Daniel T.

I've figured out Trump's plan to steal a 3rd Term On the new Countdown Podcast dropping at midnight: one Trump post gives it away 1. "Declare" the 2020 Election void 2. Hold a "new" 2020 Election 3. It "must" be him vs Biden Crazy? Crazier than indicting a guy over seashells?

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

@RazorFist Thank you.

I was asked to make a video on my Christian faith. So I finally did. Let me know if you'd like more in the future.

@ga_kemp @annsmit23978141 @JulieBorowski x.com/i/status/20491…

@theaachor @annsmit23978141 @JulieBorowski Within the constraints of available accommodations. There is no justification for spending $400M while we’re at war, bailing out farmers/airlines/Argentina/UAE, eliminating med research… with a natl debt approaching $40t

I think the strong opposition to a White House ballroom is mostly about not liking Trump. I’m honestly surprised the White House doesn’t already have a proper space for large events—hosting them on the lawn in temporary tents is tacky.

@MrColton @JulieBorowski Presidents have hosted banquets and balls since Washington. In the past, though, they've either been at different venues or in tents with portable toilets at the White House.

@theaachor @JulieBorowski Presidents didn’t need it before and they don’t need it now. it’s a trump vanity project pure and simple

@ga_kemp @annsmit23978141 @JulieBorowski US Presidents since Washington have hosted large banquets and balls.

@annsmit23978141 @theaachor @JulieBorowski Our country was not founded for politicians to host expensive parties. And that is not diplomacy. Glitz does not replace bullying rhetoric & tantrums. We’re almost $40t in debt, in a war, losing trade & jobs, taking D list rock stars on Apache helicopter rides & u want a ballroom

@accrual_joke @LibertyLockPod x.com/SenRandPaul/st…

@theaachor @LibertyLockPod "privately funded" You're gonna love this:

Hate to say it but this full court influencer press to build the ballroom has me convinced that it is some vital necessity to the intelligence community. Whatever the real reason is it is not what we're being told.

@georgetang2015 @LibertyLockPod x.com/SenRandPaul/st…

@theaachor @LibertyLockPod WRT private funding, isn't a bill dropping tomorrow to authorise public funding?

@GingerGailMD @jdlyonsKY @SenRandPaul x.com/SenRandPaul/st…

@theaachor @jdlyonsKY @SenRandPaul Private funds? The bill includes $400 million taxpayer funds toward this ballroom. the-independent.com/news/world/ame…

I'm dropping a bill tomorrow. Let's build the Ballroom.

@jdlyonsKY @SenRandPaul What's wrong with the president using private funds to boost the value of public property? bbc.com/news/articles/…

@SenRandPaul Read the room Rand. You're supposed to be the one to be counted on to not go along with this crap.

@SenRandPaul When the president has already raised the money, it's a no-brainer. This ballroom should be a model for other public works projects. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@MattWalshBlog Yeah, but she's not even top 10 stupid. Hank Johnson still represents Georgia in the House.

This should lead to immediate removal from congress. You cannot be this stupid and be permitted to hold elected office.

'This Is A Both Sides Issue,' Says Side That Shot President Trump, Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Shoot Trump Again, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro, Tried To Shoot Trump A Third Time, (cont'd) buff.ly/XUsOvZl

No British government ever imagined an American president might finally tell the truth about the “special relationship.” Until now. Spare me the pearl-clutching obituary from The Economist, that decaying salon of transatlantic nostalgia where the ghost of Churchill is still being pimped out like a rent-boy for Davos subscriptions. Your precious bunting of flags in the bin isn’t some tragic metaphor for Trump’s “betrayal.” It’s the autopsy photo of a one-way parasitic bargain that America has carried on its back like a drunk uncle for eighty goddamn years. And the drunk finally woke up, looked around, and said: Fuck this. This isn’t “turning his back.” This is a sovereign nation refusing to keep subsidizing a continent of strategic eunuchs who have spent decades castrating their own militaries, hollowing out their industrial bases, and importing the very pathologies that make them security liabilities rather than allies. You want the special relationship? Earn it. Reciprocate it. Stop treating the United States like an ATM with nuclear weapons. Geopolitically and militarily, the numbers don’t lie and they never have. The United States still shoulders roughly sixty percent of total NATO defense spending...$845 billion out of a collective $1.4 trillion last year. Most of your European “partners” couldn’t hit the 2% GDP target even after Russia parked tanks on Ukraine’s border and started lobbing missiles at civilian infrastructure. Britain under Starmer talks a big game about “global Britain” while quietly slashing capability, courting CCP-linked cash, and letting its own streets burn under the weight of demographic transformation and speech codes that make the old East German Stasi look libertarian. You lecture us about values while your own government criminalizes tweets and turns Rotherham into a cautionary tale the media still refuses to fully autopsy. Historically, the ledger is even more damning. We bled for you in 1917 and 1941 when your empires were on the ropes. We bankrolled your reconstruction, anchored your defense for the entire Cold War, and let you punch above your weight on the world stage because sentimental Anglosphere nostalgia still meant something. In return? Suez 1956, where you expected us to back imperial nostalgia while we were trying to contain Soviet expansion. Vietnam, where you sat it out. Iraq, where you half-assed it and then spent the next twenty years sneering at us in your broadsheets. And every single time an American president dared put America First, your commentariat wailed like Victorian widows about the death of the alliance...as if the alliance was ever meant to be a suicide pact. You’ve internalized a victimhood narrative so profound it borders on the clinical...projecting your own national decline, your own loss of agency, your own self-inflicted castration onto the one country that still possesses the will to act like a great power. Trump doesn’t “deprioritize” the relationship; he simply refuses to indulge the delusion any longer. He sees what you refuse to admit: the United Kingdom of 2026 is no longer the reliable offshore balancer of 1945. It’s a mid-tier European power wrestling with internal entropy, elite disconnect, and a demographic trajectory that makes long-term strategic partnership… let’s just say, complicated. We are sick of it. Sick of the free ride. Sick of the lectures from people whose capitals are turning into no-go zones while their defense ministers beg Washington for more F-35s and more carrier groups to patrol waters they can no longer secure themselves. Sick of the pomp, the pageantry, the royal visits, and the hand-wringing editorials that treat American self-interest as some kind of moral failing. The special relationship isn’t dead. It’s being stress-tested by reality. And reality, Mr. Economist, is a vicious bitch with a ledger in one hand and a mirror in the other. Look into it. 💀⚖️🗡️

@SenSanders tl;dr @grok would you summarize post in the screenshot?

The existential risk of artificial intelligence.

@BetsyDavisTX @ktrhnews @UnderhillVicky I feel like a less terrible person because someone else said it first. Thank you. 🏆

@ktrhnews @UnderhillVicky So it was Lina?

BREAKING: A SWAT team is currently moving floor by floor through the Harris County courthouse. Details are unclear at this time, but reports indicate this is the result of a mental health episode.

Agreed. I'm 40 years old, married, and have no children. However, it's always a joy to me, in a wistful way, to see my friends or my sisters who are married and have kids in their roles as parents. I had a call with a friend who is homeschooling a week ago. While on the call, he was also helping his son work out some math problems, and, in part because I don't have a son of my own, it warmed my heart. The parental instinct is there. Perhaps not as strongly as some women get it, but it is certainly there nonetheless.

Don't men adopt children more than women do? People can get too extreme on the conservative side sometimes. The notion that men are just unga bunga creatures incapable of feelings is retarded