Brad MFW

Today I met a 96 year old WWII Marine; a veteran of the Battle of Saipan. He told me of the human toll he witnessed. 500 dead, 1500 injured. Because of this man I will always stand for our flag. Semper Fidelis, Marine.

@intellivisi0x @_The_Prophet__ The rote method of teaching & learning by lecture on a chalk board can be displaced by a free YouTube video - or by subscription. Brick & mortar lecture halls are becoming obsolete, breaking the for profit education model. Otherwise we’re subsidizing the “college experience.”

@_The_Prophet__ Also AI: why go to college and spend all that money when Albert Einstein will teach you physics from home? Not sure what they'll do with the jets now.

⚡️The American university system is the largest wealth transfer from the young to the old in human history and nobody frames it that way because the people who benefit from it control the framing. Eighteen year olds who can’t legally buy a beer are signing six figure debt obligations to institutions that face zero accountability for outcomes. The loan is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. The university gets paid regardless of whether the student gets a job. The incentive structure is pure extraction. Get them in. Get the money. What happens after is their problem. 43% underemployment isn’t a failure of the students. These kids did exactly what they were told. Study hard. Get good grades. Go to college. Get the degree. They followed the script perfectly and the script was a lie. Not a lie that anyone intended maliciously at first. But a lie that became profitable enough that nobody corrected it even after the data made it obvious. The people who designed this system, the administrators pulling $500k salaries, the tenured professors teaching subjects with zero market application, the loan servicers collecting interest on degrees in fields that haven’t produced a living wage in twenty years. None of them are underemployed. They’re doing fine. The 43% is subsidizing their comfort. Now add AI. The entry level professional jobs that justified the debt are the first ones being compressed. Not blue collar work. Not trades. The exact white collar knowledge work positions that the degree was supposed to unlock. Legal research. Financial analysis. Consulting grunt work. Content production. The 43% who are already underemployed are about to be joined by a significant chunk of the 57% who thought they made it. The people who will come through this are the ones who figured out early that the credential was a trap. The ones who built skills instead of collecting letters after their name. The ones who found asymmetric paths. The ones who created value directly instead of waiting for an institution to certify them as valuable. The university system had a real function once. It produced genuine education and genuine opportunity. That function has been hollowed out by decades of misaligned incentives until what remains is mostly a financing operation that happens to have classrooms attached. And 43% of its recent customers just confirmed with their own lives that the product doesn’t work.

@_The_Prophet__ Get the Government out of the Student Loan business and this will fix itself within a year. No Bank is going to loan some poor student $300,000 for a women’s studies degree from Oberlin. Which means the price will drop to near $0 for such degrees. Boom. Problem solved.

@puppiesDoglover Walt! 👋🏼

15 years of bad luck for anyone who doesn't say hi to Walt

@AliceMarieBear1 @LangmanVince Shuttling illegals with NGO money gave the church needed cash to cover pedo priest payoffs. Illegals also add to the parishioner rolls that tithe. Axlerod made a deal - turn the base against the GOP, we’ll work on restoring the USAID activity, you get your tithe money.

@LangmanVince I am Catholic. The more Pope Leo and the 3 Cardinals talk leftist politics, the lower number I select when I write checks to my parish church. Already I have stopped giving to the Pope's Appeal and the Cardinal's Appeal and to Catholic Charities.

David Axelrod met with the Pope last week, a few days later the Pope attacked President Trump on Iran. Then last night three liberal Cardinals attacked president Trump on 60 minutes This was all coordinated by Barrack Obama to break Trump's catholic base before the midterms

Axlerod: Regrets the church lost so much money on pedophile priest payouts and Trump canceled the NGO dollars to shuttle illegals. Tell ya what, help us turn the base against the GOP at midterms and we’ll work on restoring the USAID ATM.

@BpBarronTG @Oilfield_Rando @tonycolada69 “Helping immigrants” pays two ways 1) The NGO slush fund to compliments of USAID 2) Importation of good Catholics dropping tithe dollars at Sunday mass

@Oilfield_Rando @tonycolada69 it was for services rendered you idiot, and the Church spent more than that and took a loss on helping immigrants

All I’m saying is that people might be less cynical about the Catholic Church’s grievances against restrictive immigration policy if they hadn’t been awarded $4 billion by the US government for resettling immigrants

@CryptoToby @CynicalPublius @GabrielSyme777 Was the Pope speaking the gospel on this one? Oh, wait, I don’t think he spoke at all.

@CynicalPublius @GabrielSyme777 The church disagrees with #1, #2 it's literally his job to speak the gospel, #3 again doing his job, #4 yes it was.

One does not need to be a rocket scientist to realize that the reason Obama henchman David Axelrod met with Pope Leo last week was to coordinate a media propaganda blitz and quasi-color revolution designed to separate faithful American Roman Catholics from support for the MAGA agenda.

@SickoftheC @Knesix Crude is a just in time commodity that’s traded globally in USD on the NYMEX. Supply & demand economics determine the price point of crude, not producers. Price sensitivity is also determined by the strength of the USD, which is difficult when your gov is $39T in debt.

@Knesix We were producing 13.2 Billion BPD in January 2025 while Biden was President Today it’s 13.6 That’s less than a 4% Increase after 14 months of Trump as POTUS. So stop falling for this Drill nonsense. It’s the OIL Companies that are raking in the cash while WE PAY MORE.

"If America produces more oil than anyone, why is gas four dollars?" Great question. Allow me to ruin the comforting idea that "the oil industry" is one big thing that could simply decide to give you cheaper gas if it wanted to. What most people don't know is that "the oil industry" is in fact three completely different businesses between the ground and your gas tank: 1) The drilling company pulls crude oil out of the earth. 2) The refinery, which is a DIFFERENT company, buys that crude from the driller and cooks it into gasoline. 3) The gas station buys that gasoline from the refinery and sells it to you. Three separate businesses, three markups. Each one passing the cost to the next guy in line. When global oil prices spike, the driller charges more because crude always trades at *global* prices. The refinery then has to pay more for that crude. The gas station pays more for that gasoline. You pay more at the pump. That is the chain, and you are at the end of it. Now, there's a silver lining to this. That chain is also pouring money into the American economy at a scale that is hard to overstate. Eleven million jobs. Not just roughnecks. Truck drivers, welders, engineers, port workers, accountants, you name it. We're talking about Two trillion dollars in GDP, which is roughly 8% of the entire American economy. Five hundred and seventy billion in taxes in a single year. That goes to schools, hospitals, roads, fire departments and more. And every barrel sold to Japan or Germany or South Korea is a barrel that USED to be sold by Saudi Arabia or Russia or Iran. That money used to leave America. Now it comes in. Four dollars a gallon hurts. But the money is not vanishing into the atmosphere. It is cycling through American towns, American jobs, and American tax revenue. And the countries buying American crude now depend on Washington, not Moscow and much less Tehran. American oil is no longer just a product. It has become a bond between countries. The pain is real, but will be temporary.

@PatPowe05917155 @Knesix @CattLawOffice A gallon of Starbucks coffee or a gallon of Diet Coke is more expensive than gasoline.

@Knesix @CattLawOffice The same people who are crying about gasoline being $4 per gallon are paying $2.39 for a 16 oz bottle of WATER. There are 128 fluid ounces in a gallon. Gasoline is UNBELIEVABLY cheap, considering the process.

@Salviati_ @Knesix @bungarsargon Are you giving credits and refunds in lean times? What if oil goes negative like that special case in April 2020?

@Knesix @bungarsargon #grok would a windfall profits tax be appropriate? This isn't some sort of cyclical thing. This is a special case due to war, not the next semiregular opportunity to make up for pain from earlier economic cycles.

@TonySeruga @snealkatz A state government functioning as public‑private ESG corporation. Someone finally said it.

California has quietly transitioned from a constitutional state to a public‑private ESG corporation, a prototype for global “climate‑governance.” Tom Steyer’s run for Governor is not merely part of this process — it is the culmination. Every major bureaucracy already funnels its budget through his network; his election would close the loop and legalize it. Steyer and his kind ARE the problem!

@GOP are you paying attention? Just be a good steward of our money, govern according to the Constitution. That’s literally all we ask.

@TheCalvinCooli1 If John McCain and Hillary Clinton had a love child.

🚨Election News: Nikki Haley has ruled out running for President in 2028

The State of California makes more money off a gallon of gas than the oil company that refined it and got it to market. Almost $2 of every gallon there goes to Sacramento’s coffers. And these people are *still* mumbling about “corporate greed” and more taxes.

🎯Post of the day!

According to AOC they ran out of time and couldn’t fully read the text. WTF? Fire up the wood chipper and stream it live.

@TheRealkingofLA @gregorykennedy @samtripoli Homeowner: You’re fined for improper refuse placement. Homeless: You’re disadvantaged so it’s okay to camp out and publicly defecate on the sidewalk.

@gregorykennedy @samtripoli We will fine the sh*t out of you if you place your trash can on the wrong side of your driveway… But if you’re an illegal alien criminal, you’re sacred, you can do no wrong & you can break as many rules as you want & we will pay lawyers to help you evade law enforcement!

LA be like: We will tax restaurants into oblivion. But illegal street food is fine. We can't effectively put out forest fires. You will pay extra for the rich who lost their homes in the Pacific Pallisade fires. We banned plastic straws. The sidewalk tent meth lab, not an issue. Used drug needles litter the street. That's your problem when you walk your dog. Massive fraud, everywhere. We are also going to tax your Pokémon card collection. Housing is too expensive. No, you can't build anything there. That parking lot is a sacred burial ground. We bought our home in 1972 and pay almost no tax. HAHA, too bad for you. We were here first. Endless talk about sustainability. The entire city sits in a car for hours, burning gas to drive four miles to get a coffee. Your block had three break-ins, two assaults, and a fire. The best we can do is a poorly executed mural. We are pro-worker. Unless it's not on a laptop, and you need a permit. If you're doing 'real work', you can F... off! We know there are problems. This is why we created another committee, with no authority, that will waste millions on bogus research. Wait... where did everyone go?

@johnkonrad Delta Airlines has a $43B market cap. 1,000 aircraft, employs 80,000 globally. CA spent 3x of a major airline and hasn’t laid a track. Consider the ROI if CA invested in Amtrak CA routes, upgraded infrastructure & managed it like a legit business. amtrak.com/content/dam/pr…

That’s enough cash to build 8 nuclear aircraft carriers with billions left over.

@SteCK1878 @WallStreetApes Can anyone confirm ActBlue involvement? If yes, this is political money laundromat.

@WallStreetApes Not surprisingly, Paintcare, the non-profit with $84.7million in annual revenue, only operates in Democrat states. I don’t believe in consequences.

The state of Maryland ads a new mandatory fee on every gallon of paint sold, the money will be given to a nonprofit Professional painter “I mean I was immediately sitting and doing the math and thought this can't be. I was livid” The new fee amount depends on the size; - Larger than half pint up to smaller than 1 gallon: $0.50 - 1 gallon up to 2 gallons: $1.15 •-Larger than 2 gallons up to 5 gallons: $2.25 100% of the fee revenue goes directly to a nonprofit called PaintCare

@DefiantLs In a normal world where weaponized empathy and good sloganeering doesn’t fool the people, Mamdani would be laughed out of town.

Zohran Mamdani: "What I've proposed is that we raise $10 billion to pay for our entire economic agenda and start to Trump proof our city… And we will do so in two key ways."