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I was wrong. THIS is as dark as it gets. I’ll warn you I couldn’t finish the video. People wonder how communists could kill 100 million people in the last century…this is why. These are not liberals. These are not democrats. They are demons. God help us.
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Almost nobody realizes that just about every liberal feel-good nostrum has been tested by liberal social scientists over the last 60 years, with practically none of them turning out true. That was already fairly well established when I started reading social science in 1972.
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As a Conservative, I agree with 99% of what you write. But you’re wrong about this! This bill funds the benefits by reducing future disability benefits. The Republicans actually screwed Veterans over with this. Read the bill and read the VFW initiatives to fix it. We can’t give our party a pass on this. They screwed up something major.
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On Veterans Day, the last thing we should be doing is stripping our veterans of their hard-earned benefits, yet that’s what Republicans chose to vote on today. Their so-called “Take Care of America’s Veterans Act” would make more than $57 billion in cuts to future disability benefits, increase VA home loan refinancing fees by $4 billion, and expand the privatization of VA health care.
Instead, we should be advancing the bipartisan Major Richard Star Act to allow combat-disabled veterans to receive their full benefits.
Our veterans answered the call to serve and defend our nation. They earned these benefits, and they deserve a government that delivers on their promise to support them and their families.
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Rep. Bost, TCAVA is no substitute for the CLEAN Major Richard Star Act. Combat-wounded veterans deserve their full earned retirement. Update TCAVA to remove the caps, or pass H.R. 2102 as written! 🇺🇸 #MajorRichardStarAct
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Most people calling your ancestors evil are historically illiterate.
Consider Hernan Cortes and the Conquistadors.
He landed with only a few hundred Spaniards, and most of his fighting force was made up of indigenous peoples who wanted the Mexica gone.
By the time they launched their final siege, Cortes had somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50-200K indigenous warriors fighting for him.
This doesn't mean the Conquistadors were saints. Far from it. The attack on Cholula was a good example of their depravity at times.
However, framing the events as cleanly Europeans vs Indigenous is highly disingenuous.
Pretending the Mexica were a fun-loving bunch, living in harmony before the arrival of Cortes, is pure fiction.
Montezuma's empire would capture people from neighbouring tribes and offer them to the gods as human sacrifices.
Which is why so many were willing and eager to collaborate with Cortes. They were using him as much as he was using them.
When these people talk about the hypocrisy of "thou shalt not steal" and "thou shalt not kill," they paper over reality with a child-like rendition of events.
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People think the current fight is about AI, about Nvidia, about a few bills in Washington.
No. The real fight is much simpler, and much more serious.
We're heading toward a new kind of civilization. That part is settled. The only question is: will we go through 1984 before we get there?
One: why superintelligence destroys the current system.
The system we live in rests on one scarcity: the scarcity of intelligence.
To understand a law, you need a lawyer. To read a balance sheet, you need an expert. To build a case, you need a firm. To access a market, you need a permit. To know what's true, you need a newspaper, an agency, an institution to tell you.
Every layer of this system is a toll booth. And every toll booth is manned by someone who lives off your inability to do without them.
Superintelligence makes intelligence abundant. Almost free. Available to everyone, every second. When intelligence becomes abundant, the toll booths become useless. And the people manning them know it.
So they'll do everything to keep the system alive. Not necessarily out of malice. Upton Sinclair summed it up: it's hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Licenses, moratoriums, federal agencies, blown-up scandals: every tool will be used to slow down what makes them obsolete.
Two: even if they win, they lose.
Because you can't contain an abundant technology with normal means.
An AI model is a file. It can be copied, sent, run on a machine in a basement. To stop it from spreading, you have to monitor every computer, every chip, every line of code, every exchange. There's no soft version of that control. There's only a total one.
That's the trap. To keep their system alive, they'll be forced to become totalitarian. Not because they want to, but because it's the only way to hold back abundance.
History has played this game before. The Ottoman Empire kept the printing press at bay for nearly three centuries. It preserved the established order, and watched Europe overtake it in every field. The USSR controlled photocopiers and kept watch over typewriters. It collapsed anyway.
And a system that confiscates the leverage of the many to reserve it for the few is, by definition, unfair. An unfair system can last. It can't last forever. It always ends up imploding, under the weight of its own illegitimacy, or under pressure from those elsewhere who didn't hit the brakes.
They can buy time. All they can do is push back the deadline. And the price of that delay is 1984.
Three: Elon's project.
Look at what he's building, piece by piece.
Abundant energy, with solar and batteries. Abundant labor, with robots. Abundant intelligence, with AI. Free information, with Starlink and X, far harder for a regime to shut down. And access to space, with reusable rockets.
This isn't a collection of companies. It's a machine for destroying scarcity.
And the world of takers and financiers lives off scarcity. Organized scarcity of access, permissions, capital, information. A world that captured everything through coercion and lies, by standing between people and what they could build.
Takers live off scarcity. Elon is industrializing abundance.
When abundance wins, rent dies. The toll booth has no road left to block. The gatekeeper has no gate left to guard.
That's why this fight is so violent. It's not a policy debate. It's one world fighting not to disappear, against another one being born.
We can go through 1984. Or we can skip straight to what comes next.
It's being decided now.
What a time to be alive.
The battle for Super Intelligence supremacy is the most important battle in generations.
Perhaps ever.
What if the operation on Jensen Huang wasn’t to steal secrets but to remove him from that battle.
Like a chess piece.
Like taking out Oppenheimer from the Manhattan Project.
It greatly weakens America’s position.
It greatly strengthens America’s enemies position.
Think about it.
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One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.
Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.
I’m going with the beaver.
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Washington voters did every goddamn thing the political establishment lectures Americans about doing. They registered. They participated. They showed up. More than 1.25 MILLION voted to protect girls' sports, passing Initiative 638 with roughly 56% support.
And Seattle's insufferable progressive ruling class essentially told them to go fuck themselves.
Six days later, SEVEN arrogant assholes on the Seattle School Board unanimously authorized legal action against the voters' decision.
Seven smug bureaucrats looked at 1.25 million Americans and apparently decided those ignorant fucking peasants needed correcting.
The sheer, unmitigated arrogance is breathtaking.
These pompous little authoritarians had already opposed the initiative before Election Day. They lost. The voters rejected their bullshit. So naturally, they turned to lawyers to fight the result.
Because apparently democracy is wonderful until ordinary Americans start thinking for themselves.
Then socialist Mayor Katie Wilson jumped aboard this disgraceful circus, enthusiastically endorsing the challenge while babbling about everyone deserving to thrive.
Everyone? That's fucking precious.
What about the girls whose athletic opportunities voters chose to protect? What about the 1.25 million citizens whose votes your ideological buddies are trying to defeat?
Apparently, those people can eat shit.
And here's the most infuriating part of this entire steaming mountain of political horseshit: taxpayers could end up paying for the school board's legal crusade against the very law they voted to approve.
Think about that. You work your ass off. Pay your taxes. Cast your ballot. Win a decisive majority. Then government officials potentially reach into your wallet to finance their campaign against your own fucking vote.
These are the same sanctimonious frauds who've spent years screeching about protecting democracy, respecting elections, and defending the sacred will of the people.
What a spectacular crock of self-righteous bullshit.
The moment the electorate rejects their precious progressive agenda, these entitled bastards start treating democracy like a defective product that needs to be recalled.
Public office is a position of SERVICE, you arrogant, power-drunk assholes.
The taxpayers pay your salaries. The voters grant your authority. The government belongs to the PEOPLE.
And if your bloated fucking egos cannot tolerate citizens making decisions without your ideological permission, you've forgotten who the hell works for whom.
(article below)
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Three and a half weeks ago, a paper in Yang-Mills theory was intercepted by 5 people. Despite no reason for taking "Custody" nor need for "Shepherding".
Since no one else is saying it, let's review:
2/5: Octogenarians (85 and 88) who have been Washington's "Steady Hands" in Physics and Math for 50 years.
4/5: String Theorists. Despite ZERO mention of String Theory in the work at hand.
1/5: Rennaisance Technologies.
2/5: Stonybrook.
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As I have been trying to explain on every major podcast well in advance of this inexplicable 'custody' which happened in front of all our eyes...this is what happens to every major potential change in mathematical physics that comes from outside the "Only Game In Town" crowd. Like clockwork.
This is an enormous story about a tiny number of people: David Gross, Arthur Jaffe, their academic descendants and north shore Long Island. Remove that command and control complex and we go back to being the leading force in theoretical physics.
Statement of Yang-Mills Working Group, a scientific collaboration to interpret AI result related to the existence of quantum chromodynamics & completions of the Standard Model, including a subproblem proving the existence of the Quantum Yang-Mills theory. buff.ly/BwV89Tk
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A statistic that sounds fake but isn't: Not one single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker.
It's not because they stopped writing. It's because The New Yorker has refused to publish them. The publishing industry has blacked out a generation of male writers & then they wonder why boys don't read.
About 70% of publishing professionals are women.
Because agents and editors tend to select books they personally relate to, an increasing number of male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our shelves—and a dearth of male ones.
No wonder young men are no longer reading.
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🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 16: HOW THE MIDTERMS WERE PULLED OFF 🚨
Among today's talk of voter fraud, a critical role is overlooked: the importance of NGOs in early voting.
Below, I show the receipts where NGOs directly take a role in making the midterms happen.
It's been a long week, and I'm too tired to type up a summary.
Just know the two main points:
Republicans have an institutional blindness. They believe getting voters is all about branding and messaging. They pay enormous sums to consultants and TV ads and have endless conferences on what the right "message" is.
Democrats, meanwhile, have built an entire and expensive institutional machinery around getting people physically to the polls. And they were more motivated in 2026 than any other year.
I do NOT deny the existence of voter fraud. Saying the data doesn't show that others claim to show, is not equivalent to saying there is no fraud.
As I've said in several posts today, the election system in the United States is structurally set up such that citizenship verification is an honor system. The biggest swings in 2026 were among young people and Hispanics.
And 2026 was a concerted effort by NGOs like none other. Watch them in their own words how they pulled it off:
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A guy goes into a bar in New York where the bartender is a robot.
The guy sits down at the bar, and the robot asks: "What will you have?
The guy replies, "Whiskey."
The robot brings back his drink and asks, "What's your IQ?"
The guy says, "168."
The robot talks about physics, space exploration, and medical technology.
After the guy leaves, he pauses at the street corner and thinks about what he just encountered, and the more he thinks about it, the more curious he gets, so he decides to go back.
The robot asks, "What's your drink?"
The guy answers, "Whiskey."
The robot returns with his drink and asks, "What's your IQ?"
This time, the man replies "100."
The robot talks about NASCAR, Budweiser, Awbarn, and professional wrestling.
The man finishes his drink and leaves, but he is so interested in this "experiment" that he decides he'll try again.
He enters the bar and, as usual, the robot asks him what he wants to drink.
The man replies, "Whiskey."
The robot brings the drink and asks, "What's your IQ?"
This time, the man answers "50."
The robot leans in real close and s-l-o-w-l-y says, "How awesome is Mamdani’s rent freeze? It surely will help the housing problem.”
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Grow up, Pramila. Bullying and trolling are not really the role of members of Congress. You are a public servant. Act like it.
By the way, knitting is a skill. Acquiring some skills is part of a healthy, balanced life. I recommend this to you. No need to be hateful all day!
Harmeet Dhillon made a mockery of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division by attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion and bullying states into disenfranchising voters.
She will not be missed. Enjoy your knitting.
ALT Photo of Harmeet Dhillon with text overlaid: "Harmeet Dhillon, Head of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, resigns after GOP midterms loss."
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Wait are you a Lincoln Project jerk? Sit down. You are in no position to lecture anyone.
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Mark, you are welcome to help anyone you like. Fund any clinic. Pay the premiums. Build Cost Plus. Nobody is stopping you, and nobody will in a free country.
That is not what you are proposing. You are proposing that every working American be made to fund your idea whether they agree with it or not. Your choice of motivations is yours. It does not become a claim on anyone else's paycheck, and calling the claim help does not change what it is.
Read your own post again. Every example in it is voluntary. The entrepreneur picks his reward. The worker picks his employer. The customer picks what to buy. Those people are all traders, owner and employee alike, and each arrangement stands because both sides said yes.
But then you want a Treasury payroll deduction from everyone. A trade you cannot refuse is not a trade. It is the one thing in your entire post nobody chose.
Capitalism is not an economic policy. It is the social system in which all property is privately owned and all human relationships are voluntary, which means it is the political form of freedom itself. The only thing it bans is the initiation of force. That is why the signal are the result of voluntary choices, as you say, and also why your plan is outside it. The moment you reach for the Treasury you have left capitalism, and no amount of good intention brings you back in.
So the question is simple. Why do you believe it is right to confiscate one man's earnings against his consent to fund an idea you think is good? If the idea is good, people will invest in it voluntarily. You have raised money your whole life. You know what it means when nobody will write the check.
Capitalism and Medicare for All are not two options on the same menu. One rests on consent and the other on force, and you cannot run both on the same patient. What we have now is the remnant of a free market in medicine, and the record since 1965 is not in dispute. Medicare projected at $9 billion, running $444 billion. Premiums doubled after the law that promised to cut them. Three quarters of insurer revenue already tax money. Prices climbed in exact step with the government's share, and you want the share to be all of it.
Capitalism works for everyone who trades. What it refuses to do is give any man a right to another man's life, and that refusal is not its failure. It is the reason a free man can walk into a hospital in the first place.
Profit isn't the only signal. Feeling great about helping people. Changing people's lives. Helping your country. Putting people in a position to succeed. To enjoy their lives. People get to pick their own motivations. If they are fortunate, they will reach those goals.
That's the beauty of capitalism. People get to choose the reward that motivates them.
Entrepreneurs can choose to make as much money as possible. Or not. They can choose to make enough money to focus on using their most valuable asset, their time, to not have to work at all. They can choose to make money to help people.
But. Every entrepreneur that wants to reach their goals needs people. People to work for them, buy from them, sell to them. Even the person in the basement with nothing but AI, needs to connect to humans to reach their personal goals.
Capitalism works. But not for everyone.
Where Capitalism fails people, Capitalism isn't the problem. It's the people that put profits above all else that are the problem.
If you put your personal net worth or cash flow above all else, you may make insane amounts of money, but you will suffer the greatest indignity. You will be hated. Your time will not be your own. You will never experience the joy that comes from helping others.
No one is born knowing where their life will take them. We get to do our best, in our circumstances, to try to enjoy our lives.
Capitalism allows us to try to get there. Capitalism allows people who have achieved those goals to help others. Capitalism allows us to choose our own personal path.
Unfortunately, we don't all get there. But we get to try to choose the path we want.
The signal is personal choice. Not profit.
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Capitalism is perhaps the most misunderstood economic system in history, largely because it is routinely blamed for the consequences of violating its own principles.
Capitalism means private property, individual rights, voluntary trade, and a government limited to protecting those rights. It is a system in which individuals are free to produce, compete, trade, and prosper without requiring political permission or favoritism.
Cronyism, by contrast, means government granting economic privileges through subsidies, bailouts, tariffs, regulations designed to protect favored businesses, and other forms of political favoritism.
Socialism, communism, fascism, theocracy, absolute monarchy, feudalism, mercantilism, corporatism, and cronyism differ in their doctrines, methods, and objectives. Yet all have permitted political authority or privileged groups to override individual economic freedom.
The fundamental distinction is between voluntary exchange and political coercion.
Under capitalism, economic success depends on creating value that others voluntarily choose to purchase. Under cronyism, political influence can substitute for earning that success through trade.
This brings us to the mixed economy, where elements of capitalism coexist with government intervention, redistribution, regulation, and political favoritism.
When intervention produces unintended consequences, critics routinely attribute those failures to capitalism simply because they occurred in an economy containing private businesses and markets.
That is a fundamental error of causation.
The existence of private businesses does not make every government policy capitalist. Nor does the existence of wealthy businessmen make political favoritism a product of free markets.
A businessman who earns a fortune through voluntary trade and one who obtains privileges through political coercion are operating on fundamentally different principles.
Pure laissez-faire capitalism has never been fully implemented. Yet to the extent economic freedom has existed, it has demonstrated its extraordinary capacity to create wealth, increase productivity, encourage innovation, and raise living standards.
And here lies the great irony.
The remaining economic freedom continues to generate much of the wealth that makes government intervention and redistribution possible, while helping cushion society against their destructive consequences.
Critics then demand further intervention to remedy problems caused or aggravated by previous interventions, perpetuating a cycle in which political power expands while capitalism receives the blame.
Before blaming capitalism for any economic problem, establish whether that problem arose from voluntary exchange or the coercive exercise of political power.
You cannot reasonably condemn a system for the consequences of violating its principles while ignoring the benefits produced when those principles are respected.
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🚨 Thierry, the only "technical difficulty" Elon ever had was spending years fighting people like you instead of building. 🚨
You're advising him to stay out of politics. But ask yourself the real question: why would a man who builds rockets, electric cars and satellites ever need to get into politics in the first place?
Because it was never a choice. Elon voted Democrat for years. He spent two decades avoiding politics so he could build. He didn't walk into politics. He was dragged into it.
What he discovered when he bought Twitter is that the institutions that manufacture consensus, universities, media, bureaucracies, NGOs, trust and safety teams, had been captured by a single ideological family: the left. Not influenced. Captured. The Twitter Files documented it in black and white: banned accounts, suppressed topics, government agencies sending lists of content to take down.
When you see that from the inside, you understand one thing: the West isn't sliding into totalitarianism through tanks. It's sliding into it through content moderation. And that slide had a European face. Yours. The commissioner who sent X a threatening letter hours before an interview with a US presidential candidate. The man who explained on television that "we did it in Romania" and would do it again in Germany if necessary.
Elon didn't enter politics out of a hunger for power. He entered because free speech is the precondition for everything else, and people like you were dismantling it.
And unlike you, he understands economics. He read Hayek. He understood what Hayek understood in 1944: no planner, no committee, no commission holds the knowledge scattered across millions of minds. The more you centralize decisions, the more you destroy collective intelligence. The road to serfdom doesn't start with camps. It starts with regulations.
That's exactly what Europe has become: advanced collectivism that refuses to say its name. Directives nobody voted for, written by officials nobody can fire. We regulated AI before we built any. We regulated tech without having a single tech giant. In 2008, the European economy was bigger than America's. Today it's far behind. That's not an accident. It's the direct result of your system.
And this system isn't dying alone. It found allies: a cynical left of millionaires preaching virtue from their nice neighborhoods, and the Islamist entryism of the Muslim Brotherhood, which the French state itself documented in an official report. A bureaucracy that forbids naming the problems, allied with those who exploit them: in the end, that cocktail is lethal for Western civilization.
Thierry, you live in a parallel reality. A reality built on lies: that censoring is protecting. That regulating is innovating. That Europe is doing fine. You've repeated them so many times you've started to believe them. But reality doesn't negotiate. A lie you end up mistaking for the truth always comes back to hit you in the face.
Yours is already on its way.
