Mark Patient

Award-winning commercial director and video editor 🎥 White-pilled Austro-libertarian 🇺🇸

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

“In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.”

~The Director in “That Hideous Strength” by C.S. Lewis.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

@DemzDeliver How many affairs is enough for the LGBTQIA+ community?

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

But Graham Platner has affairs and it's suddenly a problem?

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Zohran Mamdani has created NYC's first-ever Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

@copart49 @JasonJournoDC In this context I think stabbing someone is "the thing that can't be reversed."

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

“It is not enough to be not genocidal. You must be actively anti-genocidal.”

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

🇮🇱 Netanyahu: "The Nazis did not politely ask the Jews to leave. 'Did they say please step out so we can move in?' Of course not."

"I can name all the genocidal leaders in history and no one did this. So why is it a problem for us?"

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

HOT TAKE: If you walked out before it ended, you didn’t see the movie. You tried to see the movie, and failed.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Saw a movie today to which many people are flocking. One of the worst movies I have ever seen. Could only endure one hour of it.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

The way these kids just don’t give a shit.

This is why I say “apathy is underrated.”

Imagine getting worked up over every little thing, convinced it’s all somehow political.

[Matthew Hurtt @matthewhurtt]

After nearly two hours of taunting high school conservatives, Dem staffers say goodbye to them at the Congressional Baseball Game. #CBG26

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

Might as well, since the government has taken a stake in the industry by treating it like an arms race with China.

Whereas as Bernie Sanders wants to “take” half, Trump will use treasury to invest in actually building something meant to advance our national interest and benefit the American people.

If the investments don’t pan out, taxpayers could be left holding the bag. But if 2008-09 taught us anything, it’s that taxpayers will be left holding the bag no matter what.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Trump announces the government will seek equity stakes in top AI companies to make the public “very rich”

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

The real story is all the folks in media and elected office insisting that it’s not as open and shut as all that.

The news value for the public is high.

[Alex Griswold @HashtagGriswold]

Gotta be honest, the Karmelo Anthony trial seems like something our media gatekeepers could have gatekept a little.

"Guy who was promptly arrested after stabbing someone in front of lots of witnesses convicted after jury deliberates for three hours." Riveting stuff!

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

Yes, but also read the chapter that didn't make the movies.

The Hobbits returned to the Shire, after the ring was destroyed and Sauron was vanquished, only to find that it had fallen under a sort of Iron Curtain. They organized a militia and fought a harrowing battle, in which many hobbits gave their lives, to drive off their recent oppressors.

The Shire still lost it's innocence. The West can survive such a loss. (Let's hope so, since we are experiencing it already.) But the Shire also discovered they had a backbone and were fit to secure their own liberty.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

This is a screenshot from James Talarico's contributor "disclosures." The law requires a campaign to identify individuals who contribute to a campaign. There are strict limits on how much an individual can contribute. Notice anything strange about the identity of the contributors here? The identities are obscured.

About a decade ago I remember asking local republican operatives how these ActBlue donations are legal—there are clearly unidentified contributors behind these donations. They said, "we don't know, they just tell us it's fine."

Republicans have tried to replicate it with WinRed. I don't think donation platforms should be allowed to serve as a proxy for contributors to any campaign. Any donations should be passed along with compliant identifying information. Otherwise, this is just a way to launder money and circumvent public disclosure laws.

[New York Post @nypost]

ActBlue CEO pleads the Fifth as House probes illegal foreign donations to Dems https://t.co/MJhdNCUlc6

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

This looks set to become a banger of a majority opinion by Justice Thomas.

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

🚨SCOTUS pundits: There's a sleeper case being discussed in conference next week that hold huge significance from a constitutional AND restraining the administrative state perspective. PLUS it is horribly offense what EPA did. 1/

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

Consider that Karen Bass isn’t the one doing the rigging.

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

The LA mayor stuff is the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard & makes no sense. Dem establishment/Bass wanted Pratt, not Raman, to advance.

Bass crushes Pratt in a 1-on-1 by 18 pt, while Raman beat Bass by 4.

Pratt's the rarity in LA less popular than the unpopular Bass!

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

What’s the actual argument here? If someone stole my dessert, how can it be that I was still able to eat my own appetizer?

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

What's the actual argument here? If the supposed fraudsters can use mail-in ballots to control election results, why would they not have just rigged it from the start so that Bass and Raman each ended up with 35-37% of the vote, ensuring they'd finish in the top two? Why only rig mail-in ballots that were cast late?

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

@JamesSurowiecki @yashar What are confused by?

Just because they can fraudulently control enough ballots on the margins to tip an outcome with late-arriving ballots, it doesn’t mean they have fraudulent control over the whole election.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

What’s wrong with the free market here? Like, either AI will return value for the invested capital or it will fail to attract new investments.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Anthropic has called for the creation of a mechanism to pause the development of AI, per Bloomberg

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

@unusual_whales @AndrewYang Do it for SSD prices. I’m asking nicely.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

California’s government is a joke.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

HERE WE GO AGAIN…

NBC says "late-arriving mail-in votes" in LA could keep pouring in for DAYS to help the Democrats defeat Pratt

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

@thebitcoyne @MLB Ump was calling runner’s interference. The ump crew got together to discuss and ended up allowing the double play. I imagine the reasoning is that since the fielder did, in fact, complete the play, the interference is moot and the result of the completed play wins out.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

Traditional sovereign wealth funds:
“The government has deep pockets, let’s invest that money in enterprises that will benefit our people while furthering our national interests.”

Bernie Sanders sovereign wealth fund:
“Let’s steal wealth from any company we want, lol”

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies.

The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

[Mark Patient @MarkPatient]

"take"

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Bernie Sanders proposes the government take 50% of OpenAI & Anthropic to give the public a “direct ownership stake.”