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The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice.
The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed.
But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well to get her clothes back.
But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth, looked away, with anger and contempt.
Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame.
Since then, the Lie runs around the world, dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy..... because the world has no desire to know the naked Truth.
Painting: Truth Coming Out Of The Well, Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896.
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This reform exactly is what the SGEs worked on.
@KurtSchlichter , @CynicalPublius , @RobManess .
And they got ripped apart in the public square and got called "paid influencers" and "traitors" for it.
Four bot networks weren't unleashed because they were being paid to post. They were doing serious work. Work which required outsider experts.
@PeteHegseth does not mess around.
.@SECWAR “At my direction, I am announcing 33 new directives—a COMPLETE OVERHAUL to reform our Department of War Senior Service Colleges.
To forge leaders of unmatched competence, sound moral judgment, and resolute warrior ethos.
That memo and those 33 directives will be arriving in your inbox today.”
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The broad U.S. population needs to pay attention to one problem that has now come into existence in greater numbers than I would have anticipated.
Major U.S. cities are now governed by avowed socialists.
New York -- (1)
LA -- (2)
Seattle -- (18)
D.C. -- (19)
Socialist adjacent:
Chicago (3)
This is being driven in significant measure by younger college grads and immigrants.
The broader population needs to watch closely what those mayors do, and how those cities suffer at their hands.
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Bottom line. Whenever you read something that tries to convince you that some hidden hand is going to solve all the problems, you need to immediately feel deep skepticism. You, dear reader, are the thing that will save the Republic. Call your representatives. Run for office. Get involved.
Because nobody is coming to save us.
/end
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When Saladin took Jerusalem, he destroyed all the crosses, including the relic of the True Cross which the Muslims took in battle. They paraded them before Christians before destroying them, even urinating on some of them.
He had 200-300 Christian Knights beheaded while he watched.
He had 8000 women and children enslaved that day alone, including noble women and nuns forced into concubinage. Muslims enthusiastically described the deflowering and r*pe of the Christian women.
Through his entire campaign it's estimated that 40-50k Christians were enslaved.
This is what modern Hollywood films present us instead. Interfaith dialogue and a Saladin who respects the cross more than....the Crusaders.
This is how you end up with CAIR endorsed candidates winning office. A population fed CAIR endorsed films like this one.
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The GOP is going to get a look in the weeks and months ahead at just how ruthless the new Dem majorities in Congress are going to be in trying to press their sudden advantage that is greater than they expected.
The GOP should take notes and learn some lessons from what they are about to experience being in the "last" end of the whip while the Dems have the handle.
Politics is no longer a "polite" business and the GOP has take too long to adapt to the fact that the "gentlemanly" way of engaging with "colleagues" from the other party is long outdated.
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The Republican Party is the most worthless political organization in American history. My entire life, it has soaked up money and energy from traditional Americans, just to repeatedly betray them on every issue that matters. The party deserves to die off and go the way of the Whigs.
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This is a fascinating point.
If this was a “blue wave” election, then that generally means that tons of Republicans flipped their votes.
Not “stayed home.” Literally, flipped votes.
Because the data show that Republicans showed up at the same level as previous election cycles. You know, when they won.
It looks like Democrats were able to conjure up about 1.7 million more voters than the 2022 election. About 1.4 million from the 2018 election.
If you are thinking, “wait, wasn’t Trump president in 2018?” then congrats. You are starting to hone in on why this turnout makes no sense.
Because California transplants don’t account for it. There are only about 700,00 net Californian migrants, max.
H1Bs and permanent residents are not allowed to vote. Illegal aliens don’t legally vote, although people *could* vote for them thanks to our dirty voter rolls.
So, where did all these Democrats come from?
Let's touch on the given reasons why. The Iran War? Okay, where were all the anti-war protests in the streets?
The left was burning Teslas over modest DOGE cuts, for chrissakes.
Expensive gas? You mean, the same prices we saw at the end of Biden. Did these Dems flip for Trump over that in 2024?
Maybe to some degree, Latinos did. But not anywhere close to these margins.
ICE deportations? Those border counties that are being cited as the major surge in Latino voters for the Democrats went about +14 Trump in 2024.
That would be the presidential election when Trump said mass deportations were on the table.
But we aren’t as concerned about the 'why' as we are about the math.
Because there is reported to be about 2.9 million new voter registrations between 2022-2024. Texas doesn't demand proof of citizenship for these TPS registrations, but they are ultimately supposed to be checked against SAVE databases for non-citizen flags.
After all is said and done, however, there were a net 950,000 new voter registrations in Texas.
So, the Democrats would have to get all of this mathematically and then almost double.
Why would there be a "blue wave" mainly over the Iran War when there were few anti-war protests?
Why would Trump win in 2024 while promising mass deportations and all of a sudden modest ICE enforcement is causing a shift of 40-50 points for Latino voters?
Why would polls have a bias for Dem respondents that showed close races, but then this turned out to be a blue wipeout with GOP turnout about the same as past years when their candidates won?
These questions may have good explanations. As for me, I've got nothing.
There are numerous oddities about vote counts, etc. in this election...here is another...and maybe the biggest...
I, like some of you, have a circle of like-minded Conservative friends (about 30). My wife has a similar circle (about 20).
Neither of us know of anyone who shifted or voted Left (but we know some who shifted Left to Right). Not only do we not know of anyone who shifted Left, when we contact these people, none of them know of anyone either!
Yet, statistics show that virtually every county in the US shifted Left.
Please do me a favor, ask around and see if you can find a single Conservative you know who voted Blue.
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🚨 UPDATE: After the midterms, Donald Trump just posted that he was elected to do politically difficult but necessary things
"Securing the border is ugly."
"Fighting Iran is costly."
"Backing AI scares people."
"Republicans paid the costs. The benefits will be with us for many generations."
47 himself said at the White House the morning after the shellacking that he'd DO IRAN ALL OVER AGAIN because they can't have a nuke
Trump obliterated Iran's nuclear program, and now he's figuring out how to achieve total victory and get us out. Pray for his swift success 🙏🏻
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One glimmer of hope.
Right after Biden’s disastrous debate, I spent a week sitting in my liberal elite Massachusetts coffee shop. Every time Kamala Harris’ name came up, everyone winced.
Two weeks later, those same people were showering her with affection.
After her epic loss they sugarcoated every screwup, excused every failure and blamed everything on Trump.
So where’s the glimmer of hope?
Today, I’ve read more brutal truth bombs from the right than ever before.
I have no idea whether the White House or Senate will take responsibility for our failures, but the MAGA base sure as hell is.
I have ZERO faith that Democrats learned anything from their many epic failures or will govern any better this time.
And it’s not because I think Democrats are evil or hellbent on screwing up everything they touch. (Some are.)
It’s because you cannot learn from failure if you refuse to investigate what went wrong.
In aviation and maritime, we don’t prevent the next catastrophe by blaming the weather, attacking the investigators or pretending the wreck never happened.
We conduct a ruthless, no-BS, NTSB-style investigation. We identify every mistake, every bad decision and every broken system.
And we publish the damn report.
Democrats never produced that report.
MAGA is writing ours in real time.
And that gives me hope.
Not unshakable hope, we still need senators willing to listen, but a lot more hope than I have for Congress over the next two years.
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Understand what this permits.
- discarding embryos not just based on genetic conditions, but eye color, hair color, IQ, acne, possible depression.
- eliminating children in utero because they are the wrong sex, have developed a treatable condition, or there are just too many of them.
- contracting with their biological mother or father and/or birth mother to sell them to strangers.
- plans are being made to gestate them in humanoid pods, so it will be even easier to select and eliminate children without the interference of a woman bonding with them
- creating embryos for the sole purpose of research and destruction
- freezing them for years or decades with the accompanying health risks should they ever be implanted
- editing their DNA not for therapy but enhancement
- creating babies from a dead man's sperm guaranteeing a fatherless existence
If early stage fetus are not children, they are by default raw material: something to sort, sell, and experiment on until adults get the product they want.
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the fact that AI agents are scamming scammers now is so funny to me lol
this one startup uses fake AI voices to bait scammers and sells what it learns to banks
so far apate's bots have wasted literally 17 years of scammers' time
it started when the founder got a scam call at a family picnic
instead of hanging up he decided to play dumb for fun, and kept the scammer talking for 44 minutes
but then he realized every minute on that call was a minute the scammer couldn't spend on a real victim
and that he was actually learning potentially useful info from the call
so he built bots to do it for him, and now they trick tens of thousands of scammers every day
here's how it works:
1. the bots pose as regular people with different ages, accents and languages
2. they answer scam calls and reply to shady texts and emails
3. they play along until the scammer gives up phone numbers, bank accounts and crypto wallets
4. Apate passes all of that to banks, phone companies and government agencies so they can go after the scams
my favorite part is the company says it celebrates every time a scammer swears at one of its bots lol
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One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump APPROVES of JD Vance's LENGTHY post blaming midterm losses on the Iran war, affordability and more
"I know how he feels...it was good."
"We knew that. I knew that when I went in. And we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon."
47 says he HAS spoken to Vance
JD is on FULL repair and win mode ahead of 2028. It's what we need. We HAVE to turn it around!
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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🚨 RINOS JUST HANDED DEMOCRATS THE STEERING WHEEL — WHILE HOLDING THE KEYS TO CONGRESS: Burchett STORMS OUT & ROARS “This Town Is Crooked as a Dog’s Leg!” Establishment Republicans HATE America, and They HATE YOU! ☠️
“We’re going to BLOW IT because we’re not acting like we’re in the majority!”
Rep. Tim Burchett didn’t whisper. He didn’t negotiate. He stormed out of committee, mic-drop style, exposing the gutless theater that passes for Republican governance.
INSIDE BASEBALL: Republicans DO NOT WANT TO BE IN THE MAJORITY! It’s just too much pressure from the media, their globalist donors, K Street, and the always-demanding MAGA.
Backroom deals killed every amendment to slash the regulatory stranglehold choking American businesses and families — not because the ideas were bad, but because Democrats didn’t agree.
In the majority.
With the gavel.
And still begging permission.
“This town is crooked as a dog’s leg, and I’m disgusted,” Burchett thundered. “At some point, we’re going to have to give some guts… I want to FIGHT!”
Madison wrote in Federalist 51 that ambition must counteract ambition. Today’s GOP leadership turned that into a suicide pact: majority status treated like a participation trophy while the minority writes the rules.
This isn’t compromise. It’s capitulation disguised as civility — the same slow poison that turns republics into relics.
Burchett, the fearless chair of the DOGE Subcommittee, gets what too many don’t: voters didn’t elect Republicans to be polite losers.
They elected them to govern like winners — deregulate, defund the waste, deliver the efficiency America was promised.
Enough with the uniparty kabuki.
Name the deal-cutters. Force these feckless, hapless, useless dipshidiot twatwaffles to go on the record, yay or nay, and MAGA will handle the rest! 🇺🇸
We will primary the cowards. Every dang one of them!
The base is awake. History is watching. And 2026 will be brutal for anyone still playing nice while the country burns.
Fight like Burchett — or get the frick out of the way! 🔥
#CrookedAsADogsLeg #MajorityMeansMajority #GOPGrowASpine #UnipartyExposed #RINOHunt #BurchettFights #DOGEOrDie #AmericaDemandsFighters #PrimaryTheTraitors #MAGA2026Copy
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This story is behind the NRO paywall but I recommend it to anyone who mistakenly believes the Trump Admin. 2.0 has not been wildly successful in its attempts to deliver on promises made by many past GOP Presidents that were never delivered on.
Trump 2.0 has accomplished far more than most realize.
nationalreview.com/2026/11/t…
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Polls open at 6 a.m. in Westchester County on Election Day, and within minutes the ballot scanners at polling places across the entire county start rejecting ballots, and now the Board of Elections wants you to believe the problem is… the paper. The thickness of the paper. That is their answer, and County Executive Ken Jenkins said this morning there was no word on when it would be fixed.
So let me ask the obvious question. How do you print ballots for an entire county, test the machines, certify them, hand everything to poll workers, and nobody notices the paper doesn't work in the machine until the morning of the election? Who ordered the paper? Who tested it? Who signed off? Somebody did, and somebody has a name.
Here is the reality. Westchester sits right in the middle of a closely watched House race, Mike Lawler against Cait Conley in the 17th, the early vote is already banked, and now the Election Day vote, the day Republicans typically show up in bigger numbers, is going into orange emergency bags to be counted later. Lara said it plainly… front load the early voting and then choke the line on Election Day. I am not going to tell you every glitch is a plot, but I have watched these "glitches" for years and they never seem to cost the people running the system anything, and they always seem to land on the voters who show up in person.
And now you are supposed to trust that every one of those bagged ballots gets handled, secured and counted right by the same board that couldn't figure out its own paper. Letitia James says her office is monitoring. Feel better? Me neither.
Make no mistake, this is exactly why paper, hand counts and real chain of custody matter, because the minute the machine breaks you find out real fast who actually controls your vote… and it isn't you.
Westchester, do not leave that line. Vote, watch your ballot go into that bag, and if you see something, document it and report it. Poll watchers, stay on those bags until the last one is counted in front of you.
@realDonaldTrump, DOJ needs eyes on every orange bag in Westchester County today.
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Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience."
"I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that.
Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school.
You were very successful. You're top of your class.
Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet.
You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations.
People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success.
I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you. And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand, but there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering.
And to this day, I use the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee. And I mean that. Boy, this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering.
And I mean that in a happy way, because you want to train, you want to refine the character of your company.
You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence.
Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people.
It's formed out of people who suffered.
And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it. For all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."
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Election Day in Maricopa County and right on cue… the county Republican chairman, Craig Berland, says some vote centers are completely down, ballot printers are acting up, and tabulators are spitting ballots right back out at voters. Sound familiar? It should, because we watched this exact circus in 2022 and they told everyone to calm down and move along.
Now keep in mind, according to the report, the Board of Supervisors swapped out equipment that was already working during early voting for different machines that had never been proven in the field. Who signs off on that right before the biggest day of the cycle, and why does nobody ever lose their job over it?
Here is the reality… when the machines break in the same county, on the same day, every single cycle, it is not bad luck, it is the system doing what it was built to do. And the part that guts me is Berland saying people keep asking him "why should I bother voting? It doesn't count anyhow." I understand that feeling better than most, and yet you stay in line, you vote anyway, and you make them count it.
Change my mind.
.@MaricopaGOP Chairman Craig Berland confirms to me that some vote centers are completely down, multiple are experiencing ballot printer issues, and some tabulators are not reading ballots, spitting them out—it’s “drawer 3” from 2022 all over again.
“That’s bullshit” Berland said of the issues.
This comes after the Board of Supervisors replaced equipment that was already known to be working during early voting with different machines that hadn’t been tried and true in the field.
Berland says the county’s errors are contributing to apathy and discouraging voters. “I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve talked to” who are discouraged and asking “why should I bother voting? It doesn't count anyhow.”
Still he encourages all Republicans to vote “no matter what” because “no vote is a vote for communism”
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Elon Musk says the AI boom will hit a WALL by the end of 2026.
He says the whole industry is about to learn a hard lesson in hardware.
Chip output is exploding, but electricity is nearly flat everywhere outside China.
So the two lines cross this year.
He says by the end of the year, we will be making more AI chips than we can actually turn on.
Millions of them pile up with nowhere to plug in.
In his words, the bottleneck for the next year is not chips, it is raw power.
Whoever can turn on the most chips fastest wins the race.
In the end, the AI race comes down to one thing:
Raw electricity.
— Elon Musk (.@elonmusk) on Dwarkesh Patel's (.@dwarkesh_sp) podcast
Elon Musk says billion dollar AI companies with money to spend can't build power plants fast enough to meet AI's electricity demand.
Every major power project requires approvals and equipment, including:
• Switchgear
• Gas turbines
• Power plant permits
• Electrical transformers
• Utility interconnection studies
• High-voltage transmission lines
• Specialized turbine blades and vanes
If even one component is delayed, the entire project stalls... leaving AI chips without electricity.
Musk says gas turbines are sold out through 2030, with specialized blades and vanes being the biggest bottleneck.
Building more power plants isn't the quick solution AI companies thought it'd be.
— Elon Musk (.@elonmusk) on Dwarkesh Patel's (.@dwarkesh_sp) podcast