BREAKING: The US Treasury is considering using its $950 billion General Account to help fund its increased purchases of long-term government bonds, per CNBC.
Once again, the era of bond market intervention officially began on August 19th.
This is a top priority for the Trump Administration.
🇹🇷 What I learnt this weekend is that if you criticize Turkey in any shape or form, or shed some light on their dark history filled with genocide and ethnic cleansing, you will receive thousands of comments from Turks threatening with murder and rape, sprinkled with an occasional image of a soap and praises for Hitler.
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.
Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.
What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.
The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.
🚨 BREAKING: 29 Muslim men have been charged in connection with the repeated r*pe and sexual exploitation of a 13-year-old girl in the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire.
The case is another horrific chapter in Britain’s grooming-gang scandals, in which vulnerable young girls have allegedly been targeted by organized groups of men over extended periods. The girl in this case was just 13 when the abuse allegedly began.
Similar scandals in places including Rotherham, Rochdale, and Oxford exposed devastating failures by authorities to protect victims, with official reviews finding that concerns about community tensions and accusations of racism sometimes contributed to hesitation or inaction.
These cases cannot be dismissed as isolated incidents. Years of investigations, inquiries, and convictions have documented networks using grooming, gifts, drugs, threats, and violence to exploit vulnerable girls while institutions too often failed to intervene.
Enough is enough!
Danish government data show that immigrants from several Middle Eastern and African countries impose substantial net costs on Denmark's public finances.
Among immigrants and descendants from MENAPT countries, including Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, the Danish government calculated a combined net fiscal cost of around 24 billion Danish kroner ($3.7 billion) per year.
Net cost per person per year:
🇸🇴 Somalia: $27,900
2nd generation: $34,700
🇸🇾 Syria: $25,400
2nd generation: $30,600
🇮🇶 Iraq: $19,300
2nd generation: $32,500
🇱🇧 Lebanon: $21,800
2nd generation: $29,300
@augusteprompt When the Science contains uncomfortable information, these dishonest charlatans attack the researchers who publish and discuss this information.
@GBNEWS Funny. It’s not whether the good Diana believes that Canada has leverage. It’s whether the US administration and Trump beleive Canada has leverage.
In this case, the Canada trade spat barely makes the US news.
Javier Milei a fait quelque chose que peu croyaient possible.
Il a pris un pays en hyperinflation (211 % en 2023), avec un État obèse, un déficit chronique et une pauvreté qui flambait, et il a sorti la tronçonneuse.
Résultat, deux ans et demi plus tard :
- Inflation annuelle tombée à 31,5 %, mensuelle autour de 2 %.
- Pauvreté : pic à 52,9 % au premier semestre 2024 → 28,2 % au second semestre 2025 (plus bas niveau depuis 2018). Indigence (pauvreté extrême) de 18 % à 6,3 %.
- Surplus budgétaire primaire atteint pour la première fois depuis des décennies.
- PIB : contraction en 2024, puis +4,4 % en 2025. La croissance repart.
Ce n’est pas magique. C’est de l’allocation de ressources. Quand l’État arrête de monétiser le déficit, de subventionner l’inefficacité et de capturer les rentes, les signaux de prix reviennent. Les gens peuvent enfin planifier, investir, travailler sans que l’inflation leur vole le salaire tous les mois.
La pauvreté n’a pas baissé parce qu’on a « donné plus ». Elle a baissé parce qu’on a arrêté de détruire la monnaie et de gonfler l’État. C’est exactement le contraire de ce que le logiciel socialiste (français comme argentin pendant 80 ans) a toujours prêché.
Les mauvaises idées ne sont pas portées par de mauvaises personnes. Elles sont juste fausses. Et elles tuent d’abord ceux qui y croient : les plus pauvres, ceux qui n’ont pas de capital pour se protéger de l’inflation.
En France on est encore coincés dans le même logiciel. 57 % de PIB public, dette, impôts, et on s’étonne que la mobilité sociale soit cassée. Un État trop gros crée forcément de la corruption, du gaspillage et des rentes. Le réduire, c’est supprimer le terrain de jeu de la corruption par ricochet.
Milei a ouvert la voie. Pas en théorie. En pratique. Avec des chiffres.
À nous maintenant.
Partage ces vrais chiffres. Parle-en. Refuse le réflexe « plus d’État = moins de pauvreté ». Agis à ton niveau : consomme, entreprends, vote, éduque, arrête de légitimer le monstre bureaucratique.
Quand la France fera le même travail – réduire les dépenses, tuer les rentes, laisser les individus respirer – on rebondira. Et ce sera vraiment kiffant, parce que chaque personne pourra enfin agir pour de vrai, sans demander la permission à un fonctionnaire.
Le 21e siècle appartient aux bâtisseurs, pas aux redistributeurs.
I asked Grok how much the US Treasury took in in tax receipts for the last six years. See the link. Receipts increased every year besides 2023.
Bottom line: USA has an out-of-control spendthrift Congress!
https://t.co/3uldhehpAD
The U.S. national debt just crossed a staggering new threshold: $40 TRILLION.
More than $11.5 trillion of that debt has been added during President Trump's first term and the opening stretch of his second term, accounting for roughly one-fourth of the current total.
Federal spending has accelerated as an aging population drives Social Security and Medicare costs higher, while elevated interest rates make servicing the growing debt even more expensive. Annual interest costs now top $1 trillion.
See how the national debt has climbed under each president and the trend that's pushing America's tab higher.
https://t.co/azWPRKXQfw
@SteveScalise@SpeakerJohnson
Do we need to bankrupt the country before Congress will do anything? Do we truly need to mortgage our future for tax cuts without spending cuts today?? Have you no shame?!
The U.S. national debt just crossed a staggering new threshold: $40 TRILLION.
More than $11.5 trillion of that debt has been added during President Trump's first term and the opening stretch of his second term, accounting for roughly one-fourth of the current total.
Federal spending has accelerated as an aging population drives Social Security and Medicare costs higher, while elevated interest rates make servicing the growing debt even more expensive. Annual interest costs now top $1 trillion.
See how the national debt has climbed under each president and the trend that's pushing America's tab higher.
https://t.co/azWPRKXQfw
The U.S. national debt just crossed a staggering new threshold: $40 TRILLION.
More than $11.5 trillion of that debt has been added during President Trump's first term and the opening stretch of his second term, accounting for roughly one-fourth of the current total.
Federal spending has accelerated as an aging population drives Social Security and Medicare costs higher, while elevated interest rates make servicing the growing debt even more expensive. Annual interest costs now top $1 trillion.
See how the national debt has climbed under each president and the trend that's pushing America's tab higher.
https://t.co/azWPRKXQfw
“Nature does not punish the evil, it punishes the weak.”
- Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche argued that nature exists outside human concepts of morality. In his view, ideas such as good and evil are human constructions, not universal principles that govern reality. Nature does not recognize moral virtue, meaning it offers no guarantee of cosmic justice for those who do wrong.
Instead, forces such as disease, environmental change, and predation test an organism’s physical strength, resilience, and ability to adapt. Survival, in this sense, depends on an organism’s capacity to endure and adjust—not on whether it is morally good or bad.
The phenomenon of the Muslim Dr. Yasir Qadhi is the symbol of America's inevitable future collapse if it is not stopped and completely driven out of American soil through legislation.
Mother slit throats of her 3 children, told their father 'say goodbye to your kids': cops
Now it starts
This is why you don’t turn child killers into Martyrs.
Lindsay effect
Pray for the children of moms on TikTok
https://t.co/zHTX9a0MdF
Through legislation banning the Quran, the Sunnah of Muhammad, all associated worship, and the existence of Islamic communities within non-Muslim nations. As long as all of this remains legal, this violent Islamic phenomenon will repeat itself. The history of approximately 1400 years of Islamic warfare proves this.