James Jenkinson

Working class capitalist - Irish ☘️- Centrist - Engineer- Outdoors, GAA and LFC

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@thejournal_ie Brilliant news for the midlands.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Everyone is talking about how bad the ideas in this Piketty proposal are, and it's true: They're very bad.

But what's also notable is how *out of date* they feel. A one-world government to fight climate change? Seriously? Even Greta Thunberg has moved on to Palestine activism.

[Paul Kelly @PaulKel79494744]

https://t.co/VKJxNpDGwz

Institute of Irish studies - 2026 Northern Ireland Poll

Yes to remain in UK 🇬🇧 61.4%
No to remain in UK 🇮🇪 28.3%

I would vote for a United Ireland tomorrow:

Disagree 🇬🇧 49.7%
Agree 🇮🇪 35.8%

Support for a United ireland on both questions is DOWN from previous polling by the same institute.

@LucidTalk @naomi_long a clear majority of Alliance voters preferences is to remain in the UK.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@Ireland_Votes @ireland_thinks @TheSundayIndo The Purple greens are 12%, they have mopped up all the middle class lefty vote.

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@SocialRightsIRL I see the flag shop was having a sale.😂

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@IrishTimesSport Any comments on the cricketers playing Afghanistan?

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@noriordan @repnews Why do they want to stop the hurling?

[Sean Hannigan. @seanhannigan100]

History of being occupied
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History of revolt against occupiers
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Brutal suppression
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Forced population displacement
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Global diaspora
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Fought Britain for Independence
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So why the fuck do we have Paddystinians in Ireland?

[European LibCon 🇪🇺🗽🦅 @pl_european]

The Embassy of Russia in Ireland.

Ireland a country of 5 million has a bigger Russian embassy than the most populous European states.

Residential apartments, apparently a data centre and much more.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Everything changed the moment Trump walked away and Europe stepped in. Funny how that works.

The EU has mobilised over €75B in military support. Ukraine – the country everyone was supposed to be rescuing – is now exporting its own drone technology to Europe.

And on the ground? Ukraine is systematically destroying Russian supply routes along the land bridge to Crimea, hitting over 125 trucks in May alone. Just trucks on fire.

The country that was supposed to fall in 72 hours is strangling Putin’s crown jewel.

Remember this day. When Ukraine finally celebrates victory, there will be a loser sulking at Mar-a-Lago. JD Vance, Rubio, and Hegseth won’t be on the guest list – because losers don’t get invited to victory parties. That’s just how it works.

Thought you might enjoy this video.

Just some Ukrainian blowing up things

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

— Milton Friedman

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on why liberty must come before equality:

“A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.”

“A society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.”

“You can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others.”

“What ultimately happens when you aim for equality is that A and B decide what C should do for D, except that they take a little bit of commission off on the way.”

[celticfitba @celticfitba]

The extremist minority in the Celtic support crawling out from the gutter to demand we don't appoint Robbie Keane because he managed a football club in *gasp* Israel. The club cannot pander to these lunatics. Hopefully we appoint Keane to get it right up the lot of them.

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@IrishTimes @LPerrins The revolution is always lead by the disgruntled elites.

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@eoinyk He is a good representative as he is in agreement with every political party in Ireland.

[Maurice Black @mauricejblack]

Ireland continues to saw off the branch it sits on, threatening its most important economic relationship with the United States (valued below at over €1,000,000,000,000) so that it can ban trade valued at €200,000 with the so-called "occupied territories".

'Enacting the Occupied Territories Bill could have a “significant adverse impact” on Ireland’s economic interests, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has warned as the Coalition moves ahead with plans to pass the legislation by the summer.

Following widespread opposition criticism last week that the slimmed-down version of the bill does not include banning services but only goods, the Government has been told that even in its current form the bill may still spark retribution from the United States and Israel.

In a warning, published late last week, the Department of Foreign Affairs’ analysis said that while the bill would help Irish efforts to uphold and comply with international law, “enactment of this legislation may lead to responses from certain third countries – notably Israel and the United States”.

This, it said, could see a “potential impact on political engagement and a potentially significant adverse impact on Irish economic interests and operators”.

The Ireland-US economic relationship is now valued at more than one trillion euro, with considerable US foreign direct investment into Ireland.'

https://t.co/tvKSJgVpax

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@IrishTimes This quango receives €1.8 million of taxpayers money to tell us this nonsense.

[gript @griptmedia]

MATT TREACY: Just two weeks ago, Meta announced 350 planned redundancies in Ireland. It may be a surprise, then, to find that Meta was issued with more work permits for foreign workers in the first 5 months of this year than for the same period in 2025

https://t.co/Kkufx6sokW

[James Jenkinson @jimjenko]

@MichealLehane Giving people who can afford a new electric car is bad use of taxpayers money. Abolish VRT on all electric and hybrid vehicles.