Brian

washed up college hockey player turned trader

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Ms_NYRangers Defensive lapses late in the third are inexcusable. But it was happening all game.

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Good Luck!

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Ms_NYRangers Colts +3.5
Saints +7
Texans +1.5

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[George Kent @Bambino_Bets]

20-0 streak.

Sending to all who interact with this post.

I am shadow banned, you must interact and turn my notifications on or you’ll miss it!

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets What a run thank you!

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Great run and thank you!

[George Kent @Bambino_Bets]

Best 1st Inning Bet

Padres/Guardians NRFI

Let’s make it 18-0 in a row!

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Let’s go!!!!

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets End the shadow ban

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Big win

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Thanks for the work

[George Kent @Bambino_Bets]

Play of the Month has been posted in VIP.

This was nearly a Play of the Year!

Like this and it’s yours! If we don’t get 500 I’ll send to anyone that Reposted.

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Tailing and on the challenge

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@Bambino_Bets Let’s go 5-0

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@citrini My next transaction

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[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Leftist Media Outraged After USA Olympic Hockey Team Goes Pro-MAGA https://t.co/hh1qzqxCI8

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@SportsbkConsig @middleconsig @jsharapan @khs__09 RIP - thanks for being a positive vibes only person. God bless your wife and daughters. You made the world a better place

[Brian @_BrianEscobedo]

@BarstoolBigCat having a whoop on @Return_Of_RB would be incredible right now

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

There wasn't a dry eye in the house after seeing Lee Corso console Kirk Herbstreit. ⏬

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