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[BAltman @Altman_B]

@JackCarrUSA Thank you for introducing me to A.J. Quinnell. Read all of his books between yours.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Vous avez régné sur un monde qui n'existe déjà plus.

Et le plus dur reste à venir : dans pas très longtemps, vous allez devoir changer de métier. Parce que celui de politicien n'aura plus aucun sens.

Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi. Calmement. Parce qu'on va vous le répéter jusqu'à ce que ça rentre.

Votre post repose sur un mot que vous avez glissé sans le comprendre : compound. Des fortunes qui « compoundent » pendant que les gens triment. Vous le dites comme une accusation. C'est en fait l'aveu que vous n'avez jamais compris comment marche l'économie que vous prétendez réparer.

Une fortune qui compound, ce n'est pas un dragon couché sur son or. C'est du capital. Du capital investi dans des entreprises qui produisent, qui embauchent, qui font baisser les prix. Le « compounding » que vous dénoncez, c'est littéralement le mécanisme par lequel le monde devient moins cher pour les gens qui travaillent.

Ce qui a réellement fait baisser les coûts de la classe moyenne — l'énergie, le calcul, les télécoms, le transport, la nourriture — n'est jamais sorti d'un bureau à Washington. Jamais. C'est sorti d'entrepreneurs qui ont réinvesti, encore et encore, des fortunes qui « compoundaient ».

Alors posons la vraie question. Pas la vôtre. La vraie.

La question n'a jamais été « est-ce que les riches doivent payer plus ». C'est un slogan, pas une idée.

La vraie question, la seule, c'est : qui est le meilleur pour allouer le capital ?

Et là, le verdict de l'Histoire est sans appel.

— L'entrepreneur qui se trompe perd son argent. Il corrige. Il apprend. Le système s'améliore.

— Le politicien qui se trompe perd le vôtre. Il ne corrige rien. Il demande une rallonge.

L'un a du skin in the game. L'autre a un budget et un micro.

C'est pour ça que la planification par le haut échoue partout, à chaque fois, depuis un siècle. Pas par méchanceté. Par design. L'information dont dépend une économie est dispersée dans des centaines de millions de décisions quotidiennes que personne, personne, ne pourra jamais centraliser dans un comité. Vous voulez « investir pour les gens ».

Mais vous n'avez ni l'information, ni l'incitation, ni le risque personnel pour le faire bien. Vous avez juste le pouvoir de prendre.

Le rôle légitime de l'État tient en une phrase : garantir la sécurité, l'État de droit, et la propriété privée.

C'est tout. Le reste, c'est de l'orgueil déguisé en vertu.

Et voici pourquoi votre métier est condamné. Pendant des siècles, on a eu besoin d'intermédiaires pour arbitrer, redistribuer, coordonner, parce que l'information était rare et coûteuse. C'était votre raison d'être. Cette rareté est en train de disparaître. La coordination, l'allocation, l'optimisation — tout ce que vous prétendiez faire « pour le peuple » — va être fait mieux, plus vite, et sans corruption, par des outils et des bâtisseurs.

Taxer le patrimoine, ce n'est pas « faire payer les riches ».

C'est arracher le contrôle du capital aux gens qui ont prouvé qu'ils savaient le faire fructifier, pour le confier à ceux qui ont prouvé, partout et toujours, qu'ils en étaient incapables.

Vous appelez ça la justice.

Moi j'appelle ça le dernier réflexe d'une caste qui sent que son monde se termine.

Bienvenue dans le suivant. On vous gardera une place. Pas au pouvoir — au travail.

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@tgoff11 @KFlahertyKU Great partners to have !

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@BlairKerkhoff Nicely done Brad !

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

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.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’”

— Thomas Sowell

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

The American political arena isn’t a game of chess between equals.

It’s a rigged slaughterhouse where one side gets to swing the cleaver and the other is expected to thank them for the privilege of bleeding.

Cheating is fine...if you’re a Democrat.

Authoritarianism is fine...if you’re a Democrat.

Lawfare...the deliberate weaponization of courts, agencies, and statutes as political scalpels...is not merely fine, it’s the highest form of strategy if you’re a Democrat.

This isn’t “both sides” hypocrisy.

This is asymmetric pathology.

The modern Democratic machine operates from a core psychological defect:

narcissistic moral entitlement fused with authoritarian control needs.

They have convinced themselves that their vision of the future is so morally pristine that any violation of norms, laws, or democratic guardrails is not corruption...it’s prophylaxis.

Rig the election? Necessary.

Censor dissent? Public health.

Prosecute political opponents while shielding your own? Rule of law.

The ends don’t just justify the means; the means dissolve the moment they inconvenience the anointed.

Facts are stubborn:

documented ballot harvesting operations in key urban centers, Big Tech suppression coordinated with federal agencies, selective enforcement of campaign finance laws that magically never touch the right people, and lawfare campaigns timed to kneecap candidates...these are not conspiracy theories.

They are observable, repeatable patterns of power maintenance by a party that views the Constitution as an obstacle rather than a covenant.

And the Republicans?

They are not the opposition. They are the designated losers.

Spineless, gutless, invertebrate custodians of performative principle.

They lack the will, the killer instinct, the raw, primal “I don’t give a fuck, I will burn it down before I let you win” ferocity required to meet fire with napalm.

While Democrats treat politics as existential war, Republicans treat it as a gentleman’s debate club where losing with dignity is somehow noble.

Result?

Democrats can do literally anything...steal, lie, persecute, censor, mandate, rig...because they understand the one immutable law of power:

if you seize it and never let go, the rules become whatever you say they are.

Republicans are not allowed to play the same game.

They’re not even allowed to acknowledge the game is rigged.

One stray tweet, one unscripted rally, one hint of actual resistance, and the entire regime apparatus...media, DOJ, NGOs, tech...descends like locusts while their own “leadership” clutches pearls and whispers about “norms.”

This is not sustainable.

A republic cannot survive when one party operates as an authoritarian cartel and the other as its willing doormat.

The pathology is terminal unless the weak are replaced by the ruthless.

Nature doesn’t reward the spineless. It devours them.

And right now, the Republican Party is begging to be devoured.

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[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

Where the fuck are the mass protests?

Where are the campus encampments, the Hollywood black-tie galas draped in performative grief, the UN resolutions dripping with selective moral outrage, the street mobs torching flags and toppling statues...for the Iranian regime’s industrial-scale slaughter of its own teenagers?

Iran is still fucking murdering kids like 19-year-old Mohammad-Amin Biglari, a computer science student ripped from his sick father’s side, and 18-year-old Amir Hossein Hatami, and wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, all hanged after sham Revolutionary Court farces on charges of moharebeh..."waging war against God”...for the unforgivable crime of torching a Basij base during the 2025-2026 protests.

Public executions in Qom.

No final family visit.

Confessions beaten out of them on camera.

And the regime’s own numbers admit thousands dead, tens of thousands arrested, hundreds more lined up for the gallows, including actual children under 18.

This isn’t “justice.”

Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...ratified by Iran, for all the paper it’s worth...Article 14 guarantees fair trial, presumption of innocence, and no coerced evidence.

Article 6 forbids arbitrary deprivation of life.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Tehran also signed, bans the death penalty for anyone under 18 at the time of the alleged offense.

These are not suggestions; they are jus cogens, non-derogable customary international law.

What Iran is running is textbook crimes against humanity:

systematic, widespread attacks on civilians pursuant to state policy, per the Rome Statute.

Geopolitically, the mullahs are weaponizing their own people’s blood to project strength while the country bleeds out under sanctions and proxy wars.

But the real war crime here is the West’s collective shrug...because these dead teens don’t fit the sacred narrative.

The same crowds that rioted for months over Gaza, chanting rivers-to-the-sea while ignoring Hamas’s charter and October 7, suddenly develop moral blindness when the victims are Iranian girls and boys daring to demand an end to theocratic tyranny.

Why?

Because admitting the Iranian regime’s barbarism would require acknowledging that not every brown or Muslim-led state is a noble victim of “imperialism.”

It would puncture the oppressor-oppressed binary that lets campus radicals cosplay revolutionaries without ever risking their own skin.

It’s cowardice dressed as sophistication:

fear of being branded “Islamophobic” by the same Twitter inquisitors who’ll cancel you for misgendering but stay mute while Tehran hangs teenagers for “corruption on earth.”

Profound understanding of human nature reveals the venom beneath:

these protesters don’t actually care about human rights.

They care about power and belonging. Iran’s victims are inconvenient...too brown, too Muslim, too anti-regime...so they get filed under “internal affairs” while the regime laughs and executes more.

Legal scholars, human rights NGOs, even the toothless UN special rapporteurs have documented the torture, the forced confessions broadcast on state TV, the denial of counsel, the public hangings as terror theater.

Yet where are the sanctions with teeth? Where are the asset freezes on the IRGC butchers? Where are the emergency sessions demanding ICC referrals?

Crickets...because the geopolitical calculus favors quiet deals over principle.

The mullahs know it.

They’ve calibrated their savagery to exploit Western exhaustion, our addiction to false equivalence, and the left’s reflexive allergy to criticizing any “resistance” state.

Meanwhile, Iranian mothers bury their sons in secret, and the world scrolls past.

This is not nuance. This is moral rot.

The blood of these executed teens is on the hands of every activist, every celebrity, every academic who marched for every other cause but falls silent when the perpetrator waves the right ideological banner.

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[Tar_&_Feather_Enthusiast @RefuseWokeness]

MAGA is your next door neighbor who works 5 days a week at his dead end middle management job, mows his grass on Saturdays and attends Church with his family on Sundays and is just trying to keep his bills paid, his family provided for and some money left over to retire before he dies.

MAGA is an hourly operator at a local manufacturing plant working 55 hours a week hoping for more so he can take his boys hunting next season and buy his family of 5 the minivan they desperately need.

MAGA is the owner and operator of his own contract trucking business driving on the road 16 hours a day for as many days as he can each week just to keep his family clothed and fed which he can barely do after cutting his rates low enough to compete with illegal drivers who aren’t even literate in their own language never mind English but somehow they are able to get their trucks paid for by others because Americans last.

MAGA is the long retired Sergeant Major who spent years overseas watching his military brethren die one by one only to return to a country full of uninformed overly indoctrinated spoiled twats calling him a murderer but he carried on still lives in the same small town, still gets the news paper, lives on his minimal VA benefits, social security, flies 🇺🇸 in his yard, and still drives his old fixed up 67 Ford in every holiday parade.

MAGA is the 6th generation farmer who’s had to sell off most of his family’s land just to keep his stock fed and watered each year while being undercut by the corporate owned illegal cheap labor hiring land striping industrial farm just up the road.

MAGA is the house wife who spends her whole day keeping her house together, picking kids up and dropping them off to and from school, sports, and recitals, then cooks dinner and prepares the next day lunches for her family before going to bed each night praying to God for her family’s safety and that her kids will grow up to be everything she knows they can be in the country she loves.

MAGA is a 24 year old Engineering grad student who’s been competing with foreigners for internships who already have their entire college paid for by NGO’s floated by the taxes her parents have been paying their whole lives but have been siphoned off by emotionally manipulative political class power hungry criminals.

MAGA is America, not the GOP, not internet influencers, podcast bros, or even President Trump. MAGA is the blood, sweat, and tears, that make this country great by living our lives, providing for our families, chasing the American dream, fighting for our country when called to do so, and showing up to the voting block when it’s time to make our voices heard.

We are and always will be America First because MAGA is America.
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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is genius

A video was made in the style of Disney that explains Sharia Law

This makes Islam and Sharia Law easy to understand for everyone of all ages

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

Excellent primer of basic understandings. Bravo @CynicalPublius.

To these I would add American presidents of both parties have tried since 1979 and in every which way except all-out force to bring the Islamic Republic of Iran into the community of nations no matter its many faults. President Reagan did flex with Operation Praying Mantis but that was the max until Midnight Hammer.

Both Ds and Rs have tried the route of diplomacy. They have all failed. Comprehensively.

Until President Trump, who said “Enough.”

Enough of Soleimani and his “rock star terrorist” persona.

Enough of Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.

Enough, finally, of this fanatical regime driven by medieval theology and quite capable of mowing down 35,000+ of its own people for marching and chanting in the streets.

A regime capable of that sort of frenzied bloodlust against its own is capable of any act of violence against any target it could reach with any weapon it possesses or is likely to acquire. It is not a rational regime in the way the USSR was or the PRC is. It was a rabid regime. It is being put down.

President Trump is likely agnostic on what sort of regime is acceptable in its place. We have all learned a very difficult lesson that cultures and civilizations only change over centuries or as the result of comprehensive, catastrophic defeat at a cost of millions of lives. The United States is unwilling to try such a project again.

There is quite a lot of spectrum between indifference and appeasement at one end and democracy-building over decades at the other. The U.S. can and does cooperate with authoritarian regimes that do not threaten us or our allies. We hope they evolve towards Western mores. But we cannot command the tides.

We can and must protect America from threats that are imminent and those likely to become imminent in the blink of an eye or a decade.

President Trump has ordered that protection be put in place via what is being done to the regime in Iran, and hopefully it will be neutered if not collapsed in relatively short order and at a cost which, already high, does not skyrocket because of the death rattle and throes of a regime largely in its grave.

Americans will support victory. President Trump knows this and will not give the regime a third pass out of oblivion’s grasp.

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@RepThomasMassie @Selkis_2028 @RepRoKhanna Sit this one out

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@EpochTimes Pot calling the kettle black

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@TansuYegen 5a

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@jabeale That makes too much sense for their TDS infected mindsets.

[BAltman @Altman_B]

@zriboua @guypbenson @CityJournal So glad someone said this !

[Z Riboua @zriboua]

My debute in @CityJournal

Iranian protesters receive little support for the same reason the atrocities of October 7 were dismissed. Third-Worldism requires the West to be the ultimate villain. Only those who hate/oppose America are granted sympathy.

https://t.co/pOykhiqAUM

[David Limbaugh @DavidLimbaugh]

Every fair-minded person: please RETWEET this masterpiece.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Fraud in Minnesota

I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe.

I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests.

Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.)

The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe?

Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe.

Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA!

So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily.

Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host.

So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.