Rothmus 🏴

The peptides can wait

It’s simple really. In real life, you usually feel your mistakes. If you lose money, lose customers, you go broke. That brutal feedback forces you to learn or get out. But in the political world of make believe, when politicians, bureaucrats, or elite experts make the calls, they don’t pay. They literally have zero incentive to not ruin your life. If a bad education policy tanks kids’ futures, they still draw their salary and move to the next postmodern theory. If welfare rules create dependency traps, the designers live in safe neighborhoods and send their kids to private schools. This is a recurring theme everywhere the “anointed” run things with no skin in the game. No personal cost means no real accountability, no course correction, just endless experiments paid for by everyone else.

NYC welfare payments hit a 30 year high of $2.6 billion. Up 71% in just 4 years. Cash welfare recipients are up 56% and cash spending itself jumped 73% since 2022. 32% of households are on SNAP. 10% get cash assistance. This isn’t sustainable. They keep subsidizing people who don’t produce and importing more of them to take it, then act surprised when the numbers explode. You get more of whatever you pay for. Eventually you run out of people to leech off of because they’re either too broke to carry it or they leave. And when that happens, the whole economy goes with them.

A similar scenario is playing out today with China, except the roles are reversed. In (at least) one of his interviews, Palmer Luckey explains that we can build incredible high tech weapons, but China can still wreck carriers and bases by throwing thousands of cheaper missiles at them, even lower quality ones, because the numbers just overwhelm you and burn through your defenses fast. The problem is that we don’t produce enough of our good tech, we build it way too slow, and it costs a fortune to replace, while they’re pumping missiles out of factories at a pace we gave up on years ago. So all that fancy stuff only works if you can actually keep replacing it once the fight starts, and right now we can’t. We need systems that are cheap enough to lose and easy to make in big numbers, because the side that runs out first loses.

When economist George Stigler asked in 1971 who actually benefits when government regulates an industry, the answer, to the shock of no one, was the INDUSTRY itself. Regulators need experts, and the only experts available worked in the industry they’re now supposed to police, so agencies fill up with former executives and staffers hoping for a job back at the company they oversee. Stigler called this “regulatory capture.” No foul play and no laws broken. They’re just following the incentives in a system working as designed.

@cremieuxrecueil It’s a good game, sir.

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Ashley Webb, the trans Democrat candidate in Maine, said he menstruates, and I found historical evidence to corroborate his claim. Kind of. You see, Napoleon’s army doctors called Egypt “the land of menstruating men.” They weren’t trolling, ancient Egyptians genuinely believed that when boys hit puberty, they started getting periods, marked by blood in their urine. Since it happened to nearly every man, it was celebrated as a sacred rite of passage into manhood. The truth however was that a parasite living in the Nile, where they drank and bathed, would burrow into their skin, lay eggs inside them, and cause chronic internal bleeding. TLDR: I think Ashley should go see a doctor.

My wife checking our bank account after I told her I quit gambling

Stalin was 35. Lydia was 13 when they started their relationship. Leftists really haven’t changed much.

Labour is freeing thousands of rapists and pedos years early under their new early release scheme if they play nice in prison. The prisons are full so the public gets the predators back sooner. They really couldn’t care less about justice, the victims, or the people.

We can send Walmart employees to invade Iran.

LEAVE THE LAMBS ALONE!!!!!

The 2026 World War Z remake would feature leftist governments sending heavy machinery to tear down the walls, while blue haired activists call anyone running away bigots.

What are the most cited reasons people have for opposing data centers in their area? The top three are water use, energy use, and utility bills. This suggests that the propaganda effort to worry people over nothingburgers has been successful!

What a legendary USA250COIN hype video, this is IT

Taco Bell farts > Canada

Don’t be a hero.

Somebody check in on Freddy.

Olive Garden never considered some people are too poor and stupid to get photo ID