Robin

Angry about the lack of truth in the media and civility in the world. My passion - volunteering at my local shelter walking & training dogs

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

This is a lie.

The Arctic (north of the 80th parallel) actually had its coldest June on record (since 1958) according to data from the Danish Meteorological institute (DMI). June averaged 2.20°C below the 1958−2002 average.

🔗 https://t.co/JiLpZ9lS7O

The Arctic has warmed in the annual mean, yes, but not during the month of June.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

America is such an incredible nation, even the poorest people are overfed and obese, and the people who whine the loudest about the country refuse to leave.

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@yesnicksearcy

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@WatchChad Love the part that our worth is in being his daughter, not the expectations of this world

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Le progressisme est le pire cancer des 50 dernières années.

Pas parce qu'il est "de gauche".

Parce qu'il a volé un mot — progrès — pour vendre exactement son contraire.

C'est la thèse de Thiel. Une fois que tu la vois, tu ne peux plus la dé-voir.

Dans les années 60, l'Occident construisait. On allait sur la Lune. On bâtissait des centrales nucléaires, des avions supersoniques, on parlait sérieusement de coloniser Mars et de vaincre le cancer en dix ans. Le progrès, c'était des atomes : de l'énergie moins chère, des transports plus rapides, des vies plus longues.

Puis quelque chose s'est cassé autour de 1971.

L'innovation dans le monde physique s'est arrêtée net. Le Concorde a été retiré — on vole moins vite aujourd'hui qu'il y a 50 ans. Le nucléaire a été tué par la peur. Le salaire réel médian a stagné pendant un demi-siècle. "On nous avait promis des voitures volantes, on a eu 140 caractères."

Mais l'humain a besoin de croire qu'il avance. Alors le progressisme a fait une chose géniale et terrifiante : il a déplacé le mot "progrès" du monde des atomes vers le monde des symboles.

Puisqu'on ne savait plus agrandir le gâteau, on a décrété que le seul combat qui compte était de le redécouper. Plus de croissance à promettre ? On promet de la redistribution, de la repentance, des comités, des labels, des normes. La machine à créer a été remplacée par la machine à gérer le déclin — et on a appelé ça "le bon côté de l'Histoire".

C'est là que Girard rejoint Thiel. Le progressisme n'est pas une politique, c'est une religion sécularisée. Il a gardé tous les rouages du christianisme — le péché, la culpabilité, la confession, le bouc émissaire à sacrifier — mais il a jeté la rédemption et la transcendance. Résultat : une religion qui ne sait que désigner des coupables. Jamais pardonner. Jamais construire.

Et les coupables désignés, ce sont toujours les mêmes : ceux qui bâtissent. L'entrepreneur, l'ingénieur, le fondateur, celui qui prend des risques et crée quelque chose à partir de rien. Pendant ce temps on érige en héros le commentateur, le régulateur, le consultant — celui qui ne produit rien mais qui distribue les bons points moraux.

Voilà pourquoi c'est un cancer, au sens propre. Une cellule cancéreuse n'est pas un envahisseur extérieur. C'est une cellule de ton propre corps qui oublie sa fonction, refuse de mourir, et se met à grossir sans rien produire d'utile — jusqu'à étouffer les organes qui font vivre l'ensemble. Le progressisme, c'est exactement ça : une partie de la société qui a cessé de créer de la valeur, qui se nourrit de celle des autres, et qui appelle ça de la vertu.

La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'un cancer, ça se soigne. Le remède n'est pas la nostalgie. C'est de rendre au mot "progrès" son sens originel : construire des choses réelles. De l'énergie abondante. Des frontières nouvelles. Des fondateurs qu'on célèbre au lieu de les juger.

Le futur n'appartient pas à ceux qui redécoupent le gâteau. Il appartient à ceux qui en font un plus grand.

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@Bleache1rs @Heccles94

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Nothing screams TRUE SOCIALIST like:

-A millionaire who owns 3 homes
-Arriving in a huge SUV
-To his private jet
-To fly out and give a paid speech
-On the evils of capitalism and fossil fuels

Am I right?

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Dear Mamdani,

Let me explain this the way I’d explain it to a five-year-old.

Imagine Tommy has a lemonade stand. Every week, lemons cost him a little more, sugar costs a little more, cups cost a little more, and his parents even charge him a little more for the table he uses. Then his teacher walks over and says, “Tommy, you’re not allowed to charge more than $1 for your lemonade anymore.”

Tommy says, “OK… but everything I need to make lemonade keeps getting more expensive. How am I supposed to pay for it?”

The teacher shrugs and says, “That’s not my problem.”

So Tommy starts buying cheaper ingredients. Then he stops fixing his stand when it breaks. Eventually, he decides selling lemonade just isn’t worth it anymore. His friend, who wanted to open another lemonade stand, sees all this and says, “Forget it. I’m not doing that.”

Now there are fewer lemonade stands than before.

The teacher proudly tells everyone, “See? I made lemonade affordable.”

No, you didn’t.

You made it less profitable to sell lemonade, so fewer people sold it.

Housing works the same way. Property taxes don’t freeze. Insurance doesn’t freeze. Labor doesn’t freeze. Repair costs don’t freeze. The mortgage doesn’t freeze. The only thing that freezes is rent.

And if the rent doesn’t cover the bills, the bills don’t magically disappear. Repairs get delayed. Buildings deteriorate. Some landlords sell. Others stop building altogether because the investment no longer makes sense.

You can’t solve a shortage by making it less worthwhile to provide the very thing that’s already in short supply.

It’s not greed. And it’s not ideology.

It’s basic math.

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@compliantvc I live 75 miles from Tucson and am in the city often. 104 is much cooler than normal for this time of year

Stop yelling at the top of your lungs about something you know nothing about

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@HadleyFreeman You think?
You think maybe the left should decry the vile treatment of Jews, finally?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Communists must first destroy everything so they can remake society from the ashes, in their vision. They cannot let you pick your leaders. They cannot let you have nice things, beautiful buildings, clean streets, prosperity. They ruin your life so you *beg* for govt to step in.

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

A problem with representing emotionally unstable, delusional leftists is the people on your team are absolutely F******* batshit and will turn on you for not being as insane as them in a second⬇️

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@landpalestine STOP LYING!
THEY SHOT A COP IN THE NECK!!

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@Scott_Wiener You are right, this has been going on for far too long.

Wondering where you were when Republicans were kicked out of restaurants years ago? What was your stand when Maxine Waters told Democrats to not give Republicans a moments peace, to get up in their faces?

[Robin @Arizonaredrobin]

@NiallHarbison I feel this way when I spend between 4 & 7 hrs at my local shelter walking the dogs and spending time with them. Nowhere else I'd rather be

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I am a lifelong Democrat. I served in the White House for President Clinton, in the State Department for Madeleine Albright, and with the United Nations in Cambodia. I believe the most important role of any government is to protect the most vulnerable people in society and create an environment where everyone can realize their fullest potential. So it gives me no pleasure to have come to the following conclusion:

The American left, including the left wing of the Democratic Party, is currently embracing an orgy of virulent antisemitism.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

THIS is the way forward!

Benjamin Song has been sentenced to 100 years in prison!

He was convicted of attempted m-rder after shooting and wounded an officer during a July 4th protest at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.

Seven other protesters associated with the same Antifa group received sentences ranging from 30 to 70 years.

Make sure EVERYONE sees their faces - preferably before they begin their sentences. Have fun with Bubba.

#lawenforcement

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

A footage that contains an electronic bookmark that is still archived in the Capitol’s computer system. That means Liz Cheney and the Jan. 6 Committee viewed this tape—she saw it, they saw it—yet they refused to release it.

Why? Because this tape would have shattered the single greatest fraud they were perpetrating on the country.

Nancy Pelosi "We have failed. We need to take responsibility for not moving to secure the Capital.”

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

DAY 14 — NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH TWO BUILDINGS. SAME SHOOTER. ONE DIFFERENCE.

December 9, 2007. Arvada, Colorado. A Sunday morning.

The Youth With A Mission center is a training and dormitory facility for young Christian missionaries. It is the kind of place you would not think twice about — a quiet building full of people who chose a life of service, who got up early on a Sunday to be there, who were not thinking about what Matthew Murray had been thinking about for a very long time.
Murray is 24. He applied to YWAM's missionary training program and was rejected. He has been carrying that rejection — and a great deal of other things — for months.

He goes to the YWAM center. He opens fire. Tiffany Johnson, 26, is killed. Philip Cruse, 26, is killed. Two others are wounded.

No one is armed. There is nothing to stop him.

He leaves.

He drives south on I-25, about 65 miles, to Colorado Springs.

New Life Church is a congregation of approximately 7,000 members. It is a Sunday. Services are ongoing. People are inside. The parking lot is full.

Murray arrives with multiple firearms and approximately 1,000 rounds of ammunition. In the parking lot, he shoots Stephanie Works, 18 years old, and her sister Rachel Works, 16 years old. Both are killed.

Then he goes inside.

What he does not know — what he cannot know — is that New Life Church has an armed volunteer security team. And on the security team is a woman named Jeanne Assam, a former Minneapolis police officer who carries a concealed firearm with a valid Colorado permit and has the full knowledge and authorization of the church's pastor to be armed on that property.

She hears the shots in the parking lot.

She finds Murray in a hallway.

She identifies herself. He fires at her. She fires back — multiple rounds, controlled, deliberate, the kind of shooting that comes from training and from deciding in advance what you are going to do when the moment arrives. Murray goes down. He fires a final round into himself.

The attack is over.

Pastor Brady Boyd stood in front of his congregation afterward and said what the national news was not particularly interested in repeating: "I believe she saved over 100 lives."

Seven thousand people were in that building.

One woman with a concealed carry permit and a church policy that allowed her to be armed stood between Matthew Murray and every single one of them.

THE ONE VARIABLE

I want you to hold both locations in your mind at the same time, because this is the entire gun control debate resolved by a single Sunday morning.

Same shooter. Same weapons. Same intent. Same ammunition load. Same level of law enforcement response. Same everything — except for one variable.

YWAM had no armed defender. New Life Church did.

At YWAM: two killed, two wounded, attack ended only when Murray chose to leave. At New Life Church: two killed in the parking lot before Assam knew what was happening, then the attack inside — where there were seven thousand potential victims — was ended by one armed civilian volunteer before he could reach them.

The variable was not the gun. Murray had guns at both locations. The variable was the POLICY. YWAM's policy left its people defenseless. New Life Church's pastor had made a specific, intentional decision to allow armed security — not law enforcement, not a private contractor, a church volunteer with a permit — and that decision is the reason the death count from New Life Church is two instead of something the awareness campaign would have been talking about for years.

No ribbon. No press conference. No legislation. A policy decision by a pastor.

This is what the gun control conversation costs when it goes in the wrong direction — not just abstract statistics, but the specific difference between two and an unknowable number on the same morning, measured by whether one person was allowed to be armed.

What next — someone is going to propose that a "No Firearms Allowed" sign deters someone who just killed two people at one location and drove to the next... wait. That was Murray's first stop. That was the YWAM center. The sign did not deter him. He left two people dead and got on the highway.

THE "GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE" THAT DOES NOT EXIST THE WAY THEY DESCRIBE IT

Since we are in National Gun Violence Awareness Month and Congress reliably uses June to push for closing the so-called "gun show loophole," let me tell you what Dr. John Lott found when he actually ran the numbers.
First, the factual foundation: a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of 18,000 prison inmates found that fewer than ONE PERCENT of criminals who possessed a gun obtained it at a gun show. Adding flea markets gets the number to 1.7 percent. Meanwhile, 40 percent of crime guns came from friends or family, and 39 percent from the street or illegal sources.

You are proposing to regulate 1.7 percent of the problem while leaving 79 percent completely untouched. If a student submitted that as a policy solution in my classroom, I would hand it back.

But here is what Lott found when states actually closed the "loophole" — when they mandated background checks on private handgun transfers:

Murder rates went UP two percent. Robbery rates went UP three percent.

Table 10.12 in More Guns, Less Crime. Direct from the data. Closing the gun show loophole did not reduce murder. It raised it. Presumably because the regulation made it harder for law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms through private transfers — the 98.3 percent of legal gun transactions that were never part of the crime problem — while doing nothing to the 79 percent of criminals getting guns from the street and from people they know.

And waiting periods. Since we are already here: Lott's analysis of state and county data found no statistically significant relationship between waiting period laws — or the LENGTH of those waiting periods — and violent crime rates. None. The direction of the effects was inconsistent. The magnitude was insignificant. You are making a law-abiding widow wait three to five days to buy a firearm after she reports a stalker, and the data says it has not produced a meaningful reduction in violence. Not one category. Not one state.

The policies on the June awareness agenda are not calibrated to the data. They are calibrated to an audience.

Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. Close the gun show loophole — murder goes up. Mandate waiting periods — no effect on crime, one very real effect on the person who needed the firearm before the waiting period ended. Ban the policies that work; mandate the policies that fail. Repeat in June.

Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism. Jeanne Assam stopped a mass casualty event at a 7,000-person church in December 2007, and the pastor of that church credited her with saving over 100 lives. You almost certainly did not know her name before today.

THE LEGAL REALITY THAT HOLDS REGARDLESS

DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989) and Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005) say the same thing they have said every day of this series: the government has no constitutional obligation to protect you as an individual. Law enforcement was not inside the YWAM center when Murray opened fire. They were not inside New Life Church when he walked in. They arrived. They did their jobs. The difference between the two outcomes on that Sunday was made by people who were already there — and whether those people were armed.

The legal system acknowledges this reality in its most binding form: Supreme Court precedent. The policy being pushed every June acknowledges it too, in a different way — by working methodically to remove the one variable that made the difference.

But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic, a published textbook author, a science teacher at a high-need Career Tech district where I watch young people every single day learn to make decisions about what they will do when the moment arrives — and a father of four whose children understand that safety is a decision, not a campaign.

Jeanne Assam made her decision. So did her pastor, when he wrote the policy that let her be there.

IF THIS ARTICLE MADE YOU THINK: LIKE it so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE it — same shooter, same day, two locations, one variable. If this framing is new to you, it will be new to someone you know. COMMENT below: YWAM had no armed defender. New Life Church did. The outcome was different. Tell me why the June awareness campaign is not talking about that variable.

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