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[Handre @Handre]

Ayn Rand's most important lesson: Production comes before distribution. You cannot divide a pie nobody baked.

Every politician inverts that order. They argue over who gets what slice, how to tax the baker, how to redistribute the flour, as if the loaf simply materialized like manna. Rand called this out for what it is. Wealth is created by specific people doing specific things: Hank Rearden smelting metal, John Galt building a motor. Take those people away and you're left with committees drafting memos about fairness while the lights go dark.

The entrepreneur is not a parasite skimming off labor. He directs scarce resources toward their most urgent uses, and he eats the loss when he guesses wrong. No bureaucrat carries that risk. This is what Ludwig von Mises spent his career proving in denser prose.

Rand's villains aren't cartoon capitalists. They're the moochers who demand the moral sanction of their victims: the industrialist who lobbies for a subsidy, the intellectual who calls envy "social justice." She hated the crony as much as the commissar.

[JimmyJim @JimmyJimStidham]

@BurnieSendersX "There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." — Ayn Rand

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism-by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."

— Ayn Rand

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The communist always must destroy your history. History is what attaches you to something. Memories make a home. The communist attacks your history to unmoor you from your home, so you won’t fight him when he demolishes it and renovates it in his image.

[sourcery @sourceryy]

.@friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt":

"People don't realize how screwed California is. I worry that if California falls, so does the union."

"We're $250 billion to $1 trillion short."

"If it was the federal government, they would just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits."

"There's a Supreme Court case in California that said once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever."

"And the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it."

"No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."

" This isn't about taxes and Billionaire Tax Act. I don't think you can tax your way out of this problem. People will just leave the state."

"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country and we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."

At the @HillValleyForum 2026

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

America is a place, merged with an idea. Americans are those here who agree to this idea. The idea is that anything is possible and that you can live your life the way you want, so long as that way does not impinge on others’ ability to live the way they want.
As the current custodians of America, we will keep this idea sacred, so that it is healthy and alive for those who come after us. Just like those of the past 250 years did for us. Happy 4th of July.

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

Proud to have been asked to narrate the WW II Veterans Honors at the White House, in Wash DC, July 4th. I will be standing proudly next to TEN living veterans of WW II. The greatest generation.!!!

[JimmyJim @JimmyJimStidham]

@genesimmons Thanks man!

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Socialism is the deadliest ideology in history. Why are we choosing this?

[Olia @OliaOnX]

🇺🇸🗽I left Moscow, USSR in 1989 as a political refugee. I was stateless and allowed only two suitcases and $100. I didn’t know if I would ever see my parents again or what the future would hold. As I boarded the plane, I remember thinking that I was leaving not for myself, but for the children I might one day have - because I couldn’t imagine succeeding in a country I wasn’t born into and knew almost nothing about.

Thirty-six years later, I am still in awe of everything America has given me. As an immigrant, I appreciate this nation on a level that many who were born here simply cannot. The freedom of speech, the Constitution, the boundless opportunities, and that unique American spirit are unmatched anywhere on Earth.

I am deeply grateful.

Happy 250th birthday, America. I love you with all my heart.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Marco Rubio laid this out beautifully. It’s a good watch.

There is a major difference between immigration and mass migration.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Holy shit, I love this.

Watch.

He's amazing.

[JimmyJim @JimmyJimStidham]

Who is Elon Musk?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@FoxNews Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Alex Karp on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani:

“Obviously someone who has no work experience ever, who has views that have never worked, should not be put in charge of the most important enterprise of its kind, maybe in the world.”

[JimmyJim @JimmyJimStidham]

@nickshirleyy “When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.”
~Ayn Rand

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

The SCOTUS ruling on Election Day is an insult to every California voter and an affront to democracy.

Do these justices realize you don't even need a postmark? That you can BACKDATE ballots by HAND?

This will fire us up. We will beat the corrupt machine. Change is Coming. ✊

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Newsom would rather tax billionaires than:
- Figure out where $24 billion for the homeless went
- Stop funding California’s NGO scams
- Waste $14 billion on a train to nowhere
- Continue using your tax dollars for illegals’ healthcare

Billionaires aren’t the problem, you are.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.

The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.

Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

A majority of Californians believe the state is heading in the wrong direction—we need CHANGE!

This state’s leadership has failed its people and it’s time for a new direction.

Change is coming to California! ☀️