Ozark Pilgrim

Jeremiah 48:10

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!

The man with more than 60 PREVIOUS CHARGES who TERRORIZED innocent drivers by FIRING HIS GUN AT RANDOM CARS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT in Charlotte, NC...

...WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON 4 DAYS BEFORE AFTER HIS CHARGES WERE DROPPED AND HE WAS OUT ON PAROLE!!!!!!

WHAT ARE WE DOING?!!!!!!!

ARE YOU GOING TO WAKE UP NORTH CAROLINA?!!!!!!

HOW LONG MUST THIS GO ON?!!!!!

STOP LETTING VIOLENT CRIMINALS OUT OF JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

This is the framing of a collectivist. The honest framing is the opposite: never in human history has so much wealth been produced and held by so many. The poorest American today commands comforts no king could buy a century ago. That is the achievement Sanders calls a crisis.

And notice the word he smuggles in beside wealth: "power." There is no power over men in a fortune. The men he names cannot tax you, jail you, or force you to do anything. Their only power is to offer you a product and try to persuade you to buy it. You are free to say no.

Real power over other men is the power to compel, and that lives in exactly one place: the government office Sanders has occupied for decades. He is describing the producer's freedom and calling it tyranny, while holding the one weapon that is actual force.

The inequality he hates is not wealth seized but wealth created. He resents that some men make more because they produce more. That is not the issue of our time. It is the oldest envy, walking around in an angry senator's suit.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@LurkerSupreme4 @GreginAZ @HerndonforIdaho Oh yeah, not great. Oof.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@LurkerSupreme4 @GreginAZ @HerndonforIdaho What’s the matter with funeral homes (other than the occasional traffic)? Goddam smoke and vape shops though.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

FDR is the most overrated president in American history and it is not close.

People treat him like a saint. The reality is he inherited a recession and turned it into the longest depression in the history of the developed world. Every other major economy on earth recovered faster than the United States did under FDR. Sit with that. We had the most resources, the most industry, the most capacity, and we recovered slower than countries that got bombed.

Unemployment was still 19% in 1938. Six years into the New Deal. Six years of "bold experimentation" and one in five Americans still could not find work.

Why? Because his policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.

Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.

A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism.

So what actually saved the economy? Not the alphabet agencies. Not the fireside chats. A world war. Twelve million men shipped overseas and the entire planet's industrial competition reduced to rubble. That is the "recovery." That is the legacy.

Strip away Pearl Harbor and FDR is a guy who took a bad recession and stretched it into a decade of misery with bad economics and a cult of personality. He is not ranked on results. He is ranked on the luck of being in the chair when Hitler invaded Poland.

Greatest marketing job in the history of the presidency. Nothing more.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@jjfThompson @HistoryWJacob Good Lord. I’m done with you.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@jjfThompson @HistoryWJacob Once it’s brought here, it’s too late. Have you not been paying attention?

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@Amandaf61424512 @zerohedge Self correcting problem.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@jsg_squared @zerohedge Oh baby!

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@thomasunise @georg3 @zerohedge Nope. Just read it. Didn’t see “bodily autonomy” in there.

You freak.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@jjfThompson @HistoryWJacob Ahh, the old head in the sand method. Let them come to you in the night and kill you before you know what’s going on?

I hope it’s painless for you.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@finwellguy @financedystop You’re not being honest; you’re being illiterate.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@thinkorswim0712 @mattvanswol Cull, not lock up. Cull. Maybe several times 2%.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@specialtrend10 Did he take two classes because he failed the first time?

[Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon]

34 year old Montreal Muslim cop hired 5 years ago,

Shot dead by a camo wearing terrorist with a semi auto rifle.

Female Montreal cop couldn't hold her and her partner's position.

Shot in the back as she ran away.

Letting her Muslim partner bleed out in the street.

DEI cops has consequences.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

I think there is no better example of race relations in the west than this story. A White family gave a homeless boy everything he never had, pushed him to get into college, pushed him to play football and he made it as a pro athlete. Without them, he's a bum, but with them he was given the world and he still sued them.

We have turned the America into a make a wish foundation for minorities and its still not enough.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@jjfThompson @HistoryWJacob You missed my point altogether. I said you’re on the wrong side because dropping the bomb saved lives, both American, Japanese, and Japanese civilians in the end. A continued war would have cost each of those parties dearly.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@ChessEcon @HistoryWJacob Oh my goodness. I will give you great credit for thinking through this fantasy of a contained, withering Japan that somehow endures no deaths over the years and years, maybe decade or more it takes for them to acquiesce to any surrender. Plus the additional allied losses.

[Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️ @loganb]

“Policing should be more targeted” lolololol

Let me tell you a story about targeted policing. So Seattle got speeding cameras a few years ago, an advisory group had to recommend where to place them.

One thing they hated was that if the cameras were simply put in the most dangerous places—with the most dead children—it would be disproportionately in PoC neighborhoods.

So the working group wanted to move some cameras into whiter neighborhoods.

But think about the implications for a second: local residents are the ones most likely to be caught speeding and local residents are the ones most likely to die in collisions.

Targeting actual need of speeding cameras was deemed racist. So the implication of the group’s recommendations was to literally kill poorer children of color, so that more white people would get speeding tickets.

[Ozark Pilgrim @Spc_Munky]

@jjfThompson @HistoryWJacob Then you’re on the wrong side of the issue. Not dropping them would have resulted in much greater death.