Benjamin Rote🥃⚽️🎾🏌️‍♂️⚜️

Entrepreneur, figure-it-outer, Pinball wizard, devoted husband and father. "Experience is the hardest teacher. First the test, then the lesson.” - Oscar Wilde

[Benjamin Rote🥃⚽️🎾🏌️‍♂️⚜️ @BJRote]

@UTDTrey This is becoming the 2026 version of getting Rick rolled, lol

[C3 @C_3C_3]

There is literally nothing California could do to make their elections less secure.

Mail in ballots and No ID.

Weeks of counting with no real chain of custody.

The fraud is staggering.

It’s an insult to America.
It’s an insult to Americans.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!

16-year-old Joseph Samuel is DE*D in Charlotte, NC because the man charged with his m*rder, who has been arrested ELEVEN PREVIOUS TIMES...

...WAS LET OUT OF PRISON 9 MONTHS AGO FOR TRYING TO M*RDER SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!!!!

ELEVEN PRIOR ARRESTS.
THIRTY PRIOR CHARGES.

Meet Taquawn "Buck" Lewis, he is 28 years old.

In 2019, Lewis was convicted of ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO K*LL INFLICTING SERIOUS INJURY.

He tried to m*rder somebody and the judge sentenced him to the MINIMUM POSSIBLE SENTENCE:

Six years and one month.

He was released from prison in AUGUST 2025.

NINE MONTHS LATER, he shoots a 16-year-old child who was JUST WALKING A PATH HOME to DE*TH in broad daylight in Charlotte.

He was on PAROLE.
He had a gun he was BARRED BY LAW from possessing.

Every. Single. Failure. Was. Preventable.

A judge let him out at the minimum.
A parole board approved his release.

Joseph Samuel is de*d because NOT A SINGLE FREAKING ONE OF THEM did their job.

PLEASE STOP LETTING VIOLENT PEOPLE OUT OF PRISON.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

La prochaine fois que tu vois une âme perdue défendre le socialisme économique ou le communisme comme un modèle de vertu, partage lui ce post. Ça évitera peut-être une nouvelle boucherie.

« On n'a jamais vraiment essayé le vrai communisme. »

Si. On a essayé. Une vingtaine de fois. Sur quatre continents. Pendant un siècle. Et on a les chiffres.

Chine, Grand Bond en avant (1958–1962). Les historiens indépendants ayant accédé aux archives provinciales convergent sur une fourchette de 30 à 45 millions de morts. Frank Dikötter (Université de Hong Kong), à partir des archives du PCC, retient 45 millions, dont 2,5 millions battus à mort ou exécutés par la milice. Yang Jisheng, ancien journaliste de l'agence Xinhua, dix ans d'enquête, retient 36 millions dans Stèles. L'historien chinois Yu Xiguang, vingt ans de recherche, monte à 55 millions. Pour donner une échelle : c'est la totalité des morts de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, concentrée sur quatre ans, dans un seul pays, sans guerre.

URSS. Holodomor 1932–1933, famine planifiée en Ukraine, reconnue comme génocide par le Parlement européen le 15 décembre 2022. Goulag, Grandes Purges 1936–1938, déplacements forcés de populations entières. Le bilan retenu par le Livre noir du communisme tourne autour de 20 millions de morts pour l'ensemble de la période.

Cambodge, Pol Pot. Environ 2 millions de morts en moins de quatre ans, soit près d'un quart de la population. S-21, Choeung Ek, évacuation forcée des villes en quelques jours.

Corée du Nord, Vietnam, Europe de l'Est, Afrique communiste, Amérique latine. Encore plusieurs millions cumulés.

Bilan global retenu par le Livre noir du communisme : environ 100 millions de morts. Chiffre repris en 2006 par la résolution 1481 de l'Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l'Europe, et en 2023 par une résolution au Parlement européen. On peut discuter la marge — 80, 90, 100 millions selon les méthodologies — mais comme l'écrivait Laurent Joffrin dans Libération, pourtant pas suspect de complaisance avec la droite : à 60 millions au lieu de 100, le communisme deviendrait-il présentable ?

Et le contre-exemple « doux » ? Venezuela. Pas de goulag, pas de famine planifiée. Juste l'application méthodique du programme. Résultat sur dix ans : le PIB s'est contracté de plus de 75 % entre 2014 et 2021 — la plus grande contraction économique en temps de paix depuis 45 ans selon l'Institute of International Finance. Inflation annuelle de 130 060 % en 2018 selon la Banque centrale du Venezuela elle-même, dépassant 1 000 000 % la même année selon le FMI. Près de 8 millions de personnes — soit environ 25 % de la population — ont quitté le pays. Le plus grand exode de l'histoire de l'hémisphère occidental sur les 50 dernières années selon l'OEA et le HCR. En 2024, 82 % des Vénézuéliens vivaient dans la pauvreté, dont 53 % en extrême pauvreté.

Zéro exception. Zéro contre-exemple.

À chaque fois la même mécanique. Une caste auto-proclamée vertueuse s'empare du pouvoir au nom du peuple, et finit en nomenklatura planquée dans des datchas pendant que 99 % de la population fait la queue pour du pain. Quand Maduro distribuait ses CLAP — boîtes alimentaires rationnées et militarisées — c'était la même logique que Brejnev dans les magasins réservés de la nomenklatura, soixante ans plus tard, sous un drapeau différent.

Hayek avait tout prédit en 1944, dans La Route de la servitude. Et Mises encore avant, en 1920, avec le problème du calcul économique : quand tu remplaces les prix du marché par la planification centrale, tu détruis l'unique mécanisme capable d'agréger l'information dispersée dans des millions de têtes. Il te faut donc une autorité qui décide à la place de tous. Cette autorité ne peut pas connaître ce qu'elle prétend planifier, donc elle impose par la contrainte. Et comme ça échoue toujours — voir Venezuela, qui a appliqué la séquence à la lettre : contrôle des prix par la Fair Prices Act de 2014, puis nationalisations, puis hyperinflation, puis rationnement militarisé — il faut contraindre de plus en plus fort pour survivre.

La tyrannie n'est pas un dérapage du socialisme. C'est son équilibre logique.

Le capitalisme de marché n'est pas parfait. C'est juste le seul système connu dans l'histoire où des millions d'inconnus coopèrent sans qu'une caste armée les y oblige.

Les morts de Kolyma, du Laogai, de S-21 et des rues de Caracas vous demandent de ne pas recommencer.

J'adore me tromper, ça me permet d'apprendre. Si tu penses que je me trompe sur un point précis, dis-le moi dans les commentaires, je lis tout.

[MLB @MLB]

The @Yankees memorial patch for John Sterling, which the team will wear for the remainder of the season. 💙

[Commodore. @TheWavyRedd]

Jose Mourinho first day at Real Madrid.

[TRUMP SUPPORTER @_Postive_Vibes]

SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

UNBELIEVABLE. Vice President Vance just did a double take after hearing this wild stat dropped by Dr. Oz:

"You're saying that we kicked off 800 fraudulent healthcare providers off of the Medicare system and not a single one of them called the government and said, 'hey, you made a mistake?'"

"It's just completely insane."

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

BREAKING: The man caught on video OPENING FIRE in the middle of a major Boston-area road today has been identified as VlOLENT career criminal Tyler Brown

Brown was SUPPOSED to be in prison for attempting to MURDER A COP, but a WOKE JUDGE let him out early

THESE JUDGES MUST GO!

WAY too many innocent Americans lose their lives because of these judges REFUSING to protect the public from vioIent criminals

In 2020, Brown pleaded guilty to EIGHT charges, including armed assault with intent to murder, after he fired THIRTEEN ROUNDS.

He was supposed to serve at LEAST a decade in prison, but the judge let him out after just three years.

And now he's back trying to murder people.

START HOLDING THESE JUDGES ACCOUNTABLE!

[Alec Lace @AlecLace]

🚨 Obama spent $34 MILLION of your tax dollars renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

No Media meltdowns.

Here’s some reactions when it reopened 👇

[Glenn Youngkin @GlennYoungkin]

Here’s the deal: Abigail Spanberger, Don Scott, Louise Lucas and all their friends knowingly violated the Virginia Constitution.

They purposefully violated clear constitutional procedures to deceive voters, capping off their master deception with ballot language meant to confuse everyone.

They strongly argued for the VA Supreme Court to “wait” until after the referendum so their flood of money from national democrats could fund their brazen dishonesty and trick voters to “restore fairness”, and then claim “the will of the people” when the VA Supreme Court would undoubtedly strike down their unconstitutional attempt to disenfranchise millions of Virginians.

It’s a disgusting disregard for Virginians, the Constitution and a flagrant violation of their oath of office.

[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.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades Fire, they clearly got the call. CBS filmed with me on my burned out lot for over an hour, and they turned it over to Karen Bass’ PR team to edit it into a comical 5 minute hit piece with clips from the Hills. They can’t beat my ideas, they can’t beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow. People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and I’m done with CBS. They’ll never get a word from me for my next 8 years as mayor. Adios! What outlet should I have in their absence?

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

It feels a little disingenuous to leave out the fact that they were being arrested for running a child pornography ring lol

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

This is absolutely mind blowing!

When Karin Bass was in Ghana as Los Angeles burned, the deputy mayor she left in charge was at home on house arrest.

For phoning in a bomb threat.

We are indeed governed by criminals.

From @spencerpratt on @joerogan

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Guy Weaving Through Traffic Awarded 1st Place Trophy For Getting To Off-Ramp 15 Seconds Ahead Of You https://t.co/MnGajZhVLU