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Civil servants were embedded inside the BBC newsroom working on coverage of politically sensitive subjects including immigration, small boats and Covid.
And we are supposed to believe nobody saw an obvious problem with this? We all knew the BBC was a voice box for the government. Now we have the evidence.
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Dr. James Miller, who treated the first diagnosed COVID patient in the U.S., says he witnessed hospitals withholding essential healthcare from unvaccinated patients, including access to medications for diabetes and high blood pressure.
When he confronted hospital administrators about these practices, he says they defended them as “the right thing to do.”
Dr. Miller refused to participate. Instead, he worked with his pastor to establish a free medical clinic at their church to provide care for patients who had been turned away.
For standing up for his patients, he faced retaliation, investigations, and even threats of arrest.
These things are supposed to be grounded, you know. But this isn’t the first time lightning has ignited these fuel reserves. 🤨
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Nobody has ever read Obamacare. Not the 219 House members who voted for it in March 2010, not the bureaucrats who administer it, and certainly not you. The statute ran roughly 2,700 pages, which was already absurd, but then HHS, the IRS, and CMS got to work and buried it under more than 20,000 pages of implementing regulations. Stack them up and you get a tower over seven feet tall. Nancy Pelosi told you the plan out loud: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it." She wasn't gaffing. She was describing the business model.
The unreadability is the point. Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist who helped design the thing, admitted in 2013 that "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage" and credited "the stupidity of the American voter" for its passage. You couldn't debate what you couldn't read, and Congress couldn't be held accountable for text it delegated to unelected agencies to write after the vote. This is legislation as fog machine. Complexity becomes a moat.
Ask yourself who swims in that moat comfortably. Not you. Not your doctor. UnitedHealth and Aetna employ floors of compliance lawyers who parse those 20,000 pages for a living, and every page raises the cost of entry for any upstart insurer who thinks he can serve customers better. No central planner can possess the dispersed knowledge to price medical care for 330 million people. The regulators know this too, at some level. Their answer wasn't humility. Their answer was paperwork: an estimated 165 million hours of it annually, a tax paid in human lifetimes.
Free market economists have a name for what follows. Mises called it the interventionist cascade: each regulation creates distortions (premiums doubled on the individual market between 2013 and 2017) that politicians then "fix" with more regulation, each layer less readable than the last. You are governed by text no living person has read in full, enforced by agencies you never voted for, defended by experts who openly call you stupid. The Constitution fits in your pocket. Obamacare requires a hand truck. That ratio tells you exactly who the law was written for.
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BREAKING: Taybeh, the last Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank, is on fire!
Local residents report that Israeli settlers torched the fields.
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Joe Rogan exposes Anthony Fauci’s role during both the AIDS crisis and COVID.
“You got to realize, like, during the AIDS crisis… do you know who was the guy that was in charge of the medical establishment in this country? Anthony motherfu**ing Fauci.”
“And that guy had everybody convinced that we’re all going to get AIDS and that we’re all going to die.”
“One of the medications they gave people was AZT.”
“Problem with AZT was AZT was a chemotherapy medication, and it was killing people quicker than cancer was.”
“When they stopped using AZT, people stopped dying.”
“He was like, ‘AZT… is the only drug that is both safe and effective.’”
“And that’s the same guy that sold us this bag of bull**it with the Covid origins.”
@joerogan
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Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
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The answer doesn't have to be in your head; you can look outside yourself. If you're truly looking at things objectively, you must recognize that the probability of you always having the best answer is small and that, even if you have it, you can't be confident that you do before others test you. So it is invaluable to know what you don't know. Ask yourself: Am I seeing this just through my own eyes? If so, then you should know that you're terribly handicapped. #principleoftheday
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I don't need to search the world for things to be concerned about. My concerns are the ones right in front of me: my family, my friends, my town.
I get that neocons will neocon. But even a handful of people on the actual right are cheering about Iran.
How are house prices doing in America? How about the lost souls wandering the streets of our cities at night, or the conservative families who did everything right but their kids got caught in the trans hideousness anyway?
It is the left that, bored with bourgeois life, historically inverted this natural order.
Rousseau was all tears and pity about the earthquake in Lisbon, but put his own children in a foundling asylum.
John Lennon wanted world peace, but had no contact with his son from his first marriage.
The best line in the Tucker Carlson interview of the heretical Mike Huckabee was when Huckabee said that without Iran we wouldn't have the problem on the border with Lebanon, and Tucker responded, the way a conservative would, by saying: what problem on the border with Lebanon? I'm not having a problem on the border with Lebanon. I live in Maine.
And we weren't born yesterday: no right winger, observing the American regime, thinks to himself: these people care deeply about the Iranian public.
But as our own country crumbles, the temptation to get excited about foreign adventures increases. It's a perverse paradox.
I promise you, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin do not steer you right, and they are not steering you right now.
If you're on the right, you have an appreciation for the precariousness of the human condition. You certainly do not think: if the regime deposes a man it dislikes, this will lead to a better outcome. You do not know that. History is not kind to that kind of naïveté, and if there's one thing right-wingers are not, it is naive.
The true heart of America is not Ben Shapiro but John Quincy Adams (and Henry Clay, and so many others who echoed the same sentiments):
"[America] has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.
"She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart....
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
"But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
"She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
"She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
True
Scott Jennings takes a moment to remind the CNN panel of the one thing the Supreme Court ruling proved today.
It completely SHATTERED a multi-year Democrat narrative.
@ScottJenningsKY: “And I’ll tell you one more thing.”
“For every Democrat and every media person that has gone on for the last year or two about how this Supreme Court is a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump, that it’s not independent, that it does whatever he says to do…”
“Obviously, that narrative was OBLITERATED today.”
“So to me, I thought this was actually…I thought the ruling was sound.”
“I think the president is sound to try other statutes.”
“And I think the narratives about the court not being independent and the president not obeying the court were TOTALLY blown up today.”
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The government's intrusion into the healthcare market has led to record stock prices for insurance companies and higher consumer costs, highlighting the unaffordability of the "Affordable" Care Act.
Hurray!
NASA has officially confirmed the return of humans to the Moon.
Artemis II, the first crewed mission to venture beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, is now set to launch on February 6, 2026. This 10-day flight will send four astronauts on a journey around the Moon, serving as a vital rehearsal for future lunar landings.
The crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), and Christina Koch (mission specialist), together with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Koch will make history as the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit, while Hansen will become the first Canadian to participate in a lunar mission.
Although Artemis II will not include a landing, it will rigorously test NASA’s Orion spacecraft and deep-space exploration systems in real conditions. After launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crew will complete an initial orbit around Earth to check life-support and other critical systems. They will then perform a trans-lunar injection burn, using the Moon’s gravity to swing around its far side in a classic figure-eight trajectory.
The mission will take the astronauts more than 230,000 miles from Earth at their farthest point, following a free-return path that allows them to coast back to Earth without additional engine burns. The flight concludes with a high-velocity atmospheric reentry and Pacific Ocean splashdown.
No humans have traveled this far from Earth in more than 50 years—the previous record was set by Apollo 17 in December 1972.
Artemis II paves the way for Artemis III, targeted for 2027, which aims to achieve the first crewed Moon landing of the 21st century.
This has been needed for so long!
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has just signed an executive order boosting support for foster children who age out of the system
47 had Melania sign it too, as she spearheaded this effort ❤️
“Each year, over 15,000 young people age out of the foster care system,” President Trump said. Around 50% of them end up homeless.
This is part of the First Lady’s Fostering the Future initiative, which secures educational opportunities and scholarships for children in foster care.