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Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.
An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.
His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.
Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."
On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.
The next night, he came back with about fifty.
After that, they let him go out alone.
He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.
On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.
Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.
His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."
Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.
He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.
An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.
On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
I think we're entering a civilizational rupture that nobody can predict. Not me, not the labs, not governments.
I don't know how much people realize how fast we're moving.
Look at what Anthropic's new model did during testing.
It solved two open problems in theoretical physics, both on black holes. One of the calculations was laid out in 2003 and nobody had ever finished it, because it was too laborious.
It formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours, with a thousand agents that organized themselves. The first attempt took 11 days.
It wrote an operating system that boots on a laptop, starting from an empty folder, in 8 days.
It designed three electronic devices, boards, enclosures and software included. All three worked without a single electrical modification.
It found a new method to predict the structure of viral capsids, the shells used to deliver gene therapies.
And on robot control, it more than doubled the previous version's score.
All of that in a single announcement, on a Monday.
I think discoveries are going to stack up so fast that they'll produce an abundance we've never known: energy, health, materials, food. And with it a phase of immense joy, the joy of a civilization realizing that scarcity was never a law of nature.
Except that joy is going to land in a world order that's cracking everywhere, and that was designed by Malthusians. People convinced that resources are finite, that there are too many of us, and that the job of an enlightened elite is to manage scarcity on everyone else's behalf.
To me, Bill Gates is the most famous face of that worldview: a man nobody elected, who has weighed on the planet's health, agriculture and climate policies for twenty years. The degrowth crowd is the militant version. They don't even want to manage scarcity anymore, they want to organize it.
Abundance is the worst possible news for that worldview. If energy becomes nearly free and diseases fall one after another, nobody needs anyone to ration anything for them.
So I don't think they'll fight it. I think they'll try to capture it.
In the name of safety, climate or public health, we'll be told this power is too dangerous to be left in everyone's hands. We already saw the movie during Covid: the permission slips, the passes, the QR code to go get a coffee. Now imagine the same logic with an AI that can see everything, trace everything and decide everything in real time. Orwell never imagined a tool like that.
The technology is winning on its own. The question of the next ten years is who abundance will belong to.
We are living through the greatest civilizational revolution in human history. It's happening right now, and most people are looking the other way.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
MY FRIENDS!
IT'S OFFICIAL!!!
PFIZER HAS JUST PUBLISHED THE LIST OF POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS,
OF ITS « COVID VACCINE »!!!
IT'S CRIMINAL!
1) Blood clot,
2) Acute kidney injury,
3) Acute flaccid myelitis,
4) Positive anti-sperm antibodies,
5) Brainstem embolism,
6) Brainstem thrombosis,
7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
😎 Heart failure,
*** 9) Cardiac ventricular thrombosis...
10) Cardiogenic shock,
11) Central nervous system vasculitis,
12) Neonatal death,
13) Deep vein thrombosis,
14) Brainstem encephalitis,
15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,
17) Epileptic psychosis,
18) Facial paralysis,
19) Fetal distress syndrome,
20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
22) Hashimoto's encephalopathy,
23) Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
24) Shingles reactivation,
25) *** Cancer reactivation...
26) Turbo cancers,
27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,
28) Interstitial lung disease,
29) Jugular vein embolism,
30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
31) Liver damage,
32) Low birth weight,
34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
35) Myocarditis,
36) Neonatal seizure,
37) Pancreatitis,
38) Pneumonia,
39) Stillbirth,
40) Tachycardia,
41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,
43) Testicular autoimmunity,
44) Thrombotic stroke,
45) Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
46) Neonatal vein thrombosis,
47) Vertebral artery thrombosis,
48) Pericarditis,
49) Sudden infant death syndrome.
SEVERE CONSEQUENCES of a so-called vaccine that protects neither against the disease, nor its transmission, nor severe forms!
" I was insulted, called a dangerous conspiracy theorist, I lost friends for saying that, for any medication, there are side effects, for loudly proclaiming that a so-called vaccine, which kills more than the disease, has no reason to be used, nor made mandatory.
I lost my job as a surgeon because of it! "
Doctor RESIMONT
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
In Most Hilarious Bit Yet, Chappelle Brings Young Dad On Stage And Murders Him buff.ly/xEbjXjU
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
The country that stood around and watched 250,000 British girls get raped by Pakistani migrants draws the line at Russell Brand.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
The cruel irony:
Charlie Kirk died defending free speech for people like Dave Chappelle, who celebrates his death, while the people who wanted to kill Charlie also want Chappelle dead for making trans jokes.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
A guy goes into a bar in New York where the bartender is a robot.
The guy sits down at the bar, and the robot asks: "What will you have?
The guy replies, "Whiskey."
The robot brings back his drink and asks, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "168."
The robot talks about physics, space exploration, and medical technology.
After the guy leaves, he pauses at the street corner and thinks about what he just encountered, and the more he thinks about it, the more curious he gets, so he decides to go back.
The robot asks, "What's your drink?"
The guy answers, "Whiskey."
The robot returns with his drink and asks, "What's your IQ?"
This time, the man replies "100."
The robot talks about NASCAR, Budweiser, Awbarn, and professional wrestling.
The man finishes his drink and leaves, but he is so interested in this "experiment" that he decides he'll try again.
He enters the bar and, as usual, the robot asks him what he wants to drink.
The man replies, "Whiskey."
The robot brings the drink and asks, "What's your IQ?"
This time, the man answers "50."
The robot leans in real close and s-l-o-w-l-y says, "How awesome is Mamdani’s rent freeze? It surely will help the housing problem.”
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
The men who wrote the Constitution owned guns, distrusted bankers, and believed taxation without consent was worth dying over. They would not recognize the country operating under their name today.
Federal spending crossed $7 trillion per year. The income tax, which the founders explicitly rejected, now reaches into every paycheck you earn before you touch a dollar of it. The Federal Reserve, a central bank of the exact type Jefferson warned would strip citizens of property through inflation, has spent the last two decades aggressively expanding the money supply and handing you the bill through rising prices.
The founders drew the federal government's powers in a short, specific list. Congress could coin money, raise an army, and regulate interstate trade. What it could not do is not in that list, because the founders assumed the limits were obvious. They were wrong to assume that.
Today the federal government licenses your profession, subsidizes your competitor, dictates your health plan, and surveils your financial transactions above $600. The administrative state, staffed by unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, SEC, EPA, and an estimated 430 other agencies, writes rules carrying the force of law without a single congressional vote. Madison called this precise arrangement tyranny in The Federalist Papers(No. 47).
The founders risked hanging to escape a government that taxed tea at 3%. You hand over 30 percent of your income and are supposed to thank the state for the privilege of keeping the rest.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
Why you should all be eating more steak.
Not because you need convincing. Apparently some of you do, so here we are.
Haem iron. Absorbed at 25 to 35%. The iron in lentils gets looked at by your gut, briefly, and waved through at about 2.
The fat. Mostly stearic acid, which your liver turns into oleic acid, the exact molecule every cardiologist praises when the olive oil comes out at dinner. Beef has carried it the whole time. Nobody says so at dinner.
Zinc. Selenium. B12. Creatine. All present, all absorbed, no capsule, no subscription, no renewal date 3 months after you forgot to cancel.
Complete protein, every essential amino acid, in ratios that match human muscle so closely it should raise questions. Your body does not have to work out what this is. It has known for 2 million years.
Saturated fat, for cell membranes, for hormones, for the nervous system. The fat your brain is largely built from. The fat 65 years of guidelines told you to fear, on the strength of a study that had 22 countries available and used 6.
Omega-6: almost none. The steak keeps the ratio. The bottle you cook it in wrecks it. The oil was always the problem and the steak never was.
No lectins. No oxalates. No phytates queuing up in your gut to block the minerals. It goes in. It works.
65% of British farmland cannot grow a crop. It grows grass, the cow eats the grass, and the choice on that hill was only ever between a steak and nothing.
Never stops being delicious.
Not a single gram of it is vegan.
That last point is nutritionally irrelevant. It stays.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
Please help us identify this man who on 10/12, in 2 separate incidents, randomly punched two men (ages 48 & 80) as he walked past them on Broadway. The unprovoked attacks happened so quickly both men were knocked out. Neither realized they’d been assaulted until days after when surveillance footage was reviewed. The 80-year-old man woke up at Vanderbilt after spending 4 days in the ICU with a brain bleed & fractured ribs. No similar incidents have been reported since. Recognize him? Call 615-742-7463.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
David Hatley proved only 1 thing.
An Independent is the best route to turning Tennessee Blue 🟦.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
Ten Random Election Night Thoughts:
1. Democrats in power is good business for conservative media and podcasters. Take that for what it is worth.
2. Half of Americans have an IQ of 100 or less.
3. Why is a midterm loss for the Presidential incumbent’s party so common? Are people really that shortsighted and devoid of animating principles? And I mean this in a non-partisan way. Who votes for Obama in 2008 and then helps the GOP win in 2010? Who votes for Trump in 2024 and then helps the Dems win in 2026? Are Americans really that stupidly fickle?
4. Why can’t every state count its votes in a few hours like Florida?
5. Democrat voters are like locusts. They ravage one state, escape that state to a good and decent state, and then turn their new state into the same hellhole they just left. Don’t believe me? Ask Colorado. Now, Texas, apparently.
6. Thune is happy right now.
7. The silver lining is that the Dems are going to accomplish nothing in the next two years other than to run endless, silly investigations and impeachments, which will make them look impotent and weak headed into 2028.
8. Trump is about to be unleashed. He has no midterms to worry about and he probably could care less about the campaign of the 2028 GOP nominee, JD or otherwise. “Unitary executive” is about to take on a new meaning.
9. If I was whomever is in charge of Iran at the moment, I’d be looking at properties in the Cayman Islands.
10. The legacy media still has more power than most conservatives are willing to acknowledge.
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
Well
Zelensky is very happy tonight
Iran is very happy tonight
China is very happy tonight
Trans ped0s are very happy tonight
Criminals are very happy tonight
Illegal invaders are very happy tonight
Charles Pontificates 🇺🇸 retweeted
I’m glad I live in Tennessee. Where people aren’t crazy.
Tennessee is ruby red. 9-0 Republican delegation for first time ever. Congrats to @BillHagertyTN on his re-election. Headed to emcee @VoteMarsha’s gubernatorial election party now.