Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian

Homeschooled my kids for 15 years. I'm conservative/libertarian. Concerns are physical health, mental health, financial health, and freedom.

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

The true spirit of America

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Teacher training prepares you to guide a student who already wants to learn and barely needs to be taught.

When you get in front of actual students though, you’ll find yourself failing to teach children your professors preferred to imagine didn’t exist.

New teachers deserve preparation that survives contact with a real teenager.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

We're told we need preventative medicine, but in conventional medicine that usually means checkups, mammograms, blood tests, colonoscopies, Pap smears, and prostate exams.

I don't call that preventing a problem—I call it looking for one. These tests often flag something that might have resolved on its own. A biopsy follows, which can create new problems, and a substantial share of the findings turn out to be false positives.

This is what mainstream medicine wants us to treat as normal. Skip the appointments and they hound you with phone calls, emails, and mail. Seasonal shots and vaccines are part of the same program.

It's the system they've built around us, but that doesn't mean we have to go along with it. How do you feel about this?

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Now you can read what injection-injured people (and surviving relations) wrote in their V-safe entries. This is intensely powerful material. People not just statistics. 400 pages. Thank you @React19org for putting this together and trusting @brownstoneinst with the release. Please read and share. @SenRonJohnson https://t.co/lym8ckIjnz

[LSU @LSU]

We love seeing the Tigers shake things up again! Here's a reading from the campus seismograph!

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

Well, well. Nothing to see here.
https://t.co/RHd6OhBNwK

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk described the government in four sentences and never made a political argument. He read out the schematic.

Musk: "Government is a corporation in the limit. It is the most corporate thing. It is maximum corporation. And it's also a monopoly, and also is the only one that's allowed legally to do violence."

Take the flag off it and look at what's underneath.

It collects revenue. It employs millions. It owns land. It writes the rules it operates under.

That's a corporation. Line for line.

With three edits.

You cannot choose a competitor.

You cannot decline the transaction.

It is the only one on earth permitted to use force to make you pay.

Every other relationship in your life required your consent. This one required your birth.

Musk: "Why would you want to give a corporation with no competition that can't even really go bankrupt more money?"

There is no condition under which it stops. None was ever built in.

Everything that has ever gotten better got better by being allowed to die. Evolution runs on extinction. Science runs on falsification. Markets run on bankruptcy. Your own body runs on cells that kill themselves on schedule.

Failure isn't cruelty. It's information. It's the only mechanism in the universe that tells a system it was wrong.

Take it away and the system doesn't become permanent. It becomes blind.

A company that misreads the world loses customers.

A government that misreads the world receives a larger budget the following year.

It's the only structure we've built where failure is what feeds it.

Musk: "I think the role of government should be that of like a referee, and not a player on the field."

A referee was never supposed to be weak. He was supposed to be outside the outcome.

The moment he starts scoring he isn't corrupt. Corruption would mean he broke a rule. He wrote the rules. He's just playing, and he's the only one allowed to keep score.

A system like that never gets caught. It only gets old.

Every civilization that collapsed did it with its institutions still standing.

The buildings stayed. The titles stayed. The revenue arrived on schedule.

What died was the feedback. The signal telling it that reality had moved and it hadn't.

Rome didn't fall in a day. It stopped listening for a century and called it stability.

That's the actual danger. Not tyranny. Deafness with a budget.

And it runs deeper than politics.

Everything you love is precious because it can be lost. A promise means something because the person making it will die. Your time matters because you don't get more of it.

Mortality isn't the tragedy of being human. It's the only reason anything costs anything.

Then we built one institution exempt from all of it. No death. No scarcity. No consequence. A thing that can never lose anything, deciding what everything is worth.

It bills in dollars. It's paid in hours. And it has never once felt what an hour costs.

It can be wrong for a century and feel nothing. You get eighty years and have to be right the first time.

It doesn't have to win the argument. It only has to outlive the person making it, and it has never lost that one.

It borrows against people who don't exist yet, and they will pay, because it will still be standing when they arrive.

Then we handed it the only gun.

This isn't a conspiracy. Conspiracies need competence and coordination. This is a design flaw, and design flaws only need time.

That's the good news. A conspiracy can't be proven or fixed. A design flaw can be both.

Everything good in your life exists because something was permitted to fail on the way to it. Every medicine. Every machine. Every idea that survived contact with reality.

The one institution that cannot fail is the one holding the gun.

That isn't a warning. It's an engineering problem.

And every permanent thing on earth was designed by people who weren't.

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

Worth the time to read.

[Clay | StopBeingPrey.com @StopBeingPrey]

@TFL1728 I'm making it my literal job until the midterms to convert any remaining serious libertarians into the MAGA alliance.

I believe there's a ton of opportunity to peel away from the audiences of @ComicDaveSmith and @LibertyLockPod and these types right now.

https://t.co/o7r3eEDZ78

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

@StopBeingPrey @TFL1728 @ComicDaveSmith @LibertyLockPod Thank you for stately so eloquently what I've felt for years. I aligned with the R's for years until McCain ran back to DC to bail out Wall Street. From libertarian back to R recently to help boot Cassidy out. I hope more libertarians can become self aware via your work.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I compared Muhammad’s last words to Jesus’ last words.

Not just the facts, but the spirit behind them.

And bro, the difference is staggering. It shook my devout Muslim faith.

According to Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad’s final words included: “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians. They made the graves of their prophets into places of worship.”

Those are words associated with his final moments.

No forgiveness. No reconciliation. No peace.

Now compare that to Jesus.

Beaten, betrayed, tortured, hanging on a cross with nails through His wrists, Jesus says:

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

And then: “It is finished.”

One dies speaking curses.

The other dies extending forgiveness.

One ends by drawing lines and reinforcing division.

The other tears the veil and reconciles heaven and earth.

And whether people like it or not, final words reveal something deeply personal about the heart.

That contrast shook me.

Because one man’s final moments reinforced separation, while the other’s changed eternity through mercy, sacrifice, and love.

Please sit with that honestly.

[LACAG.org @LacagOrg]

Governor Landry's decision to strong arm an unconstitutional, racially based Congressional map through the legislature was based on two objectives and two objectives alone: his hostility toward Garret Graves and his political debt to Cleo Fields.

To achieve these objectives he compromised the thin Republican majority in Congress, spent millions of taxpayer dollars, and planted Cleo Fields into the U.S. Congress where he has undermined President Trump's agenda at every turn.

To now claim credit that SCOTUS has imposed sanity and the rule of law on the chaos he created is a shameless attempt to rewrite history and hide the fact that he prioritized his own grudges over the stability of our state and the success of the America first agenda.

Credit for this success goes to frontline fighters like Paul Hurd, Bert Callais, and citizen advocates across our State who had the courage to speak truth to power, even when that truth fell on deaf ears.

Our Governor's effort to deflect credit from them while claiming it for himself is nothing short of disgraceful.

Louisiana citizens are a lot smarter than you think.

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

The majority of law enforcement officers haven't been fired on 3 times in their career. The rhetoric of the left has incited this violence against Trump and refuses to take responsibility for it.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life

🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'"

🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration."

🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration."

🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'"

🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook"

Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS"

🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'"

🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets."

🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!"

"These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

51% of voters can take away 100% of the rights of 49% of the voters.

Democracy.

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

RFK Jr puts the measles hysteria to bed.

“This has become a talking point for Democrats that somehow I caused the measles epidemic.

The measles epidemic started in January 2025 - before I came into office.”

“Most of the people affected are over the age of 5 years old, meaning their decision to not vaccinate predated my appointment to this office.

We had about 2,200 measles cases last year and we had 1,700 this year.

This is not unique to the United States.
This is a global outbreak.

Mexico had 3x the number of measles cases than we did. We did better than any other country in the world at controlling the epidemic. Mexico has 3x the number and it has 1/3 of the population.

Canada has twice the number and it has 1/8 of our population.

Europe had 33,000 cases in the last year and a 127,000 the year before and they have one half of our population.

So the problem is not me.”

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

We need five crucial reforms. 1) universal health savings accounts, no exceptions, no limits, 2) insurers that can offer true catastrophic plans, 3) premiums that reflect actual risk as determined by actuaries, 4) elimination of the employer mandate, 5) permission for any kind of medical service should be insurable. This would put power back in the hands of people and take control out of industry, which is what we need.

5 Medical Insurance Reforms We Desperately Need https://t.co/rAhK7dDLK6 via @epochtimes

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senate Democrats were just asked to pass ONLY the voter ID part of the SAVE America Act...

...and they BLOCKED it.

Democrats said "we support voter ID, not all the other stuff"

So Sen. Jon Husted filed to do exactly that. THEY JUST WANT FRAUD!

SEN. MIKE LEE: "Chuck Schumer and other Democrats have insisted that they actually support Voter ID—they just object to other parts of the SAVE America Act."

"Well, Sen Jon Husted just asked unanimous consent to pass ONLY the Voter ID portion of the bill. Democrats blocked it."

[Handre @Handre]

Cash for Clunkers perfectly exemplifies the broken window fallacy in action. The government spent $3 billion to destroy 690,000 perfectly functional vehicles, claiming this would "stimulate" the economy by forcing people to buy new cars. What they actually did was obliterate billions of dollars worth of working capital that could have served lower-income families for years to come.

The program artificially inflated new car sales by cannibalizing future demand and destroying the used car market. Those "clunkers" weren't junk—they were reliable transportation that mechanics could have maintained, parts suppliers could have serviced, and budget-conscious buyers could have afforded. Instead, bureaucrats decided to crush them into scrap metal to create the illusion of economic activity.

This wasn't stimulus—it was capital destruction on a massive scale. Real economic growth comes from saving, investment, and the accumulation of productive assets, not from government programs that literally destroy wealth to generate temporary sales spikes. The program made cars more expensive for everyone while making transportation less accessible for those who needed it most.

Every crushed engine block represented resources that could have continued serving society productively. True prosperity emerges when we preserve and efficiently allocate capital, not when we celebrate its destruction as economic policy.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Congressman Tim Burchett said,

“Mitch McConnell was blocking the SAVE Act this morning.”

You have to wonder why a Senator on his way out is blocking election integrity for 84% of Americans.

@timburchett

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY AGAINST DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES

Dear Fellow Americans,

Let me walk you through the most delicious irony in modern politics. The party that won't shut up about "saving democracy" has spent the last decade systematically undermining every democratic process they can get their hands on.

1. DEMOCRATIC vs DEMOCRACY: WORDS MATTER

First, let's get something straight because apparently your teachers failed you. There's a difference between "democratic" (an adjective describing representative processes) and "democracy" (a noun describing direct majority rule).

America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. Not a democracy. The Constitution mentions "democracy" exactly ZERO times. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees every state a "Republican Form of Government." Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 that "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths." Hamilton celebrated "legislative balances and checks" in Federalist No. 9 as safeguards against tyranny. John Adams observed in 1814 that "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself."

The Electoral College, Senate structure, and judicial review exist SPECIFICALLY to prevent pure majority rule. You know, that thing Democrats keep trying to abolish.

2. DEMOCRATS HAVEN'T USED DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS SINCE 2012

Let's talk about how Democrats select their own candidates. First, there's the SUPERDELEGATE system, which is the most anti-democratic mechanism imaginable. These are party elites, lobbyists, and insiders who get votes that count MORE than regular voters. In 2016, Hillary Clinton had 400+ superdelegates committed to her BEFORE A SINGLE PRIMARY VOTE WAS CAST. The media reported her insurmountable delegate lead from day one, suppressing enthusiasm for alternatives. Regular Democratic voters were essentially told their votes didn't matter because the party elite had already decided.

In 2016, the DNC actively sabotaged Bernie Sanders through leaked emails showing they were tipping the scales for Hillary Clinton. The DNC was supposed to be neutral, but Donna Brazile admitted she fed debate questions to Clinton in advance. Remember Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning in disgrace? The superdelegates made the primary a foregone conclusion before voters even showed up.

In 2020, Biden was LOSING badly until every moderate candidate mysteriously dropped out simultaneously before Super Tuesday in a coordinated effort to stop Bernie. Not exactly organic democracy. The superdelegate system was slightly reformed after 2016 backlash, but they still exist as a fail-safe for when voters choose "wrong."

But 2024 takes the cake. Kamala Harris became the nominee without receiving A SINGLE PRIMARY VOTE for the presidency. Biden withdrew, and the party coronated Harris immediately. No debates. No primaries. No democratic process whatsoever. As Biden's own vetting documents revealed, Harris wasn't chosen for competence but because she fit certain demographic boxes. Biden literally said at the South Carolina debate he would pick a Black woman as VP, not the most qualified person.

She dropped out of the 2020 primary BEFORE Iowa because she couldn't even get support from her own party's voters. Now she's the nominee without earning a single vote? That's not democratic, it's a coronation.

3. DEMOCRATS HELD THE GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE TO FIX THEIR OWN MESS

Let's talk about the 43-day government shutdown. Democrats voted 14 TIMES to reject clean CRs that would have reopened the government. They held 42 million SNAP recipients hostage, active-duty military, air traffic controllers, and TSA agents because they wanted $1.5 trillion in ACA subsidy extensions.

Here's the beautiful irony: those COVID subsidies the Democrats are demanding? THEY VOTED TO MAKE THEM TEMPORARY in the first place through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Not a single Republican voted for those bills. Democrats designed the subsidies to expire, then blamed Republicans when they expired AS DEMOCRATS DESIGNED THEM TO.

Chuck Schumer voted for clean CRs 29 consecutive times before this shutdown. This was literally the FIRST TIME EVER he voted against one. What changed? The Democrat Party changed. Quinn's Law #22 states: "Liberals love democracy unless it doesn't go their way."

Remember what your own party said about shutdowns?

Obama 2013: "You don't get to demand a ransom for doing your job."

Pelosi 2018-2019: "We're not hostage to your wall. Reopen the government."

Schumer 2018: "Won't even come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan CR."

Hakeem Jeffries 2022: "Republicans are holding the government and the American people hostage to their extreme agenda."

But when Democrats do the EXACT SAME THING? Suddenly it's principled governance! Even Senators Fetterman and Cortez Masto couldn't stomach the hypocrisy and voted WITH Republicans to end the shutdown.

4. THE LEFT SILENCES DISSENT LIKE A CULT

Senator John Fetterman recently said the quiet part out loud: "The most poisonous venom, the bitterest, is from the far left." He described how after voting to reopen the government, the left wished death upon him, cheered for "his next stroke," and said things like "the doctor let us down" by saving his life.

At Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, protesters disrupted a religious event because they disagreed with the speakers. This is their version of "tolerance."

Cancel culture operates as the enforcement mechanism. Elon Musk went from progressive darling to public enemy the moment he supported free speech. Joe Rogan, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang were all heroes until they questioned party orthodoxy. Then they were excommunicated.

Universities have become ideological echo chambers where conservative speakers are banned or shouted down. Social media platforms coordinate to suppress information that contradicts their narrative. They've created an information ecosystem where only approved thoughts are allowed.

5. THE DEMOCRAT CULT OF LOCKSTEP VOTING

Watch any State of the Union address. Democrats move in perfect lockstep. When Republicans honored a child with brain cancer getting his dreams fulfilled, Democrats wouldn't even STAND. That's not political disagreement, it's hivemind behavior.

If you deviate from any Democratic vote, the party will destroy you. They'll use dirt, even fabricated, to primary you, cut off all funding. It's total conformity or destruction. Fetterman is experiencing this right now for having the audacity to vote for a CLEAN CR that he supported 13 times under Biden.

Classic cult behavior: Social isolation from family at Thanksgiving over political differences (encouraged by mainstream outlets). Public confession and self-criticism rituals through "privilege" confessions. Punishment of heretics like J.K. Rowling. Language control with ever-shifting approved terminology. Grandiose utopian promises like "abolish the police" and "end all oppression."

6. DEMOCRATS OPPOSE ELECTION TRANSPARENCY

The SAVE Act would simply require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. Democrats voted against it. Why would anyone oppose verifying that voters are actually citizens unless they benefit from non-citizens voting?

Democrats fought the release of Fulton County's voting logs and paper ballots. If elections were secure and transparent, why fight so hard to keep records hidden? When you have nothing to hide, you don't fight discovery this aggressively.

The 2020 Census produced the widest racial gaps in recorded Census history, with undercounts in Florida and Texas (Republican states) and overcounts in Minnesota and Rhode Island (allowing them to keep congressional seats they should have lost). The data collection methodology under Biden's administration used "differential privacy" algorithms that distorted small-area population counts, raising constitutional concerns about the "actual Enumeration" requirement.

7. DEMOCRATS TRIED TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM THE BALLOT AND IMPRISON HIM

When they couldn't beat Trump politically, they tried to remove him from ballots using a creative reading of the 14th Amendment that had never been applied this way in American history. The Supreme Court unanimously rejected this attempt.

When that failed, they prosecuted him in jurisdictions where judges made political contributions AGAINST him, where the judge's daughter ran a company making millions from anti-Trump advertising for the Harris campaign. Justice Merchan donated to "Stop Republicans PAC" and Biden's campaign. Even four Supreme Court Justices dissented from allowing the trial to proceed, citing evidentiary immunity concerns.

They succeeded in keeping him in a courtroom instead of on the campaign trail. The trial court allowed the jury to convict WITHOUT unanimously agreeing on what crime Trump allegedly committed. DANY refused to specify what "other crime" was allegedly intended until trial, violating basic due process.

8. USING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO DILUTE CITIZEN VOTES

Democrats promote policies that count illegal immigrants in the census, which determines congressional apportionment and Electoral College votes. This means states with large illegal immigrant populations get MORE representation in Congress and MORE electoral votes, effectively diluting the voting power of American citizens in other states.

This is taxation without representation in reverse. Citizens in states that follow immigration law have their votes devalued while states harboring illegal immigrants get bonus representation. The 2020 Census documented hundreds of thousands of undercounts in Texas and Florida while Democratic states were overcounted.

Here's my prediction: If the Supreme Court rules that illegal immigrants should NOT be counted in the census because they are transient non-citizens, watch what happens next. I GUARANTEE Democrats would draft legislation requiring illegal immigrants to be counted as THREE-FIFTHS of a person for congressional apportionment purposes. And they wouldn't bat an eye at the language. The same party that lectures us about the historical evil of the Three-Fifths Compromise would resurrect that EXACT framework to preserve their political power. They'd call it something like the "Fair Representation Act" and accuse anyone who opposes it of racism, completely ignoring that they're literally proposing to count non-citizens as fractional persons for political representation just like their party did with slaves in 1787.

The historical irony writes itself. Democrats defending slavery needed the Three-Fifths Compromise to inflate their congressional representation. Modern Democrats need illegal immigrants counted in the census for the EXACT SAME REASON, to inflate their representation without those people actually being able to vote. It's the same playbook, different century.

Studies show 37% of undocumented workers receive less than minimum wage and 76% experience wage theft. Employers use immigration status to intimidate workers. Democrats aren't protecting immigrants, they're creating a permanent underclass dependent on government programs that votes for the party promising more handouts.

It's the antebellum South economic model with extra steps. Back then they said "who will pick the cotton?" Now they say "who will do the jobs Americans won't do at slave wages?"

9. WHAT ELSE DID I MISS?

Oh, just the TIME Magazine article bragging about "The Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election" describing how a "well-funded cabal of powerful people" worked to "change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information." They literally admitted to coordinating with social media to suppress certain stories and "fortify" the election.

Or how about the 45 Communist Goals read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963, by Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr.? Goal #15: "Capture one or both of the U.S. political parties." Goal #20: "Infiltrate the press." Goal #21: "Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures." Goal #28: "Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools." Goal #40: "Discredit the family as an institution."

How many of those sound familiar in 2025?

The party claiming to "save democracy" has abandoned democratic processes for selecting their own candidates, held the government hostage over subsidies they voted to make temporary, silences dissent through cancel culture, operates with cult-like lockstep conformity, opposes election transparency measures, tried to remove their political opponent from ballots and imprison him, and dilutes citizen votes through census manipulation.

Quinn's Law #2 says: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." They accuse us of threatening democracy while they systematically dismantle every democratic safeguard the Founders created.

But what do I know? I'm just a science teacher who actually reads the Federalist Papers and remembers what Democrats said about shutdowns when Republicans were in the White House.

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

When I've tried to find a middle ground with those on the left, their "logic" always boils down to this. Emotional appeal and virtue signaling. What is considered correct "actions" is valued over correct outcomes.

[Ann Bauer @annbauerwriter]

It's the right thing to do, even if people commit fraud. Socialism is the best, kindest, most benevolent system. "But it never works," I said. "People take advantage. Politicians accrue control; children starve."

And she said...
"That doesn't mean we should stop trying, Ann."

[Cathy, not anti-science, just anti-authoritarian @CafeJCT]

@KennethRWebster Now I want to see Trump get them to change their tune on voter id. Let's see them pass the SAVE act!