Dave West

@FischerKing64 The difference between the mafia and government in terms of “ensuring order” is Equal Justice. That is essential or all order is tyranny.

The fundamental role of government at all levels is to ensure order. No street attacks, no stealing in stores or swarm robberies, no graffiti or broken windows. If government is just good at this basic thing, just about everything else will be ok. And the left doesn’t want this.

@JoelWebbon And…..if the women does have the child, the father is on the hook for 18 years of child support. All the accountability, but zero agency for fathers.

It is outrageous that today’s women can legally murder a father’s child, and he is absolutely powerless to stop it.

@CarsCurious Looks like the backside of my house in Sarasota. I think the drought must have made this year worse than ever.

Penelope’s Tahoe after a run from Lake Placid to Bradenton. I will not miss Florida Lovebug season.

@LynAldenContact "Harvard Professor"

I live near a tiny, oddly convenient airport that only had Spirit flights. With Spirit winding down today, those routes are gone. Have to always go to the larger, farther airports now. Rough day for all the workers at that airport, too.

@FischerKing64 Everything with this guy is performative.

This is a fine idea, but dead on arrival in the USA of 2026. You would need 2/3 of the House and the Senate, and 38 state legislatures, for this to become law. We can't even pass balanced budgets, every SCOTUS confirmation is a street fight. This ship has sailed.

@LynAldenContact @ianbremmer Don’t need the higher wage part. It’s a service to your country if done properly. Today it’s a money grab.

@ianbremmer The US would benefit from a combo of 1) higher compensation for Congress and Cabinet members combined with 2) strict limits on trading and single-stock investing while in office.

progress

@megynkelly Pretty sure my $2,400 per month health insurance wouldn’t pay for this test anyway.

The AI advances are all great, until there are no jobs left for our kids & our medical info is all over the internet & a chat box manages to release a nuke. Watch “The AI Doc” on Apple for a primer. What good is it to cure all disease if there is no more work, ambition or safety?

@naval Tax on ZIRP terminal value

"Savings Tax."

@JesseKellyDC ‘financial genius” who oversaw the largest annual budget deficit of all time!

I love that there are multiple reports of Scott Bessent getting in fistfights with various Trump cabinet people. We’ve got a gay finance genius in the White House just throwing hands with anyone who steps out of line. It kills me.

@EMichaelJones1 As Catholics, we are all guilty of this to one degree or another. I know I am. The hubris comes in when our rationalizations or weaknesses become our rallying cry.

Rationalization seeks out justification for what it wants to believe. catholicvote.org/melinda-gates-…

@FischerKing64 Too much of the elite wealth was amassed via ill-gotten gains - ZIRP, bailouts, cronyism, et .

‘Conservatives’ have to realize that extreme disparities of wealth are just not good. It doesn’t matter if you can say ‘but everyone is doing better.’ People just think they’re not doing as well as someone else. You hold this in check for stability.

We are drifting into a situation from the Fritz Lang film Metropolis. Private property is the cornerstone of a capitalist society. But if it tilts so far that a few people own everything, and the masses are stuck in debt slavery - it’s a disaster, a recipe for revolution.

@JustineBateman You had me at “fuck this guy”.

Fuck this guy and anything he comes up with. Just another way to pull more “data” from you. Refuse to participate.

@TRHLofficial Or their family members…

Is the DOJ gonna start indicting congressmen too, or nah.

@ShawnRyan762 Your best post ever!

The warrior class is disintegrating worldwide. It started with the defund the police movement in the U.S. No one wants to wear a badge anymore. Why would you? Do your job, get labeled a criminal. Look at Daniel Penny, a man who stopped a threat and got rewarded with a prosecution. Who protects the community after that? No one. And everyone knows it. People remember unjust consequences. They adjust their behavior accordingly. Now we're watching military heroes across the world get prosecuted for doing exactly what their country trained and ordered them to do, find the enemy and destroy them. You think this ends well? I'll tell you how it ends, a draft, Forced service, a generation of "soldiers" more afraid of their own government than the enemy in front of them. No one in their right mind is going to volunteer for that.

@TRHLofficial Everywhere this happens the middle class gets wiped out, entitlements for the “poor” expand, and cronyism takes root for the “elites”.

New England mastered the art of gerrymandering years ago The 6 states are 40% Red They have 33 seats between them So they have 13 Republicans, right? Wrong. They have 1. This is modern day taxation without representation coming full circle to the birthplace of the Revolution

@pati_marins64 Is China prohibited from buying oil from Iran?

Iran Comes Out of the Corner By not responding to the call for peace negotiations, Iran has made its position clear: the Strait will not be reopened and no one is close to a deal. This stance is much firmer and more resolute than what we had been observing until now. Iran has come out of the corner and once again placed the pressure of shortages and inflation squarely on Trump’s shoulders, after he had enjoyed a more comfortable position for the past few days. Now the question is who can withstand more pressure: Now the question is who can withstand more pressure: Iran, unable to sell its oil and completely dependent on Chinese loans, or Trump, who is being squeezed by the markets, his allies, and inflation that is eroding his political capital as an election approaches?

@JesseKellyDC Yes, unless you go to war against a neighbor and the terrain between you is flat. Otherwise the cost of transport, combined with new drone technology makes tanks obsolete and a huge waste of money.

QUESTION: Are tanks obsolete? It’s a genuine question cause I’m not expert on modern battlefield tactics. Obviously, I hear things about drones wiping them off the battlefield in Ukraine. Are tanks done?

@FischerKing64 In defense of Teachers, the percentage of “normal boys” since the 1980’s that are fatherless is directly correlated to the root problem you identified. That is not intended to let teacher of the hook, but to widen the lens.

American boys have been receiving stimulants - ADHD drugs - in larger and larger numbers since the 1980s. Basically female elementary school teachers medicalized normal boys so they could stay off tranquilizers/therapy themselves. In future we will have studies on the damage.

@mtgreenee ‘’Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger. Anger leads to suffering…..” Yoda

This lost demonic soul, Laura Loomer needs Jesus. But the sad reality is that President Trump takes her hate filled demonic advice on late night phone calls. And look at his actions, he is raging in war that she and others demand. Hate is murder. And a murderer has no eternal life residing in them. The apostle John tells us in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God does not hate Candace Owens, he loves her dearly. And Jesus died so that even Laura Loomer, if she were to repent and believe and walk in obedient faith in Christ, cans be forgiven and have eternal life.

@pati_marins64 Gamblers to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle again.

Gamblers have started operating more and more openly in wars, and this trend is set to grow even further What still intrigues me a lot is the publication by the spokesman of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, on April 18. As the chief negotiator of the Iranian team, he waited until the markets closed to deny President Trump, rejecting any negotiations and accusing the news of being “fake news” to manipulate oil prices and financial assets. That seemed to be exactly his role. Several moves in this war are clearly linked to market manipulation. On March 23, approximately US$ 580 million in oil futures contracts (Brent and WTI) were traded about 15 minutes before Trump announced the pause in the attacks. The perfect timing suggests that insiders knew the exact moment of the presidential posts on Truth Social to ride the volatility. Congressman Ritchie Torres described this as “potentially one of the largest instances of insider trading in history,” given the precision and volume of the bets. The episodes repeated shamelessly: March 9: massive bets anticipated by 47 minutes Trump’s statement that the war was over, profiting from a 25% drop in prices; April 7: US$ 950 million were bet a few hours before the ceasefire announcement; April 17: US$ 760 million were traded 20 minutes before the official reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Months earlier, in January 2026, an anonymous user made more than US$ 400 thousand on Polymarket by betting on Maduro’s fall/capture just days before the American operation on January 3. The surgical precision of these bets led the U.S. Senate and the CFTC to investigate possible leaks of classified information from the White House. This phenomenon is not new. At the beginning of the First World War, foreign investors (mainly British) sold off massive amounts of assets, about US$ 3 billion at the time, with advance information, forcing the New York Stock Exchange to close for four months. The most bizarre case I know of happened in Ukraine in 2025, when an employee of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) was fired after making unauthorized changes to combat maps to influence bets on Polymarket. Users had bet US$ 1.3 million on the fall of Marinka based on those manipulated maps. Ukraine itself blocked the platform in 2026 due to concerns about bets linked to the conflict and possible use of insider information. Even in the 9/11 attacks there were suspicious moves, with the volume of put options on United and American Airlines stocks reaching 25 times the normal average. This makes me believe that even Al Qaeda may have taken advantage of the market, although official investigations never led anywhere. However, this has been growing at an alarming rate in recent years. In another recent and recurring scheme discovered by Cyabra and Logically, bot accounts spread false rumors of a ceasefire in Gaza across Instagram profiles and Telegram groups. This immediately drove down the prices of defense stocks and oil; those behind the rumors would then buy at the lows and profit once the news was debunked hours later. Gambling is going way beyond what we imagined. In the case of the war with Iran, I have strong suspicions that it’s not happening only on the American side. I’m making this post to show how important it is to follow the geopolitical scenario closely. Certain statements, the absence of official announcements, or short, strange movements are so unlikely given the context that they should immediately raise a red flag for possible manipulation. This is vital for those investing their own money and even for public officials who deal directly with the consequences of conflicts. This is not going to stop. On the contrary, it will intensify along with the growth of gambling around the world. Join my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/global21