Joey Gamache

Avid learner, individualist, former progressive, music lover, aspiring entrepreneur, budding artist

[Joey Gamache @KD0AHS]

Violence is not okay. Threatening violence is not okay. Shutting down and deplatforming other people because they have different opinions or a different skin color is wrong.

If you disagree: you're the authoritarian racist, not me.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

What causes #poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, What causes #prosperity?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Conservatives spent a decade crying how liberals call them "racists" and "bigots" as a way of shutting down debate. Now, 80% of the pro-Israel discourse is composed of screaming BIGOT and ANTI-SEMITE at everyone who isn't loyal to their sacred foreign country.

And just like white Democrats call black conservatives "Racists" and "White Supremacists" for not voting for their party, these Israel First fanatics routinely scream ANTI-SEMITE at Jews who refuse to pledge loyalty to Israel. Utter clones of everything they pretended to hate.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The purpose of the corporate press is and has always been to lie you into war and push for escalation once you’re there.

Notice how the people who hated Trump the most are cheering on his disastrous war.

[Good Morning Liberty @GoodAMLiberty]

When Biden was in office they ignored headline inflation and instead told you to focus on core. Democrats agreed. Republicans balked.

Now Trump is in office. Admin says to ignore headline inflation and instead look at core. Republicans agree. Democrats.. not this time.

Through both of these administrations I will remind you that real inflation is much higher. Your wages are not keeping up. Pointless wars are creating shocks that are temporary but never fully resolve. Debt & deficit spending are destroying your purchasing power and forcing higher interest rates.

Yes, gas is up because of the war. Just like gas was up because of the war while Biden was in office. “Core” matters to the Fed because it’s what they can attempt to control, but headline matters to everyone because it’s the minimum of what we are all paying. CPI is up 29% since 2020. Stop worrying about which political party you can blame today and start realizing that they are both sending us off the cliff.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Since we are coming up on America 250…

Let’s abolish the income tax on July 4th.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Soft on crime policies actually increase racism, xenophobia, anti-immigration sentiment, and other things that 'progressives' claim to worry about.

Nobody wants 'diversity' if they associate it with potentially getting stabbed, robbed, or raped.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

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[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

When socialists call billionaires a parasite class, they're often describing the role they'd prefer for themselves: receiving the benefits of production without bearing the risks, costs, responsibilities, or sacrifices involved in creating it.

The entrepreneur risks failure, invests capital, delays gratification, organizes resources, and may lose everything. The socialist critique usually ignores that process and focuses only on the reward.

What many socialists object to is not consumption without production. Their politics often centers on expanding access to wealth created by others. What they object to is the producer retaining ownership of what he helped create.

They condemn profit while demanding the products, services, technology, medicine, and prosperity that profit helped make possible. They attack the incentives that generate wealth while treating the resulting wealth as something that should simply exist.

The irony is that those most hostile to "parasites" frequently direct their anger at producers while demanding greater political access to the producer's wallet. The dispute is rarely about parasitism itself. It's about who gets to control and consume the wealth once it's been created.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Not what “happens” what happened. Your money is given to the generation before you.

People think the government has it in a savings account for them. They don’t and never have.

Completely unrelated heres the definition of Ponzi scheme:

fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors.

[Lucas Peters @LJPeters15]

Austrian economists long warned that empire, fiat money, and centralized bureaucracy reinforce one another. Global intervention demands permanent spending; permanent spending requires debt monetization; debt monetization distorts markets, erodes purchasing power, and transfers wealth to politically connected elites. The warfare state and welfare state grew symbiotically, hollowing out the heartland and undermining self-sufficiency.

The Internal Transformation
World War II defeated fascism abroad, yet it accelerated profound internal changes. The centralized administrative apparatus of the New Deal and wartime mobilization evolved into today’s permanent managerial regime: bureaucratic overreach, surveillance, corporate-state partnerships, and a political culture hostile to decentralization and local self-government.

Taft understood that concentrated state power regardless of the ideology in control posed the deeper long-term threat. While American blood checked totalitarianism overseas, communist infiltration, cultural Marxism, New Deal collectivism, and erosion of mediating institutions (family, church, community, property, and cultural cohesion) advanced at home.

The postwar order checked one form of tyranny but nurtured softer versions domestically through fiat debt, endless entanglements, and the steady erosion of self-government.

Honoring the Legacy
My grandfather’s generation fought heroically against existential evil. We owe their memory and our children better than squandering that sacrifice on unsustainable globalism. They did not storm Normandy for debt slavery, perpetual wars, inflation, or permanent bureaucracy.

Honoring their courage does not require defending every consequence of the postwar empire. America was founded as a republic, not an empire. The Old Right and the Founders grasped that liberty cannot long survive global intervention, perpetual deficits, and centralized managerial power.
A low time-preference strategy for restoring the republic demands returning to first principles: non-intervention abroad, sound money (gold, silver and Bitcoin standards), fiscal restraint, ending military-industrial corporate welfare, auditing the Fed, enforcing assimilation and cultural cohesion, and dismantling the managerial state.

This path, prioritizing liberty and self-government at home would truly honor the Greatest Generation far more than continuing the imperial project that consumed the republic they defended.

True peace and prosperity flow from restraining the state everywhere, lest it devour freedom. Only by recovering the Old Republic can we secure the future their sacrifices earned.

[Lucas Peters @LJPeters15]

Was the Empire Worth It?

My grandfather was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, he jumped into Normandy as part of the largest amphibious assault in history. Scattered by German anti-aircraft fire, he landed miles from his drop zone. His helmet slammed downward during the jump, knocking out his front teeth and leaving him concussed. Alone behind enemy lines, he relentlessly crawled through the swamps and farmland to rejoin Allied forces to continue the fight.

Like so many of the Greatest Generation who stormed the beaches and dropped from the skies that day, his service embodied courage, duty, and sacrifice. They defeated Nazi tyranny and saved Europe from one of history’s most monstrous regimes. Their bravery and resilience deserve eternal gratitude. We honor every soldier who gave their lives or bore the scars of Normandy.

Yet eighty-two years later, a harder question lingers: Was the American empire that emerged after World War II worth the cost to the republic they fought to preserve?

The Forgotten Warnings of the Old Right
Before Pearl Harbor, Senator Robert A. Taft stood as the leading voice of the Founding Father’s constitutional restraint, non-intervention abroad, and deep suspicion of centralized power. Taft opposed U.S. entanglement in European and Asian conflicts, arguing that America should focus on domestic problems and preserve liberty at home rather than pursue global crusades. He warned that war would expand executive authority, normalize deficit spending, erode private property rights, and entrench a permanent military establishment incompatible with a free society. In many ways, Taft foresaw the modern national security state.

The Founders shared this skepticism. George Washington warned against “entangling alliances” that could drag America into European ambitions. Thomas Jefferson championed “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” This was not isolationism but prudent non-interventionism: free trade, diplomacy, and strict neutrality in foreign quarrels, paired with unyielding defense of liberty at home.

As Ron Paul articulates in A Foreign Policy of Freedom, the Founders understood that domestic liberty and foreign policy rest on the same principles of limited government.

Pearl Harbor and the Road to War
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration steadily escalated economic pressure on Japan amid its war in China. After Japan occupied southern French Indochina in July 1941, FDR froze Japanese assets and imposed a near-total oil embargo. Japan relied on the U.S. for 80-90% of its oil imports; the cutoff threatened its military and economy with collapse, pushing it toward desperate resource seizures in Southeast Asia. None of this excuses the immoral and catastrophic attack on Pearl Harbor. But it illustrates how interventionist policies can create escalating cycles that make war more likely.

Taft and fellow Old Right critics were right: such steps, alongside aid to Britain and New Deal expansions, risked a global conflict that would permanently alter the constitutional order.

Victory Abroad, Defeat at Home
The United States won the war in 1945, but the old republic did not survive intact. Victory birthed a permanent national security state and the military-industrial complex Dwight Eisenhower later warned against. Standing armies, global alliances, intelligence networks, foreign occupations, and a sprawling bureaucracy became entrenched.

The federal government ballooned into a managerial state. Welfare programs expanded alongside warfare spending. Sound money principles were abandoned, enabling perpetual deficits, fiat inflation, and debt-financed empire. Today, the national debt exceeds $39 trillion. Interest payments devour major budget shares amid inflation, housing shortages, and declining real wages for working families. Empire maintenance diverts trillions from productive enterprise.

[Joey Gamache @KD0AHS]

@JEShannon3 @MrDanielBuck Yes! It's not the concept of a single standard benchmark that is the problem, but the concept of a single standard teaching method.

[Charles Kuchlenz @sqlcorpsman]

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[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

The contrived and false deposition released just one week before my election was conducted by Carey who lost to me in 2012, in the law office of McMurtry who lost to me in 2020, and posted immediately by Deters who lost to me 2024.

[Good Morning Liberty @GoodAMLiberty]

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[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Imagine saying this and then unironically advocating that we give the government all the money.

[Tim 🏴‍☠️🏴Decentralize and nullify 🏴🏴‍☠️ @Tim_The_Sandman]

The flaw isn't the system, the flaw is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the system.

The system does what it was designed to do:

* indoctrinate

* educate "just" enough

* create generations subservient to authority

* separate kids from parents for much of their young, impressionable lives.

* create angry, confused, revolutionaries without life skills or options and who hate the current system.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

It’s sad that a week before this election people are making false and unsubstantiated allegations about me in an obvious attempt to influence the outcome of this election.

All of the claims of inappropriate conduct are false. I’ve never offered anyone money in exchange for their silence. I report all of my farm income, including cash, to the IRS.

There are no ethics claims filed against me, nor have there ever been any claims filed against me in my 14 years in office. I have consulted legal counsel and we are considering all options.

[Joey Gamache @KD0AHS]

@LpmcBryce @AlexHSant I see your poll right under Chadderdon's

[sonch @soncharm]

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, applied martial law and military trials to civilian dissenters, & shut down opposition newspapers

Wilson applied the Sedition act to criminalize war opposition, jailed dissenters for 'disloyal' speech, waged the first 'red scare' raids against/expulsions of communists

FDR interned the Japanese, setup small-f fascist state control of the economy (price-fixing, quotas, 'Blue Eagle' economic loyalty-tests & enforcement), stayed in power till death