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Boys do not need to be socialized. They do not need to be taught the “right way” to read or the “right POVs” to enjoy. They do not need lectures or preaching. They do not need “the message.”
Boys need dragons to slay and princesses to save (and ones who want to be saved, natch). Boys need danger. They need risks and stakes. They need to know what death is and what it means. They need to know what failure looks like so they know how to cope with it when Real Life comes calling. Most of all, they need stories that allow them to be who and what they are without being told why they should be something else.
Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.
If you REALLY care about getting boys to read again, pay attention to the stories being shared in other media that they like, and emulate those.
Make no mistake: this viewpoint is evil. It deserves no less than to be called out as such.
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John Thune seems confused about why he isn't liked in "online world."
He says being hated is a "daily experience" for him.
He said, "I don't know that they necessarily told me anything I got wrong."
Ok, I'll start.....
1) Oct. 8, 2016: he said Trump "should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately."
2) Dec. 2020: he said a challenge to the Electoral College would "go down like a shot dog."
3) 2022: he said he hoped Republicans would have "other options" besides Trump.
4) 2023: he endorsed Tim Scott, and didn't back Trump until Feb. 2024.
5) He voted for the $95 billion Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan aid package.
6) He requested $116 million in earmarks while voting to strip earmarks.
7) He used pro forma sessions to block recess appointments.
8) He refused Trump's call to end blue slips.
9) The House passed the SAVE Act. It died in the Senate 48-50, and a narrower voter ID bill died too.
10) He refused to nuke the filibuster or force a talking filibuster.
11) He waved off the SAVE Act pressure as a "paid influencer ecosystem."
12) When McConnell vanished for 3 months, Thune said it was "between Sen. McConnell and the people of Kentucky."
13) About 161 Trump nominations are still waiting, including 25 judges, and Democrats take over in January.
14) And he still feels no sense of urgency, and no realization of his own failures.
What did I leave off the list?
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Hey, @BasedMikeLee you have lost my vote. I will encourage every Utah voter I interact with to not vote for you in your upcoming reelection. Having Thune lead the GOP Senate is the last straw. You have done nothing to prevent Thune from being a disaster.
John Smith retweeted
“Please pass the SAVE Act so non-citizens can’t vote”
“Best we can do is celebrate pagan demon gods brought here by the people you want us to deport”
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Now that is the right question.
What I would do is phase out Medicare and Medicaid and return to a fully free market in medicine. Not overnight. Everyone over a certain age keeps the full benefit they were promised and paid into. Everyone under it gets a date and a declining schedule so they can plan. People who do not need it, like you, would be asked to give it up voluntarily, and a lot of them would.
Repeal the Affordable Care Act first and in full. The mandates, the subsidies, the coverage rules that dictate what a policy must contain, all of it, since it is the law that doubled premiums while promising to cut them. Then end the FDA's monopoly on the right to sell a medicine. In its place, private, objective, trusted third party certifiers that consumers and doctors look to before they buy, the way Underwriters Laboratories certifies the wiring in your house without a federal badge. A certifier that passes a bad drug goes bankrupt on reputation alone, and a company that lies about its product answers in court for fraud, which is the one thing government is for. End certificate of need laws so anyone may build a hospital. End the licensing cartel's control over how many doctors get trained. Repeal the law that compels hospitals to treat and shift the bill. And kill the tax exclusion that chains insurance to the employer, so a man buys coverage the way he buys car insurance and sees the price. Do that and the rebate structure, the PBM, and the conglomerates you hate lose the ground they stand on, without one antitrust suit.
Those who cannot afford the care they need would rely on voluntary charity, and that is where people like you come in. Donate, organize, work with providers to serve the people who truly cannot pay. That was the system before 1965, and it worked. Charity hospitals ran on gifts. Doctors carried their own poor as a matter of professional honor. It still happens today, in the free clinics and the surgery centers that post a price and knock it down for whoever asks. Americans give half a trillion dollars a year to charity under a tax code that punishes them for it. Return the money Washington takes for healthcare to the people who earned it and that figure goes up.
Does that mean everyone gets the newest drug and the newest machine on day one? No. It does not now either. What it means is the price of every one of those things starts falling instead of rising, because that is what happens to every product the moment buyers pay for it themselves. Lasik. Cosmetic surgery. Generic drugs at Cost Plus. A year of insulin that costs a hundred dollars to make stops selling for thirteen hundred. The latest treatment reaches the working man the way it did for antibiotics and anesthesia and the polio vaccine, within a few years instead of never.
And one more thing you did not ask. Nobody in that system is forced. Not the taxpayer, not the doctor, not the donor, not the patient. Everyone in it is there because they chose to be. That is not a side benefit. It is the reason it works, and it is the reason yours cannot.
John Smith retweeted
It is not racist to call out the new Governor of Georgia for immediately pushing aborting. If you are taking that as racist, you are the problem. It is not racist to call out the new Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture because she is an unqualified fraud. If you are taking that as racist, you are the problem.
John Smith retweeted
You didn’t get the job done even with a majority.
Now, you expect us to believe you’ll do anything as the minority?
How can the American people have any sort of confidence in you when you squandered the last 2 years?
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Hi. Former Boy here. Grown man now with children of my own.
I was a voracious reader as a child. I read whatever I wanted to, from picture books to science texts to legal tomes.
Then people like you started telling me what I *should* be reading. What I should be 'appreciating'. Your ilk sucked all the joy out of reading. You made me hate it.
After high school I didn't pick up another book for pleasure for many years.
Encouraging kids of *both* sexes to read what they *enjoy* is good.
Telling one sex they're doing it wrong - that they're not 'appreciating' the correct forms of literature, is wildly misguided and blinding arrogant.
John Smith retweeted
Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
John Smith retweeted
Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks
that we not post about this
lady murdered on a Charlotte train
by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests
I say in Iryna’s memory please share
and make this go viral!
We will never forgot her ever
John Smith retweeted
Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks
that we not post about this
lady murdered on a Charlotte
train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests
I say in Iryna’s memory please share
and make this go viral!
We will never forgot her ever! nitter.gq/827js/status/209187647…
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BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
John Smith retweeted
Dear Muslim
As Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast approaching,
Please avoid driving cars through crowds, blowing innocent people up with pipe bombs, and going on stabbing sprees.
Dear non-Muslims,
As Ramadan is just 92 days away,
Please avoid eating in front of Muslims who are fasting.
Please avoid drinking in their presence.
Do not deliberately tempt those observing the fast.
Muslims will be fasting from dawn until sunset.
A little consideration and respect go a long way. ❤️🌙
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I am getting profoundly sick of women (many of whom possess advanced degrees in subjects that require several years of graduate study) who hate stwelve-year-old boys, explaining to the rest of civilization how we need to relate to them.
Now, before anyone gets carried away, I am also a woman. I have been one for more than fifty years. I was never a boy. I am a tomboy, which means I spent a fair amount of my childhood doing things that would cause a modern Gender Studies department to call an emergency faculty meeting.
The difference is that I don't have a PhD in anything, (worthless or otherwise) so I haven't developed the intellectual confidence necessary to believe I know absolutely everything.
I'm kind of dumb that way.
For example, I have this radical theory that boys should be encouraged to read whatever the hell interests them.
For a great many boys, this will be...
(Please sit down. This may be upsetting.)
BOY STUFF.
Sports!
Soldiers!
Hunting!
Explosions!
Airplanes!
Tanks!
Dinosaurs eating other dinosaurs!
Some boys will prefer chemistry or astronomy. Some will love cooking. Some will be fascinated by fashion. Some will want to read about ballet, and some will want to read about a Sherman tank driving through a ballet recitle while firing its main gun at a home ec class.
THIS IS FINE.
Nobody is proposing that we issue every male child a football, a rifle, and a copy of The Art of War at birth, then arrest him if he expresses an interest in soufflés.
We're suggesting that if you want boys to read, it might help to give them books about things they actually want to read about. They probably know what interests them better than the woman who spent 8 yearas at university, and written tons of papers about how awful men and boys are.
I realize this is a controversial educational theory, requiring another $400 million in federal research grants.
But here's something else I've noticed.
Whenever the subject of boys comes up, an astonishing number of women immediately begin explaining how boys need to be understood, engaged, reimagined, reconstructed, and possibly returned to the manufacturer for a firmware update.
You know who might have some useful insight into what it's like to be a boy?
MEN. Yes! MEN!
Those strange, hairy creatures who were (in most cases) ACTUALLY BOYS at one point!
I know. It's an outrageous suggestion.
Now, being a woman, I don't have firsthand experience with boyhood. But I've discovered this remarkable intellectual technique called LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO DO.
It's fascinating. You ask someone about their experiences, and then (and this is the really important part) you SHUT UP long enough to hear the answer.
Sometimes you even learn something.
One thing I've learned is that a great many boys enjoy traditionally masculine things.
Not all boys. Not every boy. Not every minute of every day.
But enough boys that pretending otherwise requires a level of deliberate obtuseness normally associated with government procurement.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
That'll be $650.
I'm kidding. It's free. I haven't figured out how to get a university to pay me for stating the obvious. I'm not a Democrat anymore.
But seriously. We've spent two generations "rethinking how we engage with boys."
Judging by the educational and social problems facing young men, I think we're entitled to ask whether some of that rethinking has been an enormous, expensive failure. Maybe it's time to stop treating ordinary boyhood like a defective social construct requiring professional intervention.
Maybe it's time to let Grandpa, who was once a boy himself, take the kids fishing.
Or shooting.
Or teach them how to rebuild a carburetor, throw a football, or make something useful with their hands.
And if one of those boys wants to learn ballet or bake a cake instead?
LET HIM. MAYBE THEN we can find someone (most likely a woman) to help him otu.
That's the entire point!
Give boys opportunities.
Give them books.
Give them good male role models.
Let them discover their interests without turning every preference into an ideological emergency.
And for the love of everything holy, STOP ACTING LIKE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT BOYS AND GIRLS OFTEN HAVE DIFFERENT INTERESTS IS SOME KIND OF CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
I'm not suggesting women have nothing useful to contribute to raising or educating boys. I'm suggesting that perhaps, just perhaps, we should spend a little less time lecturing men about what boys need, and a little more time asking men what being a boy was actually like.
It's a crazy idea, I know.
But after fifty years on this planet, I'm beginning to suspect that the people who insist they know the most about boys are frequently the people least interested in listening to them.
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White credit score (median): 743
Black credit score (median): 604
The goal of the policy is to make whites pay more to subsidize blacks
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As an attorney I am watching your threats on X and national television. I have some advice @RepRobertGarcia: YOU better lawyer up.
Congress cannot use subpoenas solely to punish political opponents. Your threats are crossing into criminal extortion and congressional immunity will not save you.
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Elon Musk reposted a message Friday saying that in hindsight it was a mistake for SpaceX to send Ukraine thousands of free Starlink dishes and millions of dollars a month in free service at the start of the war. What began as internet access for civilians became the backbone for autonomous killing drones. And now if they don’t support military use, they get skewered for it in the press.
Musk has been consistent on this. He’s already restricted Starlink use for offensive drone strikes because that was never allowed under the terms of service. Ukraine got free satellite internet to keep communications running after Russia invaded. It wasn’t a blank check for military targeting. The free aid was generous. Turning it into a permanent expectation that SpaceX fund and enable Ukraine’s drone war is not. Musk is right to draw the line. He’s made it clear that saving lives, and humanity, is his goal. Anything that goes against that doesn’t interest him. Be thankful the richest man on earth has these morals. It’s a blessing.
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Miller terrifying. It’s not rhetoric. It’s administrative suffocation.
In his first term, Miller learned that you don’t need Congress to destroy an enemy program. You just need to redefine the terms.
Look at what he did with the "Public Charge" rule. He didn’t pass a law saying "no immigrants." He changed the definition of who constitutes a burden on the state. Suddenly, if you used food stamps, you were inadmissible. The legal challenge took years. By the time the courts sorted it out, the policy had already chilled millions of applications. The bureaucracy itself became the border wall.
Now? He’s got Russ Vought at OMB. Do you understand the synergy here? It’s lethal.
Miller writes the executive order that redefines "national security threat" to include any NGO that receives foreign funding (looking at you, Open Society Foundations). Vought then zeroes out the budget for any agency that refuses to enforce that definition. It’s a pincer movement. Miller provides the legal cover; Vought provides the financial starvation.
The Democrats are screaming about "rule of law." Miller is laughing. He is the rule of law. He just reads it differently. He reads it as a weapon, not a shield.
Miller understands that the modern globalist project relies on labor arbitrage. They import cheap labor to suppress wages, which keeps inflation low enough to service the massive debt bubble, which keeps the stock market high, which keeps the donors happy. It’s a closed loop.
Miller’s goal? Break the loop.
By shutting down illegal immigration and slashing legal H-1B visas, he forces companies to pay American wages. This causes short-term inflation. The Fed panics. The stock market dips. The NYT writes op-eds about "economic disaster."
Miller doesn’t care.
Why? Because he knows that Judy Shelton and the Treasury team are preparing a monetary reset (the Gold/ESF play we discussed). They want the dollar to weaken slightly against hard assets. They want the stock market to correct so they can buy back equity at lower prices for the sovereign wealth funds.
Miller is the wrecking ball that clears the site for the new construction. The Democrats are terrified because they see the wrecking ball and think it’s destruction. Miller knows it’s renovation.
The Left fights with morality. They say, "This is wrong." "This is cruel." "This is un-American."
Miller fights with mechanics. He says, "This is statutory." "This is regulatory." "This is funded."
You cannot argue morality against a spreadsheet. You cannot shame a regulation. You cannot protest a budget line item.
When Miller issues an order to deport every non-citizen with a final removal order, the Left will scream "Racist!" Miller will respond with, "Section 235(b)(1) of the INA mandates expedited removal for individuals who cannot prove credible fear. We are enforcing the law."
That’s what scares them. He’s not breaking the law. He’s using their own laws against them. He’s using the Administrative Procedure Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Posse Comitatus Act (reinterpreted via Insurrection Act precedents) he’s using the entire weight of the federal code to crush their ideological preferences.
They can’t call him a fascist because he’s quoting statutes. They can’t call him a dictator because he’s following procedure. They can’t call him evil because he’s efficient.
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Stephen Miller was born for the Chief of Staff role.
This is genuinely one of the greatest interviews I've ever watched in my life.
CNN’s Jake Tapper came in with a “gotcha” question on illegal immigration, and Miller didn’t flinch and even offered to stay 30 MINUTES to walk Tapper through it.
Tapper: How are you going to avoid deporting illegal immigrants working in agriculture?
Miller: “Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture. The top destinations for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, like Los Angeles...”
Tapper: “You’re kinda changing this subject.”
Miller: “Give me 30 minutes, I’ll go as deep as you want!”