Sean Smith

If it feels like there’s less enthusiasm for America’s 250th it probably has something to do with the gajillion foreigners here who have zero ties to our culture and history. America when it’s an idea does not produce the same results as America when it’s a nation and a people.

There is no better hope for our country than families that form and raise their children with honor and service. Make more Americans.

“He’s about to have a mental breakdown about finances. Have his wife send him a Zillow listing.”

The Catholic from New York. The quiet family man. The gold cross dangling over buttons that have never been touched. The MLB logo on the collar. The hat hair most men would chop a finger off for. The FJ Classics. Cameron Young is America. 🦅

Recipe for an incredible childhood: Stephen Biesty’s Cross section books

If you make under $66 an hour you're making less than minimum wage in 1970 purchasing power.

Remember this dude? Chris Douglas-Roberts, Memphis 2005-2008 #GoTigersGo

WELFARE NOW MAKES UP 66% OF ALL GOVERNMENT SPENDING. WE ARE GETTING SCAMMED

We’re launching Artemis II during America’s 250th year. 🇺🇸 Honored to celebrate it with @Freedom250.

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic. giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year. this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D). in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%. the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers" of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents. the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker. the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

This needs to change

America is suffering from "death by a thousand shrugs." Citizens murdered in our streets? Eh. Corruption that makes Watergate look small? Meh. Insane levels of fraud? That'll never be fixed, so what do I care? Actually, ALL of our problems can be turned around easily if we choose to do so. But when our leaders instead act indifferently and even justify the chaos, it's not a political problem. It's a civilization warning light.

"Allowing virtually every citizen to vote has been a catastrophic disaster for the United States. We have allowed illiterate, uneducated citizens to hold hostage the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and a robust intellectual culture. It has decimated the concept of civitas and allowed powerful actors with bad intentions to influence those who cannot think for themselves. To restore the United States, we must seriously consider ending universal suffrage." Read more below. ‍ ‍

#2 Tennessee vs #1 Memphis — ESPN Player Intros (2008)

They tried to put Daniel Penny in prison for years.

Been at ESPN a long time - this one was an all timer. Before social media, it was as viral as a story can be. I watched it on a tape in the news room. I couldn’t stop watching his teammates.

There’s literally an old motel with 30 fake hospice businesses in the rooms, and the parking lot is full of brand new BMWs and Mercedes… Just as blatant as the empty daycares.

When they exempt themselves from the laws that they are making for citizens, then you're not being represented, you're being ruled over. These people are tyrants.