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You have everything you want, and nothing you need. Here’s how the Federal Reserve made money weird and robbed generations of Americans.

The America-hating Left is not attacking Tucker, Megyn, Fuentes, or Candace. They’re attacking Ben. Understand what’s going on here.

Watch ChudtheBuilder when he hears the charges and bail conditions. He looks absolutely crushed by the weight of reality suddenly set upon him. And honestly, it’s sad. Not just sad, but tragic. He is 28 years old and a father, and he became drunk on the perception of power — and sometimes invulnerability — that comes with social influence. This is a cautionary tale about the danger of unearned power and influence. For the average person, having tens of thousands of followers here can feel life-changing. Reaching close to 100k can feel like winning the lottery, at first. It can be exhilarating to reach millions of people and feel like you are part of a small elite capable of breaking social media news with the right post or moving tens of thousands of people with a few carefully crafted words. Even in the real world, people begin to treat you differently. It’s ridiculous, but true. When people find out you have a following, they begin to ascribe special significance and power to you that is usually grossly exaggerated. They think you are special and important and capable of doing things for them, and so they begin offering things to you. For people like Chud — young men who have never been “somebody” before — being thrust overnight into social media “stardom” (even if it is lowbrow, C-tier stardom) is intoxicating. Before, you were someone who always had to say “yes sir” and had accepted that life would consist of hard work with little respect or payoff. Now you begin to wonder how high you can climb and how much power, fame, and influence you can amass. It’s so intoxicating that it warps your ability to think rationally. You see the numbers — 200k+ followers and $70k in donations, with more pouring in — coupled with an endless stream of affirmations in your DMs and comments, not the reality that your reputation is being cemented as the guy who walks around calling Black people “n*ggers.” In a matter of weeks or months, you have achieved more influence and reach than most men could ever imagine. But here’s the rub: you did it without the years of hard work and painful lessons most people who achieve that kind of standing endure on the way up. You’ve been handed power and influence absent the wisdom that comes from earning it yourself — and you acquired it not by creating something important or valuable, but through cheap parlor tricks that entertain people who don’t care how this ends for you, only that they are entertained along the way. And so, emboldened, a man like Chud sets out with his camera, gargantuan hubris, and an army of followers telling him to “keep going,” even if that direction leads straight off a cliff. But you don’t see it, because you haven’t earned the wisdom that comes from smaller failures and hard-earned lessons earlier in the journey. Fail? How could you fail when so many people support you? Hundreds of thousands — even millions — are cheering you on. You must be doing something right. And in fact, you become so convinced that you are justified and untouchable because of the hordes you perceive behind you that you grow brazen and reckless, going so far as to predict that this story ends with a “dead chimp” and “me walking free.” And then it happens: your opportunity to “take a stand” and show your audience what this was really all about. But when the police arrive and arrest you, and the discussions begin between your lawyer and the district attorney, you suddenly realize that all your fame, power, and influence were an illusion. It existed on X, but the social capital of X suddenly means very little when standing before a judge and jury who have no idea who ChudtheBuilder is. Your viral posts are no longer impressive; they are evidence — an indictment of a reckless man drunk on power. You are now learning your first real lesson about the pitfalls of power/ influence, but at an apex where the fall is unrecoverable: forgotten and alone in a jail cell.

Ben is completely right: Daily Wire is a marquee company with a huge paid subscriber base; their work helps drive real progress in the political arena; and Ben is going to outlast the grifters and psychopaths who are trying to poison the Right with their nihilism.

@benshapiro Listening to you in college was like a taking a breath of fresh air, and that is still true today. Thank you for continuing to withstand viciousness to tell the truth.

All the haters can kiss my ass

Something about Olivia Reingold inspires sneering and patronizing “free advice” from journalists grasping for relevancy. Seems like shes doing something right to elicit such venomous jealousy.

There is something so compelling about this man.

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@EconWithNick It’s terrifying how much this stuff flies under the radar

@maggiemoda >government pushes people out of banks >keeps people in the dark >doesn't catch criminals Yeah, this needs to end.

Debanking doesn’t just affect controversial political figures. You are at risk too.

The bullies are never the hot popular girls. It’s always resentful ones hating from the sidelines.

@samikshassotd The UK is getting more Orwellian by the day.

The Met is deploying Live Facial Recognition tomorrow to scan people heading to the #UniteTheKingdom rally. A biometric scan shouldn't be a prerequisite for free speech. Privacy is the backbone of a free society —don't let it become the "new normal".

The UK becomes more Orwellian every day. Tomorrow, they are deploying facial recognition at a protest. It smells like a plot to create a database of conservatives in the country who can be tracked and abused under anti-speech policies.

Newsom’s California leaves children with serious mental health needs to die in the streets. Jázmin Pelligrini was a 15-year-old girl who was hospitalized 40 times over 2 years. California repeatedly “treated and streeted” her rather than help her access the long-term, secure residential care she needed. She died of a suspected fentanyl overdose on a San Francisco sidewalk.

COME AND TAKE IT

In a state where 47% of voters chose Republicans last cycle, Democrats' redistricting plan would have given them 91% of Virginia's congressional seats in Washington. Watch Virginia closely. Young Voices alumn Justin Evan Smith (@TheJustinEvan) says this is just the opening act. Via @DailyMail 🔽

Here’s everything you need to know about Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s meeting in Beijing over the next two days. The two leaders are set to discuss everything from tariffs and trade to Iran, Taiwan, and political prisoners.

@madelineefry @BrookeBrandtjen A truly Gen Z experience ^

"I saw a lot of my high school friends for the last time in March of 2020 — not because they died from COVID-19, but because they transitioned genders," @BrookeBrandtjen writes. dailywire.com/news/i-watched…

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