Gene Neal

@FreemanWSJ Great piece Mr. Freeman. Keep it up!

A Pelosi Model Is Now a San Francisco Scandal wsj.com/opinion/a-pelo…

@IfindRetards Define “we”…?

Retarded quote of the day 🏅

@DarrigoMelanie There’s no such thing as price gouging. Change my mind.

“Capitalism breeds innovation,” and the innovation is dynamically price gouging people based on how much they need something.

Good one 👏

In a system where politicians decide who is allowed to have nice things, it usually ends with politicians being the ones who have them. Power rarely distributes privilege outward. It concentrates it upward.

Yes

@MsBehavin67 @Rainmaker1973 @thinkonthese52 No…. You spelled ‘Ted Kennedy’ wrong

The world’s richest woman, Alice Walton, just built a completely free medical school. The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas opened in July 2025, welcoming its first class of 48 students. It focuses on a "whole health" approach, emphasizing preventive care, nutrition, mental wellness, and serving underserved/rural communities.

@angelf_tweets @Rainmaker1973 Cuba - a country with a govt so successful, it can’t exist on its own after 50+ years…..

@Rainmaker1973 If we tax her wealth as we should we could build many more and also actually have universal healthcare like most other developed western and eastern countries do

@jaketapper @mkhammer @col_seal

Major Alex Klinner has been named by his family as the 2nd of 6 US service members killed in Thursday’s refueling operation to support the US war against Iran. He leaves behind a wife and three children. (Photos from GoFundMe set up to support the family gofundme.com/f/major-alex-k…)

Rent, profit, and interest aren’t theft. They come from voluntary agreements involving property, risk, capital, and time. Pretending only physical labor creates value is childish economics. And if your rule were true, the first thing it would condemn is welfare, because that actually takes money from someone else’s labor by force. So the slogan doesn’t expose anything profound. It just exposes how little thought went into the premise.

I try and not ask for help in boosting. But please boost this. I am still reaching out in good faith that he prides himself on a kind Senator. But sending me an email weeks after I sent a heartfelt one, timed just after @realJeremyCarl withdrew his nomination with a literal request for me to follow Curtis on X, is rapidly changing those priors. @SenJohnCurtis please reach out to me. We can still fix this relationship.

God bless this man and his family.

@tedcruz One don’t say ‘where we’re at’. A Senator says ‘Where we are’.

We are winning in Iran. We break down where we’re at in Iran, why President Trump initiated this, and how it’s making America safer. Don’t miss today’s episode of Verdict: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ira…

@biggsag @crfb Also worth noting: most of the ‘benefits’ (not ‘pay backs’ or ‘refunds’) is going to the folks that paid in the most. Funny how that happens.

These slides from @crfb are excellent. I'd add just one: Social Security benefits are rising and will continue to increase. An rising share of benefits flows to well-off seniors, who get much higher benefits than in similar countries, and a low/falling share to the very poor.

@SenSchumer Your response is the perfect evidence for why this Bill must pass!

The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of people.  If Trump is saying he won’t sign any bills until the SAVE Act is passed, then so be it: there will be total gridlock in the Senate.  Senate Democrats will not help pass the SAVE Act under any circumstances.

@johnkonrad @DataRepublican @RobertDocBacon thoughts??

We had a good thing, Britain. A really good thing. You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks. The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls. That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world. That was the deal. Now look at you. You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state. You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM. You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain. You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City. Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks. You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today. Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock. Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what? We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund. Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t. You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships. You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them. The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies. You had one job. Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits. That’s it. That’s all we asked. And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us. But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.

Jeff Bezos just identified the most expensive bureaucratic failure in the American economy. It fits in one sentence. Bezos: “Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.” It doesn’t make any sense because a building code is not a judgment call. It is an algorithm. And algorithms should be executed by machines. Bezos: “Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit for a new house or a new building and it should give you a yes or a no in ten seconds.” Ten seconds. Not three months. Not six weeks. Not whenever the reviewer clears their backlog. Bezos: “If the answer is no, it should tell you the six things you have to change to get a yes.” No ambiguity. No interpretation. No bureaucratic delay dressed up as due diligence. Just a deterministic feedback loop compressing months of institutional friction into a single automated decision. We are competing against sovereign adversaries deploying gigawatt data centers and scaling physical infrastructure at a pace that does not stop to ask permission. And we are losing ground to countries that never needed to. The AI arms race is not only fought in data centers. It is fought in the gap between when someone decides to build something and when the government allows it. Every month this system runs on biological speed is a month that cannot be recovered. The governments that integrate AI into their core civic functions will trigger a wave of physical development the old world could never produce. The ones that refuse will still be reviewing the same forms a decade from now. While the cities that said yes are already living inside the future they built. The bottleneck was never ambition. It was always the man holding the rubber stamp deciding when ambition was allowed to begin. And the stamp is just a rubber version of the algorithm that should have been running this whole time.

I think you said a lot - but I’d choose competency over compassion. A surgeon that is a jerk but the best is who I want doing my surgery vs a surgeon that means well and holds my hand but this is their first appendectomy. Most doctors are motivated by healing. Thank goodness! But the best don’t want to be in a govt defined box. The best at everything never do.

@GeneNBPD @kungfuiq @tslaproxy @handre ... I think there is a cultural element too: US seems to be a more wealth driven culture than Western Europe generally (citation needed! Merely observation) which may explain some elements of difference in the argument.

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them. And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy? Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

Greed is often a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. It appears whenever someone dares to build, achieve, or climb higher than the comfortable mediocrity around them. It's far easier to condemn the climber than to climb. But there is a distinction usually skipped over. There is the kind that must create value for others, because no one is forced to trade. And there is the kind that uses power to take, dressed up in policy and moral language. Curiously, the first is condemned as greed, while the second is often praised as compassion.

@AP_Teaching @kungfuiq @tslaproxy @handre Applicants…. Could many anything. Lots of turn over? Fewer other options for people, more migrants, lower standards for doctors, etc. While I see your point, your data doesn’t support your claim explicitly.

@kungfuiq @GeneNBPD @tslaproxy @handre ... (54,000 applicants USA, 23,000 UK.. population 309million vs 63million), so stats don't match your fears.