Serious question, why isn’t Trump going after Thune with a fraction of the force he’s going after Massie with?
We could have the SAVE Act and tons of other bills passed by now.
🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.
We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.
It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.
Scott Adams, facing death, shows us how to live.
Someone recommended “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” by Scott Adams. I had burned out on mainstream books, but picked it up, and was hooked. He had put into words a way of living, similar to one I had found, except his approach was systemic and analytical. Better than my own slapdash notes. Outside of religious texts, Adams was and is as close to a “guide to life,” as you’ll ever find. And even if you’re religious, you still live in this world, and would be wise to learn how to navigate it.
Scott is closing in on the end of his life, and even now he is creating new beginnings.
I’d better write this now, I won’t be able to when it’s too late.
After losing Charlie Kirk, a lot of us are wondering how we can possibly write another obituary. While there’s much to complain about the internet and social media, those mediums expanded the sizes of our communities, our influences, and indeed our families. Too often we find new ways to hate people, instead of finding new people to love.
Scott Adams comes up in conversation at every social event I host. “How is Scott Adams doing? Will he make it?” We all talk about streams we watched and lessons learned. It’s a memorial except he’s still alive. Scott would love to hear that, which is why I have said so repeatedly. I’ve lost too many people, via death or fallings-out, to leave feeling unexpressed.
He’s been a surrogate father figure and mentor to millions of people.
Scott Adams is not liked, he is loved.
People don’t “like” Scott Adams, they aren’t “a fan of his.” They love this man. And I do as well. I’m still living in denial of his fate. We all are.
We’d been making a film about the meaning of life, and while Scott Adams had been in both of our other films, we hadn’t booked him for Meaning yet. Then we found out he was going to take the ride of assisted suicide. Foolishly, we had assumed he’d always be around. Nobody ever dies, right? Your dad will be there to take your call the next time you phone home. Your friends aren’t going anywhere. That’s how we too often live. We could book Scott later.
We reached out and he graciously agreed to be interviewed. We all knew it was going to be our last interview together. Scott and I are both efficient with our time. When a moment is over, it’s time to go do something else. Obligations call. The crew pushed this one as long as we could.
After the interview wrapped up and the gear was packed and it was time to go, there was an awkward pause. I broke it.
“Scott, we love you.” He said thank you. “No, Scott, we love you, I mean it, we all do. We love you.”
None of us broke down crying, not that there would have been any shame in that, but we no doubt all soon will.
Well then, what is the lesson of Scott Adams?
On a practical level, the lesson of Scott Adams is the power of showing up. Nobody works harder and on a more regular schedule. You can set your clock to Scott’s show. Too many of us wait for the muse of inspiration or the jolt of information to force us into action. Work, everyday, maybe in obscuring and without tangible benefits for years. Eventually you’ll hit your mark and go beyond.
Scott plugged away with his streams from a small account (after a huge career via Dilbert) and soon became must-watch, and then transcended his role to becoming something much more.
On a spiritual level, we might ask, why do we love Scott? It’s not because he’s so smart (he is). There are not shortage of intelligent, clever, Machiavellian, and rich people with podcasts. When one of them dies, what is lost? All of that Ego and desire for adoration, and does anybody even care? When those people fall while living, who will be there?
Scott is loved because he’s devoted his life to service to humanity. “What is the meaning of life,” is the question we ask every interviewee, and Scott’s answer, “Be useful to humanity.”
Despite pain, sickness, and inevitable death, Scott is doing his daily streams, serving his country and all of humankind until his end.
He’s a light to the world and a mirror for all of us.
What exactly are we doing with the gift of life given to us by God. (Scott believes in the Simulation, but I believe God evens this all out in the Judgment.) Are we doing enough for others? Are we doing anything for others?
Like everyone else, I’m capable of throwing myself a pity party. Sometimes when life is going too well, and I don’t have real problems, I invent some. That’s where the Ego brings you, recursively worshipping itself, and when that fails, tormenting itself, as each path leads to its own attention.
May all of us live more like Scott Adams, and may God bless his immortal soul when he passes.
P.S. I ran this article through Grok for typos. The original version had “immoral” soul where I meant it to read “immortal.” I think Scott would have had a great laugh had that typo been left in.
We despise the Tech and VC guys not because they use to be Democrats, that's life, people don't always agree. They collaborated with Marxists who tried ruining our lives. I and everyone else in my world sees these guys as enemies. Some have asked me to explain this animosity. Sure.
Business is hard (Reading The Hard Things About Hard Things actually helped me get through some tough times with an e-commerce shop), and I've done a lot of real business things, that's the only reason I didn't go bankrupt. Even so, we had to try starting and running businesses under a completely different set of rules. Rigged ones designed to harm us.
Trump staffers who left the administration couldn't get hired at Microsoft or Facebook. Oracle was the only company, but they couldn't hire everyone. You had top level NSC guys driving Uber and borrowing against their 401K's.
The belief by Tech and VC's was the Trump was done, MAGA people are untouchable, and a whole class of people were totally un-personed.
I woke up every day wondering if I'd be banned from social media. Medium banned me, and Evan Williams, Medium's founder, posted an article saying that anyone who voted from Trump should be completely destroyed. (Not sure if his Tweet is still up, but he said this explicitly. That he and everyone else had a moral duty to bankrupt anyone who voted for Trump.)
YouTube buried my channel. You couldn't even find it by searching my name. Instead you saw every hate video on me when you tried finding my channel. Facebook demonized me. Twitter had me walking on eggshells.
How do you run online businesses these days when you're banned from channels of commerce? Now some would say, "You don't have a right to those platforms." Fine. And you don't right a right to our friendship or allyship. If Luigi or AOC comes for you, why should I care? I mean that sincerely. Why should I care?
In addition to social, there were payment processing concerns. One company had to use a processor that charged a vig and held it over us that he could cancel it anytime. Not because we were doing high risk business. But because of my politics.
One afternoon I saw my movie, which had become the top streaming film on Amazon across all categories, had been banned from Amazon. (Anyone who has seen it can tell you that it would not violate any term of service, this was pure malice.) So let's suss this out.
How can I engage in the business of making films when I can't guarantee to investors that I'll even be allowed to have my films on the duopoly of Amazon and Apple? Raising money for films is hard enough. That comes with the territory. Yet I wouldn't even be allowed to compete with everyone else in a free market due to censorship.
I couldn't in good conscience raise capital for films, so I took a break after Hoaxed, worked on some other businesses to boost cash flow, and now I'm self-funding two other films. Even so, this limits timelines as I'm not made of money. In a normal world I'd have easily raised cash for these films and we'd be in post-production by now.
I went from having a breakthrough film, tons of momentum, to having to completely put this on hold due to the woke running tech and VC.
Ironically, this ended up working out OK for me as I used my brain to build businesses. I had never applied my talents to making money because wealth was never something I valued. I grew up poor, and simply having cash flow and being able to pay bills made - and still does - me feel "successful."
By the way, making a film like Hoaxed is WAY harder than the circular deal flow the Tech and VC guys do using money borrowed in an almost 0 interest rate environment.
Conservative media outlets like The Federalist faced the same business pressures as everyone else, and then there were banned from platforms like Google Advertising and Facebook. Everyone went through something like I did, and often much worse.
So when I see guys like Garry Tan crying about a wealth tax, not only do I not care, I find it funny. You can call this spiteful. You can say it's malice. None of that moralizing and woke scolding works on me. Nobody ever helped me. I read enough Nietzsche in college to know what slave morality looks like.
How can this be fixed? I don't know, but this isn't on me to fix. I didn't make this mess. Those who collaborated with Marxists did.
And of course no one owes anyone anything. That goes two ways. Don't cry about Luigi or Liz Warren or wealth taxes to us. You probably wouldn't like or candid answers.
But if these guys are concerned with wealth taxes and how the political winds are shifting, they should probably find a way to undo the great damage they did. Both reputationally (how we all see them, which generally is that they are worms or as CS Lewis, "men without chests") and pragmatically. In my view, sites like The Federalist are owed restitution. (Nobody asked me to say this and I'm not authorized to speak on their or anyone else's behalf. These are MY words only.)
I took a lot of hits, I'll always be pissed off, but it was only me, not a company, so I was able to absorb them. Others couldn't. Also, we know how Zuck and the rest of Tech and VC gave to far left wing NGO's.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Rand Paul, Thomas Massie and Vivek have nothing to say about the Minnesota daycare fraud 🤔
Millions of dollars, u wud tink da smull gub brooz wud havalot to say
@Jason You turned a blind eye or helped create the conditions that makes this a possibility, and then you moved to Texas. We will see if you participate in wrecking that place too.