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Unapologetic, politically incorrect commentary, mixed with flashes of brilliance and silly stuff. Charm school drop-out. All tweets are opinions unless noted.

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Imagine being the richest man in the world, where all you had to do was keep your mouth shut, play ball with the cartel, and let every media room and politician worship the ground you walk on… and instead you put everything you built on the line and step straight into the fire to save the American ideal. Look at what they are doing to Elon Musk right now. You have left-wing professor Scott Galloway going on stage to applause, calling Elon a "traitor to the West," invoking the Rosenbergs being lined up against a wall, and doubling down on it today while incoming Democrats in Congress are already drawing up their subpoena lists to go after his companies and punish him for DOGE. Think about how upside down and rotted that is. Calling the man a traitor. Let me put it to you like this. What has Elon actually done to earn the hatred of team evil? Two things. He built technology that makes the world better, landing rockets, connecting families in disaster zones from space, and building real things here in America, and he stood up for the people unwaveringly, with honor and humility, when nobody else with his reach had the spine to do it. He bought the town square so you could speak again when the government and Big Tech had a boot on your throat, and then he walked into Washington for free to show you where they were stealing your money. Stop and think about what this man actually sacrificed for you. He didn't need the headaches, the death threats, the firebombed dealerships, the weaponized advertisers, or a target painted on his back and his family's back every single day. He could have stayed in the cool kids club forever and never lost a dime. I know a little something about what happens when the machine decides to destroy your life for telling the truth, and watching a man who had everything to lose step in front of the train anyway tells you everything you need to know about his heart. Now here is the part nobody wants to talk about… we are making the exact same mistake with Elon that millions of people made with Trump, cheering from the couch and waiting around for one man to do all the heavy lifting while the wolves tear him apart. And spare me the BS about 25-degree chess. I do not want to hear another pied piper influencer tell you to sit back and trust some secret master plan while team evil sharpens the knives in broad daylight. There is no 25-degree chess when they are openly talking about walls and subpoenas. Elon deserves our defense and he deserves our loyalty, right now, in public, where it actually costs something. Standing up for @elonmusk means you do not let a single person around you repeat the "traitor" lie without shoving the truth right back down their throat. It means calling every Republican in the House and Senate and telling them straight up that if they hide under their desks like paper tigers while Democrats run subpoena lawfare on Elon, their careers are finished. It means backing the people who build, starving the parasites who only destroy, and putting ten million loud Americans between him and the mob so they learn real fast that if you come for him, you deal with all of us. Stop waiting for one man to save you while you watch him bleed for it. He stood in the gap for the American people when it cost him everything. Stand in the gap for him now. Pray, Stand, Speak, ACT. Love, What all of you good people are thinking
Scott Galloway DOUBLES DOWN on his call for Elon Musk to be EXECUTED for being a “traitor to the West” “We took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors.” “And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I’ll make it and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.” Absolutely sickening.
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Useless. All of them. Get rid of ALL of them. None of them publicly put the pressure on Thune making them silently in support of him. Co-conspirators.
They hurt Trump, not just politically. They did nothing for 2 years
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Liar Liar Pance on fire!🔥
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So let's ask a few simple questions. If bluest states in America - California, NY, NJ, CT, Rhode Island, Mass, Illinois, Maryland, DC, Oregon, Washington- suddenly ALL turned RED...would it seem realistic? If every county in Oregon went red, would anyone believe it? If Mass voted red by 1 million votes, would media question it? If NYC went red would anyone accept it was "poor candidates, bad president, wrong war, high prices?" Really? What if LA, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Napa all went red? What if Muslim communities went all red? Dearborn? Detroit? How about inner city Baltimore? Would Democrats believe it wasn't fraud? The media would not question? White Republicans voting for communists & radical Muslims to punish Trump is like a sudden shift by every black voter in NYC, LA, Detroit, Baltimore & Chicago voting red. You'd believe that? Sorry, what happened Tuesday night is not possible. Texas? Kansas? Mississippi? Ohio? All of them changed everything 2 years after a Trump landslide because of a war with 20 US deaths? More Americans are shot on a Saturday in Chicago! Trump secured the border and deported 3 million illegals. Result? Lowest murder & crime rates in 100 years. High Prices? High gas? Much higher prices under Biden. Higher gas prices under Biden w/out a war or tariffs. Bad economy? Obama produced worst economy since Great Depression. Businesses closed by millions, half of Vegas boarded up, all-time record Americans on welfare, food stamps & disability. But he won re-election. In Michigan white Republicans voted for a Muslim Brotherhood radical who wants Sharia Law to protest high prices caused 90% by Biden? Red rural districts in Texas's voted for an effeminate radical weirdo who believes "God is non-binary?" Gave him more votes in midterm election than Kamala in Presidential year. Really? Something smells rotten. This is "Twilight Zone." This is not possible. Someone thinks we're all idiots. President Trump, are you listening? We are being played.
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. @RepRobertGarcia, I now have your full fundraising text. What the hell are you raising money for? Your fundraising message tells people their donations will pay for the “resources and manpower” needed to investigate Trump. Congressional investigations are already funded by taxpayers. Committee staff, subpoenas, hearings, investigative resources. All paid for. So what exactly are your donors buying? Political advertising? Campaign staff? Or are you suggesting that congressional investigations depend on people sending you money? You’re promising to expose corruption while soliciting donations on the back of your congressional authority. Tell the public where the money goes, Congressman. And quit confusing your campaign treasury with the United States Treasury.
.@RepRobertGarcia, what the hell is this? A fundraising text using your name and photograph declares the Trump family guilty of bribery, extortion, and corruption, promises to make them pay, and then asks for money. You’re boasting about becoming House Oversight Chairman while treating congressional investigations like verdicts you’ve already reached. And now somebody is raising money off those threats? Who authorized this message? Where does the money go? Congressional oversight is supposed to follow the evidence, not announce guilt in advance and pass around a collection plate. You want to investigate corruption? Start by explaining this fundraising appeal.
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This is a violation of my federal civil rights. 18 usc 241
IT BEGINS: I just received summons today to appear in criminal court in Minneapolis on November 16th. I’m calling on all journalists to appear in solidarity with the 1st amendment.
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.@RepYassAnsari, what exactly do you mean by “See you soon”? You’re a member of Congress responding to a private citizen who disagrees with your proposal to pause advanced AI development. Are you threatening congressional retaliation? Government investigations? Or just trying to sound intimidating? You’re a public official. Explain yourself.
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A congresswoman just told Elon Musk "See you soon." So let's compare résumés. Because that's really what this is about. Elon Musk moved to North America at 17. He built Zip2, then PayPal, then put almost everything he had into two companies every expert said would die: a rocket company and an electric car company. In 2008 both nearly did. He went all in anyway. Today SpaceX lands orbital boosters and flies them again like airliners, something NASA, Russia, Europe and China considered impossible or uneconomical for 60 years. It launches most of the mass sent to orbit by all of humanity combined. It's the reason America stopped renting seats on Russian rockets to reach its own space station. Starlink brings internet to Ukrainian trenches, Amazon villages and disaster zones. Tesla forced every carmaker on Earth to go electric. Neuralink is letting paralyzed people control computers with their minds. And to the "billionaires don't pay their fair share" crowd: in 2021 he paid over $11 billion in taxes. Widely reported as the largest individual tax bill in American history. One man. One year. His stated goal is to make life multiplanetary so that consciousness doesn't die on a single rock. You can think that's crazy. He has delivered on enough "crazy" that betting against him has become a bad habit. Now Yassamin Ansari. Stanford, international relations. Intern for Nancy Pelosi. Climate advisor at the UN. Phoenix City Council. Won her congressional primary by 39 votes. A whole career spent inside institutions that run on other people's money. Never built a product. Never had a customer. Never faced a market. The day after her party won Congress, what's her top priority for day one? Cheaper housing? Energy? Competing with China? No. Pause advanced AI. Ban "superintelligence." The bill she backs freezes any model trained above 10^25 operations until a brand-new cabinet-level Department of AI gets staffed and writes its rules. Violators face up to 20 years in prison. Let that sink in. The industry that, by one Oxford Economics estimate, drives about a third of recent US growth, frozen by people who have never trained a model, while waiting for a federal agency that doesn't exist yet. Beijing couldn't have written it better. And yes, Elon has warned about AI risk for a decade. That's exactly the point. His answer to risk was to build, compete and put better systems in the arena. Hers is a committee, a freeze and prison terms. One looks at a hard problem and builds. The other looks at a hard problem and asks for a permit to stop everyone else. Then the cherry on top: her reply to the man who built the rockets is "See you soon." Coming from someone whose only real power is the ability to stop others from building. This is the real fault line of our time. Not left vs right. Builders vs administrators of envy. A system that selects people who have never created anything and gives them authority over the people who create everything. A political class that turns resentment into legislation and calls it "safety." I'm French. I've watched this movie. Europe wrote the world's most ambitious AI rulebook. Now count how many of the world's top AI models are European. I genuinely hope humanity grows out of this model. A civilization where its most mediocre managers summon its most extraordinary builders with a "see you soon" is a civilization working against itself. "Brave New World" is right. Except the dystopia isn't the machine. It's the committee.
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IT BEGINS: I just received summons today to appear in criminal court in Minneapolis on November 16th. I’m calling on all journalists to appear in solidarity with the 1st amendment.
CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb, & @camhigby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters Without ID, Allowing Them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election Election worker says, “You’re the ID,” referring to the registered voter serving as identification for the people they are vouching for. Election worker confirms O’Keefe’s question about unregistered voters being vouched for: “I can vouch for them. They are not registered… That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah!” Election worker explains that a registered voter in the same precinct can vouch for up to eight people: “If you’re all in the same precinct and you are already registered, you can vouch for them as ID. Eight people.” More reports coming soon from the Justice League. @realmuckraker @anthonyjrubin @camhigby @ctznjusticelg
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🇺🇸 Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) told a Washington State Democrats crowd that she will be the Chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee. She then said "every single one of these corrupt people that kidnapped, and detained, and deported, and k*lled people in the streets" will "come before us," and that "we are going to send them to prison." Democrats are about to take the gavels, and the first thing they're promising their base is prison for ICE agents. Not lower rent, not cheaper groceries, not safer streets. Prison. When they tell you exactly what's coming, believe them.
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Mr. Vice-President, Please allow me to present a different perspective. The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire. If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it. This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism. Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency. In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue. No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision. Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed. Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon. No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
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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Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning. Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor. You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again. You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid. Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans. Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview. On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs. You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up. Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+. At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart. You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March. After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail. Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent. Your son grows upset. You change the channel. Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work. Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV. Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen. You sit alone in your living room. You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you. Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war. And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now. Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem. For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending. The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning: You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work. And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist. What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Grandad Farms of Emmett, Idaho, announces that all of its packaging will be English only. There will be no second-language panels and no "press 1 for English" when customers call. Grandad Farms remains committed to producing food for Americans.
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One NGO made $115,000,000 to traffic children across the United States. This is how it worked: - Kids trafficked by cartel - Sent to an NGO - NGO receives millions of your tax dollars from the government - Then sends kid to “sponsor,” no biometrics, no DNA testing - Never see or hear from the child again These NGOs are more secure than the border, with high spiked gates, cameras, and no access to the front desk. Ask a question and they will call the police. This is why it's important to vote.
🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars. One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down. In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.
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THIS is what real journalism looks like. You may not recognize it if you’ve watched mainstream news for most of your life so prepare to be shocked. Luke is an absolute treasure to journalism. 👏👏👏
Ram Chhetri came to the US as a refugee, but this might be worst day of his life: It's the moment he realizes the $80k-$160k/year salary he's bilked from Medicaid for no-show work is coming to an end because @realdailywire caught the truth on camera. We conducted months of surveillance that shows why "home care aide" is now the *most common job* in states like NY, CA, MN, and PA: Because a large part of those jobs are unambiguous Medicaid fraud. Thanks to home care, Bhutanese refugees now make more money than actual PA families. The state doesn't just look the other way, but helps them get away with it. Converting federal health dollars into a universal basic income for certain communities relieves the financial burden they place on the state. The scammers easily deceive the feds' woefully broken monitoring system. You'll see Ram pull into a driveway for 2 minutes in the morning, then 2 minutes in the evening. He clocks in and out of his shift from the right place, and the GPS system doesn't notice that he goes home in between. $20 an hour doesn't sound like much, but at 77 hours a week, it's $80k–and it's easy to bill huge hours when you don't actually have to work them. And that's just for the low-level guys in this scheme.
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Daily Wire surveillance in PA shows that scammers know how to bypass the fraud prevention system of Medicaid "home care" & doing so has become so common that people aren't even trying to hide it. Refugees are billing $80k+ without lifting a finger. READ: dailywire.com/news/to-catch-…
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The owner of Gaunley told me he'd have his staff investigate what was going on at this second house where Chhetri appeared to have a no-show home care job. Don't hold your breath: Guess who's the Gaunley employee in charge of verifying that home aides are where they're supposed to be: Dilu Monger, the very woman whose aunt was also apparently receiving no-show home care.
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But the program is more corrupt than just that. The woman obviously knows her aide wasn't showing up, but she never told anyone. She convinced the government that she was so sick that she couldn't survive without a taxpayer-funded aide–but that can't be true, because she was doing exactly that. The record has a phone number the government can use to contact the patient to make sure everything is as expected. But the second patient's phone number isn't really hers. It belongs to this man with a felony conviction for welfare fraud, who nonetheless works in "refugee resettlement" and home care, and is tied to a top Gaunley official.
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She and her husband make money off these companies. And even though they're rich, they won't take care of their own aging relative who lives with them. They leave her on Medicaid, and make the government pay someone to watch her for 11 hours a day because she has diabetes. That seems greedy enough. But it's worse. The money goes to their friend who doesn't actually even do the work. Chhetri resigned from his job after I showed him my video of his pit-stops in Dilu's driveway. He said he was paid to take care of Dilu's aunt and worked for Gaunley Home Care. The company is owned by fellow Bhutanese Biras Adhikari, and is paid $150k a month for 26 clients. Congress required states to implement Electronic Visit Verification (rudimentary GPS) to stop fraud in the multi-billion dollar program. I obtained Chhetri's EVV records from Gaunley, and they showed how utterly out of control the program is. The records showed that Chhetri was clocking into a second client's house–seemingly billing for two 77-hour-a-week jobs ($160k), while actually doing neither. The second client is a 45-year old Bhutanese woman who lived across town. And the GPS records, the government's only tool to spot fraud, said he was clocking in from her house–even though I know for a fact that he was nowhere near it, because I had eyes on him at that very moment. Obviously, these reports mean nothing. The owner of Gauley told me Congress should ban Medicaid patients from using family members and friends as aides, because it's too easy for them to collude to hide no-show jobs.
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Dilu Monger lives in an expensive house with a Range Rover and custom Cybertruck. She spends her time traveling the world on luxury vacations. What's her secret? Strip-mining PA for anyone over the age of 60 who's on Medicaid, the health program for the poor. Gov. Josh Shapiro's policies allow them to be farmed for pure gold: up to 24 hours a day of home care, in the form of a $175k check to the relative, friend or company of their choosing.
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