Jeff Mason

IU '77 grad

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

@JohnJHarwood @LarrySabato

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Dear Democrats:

Your obsession with the wealth of Elon Musk, a private citizen is deranged. Especially when you have no comment on the billions of dollars in fraud of taxpayer money in your states, like Minnesota.

You look insane and normal people see it.

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

@HicksCBER A win for Indiana today and @HicksCBER and you can't celebrate the victory? ( Bayh or Engling will be better than the incumbent)

[AG @AGHamilton29]

The fact that Ellison is still in office given that he is on a recording essentially soliciting political donations to help the fraudsters get away with their crimes is crazy to me.

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

@HicksCBER @MikeDrucker please disprove the accuracy of the info on "current flu rate"!

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The population of Lackland AFB is ~24,000.

160 is 0.6% of 24,000.

The current flu rate across the entire USA as of today is approximately the same (see below from Grok).

It's so easy to disprove these liars, they never even try to check their own facts because of their blind hatred of Trump and his team.

You think you hate journalists enough...

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

We clearly have a massive NGO corruption problem in this country that demands much more aggression in dealing with it.

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

no, no, no @RoKhanna ! What is @SenSanders and your plan to eliminate or at least reduce the waste and fradulent use of our tax dollars?

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

If it went directly to families making $150,000 would you support it? Bernie and my plan gives a check of $3000 to working families.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

I appreciate the pushback from @conservmillen here. @JDVance is correct that pro-Israel voices have been going to an eleven lately. But it’s not out of nowhere. We have watched people lose their minds in real time, and it’s been absolutely terrifying.

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

@chucktodd Please share with us @chucktodd ? Is there any malfeasance that hasn't been alleged by @JohnJHarwood @LarrySabato and their co conspirators?

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

As long as Iranian Hezbollah, which has murdered hundreds of Americans, operates in Lebanon and sends attacks into Israel, the Israeli military should continue to take them out.

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

Most of what is cited are government contracts. You see the government, which you help run, wanted services and decided his company was best to provide them, which they did at a negotiated price. How on Earth that entitles you to the profit he made providing those services, which you guys wanted and agreed to, is beyond, well anyone especially you and yours.

And the subsidies he got for electric cars were FROM YOUR PARTY because he did WHAT YOU WANTED HIM TO (remember when he was your darling? Nah, you don’t do you?). You don’t get to cry over those either.

“Our money.” Disgusting.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

The University of Chicago was a member of the Big Ten, with multiple national championships and a Heisman trophy winner. In 1940 it dropped all varsity sports. It now plays NCAA Division III.

Impact on the university? Widely considered one of the very best colleges in the world with 101 Nobel Prize winners and an $11 billion endowment.

There is life after big time football.

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

@AC360 @karaswisher ??

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hey everybody, check out how incredibly idiotic Anderson Cooper and Kara Swisher are.

January, 2025. After Elon Musk put out some posts bringing attention to the grooming gangs scandal in the UK, Anderson Cooper claimed that Musk was dredging up a decades old scandal in which about 1,400 kids were abused.

Swisher said that Musk was meddling and putting out misinformation because he wanted attention.

I'm sure they will both apologize. 😜

[Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 @JerryDunleavy]

A helpful frame for looking at the outcome of conflicts is the concept of “winning the war” & the concept of “winning the peace.” A country can win the war & win the peace, win the war & lose the peace, lose the war & win the peace, or lose the war & lose the peace. It’s depends.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Every major institution in Britain betrayed these girls on purpose.

Police didn’t just ignore the rapes ... they arrested the victims and cut deals with the rapists. Social services didn’t make mistakes ... they deliberately placed already-abused children into known trafficking houses and punished parents who tried to protect them.

The NHS didn’t overlook the injuries and infections ... they stitched the girls up after they were raped with objects and sent them straight back to the same men.

Schools saw the older Pakistani men picking up little white girls at the gates and chose to exclude the victims rather than confront the predators.

Taxi licensing kept giving permits to the drivers running the trafficking routes because shutting it down would’ve caused “community tension.”

This wasn’t a series of unfortunate errors. This was a functioning system that decided, over and over again, that protecting the narrative and avoiding accusations of racism was more important than stopping the organized rape of British children.

Every checkpoint these girls hit was staffed by people who saw the abuse and chose to route them back into it anyway.

250,000 girls minimum. Raped, passed around, filmed, impregnated, and broken. And the institutions responsible didn’t collapse under the weight of it ... they operated exactly as designed.

They protected the gangs’ ability to operate. They protected the politicians’ ability to keep their seats. They protected the lie that this was just some random criminal problem instead of a sustained, protected attack on their own people.

That’s not institutional failure. That’s institutional betrayal. The British state didn’t lose these girls. It handed them over, one bureaucratic decision at a time.
(article below)

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

Questions & concerns being raised about the Iran MOU are fully justified, even if a good deal is still possible (full nuclear dismantlement). It’s unhelpful for the VP to engage in Obama/JCPOA-style straw-manning & demagoguery against valid critiques. From this evening’s panel:

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

This is a popular talking point. Problem is, the JCPOA:
-allowed Iran to continue uranium enrichment, shrinking the breakout time for large-scale enrichment and nuke weaponization to months or weeks.
-Iran wasn’t compelled to decommission any of its reactors.
-Obama deal put no limits on the Iranian ballistic missile program, not even on intercontinental ballistic missiles
-There was no genuine way to verify any of the JCPOA’s stipulations bc it did not contain anytime-anywhere inspections.
-The Obama deal’s restrictions would already have sunset

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

Heinous. From the executive summary: "Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men. These crimes have been committed for decades, since the 1950s by Pakistanis in particular, and have affected every region of our nation. The scale of the crimes committed is staggering.

It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. 1 The true number is probably higher. The perpetrators bear primary responsibility, yet the institutional failures that enabled them for decades must also be confronted. In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (‘CSE’) cases bore distinctively Muslim names...

...Were Britain functioning effectively, these girls would have received considerable state protection. However, every one of our institutions failed them catastrophically. Police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. Social care services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers. The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care.

Schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them. Taxi licensing authorities renewed permits for drivers who formed the logistical backbone of the networks and collapsed in the face of organised protests when basic safety measures were proposed. Political failure lies at the heart of the scandal. Successive governments lacked the will to confront the ethnic and religious patterns. The Labour Party bears particular responsibility."

[Jeff Mason @biggestmace]

@RoKhanna can you confirm ?

[Adam Housley @adamhousley]

As I have reported several times and now acknowledged by the Governor of California...Gavin and his wife are under federal investigation... what he failed to tell you... This began during the Biden Admin. Kind of a big detail.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

The govt passed Obamacare and told us it would make healthcare affordable, yet the costs have spiraled out of control.

The govt has spent in excess of $22 trillion “fighting poverty”

Sounds like we need more of those who than can make trillions and less who waste trillions.