Tim Starr

"Free Markets and Firepower" - my new Substack

[Tim Starr @timstarr2001]

Tim Starr is an autodidact writer and independent thinker exploring the deep interplay between **economic liberty** and **military defense**. Through his Substack, *Free Markets and Firepower*, he examines how free markets generate prosperity while credible firepower secures the conditions for liberty to thrive—rejecting both naive pacifism and unchecked statism.

His essays blend rigorous historical analysis, counterfactual reasoning, and libertarian principles, tackling topics like the true drivers of the Industrial Revolution, WWII logistics and American power, the role of public goods in a free society, critiques of influential libertarian theorists, and the necessity of strategic strength in an imperfect world.

On X (@timstarr2001), Tim delivers sharp, no-holds-barred commentary on foreign policy, individual rights, historical myths, and current events—always grounded in incentives, evidence, and a clear-eyed defense of freedom against ideological capture or folly.

A long-time observer of ideas and power, he values systems that align incentives with reality: markets for creation, resolve for protection. Follow him for thoughtful takes that treat liberty as a practical achievement, not a slogan.

[Tim Starr @timstarr2001]

@PaperhackWriter They eventually became good Republicans. Took them about 150 years, but they finally got there. Some of them. 🤣

[Tim Starr @timstarr2001]

@PaperhackWriter Nope. Worked pretty well.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Google Password Manager is a disaster for seniors. For security, password fields are generally obscured with dots. So every time a senior makes a typo in entering their password, they cannot see it and Google asks if they want to save the new password. Thinking that this is a good idea, the senior clicks yes, and thus saves the wrong password. The next time the senior is prompted for a password, Google suggests the wrong password. Over time the list of incorrect saved passwords grows. Making matters worse, after several failed attempts, websites will usually prompt the person with Forgot Password, which compounds the problem because now the senior is changing the initial password to something less familiar but the original problem remains and wrong new passwords are added on top of the new unfamiliar password. Helping a senior with her computer last night — she had 9 saved password for her email account and all of them were wrong. Fix this @Google!

[Stealth Medical @StealthMedical1]

From Christchurch to San Diego: The Russian-backed chain of racial holy war killings @TrevorLoudon1 https://t.co/McapKusgWb via @OutLoudNews

[Stealth Medical @StealthMedical1]

https://t.co/MSHi88bksk

[SheThinksFreely @L08818]

He's making it official: Joe Kent is writing for the Quincy Institute.

Trita Parsi, NIAC, is his boss.

Guess he figured it was time to take it "on the books" now that the jig is up.

This should clear up any confusion that may have existed til now.

TRAITOR

[DrKathryn PhD @KathMLee1]

Another excellent report from @TrevorLoudon1
I applaud him for his dedication throughout the years in regard to tracing radical networks and foreign subversives who are trying to incite a civil war within the United States. This also includes politicians.

[Ryan Mauro @ryanmauro]

🚨The single most important article I’ve ever written.

My expose for @glennbeck details:

✅ Russia’s Tsarist Christian Offensive Against Pro-Western Christianity: Coming to a Church Near You

✅ How Russia-linked operatives began targeting TPUSA & Candace Owens 8 years ago

Link in the replies

[Tim Starr @timstarr2001]

@BiggerTruth I keep telling people this, no one believes me.

[Scott McMahan @BiggerTruth]

Great thread, and one more illuminating fact: possession of child p0rn for "personal use" is legal in Russia.

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

Hunter, you, perhaps unwittingly initially, caused so much damage for Ukraine. You know full well you were hired by Burisma FROM MOSCOW in the spring of 2014, after Burisma's CEO fled Ukraine's 'drain the swamp' revolution.

And yet you have allowed everyone from Tucker Carlson to the BBC claim that you worked for a 'Ukrainian firm,' when in fact Burisma's CEO only hired you after he fled Ukraine—precisely when the Kremlin needed your dad to do nothing to stop Putin from taking Ukraine's Crimea in 2014.

Yet millions of Maga folks oppose Ukraine primarily because they falsely think YOU made money there. All you have to do is be honest and say, 'no I was hired from Moscow.'

Why won't you?

[dan linnaeus @DanLinnaeus]

Ben Freeman is writing for the Iranian regime’s track-II DC network under Trita Parsi, the Quincy Institute. His distortions of Sec 224 and his lobbying to excise the section from the National Defense Authorization Act is Tehran’s agenda, not America’s. For a factual breakdown and the actual pp.40-44 text of Sec. 224 see: https://t.co/AXBmS2dx9L

[Tim Starr @timstarr2001]

@paramounttactcl @imelizabethlane In Russia, you get arrested for holding up a blank sheet of paper in Red Square.

[Tim Starr @timstarr2001]

@StealthMedical1 Jones pushed the "9/11 Truth" theory that Bush bombed the World Trade Center. It was an obvious Russian disinfo campaign from the start, right after the 9/11 attacks.

[Real Fu @TheFeralTimes]

A further question to ask: how many of these NGOs, etc. are getting direction from hostile intelligence services, like the DI? Not only is none of this 'organic', but these operations are likely creatures of foreign powers.

https://t.co/ZtK1R6Gjae

[Paramount Tactical - Gary Melton @paramounttactcl]

Here we have @imelizabethlane, a pro-Putin, anti-American Soviet-bloc immigrant advocating for an armed revolution in the United States.

This should outrage every American. Could she say this and not end up in prison in Russia, which she constantly praises?

As an American who swore to protect my country from enemies both foreign and domestic, you have my full attention.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Candace Owen’s foreign friend is on a podcast with Buckley Carlson, the brother of Tucker Carlson, calling for a violent revolution in America. She says we need violence for America to be free.

Free from what?

Also why is a foreigner allowed to stay in America when she’s calling for violence and political destabilization? She lives in Utah…

She should be deported. @SecRubio @DHSgov @ICEgov

[Eyepatch Man @eyepatch_man]

Bezrukov stole the identity of a 🇨🇦 boy (Donald Healthfield) who died in infancy. He lived in 🇺🇸 as an illegal spy/sleeper agent for a decade. This is the likes of whom Candace Owens is rubbing elbows with at SPIEF.

When I said SPIEF was a rogues' gallery, I wasn't exaggerating.

[Ryan Mauro @ryanmauro]

@FLOTUS Melania Trump written 4 letters to Putin to ask him to bring Russia's stolen Ukrainian children home four times.

Candace Owens @RealCandaceO be discussing "family values" with the Russian official who built the program that took the children. 20,000 of them.