There is a famous quote often misattributed to Albert Einstein, which was actually said by Dianne Feinstein:
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else."
Scott Adams also talks about this in his book Reframe Your Brain.
Washington, D.C., is bracing for an unprecedented show of support as over 100 Navy SEALs prepare to descend on the nation’s capital, standing in solidarity with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth, a decorated Army combat veteran and prominent conservative voice, has faced relentless media attacks in recent weeks.
The fake news media have leveled accusations ranging from outdated and disproven sexual misconduct claims to allegations of public drunkenness and financial mismanagement during his tenure at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).
Critics on the right are pushing back hard against what they view as a deliberate effort to derail a nominee poised to shake up the Defense Department.
Randy Lair, a trustee at CVA, categorically denied the whistleblower allegations, describing them as “sensational fabrications designed to undermine a patriot.”
In an exclusive letter to the New York Post, Lair emphasized that Hegseth left CVA on good ...
‘Charlatan’ vaccine promoter Dr. Peter Hotez said multiple viruses will be unleashed on America one day after Trump is inaugurated next month.
“We have some big picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st,” Hotez said to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace before rattling off a list of viruses:
Of course, Dr. Hotez failed to mention the measles outbreaks and Polio cases are primarily a problem with the illegal migrants invading the US.
Dr. Peter Hotez previously made headlines for refusing to debate author, activist, then-presidential candidate, attorney and now Trump’s nominee for HHS, Robert Kennedy, Jr., on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Rather than accept the challenge, Hotez lashed out at both Robert Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan, who invited the two to debate the facts on his show.
Hotez refused and ...
Several weeks of mysterious drone swarms over the skies of one New Jersey county near the military research and manufacturing facility Picatinny Arsenal have sparked concerns among residents and prompted an FBI investigation.
"It's kind of unsettling," Mike Walsh, a Morris County resident who has spotted the drones on numerous occasions, told local media outlet PIX11 News.
He said some drones "are very big, probably the size of a car."
Since Nov. 18, Walsh and many other residents have spotted these drones in the night sky.
"They're kind of go slow," he said, adding, "They come towards you. Then they change direction a little. They're all going different ways."
We first detailed the story on Nov. 19 in a note titled "Spy Drones? "Unusual Activity" Reported Over Morris County, New Jersey, Near Military Research Facility."
The potential national security threat piqued our interest, considering multiple reports that the mysterious drones were observed near Picatinny Arsenal.
PIX11 News said...
You are invited to join the next CWSA Afterparty X Spaces, today after Scott’s morning livestream!
https://x.com/owengregorian/status/1893281334623125857?s=46&t=za1kQOtu4Dod6Yb1P465eg
The next CWSA Afterparty X Spaces is today, and you’re invited!
As usual we’ll start a few minutes after Scott’s morning livestream ends.
https://x.com/owengregorian/status/1890748504206696532?s=46&t=za1kQOtu4Dod6Yb1P465eg
hey Greg, I like that you are doing a regular show and I don't want to criticize because that's what it's going to sound like so I'm going to start with that. I think you're doing a great job finding stories and exposing all kinds of science that we would never be exposed to otherwise.
but
it's really hard to get into a show when it's just a constant echo chamber. what I would like to see is if you could offer like people to raise their hands if they have the counter argument or a counterpoint to what we just heard. ... they talk a lot about wanting to get the people on either side to look at our point of views and they aren't going to listen to people who don't present their arguments. I think you'll grab a wider audience and it'll be much more interesting
This story focuses on Elon Musk of course, as the news tends to focus on every X post or reply he makes.
If you read this story, you may have noticed that it quotes Scott Adams' reaction to a previous story about the idea of issuing $5,000 "DOGE dividend" checks, questioning why we would do that when we are facing such massive budget deficits and an enormous national debt. Elon responded to that stating that he thought we needed to balance the budget first.
This isn't the only story written about this.
What it doesn't state is that my post about the $5,000 DOGE check idea is what prompted this whole conversation. 😎
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1892184391717384462
It's also notable that the whole thing started with an X post from James Fishback (@j_fishback) that included a letter he wrote with a detailed proposal about the idea:
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/1891933120313663493
It's still a trip to think that an ordinary person like me can have even a small impact on the national conversation.
Don't underestimate the influence what you do on this platform could have. And thank you for your support, and for coming along this strange journey with me.
John Boyd and William S. Lind changed our understanding of modern warfare, and their ideas can help you in business, politics, influencing people, and lots more.
John Boyd was a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, and later became a military strategist and advised the Pentagon. He wrote many essays on how the nature of warfare was changing and what we should do about it. William S. Lind wrote a book called The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook that included many of Boyd's ideas which has been influential to how we approach warfighting.
I'm going to describe some of the key concepts and frameworks covered in that book, and how they can be applied to information warfare. I'm hoping you'll come away with enough understanding that you can notice when these techniques are being applied, judge how well various players are doing with them to help predict how a conflict will turn out, and be able to start practicing these techniques yourself.
Just 10 percent of Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s promise to deport illegal migrants with criminal records, according to an Ipsos poll for the New York Times.
In contrast, 87 percent support the deportations strongly or “somewhat,” so providing a broad consensus for a national enforcement campaign.
And just 19 percent of Americans — fewer than one in five — strongly oppose “deporting all immigrants who are here illegally,” the Ipsos poll also showed. Fifty-six percent support the deportations strongly or somewhat.
The post-election collapse of tolerance for illegal migration was spotlighted Saturday when the newspaper posted its early-January poll of 2,128 citizens and residents that confirmed recent polling trends.
The broad shift in political opinion — dubbed a “preference cascade” by academics — was likely caused when Trump’s campaign and November win showed Americans how many other Americans oppose migration.
The new numbers will help Trump and his deputies begin the careful, low-drama, and gradual removal of millions of wage-cutting, rent-spiking migrants from U.S. society.
A patient and popular enforcement campaign will also help shift the political attention to the even bigger impact of legal migration on Americans.
Already, the rising public demand for less legal migration was spotlighted over Christmas when Twitter erupted in a furious debate over white-collar migration via the H-1B visa program. That drama was ignored by the poll but is expected to rise as the nation draws closer to the 2026 election.
Pro-migration groups, however, hope the Trump enforcement is chaotic and rushed because any tactical mistakes will help their media allies paint the repatriations as cruel and counterproductive.
The newspaper’s coverage of the poll downplays the drama, saying:
Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Ipsos.
The new poll includes much evidence that GOP voters are leading Democrats away from their politically disastrous support for the quasi-open borders policies put in place by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration, Cuban-born border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
For example, only 16 percent of Democrats oppose the deportation of criminal migrants, and only 34 percent of Democrats now “strongly” oppose the deportation of “all immigrants [emphasis added] who are here illegally.”
Overall, 55 percent want all migrants to be deported, and 87 percent want crminal migrants to be deported.
These numbers — and the approaching 2026 midterm elections — help to explain why a critical share of Senate Democrats are expected on Monday to support the Laken Riley bill that would allow the detention of criminal migrants.
Similarly, 56 percent said the Mayorkas migration has caused more crime. Just 38 percent — including 63 percent of Democrats, said the migration “doesn’t have much impact on crime.”
The poll said that 41 percent of Americans, including 68 percent of GOP voters — say “immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care.” However, the “forced choice” question did not offer alternative answers, so it prodded 56 percent of respondents to say immigrants “strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents.”
There is much evidence that legal and illegal migration makes ordinary Americans poor and less productive.
Elsewhere in the poll, Ipsos asked if there were too many or too few legal migrants.
Thirty percent said too many, and just 24 percent said too few. But the plurality of 43 percent picked a middle option — “the right number” — likely because the respondents do not know that Biden’s deputies imported roughly one migrant for every American birth since 2021.
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