Tom Rupley

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@RapidResponse47 @PressSec I voted for Trump and if he were allowed to run again I would vote for him again, but wildfires happen. Why wouldn’t you try to help your neighbor out instead of barking at him?

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@Irina_exh Watch pin

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@fasc1nate That should happen more. Hoffa knew the American government was corrupt and he had no respect for them. They are still corrupt and still deserve no respect.

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@DudiYehudi @johnrich Now here’s a man who needs Jesus

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@AntiWokeMemes Not at all, in fact it brought a smile to my face

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@sarahtexe Yes

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@DavidFischer Savior

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@SarahWorkx Zip, zilch, nada, zero, not a chance

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@iqrafatma1278 Two clocks and a remote control

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@EshaAA33 I don’t know, should Obama be required to restore the White House to the same condition it was before his construction project?

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@LarryTaunton Happy Fathers Day Mr. Taunton

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@Sabiha1278 Yall pulling numbers outta your…

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@cutiieepie6 Someone should tell her

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@1Nicdar Good

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@Ultratechman @Jason_R_Burt Fool

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Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.

Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.”

Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.

Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.

He suggested they use excavators instead.

Someone pushed back.

“But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.”

Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?”

One sentence.

That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.

The teaspoon is not a punchline.

It is the actual policy.

Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.

Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.

Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.

Teaspoons.

The system doesn’t want excavators.

Excavators finish the job.

And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford.

So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.

But this isn’t about laziness.

It’s about control.

A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better.

Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan.

Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.

Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions.

That’s the point.

The economy doesn’t run on productivity.

It runs on the appearance of productivity.

Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.

They know it.

Their managers know it.

The people who sign their budgets know it.

But the teaspoon stays in their hand.

Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.

And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.

That’s the thing the system can’t survive.

Not unemployment.

Free time.

Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan.

He described the longest con in modern governance.

Keep them digging.

Keep them busy.

Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.

Friedman told that story sixty years ago.

He meant it as a warning.

The system heard every word.

It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

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@PeriklesGREAT Trees

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@simonateba No

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@CurtisHouck If she doesn’t know the story, why is she “reporting” on it?

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@TrumpsHurricane Tampon Tim