Abigail Prescott

Generously dispensing sarcasm, irony and misanthropy at no cost to you. Trust, but verify. Cui bono? Delenda est TikTok. #DeSantis2028 #intj #wps

[Caleb Wait @calebwait]

I try to keep an open mind about new ideas and opinions, but this take on parents and children is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Douthat’s response is perfect:

[C3 @C_3C_3]

There are 42 states that hold Bartenders and Waiters accountable if the customers they over serve kill someone but 0 states that hold Judges and Parole Boards accountable if the criminals they release kill someone.

Insane.

[Abigail Prescott @RaisingCamelot]

The NYC government grocery stores are meant to fail. They will spend millions trying to get them off the ground, and millions propping them up and nothing will change but the price tag.

It’s just another slush fund without a bottom.

[nick kokonas @nickkokonas]

I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP... as someone who has built biz's and bought a lot of food... wow.

Forget for a moment whether or not the govt should own a grocery store. Let's review the doc instead.

Here you go... /1

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

This little girl is not in the video. She wasn't even born. But she is moved to tears watching her mother and father get married. Why?

Marriage researcher and family therapist Pat Fagan once told me:

"When a child sees their mother loving their father they feel like their mother is loving them. When they see their father loving their mother they feel like their father is loving them. It is the only time in the human experience where you can be loved indirectly. No one's even looking at you or touching you or talking to you, but you feel loved."

That is not the case with a step parent, he said. The child may tolerate the romantic expression. But they do not experience that same circuitous love. More often they feel competition or jealousy.

If every child could order their own world, this is what they would say:

"I want my mom and dad to love me and I want my mom and dad to love each other."

Sometimes that's not possible. Woe to a culture that intentionally denies that to children in the name of adult freedom.

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

One of Ayn Rand's very best observations, which has aged like fine wine:

"Socialism is not a movement of the people. It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the intellectuals, carried by them out of their stuffy ivory towers into those bloody fields of practice where they unite with their allies and executors: the thugs."

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

And Spanish shop keepers and citizens can do what to defend themselves? Oh that’s right, nothing, because like just about everywhere else in Europe their governments disarm their citizens because after all…you have the police to protect you.

[Abigail Prescott @RaisingCamelot]

@BreidenFehoko @peterjhasson Apparently it stand for WEAK.

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

These all came out in 1995.

A big reason people are nostalgic for this era is that even if you only saw one movie a month, you could still see 12 bangers per year.

And it made our lives infinitely better.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

This is absolutely brilliant from Laurence Fox

It's a perfect moment to demonstrate not only how intolerant Islam is but also it proves the entire Oxford Union audience know as well despite pretending otherwise

Laurence is about to unveil an image of the Prophet Muhammad, the whole audience are in suspense, there are interruptions, they plead with him, they try to shut him down, the rules come out, there is an intake of breath

You can tell the room is completely on edge from this!

Because they know if he does, his life will be at risk and the Oxford Union may well be at risk too from the supposedly tolerant religion the other side are defending

Proving Laurence's point, that Islam is not compatible with our society at all

I won't ruin what happens you will have to watch for yourselves but Laurence's trick here is absolutely brilliant and well worth 3 minutes of your time

Enjoy

And @LozzaFox take a bow sir 👏

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

And there it is. It was deliberate. He sold out those people and his country and, frankly, the whole EU.

[Handre @Handre]

The Cash for Clunkers program, which Congress passed in June 2009 and burned through its $3 billion budget in under two months, destroyed functional wealth on a national scale, and somehow they called it "stimulus."

The mechanics were simple: trade in a working car, receive up to $4,500 toward a new one, and watch government employees pour sodium silicate into the old engine to make it seize permanently. Around 700,000 vehicles got crushed. These were not rusted-out death traps. The eligibility rules required the trade-in to be drivable and insured. You were watching the state systematically annihilate usable capital because Keynesian demand theory told it that destruction generates recovery. Frederic Bastiat explained why this is wrong in 1850, in an essay short enough to read on your lunch break. Congress ignored it.

The ripple effect hit people the government never mentioned in its press releases. Mechanics lost repair work. Used-car dealers watched their inventory evaporate. Low-income buyers who depend on the sub-$5,000 market faced prices that jumped roughly 10% in the years after the program. Free market economists call this "seen versus unseen." Politicians only showed you the gleaming new Chevy Malibu driving off the lot. They never showed you the single mother in Akron who needed a $3,000 Corolla and found nothing affordable left on the lot.

Even the environmental justification collapsed under basic scrutiny. A 2009 study by Resources for the Future calculated that the program cost between $237 and $365 per ton of carbon dioxide reduced. The voluntary carbon credit market at the time priced a ton around $10 to $20. The government spent up to thirty times the market rate to achieve an environmental outcome the market was already pricing far more efficiently.

This is what central planning always does. It takes your money, destroys real assets, and transfers wealth from the poor to auto manufacturers and their financiers. The program's designers received awards. The Akron mother paid higher prices. The engines sat crushed in junkyards. Nobody in Washington answered for any of it.

[Abigail Prescott @RaisingCamelot]

@JustineBateman @dempstermd The resounding confidence of abject, colossal ignorance is a sight to behold.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

I hope this young woman has an opportunity to take just one econ class. Or better yet, to run even a lemonade stand, so that she can get a glimpse of overhead costs.

[Handre @Handre]

Switzerland has 26 cantons, each with its own constitution, tax rates, and laws, and the result is one of the wealthiest, most stable countries on earth. That is not a coincidence.

You want to understand why Swiss GDP per capita sits around $92,000 while the EU average hovers near $37,000? Start here. Cantons compete for residents and businesses the same way firms compete for customers. Zug kept its corporate tax rate at roughly 11.9%, attracted commodity traders and crypto firms, and watched its population and tax revenues grow. Cantons that taxed aggressively lost mobile capital and productive citizens to neighbors with lighter burdens. This is Tiebout competition working in real life, not a textbook diagram.

The federal government in Bern handles defense, monetary policy, and some foreign affairs. Everything else defaults downward. Cantons set income taxes. Communes set property levies. Citizens in Appenzell Innerrhoden voted on local laws by a show of hands in the Landsgemeinde, an open-air assembly, until 1990 for most matters. The feedback loop between decision-makers and the people paying for those decisions stays tight. That tightness disciplines spending in ways no central auditor ever will.

Free market thinkers have stressed this for generations: political units must be small enough that exit is credible. When the cost of leaving a bad jurisdiction drops, politicians face real consequences for bad policy. Switzerland kept that cost low by design. A business or family in Basel-Stadt dissatisfied with cantonal policy drives forty minutes to Baselland. No visa. No language barrier. No bureaucratic labyrinth. Just a move.

The EU spent decades building the opposite architecture, consolidating regulatory power in Brussels and eliminating the jurisdictional diversity that forces governments to stay honest. Switzerland refused to join. Its per-capita wealth, its low public debt, and its functional civil society arrived because the Swiss preserved the one institutional feature every centralized state destroys first: the credible right to leave.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

This was straight up an operation. Invasion is literally the right word for it in every conceivable way.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

This isn't just coordinated. These people were trained in advance on what to do. It should be treated as a military invasion of sovereign territory.

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

If you are one of the people who have said they are staying home in November, look at Spain and think again.

ALWAYS VOTE!!

[Queen of Donuts @DonutsQueen2]

DeSantis was right, and those of us who supported him in 2024 and pushed back against nominating Trump were right.

[Abigail Prescott @RaisingCamelot]

@ClayTravis @proseccogirly True. But any chance of real Covid accountability died when Trump beat DeSantis in the primary. DeSantis would have had Fauci in jail long ago.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The most important governor’s election of our life was Ron DeSantis beating Andrew Gillum in 2018. If Gillum had won — in addition to being a drug addict banging gay prostitutes — he would have shut down Florida in 2020 just like New York & California were shut down. Zero doubt.