This almost feels like it lined itself up. Maria Bartiromo. Nick Shirley. X News. One veteran anchor who knows how to run a serious broadcast. One independent journalist who actually gets out there and finds the story. Put them together on a black-and-white X News set and tell me that doesn’t make perfect sense. No stale cable-news routine. No pretending people still want the same old garbage. This needs to happen. Somebody make the call, @elonmusk.

Thank God they banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico and let independent journalists in. Thanks for reporting this!

Musk, Milei and Macron – A Café in Paris Saint-Germain. Three coffees. One chainsaw. MACRON: Javier, you cannot bring that in here. MILEI: It is not switched on. MACRON: That is not the reassurance you think it is. MUSK: Let him keep it. It’s the only visual aid that ever worked. MACRON: Very well. So – you both wanted to explain the economy to me. I should say that I worked at Rothschild, I ran the finance ministry, and I have been President for nine years. MILEI: Yes. That is the problem we are here to discuss. MUSK: Let’s start simple. Where does money come from? MACRON: From the economy. Value created, taxed, redistributed. MUSK: Close. Where does value come from? MACRON: Labour. Capital. Innovation. The social contract that organizes them. MUSK: Someone makes a thing that didn’t exist. That’s it. Everything else is moving it around. A country gets rich in exactly one way – more people making more things. And it gets poor in exactly one way: making it harder to make things. MACRON: That is a caricature. There is regulation, protection, standards, a European framework… MILEI: In your country, to open a factory, you ask. To hire, you ask. To fire, you ask, and then you pay for three years. To build a reactor, you ask for seventeen years. What happens if nobody answers? MACRON: The procedure continues. MILEI: No. The answer is no. Silence is no. You have made no the default setting of an entire civilization. MACRON: We built Ariane. We built the TGV. We built the nuclear fleet. MUSK: In the seventies. Under rules that no longer exist. You could not build your own nuclear fleet today – you’d be in year nine of the consultation. MACRON: (pause) Flamanville took seventeen years. MUSK: There it is. MACRON: So what would you do? Abolish the state? MILEI: No. I am not an anarchist on Tuesdays. The state does four things. Courts. Police. Borders. Contracts. Everything else it touches, it makes worse and more expensive – and it charges you for the privilege in advance. MACRON: And the social model? The pensions, the healthcare, the… MUSK: You can only keep the social model if you produce enough to pay for it. You do not. So you are not defending the model. You are defending the speeches about the model, while the young people who would have funded it move to Austin. MACRON: Two hundred thousand a year. MUSK: You know the number. MACRON: Of course I know the number. I know all the numbers. (He stirs his coffee.) You must understand that I am not unsympathetic. I have read Bastiat. MUSK: Then what didn’t you understand? MACRON: I am French. Privately, I agree with a great deal of what you say. MILEI: Then why do you not say it? MACRON: Because it would not be useful. MILEI: To whom? MACRON: (pause) To the process. MUSK: To you. MACRON: These are not different things, at this level. That is something people outside government never grasp. MILEI: Then why? MACRON: Because the numbers are not the constraint. (He looks up.) The constraint is that every one of those regulations has a constituency, a ministry, and a union. The pension reform cost me the streets for six months. Six months, for two years of retirement age. You are asking me to do forty such reforms simultaneously, in a country that is the world champion of not moving. MILEI: No. I am asking why you find that constraint so comfortable. MACRON: I beg your pardon. MILEI: Every one of those constituencies is also a lever. The ministry that blocks the factory is a ministry you appoint. The subsidy that saves the failing firm is a subsidy you grant. You describe that as an obstacle to your power, while that is the substance of it – that is what you do. A president in a country where everything is permitted has almost nothing left to distribute. MACRON: That is a very cynical reading. MILEI: It is the only one that fits the evidence. Everything else requires you to be incompetent, and you are not incompetent. MACRON: (after a moment) No. I am not. MUSK: And here’s the part I don’t think you’ve considered. You keep asking how to make France competitive. Wrong question. Ask instead what happens if you do nothing. MACRON: We decline slowly. MUSK: No. You decline until the decline itself becomes the constituency – until more people depend on the managing of the problem than on solving it. Then it’s structural. You’re close. MILEI: Two hundred thousand young French people leave every year. MACRON: A European mobility question. And they are replaced. MUSK: Not by engineers. MACRON: We have programmes. MILEI: Emmanuel. I inherited two hundred percent inflation and nine defaults. Every economist in Buenos Aires told me it was politically impossible. I killed the rent control. The housing supply in Buenos Aires tripled. Prices fell. Because I stopped forbidding the supply. MACRON: Argentina is not France. MILEI: Correct. Argentina was worse. That was the advantage. When the patient is dying, even the doctors stop arguing. Your patient is merely declining, so everyone can keep their position while it happens. MACRON: You describe decline. I would call it stability. MUSK: Same thing at a different speed. MACRON: (lightly) Not to those of us who must be re-elected inside the timeframe. MILEI: There it is. You gave the whole answer and did not notice. MACRON: And suppose I did what you ask. Suppose tomorrow I abolish the permission – activity free, punishment after real harm, silence means yes. MILEI: Six months of war. The street, the press, your own administration. Then the electricity price starts falling, the first permits clear in thirty days, and somebody opens a factory. And then it is no longer an argument. It is a fact, and facts recruit faster than speeches. MACRON: And during those six months I lose everything I hold. MILEI: Yes. MACRON: You make it sound like a technical matter. MUSK: It is a technical matter. That’s what nobody wants to hear. There’s no mystery here. Cheap energy, fast permits, real consequences for actual harm, and freedom to hire. Every country that does those four things gets rich. Every country that doesn’t, doesn’t. It isn’t culture. It isn’t destiny. MACRON: It is arithmetic, and I have a Republic that has beheaded people for less. MILEI: They did not behead the ones who built things. They beheaded the ones who administered a system nobody could afford any more. You may want to check which chair you are sitting in. MACRON: (signalling for the bill) And what exactly did you two come here to achieve? MUSK: Nothing. We came to say it out loud, in front of you, so nobody can pretend later that you didn’t know. MACRON: (reaching for his wallet) Let me. The state can afford three coffees. MILEI: (stopping him) The state cannot afford three coffees. That is the entire conversation we have just had.

Does Macklemore know what Palestinians do at music festivals?

holy shit i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

We just filed an emergency stay with SCOTUS. As I said, we would immediately seek relief. The other side has until Monday to respond (note how the Supreme Court lets both sides respond before ruling!).

I notice the Irish are more stupid than I ever imagined. They saved Western civilization once. Then they discovered socialism.

RT @Nance726: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1965 Over 65 years ago warned us all that the United States would be ruined by toxic empathy. “False…

I’ve got very sad news: Jim Copenhaver, who was shot at the Butler Trump rally on July 13, 2024, has died. I don’t have many details at this point, but it’s no secret that Jim was dealing with permanent injuries from Butler—including having bullet fragments still inside of him. RIP Jim

Let's bookmark this and revisit it in March, shall we?

On 3 May 1821, 4.000 Muslim Turks from what was then called Bilad al-Sham arrived in Cyprus and beheaded 486 Greek Christians in a single day because they didn't convert to Islam (Bilad al-Sham was the Ottoman Syria, which included Lebanon, Jordan, Syria Palaestina, Jerusalem, Gaza, and essentially the whole region, then divided into eyalets, or provinces). When Küçük Mehmet arrived in Cyprus, drew up a list of 486 prominent Greeks, with Archbishop Kyprianos at the top. He informed the Sultan that if these men were not exterminated, they could obtain weapons from Greece and rise in revolt. Then the order came from the "Sublime Porte", the office of the Grand Vizier. The directive stated that all those on the list must be slaughtered, unless they changed their faith, that is, unless they converted from Christian Greeks into Muslim Turks. On June 12, most of them were arrested in their places of residence and imprisoned in the dungeons, while 16 managed to escape. The first to be murdered as an example was Archbishop Kyprianos. On July 9, 1821, he was hanged in the Square of the Government House in Nicosia, under a mulberry tree. On the same day, the three Metropolitans of Cyprus were beheaded: Chrysanthos of Paphos, Meletios of Kition, and Lavrentios of Kyrenia, along with many other clergymen. On July 14, the "great massacre" took place. Approximately 486 Greeks of Cyprus were publicly beheaded. Imagine the number, around 400 Greeks in a single day. 486 Christian heads. Greek heads. Because they didn't convert to Islam. 36 were spared from death because they converted to Islam. The English traveler John Carne writes that he had met Archbishop Kyprianos, who, judging from the developments, foresaw the violent end that awaited him. Carne records the words of Kyprianos: "My death is not far away. I know they are only waiting for an opportunity to kill me." The French ambassador Jérôme Méchain writes about the atrocities committed by the Muslim Turks: "The island of Cyprus… quiet and peaceful… if left undisturbed… is today in turmoil from the day of the arrival of a large number of troops [...] …the Musellim is becoming more and more ferocious. Every day in Nicosia he hangs, strangles or butchers unfortunate people, Christians [...]" Meanwhile, the Swede Berggren writes: "The Virgin Mary dressed everywhere in black, many houses were spattered with blood." The poems that were written, such as "The 9th of July 1821 in Nicosia, Cyprus" by Vasilis Michaelides explain how much barbaric Islam is for this world. The hatred of the Muslim Turks against the Greeks has been etched into our memories and souls. We cannot forget. It is our duty to remember. Read more about Ottoman tyranny in Greece from 1453 to 1825 on my profile. - Homer Pavlos

This is absolutely incorrect. I have been the Washington Bureau Chief (or Washington Political Editor — previous title) of Breitbart since October 2015. I was a reporter at Breitbart from December 2012 until then. So I’ve been here 14 years basically. I know every in and out of this fight. We did NOT have pool access during Biden which was NOT a decision by the Biden White House but by the WHCA. So it’s actually WORSE than Vance is saying. The media themselves ganged up on us and in a totally underhanded way altered their rules to try to silence us. The WHCA is a corrupt organization and @JacquiHeinrich knows this all and yet does nothing to fix it. Here’s the truth of what happened: We actually got our first hard badge during the end of the Obama administration. The Obama White House was actually very nice to us, and while we had clear political disagreements they were fine to work with and we did great stories from there. We had hired our first White House correspondent then, and he covered the White House and regularly attended press briefings. He also occasionally did pool coverage. It was a huge moment for us. We had the hard badge credentialed White House correspondent up through the beginning of Biden and believe it or not, the Biden White House did allow us into some briefings. Whether they called on us was a different story. Happened occasionally. But we never had hard badge problems actually. To be clear, at some point during Biden Administration, we went separate ways with our then White House correspondent and didn’t refill the role until Trump term 2 so we didn’t have a hard badge correspondent during that time. But that was our decision not Biden White House — who to be clear and I’ve seen some of them talking about this never stripped us of that. But there is a MASSIVE difference between access to the briefing room and briefings and pool access and that’s where the legacy establishment media are so underhanded and dishonest. Up until THIS administration pool access had been solely determined by the WHCA. The WHCA when Trump won the first time colluded with the Senate Press Gallery to change its membership rules — this happened early 2017 — to strip us of our voting membership which we began under the Obama administration. The Senate Press Gallery stripped us of our Capitol credentials based on a lie — that has since been rectified and we have them on the Hill again — and the WHCA stripped us of voting membership, which we had, by changing its rules arbitrarily. The WHCA does NOT allow under these new arbitrary rules any member without voting rights to have POOL ACCESS. Pool is the key — it’s where the President and key members of the administration interact with a smaller group of press daily than the broader entire White House press corps. That’s like when you see the president taking questions in the Oval Office or something. So we were stripped from the pool BY THE REST OF THE MEDIA during TRUMP TERM 1. Biden did not fix this during his term; Trump term 2 HAS FIXED IT, they added new media to the pool and we regularly have our White House correspondent in the pool and he asks great newsworthy questions often of the President, Vice President, and cabinet officials. The WHCA still does not allow people like us to be voting members; it still does not allow people like us to be members of the pool. The ONLY reason we have that access is because the Trump White House has gone out of their way to add the new media components to press coverage and overrode the WHCA to add new media to the pool. So it’s actually way more complicated than what Vance is saying— in fact the truth makes the media look even worse because it was the MEDIA who censored us thereby making all these people whining about what Trump is doing massive hypocrites (as far as I’m concerned for what it’s worth I could care less whether they have press badges and what not but the idea they are crusaders for the First Amendment is ridiculous nonsense) — but what Sam is saying here is absolutely untrue. Because of the WHCA we didn’t have pool access then. So it’s technically not Biden’s fault or Trump fault in term one, but until Trump term 2 the White House didn’t lift a finger to help us when the rest of the media ganged up on us to try to silence us. Because of what @karolineleavitt and her team did in this administration, Trump term 2 is actually genuinely the most transparent administration I’ve covered and that dates back to Obama — I covered both of Obama’s terms, Trump’s first, Biden, and now Trump term 2. All that said, we should all be asking ourselves why a cartel of global corporations— the WHCA is exactly that — is so hellbent on silencing an outlet with approximately just under a hundred journalists with laptops. Why do they hate us so much? Maybe it’s because time and again we continually show them up and beat them to absolutely massive stories. Maybe just maybe these mega corporations like FOX, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, WAPO, AP, etc are using their collective corporate power through a corrupt institution to silence the one little guy who regularly kicks their asses in news. Just saying.

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵

This whole post is ignorant. The White House tv pool was created because many rooms in the White House, e.g. the Oval Office, are too small to accommodate all the tv outlets who may want to cover a presidential event. The same is true for Air Force One and presidential motorcades. So one network covers for all on a rotating basis. To be a part of it, an organization must have present every day a full broadcast crew, a producer or reporter and the equipment and personnel needed to record and distribute the video shot by the pool crew. At the moment, only a handful of outlets qualify. Back when ABC, CBS and NBC were dominant, they tried to keep CNN out of the pool. But CNN had the equipment and personnel to do the pool job and were admitted by court order. "Anyone with a camera," as this writer says would not qualify. And he suggests the White House could cover these events. Then it would be "official" for sure. Would he really like that better?

ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX are saying they’re going to be boycotting White House Press Coverage in solidarity with CNN, Politico, etc. This might unironically be the healthiest thing that could happen to the country. Watch as everyone’s anxiety goes down and people start smiling more

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Tony Blair – The UK’s Obama. He is not the villain of this story either. He is its most elegant European expression – the long march rebranded as modernization, delivered by a man so gifted at the aesthetics of the new that nobody noticed how old the project was. 1. He arrived in 1994 as the leader of a Labour Party that had lost four consecutive elections. What he offered was not socialism – he was too clever for that. He offered the third way: the progressive project stripped of its rough edges, repackaged for the professional class, delivered in the language of competence and modernity. New Labour. The name was the program. Everything that had made Labour unelectable was old. Everything Blair offered was new. The content was largely the same. The packaging was revolutionary. 2. The rhetorical genius was real. He could make the correct position feel like common sense, make the opposition feel not just wrong but somehow embarrassing, make voting Labour feel like joining the future rather than the past. "Things can only get better" was the campaign song. It was also the complete statement of the cultural hegemony achieved: the existing order was not just wrong, it was over. History was moving. The question was whether you were on the right side of it. 3. The institutional transformation was thorough and deliberate. Thirteen years produced: the Human Rights Act embedding European legal frameworks into British law, the devolution settlements fragmenting British sovereignty, the Supreme Court replacing the Law Lords, the civil service transformed, the BBC consolidated as the cultural apparatus of the new consensus, the public sector unions embedded as a permanent political constituency. The ratchet, applied with more sophistication than any previous British government. 4. The conservatives who followed spent a decade trying to reverse it. Cameron, May, Johnson – three prime ministers, three different styles, one shared achievement: they maintained what Blair had built while pretending to oppose it. This is what the ratchet looks like from the other side. You win the election. You do not win the institutions. The civil service thinks differently. The courts think differently. The BBC thinks differently. The universities think differently. You govern inside a framework designed by your opponents – and slowly, without noticing, you begin to think inside it too. 5. He left office in 2007 significantly richer than he entered it, which he achieved with a speed and comprehensiveness that impressed even people who disliked him. The lecture circuit, the consultancies, the memoir, the foundation. The man of the people became a remarkably successful business. The standard trajectory of the long march’s most successful products – who discover upon leaving office that the network they spent their careers building is also an extremely effective commercial infrastructure. 6. British politics runs approximately ten years ahead of American politics. Blair was Obama before Obama – the gifted communicator, the third way branding, the institutional transformation beneath the aesthetic, the network that outlasted the administration. After Blair came Brown – the placeholder who discovered the machine was harder to run than to inherit. Like Biden, he was in the room. That was no longer enough. After Brown came the conservatives – who couldn’t reverse the ratchet and didn’t really try. And then came Starmer. Keir Starmer is what the long march looks like when it no longer needs the gifted communicator. When the institutions are sufficiently captured, the inspiring leader is optional. You need someone who will maintain what was won – and take it further, quietly, without the poetry, without the charm, and without the need to persuade anyone of anything. The Red Brigades with a budget and a parliamentary majority. British politics is ten years ahead of the U.S. That is, if you do not ACTIVELY choose to change the course of history…

BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval. For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the President that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end! We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place, and everything agreed to today will be cherished by the American People. We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland, and all of our Allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land. We will be very protective of it! This is a dream come true for the United States of America, one that is very important, historic, and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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