They are ingredients in the same authoritarian cocktail:
🍹 manufactured grievance;
👺 dark money and billionaire influence;
⛏️data harvesting and targeted manipulation;
👹 scapegoating immigrants and minorities;
👿attacks on courts, regulators and independent media;
🤯deregulation dressed up as “freedom”;
🆘 power transferred from democratic institutions to unaccountable corporations.
America has begun rejecting the poison. Britain must now confront its own version and break the machinery that produced Brexit.
I put together a list of everything that broke the back of Trumpism.
The gas prices.
The unsanctioned war.
The massive corruption.
The incompetence.
The tariffs.
Playing nice with Russia.
The cruelty against American citizens.
The overly aggressive deportations.
The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic.
The ballroom.
The reflecting pool that doesn’t reflect.
The Qatari 747.
The aggressive redistricting push.
The threats against our allies.
By the way, I’m scratching the tip of the iceberg.
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@CameronDLWalker The people acting as TMs "close friends," his handlers and his financial enablers for the last eight years, were Caroline Graham and the Daily Mail. By the FBI's own standard, they are the ones who failed the test of vigilance.
#GBeebies
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I've seen a few articles about this regarding Reform and the RNLI, here's an account from a Lib Dem councillor who was in the chamber, all Reform care about is demonizing imigrants
markellis786819.substack.com…
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This week you are meant to believe
- Farage does not admire Putin
- Farage has not salivated over Trump for a decade
- Farage is unaware of arrests of people who work at head office
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Farage is trying to rewrite his past.
We won’t let him.
Watch this video and take the threat seriously.
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I mean, what can u say about a so-called 'journalist' who allowed herself to be pimped out to thomas markle by the Daily Mail. Then actively hid his crimes so she could use him to harass his daughter.
Caroline Graham has zero journalistic integrity - and time FBI check her phone
