Ray Mattingly*

Love sobriety, green grass and anything to do with my family and sports..... Purdue.. Colts.. Cubs.. Pacers

[Ray Mattingly* @_bigplay_]

BTFU

[Purdue Men's Basketball @BoilerBall]

Why not go to the NPOY front-runner?

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

NO white person alive today owned slaves. Teach your kids that.

NO black person alive today was born a slave. Teach your kids that.

Not all white people owned slaves back then. Teach your kids that.

Millions of white people fought and died to end slavery. Teach your kids that.

People should not inherit guilt from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.

People should not inherit victimhood from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.

You are responsible for your own actions, not the actions of people who lived 200 years ago. Teach your kids that.

America is not perfect, but it is not uniquely evil. Teach your kids that.

The West is responsible for some of humanity's greatest advances in freedom, science, medicine, and prosperity. Teach your kids that.

Loving your country is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting secure borders is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting safe communities is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting merit over quotas is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Questioning political narratives is not racism. Teach your kids that.

People should be judged by their character, not their skin color. Teach your kids that.

History should be taught honestly, not used as a weapon. Teach your kids that.

A nation that teaches its children to hate their heritage will not survive. Teach your kids that.

Your country is your home. Protecting it is not something to be ashamed of. Teach your kids that.

You do not owe an apology for being born. Teach your kids that.

Never let fear of being called names stop you from speaking the truth as you see it. Teach your kids that.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The people losing their minds over this postal rule are doing more to make the case for it than the rule itself ever could.

You’ve got Chuck Schumer calling basic envelope tracking “voter suppression, plain and simple.” You’ve got Senator Padilla claiming tens of millions of legal voters will suddenly be blocked. And you’ve got Marc Elias ... the guy who’s spent his entire career in court trying to stop every verification rule anyone ever proposed ... treating barcodes on ballot envelopes like an existential threat.

That level of alarm over something this straightforward is the tell.

The rule doesn’t decide who gets to vote. It doesn’t touch state voter rolls. It just says that if a state wants to use the federal mail system to deliver and collect federal ballots, the envelopes need to carry the same kind of tracking information the Postal Service already uses for everything else. The technology isn’t new ... plenty of blue states and progressive election officials have been using intelligent mail barcodes for years. The Brennan Center even acknowledged it’s already common practice in many places.

So why the sudden panic when it becomes a uniform, enforceable standard?

Because once you can actually reconcile how many ballots went out against how many came back, you remove the ability to pretend the system is airtight when it isn’t. The people most furious about adding a basic paper trail are the ones who benefited most from not having one. Their reaction isn’t about protecting voters. It’s about protecting the current lack of accountability.

When the same voices that spent years expanding mail voting now treat simple tracking like an attack on democracy, they’re not hiding their concerns. They’re advertising them.
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[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

This is perfect chick think

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Both men said “I can’t breathe”, but only one man’s death was covered relentlessly by the media.

The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the legacy mainstream media is incredibly, hatefully racist against Whites.

[aka @akafaceUS]

She thought she married the wrong person until..

[CUBS WORLD @CubsWorld80]

Ian Happ is 4-36 with 20 Ks in his last 10 games and Craig Counsell decided the best solution would be to move him up in the lineup so he can have more ABs 🤡
#cubs

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque.

Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation.

Quelques exemples concrets :

— San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité.

— Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider.

— L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher.

Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise.

La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable.
Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même.

L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

The Democrats have been screaming that Jim Crow is back! Just to test it out, I went outside to see if I now have less rights as a black man. I started humming a negro spiritual and set out on my way.

Got on a bus. Sat in front. No one said anything to me. Took it one stop and then did the walk of shame back to my truck.

Went to a restaurant. Sat at the counter. The nice man behind it asked me if I wanted a menu. I informed him this was just a test and he passed. The look of confusion on his face let me know the Democrats hadn’t informed him I can’t sit at restaurant counters.

Looked for separate bathrooms and water fountains. Couldn’t find a single one. Got immediate side eye from an older black woman when I asked her if she’d noticed any separate water fountains or bathrooms. Her answer wasn’t Christian.

Tried looking for a freedom march so I could join it and see if I’d get hosed or dogs turned on me. No marches. I did see someone with a Pomeranian dog, though, but it didn’t attack me.

So… based on my evidence, Jim Crow is still dead. The Democrats lied.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

#CUBS WALK IT OFF!

FINAL: Cubs 7, Reds 6.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Father, I have a problem,” a woman says. “I have two female parrots, Lola and Daisy, but they only know how to say one thing.”

“What do they say?” the priest asks.

“They say, ‘Hi, we’re prostitutes. Want to have some fun?’”

“That’s terrible!” says the priest. “But I think I can help. Bring them to my house. I have two male parrots, Benedict and Peter. I’ve taught them to pray with rosary beads and read the Bible. Maybe they’ll set a good example.”

The next day, the woman brings Lola and Daisy over and places them in the cage with Benedict and Pete, who are quietly praying.

Within seconds, Lola and Daisy chirp: “Hi, we’re prostitutes. Want to have some fun?” Benedict slowly looks over at Pete and says, “Put the beads away, Pete… our prayers have been answered!”

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Greg Gutfeld: “You guys created a false flag that there was this immense [white supremacist] movement going on in this country, that then put targets on people like Charlie Kirk’s back.”

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

What are the odds those tiki torch carrying neo-Nazis from Charlottesville would only rally once? Feels like it was an American intel op against Trump. That’s my working assumption.

[Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF]

Virginia’s gerrymandering was called “fairness”.

Chris Murphy was being “sarcastic”.

Joe Biden has a “stutter”.

Gavin Newsom is suddenly “dyslexic”.

Ilhan Omar made an “accounting error”.

Eric Swalwell was “flirty”.

SPLC was paying “informants”.

All they do is lie.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Watergate was fake. WMD’s were fake. J6 was fake. Charlottesville was fake. Almost every Boomer benchmark of reality is fake.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This gives me new respect for Jussie Smollett. He bootstrapped his fake hate crime and paid for it himself rather than having SPLC organize and fund it for him. Support your local mom and pop hate crime hoax operations before they’re all put out of business by the big guys.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

Chris Murphy, just couldn’t contain his fucking glee.

Murphy posts “awesome” in reply to Ali Vaez crowing that at least 26 Iranian shadow-fleet vessels have slipped the U.S. blockade like ghosts through a sieve.

A United States Senator...sworn to defend this Republic against all enemies, foreign and domestic...openly celebrating the operational success of the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism.

Not a slip of the tongue. Not a “contextual nuance.” A deliberate, public ejaculation of joy at America’s strategic humiliation.

This is asymmetric warfare, and Murphy just cheered the enemy’s supply line.

Iran is not a misunderstood regional actor; it is a revolutionary theocracy that has spent forty-five years building a forward-deployed empire of terror from the Levant to Latin America.

Its strategy is patient, patient like a parasite:

use oil revenue to arm militias, destabilize energy chokepoints, erode American credibility, and wait for domestic quislings to finish the job.

Murphy’s “awesome” is not naivety.

It is the psychological signature of the self-loathing elite...ideologically possessed, historically illiterate, and pathologically incapable of identifying with the civilization that elevated him.

He doesn’t see the United States as a fragile inheritance worth defending; he sees it as the root of all global sin, and Iran as the righteous corrective.

That is not policy disagreement. That is spiritual treason.

Pathologically speaking, the modern American Left functions exactly like HIV/AIDS:

it hijacks the host’s own immune system...our Constitution, our military, our intelligence services, our culture of self-reliance...and turns those defenses inward.

It neutralizes the antibodies (patriotism, realism, deterrence) while the opportunistic infections (Iranian proxies, Chinese espionage, cartel fentanyl) ravage the body politic.

Murphy isn’t an aberration; he is a symptom of advanced-stage ideological AIDS.

The virus has rewritten his operating system so thoroughly that America’s failure registers as moral victory.

Historically, we have seen this before:

Roman senators who toasted barbarian victories while the legions bled on the frontiers; Weimar intellectuals who romanticized Soviet purges; Cold War fellow-travelers who smeared anti-communists as warmongers while Stalin’s gulags filled.

The pattern is ancient and lethal:

internal elites who lose the capacity for loyalty become the most efficient vectors of civilizational collapse.

Murphy is not “representing his state.”

He is representing the transnational progressive cult that views American power itself as the disease to be cured.

So spare me the sanctimonious gaslighting.

This isn’t “peace advocacy.”

This is cheering while the enemy resupplies the battlefield.

This is a sitting U.S. Senator performing fellatio on the strategic victory of the regime that arms the people who murder our troops, our diplomats, and our citizens.

And the fact that he does it openly, on X, with the smug certainty that his tribe will protect him, tells you everything about how far the rot has metastasized.

Fuck Chris Murphy.

Fuck the moral inversion that lets a Senator celebrate America’s adversaries while our sailors and airmen still patrol the same waters those shadow tankers exploit.

And fuck the metastatic Left that has turned patriotism into a thought crime and national self-defense into “warmongering.”

The Republic is not dying of external wounds alone.

It is being eaten alive from within by those who wear the uniform of public office while their hearts beat for the enemy.

The antibodies must awaken. The fever must break.

Or the patient will not survive the night.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Sometimes this world wears you out and leaves you cynical … and then you see a moment like this and realize there will always be more good than bad.

[mrredpillz jokaqarmy @JOKAQARMY1]

One of the greatest commentaies ever. 🤣