CL Brantley

Husband. Father. Christ Follower. Purveyor of steak, BBQ, coffee, the outdoors and all things involving the Arkansas Razorbacks.

[Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand]

The reflecting pool has gotten more coverage than:

- Somalian daycare fraud
- Laken Riley’s murder
- Biden’s mental health decline

Combined…

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@johnrich Have you seen the case of Aaron Spencer in Lonoke Co Arkansas? A father killed his daughter’s predator after he was released on bail and kidnapped his daughter. Aaron is now on trial facing a charges. He could use your support!
https://t.co/sbYgi0tCig

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@TimKennedyMMA thanks for taking the time to speak with Grandad. Him and Dad sure enjoyed meeting you.

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@TimKennedyMMA thanks for taking the time to visit with my 99 yr old WW2 vet grandfather today! He really enjoyed it.

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@BrentM_SpaceX A place that needs a DOGE level purge

[Jack @jackunheard]

Wait a minute…

Is she onto something?

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🚀

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Anyone who ever advocated that more taxes would create more equality or value are being proven categorically wrong.

All more taxes did was empower the bureaucratic class with resources to steal, grift and create shadow organizations to do things the US government wasn’t supposed to be doing in the first place.

The receipts in just the first 14 DAYS already prove this out. Can you imagine what we learn over the next 14 months?

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@DavidMarts13 Not true. Idiots live everywhere, even NWA apparently.

[Sarah Huckabee Sanders @SarahHuckabee]

My friend Floyd Brantley is a 99 year old WWII vet that loves this country and President @realDonaldTrump - he wears this hat everyday usually with a shirt that says “hug a vet, even the old ones”. Men like Floyd are the reason we get to live in the most amazing country on the planet. Thank you for your service and I look forward to celebrating 100 with you!

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@BrentM_SpaceX Stout line up! 3 I’d add to these is EHT BP rye, WLW and CYPB

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@ClayTravis I had deleted twitter but had to reinstall it just to read your reactions to this Vols lost. WPS!

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Hey wait a second

[Jamie Quint @jamiequint]

MAGA !!! ...

Oh wait no, that's the 1992 Democratic Platform

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

This is great.

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@jhovey34 @Jason @DavidSacks this is a @theallinpod level monologue

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

this BBC interview with a guy outside the security perimeter who claims he saw the shooter before he fired is absolutely wild

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[CL Brantley @BrantleyCL]

@mcjunk92 @wilcox_matt @JasonHathcock1 Legend