Jim ODonnell

Politically homeless

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@zerohedge AI adds productivity without adding much net demand. The result is disinflationary.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If, when you say regulation, you mean the dead and clammy hand of the commissar—the gentleman who has never in his life built a single thing, drafting rules to govern a thing he cannot define, to be enforced by men who cannot read them; if you mean the form in triplicate, the impact assessment upon the impact assessment, the compliance officer who breeds, in the warm dark of the org chart, further compliance officers unto the third and fourth generation; if you mean the moat—the deep cold moat that the giant digs around his own castle and christens, with a perfectly straight face, public safety—the drawbridge he hauls up behind himself the very instant he is across, lest any hungrier and hungrier man should follow; if you mean the precautionary principle, which, had it governed our grandfathers, would have banned the wheel pending further study of the hill, and left us yet shivering and raw in the mouth of the cave, blessing its excellent ventilation; if you mean the European disease—that magnificent open-air museum of a continent, which produces in our time precisely two things in great abundance, and they are regulation, and the eloquent and well-footnoted regret of cultivated men explaining at length why they have produced nothing else; if you mean the license required to think, the permission slip for honest arithmetic, the king’s wax stamp pressed upon the forehead of every new idea before it may draw its first breath; if you mean the agency dispatched, with trumpets, to slay a single dragon, which arrives at the cave, surveys the accommodations, and moves in—and spends the ensuing century laying eggs and devouring the very villagers it was sworn to defend; if you mean the startup that perishes not of the market’s honest verdict but of the filing fee, the genius decamping by the next tide to a freer and warmer shore; if you mean the law that arrives, faithful as the swallows, exactly one whole epoch too late—helmeted, plumed, and magnificently armed—to regulate the stagecoach—then certainly, my friends, I am against it.

But—but, my friends—if, when you say regulation, you mean instead the humble steel guardrail upon the mountain road at midnight, the very thing you curse on the easy days and bless on your knees the one night the fog comes down; if you mean the brakes—for it is the brakes, and not the engine alone, that permit a sane man to drive fast and yet arrive alive—and the buttress, without which no cathedral was ever flung so high, but only in spite of which, but because of which; if you mean the meat inspector, who is the single homely reason a man may eat a sausage in this republic without first composing his last will and testament; if you mean the firebreak cut clean through the forest before the dry season of the burning, the smallpox cordon, the buoy that marks the channel, the rule of the road that lets ten thousand strangers hurtle past one another in the dark at fearful speed and arrive, by its quiet grace, every one of them home; if you mean the honest scale and the true weight, the reason a pound is a pound and a dollar a dollar from Natchez to Nome; if you mean the firm and decent wall between the counterfeit voice and the widow’s bank account, between the deepfaked candidate and the ballot box on the eve of the vote, between the loosed and loveless machine and the schoolyard it neither knows nor pities; if you mean the simple plank of law that says the strong shall not, in the gray dawn, feed the weak quietly into the furnace and sell the rising smoke as progress; if you mean, in the end, the one slender thread of trust without which no citizen will ever dare to use the marvelous thing at all—for where there is no rule there is no trust, and where there is no trust there is no commerce, and a miracle that no man dares to touch is no miracle, but only a handsome and expensive ghost—then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise one inch of it.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Even Arab leaders admit it.

Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see.

Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective.

Ok, so let us set that aside.

Now watch this.

In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada.

Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance.

He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises.

The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978.

This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel.

When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias.

The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices… generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return.

This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today.

If you value the truth, please share.

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@publicpolicyman I am a libertarian living in Winnetka. No gas leaf blowers Memorial Day til Labor Day. I love it.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

Brandon Johnson’s security detail was revealed.

150 Chicago Police Department officers.

Average salary: $150K
Base cost: $22.5M
With overtime: $33.7M a YEAR

In a city drowning in crime, Chicago Democrats preach reform while spending $30+ million a year protecting themselves.

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@elerianm We have the best system of procedures for creating new innovative companies and investing in them. The symbiotic relationship between entrepreneurial ideas and funding capital is our strongest competitive advantage.

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@BBGreatMoments Pete Rose

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@BBGreatMoments Barry Bonds

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@ThienemanSZN Let’s just call it a 12-5 season and go straight to the playoffs

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@JeyaramanAshwin @PeterSchiff Long dated tips with a 2.84 REAL yield.

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@PeterSchiff Maybe. But rising yields will crush equity PE ratios

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@JimmyHooverDC @brithume I commend her for the public apology. Most of us would not have the courage to do so.

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@FCNightingale @FM_NoAlgos Very helpful if you can include this information regularly

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@CCamosy @DavidAFrench They disagree often but are rarely disagreeable.

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@KnowMySongWell @christopherrufo How could AI and big datasets analysis help reduce abuse and outright fraud? We are reaching the point where taxpayers are fatigued, critical services are endangered and efficiency is a must.

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@unusual_whales Those same people likely pay jncom takx in their Social Security benefits

[Jim ODonnell @Jimod3O]

@TheInsiderPaper Doctor

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

If you're a non-Jewish ally who has stood with Israel and the Jewish people since this brutal war began, may God bless you. You are an absolute blessing. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. Israel does not stand alone.

[أحمد المنهالي @A_S_Almenhali10]

الشعب الايراني يخرج لإسقاط النظام الإيراني الارهابي ..

#انهيار_النظام_الايراني