The Lemon

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Trump says the "very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming... are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster."

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible…

TRUMP: "It’s deeply ironic that the UN has an entire institution devoted to protecting cultural heritage, yet they promote mass migration and are actively destroying the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage."

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Why am I just learning now that public schools in the New York city ghetto don't assign homework, don't grade tests, don't respond to parents emails or phone calls, don't supervise feral, fighting kids at lunch, don't know or care if their students can read or do grade level math, and give them As on their report cards when they are actually doing F level work?

Why did Nikole Hannah Jones bury this explosive lede?

Why isn't she writing emergency front page @nytimes stories about this shocking, incredible, abject citywide failure that costs people who pay taxes over $50K per student per year?

Why isn't she holding emergency all-hands on deck meetings with @NYCMayor to shut this down, rescue these kids, fire everyone involved?

We all know why. But no one at the Times will say a word. LOL

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Wide-spread phone-based sports gambling is a disaster, the fact that the GOP was responsible for pushing it in the name of "freedom" is disgraceful

A large portion of the "conservative movement" is just looking for a pay day, their claims about principle are hollow

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

Some years back I had dinner with a public school teacher who was part of the "Renewal" program in DeBlasio's NYC. The premise of this school program was bold (if doomed to fail): instead of closing the worst public schools, flood them with resources, extra teachers, new computers, the works. Less than a hundred schools got close to $800 million of extra resources from 2014-2019. And guess what?

It was a total failure. Zero test score improvement. Higher dropout rate. No improvement in 5 years.

But what this teacher told me about the day-to-day was just depressing. 8th graders who swore at her, fights in the hallways, parents who (overwhelmingly) never showed up for meetings- all the clichés about a dysfunctional, low-income nyc public school. And it just continued this way, no change. She was brought in to help fix the mess, and admitted to me there was no hope. The problems ran far deeper than whether the kids had a new iPad or enough ESL support.

DeBlasio admin shut down the program and basically hoped everyone would forget that lack of shiny new desks, laptops and an army of administrators aren't the reasons so many black/latino majority public schools fail, over and over again, all over nyc, no matter how much money is spent per student

[The Lemon @The_Lemon4444]

@JohnHinckley20 @Dannyjokes
@boysca

[Young Americans for Liberty @YALiberty]

Never forget.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

Contra @NSKinsella , a high trust society is real…. and it’s spectacular.

Trust in the foundation for capital accumulation, contracts, trade, division of labor, in fact all wealth.

Economists are disastrously bad at showing us the Unseen: the value in things that cannot be measured or expressed by data, and the demand for intangibles like trust, tradition, comity, nostalgia, community.

[The Lemon @The_Lemon4444]

I was going to say for every comment you see, there are people like me who just never or rarely comment but just reflect on various posts and insights.

It's like a sports game or a guest speaker, I'm just here to watch and listen.

Sincerely please remember how many people you are probably impacting is beyond what you see via responses.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Ben acknowledges the roll of the welfare state but, while mentioning the 1960s, he doesn’t address the issue of Hart-Cellar

Before that change immigration was almost exclusively European

Yes, the 1960s is the genesis of our immigration problem but Ben won’t acknowledge why

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

“Being an American is more than paperwork.” — my husband

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

@ZaidJilani An example of not assimilating would be immigrating to a country and responding with mockery and contempt when the people who were here before you express alarm over the rapid transformation of their communities.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

He does look a little like a young Bob Dole.

One of the most frustrating things about this admin is its fundamental reluctance to dig deep and hard for the deepest skeletons in the deep state—almost as though it saw its job as governing the country, not defeating its enemies

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

Of course Ben (as usual) adopts the left-wing framing of an issue under discussion

[Daniel Keene @Djkeene1]

If you’re not from DFW, I don’t think you have an idea how significant the immigration issue is here. I don’t mean the mass of the problem, but rather how personal and widespread the frustration is among the residents regardless of political affiliations.

Even before my post, it’s been the topic at almost every dinner or party. If you’re from here and anything less than the upper class, you have a deep resentment for the companies and politicians ushering in foreigners at the expense of your home. We’ve watched some of the most liberal progressive people we know pull their kids out of public schools because they’re the only Americans left in their class. I don’t know how these people will vote, but they are facing the reality of their progressivism.

A lot of these people are uncomfortable having the discussion in public given it touches a raw part regarding race. I get the sensitivity and there is a sense in which that’s right. But if our politicians want the support of the people of Texas, they’re going to have to recognize that however silent, there is a significant majority that feel disenfranchise, betrayed and a level of despair watching their home be transferred to newcomers.

These are not hateful, mean or racist people. They simply want to give their kids an upbringing that resembles the one they had. They want their kids to go to schools with other English speaking Americans, meet kids at the park they can be friends with and they don’t want their kids to be minorities. This is normal and good.

If Bo’s post was over the line for you then you’ve lost touch with every voter and are in for a rude awakening.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

Wait until you hear what the allegations against Lindsay Clancy are

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

9/11 was an immigration failure. The terrorists should have never been allowed in our country to begin with; those whose visas expired should have been deported.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

America would be better served if conservatives spent less time worrying about men in women's sports and more time worrying about women in law enforcement

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

Migration itself, then, is also ethnic cleansing.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

A democratic republic entails crimes being judged by citizens chosen at random
Anarchism does not provide for this
This is considered to be a criticism of anarchism