Kevin Reed

Ex-fighter pilot, PhD from USC, Tennessee Volunteer football fan, reads the Bible daily

[Peter Burns @PeterBurnsESPN]

On this Veteran's Day.....Revisiting one of the legends of the @SEC

General Robert Reese Neyland.

The namesake of @Vol_Football's stadium.

His story is UNREAL

[Kevin Reed @FloriVol]

@BigOrangePunch Gee guys, save some chicks for the rest of us.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Leftist lie: The world was free until whites enslaved us.
Reality: Every people kept slaves until whites ended it.

Leftist lie: The world was prosperous until capitalists made wealth scarce.
Reality: Scarcity was the default until capitalism created plenty.

[Smartacus @fivestarmichael]

The solution is to have a Federal government so small it hardly matters who is in charge.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Communism never needed to win the Cold War. It just needed a discipline that makes central planning sound like science. That discipline exists. It's called macroeconomics, and it's the most effective tool the planners ever built. No tanks, no gulags. Just equations, a PhD, and a monopoly on money.

Here's why. Macroeconomics rests on a handful of primitives: core concepts presented as self-evident truths, on which the whole edifice is built. Remove them one by one, and nothing is left standing. Let's go.

GDP. The sacred metric, the one that decides whether a government succeeded or failed. Except it measures activity, not wealth. A hurricane that flattens a city makes GDP go up, because everything has to be rebuilt. Bastiat explained this back in 1850 with the broken window: you see the glazier's work, you don't see what the owner would have done with his money if the window had stayed intact. Worse, government spending enters GDP at cost, regardless of whether it's useful. A bureaucrat filling out forms nobody reads "produces" exactly as much as his salary. Keynes himself, in the General Theory, explained that burying banknotes in old coal mines and letting private enterprise dig them back up would cure unemployment. When your main metric can't tell the difference between digging holes and creating value, it's not a measuring tool. It's a justification tool.

The aggregate. All of macro rests on the idea that you can add up things that don't add up. "Demand." "Investment." "Consumption." As if a waiter and an engineer building a datacenter were doing the same thing because they sit in the same column. The economy only exists in its structure: who produces what, for whom, with what capital, at what moment. Aggregation erases exactly what matters. It's like studying a forest by computing the average height of the trees.

The representative agent. For decades, the models guiding central banks assumed a single household representing the entire population. One. Eight billion people with different tastes, plans, constraints and knowledge, reduced to a single equation. But the economy is heterogeneity. If everyone were identical, nobody would trade anything.

Equilibrium. The models describe an economy that tends toward a stable state. Reality never stops. Every day an entrepreneur discovers an opportunity, another goes bankrupt, a technology makes a job obsolete. The economy is a discovery process, not a state. Building your theory on equilibrium is like studying a river by assuming it doesn't flow.

The multiplier. The Keynesian primitive par excellence: one dollar of government spending creates more than one dollar of activity. If that were true, France would be the richest country on earth. It spends around 57% of GDP through the state, the highest in the OECD, with debt above 110% of GDP and anemic growth for twenty years. Many empirical studies find a multiplier below 1, sometimes close to zero. Of course they do: every dollar the state spends was first taken from someone, either today through taxes or tomorrow through debt.

The paradox of thrift. They tell you saving is dangerous because it reduces demand. It's the exact opposite. Savings are tomorrow's capital. They fund the factory, the machine, the startup. No civilization ever got rich by eating its seed corn. A theory that turns prudence into a vice and spending into a virtue isn't an economic theory. It's a theory of debt.

The general price level. Inflation is measured by an average index, chosen and calculated by the state. In the eurozone, the official index doesn't even include the cost of owning your home. The biggest expense of your life, missing from the measurement. And an average hides everything: when money printing sends real estate and stocks to the moon while TVs get cheaper, the index says "inflation under control." The young guy who can't buy an apartment says something else.

The 2% target. They present as a success a policy whose explicit goal is to destroy the value of your money. At 2% a year, your savings lose half their purchasing power in 35 years. That's the target. Not the failure. The target.

The natural rate. Central bankers set rates based on a "neutral interest rate," r-star. Nobody has ever observed it. It's estimated by models, with enormous error bands, by the very people who set the rates. They steer the economy by a variable that's invisible and that they compute themselves. It's an astrologer reading the future in a star chart he drew himself.

Now, the high priests.

Piketty. His entire thesis fits in r > g: the return on capital exceeds growth, so inequality mechanically explodes. Problem: he compares the return on a stock with the growth of a flow. Piketty's r is a gross return, before taxes, before heirs consume it, before it's split among children, before bankruptcies. In real life, fortunes don't compound forever: companies die, heirs spend, capital depreciates. And when you look closely at the rise in the capital-to-income ratio, a large share of it comes from housing. In other words, from rising real estate prices, fueled by low interest rates and supply choked by regulation. The inequality Piketty denounces is largely manufactured by the monetary and zoning policies he never questions. He treats the fever by adding more virus. And he doesn't hide his conclusion: in Capital and Ideology, he calls for a progressive wealth tax up to 90% on the largest fortunes, "temporary ownership," and "participatory socialism." He calls it moving beyond capitalism.

Zucman. Same confusion, tax edition. The Zucman tax: 2% a year on wealth above €100 million, the French version of the billionaire tax he's been pushing with Saez in the US for years. Except a large fortune isn't a pile of cash sitting somewhere. It's not money being held. It's shares in companies, valued at the last trade price. A stock of claims on future flows. A founder whose startup is worth a billion on paper, but pays no dividends, would have to come up with $20 million in cash every year. From where? By selling shares. Which means gradually losing control of his company, to foreign funds that don't pay the tax. And if every large fortune sells at once, prices drop, and the wealth the tax claimed to measure evaporates. Taxing a stock as if it were a flow is exactly Piketty's mistake. That's not a coincidence. It's the same school of thought.

Now take each primitive and look at where it leads. Demand is insufficient? The state must spend. Saving is dangerous? Tax it, or erode it with inflation. GDP is slowing? Stimulus. Prices fluctuate? A committee must set the price of money. Inequality is rising? Tax capital. Every single concept, without exception, leads to the same conclusion: more power for the state and for those who run it. Not one primitive of macroeconomics ever concludes "leave people alone."

A science discovers results it didn't expect. Macro always lands in the same place. That's the mark of a doctrine, not of knowledge. It's not a tool for understanding the economy. It's a tool for running it. And running the economy from a central office, with centralized money and centralized credit, is exactly what the Communist Manifesto proposed in 1848. Plank five: centralization of credit in the hands of the state, through a national bank with an exclusive monopoly.

Communism didn't die in 1991. It changed its vocabulary. It no longer talks about class struggle. It talks about aggregate demand, multipliers and taxing capital. It no longer wears a cap. It wears a PhD. And it no longer seizes the factories. It seizes the unit of measurement of everything the factories produce.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Si vous ne posséderez rien, alors une question devient obligatoire.

Qui possédera tout ?

Personne ne la pose. Moi je la pose. Et la réponse est sous vos yeux depuis 30 ans.

Marx voulait centraliser les moyens de production entre les mains de l'État. Ça a échoué partout, dans le sang et la pénurie. Mais l'idée n'est jamais morte. Elle a juste appris à ne plus se présenter sous son nom.

Le communisme du XXe siècle confisquait les usines par la force. Celui du XXIe ne confisque rien. Il régule, il taxe, il subventionne, il oriente. Et à la fin, vous êtes toujours propriétaire sur le papier, mais vous ne décidez plus de rien.

C'est ça, le projet européen dans sa version finale. Et je vais vous le démontrer, moyen de production par moyen de production.

La terre. Votre agriculteur ne décide plus ce qu'il plante, comment il le plante, ni à quel prix il vend. Bruxelles décide via la PAC, les normes, les quotas, les accords de libre-échange signés au-dessus de sa tête. Il est propriétaire de sa ferme comme un locataire est propriétaire de ses meubles.

L'énergie. Le prix de votre électricité est fixé par un marché européen indexé sur le gaz, alors que la France produit l'une des électricités les moins chères du monde grâce au nucléaire. Qui décide ? Pas vous.

L'industrie. Quotas carbone, normes, taxonomie verte qui dit aux banques quelles entreprises ont le droit d'être financées. Interdiction votée des moteurs thermiques neufs en 2035. On ne nationalise plus l'usine. On lui dicte ce qu'elle a le droit de produire.

La monnaie. Une banque centrale non élue fixe le prix de l'argent pour tout le continent. Et maintenant, l'euro numérique : une monnaie programmable émise directement par cette même institution.

Votre épargne. Bruxelles a désormais un plan officiel pour "orienter" les milliers de milliards d'euros que les Européens ont sur leurs comptes vers les "priorités stratégiques" de l'Union. Votre argent, leurs priorités.

La dette. En 2020, l'Union a franchi la ligne qu'elle avait juré de ne jamais franchir : 750 milliards d'euros de dette commune. Un pouvoir budgétaire central, sans peuple européen pour le contrôler.

Terre, énergie, industrie, monnaie, épargne, dette. Tout. Remonte. Au même endroit.

Une technostructure que personne n'a élue, que personne ne peut renvoyer, et dont personne ne connaît le visage de ceux qui écrivent vraiment les textes.

Et qui a accès à cette technostructure ?

Pas vous. Pas votre maire. Pas votre député.

Ceux qui ont des bureaux à Bruxelles. Des dizaines de milliers de lobbyistes. Et des milliardaires qui ont compris bien avant tout le monde que c'est là que le pouvoir se déplaçait.

George Soros a sa propre structure de lobbying à Bruxelles via l'Open Society. Il a cofinancé la création du Conseil européen des relations étrangères, l'un des think tanks les plus influents du continent. En 2020, il plaidait publiquement pour que l'Union émette une dette perpétuelle commune. Quelques mois plus tard, l'Union lançait sa première grande dette commune. Il finance des milliers d'ONG qui viennent ensuite "représenter la société civile" dans les consultations de la Commission.

Bill Gates, lui, est devenu le premier contributeur de l'OMS, une organisation dont les recommandations ont dicté les politiques sanitaires de l'Europe entière pendant le Covid. Il est le plus grand propriétaire privé de terres agricoles aux États-Unis. Sa fondation finance des rubriques entières dans de grands médias européens. Un homme qui n'a jamais reçu une seule voix pèse plus lourd dans la santé mondiale que la plupart des gouvernements élus.

Ils n'ont pas besoin de contrôler. Ils financent, ils conseillent, ils pilotent les experts que la Commission consulte. Le système est conçu pour que ceux qui ont l'argent et l'accès écrivent les règles, et que ceux qui votent les subissent.

Et quand ce système est corrompu, on le voit.

Qatargate : des valises de billets saisies au cœur du Parlement européen.

Pfizergate : la présidente de la Commission négocie par SMS des contrats de vaccins portant sur des milliards de doses, refuse de rendre les messages publics, et se fait désavouer par la justice européenne pour ce refus.

Voilà la démonstration complète.

On vous a appris que le communisme, c'était l'État qui possède tout. La version moderne est plus intelligente : une technostructure qui contrôle tout, alimentée par une poignée de milliardaires qui financent l'idéologie, et un peuple qui garde des titres de propriété vides de tout pouvoir.

Vous ne posséderez rien. Eux, si.

La souveraineté, ce n'est pas un slogan. C'est la capacité d'un peuple à décider de ce qu'il produit, de ce qu'il mange, de ce qu'il paie et de ce qu'il transmet. Chaque compétence transférée à Bruxelles est un moyen de production qui vous échappe.

Partagez. Ce débat ne passera jamais au 20h.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

What’s the source of the many hypocrisies and obvious absurdities of the left?

We can point them out at mock the left.

We can blame shallowness, emotionalism, lack of historical or economic knowledge etc.

But there’s something more basic going on.

Leftism is about power, not truth.

So facts and consistency play a minimal part in the positions they develop.

“Does this thing I say or do right now help the cause?”

That’s their primary concern. Logic or longer-term results mean little when they can score a win for “the struggle” in this argument or that policy.

They consider the entire concept of objective reality as “bourgeoisie” in the old language, or racist/sexist in the new.

For liberty lovers, power corrupts. For leftists, power is their religion.

[TheRabbitHole @TheRabbitH0LZ]

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And they have you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say.

Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.

One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched

Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism.

500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs.

The signs were ready before you were even angry.

AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power.

VOTE RED RED RED on November 3rd

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Hitler was a leftist:

✅ identity politics
✅ collectivism
✅ statism
✅ command economy
✅ censorship
✅ social engineering
✅ militant activism
✅ gun control
✅ rule by laws
✅ politicisation of academia, judiciary and civil service

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

It's been months that I keep saying Hitler was far left. Every time, thousands of clowns show up in my replies to give me history lessons.

So I made a video to answer all these low IQ takes at once.

Topic closed. Next.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This chick is dangerous. This is open sedition…and she needs to face the consequences. Period.
@ElissaSlotkin

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Elissa Slotkin and the people who think like her are a more pressing threat to American citizens’ freedom than Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin is a threat.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."

Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."

I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.

The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.

Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.

Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.

Where does it come from? Four layers.

First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.

Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.

Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.

Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.

The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.

Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.

On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.

But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.

This is where men have a responsibility.

Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.

Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.

That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.

Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.

A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.

Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.

Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.

[♦️GAYE GALLOPS♦️ @gaye_gallops]

WHAT AND WHO ARE BEHIND THE RIOTS

There Are Three Main Reasons For The Riots

♦️”Liberalism Is Fused with Islamism”♦️

And So Much More, Brilliant Summation!

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank God some women are finally getting it.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

My beef with Abdul:

He says he’s a doctor. He’s not. He’s unlicensed.

He’s for abolishing the police. He deleted the tweet, but CNN found it.

His staff denied he’s a dual citizen w Egypt. Video shows Abdul saying he’s a dual citizen and he summered in Egypt.

He refuses to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.

He blames terrorism on America’s policies.

He calls Israel bloodthirsty. Who uses that language?

He says he hasn’t taken a penny of corporate contributions, but his FEC report shows he received $1.9 million in contributions from 629 corporate executives, including from Nvidia, Google and Pfizer.

Abdul is a conman.

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

I didn’t Vote Trump for lower gas prices

I voted for him to burn the entire corrupt system down.

[Jack @jackunheard]

Gas can come back down.

A communist government does not.

I’m voting Republican.

[Kevin Reed @FloriVol]

@DefiyantlyFree Psalm 131:1 “Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.”

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Jesus never commanded the government to do anything. He commanded His disciples. Redistribution of wealth and feeding the hungry is not a communal project. It’s also not a collective project and it has nothing to do with the government.

That is a entrusted to individual believers and the church. Not the state.