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Alberta is the Einstein of Canada.
The rest of the country is incomprehensible.
John Beagle retweeted
an absolutey legendary guitar smash from our man @BernieKosarQB!
This is huge, this has been happening for a long, long time.
💥Frank Luntz *DUMPS COLD WATER* on CNN viewers' dreams of blue wave💥
Luntz warned Trump voters "don't respond" to pollster phone calls.
He admitted he "got 2016 wrong" because he trusted the exit polls.
Luntz asserted he is "skeptical" the current polling is accurate.
Moreover, he cast doubt on whether pollsters are using the right measurements and asking the proper questions to determine turnout.
Luntz has been a renowned pollster for decades, so this is meaningful coming from him.
He knows firsthand how polling can miss Trump voters.
Since there are many close races, underestimating Republican turnout by a small margin could make all the difference.
It sounds like there’s a real chance of that happening.
John Beagle retweeted
Palmer Luckey says China’s shipbuilding dominance could turn America into an unreliable ally: “We say we’re there for our allies, but can we back it up?” 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼
“I’d say U.S. ships are better, but quantity has a quality of its own. And we’re talking about a 350-times difference.
The Chinese Navy might only be twice the size of ours today, but on day 10 of a war, they’re probably going to be a lot bigger.
We’re going to crank out a ship a month, and they’re going to put out 350 ships. You can see where this becomes an impossible problem for the United States.
What really happens is we become an unreliable ally—one that says we’re there for our allies, but can’t actually back it up.”
With shit making capabilities running out of multiple of 350x we ensuring Will face imminent demise in a long-standing war with China. It’s hilarious people presume a country would spend billions of dollars without the intent of any point using it, especially one essentially controlled as the CCP.
John Beagle retweeted
Palmer Luckey discusses the conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son… and questions why the media dismisses it instead of examining the evidence 🇨🇦🇨🇺
“I think Justin Trudeau is Castro’s son. But you can almost set that aside, because that’s not the issue I really care about.
Let’s say it’s not true. OK, fine. Why is this conspiracy theory reported on the way that it is?
If you look at the press coverage, they make you believe that anyone who believes it must be truly nuts. Then what follows is the most surface-level examination that takes every official communication at face value.
There are reasonable ways to go after it. But the way they’ve gone after it is to pretend that you’re insane if you believe this conspiracy theory.
That’s what really makes me wonder.”
Bit of a weird take my Palmer, has anyone looked into the evidence presented?
“Taiwan is not the end state for China. And all the people who think this fight over Taiwan is the real fight are missing the point.
They believe that Korea is their territory.
They also believe North Korea is their territory, but they like it as a buffer state with South Korea.
That would change the moment they could actually capture South Korea.
Is this the real world? Is this a movie?
Palmer Luckey warns China’s territorial ambitions go far beyond Taiwan: “They believe the Philippines, Korea, and even parts of Japan belong to them.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵
“Taiwan is not the end state for China. And all the people who think this fight over Taiwan is the real fight are missing the point.
They believe that the Philippines is their territory. They believe that Korea is their territory. They also believe North Korea is their territory, but they like it as a buffer state with South Korea. That would change the moment they could actually capture South Korea.
They even think that most of Japan belongs to them. Publicly, they won’t say they own all of Japan, but they do maintain that they own part of Japan.
It’s really dangerous to let people with millennia-long ambitions of ruling those areas go unchecked.”
My take away from Palmer here is how critical defense in the Pacific will eventually become. The United States recent directional change in supplying our military with amphibious landing equipment, demonstrates how imminent they believe a threat is.
John Beagle retweeted
Elon musk’s family tree needs its own documentary series, from billion-dollar businesses to a family full of headlines, this isn’t just a family tree anymore, it’s a whole forest, how many episodes do you think netflix would need to cover all this drama? 💀
John Beagle retweeted
Palmer Luckey says the Cold War unleashed America’s greatest innovations… and believes a new rivalry with China could push the U.S. to rise to the challenge again: “When the United States feels threatened, we do our best work.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“I just don’t know if we’re hungry enough. I think it might have to flip, where China really, really sticks it to us for a few years.
Look at the Cold War. Everything I look around this room and see came from the Cold War. Microprocessors, my phone, GPS, high-efficiency aluminum extrusions.
When the United States feels threatened is when we do our best work.
Could you imagine a world where we end up in World War III and we don’t really get our shit together and get all this done?
I’m not saying I want World War III to come. That’s not what I hope.
But I carry some optimism that if the United States is really threatened, we will rise to the occasion.”
The real question is how close to true conflict between the two economic giants. They betrayed war is one thing, but is the true threat surrounding Taiwan and how imminent is it?
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Nineteen years ago this week @algore was chosen to receive the @NobelPrize for making a science fiction movie about climate. At the awards ceremony he predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.
Since then, Arctic sea ice extent has increased 22%.
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Tony Montana casually eating a lemon from a bowl might seem like a humorous detail, but it reveals something much deeper about his character in Scarface. Surrounded by expensive suits, luxurious restaurants, and wealthy people, Tony is determined to prove he belongs among the elite. Yet the bowl in front of him isn’t meant for eating. It’s a finger bowl, traditionally used to rinse your fingers during a formal meal.
Tony doesn’t realize this, and no one bothers to correct him. That’s what makes the moment so revealing. He can afford designer clothes, expensive dinners, and a lavish lifestyle, but wealth can’t instantly teach him the social customs of a world he never grew up in.
Coming from poverty in Cuba, Tony never had the opportunity to learn the unwritten rules of high society. His ambition has earned him a place at the table, but he’s still unfamiliar with the culture surrounding it.
That single lemon becomes a subtle symbol of his journey. Tony has the money to enter a world he once dreamed of, but he hasn’t fully learned how to fit into it. In a movie defined by power, greed, and violence, one tiny detail reveals more about his character than an entire conversation could.
John Beagle retweeted
Trump: “I only hire blonde press secretaries.”
Tim: “Say less.”
Next question. 😂
John Beagle retweeted
Is Ohio the best state in the country? @bertkreischer
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American-made products are not impossible. Stories about iPhones costing $37,000 or laptops costing $100,000 are psy-ops, sometimes pushed by foreign adversaries but more commonly by American corporations that want anything but an upset to the status quo.
Palmer Luckey says companies are exaggerating the cost of American manufacturing to justify staying in China: “They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who pretend that manufacturing in the U.S. is this impossible, order-of-magnitude problem. A lot of it is very self-serving.
They want to justify why they’re in China. They want to justify why it’s OK for them to stay in China. They know that when sanctions hit as a result of a potential Taiwan conflict, they want to say, ‘Nobody could’ve predicted this, and I had no choice anyway.’
They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.
If Chinese subsidized steel is a third of the price of American unsubsidized steel, a tariff isn’t going to work. But if the price difference really is 30%, then a tariff could bring the American steel industry back.
It’s critically important to get this question right, and there aren’t enough people talking about it.”