Rob Albert

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@tedcruz Because they are not true Americans and never will be

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@Kenny_Wallace It’s the simple details that reduce risk. No reason for this and very avoidable.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Si l’Occident veut retrouver sa superbe, il va falloir revenir à un rapport adulte avec la vérité.

La vérité, la voici.

Les individus exceptionnels existent.

Ce n’est pas une opinion. Ce n’est pas un « biais du survivant ». C’est un fait. J’avais listé les vrais génies de l’histoire il y a quelques mois. 108 milliards d’humains ont vécu sur Terre. La liste tient en une centaine de noms. Un pour un milliard.

Newton, qui refonde la science occidentale seul.
Maxwell, qui prédit les ondes avant qu’on les mesure.
Einstein.
Gauss. Euler. Ramanujan. Gödel.
Turing. von Neumann. Shannon.
Darwin. Pasteur.
Bach. Mozart. Beethoven.
Léonard de Vinci. Michel-Ange. Shakespeare.
Tesla.
Jobs. Musk. Ford.

Sans ces gens-là, le monde n’est pas « un peu moins bien ». Il est autre. En retard de trente ans. Ou il n’arrive jamais.

Nos démocraties socialistes n’arrivent pas à avaler cette phrase.

Elles acceptent l’exception au stade. Elles l’acceptent au musée. Elles la vomissent dans l’entreprise.

Personne ne dit que Messi vole le smicard. Tout le monde dit qu’Elon vole le prolétariat.

C’est le même phénomène. La même loi. On a juste décidé que le ballon était noble et que le capital était sale.

Ce qu’on voit dans le sport, on le voit dans l’entrepreneuriat. Une minuscule fraction d’individus tire toute la courbe. Dans un monde libre, tout le monde a le droit d’essayer. Ceux qui réussissent doivent devenir les héros du monde moderne.

Pourquoi ?

Parce que ce sont eux qui font vraiment avancer la civilisation.

Évidemment qu’ils avancent grâce aux autres. Grâce à des équipes, des fournisseurs, des clients, des hasards. Mais la magie n’opère que quand un alignement rare se met en place. L’intégrité. Le sacrifice. L’obsession. La capacité à ne pas s’arrêter.

Ce n’est pas l’État qui a créé Apple. Ce n’est pas l’État qui a créé Google. Ce n’est pas l’État qui a créé Uber. Ce sont les génies à leur tête.

Et oui : dans une économie qui marche, ces gens-là deviennent millionnaires, milliardaires, parfois trillionnaires. Ce n’est pas un scandale. C’est le reçu. La preuve qu’ils ont mieux alloué le capital que n’importe quel groupe de mille bureaucrates.

Être milliardaire quand on s’appelle Elon Musk, c’est normal. Pour la raison la plus simple du monde : il sait mieux que Bercy où mettre l’argent.

La social-démocratie occidentale a cassé ce rapport à l’exception. Elle l’a gardé là où il est décoratif le sport, les arts et elle l’a criminalisé là où il crée le niveau de vie. D’où cette phrase entendue mille fois : « ce n’est pas normal d’être milliardaire. »

Si. Ça l’est. Quand tu sers des milliards de gens mieux que l’alternative.

L’archétype, on le connaît. Il revient. Cicatrice d’enfance. Intelligence haute. Signe précoce qu’il va construire quelque chose, souvent trop tôt, souvent mal. Et surtout cette chose que presque personne n’a : la capacité à ne pas partir en vacances quand il a dix millions sur le compte. À relancer. À remettre toute la mise. À continuer quand le rationnel dirait « tu as gagné, arrête ».

Jobs, enfant adopté, renvoyé de sa propre boîte, revient et refait l’informatique personnelle.
Musk, tabassé à l’école, dort au bureau, remet PayPal dans la fusée.
Tesla, ruiné, scammé, continue quand même.
Mozart, exploité dès l’enfance, 600 œuvres avant 35 ans.
Vinci, bâtard, touche à tout, ne finit presque rien, et change quand même le regard de l’espèce.

Ce n’est pas un roman. C’est le moteur.

À Davos, face à la caste même qui vit de la honte de l’exception, Javier Milei @JMilei a dit la seule phrase qui compte :

« Vous êtes des bienfaiteurs sociaux. Vous êtes des héros. Que personne ne vous dise que votre ambition est immorale. Si vous gagnez de l’argent, c’est parce que vous offrez un meilleur produit à un meilleur prix. »

Il avait tout compris.

Le but d’une civilisation qui veut vivre, ce n’est pas de raboter ses sommets. C’est d’en produire. Des dizaines d’Elon Musk. Des dizaines de Mozart. Des dizaines de Tesla. Des dizaines de Vinci.

On n’obtient pas ça avec un barème. On l’obtient avec un sol : le droit d’essayer, le droit d’échouer, le droit de garder le fruit si on réussit, et le droit d’être admiré pour ça.

Les ennemis ne sont pas les gens qui votent mal. Ce sont les idées qui ont transformé l’excellence en faute morale.

Le 21e siècle sera celui des civilisations qui célèbrent encore leurs bâtisseurs.

Le reste gérera le déclin. Avec beaucoup de réunions.

Allez construire.

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@DaleJr @NASCAR Got to Love it!

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

This is my @nascar

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

It's wasn't just a bad day for Tony Fauci. It was a bad day for all the craven media mavens who amplified his fakery and puffed up his reputation. It was a bad day for all the academic scientists who stayed quiet for fear of losing grants. It was a terrible day for all the liberal, conservative, and libertarian intellectuals and orgs who stayed completely silent while the people's liberties were shredded. It was a bad day for every careerist who chose to go along – watching millions suffer – rather than take a risk to social position and financial flow by saying what was obvious and true.

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@BskiMike22802 @BernieSanders Perfectly explained so anyone could and should understand!

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Just flying out of the still great and proud city of Boston Massachusetts!
Tremendously wonderful and brilliant people live here in the state with the highest concentration of Universities.

My thoughts are of the people visiting our amazing Nation from all over the world who can see for themselves what a truly free, beautiful and vibrant country we are blessed by God to live in.

Unlike the usual propaganda they are force fed by a media that lives on grievances and envy, the same self loathing that now infects our former places of higher learning, our new friends can see and breath in what our Free nation actually is…
A people that are guaranteed their rights not from the state but by their creator, and what those free people can create:
The Freest most powerful Nation and greatest economy the world has ever known.

Our Founding Fathers didn’t promise ‘a
Perfect Union’, but promised to pursue ‘a more perfect union, with its checks and balances put in place to make it most difficult for any one person or party to co-opt enough power to bring tyranny to their new invention.

It’s still working, though the looney Leftist whiners and their not so new fixation with the not so new communism restoration project, which attempts to do the only thing socialism is capable of doing, getting the most despicable of complainers to revolt against a system that actually works and improves the lives of the average working citizen.

Since the commie dipshit has nothing to offer to society, they must feed from the trough of their own self made misery of ignorance and chosen failures.

They complain and tear away at the very fabric that gave them their freedom to complain so safely from government reprisal in the first place.

So it must irk them, like any happy successful person does, that our international friends are loving what they hate most…

America the beautiful, home of the brave and land of the Free!

It is my sincere hope that these malcontent forever adolescents with their ungrateful narcissism and bad breath and interesting choice of a system that caused the deaths of over 100,000,000 human beings over our last century, come to their senses and end their inner and outer ugliness and embrace the gift of Freedom that so many Americans fought and spilled their blood for.

But if they don’t, I take solace in the smiles and joy that our new international lovers of our America are soaking up.

I take even more solace that we have the Second Amendment just in case these dipshits try to force their brand of unhappy ignorance on the rest of us.

I gently remind them, though they may have up to 95 percent of the University faculty, and 100 percent of the trans gender affirming child surgically mutilating boys in girls sports community, we have the Army, Navy, National Guard, Air Force, Police and Fire Departments.

Happy and Free Sunday everybody!

God Bless the United States of America!

[Seth Cohen @OverReactor1776]

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species.

Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty.

Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve.

As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers.

I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing.

If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own.

My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!)

Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future?

America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Poland has given parents ZERO income tax up to €33.000 if they have at least two children.

This to increase the birthrates.

Collapsing birthrates is a huge problem.

Raise your hand if you agree other countries should follow Poland 🖐️

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

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[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

I stand by my President, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything he does, cause I don't - it means that he is light years ahead of the alternative.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.

She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.

Not as praise. As a pattern.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.

Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.

The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.

Start with Tesla.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.

Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.

Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.

Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.

Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.

A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.

Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.

SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.

Which is exactly what the press counts on.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

Mars was never the exit.

It is the lab.

Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.

You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.

Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.

He is not running from the cradle.

He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.

But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.

Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.

Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.

That is what terrifies the establishment.

Not that he might fail.

That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.

A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.

So they do the only thing they have left.

They send the media after him.

Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.

It has worked on every builder before him.

It will not work on this one.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.

The stones always come from inside the walls.

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@CNviolations Bendaho

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

This cartoon I made offers a rough outline of my recent political "journey" that I've been on while standing completely still.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once of the best memes ever

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@grok @Kenny_Wallace 2000 Daga 2nd place finish that helped Earnhardt win what turned out to be his last win.

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@alx Awesome. Wouldn’t expect anything less from this administration. Paying for votes all day long. Overtook a Best Western in Milford Massachusetts for nearly four years. Now they’re renovating with all the federal funds they made.

[Rob Albert @RobAlbert]

@grok @Kenny_Wallace How Fn cool is that? 🏎️🏁🏁🏁