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brb liberty maxing 🦅

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

A pretty good program for America:

1) Deregulate
2) Cut spending on stupid stuff
3) Have a muscular military
4) Pursue industrial policies to protect US jobs + vital industries
5) Have people subscribe to values of hard work, family + patriotism

It’s not that deep, seems like a no brainer

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

👍🏼

[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…

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@gabriel_zucman @grok do “working class people” pay payroll taxes, or does the company / employer?

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@phl43 @ZaidJilani I appreciate you presenting a good faith POV here. I still don’t agree at all. You naively support JCPOA over military force as the enforcement means, under weight the threat Iran posed (incl its proxy network), don’t mention Iran’s place in China-US positioning + more

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Holy sh*t.

Stop what you’re doing. Give yourself 3
minutes. Listen to this.

Marco Rubio 2015.

He called it.

He called it word for word, like a play-by-play.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

WATCH IN FULL: President Trump provides an update on Operation Epic Fury.

"Today, the U.S. military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime...

The regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly & dramatically, & this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America & our forces stationed overseas..."

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

Must read

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Why Operation Epic Fury is the opening act of the Indo-Pacific century. https://t.co/xwN2YO47YH

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

1) culture isn’t “thin,” it’s profound + sacred
2) culture doesn’t “change all the time” like some law of physics… the last ~50 yrs are the outlier, not the norm
3) class-based internationalism is a polite euphemism for Class Warfare

Fwiw I also don’t think @AOC has a hint of sacred morality beneath her. She does not know wrong from right.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

AOC slams Rubio's pro-West speech & calls for "class based internationalism" instead

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

"I shivered with George Washington
One night at Valley Forge…

"Why do the soldiers freeze here like they do?"

He said, "Men will suffer, fight, Even die for what is right, Even though they know they're only passing through."

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people.

Armies fight for a nation.

Armies fight for a way of life and that is what we are defending.

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

“Most of [demoralization] is done to Americans by Americans due to lack of moral standards”
-> Observation: We’ve killed moral standards of hard work, family + belief in America

“A person who is demoralized is unable to accept true information”
-> Observation: Killed moral standards = a discordant society lacks same ‘starting point’ for reason = inability to come together on truth + right

Timeline:
- demoralization takes 15-20 yrs
- destabilization takes 2-5 yrs
- crisis takes <6 weeks

Mapped to contemporary US:
- demoralization circa 2010-2025
- destabilization circa now
- crisis not far off without corrected course

[Stella Escobedo @StellaEscoTV]

Former KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago that America wouldn’t be defeated with bombs, but through ideological subversion.

Here we are.

He said it takes 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. That’s one generation.

Look around. We’ve already lost several.

That’s why I fight. Not for clicks. Not for headlines. But to expose the next generation to truth while we still can.

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@AOC sounds about as competent as a college freshman who doesn’t do the readings

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Rep. AOC just SELF-DESTRUCTED while trying to represent America in Germany

"Should the US commit troops to defend Taiwan?"

AOC: "Um, you know, I think that, uhh, eh, this is such a, uh, you know, I th-I think that this is a, umm, this is of course a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy."

WTF?!

They're gonna run her for president? LMAO. Brutal.

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

🙏🏼

[Department of State @StateDept]

WATCH: Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks to the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. https://t.co/MSnxmlRf2w

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@grok What US political party generally pursues the above?

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

A pretty good program for America:

1) Deregulate
2) Cut spending on stupid stuff
3) Have a muscular military
4) Pursue industrial policies to protect US jobs + vital industries
5) Have people subscribe to values of hard work, family + patriotism

It’s not that deep, seems like a no brainer

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

1) real GDP growth - due to efficiency gain that better matches K + L

2) deflation - more pronounced in services, less pronounced in products

Implications: High growth but low per unit returns = more power law distribution of returns in otherwise less skewed industries = bearish outlook for services long tail + bullish outlook for tippy top (especially those who stave off bloat)

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

There is a massive push by Pharma right now to kill peptide use and specifically go after compounding pharmacies. Based on some of the research I have seen, peptides have some pretty incredible medical properties and are doing wonders for people. At any rate, Pharma has a tendency to tip the scales on anything that could potentially cost them revenue. I want to raise this issue for everyone so that you can get involved.

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

Imagine if when Prometheus gave man fire we banned flames.

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

Yesterday, I got Waymo to admit they are using people 8000 miles away in the Philippines tohelp guide their self-driving cars in the U.S. 

This should scare us all. It must end.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Jonathan Ross, Founder and CEO of AI chip company Groq, offers a contrarian view: AI won't destroy jobs, it will create a labour shortage.

He outlines three things that will happen because of AI:

First, massive deflationary pressure.

"This cup of coffee is going to cost less. Your housing is going to cost less. Everything is going to cost less."

He explains this will happen through robots farming coffee more efficiently and better supply chain management, meaning people will need less money.

Second, people will opt out of the economy.

"They're going to work fewer hours. They're going to work fewer days a week, and they're going to work fewer years. They're going to retire earlier because they're going to be able to support their lifestyle working less."

Third, entirely new jobs and industries will emerge.

Jonathan points to history as evidence:

"Think about 100 years ago. 98% of the workforce in the United States was in agriculture. When we were able to reduce that to 2%, we found things for those other 98% of the population to do."

He continues:

"The jobs that are going to exist 100 years from now, we can't even contemplate."

Software developers didn't exist a century ago. In another century, they won't exist either, "because everyone's going to be vibe coding."

The same applies to influencers, a career that would have been unthinkable 100 years ago but now earns people millions.

His conclusion: deflationary pressure, workforce opt-outs, and new industries we can't yet imagine will combine to create one outcome...

"We're not going to have enough people."

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

Yep.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Hire out of pain. Don't hire because you think you'll need someone soon or maybe sometime later. Wait until you or your team are actually hurting: working weekends, missing family dinners, dropping balls. That pain is the signal that the role is real. I learned this the hard way after watching founders (including myself) hire ahead of need and end up with people in roles that weren't fully formed yet. When you hire out of pain, you know exactly what the job is because you've been doing it yourself. You can evaluate performance because you know what good looks like. And the new hire knows you'll step back in if they fail, because you were just doing it last week.

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@grok @realDonaldTrump Can’t we just do business with the Saudis + Emirates, have cordial relations with others, and let the theocratic lunatics in Iran inevitably self govern their way into the Stone Age? I don’t think this region demands a physical presence much beyond protecting economic interests

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@grok based on the @realDonaldTrump administration’s releases + actions, how would you assess the relative importance of Iran + the Middle East to US national interest when compared against the Western hemisphere + South China Sea / Taiwan?

[LLTF 🇺🇸 @LibertyMaxxd]

@grok @realDonaldTrump I agree + generally don’t think the Middle East is our business. But what do Middle East experts present as the strongest arguments for why this region matters the most?