The hard-right presidential candidate Abelardo De La Espriella @ABDELAESPRIELLA has overtaken the far-left candidate Iván Capeda according to @polynarket, which now has him at 44% to win the Colombian election. The independent candidate is known for his hardline “mano dura” (iron fist) security policies and admiration for leaders like Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei. Inspired by Bukele, he’s campaigning on crushing crime by building mega-prisons and introducing harsh punishments. The maximum-security mega-prisons (modeled on El Salvador’s CECOT) would be guarded by military reservists and veterans. He also promises to implement a crackdown against the numerous communist terror groups in the country, vowing no peace processes with armed groups, favoring only surrenders or military action. He wants to eradicate the narco-terrorists with aerial fumigation of coca crops and military bombings of narco-terrorist camps in the jungle. He says that he would introduce a radical state reduction with up to 40% by eliminating hundreds of thousands of public positions, slashing taxes and deregulating the economy, following in the footsteps of Javier Milei. Espriella wants to shift Colombia’s foreign policy shifts by taking strong measures against the far-left regime in Venezuela while strengthening ties with the U.S. and the West. He considers the current president Gustavo Petro an “ex-terrorist” and “social-communist demon.” The first round of the election will take place on May 31st @ABDELAESPRIELLA

Trump on congressionally approved weapons sales to Taiwan: "I may do it, I may not do it." He's holding the deal "in abeyance" and called it "a very good negotiating chip" with China.

WePay Vs PayPal: GTM Campaign Highlight In 2010, a pre-revenue payments startup humiliated PayPal at its own developer conference and built a marketing case study still taught today. WePay, founded by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman, had one real complaint to work with: PayPal's reputation for freezing user accounts. WePay dumped a 600-pound block of ice filled with dollar bills on the pavement outside at PayPal's own developer conference in San Francisco in October 2010. The sign read: PayPal freezes your accounts. Unfreeze your money. Use WePay. Total production cost was reportedly under 500 dollars. The stunt ran for one morning. It was picked up by TechCrunch, Mashable, Wired, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Conference attendees walked past it to get in, journalists filmed it, and the story became the spine of WePay's brand narrative for the next decade. WePay was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2017 for a reported 220 million dollars. The lesson is not that stunts work. The lesson is that the sharpest positioning is usually a truth your competitor cannot deny in public. WePay did not invent the complaint, they gave it shape, physical weight, and a shareable image, in front of the exact audience who already felt it. Cheap, on-message, and unmissable beats expensive, safe, and forgettable almost every time.

That “Rocket Pioneers” photo you see in space museums? It’s not wholesome American ingenuity. It’s the direct product of Operation Paperclip—the U.S. government’s secret program that imported ~1,600 Nazi scientists, engineers & technicians after WWII. Let’s look closer at this 1956 photo and who’s in the shot: ✅ Wernher von Braun (seated right) — Nazi Party member and SS officer who built the V-2 using slave labor from concentration camps. ✅ Ernst Stuhlinger (seated left)—Key V-2 guidance expert, brought over with the team. ✅ Hermann Oberth (foreground)—Von Braun’s mentor, supported the Nazi rocket program. Joined the U.S. team in the mid-50s. ✅ Major General Holger Toftoy (standing)—The American Army officer who ran Paperclip for the rocket scientists. He hand-picked the Germans, oversaw their extraction, and relocated them. After arriving in 1945, these Paperclip Germans (and Toftoy directing them) first went to Fort Bliss, Texas. 🚀 From 1946 to early 1950 they fired captured V-2 rockets at White Sands Proving Ground near Alamogordo, NM—reverse-engineering and testing the very weapons Hitler used on London and Antwerp. By 1950 the whole operation moved to Huntsville, Alabama (Redstone Arsenal / ABMA). The 1956 photo captures them there, already building the Redstone/Jupiter missiles that led straight to NASA’s Saturn V and the Apollo moon missions. Toftoy didn’t just “oversee” it—he was the guy who convinced the Pentagon to bring the Nazis over, paper-clipping their files to bypass war crimes scrutiny. 🧐 America “won the space race”…by importing the Nazi rocket team from Germany. The soviets had also snagged Nazis for their aid of this “race.” History books and museum plaques love the “genius immigrants” story. They’re silent about the Paperclip bargain: morals traded for tech in the name of beating the Soviets and building lies and propaganda from a nefarious set of building blocks. Your tax dollars, your “moon landing,” and Nazi V-2 expertise. 🤑 🤥 Money, lies, and the good old boys’ network. Just another “pragmatic” chapter in the real history they don’t put on the big plaques. What do you think—a necessary evil or a deal with the devil? You know my pick. 😏 #OperationPaperclip#