John

[Rick Rule @RealRickRule]

Surprised?
When you chase out tax payers, and employers, your jobs, and tax revenues likely decline.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

The bursting of China's housing bubble in one chart

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[The Pholosopher 🌎🕊 @ThePholosopherX]

People in the private market have to provide value to customers to get wealthy. People in the state get their wealth by forcibly taking it from everyone else.

[Rick Rule @RealRickRule]

the world is driven by envy.

[Rick Rule @RealRickRule]

Notice how many are from the EU? Any doubt about why that is?

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

New Study Exposes How The Left Turned Mental Illness Into A Political Identity https://t.co/DcI7AhfWKO

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed 😂

[miguelifornia @miguelifornia]

@SenAdamSchiff Stupidest Senator ever

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Why Does America Have A 'Diversity Visa'? https://t.co/JtQNgBLl1Q

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

@TheTexasBoomer I mean this is the same guy. What bias?
https://t.co/eVmcpaoZTk

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes staffers: “Why do you think the country thinks you’re biased?"

Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"

"Because we certainly didn't believe that."

Incredible.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The contrast cannot be more clear.

Democrats can never win again

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Funny

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

True.

[Flappr @flapprdotnet]

Patriotmaxxing.

Very well done by the UFC

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

🇺🇸THE GOAT!!!!!

🐐45/47

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Criticize Trump For Holding MMA Match On The Hallowed Ground Where Biden Hosted Topless Trannies

[Avery Daye @AveryDaye]

We gain NOTHING from mass migration from third-world Islamic countries. They don’t assimilate. They openly say they want Sharia, call us dirty infidels, and aim to conquer. They rape us, stab us, behead us, for being white, then demand we pay for it all.

Tolerance of their intolerance will erase us.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

He’ll fit in with the Muslim horde just fine…