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@Bklyn161 @atensnut Hey - no voter id. Just show up and vote wherever you want! the voter rolls are posted outside the polling station so you can say whoever you want to be.

@atensnut San Diego let’s drive up to LA and vote for Pratt

Another banger from Spencer Pratt.🔥 🔥 Save L A. Vote Pratt.

@D_Tarczynski Meanwhile - mainstream media is totally silent. Can't find one sentence in the WSJ today on this.

Unite The Kingdom!

@WallStreetApes And of course the main stream media is completely silent. Above is from Fox, but where are the WSJ articles or any other media outlet?

Dr Oz tells JD Vance that out of 800 fraudulent healthcare providers they’ve taken off of the Medicare system ONLY 20 have called to complain 🚨 This means 780 were guaranteed fraudulent. That means 97.5% of companies were fraud He says BILLIONS were given to these companies “Those are businesses that we were giving hundreds of millions, in some cases billions of dollars to. Not to provide services, but to make a fraudster rich. It's just completely insane” American taxpayers can’t even comprehend the amount of money being stolen from them I think we need to arrest every politician, right down to the city leaders who oversaw any of these payments. Nothing will ever change until they are arrested and we have accountability The second Democrats regain power this all starts right back up

@WallStreetApes This is deliberate destruction of the california economy and impoverishment of hard working Americans. Handing out "free" stuff to illegals is theft from taxpayers and fuels inflation. Trump stopped funding illegals, but CA keeps going! @SteveHiltonx @MHurabiell

PROOF Democrats have lied about illegals getting every benefit America offers, including free housing California resident “I used to work for the county in social services” for the state She’s exposing it all, she says they qualify illegals for all benefits without any social security numbers “I used to work in the social services department, so any public benefits, we're talking Medicaid, food stamps, cash aid, disability, unemployment, veteran service, housing I did all the things” “Here's the loophole. If somebody without a Social Security number, so somebody who's undocumented, applies for benefits, And they do qualify for benefits, by the way. They qualify for - Full Medicaid - Housing - Migrant Head Start. That's fully paid childcare - If these people have any kids that are US citizens, meaning that they're born here, then they apply for benefits for their kids - $1,200 per kid plus $275 per person cash food stamps. That doesn't include housing, all the other benefits they get. And here in California, they don't even care. They don't even hide it. I used to have women and some men that would come in straight up with their nails did, their hair done blonde, bleach blonde, Gucci bags, Gucci glasses, driving up on Escalades, chewing gum super loud, saying, "Where's my welfare check?" I used to live in a neighborhood where 70% of the people around me were undocumented, and man, did they live the life. New cars, parties every weekend” “Meanwhile, US citizens, we don't qualify for sickity shit. We don't qualify for nada, nothing. It was so common where the women or the moms in my community that were undocumented, they wouldn't work. They would have their own community of stay-at-home moms while US citizen moms would have to go out and work because we can't afford to live” “We need to do better. The state of California needs to do better. We all need to get on the same page here” Here’s more information not mentioned: - California expanded full-scope Medi-Cal to undocumented adults regardless of status, covering doctor visits, hospital care, dental, and more. As of 2025, over l.7 MILLION undocumented illegals were enrolled - Undocumented parents qualify for benefits on behalf of their US citizen anchor babies. This includes CalFresh (food stamps), cash aid, and up to $1,200+ per child plus extras - California runs Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants. This is a 100% state-funded program giving monthly cash to aged or disabled non-citizens ineligible for federal SSI due to immigration status You are literally paying for illegals to retire in America and get checks forever You should be furious

Wake up people! California is being destroyed deliberately. Trump cut off federal $$$ for illegals, but California keeps the funds flowing. Every $$$ paid to illegals is an insult and theft from hard working Americans. Vote the D's OUT of office! @SteveHiltonx

@multiplanet1 Many years ago I visited the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. The most inspiring exhibit was a complete WALL of rejection letters from Record Labels for the band "U2." They believed in themselves and kept going and the rest is history.

I stopped talking to my girlfriend for 2 weeks because I was busy studying Elon Musk. I was shocked when I found this. Elon Musk was turned away from a job at Netscape in 1995. He drove to their office. Walked into the lobby. Stood there waiting to talk to anyone who would hire him. Nobody came. He stood in the lobby of Netscape for an entire day and not a single person acknowledged him. He was 24 years old. Broke. Sleeping on a futon. Showering at the YMCA. He had just arrived in Silicon Valley with nothing except a physics degree and an internet connection. The rejection wasn't polite. It wasn't a "we'll call you." It was the complete absence of acknowledgment. He literally did not matter enough for anyone to walk over and say no to his face. He left. He went back to his apartment. And he decided that if nobody would hire him, he'd build something himself. Three years later he sold his first company for $307 million. Eight years after standing in that lobby, he was worth $180 million from PayPal. Thirteen years after being invisible in that lobby, he was launching rockets into orbit. Twenty-eight years after nobody would look at him, he became the richest human being who has ever lived. The lobby is still there. Netscape isn't. This is what people get wrong about success stories. They study the victories and skip the lobby. They see the $2 trillion SpaceX valuation and assume there was a straight line from ambition to outcome. There wasn't. There was a 24 year old standing alone in a lobby being treated like he didn't exist. Every successful person I've ever studied has a lobby story. A moment where the world told them, through action or inaction, that they were nobody. That they didn't matter. That they should go home. The difference between the ones who became somebody and the ones who stayed nobody is what they did after the lobby. Most people leave the lobby and lower their ambition. They internalize the rejection as information about themselves. "I guess I'm not good enough for Netscape." The lobby becomes their ceiling. Musk left the lobby and raised his ambition. He interpreted the rejection as information about Netscape, not about himself. "If they can't see what I have, they don't deserve what I'll build." The lobby became his fuel. The same rejection. Two completely different interpretations. Two completely different lives. I think about this whenever I face rejection in my own life. A deal that falls through. A post that gets no engagement. A person who doesn't see the vision. The question isn't whether you'll stand in a lobby. Everyone stands in a lobby. The question is whether the lobby becomes your ceiling or your fuel. Netscape hired someone else that day. Whoever they hired has been forgotten by history. The kid they ignored became Elon Musk. Your lobby is not your destiny. It's your origin story. But only if you leave it and build.

This insane and dishonest CA spending bill was drafted by Scott Weiner. Please prevent Weiner from taking this madness to the national level - vote for @MHurabiell , voice of sanity, for CA Congressional District 11!

@MHurabiell is evidence that there really are sane people in SF. Unfortunately the radical left here shuts down all who are not in line with their agenda. The silent majority in SF needs to stand up and elect @MHurabiell for Congress! @DanielLurie and @BrookeJenkinsSF

@ThatAussieWoman @KDansky @MHurabiell @MHurabiell is evidence that there really are sane people in SF. Unfortunately the radical left here shuts down all who are not in line with their agenda. The silent majority in SF needs to stand up and elect @MHurabiell for Congress! @DanielLurie and @BrookeJenkinsSF

I've just listened to this very heartening Substack where @KDansky interviews the 'scrappy' @MHurabiell who is running for the US Congress in San Francisco (I'm not across US political systems - so don't ask me any more about that 😬). It's heartening for a number of reasons: - 1. Marie is a Democrat who hasn't sold out women and children to run a 'trans first' ticket. For all the women out there (and there are a lot of you) who have turned away from the Left in recent years, Marie is its ticket back into practical consciousness. 2. Marie is grassroots. She had worked with and for, and listened to people in San Francisco. Not Left people in San Francisco. Not white, or brown, or poor, or wealthy, or employed, or unemployed. All of them. They all have her ear. 3. She is vocal and unequivocal about her story for women's rights and child safeguarding. There are no mealy-mouthed nonsense like 'Yes, of course I support women, but my support doesn't come at the cost of trans people who are the most marginalised people who have ever walked the planet Earth'. 4. She distrusts Scott Weiner and sets out exactly why in a very clear and enlightening way from her own personal experience of him. Listen to this interview. You may find yourself feeling a bit of hope for the Left in America. It will be damning of Nancy Pelosi doesn't endorse her. For government to be effective and truly in the interests of the people it serves it needs to be made up of a practical and genuine cross section of the Right and Left. Good luck from Australia Marie! Thanks, Kara, for removing the paywall from your excellent podcast.

@MHurabiell Exactly. The refineries left because they were crushed by regulation overload.

@pfisher415 It also doesn't help that CA gov has driven out most of our refineries.

As Democrats, our priorities should be directly linked to the concerns of everyday Americans and today that means fighting for Affordability.

@TonySeruga love the quick - "we're going to a break" when the conversation did not go in the approved direction.

🚨 CNN BOMBSHELL: “It’s RACIST to Elect a Black Republican Woman” — Democrats on Live TV Just Torched Their Own “Anti-Racism” Lie 🔥 In a jaw-dropping exchange that will echo through history books, CNN’s Lydia Moynihan noted the delicious irony: after Tennessee Republicans redrew maps in compliance with the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act rulings—ending the racial gerrymander that preserved a majority-Black district long held by a white Democrat— a qualified Black Republican woman is now favored to win the 9th Congressional District. Moynihan asked, point-blank: “But that’s racist?” Democrat strategist Tezlyn Figaro didn’t hesitate: “It actually is.” There it is. Not subtle. Not coded. The mask is gone. To the modern Democratic Party and its media allies, “racism” is no longer about skin color, character, or content of one’s character (as MLK demanded). It is about defection. A Black American exercising free will, rejecting the soft bigotry of low expectations that Joe Biden once blurted out loud—“if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t Black”—and daring to embrace conservative principles of merit, family, faith, and self-reliance? That is the unforgivable sin. This is not progressivism. It is plantation politics with better branding: Black voters as eternal wards of the state, Democratic loyalty as the price of racial authenticity. Frederick Douglass would recognize it instantly—the same paternalistic tyranny that once chained bodies now chains minds and ballots. Tennessee’s map didn’t suppress Black voices. It liberated the possibility that Black excellence need not wear a D next to its name. The outrage isn’t about representation; it’s about control. When the same party that invented Jim Crow now screams “Jim Crow 2.0” at any map that threatens their monopoly, the grift stands exposed. Black Americans are not a monolith. They never were. And the rising tide of independent Black voters choosing Republican candidates on merit—not melanin—terrifies the identity-industrial complex more than any redistricting ever could. The Left didn’t just move the goalposts. They declared the game itself racist if they lose. History will record this moment not as “anti-racism,” but as the day the Democratic Party admitted the quiet part out loud: your skin is welcome… only if your vote stays on the plantation. America is done with the con. Color-blind merit is not racism. It is justice. And it is coming for every district, every mind, every ballot. The Black Republican is not the problem. The Democrat definition of “racism” is. #RacistToElectBlackRepublicans #DemocratsHateBlackExcellence #EndTheRacialPlantation #CNNJustAdmittedIt #BlackVoteIsNotOwned #MeritOverMelanin #WokeRacismExposed #TennesseeTruthBomb

@PiercemcpMarion @ValerieAnne1970 because the media is funded by big pharma

@ValerieAnne1970 why isn’t this on the front page of every newspaper in America?

This should stop every parent in their tracks. In 1994 Japan ended all mandatory vaccines for babies under two years old. The outcome? Japan now has one of the lowest infant mortality rates on the planet. America? Highest infant mortality of all industrialized nations.

@1crichlee @Milajoy @1crichlee - no voter id in California, so anyone can vote here!

@Milajoy I almost want to move to California and be able to vote for him! I love his commercials!

Spencer Pratt has released another banger.

@MichaelRei77295 @justimportant2 @libsoftiktok See the cover of the "New Republic" Magazine in June 2024. Explicitly compares Trump to Hitler. x.com/newrepublic/st…

@justimportant2 @libsoftiktok Show me literally one time the media has called Trump Hitler, and randos on twitter who you disagree with don't count btw

Vivek won EVERY SINGLE county in Ohio. His primary challenger didn’t win a single county

@MichaelARothman As others have noted, what is described in the article is not "empathy" it is peformance theater. True empathy is an honest attempt to understand. Performance theater is all about

𝐖𝐇𝐘 '𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐘' 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐘𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐘. A new working paper out of UCLA by political psychologist Samuel Pratt has just measured something American conservatives have been claiming for ten years and pretending was anecdotal. It is not anecdotal. It is now data. Pratt and his team built what they call the 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 — a survey instrument asking respondents how strongly they agree with statements like "𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥." Three findings. 𝐎𝐧𝐞: the belief is stable over time. People who say it this week say it next week. 𝐓𝐰𝐨: the demographic profile of high-scorers is precise. They are 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠, 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥. They self-rate as higher in intellectual humility, empathy, moral grandstanding, and — the key variable — 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞: they report lower emotional stability, higher anxiety, higher depression, and a stronger tendency to see themselves as 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐬 in everyday conflicts. In one sentence, the psychometric profile of the modern American "empathy advocate" is: 𝐚𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦-𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 Watch California Congresswoman Katie Porter at last week's gubernatorial debate, in real time, demonstrating how the empathy mechanism produces atrocious policy. "𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 [...] 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨." Empathetic. Reassuring. Compassionate. Also flatly false. Per CBS News' 2020 Los Angeles survey, only 𝟏𝟗% of homeless individuals had done any work in the calendar quarter they became homeless. A 2017 San Francisco survey found 𝟏𝟑% working part-time or full-time. The reason is no mystery — a substantial majority of street-homeless Americans are managing untreated severe mental illness, active substance abuse, or both. The "empathetic" policy that emerges from Porter's framing is to leave them on the street. The actually humane policy involves involuntary commitment, mandated treatment, and structured housing — every one of which the empathy-coded liberal reflexively rejects as cruel. Pratt's data and the on-the-ground reality converge on the same uncomfortable conclusion: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, because empathy at scale stops asking 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 and starts asking 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 How does a fringe view — communist Twitch streamers, candidates openly excusing full-scale m∗rder, congressmen calling themselves democratic socialists — capture an entire major American political party? Nassim Taleb has the cleanest explanation. He calls it 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. A family of four. One daughter — 𝟐𝟓% of the household — only eats organic. Mom faces a nightly choice: cook two meals or cook one all-organic meal. The all-organic meal is easier. The household renormalizes to the daughter's preference. The family then attends a barbecue with three other families. The host has the same choice: two menus, or one all-organic. The all-organic menu is easier. 𝟐𝟓% renormalizes 𝟏𝟎𝟎% of dinner. Now imagine the daughter's "preference" is not organic food. It is the belief that bank robbery is righteous, that Israel is a colonial regime which must be dismantled, that your health insurance executive should be eliminated by force, and that anyone who objects is a fascist. The mechanism is identical. The intransigent minority creates an asymmetric cost on resistance. The majority renormalizes for convenience. French physicist 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐦 has modeled the threshold formally. In his work on opinion dynamics, an extreme view captures a population at roughly 𝟐𝟎% activated support — provided the activists do three things consistently. They activate latent prejudices already present in the population. They impose a binary choice: "𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮." And they refuse, ever, to compromise on their core position. Pseudo-moderates then join — not because they have been persuaded by the full activist position, but because the binary has been imposed and the alternative ("siding with the oppressor") has been made socially intolerable. 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 This is the most important paragraph in this post. Read it twice. Hasan Piker — the Twitch streamer who endorses bank robberies, defends H-m-s, and lives in a $3 million Brentwood mansion — is 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚. He represents maybe 5-7% of the country. He does not move the needle by himself. The threat is the 𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐝𝐨-𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 — the 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 reporter who profiles him sympathetically, the Democratic congressman who appears on his stream, the Hollywood actor who shares his clips, the Brooklyn schoolteacher who attends his rallies, the empathetic college freshman who decides he is "𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵." That coalition — Galam's 𝟐𝟎% — is what flips the country. Hasan is just the visible 5%. This is also why Pratt's UCLA paper matters. The trait that creates the pseudo-moderate flank is the same trait the activists exploit: 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲, 𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬. That is the recruitable population. That is the lever Hasan and his industry operate. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 Empathy is not a virtue. It is a 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲. Like physical sensitivity to heat, it can produce wisdom or it can produce hysteria, depending entirely on what is paired with it. What converts empathy into wisdom is 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 — the willingness to evaluate consequences, to insist on results, to ask whether the policy that "feels compassionate" actually produces outcomes you would call humane in a year, a decade, or a lifetime. What converts empathy into tyranny is the 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 of judgment — pure feeling, with no constraint, in service of a binary moral choice imposed by an activated 20%. That is the Democratic Party of 2026. The Pratt scale measures it. The Galam threshold predicts it. Katie Porter demonstrates it. Hasan Piker exploits it. 𝐅𝐢𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰.

@brownstoneinst Now trace this all the way to the masterminds who deliberately pushed the toxic jab and silenced all debate. Follow the money and power. Dr Morens is just one cog in the machine.

Brownstone's article of the week Dr. David Morens is the first lamb sacrificed in what is likely to be a long series of prosecutions. ~Brownstone Institute The First Covid Indictment, Finally brownstone.org/articles/the-f…

@quibbler @r0ck3t23 Cash for clunkers was one of the most deliberately subversive programs ever. Destroyed affordable used vehicles, driving up costs for lower/middle class. Subsidized auto-manufacturers. Removed mechanical cars that cannot be controlled by the government etc.

@r0ck3t23 This is why "Cash For Clunkers" was such an abomination; NObody understood that innate value was being destroyed to create a paper manufacturing boost. Absolute economic suicide.

Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy. Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it. They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one. They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing. But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP. Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.” That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government. Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion. The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it. Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms. Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds. The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built. This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire. AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read. It just solves the problem. And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive. The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut. AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim. So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy. What they will never say is what it actually threatens. The illusion that activity equals progress. The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job. The machines are not coming for your purpose. They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

@elonmusk And remember - @barackobama praised Virginia for supporting this measure to "stand up for our democracy." x.com/BarackObama/st…

Terrible

@BarackObama Read the text of this proposition and try to say with a straight face that this is "saving democracy." x.com/FischerKing64/…

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.