Luke Bender

Investor in FTX, Voyager, Celsius, BlockFi, LUNA, self-help guru, multi-billionaire, trash company owner.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Over the last few years, the American people have come to believe that our establishment institutions are at least partly responsible for a series of self-inflicted wounds. Our health and medical establishment either failed to address or enabled declining life expectancy, a mental health crisis including an addiction epidemic, and a botched response to Covid. Our military and foreign policy establishment unnecessarily started and prolonged war and conflict in the Middle East and violated civil liberties at home in the name of fighting terrorism. And liberalized migration laws have depressed working-class wages, swamped the ability of cities to absorb the new migrants, and created a humanitarian disaster on the border.

Given all of that, the President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations make sense. As Border Czar, Thomas Homan will take strong action to close the southern border and deport criminals. National Director of Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard will bring greater skepticism to foreign military entanglements and calls to restrict civil liberties for national security. And Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will stand up to the corporations that most everyone agrees have put self-interest before the public’s interest on everything from drug safety to food quality.

We shouldn’t be surprised that some of them hold views that many of us disagree with. The main criticism of Trump’s nominees is that they have dangerous and fringe views. Homan said he would deport whole families. Gabbard said the Russian-backed Syrian dictator was not America’s enemy. And Kennedy espouses marginal and unsubstantiated views on everything from nuclear power to 5Gs.

But Homan has made clear his focus will be on deporting criminals, not families, whatever one thinks of Gabbard’s position on the Syrian conflict, it’s obvious from the context that she made her remarks in service of her loyalty to the US, not Russia, and Kennedy has said, repeatedly, that he won’t ban vaccines.

And throughout history, most real reformers and innovators have held fringe views and have had aspects of their personalities that are problematic. In most cases, those flaws or idiosyncrasies proved to be a small price to pay for their willingness to overcome the many obstacles required to achieve serious reforms of deeply entrenched institutions. This is true not just of Homan, Gabbard, and Kennedy, but also of Defense Secretary and Attorney General nominees, Pete Hegseth and Matt Gaetz, respectively. The accusations the media has made against the two men are so far unsubstantiated by the available evidence.

And none of the allegedly wrong views or bad deeds of Trump’s nominees outweigh the potential of the nominees to reform the institutions that are directly responsible for the invasion of Iraq, prolonged occupation of Afghanistan, entanglement in foreign conflicts, corporate capture of the FDA, the weaponization of government, Covid school closures, authoritarian and gratuitous Covid vaccine mandates, unhealthy diets, the addiction crisis that kills 100,000 Americans per year, the humanitarian disaster along the border, and the mistreatment of children with pseudoscientific transgender medicine.

Strong leaders committed to reforming America’s military and foreign policy establishment, its public health, food, and medical establishments, and its immigration and border security establishment are precisely what the American people wanted when they voted for Trump. If those nominees pursue destructive agendas in lieu of doing their jobs, we will be the first to call them out for it. But the establishment has no ground on which to stand...

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[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The media says Trump's nominees are dangerous, but they're not. Their positions and priorities are well within the mainstream. The threat they pose isn't to the American people, it's to the pathocrats who created and worsened our border, public health, and foreign policy crises.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Taxpayers get audited

Companies get audited

The only 3 things that don’t get truly audited are our elections, the Pentagon, and the Federal Reserve

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

🚨🚨🚨And here it is,

DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CONFIRMS BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT,

BARACK OBAMA personally authorized one of the greatest criminal conspiracies in United States history, the Russian Collusion hoax. To TIE Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization and Donald J. Trump for President Inc. to the Russians.

Thus attempting to overthrow the United States government in 2016 and then later attempting to overthrow a sitting President in 2017.

A: Personally, unmasked, targeted and framed, General Michael Flynn, a three-star United States Army with 33 years of service, 4 Bronze Stars, 5 Commendation Medals,

B: Personally approved the United Kingdom [5 Eyes Intelligence Alliance] to execute PROJECT FULSOME seeking intelligence gathering on the Trump Organization and Donald J. Trump for President Inc.

C: General Michael Flynn knew about Barack Obama and his mistress Susan Lice, their crimes and illegal activities, Including bribing Stephen Halper to target and tie Donald Trump and his campaign to the Russians.

E: In other words the “foundations of democracy” being so sacred that you “do not allow the politicization of the criminal justice system, the intelligence system [or] the military.

D: 🔨 lands January 20, 2025,

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Matt Gaetz:
-Submitted the contents of Hunter Biden’s missing laptop into evidence
-Exposed career republicans for insider trading, including one rep who invested in Raytheon the day before the Ukraine war.
-railed against Fauci for pandemic, crimes against humanity and gain of function
-confronted the FBI on abuses against whistleblowers and J6ers
-and a man is sitting in prison right now because he tried to extort Matt Gaetz’s father for $25Million in exchange for a “guaranteed pardon” in an ongoing lawfare effort, the documents of which, Matt will soon have total access to.

No wonder the uniparty wants to keep Matt Gaetz out of the AG position so badly. No wonder they keep trying to denigrate and humiliate him. He clearly can’t be bought.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yeah

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Britain is turning into a police state

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

This is what passes for a “fact check” at The New York Times.

The media lie a lot, but fortunately for us, they are also VERY stupid.

[Dr. Ben Tapper @DrBenTapper1]

“Not one of the seventy-two vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested in pre-licensing placebo-controlled trials. Not one!”-RFK Jr.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

👇🏻

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major driver of healthcare cost

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Former Obama CIA director John Brennan says Tulsi Gabbard "doesn't have the right perspective" to be Director of National Intelligence.

So let's remind people:

-John Brennan voted for the Communist presidential candidate when in college.
-John Brennan lied under oath to the Senate about the CIA spying on Senate staffers.
-John Brennan lied to the public about Obama's drone war, claiming they never killed any civilians when he knew (and it was obvious) that this was false.
-John Brennan helped get the Russia collusion hoax off the ground, and lied that it was "well-founded" and based on real evidence.
-John Brennan lied that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake and was "Russian disinfo."

John Brennan is the exact sort of lifelong Washington D.C. parasite who must be stamped out. He's a dishonest, authoritarian pig who thinks he has the right to lie to the American people at will and either ignore or rig the results of our elections. He belongs in a prison cell.

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

Look at where your money has gone:
-$500k to study if selfies make you happy
- $1M to study if quail are frisky if you give them coke
- $20k to drag shows in Ecuador
- $80k to ask taxi drivers in Ghana if climate change makes it harder for them to drive
- $500k for Fauci to create transgender monkeys
So for anyone wondering why we need the Department of Government Efficiency, there’s your answer. @ElonMusk and @VivekGRamaswamy will have have plenty to do.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Voters: I'm angry that we can't buy food, have no health insurance, our communities are crumbling, our neighbors are dying of overdose, we can't afford prescriptions, and we have no jobs that pay a living wage.

The Biden administration:

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

I don't think folks outside government have any idea how big a deal this is. HHS has the SINGLE LARGEST BUDGET of ANY DEPARTMENT in the ENTIRE federal government. Even more money than the Pentagon. $2 trillion a year now under RFK's top dog accountability.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.

Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!

We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining 🤣🤣

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This interview was 🔥🔥🔥

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The hidden regulatory cost burden on Americans in immense

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Crazy

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Dr Paul Thomas was de-licensed for telling the Truth about vaccines—he let his patients choose the childhood vaccine schedules that parents wanted. This is what he found.