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[Diego @DiegoGS911]

@MomAngtrades 😂😂😂

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

The U.S. Dollar is China’s Achilles heel. It’s the tip of our spear…and we will destroy China’s economy if they move on the independent country of Taiwan 🇹🇼. The BRICS ‘currency’ idea is akin to five garbage trucks backing into each other. The US dollar reigns supreme. 🇺🇸

[The Bruiser @DrHoosierHermit]

Hey @VP Vance, this is how it's done. We shouldn't govern by polls. We should govern by principle and what is right.

#MAGA

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

Brazil could have been on its way to $/BRL 4.50, but instead it's now on its way to 6.00. I've got no doubt that there were many doubts about Bolsonaro, many of them justified, but anything would have been better than this. What a waste and what a shame...
https://t.co/tIBUSIcmkk

[Garrett Wright @garrxttt]

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon sharply criticizes Democrats, arguing their policies fail because they don’t understand how the real world works: “I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots.” 🇺🇸

“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots.

They have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works.

Almost every single policy they’ve rolled out has failed.”

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

¿Alguien me puede explicar cómo las mujeres progresistas pueden apoyar la acogida de personas de culturas donde se azota a las mujeres como si fueran propiedad de los hombres?

[james crabtree @jamescrabtree]

Back from two weeks in China. One takeaway: the K-shaped economy is is widening.

Top arm: world-class EVs, AI, drones — Shenzhen blew me away.

Bottom arm: falling investment, weak demand, property in free fall, tax revenues plunging. .... A quick ��

https://t.co/IwkGfKY74w

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Having spent a long time watching Elon Musk, and having talked with him, I believe I understand what he understood before almost anyone else. And it's something every one of us needs to understand now.

Western civilization is not one civilization among many. It is the one that gave the world freedom of thought, modern science and the dignity of the individual. And it is under attack. Not by peoples, but by ideologies that want it dead.

If it dies, the world will not become more just. It will become poorer, more brutal and darker. For everyone, including those who hate it.

Why? Because civilizations are not interchangeable. We were told that any culture could be blended with any other, like mixing colors, and that the result would always be harmonious. It isn't true. A society where women are equal to men cannot coexist without friction with a worldview in which a woman's testimony is worth half a man's. A society where you can criticize God, change your religion or have none cannot absorb, without fracturing, a worldview in which apostasy is paid for with your life.

Every people has its own genius and moves at its own pace. But not all values are equal, and you cannot build a nation on laws that contradict each other. Saying so is not racist. Racism is about blood. I am talking about laws, customs and values. And those values belong to no race: a Japanese, a Senegalese or an Iranian can make them his own, and millions have. That is exactly why they are worth defending.

Let's remember where they come from.

It all begins in Greece. In Athens, for the first time, men decide that truth does not descend from a throne but is sought through reason, and that a city governs itself through debate. Socrates chooses death rather than give up thinking freely. At Salamis, a handful of free cities stops the greatest empire in the world.

Then comes Rome. Rome invents law that binds everyone, the citizen who holds rights, the Republic. And one immense idea: you can become Roman without being born Roman. You become Roman by adopting its laws.

Christianity adds the most revolutionary idea in history: every human being, slave and emperor alike, has infinite worth.

Then France. The cathedrals, those ships of stone our ancestors built over centuries for descendants they would never see. Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire. The Declaration of the Rights of Man. And Napoleon, who gives France the Civil Code, the lycées, and one simple principle: careers open to talent. Murat, the son of an innkeeper, ends up a Marshal of the Empire and King of Naples. The Civil Code spreads across much of Europe and still shapes the law of dozens of countries today.

And this civilization goes on to abolish slavery, which had been practiced on every continent since the dawn of time, to push back the plague, smallpox and the night itself, and to set foot on the Moon.

Peoples of the West, be proud of this history. Proud does not mean blind. Every civilization has committed crimes: conquest, slavery, war. Ours is the one that went furthest in examining its own faults, to the point of abolishing what it had once practiced. This capacity to question itself is its greatest strength. And that is exactly the strength now being turned against it.

Because for decades, this magnificent system has been getting hacked. Not by an army. By an alliance of two forces that have nothing in common except one enemy: us.

The first is communism. It lost the economic war, lost the Cold War, lost history's verdict with its tens of millions of dead. But it never lost the universities. It survived by changing costumes: class struggle became the struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors, and the West was declared guilty of everything. It taught our children to be ashamed of their ancestors, their borders and their culture. It is the root cause, because before you can bring down a civilization, you have to take away its will to defend itself.

The second is political Islam. I am not talking about Muslims, many of whom came here precisely to escape this ideology and are its first victims. I am talking about a political project that wants to place religious law above civil law. It has no doubts. It feels no shame. It rushes into the void the first one dug.

One disarms. The other advances.

And let no one on the left believe they will stay in control. History has already staged this play. In 1978, Michel Foucault was enthusing over the Iranian revolution. Iran's communist party, the Tudeh, backed Khomeini and called on Iranians to vote for his Islamic constitution. By 1983, its leaders had been arrested, the party banned, and its chiefs paraded on television to confess their “crimes.” In 1988, thousands of political prisoners were executed, communist activists among them. The second always ends up devouring the first. Useful idiots are only useful for a while.

So here is my call to every Western people. To the French, the Italians, the Poles, the Germans, the Spanish, the Americans, to all of you.

We are at a turning point. What we do in the next ten years will decide what our grandchildren are allowed to say, believe, write and love.

I am not asking you to die for the West. I am asking you for something harder: to live for it.

Learn its history and pass it on. Have children. Speak without fear, even when they call you every name in the book. Vote, get involved, run for office. Build companies, schools, factories, families. Refuse the shame they are trying to inject into you. And stop surrendering anything that makes us who we are: freedom of thought, equality before the law, the dignity of every person.

The historian Arnold Toynbee understood it: civilizations are not murdered, they commit suicide. And those who think they can let the West fall without paying the price should remember the Iranian communists. They helped tear down what they despised, and then they were next.

The Greeks at Salamis were outnumbered. They won because they knew what they were defending. We are the heirs of Athens, Rome, Notre-Dame and the Civil Code. It is no accident that the rockets that will carry humanity to Mars are being built in a free civilization.

It is time to prove ourselves worthy of what we were given.

The West is worth defending. And no one will defend it for us.

[Matthew Miller @mattmiller757]

French communist admits why they are REALLY protesting…

“We are socialists, we are communists, we are anticapitalists,… the whole system must go!”

[Instituto Mises @institutomises]

La tentación de considerar a China como una potencia económica debe ponerse a prueba frente a la realidad. Si bien la economía china, dominada por el gobierno, cuenta con muchos proyectos de construcción impresionantes. https://t.co/sCVsjpjwuU

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

[Veterans For Arizona @VeteransforAz]

Found footage of your average Democrat voter

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

No puedo parar de reír.

Funcionario del régimen islámico:

"Fuimos a Japón. Teníamos un presupuesto de varios millones de dólares para convertir a todo el país al islam.

En seis años sólo logramos convertir a una persona, y ni siquiera era japonesa."

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

If China didn't want to the risk becoming the next Japan it should have done much more to promote consumption and lower savings 15 years ago -- and not allowed its property bubble to inflate for 10 years ...

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[Carlos Mtz Gorriarán @cmgorriaran]

Se estima que un tercio de los jueces franceses son de extrema izquierda. La universidad del 68 ha hecho un trabajo de zapa de éxito indudable: el Viejo Topo que socava los fundamentos del sistema sin salir a la superficie.

[Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ @Guigz75116]

On se demande où on a « foiré » en France. La réponse est assez simple, le point de bascule c’est 1981.
Pas 2002, pas 2017, pas Macron. 1981.

L’arrivée de Mitterrand. Le moment où la France a décidé, en toute lucidité, de se tirer une balle dans le pied en se convainquant que c’était du progrès social.

Avant 1981, la France était encore un pays qui produisait, qui exportait, qui avait une industrie, des entreprises qui osaient investir et des gens qui croyaient encore vaguement au travail. Après 1981, on a nationalisé à tour de bras, on a augmenté les impôts comme si l’argent des autres était une ressource infinie, on est passé aux 39 heures, on a baissé l’âge de la retraite, et on a expliqué aux Français que la richesse se créait en redistribuant celle des autres.

Résultat ? Capital qui fuit, franc dévalué, inflation, et le fameux « tournant de la rigueur » de 1983 qui n’a jamais vraiment corrigé le cap idéologique de fond.

Depuis, on a perfectionné le modèle : État toujours plus gros, charges toujours plus lourdes, culture du droit acquis plutôt que du mérite, école qui a progressivement abandonné l’exigence au nom de l’égalité des chances, et une immigration de plus en plus déconnectée de toute logique d’intégration réelle.

On a remplacé « travailler et produire » par « revendiquer et bloquer ». Et aujourd’hui, on s’étonne que la France soit devenue le pays des 35 heures, des grèves perpétuelles, de la dette à 110 %, du chômage des jeunes endémique et d’une classe moyenne qui se fait asphyxier.

Le plus beau, c’est la mauvaise foi. Quarante-cinq ans plus tard, on continue de dire que « ce n’est pas la gauche », que « c’est le néolibéralisme », que « c’est l’Europe », que « c’est la mondialisation ».
Non. C’est le moment précis où une majorité de Français a choisi de croire qu’on pouvait vivre durablement au-dessus de ses moyens en faisant payer les autres, et que ça s’appellerait « justice sociale ».

1981 n’a pas tout cassé en un jour. Mais c’est là qu’on a choisi le chemin.
Et depuis, on court de plus en plus vite au bord du précipice en se demandant pourquoi on n’arrive plus.🤔🤭

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step.

Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing.

What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation.

College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices.

Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode.

Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no.

So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same.

That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion.

In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row.

If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation.

If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government.

Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Hundreds of child marriages revealed in Germany - with girls as young as 11 married to Iraqis, Syrians and Pakistanis https://t.co/T5xK9nwFF3

[Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs]

I said it after his speech in Munich and I'll say it again here. It's one thing to see what's wrong with things, another to have a vision to improve what's wrong, but another very rare skill to motivate divided people to join you in that effort to get the outcome you want.