Scott Rutherford

I'm a husband, father, and CEO of a credit union in Dayton Ohio. I love to travel and take my family to new destinations.

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

@ForTheWin Just a poorly written article

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

This is what happens when immature candidates are elected to high profile positions. See also Seattle

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The @NYCMayor Mamdani should take up the Chairman’s offer for a tour of the Holocaust Museum so he understands what is genocide.

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

Great read, it’s a shame that the intended person will never read or acknowledge this

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

Ro Khanna is a joke. A total joke.

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

Had Obama or Biden done the same thing, nothing would have ever been said by the networks but because Trump got involved they're piling on. Truth is, we were never going to beat Belgium.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

🧵Tuesday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ was back with more anti-American hot takes, implying the REAL reason the USMNT lost the game against Belgium was because of Donald Trump and, if it hadn’t been for him, the players would have been able to concentrate

“Now, it was a wild ride for the U.S. team packed with controversial calls, and a stunning red card intervention by President Trump.”

“Look, the U.S. men’s World Cup journey has come to an end....closing the book on a run that’s been filled with records, a controversy, and certain other things”

“The loss followed days of controversy off the field. Flo Balogun was cleared to play...a decision that came after President Trump asked the FIFA president to review the play.”

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Funny thing about the whole red card hub bub is 99% of the world knows FIFA is corrupt — it might be the single thing people across the globe believe and tell you, regardless of if you ask — and then Trump blasts in, without any care, like the kool aid man, and does some small fry FIFA corruption, and everyone is like “Woah . The integrity of the game. It’s gone. It’s ruined forever”

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

@jeffzeleny how on the world is slamming communism now partisan? Sounds American to me.

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

It appears the U.S. has defeated Boznia in Santa Clara but California still needs to count the MAIL IN GOALS.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Me and the boys pulling up to FIFA HQ to file the Balogun appeal

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

Only country that can get homered in its own country

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

This is a great follow!

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

ON OUR WAY TO THE ELLA LANGLEY CONCERT!!!

[Roxanne and Shantel @AllAboutTRH]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but if West isn’t returning to Summer House, I don’t really see the case for Amanda coming back either

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

@neiltyson If you were ever abducted by Aliens, we wouldn’t pay the ransom demand

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

@EdMarkey Your bio says it all, just another Senator who doesn’t understand economics

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

Wemby is the new golden child of the NBA and they’re giving him every call

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

Typical UK Wildcat alum

[John Frascella (Football) @NFLFrascella]

You realize the Spurs are up 1 here, right?

So all De’Aaron Fox has to do is pull the ball out and wait to get fouled

Spurs got it mostly locked up

… this will go down as the worst basketball decision in NBA history

[Scott Rutherford @ScoRutherford]

BS call by the refs in this Knicks Spurs game, already protecting Wemby

[Garage Beer @drinkgaragebeer]

Spin the Garage Beer

[Garage Beer @drinkgaragebeer]

Freedom called and said bring a 12 pack

[Shane Tuttle @ShaneTuttleNCAA]

REPORT: Ohio State HC Ryan Day slept with the mother of recent Northwestern QB commit RJ Day on “multiple occasions” over the past 18+ years.

The evidence is reportedly “irrefutable.”