Chris Daubert

@OwenGregorian Does consuming mainstream media make you weak minded…or…do only weak minded people consume mainstream media?

Broadcast networks tout Mamdani’s victories, proclaim socialism is ‘resonating’ | Tim Graham, Fox News New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being touted as an "undeniable power broker" after his slate of radical socialist endorsees won in state and national races on Tuesday night. This might seem like good news for Republicans, since it can make the national Democrats look extreme. But the broadcast networks have a serious problem finding anyone too extreme on the left. The Democrats will try to absorb these radicals and cater to them, and it’s already obvious the networks are downplaying their radicalism and playing up their mass appeal to voters. On Monday night, "PBS News Hour" pundit Amy Walter strangely tried to claim that a victory by the radicals in New York didn’t mean anything nationally, that somehow we won’t know the tilt of the Democrats until the Michigan primary in August – where radical doctor Abdul el-Sayed is leading in the Senate primary race. On Wednesday morning, CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe sounded a similar note, that this "won’t be a factor in every race across the country, and Democrats certainly aren’t nominating socialists everywhere else." But there are a growing number of Bernie/AOC Democrats running across the country. In Wisconsin, gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong announced that her "perfect world" is one without prisons. O’Keefe also downplayed the extreme views these Democrats have in Israel, favoring Hamas and the dissolution of Israel. He described their view vaguely as "the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought." On "World News Tonight," ABC reporter Jay O’Brien called it an "earthquake," and concluded: "Who will benefit? President Trump already trying to put his stamp on all of this, branding the winners as ‘communists.’" When winning candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier was asked on MS NOW about the communist charge, she refused to answer it. ABC’s "The View" actually had a debate on Mamdani's endorsements. Alyssa Farah Griffin warned that the Democrats could become captured by extremists, so she was implying Mamdani was the anti-MAGA. She pointed out Chevalier had tweeted that 'Obama is evil,' 'Biden is a rapist and a war criminal,' and 'bleep Kamala Harris.' But Joy Behar was comparing socialism to fire trucks and garbage trucks. Sunny Hostin announced: "New York is the nation's cultural and political capital and that's just a fact. And the Democratic Socialists of America is a force to be reckoned with at this point." National Public Radio brought on Mamdani on Wednesday night’s "All Things Considered" newscast, but only considered how well he was doing. Scott Detrow’s slate of softball questions included this: "This is the latest in a series of primary wins this spring and summer for democratic socialist candidates. There's been wins in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, here in Washington, D.C.'s mayor race, now New York congressional races. Why, to you, does the DSA message seem to be resonating so well right now?" Mamdani happily answered: "It speaks to the fact that working people are fed up. And when we look at this country, we know that the only majority that really exists is that of the working class." Mamdani used variants of "working people" or "working class" 13 times in the interview. On the "PBS News Hour," New York Public Radio reporter Brigid Bergin sounded like she was merely regurgitating Mandani’s spin: "They are definitely more pro-Palestinian and take a lot of objection to the current position of the Democratic Party or its traditional position when it comes to Israel and being an ally of Israel without question. They also take a strong stand on things like Medicare for All, making sure there's universal childcare, essentially talking about making more accessible benefits that would make the lives of working people easier." A smidgen of balance emerged on Thursday’s "CBS Mornings." Co-host Vladimir Duthiers described the socialist agenda in positive terms, as "stronger tenant protections, more publicly built housing, higher taxes on top earners, expanded childcare, expanded public transportation." He touted it as "resonating." But then right-leaning Reihan Salam was interviewed, and he underlined the DSA positions: "These are folks who believe in the abolition of borders. They believe in prison abolition." Co-host Gayle King tried to wave that off: "Let’s concentrate on the election that just happened. How big is the movement? When you talk about the turnout?" Salam pointed out turnout was quite low. So did it really "resonate" beyond the Left? All of this underlines why conservatives hate the term "mainstream media." The elitist media’s definition of what is the "mainstream" keeps moving further and further to the left. If Mamdani keeps succeeding, it’s going to be considered a "far right" position that we should have borders and prisons. It underlines how the country needs a conservative media infrastructure, because this socialist radicalism needs to be exposed and confronted directly as a threat to anything identifiably American. foxnews.com/opinion/broadc…

You’ve hit on something important, albeit by a difficult route. Victimhood mentality limits what you try, hence what you can achieve. A mentality of gratitude unlocks another, very different framing. Life’s setbacks, obstacles, and challenges seem more manageable. I haven’t quite figured out why that is. Perhaps because you’re starting from a more stable mental foundation?

After I left the mental health industry, I stayed trapped by it in a different way. I let anger, grief, and resentment define my reality. I stopped identifying as a patient and started identifying as a victim. This mindset allowed the mental health industry to keep shaping who I was, long after I’d walked away from it. I took my power back when I stopped centering my life around what “The System” had “done to me.” The anger was still there, but I began using it to build something rather than letting it consume me.

@GadSaad The Soviets built walls to keep their people in. Quebec built a financial wall to keep theirs in. Clime the wall Dr. Saad.

Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me in terms of an "exit tax" to leave Quebec and Canada. No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I'm genuinely numb. I'm speechless.

Resentment lives rent free in the human mind, but gratitude must be nurtured and pursued. Focusing on gratitude reframes your perspective, flips negatives to positives. Getting married changes from a risk to an opportunity. Having children changes from a burden to a miracle. A hardship becomes personal growth. Our ancestors passed this knowledge down through the generations. Wisdom isn’t the providence of intellectuals, it is usually older, tested, handed down. Gratitude, try it. It might change your life.

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

@robbystarbuck @kylenabecker I’m guessing with canvassers and mail in ballots homeless could vote 3-4 times each. A lazy canvasser could just skip the homeless camp altogether.

The math here defies reasonable logic. I see no reasonable way the 3rd place candidate suddenly starts beating #1 and #2 4 days after the election. This is third world country stuff we’re watching.

@Sassafrass_84 Jim Skinner (Sheriff) and Chris Hill (County Judge) are both republicans, unlikely they’ll aid and abet rioters. Dallas on the other hand is an open playing field.

I hope Texas is ready. If Karmelo Anthony is found guilty (and I expect he will be), expect riots from the usual crowd that always loses their minds when the justice system actually works. Law and order shouldn’t come with a side of threats and chaos. Be prepared.

The Germans gifted Americans Marxism. Americans returned the favor with neo-Marxism using race/sex as the oppressor/oppressed lens. I would point out the race/sex framing was incidental, simply because the class based revolution wasn’t taking hold. If race/sex isn’t successful in tearing apart society, it will be something else, religion, family, doesn’t matter particularly.

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan. George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British. Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events. And we all know why. During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way. They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin. And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his. This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin. This needs to stop.

@wokal_distance The homestead exemption in my county is approaching the median home value. At first I was pleased. Then it dawned on me that it was a de facto graduated tax that I was on the wrong side of.

A property tax is not an income tax, it is a consumptions tax where the thing being consumed is the services provided to maintain the infrastructure for the homes (water, power, gas, roads, schools, etc). It is calculated via home values only because local governments have no access to anyone's income and cannot levy and income tax, so the price of the home serves as a clumsy and imperfect proxy for ones investment in the area and ability to pay.

@Rothmus The logical and foreseeable endpoint to Open Society.

“And the truth is, there’s something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?” A young man lay bleeding out on the ground. The police were too busy handcuffing him to help. Why? Because the person who just stabbed him claimed the kid had called him a racist slur. And that was enough. No evidence needed. The boy was gasping that he couldn’t breathe, that he’d been stabbed. They did nothing. Meanwhile, his attacker played the victim right there in front of them. They stood and watched him die. All because the word “racist” shuts down every brain in the room. One word, and the entire story was written. They believed it instantly because that’s how they’ve been conditioned. God forbid they question it. What would that make them? Racists??? Prime Minister Starmer wants to call this a “knife crime” issue. Anything to avoid the uncomfortable truth staring Britain in the face. A toxic culture of anti-whiteness has taken root. POC are treated as automatically innocent, while white Brits are presumed guilty. The authorities no longer see victims and aggressors. They see skin color, and their priority is clear: protect the narrative, not the people. Keir Starmer should resign. But that’s only the start. Release all the footage and communications. Let the public see exactly what happened and how the police responded. Then Britain needs a cultural reset. A return to judging people as individuals, not as racial pawns in a game where some lives matter more than others.

@RupertLowe10 @seanmdav I detect an antibody response to a viral infection

For those mainly Pakistani men who have inflicted the very worst pain imaginable on innocent British children, please know this. There will come a day when the power of the British state that concealed your atrocious crimes for so very long is turned against you. It will be swift. It will be brutal. It will be severe. Because if Restore Britain gets a sniff of power, there will be a reckoning. I promise you that. We will show you the same mercy you showed our girls. Your race or religion will not protect you any longer. A message will be sent that is heard right across the world. If you rape our children, you will pay for it - and you will pay for it with everything. That is what Restore Britain will do.

@robinmonotti Solar Inertial Motion isn’t a very good pitch for global socialism

Why do they not teach in schools and Universities that the Sun moves in relation to the Earth in its own irregular way, due to the combined gravitational pull of all the Planets, and that this changing distance to the Earth, and not CO2 is the cause of climate changes? It is called SOLAR INERTIAL MOTION and Newton wrote about this centuries ago!

The mandate was technically repealed via SCOTUS. In my personal experience attempting to buy insurance directly from the carrier, they wouldn’t issue a policy and accept payment until I registered on healthcare.gov. Also, the only policies available in my area were all HMOs whose coverage was limited to a three county area. This applied to national carriers like Aetna too.

The ACA (Obamacare) is now 16 years running. This monstrosity destroyed American health care delivery. It got rid of the good parts of the system, amplified the bad parts, and introduced calamitous new systems. Thank goodness the mandate portion was repealed. That's the only saving grace. The entire thing was a lie from the beginning, pushed through in a brief window of time along partisan lines. The whole system is now in meltdown and no one in DC is seriously taking on reforms to save medical insurance. Every single person involved in this disaster, esp Obama himself, deserves a rhetorical flogging forever.

The Soviet Union secretly benchmarked pricing from the west. It didn’t work of course because government supply couldn’t respond to artificial demand signals. Centralized control of production has a fatal flaw, it lacks signals from millions of independent producers and consumers. Centralized production does appear to work quite well in forced labor camps.

The government isn’t a free market… and has no idea what things should cost. This is why we can’t trust Pelosi or Pocahontas to regulate things like Medicare and Medicaid or anything for that matter Perfectly said by @SaraGonzalesTX

@shellenberger I read the latest IPCC executive summary and scanned through the full report. I don’t recall a single page that didn’t mention Environmental Justice which gives the game away. Environmentalism is a means to an end, and the end isn’t the environment.

Governments, banks, and corporations across the developed world have for nearly four decades treated the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the final word on the science of climate change. The Obama and Biden administrations regulated carbon dioxide as a pollutant on the strength of IPCC findings. The European Union built its emissions trading system around IPCC scenarios. The United Kingdom anchored its 2008 Climate Change Act in projections drawn from the panel’s reports. Central banks established a Network for Greening the Financial System that now requires more than 140 supervisors to stress-test banks against IPCC-derived futures. Asset managers wrote trillions of dollars in environmental, social, and governance funds on the assumption that the panel’s high-end scenario described the world’s likely path. Local governments along American and European coastlines planned seawalls and zoning rules around IPCC sea level numbers. Insurance companies repriced risk on the same models. That assumption has now collapsed. In April 2026, the scenario committee that supplies the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, known as ScenarioMIP, published a paper that concluded that “on the high-end of the range, the CMIP6 high emission levels (quantified by SSP5-8.5) have become implausible…” In other words, the worst-case future that has anchored climate science for fifteen years describes a world that cannot exist. Scenario “RCP 8.5,” and its successor SSP5-8.5, generated more than half of the references in the 2018 U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment. They accounted for nearly 60% of the references in the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere. Thirty new studies per day are published based on RCP 8.5. The IPCC’s defenders insist that the world dodged the apocalypse because of climate policy. A modeler told Carbon Brief that RCP 8.5 had “become implausible, based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends.” Berkeley Earth’s Zeke Hausfather argued that “it is incontrovertible that rapid cost declines, investment in, and deployment of clean energy technologies in the past 15 years have changed the plausible scenarios for fossil fuel use later in this century. These new scenarios reflect this success.” Robert Vautard, co-chair of the IPCC’s Working Group I for the upcoming Seventh Assessment Report, said that the previous high scenarios “started in 2015 and assumed no climate policies, but there ARE now many climate policies in many countries, developed in particular with the Paris Agreement,” and the retirement of RCP 8.5 “shows that climate mitigation policies do consistently reduce global warming.” Michael Mann of the University of Pennsylvania said on X, “The good news is emissions are now tracking below older ‘business-as-usual’ pathways because of climate policy in spite of Trump.” But that story is false. RCP 8.5 was never plausible, and the people who built it either knew or should have known. A 2017 paper by Justin Ritchie and Hadi Dowlatabadi in the journal Energy showed that the scenario assumed roughly an eightfold expansion of global coal consumption by 2100, far exceeding five times proven coal reserves, based on extrapolating early-2000s Chinese coal growth rates indefinitely into the future. Coal’s share of the global energy mix peaked around 2013 and has fallen since, the opposite of the RCP 8.5 trajectory. The scenario also assumed a dramatic expansion of coal-to-liquids technology to replace petroleum, a technology that the United States and other industrialized economies abandoned in the 1980s when the collapse in oil prices killed off the Carter-era Synthetic Fuels Corporation. None of those assumptions reflected what serious energy analysts were saying in 2011, when the scenario was finalized. The American shale gas revolution had already been underway for half a decade. Between 2005 and 2022, U.S. carbon emissions from electricity generation fell by roughly 35%, with more than 60% of that decline driven by switching from coal to natural gas. In 2021, Roger Pielke Jr. and his coauthors found that observed emissions had been running below the RCP and SSP baseline scenarios for two decades, primarily because of slower-than-projected carbon intensity growth, not climate policy. As Pielke put it recently, “RCP8.5 is not simply ‘highly unlikely,’ it is falsified, meaning that its emissions trajectory is already well out of step with reality. We knew that in 2020.” IPCC’s scenario builders thus broke their own definition of a scenario, which the IPCC’s 2000 Special Report on Emissions Scenarios defined as is “a coherent, internally consistent, and plausible description of a possible future state of the world,” and RCP 8.5 was none of those things.... x.com/shellenberger/… Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video! x.com/shellenberger/…

Climate policy prevented the IPCC’s high emissions scenario, say the media. It didn’t. The scenario was never possible as it predicted burning 5x more coal than is known to exist, even as natural gas was replacing it. The IPCC must be radically reformed or shut down.

@KenLaCorte Very few Latin Americans have title to their assets. With legal titles, assets become property. Property can be used as collateral for loans and/or third party investors, thus becoming capital.

Why is Latin America so poor? You can drive from one of America's wealthiest cities into a neighborhood of dirt roads and open sewers in about 20 minutes — separated by nothing but a border fence. It's not because of geography or genetics. Here's what I learned ... Video Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:37 - Legacy of Colonization 8:10 - Independence Without Order 13:42 - The Rule of Law

@RealJamesWoods People with well ordered hierarchy of aims (faith=>family=>country) make better life decisions.

@profstonge I suspect a state led constitutional convention would be hijacked by the same forces. It’s probably needed, but I remain skeptical.

Major study finds voters have statistically zero influence on Congress. In case you’re curious why the 80% issues don’t pass, from crime to open borders to secure elections.

@DanielTurnerPTF @atensnut In Texas we have a road tax fee imbedded in our annual license tag for EVs

Electric vehicles use the same roads, cause more wear on roads and bridges due to their heavier weight, yet don’t pay the gas tax that repairs them. We were told EVs would solve problems. Instead, taxpayers are being handed a brand new one.

@brivael I’ve read entire books to gain the understanding in this concise and clear post. The people I know that have gone down this postmodern path have become mentally/emotionally unstable. They’ve torn down the mental scaffolding that creates stability.

Aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction. La déconstruction est le virus mental le plus efficace jamais conçu contre une civilisation. Il a été fabriqué en France entre 1966 et 1980 par trois hommes : Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Il a été exporté aux États-Unis, hybridé avec le puritanisme racial américain, et il est revenu trente ans plus tard sous le nom de wokisme paralyser l'Occident entier. Voici comment il fonctionne, et pourquoi il faut le détruire. La thèse est simple. Toute vérité n'est qu'un rapport de pouvoir déguisé. Tout texte sacré, toute loi, toute science, toute norme, toute hiérarchie, toute identité, toute institution cache en réalité une domination. Déconstruire, c'est montrer le rapport de force sous le vernis du vrai. C'est arracher le masque. C'est "démasquer". Formulé comme ça, ça paraît inoffensif. Voire utile. Qui n'aime pas un peu d'esprit critique ? Le piège est là. La déconstruction se présente comme une méthode. Elle est en réalité une ontologie. Elle ne dit pas seulement "interrogeons les normes", elle dit "il n'y a *que* des rapports de pouvoir". La différence est civilisationnelle. Une société qui interroge ses normes reste debout. Une société qui croit que ses normes ne sont *rien d'autre* que de la domination s'effondre. Parce qu'elle ne peut plus rien défendre. Plus une frontière, plus une loi, plus une science, plus une langue, plus une histoire, plus une biologie, plus une famille. Tout devient suspect. Tout devient négociable. Tout devient "construit donc déconstructible". C'est la première raison pour laquelle c'est un virus. Il s'auto-réplique. Une fois inoculé, il transforme tout ce qu'il touche en cible. La science est patriarcale, donc déconstruisons-la. Le langage est colonial, donc réinventons-le. La méritocratie est raciste, donc abolissons-la. Le sexe est une construction, donc choisissons-le. Il n'y a plus de roc. Tout est sable. Deuxième raison. Le virus est *non-falsifiable*. Si vous défendez une norme, c'est que vous êtes l'oppresseur. Si vous niez être oppresseur, c'est la preuve de votre privilège inconscient. Si vous citez des faits, vos faits sont contaminés par le pouvoir qui les a produits. Si vous citez la raison, la raison elle-même est blanche, masculine, occidentale. Il n'y a aucune sortie possible. Le système est conçu pour rendre toute objection irrecevable par définition. C'est exactement la structure d'une secte. Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est installé dans les universités, les RH, les médias, les administrations, les conseils d'administration depuis vingt ans. Troisième raison. Le virus s'auto-réfute mais ne s'auto-détruit pas. Si toute vérité est pouvoir, alors la phrase "toute vérité est pouvoir" est elle-même du pouvoir, donc sans valeur. Logiquement, la déconstruction se mord la queue dès la première phrase. Mais elle s'en moque. Parce qu'elle n'a jamais cherché la cohérence. Elle cherche l'efficacité politique. Et son efficacité politique est immense. Elle désarme ses ennemis et arme ses militants. Elle paralyse le défenseur et libère l'attaquant. C'est une arme asymétrique parfaite. Quatrième raison. Le virus produit des humains diminués. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Elle sait soupçonner, jamais admirer. Elle voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Elle peut produire mille pages sur le caractère opprimant de Shakespeare et zéro ligne qui vaille la peine d'être lue dans cent ans. Elle a confondu l'intelligence critique avec la pose critique. Elle est stérile par construction. Un esprit nourri à la déconstruction est un esprit qui ne sait plus rien édifier. Cinquième raison, la plus grave. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers. La croyance qu'une vérité est accessible à la raison. La croyance qu'un bien se distingue d'un mal. La croyance qu'un héritage mérite d'être transmis. La déconstruction a méthodiquement dynamité les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui avait nourri ses prophètes. Mais le résultat est là. Une civilisation qui ne croit plus en sa vérité, ni en son bien, ni en son héritage ne se défend pas. Elle s'excuse en attendant la fin. Voilà ce qu'on a fait. Voilà ce qu'il faut nommer. La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'un virus mental ne survit que tant qu'on lui cède l'autorité du discours. Il meurt dès qu'on cesse de jouer son jeu. Dès qu'on réaffirme tranquillement qu'il existe une vérité, un beau, un bien, un héritage. Dès qu'on cesse de demander la permission aux déconstructeurs pour bâtir. Dès qu'on refait. Dès qu'on transmet. Dès qu'on crée. Les bâtisseurs ont toujours le dernier mot sur les commentateurs. Toujours. Parce qu'à la fin il reste ce qui est construit, et rien de ce qui a été déconstruit. Alors aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction. Et demain je construis.

When you vote for tribe over competence, the grifters and sociopaths will spot that signal and deploy towards the opportunity.