Wayne Zolko

Christian, husband, father, Jeep owner, gamer, registered independent

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Après avoir vu Elon répondre au Programme alimentaire mondial de l'ONU qui lui réclamait 6 milliards pour "résoudre la faim dans le monde", j'ai compris quelque chose que je vais essayer de prouver ici.

Désormais, méfiez-vous de TOUT le monde qui achète de la sympathie publique en signant des chèques.

Reprenons l'histoire d'Elon, parce qu'elle est parfaite. 2021. Le patron du PAM, David Beasley, le tague publiquement : "2 % de ta fortune et tu résous la faim." Elon ne dit pas non. Il dit une seule chose, et c'est la chose la plus saine qu'un milliardaire ait jamais dite à une ONG : "Décrivez-moi exactement comment 6 milliards résolvent la faim. Compta open-source, que le public voie où va chaque dollar. Et je vends du Tesla immédiatement."

Réponse de l'ONU : un plan à 6,6 milliards pour nourrir 42 millions de personnes… pendant un an.

Vous voyez le problème ? Ils n'ont jamais pu répondre à la vraie question. Parce que la réponse n'existe pas. Le don ne résout rien : il nourrit douze mois, et la faim revient en janvier. C'est un abonnement, pas une solution. Beasley demandait un robinet permanent et l'appelait "charité".

La charité moderne, c'est ça : un puits sans fond déguisé en vertu. Elle ne touche jamais les causes profondes — la gouvernance, les institutions, la corruption, l'absence de marchés — parce que toucher les causes profondes tuerait l'industrie. Une ONG qui résout son problème se suicide. Son incitation, c'est que le problème dure.

Et l'argent ? Il ne va presque jamais à ceux qui sont censés le recevoir. Il s'évapore en couches de logistique, de salaires d'ONG, d'overhead, de "renforcement des capacités", de conférences à Genève. Vous donnez 100, le bénéficiaire en voit une fraction. Le reste fait vivre la classe professionnelle de la compassion.

Et puis il y a l'aile "intellectuelle" du truc : l'effective altruism. La version QI 145 du virtue signaling. Calculer froidement le bien marginal par dollar, "earn to give", sauver le futur. Le poster boy du mouvement s'appelait Sam Bankman-Fried. Il a détourné des milliards de clients en expliquant que c'était pour le bien de l'humanité. 25 ans de prison. Toute la ramification autour — fondations, think tanks, gourous de la moralité quantifiée — a découvert que l'altruisme optimisé est l'alibi parfait pour la fraude. Quand tu te crois en mission cosmique, voler devient un détail comptable.

Maintenant, le retournement. Devinez la SEULE forme de charité avec des preuves dures, des RCT propres, qui marche vraiment ?

Donner du cash. Brut. Random. À un village. Sans condition, sans plan, sans ONG qui t'explique comment vivre.

Étude Egger et al., Econometrica 2022 : 1 000 $ donnés à 10 500 ménages dans 653 villages au Kenya. Résultat : pour chaque dollar injecté, ~2,5 dollars d'activité économique locale. Quasi zéro inflation. Les gens achètent, les commerçants embauchent, le grain circule, le meunier rouvre plus tard. ~80 % de l'argent reste dans le marché local.

Et c'est là l'ironie totale, presque cruelle : le seul "acte de charité" qui fonctionne fonctionne parce que ce n'est PAS de la charité. C'est juste… du capital qu'on laisse couler dans une économie. Vous n'aidez pas les gens en leur donnant un plan. Vous les aidez en amorçant la pompe et en les laissant être des agents économiques. La charité qui marche, c'est juste du capitalisme déclenché de force.

Donc voilà ma règle. Méfiez-vous de quiconque achète votre estime avec un don public. Le chèque visible n'est pas une preuve de vertu, c'est une transaction : de la sympathie contre de l'argent, payée par les pauvres qui restent pauvres pour que le donateur reste admiré.

La vraie philanthropie ne pose pas pour la photo. Elle construit des produits, des entreprises, des emplois, des marchés. Elle amorce la pompe et s'en va.

Le reste, c'est de la cocaïne pour riches sans créativité.

[Wayne Zolko @waynezolko]

@Rothmus "Free at the point of service" means nothing if you never get to the point of service.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤣🤣

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Predict What Will Happen Now That Elon Musk Is A Trillionaire

Made with @grok

[Wayne Zolko @waynezolko]

That's hilarious!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A bunch of friends decided to take a guys-only trip.
Their wives told them, “Don’t have too much fun without us.” 😂

[Wayne Zolko @waynezolko]

@TRobinsonNewEra Good to see, but probably too late.

[Wayne Zolko @waynezolko]

@JonathanTurley They wouldn't get shit. If Musk isn't running his companies, they will be almost worthless.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Elon Musk on Tesla: “There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table, everyone parks in the same parking lot.

At GM there’s a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.

We give everyone stock options. Many people who were just working the line, who didn’t even know what stocks were, we’ve made them millionaires.”

[Wayne Zolko @waynezolko]

@chigrl It's time to feed me!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 NOW: President Trump gives a shoutout to @ElonMusk for outfitting the new Air Force One with STARLINK

"We have communication equipment up there that's NOBODY'S ever seen before! It's the highest level. Including Starlink! My friend Elon is going to be VERY happy."

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

When leftists lose, they get REALLY violent.

The second the USAID slush fund got cut off, they started losing country after country across Latin America. Bolivia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador. And Peru’s next.

So now they’re rioting in the streets of Bolivia for the fifth week straight.

“Protect our democracy” is what they scream when they hold power.
But when they lose is blockades, violence, and trying to burn the result.

This filthy tactic has to be crushed.
They don’t get to normalize using force to cling to power, win or lose.

As always, Milei was dead right.

Never give shit leftists an inch.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Russia isn't allowed at the World Cup but still scored a spectacular own goal!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@litcapital @Cernovich I will survive somehow

[Oekraïne Vandaag @OekraineVandaag]

@P_Kallioniemi

[Liveuamap @Liveuamap]

New video shows "flying disc" was caused by impact of a missile, launched by Russian Air defenses
https://t.co/gBzFlqVKwK

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Those who knew must go to prison for a long time

[Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick]

Here are eight essential quotes from @RupertLowe10's Rape Gang Inquiry.

1) This was a nationwide, not merely local, phenomenon.

"...that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised child sexual exploitation that repeated in town after town, city after city, from the far north to the south coast."

2) The scale was enormous, more than anyone dared to think.

"The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. The true number is probably higher."

3) As has been reported, the vast majority of perpetrators were Pakistani Muslims.

" In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (‘CSE’) cases bore distinctively Muslim names... Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam with the Oxford Islamic Congregation, believes the true proportion of gang members who are Muslims to be around 95%."

4) Vulnerable girls were targeted using a consistent method.

"Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men."

5) The police, and other institutions, knew what was happening and ignored it.

"Police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. Social care services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers. The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care. Schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them."

6) Those in these institutions did so because they were afraid of being called 'racist'.

"Political correctness, fear of accusations of racism, and fear of losing electoral support from certain demographics have taken precedence over the protection of British children."

7) Parts of the foster and orphan care system became exploitation hotspots.

"Children’s homes became trafficking hubs where staff failed to stop older men collecting girls at night. Local authorities often returned children to unsafe homes and placements despite repeated disclosures of grooming... Social care across England systematically enabled organised grooming and the rape of children. Children’s services, local authorities, foster carers, children’s homes, and independent units repeatedly returned vulnerable children to known risk."

8) Multiple offenders explicitly linked their treatment of these girls with their own religious and cultural beliefs, and the girls' white ethnicity.

"They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were “white trash” or “kuffar” who merited punishment."

There must be comeuppance for this, and it must involve the death penalty.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

SpaceX is solving the biggest bottleneck in spaceflight

The COST

For decades, the average launch cost to low Earth orbit was around $18,500 per kg

Falcon 9 cut that to about $2,700 per kg - roughly an 85% reduction

Falcon Heavy pushed it closer to $1,400 per kg - roughly a 92% reduction

Now Starship is targeting a 99%+ cost reduction through full and rapid reusability

That is the real breakthrough

Every booster landing, every reflown rocket, every faster turnaround is directly attacking the economics of space

Lower cost per kg means more satellites, bigger payloads, orbital manufacturing, Moon missions, Mars missions, space stations, and eventually space-based industry

SpaceX is not just building rockets
It is making space usable at scale

[White Lives Matter @W_L_M__U_K]

🚨 HORRIFIC PLEASE SHARE 🚨
A 15 year old British boy has had to undergo plastic surgery after two police officers shove his face on to spiked railings. The police have lost all compassion and professionalism at this point

#BritainFirst
#SaveBritain
#BritishPatriot
#PoliceAccountability
#EndPoliceBrutality
#JusticeMatters
#FreeSpeechUK
#ProtectOurRights
#UnitedForBritain
#MakeYourVoiceHeard
@RestoreBritain
@RestoreNetwork_
@RupertLowe10