Justin Bromhead

I live for Jesus.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

The worst evils are generally done with a delusional sense of how good they are.

Evil isn’t just committed. It is celebrated, coddled, protected, and given the best PR possible.

[Justin Bromhead @phillyboi20]

@espn If that’s a strike then I’m Elvis Presley.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

New York City may be providing grants to keep local grocery stores open because they know that their "free" stores are going to put neighborhood stories out of business. So, they're going to raise taxes to set up an artificial economy to make socialism work.

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

“I’m prone to being wildly irresponsible at a time when the country is most in need of a steady hand.

Anyhoo, vote for me and people like me.”

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Last night my small group from church was discussing when to assign the label “demonic” to something. I hesitate to overuse the term out of fear I’m being presumptuous. But failing to use it at all can be blinding.

That said… This is demonic and the activity of Satan.

[Justin Bromhead @phillyboi20]

@IGN Ironically, so are many people who have been forced to watch the movies.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” —Thomas Sowell

[Phil McAlister @phil_mcalister]

A few very obvious points on Mamdani's grocery stores:

1. The supply of the discounted groceries will run out on day 1, and every day there is a new shipment. This is basic econ 101.

2. This means only the people who are lucky enough or fast enough will get these discounted groceries. Expect to see the city ration these groceries in some other way. By income, or neighborhood or some lottery system.

3. Grocery margins are notoriously low as it is (like 2-3%). These stores will lose a bunch of money selling 30% below market, or they'll sell so little it will be insignificant.

4. There is absolutely zero chance that government bureaucrats can source these products from global supply chains as efficiently as Walmart, or Meier, or Whole Foods, whose survival depends on it. Their costs will be far higher (unless they use government bludgeon to force distributors to sell to them at lower prices).

5. It's actually an incredible triumph of capitalism that you can get a pound of bananas that were shipped to your neighborhood from Equador for like 60 cents, or fresh grapes from Chile in the dead of Midwestern winter for 2 bucks a pound, and Norwegian salmon to cook in Italian olive oil for $15 -20 bucks or so. Truly stop and think about that for a minute. It's a miracle.

The median full time hourly wage is around $31 dollars. For ONE HOUR of work, the median working American can get all of the groceries listed below, which is about 22,000 calories. They can feed themselves for 10 days (or a family of 4 for around 2 and a half days), with an hour of labor.

This is the stupidest industry for socialists to go after.

[Walter Hudson @WalterHudson]

Top 1% paid ~ 38.4% of all federal income tax.

Top 10% paid ~70.5%
Top 50% paid ~96.7%
Bottom 50% paid ~3.3%

Define "fair share."

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

This post is so stupid, Bernie Sanders needs people to be economically illiterate to get behind him and the stupid things he says.

Amazon pays over 50 Billion dollars per year in payroll and that comes from the revenue the company generates. It doesn't come from owners selling shares..

Jeff Bezos selling his shares to "pay people more" isn't sustainable.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

For the one billionth time, the Supreme Court is not there to represent the popular will. We elect congressman, senators, and presidents to do that.

An unelected Supreme Court chosen by a current political majority is a fast track to tyranny.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Groomers

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Norm MacDonald voice: I kinda think the worst people are the ones who do the raping and assaulting.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Are we doing “grotesque displays of wealth and privilege are bad while people are struggling” with the absurd Taylor Swift wedding, or are we giving that a pass because we can’t alienate the TikTok Gen female base by criticizing her like we criticize other rich people?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[ego death @this_Just_in89]

incredible

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

One of the worst things the progressive movement has done for society is convince large numbers of people that the success of others necessarily came at their expense. It’s bred so much resentment. And it simply isn’t true.

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

The thing is, this behavior should not be applauded and ought to shrouded in shame because it is wrong. It is wrong to kill a baby for any reason and doing it because it has Down Syndrome should not be publicly normalized any more than it already has been.

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

There is no coming climate apocalypse.

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

Al Gore just said “none of the predictions from the past 20 years have been wrong from climate scientists.”

This inspired me to go back and watch the classic An Inconvenient Truth.

Upon rewatch it was worse than I remember!