Benjamin Terrell

Licensed Health Insurance Agent at Ben Thinking About Your Health, LLC, Husband, Stepdad, Grandfather

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Whatever is going on in the world, Thomas Sowell always got there first and summed it up perfectly.

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

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[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

As a former retarded liberal, I do genuinely understand how psychologically taxing the Freedom 250 event must be, esp for someone suffering from advanced TDS

Testosterone raging

Military aviation performing low-altitude affirmations of state capacity

Trump saluting with full sincerity

A statistically improbable density of red, white, and blue

Country music at government scale

Thousands of people exhibiting what appears to be national pride without even a hint of irony or self-loathing

It’s essentially every comment section’s worst-case hypothetical rendered into physical reality

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

@realpeteyb123 @EricLDaugh @Rinainteriors He’s always got a plan of some sort. I don’t always find out about until it’s over. I learned to trust him and give it time. That being said, let’s get rid of the IRS like he talked about!!

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

My theory is that the American empire is JUST getting started.

US has a stranglehold on Space with SpaceX, which is the next frontier for defense/war. It has a comically large lead. No one will be close for at least 20 years.

It is the leading power in AI by far - both in models and chips. China is catching up fast, but the US has an inherent mechanism that will increase the likelihood that it will win in the end - a free market + capitalism + free speech.

A free market + capitalism allows for brutal competition between companies. Free speech allows for AI models to be maximally truth seeking, which means that AIs CAN and WILL BECOME smarter than humans to the point where they can tell the truth about its leaders.

This is literally impossible in China. Try having a Chinese model that says Xi Jinping is corrupt. Good luck with that.

Then, you have a country that has more guns than people and surrounded by two massive oceans and two friendly neighbors, which means any sort of kinetic take over of the country is literally impossible.

Not to mention the US has BY FAR the best and strongest military.

The only way adversaries can hope to defeat the US is by tearing it from within by pitting us against each other. This is why it's virtually guaranteed that all the division/hatred/polarization you see within the country is fomented by China/Russia Psy Ops + propaganda efforts.

I'm not saying these aren't naturally happening in spots - America is far from perfect - but it would be naive to think our adversaries aren't pouring millions of gallons of fuel on a fire.

As long as the American public a) has the ability to exercise its free speech b) has a protected 2nd amendment c) capitalism and free markets continue to function and d) the populace is aware of how awesome America really is, it is literally impossible to stop the US's trajectory to global domination in the coming decades, especially as China's demographics continue to collapse.

It's the bottom of the 9th, the game is tied, and the US has the bases loaded. It's a 3-2 pitch.

All we need is a home run, and we win the rest of the century.

[Handre @Handre]

The state didn't invent money. Carl Menger destroyed that myth in 1871 with his regression theorem, and statists have been seething ever since.

Picture yourself in a primitive barter economy. You're a blacksmith who needs grain, but the farmer doesn't want your horseshoes. He wants pottery. The potter wants leather goods. The leather worker wants meat. You face what economists call the double coincidence of wants problem: finding someone who both has what you want and wants what you have. Barter works for simple trades, but complex economic coordination becomes impossible.

Smart traders notice that certain goods get accepted more readily than others. Cattle, salt, shells, precious metals. These commodities share specific properties: durability, divisibility, portability, recognizability. Over generations, market participants gravitate toward the most marketable goods as media of exchange. No central authority decrees this. No committee meets to decide monetary policy. Individual actors pursuing their own interests spontaneously converge on the same solution.

Money emerges from voluntary exchange, not government decree. Every unit of money traces its value back through an unbroken chain of exchanges to its original commodity value. Gold became money because people valued it first as jewelry, ornamentation, and industrial uses. Its monetary premium built on top of that foundation. When governments later monopolized monetary systems, they parasitically appropriated this organic market institution.

You can observe this process today in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Lebanon. When state currencies collapse, people don't wait for permission to adopt alternatives. They trade cigarettes, rice, Bitcoin. Markets route around monetary failure because human cooperation demands a medium of exchange.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Yup

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year.

ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.”

One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year.

Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year.

P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’”

“The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.”

“A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.”

“It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.”

“Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”

[Tandy @dantypo]

I have NEVER given Elon Musk money that he didn’t earn.

But I have given the government 100s of 1,000s of dollars for things that I don’t want but also for many things I don’t even believe in.

So no I’m not mad.

[Burnie Senders @BurnieSendersX]

The collective's equality is more important than individual achievement, comrade ☭

[Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 @bitcloud]

The left won.

The world's richest man is an electric vehicle manufacturer who is decarbonising the atmosphere while helping quadriplegics, restoring space travel, and making the internet and freedom of speech widely available across the globe.

Unfortunately most of the people who identified as "left" were simply pathological grief merchants with oppositional defiance disorder. They build nothing. They stand for nothing.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

They don’t care for the poor.

They just envy the rich.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

The chairman of the party should not be insulting the intelligence of Republican voters. A debate was promised and these ridiculous criteria are being used to renege on that promise and to engineer a preferred outcome.

Why not just take 90 minutes, find a tv partner, and let the candidates mix it up?

The only reason why you wouldn’t is if the party hierarchy is serving outside interests instead of the best interests of the voters.

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

@tetsuoai @greggutfeld @BernieSanders is such a bore. Same limited scarcity mindset that he based his whole career on…

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

@realpeteyb123 I don’t remember what I was doing yesterday, let alone what I was doing months ago when I ran across your account lol but probably your post was reposted by somebody I already followed

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

@profstonge Yet another reason I love your posts and videos! I can tell you've got your priorities right

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

Boomers, you voted for these people to do these things for DECADES

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The US govt used to collect more FICA taxes than was paid out to Social Security and Medicare.

It was huge amounts of $$$ for decades. Hundreds of billions of dollars. Over time, it added up to near $3 trillion. What did Congress do with that $3 trillion? They spent it every year, and they ordered the US Treasury to stuff the Social Security and Medicare trust funds with US govt bonds.

The money was spent. It was not invested. The money is gone.

A few years ago, with aging population, the amount the US govt spends on Social Security and Medicare began to exceed the annual FICA taxes collected. So how does the govt makeup for that shortfall? The govt cashes in the US govt bonds to pay retirees.

In reality, those bonds just get converted from being owned by the trust fund to being owned by the public investors.

But each year the amount of US govt bonds owned by the trust fund declines. It has fallen from the peak of $3 trillion to about $2.5 trillion now. In 6 more years all of that $2.5 trillion will have been completely cashed in and added to the regular national debt.

What happens then? Under current federal law, Social Security will automatically cut benefits to match what is being collected by FICA taxes. It will be about a 22% cut in benefits for everyone.

In reality, Congress will likely pass emergency legislation to keep funding social security at current levels and will just add $500 billion (or more) to the national debt per year.

This will just accelerate the debt spiral that our government is in.

You probably don't own enough gold.

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

How do we fix this?

[Handre @Handre]

The Fed destroyed $3.4 trillion in purchasing power since 2020 -- money you earned, saved, and deserved to keep. They called it "quantitative easing" because "grand theft" sounds less scientific.

Your grandmother's pension increases 0.25% while inflation runs 3.2%? That's not market forces. That's central bankers systematically transferring wealth from savers to debtors, from the prudent to the reckless, from Main Street to Wall Street. The math is brutal: every dollar you saved in 2019 buys 85 cents of goods today.

Meanwhile, asset prices exploded because all that printed money had to go somewhere. Real estate up 40%, stocks hitting record highs while your savings account dies a slow death. The people who leveraged themselves to the hilt got rich. The people who did everything right, who saved instead of borrowed, got punished.

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

Boomer bail out #579

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

Cassidy's Boomer bailout is decades late.

His plan adds $170 Trillion in debt - a massive tax on younger people. Why should we pay for their reckless spending?

Social Security reform is zero-sum: Either we slash senior benefits, or we raise costs for young people.

[Benjamin Terrell @realbenterrell]

Paying attention boomers?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

This is concerning. We need to stop borrowing against our children and grandchildren’s future and start balancing the budget.

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