Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day"

Author of the Kingmaker series, self-educated homeschool dad.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

If you want a thriller that won't sucker punch you like this, you know exactly which author to read.

[Rabbi Shalom Landau @RabbiLandau]

POOR people are FAT.
Hunger is what makes you want to achieve greatness, if you quiet it down right when it appears you'll never achieve greatness.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@mattforney

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@DanFriedman81 Persuading a potential murderer to not commit murder is always a good thing.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@MustafaCharts 865,365,327

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

Why do we need "MeToo-style sleaze tactics" when we already have his Nazi tattoo?

That seems enough to me.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

You're a disgrace. But you're perfect proof that Republicans will embrace the most pathetic #MeToo-style sleaze tactics the instant they deem it of short-term political advantage. Sooooo desperate are they to ensure John Thune retains control of the Senate. A revolting spectacle

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@mtracey Why do we need "MeToo-style sleaze tactics" when we already have his Nazi tattoo?

That seems enough to me.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

We should have an ad campaign based on this idea. I have a great name for it:

"Action T-4."

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

One of the tragic unspoken realities out there is the crushing resentment, burnout and regret parents of down syndrome people feel, and we create a taboo around being honest about that with this kind of virtue signalling about what a blessing it is.

Don't think about the horrible struggle someone in their 70s or 80s faces caring for a grown man around the clock, just dote over the cute idea of a perpetual child and go about your day. Really the lowest kind of social signalling and an extra humiliation for all involved.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@KeithWoodsYT I have a great name for an ad campaign stressing this idea:

"Action T-4."

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@EYakoby I hope @jacklanger interviews him. That would be really interesting.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@HilzFuld Your post reminds me of a different objection:

"They read a different parsha than we do."

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@LucasGageX @MatthewParrott There are people saying that you're doing this for clout or money or whatever.

I don't care what your motivations are.

If you're going to be truthful and friendly to our people, all I can say is "Nice to have you aboard."

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@BerelSolomon That could have been me.

I ended the relationship before it got more serious.

What followed was the woman of my dreams entering my life less than six months later.

We've been married almost 28 years now, and still very happy.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me ruin your June for a second.

Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.

So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.

In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.

Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.

But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.

Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.

ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.

I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.

Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?

There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.

Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.

Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.

When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.

There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.

No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.

Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.

I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.

I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.

You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.

But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.

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COMMENT below — did you know the bathtub number? Or did the narrative keep that from you? Tell me.

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#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

It just goes to show that many people give up on their marriages too early.

It also goes to show that while your marriage might be going badly, there are many ways to avoid making it worse and thus maximize the chance of that reconciliation before there are lawyers, filings and pain.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@Hot_Pepper76

[Rabbi Shalom Landau @RabbiLandau]

The Masculinist Web telling you how to be a man is right… and wrong at the same time.
Lift weights. Make money. Be dominant. Get disciplined.
It’s not wrong.
But none of those on their own make you masculine.
It’s the integration of everything together that makes you a man.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@hicasamadim 578,932,451

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@Cernovich My beard went from black to "Santa Claus."

That's as good a reminder as any.

[Ari H. Mendelson "Premier Psychic of Our Day" @kingmakerseries]

@hikingtheglobe0 @ingelramdecoucy, you have a guess on this one?