Gregory Solman

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

To your point about antibiotics: In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge's 16-year-old son died of a blister on his toe that became staph infected, despite what must have been the best medical care in the country. We take too much for granted.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact.

Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more.

Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined.

None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily.

This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

[Chad Ashley @chad_ashley]

@theobjectivist Here’s an example of his party standing up for the working class:

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

@WhichitaFalls It's hard to single out Jackson after the birthright citizenship fiasco. Apparently four other justices are equally stupid, buying her idiotic argument that following any law in America, i.e., stopping at a red light, is the real meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Guess she was too lazy to revise this after her own court ruled against nationwide injunctions by district courts.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I hadn’t seen this. Apparently it’s real. Kentanji Jackson really put “wait for it” in a legal opinion. I believe this is the same opinion where she dropped “full stop.” We are just months away from Jackson using “lmao” and a laughing face emoji in an official legal document.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Recall that Obama wrote two autobiographies before his own mother would care enough to read them.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

This is how politicians and their families launder money. Nobody wants a book from Dr Biden. But some commie NGO that got taxpayer money from the admin can’t pay the kickback with a check. So they buy 100K books and burn em. The one-time bulk buy charts it for a week, then 💨

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Yes. The best response today would have been to declare a complete de facto or de jure immigration moratorium.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Not really, because what happens the next time a Democrat takes power and flings open the border to another 100 million Third World illegals?

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

She broke a cardinal rule. She was more concerned about being first than right.

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

Even a rookie would get confirmation from a source before announcing the retirement of justice.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Are you reporting that anyone was surprised?

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

Why is anyone surprised about NPR’s big screw up today? After all, they’re the same outlet that said the Hunter Biden laptop was a non-story.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

@NussRelson @jaynordlinger Even one of Obama's climate scientists revealed that, after all this sturm and drang, we don't really know the temperature of the earth. The trick the alarmists play is to consolidate many different +/- estimates then pretend precision with a scientifically indefensible number.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

This is grandstanding. Republicans who cannot pass the SAVE America act with the support of 80%+ of all Americans now pretend they can pass a constitutional amendment that wouldn't even be supported by RINOs. They just want to say they "tried".

https://t.co/FNAKiABRDb

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

@Michele881 @peterschweizer No. I don't.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

"DEI, Repulsive Female" division, fails again. Re-watch her one drunken, party-girl scene at the end of Superman. Who would want to build an entire movie around that? Who would want to watch it? Even in 1984, before the apocalypse, they had no idea what to do with Supergirl.

[Sharon Waxman (follow me on Threads @sharonwaxman @sharonwaxman]

🧵I went to see Supergirl last night (in 3D!) to see if I might have a thought on what it tells us about girl-bosses, female superheroes, and understand why the movie failed to attract women. What I think fits in a tweet: the movie is just not that compelling.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

If you don't think California politicians ARE the corruption, consider the astonishing fact that the unemployment fraud during covid--still an unsolved crime everyone hopes will just be forgotten--involved a criminal ring run partially out of the state's prison system.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Today the California Senate Committee held a hearing on the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” known as AB 2624. This bill will criminalize and punish anyone from looking into fraud inside immigrant communities in California.

This bill was created only after I exposed billions of dollars in fraud throughout immigrant communities in the US. “Immigration support services” have become a billion dollar industry in California, and now that the fraud has been exposed, they are trying to criminalize those who look into the fraud.

The bill has passed through the California Assembly and is set to pass through the Senate and then to Governor Newsom’s desk. This bill was created by the Attorney Generals WIFE and will allow him to go after citizens if they film nonprofits and “immigration support services providers”.

Welcome to Califraudia.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

That said, Johnson will be reliably obstructing any future efforts of Congress to pass anti-birthright citizenship legislation or put a moratorium on all immigration.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Johnson denounces birthright citizenship ruling: 'Antithetical to the rule of law' https://t.co/3tXE6RQ9Si

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Let me guess: The race car runs on air.

[Columbia University @Columbia]

Sports 🤝 sustainability

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Matt's right. The birthright citizenship case is vastly more important. The sports issue would have been resolved by now if actual female athletes just declined to compete whenever a male was permitted to compete against them. But they had other priorities, some of them selfish.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

No I’m furious that she would defend the boundaries of women’s sports but not the boundaries of our actual country

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

@Michele881 @peterschweizer Then there should be a moratorium on all immigration, legal and illegal, until Congress spells it out.

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

Schiff should have been indicted for election interference years ago when he declared, on television, that Trump was a Russian agent, clearly implying that he'd derived that information from his privileged position on the Intelligence Committee.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🚨 Adam Schiff just got exposed as the pathological liar we all knew he was.

When John Bolton was indicted in 2022, Schiff rushed on camera and declared it “clearly retribution” by Trump.

Today? Bolton pleaded GUILTY to the exact charge: one felony count of unlawful retention of national defense information.

Up to 5 years in prison. $2.2 million forfeiture. Lose his federal pension.

Schiff’s words: “This is clearly retribution… anyone who stands up to the president gets the full weight of the federal government brought down on them.”

Wrong again, Adam. It wasn’t retribution.

It was justice. Bolton was doing exactly what he accused Trump of doing.

That’s not hypocrisy — that’s a confession.
#SchiffLiar #BoltonGuilty #TwoTieredJustice

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

As cynical agitprop with lines like, "You are television incarnate," Network is at least equally embarrassing as sentimental, throwback populism.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Sidney Lumet on why it was embarrassing for him to lose 'Best picture' at the Academy Awards to a movie like "Rocky" (1976):

''People called 'Network' (1976) a satire. And we would say, 'No, it's not a satire, it's sheer reportage.' Well, we haven't killed anybody on the air yet. Yet! I thought it was important to get someone as close to Walter Cronkite as you could get to play Howard Beale. We thought about Gregory Peck. Then Peter Finch said he had gotten a copy of the script and wanted to do it. Paddy was delighted, but the foreignness of him bothered me. [Finch, who died two months before the 1977 Oscar ceremony, was a Brit.] Then Peter asked if I would send him a copy of The New York Times and he would read it into a tape recorder and send me the tape. It was perfect. There was no trace of an accent.

It's embarrassing that 'Rocky' (1976) beat us out. Chayefsky was so prescient. Everyone was saying we were going to take it all. And on the flight out to L.A., he said, 'Rocky's going to take Best Picture.' And I said, 'No, no, it's a dopey little movie.' And he said, 'It's just the sort of sentimental crap they love out there.' And he was right.''

("Sidney Lumet: How He Saw His Oscar-Nominated Films", Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 2011)

[Gregory Solman @GregSolman]

We should consider the Philosopher King order of society, in which citizens are compensated inversely proportional to how fun, easy, and prestigious their jobs are: Thus all of Hollywood should be the least compensated among us, with gaffers and lab techs making more than actors.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

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