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The question to ask socialists is:
Would you still support feeding, housing, educating, and providing healthcare to everyone if doing so required slavery?
They'll say no, of course.
Then ask: If people refuse to provide these things voluntarily, do you abandon your promises or force them to comply?
At what point does someone else's need justify your use of force on someone else?
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When Dave Chappelle was attacked on stage, Charlie stood up for him.
After Charlie was murdered in an act of political violence himself, Chappelle is joking about it.
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History will remember two men as the ones who exposed the empire of lies: Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele.
For decades, the same class of experts, NGOs, think tanks and international institutions told us two things were impossible.
That you could kill inflation without destroying a country.
That you could kill violent crime without "addressing root causes" for another 30 years.
Milei took the first one.
Argentina, December 2023: inflation over 200% a year, 25% in a single month. A central bank printing money to fund a state that had become a vote-buying machine. Every economist on TV predicted a social explosion if anyone touched it.
He cut the number of ministries in half. He balanced the budget in his first year. Monthly inflation went from 25% to under 2%. Poverty, which peaked at 52.9% right after the devaluation, fell to 28%, the lowest since 2018. It's not a straight line, poverty ticked back up this year, and he says so himself. But the point is proven: the "impossible" was possible all along.
The lesson is brutal. Endless money printing was never a technocratic necessity. It was a hidden tax on the poor, quietly paying for the people who designed the system and lived off it.
Bukele took the second one.
El Salvador, 2015: 106 homicides per 100,000 people. The most violent country on earth outside a war zone. Gangs ran neighborhoods, taxed every bus driver and every street vendor, and decided who lived and who died.
El Salvador, 2025: 1.3 per 100,000. Lower than the United States.
Every international expert said it couldn't be done. The NGOs called it barbaric. Salvadorans re-elected him with over 80% of the vote, because they're the ones who used to bury their kids.
And now his helicopters are in Haiti, pulling his own soldiers out of gang territory, telling the gangs: we finished with ours, we can finish with you.
So ask yourself the real question. If it was this simple, why didn't anyone do it?
Because an entire ecosystem lived off the problem.
Inflation funded the state that funded the clients that funded the elections. Crime created fear, and fear created demand for programs, consultants, studies, panels, subsidies and "experts" who never had to deliver a result. In Latin America it was the gangs. In the West it's mass immigration with no integration and crime with no consequences. Different symptom, same business model: the problem is never solved because too many people are paid to manage it.
Milei and Bukele didn't just fix two countries. They published the proof. Every politician who still says "it's complicated" now has to explain why a guy with a chainsaw and a guy with a baseball cap did in two years what they couldn't do in forty.
Thank you Javier Milei. Thank you Nayib Bukele.
The world is going to heal with your solutions.
Europe is next. We're waiting.
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Somali daycare owner connected to convicted fraudsters defeats Republican in Minnesota notthebee.com/t0313
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California Reminds Voters There Are Just 30 Days Left To Vote In Last Tuesday’s Election buff.ly/56UHAqc
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The Office after Democrats won on Tuesday. AI is getting scary good. This episode could have existed.
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Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.
The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.
MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."
HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."
MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."
HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."
MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."
HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."
MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"
HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."
MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."
HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."
MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."
ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."
MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."
CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.
And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.
Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.
A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.
If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
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Homeschoolers generally outperform public school students. The public school system is failing across the country. And the left's response is to mock parents who choose to educate their own children and question their motives for wanting to be with their kids.
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🚨 Democrats just threatened to cut off Elon Musk's government contracts.
Elon's reply: "Happy to cancel any that the government doesn't want. Just say the word!" 😂
Watch this and you'll see why he isn't scared.
He gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of surviving. He told people, "We're probably going to fail."
He built it anyway.
Falcon 1 failed 3 times. The 4th one made orbit.
This June, SpaceX rang the Nasdaq bell. The largest IPO in history.
And now Elon says government money will be less than 10% of SpaceX revenue this quarter. Under 5% a year from now.
10% chance to make it.
Less than 10% from Washington.
You can't scare a man who already bet everything on 10%. 🇺🇸🚀
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Good breakdown of the interview with Ron Baron
Here’s the full interview of @elonmusk with Ron Baron
0:13 - Exciting times ahead
0:21 - First principles and TerraFab
2:18 - Chip fabs geopolitical risk
5:51 - Terawatt scale ambition
6:14 - Trillion dollar phased build
7:36 - Why others don’t improve
7:49 - Austin research fab iteration
10:49 - Culture of speed and ideas
13:48 - Walking the floor hands-on
15:39 - Data centers pitchforks
16:44 - OpenAI origins Anthropic
18:09 - Building data centers fast
20:01 - Revenue exploding Jose meme
23:16 - Model Y best in China
23:28 - China ownership exception
24:50 - ARR to five hundred billion
27:45 - Digital AI economy boost
28:21 - Robotics five times productivity
30:10 - Rent robots not sell
30:41 - Memphis community benefits
32:55 - Data centers in space
33:35 - StarMind and space power
36:26 - Cost to orbit history
36:52 - Falcon nine reusability limits
39:09 - Hourly launches Starship size
40:25 - Chopsticks and heat shield
44:30 - Starship unlocks Starlink
46:49 - Agentic traffic thousand times
48:09 - Starlink V3 bandwidth explosion
51:26 - Spectrum and telcos
52:43 - Satellite replacement cycle
53:17 - Laser links hundred times
53:55 - Competing with China power
55:37 - Space intelligence advantage
57:19 - Demand from superintelligence
58:02 - Universal high income future
1:00:43 - Legacy contribution
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Ron Baron asked Elon Musk how many CEOs live on site in an Airstream and work hands-on with everyone.
MUSK: “Airstreams are actually pretty nice... It’s parked right next to the power plant.”
“We built this power plant that’s producing over a gigawatt... in about a year, as opposed to normally about five years.”
“There is no upstairs.”
He walks the entire site up to five times a day. He’s pulled power cables “the size of an anaconda,” run fiber, wired switches, and worked on the power plant software.
“I try to do at least a little bit of everything, so that I’m not numb to the pain of the people who are actually doing it.”
“It’s not as though I’m sitting in an office and somebody has to come to me. I’m walking the floor, asking them questions actively.”
There’s a reason SpaceX is winning the compute race.
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Rosie O'Donnell considers return to America now that it voted its way out of fascism
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Karen Bass Says It Was Unfair For Voters To Judge Her Performance Based On That One Time The Entire City Burned Down buff.ly/4QRv6o7
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10 Things You Probably Never Knew About Larry Bird, Even If You Watched Him Play in the 1980s!
Larry Bird once drove a garbage truck. He came one steal short of a quadruple-double and refused to chase it. And he once scored 47 points while playing mostly with his LEFT HAND.
We all remember the three NBA championships, the legendary rivalry with Magic Johnson, and those unforgettable moments at Boston Garden.
But behind Larry Legend's greatness are stories that reveal just how unique he really was.
Here are 10 incredible facts every old-school NBA fan should know.
1. He left Indiana University after just 24 days.
Bird struggled to adjust to college life in Bloomington and returned home to French Lick. Before eventually finding his way to Indiana State, he worked several jobs, including driving a garbage truck.
2. The Celtics drafted him a year before he entered the NBA.
Boston selected Bird sixth overall in the 1978 NBA Draft. But he stayed at Indiana State for his senior season, leaving the Celtics to wait until 1979 for their future superstar.
3. His rookie season transformed Boston almost overnight.
The Celtics finished 29-53 before Bird arrived. In his rookie season, they went 61-21, improving by an incredible 32 wins.
4. He came one steal short of a quadruple-double and refused to chase it.
On February 18, 1985, Bird recorded 30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 9 steals against Utah. With the game under control, he chose to stay on the bench rather than return to chase that final steal.
5. He scored 60 points, and even the opposing bench couldn't help reacting.
Against the Atlanta Hawks in March 1985, Bird exploded for 60 points. His performance was so spectacular that even members of the opposing bench were caught celebrating some of his shots.
6. He scored 47 points while playing mostly with his LEFT HAND.
On February 14, 1986, Bird decided to use his weaker left hand for much of the game against Portland. He finished with 47 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in a 120-119 overtime victory.
His explanation? He was saving his right hand for the Lakers.
7. He won three consecutive Three-Point Contests.
Bird won the NBA Three-Point Contest in 1986, 1987 and 1988. In the 1988 final, he was still wearing his warm-up jacket when he took his final shot. He raised his finger before the ball even went through the net.
8. He scored 20 fourth-quarter points in an unforgettable Game 7 against Atlanta.
Battling Dominique Wilkins in one of the greatest playoff duels ever, Bird took over the final quarter in 1988. Boston survived with a dramatic 118-116 victory.
9. He won Olympic gold despite a back injury that was ending his career.
Bird joined the legendary 1992 Dream Team in Barcelona despite chronic back problems. The United States won gold, and Bird announced his retirement shortly afterward.
10. He achieved something no other NBA figure has matched.
Larry Bird won NBA MVP as a player, Coach of the Year with the Indiana Pacers in 1998, and Executive of the Year in 2012.
Three different roles. Three of basketball's highest individual honors. One Larry Bird.
The championships, awards and statistics tell us how great he was. But these stories explain why Larry Legend remains one of the most unique figures in basketball history.
There will never be another Larry Bird. 💚
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New study shows the Jewish leaders who condemned Jesus helped preserve evidence of His Resurrection
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Bill Maher reveals San Francisco wanted to build ONE public toilet. The price tag hit $1,700,000.
Not a toilet system. One regular toilet.
Then a private company offered to build it for free.
And guess what? The "free" toilet was still going to cost almost $1,000,000.
MAHER: "After quote project management, construction management, architecture and engineering fees, permits, civic design review, surveys, contract preparation and cost estimation. The free toilet was still going to cost almost a million dollars. You know, if you tack on fees like that, you're not a city, you're AN AIRLINE."
And taxpayers pay for all of it. Maher has lamented that "way over half" of every dollar he earns goes to taxes.
MAHER: "I pay so much in taxes and it DOESN’T SEEM TO GET TO THE PEOPLE. Like I don't even mind doing it. Over half always. Way over half. And yet I never read about the homeless getting better."
You pay the highest state income tax in America.
You pay sales tax, gas tax, property tax.
You hand over more than half.
And they can't build you a toilet for under a million bucks.
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Muslim Brotherhood’s Official Website Celebrates Election Of Abdulrahman El-Sayed
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Just before midnight on April 12, 1977, Delta Air Lines Flight 1080 lifted off from San Diego in the dark and immediately pitched its nose skyward toward a fatal aerodynamic stall.
Earlier that day, water from aroutine wash had seeped into a left rear stabilizer bearing on the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and frozen solid during a previous high-altitude flight.
Nobody on the ground knew that the elevator control surface on the tail was jammed at a violent nineteen-degree nose-up angle.
The moment the wheels left the runway, the two-hundred-ton wide-body jetliner began climbing steeper and steeper into a thick layer of night clouds at four hundred feet.
Fifty-three-year-old Captain Jack McMahan, a former United States Marine Corps fighter pilot with fifteen thousand hours in the air, pushed his control column all the way forward against the instrument panel.
Nothing happened.
His first officer and flight engineer pushed their controls forward too, and the nose kept rising as the airspeed bled away toward the stall warning speed of one hundred and twenty-eight knots.
If a two-hundred-ton airliner stalls inside low clouds at night just above the rooftops of San Diego, nobody survives.
How did Captain McMahan force the nose of a jammed jetliner down when the elevator controls were completely dead?
In less than ten seconds inside the pitch-black cloud bank, McMahan pictured the exact geometry of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in his mind.
The L-1011 had three Rolls-Royce turbofan engines: Engines One and Three hung low beneath the left and right wings, below the airplane's center of gravity, while Engine Number Two was mounted high inside the base of the tail fin, above the center of gravity.
Because the low wing engines sat underneath the balance point, their forward thrust was pushing the nose upward like a lever.
Without hesitation, McMahan pulled back the throttles on the two wing engines while leaving the high tail engine roaring at full power.
Pushing from high above the fuselage, the center tail engine levered the nose down through the clouds just as the airspeed dropped to one hundred and thirty knots, two knots shy of a fatal stall.
Instead of ditching in the dark ocean off San Diego, McMahan flew the crippled giant ninety miles north to Los Angeles International Airport, where the weather was clear and the runways were long.
Using only his three throttle levers to climb, descend, and bank through the night sky, the former Marine landed Flight 1080 smoothly on Runway 06R in the rain and saved all fifty-two souls on board.
(For transparency: all images in my posts are produced using AI.)
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