Peter Studebaker

Entertainer/Sleight of Hand/VIP Events

[Dave Ramsey @DaveRamsey]

This clip is from 2016, and I was sounding the alarm back then.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

That is how half our labor law works.

A worker wants a job, an employer wants to hire, they shake hands, and a swarm of rules written by people who will never stand in that field decide the deal is illegal, immoral, or “bad for society.”

Minimum wage bans low-skill workers from selling their time at any rate that gets their foot in the door. Licensing and visa rules tell adults which skills they are allowed to sell, where, and to whom.

All of it rests on the same premise: that politicians and busybodies own a veto over peaceful agreements between other people.

If you own your body, you own your labor. If you own your labor, you own the right to trade it on terms you choose with anyone who also consents.

Every law that criminalizes that trade without a harmed third party is an attack on self-ownership.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

This is what happens when you’re so economically illiterate you don’t know the difference between capitalism and a plutocracy.
Capitalism isn’t a tax bracket. It’s not a net-worth club. It’s a principle: the right to earn, trade, and keep what you produce.

A salaried worker who supports capitalism is no different from a tenant who supports property rights or a student who supports free speech. You don’t have to be rich to defend the system that makes wealth possible. You only have to understand that freedom is better than force.

If you think only millionaires are allowed to support capitalism, all you’re really saying is that you don’t understand markets, voluntary exchange, or how wealth is created.
You’re confusing political power with economic freedom.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

End the Fed.

Audit the ashes.

Return to sound money.

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

@Isucceed Masking doesn’t work.
- source: every study ever done on masks.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

The American Revolution did not start with a five point policy plan.

It started with a simple refusal: “You do not own us.”

A tax on paper and tea was enough to light a fuse because people still understood that even small chains come from the same forge as the heavy ones.

Today you get taxed on your income, your purchases, your home, your savings, your death, and you are told this is normal and mature and civilized.

You are searched at airports, spied on through bulk data collection, censored under “safety” policies, drafted into culture wars you never asked for, then handed a flag and told to be grateful.

If the founders saw this level of compliance, they would think the Redcoats won.

Liberty is the live demand that the spirit of 1776 still applies. No king, no parliament, no agency, no administration owns your life, your labor, or your voice.

If that idea feels “extreme” now, that says more about how far we have drifted than it does about the idea.

[Peter Studebaker @StudebakerPeter]

@tylerevansokay Great idea! The compassion of the IRS combined w the efficiency of the DMV, w results as impressive as Public Schools! What could go wrong?

[Greg Platt @GregPlatt4]

@DefiantLs Outside of special occupations, who needs more than one pair of shoes?

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

First off, this isn’t “liberal.”
Real liberalism was about individual rights, property, and freedom.
This is just entitlement dressed up as morality.

People who say “you can’t own X until everyone has Y” are admitting one thing:
They think your life exists to fix other people’s failures.

They don’t earn.
They demand.
They don’t build.
They seize.
They don’t rise.
They insist you kneel.

Nothing in this worldview is sustainable, moral, or practical.
It’s parasitism with a halo.

If you want a home, you earn it.
You don’t point to someone else’s front door like it’s your inheritance.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The San Diego City “lid lifters” are already hitting the streets to visit every single home in San Diego every year to make sure they’re recycling

These enforcement officers are hired by Democrats and are being paid $70k per year to monitor your trash recycling compliance

[Alexander Neuman @realitycomes1st]

@VinodBhardwajUS @RockChartrand https://t.co/QeLykyOeqM

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Raising the minimum wage doesn’t make life affordable. It makes everything more expensive. It’s a political trick pretending that a higher number on a paycheck makes you richer, when all it really does is push prices up, shut out low-skill workers, and hit the poorest people first and hardest.

This is what happens when you treat economics like therapy. Socialists chase the feeling of “doing something” and ignore the reality that every forced wage hike ends up as higher costs, fewer jobs, and more people locked out of opportunity.

It looks compassionate. It functions like cruelty.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is Tiburon, California
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Here residents can be fined up to $500 for not separating their trash when disposing of it
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As you can see when the city comes to pick it up, it’s all thrown in one bin and taken to the landfill
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Amazing

[Peter Studebaker @StudebakerPeter]

@LPNational Ayn Rand.

[Peter Studebaker @StudebakerPeter]

@SenWarren @billieeilish Wrongonomics.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

If you cheer when your guy wields the state to pick winners, fund pet projects, or print trillions for “the right reasons,” you don’t oppose socialism, you just lost the last auction for who gets to run it.
Every tyrant starts as someone promising to fix the corruption of the last one. Every “strategic subsidy” is just looting with a flag on it. Bastiat saw you coming: the moment plunder wears your tribe’s colors, it’s no longer theft; it’s “strategy.”
Spare us the 4D chess excuses. The Constitution wasn’t written to hand out favors, it was written to stop exactly this. A king in a red hat is still a king, and the bill always lands on the same table: yours.
The question isn’t whether the state serves the right cause, it’s whether anyone should have that power at all.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Democrats claim we have a healthcare crisis due to soaring costs and that the government must subsidize Obamacare premiums. But Obamacare was passed to lower costs and improve quality for the very people who now can’t afford it. Instead, as I warned, the result was the opposite.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Saying “health care is a right” sounds compassionate, but the meaning is very different from what people assume.

A right means something you can exercise without forcing anyone else to act.
Speech is a right.
Property is a right.
Self-defense is a right.
They require no other person’s labor.

Health care is a service provided by doctors, nurses, researchers, manufacturers, builders, engineers, and support staff.
It has to be produced.
It requires training, time, expertise, equipment, facilities, and resources.

To claim health care as a right is to claim a right to the labor of other people.

And if others must provide it to you whether they choose to or not, that is not a right.
That is ownership over their time, effort, and life.

The idea that people “deserve” goods and services simply by existing implies that someone else must be sacrificed to provide them.
Not paid voluntarily.
Not chosen through exchange.
Forced.

A society cannot function on the belief that one group is morally entitled to the work of another.
That is how every civilization that embraced it ended in collapse:

The moment you treat human beings as resources to be claimed, you have already abandoned the concept of human rights.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

This is actually impressive. In one sentence you managed to:

• Reduce millions of people to a racial and sexual category
• Attribute a single negative motive to all of them
• Treat that motive as inherent to their identity
• And then redefine “human rights” to mean something else entirely

That’s not analysis. That’s bigotry dressed up as moral language.

Human rights means equality under the law.
No special privileges. No collective guilt. No inherited victimhood or inherited sin.

But this tweet smuggles in a different definition:
“Human rights” as policies that grant advantages to one group by taking away rights from another. When people push back against that, the pushback gets labeled “radicalization.”

Because if disagreement can be framed as hatred, you never have to defend your ideas.
You just have to dehumanize the opposition.

This is how every collectivist ideology works: First divide by identity.
Then assign moral worth based on group.
Then justify power based on that hierarchy.

The irony?
You don’t oppose racism of sexism.
You just changed the target.