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‘Member when Elon just wanted to protect free speech?

Cash for Clunkers perfectly exemplifies the broken window fallacy in action. The government spent $3 billion to destroy 690,000 perfectly functional vehicles, claiming this would "stimulate" the economy by forcing people to buy new cars. What they actually did was obliterate billions of dollars worth of working capital that could have served lower-income families for years to come. The program artificially inflated new car sales by cannibalizing future demand and destroying the used car market. Those "clunkers" weren't junk—they were reliable transportation that mechanics could have maintained, parts suppliers could have serviced, and budget-conscious buyers could have afforded. Instead, bureaucrats decided to crush them into scrap metal to create the illusion of economic activity. This wasn't stimulus—it was capital destruction on a massive scale. Real economic growth comes from saving, investment, and the accumulation of productive assets, not from government programs that literally destroy wealth to generate temporary sales spikes. The program made cars more expensive for everyone while making transportation less accessible for those who needed it most. Every crushed engine block represented resources that could have continued serving society productively. True prosperity emerges when we preserve and efficiently allocate capital, not when we celebrate its destruction as economic policy.

VAT hits all consumption in a country both domestic and imports. Tariffs only hit imports. Surely, he must know that! So what is he talking about?

Quick SCOTUS reax: 1) Refund. Their. Money. NOW. 2) All those IEEPA-gunpoint trade deals are ???? 3) Trump WILL use other laws to reimpose these tariffs, and the courts won't stop them. CONGRESS MUST ACT.

Multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's GM meeting as well as a late January Competition Committee meeting told ESPN that the following concepts have been discussed to curb tanking: •First-round picks can be protected only top-4 or top-14+ •Lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or a later date •No longer allowing a team to pick top 4 in consecutive years and/or after consecutive bottom-3 finishes •Teams can’t pick top-4 the year after making conference finals •Lottery odds allocated based on two-year records •Lottery extended to include all play-in teams •Flatten odds for all lottery teams

Hasan's statement to trans voters: "Democrats don't care about you. They would literally shoot you in the fucking head if it meant it would secure them electoral wins"

Just a reminder if there were 10 permanent Dem senators, the senate map would still be biased towards Republicans

Mark Carney announces that Canadian law enforcement agencies will "increase cooperation" with the CCP to "better combat narcotics trafficking, transnational crime, cyber crime, and money laundering" in Canada. The RCMP and FINTRAC have consistently linked Chinese actors to narcotics trafficking, transnational crime, cybercrime and money laundering.

Did it work

2025 Mendoza: 2,980 yards, 71%, 33 TD, 6 INT 2024 Shedeur: 4,134 yards, 74%, 37 TD, 10 INT I guess it was a down year for the Heisman.

Shane Steichen told reporters that Daniel Jones is good to go for Sunday, somehow.