Ben Chestnut

Thanks for “standing up for consumers!” Spirit Airlines, with 17,000 employees, has ceased operations and cancelled all flights. So let’s see how this leads to more flights and lower fares…

@ChrisMurphyCT @Martina Misleading. cato.org/blog/did-88-co…

Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

@TheAliceSmith Rationalized envy.

Communism is essentially a convoluted, pseudoscientific way for people to justify stealing from others and murdering them if they resist.

If you want to know the real meaning of work, read Frederick Douglass's account of his first time working as a free man. After escaping slavery, his first job was loading coal onto ships. It was new, hard, dirty work. Here's how he describes it:

This is a self-own. If billionaires are the reason people struggle, then by his own logic he’s part of the problem. But instead of leading by example, donating, investing, or changing how he operates, he’s asking the state to compel others. That exposes the real move: it’s not about personal responsibility, it’s about outsourcing it. And the zero-sum framing does the rest: If his wealth is implicitly blamed for others’ hardship, then he’s admitting either he shouldn’t have it, or the premise is wrong. You don’t get to claim wealth is harmful and then keep it while asking others to fix it.

“Since Elizabeth Warren was first sworn into the U.S. Senate on January 3, 2013, the U.S. national debt has increased by approximately $22.61 trillion. At the time of her first inauguration, the total national debt was roughly $16.43 trillion. As of April 15, 2026, the debt has grown to approximately $39.04 trillion”

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

@Pontifex Thou shalt not covet

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

@GunnelsWarren Parasites are supposed to *quietly* bleed their hosts dry.

Elon Musk, the richest man alive worth $800 billion, owns 53% of the pie. The top 1% own 93% of the pie. Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. Bake 10 more pies and the 1% will steal 9 of them. 4 words: Tax the damn rich.

The multiple sphere-shaped radars on these GDPRShips jam all enemy electronics with cookie permission pop-ups. If the enemy accepts: God help them.

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

China lifted 800 million people out of poverty not through communism but by creating Special Economic Zones where capitalism was allowed to function. Shenzhen went from a fishing village to a megacity because the government said "in this specific area, you can build freely.” That should tell you something about what works and what doesn't. Even the world's largest communist country had to let capitalism in through the back door to feed its people.

@GeorgiaTech @RamblinReckClub @GTAthletics @GTFootball You got me! 😂😂😂 4/1

BREAKING: Georgia Tech officially bans "hell" and "helluva" from its fight song, flags on the Ramblin' Wreck, and Rat Caps. "Doozy" will replace “helluva," and "tarnation" will replace "hell." #TTWg 🐝| c.gatech.edu/tarnation

If your political view is "No Kings, but Yes Ayatollahs" you are one very confused individual

Meanwhile in the South...🤣🤧 #Pollen

When I was 15, I joined a karate class that taught Chuck Norris's flavor of Tang Soo Do. I met my future wife Teresa in that class (fell in love while sparring), so we both feel a teeny-tiny connection to him. RIP to a great, great man.

Because it's nerdy and email related: Chuck Norris's email address is "gmail@chucknorris.com" 😂🤓

I am a Democrat. I served in the Clinton administration. I did not vote for Donald Trump and am highly unlikely to support him or his acolytes in the future. I also have serious disagreements with many of the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policies. But it is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears to be almost rooting for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime, and other forces fundamentally opposed to the United States and our allies. This seems to reflects a corrosive strain of anti-Americanism, dressed up in postcolonial theory, that risks blinding us to the moral realities of our world and the nature of our adversaries.

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Organize one level too deep and you're disorganized again. Just enough, even a little less than you may think is optimal, is usually the sweet spot.