
Doug Robinson
708 posts




Buc-ee's is selling a giant chocolate peanut butter cup the size of a hockey puck It contains 520 calories and 56g of sugar


It’s 4/20 and I’m getting excited for a big win tomorrow!


TODAY IS ALITO BOOK LAUNCH DAY!! it would mean a lot to me if you could purchase it today. You can read my deeply reported look at our least well known and most consequential justice whenever you want, but please purchase today!






NEW: Our deep-dive @POLITICOMag story on Eric Swalwell’s rise and fall. It’s chock-full of newsy anecdotes about his time in politics from his staff’s reckless driving to allegations of unethical gifts. (W/ @melmason, @JeremyBWhite and @riley_rogerson) politico.com/news/magazine/…




Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.



Will you rush to the theater to see Focker-In-Law with Robert “lifts in my shoes” DeNiro and Ben “buy my soda” Stiller?











