Philip Turmel

Family man, computer geek from childhood, electrical engineer (UMaine Dec. '88). No business DMs! Links below.

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

Uh-oh. @Chesschick01 ?

[Yaril Foxears @YarilFoxEren]

It's common knowledge that "almost all men are stronger than almost all women" but did you know that almost all men are more tolerant than almost all women?
If you're a libertarian, a male communist will be more tolerant of your views than a female libertarian.

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@Strangeland_Elf Depends on how many foot rubs one's husband supplies.

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@DentonSalle "non-gun owner myself"

😉🙃

[Amani Zang @amani_zang]

I was talking to a younger American friend last night and realized that he had no idea how extremely poor China was made under Mao's socialism/communism. My father was a teacher/professor in a community college and my mother was a clerk in a national bank. Those were good jobs in 1970s. I grew up middle-class in the capital city of a big province, where my family had a one bedroom apartment to ourselves. Most other families had to share (it was extremely commonplace back then for two families to share one room, they'd put up a barrier in between them) an apartment allocated by the government because housing was entirely government-managed.

But when I say "apartment", I meant a tiny two-room place with nothing but cement floor, walls and ceiling. "Kitchen" was a tiny space with a gas stove (we were lucky to have that because we lived in the center of the city, where the government started "testing" installation of gas stoves in late 1970s. Most other families that I grew up with had to burn coal) and a water faucet. "Bathroom" was literally a stinky hole on the ground outside, shared by all four families living on the same floor. We had never even heard of carpets, hard-wood floors, or indoor plumbing. The only electronics we had was a radio and a cassette tape recorder. I had never seen a thick spring mattress until I was an adult. Our "mattress" was hand-sewed stuffed with cotton. I had never heard of shampoo or conditioner until I was in middle-school in late 1980s. Nor dish soap, or body wash, or body lotion, or ANY of the modern conveniences that we take for granted today. But we were already better-off than most of our neighbors and I thought we were the richer people on this earth. I thought the houses and apartments that I've lived in the US now, only existed in fairytales and storybooks.

Only when China further restored capitalism in early 1990s - after Deng Xiaoping's famous "cat" speech in his southern tour to Canton in 1992 that determined an economic policy that allowed more private entrepreneurship and welcomed massive Western investments - did China's economy really take off, and private citizens' lives improved rapidly. Young people born in the 1990s in major cities never had to suffer squatting over a stinky hole to do business. Which is also why the younger generation is easier to manipulate by CCP's indoctrination, as they did not see the poverty brought about by a government planned economy.

Just wanted to share this today so we know what kind of life that socialism - by its classical definition, government planned economy - brings about. We're not talking about just a public library or national parks. Socialism means no private business at all, and the result is ALWAYS extreme poverty - the kind that
Americans can't even begin to imagine. Be careful what you wish for.

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@Careerflex You understand women so well that you can mimic their ability to *tease* the men around them. 🤣

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@alexthechick That's all it takes to get tits? Accuse you of being an AI?
Pretty low bar, unless you just wanted to.... 😇

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@DentonSalle @uppityhobbit Well, there's also "Jack of all trades, and master of many".
** Cough ** 😉

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Trump deserves credit for doing what even FDR would not: stopping a potential existential threat when the public did not favor a war, and when any difficulty would be blamed on "the Jews." Trump really did learn the lessons of history. Unlike many of his critics, right and left.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

BREAKING: Statement From Sean Davis, CEO and Co-Founder of The Federalist:

Corrupt cop Jack Smith spied on The Federalist and accessed our communications during his lawless anti-Trump witch hunt. We are still working to determine which of our reporters were targeted by Jack Smith and which journalistic communications he and his thugs seized.

The latest facts about Jack Smith’s illegal jihad were released by Sen. Charles Grassley during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday.

The Federalist’s team of investigative reporters exposed the Russian collusion hoax. We exposed the Kavanaugh hoax. We exposed the Ukraine impeachment hoax. And The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway wrote the definitive account of how Democrats seized control of election infrastructure and destroyed the integrity of American elections in 2020.

For over a decade, The Federalist has fearlessly exposed Deep State corruption and DOJ lies and lawfare. Spying on us was apparently part of Jack Smith’s plot to get revenge against us.

The First Amendment is the bedrock of the American Constitution. A free press is integral to the American republic and our entire way of life. And Jack Smith fed the whole thing through a shredder in his insane and illegal attempt to rig the 2024 elections through lawfare, intimidation, and unconstitutional attacks on free speech and the First Amendment.

As shocking as this news may be to some, I am not surprised to learn of this behavior by Jack Smith and the Biden administration. At the direction of the Biden administration, the federal government illegally censored The Federalist, tried to bankrupt us, and was eventually forced to admit it had zero legal authority to do any of it.

We took these thugs to court and won when we learned of their illegal censorship efforts, and we will explore all legal options going forward to deal with Jack Smith’s lawless and un-American attempts to silence us by spying on us.

Nobody in corporate media said a word in our defense when we were illegally censored. Outlets like CNN and the New York Times, which posture as First Amendment purists, had nothing to say about the Biden administration’s illegal attempts to punish us for our rigorous and accurate journalism.

I have zero doubt that they will be similarly silent today, because they are partisan hacks who supported Jack Smith’s egregious lawfare every step of the way.

Unlike corrupt corporate media, The Federalist will always fearlessly and accurately report the news, even in the face of never-ending Democrat assaults on the First Amendment, free speech, and freedom of the press.

We will never back down, and we will never stop reporting the facts and defending the greatest nation and greatest people on earth. Hillary Clinton couldn’t stop us, Joe Biden couldn’t stop us, and Jack Smith’s corrupt thuggery won’t stop us.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

The Greatest Story Never Told - Trump’s economy has produced all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate. Now the Atlanta Fed predicts 5 percent GDP growth. You’d think somebody would notice.

According to the latest from the Census Bureau, the poverty rate just hit its lowest level in U.S. history.

Read that again.

That’s not all. America just also hit its highest real median household income in history. The Atlanta Fed estimates that the economy is growing at an incredible 5 percent annual rate. That’s after years of Democrats promising us that 1.6 percent was “the new normal.” It’s also after barely more than a year and a half of Trump back in office.

It gets even better. Child poverty fell to just 13.4 percent, the lowest official rate ever recorded. Hispanic poverty fell to a record low 13.9 percent. Real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1 percent since January 2025; construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5 percent.

It’s kind of a miracle. And it’s gathering steam.

Yet to hear the Enemedia — and some conservatives — talk, the exact opposite is true. To them it’s all “muh gas prices.” Which is funny since the average gas price under Joe Biden was higher than the average during Trump’s second term, even with the war.

Something is seriously amiss.

If incomes are rising faster than prices, it isn’t affordability. It certainly isn’t household wealth. The income figure measures the household in the middle. Elon Musk getting richer can’t drag it upward the way he could an average. And the $2,250 gain in 2025 alone is what remains after adjusting for higher prices.

People who spent years watching inflation eat their raises are finally getting ahead. Dismissing that isn’t showing concern for working families: it’s just myopic. And electing the people who gave you all that inflation — and promised to “skyrocket” energy prices to force everyone into an EV — isn’t even sane.

That GDP number is especially striking. Remember that much ballyhooed 1.5 percent second-quarter headline that had the pundits celebrating Trump’s “failure?” I told you then: they were looking at the wrong number. What they were seeing wasn’t a slowdown in growth but a capex boom: the private economy spending its output to buy the equipment that would create an industrial supercycle.

It’s happening.

The ever-brilliant Larry Kudlow calls the burgeoning boom “the greatest story never told.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says we’ve entered the “acceleration phase,” as the tax changes and deregulation start to produce the results they were literally designed to produce.

I’ve been explaining that process since early 2025. Yet conservatives continue to buy the left’s lies.

It’s time to stop.

Working Families Are Getting Ahead

Starting with Bill Clinton, America’s ruling class told us manufacturing was gone forever. China would build; we would consume. Russia and the Middle East would supply the energy. Europe would regulate. America would borrow, import, and manage its “inevitable” decline and displacement by more dynamic powers.

Trump rejected every part of that nonsense.

The workers now getting those bigger paychecks have every reason to be glad he did. Their employers aren’t just buying equipment and building new factories: they're bidding up the price of the people who know how to use them. They’re training even more.

Nor is the capex boom ending anytime soon. Trump went out and recruited an incredible $18 trillion of investment into the United States in his first months in office. Equipment shipments have risen at an 18.9 percent annual rate in just the latest three months. And just yesterday, the President announced the largest steel plant in American history, a $15 billion titan set to begin construction in Iowa.

The President also negotiated trade deals that pried open foreign markets to U.S. manufacturers; he also exempted foreign companies from tariffs if they begin building plants here. And as a condition of those trade deals — now finalized with countries representing 67 percent of global GDP — he forced countless countries accustomed to buying their energy from Russia and the Persian Gulf to buy it from the Gulf of America instead.

The construction workers are building the plants and refineries. The roughnecks are drilling the wells. There will be years of work completing them, and much, much more work running them thereafter.

How did that happen? Trump changed the tax code, and thus the incentives for investment. His One Big Beautiful Bill made immediate business expensing permanent for equipment, and added full expensing for qualifying American production facilities. Combined with unprecedented deregulation plus the trade deals, suddenly there’s no better place to build a factory than right here.

Meanwhile, no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, and no taxes on Social Security (and what sort of obscenity is taxing Social Security anyway?!) help the bottom rung even more than the top.

“Those jobs are never coming back” was a lie, calculated to cover for (intentional) Democrat failures.

There was a time when an American family could live on one breadwinner’s blue-collar wages. That day is coming back, fast. An economy “growing” at Obama’s stultifying 1.6 percent takes nearly half a century to double. Young people can’t find jobs because they’re already taken: they’re locked out of their futures for half their lifetimes, and locked into dependency on the socialists. That is, after all, the goal.

But an economy growing at 5 percent doubles in size in just 14 years. That translates into so much hiring so fast that labor shortages have to be cured by ever-higher wages. It also translates into so much tax revenue, even at lower rates, that you don’t just reduce the deficit: you start paying off the debt, as we did for four straight years before 9/11.

Folks, this ain’t rocket science. This is the difference between Jimmy Carter’s economy and Ronald Reagan’s. It’s not like we haven’t seen this play before.

Bessent calls it “parallel prosperity.” Wall Street and Main Street can both do well at once. A profitable company is sustainable: it expands, hires people, trains them, and pays them more. An unprofitable company does none of those things. Yet the “Democratic Socialist” treats the profits that make prosperity possible as an offense, one that must be crushed in the name of “social justice.”

That’s the choice on November’s ballot.

More Production, Less Inflation

Nowhere is that point more obvious than deregulation, anathema to the Democrats. Trump has eliminated 129 regulations for every new one: there’s nothing like it in history. Which party do you think issued most of those in the first place? Not ours.

A company wants to build; it has customers waiting; it can raise the money. But then it spends years waiting for government to let it proceed. Supposedly the delay protects us. But from what is it protecting us exactly? More goods? Better jobs? The possibility that somebody might make a profit?

In the midst of the Depression, the Empire State Building was completed in just 13 months. Good luck getting a permit in even twice that time in today’s New York.

A process that makes it prohibitively expensive to produce in America sends that production somewhere else. It doesn’t abolish the need for the product. Americans still buy it, but workers in some other country collect the paychecks.

Democrats piled on regulations — and taxes — year after year, amounting to a multi-trillion-dollar burden on the U.S. economy and those pathetic “growth” rates that steal young people’s futures. Trump is rolling them back.

Leftwing economists have long fretted (as they have about global warming, and global cooling, and global overpopulation, and the Ozone hole, and “Peak Oil”, and “two weeks to flatten the curve”) that all this new production will cause inflation. But this Phillips Curve nonsense was discredited 50 years ago: the truth is exactly the opposite.

Production isn’t the enemy of price stability: it’s the means by which supply catches demand. The answer to a shortage of something Americans need is to make more of it. And if supply is plentiful, prices fall.

Likewise, the “expert” class assured us that we needed to lower our expectations, that a “mature economy” can only grow at a lower rate: all the dynamic gains must come from developing economies like China’s. Yet what the heck is a mature economy? If you’d asked anyone in 1900, they’d have said they had one, just before nearly everything we have was invented.

We are entering another such period, with AI and countless other new technologies promising productivity gains beyond anything we’ve ever seen. A worker with better tools can produce much more in the same hour, earning a higher wage without increasing the labor cost of each item he produces.

And like Reagan before him, President Trump has laid a foundation that sets America up to dominate the next half century.

Go Tell Our Story: The Election Is On You

So why aren’t Republicans making this case every day? And no, I don’t mean “the Republicans” in Washington. Trump’s doing more than any President before him. Congress, however flawed, has enacted much of his legislation. The leaders aren’t the problem.

We are.

Historically, the President’s party — whichever President’s party — loses the midterms. But they don’t have to. Midterms are low-turnout elections, which means “every little thing we do is magic.” No need to appeal to the middle, no need to persuade the socialists. Just talk to your own friends and physically take them to the polls.

To keep the majority, all we need is 1,000 extra votes in 20 House races — just four extra votes per precinct. Want to make a difference? You can. But that also means that if you don’t, you’re responsible.

Republicans need to stop acting like entitled children, and start taking responsibility for their neighbors and their futures. It’s time to tell our story, over and over again.

Record real household income and record-low poverty are a pretty great story to tell. So is the lowest murder rate in 126 years, a 99.9 percent reduction in illegal border crossings, or a thousand other things. Five percent GDP growth is exactly the boom Trump promised. And the equipment arriving at new American factories gives us every reason to expect more.

This is nothing else but the greatest story never told.

So go and tell it.

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

The most deserved belt in history was given to Bridger Walker the little boy who saved his little sister from a German shepherd dog. He had 90 stitches all over his body, but saved his three-year-old sister from certain death. And had said "If anyone has to die, it would be me, I am the big brother" ❤️ 👉 The World Boxing Council 94 94 (WBC) has recognized him as a full time world champion. He has the official WBC historical record, for being the best fighter in the world for a day. 👏👏👏👏👏 total respect, 👏👏👏👏👏

[cjrseabee3 @CodyTheSeabee]

Reasons I can't support anyone who says, "don't vote to teach them a lesson."

1. Not voting is handing the mid terms to the left. That's not something I want to be a part of.

2. I remember what the left did to this country, I don't ever want that to happen again

3. These black pillers offer no solution at all. Sitting home and not voting is not a solution, it's throwing a fit like a toddler.

Get out this November and vote red!!

[MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican]

@GenXChristian60 Please remove the word "patriot" from your bio.

[Talos Dreams @TalosDreams]

Updated graphic for today's successful Starship orbital insertion with Starlink v3 satellite deployment.

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

Good morning X!

Did you know:

Of the top 5 states with the most expensive gas, only one has a Republican governor? (Nevada)

Of the bottom five states with the cheapest gas, all are GOP-led states.

On rent:

The top five states with the most expensive rent prices are ALL democrat-run states.

The bottom five are all GOP-run states.

If your motivating factor this election is affordability, then democrats are not a good choice.

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

https://t.co/vVKKjJqMiM

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.

The species is Swiss stone pine.

Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.

This means that when that tree was alive, the climate there had to be warmer than today.

6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.

Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.

Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

We’re in trouble.

The lawfare against the lone juror is now causing thousands of conservatives to say they will NEVER serve on a jury.

Imagine what happens if they’re serious.

What happens to our justice system when the SANE half of our country becomes afraid to serve?

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@alexthechick Wait! What?
It isn't "Linux User Group" ?!?!

[Philip Turmel @PJTurmel]

@MaryTilesTexas Swoon... 😅🤩