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Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Macron blames France’s economic problems on the Iran war. But after nearly a decade in power:
Government debt soared from 97% to 116% of GDP.
Budget deficit doubled from 2.6% to 5.1%
Growth has been anemic throughout his nine years, slowing to 0.8% in 2025.
Poverty increased by 1.25 million people.
All before the Iran war. Macron can’t escape his own record.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Students supported Mao
Students supported Castro
Students supported Khomeini
Students supported Hitler
Students supported Mussolini
If find yourself blindly supporting every student lead movement, you’ll be wrong very often, in many eras, on many issues.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
The idea that mega billions in social welfare fraud ended up in the hands of ragtag recent immigrants is hilarious. There is no way that the powerful didn't cut themselves in on -- and organize -- one of the greatest orgies of legalized theft in human history.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Unsheltered homelessness rose 41.7% from 2013 to 2024.
Over the same period, compensation at 1,458 HUD-funded homeless NGOs rose 118%.
The system pays for inputs, not outcomes.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
BREAKING: Volkswagen announces a European rival to Tesla’s “flying” Roadster
Some insane confirmed features:
1. Top speed limited to 110 km/h
2. Automatically reports speeding to authorities
3. Automatically turns off the AC if outside temperature is below 35°C
4. Car will not start when public transport option exists on your route
5. Built-in system reminds you how much CO₂ your trip produced
Launch expected after EU regulatory approval in 2068
It is truly completely over for Tesla
You can acknowledge that Russia sees an expanding NATO as an existential threat while still supporting Ukraine’s fight for their land. Life is shades of gray, nuanced, and it’s time to mature our analysis of geopolitics.
I know several former Soviet dissidents, such as Edward Lozansky, who moved to the United States, where he worked with former American presidents. Lozansky asked me if I could produce some recorded online lectures on geoeconomics. I asked my university here in Norway, but they were opposed to the idea because it could cause a lot of problems. I told Lozansky that I could not contribute, as recording online lectures for an American-Russian university established to improve relations between Russia and the West would give Norwegian journalists too much ammunition for smears and to threaten the reputation of my university.
What is the purpose of articles like this? What exactly have they managed to catch me out on? This is a continuation of six years of intimidation since I returned to Norway. Always go after the person, never the argument. Make life as difficult as possible for your opponent, and do it publicly, so that everyone stays in line.
My great crime is arguing that Russia considers NATO expansion an existential threat, something that should be entirely uncontroversial given the extensive documentation supporting this position. Why do I believe it is important to acknowledge this? Russia will use force to push NATO back, and for Ukraine, this means that without a diplomatic solution that takes Russian security concerns into account, Russia will seize strategically important territory and destroy the remaining infrastructure so that Ukraine cannot be used by NATO as a front line. If I am right, NATO's policies will lead to the destruction of Ukraine and potentially to a nuclear war between NATO and Russia.
It is not easy to determine whether I am right, because debate in Norway has been criminalized by labelling dissenting voices as “Russian propaganda.” Unfortunately, arguments and evidence no longer matter in Norway today, where we are only allowed to discuss the supposed evil intentions of those who disagree with us. The freedom of academic discourse must be restricted because all dissent is dismissed as an attempt to “legitimize” the enemy.
In the past, we had journalists who discussed the security concerns of the opposing side. Today, we have journalists who investigate those who discuss the security concerns of the opposing side. How can we improve our own security in Norway when we are not even allowed to discuss the security concerns of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries of that kind? When acceptable debate is reduced to a narrative of a struggle between good and evil, weapons become the path to peace, while diplomacy and mutual understanding are portrayed as weakness and betrayal.
The punishment for academic dissent in Norway is endless personal attacks and derogatory name-calling. Journalists and NGOs affiliated with the state repeatedly contact my employer. Every time I am invited to give a talk, the event is cancelled. Journalists only email me to demand that I respond to accusations without providing any serious justification for them. Journalists investigating me in search of something they can use against me recently gained access to my university records. The only thing they had to use against me was that I had asked about producing some online lectures for Lozansky on political economy. Other recent articles about me have focused on my request to reduce my position at the university to 80% after journalists complained about my outside activities, as well as fake news claiming that I congratulated Putin on the election victory.
I do not believe it is a coincidence that "An Enemy of the People" was written by one of our own, Henrik Ibsen. Outside Norway, there are academic debates in which opposing arguments are presented without vicious personal attacks. Outside Norway, there is political opposition in which every member of parliament is not required to support arms shipments to a war and boycott diplomacy. Outside Norway, there are diplomats who believe in diplomacy and journalists who believe in journalism.
My advice to young Norwegian academics in security studies or political economy who argue for positions that are not supported by the political and media bubble is this: Get out of the country.
The next time @BernieSanders talks about wealth taxes, remember it was @elonmusk who gave us flying cars.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Je n'ai jamais été aussi optimiste. Pas malgré le chaos actuel, mais grâce à lui.
Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi l'empire du mensonge construit par la gauche depuis cinquante ans va s'effondrer, et pourquoi ce n'est pas une opinion mais une question de physique.
Tout commence avec un mouvement né sur X il y a quelques années : l'effective accelerationism, ou e/acc.
Au départ, c'est une idée presque thermodynamique. L'univers a une tendance de fond : la matière s'organise pour capter et dissiper l'énergie de plus en plus efficacement. Une cellule fait ça. Une forêt fait ça. Une civilisation fait ça. Le marché, la technologie et le capital sont les formes les plus avancées de ce processus. Ce sont des machines à transformer l'énergie en intelligence, en abondance, en complexité.
La thèse e/acc est simple : il ne faut pas freiner cette dynamique, il faut l'embrasser. Plus d'énergie, plus de calcul, plus d'innovation, plus de croissance. Monter sur l'échelle de Kardashev au lieu de s'excuser d'exister. En face, il y a les « décels » : ceux qui veulent ralentir, réguler, taxer, interdire, culpabiliser. Ceux qui voient le progrès comme une menace à contenir plutôt qu'une force à libérer.
Mais il y a une dimension de l'accélération dont presque personne ne parle. L'accélération n'est pas seulement un moteur. C'est un filtre.
Pensez à n'importe quel organisme. Un corps humain en bonne santé peut courir. Il accélère, son cœur pompe plus fort, ses muscles consomment plus d'oxygène, et tout fonctionne parce que le système est bien conçu. Maintenant, prenez un corps malade. Des artères bouchées, un cœur fragile, des organes qui ne communiquent plus entre eux. Faites-le courir. Il ne va pas plus vite vers la santé. Il va plus vite vers l'infarctus.
L'accélération ne corrige pas les défauts d'un système. Elle les amplifie. Un système sain qui accélère devient plus fort. Un système dysfonctionnel qui accélère meurt plus vite.
Et c'est exactement ce qui est en train d'arriver au projet que je vais appeler par son nom : le projet globalo-socialiste. Celui porté par les démocrates américains, par la technostructure de Bruxelles, par les entités supranationales qui n'ont de comptes à rendre à personne, par un réseau d'ONG financées par l'argent public pour dicter la morale aux peuples qui les financent.
Regardez ce que ce projet a produit.
Des États obèses qui prélèvent plus de la moitié de la richesse produite et qui délivrent des services publics de plus en plus dégradés. Des écoles qui n'apprennent plus à lire mais qui apprennent à culpabiliser. Des hôpitaux à bout de souffle malgré des budgets records. Une immigration massive sans aucune exigence d'assimilation, présentée comme une chance par ceux qui n'en subissent jamais les conséquences. Une désindustrialisation organisée au nom d'une écologie punitive qui délocalise la pollution en Chine et l'emploi avec. Des normes, des normes, et encore des normes, jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne plus simple de créer une entreprise à Austin qu'à Lyon. Une justice qui excuse le coupable et soupçonne la victime. Une censure qui avance masquée sous le nom de « lutte contre la désinformation ». Et une jeunesse à qui l'on a expliqué que son pays, son histoire et sa civilisation étaient des crimes à expier.
Ce n'est pas un ensemble de bugs. C'est la conception elle-même.
Maintenant, changeons d'image. Voyez ce système comme un moteur.
Un bon moteur, c'est de la précision. Des pièces qui s'emboîtent, un minimum de frottements, une énergie qui se transforme en mouvement. Le marché libre, la propriété, la responsabilité individuelle, la monnaie saine : c'est ça, un moteur bien conçu. L'information circule par les prix, chaque erreur est sanctionnée, chaque bonne idée est récompensée.
Le moteur socialiste, lui, est mal conçu dès le départ. Il ne tourne pas sur la création de valeur mais sur sa redistribution. Il ne récompense pas la performance, il la taxe. Il ne laisse pas les erreurs mourir, il les subventionne. Résultat : ça frotte partout. Ça chauffe. Ça grince. Chaque pièce use la pièce d'à côté.
Et que font ceux qui pilotent ce moteur ? Au lieu de le reconcevoir, ils changent les pièces. En permanence. Une pièce cède, on en remet une neuve. Encore une. Encore une.
Ces pièces de rechange, vous les connaissez. Elles s'appellent la dette publique et la planche à billets.
La France a dépassé les 3 300 milliards d'euros de dette et n'a pas voté un budget à l'équilibre depuis le milieu des années 70. Les États-Unis ont franchi les 37 000 milliards de dollars. Les banques centrales ont maintenu des taux à zéro pendant des années, imprimé des montants que plus personne ne sait se représenter, et quand l'inflation est arrivée, elles ont fait semblant d'être surprises. Milton Friedman l'avait pourtant dit il y a cinquante ans : l'inflation est toujours et partout un phénomène monétaire.
Chaque crise, on rachète du temps avec de l'argent qui n'existe pas. Chaque problème structurel, on l'arrose de liquidités pour masquer le bruit du moteur. Mais les frottements sont toujours là. Ils s'accumulent. Et la facture des pièces de rechange finit par coûter plus cher que le moteur lui-même : la charge de la dette devient l'un des premiers postes de dépense de l'État français.
Pendant des décennies, ce moteur mal conçu a pu tourner à 3 000 tours par minute. Lentement. Bruyamment. Mais il tournait. Le monde allait assez doucement pour que le bricolage permanent suffise à masquer l'absurdité de la conception.
Et puis l'IA est arrivée.
L'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'accélération la plus brutale de l'histoire humaine. Ce qui prenait des années prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des jours. Des entreprises de dix personnes font ce que faisaient des entreprises de mille. Le capital, les talents et les idées se déplacent à la vitesse de la lumière vers les endroits où ils sont bien traités.
L'IA vient de faire passer le moteur de 3 000 à 20 000 tours par minute.
Posez-vous la question qu'un ingénieur se poserait. Que se passe-t-il quand on fait monter à 20 000 tours un moteur mal conçu, rafistolé de partout, qui frotte à chaque rotation ?
Il explose.
Pas parce que quelqu'un l'a saboté. Parce que la physique ne négocie pas.
Et c'est exactement ce que nous voyons en ce moment, sous nos yeux.
L'insécurité qui gagne des villes entières qui étaient paisibles il y a vingt ans. Le conflit de Gaza importé dans nos rues et instrumentalisé par une gauche qui a troqué l'ouvrier contre le clientélisme communautaire. La misère qui revient dans un pays qui a pourtant un des taux de dépense publique les plus élevés au monde. Des classes moyennes qui travaillent et n'arrivent plus à se loger. Une France fracturée, où l'on parle désormais à voix haute de risque de guerre civile.
Ce ne sont pas des accidents. Ce ne sont pas des « crises » successives sans lien entre elles. Ce sont les pièces du moteur qui commencent à voler.
C'est la conséquence logique de cinquante ans de socialisme international : un système qui a détruit la responsabilité, la frontière, la monnaie, l'école et la fierté, et qui découvre qu'à haute vitesse, tout ce qui a été détruit ne peut plus être compensé par une ligne de dette supplémentaire.
Et c'est là que je deviens profondément optimiste.
Parce qu'une fois qu'on a compris ça, on comprend aussi que leur projet a une date de fin. Pas une date politique. Une date physique. Un système qui consomme plus qu'il ne produit, qui punit ceux qui créent et récompense ceux qui détruisent, qui finance son présent en hypothéquant l'avenir de ses enfants, ne peut pas durer indéfiniment. Il n'est pas soutenable par construction. L'IA ne fait qu'avancer l'échéance.
Le mensonge a besoin de lenteur pour survivre. Il a besoin que les conséquences arrivent assez tard pour qu'on puisse accuser quelqu'un d'autre. Dans un monde à 20 000 tours, les conséquences arrivent immédiatement. Le mensonge n'a plus le temps de se cacher.
Alors, que faire quand le moteur explose ? On en construit un nouveau. Et cette fois, on le conçoit correctement.
Écoutez Elon Musk. Un homme qui a reconstruit l'industrie spatiale, la voiture électrique et l'infrastructure satellite en partant d'un principe simple : revenir aux premiers principes. Ne pas demander « comment on a toujours fait », mais « qu'est-ce qui est physiquement vrai ». C'est exactement ce dont nos États ont besoin : arrêter de rafistoler et repartir de la base.
Écoutez Javier Milei. Un homme dont tout le monde se moquait, arrivé à la tête d'un pays ravagé par un siècle de péronisme, et qui a pris la tronçonneuse au sens propre. Ministères supprimés, dépenses coupées, inflation écrasée, excédent budgétaire retrouvé. Il a prouvé une chose que la gauche jurait impossible : on peut démonter le moteur socialiste et le peuple peut le soutenir.
Écoutez Milton Friedman. Relisez-le. Tout était déjà là. La monnaie, la liberté de choisir, la responsabilité, les effets pervers de l'intervention publique. Il disait que si l'on confiait le Sahara au gouvernement fédéral, il y aurait pénurie de sable en cinq ans. On a ri. On a confié le sable. On a eu la pénurie.
Revenez à une hiérarchie et au respect du beau. Une civilisation ne tient pas que sur des chiffres. Elle tient sur l'idée qu'il existe des choses supérieures à d'autres. Que l'excellence vaut mieux que la médiocrité. Que le mérite compte. Qu'une cathédrale est plus belle qu'un parking. Que transmettre est un devoir et pas une oppression. Le relativisme a été l'arme culturelle de ce projet. Le retour du beau, du vrai et de l'exigence en sera l'antidote.
Et enfin, faites le Nuremberg du communisme. Le nazisme a été jugé, documenté, enseigné, et il est devenu moralement indéfendable. Le communisme, avec ses dizaines de millions de morts, ses goulags, ses famines organisées et ses peuples réduits en esclavage, n'a jamais eu ce procès. On peut encore porter un t-shirt du Che dans une université sans que personne ne cille. Tant que ce procès historique et moral n'aura pas eu lieu, l'idéologie continuera de muter et de revenir sous de nouveaux noms. Il faut nommer les crimes, les enseigner, honorer les victimes, et rendre cette idéologie aussi infréquentable que celle qu'elle prétendait combattre.
Le monde qui vient sera plus rapide, plus exigeant et plus impitoyable avec les systèmes mal conçus. C'est une terrible nouvelle pour ceux qui ont vécu du mensonge.
Et c'est la meilleure nouvelle de notre génération pour tous ceux qui veulent construire.
Le moteur va exploser. À nous de dessiner le suivant.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
NEW: 🇳🇴 Chinese-owned rental cars used by the Norwegian Armed Forces reportedly recorded soldiers, their movements and security codes during a major military exercise in Oslo, raising serious questions about the security of vehicles used in sensitive military operations.
The incident occurred during Operation Hovedstad, held from September 14 to 18, when Norway’s Home Guard District 02 trained for security operations, including scenarios involving the defence of Oslo Airport during wartime.
The Armed Forces had rented the cars through Hertz Norway under a nationwide rental agreement signed in 2024, worth up to 350 million Norwegian kroner and running until May 2028. Hertz Norway’s ownership chain ultimately leads to China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which also owns Volvo Cars. The agreement provides rental vehicles for exercises, operational activities and everyday military use.
During the exercise, soldiers discovered that the cars had recorded and stored video footage. Lieutenant Fredrik Blanck told Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) that the recordings showed who entered and exited the vehicles, where they travelled, whom they picked up and how long they remained at different locations.
More concerningly, the footage reportedly captured security codes entered by soldiers when opening military gates. Some access points require both a key card and a code, meaning the recordings could expose sensitive access procedures.
The vehicles remained in use throughout the exercise because alternative transport was in limited supply.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Delia, a federal JUDGE signed this warrant. And your fix is to "dismantle DHS"? That also dismantles the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA, three weeks before an election. Before you lecture anyone about using the federal government to target opponents, check who did it first.
DOJ confirmed Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Sources told Fox and ABC it involves immigration paperwork. No charges have been announced, and a search is not a conviction. I hold that standard for your side too, which is more than you ever did for mine.
The history you skipped:
April 2022, the FBI opens Arctic Frost. Released FBI files show it reached at least 92 Republican-linked groups and people, including the RNC, the Republican Attorneys General Association, and Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.
August 8, 2022, FBI agents search Mar-a-Lago, the home of a former president and the leading Republican candidate.
November 2022, Arctic Frost goes to Jack Smith, who charges Trump twice in 2023.
What's next, the FBI pulling the phone records of sitting senators? Wait, I'm being told that already happened. Grassley's oversight found Arctic Frost collected the call records of EIGHT Republican senators: who called whom, and when.
Did you call any of that "persecution"? Did you demand they "strip the FBI of their weapons"? I went looking. Looking... Looking... Crickets. Biden's Autopen DOJ did all of it and you never said a word. I trust that consistency about as much as gas station sushi.
Now the "almost a decade of lies." In 2019, Minnesota's own campaign finance investigation flagged that she had filed joint tax returns with a man she was not legally married to, while still legally married to someone else. Minnesota regulators found that, years before anyone at DHS opened a file. Slight oversight!
And "strip them of their weapons"? HSI works child exploitation, human trafficking and fentanyl cases. You want those agents unarmed when they knock on a trafficker's door. Go sell your crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.
Smith's team grabbed eight senators' phone records without telling them. This one went in front of a judge, got a warrant, and DOJ announced it the same morning. If that's tyranny, it's the most polite tyranny in history.
If she did nothing wrong, the paperwork will show it, and I'll say so. Nobody is above the law, and that phrase didn't expire when the letter after the name changed from R to D.
I kept the receipts on who really weaponized the government:
But what do I know, I'm only a teacher who remembers what happened in 2022.
Reading “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, Poland entered communism with intellectuals who believed they could pay lip service to a regime they disagreed with while privately preserving their principles. They failed. The mask became the face.
Poland as a role model for the declining West.
Not because Poland is rich or perfect. Because Poland already lived through the lie and knows how it ends.
Communism was never mainly an economic system. It was a system of institutionalized lying. Poles have a word for it: zakłamanie. The West has the thing without the word.
That is the real Polish advantage: antibodies. A people who had to whisper the truth for forty years recognize an official lie at first sight.
France hasn’t had its 1989 yet. It will, because lies are expensive and the money is running out.
Poland is not catching up with the West. The West is catching up with Poland’s past and, if it’s lucky, with its exit.
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Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
They’ll call you every name in the book.
In 2022, the Prime Minister called unvaccinated Canadians racists and misogynists who “take up space.”
Weeks later, Ottawa froze the bank accounts of people who’d given $50 to a trucker protest.
That’s what tolerance looks like when the state has the keys.
The question should never be does the highest person have too much, it should be does the lowest person have enough. We have people dying from drugs, not starvation.
Bernie Sanders is welcome to start his own commune, to give socialism a try. But count me out.
Bernie Sanders makes $174,000 a year.
He owns three houses and keeps telling YOU to give up more. So I wrote a rule for every socialist candidate: live like the median voter you claim to speak for. Everything over the line goes to the national debt. Bernie will hate rule three.
I call it the Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Standard. It applies to anyone running as a socialist, a democratic socialist, or with a DSA endorsement on the yard sign. No committee. No 1,400-page bill. Three rules.
o Rule one: your taxable income cannot exceed the median American household. The Census Bureau put that at $87,460 for 2025. A record high, by the way. Under capitalism. Write that down, it will be on the quiz.
o Rule two: your house cannot be bigger than the typical American home, roughly 1,800 square feet. I'm told that is about the size of a walk-in closet in certain zip codes.
o Rule three: you cannot own more homes or cars than the average household. One house. About two vehicles. And no, the lake house does not count as a vehicle. I asked. It has a dock, not wheels.
Everything over the line goes to the national debt. Not to a charity or your foundation, and not to a nonprofit run by your campaign manager's cousin. To the debt. By your own logic, the federal government is the most deserving outfit in the country, and it is certainly the most broke. So send the money where it's needed most.
Somebody in the replies is already typing "that's not how it works." Sit down. It already is. Since 1961, the Treasury has accepted Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt through Pay.gov. Credit card, debit card, bank account, PayPal. They even take Venmo now. Nobody has to pass a bill first. Every "please tax me more" millionaire in America could do it before lunch.
Want to guess how much came in from 1996 to mid-2025? About $67 million. Total. From the entire country. Against a debt measured in trillions.
Strange how that line is always empty. All that talk about a fair share turns out to be about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
Let me show you how this works in a classroom, since that's where I live. Picture my new Equitable Lunch Initiative. Every kid with two cookies hands one to a kid with none. Fair is fair. Meanwhile, the teacher who announced the policy keeps a full tray of cookies in her desk drawer, because somebody has to oversee the cookies. That is the entire DSA platform on a lunch tray. It's just common sense.
So let's grade the two most famous volunteers.
@SenSanders, a Senate salary is $174,000. That's roughly double the median household. Under my standard, about half of every paycheck goes to the debt, starting with the next one.
Then the houses. A home in Burlington. A rowhouse in D.C. A lakefront camp in North Hero on Lake Champlain, the one he and Jane paid cash for in 2016. The government sells two, and you get to pick which one you keep. I'm not a monster.
The book royalties count too. Back in 2019, when someone asked how a socialist became a millionaire, Bernie said he wrote a bestselling book, and anyone who does that can be a millionaire too. Agreed! That's called capitalism. You made a product, people bought it of their own free will, and you kept the profit. Congratulations, Senator. You found the system that works. You've just spent your whole career trying to make sure nobody else gets to use it.
"But Mike, he's fighting the SYSTEM. One man can't fix it alone." That dog won't hunt. A man who says the system is rigged can still decline to cash the winnings. Nobody is stopping him. The Pay.gov page is open right now. If the system is the problem, why is he always the exception?
Ms. Pelosi, you've never called yourself a socialist. You just voted for their spending for 39 years, so you've earned honorary enrollment. I know, I know, the trades are Paul's. Rule one is household income. Same kitchen table, same household. Every gain over the line this year goes to the debt. Nobody is accusing anybody of anything. The national debt would simply like its share of the luck.
I'll stop joking for a minute.
I know exactly what $87,000 looks like from the inside. It looks like a teacher's paycheck and an Army retirement check stretched across a family. Wait. I take that back. I don't actually know what an Army retirement check looks like, because the government is stealing mine. That's the wounded veteran tax, and it's why we need to pass the Major Richard Star Act, H.R. 2102 and S. 1032. Where was I? Right. It looks like a grocery list that gets edited at the register. It looks like driving the car with 200,000 miles on it because a new payment would eat a month of groceries. It looks like telling your kid "maybe next year" and meaning it.
Millions of families live right there, every single month, and never once ask the government to rescue them.
THAT is the life you want everyone else to pay for. Come live in it. Just for one term.
Jesus spoke to this in Matthew 23. Talking to the crowds and His disciples about the scribes and Pharisees, He told them to do what those leaders taught but not what they did, because they preached and didn't practice. Then verse 4: they tie up heavy burdens, lay them on other people's shoulders, and won't lift a finger to move them. Swap the robes for a Senate pin and you have the same problem.
If you can't live by the standard you're selling, why on earth would anyone believe you'd govern by it? A politician who won't take his own medicine but keeps writing you prescriptions is all hat and no cattle.
For the ones already sitting in Congress, I didn't stop at a rule. I wrote the bill that puts their own skin in the game. It's in the first reply.
So here's my offer to every DSA candidate on a ballot this November. Sign the standard. Post a screenshot of your first Pay.gov receipt. I'll share it myself. No rush, though.
But what do I know, I'm only a physics teacher, and in my lab you don't get credit for the experiment until you actually run it.
Nadine 🇨🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
"Socialism heroically fights problems unknown in any other system."
Yes – this guy was one of our most brilliant intellectuals. Meaning a guy producing real understanding – not vapid commentary dressed up as depth. One sentence of his explains more than a shelf of political science.
1. The law. First the system creates the problem. Then it creates an office to fight the problem. Then it blames the people for the problem. Then it asks for more power to fight harder. Every step looks like a solution, and the whole thing is a trap.
2. The proof. In Poland we lived under these absurdities for 45 years. The state fixed the price of meat, so meat disappeared. Then came ration cards for meat. Then people sold meat privately at its real price, so the state made that a crime called "speculation" and set up special bodies to hunt the speculators. It was a problem unknown in any other system, and the state fought it heroically.
3. The queue. We got to know the machine deeply, from the inside, standing in line. You queued first and asked what was being sold later. People walked home wearing toilet paper rolls on a string around their necks, like trophies. And we learned to laugh about it. A man walks into a shop: "No meat?" "No, sir, here we have no fish. No meat is across the street."
4. The merriest barrack. We were called the merriest barrack in the communist camp. Other barracks were grimmer. We laughed at the queues, at the Party, and at ourselves, with jokes whispered at work and told loudly at weddings. The system had the army, the police and the press. We had the punchline.
5. The joke as knowledge. The laughter was not an escape. It was understanding. A good joke is a model of the system that fits into ten seconds. "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work" is a whole economics textbook in one line. The communists could censor newspapers, but they could never censor the joke.
6. The man. Stefan Kisielewski, known as Kisiel – the name of a sweet fruit jelly. He was a composer and a columnist, and readers opened the Catholic weekly from the last page, where his column was. He was the only public figure in communist Poland to openly praise capitalism from the parliament rostrum. In 1968 he called the regime a dictatorship of dimwits. Days later, "unknown attackers" beat him in the street. The tongue out was his method: a regime that demands to be taken seriously fears nothing more than a man who laughs at it – and is right.
7. The West today. Germany shut down its nuclear plants, then fought an energy crisis. Berlin capped rents, then fought a shortage of flats. Brussels writes rules that strangle industry, then launches plans to save European competitiveness. Each time, the problem is new to them. It was not new to us.
We laughed because we knew. The West does not laugh yet, because it still believes. The jokes come later – right after the queues.
Parkinson’s Law – Why the State Bureaucracy Grows When the Work Shrinks
In 1955, a British naval historian wrote a joke for The Economist. Seventy years later, it remains one of the most accurate descriptions of the modern state ever written. Everyone knows the slogan: work expands to fill the time available. Almost no one knows the mechanism underneath it. That mechanism explains Europe.
1. The evidence. Between 1914 and 1928, the Royal Navy lost two thirds of its largest warships. Over the same years the Admiralty – the office that ran the ships – grew by three quarters. There were fewer ships and more men behind desks. Then there was the Colonial Office, which kept growing while the colonies left one by one. It was hiring while the empire was shrinking.
2. The first mechanism. An official who feels overworked has three choices. He can resign, he can share the work with a colleague, or he can ask for two subordinates. He never chooses the colleague, because a colleague is a rival. Two subordinates are a rank. So one tired man becomes three. Then each of the two subordinates feels tired.
3. The second mechanism. Seven people now do what one did, and they keep each other busy with drafts, approvals, and comments on the approvals. Everyone works hard, and nothing is produced. You have been in this meeting. You have been copied on this email. You have watched three people sign the form that one person filled in.
4. The law of triviality. Parkinson noticed that a committee will approve a nuclear reactor in minutes, because nobody understands it. The same committee will debate the bicycle shed for an hour, because everybody does. Bureaucracy does not avoid the important question by accident. It avoids it by design – the small question carries no risk, and on the big one, someone’s name goes on the decision.
5. The ratchet. A business that fails closes. A department that fails gets a bigger budget, because the problem is now bigger. Failure is the bureaucracy’s best argument for itself. This is why the state never shrinks on its own: every problem it does not solve becomes a new office for solving it.
6. The civilizational lesson. Burnham described the managers taking over. Parkinson showed how they breed. Put the two together and you get Brussels. You get France, where the state spends more than half of everything the country produces and still cannot fix a hospital. This is not because the people inside are wicked. It is because the machine works exactly as Parkinson said it would.
7. The vindication. Parkinson was dismissed as a humorist. Then Milei cut Argentina’s ministries in half – and the country did not collapse. It barely noticed, except on the bill. The lesson is simple: you cannot reform a bureaucracy by asking it what to cut. It will always propose to cut the ships – and hire someone to manage the cut.
Interesting thought experiment but it seems a bit too far fetched for me. I would need a lot of proof to buy this. In case I’m wrong, worth putting in the back of my mind.
Here's how I think it worked:
- Intentionally shoddy voter rolls are the feedstock
- D SecOfState gives registration data to NGO1
- NGO1 identifies low propensity voters and gives the list to NGO2
- NGO2 oversees a network of local street level ballot harvesters for given lists and targets..which if they do not meet will result in them not being included next election.
There doesn't need to be a central committee or anybody making all the decisions, and the only people really breaking the law are low-level harvesters. The fraud self-organizes, but it costs an enormous amount of money.
Marc Elias and Norm Eisen are the tip of the spear of a huge legal network getting the rules in place to allow the fraud, and all those NGOs and street level harvesters are on the payroll. It adds up.
There were 20-30K democracy/ election related NGOs in the US with reported funding of $3.4B in 2020; that's what the Zuckbucks and Soros paid for. On top of that, there are another 500K "advocacy" NGOs funded at $50B, which is important because the money is fungible and it sloshes around these left wing networks; that's the work
@DataRepublican has been doing.
So much money and tens of thousands of people on the payroll, all with the single job of maximizing @TheDemocrats
votes.
Drying up the money cripples the networks. Cleaning the rolls reduces the feedstock, which is important even if the blue states don't participate because lots of red states have bright blue dots in them; think Jacksonville and Houston. Deportations and ICE drain the front line workforce. And lots of those frontline workers are involved in other shady Learing Center type operations and are gonna be lying low, especially if HSI and ICE are at the polls.
Evidence: NoKings fizzled, and there were no mass protests this summer. Even Cornell7, AI Apocalypse, and Black Girl Lynchings seem half-hearted, and the 2020 playbook doesn't work anymore. It was all manufactured, and the network that produced it is fractured and under assault.
It's a bummer that the SaveAct didn't get passed, but I think all these actions are still going to reduce the fraud, and I further believe that our being a 50/50 country is an illusion. Without the election and census shenanigans, we should already be up 40 seats in the House.
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Here’s the part you guys can’t seem to grasp: Americans are not sitting around obsessing over Canada. Your economy had problems long before Trump, your government made its own policy choices, and every time something goes wrong up there, blaming Trump is apparently easier than looking in the mirror.
So keep telling yourselves America is consumed with screwing Canada. Most Americans aren’t thinking about you at all.
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EXPOSED 🚨 This is how paid protest networks can secretly claim to be grassroots and not big donor funded
- 2 paid protesters organizers are exposed as being paid $80,000 each per year each, both work for The People's Forum
- On paper, they make $0 from The People's Forum, so it looks like the protest organizers are no paid
- However if you look dig a litter deeper into their taxes you can see they are paid by a different NGO called the Justice and Education Fund
- The Justice and Education Fund is the nonprofit funded by Neville Roy Singham, the billionaire China
So that’s how they do it. They setup paid protest network NGOs but on paper have their people making $0 so it looks like the whole thing is grassroots
Then through separate connected NGOs, they pay out their salaries for paid protesting
This is a dark money pass through
This is the scam, sister charities strip the original donor’s name off the recipient’s public return, so a group can look grassroots while its payroll and grants trace to one network. It’s extremely deceptive
Democrats and their donors need to go to prison. These are foreign funded mass protest networks caused chaos in America. Why are we putting up with it
My opinion is everyone involved in these foreign funded paid mass protest networks should be criminally charged
I look at Trump’s actions through the lens of near future conflict with China and going all in on AI to prevent the collapse of the economy. Depending on success, he will be looked at by historians as one of the greatest or one the worst. Nothing in between.
