Jeff Giesea
@jeffgiesea
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🇺🇸 dad, entrepreneur, investor, writer. Interested in the intersection of technology, culture, and politics.
Washington DC & Florida
Joined October 2008
@elonmusk @StationCDRKelly Allowing a country to push back against an invading force is not “enabling escalation.” It’s deterring it.
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@GenMhayden Respectfully, what are you trying to accomplish with this message? I understand your concerns, but this type of message reinforces the prevailing GOP narrative of a partisan, weaponized intelligence apparatus.
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@RichardHanania tfw when you realize the consequences of your philosophy is not just for *other* white men.
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@GenMhayden Further, your message overstates the case. Do you truly believe the GOP is more nihilistic & contemptible than Al Qaeda? Seriously? Make that case. You also paint with too broad a brush. Not all Republicans are extremists, and Uncle MAGA is not the enemy. Tone it down.
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Say what you want about @realDailyWire, they are crushing it in a challenging media environment:. •Recurring rev from 890k subs.•High growth rate.•Diversifying revenue streams. compare to @CNNplus 🤣. Respect to @JeremyDBoreing @benshapiro & co
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@DanielMillerEsq Having supported Trump in 2016, it is embarrassing to acknowledge this. But what you write in this thread is true. There's a "boiling the frog" element to this progression. I agree it is worthy of vigilance.
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Was just looking at some data points now vs Jan '21, when Biden took office. .
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@primalpoly Riding my bike around town with a dozen other boys, with no helmets and vague directive to “be home by dinner.”. Also stuff with fire.
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@SaraGonzalesTX What's up with Plano? I'm curious about the mindset of a parent who would bring their kids to this. No gay parent that I know would. I certainly wouldn't. 100% inappropriate.
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@MattWalshBlog Oh shut up. It's not the same, and I don't know any white guys who were offended by it.
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@DeSantisWarRoom … and then DeSantis opens his mouth and we all hear his nasally, lispy straight-guy voice.
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@AdamKinzinger I would not characterize legal defense as a grift, but it says something that you would.
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@NvrBackDown24 Does anyone care about this petty nonsense? If anything, this makes Trump look reasonable.
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@BGrueskin @tab_delete "Student reporter takes down university president" is a helluva script.
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@RichardHanania In defense of MAGA, why should they want more H1Bs when the benefits of an expanded pie accrue to the top 1% & not so much to them? The Tech Right is right on macro economics but has a tone deafness on these issues. They need to demonstrate they care about everyday Americans.
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Ideas for add'l Congressional investigations:. • Origins of Covid.• Fed involvement in Jan 6.• Ways to improve election integrity & authenticate voters.• Biden family foreign influence.• China/Russia influence. Would be great to put to rest conspiracies & uncover truth.
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@SenKatieBritt @SenMarcoRubio @SenKevinCramer @SenateGOP Sen. Britt persistently weaponizes womanhood.
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You’ve made Liz Cheney look heroic, sanitized her family name, and positioned her for a presidential run. This isn’t the win you think it is.
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@BillKristol Love trans kids so much you make them wait to an appropriate age before making life-altering decisions. That’s not fascism, it’s common sense and loving constraint.
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@MichaelRCaputo I support reform and oversight, but treating the FBI this way is dumb and destructive and only serves to create operating space for bad forces.
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@esaagar Bad take. The NYU student's piece was horrid — whiny, entitled drivel better suited for her personal diary.
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@JudiciaryGOP I’m a Republican former MAGA guy, and even to me it is glaringly obvious Trump is in the wrong here. Stop defending the indefensible.
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@RichardHanania Continuing to see straight masculine white men openly support Harris will cause quite a bit of cognitive dissonance on the right. This is good. Competition for their vote is good.
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@KTmBoyle We should aim to revive quality liberal arts not celebrate its decline. The stats you celebrate are a negative indicator for civilizational health.
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@MattWalshBlog 1. There's no history of food stereotypes being weaponized against white men. If there is, it's not equivalent. 2. Though it may be an eye roll, no white people are offended. 3. Your tack is essentially "Dems are the real racists" which is dumb & basic. 4. You're chasing clout.
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@GenMhayden Sharing your views as a private citizen is fine. But dropping your role as "former CIA director" while effectively portraying one of our two major political parties as the enemy seems undemocratic and inappropriate, quite frankly.
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@jmrphy It's ok for a kid to be disappointed he didn't get into his dream college. Cut the kid some slack.
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@MattWalshBlog If someone said “Christianity must be eradicated from public life entirely,” does that not sound threatening to Christians?. This is the silly game @michaeljknowles and @realDailyWire are playing.
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@Santos4Congress In a serious world I would be interested in a Brazilian immigrant Congressman’s views on what’s happening in #brazil. In this world, though, I just want to know what kind of shoes you stole. And then I want you to resign. Because you’re a fraud.
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@NateAFischer @Byzness Couch it however you want. A “Protestant Franco” in America is not justified.
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The Gen X Jackson Hinkle.
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The drag/trans panic on the right seems misdirected somehow. I mean, I agree this is depraved. But where do you go with that? You want to legislate against it? Ban parents from make decisions for their kids? Just whip up emotion?.
These people belong in jail. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.
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@Will_Bunch 💯 Botched communications is a big part of the Kate Middleton story. It’s all very human on some level, but her comms team should be replaced. This is a good case study for @lulumeservey’s “go direct” manifesto.
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@CRShort81 Imagine emotionally blackmailing your family like this and then bragging about it on Twitter. Your dad clearly loves you, too. A shame.
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@khamenei_ir Your regime has killed 551 protesters in recent years, according to this report.
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@colinrtalbot His focus on the UK is absurd considering he never criticizes actual authoritarian regimes like Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia.
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Silicon Valley Bank lobbied against stress tests that would have uncovered the type of weaknesses that led to the bank’s implosion on Friday. Via @kenklippenstein @theintercept #SVBCollapse
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Condolences to Iranians around the world. #MohammadGhobadlou has been executed, according to reports from Iran 💔😭.
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@realchrisrufo @eyeslasho @conservmillen “It’s a problem,” you claim while engaging with Malaysian grifter & former RT columnist Ian Miles Cheong
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@Timcast Yes, because being an influencer is tough. You become a prisoner of your audience and the algorithms. One day you'll look in the mirror and you won't recognize yourself. Maybe you're already there, IDK.
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@SFBART *narrator voice* SF could simply enforce the law and crack down on crime as was done, curiously, when Xi Jinping was in town.
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Weed kills ambition and makes people mentally ill. I saw it happen to my late brother. Don’t use it. Don’t legalize it.
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Migrant encounters on U.S. southern border.-Jan '21: 78,414.-Now: 239,416.
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@RepMTG Oh please, this is weak. You can sympathize with the young man's position and still recognize that what he did was wrong, illegal, and not a form of whistleblowing.
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Drug overdose deaths.-2020: 78,056.-2021: 100,306 (up 28.5%) .
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Yes - ban it. But there are two systemic issues to think about:. • Tech regulation needs to operate within the OODA loop of innovation. • Counterintel issues pervade the private technology space, and we don't have fast or adequate means to address them.
The web browser used within the TikTok app can track every keystroke made by its users, according to new research.
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Avg confidence in U.S. institutions.-2020: 36%.-2022: 27% (record low).
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The Iranian diaspora community is amazing. I'm a fan. But it's sad. It seems like every day they mourn another young person killed or sentenced to death by the regime. The latest is rapper Toomaj Salehi. I'm glad Congress + Biden passed the MAHSA Act.
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@EliseStefanik "I am proud to endorse the man who attempted a coup and is posting q-anon stuff on TruthSocial". Lol no. Elise, you are too smart for this.
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@Cernovich You can tell D hates his life right now. An introvert doing 24/7 small talk while sticking eggs. Lol.
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Median U.S. rent.-Jan '21: ~$1,550.-Now: $1,849 (~17% YOY increase).
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@elonmusk @danielhoughton @anothercohen @iamharaldur Perspective piece in tomorrow’s WSJ, probably: “why you should never conduct HR on social media”.
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@RichardHanania As a data point for you: about a third to half of all former Stanford Review editors I know have come out as gay since college, a group that includes myself.
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@TeamDeSantis @RonDeSantis It's fun watching Meatball and Casey cosplay as they run. This "Tom Cruise aesthetic" is the best so far but still feels forced.
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Notice the blame-shifting happening with SVB. Somehow Peter Thiel is responsible?! Lol. The blame lays squarely at the feet of SVB CEO Gregory Becker. He failed to adapt the bank’s balance sheet to a higher-interest rate environment & sold shares as an insider two weeks ago.
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The simultaneous desire for @elonmusk to fail and for Twitter to endure is causing a lot of cognitive dissonance. Interesting to watch. 🍿.
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@oneunderscore__ Hard agree
Tucker is joyless. Seriously. Listening to him is a form of masochism, like bathing in one’s own latent resentments. His content is rage-bait built on shaky premises. There’s no sense of fun.
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Imagine being a white man and thinking, “wow I want to be like these guys.” Vile.
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@elonmusk This is the kind of shit post I would expect from a Breitbart reader with 100 followers, not the owner of Twitter and erstwhile world's richest man. #PlatformResponsibility.
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@JDVance JD, These are legitimate issues, but why do you continue to debase yourself and undercut these grievances by amplifying false info?. Also, have you considered that many of the Haitians in Springfield came to the country under the Trump administration? It's an inconvenient fact.
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@CaseyDeSantis @RonDeSantis There's a legitimate grievance around parent issues, which I share, but this whole video feels off. It's overstated and agitational, not unifying. Also: We gay people have kids too. Are you protecting them or putting them in the cross hairs? 🤔.
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Elon is your basic bro altrighter circa 2015. Painful to watch.
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Unemployment rate.-Jan '20: 3.5%.-Jan '21: 6.4%.-Now: 3.6%.
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@LindseyGrahamSC Yes, these things aren’t mutually exclusive:. >Defend our border.>Support Ukraine.>Pressure Europe to do more.
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worth absorbing this critique of @DouthatNYT by @NGrossman81. this is why I am plugging my nose and supporting Biden in 2024.
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@AP As an Eagle, I’m not as annoyed by this as I would’ve been several years ago. Times change. Evolve.
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@justinemusk I once dated a guy who turned out to be a big narcissist. An early sign was when he sent a dozen roses to my *office* after our first date. At the time, I was only out of the closet to close friends. I’m also not that into flowers (lol). In hindsight it was classic love bombing.
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