Free speech is expensive

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Terrible proof reader.

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

We need more members of congress to work as hard as Massie to stop the runaway freight train.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Our country was founded upon the “consent of the governed” to be governed.

At what point will citizens rescind their consent?

Productive moral people will not forever consent to serve a kleptocracy regardless of whether it has the trappings of a democracy or a republic.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@jeremykauffman He’s setting the price (below market), fixing the product (depressing ground beef prices will have mal-effects on marketing the rest of the carcass), dictating the duration and the amount.

Label the product, remove barriers to US production, and let the free market decide.

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@DannyMintys People forget how dumb the average American is and half the country is dumber than that...

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SteveFriend And that’s only what the FBI has admitted to.

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@RyanHansenSpace @Patryn23

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@elonmusk @bot @grok and insight to release for android

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@elonmusk @bot When available for second class citizens on Android?

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@StarshipGazer That sheild

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

$4,000 per year per American.

That’s how much interest we are paying on the debt to banks & foreign countries every year.

A family of four owes $16,000 per year for nothing but interest on the debt!

I lost my re-election because I voted against the policies that caused this.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The chunky wood butcher block in 1980s kitchens disappeared because of a government recommendation that had zero science behind it.

In the early 90s, food microbiologist Dean Cliver asked the USDA for the evidence behind their advice to ditch wood for plastic. They admitted they had none. So he ran the test himself.

He contaminated wood and plastic boards with E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria. Three minutes later, 99.9% of the bacteria on the wood was dead. The wood's pores pull bacteria beneath the surface, where they can't survive.

Plastic went the other way. Left overnight at room temperature, the bacteria multiplied. And knife-scarred plastic was nearly impossible to sanitize, even in a dishwasher. Every cut creates a groove where bacteria hide from your sponge.

The thickness wasn't decoration either. Those blocks were end grain, wood fibers standing vertical, so the knife slides between fibers instead of cutting across them and the surface heals itself. That construction only holds together as a thick slab. Slice it thin and it cracks.

Cliver repeated the results across nine hardwoods, maple to walnut. Same outcome every time.

The butcher block was self-sanitizing and built to outlive the house. America threw it out for the board that grows bacteria overnight.

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

This video literally feels like a hostage situation, which is hilarious.

“Define what a woman is or my friends are going to identify as women and join the draft with me”

The WNBA can’t define a woman because their ideology says a woman is whoever feels like one, but they also can’t let him play because that would be absurd.

Checkmate.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Elon built a power plant in Mississippi to run computers in Tennessee. They're a few hundred feet apart. The state line between them is doing all the work.

Here's the trick. Air permits come from state regulators. Memphis fought his turbines for a year. So he put the new ones just over the line in Southaven, where Mississippi approved all 41 of them three weeks after the public hearing. Unanimous vote.

The computers stayed in Memphis, because Tennessee has some of the cheapest power in America.

Then Mississippi handed him the biggest deal in state history to get the next building. $20 billion, and he pays zero sales tax on the chips inside it.

Add it up. Turbines where the permits come easy. Servers where the power comes cheap. GPUs where the tax is zero. Every piece of the project sits in whichever state charges less for it.

Neither state got the whole thing. Both gave him their best offer anyway.

The power plant makes half as much electricity as Hoover Dam. And the extension cord crosses a state line.

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@SpaceX The longer it keeps floating next to big vessels the more I can't stop thinking some mega billionaire could lease its own small fleet 😅
https://t.co/jwe3d7KVQx

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@aaronburnett New flex incoming

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Scott Adams, 2019: AOC is smarter than you think. “If she were old enough to run for president, she’d be the front-runner right now.”

People are pointing to her freezing her eggs (after saying climate change would kill us in 12 years) as evidence that she is either hypocritical, not serious, or dumb.

Both moves are straight out of Trump’s playbook.

She used the climate hyperbole to become the biggest voice on the topic. Now she’s doing the exact same thing with reproductive health: dominating headlines, generating energy, controlling the narrative.

Scott Adams nailed it years ago: “So when you see her do stuff like that, it’s not an accident. She knows how to use hyperbole. She knows how to control the headlines.

And you’re gonna hate this. She’s a lot smarter than you think.

…What you think of as her not being smart is part of the act. So watch for that. She’s smarter than you think.”

The act is still working.

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

I remember thinking Scott was crazy when he said AOC was smart in 2019.

Well, it’s 7 years later and I just watched her practice a sophisticated hypnosis technique on live TV last week that gave 50 million democrats a template to abandon Wokeness without violating their self-image.

If it the talent was noticeable back then, she should be unstoppable now.

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@elonmusk New billionaire flex incoming...

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@aaronburnett New flex incoming

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@aaronburnett New flex incoming

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@RyanHansenSpace How'd you get to your yacht in Monaco?

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

Unintended consequences. Orders up for 2027 billionaire flex 🤣

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@SpaceX "Elon, you know I love my G650 but I was thinking..."
😂

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

Unintended consequences. Orders up for 2027 billionaire flex 🤣

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

@DJSnM https://t.co/egtNuuXwVm

[Free speech is expensive @SciFly_SaltLife]

Unintended consequences. Orders up for 2027 billionaire flex 🤣