Captain David

Explorer of the countryside of the sea🌊

Married to the most beautiful Lady in the world

Comedy | Baker | Arsenal | Economics | Liberty | Lord of a tiny plot

[Dominic Frisby @DominicFrisby]

Too much for ChatGPT too handle. Not even going to bother with Claude. Thank goodness for Grok

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@DominicFrisby 😯

[Dominic Frisby @DominicFrisby]

Nigel or Rupert?

We've been working on a new song.

A melodramatic folk ballad about an existential dilemma facing many on the British right. 🌹

[@ CSmiles_News @FranklySpeakP]

Was amazing watching @DominicFrisby this evening in Totton. Hilarious bloke, incredibly intelligent writer, his new book is out but none will beat Daylight Robbery in my opinion.
New skill for my CV “great audience member”

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Great show @DominicFrisby, great to finally meet you in person. Hopefully be able to make your November show.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@DominicFrisby So looking forward to it.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@DominicFrisby Be good to see you m8.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@DominicFrisby Hey buddy glad you are coming down my way. I Got tickets 😍!! So will see you there.

People more tickets available!!! https://t.co/yUrOXQRGze

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

In a world of ai, authentic human connection will only get more valuable. 😍

[Louis Dunford @LouisDunford]

The Story of The Angel ❤️

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Wow

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Standing on the brink of history.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Hincapie does this after coming on for Cali who had an epic block as well. Oh Man, the depth is good in this team.
https://t.co/A1ky1pG4qo

[Arsenalpikin @Folideco1]

Hincapie is a monster at the back

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Matinelli protecting Downman's path 😍
@Rory_Talks_Ball

[Gabi Wall @gabi_wall6]

Another view of that Max Dowman solo goal 🤩🤩🤩

https://t.co/DuxxCh7EdC

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

You know he is a bright kid because he knows how to explain what he his doing so well.
He has exceptional Conceptual clarity

[F.O.L.A @folaoftech]

She has no clue what her son is up to… honestly, I don't get it either.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Consistency as it now beats Dominance
https://t.co/BrEvSZRqUU

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Arsenal aren’t top because rivals collapsed, they’re top because consistency now beats dominance.

> People say this is a “weak” Premier League season.
It’s not.

The league hasn’t got worse, it’s got deeper.

Lower teams are better organised, press better, and take points off everyone. That compresses the table, lowers title totals, and makes dominance rarer.

Harder league. Better mid-table. Smaller margins.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

Arsenal aren’t top because rivals collapsed, they’re top because consistency now beats dominance.

> People say this is a “weak” Premier League season.
It’s not.

The league hasn’t got worse, it’s got deeper.

Lower teams are better organised, press better, and take points off everyone. That compresses the table, lowers title totals, and makes dominance rarer.

Harder league. Better mid-table. Smaller margins.

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@JohnCleese He got voted in on defunding the Ukraine war. Is the American voter working for Putin too?

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@benmwine He obviously has not experienced "stuck behind the slow drivers problem". Slow drivers effect your journey time exponentially at junctions so best to overtaking them and being first at the junction it saves you time. As they take forever handling them. 🤣

[Captain David @RedOnWight]

@o_pebbles @PrezLives2022 She wrongly assumes the US will only threaten Denmark and not the other EU countries who stand by them. In which unity is not given when the economic might of the US focus on them.