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Tim Locum retweeted
🚨INCREDIBLE: A 3-year-old was kidnapped from a public library. 48 minutes later, he was on a city bus crying next to his kidnapper — and no one knew.
No one except the bus driver.
In Milpitas, California, driver Tim Watson had heard the police alert earlier that day: Missing 3-year-old boy, city-wide search underway.
Then a man boarded his bus with a small boy who wouldn't stop crying. Something felt wrong.
Tim looked closer. The face. The clothes. The description. It was him.
But he couldn't scream. He couldn't confront him. One wrong move and that little boy could be in even more danger.
So Tim came up with a plan.
He got on the intercom and told passengers: "Someone reported a missing green backpack, I'm going to take a quick look."
He started walking the aisle, pretending to search for a backpack — but he was really getting a close look at the child.
It was the missing boy.
Tim quietly radioed dispatch, alerted police, and then did the hardest thing of all — he sat back down, stayed calm, and kept driving like nothing happened, with the alleged kidnapper sitting just feet behind him.
He kept that bus rolling until police intercepted it. Officers swarmed the bus, arrested the man, and scooped that terrified little boy into safety.
That child is home with his family tonight because one bus driver trusted his gut and stayed cool under pressure.
He's not a cop. He's not a hero who was supposed to be there.
He's Tim Watson — a bus driver who saw a child in danger and refused to look away.
This man deserves to be recognized.🙏
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Oklahoma St @ Wisconsin Thoughts:
- No Clary, Bogavac, Fallah, Ragland. No Garlock for Wisconsin
- You could see the coaches working on stuff in this game. Both teams giving zone looks in the last few minutes of the 1H. Both teams full court pressing etc.
- Nolan Winter looks All Big Ten 1st team worthy, best athlete on the team.
- Eian Elmer reminds me of Bonzi Wells. It’s the shooting plus his ability to go play bully ball when you need a bucket. Maybe it’s also the head band and the frame. He’s a great pick up bc he replaces some of the scoring but without sacrificing anything defensively.
- Tough to gauge OK St without 3 starters, Walker played well and certainly looks like he can be instant offense off the bench to spell Clary. Quick and nice pull up game, hit several middys, doing his best Kemba impersonation.
- Foxwell is the best PG at creating for others that the Badgers have had since Hepburn. Super quick, loved seeing the hesy cross step back, cross again, just an example of the nice bag he has. Boyd and Blackwell were great but much better at creating for themselves and scoring. They have surrounded him with shooters and said “This is your playground, go to work.” But you can’t leave him open either bc he’s deadly accurate. Did not expect him to be this good if I’m being honest.
- Natt struggled offensively but started getting to the line better in 2H and got into the paint to start creating for others. Former NAIA POTY’s translate really well and I expect him to figure things out and be a really good piece for this team. Turnovers and Shooting %s will improve. Rebounds really well for a guard, and some of Wisconsin’s spacing with how many shooters they have is just really difficult to guard.
- Onuetu is a solid rim protecting anchor that this defense hasn’t had in recent years. Think the defense will be improved this year w/ him and Elmer. He’s not the best finisher on offense but he can crash the offensive glass and rim run. Will make life hard in the paint for opponents on D. Doesn’t have much of a low post game, so you are relying on his verticality to help on offense.
- Halaifonua continues his rise as a strong big man. Could push Fallah to start. Him and Walker carried the team today when they couldn’t find any easy buckets. He’s big strong physical, with some nice low post moves and can finish. Nice stroke for a big.
- Rapp and Onuetu will form a good duo. Rapp on the floor when you need to space the floor and need more offense, doesn't move feet quickly enough if he is pulled out on the perimeter defensively.
- Allmond looked like he struggled with Wisconsin’s size, they really frustrated him. I still believe he can be one of the top freshman but at least from this small one game sample size, he was struggling to get himself open, they were daring him to put the ball on the floor. Rought night but Freshman can look terrible and then superb from one game to the next.
- Carrington always such a solid producer. Can he pick up some of the scoring gone from B&B leaving. More minutes is better for him and the team.
- Burks like Carrington, we know what he can do. First game action I think after being eligible, so will take him a few to get back into game shape. But we know he’s a guy that can go off in a game and get hot. Looked like he didn’t have his legs under him tonight.
- Kinziger looks improved. Think he is ready to help, and this team is going to hit 3s and he can help there too, but it’s more about giving Wisconsin a backup PG who can organize and things don’t go off the rails, which was an issue last year when Boyd came out.
- Felesi is going to push for a starting role pretty quickly. Feel pretty good about this back court when at full strength. He brings a good slashing ability and finished strong against contact. And he was doing it while that side of the floor felt condensed. They really need Bogavac’s shooting to space the floor out and give these slashers more room to operate.
- Autry another 3 point specialist. They must have like 45 of these guys.
- I’m not sure why the coaches love Janicki so much, every time I watch him he’s just out there. Must be a culture guy.
- Ball looks like he has ability, the game looks too fast for him right now though. Once it slows down he’s going to be a pretty good piece. Will it be this year? Or will it be next year? One to watch and see how he improves with more game reps. He can do more with the ball than a lot of the other players, so an early rise could lift this team’s ceiling.
- Robinson just looks like he’s trying to do way too much out there. Didn’t have any fear and was getting lots of shots up. Maybe those will fall? But the shot diet was poor, timing of when he shot the ball in the offense was poor decision making. Things that are coachable. On the plus side he was able to get his own shot.
- Crotty looked like he did not belong out there on either end of the floor.
- Montonati only played 3 minutes but had a strong take. Let’s give him some more minutes and see what he can do. Some guys are better when the lights are on. Thought he deserved more of Crotty/Robinson’s minutes in this game.
Hate to admit when I’m wrong, especially before the season even starts, but I think Wisconsin will be better than I originally thought. I’m very interested to see this style against other teams. When they are shooting well they could blitz teams. On the flip side, I think there will be games where they could get suffocated by a more athletic squad. Last year Boyd and Blackwell could take over in those spots. That bucket getter type, when everything breaks down, is the one thing I think they are missing this year.
Oklahoma st had a tough preseason. Loss to New Mexico, Loss to Wisconsin. Important to note they haven’t been at full strength for any of these games which makes it tough to tell if their issues defensively are real or not. Also it’s already really hard to get in a rhythm in preseason anyway, makes it even more impossible when you have different guys in and out of the lineup every night. I’m not making excuses for them, just saying I would take their preseason with a grain of salt. One thing that does concern me though is the amount of shooters on the team. Really need Bogavac, the other shooters seem like they are too much of a defensive liability to play often (Robinson, Crotty, Grbovic)
Tim Locum retweeted
Dana White: "I Will NEVER Talk To A Doctor About My General Health Ever Again."
"Never again, none of them know what they're talking about. They're all full of sh*t. All they know is to put you on pills & put you on medicine. That's all they know."
In 1910, The Rockefeller Foundation, along with the Carnegie Foundation funded the Flexner Report.
The goal was to shift all medical schools & all teaching hospitals away from natural traditional root cause medicine & shift towards petroleum based medications & allopathic medicine for profit.
During this time, therapies such as homeopathy, herbal medicine, essential oils, chiropractic & naturopathy were commonplace.
The 1910 Flexner report concluded that these natural healing modalities were “unscientific quackery.”
This report also concluded that there were too many medical schools as well as too many doctors in America & called for the standardization of medical education.
Of course, this was with underlying intentions being that the American Medical Association would be the only entity that could approve medical school licensure in America.
Rockefeller worked with Andrew Carnegie to provide funding for medical schools across the country. This was with the condition, of course, that they only taught allopathic medicine & they were offered grants of significant proportions in order to adhere to these conditions.
Through these grants, primarily fueled by Rockefeller’s petroleum monopoly, helped to systematically remove any mention of plant-based natural treatments along with teachings on nutrition & diet from medical education curricula.
Supported by Rockefeller’s influence on the media of the time, homeopathic & natural medicines were quickly discredited & demonized through targeted media campaigns.
Listen and learn youngsters
🚨 BREAKING: Enes Kanter Freedom just delivered the most BRUTAL, personal, and unforgettable takedown of America’s loudest socialists — live on national TV 🔥
“If you want your first-class ticket, I’ll buy it. If you hate America so much… LEAVE.” ✈️🇺🇸
He didn’t stop there. He looked straight into the camera and said the quiet part out loud:
“They sell FAKE promises. I LIVED under a regime that the DSA wants America to become. They take your freedoms… and then you have no voice left.”
💔 His family is still trapped in Turkey. He hasn’t seen them in 14 years.
Then he issued the challenge no one on the left will ever accept:
“I really want to offer these DSA leaders a first-class ticket to Iran, China, Venezuela, Cuba, or Russia. They have NO IDEA how good we have it in this country. How blessed we are.”
Notice something? The loudest socialists in America almost never come from countries that actually lived through real tyranny. And not one of them will ever take that ticket.
People who escaped authoritarian hell appreciate this country 10x more than the activists trying to tear it down from the inside.
ENES KANTER FREEDOM is a LEGEND. Share this. 🇺🇸💪
Thank you for stating the obvious Adam!
Adam Carolla tells The Atlantic to “F*CK OFF” and “EAT SH*T” for demanding you forgive the people who tried to destroy your life over a COVID shot.
He shows their previous headlines on the screen, and it’s not pretty.
CAROLLA: “Of course all the people who wanted everyone drawn and quartered for not getting vaccinated or wearing a mask want a f*cking amnesty.”
“Suck my dick, f*ck off, Atlantic, and eat sh*t, because you guys all deserve whatever the f*ck you’re getting.”
“BUT THE MAIN THING YOU’RE GETTING IS NO ONE’S GOING TO LISTEN TO YOU EVER AGAIN.”
THE ATLANTIC THEN:
“The Anti-Vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America”
“Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden”
“Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore”
“Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good”
THE ATLANTIC, YEARS LATER:
“Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty”
“We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.”
First of all, forgiveness comes AFTER you apologize.
Your headline should be “We’re sorry. We acted like monsters.” Not “we were in the dark about COVID” and didn’t know any better.
You didn’t know any better because you CENSORED people like us.
Screw off Atlantic. No Amnesty.
Well thought out and presented
This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
Tim Locum retweeted
Nick Saban to @PatMcAfeeShow: "I talked to a college coach this week who has a bye week next week, and all he's doing is meeting with agents. It's the middle of the season! Guys are worried about how much playing time am I getting, what I'm going to do if I don't get enough playing time. I'm playing well, so how much money am I going to make next year there or someplace else?"
"The reason we're seeing a lot of these inconsistencies in performance is people are struggling to sustain their intensity week in and week out. Maybe it's people are more conditionally committed to their team because the circumstances we're putting these players in. ... If you can't sustain intensity, you can't sustain the level of performance you want to sustain, you can't play smart, you can't play with intelligence. It all starts with your mental energy, and that starts with your commitment to your team and to your development as a player."
Brilliant
This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues
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I mean, just an all-time TV segment. Making Chuck do Who He Play For multiple times in a row with the same players is a brilliant idea and I was legit crying laughing by the end, my god.
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Worth two minutes of your time to hear Jimmy Rogers lay bare one of the main ills facing big-time college sports and the athletes themselves.
Iowa State Daily's @henry_annen asked Rogers what he needs from new AD Jared Benko to elevate Iowa State football.
Good stuff.
Tonight’s version of the Washington uniform has always been my all time fave - burgundy helmet, gold pants, white jersey/burgundy trim and numbers. All that’s missing is the old Redskin logo on the helmet
Amen
Yes, Jalen Hurts received COVID shots and yes, he now faces at least a year off due to blood clots. Both COVID and some COVID shots increase deadly clot risks. We don’t know if he had COVID but we know he had the shots. It’s entirely possible that he never plays again because of blood thinners. If so, this could get ugly. NFL put a lot of pressure on players to get the shots and I think the Eagles were totally negligent to let him play + travel overseas when they knew he had a clot. All the makings of a historic lawsuit if this ends his career and Jalen wants to go that route.
We can’t conclusively say this was caused by the shots but we do know it’s very possible and it just reminds me how absurd and awful the entire COVID era was. And we’ll never know either because there’s no conclusive test to see if it played a role or not. But we’re talking about shots with very serious risks and every institution lied to make them sound like they had no risk at the time. There hasn’t been enough of a conversation around the risks people were forced to accept for their health by getting the COVID shots just to keep their jobs. It must never happen again.
Praying that Jalen survives this and is able to lead a normal life again. Just all around awful.
Tim Locum retweeted
In 2021, the head of the UN World Food Programme said $6 billion from Elon Musk could solve world hunger.
Elon replied: publish the plan, right here, publicly, and I'll sell Tesla stock on the spot.
The plan came out. And when you read it, it wasn't a plan to solve hunger. It was one year of food for 42 million people. A twelve-month subscription. And the year after? Start over.
A few months later, Elon summed up his view: if you care about the reality of goodness rather than the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.
"Reality of goodness over perception of goodness."
That line stuck with me for weeks. Does philanthropy actually work?
Gates-style philanthropy is first and foremost institutional capture. Foundations funding NGOs, funding governments, funding programs, producing reports, producing photos. Everyone's happy, and the aid machine keeps itself alive. Sixty years and hundreds of billions later, much of Africa is still dependent on aid. Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo laid it out in Dead Aid: aid breeds dependency, feeds corruption, and short-circuits the only mechanism that has ever lifted a country out of poverty.
So what actually works?
It's been tested. In Kenya, Berkeley researchers working with GiveDirectly randomly selected villages and gave every poor household about $1,000 in cash. No program. No training. No conditions. Just cash.
The result: people bought metal roofs, livestock, started small businesses. Barely any inflation. And every dollar injected generated around $2.50 of economic activity locally, including for neighbors who received nothing.
Why? Because you didn't give them charity. You gave them capital. You primed the pump.
And that's where everything hinges: ownership. Hernando de Soto showed that the world's poor hold trillions of dollars in assets, but without recognized property titles, it's dead capital. You can't borrow against it, pass it on, or grow it. Where property rights are respected, the system starts running. Where they aren't, no amount of aid will ever be enough.
Now reread Elon's post.
"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many."
That's not a meal. That's not a handout. That's a property title. A piece of the company building the infrastructure of a multiplanetary civilization, owned directly by millions of kids.
A kid who gets a handout depends on the state. A kid who owns a share of SpaceX owns a piece of the future. He learns what an asset is, he has a stake in the economy working, and one day he'll vote as an owner, not as a client of the state.
Gates buys perception. Musk distributes ownership.
The reality of goodness versus its perception. And it's absolutely brilliant.
Tim Locum retweeted
🚨STEPHEN MILLER drops a TRUTH NUKE on the entire Democrat Party
"I get death threats every day. My wife gets death threats every day. We've had to deal with pretty extensive doxing campaigns!"
"The Democrat Party has become dangerously, violently RADICALIZED."
"But the truth is, people across the country, across the government, across law enforcement, who are fighting for safety, security, prosperity, are dealing with radical left communist threats and attacks all day long."
"We are dealing with a party that is so extreme that considers its opponents to be its mortal enemies, that dehumanizes its opposition, that justifies violent attacks against federal law enforcement, assaults against ICE and Border Patrol, that sides over and over again with criminal aliens, MS-13 gang bangers."
"Look at how they venerated and WORSHIPPED and PRAISED the MS-13 child smuggler that they dubbed the 'Maryland dad,' somebody who beat his wife and smuggled children, and was a member of a terrorist organization - and they held them up as their HERO."
"This is a dangerous party. This is a dangerous movement!" @StephenM
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My dear American friends, yesterday I showed you an email. Today I want to show you what comes after, because history has already written this chapter many times, and every time in blood.
Every Marxist revolution goes after the same first target. Not the army, and not the rich. It goes after the people who think.
Lenin understood it early. In 1922 he put Russia's leading philosophers, scientists and writers on ships and expelled them. Many of those who stayed were shot or sent to the camps. In 1940, in the forest of Katyn, Stalin's secret police executed around 22,000 Polish prisoners: officers, but also doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers and priests. A nation's educated class was killed one by one, each with a bullet in the back of the head.
Mao perfected the method.
In 1956 he launched the Hundred Flowers campaign. "Let a hundred flowers bloom." He invited China's intellectuals to speak freely and to criticize the Party. They believed him, and they spoke. A year later the trap closed. The Anti-Rightist Campaign branded more than half a million people as enemies. Professors, writers, engineers and doctors lost their careers and their families, and many were sent to labor camps they never left.
Mao was proud of it. In 1958 he compared himself to the First Emperor of China, who was infamous for burying 460 scholars alive. Mao boasted that the Communists had buried 46,000.
His masterpiece came in 1966, with the Cultural Revolution. This time he didn't need the police. He used children.
Schools were closed and students became Red Guards. Their teachers were dragged onto stages for "struggle sessions." Their heads were shaved, placards were hung around their necks, and they were forced to kneel while crowds beat and spat on them. In August 1966 Lao She, one of the greatest writers in modern Chinese literature, was beaten by Red Guards. The next day he was found drowned in a lake in Beijing. That same month, at a girls' school in Beijing, students beat their vice principal Bian Zhongyun to death.
Then the revolution entered the home. Children learned a slogan: "Father and mother are dear, but not as dear as Chairman Mao." Sons denounced fathers and daughters denounced mothers. Zhang Hongbing was 16 when he reported his own mother, and she was executed. A child turning on his parents was celebrated as the highest form of virtue.
Once the Red Guards had done the dirty work, Mao discarded them too. From 1968 on, around 17 million young people were sent to the countryside to "learn from the peasants." A whole generation lost its education, its youth and often its sanity. The revolution devours its own children, every single time.
Cambodia, 1975. The Khmer Rouge emptied the cities in days. Glasses, soft hands, speaking French: any of these could mark you as an intellectual, and being an intellectual could get you killed. In four years roughly a quarter of the population was dead.
Look at the pattern, because it never changes. First, convince the young that the world is rotten and the old are guilty. Second, silence or destroy the people who could contradict the story. Third, break the family so that the only loyalty left is to the cause. Fourth, give the young power. Fifth, when they've finished the dirty work, throw them away.
I am not telling you America is China in 1966. I'm telling you the first steps look familiar. Careers are destroyed over a single opinion. Professors sign ideological pledges just to get hired. Children are taught to see their parents as bigots and their country's history as nothing but a list of crimes. Political violence is excused online, and sometimes even celebrated. Every year it gets a little more radical, and every year the people who warn about it are called alarmists.
This is not a left versus right debate. Reasonable people can disagree about tax rates, healthcare or trade, and that's politics. What I'm describing is something else. It's an ideology that has killed tens of millions of people in the last century, and it always starts by promising justice to the young. We should call it what it is: evil.
You fight evil by refusing to become it. Teach real history. Defend free speech, especially for the people you disagree with. Protect the teachers and parents who refuse to bow. Above all, give young people something to own, build and defend, so that no one can sell them the fire.
I come from a continent that has already lived this story. Please don't let your children write the next chapter.
My dear American friends, I've shown you where the disease came from and who sells it. Now I want you to look at this email.
January 5, 2020, 2:44 in the morning. Peter Thiel writes to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen. It became public years later, in a lawsuit between the state of Tennessee and Meta. The subject line is one word: Millennials.
Thiel starts from a number: 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist.
Read that again. Seven out of ten young adults in the richest, freest, most innovative country in human history say they want the system that ruined every country that tried it.
And Thiel, one of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley, says something important. Don't just dismiss them as stupid or brainwashed. Understand why. His answer: when you're crushed by student debt and housing is unaffordable, you have no capital and no way to build any. And if you have no stake in capitalism, you turn against it.
He's right. But follow the thread one step further, because that's where it gets interesting.
Who made college unaffordable? Washington flooded universities with easy federal loans, and universities raised their prices year after year, because they could. The same universities that then taught those students, for four years, that capitalism is the problem.
Who made housing unaffordable? Zoning rules, permits, environmental reviews, endless regulation that makes it nearly illegal to build. Remember Piketty's famous rise of capital? It was mostly housing. Scarcity created by the state.
So here's the full picture. The state creates the scarcity. The universities teach that capitalism caused it. The politicians sell socialism as the cure. The arsonist is selling fire insurance.
That's why 70% is not a natural opinion. No generation wakes up one morning wanting central planning. It takes decades of teaching, a captured culture, and an economy rigged to give young people no stake in it. In a healthy country, that number would trigger a serious public investigation into what American universities have been teaching for fifty years. This is not a debate. It's the result of a long, patient operation, exactly the war of position Gramsci described from his prison cell.
Now let me tell you what history says happens when an ideology captures a generation and turns it against everything that came before.
China, 1966. Mao unleashes the Cultural Revolution and hands it to the youth. Students become Red Guards. Their mission: destroy the "Four Olds," old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas. Temples, books, art, centuries of history, smashed.
In August 1966, at a girls' school in Beijing, students beat their vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death. She was one of the first. Teachers across the country were humiliated, tortured, killed by the children they had taught.
In 1970, a 16-year-old boy named Zhang Hongbing denounced his own mother for criticizing Mao. She was executed. He spent the rest of his life trying to apologize for it.
Children were taught that loyalty to the Party came before loyalty to their parents. Historians estimate the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of people.
The Soviet Union did it first. It turned a boy named Pavlik Morozov into a national hero for denouncing his father. Generations of Soviet children were raised on his story.
Cambodia, 1975. The Khmer Rouge declare Year Zero. Teenagers with rifles empty the cities. Wearing glasses was enough to mark you as an intellectual. In four years, roughly a quarter of the population was dead.
Every time, the same pattern. Take the young. Teach them that the past is guilty. Teach them that their parents, their teachers, their history are the enemy. Then give them power.
So when you see statues pulled down, words banned, books rewritten, and parents treated as obstacles in their own children's schools, understand what you're looking at. It's not the end of the story. It's the opening act. It always starts with the young, and it always starts with good intentions.
If the West ever gets its Marxist youth revolution, it won't end in Scandinavia. It will end the way it has ended every single time it was tried for real. And we will have learned nothing.
Thiel saw the number. I'm telling you where it leads.
The answer is not to hate the young. It's to give them back a stake in the system. Let them build. Let them buy a home. Make college worth its price or skip it. Let them start companies instead of drowning in debt. A generation that owns something defends it. A generation that owns nothing will burn it down.
I come from your future. Don't let your children write the next chapter of this story.
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Actual adults vote for Republicans. That statement may anger you, but I’ll say it again; those with a level of discernment beyond that of a child vote for Republicans.
I don’t do a massive amount of politics on here, or truthfully, in real life. I have no love for politicians, they are merely a necessary evil. Why the statement?
Actual adults understand a few things…
The current Democratic Party refuses to accept the science of biology, stymy the flow of illegal aliens, identity voters through ID, recognize your Right to firearms (as outlined in the 2nd Amendment), and reject the ideas of Karl Marx as incongruent with the Constitution. They play games on the State level to block those who seek to reveal corruption and fraud. They literally named a law after Nick Shirley to prevent others like him from revealing massive scams in their State like he did in Minnesota. These are not the actions of rational adults, but rather emotional, power-hungry children who seek to upend our Nation as long as they personally benefit.
I am under no delusion that Republicans will deliver everything I want. They have been tepid at best the past two years. I’m also no Trump sycophantic. Many of his positions would have been considered middle-ground in the 1990’s Democratic Party. He and the Party he leads have managed to deliver a few victories in areas that matter. The southern border is the most secure that it’s been in my lifetime. The NFA is currently starving for oxygen. Some common sense has been applied to preventing men from parading as women to crush their athletic dreams and act as government endorsed voyeurs in bathrooms.
Trump is bombastic and publicly treats the Office of the Presidency as a celebrity position. Behind the scenes, it’s clearly different. I highly approve of some of the moves he’s made and shake my head in frustration at others.
Trump is not on the ballot this election. Who is? Local representatives and managers, many House Representatives and some Senators; for some of you Mayor or County Sheriff. These are the people whose decisions will truly impact your life regardless of what the man who is not up for reelection does.
Rational adults vote for the representation that doesn’t promise to steal what you have, give it to noncitizens, take away your right to self-defense, upend our founding documents, and allow the replacement of equal justice with Sharia law. The current Democratic Party endorses ideas that indoctrinate your children into ideas that prevent you from ever having grandchildren. They support that which will literally end your family line; they gain power and you lose your legacy. At this point in time, that rational option is by and large the Republican Party.
Will Republicans likely fail to live up to all of their campaign promises? Beyond a doubt. A mature adult knows that and yet understands the opposite choice is guaranteed destruction. Naïve children make choices on emotions, “the feels”, promises of free stuff and believing that politicians won’t disappoint them. Rational adults stoically weigh the options based on projected course and values.
The Iran war will not immediately end no matter which way you vote. Gas prices also don’t turn on a dime. No matter who you choose, inflation will not immediately disappear and Congress will spend money. I have my gripes, as do you. They are valid. National suicide is not the answer.
Until the Democrats produce another JFK like option, eschew their current values and platform, you must do your job as a rational adult and block them at the voting booth and in the public square. Anything less is puerile.
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My dear American friends, in my last post I showed you a number that should terrify you: 70% of Millennials say they're pro-socialist. Today I want to show you why. Not with emotion. With pure logic. Step by step, A plus B, until the conclusion is impossible to escape.
Adults, this one is for you. Read it, then explain it to the young people in your life.
Start with Peter Thiel. Years ago he summed up our era in one line: we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters. His thesis is that since the early 1970s, the world of bits has kept racing forward while the world of atoms has stalled. Computers, phones, software, the internet: incredible progress. Housing, energy, transportation, medicine, education: stuck. We build almost nothing physical faster or cheaper than our grandparents did.
Why would progress stop in some places and not others? Same country, same people, same capitalism. The only thing that differs is how much the state is involved.
Here is the proof.
Step one: look at prices. Since 2000, in America, the price of TVs has fallen by more than 90%. Software, phones, toys, clothing: cheaper and better every year. Over the same period, college tuition, hospital services, childcare and housing have more than doubled.
Step two: look at which is which. The goods getting cheaper are the ones where companies compete freely and the state mostly stays out. The goods exploding in price are the ones where the state regulates the most, subsidizes the most, or controls who is allowed to sell.
Step three: look at what young people complain about. They don't complain about TVs. They complain about rent, student debt and healthcare. Exactly the three sectors the state controls the most.
That's not a coincidence. That's a pattern. Let's go one by one.
Housing. In many American cities, most residential land is zoned for single-family homes only. Building an apartment building can take years of permits, hearings, environmental reviews and lawsuits from neighbors. When you make it nearly illegal to build, supply can't keep up, and prices go up. The young don't have a capitalism problem. They have a permission problem.
Education. Washington hands out loans without asking whether the degree is worth it, so universities raise prices because they can. The money doesn't go to better teaching. It goes to layers of administrators that have grown faster than the faculty. And the accreditation system makes it extremely hard for a new, cheaper school to compete. The incumbents are protected. The students pay.
Healthcare. In many states, if you want to open a new hospital or even buy a new MRI machine, you need a "certificate of need," permission from a board where your future competitors often have a say. The number of residency slots that train new doctors is effectively capped by Medicare funding. Getting a new drug approved costs billions. Every rule adds a layer. Every layer adds a cost. Every cost lands on the patient.
Energy. America built dozens of nuclear reactors in the 1970s. Since then, only a handful, years late and billions over budget. Not because physics changed. Because the rulebook did.
Now step four, the most important one. Who benefits from all these layers?
Not the young. Not the poor. The incumbents. The big hospital systems, the big universities, the big developers, the big pharma companies, the big unions. Every complex regulation is a wall that only the giants can afford to climb. So they lobby for more of it. They fund the politicians who write it. They hire the regulators when they leave office. That's not capitalism. That's cronyism. Capitalism is a newcomer allowed to compete. Cronyism is an incumbent paying the state to stop him.
Step five: so what do young people see? They see prices going up, a system rigged for insiders, and no way to build anything for themselves. Their anger is legitimate. Their diagnosis is wrong. They look at the result of the state's capture and call it capitalism.
Step six: and what cure are they offered? Socialism. Which means giving the state even more power over housing, education, healthcare, energy. Giving the keys of the house to the exact institution that locked them out of it.
Follow the logic to the end. If regulation creates cronyism, then total regulation creates total cronyism. If a little state control makes things expensive, total state control makes them scarce. That's not theory. The Soviet Union had a ruling class with its own shops, cars and dachas while ordinary people stood in line for bread. Stalin's collectivization caused a famine that killed millions in Ukraine. Mao's Great Leap Forward caused a famine that killed tens of millions. Venezuela went from one of the richest countries in Latin America to a nation where millions fled. Every time the state got all the keys, the insiders ate and the people starved.
So here's the conclusion, and there's no escaping it:
Where entrepreneurs are free to compete, prices fall and life gets better. Where the state controls, prices rise and insiders get rich. Young people are suffering in the sectors the state controls. Socialism means handing the state everything. So socialism gives you more of the very thing that's hurting you.
The enemy is not capitalism. The enemy is a state captured by insiders, blocking the builders who would solve your problems.
Adults, this is your job now. Don't tell the young they're stupid. Don't tell them their anger is fake. Tell them they're right to be angry, and show them where to aim it. Ask them: what got cheaper in your lifetime, and what got more expensive? Who controls each one? Let them do the math themselves.
The real counter-revolution isn't against the young. It's with them. Free the builders. Let people build homes, open schools, open clinics, build reactors. Give the next generation a stake in the system, and they'll defend it with their lives.
I come from your future. We gave the state the keys. Don't make the same mistake.
Tim Locum retweeted
“Ask yourself a simple question. Why is almost every celebrity on the same side?
“Actors, singers, late-night hosts, award-show presenters. Thousands of people with different backgrounds, different lives, different temperaments. And somehow, on every major issue, they land on the exact same opinion, at the exact same moment, with the exact same hashtags. Free minds don't behave like that. An ecosystem does.
“Now ask a second question. Elon Musk is landing rockets on their own tails. He's bringing internet to villages that never had a phone line. He's building cars that drive themselves and implants that let paralyzed people move a cursor with their thoughts. Artists are supposed to be the ones who dream about the future. Here is a man actually building it. How many of them stand next to him? A handful. Why?
“Because Hollywood is not a free market of talent. It's a royal court.
“A young actor doesn't make it because he's good. Hundreds are good. He makes it because someone lets him in: an agent, a casting director, a producer, a studio, an awards committee. Every step is a gate, and every gate has a keeper. When your whole career depends on a few rooms, you learn very quickly what can be said in those rooms and what can't.
“This is how it works. First you stay silent. Then you nod. Then you repeat. Then you believe. Compromise never arrives all at once. It arrives one dinner, one role, one red carpet at a time. And once you've given up enough, you need the system to stay in place, because the system is the only thing that makes the sacrifice worth it.
“Want to see the whole mechanism in a single story? For decades, one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood was the subject of accusations from dozens of women, and much of the industry treated it as an open secret. A host even joked about it at an Oscar nominations announcement, and the room laughed. Speaking up seriously meant losing everything. When the truth finally broke, the same industry dressed in black and applauded its own courage. Silence while it pays. Virtue once it's safe. That's the system.
“And that's the real lie. Not that these people are monsters. Most aren't. The lie is calling it courage. Real courage costs you something. Saying what every room in town already applauds costs nothing. Saying the opposite is what costs. That's why so few artists stand with Elon. Not because they've studied his ideas and rejected them, but because standing there is a career risk they can't afford.
“Look at what happened to him when he left the consensus. Advertisers fled. Friends disappeared. Invitations stopped. He could afford it. Almost nobody else can. That tells you exactly how free that world really is.
“So wake up. Stop taking your political cues from people whose paycheck depends on agreeing. A celebrity endorsement is not an argument. It's a loyalty signal. Your vote, your convictions, your children's future: don't outsource them to people who are paid to recite lines someone else wrote.
“The people who build the future rarely get applause from the people who perform it.
“Think for yourself. It's the most American thing you can do.”
—Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael), translated from French