Ian Roberts

Probably not the Omega Man, but, maybe???

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

There's no more accurate a metaphor for the West than slowly bleeding to death by the hand of barbarians while corrupt authorities tie our hands behind our back.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

This is not economics. It is the ancient demand of the parasite, now spoken from a US Senate seat without shame.

Today this evil senator announces his desire to seize half of a private industry and calls it generosity.

The ease with which this looter, and too many others like him, demand the lives of their victims should alarm you. Thirty years ago socialism was named as evil, and deservedly so.

Read his words. He will "give" the public ownership of companies he did not build, fund, or imagine. You cannot give what you do not own so he proposes to take it, by force of law, from the men who created it, and to pass off the theft as a gift to "all of us."

Note their formula. The producer is the "oligarch" whose decisions must be blocked. The man who made nothing is the moral authority who decides. Ability is the crime. Need is the claim. Force is the method.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

My former boss @PeterSchiff had his Puerto Rico bank shut down in 2022. The IRS told the world it was a money-laundering haven.

More likely: The Biden IRS disliked Peter's constant criticism.

Peter FOIA'ed their communications. Spoiler: Their investigation turned up no criminal behavior, but they charged him anyway.

Worse, the IRS refuses to turn over all of the FOIA'ed materials, despite a federal judge mandating their release.

The story is crazy. But for me the craziest part of all is that Peter's bank, as a policy, was fully solvent, keeping 100 percent of clients' assets. By contrast, the standard U.S. bank historically was only required to keep 3 percent of its clients' deposits (the rest being loaned out at interest) but since Covid, the minimum reserve rate was dropped all the way to zero.

The whole point of a bank is to keep your money safe. What today we call banks do the opposite: As soon as you give them your money, they give it someone else. Peter tried providing the world an actual, honest bank — & the IRS sicc'ed Puerto Rican banking authorities on him, forcing its closure. (Knowing the nightmare of U.S. financial regulations, Peter's bank actually excluded Americans as clients; as the IRS had no authority, the FOIA'ed emails show them merely telling the Puerto Rican financial authorities [OCIF] what to do.)

This is the definition of government being weaponized against American citizens, exactly the thing the Constitution was designed to protect against.

Yet despite the feds being caught red handed, breaking the law in service of their own political agenda, illegally covering up their crimes, there's been zero accountability. Nobody fired, nobody reassigned, not even an apology to Peter or his thousands of de-banked clients.

Many of the named officials still work at the IRS. If the DoJ cares to show the American people they care about ending the weaponization of government, they'll take action. Until then, we should assume any of us can be targeted for the crime of offending someone in Washington.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Nick, this is nonsense.

FY2025 deficit: $1.8 trillion. Spending $7.0T, revenue $5.2T. Interest on the debt alone hit $970 billion. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid eat the rest.

Even if you grant Miller's "hundreds of billions" in fraud, you are still over a trillion short. The math kills the claim on its own.

The bigger problem is moral. Calling fraud the issue concedes that the rest of the transfer is fine. It isn't. Every dollar taken from a producer and handed to someone who didn't earn it is the same act, paperwork or not. The looter with the right form is still a looter.

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered.

You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day.

This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm.

The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone.

A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time.

Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans.

We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all.

Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Japanese movie posters for US movies go hard af.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Hang it in the Louvre

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

all regulation works this way. it's ossification and preferencing for incumbents masquerading as "safety" or "equity."

one cannnot understand the american healthcare (or the electoral) system until one foregrounds a simple fact:

these systems are not horrendously dysfunctional and broken, they are captured and that is a very different thing.

they are not like this because those running them are stupid or know no better, they are like this because someone wants it this way.

once one realizes that this is the relevant lens, it's actually easy to work back to seeing who the problem is. you just ask "cui bono?" (who benefits?)

you'll note that it's never the voter, the patient, the consumer and always the party, the guild, the cartel.

certificate of need (amusingly abbreviated "CON") for hospitals, practitioners, and kinds of medical equipment is one of the most anti-consumer regulations imaginable. it literally states that "no, you cannot buy and operate an MRI machine in this area without first getting permission from the guys who currently have MRI machines in the area."

if one did this with, say, a burger stand, and said "no, you cannot sell burgers in this town unless you get permission from the guy over there who sells crummy burgers for $27" you'd get run out of town on a rail as an anti-competitive monopolist. but somehow when a hospital does this exact same thing, everyone nods sagely and says "ah, yes, too important to be left to a free market" and prices are left to spiral.

again, this is not a bug, it's a feature. price is a signal. high prices say "provide more of this" and a free market will do so. the entire point of the CON con is to break that adaptive mechanism and prevent new supply from entering a market and thereby reducing price.

there is always a song and dance about how "if we do not do this some very bad thing will happen" to make such interference look like safety or reason, but the truth is always this:

it's not protection, it's plunder.

maybe it started with good intent, but this can never last. big business and big government do not like free markets, they like control and mono/oligopoly. and it's always cheaper to buy politicians and regulators than it is to compete.

that is why regulatory capture is always the outcome of regulatory regimes.

it is not the exception, it's the rule.

gato's third law: any sufficiently evolved regulatory regime will devolve into a system of legal plunder backed by a system of faux morality used to disguise it as safety and justice.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

That moment when you forget which glass you poisoned

[Kitty @TheRealKitty019]

These cretins will look at a vast selection of waters, collected from bespoke, untouched, untainted wellsprings that dot across the entire planet, watersheds jealously and zealously guarded by men whose lives rely upon their continued function, and declare "ah yes! I deserve the bounty of nature! I deserve the products of their labour!"

You deserve nothing. You are a slave, a wretch, the creeping, crawling dregs of society that sticks to my boot. Below even the peasant, as at least they know their damn place. You are the wastrel, the vagrant, ever demanding of everyone else and never giving back. Hungering, bleating, baying at the walls, nibbling on scraps while demanding jewels and finery and burning our fine oak doors for heat. Mewling in fury that you deserve all the posterity left for us as your own blood squanders every last drop.

Possessed of free will, supposedly, yet you spend it in supplication to your betters, begging, pleading to be given what they work for without having to expend any effort. A proper society would see you castrated and tossed aside like the animal you are. If I could, I would tax you for every breath you took, slave. Freedom, liberty, equality, these are the rights of men and you are just a beast.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

"I hope the secret police don't kick in my door tonight."

"I hope there's some bread left when I get to the front of the line."

"I hope the commissar doesn't rape my wife."

"I hope this nagging chest cough doesn't require antibiotics that I don't have the vouchers for."

"I hope I don't get accused of harboring bourgeois counterrevolutionary sentiments."

"I hope there isn't another purge."

"I hope I can save up enough to bribe the local Party bloc supervisor for a better job posting."

"I hope no one decides to name me as a accomplice to stop the torture."

"I hope the power stays on tonight."

"I hope things will be better some day."

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

“Capitalism is when bad.”

The propaganda around capitalism has worked so well that entire generations confuse free markets with corporatist cartel economies engineered by the state.

Capitalism is voluntary exchange. Full stop. Corporatism is billion dollar firms fused to political power through subsidies, bailouts, regulations, lobbying, central banking, and captured institutions.

One produces competition. The other crushes it.

Politicians and media spent decades deliberately blurring that distinction because blaming “capitalism” protects the regime that actually rigs the game.

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

Being a socialist in 2026 is something to be ashamed of. Long live freedom, damn it!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.

He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.

RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

[Sir Doge of the Coin ⚔️ @dogeofficialceo]

Can’t wait for the JPMorgan Movie

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The 1% pay 46% of all income taxes.

The bottom 50% pay 2% of income taxes.

Bernie never defines what “fair” actually means because it isn’t an objective standard. It’s a subjective slogan designed to convince you the current numbers are unjust, stirring up fear, greed, and envy under a thin veil of moral righteousness.

And it’s a shifting target. It’s no longer just about how much you earn. It’s about how much you own.

They’re coming for your property.

People will vote on it? So what?

A vote to steal is morally no different from a vote to kill the innocent. It’s wrong and should never even be allowed to be put for a vote.

If the Constitution fails to protect you from looters, even the professional ones in government, then what kind of society are we living in, one with no real safeguards for life, liberty, or property?

But on the question of fairness, the essential question always comes back to this: What is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

They’ll call it “safety,” but the real issue is authority.

If the government can mandate systems that monitor and override your control of your own property, the precedent matters more than the feature.

Today it’s impairment detection. Tomorrow it’s whatever they decide qualifies as “unsafe.”

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Without this global town square for free speech, a lot of important things never would’ve seen daylight.

Real-time information governments tried to bury. Scientific debate that was actively censored. Voices that would’ve stayed silenced forever.

Respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena when it actually counted. 🫡🙏

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

“But what if Elmo is paid $270,000 by the Southern Poverty Law Center to say it? Can Elmo say it then?”

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund useless pet projects such as “climate research” and “gender studies,” which benefit nobody.

Neither field of “study” is necessary for us to maintain our status as a military power.

The problem with the government meddling in science is that it leads to corruption and fraud. When it was decided that Congress would be in charge of allocating money for scientific “research” each year, that put politicians, and by extension, policy outcomes in charge of where that money goes. That, intentionally or not, will affect outcomes. The careers of climate “scientists,” for instance, depends entirely upon politicians being able to use scientists' findings to justify certain environmental and energy policies that align with left-wing activism.

If the scientific community came out today and said, “There is no climate crisis,” their funding would dry up quickly because politicians would find them useless as a vehicle to get the policy outcomes they so desire. But that hasn't happened because most scientists themselves are left-wing. They aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.

The entire system needs an overhaul, and it cannot happen unless a metaphorical axe is taken to it.

If you don't understand that fact, you are not a serious person.