To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Now that India has flooded the world with FFMGs (Fake Foreign Medical Grads) we must rely on other means to exclude impostor doctors.
The US has two main defenses against impostors:
1. US doctors must complete a supervised US residency. Unfortunately, this residency requirement has been eliminated in 19 states, including mine.
2. Our second and final safeguard is the licensing exam. Almost all US doctors must eventually pass the three parts of the USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam.)
Unfortunately, exam fraud is as simple as hiring a ringer to take the test for you (he needs to look vaguely like the picture on your driver's license) and avoiding the test centers that check fingerprints. (Grok summary attached.)
Or, impostors could obtain the questions in advance, from insiders or from earlier test takers.
If this sounds like a conspiracy theory, well, it already happened, and you will never guess where.
In 2024, hundreds of scores were invalidated due to leaked questions in Nepal (an Indian suburb) and to anomalous high scores at international centers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Jordan.
The statistically-unlikely scores were eventually blamed on early exam takers sharing the questions in WhatsApp groups.
In other news, you can take the first 2 parts of the US medical licensing exam in India. Then you can start practicing medicine in the USA.
Your Indian doctor might be a resident who purchased his Indian medical diploma then purchased the US licensing exam questions and took the test in India.
Fortunately, Part 3 of the exam, which must be passed at some point during residency, can only be taken inside the USA. So we can breathe easy, right?
Well, not exactly.
The US medical licensing exam is written and scored by two organizations. The first is the FSMB (Federation of State Medical Boards) whose president and CEO is....
wait for it....
Dr. Humayun Chaudhry.
The other organization that writes and scores the US medical licensing exam is the NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners.) NBME's Chairman of the Board is....
wait for it...
Dr. Reena Karani. That's her picture below, and why yes, she does happen to be Indian.
The physical testing centers are managed by a company called Prometric, whose Chief Products and Technology officer is....
wait for it....
Jay Chakrapani
Are you seeing the problem with our safeguards against fake doctors?
https://t.co/C3Eh2btRss
I welcome the Supreme Court's correct decision. The left has spent decades hiding their racial obsession behind the banner of civil rights. Today, that game ends.
Racial gerrymandering is not protection. It is the left's plantation politics repackaged with a law degree. The condescending assumption that Black Americans cannot compete without bureaucrats drawing lines around them is not compassion. It is racism with different branding. I am a Black man who has never needed the government to predetermine my outcome. Neither do the voters of this country.
The left claims to champion equality while demanding the government sort every American into a racial box. That is not a civil rights movement. That is a power grab dressed up as one. We cannot become a more perfect union if Democrats continue to treat race as a weapon and black voters as a captive constituency to be managed and mobilized.
Everyone who is a citizen of this great country should first and foremost be an AMERICAN. Regardless of race, religion, zip code, or income, we are all Americans and should be treated as such. The left has never believed that. Today's ruling says they no longer get to act like it.
Never forget what they said about us..."If you are the unvaccinated, you are the problem, you are the threat. It is the unvaccinated who are the problem. Period. End of story."
WATCH: Stephan A. Smith nearly fell out of his chair watching footage of Democrats' pro-trans witness struggling to answer whether or not men can get pregnant, back in January.
PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps. Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks. Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%. The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story. SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA, 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food. Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips.
The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight.
Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer. Federal spending is nearly a quarter of the entire economy. All of it inflating prices. All of it eroding your purchasing power.
Central banks see the same math. That's why they're dumping dollars and buying gold. The gold companies we cover in our investment research newsletter Strategic Assets are earning record profits at these prices — some trading at just 3-4x earnings.
https://t.co/rQjQPHOY0p
Dear @RepThomasMassie
cc: @elonmusk@POTUS@AGPamBondi@FBIDirectorKash@DAGToddBlanche
Here is a video of @cindymccain from SIX YEARS ago publicly admitting “WE ALL KNEW ABOUT HIM (epstein). WE ALL KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING,” but says everyone was too afraid to do anything about it.
It wasn’t until Trump came along that both Epstein and Maxwell were arrested by federal authorities.
Were you, or any of your friends, part of the “WE ALL” she was talking about?
Was @RoKhanna?
@FmrRepMTG?
Were you also too afraid to do or say anything back then?
Is that why you have you NEVER, to this very day, confronted her about WHO and WHAT she was talking about in this video?
Why didn’t you ever ask her why she was protecting pedophiles?
Was it you who was protecting pedophiles??
What changed that you FINALLY garnered the courage to speak out?
Better late than never, amirite?
Understanding how deeply you care for the survivors- including the Epstein recruiter who referred to herself as “like a Heidi Fleiss” - and how serious you are about accountability and justice, I look forward to you calling her before congress to explain herself. It sounds like she knows a lot of people who know a lot but just sat back and said/did nothing.
Just asking a couple of questions.
WE ALL look forward to your responses.
Thanks!
@profstonge Peter, I run an independent long term care pharmacy and unfortunately the PBMs are actually making out. Effective 1/1 a PBM which would normally reimburse pharmacy $100 now reimburses $70 and the brand drug mfr reimburses $30 for Medicare patients via the MTF.
If you think the new Epstein revelations about Lord Peter Mandelson aren't related to Trump's latest economic moves, then you haven't been paying attention. https://t.co/PEPolelHqi