Mountain Man

storyteller, writer, anti-woke, no-small-talk hermit. I hate noise and nonsense, unless it’s funny... wit and humor is king.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED!

Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore.

Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots.

California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered.

Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election!

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

The Chicago Bears managed to stay in Chicago despite the 1929 Great Depression, WWII, and the 2008 financial crisis, but they couldn't survive two incompetent Democratic leaders in Illinois and now they are moving next door to the Republican run red state of Indiana!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

No street protests for her?

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

People get strangely angry when I question the calorie model.

I’ve spent years studying nutrition and functional medicine, so this is coming from education, not ignorance.

Energy matters. Nobody is denying that.

But you do not eat calories.
You eat food.

You do not literally burn calories.
Your body processes food.

That is why 2000 calories of steak, eggs, and butter eaten once or twice a day does not act the same as 2000 calories of cereal, toast, muffins, and biscuits eaten six times a day.

Every time you eat, insulin goes up.

Six meals, six insulin spikes.
One or two meals, far fewer.

That matters.

Protein also takes more energy to digest.
It fills you up more.
You eat less without fighting yourself all day.

Human biology is regulated by hormones, appetite signals, digestion, and food quality, not just arithmetic.

So calorie counting “works” because you are eating less food.

That is it.

You are attaching a number to food and using that number to control how much food you eat.

The number did not do anything.
The food did.

Then people stop counting, eat more food again, and put the weight back on.

If calories were all that mattered, six sugary meals would do the same thing as one or two meals of eggs and steak.

They do not.

That is the part people do not want to admit.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

"Christians follow Paul, not Jesus."

That used to be my favorite argument as a Muslim.

Then I actually studied Paul.

And the argument fell apart.

Paul wasn't some random guy inventing theology. He was a Pharisee trained under Gamaliel, one of the most respected Jewish teachers of his generation.

He knew the Torah.

He knew the prophets.

And he hated Christianity.

He persecuted Christians, dragged them from their homes, and approved their executions.

Then something happened.

He encountered the risen Christ.

And overnight, the man hunting Christians became one.

Think about that.

If Paul invented Christianity, why did he spend his life pointing people to Jesus instead of himself?

Why did Peter, James, and John endorse him?

Why did his teachings align with the apostles who actually walked with Christ?

And why would he willingly endure beatings, imprisonment, stoning, and eventually execution for a message he knew was false?

People may die for something they mistakenly believe is true.

But they do not willingly die for a lie they invented themselves.

Paul didn't create Christianity.

He met the risen Jesus and spent the rest of his life proclaiming Him.

If you've been told Paul invented Christianity, you've been handed a slogan, not an argument.

[Handre @Handre]

The 1920-21 depression was the sharpest economic contraction in American history, yet you've probably never heard of it. Industrial production collapsed 32%. Unemployment spiked from 4% to 12% in twelve months. By every measure, this downturn dwarfed the initial shock of 1929.

President Warren Harding faced enormous pressure to "do something." Labor leaders demanded public works programs. Businessmen begged for bailouts and trade protection. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Harding to slash government spending and let wages fall. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (yes, that Hoover) pushed for massive federal intervention.

Harding chose Mellon. The federal budget dropped from $6.4 billion to $3.2 billion in two years. No stimulus packages. No bailouts. No alphabet soup of new agencies. Government employment fell 40%. When you let markets clear, they clear fast.

The recovery started in July 1921. By 1923, unemployment had dropped to 2.4% and industrial production reached new highs. The entire episode lasted eighteen months from peak to full recovery. Compare that to Japan's lost decade of intervention, or the European debt crisis that dragged on for years, or our own jobless recovery after 2008.

Most economics textbooks omit this episode because liquidating malinvestments and allowing price adjustments works exactly as free market theory predicts: a fact that destroys the Keynesian narrative that government must spend its way out of recessions. Politicians today claim they learned the lessons of the 1930s, but they studiously ignore the more important lesson of 1921.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Here is @SpaceX's full IPO roadshow presentation from CFO Bret Johnson, who has been CFO at the company for the last 15 years.

It's worth watching.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Time to get election results:

🇧🇷 Brazil: 2 hours (124M ballots)
🇫🇷 France: 4 hours (34M ballots)
🇮🇳 India: 24 hours (640M ballots)
🇩🇪 Germany: 8 hours (51M ballots)
🇦🇷 Argentina: 6 hours (25M ballots)
🇺🇸 California: 37 DAYS (10M ballots)

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I’ve noticed the same.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

I think a lot of people have woken up to the conclusion that the only way to burn off the woke mind virus is to actually not care about racism or about being racist at all.

Pretty soon, if it’s not already happening, anyone crying about racism will met with the default response:

“So what?”

Do you really want white people checking out like this? Because this is the predictable, exhausted endpoint of weaponizing race for power.

Believe me when I say that we will all come to miss the days when the word ‘racism’ actually meant something, back when white people still cared about not being called racist.

Gen Z guys are already there. Once that word is completely drained of any real meaning or moral weight, we’ll all rue the day we let it happen.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Wokeness is the most successful rebranding of evil in human history

It takes racism, division, and hatred, wraps them in the language of compassion and justice, and calls it moral progress

It made people cheer for the destruction of their own societies while feeling morally superior for doing it

[Loofy @Loofyb0i]

Scott Bessent spent 20 years at Soros betting against governments that destroyed their own economies.

Now he IS the US government's economic policy.

56-min and you'll understand every major macro decision coming out of Washington in 2026

bookmark - the most interesting Treasury Secretary interview in a decade

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Incredible statement from Amnesty International UK on Henry Nowak:

Not a single word of conveying outrage or horror over the brutal murder, or of how police left him to die without dignity.

Instead, their statement is about policing the *political commentary* around the case.

I kid you not.

What a grotesque betrayal of any moral purpose.

These NGOs aren’t just useless - they actively despise you. They are hostile to everything you value and everything you hold dear.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Watch how the peacefully colonized green area is being bullied by the Zionist red dot. The red dot is clearly winning the expansionist land grab.