Sidd Finch

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

This is what happens when you don’t teach basic U.S. history.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

I tuned into Joe Rogan yesterday and heard Bernie Sanders' economics, Barack Obama's foreign policy, and Ro Khanna's conspiracy theories.

And then I realized JD Vance was talking.

I want a candidate in 2028 who doesn't mirror the Democrats -- and who can win.

Mr. VP, this is not the way.
https://t.co/VcoYxzy89K

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

When were his members of his family refugees? (serious Q)

I ask because I hope he's not talking about the "colonizers" who were expelled from Uganda. (Which was definitely stupid and racist policy, but also clearly "anticolonial")
https://t.co/pUCJRbO432

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. https://t.co/sh04ahQOFq

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

Last year NYC mandated that landlords must eat the cost of broker commissions.

How much do these commissions typically total? One month’s rent. Or 8.3% of a year’s total rent.

How much did rents rise in Manhattan over the past year? 8.2%.

Funny how that works.

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

You won’t find a single book that has actually been “banned” here. The left’s cancellation crusade during BLM and MeToo lead to the total erasure of numerous books, including my own. It also destroyed mainstream publishing by introducing “sensitivity readers” and “morality clauses” in author contracts. “Banned” is yet another word they’ve inverted to push anti-Western civilization ideologies. Cultural termites.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 LMFAO! Leftists just posted this video of a park in NYC to try and say communism is working under Zohran Mamdani...

...but Bryant Park is PRIVATELY funded capitalist with private security

You can't make this up 🤡

Communists are CLOWNS.

[Sidd Finch @MisterMetsie]

@EndWokeness And they tried to say Republicans are weird.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

See, here's the thing: I don't really care about personal drama.

I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends. Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care.

For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer.

You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash.

That’s something anyone of decency should condemn.

The fact that so many are unwilling to do so is demonstrative of widespread cowardice, stupidity, wickedness...or all three.
https://t.co/MBBTs8kJEJ

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Communists always pay themselves first.

[New York Post @nypost]

Doctors issue warning over massively popular toy that's hospitalizing children with excruciating injuries https://t.co/0C2ljNpiRm

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Graham Platner is one of the most ridiculous figures to arise in American politics in years. He is bright red like a strawberry with a ridiculous walrus mustache. He has a giant Nazi death’s head tattooed on his chest. He posted on Reddit claiming to have engaged in sex tourism and masturbated in portable toilets. He has multiple accusations of serious sexual misconduct and violence.

There are no memes about this man. There are no late night talk show hosts making jokes at his expense. Nobody portrays him on SNL.

Consider the way this utterly ridiculous Democratic figure has been treated by the comedy world compared to Republican figures like Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and JD Vance.

This is not harmless and this is not meaningless. Democrats have successfully incepted the idea into voters’ heads that Republicans are absurd, clownish and unqualified and the one-sided mockery in entertainment media has helped to spread this lie when the Democrats are actually a collection of hideous weirdos and circus freaks that media has somehow convinced you are normal.

We have to do a better job of making fun of them.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

John Adams, writing to Abigail, about the Continental Congress' vote in favor of independence on July 2, 1776:

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Me and the boys pulling up to FIFA HQ to file the Balogun appeal

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Is this what was meant by the warmth of collectivism?

[Sidd Finch @MisterMetsie]

@hakeemjeffries Don’t you mean have these carpetbaggers seize the means of production and destroy America?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

In 2020, Argentina tried rent control:
🔴Rental prices soared by over 140%
🔴Rental availabilities dropped 45%

In 2023, President Milei repealed it:
🟢Rental prices went down by 40%
🟢Rental availabilities soared 212%

Mamdani voters in New York City are about to learn a valuable economics lesson

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It seems to me that ~none of the news coverage of the Mamdani rent freeze reflects the fact that — independent of any supply effects — you should expect this to put upward pressure on most New Yorkers' rents (though the magnitude of the increase is unclear).

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

For those who don't know about the 1970s, a gigantic percentage of all housing stock in the South Bronx was burned to the ground by landlords who made more money off the insurance than the rent.