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I am concerned that public schools fail to teach kids to think critically, to prepare to stay healthy, and to understand U. S. Constitutional principles.

Idaho, USA
Joined February 2009
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“We acknowledge our dependence upon Truth; we recognize the power of knowledge to inspire good work and we seek the benefits that fidelity to Truth and the pursuit of knowledge may afford us, our teachers, and our country.” medium.com/@KPMcGuinness/202…
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Oh, heck no!
Time for a healthier America. Fire RFK Jr.
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Disturbing, to pit it mildly.
“Michigan is the capital of Arab America” - Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed Ummm there is no “arab america” It’s the United States of America 🇺🇸
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Javier Milei l'a dit à Davos : les entrepreneurs ne sont pas des prédateurs, ce sont des bienfaiteurs sociaux. Des héros. On est en train de vivre la fin d'un monde, celui des takers. Ceux qui prennent aux créateurs, gardent l'essentiel pour faire tourner la machine, rendent des miettes au peuple, et au passage stérilisent ceux qui pourraient vraiment améliorer la vie de tout le monde par l'innovation : les entrepreneurs. Ce monde-là est en faillite. Le suivant appartient à ceux qui construisent.
Sarah Knafo vient de démonter la taxe Zucman en un tweet. À mon tour. Pour comprendre comment des économistes peuvent défendre des idées aussi absurdes avec autant d'aplomb, il faut commencer par Gramsci. En deux minutes : Antonio Gramsci, théoricien communiste italien emprisonné par Mussolini, a compris un truc que Lénine avait raté. En Occident, on ne prend pas le pouvoir par la révolution, on le prend par la culture. Avant de gagner les urnes, il faut gagner les têtes : l'école, la presse, l'université, les intellectuels. Il appelait ça l'hégémonie culturelle. Un siècle plus tard, le plan a marché. L'université française est devenue une machine à produire une vision du monde où le capital est suspect, où l'entrepreneur est un prédateur et où l'État est la réponse à tout. Pendant ce temps, l'école qui a le mieux compris l'économie réelle est quasi absente des amphis : l'école autrichienne, celle de Menger, Mises et Hayek. Elle explique que les prix sont de l'information, que personne ne peut planifier une économie depuis un bureau, et que la richesse naît de l'entrepreneur qui voit ce que les autres n'ont pas vu. Piketty et Zucman sont les produits parfaits de ce système. Payés par l'argent public, adoubés par les médias publics, ils fournissent le vernis scientifique d'un projet politique : prendre à ceux qui créent. Ce n'est pas de la science, c'est de la propagande avec des tableurs. Et elle est financée par un modèle qui est en train de crever sous une dette record. Commençons par Piketty. Toute sa construction repose sur une inégalité : r > g. Le rendement du capital serait structurellement supérieur à la croissance, donc les riches deviendraient mécaniquement toujours plus riches. Sauf que c'est un axiome déguisé en loi. Il ignore que les fortunes se divisent à chaque héritage, se consomment et se perdent. Il ignore que les entreprises meurent : regardez les plus grosses capitalisations d'il y a cinquante ans, combien existent encore ? L'économiste Matthew Rognlie a montré que la hausse de la part du capital que décrit Piketty vient presque entièrement du logement, c'est-à-dire de la rareté du foncier, aggravée par les règles d'urbanisme. Et le meilleur : Piketty lui-même a reconnu en 2015 que r > g n'était pas le principal moteur des inégalités. Quand l'auteur abandonne son propre théorème, il reste quoi ? Une théorie où 2+2=5, et où on vous demande d'y croire parce que c'est écrit dans un livre de 900 pages. Zucman, maintenant. Son argument central : les milliardaires paieraient proportionnellement moins d'impôts que tout le monde. Sa solution : un impôt plancher de 2 % par an sur les patrimoines au-dessus de 100 millions, actifs professionnels compris. Lisez bien : ce n'est pas un impôt sur ce que vous gagnez, c'est un impôt sur ce que vous possédez, même si ça ne vous rapporte rien. Prenez un fondateur dont la boîte vaut 1 milliard sur le papier et qui ne verse aucun dividende parce qu'elle réinvestit tout. Il doit 20 millions par an. Il les trouve où ? Il vend ses actions. Chaque année. Jusqu'à perdre le contrôle de ce qu'il a construit, au profit de fonds étrangers. Ce n'est pas un bug, c'est le design : une taxe pensée pour déposséder progressivement les propriétaires de leur capital. Même François Geerolf, économiste à l'OFCE, a démonté le chiffre fondateur : recalculé sur une base homogène, l'écart d'imposition entre les ultra-riches et les autres fond presque entièrement. L'Assemblée l'a rejetée lors des deux derniers budgets. Et la Californie, l'État le plus à gauche des États-Unis, vient de rejeter sa propre taxe sur les milliardaires. Javier Milei l'a dit à Davos : les entrepreneurs ne sont pas des prédateurs, ce sont des bienfaiteurs sociaux. Des héros. On est en train de vivre la fin d'un monde, celui des takers. Ceux qui prennent aux créateurs, gardent l'essentiel pour faire tourner la machine, rendent des miettes au peuple, et au passage stérilisent ceux qui pourraient vraiment améliorer la vie de tout le monde par l'innovation : les entrepreneurs. Ce monde-là est en faillite. Le suivant appartient à ceux qui construisent.
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🚨 WOW! Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just dropped this truth nuke: "You take all the debt Florida's accumulated in its history, I've paid off 54% of it just in my tenure as governor!" "We've reduced our budget 4 YEARS in a row! Inflation has been happening, population's been growing, our budget's LESS *TODAY* than it was four years ago" "The size of government in Florida is SMALLER today than the day I took office." "We have the smallest government per capita of any state in the United States." "And what has that led to? More economic growth than any state this decade during my tenure as governor." Florida is CRUSHING IT and thankfully held the line on Tuesday ☀️ Sadly, Texas is about to go the opposite direction. They voted blue, and they will slowly begin looking more like California unless things change there, FAST
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If you want to iterate fast with radically new chip designs, join the Terafab project!
Elon Musk just revealed that Tesla is building a research chip fab at Gigafactory Texas that could reduce semiconductor development cycles from one year to just one month That's a potential 12 TIMES increase in the speed of chip development Tesla is building two semiconductor facilities in Texas with distinct purposes: • Giga Texas, Austin — A research fab for experimenting with new chip designs, fabrication techniques and manufacturing processes • Terafab, Grimes County — A massive production facility where successful breakthroughs will be scaled into high-volume chip manufacturing The research fab aims to bring the entire chip development process under one roof: • Logic fabrication • Memory fabrication • Lithography • Advanced packaging • Chip testing Instead of relying on lengthy development cycles spread across multiple facilities, Tesla is working toward designing, manufacturing and testing complete chips in approximately ONE MONTH That means potentially 12 development cycles in the time it traditionally takes to complete one Tesla is building the ability to develop its own chips, manufacture them and continuously improve them at a pace the semiconductor industry has rarely seen
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Tariffs
BREAKING 🚨: Lumber Lumber falls to lowest price in more than 2 years 📉 🏡
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This is precisely why I’m grateful to President Donald Trump.
Americans who voted blue ARE stupid. They can’t think beyond today—or the price at the gas pump. Politicians follow votes; real leaders lead the people and make the hard decisions needed to secure their future.
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Nice.
🚨 President Trump has named Stephen Miller the new White House Chief of Staff, replacing Susie Wiles. One of the fiercest defenders of Trump’s America First agenda is now taking command of White House operations. Trump isn’t backing down. He’s shaking things up. Washington better buckle up.
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DeSantis has been impressive strategically and on the issues these past few years.
DeSantis was VERY smart. He put property taxes on the ballot in FL and that got the GOP vote out enough to save the state. That's the kind of strategic thinking this party needs in 2028.
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I voted for Romney but not enthusiastically. In hindsight I wish I had left it blank. Total squish.
Replying to @RonDeSantis
‘Ol Mittens Romney. Can’t believe I so enthusiastically voted for that weasel in ‘12.
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Should be obvious.
Every single federal judicial vacancy needs to be filled in the lame duck session. The Senate should pull all-nighters for as long as it takes. Democrats wont confirm a single Trump judge once they take over.
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“The President should set out his non negotiable demands of no nukes, no strait, no terrorist funding, no long range ballistics, and then resume bombing if they don’t agree until they do.” Read the entire post; it is a clear strategic run down with a rational policy footing.
Stop the War? Time to end the draft and bring our soldiers home from Iran where they are dying by the hundreds in trench warfare and house-to-house combat. Oh wait. We are not doing any of that. The “war” is a naval blockade to get the Iranians to give up nuclear and terrorist ambitions. At its peak we also had an air campaign directed at military and leadership targets but we stopped it in exchange for fake promises. Mostly we have been engaged in endless negotiations and memorandums of understandings while the Iranians regained their footing and kept their resolve to kill big and little Satan. The Iranians are so confident now in their success they are not negotiating at all. They killed tens of thousands of their own people to keep their iron grip. They are laughing at America that can’t take a temporary $1 increase in gasoline prices to get rid of the world’s top sponsor of terrorism and instability. The President should set out his non negotiable demands of no nukes, no strait, no terrorist funding, no long range ballistics, and then resume bombing if they don’t agree until they do. And democrats want to lower the cost of gasoline? Who could possibly believe that after they spent 20 years choking off the supply of domestic energy over climate change. Check the price of gas in California. So the current fashion is to end the war with nothing, cut off Israel, and lower the cost of gasoline. That’s a strategy? Enable nuclear and other terrorism that will ultimately swallow the region, travel to Europe and then here? Or stop it now that you can when they are weak and have alienated all the gulf states and go for real stability. That’s an actual strategy that will pay us back for decades to come. And as to affordability — suspend the gas tax, drop interest rates, suspend tariffs, provide temporary tax breaks for energy use, reform the student loan program and push for big affordable housing programs beyond the recent bill. As to “war,” finish the job while we can. And explain why to the American people.
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This is the way. More states should pass laws outlawing terror-supporting groups.
CAIR has officially suspended operations in Florida.
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If @LeaderJohnThune passed the SAVE America Act, codified DOGE cuts, and defunded the Taliban, we would have won the midterms. He blocked it all.
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As of this moment, I concur.
DeSantis and Rubio are both very strong options. Rubio is a better speaker with more charisma, but DeSantis has more executive experience and has run a government. DeSantis can be clumsy at times publicly but he is more of the Audie Murphy type - not flashy but deadly. Rubio is brilliant and better publicly but has limited operational experience - he has never set up and run a major government. I'd be content with either man at the top of the ticket with the other as vice president. Thoughts?
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Ron DeSantis is looking more and more like the hopeful version of what a restructured Republican party could look like.
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Replying to @JakeMRosen
Why is 99% of journalism now idle gossip from anonymous sources? Either release audio of the conversation or don't report it. Journalism is the most unethical and unaccountable profession in the USA
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🚨 JUST IN: Legal expert Jonathan Turley says buyer's remorse is about to sweep America after Democrats' blue tsunami because they will TURN TO IMPEACHMENT and WEAPONIZATION after nothing gets passed "[DSA wing] will have oversize power in Congress. THIS WILL BE A TRAINWRECK...they don't have the votes to move these reforms. That's the reason they'll turn to investigations and impeachments." "People are gonna realize they didn't offer any actual, constructive ideas about how to improve the economy." He's right. Democrats ran on affordability. Now they WILL hold the gavels, and the left is already pushing for subpoenas! Trump holds the veto pen, so ANY socialist agenda goes nowhere Then the Dems will put on a circus. This is the opportunity to expose them before 2028.
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We had the House, Senate, and Presidency. Congress did nothing with that. It was the biggest mistake of their careers.
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