Matt Kramp

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

Je suis Charlie.

For those of you who have made statements cheering that Charlie Kirk was murdered because he was a bigot, a purveyor of hate, and profiteer of divisive rhetoric, I now know that you would cheer if I were murdered in the streets too. You would applaud as my six children and wife were left without a husband, without a father.

I too believe that chemical and/or surgical intervention on confused teenagers going through puberty does more harm than good, and that we should, with love and grace, encourage those teens (and their parents) to let nature (and God's good design) run its course before making irreversible changes to their bodies.

I too believe that the Bible is clear on homosexuality being a sin -- not an identity -- and that the only hope any sinners have in life or death is belonging to God through the work and power of Jesus Christ.

I too believe that the Second Amendment was carefully crafted and intentionally included in the Bill of Rights, because a citizenry unable to defend itself against the predations of a tyrannical government will eventually be doomed to a fate of dictatorial subservience.

I too believe that the appropriate battlefield for the hearts and minds of the people of this country is ideological, not physical. It is the open marketplace of ideas where logic, reason, and rhetoric clash and the public can judge for themselves which side is true, good, and righteous.

I too believe that the God of the Bible is the one true God, and Jesus Christ is His only begotten Son from the Father, and without His atoning work on the cross, there is no hope for any sinners like me.

So, to those of you who have taken off your masks of civility, I thank you for showing us who you truly are. I pray that you realize how lost and wretched a belief system is that leads you to cheer the death of a man like Charlie Kirk. I pray you realize how deluded you have been by deceptively edited soundbites alongside vitriolic commentary. And ultimately, I pray that you too one day realize that your only hope in life and death is to belong to God through Jesus Christ, His Son.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@Matt72454417 @PremiumHeart88 He was especially easiest on the OG PS1 when you could just open the disc lid to pause his action selection while your ATB bars filled 😅

Yeah, I cheated the first time I beat him, so what?

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@ryangrim They prefer the term "Champagne Socialists".

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@SlowToWrite Or, as they like to say in the south, "the hit dog hollers."

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@lucentile @nazdrakke @DanFriedman81 Actually, in Colorado, the individual requesting the cake you described would likely have been arrested for a hate crime.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@ggreenwald @LeeCZ73 The fact that you're flattening the conservative argument and then saying "See, they're being hypocrites" is just proof that you're either engaging in bad faith, or you truly do not understand the nuance of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@dalepartridge You can build a city with this guy?

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@OvertimeThrill @DDFStrand Ah, a racist on the internet.

How refreshing.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

How much do you think a hospital gets paid for a major organ transplant?

How much do you think Organ transplant facilitators get paid?

Do you ever wonder if there is a perverse incentive in edge-case scenarios for organ transplant facilitators to apply pressure to declare someone brain-dead so that organs can be harvested?

Well, I don't have to wonder, that exact scenario happened here in Kentucky in the last few years. The person who had been declared brain dead recently walked his sister down the aisle.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@brutus_jay @Devon_Eriksen_ And yet, he's right.

Physics is complicated, and oversimplifying the problem (and forces involved) usually results in wrong answers.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

Listen, this is all well and good, but I think it needs to be stated that all of these Europeans are starting to find out why Americans are so fat.

We have yummy food everywhere, and it's a dang miracle that we don't all consume 5,000 calories per day.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Dear Europeans... Buck-ee's is just normal stuff to us. Yeah, sure, it's freakishly big, and has lots of cool stuff.

But "freakishly big and has lots of cool stuff" is also a pretty good way to describe America.

Why?

It's not because we're somehow genetically superior. We come from roughly the same genepool.

And it's not because we somehow looted the third world... you did a lot more empire-building than we ever did.

It's because of the difference between your politics and ours. And between your social mores and ours.

We have what we call a permissive environment.

That means that if someone sees a possibility, wants to solve a problem, comes up with a better way to do something, even something small...

He's encouraged to try.

The government won't make him fill out 67 thousand forms and make him wait five years for permission.

His neighbors won't sneer at him and say he's getting ideas above his station.

Investors will actually want to talk to him, and think seriously about whether they want in on the action.

We know this seems brash and arrogant and reckless to you. We know you think a lot of these ideas are stupid. Some of them are.

But every creative idea, even the best ones, seems really, really dumb when you first come up with it, haven't tried it out, haven't refined it into what it eventually needs to be.

"He shoots spiderwebs out of his hands? What kind of useless power is that?"

"They're wizards who fight with magic swords, but they fly around the galaxy in spaceships?"

"Nobody is going to want to buy books online! How are they supposed to thumb through them?"

"The best minds have been trying heavier-than-air flight for years and failing."

"Reusable rocket boosters are a pipe dream."

Name any good idea anyone has ever had, and I can describe it the way it might have looked to people of its time, which makes it sound dumb, or wicked, or hopeless, or reckless, or arrogant.

If Buck-ee's had occurred to a European, which it easily could have, he would have been laughed off the stage. Or unable to raise money to try it. Or regulated out of existence.

This is why you're poor.

It's not because you suck. You don't suck. But you are micromanaging yourselves and each other out of existence.

Your ancestors weren't like this. And you don't have to be.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

Man, who thought that the benefit of AI would be that we'd be able to near-conclusively prove that the Congress-class is raiding the henhouse... And precisely nothing will ever be done about it.

Yay. #sigh

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@OldWaysNewEyes @JoelWBerry @New_Christendom Did they have those books at the conference too?

What the heck?

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

My hope is that, as people see the natural fruits of CRT and anti-racism ideologies, they realize how hollow, illogical, and harmful they truly are.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

"Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son Is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries"

If you don't understand reactions like these, it's worth studying critical race theory and the language of anti-racism discourse.

A few quotes from Prof. Patton's article: 1/

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@black_blasian @nicoledmaher @CoreyWriting Ok, so you're a racist and a liar.

Got it.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@Tectone As someone who got the timer to 99:59:99 back when I was a kid, I wish you the all the joy I felt when I played it for the first time.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@megbasham @shaunvlog_ Rendezvous dry rub ribs are goated.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

I suspect that John is the exact type of person who would, with a trillion dollars of cash, spend it "solving" all of the 3rd world's problems only to find that in 50 years, poverty had actually gotten worse -- just like it did in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 50 years.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible.

Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness.

I just don’t get it.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@Jtrade0001 @pathofexile Yep, these guys are the reason I dodge roll around the center of a stabilized breach until I see this dude fire his ground stab thing.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

Honestly, in a rational world, this would have just been a tragic local news story about a kid at a track meet who stabbed another to death during an altercation and was justly convicted of murder.

In our culture, filled with race-baiting hucksters, very quickly the narrative became that Karmelo had been singled out for his race, and that Austin and his track buddies ganged up on Karmelo, and, fearing for his life, he pulled a knife and defended himself, killing Austin Metcalf in the process. None of the facts of the case presented at trial matched these details, but people, trying to make Karmelo seem as sympathetic as possible, kept sharing them and speculating/expanding upon on them, alleging that this was a "race thing" simply because the perpetrator was a young black man.

The reality that came out at trial was that Austin Metcalf was asked my his coach to keep an eye on the tent and be a leader that morning (evidenced in text messages), there was a clear culture of treating track tents at meets like team benches/locker rooms at football games (giving justification for Austin to ask Karmelo to leave, and Karmelo to listen), and Karmelo was baiting Austin into a confrontation by calling their team "ass" and after being told to leave numerous times, reaching into his bag, grasping the knife, and telling Austin, "Touch me and see what happens."

When Austin finally moved to try to grab Karmelo and physically move him out of the tent, Karmelo plunged the knife he was hiding in his bag straight into Austin's chest. Originally, defense claimed that Karmelo was surrounded and feared for his life, but video evidence presented at trial proved otherwise.

The defense and Karmelo's family are now trying to claim that the trial was rigged/racist because, as they claimed on CBS this morning, it was an all white jury. It wasn't. It was majority white, and then Hispanic, Indian, and Arab. Several potential black jurors managed to make themselves unfit during jury selection for various reasons, like claiming they couldn't put a young black man in prison, but the judge found reasonable cause by the prosecution to exclude those jurors based on sentiments they expressed during the process showing that they may not be able to apply the law fairly.

So yeah, in summary, this is a tragedy, but justice was served, and people with ulterior motives are trying to use it to whip up racial tensions.

[Matt Kramp @mattkramp]

@RationalGMENFan @MattWalshBlog This is what happens when a Christian becomes convinced that the God of the Old Testament -- a God of wrath against sin and a God of justice -- has been erased by the cross.

It is sad when people do evil. It is not sad when the gov't justly bears the sword against those people.