Robin Vos

Proud conservative fighting to make Wisconsin more competitive by reducing the size of government.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“Over and over again, you’ll find that the reaction is: ‘What we’ve done in the past has not worked, but that’s because we haven’t done it right. We ought to spend more money on it.’”

“I can understand that attitude in the 1930s when we had not sufficiently absorbed the experience of other countries. But it’s much harder to understand it in the 1970s when we now have 40 years of experience behind us.”

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

When the game is over, the king and the pawn end up in the same box.

- A powerful Italian Proverb

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

In 1942, C.S. Lewis predicted a future dystopia where:

-Education is leveled to a mediocre state to avoid hurt feelings
-The middle class is hollowed out, removing the primary champions of private excellence
-"Avoiding trauma" becomes the excuse to stop pushing students to their full potential

The obsession with perfect equality ends up destroying human greatness — and it’s fueled by state education, where schools become more like nurseries than academic institutions.

Seems like Lewis’s dystopia is already here.

[Robin Vos @repvos]

https://t.co/RHYQAc5s0p

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

The @nytimes reported late last summer that Broadway was dying.

Ticket sales were in the tank - and the general public wasn’t supporting the shows. It’s true.

For Broadway shows to succeed they must appeal to *everyone* - including the millions of tourists from America visiting New York.

Tonight, @Pink opened with:
“Broadway is brave.” (but it isn’t brave - it is typical and intolerant towards people who believe differently than they do).

Pink also said:
“We go to Broadway to find different perspectives on life.” (But that’s not true either because they only celebrate one perspective, the far Left woke one, and mock traditional commonsense beliefs).

If @CBS and @TheTonyAwards really wanted to celebrate differences then they wouldn’t just have Megan Thee Stallion and Dylan Mulvaney in the opening number.

Why only have famous Lefties and no famous Conservatives?

This is one of the reasons why Broadway is dying.
It regularly mocks conservatives while claiming “diversity”.

Broadway is for Lefties, sadly. It needs to be for everyone.

People want to be entertained - not mocked.

The hypocrisy is real.
And so is the financial turmoil.

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Ray Lambert had already been shot twice and blown up once before he ever set foot on Omaha Beach.

He had survived the invasion of North Africa in 1943. Then Sicily. Each time he had been wounded. Each time he had gone back. By June 6th, 1944, the 23-year-old Staff Sergeant and head medic of the 16th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion was on his third invasion in two years. He had already won a Silver Star for running through German lines in North Africa to drag wounded men out.

He was not supposed to survive a third one.

Lambert landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach. Of the 31 men in his landing craft, only 7 survived the day. The other 24 were killed before they even reached the sand.

He started working immediately.

The first bullet hit his right arm and shattered the bone. He kept going. A second round tore through his right elbow as he was pulling a wounded soldier through the surf. He kept going. Something hit his leg and opened it down to the bone. He put a tourniquet on himself, injected himself with morphine from his own kit, and kept going.

He found a slab of concrete on the beach that offered a few inches of cover. He set up a treatment zone behind it, dragging men out of the water and working on them one by one under constant fire. That piece of concrete is still there today. People who visit Omaha Beach call it Ray's Rock.

Then a loose landing craft ramp swung loose in the surf and slammed into him. It broke his back.

He kept going.

Lambert lost count of how many men he treated. The official record credits him with saving at least 15 lives that morning. Other accounts say closer to two dozen. He worked until his body physically stopped, collapsing unconscious at the edge of the surf, bleeding from multiple wounds, his back broken, still in the water.

A doctor spotted him. A landing craft pulled him out.

Here is the part that does not feel real.

Lambert's brother, Euel, had also been wounded at Normandy that day. The two brothers were loaded onto the same evacuation landing craft. They were placed in the same wheeled ambulance. They were taken to the same tent hospital in England. They were brought into the same operating room at the same time.

Lambert spent almost a full year recovering before he could walk properly again.

He went home. He lived quietly for decades, rarely talking about what happened. In 2019, at the age of 98, he went back to Normandy and stood on the beach again. He published a memoir called Every Man a Hero. It became a New York Times bestseller.

In 2021, Ray Lambert died peacefully at home. He was 100 years old.

He had three invasions, four serious wounds, a broken back, a Silver Star, multiple Bronze Stars, multiple Purple Hearts, and two dozen men who came home because he refused to stop moving on the worst morning in American military history.

Today is June 6th.

Remember him.

[Arbitrage Andy @ArbitrageAndy1]

26 year olds today: "my anxiety is high, I am overwhelmed by my email job"

26 year olds in 1944:

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

One of the greatest speeches of the late 20th century, given on the 40th anniversary of one of the most spectacular days in human history.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I’m Gen X and I support this message. 🎯

[Robin Vos @repvos]

Funny how your profile says you live in an alternate universe and this stupid post just proves it. Cornyn supported Trump 99% of the time and now we'll waste tens of millions of dollars in a red state on someone who is flawed instead of working for the majority. #brilliant

[Alan Kielan @AlanKielan]

@repvos .

[Robin Vos @repvos]

Wish @SenatorKapenga, Sen Nass and @SenHutton had listened to Milton Friedman before they voted against our most recent tax cut plan .. 80% was returned to WI taxpayers and it would have gotten signed into law. #wisconsinrightnow

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“I am in favor of reducing taxes under any circumstances, for any excuse, with any reason whatsoever.”

[Chad Doran @doranchad]

As crazy as this sounds, this is essentially interchangeable with what all Dem candidates stand for today.

[paleoneoliberal @armsq17]

None of this is really true. Effective tax rates have remained roughly the same, and government spending in the US today is around record highs. Arguably, the tax system is more progressive now.

[Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿 @zagrebbi]

As summer comes into view, always remember that more Europeans regularly die in heat waves than Americans die in guns violence.

[LB @beyondreasdoubt]

umm, it might be time to go back to traditional Home Ed in public schools ...

"over 25% of millennials can't make a cake from a box mix"

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

Poor people don’t have time to cook is cope.The poorest work 33 hours a week and watch 20 hours of TV. The richest work 47 hours and watch 14.