Con

“Wealth is in the mind not the body”

[Mises Institute @mises]

Justice Clarence Thomas: Confirmed Rothbard Respecter

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

According to Trump supporters George Soros’ money moves mountains but the idea that Miriam Adleson’s does too is an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

[Gentile News Network™ @Gentilenewsnet]

>leads the charge exposing the largest pedophile ring on Earth
>Israel immediately spends most money in history to get him out of office

What did they mean by this

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie: “The force of the whole swamp has come down on me.”

“It’s three billionaires.”

“They’re hedge fund managers and gambling magnates.”

“They’re upset that I’ve never voted for foreign aid.”

“Particularly foreign aid to Israel.”

“And they’re upset that I vote against the wars.”

“These billionaires are funding a super PAC called MAGA Kentucky.”

“They are not MAGA, and they have never been to Kentucky.”

“There will be $6 million spent this week on TV and radio and mail.”

“Fox News, they’ve got a monopoly on the screens in a lot of Republican houses, particularly people between the ages of 65 and 75.”

“For the last 18 months, they’ve not invited me on a single show.”

“They have blacklisted me.”

“I can’t get on TVs in the living rooms of the people that vote in this election unless I can buy TV ads.”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

There is only one thing you need to know about @RepThomasMassie campaign and it’s not even that he’s the best congressman in the country with a voting record second to none.

It’s that the Israel lobby is attempting to unseat a congressman for the crime of exposing them and their disastrous war.

No self respecting nation can allow that to happen.

Don’t believe the bs last minute accusations and betting market shifts. These are obvious signs of a concerted effort.

Just double down, send him money if you can, call whoever you know in his district, share his videos or posts.

We need to win this one.

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Hey @GavinNewsom you can get 420 diapers delivered for free for $86 in just a quick search with no government intervention.

I’m sure if you wanted, Costco or many other retailers would love to help and get those prices down even more to help parents with just a gift card and a coupon code.

Fast and easy..

Why you giving the baby2baby gals $200 of our taxpayers money for 400 diapers?

Don’t they make enough to pay for their glamours lifestyle with all those great galas they throw for their Hollywood Democrat friends?

Are you that ignorant to run the basic numbers? Surely you aren’t that much of a scammer?

This is logical.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.

No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.

The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.

Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.

Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.

Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.

The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”

America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.

Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.

Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.

It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Ok… most of you know I was in the organic baby formula business, but what you don’t know is I dabbled in diapers as well.

I also know this baby2baby “non profit” and have had past interactions with them.. I’ll leave that out for now..

Let’s dive into this absolute grifting nonsense. Prepare to be shocked.

California is about to spend $20 million of taxpayer money to give 100,000 newborns 400 diapers each through Baby2Baby.

Do the math with me:
100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers

$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper!!!!!

Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!

That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers.
So the state is paying 8–10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.

They could’ve just handed every low-income new mom $100 cash and told her to go to Costco. She’d get more diapers, better ones if she wanted, and still have money left for formula, wipes, or whatever the hell she actually needs.

But nah… that wouldn’t let Gavin and his connected “nonprofit” girls running the show there cut ribbons, take photos, do galas and be friends with celebrities and brag about the “first-in-the-nation” program while skimming their cut for “administration” and “partnerships.”

This is peak government stupidity!!!

Spend way more money to feel good and look good, instead of just trusting parents with their own damn money.
We’re not helping babies. We’re funding another bloated nonprofit-government grift.

Math doesn’t lie. The diaper math is brutal.

What a scam and a joke!!!!!

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

[Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow]

The federal government has spent AT LEAST $15 TRILLION on welfare programs since Tupac died in 1996.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

A man in Soviet Russia is told that the car that he ordered will be ready in exactly 10 years.

"What time of the day in 10 years?" he asks the Soviet clerk.

"What are you care??? It's in 10 years from now?!" the surprised clerk asked.

"Because the plumber scheduled to come on that day", the man answered.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Communists think capitalist societies are terrible because they compare them to a utopian ideal.

Capitalists think capitalist societies are terrific because they compare them to the rest of recorded history and what is currently happening everywhere else.

[Con @Con_TheDon]

@Xoen1X @JeremyDLytle73 @pdethomasco @TheLaurenChen You think it’s better to have Slavery?? lol Nice

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

It's crazy to me how Robin Hood is now popularized as "stealing from the rich to give to the poor"

(Socialist messaging)

In reality, Robin Hood stole back the taxes that a cruel leader unjustly levied against the population

(Anti-socialist messaging)

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

Communism is government ownership of human beings and the product of their labor. It has no place in a civilized world.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

No, Christianity does not promote or require socialism. And it is not at odds with capitalism.

The idea that socialism is a biblical model requires you to ignore the difference between willing generosity and forced redistribution. When the early church in Acts shared resources, it was voluntary; it wasn't mandated by the state. Peter acknowledged private property rights and so did the ten commandments. Stealing is only wrong if private property ownership is a given. Same with coveting.

All virtues require freedom, including charity. Socialism removes the freedom and kills the virtue. If the state takes your wealth and gives it to someone else, you've been taxed. You haven't been "generous" because it had nothing to do with your heart.

Capitalism creates wealth — so there's something to share — and respects our individual freedom to share it. The charity that results from the wealth that's created is real charity; it's actually an act of loving one's neighbor. And it isn't just theoretical or idealistic. Free markets paired with Christian values have produced the wealthiest, freest, and most generous societies in history.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Happy Easter. I hope you are able to celebrate this holiday with family!

[Tom McClellan @McClellanOsc]

Almost no one thinks that giving 30-60% of their own money to the government is acceptable. But a sufficient majority think it is okay for that to happen to someone else's money.