EJB

Love is always the answer

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@dailymaverick Bullcrap

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@TheJaundicedEye Digging up old news

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The Alternative for Germany party defines the family exclusively as a mother, father, and their children. @Alice_Weidel, the party’s co-leader, explains why she supports that description while raising two children with her wife. Watch the full Insider interview with @zannymb: https://t.co/bIdUNj23Tz

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@thfc_moose Why don’t you become a billionaire and do that?

[Ingeniero Seed @IngenieroSeed]

Como ingeniero os digo que esto que estamos viviendo es el futuro.

No importa que vuestro amigo que va con un pañuelo en la cabeza os diga que para qué nos sirve que un coche vuele, yo te digo que sí sirve.

Todos estos avances muchas veces sirven para motivar a más gente a hacer cosas espectaculares. Sirven porque dan pie a proyectos que sí usen el mismo principio. Sirve porque la tecnología usada aquí es reutilizada.

Sirve porque el ser humano avanza, evoluciona y se adapta. Gracias a personas como @elonmusk el ser humano tendrá un futuro brillante, y no por las personas que hoy siguen acampadas en Sol.

La estupidez no tiene límites, y en Europa, principalmente en España, estamos yendo cada vez más a la deriva.

Cómo me alegra el día que decidí formarme para entender el potencial de todo esto. Es como jugar una partida de ajedrez... Mientras muchos ven aburrimiento, pereza y piezas extrañas, los ajedrecistas entendemos el juego, el ataque, el sacrificio y el esfuerzo.

IngenieroSeed

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@BlackBull_Afri @FaraiMazhindu @bos28091 As he should

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@DearestDr I bet people call you “grumpy old man”

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@BlackBull_Afri @FaraiMazhindu @bos28091 There are none so blind as those who will not see 🙄

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@kldeason @FaraiMazhindu The face says it all …

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Lee Kuan Yew proved that a nation's destiny is engineered, not inherited.

In 1965, when Singapore was unceremoniously booted out of Malaysia, the international consensus predicted absolute state failure.

He inherited a swampy, impoverished island with a population of just two million people living in squalor.

It had zero natural resources, no agricultural land, no military defense, and lacked even enough basic drinking water to sustain human life.

If Lee Kuan Yew had operated on the standard of modern populist politics, he would have spent the next thirty years weeping on international stages, blamed historical external factors, and begged neighboring countries for permanent welfare handouts. He didn't. He went to work.

While post-colonial leaders across Africa and Asia turned inward to launch economically illiterate isolationist experiments, Lee championed hyper-globalization.

He realized that if you have no domestic market, your only asset is human capital. He cleared the malarial swamps of Jurong, instituted strict pro-market property rights, lowered taxes, and laid down red carpets for Western multinationals like Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard before the supporting infrastructure even existed.

His domestic masterclass was built on structural logic, not ideological fantasies.

He gave his anti-corruption units actual teeth, starting with his own cabinet. If a politician stole public funds, they didn't get a promotion or a diplomatic posting, they went straight to prison. Zero tolerance meant global investors knew their capital was safer in Singapore than in London or New York.

He transformed subjects into stakeholders through the Central Provident Fund and the Housing Development Board. By aggressively shifting 75% of the population out of slums into state-of-the-art public housing, he gave ordinary citizens a physical, equity-based ownership stake in the country's survival.

He instituted mandatory bilingualism and made English the main national language to plug his workforce directly into the global grid.

He hired elite technocrats based on raw competence, completely ignoring ethnic divisions.

Teachers were paid corporate-level salaries because he understood that a first-world economy cannot be built by an uneducated majority.

In a single compressed generation, GDP per capita skyrocketed from under $500 to overtaking the United States and the United Kingdom.

The structural lesson of Singapore is a devastating indictment of Africa's current leadership.

It proves that poverty is not a permanent geographical curse; it is a choice made by incompetent elites who prefer primitive capital accumulation over national engineering.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step.

Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing.

What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation.

College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices.

Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode.

Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no.

So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same.

That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion.

In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row.

If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation.

If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government.

Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@DisprinXtra African style

[EJB @puppydogstails]

@kalliekriel @News24 Haha brilliant!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

The Trump administration has cut Muslim immigration to the United States by 96%.

That alone would be enough to make me vote Republican in the 2026 midterms.

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

Agree 100%.

[Lerato ᧔ෆ᧓ @_BellaM_]

The likes of Redi Tlhabi, Karyn Maughan, Adrian Basson, Pieter du Toit, Qaanitah Hunter, Dan Corder and others in the media establishment need to understand something: you no longer have a monopoly on public discourse.

Ordinary South Africans now have platforms to question your reporting, challenge your narratives and expose inconsistencies without seeking your approval.

You spent years scrutinising politicians and public institutions. Now the public is scrutinising YOU and suddenly criticism is labelled misinformation, ignorance or a coordinated campaign.

You don’t get to decide which voices deserve to be heard or which concerns are legitimate.

The days of controlling the narrative without being challenged are over. Get used to being held to the same standards you demand of everyone else.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

BREAKING 🔴

The United States has just imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court.

Only hours after the Nobel Peace Prize was ridiculously awarded to Navi Pilay (former ICC judge)

INCREDIBLE MOVE BY THE US 🇺🇸

Marco Rubio’s Press Statement October 9th 2026:

“For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike rejected the idea that the International Criminal Court had the power to prosecute American citizens, military servicemembers, or political leaders. America never joined the court. We don’t need it. And we don’t want it.

But globalist “experts” an ocean away don’t care what American citizens think.

They want the ICC to do more, including the prosecution of American citizens. Servicemembers defending their country, Border Patrol agents protecting our nation, and elected leaders ensuring our national security. They want more power, and they want it at our expense. 

President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans. That is why, today, the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.

We have been clear for over a year as to the basic gestures of good faith we have expected from the court. We exercised discretion and deferred this designation out of respect for our relationships and in hopes that the ICC would change course or would otherwise be restrained by States Parties. However, neither the ICC nor States Parties have yet taken meaningful steps to address our concerns. 

Despite their inaction, we hold out hope for a diplomatic solution. We have structured this action to provide an opportunity for States Parties to negotiate and present a solution to address our concerns. If these efforts do not bear fruit, we will continue to adjust accordingly.

Our message is clear: the United States and its people are not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Both parties agree on this, but only President Trump has the resolve to take the action needed to end this threat for good. Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. We expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American servicemembers for their defense, to rein in the court.

If they do not, the United States will continue its campaign to dismantle the ICC, brick by brick, until Americans are threatened no longer.

The ICC is being designated pursuant to section 1(a)(ii)(A) of Executive Order (E.O.) 14203.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dear Prime Minister Ambani,

Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.

Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?

There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better.

Thank you 🙏

[NEASA @NeasaNews]

National Minimum Wage, race-based targets, BEE and government interference are putting pressure on businesses and jobs.

NEASA CE Gerhard Papenfus unpacks the impact on employers, merit, investment and unemployment, and what needs to change.