Michele Roberts

Teacher, speaker, blogger, recently orphaned daughter, wife, mother of 3, obsessed with all things Food Network and redeemed daughter of God

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

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[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Actor Zachary Levi tells Megyn Kelly he is not just voting for Donald Trump, he is voting for all the "bulldogs" that come with Trump.

Great perspective 🔥

"I'm not voting for Donald Trump, I'm voting for Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and JD Vance and everyone else that they're gonna bring in."

"I love that Trump is privately funding his own transition team, not waiting for the government."

"So they are ready to go & they are not compromised. This is the government that I want."

"[RFK] and Tulsi are gonna be let loose to be the bulldogs that we need to hold people to account. And they will do it fairly, they will do it civilly."

Video: @EndTribalism

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The @joerogan conversation with @realDonaldTrump drops tonight. Can’t wait!

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

Spot on!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[George @BehizyTweets]

This North Carolina man totally nailed it when asked about why he's voting for Trump

"I find it funny that as soon as he became a Republican, he became a racist. But name me a that racist that won an NAACP award." 🔥

[Destiny @Destiny15_FL]

This is the best video you will see all day everyday‼️

We need to see this again in January 2025‼️‼️‼️‼️

#TrumpVance2024

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: CNBC host verbally stunned after billionaire Howard Lutnick explains how Trump's tariffs will be used as a negotiation tactic to make the U.S. a "bunch of money."

Lutnick shot down the media narrative that tariffs would increase inflation.

"It's a bargaining chip. We can't sell a Ford or GM in Europe. You go to Europe, you can't sell a Ford..."

"They're gonna come and negotiate and their tariffs are gonna come down. And finally, Ford and General Motors are gonna be able to sell in these places. How's that sound?"

"This is just negotiating strategically."

"When you're running for office, you make broad statements so people understand you. Tariffs are an amazing tool for the president to use."

"Use tariffs to build in America. If we want to make it in America, tariff it... we need to protect the American worker."

"So which is it? Do we make a lot of money on tariffs or do we bring change behavior productivity here? And we drive up our workers here. So it's a win-win scenario."

Becky Quick: "This is the best explanation I've heard."

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

Infuriating!!!😡

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

DISTURBING: SC pilot flying volunteer supply and rescue missions ordered out of Lake Lure, NC under arrest threat.

A man who was a pilot, a certified law enforcement officer, and a volunteer member of the fire department, over the weekend went on a rescue mission with his son but after rescuing a a North Carolina woman was forced to leave a her husband behind because he was threatened with arrest by a firefighter official.

This is madness!

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

Infuriating!!! Another gigantic FAIL of this administration!!!😡 #HeleneFlooding #BidenHarris

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Hurricane Helene Victim Speaks Out Against Kamala Harris Admin

“There is no government aid. None. Zero.”

🚨 “The government is currently trying to arrest people who are delivering supplies via helicopter”

“They are threatening to arrest those people. They are threatening to arrest people who are trying to f*cking help people survive. My aunt is 70 years old with mobility issues. Anyone know what the government's f*cking doing? Jack sh*t.”

“What the government is doing right now to the entire state of North Carolina and Tennessee is a nothing short of just plain awful. I do not physically have the words for it because if you don't know, we have not heard from my aunt since Friday because of Hurricane Helene and there is no government aid. None. Zero”

“There are entire towns that there is no way in or out. Those roads are not drivable because of the mudslides and the power lines and the downed trees. There are doctors right now physically walking across that because their cars can't get through to go help these people, to go check on these people.”

“There is no power, there is no water, they have no supplies, and the government is currently trying to arrest people who are delivering supplies via helicopter.”

“Joe Biden said we're doing all that we can for North Carolina Kamala Harris is currently having a fundraiser for her campaign in LA and Las Vegas. Not for the people in North Carolina or Tennessee. For her fucking campaign.

F*ck them.”

[Vani Hari @thefoodbabe]

If you know someone who buys McDonalds, Gatorade, Skittles, M&Ms, Oreos, Fanta, or Froot Loops - show them this video. It’s time everyone knows the truth about our food system. @calleymeans @humankarp @realfoodology @realalexclark @DrJoelGator @TheRobHerring @RobertKennedyJr

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Regular dude exposes the entire Climate Scam in a minute flat

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

When a Whistleblower steps down and asks you to be prepared…please listen…because they know things that they cannot say out loud.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Insanely bad spending of your hard-earned taxes is the problem

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

@KarluskaP Isaiah 45 and he was the 45th president of the United States 🧐

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Here’s How Life In America Has Gotten So Bad So Quickly
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EXPOSED 🚨 “Corporations sitting at the tables & writing the legislation”
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This is how out of control US Government corruption has become
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“We can't show you what's behind this closed door. A place where legislators and corporate lobbyists have an equal vote. A place they don't want you to see you.”
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“They absolutely vote and the truth be told, they write the bills.”

“Need to be credentialed at registered.”
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“We are credentialed. We are Georgia.”
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—- “What happens in these back rooms? Their votes taken. That have the corporate folks at the same table voting with the legislators on what bills to pick, and that that at its core just screams out inappropriate. You're telling me that in these rooms, a corporation has an equal vote with a legislator on a piece of legislation? They absolutely vote and the truth be told, they write the bills. Alec bills come complete with blanks where legislators need only fill in their state name.”
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This footage exposed the state of Georgia’s political system and you know this goes on all over America from bottom to the very top.
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This shows you how much power corporations have in the United States and American tax payers are NOT represented.

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

I love what Vivek is saying - spot on! We say it to each other in small circles but I’m so glad he’s out there shinning a light on this truth

[News Nomad 🗞 @The_Nomad_News]

If you’ve ever wondered exactly what the ‘deep state’ or ‘managerial class’ is, this video is for you.

@VivekGRamaswamy’s the man who knows how to Shut. It. Down.

@andrewschulz #Flagrant
https://t.co/GNiEi5AT8J

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore:

"There is no definitive scientific proof that CO2 is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the last 300 years."

"But there is certainty beyond a reasonable doubt that CO2 is the building block for all life on Earth, and that without its presence in the global atmosphere… this would be a dead planet."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

PSA: If you see an explosion like this, don’t worry about zooming in for a good TikTok… JUST RUN AWAY

[Michele Roberts @michelerbgrace]

@BuzzPatterson @JoeBiden Hope so!