Jason

rugged individualist

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Gavin Newsom is doing the thing corrupt politicians always do when the spotlight finally turns back on them.

He's pretending the investigation is the scandal.

It's not.

The scandal is that this man has spent his entire public life inside the gap between power and accountability, and he STILL acts stunned when somebody decides to take a peek behind the curtain.

Gavin is a product of the California lobby machine, the one that trades names and makes sure their guys win.

His whole business career was bankrolled by the billionaire Getty family. But you'll never hear Gavin rage about Getty money. He saves that for Elon.

This is a man whose entire political career is a pattern: overreach, scandal, fines for "irregular" accounting. Over and over.

He had an affair with his own appointments secretary, who happened to be the wife of his campaign manager and best friend.

Btw; she got a $10,154 city payout. Supposedly no wrongdoing. Why are taxpayers paying for Gavin's adultery?

He believes he's above the law. That if it's for the "right reasons," the law is made to be broken. That's what every dictator tells himself.

2004, he issued marriage licenses against state law. Courts voided them.

French Laundry, November 2020. He's got the whole state locked in their homes. He went after Elon for keeping Tesla open, told him to comply or get out of California, played hard-ass enforcer on national TV.

Then he drove up to Napa and threw a $400 plate dinner for lobbyists. Like cmon dude, at least pretend to believe the stuff you say on TV.

(oh and btw, multiple businesses he owns got PPP relief during covid. just saying.)

Beyond that, I don't get how anyone thinks this man is a great governor, let alone honest.

Under his nose, $20B in unemployment fraud, $800M of it mailed to people in prison cells. Has spent $24B on homelessness yet no auditor or taxpayer can tell what happened with the money or if anything changed.

The high speed rail is a running joke, $33B to $100B. No one's buying innocent OR competent.

And then there's his wife.

Her nonprofit paid her $1.8M over the years and routed another $2.1M to her OWN production company.

Then the $20M state diaper program, run through a different nonprofit she co-founded, whose co-CEO sits on her board.

Why is his wife the only person suitable for all these deals? That's family dealing, plain and simple, and it's the exact thread federal investigators are pulling on right now. Her finances. Her taxes. Her nonprofits.

So let's add it up, Gavin.

Your best friend resigned over your affair. Your chief of staff just pleaded guilty to federal fraud. You've got two ethics fines in two years and the state's own enforcer calling it a "pattern of repeated violations." Your wife is pulling millions out of nonprofits and landing state contracts. $20B in fraud walked out the door. $24B on homelessness that vanished. A bullet train that's a national punchline.

And your pitch is that the only reason anyone's asking questions is that Trump doesn't like you? And to be clear, some of these investigations started under the Biden Administration.

Come on, dude.

This is the disease with these people. Decades inside the machine, public money in, private benefit out, no consequences, and the second anyone investigates they wrap themselves in democracy and scream persecution.

But Gavin Newsom thinks scrutiny happens BENEATH him.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

This is why the supporters of @elonmusk work hard to "defend him."

Because it's not about Elon.

He's a symbol of progress.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

government destroys value.

in this case, the value of an American education was destroyed in ~40 years.

if there’s no marketplace for customers (parents of students) to demand value (quality of education for price paid) by simply going to another service provider (school or educator), it is inevitable that costs will go up and quality will go down.

this is true of any service provided by government, which effectively grants itself a monopoly, deleting the opportunity for other service providers to compete in offering better value to customers/citizens…

[TBPN @tbpn]

"The left won, and they don't even appreciate it. The world's first trillionaire has done more to solve environmental problems than everyone else on Earth combined."

@gavinsbaker:

"This is a 'Bond villain' who's decarbonizing the world (last time I checked, people on the left like the environment), connecting people, schools, and hospitals in low-income countries to the internet at very low cost, and helping blind people see and interact with the world today. That's a villain?"

"And there are so many parts to the $SPCX story. All of the blue-collar workers who've gotten super wealthy. If you're opposed to data centers on Earth, because of the environment? Well, SpaceX is your solution."

[Dan Romero @dwr]

the spacex ipo irks libs because they think meritocracy is a lib thing and it turns out meritocracy doesn’t actually exist and the closest thing thing to actual meritocracy is capitalism and they’re bad at it because it rewards risk-taking not credentialism

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸 @billysandytodd]

Elon Musk isn’t stealing from me, Elizabeth Warren is stealing from me.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gavin Newsom tweete sa rage. Le FT le compare à un méchant de James Bond. Le Globe and Mail publie un guide pour le détester. Tout ça le même jour.

Vous voulez comprendre pourquoi la fourmilière s'agite à ce point ? Suivez-moi, c'est fascinant.

Ce matin, Elon Musk est devenu le premier trillionnaire de l'histoire. Pas en héritant. Pas en taxant. Pas en régulant. En construisant des fusées réutilisables, des voitures électriques et un réseau de satellites qui connecte la planète.

Et regardez bien qui panique : ce ne sont jamais les ingénieurs, les artisans, les entrepreneurs, les soignants, les agriculteurs. Ce sont les politiciens, les éditorialistes, les bureaucrates, les activistes professionnels.

Bref, tous ceux dont le métier consiste à commenter, taxer ou redistribuer la valeur créée par les autres.

Leur terreur n'est pas morale. Elle est existentielle. Consciemment ou inconsciemment, ils savent une chose qu'ils ne peuvent avouer à personne, pas même à eux-mêmes : leur action publique ne crée strictement aucune valeur nette.

Tout leur statut repose sur un mensonge confortable, celui du socialiste bureaucrate : "la richesse existe par magie, le problème c'est juste de la répartir, et il faut des gens comme nous pour le faire."

Ce mensonge tenait tant que la création de richesse restait abstraite. Mais Elon est un contre-exemple vivant à l'échelle planétaire. Mille milliards de dollars créés à partir de rien, sous les yeux de tout le monde, en temps réel.

Chaque lancement de Starship est une réfutation publique de leur vision du monde. C'est insupportable. D'où la rage.

"Le système est truqué", dit Newsom. Non Gavin. Le système truqué, c'est celui où l'on devient puissant en distribuant l'argent des autres. Le système d'Elon, c'est celui où l'on devient riche en rendant le lancement spatial 100 fois moins cher.

Et voilà ce qui les terrifie vraiment : dans le monde qu'Elon est en train de construire, le statut ne s'obtient plus par la posture, le diplôme ou la tribune. Il s'obtient en créant quelque chose. Ils vont devoir apprendre un métier. Développer des compétences. Produire.

L'agitation que vous observez, ce n'est pas de l'indignation. C'est le bruit d'une classe sociale entière qui réalise que sa rente touche à sa fin.

Mais je vais finir sur un truc rassurant, parce qu'au fond je les aime bien.

Ne vous inquiétez pas. Dans le monde d'Elon, le gâteau grossit. C'est toute la différence avec votre monde à somme nulle : il y aura de la place pour tout le monde, y compris pour vous.

Vous êtes l'enfant qui pleure parce qu'il a peur de ne pas avoir de Kinder Bueno.

Respirez. Il y aura des Kinder Bueno pour tout le monde.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

men look at the accomplishments of great men in awe. they feel proud, inspired, and want to be great as well. parasites rub their greedy little insect hands together and say "that's mine." ro khanna is a parasite.

[Gay Manc @GayTory]

The face of a million HR managers.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

the modern liberal was raised and cultivated in an environment purged of real debate, logic, and reason.
brainwashed to deny what their own eyes can see and immersed in a monoculture where even minimal divergence from the party talking points meant total and eternal exile

they cannot conceive of people using reason to argue against their pravda approved messages. reason and data are definitionally fascist and whoever tries to argue with them is an enemy.
whenever someone tries to explain things with facts, their only reaction is scorn.
their brains have lost the ability to process information that would make them deviate from the approved message. there's no justification for their beliefs other than dogmatic allegiance.

they can only make this face and say something like "how dare you" or "thats racist" or "that's mean," but they can never tell you why you're wrong. so what comes out is the ad hominem and the appeals to feeling and authority, because their subjective reality cannot afford to be confronted with truth.

and that's also why 𝕏 is so dangerous to them, why free speech is so "problematic", why online media has to be controlled "in the public interest."
the libtard fears nothing more than truth, because truth would force them to accept that their entire worldview is built on a lie and that they've been led to believe in a fairy tale.
they have been fed comforting lies and trained to live in a world decoupled from reality so when reality has to be faced (biological limits, sexual dimorphism, genetic differences), the cognitive dissonance becomes unbearable and their minds short-circuit
the only way to keep functioning is to retreat deeper into the bubble, double down on the narrative, and reject any form of debate that involves logic or facts.
that's also wwhy a lot of them end up medicating themselves just to tolerate the gap between what they were told and what actually exists.

not by chance, the population with the highest reported incidence of mental illness are liberals: it's both true that modern libtardism makes you mentally ill and that mentally ill people find their delusions validated in it

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

The party "fighting fascism" is now backing a guy with a Nazi tattoo.

The party of Believe All Women is backing a guy who left bruises on his ex girlfriend.

Graham Platner says he has PTSD.

That's an insult to vets.

He's a scumbag passing off bad behavior as trauma.

[Marv the Famous Soundcloud Rapper @MountainMarvLad]

"If you drive your car more, you'll need more fuel."

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

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[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Democrats are simply incapable of finding just one normal White guy to represent them on a ballot anywhere in this country. For some reason, it is a physical impossibility. This problem plagues them without geographic bounds, from the West Coast and the heartland to Maine. It’s insane.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“And what is that I hear? That note of urgency, of indignation, of spiritual hunger. Yes, it's Beethoven. It's the sound of European man once more reaching for something beyond his grasp.”

Kenneth Clark

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

"[Britain] dominated the world despite being small because of institutions, ideas and character—and the luck of being an island so we could develop very differently to Europe. Institutions, ideas and character repeatedly dominate scale." Dominic Cummings https://t.co/nbtjhyeMHC

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.”