James Andersen

Politically incorrect father of five boys

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@mattyglesias @MikeMitchNH It’s hysterical to say Elizabeth Warren is smart when she has absolutely no understanding at all of economics.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@GunnelsWarren None of them want their own taxes to rise. What a joke.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@mcuban Simpson and Bowles came up with an elegant compromise. Obama told them to go f— themselves. It won’t be different with these Democrats.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@KColeDC So it’s ok to steal something that’s not yours because you’re only doing it to a few people. Right. The moral bankruptcy in this way of thinking is incredible.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@DannyManus They recognized the legislation for what it is - theft. There was a time when everyone thought theft was immoral.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Before I was even pregnant, I asked my mom & dad for advice from raising me and my brother...

This is what they told me, maybe you'll find it useful too:

1. Your kids are not your friends. They’re yours to safeguard and support, but set rules. Biggest problem with most kids in our generation, their parents wanted to be liked not respected.

2. Psy ops are underrated. My mom had this line for whenever I got into trouble. She’d say, “When I ask you a question like this, I already know the answer. I am giving you a chance to come clean...” At which point I’d sing like a canary because I’m a scaredy cat. I found out today she rarely knew the answers. Brilliant and maniacal.

3. Always on the same page. My mom and dad rarely fought in front of my brother and I. They would never go back on the word of the other. United front to deal with us mini terrorists.

4. Make time. My dad had this silly line that is actually not silly: “You can make money, you can make a cake, but you can’t make time.” So they made allllll the time for us.

5. Four chairs. We have these four chairs in our living room, no tv. Growing up, we’d sit and debate and talk for hours. Politics. Opinions. Our days. Only thing not allowed was an opinion you couldn’t defend unemotionally. We still do this today.

6. Mi Sangre mi siempre. They’d always say, blood comes first. They meant it. I hired my brother, my dad, my mom, my cousin at times. We stick together and we may fight like hell but never in front of others.

7. Once you decide, you don’t quit. We could play any sport or instrument BUT if we committed we had to play the full year all out. No 3 lessons and quit. Taught us to choose thoughtfully and keep going even when it hurt.

8. Always call. They still pick up the phone nearly every time it’s family. My dad in a meeting will pause to answer my mom. My husband taught me this too, and I try to do the same. If they’re your first priority this is an easy way to prove it.

9. You’re not a princess, you’re a president. My dad always used to say that line. He told me this week that I lived up to it. Gutted me. He taught us we didn’t need to be saved, instead we could save ourselves and help others.

10. Hug often and seriously. If you’ve ever hugged my parents, they mean it when they do it. Such a simple, free gesture. My mom always gives you a hug and says vaya con dios... go with God. How can you not do big things with parents that hold you like that?

Just some lessons from parents I happen to think are some of the best in the world.

Moms & dads everywhere, I'm in awe of you.

Hardest job I've ever seen.

Hope I'm half as good at it as my parents were with us.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

If there’s five people in a room and four vote to rob the fifth, that doesn’t magically make it alright.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@EddyJokovich @Evolutionistrue This is genocide: The Hamas charter: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and the trees will say O Moslems, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

DeltaOne on this @delta flight sucks. There’s just no better way to say it - small, dated, uncomfortable, but at least it’s really expensive with shitty wifi.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@Delta

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I fly Delta almost once a week right now and put most of our company spending on my Delta Business Reserve but I think it might be time to switch over all my spend and flying to United.

Wifi is fucking unusable on these planes

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@literaryeric @TeflonGeek Incredible read but part 1 with so much more to be written. Still with it though.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@literaryeric Liar’s Poker, The Prize, Eagle Against the Sun, Atlas Obscura

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

I just spent 4 1/2 miserable hours on a domestic Delta flight with awful to the point of giving up internet service despite paying $1,200 for the opportunity. If @Delta thinks I won’t trade my Diamond status for the chance to be productive in the air they’re crazy. If other airlines have Starlink, business travelers will absolutely abandon Delta.

[Les Mileistes Français 🦁🇫🇷 @Mileistesfr]

Extrait de l’intervention de Milei hier à l’ONU :

« L’ONU a échoué à faire ce qu’elle était supposée faire et s’est mise à faire ce que personne ne lui avait demandé, et qu’elle n’aurait jamais dû faire. Elle a construit un Leviathan bureaucratique focalisé sur l’idée de décider comment doivent vivre les pays du monde et leurs citoyens. C’est un étrange mélange entre anarchie et tyrannie.

Impuissance contre ceux qui enfreignent les règles les plus basiques, comme les dictatures sanglantes et les organisations terroristes. Et un contrôle et des obligations orwelliennes face aux démocraties libérales qui, elles, respectent les règles.

Nous l’avons vu avec l’agenda du millénaire, l’agenda 2030, la régulation économique, les agendas sur le genre, l’extrémisme environnemental et l’immigration incontrôlée.

Et à chaque fois qu’ils ont échoué, au lieu de demander des excuses et réviser leur modèle, ils ont doublé la mise. Comme on le voit déjà avec l’agenda 2045. Laquelle, je l’annonce, va échouer.

Mais l’exemple le plus grave, qui devrait couvrir de honte cette organisation pour toujours, c’est la gestion de la pandémie. Durant la pandémie, des organisations dépendantes de cette maison (l’ONU) ont renié des preuves scientifiques et la souveraineté des nations. Elles ont promu dans le monde entier des politiques d’enfermement forcé qui ont détruit des emplois, ruiné l’éducation d’une génération d’enfants et ont couté la vie à des millions de personnes qui sont mortes seules, sans attention médicale basique.

Quand certains disent que ce fut une erreur sanitaire, nous y voyons une expérience de contrôle social déguisé en expérience scientifique. (…) La terreur psychologique installée par l’État, qui a dit pendant des années aux citoyens du monde qu’il fallait avoir peur. Peur de son voisin, de l’air qu’on respirait, de sortir de sa maison. Cette peur n’était pas un effet secondaire mais l’outil choisi par les gouvernements. Le problème est que les urgences passent, la peur disparait, le temps s’écoule, mais les institutions et le pouvoir créés pour ces supposées urgences, restent. »

Il n’est pas venu pour manier la langue de bois le Javier !

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@johnarnold You say this like you’re surprised. Are you?

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Capitalism is the legal protection of your right to freely pursue your own happiness by any means that doesn’t violate another individual’s equal right to do the same.

Socialism reverses the principle: it turns another person’s life, labor, and property into an entitlement to be pursued through political force.

Capitalism says: pursue what makes you happy, but earn it.

Socialism says: if someone else has what you want, acquire political power and make them surrender it.

One protects the pursuit of happiness. The other mistakes redistribution for its achievement.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

A proper democracy isn’t 51% choosing a government that forces the other 49% to obey whatever the majority demands in the name of the “greater good.”

That’s majoritarian rule.

Democracy should determine who administers a government constitutionally bound to protect individual rights, not who gets permission to violate them.

You vote for the referee, not for permission to rewrite everyone else’s rights.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@feelsdesperate Nobody needed a study to know this.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon has created $3 trillion of value with his companies and pays the salaries of 150,000 people.

Bernie helped create $36 trillion of debt with his time in Congress and pays the salaries of 0 people.

Elon’s wealth is not the problem, Bernie’s communist policies are.

Simple.