Riff Rat 🐀

Bi-coastal try-hard

[Bobby @BobbysTweetsCO]

Communism has only ever conquered existing structures.

No communist has ever once said, "I built this from the ground up".

Communism doesn't build, it destroys.

Like termites.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough.
https://t.co/rOcnPqYJrl

[Riff Rat 🐀 @riffv]

@h3h3productions Sorry for your loss. He seemed like a really creative, genuine soul. He will be missed.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[GayLumberjack @gay_lumberjack]

The two archetypes of men who still vote Democrat.

1) Fey, skeletal progressive weirdo, and 2) fake feminist communist psycho

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX): Your organization said that restricting and banning abortion is a tool that the far right uses to maintain white supremacy. Do you believe that pro-lifers are white supremacist?”

SPLC CEO Bryan Fair: “Ummm, I believe that reproductive liberty is... I can’t answer that question yes or no.”

Brandon Gill: “How many babies that are in the United States that are aborted are black?”

Bryan Fair: *Speechless*

Brandon Gill: “About 40% of abortions nationwide are of black babies—blacks represent about 13% of the population. Does that sound like something a white supremacist would oppose?”

I love this guy!

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

@jonfavs Uh huh

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

Earlier this month, notorious looksmaxxer Clavicular hosted a speed-dating stream featuring Alice Rosenblum, a 19-year-old making ~$500k/month on OnlyFans. He cast one of her top spenders, or “whales,” as a suitor.

An uncomfortable interaction ensued, with Alice growing increasingly uneasy as her whale described wanking to her content “about a thousand” times at a clip of “two or three” per day.

But, as @gb_rango writes, this was more than just another clownish broadcast in the neverending scum-circus of the internet (though it was also that). This interaction, and others like it, offers a porthole into one of the most fascinating online cultural dynamics shaping our reality.

The internet makes it easy for creators to never think about who’s paying them. But Alice had to look at her whale. He was no longer just a formless digital paypig, triggering a chilling, uncomfortable, but necessary realization about who is actually behind the screen swiping the credit card.

Full story 👇

[David Freddoso @freddoso]

The modern problem of gerrymandering is simply that the technology has overtaken our traditional method of representation. Give me 30 minutes with an easily available online redistricting tool, and I can create a map to suit any political need for either party.

Dems tried to get cute in NY last cycle, then Trump encouraged the Republicans all over the place to start the latest battle this cycle.

Maybe just stop doing this at all. Just pass a constitutional amendment requiring proportional representation in the U.S. House for all 50 states similar to how Spain runs its elections.

Believe it or not, this would give us a House party breakdown almost identical to the one we have now.

[Gregory Kennedy @gregorykennedy]

Dave: “Hello, caller, you are on the air.”

Caller: “I don’t think billionaires create value.”

Dave: “Okay. What do you mean by that?”

Caller: “Nobody can earn a billion dollars ethically.”

Dave: “Alright. What do you do for a living?”

Caller: “Well, before this, I was a bartender.”

Dave: “Nothing wrong with bartending. Honest work.”

Caller: “Right.”

Dave: “And now?”

Caller: “I work in government.”

Dave: “Okay. So let me get this straight. You're saying Elon Musk, who helped build PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink, has made innovations like online payments, electric cars, rockets, and satellite internet possible, didn't earn his way to being a billionaire?"

Caller: “None of that justifies being a billionaire.”

Dave: “Well, sure sounds like value got created somewhere along the line.”

Caller: “I disagree.”

Dave: “What exactly did you build?”

Caller: “I advocate for economic justice.”

Dave: “No ma’am, I mean actual products.”

Caller: “…”

Dave: “You’re telling me the guy catching rockets mid-air created less value than a person who used to serve mojitos and now votes on spending his tax dollars?”

Caller: “That’s unfair.”

Dave: “What’s unfair is pretending markets are imaginary while cashing a government paycheck funded by the businesses you claim don’t create value.”

Caller: “I’m actually a congresswoman.”

Dave: “Oh Lord. Of course!"

[Riff Rat 🐀 @riffv]

@neontaster A formidable opponent for Graham Vance

[Sunny @sunnyright]

The people who called you Nazis for wanting low taxes and a secure border, are today celebrating a guy with a literal Nazi tattoo who hangs with antisemites and has a long history of racism and misogyny, who is running against a moderate female Republican.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Drawing attention to our countries’ shared heritage, the President presents the King with a WASP

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

Well, this story isn’t going to get any coverage in the majority of media. The Southern Poverty Law Center played a major role in organizing the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, which was falsely used as a political knife against Trump for years.

https://t.co/8jmfPmzl1s

[Handre @Handre]

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress.

The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely.

Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on.

The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors.

Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When Jane Fonda went political with her speech at the National Audubon Society, she probably didn't expect to be heckled...by Kelsey Grammer.

"I'm sorry, Jane," Grammer said as he interrupted her monologue about Trump, "But this banquet is about birds and people who wish to donate money to protect them. Do you think you could stay on topic?"

Fonda answered by reminding him that she has a history of using public platforms for politics.

"Which is why I'm amazed that anyone invites you anywhere," Grammer fired back, "It's getting a little bit old."

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

Last year, Justice Jackson dissented in the U.S. v. Skremetti case-- in which she argued that states have no right to ban gender transitions on minors.

Today, she was the lone dissent on Chiles v. Salazar, writing that "there is no right to practice medicine which is not subordinate to the power of states."

So, states have no right to pass laws banning children from changing their sex-- but states DO have the right to ban counselors from telling boys they are not girls.

You truly can't make it up.