Dan Olson

[Lisa Cusack @lisa_4_la]

In the minds of California Democrats everything is a “threat to Democracy” except for: third parties collecting limitless ballots, no ID verification, votes left unattended in ballot boxes which may or may not be set on fire, ballots cast by drugged out homeless people, and a month long after Election Day counting period so opaque it would make poll workers from the former Soviet Union blush.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

All the posts yesterday: my great uncle’s roommate’s brother stormed Normandy, and Hegseth would have disgusted him.

Fine. Name one thing on this Democrat agenda list that a landing craft full of 18-year-olds from the Greatest Generation would have supported in 1944:

COVID vaccine mandates

Mass immigration

Non-citizens voting

Gay marriage

Abortion on demand

Migrant hotel spending

Transgender athletes in women’s sports

Gender transitions for minors

Defunding the police

Fentanyl flooding over open borders

Cashless bail

Sanctuary cities

The Afghanistan withdrawal

FBI coordination with social media platforms

A press that carries water for one party
DEI hiring and admissions

Stripping parents of a say in their kids’ schools

Soft-on-crime prosecutors

Anti-Christian contempt dressed up as tolerance

Pregnant women and their unborn babies in combat

LGBTQ+ flags flying in churches

Soft woke generals and admirals

Decriminalized retail theft

Massive foreign aid while Americans are starving

They crossed an ocean to defend a country. Ask yourself if it was this one.

Anyone thinking your great uncle’s roommate’s brother who fought on D-Day would be disgusted by MAGA is projecting.

It’s FAR more likely they would be disgusted by support for the chemical castration of young boys.

[Dan Olson @daningo]

@elonmusk MEGA?

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

I don't know about you, but I get a little nervous when a drug-addicted painter starts insinuating the Jews are behind everything.

[Dan Olson @daningo]

Order does not announce its departure https://t.co/Dka0L8yPxW

[Dan Olson @daningo]

@MikeyDiMercurio Hmm, I read a ‘study’ this week on X that had the exact formulation as this does- except it was about following a group of 3 year olds through their 30’s and claiming that their ability to self-manage was the secret to success- the posts similarity causes me to question both

[Dan Olson @daningo]

Check for yourself https://t.co/n040T7kNfY

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Massie’s biggest blunder was teaming up with this guy.

No matter WHAT the issue, you do NOT lock arms with people like this if you’re on the right.

You just don’t. Ever.

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

Somebody should do an analysis of the nearly 100 guilty verdicts/pleas in all these USDA fraud cases in Minnesota ...

And then provide a systematic comparison of the sentences imposed on the Somali and non-Somali defendants.

There is no question that Bock was the originator of the scheme. But it was perpetuated by the Somali community in Minnesota drawn to the opportunity to get money for nothing -- and avoid scrutiny with cries of racism.

Just my anecdotal review of a couple of dozen cases reflected that Somali defendants got far more lenient sentences in terms of time in custody.

This has some signs of "It was all the white girl's fault that the poor immigrants were taken advantage of and lured into criminality."

[Tax Foundation @TaxFoundation]

The 10 lowest-ranked, or worst, states in this year’s State Tax Competitiveness Index are:

41. Hawaii
42. Vermont
43. Massachusetts
44. Minnesota
45. Washington
46. Maryland
47. Connecticut
48. California
49. New Jersey
50. New York

Explore the interactive tool: https://t.co/CfZcuyzCWG

[Dan Olson @daningo]

@MikeyDiMercurio Create real cap and trade - pay the bills up to a cap (residential or commercial based on your previous use) stay below the cap and you get a credit

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

A lot of people are asking why the "Libertarian moment" failed to materialize. Here are my thoughts, as a former Libertarian myself.

About ten years ago, there was an expectation, certainly within libertarian circles but across the Right at large, that the future of "Conservatism" in the US would be Libertarianism. There was this belief that the GOP would become a vehicle for libertarian philosophy and that the Right as a whole would be moving in a far more libertarian direction.

The Tea Party movement, Ron Paul's presidential bids, the prospect of a future Rand Paul bid, and old Reagan quotes about how the essence of conservatism is libertarianism were all in vogue if you were involved in any sort of Right-wing politics in America.

There really was this feeling that the old Reaganite fusion was exhausted and the Iraq era had discredited Neoconservatism. Meanwhile, the 2008 crash, coupled with the managerialism of the Obama presidency, had radicalized a bunch of young men into rejecting what they saw as the establishment narratives of both parties.

For a 20-something-year-old guy, being able to proudly say that he hated both Bush and Obama felt incredibly liberating. Ron Paul's two presidential runs, and the prospect of a third and potentially more successful one from Rand, promised to herald in a new era for American politics.

Libertarianism also seemed like a great diffuser of the insidious social Progressivism that was beginning to creep into all mainstream institutions. The Great Awokening was just in its beginning stages, and at the time there seemed to be absolutely no response to the Progressive agitprop that was gaining traction on the Left. We understood that these "social movements" were all pulling in the same direction, but no one had any idea how to address them because they were about as intense as they were insane.

Libertarianism seemed to offer a great response. Do nothing.

I'm serious. There was this expectation that we could completely sidestep the Great Awokening and nip the entire thing in its bud by adopting a "You do you" approach. By pretending like social or cultural issues didn't matter, or in some cases, that Progressives were actually in the right on them, Libertarianism offered an avenue for the Right to seemingly take off the table an entire revolutionary movement that we all thought was driving young millennials (who were still in their teens and early 20s) into identifying as Democrats or Socialists or even Communists.

"I don't care about the culture war. I want gay married couples to be able to adopt and protect their marijuana operation that's going on in the basement of their private property with AR-15s, and I want to abolish the income taxes they make on it, too."

But when this tactic was put into practice, it never seemed to work.

I remember in my old libertarian days over a decade ago, having conversations with Leftists my age in high school and college, and it was always disappointing. It's like I kept trying to win them over and explain I was on their side and that they just needed to understand that wealth redistribution and socialism were bad policies, but that we were both "social liberals" who wanted the same thing. I just wanted them to be rich on top of it all.

And for some reason, it just never worked. At the time, I didn't understand why.

But I do now.

Libertarianism offered the possibility of escaping politics itself while still being political. You could tell someone that you didn't care about their lifestyle, worldview, theology, or culture, and still plausibly make the case for why they should vote for you and implement your policies, because your policies were all about transcending conflict rather than confronting it.

Libertarianism offered the illusion of a sophisticated ideology for adults who had outgrown the tribal passions of the past. But that's exactly why it failed. It was always operating like a parasite on an older order that it didn't create and couldn't defend, but few of us could see it at the time because of the nature of the world around us.

But that world, like the Bushite one before it, died.

Mass migration and open borders actually changed the visual landscape of America in a way that was far more abrupt than the gradual changes of decades earlier.

The Great Awokening, which Libertarianism offered to neutralize with its "live and let live" attitude, ended up devouring everything around it until people could no longer ignore it.

The economic situation, which Libertarianism had such elegant solutions for as the centerpiece of its entire worldview, actually ended up being far more complex than the activists ever expected.

America's massive twin fiscal and trade deficits, endless QE, zero interest rate environment, and the hollowing out of the Rust Belt all coincided with the rise of managerial credentialism, the professional laptop class, and the adoption of Progressivism as the civic religion of every institution and profession that seemed to be benefiting from these very policies. "Social Justice Warrior" and "Rich Liberal" became synonymous with all the institutions that had betrayed America.

This created a rebellion, as Libertarians expected, but the moment Trump arrived, he revealed that the overwhelming majority of those rebels were not interested in smaller government in the abstract. They were looking for a government that would fight for them.

They had felt betrayed, humiliated, forgotten, and denigrated. They believed, correctly, that they were losing their country. They had a deep resentment of our oikophobic ruling class and their wacky social views that seemed to always pop up whenever core elements of their way of life were about to be torn away from them.

And once those things came to the surface, the "Libertarian moment" was essentially dead because it had no satisfying answer to the actual question being asked, which wasn't "how to balance the budget?" or "what procedural railguards can we set up to protect Americans from warrantless wiretapping?"

It was “Who rules, in whose interest, and can we do anything to stop our dispossession at the hands of people who openly hate us?”

The Libertarian moment failed because it had no answer to this question, which has essentially been the foundation of all of American politics since Obama's second term.

It's a political ideology that wants to escape politics itself, and the moment politics became more than just a complicated math problem and instead was about which vision of civilization would prevail, the entire premise disintegrated.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

I’ve been lurking in anti-AI, anti-data center activist facebook groups just to understand what their arguments are

Guys it’s really not a good sign that they are borrowing the same tactic of framing non-violent things as violence. During the woke cultural revolution, innocuous things such as free speech and simply asserting the biological reality of two sexes were considered violence.

You know where this leads, right? Labeling things as “violence” or “harm” lowers the bar for outrage and justifies…. anything. There are no limiting principles. It moves the issue from pragmatic cost-benefit analysis into moral theater.

It might be the new mind virus

[Leslie Douglas @lesliedouglasx]

At first glance, this seems like a division between the working class and the managerial class, but it's not quite that simple. There are engineers and surgeons on the Republican side. What we're really witnessing here is a split between those who work (miners, engineers, surgeons) and those who mostly pretend to work (yoga instructors, film industry workers, social scientists).

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Attempted to write a Steam Engine hype at the era of Industrial Revolution as if it was the age of AI —

The steam engine breakthrough is insane right now.

Watt’s separate condenser + new GRPO optimization just dropped the 405 hp-class engine. We went from 7 hp → 70 hp → 405 hp+ in basically three years. One machine now does the work of 50+ men or water wheels — nonstop, rain or shine, anywhere.

Textile mills, ironworks, everything scaling 5-10x overnight. Productivity exploding.

This isn’t incremental. It’s automating physical labor at massive scale. Jobs shifting forever. Society about to look unrecognizable.

The Industrial Revolution isn’t coming. It’s here and accelerating faster than anyone predicted.

Terrified. Excited. Both.
What a time to be alive. 🚂💨

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

HERE WE GO 🚨 California Democrats are making a move to rig the Governor’s race

Democrats are putting forth a new ballot initiative to repeal the “Top 2” candidate rule that takes the 2 leading candidates, because the 2 leading candidates are Republicans

“A new ballot initiative has been filed to repeal the state's top-two primary and return it to a party-based primary where voters like you would only vote for candidates in your own registered party”

The man behind this is Steve Maviglio, he's the former communications director for Governor Gray Davis

He's not some random nobody. Steve Maviglio a longtime Democratic insider, he’s a top Democrat operative

He filed paperwork with the state to change the rules of the game now that Democrats are losing

Keep in mind, this “Top 2” system is the same system that locked out Republicans for 15 years

But now that it’s going to lock Democrats out they’re turning to their rigged elections to maintain power and change the rules

[Dan Olson @daningo]

@AXECOP @FarmIykay That’s the joke

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

Why is there suddenly such an aggressive push against American data centers and AI infrastructure? After seeing a major spike in coordinated opposition campaigns around our Utah projects, we conducted a digital audit and traced a large amount of the activity back to an organization called Alliance for a Better Utah, which has been pushing misinformation throughout Box Elder County about our data center developments. What’s even more concerning is where the funding appears to originate. After reviewing IRS Form 990 filings and tracing the network behind it, the money appears tied to Chinese linked funding channels connected through an organization called Arabella. Think about the incentive, if China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, why wouldn’t they want to slow American infrastructure down?

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Saying you are a Democrat because you are "pro-limited government" is like saying you are vegan because you like bacon.

[RevTimChristopher @RevTChristopher]

I fought to help get this man out of prison, this goes back to when Amy used young black men to make her mark. And we also have to look at the roll the black community play in turning in they black men.