@BillSchulz graces us with showtunes!
Sondheim’s FINEST! Sir!
See the entire hilarious #RedEye Halftime Report from 2011, also featuring @LaurenSivan, here:
https://t.co/QCw7NHyDVr . 🎥
Every great nation has an origin story. Ours is one of courage, sacrifice, and an unwavering desire for freedom. 🇺🇸 Experience America's Road to Liberty. Watch the full series 👇
https://t.co/uPHTWYMWcS
Did you miss President Trump’s Historic 250th Mt Rushmore speech? Here you go, with all notable clips:
Full Speech: https://t.co/b5FQqrCcRP
🔻 NOTABLE CLIPS
At 250 years, America is the oldest REPUBLIC on earth. We are the FREEST people on earth! https://t.co/htlvm29oRJ
These are very very special times… and you live in a very special place. Congratulations everybody https://t.co/STGnkHpSSv
Many nations have paper constitutions and legal systems, but the citizens live in fear and squaller https://t.co/pCgPJCk63w
In America, we speak ENGLISH because that is the language of our founding https://t.co/6aL5uBwp32
He Ended speech at 11:33pm https://t.co/4V3KNnJQHb
Trump Flyover Mt. Rushmore https://t.co/iEwGJM7kVQ
🔻 OTHER
FULL Fireworks Display 🇺🇸 https://t.co/4ZPJie2tXD
The Smiling Conductor https://t.co/ryhICrna1N
U.S. Armed Forces performing Sweet Child of Mine https://t.co/2eywKTwIO9
South Dakota National Guard sings the Star-Spangled Banner! https://t.co/8AB7Kj6tCt
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
@ProGolfCritic@TheMasters@McIlroyRory Rory storming out of Pinehurst after Bryson’s winning putt, not staying & congratulating Bryson… poor sportsmanship embodied and why I’ll never root for the pathetic child.
A month earlier at PGA, Bryson was first off 18th green to shake Xander’s hand 🇺🇸
@Philsbirdsthrow Harry Kalas’ story about what he told Krukker pregame is priceless!
“John, in your first at bat tonight, please swing at the first pitch”
“Why’s that?”
“Because I will not be the man who has to say on national television: ‘that’s One Ball on John Kruk’ “
⚾️🥜
Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way.
Allow me to explain why.
Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots.
Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion.
He spent two nights in the ICU.
There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed.
This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close.
The full story behind today is insane.
In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes.
At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world.
Then everything slowly fell apart.
After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear.
Not regular nerves.
Actual, debilitating terror.
He was afraid he was going to die.
Afraid something was going to happen to his kids.
Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep.
At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour.
He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall.
His hands were trembling.
He had no appetite.
Spasms would jolt him awake at night.
He was losing focus over putts.
Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing.
An MRI finally revealed the cause.
A lesion was growing on his brain.
It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety.
Think about that.
The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation.
His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear.
In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy.
Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye.
They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing.
He walked out of the hospital two days later.
Started putting again two days after that.
He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open.
But he was nowhere near the same player.
In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes.
His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open.
For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers.
And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with.
Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD.
He kept it hidden for over a year.
He described being hypervigilant on the course.
A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was.
He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry.
He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds.
He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone.
He said he felt like he was living a lie.
Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf.
On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly.
He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything.
The PTSD.
The crying.
The fear.
All of it.
He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back.
Then he showed up at Memorial Park.
He opened with a 64.
Then a 63.
Then a 65.
Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out.
259 total.
A tournament record.
21-under par.
Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard.
Wire to wire.
Led every single round.
His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open.
Nearly seven years between victories.
Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see.
This is a guy who was a basketball player first.
He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future.
He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025.
The seventh player to ever receive it.
And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days.
The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here:
https://t.co/5ngVyMCs78
There is a reason this one hits different.
Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries.
Things you can see.
Things that heal on a timeline.
Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain.
Something that turned his own mind against him.
And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical.
It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay.
Three weeks ago he said the words out loud.
Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.
Mark DeRosa is still baseball's Swiss Army knife.
The MLB Network host and Team USA manager built a career as a utility player. He’s taking the same approach in his second act.
@puckempire@LincZdancewicz@MikeMcMahonCHN Lil bitch that Gavin put to sleep can think about his poor life choices while sucking applesauce thru a straw the next 6-8 weeks.
FAFO 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽