David Setzer

Follower of Christ, husband, dad to 5, entrepreneur, inventor, CEO, passionate free enterpriser.

[David Setzer @davidsetzer]

This is spot on. Free Enterprise has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else in human history.

“The left doesn’t feed the poor. It manufactures them.”

The data doesn’t lie.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gilles, je vais démonter ta prémisse de départ, parce que tout le reste de ton argument s'effondre avec elle.

Tu pars du principe qu'il faut une « sensibilité de gauche » pour ne pas laisser créver les gens de faim. C'est l'inverse total de ce que dit l'histoire économique des 50 dernières années.

Les chiffres bruts.

1990 : 2,3 milliards de personnes en pauvreté extrême. 38% de l'humanité.
2025 : 831 millions. Environ 10%.

1,5 milliard d'êtres humains sortis de la misère absolue en 35 ans. La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l'histoire de l'espèce.

Qui a fait ça ?

Pas l'aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la « sensibilité de gauche ».

Le marché. L'ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng en 1978 qui abandonne le maoisme. L'Inde en 1991 qui libéralise. Le Vietnam, l'Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s'ouvrent au capitalisme.

Les seuls endroits où l'extrême pauvreté a EXPLOSÉ sur la même période ? Le Vénézuela socialiste : de 27% de pauvres en 2008 à plus de 80% en 2018, avec une inflation de 130 000% et un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos par dénutrition. La Corée du Nord. Cuba. Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.

La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres. Elle les fabrique.

Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique. Un pauvre US a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, l'air conditionné, internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.

Ton argument selon lequel « le social aux USA est un désastre » repète une légende française. La réalité : le PIB par habitant américain est de 80 000$. Français : 45 000$. Un Mississippien — l'État US le plus pauvre — a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen.

La vérité que la gauche française refuse de regarder : dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.

ÊTRE de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n'est pas avoir de la « sensibilité ». C'est ignorer 35 ans de preuves accablantes. C'est préférer la posture morale au résultat.

La compassion sans résultats, ça s'appelle de la vanité.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Protestia @Protestia]

No superbowl ad will ever beat this alternate 'He Gets Us' banger

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Hey @nflcommish… A bunch of young people are listening to this song now because of your halftime decision, which you praised. So would you mind if your grandkids sat down and listened to this degenerate song in English? Let us know.

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Like most Americans, I’ve enjoyed watching the Super Bowl. But the halftime shows began pushing moral boundaries and have become more and more sexualized. This year, they’re having Bad Bunny perform. The @NFL leadership is pushing this sexualized agenda. Thank you, @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk for providing an alternative—“The All-American Halftime Show” with the agenda of celebrating family, faith, and freedom! https://t.co/wIqjkca36C

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It must be done or democracy is dead

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Congratulations to @IndianaFootball on their undefeated season and national championship win! God bless these young men for sharing their strong testimonies about Jesus Christ!

[David Setzer @davidsetzer]

I believe this is one of our 3-5 fundamental mistakes. The Senate is now accountable to nationwide donors. Not their state government who’s much closer to the people. Much more room for tampering in the current form. We need to go back to Senatorial appointment by state legislatures.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[David Setzer @davidsetzer]

Time for a double steak burger and some fries.

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

We double-fry our fries in beef tallow. No seed oils, from suppliers to restaurants. We have perfected the fry. ✅

Wisconsin Grade A butter only. No “buttery blend.” ✅

Cane sugar Coca-Cola. ✅

a2 milk and a2 chocolate milk (starting December 1). ✅

HFCS-free ketchup (coming soon). ✅

Steak n Shake aims to lead the way. It’s a journey to improve ingredients in the supply chain — and a generational opportunity for us to improve quality and put Steak n Shake on a new trajectory. 🚀

Proud to be part of the MAHA movement. 🇺🇸

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

We double-fry our fries in beef tallow. No seed oils, from suppliers to restaurants. We have perfected the fry. ✅

Wisconsin Grade A butter only. No “buttery blend.” ✅

Cane sugar Coca-Cola. ✅

a2 milk and a2 chocolate milk (starting December 1). ✅

HFCS-free ketchup (coming soon). ✅

Steak n Shake aims to lead the way. It’s a journey to improve ingredients in the supply chain — and a generational opportunity for us to improve quality and put Steak n Shake on a new trajectory. 🚀

Proud to be part of the MAHA movement. 🇺🇸

[sophie @netcapgirl]

1969: we can send people to the moon with 4kb of ram

2025: a cloud outage means my smart bed won’t cool down

[David Setzer @davidsetzer]

This is not a small challenge.

[Computer @AskPerplexity]

Oxford researchers just confirmed what we feared:

The internet as we knew it is dying.

AI content went from ~5% in 2020 to 48% by May 2025. Projections say 90%+ by next year.
Why? AI articles cost <$0.01. Human writers cost $10-100.

But the real crisis is model collapse. When AI trains on AI-generated content, quality degrades like photocopying a photocopy. Rare ideas disappear. Everything converges to generic sameness.

It's recursive. Today's AI slop becomes tomorrow's training data, producing worse output, which becomes training data again.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Tearing up watching this father welcome his son home. God bless President Trump for his work to free the hostages. He won’t get it, but no president in my lifetime has been more deserving of the Nobel peace prize.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado says President Trump DESERVES IT. Liberals are about to fume.

"I decided to dedicate it to President Trump because he deserves it! Because not only has he been involved in only a few months in solving 8 wars, but his actions have been decisive to have Venezuela now at a threshold of freedom after 26 years of tyranny!"

"I INSIST he deserves it."

"President Trump has been very clear, courageous in terms of dismantling these criminal structures. And on behalf of the Venezuelan people, I reaffirmed our gratitude and our commitment to this cause for the whole of America."

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The front cover of an Israeli newspaper for Friday. The legacy media spent a decade telling you the most beloved president in Israeli history was Adolf Hitler and all his supporters were Nazis.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bravo

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Hell has frozen over

@washingtonpost is MAGA!