Tyler Kirby retweeted
RE: Data Republican
I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well.
But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman.
You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you.
For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned.
This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected.
These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness.
Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible.
It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST.
You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under.
And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR.
I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall.
For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding.
An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear.
But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out.
Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense."
If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them.
This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President.
Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is.
I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that.
One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.
Tyler Kirby retweeted
The 4 Pillars of ECDO Theory
1. CAUSE - Exothermic Core Cascade – Earth’s nickel–iron core sheds latent heat through phase transitions, driving climate, geomagnetic drift, and ocean heat pulses.
2. MECHANISM - Gyroscopic to Geomagnetic Oscillation – The mediated Dzhanibekov-like flip between State-1 (geomagnetic priority) and State-2 (gyroscopic priority) explains excursions, hot/cold swings, and axial realignments.
3. EVIDENCE - Khafre Pyramid Waterline – Horizon-disciplined karst erosion marks an inundation line, forensic evidence of cataclysm outside the reach of mere wind or sand.
4. PREDICTION - Megalithic Azimuths – Ancient builders encoded alignments to track and communicate a cycle far older and deeper than solstice watching: Earth’s true heartbeat.
We reside on an ECDO Planet.
This is not just compartmentalized and myopic climate science, history, geology, archaeology, or mythology. It is a unifying set of hypotheses - composing the most important theory mankind has ever pondered. It elegantly answers so many questions... up to the critical path of inquiry:
1. Who also knew?
2. Why did they not tell us?
3. Why are they so desperate to lie about it now?
Tyler Kirby retweeted
It is one thing to express moral concern.
It is another to understand the implications of what we demand in the name of morality.
Many claim that healthcare is a “human right.”
Yet rights, properly understood, do not require the labor of another person.
You have a right to free speech, not to a printing press or a microphone.
You have a right to worship, not to a church building funded by others.
Healthcare, by contrast, is not an abstraction.
It requires skilled labor, costly equipment, and time, often years of training and millions in investment.
To say that someone has a right to it is to say that someone else has an obligation to provide it, regardless of cost or consent.
The physician in question is free to offer his services at no charge to anyone he pleases. But he does not. And that fact is more revealing than any tweet.
It is not selfishness that leads people to reject the idea of healthcare as a right, it is the recognition that good intentions, untethered from economic reality, have repeatedly produced bureaucracies that ration care, stifle innovation, and punish excellence.
In a wealthy society, we can and must find ways to care for the vulnerable. But let us do so with clarity, not slogans.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity. The first lesson of politics is to ignore the first lesson of economics.
I first wrote this reply in April of 2012.
It seems we have not learned…
Tyler Kirby retweeted
The Pfizer COVID-19 “vaccine” injected into billions of arms was not the same one used in Pfizer’s clinical trials.
There was a "bait and switch." The clinical trials tested "Process 1" while the public received "Process 2."
And what they never told you is that "Process 2" was only tested on about 252 people, instead of 40,000 people.
They also didn't tell you that the vials were contaminated with plasmid DNA.
A new study by Kevin McKernan and colleagues found "the presence of billions to hundreds of billions of DNA molecules per dose in these vaccines. Using fluorometry, all vaccines exceed the guidelines for residual DNA set by FDA and WHO of 10 ng/dose by 188 to 509-fold."
In layman's terms, that's not 500%, that is up to 500 times the amount of residual DNA that is acceptable.
Tyler Kirby retweeted
The ACA was the greatest piece of legislation ever passed? Spare me.
Such a claim is not merely hyperbolic, it is historically illiterate. The Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, was not a triumph of reform but a masterpiece of political theatre and economic distortion.
It did not fix the American healthcare system; it calcified its worst features.
The ACA entrenched a reimbursement model that favors bloated health systems over independent medicine.
Through CMS, Medicare reimburses more for services rendered in hospitals and HOPDs than independent physician offices.
The consequence?
A wave of acquisitions.
Once nimble and patient-focused, private practices were absorbed by not-for-profit health systems looking to maximize revenue through arbitrage, not outcomes.
This is not reform, it is rent-seeking on an industrial scale.
Second, mandated coverage inflated prices while distorting risk. One of the ACA’s proudest boasts, essential health benefits, became its most economically illogical mandate.
Insurers were forced to cover services like maternity care for men and pediatric dentistry for retirees. Risk pools were distorted. Premiums soared. The healthy were penalized to subsidize the inefficient.
In pre-ACA America, a healthy 30-year-old could purchase catastrophic coverage for a few hundred dollars a month.
Post-ACA, that same individual faces a $1,200 monthly bill for insurance they neither want nor need. The state declared, in effect, that every American must buy a Mercedes, even if they only needed a bicycle.
The claim that “50 million Americans gained coverage” is semantically clever and substantively hollow.
Coverage is not care. The expansion of Medicaid, a key pillar of the ACA, placed millions into a program that few physicians accept and that delivers subpar outcomes.
The middle class, meanwhile, found themselves with narrow networks, enormous deductibles, and unaffordable care, all behind the illusion of a plastic insurance card.
This is the Potemkin village of healthcare: coverage without capacity, access without agency.
Finally, the ACA codified a cartel. Section 6001 of the law effectively banned the creation and expansion of physician-owned hospitals. Why?
Because physician-owned facilities outperformed corporate health systems in terms of quality and cost. The empirical record was clear. So, instead of fostering competition, Congress, lobbied by the AHA and its allies, shut it down.
Imagine a world in which Amazon had lobbied Congress to outlaw any new e-commerce startups after 2010 under the guise of “market stabilization.”
That is precisely what happened in healthcare. The ACA chose incumbency over innovation. It outlawed the insurgents and rewarded the monopolists.
In sum, the ACA is not a monument to progress, it is a monument to protectionism.
It preserved the oligopoly of legacy health systems, empowered insurers by mandating the purchase of their products, distorted prices, crushed physician autonomy, and locked out competition.
To call it the “greatest” legislation of our time is to mistake technocratic complexity for genuine reform.
It was corporate statism painted in the pastel colors of progressive compassion.
#healthcare
I know it can feel like a different era sometimes. But fifteen years ago, I signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Now nearly 50 million people have received health care through the ACA.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the Affordable Care Act is a reminder that change is possible when we keep fighting for progress.
Tyler Kirby retweeted
Nothing is more embarrassing than watching Eric Topol-- one of the worst interpreters of medical science-- disparage a Cochrane review of randomized trials, and cite a pooled analysis of garbage observational studies
This dude is not good at medical science
@carlheneghan
Weather tops are obnoxious and block the returns, the lowest tilt was very useful. The storm track dots predicted where the storm would be in time. New radar source is terrible.
ForeFlight’s Radar layer has a new source that will slightly change the appearance of radar and associated storm tracks, echo tops, and severe weather icons. Other changes include the discontinuation of Lowest-Tilt Radar and minor changes to Satellite and Global Turbulence layers
Tyler Kirby retweeted
Agree - all the C19 vax mandates should end now. I have asked my health system to end its mandate as unnecessary and damaging to workforce, and written to @Yale (alma mater) and @NotreDame (parent). The rationale for vax mandates, weak in 2021, has collapsed entirely.
Tyler Kirby retweeted
Wow. New paper makes strong case that COVID booster mandates in young adults (as in many US universities), caused net harm, and must be judged unethical. This should not have happened, and we should insist on accountability. @KevinBardosh @TracyBethHoeg @VPrasadMDMPH 👇
📢Read our new paper:
Analysis suggests Covid-19 boosters likely to cause a net clinical harm to young adults(18-29 yr), where total severe adverse events (SAEs) will outweigh Covid hospitalizations averted
Booster mandates are unethical because:1/13🧵
jme.bmj.com/content/early/20…
Tyler Kirby retweeted
Good lord look at this backcheck from Brayden Point. On championship teams the best players are typically the hardest workers. Makes sense for Tampa!
Tyler Kirby retweeted
.@ZelenskyyUa's tv address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message.
#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Україна #Russia #Россия
Tyler Kirby retweeted
Here’s the video of every celebrity without a mask during the Super Bowl. But every kid in California will have to be wearing them tomorrow in school. They must all be holding their breaths the entire game.
Tyler Kirby retweeted
Great article, but I fear the CDC director is doomed. Here's why.
In the next few months, we will have to accept the inevitable, that all people will be infected with the virus at some point in the future. Better to be vaccinated/ or have nat immunity when you meet it...🧵
It's a precarious moment for @CDCDirector, a highly regarded infectious-diseases doc. Experts say she has nothing to lose by doing more solo briefings. “I’m not worried about the White House throwing the CDC under the bus, because the CDC is already under the bus,” says @EIDgeek.
Tyler Kirby retweeted
ACLU on Trump/Twitter:
“it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions — especially when political realities make those decisions easier”
Night Landings youtu.be/drKPDK5YQ6g via @YouTube a bit of night landing currency and some instrument approaches as well.
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