Gary Bennett

WOW what a pic Chad! Walter Payton did that 4 me & my brother @ryanbennett131 at end of his day during @ChicagoBears training camp (we were 6 & 4) I never forgot it. If he could do it I damn sure better have. #stlcards @jeffpearlman @walterpayton @paytonsun @olin_kreutz

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

FLASHBACK: Loved this video of Rep. Wesley Hunt DESTROYING Democrats who say black people can't get voter ID: "Sitting with me is my global entry card...driver's license...what SORCERY is this?! Am I the black Houdini?" "My military ID card, my Texas driver's license, my Texas license to carry because that's how we roll in Texas, my congressional card, and of course the good old fashioned American passport." "How was I able to pull off the impossible and attain not one, not two, not three, but six government issue IDs?!" "Personal responsibility in this country. I fought for this country as an Apache helicopter pilot to protect free and fair elections and having a government issued ID as a racist." "It's American. You need to have an ID to drive a car to check into the airport. Open back account. You need an ID for basically everything to be a responsible adult in this country except for voting, apparently according to the left!" REPOST and amplify this leader's voice! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

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This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

Chicago Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President John Catanzara LOST IT after a Chicago police officer was executed by a career criminal. “We are f*cking sacrificial lambs for the politicians in this city and state, and it NEEDS to stop.” “When is enough?… One [cop killed] is too many.” “Even after hearing the despicable acts that this piece of sh*t did.” “It’s the reason the death penalty should still be in Illinois.” REPOST and amplify his voice! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

“The dumbing of the United States has arrived”…. Oops, LOL

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

cc: all California voters

🚨 WOW! Meet our new Acting Secretary of the US Navy, HUNG CAO — who fled Communist Vietnam "Don’t come to this country and ask for the American DREAM if you’re not willing to obey the American LAWS and embrace the American CULTURE!" "We came to this country with NOTHING. We asked nothing from this country...together, we will make America great again!" PATRIOT. 🇺🇸

Javier Milei: “When the model doesn’t match reality, you get rid of the model. You don’t get angry with reality.”

@travisfitzwater Awesome brother!

Dear Friends and Constituents, After almost 12 years in the Missouri House and Senate—starting when I got elected in 2014 and then winning the Senate seat in 2022—I'm sharing some big personal news with a lot of gratitude: I won't be seeking re-election to the Missouri State Senate. Serving you all has been the honor of my life. From pounding the pavement knocking on doors across eastern and mid-Missouri to pushing for better economic development, stronger schools, family values, and real innovation in Jefferson City, I've been blessed to work side-by-side with good people on both sides of the aisle to make our state a better place. Now, my family and I are heading in a new direction, and I'm excited to step into the role of Executive Director at the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC). MTC is a key public-private partnership investing in high-growth startups, backing entrepreneurs, and fueling tech-driven growth all over Missouri—from the big cities like St. Louis and Kansas City to Columbia, Springfield, and across our rural communities. With our statewide innovation network and the moment we're in, it's the ideal time to push Missouri forward as a leader in innovation. I'll be leaning on everything I've learned in the legislature, my time on the MTC Board, and my background running businesses and serving in the community to build transparent partnerships, bring in more investment, and help Governor Kehoe build a dynamic economy: More jobs, more follow-on capital, and more opportunities for everyday Missourians. To everyone in District 10—Callaway, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, and our beloved slice of St. Charles County—and to all of you who've backed me along the way: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your encouragement, your prayers, your trust—they've meant the world to me and my family. I'll keep serving until the transition wraps up. Timing will be announced soon, worked out with legislative leadership and the MTC Board. Until then, my door's still open—always has been, always will be. Missouri's future looks bright, and I'm filled with optimism as we keep working together to open up more doors across this beautiful state. God bless you all, and God bless Missouri! 🇺🇸 With real gratitude, Travis Fitzwater

🚨 "Be proud of your hate for America." That's what NYU students heard from Egyptian-born Canadian professor, Dr. Mohamed Abdou last night at his event called 'Death to the Akademy.' He not only promoted his vile hatred of America, but he went off an an anti-Semitic tirade, then spewed his affection for Hamas terrorism and their martyrs. That's the individual whom the President of NYU, Linda G. Mills, permitted to indoctrinate her students under the guise of "academic freedom." Linda makes a cool $1.5 million salary, plus perks that would make you throw up. - Yearly bonus approaching $500K - NYC luxury housing - Expen$e account - Travel account - Car service - Security detail - Gym memberships - Traveling staff detail for events (in other words, she has staff fetch her coffee) Dr. Mohamed Abdou was fired from Columbia University for his public support of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, including the massacres of Oct 7. Linda's campus is on track to receive $732 MILLION in taxpayer federal funding for 2026-2027. H/T @thestustustudio for gut-churning video of this so-called "academic."

The #1 factor that determines whether you succeed in life is you. It isn’t “the patriarchy.” It isn’t the Jews. It isn’t the Muslims. It isn’t the billionaires. It isn’t the foreigners. It isn’t white people. It isn’t black people. It's time for us to move on from victimhood culture in America.

Pritzker: Gerrymandering is cheating! (when Texas did it in 2025) Pritzker: Signs the most gerrymandered map in US history in 2021 If it weren't for double standards, JB wouldn't have any standards at all.

The fact that the Ostroushko family is on a press tour instead of sitting in JAIL is infuriating to me. Paige Ostroushko is literally on Instagram bragging about how she has faced ZERO consequences so far. Demoralizing.