Tom

Happiness is elusive, but finding shit to amuse oneself happens all the time!

[Tom @tombricker]

I wrote this several years ago.

I look at the kid in the photograph and think about of all the things that he will go through over the next two decades. In the next few years, he’ll be severely injured at work with fractures to both femurs, along with fractures to the ulna, radius and humerus of his left arm and metacarpals in his right hand. He’ll live with chronic pain that will often cause restless nights and decisions made to forgo activities due to the discomfort and tenderness of his condition. One might say that he won’t be prepared for this to happen to him, but the truth is that he is as ready as anyone can be.

We don’t get to choose what happens in our life, but we do get to choose how we react to it. One need not feel guilty for feeling overwhelmed and on the verge of collapse when facing such hardships. The consuming darkness of depression is something which I am intimately familiar. I turned to humor to get me through the gloominess. However, jokes only go so far. The thing that kept me going is that I pictured myself one day looking back at all that I had been through knowing that I had persevered.

Back then, I could never contemplate being a husband and a father, but these aspects of my life are my greatest joys. Despite whatever pain and despair I’ve ever felt in my life, I am appreciative of all the people and lessons that have made me the person writing this to you today. From my wife to my son, my parents and the rest of my family and friends, I am the lucky one to have you in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Never underestimate the power of a desperate politician - cornered by his own bad policies - to respond by enacting something even worse: https://t.co/oJ7K3s6lwE

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

How it started: “I just don’t want babies to starve.”

How it’s going: “I want Chinese-style communism, prisons, and Cultural Revolution shit.”

Amazing how quickly “compassion” can acquire a prison system.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

If Democrats win the presidency in 2028, the DEI apparatus will come back in full force and undo the illusion of progress we've achieved through executive order.

They're never abandoning wokeness. It's their religion.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

On the trail with Abdul and Kamala 🎶

[The Fifth Column 🖐 @wethefifth]

Maybe Scott Jennings just understands punditry better than we do.

From our new episode with @ScottJenningsKY, out now.

[Tom @tombricker]

Very much worth a watch from @reason What's Really Inside Fauci's Diary https://t.co/Z5NPoYIAOA

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

'I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to trans your kids.' If this is the best the GOP has, the midterms are going to be a bigger blowout than anyone is predicting.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Milton Friedman: “A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it…gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"In 2025, the first year of the second Trump administration, state control of the US economy grew,  and 15 countries now have less state control than the United States.... Moving from 2nd to 16th in a single year is a large change."

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

Reminder: US schools serving low-income and non-white communities get more money per pupil not less and have for a long time

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Nothing says “we’ve fully integrated into British culture” like trying to cancel @JohnCleese — the living embodiment of British humour and irony — for screening Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

When native Brits talk about invasion and colonization, this is exactly the kind of thing they mean.

[John Papola @JohnPapola]

Government should have NO role in healthcare whatsoever. ZERO. It is a monstrous engine of violence, and its control of healthcare has one purpose: control of the population at its most vulnerable moments.

When Hasan Piker says dishonestly “I just want universal healthcare” that shouldn’t be seen as a benign face to his murderous ideology. It’s absolutely just as evil.

Separate health from the state now.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"When I worked in prison as a doctor, I asked hundreds of prisoners, in confidence, what they had actually done...almost all of them freely confessed that they had committed between five and 20 times as many crimes as they had been convicted of." https://t.co/oa46gwZZFf

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

Kudos to Nikole Hannah-Jones for admitting it was a mistake to send her daughter to a poor black segregated failing school so she could run her own social justice experiment & write articles about it, but it took her kid to explain the job of a parent:
“So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to? Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?”
Thanks mom! Keep pumping out those articles at my expense!
Wokeness poisons everything.
https://t.co/ZM2oLtWJp4

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

A reminder that buying a house because you want your children to be educated in its school district amounts to shopping for schools just as much as using a voucher amounts to shopping for schools. Vouchers give poorer families some of the freedom that richer families already have.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Like, I don't think people fully grasp how deeply the Left believes that human beings and society itself are reciprocal (or reflexive) products of socialization, and that their whole program is to seize the means of production of humans and society to mold people into socialists.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

"Why doesn't the interviewer make me look smart when I actually just Googled some shit in the middle of a fucking televised interview???"

I told you guys he would wilt under this much non-sympathetic attention.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

When you believe Israel has a right to exist and is a strategic geopolitical ally

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals" https://t.co/CQYfJ5OUlK

"The Pfizer and Lilly documents show how the administration offered the companies tariff protections and other benefits while encouraging them to raise prices abroad."