Seth

“You get greater equality of actual results by a system under which people are free to seek unequal results.” - Milton Friedman

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet

[CogginToboggan @CogginToboggan]

Keith Hernandez on air: "My family lineage is burnt. My children will not have children. This is the end of the Hernandez family line, a terrible waste."

John Kruk on air: "I ever tell you the time I drank 25 shots of tequila with a member of the Mexican cartel back in 1986?"

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Graham Platner is one of the most ridiculous figures to arise in American politics in years. He is bright red like a strawberry with a ridiculous walrus mustache. He has a giant Nazi death’s head tattooed on his chest. He posted on Reddit claiming to have engaged in sex tourism and masturbated in portable toilets. He has multiple accusations of serious sexual misconduct and violence.

There are no memes about this man. There are no late night talk show hosts making jokes at his expense. Nobody portrays him on SNL.

Consider the way this utterly ridiculous Democratic figure has been treated by the comedy world compared to Republican figures like Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and JD Vance.

This is not harmless and this is not meaningless. Democrats have successfully incepted the idea into voters’ heads that Republicans are absurd, clownish and unqualified and the one-sided mockery in entertainment media has helped to spread this lie when the Democrats are actually a collection of hideous weirdos and circus freaks that media has somehow convinced you are normal.

We have to do a better job of making fun of them.

[Aditya Mishra @adityamtweets]

Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?

This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.

Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.

If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?

[David Santa Carla 🦇 @TheOnlyDSC]

Reviewing my speech written by the SPLC for the "Hotties for Hitler" rally after they paid me $50K.

[Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa]

Anyone care to place bets on which alt-right "leader" was an informant who received $270,000 from the SPLC?

[Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs]

BREAKING: A federal grand jury in Alabama charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire and bank fraud-related charges, the Justice Department announced, accusing the group of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them. @JakeMRosen @CBSNews

[すけちゃん @AgingAnarchist]

アメリカ人やさしいからXで「ウチのバーベキュー食べに来いよ！」って言ってる人の家にガチで行っても大丈夫だと思う。空港まで迎えにきてくれるだろうし泊めてくれるだろうし腹一杯肉を食わせてくれてクリスマスには家族の写真が入ったカードを送ってくれる。懐が深いんだよ。カリフォルニア民以外。

[REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND @RepOfSomaliland]

🧾 Receipts: Ilhan Omar’s original last name was Elmi before it was changed.
This evidence was available, but the Obama Justice Department refused to investigate.

Her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and their father, Nur Said Elmi (also known as Nur Omar), used multiple names across different countries. Part of the family fled to the United Kingdom, while Ilhan Omar and others entered the United States under their father’s assumed name, “Omar.”

These name changes and split identities were used to conceal the father’s true war crimes and identity.

Marriage details:
• Groom: Ahmed Nur Said Elmi
• Bride: Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
(real name Ilhan Elmi)

Extradition? @TheJusticeDept @DHSgov @WhiteHouse

[Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC]

NOW: Famed Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. HUGE Pro-USA, Pro-Iran, Pro-Israel celebratory demonstration. Dancing and crying in the street.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I never thought I’d say this but can we see more of the Patriots and Seahawks?

[Seth @SethNotAmish]

@EsotericCD @AviWoolf George Costanza

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent roasts Gavin Newsom at the World Economic Forum, calls Alex Soros his “billionaire sugar daddy.”

“Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.”

“He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros…”

“My message to Governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California. We are going to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse.”

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

I noted this a few days back.

As @michaelshermer has pointed out, ICE has detained something like 380,000 people. The percentage that were properly detained actual illegals? 99.8-99.95%.

The REAL objection is that we shouldn't be detaining illegal non-felons at all - they and their lovers won't like it, some have jobs here, etc. Activists simply know that it is very unpopular to say this.

[Seth @SethNotAmish]

@caroljsroth It’s a fallacy imo

[Seth @SethNotAmish]

@caroljsroth It’s a tool used to discount anyone’s interpretation of the users account of events in their life. “It’s my lived experience, so your opinion about it means less,” basically.

[LB @beyondreasdoubt]

that sound you hear while watching this is hundreds of posts being deleted

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Seth @SethNotAmish]

I’m so glad I was busy tonight and didn’t have to watch the Phillies and Eagles. Ugh.