ElihuSmails, Esq. Harvard Class of 1921

I don’t think liberal federal workers should be making 6x the national average when they can’t even pull $20 in any other job.

Worse - she's going to have to show up every day and work at Penzey's!

@mrddmia She was making more that the VP

Translation: She was overpaid by $234,000.

@jason_howerton That would actually be a Popular Opinion outside the beltway if people realized what was really going on. Hopefully now that is starting to happen

Unpopular opinion: if you lose your high paying government job and the free market will not match it… you were an overpaid low-skill worker wasting taxpayer dollars.

@MikeBenzCyber The Vice President makes $235,000.

For reference, the head of the CIA only makes $230K / year.

@RonColeman USAID is basically the WNBA. Salaries completely detached from market demand and artificially inflated because of subsidies.

"An entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem.... "The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed"

⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it. The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts. But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build. 272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market. The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills. The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction. And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them. The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price. That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third. And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth. That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral.

⚡️The real signal is that a city that produces a meaningful fraction of global financial output just elected someone running explicitly on taking property from the people who produce it. This is not a protest vote. This is the coalition stating its actual preferences. The preferences are incoherent with the city continuing to function as a financial center. One of those two things is going to give. The city is going to stop being a financial center, or the coalition is going to be politically defeated, or Mamdani is going to govern nothing like he campaigned. The third option is the most likely because it’s the standard pattern, but the first two are live. The actual structural situation in New York: the top 1% of filers pay roughly half the city’s income tax. The top 10% pay around 75%. The math is that a small number of high earners subsidize services for everyone else, and the subsidy is what makes the city livable for the people who aren’t high earners. When those earners leave, the subsidy leaves with them, and the services they were funding get cut or the taxes on the remaining population rise. There is no version where you tax the rich into staying. They have options. The options are better now than they were five years ago and will be better in five years than they are now. Every marginal tax increase moves the departure math. Mamdani’s voters believe the rich will pay more and stay. This is empirically false and has been for decades. The Laffer curve is a caricature but the underlying phenomenon is real at the state and city level because the substitution cost is low. You don’t need to emigrate. You need to move to Connecticut, Florida, Texas, or Tennessee. Millions of people have done this. The pattern is documented, measured, and predictable. Pretending otherwise is the policy equivalent of pretending gravity is optional. The deeper thing Mamdani’s election reveals: a substantial fraction of urban voters now hold a worldview in which productive activity is theft, wealth is evidence of extraction, and redistribution is the primary function of politics. This worldview has specific intellectual lineage running from certain strains of Marxism through the academic left through social media radicalization. It’s not a serious economic framework. It’s a moral framework dressed as an economic one. The moral intuition is that inequality is itself the injustice, regardless of how the inequality arose or what it produces. A serious economic framework would ask whether the inequality produces good outcomes for the median person, would note that high-productivity cities produce enormous surplus that funds services, and would balance extraction against the ecosystem that generates the wealth to be extracted. The Mamdani framework skips all of that and goes straight to: they have it, we want it, take it. This framework, when operationalized, destroys the thing it feeds on. Every case study confirms this. No case study contradicts it. The cases where redistribution worked, Scandinavia in the twentieth century, post-war West Germany, Singapore, involved redistributing from productive economies that were allowed to stay productive. The redistribution was moderate, rule-bound, and applied to a capital base that couldn’t easily flee because international capital mobility was constrained. None of those conditions hold in New York in 2026. Capital mobility is near-frictionless for the high end. Rule-bound redistribution is not what Mamdani campaigned on. The ideological content is much closer to expropriation than to Nordic social democracy. The broader United States pattern is that this dynamic is concentrated in the cities that already had it, and those cities are where the productive economy is also concentrated. The country has decoupled into two economic models. One model, roughly blue-state urban, runs on high-productivity services, high taxes, high housing costs, declining quality of services relative to what’s paid for them, and increasingly extractive politics. The other model, roughly red-state urban and suburban, runs on lower productivity but faster growth, lower taxes, lower housing costs, and more functional services. The sorting between the two is accelerating. People and capital are moving from the first to the second at historically significant rates. The first model is not reforming because its political coalition is locked in by the voters who benefit from the extractive politics in the short term. The second model is not free of problems but is currently winning the migration competition by large margins.

@ChrissyCasilio At first I was concerned that you were wishing ill will on Rob Franzese and wondering what he did to you, then I read the whole post

Very few things in life would be more satisfying than karma finally catching up to top Peter Griffin impersonator, Jeremy Zellner.

Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.

@MeanTweetsRule @Breaking911 @TrackingFires Make DC square again!!

Great news. President Trump wins again & Obama his evil band of cheating dems lose. A truly Great day for Democracy in America. Nice try, you libtard scoundrels — Back to your cheaters drawing board to try and come up with another way to game the system & unfairly rig the outcome.

A Virginia Circuit Court has ruled that yesterday’s redistricting vote is unconstitutional and issued an injunction blocking the results from being certified.

We are having quite the night in the courts. A Virginia judge just blocked the state from certifying the results of Tuesday's congressional map referendum as unlawful. Judge Jack Hurley Jr., ruled that Democrats did not follow the correct procedure for a constitutional amendment....

The proper response from Donald Trump to these Virginia shenanigans is to announce that the retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria to Virginia was unconstitutional and that they are and always will be part of the federal district

Democrats let in untold millions of illegal alien who have since had children. All of those children are decreed citizens, future voters and made instantly eligible for lifetime welfare. That welfare in turn is sent in the form of remittances to their home countries. Those remittances then provide enough cash for future migrants to pay cartel smugglers to come to the United States. These cartel smugglers use their profits to export drugs, gangs and death to American communities.

Based on SCOTUS today, Trump should drop some new EOs tomorrow.... 1) Designate Birth-Tourism Facilitators as Foreign Exploitation Networks Under the Immigration and Nationality Act. 2) Every hospital must report within 2 hours (via the new ICE portal) any birth where the mother is non-LPR/temporary/illegal. A public Birth Tourism Dashboard on DHS.gov listing aggregated numbers by country. 3) Directs SSA, State, and DHS to presume that any child born to a mother who is either unlawfully present or on a temporary non-immigrant visa (B-1/B-2, student, tourist, etc.) lacks parental domicile and therefore is not “subject to the jurisdiction” under the 1868 original meaning. Parents get 90 days to rebut with sworn evidence of permanent domicile + intent to remain (green-card application in process, U.S. home ownership, etc.). Failure = “provisional non-citizen” notation on birth certificate, SSN starting with “9,” and no automatic passport. $50,000 civil penalty per unrebutted birth on hospitals that don’t flag the presumption in real time.

@libsoftiktok This is actually what the No Kings marches were intended to protest against. Of course the blue haired freaks will never appreciate the irony.

BREAKING: Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs just ruled the Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially close to a million migrants who came into our country through the Biden-era CBP One App

🚨 JUST IN — IT’S OFFICIAL: Palm Beach International Airport is now Donald J. Trump International Airport, following Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature on HB919 The name change goes into effect on July 1st. Congrats, 47.

@nypost Nice law you got there. Now I’d like to see you try and enforce it.

NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill signs law barring ICE agents from wearing face coverings trib.al/FToaDQJ

@JDVance @pattibader This ICE plan will immediately alleviate a big part of the problem, while simultaneously infuriating libtards, coast-to-coast. That’s why we love it. Thank you, President Trump and Vice-President Vance. It’s time to MAKE AIRPORTS GREAT AGAIN! 🇺🇸👊🏻

Stephen Miller on fraud by illegal aliens: “If all of it were stopped, it would be enough to balance the budget. The extraction of wealth from American taxpayers by those who don't belong here is the primary cause of the national debt.”