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This video was deleted yesterday from Twitter by Elon Musk. You know what to do ‼️‼️‼️
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If you haven’t seen this yet β€” holy shit β€” you HAVE to watch it to the end. πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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First the Swasticar, now the Klanborgini...
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People actually cheered for American cities to get taken out. Terrorist
Trump on Iran: Let 'em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it's a small price to pay
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Melania is out! Meet your new First Lady, 35 year old Natalie Harp, who resides at the White House 24/7 and accompanies Donald on all his trips, including the most recent one to Ireland!
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I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly. In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints. But that is not really what happened. These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure. The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms. And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like β€œcontrolled demolition.” Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing. What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward. That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by β€œcontrolled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse. And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses. Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated. Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry. The result was progressive collapse. No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions. But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful. They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints. A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.
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TRUMP: β€œWe'll by Argentinian beef.” Reporters:' What about the US farmers who are suffering?' Trump: β€œArgentina is fighting for its life. Do you understand me? They’re dying.” He says this as 77 American cattle producers are going out of business in the US per day
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Check out this timelapse from near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii! It's from the Canada-France Hawaii telescope observation at an altitude of over 13,000 feet. Cloud deck from Lala arrives around :22 seconds #Lala #Hawaii #Hurricane #weather
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Here’s Trump telling everyone he’s a pedo. And they just clap.
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Is your life better now?
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Replying to @BuckSexton
Fauci did not claim COVID vaccines had zero risks. He acknowledged side effects, including rare serious complications, while saying evidence showed benefits outweighed the risks.
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Ohio Trump voters: "You can't do anything with gas prices, you can't afford to breathe at this point... I try to do a lot for my kids and I can't do much... He needs to look out for the American people instead of himself."
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The GOP's official party-wide slogan marching into the midterms: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
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Replying to @Mike_Pence
I see the weaklings are signing up on the blame train
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Just think of how sick, twisted and demented you have to be to post this as president knowing it is all a lie because you don’t want to admit you hired an unqualified pool guy - the act of typing this knowing that every word is false.
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🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says β€œinnocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony. Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.
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Replying to @atrupar
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Replying to @berniemoreno
Yeah what a POS
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Replying to @atrupar
He almost has it. We could’ve gotten through it had Trump not ignored it
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