Jeff Calaway

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@DrKarlynB These people are morons. They should file a claim against the schools that they graduated from for malpractice. Unbelievable.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@JayInslee “Any power produced from coal in Centralia would have to be sold out-of-state because Washington electric utilities cannot purchase coal-derived power due to a clean energy transition requirement that took effect in January.” Compliments ala Jay Inslee.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@JayInslee Power bills in Washington are higher thanks to your climate policies.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

Your post is so lacking in basic economic understanding and shows a complete disregard for regional differences in the country. Also, you really don’t understand the impact of ridiculously high minimum wages. I pay over the minimum wage for most jobs in my company. Why? Because there are differences in the value of work that people do. Assuming that all work is worth $25/hr completely misses the mark. Also, entry wages should be encouraged to give opportunity for training and work experience for young people and those that are unskilled. Pricing labor above market rates prevents those opportunities.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@RoKhanna Too late.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@WallStreetApes If you voted Democrat, then you voted for this.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@bennyjohnson Amen!

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

Heeding the words of a prophet takes humility and thinking outside the box. We have to put aside our frame of reference and consider that the wisdom in their counsel, though foolish to us, actually has the power to direct us to be healed, if we will heed that counsel.

[Mike Stanger ۞ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇱🌻🇺🇦✝️🎶📚 @MichaelStanger1]

Naaman expected a miracle. Instead, he got a command. The great Syrian commander came to Elisha seeking healing from leprosy. Surely the prophet would perform some dramatic sign. Instead, Elisha simply sent a messenger with these words: “Go and wash in Jordan seven times” (2 Kings 5:10).

Naaman almost walked away. The command seemed too simple, too ordinary, too beneath a man of his stature. But when he finally humbled himself and obeyed, "his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean" (2 Kings 5:14).

This miracle points us to Jesus Christ. Throughout scripture, leprosy becomes a powerful symbol of sin, something that no amount of wealth, power, or human effort can cure. Like Naaman, we cannot cleanse ourselves.

Christ provides the cure. He invites us to come to Him in humility, repent, and enter the waters of baptism. To the world, these ordinances may appear too simple. Could something as ordinary as water really change a person's life? The power was never in the Jordan River. The power is never in the water of baptism. The power is in Jesus Christ, who cleanses all who come unto Him in faith.

Naaman’s story reminds us that God's greatest miracles often come through humble submission rather than spectacular displays. The Savior still asks us to trust Him enough to obey, even when His invitations seem simpler than we expected. The proud commander came seeking a miracle. He found something even greater. He found the Master who makes the unclean clean.

Art: Naaman bathes in the Jordan, Cornelis Engebrechtsz, 1520
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[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@BasedMikeLee Communism by a light year.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

In America, advocating for communism is not protected dissent. It is treason.

Communism fails at the most basic level of human reality: it cannot calculate. Without private property and voluntary exchange, there are no real prices. No prices means no rational allocation of scarce resources. Central planners are reduced to guessing in the dark, and the result is always the same—famines engineered by bureaucrats who have never produced a single bushel of wheat. Mises proved this in 1920. Every subsequent communist regime confirmed it in blood. The Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, North Korea, Venezuela in its socialist phase—all produced mass starvation while the party elite dined on imported luxuries. This is not a bug. It is the inevitable output of an economic system that treats human beings as interchangeable cogs in a machine run by the worst people who ever sought power.

The body count is not debatable. Communist regimes murdered over 100 million people in the 20th century through deliberate policy—engineered famines, death camps, firing squads, and torture chambers. The Holodomor was genocide. The Great Leap Forward was the largest mass killing in recorded history. The Killing Fields were not an accident. Every time communists seized total power they immediately began liquidating anyone who resisted the abolition of private property, because private property is the only thing that stands between the individual and total state domination. The ideology requires it. You cannot have “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” without a gun to the head of the able and the productive.

Politically, communism is totalitarianism by design. The moment the state claims ownership of the means of production, it must claim ownership of everything else—speech, thought, family, religion, history. Dissent becomes counter-revolutionary sabotage. The secret police become the only real institution that functions. This is not “authoritarian drift.” This is the destination. Every communist regime that ever existed traveled down the exact same road: abolition of property → abolition of rights → mass graves. There has never been an exception. There never will be.

The notion that American communists or their fellow travelers are merely “idealists” with good intentions is obscene. The ideology’s founders—Marx, Engels, Lenin—were explicit: the dictatorship of the proletariat would require rivers of blood. They celebrated violence against the “class enemy.” Their modern descendants in America who wave the hammer and sickle, who call for the abolition of private property, who demand wealth redistribution by force, who cheer the destruction of the nuclear family and the nation-state, are not offering an alternative vision of America. They are offering its deliberate destruction.

In the United States, this is not abstract theory. The Democratic Party has spent decades mainstreaming ideas that are communist in both origin and effect: the systematic demonization of private enterprise, the expansion of state control over every sector of life, the weaponization of identity as a substitute for class warfare, the open contempt for constitutional limits on government power, and the steady transfer of wealth and authority from individuals and states to the central bureaucracy. These are not “progressive reforms.” They are incremental steps toward the same end state that produced the gulag and the laogai. The party’s embrace of self-described democratic socialists is not a fringe curiosity. It is the logical result of decades of ideological capture by people who hate the American founding and everything it represents—individual rights, limited government, and the right to keep the fruits of one’s labor.

The claim that “Democrats don’t want to abolish private property” is a deliberate lie of omission. They do not need to abolish it in one stroke when they can tax it, regulate it, seize it through eminent domain and inflation, and redistribute it until ownership becomes meaningless. The end result is identical: the individual stripped of economic independence and therefore stripped of political independence. That is the entire point.

America was founded in explicit rejection of every principle communism holds sacred. The Declaration of Independence asserts the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—not the right to have the state provide them. The Constitution exists to restrain government, not to empower it to reorder society according to utopian blueprints. Private property is not an optional extra; it is the foundation of liberty. Any ideology that demands its abolition is not a competing political philosophy. It is a declaration of war against the United States as it was constituted.

Therefore the conclusion is unavoidable and final: communism in America is treason. Not because it is rude or unpopular, but because it is a direct assault on the constitutional order, the economic system that created unprecedented prosperity, and the moral framework that treats individuals as ends rather than means. Those who advocate it, apologize for it, or implement its policies under softer names are not participating in the American experiment. They are working to terminate it. History has already rendered its verdict on their ideology in mountains of corpses and oceans of poverty. The only remaining question is whether Americans will recognize the enemy inside the gates before it finishes what every previous communist regime began.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk pours hundreds of millions into buildings the government can force him to demolish.

On purpose.

Musk: “One of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.”

Not approved. Not guaranteed. Temporary.

He builds knowing the exact consequences.

Musk: “Your long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.”

Everything. Every wall. Every foundation. Back to dirt.

Musk: “Most companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.”

That single sentence explains why the West forgot how to build.

The system never needed to reject you.

It just needed you to believe waiting was the responsible thing to do.

Delays stack. Capital bleeds. Teams scatter. Conviction rots.

The project dies quietly in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon.

Nobody writes about it.

That was the point.

The regulatory machine doesn’t build walls.

It builds fog.

Thick enough that most people turn around before they ever hit anything solid.

You were never told no.

You were told “not yet” until you forgot why you started.

Musk doesn’t negotiate with “not yet.”

He pours concrete while the paperwork is still moving.

If they deny it, he tears it all down and starts again.

Because he understands something the modern world was trained to forget.

The cost of demolition is a number.

The cost of standing still is everything you will never build.

One of those kills a project.

The other kills a civilization.

Everyone else got that math backwards.

And they were taught to call it responsible.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Threatening to use the power of government to confiscate and redistribute the wealth of others is fundamentally unAmerican.

Pass it on if you agree.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@mschoening Welcome! Thanks for not trying to change it until you become part of it in your heart and soul. By then, you just might understand it to your core.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@realJeremyCarl This is why you should have to be born here to hold pu Lic office of any kind, period. End of story. He is so unqualified and clueless culturally and philosophically to be in a position to govern anything.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

Rather than criticize your adopted country, how about a little more appreciation for its history and what sacrifice was made to keep it free and great for you. Frankly, we don’t subscribe to your socialist ideas. It’s a form of communism and we reject it. Enjoy your season on the sun. Your comments earlier this week behind Washington’s desk were offensive and will haunt you later in your political career.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

Thank God for Jordan Peterson. This post is spot on. God bless the USA!

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@GavinNewsom Seriously?? You want to tax anything that moves. Isn’t that the opposite of what the founders envisioned?

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

@SenWhitehouse Your y-axis scale is all we need to see and understand to know that the scale is insignificant.

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

That single address to the nation will come back and haunt that guy for the rest of his life. True Americans recognize this countries greatness and the promise that it makes to those who are devoted to sustaining it. We recognize it is a work on process, but we respect the foundation upon which it is built. Mamdani and his ilk only seek to tear it down. As one who remembers the 200th Independence Day celebration, I have seen this country become even greater, in spite of the unsuccessful effort of its enemies, foreign and domestic, to destroy it. This country is the last best hope of freedom and liberty on the planet. May it forever reign as the land of the free and the home of the brave. Happy Birthday, America!

[Jeff Calaway @jbcalaway]

100%.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.

Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.

Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”

Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.

Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”

That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.

Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”

The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.

Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”

They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.

8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.

The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.