Alberto Piergiorgi

Promoting political diversity in the liberal monolith.

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

What’s scary about the reactions of people like @RoKhanna to @grahamformaine is the righteousness they displayed over the Epstein Files, which contains little evidence (maybe zero) that crimes were committed beyond Epstein himself. Yet when it came to Platner, they rationalized literally every disgusting charge against him — real evidence mind you-of his aberrant behavior. These are also the people running our country. Pathetic

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Message from Dems today: As long as you hate the Jews and confine your assaults to conservative women, you get a pass.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The factor analysis which @RoKhanna uses in selecting which candidates to endorse.

[Alberto Piergiorgi @albertopier]

@seanmdav God loves Florida.

[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.

Why?

1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.

2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.

3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.

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[Alberto Piergiorgi @albertopier]

😱😡😤

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Thanks to Scott Wiener's timely intervention, adults over 21 who have been convicted of sodomizing, penetrating, or copulating orally with a child under 16 will retain their right to run for public office.

Wiener, who is the frontrunner Nancy Pelosi in Congress, called for a bill that would ban those convicted of serious crimes in California from running for public office to be amended to include carveouts for these categories of crime.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Kirkcp @kirkpatrickcp]

After covid, Whites were openly discriminated against in rehiring.

[Alberto Piergiorgi @albertopier]

@MichaelAArouet Sadly, Poland is pretty bad as well.

[Tom Sauer @thomasbsauer]

“We’re making it felony for you to try stopping us from breaking the law”

“Threaten our stranglehold on power, and we’ll throw you in prison and ruin your life.”

Say what you want about Newsom, but he doesn’t play when it comes to what’s important (to him).

Cc: @AuronMacintyre

[Alberto Piergiorgi @albertopier]

@wil_da_beast630 Yes, it is an old bias, but it is rightfully still upsetting after twenty years.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

There’s room for Nazi tattoos and violence against conservative women, though. That’s all fine.

[Lily Tang Williams @Lily4Liberty]

This is not Constitutional. CO citizens should take action to stop these flock cameras.

NH has very strong laws that effectively prohibit or severely restrict widespread use of Flock-style fixed automated license plate reader systems.

We are the #1 free state for a reason.

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

Pope Leo wants us to welcome criminal invaders who are burning down cathedrals and churches across Europe

He never says anything about this almost weekly occurrence

Neither the rape of our girls and women, the murder of our young men nor the destruction of our culture seem to register with him

It’s like he just doesn’t care

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

Nazis and communists are the same people. It would help if people really studied Weimar Germany. Yes, they fought each other in the streets. But it was all the same group of losers. Often moving between the groups. Half the eventual Nazis were just communists who switched sides.

[Alberto Piergiorgi @albertopier]

@politicalmath Love the idea of anti-Pulitzer price.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

This is unbearably obvious. I mean, they completely gutted the first and best museum, the Arts and Industry building and stuck its entire contents in a basement somewhere, replacing it with an idiotic museum of the future. https://t.co/8GrNcFmZsL

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

NC Congressional candidate Richard Ojeda’s team is FREAKING OUT over my post where I shared a clip of him in his own words calling for a violent uprising

They’re really mad that it’s going viral

. @Ojeda4America will be very sad if it gets shared!

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Platner's entire campaign was boosted by the New York Times even before he ever started running.

That's why they buried sexual assault allegations by him and why it should be a legitimate media scandal but it won't be.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”