Journalistic assignment for The Oswego County Weeklies - Covered the Tax Reform Act press event, Reagan White House, 7/9/1985.
(*Zero political aspirations)
@cspan@washingtonpost@nytimes@AP@UPI@Reuters@CNN@WhiteHouse How's the progress on defeating fraud? Who's in charge of that? You can start with any and all online fee for services portals. Am I talking with a real person? Am I talking with an American? Let's have an update!
@cspan@washingtonpost@nytimes@AP@UPI@Reuters@cnn You open your refrigerator door. There's nothing to satisfy your hunger...NOTHING. You close the door. THEN, for some psychotic reason, you go back an hour later and open the door again -- expecting items to appear? 🥴🤦♂️
@cspan@washingtonpost@nytimes@AP@UPI@Reuters@SenateDems Uvalde: home to a Hollywood star who eyed the TX governor seat. Then, a horrific tragedy & 77 mins of fatal hesitation. If there's nothing to hide Abbott & Cruz must release their text records from those exact 77 mins.
@cspan@washingtonpost@nytimes@AP@UPI@Reuters@dojphofficial Riddle me this:
A man scheduled on flight 93, chooses a cheaper flight. He boards his plane on 9/11 and observes a big, Caucasian man in first class who locks onto him in a stare; not a blink. Why? Where are they?
Albert Einstein once remarked, “You know, Henri, I began by studying mathematics, but eventually turned to physics.”
Henri Poincaré asked, “Why was that?”
Einstein replied, “Because although I could distinguish true statements from false ones, I couldn’t determine which were truly important.”
Poincaré smiled and responded, “That’s quite interesting, Albert. I began with physics, but ultimately chose mathematics.”
Einstein, intrigued, asked, “And why did you make that change?”
Poincaré answered, “Because I couldn’t tell which of the important facts were actually true.”
The exchange captures, with subtle wit, the contrasting philosophies of two of the greatest scientific minds.
Elon Musk just described a future where money does not exist.
Not reformed. Not redistributed.
Gone.
Musk: “I think things will just be free in the future. If you’ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met.”
Forget the sci-fi framing. Listen to what he is actually saying.
The entire structure of human civilization runs on a single variable. You need something you cannot freely access.
That gap is not a flaw in the system.
It is the system.
Your employer does not pay you because your work has value. Your employer pays you because you have no choice but to show up.
Your government does not protect you out of principle. It maintains order because your dependency on the economy makes you governable.
Scarcity is not a natural condition. It is the most successful control structure ever built.
Musk: “If you can think of it, you can have it.”
Now ask what happens when that structure collapses.
A population that does not need a paycheck cannot be managed by one.
A population that does not need credit cannot be disciplined by debt.
A population that has everything has no reason to comply with anything.
This is not a conversation about free goods. This is a conversation about the largest redistribution of leverage in recorded history.
But there is a second collapse no one is talking about.
Most people have built their entire identity around the constraint.
The career they resent is the structure that tells them where to be every morning. The bills they complain about are the exact reason they never had to ask a harder question.
Musk: “There actually isn’t money in the future and there’s abundance for everyone.”
When the constraint disappears, so does the excuse.
The crisis of the coming century will not be material.
It will be millions of people standing in total freedom. Discovering they have no idea who they are without the struggle.
Every barrier will be gone.
And you will finally have to face the one thing scarcity has been protecting you from your entire life.
Yourself.
I can't believe I'm living in a reality where Khamenei is dead, Iran is almost free, and despite 47 years of Islamic Jihadi propaganda, Americans and Israelis are our biggest allies in helping to liberate occupied Iran.
God bless America 🇺🇸
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
Javid Shah 🇮🇷