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dford61 retweeted
President Trump did his part— but the Republican Senate passed none of it.
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dford61 retweeted
This was not an election ---
it's a coup to remove
President Trump
🚨 ELECTION ISSUES: 40 states reported problems on Election Day.
Bomb and shooting threats at polling sites in 3 states: Ohio, Michigan, Virginia.
Fake texts sent to voters in 4 states: Georgia, Tennessee, Nebraska, New Jersey.
Ballots ran out in Connecticut, Illinois, Virginia, Michigan, Maryland, Kentucky.
Scanners and machines went down in New York, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and more.
Coast to coast.
State by state below 👇
dford61 retweeted
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Democrats aren’t giving you free healthcare or making gas cheaper
You were conned.
dford61 retweeted
Live footage of Tom Massie, and his communist wingman Ro Khanna, trying to impeach Secretary Hegseth.
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🚨 BREAKING: John Thune has been reelected as Senate Majority Leader.
ABSOLUTE DISGRACE!
This is exactly why Republicans continue to lose. They refuse to listen to American voters and keep doing whatever the hell they want.
Maybe you should read the replies since you clearly don’t understand why people can’t stand this demon. 👇
Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that’s created safer streets, more money in Americans’ pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead. After fighting Democrat obstruction at every turn, we prevented the largest tax hike in American history, secured our border in an unprecedented way, confirmed the president’s Cabinet at the fastest pace in two decades, and put strong conservative judges on benches across the country faster than we have since the Reagan administration. I’m proud of our team and everything we’ve done for the American people, and I’m looking forward to the important work we have in front of us over the next few months. As we head into 2027, Senate Republicans will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we’ve done. Thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White House, and we’ll work with him to stop the worst impulses of Democrat extremism. We cannot let their fringe positions become the mainstream.
dford61 retweeted
I’m not donating a penny to the GOP until @LeaderJohnThune is removed.
You should do the same or nothing will change.
dford61 retweeted
Long ago I was told by party people on the Hill that Rs will only let the pit bull fighter types (i.e. Jordan) lead when they are the minority -- but never when they are the majority.
Neither here nor there, but today's election of Jordan made me think of this.
dford61 retweeted
You about to go on another vacation and purposely sabotage the Trump agenda again?
THEY HATE YOU!
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To my friends on the left.
You're about to be sold the most elegant trap in modern history. It will come wrapped in everything you care about: the planet, workers, justice, the climate. If you buy it, it will deliver the exact opposite of everything you've ever fought for.
Let me show you where it comes from.
In 1944, two philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Horkheimer and Adorno, wrote that reason and technology, the tools that were supposed to free humanity, had turned into tools of domination. Twenty years later, Marcuse argued that modern technology was the most sophisticated system of social control ever built. Brilliant men, with a real insight. But the lesson a whole generation of intellectuals took from them was simple: progress is suspect, and the machine is the enemy.
In 1968, the Club of Rome was founded. It was a small circle of industrialists, diplomats and scientists. Notice who was in the room. No workers, no farmers, no one from the slums. In 1972 they published The Limits to Growth. The message was that if humanity keeps growing, it collapses. So slow down, consume less, have fewer children, accept less.
Around the same time, Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s.
Here's what actually happened. The Green Revolution fed billions. The mass famines never came. In 1980 the economist Julian Simon bet Ehrlich that resources would get cheaper, not scarcer, and he won. Extreme poverty went from more than a third of humanity in 1990 to under one in ten. That didn't come from degrowth. It came from growth, energy and technology.
The pessimists were wrong about almost everything. But they won something more important than the argument. They won the institutions: UN agencies, NGOs, university departments, think tanks, Brussels. Nobody needed to coordinate. The ideas simply became the water everyone swims in. Growth is guilt. Technology is danger. The answer is always less.
Less for you, that is. Never for the people at Davos who fly private to discuss your carbon footprint.
Now watch what happens with AI. They'll connect it to the planet. Data centers drink water, burn gas and raise your electricity bill. Some of that is locally true, and the people living next to those sites deserve to be heard. Last March, Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed a national moratorium on new AI data centers, backed by hundreds of organizations.
So ask the oldest question on the left: who benefits?
A moratorium on new data centers freezes the ones that already exist. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta already built theirs. A moratorium doesn't stop Big Tech. It crowns Big Tech. The startups, the public universities, the open-source labs, the countries of the Global South that were about to build their own are the ones who never get to. It's the greatest gift ever offered to an oligarchy, wrapped in green paper.
And here is what nobody tells you. AI isn't the planet's problem. It's the fastest path we have to solving the planet's problems.
AI is already controlling the plasma inside experimental fusion reactors. It has predicted the structure of nearly every known protein, which opens the door to enzymes that eat plastic and crops that need less water and less fertilizer. It has proposed hundreds of thousands of new stable materials for better batteries and cheaper solar. It forecasts weather and balances electric grids so renewables can actually work at scale.
Every problem you care about is, at its core, an intelligence problem. Clean energy, food, water, disease, poverty. Make intelligence abundant and those problems become solvable. Make it scarce and the solutions belong to whoever owns it.
That's the real trap. Fear of AI won't make AI disappear. It will only decide who owns it.
A world where intelligence is rationed creates a new aristocracy. On one side, a small class with unlimited cognitive labor at its command. On the other, everyone else, dependent on that class for their health, their education, their job, their permission to speak. No chains. Just dependency. That's how every modern form of servitude has worked, and the left used to understand that better than anyone.
Everything the left has ever wanted has never been closer: the end of poverty, healthcare and education for every human being, workers freed from exhausting labor, a planet that can breathe. Marx dreamed of a society where you could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon and criticize after dinner. That isn't a world of scarcity. It's a world of abundance. Abundance is the only thing that has ever freed anyone.
So stay on the left if you want. Keep fighting for the poor, for workers, for the planet. Just fight with the most powerful tool humanity has ever been handed, not against it.
Because the people asking you to give it up already have theirs.
In the next ten years, humanity will make one choice that decides the next thousand.
Option A: an Orwellian world run by a tiny hyperclass that controls AI, owns every resource, and turns the rest of us into permanent dependents.
Option B: for the first time in history, a world where the systemic corruption that has ruled us for decades simply stops being possible.
Yesterday I wrote that Milei and Bukele exposed the empire of lies. Javier Milei reposted it. Today I want to explain why that post was only the beginning, and why I've never been more optimistic.
If you're on the left, or even the far left, read this one to the end. I'm not trying to convert you. The stakes are your future too.
Start from first principles. A system produces exactly what it rewards.
For decades, the Western system has been captured by one worldview: administrations, universities, NGOs, media, international institutions. The left didn't win the argument. It won the hiring committees.
Once a system is captured, its incentives flip.
You don't get promoted for solving problems. You get promoted for managing them. A solved problem kills a budget line. A managed problem renews it every year.
You don't succeed by telling the truth. You succeed by saying the right words. So hypocrisy becomes a career skill. The professor who preaches equality and runs the most closed network in the country. The politician who votes for open borders and lives where none of it ever reaches him.
You don't build fair systems. You build systems that look fair and quietly pay the people who run them. Inflation is a tax on the poor that funds the state. Programs fund the consultants who design more programs.
That's what "systemic" means. Nobody has to be evil. Honest people inside the machine either adapt or leave. After forty years, the ones still there are the ones who adapted.
Here's the irony. The first countries to break free were the ones at the very bottom.
Argentina was bankrupt. El Salvador was a graveyard. The system had nothing left to promise them, and that's exactly why they woke up. When the lie stops paying, people stop believing it.
No civilization is dead as long as its people can still see the problem clearly. Rock bottom is often where the rebound starts.
Now the West is caught in a vise.
On one side, AI. A technology that exposes managed incompetence. When a model can read a 2,000-page law, audit a national budget and compare outcomes across 50 countries in seconds, "it's complicated" stops working. The expert class loses its monopoly on knowledge.
On the other side, a generation of tech builders who think from first principles and don't owe their careers to the system. They have more capital, more talent and more reach than most countries. And they've seen up close how the machine works.
Put the two together and the old system is close to checkmate. It can't compete on results. It can't hide behind complexity. It can't control the narrative anymore.
So what does a system do when it can't win? It tries to own the thing that's beating it.
Listen to Marc Andreessen. He has said publicly that in 2024 he sat with Biden administration officials who told him AI would be two or three big companies working hand in hand with the government, that investors shouldn't even bother funding AI startups, and that parts of the underlying math could be classified the way nuclear physics was in the Cold War. He walked out and endorsed Trump. Former Biden officials now say that's not what was said. Read both versions and decide who you believe.
The logic doesn't depend on one lunch, though. Control three companies and you control the models. Control the models and you control what billions of people read, ask, learn and are allowed to say. Add a digital ID, a programmable currency and the scanning of private messages that Europe keeps putting back on the table. Then you don't need a Ministry of Truth anymore. A compliance department is enough.
1984 with a better UX.
And last Tuesday, Democrats took back Congress. This isn't theoretical anymore. The keys to the house are on the table.
Now imagine we don't hand them over.
Intelligence becomes almost free. Expertise stops being a privilege. A kid in a village in Brittany or a suburb of Lagos gets the same doctor, the same lawyer, the same tutor as a billionaire's son. The cost of producing almost everything collapses. And systemic corruption becomes nearly impossible, because anyone can audit every budget, every law and every promise, instantly.
For the first time in human history, a society that could be truly equal. The old left version was equality by sharing scarcity. This one is equality through abundance. A world where poverty stops being a law of nature.
Which is exactly what the left always said it wanted.
So to my friends on the left, one honest question. Which side actually leads there? The side that wants AI open, cheap and in everyone's hands? Or the side that wants it locked inside three companies and a regulator?
Milei and Bukele proved the impossible was possible at the scale of a country. AI is offering the same thing at the scale of civilization.
All we have to do is not give the keys to the people who were paid to keep the problem alive.
That's the choice. And I've never been more optimistic, because for the first time, we can all see it.
dford61 retweeted
Re-electing John Thune as Leader on a secret ballot would send a message to voters that Republicans learned nothing from the midterms.
The Senate failed the people under him.
Why would we want to reward that?
We need new leadership.
dford61 retweeted
You guys have twelve likes in two days on your attempt to dunk on me.
I post a photo of tomatoes or flowers I grew — thousands. (I am an authentic gardener)
Hat I knit — thousands. (I have real world skills, several).
Opinion I have on current affairs — tens of thousands.
Which of us is relevant?
Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has resigned, leaving a trail of destruction behind her—just as she intended, @GrahamDavidA argues. theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
dford61 retweeted
College student:
“Jews are refugees. They have no right to self-determination. Israel has no sovereignty.”
The response that shut the room down:
“Millions of Jews left Auschwitz with nowhere to go.
Not one country on Earth took them in.
A million and a half Jews fought in World War II…
and still couldn’t bomb the tracks to the gas chambers.
Because they had no army.
No country.
No power.
The day Jews could finally defend themselves…
is the day Jews stopped dying.”
Hamas has said it out loud for two years:
They will keep going until every last Jew is dead.
You’re telling Israelis to dismantle their self-defense “for peace.”
Hamas is telling them: “Do it and we’ll slaughter you.”
And somehow… Hamas is winning the argument inside your head.
Go learn the actual history.
Then come back and talk. 🇮🇱
dford61 retweeted
🚨 HOLY CRAP! SecWar Pete Hegseth just exposed elite academics to their FACE at the Naval War College — he found out they're trying to OUT-WAIT Trump's time in office to avoid complying with executive orders 🤯
"They think they can IGNORE executive orders and preserve FALSE and SINISTER progressive frameworks until the political winds shift!"
"Our review identified a stubborn undercurrent of passive-aggressive institutional resistance. There are those who believe that they can HIDE behind civilian academic tenure and regional accreditation mandates to wait out President Trump's term in office."
"Toxic and destructive ideas, ideas that corrupted our universities have little by little crept into our war colleges."
"The reforms that I'm directing today are designed to reinforce military education, focus on winning our nation's wars, and reinforcing each person's oath to our Constitution, NOT to adopt ideas that perpetuate, that are anathema to the Western tradition."
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And THAT folks is why they keep trying to impeach him.
@PeteHegseth said it without apology: he's not going to let it fly.
I am so glad he's still our SecWar.