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[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

The Catholics need to excommunicate her since she is championing the murder of babies.

This should happen swiftly and publicly, based on their own teachings.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

In 2019, in an effort to communicate why Christians should care about politics, I came up with this mantra: “Politics matters because policy matters because people matter. Politics affects policy, policy affects people, and people matter.”

Abortion is perhaps the most obvious example of that truth. The legalized slaughter of babies should be enough to animate every Christian to do everything possible, both personally and politically, to join the fight.

I have no tolerance for the Christians - and especially the pastors - who see abortion as “too divisive” and therefore a subject to be avoided or caveated to death. We are literally talking about helpless babies being poisoned and dismembered. It is the child sacrifice of old, just euphemized and sterilized. If you can’t speak up now, you wouldn’t have spoken up then.

For all of the black square posting, social justice posturing of Mushy Middle Christians, when it comes to something as tangible and as clear as abortion, suddenly they’re full of nuance and trepidation.

Let me break it you: abortion isn’t nuanced. They’re just cowards.

And it’s not because they “don’t want to be political,” it’s because they don’t want to be Biblical. You can’t even get through Genesis 1 without seeing the sanctity of life, the definition of marriage, and the reality of male and female.

For the Christian, these aren’t just “culture war” issues. They’re Biblical ones. And if you won’t engage in them, it’s not because you don’t want to be divisive, it’s because you don’t want to be a Christian.

Christians have stood against the slaughter and objectification of children for millennia. When we stop, darkness prevails and thousands of babies endure slow and torturous murders at the hands of bloodthirsty merchants of death.

Wake up

[MAZE @mazemoore]

My wife is a nurse. She was pregnant during the pandemic. Her best friend is also nurse and she too was pregnant during the pandemic. She and her husband had been trying for a long time and this was their first.

They were both well into their pregnancies when the hospital that they work for started mandating full time employees get vaccinated. The hospital was pushing the vaccine so hard and the rhetoric was so crazy that they were both worried if it would even deliver their babies if they were not vaccinated. That's how scared they made people.

My wife and I decided immediately that there was no chance she was getting vaccinated while carrying our baby. She was only a couple months from giving birth so she tried to stall. She filed for an exemption, it was denied. She used whatever PTO she had. Then she quit full time and went part time. She made it through and gave birth to our beautiful, healthy, love of my life baby boy, vaccine free.

My wife's friend was just a couple months away from giving birth when she succumbed to the pressure to get vaccinated. She and her husband had already set up their daughter's room. They named her Penelope.

She was full term when she started having stomach pains. She thought she was in labor so she went to the hospital. The doctor told her that her baby was no longer alive. They induced labor and she delivered a dead little girl. Afterwards the doctor told her that a blood clot caused the death of her baby.

When my wife's friend sees our son she still gets emotional because her daughter would have been the same age as him. It breaks our hearts to see her still so heartbroken. What happened during the pandemic was just pure evil.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

I'm gonna be real with you dawg, no one is going to bother learning anything once AI is fully here. Imagine dedicating decades of your life to mastering math when AI makes all your work look like child's play. 99.999% of humanity will come to the correct conclusion: not worth it.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Encouraged to read this friend, would love to chat with you about it!

@elonmusk hit me up.

[Johann Kurtz @JohannKurtz]

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[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@spencerpratt Not merely “ok”.

Anyone who doesn’t love America is a traitor and beneath contempt.

Those who don’t love America, those who are disloyal should be exiled immediately.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

I will act alarmed the minute the GOP decides to act like it even cares

The SAVE Act, mass deportations, statutory definitions for birthright citizenship, prosecutions for Antifa and their support network

Do something and stop telling people to be afraid while you sit useless

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Want to know why we cannot be reactive to the Marxist and socialist problem?

Because by the time the massive negative effects of collectivism are felt, they are already in power.

Collectivist ideologies, like Marxism and socialism, in practice do not begin with majority support.

They generally begin as a disciplined minority that understands how to manipulate anger, fear, poverty, and distrust into political power.

They love economic crisis. It’s very easy to exploit hungry and scared people.

They have it down to a science at this point…

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

If the Constitution says that I have to hand my country over to the rest of the world if they set foot on American soil and pop a kid out, then I am against the Constitution.

If a piece of paper dissolves the very nation it governs when taken to its logical conclusion, then what exactly is the point of that piece of paper?

Future enemies of America will realize that they don't need to fight the United States in a war in order to defeat it. They simply need to ship over enough refugees, have them give birth to paperwork Americans, take them home, indoctrinate them into hating the US, and then send them back to vote into office a bunch of Quislings who will sabotage the United States from within.

And we're just supposed to let that happen because simply saying "No, we aren't actually going to suicidally give people who hate us a backdoor means to destroy our own country with Manchurian candidates" is apparently "Unconstitutional."

Ok, then it now needs to become a non-negotiable litmus test for all future judicial nominees that the magic piece of paper does not, in fact, demand that we open the door to our own national self-dissolution.

If the Supreme Court has the power to declare that the entire world's offspring can become paperwork Americans if they set foot on American soil, then a future Supreme Court can declare all of that invalid.

And a future court will.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Communists are putting the nation in the prisoner’s dilemma.

In this dilemma, the victory ALWAYS goes to the aggressor. The one who breaks the norms by crossing the line first.

So in the current construct, they will win.

There is a revolution unfolding in the country right now. Communism spreads like WILDFIRE when unchecked.

You can’t vote your way out of it once you vote it in. It takes full advantage of our tolerance and constitution until it kills us with both.

The only way to win the prisoner’s dilemma is to counterattack. Few are going to be comfortable with what that might look like. (Think Spanish Civil War).

We objectively KNOW what happens when this goes unchecked. 100+ million dead are the proof.

The question is, what are we willing to do to stop what we know is coming?

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” - Theodore Roosevelt

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

There are no American flags, but there are flags of many other countries.

Those whose loyalty is to another country over America are, by definition, traitors and must be expelled immediately.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

The Dollar keeps getting stronger because as long as most debt around the world is denominated in dollars (and that has been the case since basically Bretton Woods), each new global financial crisis just creates more demand for dollars, not less.

This is also why every crisis since 2008 has tended to strengthen America relative to everyone else. I mean, has anyone ever asked why the US economy has doubled since 2008, but the EU has gone nowhere? Or why Japan's economy has also gone nowhere since 1992?

Part of it is because the "business of America is business", as Calvin Coolidge opined a century ago, and another part is genuine stagnation or economic self-sabotage (Europe) or massive asset bubbles bursting and declining demographics (Japan), but a huge reason for this is that we're measuring their economies in USD.

And compared to the US dollar, the yen has lost about 40% of its value since 2008, while the Euro has lost 28%.

Now, I'm not at all saying that the US economy doubled solely or even primarily because of America's reserve currency status. There are a lot of factors that have led to America's success which go far beyond monetary policy. But as global demand for dollars rises, so does the global demand for assets those dollars can purchase. No one wants to just hoard cash under their mattress. If people are scrambling for dollars and they get access to them, they're going to put those dollars to work in something that will earn them a return until such time that they need to deploy those dollars to settle debts.

And the easiest thing that dollars can purchase are US assets.

So people pour into Treasuries, essentially allowing the Federal government to run massive deficits that it would otherwise be unable to run if the US did not possess the world's reserve currency. They also pour into US real estate and stocks.

The end result is:

>The US experiences a massive net negative international investment position that's essentially equal to -100% of the entire country's GDP because foreigners pour into America to buy assets with their dollars
>The Federal government has a much easier time financing its debt
>Foreign investors piling into the US amplify America's existing structural advantages and send asset prices through the roof
>America's trade deficit blows out in favor of massively importing goods from the rest of the world rather than making anything at home

The US essentially becomes a giant money printer for the world, while the Fed increasingly becomes the world's central bank. And in exchange, the world supplies America with endless credit and manufactured goods.

But this can't keep going on forever because there's an economic and a political cost to doing this, both in America and in the rest of the world.

I'll take Japan as an example of how this is impossible.

It cannot simultaneously have a stable yen, rock bottom interest rates, and free capital flows. Something has to give. And that something is going to be the currency itself, because if interest rates go up too much in Japan, the Bank of Japan has to resume printing in order to keep the government solvent.

It offsets that with enormous foreign exchange reserves and over a trillion dollars worth of US Treasuries, but Japan doesn't have infinite firepower. It has no ability to print dollars like the US does.

So eventually, Japan is either forced to raise rates dramatically and abandon the legacy of YCC (which would require enormous austerity measures), or it imposes capital controls (which creates an entirely different problem), or it allows for the yen to continue to collapse vs the dollar.

But it can't let the yen collapse too much because Japan also needs to import goods to run its economy, namely things like oil, raw materials, and occasionally food. So at some point, "just letting the currency go to save everything else" doesn't work because "the currency going" is what drags down everything else.

Eventually, the dollar's strength becomes too much for an institution like the Bank of Japan to handle alone, so it has to reach out to Washington for an emergency swap line to prevent the exchange rate from blowing out.

So the Fed increasingly becomes the lender of last resort to foreign central banks. But this just makes Japan more indebted to the system, not less. So when another crisis hits in 5 or 10 years, another swap line is needed. Then another. And another.

This can go on for a very long time, but it can't go on forever because every crisis requires more intervention from the Fed than the last.

The end result will be that the Bank of Japan is essentially in need of eternal swap lines from the Fed, and every Tuesday, the Fed ships Japan another few billion USD.

But even that can't last forever because at some point Americans will begin to ask themselves why the Fed is backstopping Japan, Europe, and Britain while our own cost of living is exploding? Even if swap lines are collateralized and technically not "foreign aid", they will still look like bailouts from a political standpoint.

And remember, the dollars those swap lines provide would just inevitably get cycled back into the US in the form of more asset price inflation, so as America continues to extend emergency intervention to foreign countries to keep the system going, those same countries will have investors who turn around and help bid up asset prices in America, which creates a sort of Cantillon Effect on steroids.

America already has enormous income inequality. Imagine what things will look like when every future global crisis requires another few trillion dollars of liquidity and another round of expansion of the Fed's balance sheet coupled with more foreign swap lines that only end in yet more capital flooding into American financial assets?

Every dollar the Fed prints would just mint another DSA member as downwardly mobile kids from upper middle class families in America find themselves unable to catch up and acquire assets of their own. This will just radicalize more and more people who do not understand at all what's going on at the macro level, and a tiny number of power-hungry Machiavellians will use that populist rage to sweep themselves into power.

How exactly it ends, I do not know. Maybe the math itself just breaks before the political system does? But the Austrians have been expecting that for over 50 years now, and it hasn't happened. They've been spectacularly bad at the timing here for decades because they kept thinking that the system itself would break down rather than the people managing it.

The system can continually adapt and devise new rules to ensure the game goes on (case in point, perpetual swap lines weren't even a thing until 2013), but it cannot eliminate the Cantillon Effect.

And that's probably what will eventually blow the whole thing to hell. People in the US will just get so radicalized that it becomes impossible to continue to play the shell game any longer.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Tout le monde pense que le monde libre a gagné en 1989, à la chute du mur de Berlin.

C'est faux.

Et c'est exactement pour ça que le monde est aujourd'hui en feu.

Ce qui est tombé le 9 novembre 1989, c'est un appareil.

Une économie planifiée, un empire militaire, un mur de béton. Ce qui n'est pas tombé, c'est l'idée. L'idée que le monde se divise en oppresseurs et en opprimés. L'idée qu'il existe une égalité finale à atteindre, par tous les moyens. L'idée que tout ce qui existe (la famille, la nation, le mérite, l'héritage) est une structure de domination à abattre.

Cette idée-là n'était plus dans le bâtiment quand le bâtiment s'est effondré.

Il faut reprendre la chronologie, parce que tout est dans la chronologie :

Le communisme économique avait un défaut fatal : il était réfutable. Il promettait l'abondance, il produisait des famines. Il promettait l'émancipation, il produisait des barbelés. Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, L'Archipel du Goulag publié à Paris en 1973, les boat people de 1979 : à chaque décennie, le réel envoyait sa réfutation. Les boat people étaient une réfutation flottante, visible depuis les plages.

Alors l'idéologie a fait ce que fait tout organisme menacé : elle a muté.

La mutation a un nom, et j'en ai raconté la généalogie ici : la French Theory.

Foucault a déplacé la guerre du terrain des faits, où le communisme perdait à chaque fois, vers le terrain du savoir lui-même.

S'il n'y a pas de vérité, s'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir, alors plus aucune famine, plus aucun mur, plus aucun goulag ne peut réfuter quoi que ce soit.

La French Theory n'a pas enterré le marxisme.

Elle l'a rendu irréfutable.

Et la mutation a des dates. Toutes antérieures à 1989.

1934 : l'École de Francfort, chassée d'Allemagne, s'installe à Columbia. La critique de l'économie devient critique de la culture.

1964-1965 : Marcuse, exilé allemand devenu professeur américain, remplace le prolétariat défaillant par un nouveau sujet révolutionnaire (les minorités, les étudiants, les marginaux) et écrit noir sur blanc que la tolérance doit être accordée aux mouvements de gauche et refusée à ceux de droite.

Octobre 1966 : le débarquement a une date précise. Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. Derrida, Barthes, Lacan présentent la pensée française aux campus américains.

1967 : Rudi Dutschke lance le mot d'ordre, la longue marche à travers les institutions.

1968 : les révolutions de rue échouent partout.

Qu'importe. La révolution ne passera plus par la rue, elle passera par la salle de classe.

1975-1985 : Yale, Berkeley, Columbia absorbent la théorie, qui devient le système d'exploitation des humanités.

1987 : Allan Bloom publie The Closing of the American Mind pour donner l'alerte. Un million d'exemplaires vendus.

L'université le traite de réactionnaire et passe à autre chose.

L'Amérique avait son Aron, elle en a fait la même chose que nous du nôtre.

Puis arrive le 9 novembre 1989.

Le Mur tombe. L'Occident célèbre. Fukuyama avait déclaré la fin de l'Histoire dès l'été, avant même la chute. On démantèle les missiles, on encaisse les dividendes de la paix, on déclare le match terminé.

Nous avons célébré notre victoire sur une adresse vide. L'idéologie avait déménagé vingt ans plus tôt. Nous avons gagné contre les chars et perdu contre les chaires.

Pendant ce temps, l'autre empire communiste faisait la lecture inverse. Pékin avait écrasé Tian'anmen dans le sang cinq mois avant Berlin. Sinistre, mais lucide sur un point : la Chine savait que la guerre était idéologique.

Elle a choisi : abandonner l'économie marxiste, garder le contrôle du récit. L'Occident a fait l'exact opposé : il a gardé le marché et absorbé l'idéologie. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, regardez qui construit des centrales et qui déboulonne ses statues.

Vous voulez la preuve que c'est le même logiciel ? Faites la table de correspondance.

La lutte des classes est devenue la lutte des identités.

Les koulaks sont devenus les privilégiés.

L'autocritique maoïste est devenue le privilege checking. Les commissaires politiques sont devenus les DEI officers.

Le samizdat est devenu le compte shadowbanné.

La nomenklatura a quitté Moscou pour Davos et Bruxelles.

Et le paradis ne s'appelle plus la société sans classes : il s'appelle l'équité, l'égalité des résultats.

Exactement ce que je décrivais ici il y a quelques semaines.

On me dira : il n'y a pas de Goulag.

C'est vrai. C'est même tout le génie de la version 2.0.

Le communisme dur devait briser les corps parce qu'il ne tenait pas les esprits.

Le communisme mou tient les esprits : il lui suffit de briser les carrières.

Pas de camps, des services RH.
Pas de procès de Moscou, des excuses publiques.
Pas de Sibérie, la mort sociale.
Demandez aux émigrés du bloc de l'Est installés en Occident ce qu'ils ressentent en traversant une université américaine en 2026.
Ils reconnaissent l'odeur.

Et voilà pourquoi le monde est en feu.

Une civilisation a passé trente-cinq ans à enseigner à ses propres enfants qu'elle était le problème. Résultat : elle ne sait plus défendre ses frontières, transmettre son héritage, ni même nommer ses ennemis.

Quand la présidente de Harvard, devant le Congrès, répond que condamner un appel au génocide « dépend du contexte », vous voyez le logiciel tourner en production.

Et les prédateurs du dehors lisent cette faiblesse comme un livre ouvert : Moscou teste, Pékin patiente, l'islamisme avance dans les rues de nos capitales.

Le feu extérieur n'est que la conséquence du désarmement intérieur. On ne brûle bien que les maisons qui se sont vidées de leurs défenseurs.

Le Mur n'est pas tombé. Il s'est déplacé. Il ne sépare plus l'Est de l'Ouest : il passe désormais à l'intérieur de chaque institution occidentale, entre ceux qui construisent et ceux qui déconstruisent.

La première guerre froide s'est gagnée avec des missiles et du PIB. La seconde se gagnera avec des écoles, des médias libres et des modèles d'IA. Celui qui écrit les valeurs dans les machines écrira le prochain 1989.

Cette fois, ne nous trompons pas de victoire. Au travail.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The real reason they don’t want voter ID is to commit voting fraud. That is the obvious truth.

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

The world (especially Europe) is continuing its appalling downward spiral toward total speech control and total monitoring. And the bovine people are mostly apathetic. The following stories have appeared in the last week.

It's getting bad out there, folks. 🧵

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.