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They’re caught in a trap 🪤🪤💥

THREE THINGS ARE IN PLACE.

My election observations... I'm titling it... "The Rope-a-Dope"... Trump is leaning against the ropes, congratulating the people throwing punches at him, while an entirely different fight unfolds around the ring... Three days before the midterms, Trump posted Muhammad Ali's 1971 defeat against Joe Frazier... that caught my attention because Ali's greatest strategic masterpiece came three years later against George Foreman... the rope-a-dope... Ali absorbed punishment against the ropes, allowing Foreman to exhaust himself while the crowd watched what appeared to be a losing fighter... then, in the eighth round, Ali came off those ropes and knocked Foreman out... Now look at November 3... Dems capture Congress, the media celebrates, and Trump congratulates his opponents, praises their performance, and offers cooperation... He distances himself from the losses, reminding everyone he wasn't on the ballot and still possesses presidential veto authority... See the positioning? He's absorbing the blows while his opponents inherit responsibility for what follows... Meanwhile another sequence was unfolding... in September, DOJ issued litigation holds covering election records in 29 states and Washington, D.C. On October 26, Trump announced a proposed $1 million election fraud reward, alongside DOJ's separate $10,000 to $30,000 fraud incentive program... On October 29, DOJ reinforced the 22-month federal election record preservation requirement, warning against deliberate destruction... Then just one day before the election, a Michigan judge permanently blocked deletion of original electronic pollbooks after certification, preserving underlying data and metadata... "watch Michigan"... Election evidence was being legally protected before the outcome was known... Simultaneously ~1,000 DOJ monitors and observers covered 126 jurisdictions across all 50 states... Hegseth mobilized military intelligence, Cyber Command, and the NSA against foreign interference, while DOJ's voter registration litigation tested federal authority against state sovereignty and privacy protections... Election Day produced localized scanner failures, ballot shortages, bomb threats, and disruptions. Federal cyber monitoring reported limited threats and no identified foreign influence operations by late election night... preserved records now provide a foundation for lawful audits and investigations... Zoom out and connect the systems... federal monitoring expanded as courts enforced constitutional boundaries... cyber defenses operated alongside evidence preservation... Congressional power shifted while the presidency retained its executive authority... and Trump is congratulating the Democrats... Ali understood this dynamic... Foreman's aggression, confidence, and energy expenditure became variables influencing the fight... the punches were landing while conditions for Ali's counterattack developed... Trump's Ali posts, his election response, and the institutional activity surrounding November 3 create a striking parallel... The congressional defeat is real, legal processes continue, election records remain preserved, and Trump retains his constitutional powers... Trump has absorbed the immediate political damage while positioning himself for the next phase... The Democrats have their victory, the spotlight, and the illusion of victory... Trump is about to move off the ropes and come out swinging...

With the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart, I'm seeing numbers of people being interested in checking out Star Trek. This is one of my favorite moments in the entire franchise Deja-Q Season 3 episode 13 Q, a god-like being stripped of his powers and left stranded on the Enterprise explores what it means to be a human alongside the Android Data. Two of my favorite characters together for an entire episode, presenting two diametric viewpoints. To this day I sometimes quantify how bad of a mood I'm in with chocolate sundaes.

🚨ARTICLE: The Shadow Cabinet of Soros🚨 This is the story of National Security Action, a secretive Soros NGO. Ten days after Trump's inauguration, a former Pentagon official publicly floated a military coup in Foreign Policy magazine. Within a year, she was advising a new Soros-funded organization that quietly assembled 70 former Obama national security officials under one roof. 46 of them went on to staff the Biden administration -- including the Secretary of State, CIA Director, DNI, NSA, and UN Ambassador. 88.6% were Obama alumni. The primary funder: the Open Society Action Fund. The same woman simultaneously sat on the funder's board and the organization's advisory council. She also co-founded the Transition Integrity Project and spent 14 years at New America developing doctrine on military refusal of orders. Read it here.

Chandler will always be the goat 🤣🤣😂😂😂

every man should own one of those for pure happiness #kart #karting #kartracing #motorsport #f1

I know everyone loves The Measure of Man but I've been convinced for a while now that some of his best acting was in this random episode from season 5, A Matter of Time. That's pure stage dialogue. He was so good. RIP

They used to just play shows like this on broadcast tv

💖 Actress Marina Sirtis Posts Heartbreaking Tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart! 💔 Posting on Instagram, she said: "He's gone. My friend. My Captain. Me fellow football fan" Sirtis and Stewart worked alongside each other across #StarTrek: The Next Generation, 4 movies and returned for #StarTrekPicard 🖖

💖 RIP Sir Patrick Stewart - #StarTrek's "Captain Jean-Luc Picard" Dies Age 86 🖖 The British actor, best known as Captain Picard in #TheNextGeneration and Charles Xavier in X-Men, has sadly passed away. 1940 - 2026 💔

Q told us to “track resignations.” This is a HUGE one. Christine Lagarde is stepping down from the European Central Bank (ECB). Her face having a big bandage is interesting. It’s not a “black eye” from the puppet masters of the “black eye” club, but it’s revealing that she would make this public announcement so long in advance, before her face is healed from some sort of injury. It’s a surprise announcement. Why now? I think she’s being FORCED out to make way for an “end” to central bank control of the financial system. Do not miss the importance of her “scheduled” departure. February 7. That’s nine months before her term ends. Why is that so important? Step back and look at the bigger picture. Several important things are now aligning to happen right around the time of her “resignation.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been rapidly building the stablecoin blockchain financial system, that will completely replace the world’s “fiat debt system.” First Scott Bessent hires Judy Shelton, the ultimate “gold standard” advocate as a counselor and now he adds David Zervos. Do you see what’s coming? Table being set. Please read my post (below) on the importance of Bessent adding Judy Shelton and David Zervos as counselors, helping him with the “transition” into the new financial system. But here’s what most people don’t know. David Zervos expects to leave the Treasury Department in April 2027, just a few months AFTER Christine Lagarde steps down from the ECB. Apparently the “transition” will likely be completed by April. Is the ECB ALREADY “captured?” Here’s something most people don’t know that I think is directly related to this changing of the guard at the ECB. Trump has ALREADY “captured” the IMF, which is going to play an important role. (Brave search) “The Trump administration, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has successfully pressured the IMF to refocus on core macroeconomic stability and financial surveillance while deprioritizing "non-core" issues like climate change and gender. This shift is evident in the structural changes implemented at the Fund.” Capitulation. And that’s not all. Do you know who is second and third in command at the IMF and next in line, to take control? (Brave search) “Personnel appointments at the IMF have also aligned with Trump’s preferences, such as the appointment of Bessent’s former chief of staff, Daniel Katz, to the second-highest position, and the selection of Chief Economist Silvana Tenreyro over a candidate deemed too confrontational toward U.S. policies.” ——— What are the odds that Bessent’s handpicked “former chief of staff” would be in position to take control of the IMF in the near future? The current IMF Managing Director is Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist who has led the Fund since October 2019. Will she resign too? Or has she ALREADY been “captured?” The end to the world’s “fiat debt system” looks to be happening “publicly” between February and April. Why then? An important piece of the PLAN is the Clarity Act, which sets the “legal guardrails” for the coming new “stablecoin blockchain financial system.” Why hasn’t it passed yet? Timing. Have you noticed that Trump and Bessent stopped “pressuring” Congress to pass the Clarity Act? Why? Trump realized a while ago, that the republicans are going to “win” the midterms. So there is no longer a “rush” to pass the Clarity Act by “compromising” with democrats. Trump knows a big RED WAVE is coming and a whole lot of his “personal handpicked endorsements” are going to WIN and make the incoming Congress, much more MAGA dominant. With a bigger MAGA Congress, Trump and Bessent won’t need to “water down” the Clarity Act and instead, can craft it in a way, that strengthens the new financial system, while ALSO speeding up the “transition.” It’s happening. All timed and planned. The table is going to be set for the GOLDEN AGE to begin, “early” in 2027. teapawt.net/joelange/status/210654…

Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul! A professor at the university asked his students the following question: Everything that exists was created by God? One student bravely answered: Yes, created by God. Did God create everything? - a professor asked. "Yes, sir," replied the student. The professor asked : If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil. The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth. Another student raised his hand and said: Can I ask you a question, professor? "Of course," replied the professor. A student got up and asked: Professor, is cold a thing? What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold? Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered: Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat. A student continued: Professor, does darkness exist? — Of course it exists. You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light. In the end, the young man asked the professor: Sir. does evil exist? This time it was uncertain, the professor answered: Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil. To this, the student answered: Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light. The student's name was Albert Einstein.

Microsoft is reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI threatens to replace thousands of jobs. The panel discusses the coming wave of AI-driven layoffs, the impact on H-1B workers, and the growing uncertainty facing the American workforce. "I'm telling you, these 60,000 Microsoft employees are going to become DSA so fast" -@Timcast @realTateBrown @rebekazeljko @PhilThatRemins

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