@realtimsharp blocked me already after raising valid arguments critical of Massie. A grown man with 30K+ followers and whose job is live online is too dumb to defend his own principles. For the love of god stop listening to idiots we are never going to out of this mess
🚨 Owen Shroyer says he’s voting for Democrats to “stop [Trump’s] administration.”
“The only answer might be Democrats getting in there and stopping Trump… from all the damage he’s doing to this country! Wake up!... You have been sold out!”
4am-7am are Dad hours
3 hours to build yourself for the other 21
Early, before anyone needs you
Your kids, your wife, your job
3 hours yours to be spent how you want
Hours you can be selfish with
Hours you can spend building a stronger version of you so you can be stronger for everyone else who needs you the rest of the day
JD Vance is getting a lot of heat for this video. But all he’s saying is that the private sector and public sector have been melded to a point of being indistinguishable.
This is the correct view for example of how Facebook wasn’t “just a private company” when getting instructions from the FBI on what to censor.
Defending corporations that are propped up by regulatory capture or controlled by the government as being “free market” is the worst thing you could possibly do to make people appreciate property rights.
Zuckerberg was under extreme pressure to moderate his platform to stop Trump and he was testifying in congress begging for broad regulation so he could comply and censor people without losing users to more free platforms.
This is supposed to be a key libertarian insight. When you centrally plan an industry through a federal regulatory body run by unaccountable bureaucrats you aren’t protecting consumers from an asymmetry of power with large corporations.
You are creating a single access point from which the largest corporations can control the entire market.
That is what happened. That’s our current reality. The American Medical Association makes the rules for all doctors, enforced through coordinated state licensing monopolies. And big pharma tells them what to write.
Government has an incentive to protect their industry partners from competition. The fewer companies in the industry and the more dependent those companies are on government favors, the easier it is to “force behaviors” as Larry Fink of BlackRock once said.
This is why Target and McDonald’s enforced masks mandates but your mom and pop corner shop did not.
It’s not fair to accuse JD of being a socialist for pointing this out.
In fact anyone who is not mentioning the degree to which our supposed market system is already compromised by central planning is covering for socialism.
This admin is making more progress in pushing back on regulatory capture than anyone in 100 years. They’ve massively reduced regulations and fired so many federal bureaucrats we’re back down to 1960’s numbers.
But there is still a huge way to go in unwinding a hundred year progressive march through the institutions, and it won’t be easy. Especially while simultaneously managing the fallout of a consequently destroyed culture.
If people can’ deal with this problem without getting caught in semantic pitfalls and you compromise the best faith efforts to address it as a result, then you’re gonna end up fulfilling your own prophesy by giving power back to the left and creating the atmosphere for exactly the kind of counter productive reactionary socialist backlash you’re afraid of.
@AndrewDesiderio This is why young conservatives cannot stand the feckless GOP. Just a group of self-absorbed morons who are looking for friendly headlines rather than doing the work constituents want. I hate them all
@AlphaNews Shocking that a Republican running in Minnesota supports the middle of the road position on deportations. Are people really that stupid? He wants to win and he’s undoubtedly better than any Democrat. He will fall in line thereafter if he wants any sort of political future
The American people are demanding immediate action from Congress on election integrity. That’s why the SAVE America Act is the first bill I am cosponsoring in the Senate.
These reforms are common sense and need to be enacted quickly. I look forward to working closely with @POTUS to get the SAVE America Act signed into law.