SwampEscapee

Irreverent humor and mild banter | Woke 2.0 = anti-totalitarian.

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@ppi It’s par for the course. You can’t find a group less interested in the actual outcomes of their actions than “progressives”. In the cities and states they control they’ve exacerbated the problems they complain about. But they at least get to virtue signal to one another.

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

The truth is that Democrats always saw Platner as a liability but he went from one who was leading in polls to one who was losing in polls and it would have cost Democrats a fortune to save him, so they dumped him and acted shocked about his latest revelations.

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@jimcramer What else would the say?

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@vip92226041 ADBE?

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@ShanepConlan https://t.co/gfJbhMFVl2

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

The Beastie Boys jamming "Sabotage" on The Late Show with David Letterman back in 1994.
Are you down for this or just not your style!?

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Cannot make this up, either.

@nytimes opinion has had four recent pieces about fatherhood and masculinity, with six authors:

Three women
A trans "man"
Two childless men

Not one father. The cultural elite contempt for dads runs so deep we don't even get to speak for ourselves.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Three-time US Olympian arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

67-year-old former Olympic canoeist David Hearn says he was finishing up a 52-mile bike ride when he went by the reflecting pool.

Hearn claims he was simply touching a detached piece of the pool's liner when he was arrested by Park Police.

"I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs," Hearn claimed in an interview with the Washington Post.

Journalist Emily Miller, however, accused Hearn of grabbing the "hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae."

It's unclear if Hearn will face charges.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Not a single prediction in Al Gore's movie has come true.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“If a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going. If a government enterprise fails, it is expanded.”

— Milton Friedman

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

If Trump had lost, America’s entire 250th 4th of July would be about gay pride, apologizing for a history we shouldn’t be apologizing for… and DEI nonsense.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Here is a story about a group of students who fundraised and worked for an entire year to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to speak at an event:

"We were a small college club with around 10 members and on a whim one of our members emailed tyson's agent to see if we could book him. We found out it would cost 40k (it raised to 50k in December of that year where I think it still might be) for his speaking fee plus expenses to have him come to our college for 1 day where he'd host a small lecture, a press meeting, dinner with up to 6 people, and the main lecture and a book signing time permitting. We decided to go for it, and spent a year where our club exclusively worked on bringing him in.

When he arrived, myself and others introduced ourselves and our fields of study. He went after first of us in humanities or soft sciences pretty much relentlessly from the get go. We're all used to the philosophy major working at McDonald's joke, but he wasn't trying to be funny, and spent the ride from the airport making repeated comments about the uselessness of our majors. Additionally he spent about 5 minutes trying to show that logic was stupid but he was citing logical rules and Occam's razor.

The small lecture was him bragging about how famous he was, and how easy it is to pull yourself out of poverty or etc. The dinner was for leaders of other clubs so helped us raise money. He took the piss out of how one student held her fork, and was impossibly smug when giving advice to physics students.

The main event was a terribly boring lecture consisting of fart jokes and fan service; teasing the upcoming TV series he was in and not much else. He spent a quarter of the time reading Sagan's blue dot, which is nice but shouldn't have cost us because it wasn't his material.

He left at about 2am, and we were all exhausted because we had spent the day busy setting up and tearing down. The whole affair cost nearly 85k. The additional money being for locations, personnel, air fare, Tyson's hotel, catering, etc.

We all decided he was an ass hole. I'd never want to spend 16 hours with a celebrity again."

From another member of the same group:

"Neil deGrasse Tyson, who came to our university, gave a crappy speech rife with lame fart jokes, was rude and disrespectful with the people who organized the event (there were a couple campus clubs working on it for about a year). He equated one of the group's member's philosophy major as a degree in mental masturbation.

We were so pumped to hear a talk about the universe, astrophysics, black holes and dark matter, and instead he gave a speech on debunking lame pop media science misconceptions such as the "supermoon" because the organizing club is known as a skeptic/secular humanist society. He then basically said he did us a favor and that we "owed him one" for that.

He delivered a private lecture to our group and members of the campus physics club in which he realized he had said something witty, whipped out hsi iphone, and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to come up with the perfect wording for it to post it to his twitter. In the middle of a lecture we spent a year's work and $55k total to organize."

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Deaths in the US so far in 2026, by cause:

Drowning: approximately 1000 (22 kids in Texas alone)
Mushroom poisoning: 4
Rattlesnake: 3
Lightning: 2
Marathon: 1
Measles: 0

And, oh yeah, overdose: approximately 30000

Let's try to scare people some MORE about measles, huh?

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

@SenWarren Meta employs about 80,000 people. How many do you employ? Plus he has hundreds of millions of people using his services daily. I'd say he deserves a yacht. What services do you provide that improve people's lives?

[Ja Leto @_falsi1ke]

Has anyone got a job through LinkedIn or are we all just pretending that app works?

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@kejca He looks like a supervillain.

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@defi_byte98 @Kalshi_Finance They’re fine.

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@tomsherwood Would have been ok if it were Obama though?

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“Wherever government bureaucracy takes over, costs go up and quality goes down.”

— Milton Friedman

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

LASIK isn’t covered by insurance. Neither is most cosmetic surgery.

Both got cheaper and better every single year for two decades.

The one corner of medicine where patients pay cash and see prices.

Funny how the “market failure” vanishes the second the market’s allowed to exist.

Friedman called this in 1980. The tape doesn’t lie.

[SwampEscapee @swampescapee]

@kushdesai @GrantCardone In 1996 the deficit was $50 billion and the nat’l debt was $5 trillion.