I feel as if you people have learnt NOTHING from the Israel Lobby and other Pressure groups.
You GAIN power by BEING Unreliable and needing assuaging.
That's how pressure works. If you're consistently loyal you're unorganized and a non-factor.
You treat politicians like dogs who need to beg for every morsel.
If a politician offends you, then you destroy them. Either in the primary or the general. Doesn't matter. Your power is measured in your ability to end careers by any means. If Massie had won his primary they wouldn't have supported him in the general, they would have withheld support or openly sabotaged him.
If you want someone who will reward your loyalty that's called a king and you don't have one. Blame Washington for LARPing as Cincinnatus
To CATO retards…
You actually don’t have a free market if the government just imports foreigners to fill a void before the market can correct.
Thats just government intervention in the market to the detriment of the free market.
America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.
Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.
The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.
It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.
Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.
True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.
Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.
We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
One of the things McWhorter kept bringing up was "why are we talking about black IQs and not Appalachian whites' IQs"
The is very simple and I don't understand why he keeps pretending not to understand. There has not been a half a century long project created to undeservingly increase the representation of Appalachian whites in elite institutions, and as such, we do not have to argue against the fallacious basis of a program that does not exist.
This is “Cuckoo Nationalism.”
The cuckoo is a bird that sneaks into other birds’ nests, removes their eggs, and replaces them with its own. Then the other birds come back to their nest and are tricked into feeding and caring for this hatchling that not only is not theirs, but replaced their terminated offspring.
Our civilization is being raided by civilizational cuckoos. Our own youth are abandoned, dismissed, and neglected when they aren’t just aborted away, meanwhile foreigners are placed in our “nest” at scale and we are told this is good enough, these are the people to whom we should be allocating our national resources.
But they aren’t us. They are foreigners with no connection to us. Donning the outer trappings of our society is just a trick to deceive us into the intolerable cuckoo relationship. Like a cuckoo evolving to lay an egg that more closely resembles the eggs of its primary victims. “I wear an outer shell that looks familiar, don’t ask questions, give me the resources you secured for your posterity.”
We’re not doing Cuckoo Nationalism anymore Joel. We’re not going to tolerate the intolerable subversion of our nation, nor the grotesquely unfair conditions our own youth have been subjected to by the Cuckoo State.
White guy took a bullet for a friend who was being robbed during an illegal “teen takeover.” And then, Indian store clerks watched him die as he begged for their help.
This is America, dude. This is what we’ve become.
Trumps 5k plan
Spend that 5k
You will have less money than you started with because inflation
Rich people will get significantly richer while you get poorer
You will make less, things will cost more
I hope you guys all realize youre getting financially fucked by Trump.
Let me reframe the Trump/Vance child care credit argument for you in simple economic terms.
Option 1) The government cuts my taxes by $9,000. I keep the $9,000 and my family is benefitted by the whole amount.
Option 2) The government gives a $9,000 credit to "stay-at-home moms." In order to give that credit, the government has to take approximately $19,000 dollars from taxpayers to pay for administration and distribution of the funds, and for the 50% of funds (conservatively estimated) that will go toward fraud and waste.
This is a no-brainer. End the government handouts. Reduce taxes, cut spending, prosecute fraud, let the free market work.
So the deal for my family is that I get to keep paying high childcare costs and high taxes in order to have my income redistributed to people who pay little in taxes so that they don’t have to pay high childcare costs?
So, welfare?
Every problem in western civilization can be summed up as Jefferey Epsteins are funding Dylan Mulvanys to indoctrinate Lindsay Clancys to vote to import millions of Sneakos to elect Zohran Mamdanis.