Ryan Thompson

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

5% of $1 trillion is $50 billion.

there are 19.3 million US college students right now.

$50bn/19.3 million = $2,591 per student currently in school.

average college tuition is $38,270

so, that would pay for 7% of 1 year, about 2 weeks of education for just those already in school.

it's a sad day when even the kleptocrats are mathematically illiterate...

[Ryan Thompson @RyanTactual]

This is the heart of it.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Socialism says: "You owe me."
Capitalism says: "What can I offer you in exchange?"
It's hard to find a clearer distinction between a zero sum mindset and one based on mutual benefit.

[John E. Shannon III @JEShannon3]

Markets aren’t morally perfect.

They are feedback systems.

Prices carry information about scarcity, demand, labor, risk, timing, waste, and tradeoffs.

Central planners can override those signals, but they can’t repeal the reality behind them.

When the signal is suppressed, consequence returns somewhere else.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Is this that White privilege I hear so much about?

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

-Nuke the filibuster
-Expand the courts
-Appoint new judges who will always rule in your favor
-Declare the 2020 Census botched
-Order a reallocation of congressional seats and electoral votes
-Ban the counting of non-citizens when allocating electoral votes and congressional seats
-Enact a Federal voter ID law
-Deny states with sanctuary laws for illegal aliens Federal highway, education, and welfare funds
-Eliminate every DEI program in the Federal government and enact similar bans on Federal funding to states, universities, NGOs, contractors, and businesses that have such programs
-Have SCOTUS uphold the Unitary Executive Theory and give the President the ability to run executive branch agencies
-Strike down civil service laws that prevent the President from firing anyone who works in the executive branch
-Repeal Hart-Celler
-Overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
-End "Disparate Impact"
-Save America

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

NEVER FORGET.

“The COVID vaccine is 100% effective!”

“Okay, it’s 99% effective.”

“Okay, it’s 90% effective.”

“Okay, it’s 70% effective.”

“Okay, it’s only 50% effective.”

“Okay, it’s only 33% effective.”

“Okay, you need a booster.”

“Okay, you need two boosters.”

“Okay, the vaccine injured some people.”

“Okay, the vaccine was completely ineffective, injured tons of people, and killed some people.”

Anthony Fauci lied to all of us.

And he lied to Congress under oath.

On May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic.

The Trump administration must indict Fauci.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Translation: “It’s greed when someone doesn’t spend their money on my priorities, but not greed for me to demand control over what they do with their earnings.”

Spending your own money on your own values isn’t greed. It’s your right to pursue your own happiness.
The uglier greed is believing other people exist to serve your moral ambitions, that their earnings morally belong to society first and themselves second, or worse not at all.

People saying “If I had Bezos money I’d fix everything” are always imagining themselves as benevolent rulers of someone else’s fortune while ignoring governments already consuming trillions with endless failure, waste, corruption, and dependency.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

The rot is terminal, and the Republican Party is the fucking vector.

We all see it crystal clear:

hand the Democrats the House in 2026 and they will impeach President Trump on day one...not because he’s guilty of anything, but because vengeance is their oxygen.

Scott Jennings is right.

Obama’s shadow government is already sharpening the knives behind the curtain, and the permanent bureaucracy is salivating at the chance to finish what they started in 2019 and 2021.

That much is obvious to anyone with a pulse and a prefrontal cortex.

But here is the deeper, darker truth that makes my blood boil hotter than any Democrat ever could:

the Republicans want this. Or at the very least, they are pathologically comfortable with it.

They were handed the clearest mandate in modern history...a thundering repudiation of the ruling-class death cult...and what have they done with it?

Jack fucking shit.

A few performative hearings, some strongly worded press releases, and then back to the country-club comatose state they’ve perfected over decades.

They treat the will of the people like an embarrassing drunk uncle they have to placate at Thanksgiving and then quietly ignore once the polls close.

This is not mere incompetence.

This is psychological and spiritual pathology.

Call it learned helplessness grafted onto institutional cowardice.

Decades of being the loyal opposition...the well-mannered losers who mistake losing with dignity for losing with honor...have produced a political class that is psychologically addicted to the comforting familiarity of defeat.

They are not spineless in the cartoon sense.

They are functionally spineless:

evolutionary dead-ends who have internalized the enemy’s frame so completely that they now police their own side harder than the Democrats ever could.

Stockholm syndrome in Brooks Brothers suits. The slave who kisses the whip because at least the whip is familiar.

Philosophically it is a betrayal of the social contract so profound it would make Locke and Machiavelli both reach for the hemlock.

The people granted them power...not as a polite suggestion, but as a sacred, violent mandate to dismantle the machine that has been grinding this republic into dust. And they responded with the moral equivalent of a shrug and a golf clap.

That is not politics.

That is ontological treason.

I am not “disappointed” anymore.

Disappointment is for children.

I am in a cold, lethal state of contempt.

Contempt for the gutless institutionalists who would rather preserve their precious “norms” than preserve the country.

Contempt for the consultant class that whispers sweet nothings about “electability” while the republic hemorrhages.

Contempt for every single Republican who wakes up every morning with the structural power to actually fight and instead chooses the warm bath of managed decline.

The Democrats at least have the honesty of their hatred. The Republicans wrap their cowardice in the American flag and call it prudence.

So spare me the performative outrage about what the Democrats might do in 2027.

The real enemy is already inside the wire, wearing our colors, cashing our checks, and smiling for the cameras while the mandate we bled for turns to ash in their limp, manicured hands.

They don’t give a fuck.

And neither, apparently, do we...until we stop pretending these people are “our team” and start treating them like the pathological, parasitic class they have become.

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[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

Yesterday I laid it bare for you all...

John Thune, the smirking Senate ringmaster of the uniparty circus, wasn’t going to let the Save America Act see daylight before the midterms. Not because he lacks the votes.

Not because the American people haven’t roared their mandate.

But because the establishment’s pathology runs deeper than any “procedural delay.”

Rep. Andy Ogles just confirmed it in real time, voice cracking with the rage of a man watching the Republic get slow-walked into the grave.

“He’s running out the clock,” Ogles seethed. “It’ll be too late to implement for the midterms…I can’t even begin to ponder why that’s a good strategy. It’s stupid.”

Stupid?

No. Calculated. Malignant.

This is Thune’s signature move...the velvet dagger of the institutional class.

They don’t oppose Trump’s agenda because it’s “extreme.”

They oppose it because codifying it would sever the veins that feed their permanent DC ruling caste.

Every safeguard against election fraud, every barrier to the bureaucratic deep state, every mechanism to restore sovereignty to the people becomes a mortal threat to the oligarchs who have spent decades turning the Senate into their personal veto chamber.

They don’t want Trump’s agenda enshrined in law because that would make the will of the voters harder to nullify next time.

And they sure as hell don’t want MAGA to prove, once and for all, that the Republic still belongs to its citizens instead of to the consultant class, the lobbyists, and the donor overlords who own both wings of the uniparty.

This isn’t politics.

This is psychological warfare dressed in Robert’s Rules of Order.

Thune and his ilk suffer from the classic oligarchic neurosis:

a terror of genuine popular sovereignty that borders on the pathological.

History is littered with these men...late-Roman senators who filibustered land reforms while the plebs starved, Weimar conservatives who dithered while the center collapsed, believing their genteel delays would preserve their sinecures.

They always bet the Republic can absorb one more betrayal.

They always lose the Republic in the process.

The philosophy here is as old as Thucydides:

when elites fear the demos more than they fear tyranny, they will sacrifice the constitutional order itself to keep the game rigged.

That is precisely what we’re witnessing.

They are proving, with chilling precision, that they would rather burn the last vestiges of electoral integrity than let Trump and MAGA institutionalize the populist revolt of 2024.

They don’t want Trump gone because of "mean tweets."

They want him...and every last one of us...gone because we represent the final rupture in their 80-year grift.

The Save America Act isn’t just legislation; it’s the codification of the people’s verdict. Delay it past the point of enforcement and you don’t just neuter one bill...you neuter the mandate.

You tell every future populist movement: “Your votes don’t matter. The clock is ours.”

That is not conservatism.

That is the soft totalitarianism of the administrative state wearing a three-piece suit and calling itself “bipartisan statesmanship.”

Fuck that.

And fuck the pretense that this is anything other than deliberate sabotage of the Republic they swore to defend.

The establishment GOP isn’t incompetent.

It’s complicit.

They have chosen the long game of managed decline over the short-term pain of actually governing like the Article I branch the Founders intended.

We see you, Senator Thune.

We see the pathology. We see the venom behind the smile.

The American people gave you the Senate, the House, and the White House for a reason. Pass the goddamn Save America Act.

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[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

If a philosophy says individuals have a right to live for their own sake, to produce, to trade, and to keep what they earn, then attacking it directly is difficult. You’d have to argue against consent, against value creation, against ownership itself.

So critics take a different route. They don’t challenge the mechanics. They target the morality.
Self-interest becomes “greed.”
Productivity becomes “exploitation.”
Trade becomes “manipulation.”
Profit becomes “theft.”

The actions don’t change. The labels do. The goal is to make virtue feel like vice.

Once that moral inversion is accepted, everything downstream becomes easier. If earning is suspect, then taking is justified. If success is immoral, then punishing it feels righteous. If keeping what you produce is framed as selfish, then surrendering it becomes a duty.

At that point, the debate is already over. Not economically, but morally.
Because now the individual is no longer an end in themselves. They’re recast as a means. Their time, effort, and output are treated as something others can lay claim to, not by agreement, but by need or decree.

It’s a rejection of the premise that a person’s life belongs to them.
Everything else follows from that.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

That quote sounds satisfying, but it collapses under even light scrutiny.

If working 40 hours automatically entitled you to a certain income, then any job would pay enough to cover any cost of living. That’s not how reality works.

Pay isn’t set by effort or hours. It’s set by:
how much value the work produces
how replaceable the worker is
how many alternatives exist
And “cover your bills” isn’t a fixed standard. It depends on:
where you live
what you choose to spend
how constrained supply is (especially housing)

So blaming “the people paying you” ignores the mechanism entirely.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@mrddmia @MissBeck12 Just a reminder that the GOP has not impeached a SINGLE ACTIVIST JUDGE.

Not one.

Zero.

They have had over a year to do it and they have never done it.

Just beyond infuriating man.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is the end of democracy if voter ID is not passed

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Remove John Thune before it is too late.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Kamala Harris won every single state that didn’t require Voter ID

Any normal rational person would look at this map and results and know fraud is happening

So why won’t Senate Leader John Thune enforce a talking filibuster and pass the Save America Act to mandate Voter ID?

[Ryan Thompson @RyanTactual]

This is exactly what is wrong with the job market.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last year I posted 500 open positions for my company.

We hired 34 people.

The other 466 jobs were never real.

I'm the Head of Talent Acquisition.

That's not what I acquire.

What I acquire is data.

Resumes, salary expectations, skill sets, market intelligence.

160,000 applicants gave us their career history for free.

We used it to benchmark compensation.

Not to raise salaries.

To confirm we were paying below market and get away with it.

I call it "building a talent pipeline."

A pipeline is a thing you build and never turn on.

Recruiters call this "passive sourcing."

There is nothing passive about wasting 160,000 people's time.

But it sounds like a strategy.

Some of our listings have been posted for 11 months.

One has been up for two years.

It's for a "Director of Innovation."

We don't have an innovation department.

We don't have the budget.

But the listing makes us look like we're growing.

Investors see open roles and think momentum.

Our stock went up 8% after we posted 200 jobs in one week.

We didn't hire anyone that week.

Or the week after.

We have an applicant tracking system.

It auto-rejects 95% of applicants.

Based on keywords.

I don't know what keywords.

No one does.

It was configured in 2019 by a contractor who no longer works here.

We've never updated it.

Some applicants spend hours customizing their resumes.

The system reads them for six seconds.

Then it sends a rejection email.

"After careful consideration."

There was no consideration.

Careful or otherwise.

I know this because I'm the one who wrote the template.

Sometimes I repost the same job with a different title.

"Senior Data Analyst" becomes "Data Analytics Lead."

Same description.

Same salary.

Same no one getting hired.

But it resets the posting date.

Fresh listings get more applicants.

More applicants means more data.

More data means better benchmarking.

Better benchmarking means I present at the quarterly review.

I presented last quarter.

I showed a slide that said we "received unprecedented candidate interest."

160,000 people applied for jobs that didn't exist.

That's the unprecedented interest.

The VP of People called it "brand strength."

The CFO asked about our hiring efficiency.

I said we were "optimizing for quality over speed."

Quality means we haven't hired anyone.

Speed means we don't plan to.

HR asked about candidate experience.

I showed them our NPS score.

It was 12.

Out of 100.

I said that was "within industry range."

I made up the industry range.

No one checked.

They never do.

Last month a candidate emailed me directly.

She said she'd applied to four roles over eight months.

Customized every resume. Wrote every cover letter.

Never heard back.

She asked if the jobs were real.

I sent her to the automated FAQ.

The FAQ says "We value every application."

That's not true.

We value every data point.

There's a difference.

I'm up for promotion.

My metrics are outstanding.

500 roles posted. 160,000 applicants captured.

Cost per acquisition: $0.

I didn't acquire anyone.

But the cost was zero.

Zero is a good number in a dashboard.

Dashboards get presented.

Presentations get approved.

Approvals get me promoted.

I'll be VP of Talent by Q4.

I don't find talent.

I collect it.

Like a jar you never open.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

YOU ARE NOT FUCKING ANGRY ENOUGH...

This is the kind of obscene, soul-rotting judicial failure that exposes the black, necrotic core of our so-called "justice" system...a system that doesn't protect the innocent but incubates monsters and then pats them on the head with therapy worksheets.

Christian Moniz-Rabino, that 29-year-old sack of narcissistic pathology and sadistic impulse dyscontrol, didn't just "lose his temper."

He systematically broke a 17-month-old boy's legs...plural...by forcing the toddler's feet to the floor in a fit of predatory rage because little Kai Tesoro, still learning to walk like every other human infant on the planet, wasn't moving fast enough for his fragile ego.

Then he shook and bludgeoned the child into oblivion:

multiple brain hemorrhages, retinal detachment, bruising in every stage of healing, fractures that forensic pathologists called among the worst cases of child abuse they'd ever witnessed.

Chronic torture.

Not a "tragic accident."

A textbook escalation of filicidal sadism, straight out of the criminology texts on the Cinderella effect...zero biological investment, pure resource competition and ego-driven dominance over the defenseless.

He took an Alford plea to voluntary manslaughter.

Translation for the normies:

he got to maintain his bullshit denial while admitting the evidence was enough to bury him, dodging first-degree murder because the mother's initial statements...three versions, the first two claiming "nothing happened," seizure, fall...classic domestic terror cycle enabling...and lack of eyewitnesses made a clean conviction risky.

Prosecutors knew it.

Judge Jacqueline Bluth knew it.

She said it on record: "I do not like this deal." "What happened to him should not have happened."

Then she rubber-stamped the fucking thing anyway...five years probation max.

No prison.

Anger management classes.

A 10 p.m. curfew.

Community service if he's not "fully employed."

And a ban on contact with minors except his own kid.

As if six weeks of CBT can rewire a predator whose antisocial personality disorder wiring lacks any empathy circuitry, whose pathology treats an infant as an object to be disciplined into submission or discarded.

This isn't nuance or mercy.

This is institutional cowardice dressed in legalese.

Voluntary manslaughter for what the medical examiner described as deliberate, repeated lethal abuse?

Nevada's plea-bargain machine prioritizing "provable facts" and trial-risk calculus over the blood of a voiceless toddler.

Criminology 101:

these stepfather/boyfriend abusers have sky-high recidivism rates precisely because the system signals that the consequences are performative bullshit.

Psychology 101:

this is frustration intolerance fused with entitlement...the same void that produces every serial domestic predator, convinced the world...and its babies...must bend to their dysregulated rage.

Kai Tesoro had no voice.

His killer walks free today.

The mother who lied to shield him? Complicit in the enabling.

The judge who hated the deal but signed it? Complicit in the release.

The prosecutor who called it "rare" but swallowed it? Complicit in the betrayal.

Fuck the plea deals.

Fuck the spineless bench that prioritizes courtroom efficiency over retribution for the most vulnerable.

Fuck the bureaucratic shrug that treats infanticide like a traffic violation with extra homework.

This isn't justice...it's a goddamn invitation for every latent psychopath to prey on the innocent without real penalty.

The blood cries out, and all we get is therapy-speak and "one shot" warnings.

The system doesn't protect children.

It grooms the next generation of victims.

The rot is terminal.

And I say it again:

YOU ARE NOT FUCKING ANGRY ENOUGH.

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[Michael Oxford - AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat @SCMountainGoat]

>Identify problem

>Create organization with name that suggests org will solve said problem

>Lobby government for funding to solve problem

>Make problem worse while paying executives high salaries

>Fund campaigns of politicians who control funding - using portion of original funding received from those very politicians

>Get politicians re-elected

>Lobby same politicians for more funding, because original funding wasn’t enough to solve said problem

>Rinse and repeat

Public/Private partnerships in a nutshell.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I don't think Senate Republicans grasp what will happen if they do not pass the SAVE Act.

To the people who put Republicans in power, integrity in our elections is the NUMBER ONE issue they care about.

If the GOP fails in this, literally half of their voters will walk away. They won't become Democrats, they'll just withdraw from public involvement, stop voting and start hoarding canned food and ammunition.

If the GOP fails to pass the SAVE Act, the BEST CASE scenario for the GOP is that we go back to the 1960s where the Democrats had overwhelming control of both Houses and the Presidency.

Worst case?

The GOP goes the way of the Whigs, the entire conservative right descends into fractured, ineffective factions and the Democrats gain multi-generational control like has never before been seen in the USA.

GOP, failing to pass the SAVE Act will destroy your party.

And it will destroy the USA.

Choose wisely.