John Fund

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[The Free Press @TheFP]

"The DSA platform offers a utopian vision that erases the complexities of human life."

[John Fund @johnfund]

Emirates Unveils U-Dream Headrest: Finally a Real Improvement In the Back of the Bus. Other airlines should emulate this. emuoahttps://onemileatatime.com/news/emirates-u-dream-headrest-economy/

[John Fund @johnfund]

Marco Rubio says Venezuela’s democratic transition will begin in early August. Finally. A good sign. https://t.co/RjDcPC6l2u via @elpaisinenglish

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega says the country will hold no further elections—to prevent opposition coming to power.

Nicaragua's Ortega regime sits on the UN committee that oversees the work of all UN-accredited non-governmental human rights organizations.
https://t.co/FeOMejJSm9

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.

The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.

The American people deserve to know. https://t.co/ulHF9qiDTY

[newzy.com @realnewzy]

The real reason Odysseus took 10 years to get home

[John Fund @johnfund]

Nicaraguan Leader Says He Plans to Abolish Elections. The Communist Leader Is Tired of Committing Fraud, So To Hell With The Pretense. Will Progressives Attack Him? https://t.co/YSnHzxbMZV

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

He knows his base.

[John Fund @johnfund]

just don't the humanoid robots join a teachers union.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

New York school district to become one of the first in the United States to introduce a humanoid robot in the classroom.

'Sally' will have a Western New York accent and will teach 11th and 12th-grade students at Salamanca High School.

Sally costs less than the average teacher's salary in New York, with a price tag of $57,000.

The robot has brown hair, and can move its arms and legs, but will not be able to walk around the classroom.

Students will be able to log in so the humanoid can recognize students and their previous interactions.

The humanoid will be helping teach coding, robotics, and AI classes.

The school district promises that robots will "never" replace human teachers.

‘Sally’ is made by Realbotix, which also produces "companion" robots.

What are we doing here?

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “Your family came here from Peru really in the middle of the heat of the Shining Path. They were Maoist communist guerrillas in Peru. So why did your family come to America?”

New York City DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo: “The economic situation in South America and Peru was in a really bad place… much of what we could say was responsible for that actually was the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism. In many cases, it is actually what brings immigrants to the U.S. coming out of Latin America.”

Martha MacCallum: “They come here because they don’t like the imposition of American imperialism in the country that they’re in.”

Gustavo Gordillo: “Yes…”

Martha MacCallum: “That doesn’t make much sense.”

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The Eastern Columbia art deco masterpiece that mogs the modern LA skyline was built in 9 months during the Great Depression.

Down the street, the Graffiti Towers have been under construction for the last 11 years.

Don’t let communists run your city.

[John Fund @johnfund]

New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham ignores history in taking sledgehammer to Thatcher's legacy.

[John O'Sullivan @JohnOSullivanNR]

Quite true. Within five years of Mrs. Thatcher's first election, Britain became the fourth largest economy in the world. It'a almost courageous of Andy Burnham to proclaim loudly and repeatedly that he wants to reverse that. Guess what, he probably will.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates says school choice "will destroy any mention of public schools."

She sends her kid to a private school.

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Imagine...

You escape MAOIST terrorist guerrillas in Peru.

Come to America.

Work at Wendy's and your wife as a house cleaner.

Your son goes to YALE and then becomes a communist trying to do the same to America and says you fled capitalism.

God, have mercy on all of us.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

It was great to see so many foreigners enjoy themselves in the US and have positive reactions to Americans.

But some of this was sad because it was clear that many had absurd preconceived notions due to mass media in their countries, especially in Europe.

Like Mark Twain said, those who don’t read newspapers are uninformed; those who do are misinformed.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

The New York DSA co-chair says his parents fled Peru to escape what he calls “the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism.”
Their solution? They moved to America.
This sounds like the level of illogic that was the hallmark of my freshman year political science classes at UC Berkeley. He doesn’t realize he is not making a talking point as much as giving an example that collapses his entire argument.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Socialists aren't hypocrites. They're just liars. They are wealthy, privileged, downwardly-mobile losers who resent their father for being successful. So, they aim to destroy successful people and successful societies because that success reminds them of their loserdom.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

The Senate is the one part of the Constitution that is not subject to abolishment via amendment.

The socialists are acknowledging they want to get rid of the entire Constitution.