John Velk

Smashing golf balls and fools. Borderline educated. It/Nitwit.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Agreed

[@amuse @amuse]

DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Most Americans believe that black women are primarily murdered by racist white men. It turns out that 99% are committed by blacks. 91% are committed by black men and 8% are committed by black women. It turns out that 0% are committed by white supremacists. Why does the media want us to think white men are the problem?

h/t @EndWokeness

[John Velk @VelkJay]

It’s always government

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Media and universities — captured by statist assumptions for a century — have lied to you about capitalism.

Not “gotten it wrong.” Lied. On the most important question in modern economic history: what actually causes crises.

The lie fits in one sentence: “Economic crises prove capitalism is unstable and the state must regulate it.”
The truth is the exact opposite.

1929. Official story: unregulated capitalism ran wild.
Reality: the Fed expanded the money supply 60% between 1921 and 1929, fueling a mechanical stock bubble. After the crash, the Fed then contracted the money supply 30%. A normal correction became a decade-long depression, worsened by price controls, tariffs, and New Deal interventions. Unemployment stayed above 15% until 1940. Countries that let markets adjust (Canada, Australia) recovered in three years.
Culprit: the Fed plus Roosevelt-era interventionism.

2008. Official story: deregulated Wall Street blew up the system.
Reality: the Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to lend to insolvent borrowers. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought subprime debt in bulk with an implicit Treasury guarantee – no private bank would have carried that risk otherwise. Greenspan held rates at 1% for four years. The SEC blessed fraudulent AAA ratings under a regulatory monopoly. The state was present at every stage.
Culprits: the Fed, Congress, Fannie/Freddie, the SEC.

The euro crisis (2010-2012).
Official story: Greece and Spain lived beyond their means.
Reality: the euro let Greece borrow at German rates with zero fiscal discipline. The currency itself — a political project defying monetary theory — manufactured the crisis.
Culprit: the European Commission and ECB.

The inflation surge (2020-2023).
Official story: Ukraine, COVID, supply chains.
Reality: the Fed printed $4.5 trillion in 18 months, the ECB €3.5 trillion, governments handed out checks with no productive output behind them. Money supply in the US rose 40% in two years. Inflation was mathematically locked in before it ever showed up in prices. The war was the excuse, not the cause.
Culprits: the Fed, the ECB, governments.

The pattern is identical every time: a bureaucrat distorts prices – rates, money, guarantees, regulation. Bad investment accumulates quietly for years. It explodes and hits savers and the middle class. Media blame “the market.” Universities produce the papers that justify more state power as the cure. The next crisis gets seeded.

This isn’t an accident. It’s an industrial cycle of state-manufactured crises, laundered by media and academia.

Why has the lie held for a century?
Because universities, media, and administration are all funded, directly or indirectly, by the state – and each has a structural interest in concluding that the answer to everything is more state. No publicly-funded academic writes that public funding is the problem. No subsidized journalist writes that subsidies corrupt journalism. No senior civil servant writes that the administration itself is the harm. The bias is not only ideological. It’s economic. Telling the truth means sawing off the branch they’re sitting on.

That’s a hundred years of a lie that was never — could never be — seriously challenged from inside the institutions that produce it.

The age of AI can finally change that.
Javier Milei is already showing us how it’s done.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A mother in Oregon is told she can no longer have access to her child patient portal

“I just got done taking my son to the doctor and they tried telling me at the front desk that I don't have access to his patient portal anymore because he just turned 13. Are you kidding me? He is under the age of 18. He is my child. I should have access to what his medical stuff is. That is insane to me”

This is real and because Democrats are trying to twine away parents rights from their own kids

Here’s what happens at age 13 in Oregon

Oregon Minor Consent Laws kick in, minors gain rights to confidential care in certain areas without parental knowledge or consent

- Age 14+: Can consent to outpatient mental health, drug and alcohol treatment
- Age 15+: Can consent to general medical, hospital, dental and surgical care
- Any age: Full confidentiality for reproductive health birth control, STI, HIV testing and treatment

Systems like MyChart and Epic often default to restricting or segmenting parental (“proxy”) access starting at age 13

Who needs enemies when you have Democrats. They are literally restricting you from knowing what your own kid is doing medically

[yannispappas @yannispappas]

America is the most powerful empire. Yet, it has not annexed another sovereign country since 1898. It’s arguably the most morally constrained in history. No previous hegemonic power with military superiority exercised so little direct annexation during its period of dominance.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Obviously true to any student of history

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Not so fast, Belgium.

The city of Los Angeles still has another 29 days to count all the goals from tonight's match.

[John Velk @VelkJay]

Antifa should study history

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Devoured by the Revolution IV: The Brownshirts

The Fever:

In Germany, the Brownshirts were the street muscle of the movement before it became the state. They brawled, intimidated, marched, smashed meetings, beat opponents, and made political violence feel like national rebirth. They believed they were the revolution in boots.

The Use:

Hitler needed them while he was climbing. The SA made fear visible. They turned sidewalks, beer halls, rallies, and elections into contested ground. They brutalized communists, social democrats, Jews, journalists, and anyone else standing between the party and power.

Then power arrived, and the mob became a problem.

The Turn:

Ernst Röhm and the SA wanted a second revolution. They wanted the old army broken, the street fighters rewarded, and the radicals placed at the center of the new Germany. Hitler needed generals, industrialists, conservatives, and order. The men who had helped drag him upward now stood in the way of the regime becoming permanent.

So he killed them.

In 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives, Röhm and other SA leaders were arrested and executed. The revolution purged its own fists once they were no longer useful.

The Lesson:

Modern radicals always imagine the street belongs to them because the party praises them while it is weak. They never understand the transaction. Street violence is useful before power is secured and embarrassing after it is won.

The regime does not love its brawlers.

It uses them to break the door, then shoots them in the hallway.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

On me demande pourquoi Elon Musk se bat.

Pourquoi l'homme le plus riche du monde ne profite pas de ses milliards, tranquille, loin du bruit.

La vraie réponse est plus dérangeante que la question.

Le logiciel qui a vidé l'Europe de l'intérieur ne s'est pas arrêté à l'Atlantique. Il a traversé. Il tourne aujourd'hui à plein régime dans les universités américaines, dans les rédactions, dans les RH des plus grandes entreprises du monde. Le même code, la même promesse d'équité, la même haine froide de tout ce qui tient debout : la famille, le mérite, la nation, l'excellence.

L'Europe s'est laissée déconstruire en silence. L'Amérique était la prochaine sur la liste.

Et voilà ce que personne ne veut regarder en face :

Elon Musk avait la clé du monde dystopique dans la main.

Réfléchissez une seconde. Il a les fusées. Les satellites au-dessus de vos têtes. Le réseau qui porte la parole publique. Le paiement. L'interface entre le cerveau et la machine. L'IA. Tous les organes d'un empire de contrôle, réunis chez un seul homme, pour la première fois dans l'Histoire.

Aucun système ne lui a jamais autant tendu la main. Toutes les incitations disaient la même chose : joue le jeu, construis la cage, garde la clé, deviens l'empereur du nouveau monde. Personne ne l'aurait arrêté. Beaucoup l'auraient applaudi.

Il a fait l'inverse.

Il a pris le seul outil qui pouvait devenir l'arme parfaite de la surveillance — et il l'a rendu libre. Il a pris la fortune qui pouvait acheter le silence — et il a acheté le droit de dire la vérité. Il a pris le pouvoir qui pouvait fermer les bouches — et il les a rouvertes.

Ce n'est pas un homme qui profite. C'est un homme qui se bat. Seul, à un niveau d'intensité que personne d'autre à ce sommet n'ose assumer, avec tout à perdre et rien à gagner qu'il n'ait déjà.

Voilà la différence entre un homme libre et un tyran : ce n'est pas le pouvoir qu'ils possèdent. C'est ce qu'ils choisissent d'en faire.

La première guerre froide s'est gagnée avec des missiles. La seconde se gagnera avec des hommes qui, ayant la possibilité de régner sur la dystopie, choisissent de brûler ses plans à la place.

Le mur avance vers l'Ouest. Un homme s'est mis en travers.

Au travail.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Want lower grocery store prices?

Deport 20 million illegals.

Want lower mortgage rates?

Deport 20 million illegals.

Want lower health and car insurance?

Deport 20 million illegals.

Want safer streets and communities?

Deport 20 million illegals.

Make sense yet?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Lemme get this straight…

A Black woman rode a train with a bunch of White men and absolutely nothing happened to her and the media turned it into a scandal???

Yet when a White woman rode a train with a Black man and was stabbed to death it barely made the news in the MSM?

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

If your brain is broken by politics so much that you aren’t happy Balogun is playing, and you’re an American citizen, you should be deported

[John Velk @VelkJay]

@Vikingvictims @TinaPettit1081 @CollinRugg What corruption?

[John Velk @VelkJay]

Oopsy. Facts.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

🚨 This is what happens when the “stolen land” narrative gets hit with actual history.

Native guy starts in on white people being on “stolen” land…

Then this Native woman shuts it down with facts:

- Native Americans weren’t here “from the beginning.” Their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia 15,000–20,000 years ago.
- Once they got here, tribes conquered, displaced, and built empires over each other (Comanches pushed out the Apache and built the Comancheria — sound familiar?).
- Every single piece of land on earth has changed hands through conquest. That’s how human history works.

She nails it:
“What you call stolen, I call conquered.”

Then she drops the line that actually matters:

America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 took it, kept it, defended it, and built the greatest Countries the world has ever seen — with more freedom, opportunity, and prosperity than any of those tribal empires ever dreamed of.

On the 4th of July she’s celebrating 250 years of that progress… not raiding villages and scalping people.

This is the response every “land acknowledgment” warrior needs to hear.

Who’s sick of the selective history?!??

#StolenLandMyth #4thOfJuly #AmericanHistory #FactsOverFeelings #CanadaFirst

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

What do we think about US politicians putting on jerseys from another country — in a tournament the US is playing in — and rooting for the foreign country in public? Zero percent chance any American sports fans I know would do this.

[John Velk @VelkJay]

@APaulMizzi1 @Vikingvictims @CollinRugg So it’s better with the border closed. Got it.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2015. CNN's Jim Acosta talks about then President Obama's seventh Hawaiian vacation.

A fawning, servile Acosta expressed concern about how difficult it was for Obama to get two solid, uninterrupted weeks of vacation in Hawaii. Poor Obama.

Think CNN segments on Trump's vacations sound like this? 🤪😂

[John Velk @VelkJay]

@Vikingvictims @APaulMizzi1 @CollinRugg Haha. How many is a flood? Don’t be dim.

[John Velk @VelkJay]

@Vikingvictims @APaulMizzi1 @CollinRugg 13 million losers? Not the same.

[John Velk @VelkJay]

@Vikingvictims @APaulMizzi1 @CollinRugg Nope. Closing is he border saved our entire country. Period.