Jeff Gilder

TV Production, Media Marketing, Streaming, and Sports Entertainment. Lifelong Entrepreneur. Loving life, family, golf, dirt racing, and pets.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

If you're looking for "non-fedslop" posts surrounding the Kirk assassination that are actually grounded in reality, this is it.👇

NGOs have long selected Utah as a ground zero pilot for social engineering programs based on foreign conflict resolution / regime change techniques, as @iamlisalogan and @ConceptualJames have been reporting for a long time.

The most concerning of those projects is the Dignity Index, which can only be described as a speech social credit scoring system. These and other UN/bridge-building adjacent efforts occurred at Utah state universities including UVU.

So the most divisive political assassination most in recent United States memory happened at one of those universities. Note that Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs were all incubated in this experimental ecosystem.

So, to institutionally protect themselves, these NGOs all got on a phone within hours and convened a giant emergency gathering. Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) registered turntoward[.]us the day after Charlie's death. They leveraged political and media contacts to use the opportunity to further Dignity Index as a solution to Kirk's assassination, disguising themselves as the solution rather than questioning why for all their efforts UVU was the home to the assassination.

These NGOs would go onto publicly celebrate the increase in membership and support they received in the days after Kirk's assassination.

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@dogwoodblooms Yea but…🤷‍♂️

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@Cernovich reordered. Thanks

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

Awesome!

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

If you want to see witless, privileged, astonishingly hypocritical leftist women lost for words and unable to even look at the camera..... I suggest that if you only watch one video on X every year you watch this one. It is unmissably brilliant.

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

Hands down, best post I’ve read today.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🏛️ Senator Mark Warner: Deep Dive

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) — senior senator from Virginia since 2009, former governor (2002–2006), and one of the wealthiest members of Congress with an estimated net worth north of $215 million.

His path to power is a classic revolving-door story: tech entrepreneur → venture capitalist → governor → senator. He co-founded the wireless carrier Nextel and ran Columbia Capital, a venture capital firm. He didn’t just get rich — he got rich in telecommunications, a heavily regulated industry where his political connections and spectrum-trading savvy were the whole game.

💰 Donors & Financial Entanglements

Top Campaign Contributors (Historical)

From 2008 through 2014, his top-ten list reads like a who’s-who of Wall Street and the security state:

- JPMorgan Chase — one of the biggest banks in the world, deeply entangled in government bailouts and Fed liquidity

- The Blackstone Group — the private equity behemoth that profits from financialization and asset-stripping

- Columbia Capital — his own VC firm (self-funding as a permanent incumbent)

- BlackRock — interestingly, BlackRock contributions only started flowing after Warner personally bought shares in the BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund in 2011

That’s not a donor list. That’s a governing coalition of finance capital.

The most recent individual donor data shows an interesting pattern — a single donor, Katherine M. Buchanan, at $88,670, dwarfing all others. That’s not grassroots enthusiasm. That’s concentrated access-buying.

Wealth & Conflicts

Warner’s net worth makes him the wealthiest Democrat in Congress and the 7th wealthiest overall. He built that fortune trading cellular spectrum — a government-granted monopoly resource. His entire business career was arbitraging regulatory privilege, and now he writes the laws governing those same industries.

🕵️ The Surveillance State’s Best Friend

This is where Warner’s record goes from typical swamp creature to genuinely dangerous.

FISA Section 702

Warner is the Senate’s chief Democratic advocate for warrantless mass surveillance. As Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he’s been the lead negotiator pushing to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA — the program that lets intelligence agencies vacuum up Americans’ communications without warrants.

The pattern is well-established: Warner promises future privacy reforms to get reauthorization through, then those reforms never materialize. Civil liberties groups have repeatedly called this out. Sean Vitka of Demand Progress put it bluntly:

“Sen. Warner’s opposition to Bill Pulte masks the fact that he is still the Democrats’ chief advocate for handing over unchecked spying powers... By focusing on Pulte and not broader reforms, Sen. Warner is not standing up for Americans or the Constitution; he is disguising his work to engineer warrantless mass surveillance against us.”

He’s been caught in a telling contradiction. When Trump appointed unqualified loyalist Bill Pulte as acting DNI, Warner suddenly found his voice on “qualifications” — but only on personnel, never on the system itself. He explicitly said he’s “less worried” about Pulte when it comes to 702, and told Dana Bash on CNN that the real risk to national security is Trump’s appointment, not the warrantless surveillance itself.

The American Prospect captured the dynamic perfectly: “The leadership of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees are political captives of the intelligence community.” Warner isn’t overseeing the surveillance state — he’s its legislative bodyguard.

The Intelligence Committee Trap

Here’s the structural rot: Intelligence Committee leaders like Warner have effectively captured oversight of surveillance law, even though the Judiciary Committee has primary jurisdiction. The result is a committee full of members who get briefed on classified programs, develop institutional loyalty to the agencies, and then block meaningful reform — all while claiming they can’t discuss the details because they’re classified.

It’s a closed loop: secret briefings → claims of necessity → no public debate → reauthorization.

🔥 Recent Controversies

The Jay Jones Donation Scandal (2025)

Warner’s campaign donated $25,000 to Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones, and the two shared a joint fundraising page on ActBlue. Then it emerged that Jones had:

- Compared a Republican colleague to Hitler and Pol Pot

- Said if given “two bullets” he’d use both to shoot that colleague in the head

- Added that the colleague’s wife should have to watch his “fascist children” die

- Was separately accused of suggesting that if more police officers were killed, they’d shoot fewer people

Warner called the texts “appalling” but refused to call for Jones to drop out or return the money. His office didn’t even respond to press inquiries about it.

The NRSC hammered him: “Mark Warner has endorsed, donated to, and fundraised with Jay Jones, but won’t say whether he still supports him to be Virginia’s Attorney General after Jones called for the murder of a political opponent and his children.”

For a guy who constantly denounces “political violence,” the silence was deafening.

The Graham Platner Dodge (2026)

When Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner — a Democrat — faced allegations of emotional abuse, physical roughness, and volatile behavior from multiple ex-partners, Warner’s response was classic establishment evasion:

- Called the allegations “disturbing” if true
- Said he’s “never met” Platner, was that a lie?
- Punted entirely to voters: “American voters will make those decisions”
- Then, bizarrely, compared Platner’s situation to Trump’s Access Hollywood tape, essentially normalizing the behavior

Translation: when it’s a Democrat who might help flip a Senate seat, the standards evaporate. He couldn’t even bring himself to say Platner should drop out — just that Platner should “attempt to disprove” the allegations.

🏭 The Bigger Picture

Warner is a near-perfect specimen of the managerial elite that runs the national security and financial wings of the Democratic Party:

1. Wealth from regulated industry — built a fortune trading government-granted spectrum rights

2. Revolving-door governance — went from telecom VC to governor to senator with no friction

3. Wall Street funding — top donors are the biggest banks and private equity firms

4. Surveillance-state advocacy — the Senate’s most reliable Democrat for warrantless spying powers

5. Partisan double standards — denounces violence when convenient, goes silent when it’s his own side

6. AI hype-man — positioning himself as the Senate’s AI expert, which in practice means ensuring tech giants get to write the rules

He’s not a cartoon villain. He’s something more insidious: a competent, well-spoken, “bipartisan” operator who reliably delivers for the donor class and the intelligence community while maintaining a moderate-sounding public face. The bipartisanship is real — but it’s bipartisanship within the narrow band of elite consensus on surveillance, finance, and foreign policy.

The fact that the wealthiest Democrat in Congress is also the party’s lead negotiator on banking, finance, and intelligence legislation tells you everything you need to know about whose interests are actually being represented.

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@mitchellvii Doubtful, Bill. Doubtful.

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@iluminatibot IRS

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@spencerpratt Not merely “ok”.

Anyone who doesn’t love America is a traitor and beneath contempt.

Those who don’t love America, those who are disloyal should be exiled immediately.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Do you know why I'm pissed off on this July 4th? Because I'm seeing the greatest country in the history of the world increasingly bathing in the infinity pool of parasitic suicidal empathy (as has occurred with much of the West). PLEASE activate your inner honey badger and defend American freedom. Do not take American Exceptionalism for granted. Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

This I a great reply.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Clinton,

I'm not going to extend to you the courtesy that your paragraph about lawfare extends to Trump supporters. Because I've studied enough of you, to know what you are truly about.

You were President during the post-Cold War sugar high. I have it thoroughly documented that you and your administration met with George Soros frequently, and in short term changed your policy positions to fit whatever George Soros proposed.

Which was: continuous military intervention all over the world. Starting with the bombing of Yugoslavia. You were the original neoconservative. Madeline Albright used "open society" phrasing in communicating your foreign policy documents. You are a part of the long string of failures of nation-building in the name of democracy, the Western interventions that resulted in millions of mass migrants overwhelming our borders, artificial famines, and us building the infrastructure that enabled China to take over the Africa continent and extract African resources for themselves.

But. Most of all. Those of us -- and there are a good deal many of us -- who have been ruined by lawfare. @GenFlynn sacrificed everything. @JeffClarkUS has had his life ruined and is still rebuilding. At the end of the day, only one President has been the subject of repeated assassination attempts and eighty-plus indictments - and it's President Trump. Not anyone in your orbit.

Seriously, Bill. What do you think when you see that a Democrat gets indicted by a grand jury, and a judge inevitably overturns that indictment on grounds that nobody has heard of? "Oh wow the judges are so wise and saw right through a jury of peers! And that wisdom coincidentally happens to always fall on party lines!" Give me a break.

Every single one of us on the right-wing side knows that when your side regains power, your side will turn the full might of lawfare on us. You will cheer on mass incarcerations. You openly brag about that. You even toe the line of threatening to jail current military members if they don't refuse orders from Pete Hegseth.

You are the evil one here. You cheer on the burning of our cities. You cheer on lawfare of Republicans. You never apologized for the millions of lives disrupted all over the world. You never say a word about the billions or even trillions of dollars that have been robbed by your friends through corrupt NGOs.

The fact that none of you are in jail, proves that we are the powerless ones here. You're just afraid that someone sees you for you who are, and you secretly know that image is ugly.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Elon Musk just posted “AOC is an actor”

He’s 100% correct, and here’s the proof. AOC was chosen to be in Congress by a Democrat casting call. She’s a political actor that was picked out of 10,000 applicants

AOC’s brother submitted her application and she was chosen by the Executive Director of Justice Democrats Out Of 10,000 Candidates

It’s all on camera. There is even footage of AOC and Alexandra Rojas both confirming this on camera

“Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not really the congresswoman of New York's 14th congressional district. She is essentially an actress. She's merely playing the part of a New York congresswoman. I know this sounds crazy, but bear with me. In 2017, a group called the Justice Democrats held auditions for potential congressional candidates that they would run on their platform for various congressional seats throughout the country. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's brother Gabriel submitted her for the role”

- In 2017 Justice Democrats, a progressive PAC founded by former Bernie Sanders staffers and allies put out a public call for congressional candidates
- They received over 10,000 nominations
- AOC’s younger brother, Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez, submitted her name. AOC was working as a bartender

Justice Democrats vetted nominees and chose AOC. They then trained her and installed her as their candidate

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@Cernovich There’s a lot of weak dick bitches out there. Rock on.

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@justmeagain34 100%

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

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[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@RBReich Dumb post of the day

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@NUCLRGOLF 210 - 220

[Jeff Gilder @jeffgilder]

@BitsofBurke @NUCLRGOLF Ha!😂