Richard Fields

ChatGBT, the most liberal engine is asking Trump to have the Feds take a 5% ownership stake. NPR for AI? Are ChatGPT and other AI chatbots politically biased? We tested them. wapo.st/4ppWob4

The Uniparty™️

Are Dems admitting that they can’t win without noncitizen votes?

Mamdami giving himself an +18% raise is exactly what I’d expect from a socialist.

Breaking: Hakeem Jeffries will oppose the Massie-Khanna Amendment to cut aid to Israel. Democrats continue to learn nothing from Harris’ 2024 loss. The American people are done funding the genocidal state of Israel. Funding Israel is not only immoral but also a losing position.

All that exorbitant CEO pay increase you condemn is largely a result of inflation of assets. Assets inflate because of Fed money creation. The Fed creates money to pay for the numerous government transfer payments that you champion. You're the cause of the problem.

U.S., Iran Meet For Emergency Summit To See If Anyone Remembers Why They're Fighting babylonbee.com/news/us-iran-m… via @TheBabylonBee

Seattle politicians wanted "dignity" for delivery drivers. But their dumb rules led to 1.7 million FEWER orders. "You're not going to have improved wellbeing for people or increased wages for those workers," says @judgeglock of @ManhattanInst.

Le vrai problème de notre monde

Communists need children to vote because you have to be mentally under-developed to buy the bullshit socialists try to sell you. They’re like the student body president promising no homework and free soda in the drinking fountains.

Jay Bhattacharya: "The Covid response was a symptom essentially of, we have replaced the culture of questioning in science and medicine with a culture of authority."

Labor unions are the most corrupt organizations in the United States. Their leaders consistently spend money on radical left-wing politics, even though their members don’t support those issues. The leaders are also living extravagant lifestyles with the money from their members.

GM!

Rome fed 200,000 families free grain by 46 BC, and it called this generosity. Julius Caesar inherited a dole of 320,000 recipients and trimmed it, not out of principle but because the treasury was bleeding. This was the annona, the grain distribution that started as emergency relief under the Gracchi in 123 BC and hardened into a permanent entitlement. Once free grain became a right, no politician could touch it and keep his head. You already know how this works, because you watch the same play run today. A subsidy arrives as mercy. It stays as an expectation. Then it becomes the thing men vote for instead of working for. The Roman citizen once farmed his own land, served in his own legion, and expected nothing from the state but courts and roads. By the time Trajan was staging 123 days of games in AD 107, slaughtering 11,000 animals and pairing 10,000 gladiators for the crowd, that citizen had become a spectator. He no longer fought Rome's wars: hired auxiliaries and Germanic mercenaries did. He no longer fed himself: Egypt and North Africa did, shipped in on the public account. He no longer chose his rulers in any meaningful sense: he cheered them in the Colosseum and collected his ration. The free grain and the free games purchased compliance, not compassion. A man dependent on the state for his dinner and his entertainment does not organize resistance to that state, and every emperor from Augustus onward understood the arithmetic. Panem et circenses was a bribe paid in exchange for civic surrender, and the mob accepted the terms gladly. Here is the mechanism the welfare enthusiast never grasps. Virtue is not a feeling. It is a practice, and practices atrophy when the incentive to perform them disappears. Take away a man's need to provide, defend, and decide, and you domesticate him rather than liberate him. Rome spent four centuries proving it, then handed the ruins to Odoacer in AD 476 without much of a fight, because the men who might have fought had long since learned to wait for the grain ship instead.

13th Amendment abolished slavery - 100% Rep / 23% Dem support 14th Amendment gave citizenship to slaves - 94% Rep / 0% Dem support 15th Amendment gave ALL the right to vote - 100% Rep / 0% Dem support Don't let Democrats lie about who they are and who they've always been

The rise and fall of wokeness: DEI commitments in corporate securities disclosures filed with the SEC. To me this seems a trailing indicator; most other measures of wokeness take off well before 2019 and peak in 2020 or 2021. But the shape! That's what a moral fashion looks like.

Do not listen to anybody—including scientists—who use terms such as “climate crisis” or “climate emergency to describe the current state of environmental affairs. Wanna guess just how many times those terms appear in the IPCC report? 𝗔 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝘁 𝗭𝗘𝗥𝗢. 👌

More energy = more prosperity

Political myths that refuse to die: The rich don’t pay taxes Public school funding is decreasing Military spending exceeds entitlement spending

“El socialismo puede comenzar con la mejor de las intenciones, pero siempre termina con la Gestapo” Winston Churchill