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The Rational Animal 🤔

@theobjectivist

Champion of Reason, Individual Rights and Capitalism.

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Same move. Same hand on the heart, same wave to the crowd. Musk did it and gets called a Nazi to this day. Mamdani does it and those same people have not said a word. Well, not exactly. Once the side by side clips went viral, some of them did speak up. Not to apologize to Musk. To defend Mamdani. Suddenly the gesture is not the gesture. Suddenly we need to talk about arm speed. Whether the fingers wiggled at the end. Whether he was smiling. Whether his grandparents were in the right party. A year ago none of that mattered. The hand went up, the verdict came down. Now we get a forensic seminar on millimeters and microseconds to prove Mamdani's arm moved slower. Mamdani's own press office said "in no way was this a Nazi salute." Funny. Musk said the same thing. His did not count. Mamdani's did, instantly. That tells you everything. The "Nazi salute" thing was never about the gesture. If it were, they would be screaming right now. They are not. It was about Musk. They hate him because he is the richest man in the world and he was attacking their ideological piggy bank with DOGE, so they smeared him. Mamdani is on their team, so he gets a pass, plus a defense team running stopwatch analysis. Same hand, opposite verdict. A wave is a wave. The rule does not change based on who is waving. When it does, you are not watching principle. You are watching a hit job.
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid

Remember how they lost their sh*t when @elonmusk did this?

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The dishonesty is breathtaking. These people are morally reprehensible! AOC calls it "a triumphant accomplishment." He did not accomplish anything. He inherited a $12 billion deficit, failed to raise a single tax he campaigned on, had his property tax rejected by his own voters and his own council, and then looted Albany for $8 billion in state money looted from taxpayers who do not live in his city and never voted for him. He deferred $2 billion in pension payments to future taxpayers. He cut $1.2 billion from the housing and education programs he promised to expand. Ratings agencies downgraded the city to "negative." He did not close the deficit. He transferred it to people who had no say in creating it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC

A triumphant accomplishment and a demonstration of what we can accomplish together. Thank you @GovKathyHochul, @AndreaSCousins, and @CarlHeastieNY for rising to the moment and to the visionary leadership of @NYCMayor who never gave up on a city that works for all New Yorkers.

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What is shameful is that the minority leader of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, a country that fought a war costing 600,000 lives to end slavery based on its founding principle that every individual has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, would use race to draw political lines that favor his party and then call it justice. The Supreme Court ruled that sorting citizens into congressional districts by the color of their skin is unconstitutional. That is not the ghost of the Confederacy. That is the fulfillment of the principle the Confederacy died fighting against: that a man is an individual, not a representative of his race. Jeffries does not want colorblind districts because colorblind districts do not guarantee his outcomes. He needs racial categories because racial categories produce racial grievances and racial grievances produce voter turnout. The Confederacy grouped people by race and assigned them political status accordingly. Jeffries is demanding the exact same thing with different beneficiaries. He is not fighting the ghost of the Confederacy. He is trying to bring it back to life.
Hakeem Jeffries@RepJeffries

The ghosts of the confederacy have afflicted the Supreme Court. And are haunting the nation. Shameful.

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When the men who chant "Death to America" as a national sacrament start moving their money to Moscow, do not mistake this for hypocrisy. It is worse. They believe every word of their ideology. But they have convinced themselves that their survival is necessary to continue the cause later. This is the psychology of every mystic-tyrant Rand identified: the man who sends others to die for the faith while telling himself he is too important to the mission to share their fate. The foot soldiers are expendable. The leaders are "essential." Self-sacrifice is for the congregation, never for the clergy. Netanyahu is right: if this regime falls, the entire scaffolding of global terror collapses with it. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis. All of it depends on Tehran. This is the greatest opportunity to dismantle state-sponsored terrorism in a generation. And we are negotiating with these killers. Why? When your enemy is packing his bags, you do not offer him a deal to stick around. foxnews.com/world/iran-reg…
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Jerry Naughton@genaughton57·
@theobjectivist Greenspan was actually part of Ayn Rand’s inner circle while she was writing Atlas Shrugged.
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Greenspan is the Dr. Robert Stadler of Atlas Shrugged. Rand wrote his ending decades before he lived it. Stadler was a brilliant physicist who knew the truth, understood the science, and chose to sell his mind to the state in exchange for prestige, funding, and influence. He told himself he could work within the system without being consumed by it. He was wrong. The system consumed him and used his brilliance to build the weapon that destroyed everything he once valued. Greenspan understood free markets. He wrote "Gold and Economic Freedom" in 1966, one of the clearest defenses of sound money ever published. Then he took the chair at the Federal Reserve, the very institution his own essay condemned, and spent two decades doing exactly what he once argued would destroy the economy. Artificially low rates. Endless credit expansion. The housing bubble. The crash. Millions of lives destroyed. He knew better. That is what makes it unforgivable. The man who does not know is merely ignorant. The man who knows and acts against his knowledge is the most dangerous man alive. Stadler built Project X. Greenspan built the bubble. Both men had first-rate minds. Both sold them. And both left wreckage that lesser men could never have created.
Handre@Handre

What would you have thought if Madoff were not arrested after his Ponzi scheme crashed, but rather invited to speak at various events and on TV shows, then years later given the Nobel for his work? Interestingly enough, this is exactly what happened to Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, the Fed architects of the housing bubble. Bernanke and Greenspan destroyed millions of lives through artificially low rates that inflated the greatest asset bubble in history. They turned homeownership into a casino. Their "solution"? Print $3 trillion more to bail out their banker friends while regular families lost everything. They should be in jail, not celebrated as economic geniuses. But not in this 🤡🌎

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@StateDept The White House says "Trump has all the cards." Then why are we negotiating? We have three carrier strike groups, total air superiority, B-2s flying unopposed over Iranian airspace, and a blockade costing Iran $435 million per day... 👇 x.com/i/status/20532…
The Rational Animal 🤔@theobjectivist

The disease is not Iran. Iran is a stage 5 cancer cell. The disease is the morality of self-sacrifice that the entire world has accepted as noble: the premise that the individual exists to serve the collective, that strength must be restrained, that the defender owes the aggressor a negotiation. Iran is simply the most consistent practitioner of that morality. It sacrifices its own people without hesitation because its ideology demands it. And America cannot finish the job because its ideology will not permit it. The White House says "Trump has all the cards." Then why are we negotiating? We have three carrier strike groups, total air superiority, B-2s flying unopposed over Iranian airspace, and a blockade costing Iran $435 million per day. The IMF projects 69% inflation and a 6.1% GDP contraction. Two million jobs gone. The rial is collapsing. And yet. Iran fired 15 missiles at the UAE. The Pentagon called it "low-level." Iran attacked three US destroyers. Trump called it "a love tap." We have killed less than 1% of IRGC troops. 150,000 remain. The fast boat fleet that is mining the Strait was left largely intact. The regime is meeting with Putin instead of surrendering. The tools are in the operating room. The patient is on the table. The doctor is reading a book on conflict resolution while the cancer spreads. What is missing is not capability. It is the moral clarity to act. A free nation has the absolute right to destroy a regime that has waged war against it for 47 years. That is not aggression. It is justice. Play the aces. End the regime. Come home. foxnews.com/politics/insid… #FoxNews

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Department of State@StateDept·
SECRETARY RUBIO: Only stupid countries don’t shoot back when you’re shot at. And we’re not a stupid county. The redline is clear – if Iranian boats threaten Americans, they’re going to get blown up. 🔥🔥🔥
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Jeffery Small@cjsmall·
@JoyceCarolOates Look up Ponzi scheme. It's doesn't miraculously become virtuous or rational or achievable just because the government does it. :-/ Don't shoot the messenger over your failure to understand the topic.
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History also has a term for @GavinNewsom's behavior. It is called projection. The man who locked his state in their homes for two years, shut down businesses by executive order, and mandated what you inject into your body to keep your job is lecturing anyone about authoritarianism. Newsom is the arsonist pointing at the smoke.
Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom

Canceling elections. Silencing free speech. Deploying private police against your own citizens. History has a term for Donald Trump's behavior.

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The disease is not Iran. Iran is a stage 5 cancer cell. The disease is the morality of self-sacrifice that the entire world has accepted as noble: the premise that the individual exists to serve the collective, that strength must be restrained, that the defender owes the aggressor a negotiation. Iran is simply the most consistent practitioner of that morality. It sacrifices its own people without hesitation because its ideology demands it. And America cannot finish the job because its ideology will not permit it. The White House says "Trump has all the cards." Then why are we negotiating? We have three carrier strike groups, total air superiority, B-2s flying unopposed over Iranian airspace, and a blockade costing Iran $435 million per day. The IMF projects 69% inflation and a 6.1% GDP contraction. Two million jobs gone. The rial is collapsing. And yet. Iran fired 15 missiles at the UAE. The Pentagon called it "low-level." Iran attacked three US destroyers. Trump called it "a love tap." We have killed less than 1% of IRGC troops. 150,000 remain. The fast boat fleet that is mining the Strait was left largely intact. The regime is meeting with Putin instead of surrendering. The tools are in the operating room. The patient is on the table. The doctor is reading a book on conflict resolution while the cancer spreads. What is missing is not capability. It is the moral clarity to act. A free nation has the absolute right to destroy a regime that has waged war against it for 47 years. That is not aggression. It is justice. Play the aces. End the regime. Come home. foxnews.com/politics/insid… #FoxNews
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The Rational Animal 🤔@theobjectivist·
The reason healthcare costs are destroying Americans is because of 60 years of EVIL politicians like @SenSanders. Follow the path. In 1960 Americans paid for their own healthcare and costs were manageable. LBJ created Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, severing the connection between patient and payment. Nixon signed the HMO Act in 1973, restructuring how Americans access care. Each intervention distorted the market. Each distortion was used to justify the next intervention. Bush added Medicare Part D. Obama mandated you buy insurance from private companies under penalty of law. Spending went from $353 per capita in 1970 to over $15,000 today. A 600% increase in real terms. Now you point to the wreckage your ideology created and say the solution is more of it. You do not have a right to another person's labor. A doctor spent a decade learning his skill. A nurse works 12 hour shifts. You cannot claim their effort as something owed to you because you need it. That is not a right. That is servitude. Every country with universal healthcare rations care, restricts access, and depends on American pharmaceutical innovation to survive. You want to kill the only system still producing cures.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders

The function of a rational healthcare system is NOT to provide huge profits to insurance companies. It is to guarantee healthcare to all as a human right. We must no longer be the only major country without universal healthcare. We must pass Medicare for All.

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The Rational Animal 🤔@theobjectivist

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

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Why are we negotiating? Imagine someone breaks into your home, kills your son, assaults your daughter, and you fight back, disarm him, have him on the ground in handcuffs with a gun to his head, and then you say "let's negotiate." That is where we are. And it shows just how philosophically bankrupt our politicians have become. Rubio is right that only stupid countries do not shoot back. But the smarter question is: why is there a ceasefire at all with a regime that has waged war on America for 47 years and is currently attacking US warships during the ceasefire it agreed to? You do not negotiate with a man who is still swinging at you. You end him. Iran attacked three US destroyers. Trump called it a "love tap." Rubio says of course we fired back. Great. Now explain why we stopped. We have three carrier strike groups in theater, total air superiority, and an enemy whose economy is collapsing at $435 million per day. The regime is on the ground in handcuffs and we are asking what kind of deal they would like. This is not strategy. This is the absence of one.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

🚨 REPORTER: The point is, there's not much ceasing in the firing MARCO RUBIO: Ask THAT to the IRANIANS! Don't ask me. They fired on US. If they fire on us, what, we say, oh it's a ceasefire! We won't shoot your drone. That's a STUPID QUESTION! Of COURSE we fired back. Only STUPID countries don't shoot back when they're shot at. And we're not a stupid country. He is so good 🔥🔥🔥

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Let me get this straight. Virginia voters created an independent redistricting commission in 2020 specifically to end partisan gerrymandering. Democrats then bypassed their own commission, rushed a constitutional amendment through while over a million people had already voted, and tried to turn a 6-5 seat advantage into 10-1. Obama backed it. Jeffries campaigned for it multiple times. House Majority PAC spent $38 million on it. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled the process violated the state constitution. Now Jeffries calls it "unprecedented and undemocratic" when a court enforces the constitution against his party. He calls it "voter suppression" when Democrats are stopped from suppressing five Republican districts into one. And he invokes Jim Crow to describe a ruling that upheld the very redistricting reform Virginia voters chose in 2020. You did not lose your voice. You lost your gerrymander. There is a difference. And the fact that you cannot tell the difference is exactly why you should not be drawing maps.
Hakeem Jeffries@RepJeffries

The decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the will of more than three million voters will not stand.

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The Rational Animal 🤔@theobjectivist·
Let me get this straight. Virginia voters created an independent redistricting commission in 2020 specifically to end partisan gerrymandering. Democrats then bypassed their own commission, rushed a constitutional amendment through while over a million people had already voted, and tried to turn a 6-5 seat advantage into 10-1. Obama backed it. Jeffries campaigned for it multiple times. House Majority PAC spent $38 million on it. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled the process violated the state constitution. Now Jeffries calls it "unprecedented and undemocratic" when a court enforces the constitution against his party. He calls it "voter suppression" when Democrats are stopped from suppressing five Republican districts into one. And he invokes Jim Crow to describe a ruling that upheld the very redistricting reform Virginia voters chose in 2020. You did not lose your voice. You lost your gerrymander. There is a difference. And the fact that you cannot tell the difference is exactly why you should not be drawing maps.
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Hakeem Jeffries@RepJeffries·
The decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the will of more than three million voters will not stand.
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