Most people are economically illiterate, and it’s destroying Britain.
We think we’re a top-tier rich nation, but on a per capita basis, we’re not even in the top 20.
Instead of arguing and further dividing the country over how to slice a shrinking pie, we need to focus on what actually creates wealth and productivity because taxing wealth won't fix a nation that has stopped producing it.
The Biden administration wanted a Leonardo DiCaprio meme taken down. Meta refused. Then every agency in the federal government showed up.
Zuckerberg: “these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse”
The enforcement mechanism was a phone call. It did the work a warrant would have required, because no court would have granted one.
Zuckerberg: “We’re not gonna take down things that are true. That’s ridiculous.”
A company had to argue for the right to leave accurate information online. The argument was with its own government.
The target was a joke about a future ad offering payouts to people who took the vaccine. It was a picture with words on it.
Zuckerberg: “We’re not gonna take down humor and satire.”
A government that opens a file on satire has stopped governing the country and started managing its own reputation.
The pressure stayed private until the president made it public.
Zuckerberg, on Biden: “These guys are killing people.”
The most powerful man on earth accused a company of homicide for hosting content he disliked. Nothing was filed. Nothing had to be.
Zuckerberg: “All these different agencies and branches of government basically just like started investigating and coming after our company.”
Different agencies. Different branches. They all arrived at one company, immediately after that company said no.
Rogan: “It’s just a massive overstepping. And also, you weren’t killing people.”
Nobody inside the machine ever answered for that. The accusation was false. The investigations were real. Only one of the two carried a cost.
Every system of control eventually stops caring whether it is right and starts caring whether it is obeyed. The tell is when the punishment arrives before the evidence does.
They never had to prove the meme was false.
They only had to make hosting it expensive.
That is how censorship works in a country where censorship is illegal.
I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same.
I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life--so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.
You can't justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!
• If a man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.
• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!
Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.
We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.
Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast. The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!
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Time for our government to wake up you either work with and for America or get the hell out .. we're tired of paying taxes and you incredibly selfish people don't give a damn for the people you work for... you should all be ashamed of yourself !!!!
@sanchezcastejon Put them in nice hotels in Madrid and Barcelona. Give them cell phones and future dates to appear in front of an immigration judge. Give them food stamps. Isn’t that what you preach? go do it!
🚨STOP SCROLLING: Everyone Should Bear Witness To This Savage TAKEDOWN of Dr. Fauci by Senator Josh Hawley.
Watch as he DECIMATES Fauci and makes him SQUIRM in his seat.
This is how all of our Representatives and Senators in Congress should act.
Total MASTERCLASS
J’ai été très sensible aux nombreux messages que vous m’avez adressés à la suite de ma lettre ouverte au Monde.
Je tenais à vous en remercier toutes et tous, directement et personnellement, ici, sur X.
Merci!
Bernard Arnault
WATCH: Senator Josh Hawley shreds Biden's former Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer in a fiery exchange, accusing her of having "astoundingly terrible" judgment after she recommended clemency for mass murderers and serial killers.
HAWLEY: "Are you proud of that?"
OYER: "What I am proud of is the fact that I took my job as pardon attorney extremely seriously."
HAWLEY: "Apparently not seriously enough. You certainly didn't take the victims seriously."
“I think your judgment is astoundingly terrible.”
Hawley also blasted her for launching a personal website to sell merchandise.
"You're trying to make money on this? This is unbelievable, Ms. Oyer. And yet you say you're a victim."
@chriswithans@mkolken super easy to enforce too! these guys always show up at the U.S. consulate to renew their passport. Make it a condition to renew passports of Americans residing abroad. Or tie Ca. system to IRS (last filed recorded dates)
America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis.
Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.
Consequences.
We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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The strange thing about progress is that it only counts if you ignore where we started.
Every civilisation practised slavery.
The civilisation that ended it is now told it should feel guilty forever for having once participated. How does that make any sense?