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Deacon Rigo retweeted
The Architect of Nothing: Thirty Years of Bernie Sanders Robbing America
Bernie Sanders is in essence the most useless man America has ever seen.
For more than three decades, the American political stage has tolerated the finger-wagging theater of Bernard Sanders, absolute fossil who has perfected the art of converting economic illiteracy into a lucrative personal enterprise.
Watching Sanders lecture the working class on enterprise and economics resembles listening to an alchemist preach modern chemistry. He presents himself as the righteous champion of the laborer, yet his entire career is an unbroken record of legislative inertia, fiscal delusion, and moral abdication dressed in the tattered costume of democratic socialism.
The record of his legislative productivity exposes the myth completely. Sanders arrived on Capitol Hill in 1991. Across thirty-five years of feeding at the public trough, drawing a taxpayer-funded salary while railing against the system that enriched him, the self-proclaimed revolutionary has managed to enact exactly three substantive standalone bills into law. Two of them were designations to name post offices in Vermont. Decades of pompous floor speeches, decades of furious town halls, and the net monument to his legislative skill is brass plaques on two local postal branches. When tasked with real governance, such as chairing the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the result was a catastrophic managerial breakdown. An investigative probe uncovered systemic falsification of appointment schedules and lethal waitlists for vulnerable veterans while Sanders initially brushed off the reports as an ideological conspiracy concocted by political enemies.
Beyond bureaucratic incompetence lies an even deeper rot: total detachment from the basic laws of arithmetic. Sanders routinely touts single-payer healthcare proposals that would cost tens of trillions of dollars over a decade, blithely demanding that taxpayers swallow unprecedented confiscatory rates to fund an unwieldy state apparatus. He lectures free-market enterprises while conveniently ignoring that his flagship socialist models across Latin America systematically collapsed into breadlines, blackouts, and hyperinflation. When pressed on the mechanisms of capital allocation, he retreats into adolescent platitudes about millionaires and billionaires, conveniently updating his rhetoric to omit millionaires the moment book royalties converted him into a multi-property owner who shuttles between lakeside retreats and Capitol Hill suites.
The working class does not need lectures from a lifelong functionary who never built a business, never managed a payroll, and never created a single productive private-sector job. Sanders preaches solidarity while functioning as a sheepdog for the very managerial establishment he claims to oppose, reliably folding his theatrical resistance every election cycle to endorse the corporate machine. The entire socialist enterprise rests on exploiting envy and masking personal inadequacy behind state-mandated confiscation.
Bernard Sanders should retire into silence, because thirty years of empty slogans cannot hide the reality of a political career defined by total legislative bankruptcy.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Women blinded under Islamic Republic, and Taliban, by shotgun and acid attack!
I invited these incredible heroes to Spain and Poland because I believe the real awards belong to them. The Islamic Republic took their eyes for the crime of demanding freedom. They still do not lower their voices, unlike many Europeans they don’t bow to their oppressors.
Europe is legitimizing the Taliban and shaking hands with the mullahs. Before you sign the next deal, sit with these women. Look into their eyes. Answer one question: Why?
Their stories are not only about Iran. They are a warning.
These women fight so their country can be free, and so your democracies stay safe from the same Islamist terrorists knocking at your door.
Europe talks about values. But then it normalizes relations with the Taliban and Islamic Republic of Iran, the same regimes who kick out girls from schools, ban women from working, from being seen, from existing in public life.
The mullahs hang women and men for speaking up. They hang young people for one post on social media.
One day you will harvest what you have planted.
This is called an Apartheid against women and we are all united against Islamic Republic and Taliban.
Choose your ally! You stand with us or with these terrorist regimes willing to expand their ideology everywhere in the West!
Deacon Rigo retweeted
The number of Catholic priests worldwide has increased for the first time in five years, rising by 425 to reach 407,421, compared with 406,996 the previous year.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
My twin granddaughters, Grace and Olivia, 11yo, are serving their first Mass tomorrow at 8AM at St. Mary Goystn. Please, if you don't like girls on the altar, I understand, no need to comment. Just pray for these girls, who volunteered to serve The Church. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
My dear American friends, in my last post I gave you a snapshot of where France stands today. Now let me show you how we got here. I want you to see the whole movie before you buy the ticket.
After the war, France was a machine. We called it the Trente Glorieuses, thirty glorious years. We built Concorde, the most beautiful aircraft ever made. We built a fleet of nuclear reactors in about fifteen years and gave ourselves some of the cleanest, cheapest electricity in the world. We built Ariane and put Europe in space. We built the TGV, the fastest train on earth. We invented the Minitel, an online network in millions of homes before most of you had heard of the internet. We were not a museum. We were builders.
Then came 1981. François Mitterrand. Think of him as our Bernie Sanders, except he actually won. At his side, in the office next to his at the Élysée, sat a 37-year-old prodigy named Jacques Attali, his special adviser for the next ten years. The brightest minds of the left, convinced they could run an economy from a ministry.
Here's what they did. They governed with Communist ministers. In 1982 they nationalized dozens of banks and the biggest industrial groups in the country: Paribas, Suez, Saint-Gobain, Thomson, Pechiney, Rhône-Poulenc. They lowered the retirement age to 60. They cut the work week to 39 hours and added a fifth week of paid vacation. They created a wealth tax. They hired massively into the public sector.
Reality hit in less than two years. Capital fled, inflation ran wild, and the franc was devalued three times. In March 1983 Mitterrand had to slam on the brakes and impose austerity just to stay in the European monetary system.
But here's the trick: the brakes never reversed anything. They just slowed the ratchet. The so-called right came back with Jacques Chirac, and nothing was undone. Under Chirac's presidency, France passed the 35-hour work week. Left or right, every government added one more program, one more rule, one more tax, and nobody ever took one away.
At the same time, the political class did something even more destructive than bad economics. It turned the youth into a political instrument. Instead of teaching young people, including millions of children of immigrants, to love the country they lived in, it taught them a story of guilt and grievance: France as the oppressor, France as the thing to resent. You cannot integrate people into a country you've taught them to despise. We are living with the consequences of that narrative today, in our schools, our suburbs, our streets.
Then forty years of slow decline, all the way to Macron. And the story has a perfect ending. In 2007, Jacques Attali chaired a commission on how to unleash French growth. Its deputy rapporteur was a young civil servant named Emmanuel Macron. The commission proposed more than 300 reforms to free the economy. Almost none were ever implemented. Even the men who built the system knew it wasn't working, and even they couldn't undo it.
No balanced budget since 1974. Public spending around 57% of GDP. Debt above 3,300 billion euros. Growth stuck under 1%.
Now the number that should keep you up at night. In 1995, GDP per person in France was about $27,000. In America, about $29,000. We were neck and neck. Today France is around $49,000. America is around $90,000. You are now nearly twice as rich per person as we are.
What changed? Not our talent. Not our engineers. Not our schools of mathematics. The only thing that changed is that we went all in on socialism. The 35 hours, the endless regulation, the taxes that chase out anyone who builds, the belief that the state should do everything and the individual should ask permission for everything.
There's a line people love to attribute to Einstein: insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We tried. For forty years, we tried. Every government promised that one more program, one more tax, one more regulation would finally fix things. You just saw where it got us.
So if you choose the Democratic Party, which is literally turning socialist in front of your eyes, you will deserve what comes next.
Let me tell you exactly what will happen if you go down that road. Nobody will vote for decline. Every single measure will sound generous, compassionate, reasonable. Your builders will slowly leave or stop building. Your state will grow every year and never shrink. Your debt will compound. And in thirty years, your kids will look at a chart like the one I just described and wonder when it all went wrong.
You still have something we lost. You have Elon Musk sending rockets to orbit and landing them on their tail. You have Palmer Luckey building the defense industry of the future. You have Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, and thousands of founders nobody has heard of yet, building in garages right now.
Trust your entrepreneurs. Don't trust your politicians.
I come from your future. Don't make it yours.
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.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
“I have often said during my 20 years as a bishop that I am not interested in a private education for the privileged as an apostolate of the Church. The Archdiocese of Portland should not be operating schools whose institutional priorities and plans are dominated by a secular, utilitarian vision of academic excellence and great sports programs, while remaining inaccessible to so many of our families because of high tuition costs. To do so would be wholly inconsistent with the history and purpose of Catholic education. Our first job is not to prepare children eventually to get into a great college or university, but to help them get into heaven!”
Portland Archbishop Alexander King Sample
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Let's offer one Hail Mary for those suffering from anxiety, depression and/or loneliness.
Amen.🙏🏻
If you or someone you know needs prayer, drop a comment below.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
+10,000 new followers in 48 hours. Thank you all, truly.
For those just arriving, let me introduce myself.
I'm Brivael, 36, grandson of a farmer from Brittany (France). I grew up middle class and learned almost nothing at school. I've always been in total opposition to the school system, which I find absurd. Everything I know, I taught myself.
I started coding at 12. At 15, I shipped my first game. In 2012, I was lucky enough to spend a year studying in San Francisco. After that, I worked in tech, mostly at companies in France and across Europe.
For the past two years, I’ve been building Argil, and in 2024 we went through Y Combinator in San Francisco. The idea is simple: make video creation accessible to everyone through AI. Every kind of video: educational, marketing, promotional, internal comms. What used to take a team, equipment and weeks of production, we want to fit into an idea and a few minutes.
Why so many people all of a sudden? I had the chance to connect with Elon Musk after my thread on the origins of wokeism.
Here's what I see: France, with its long tradition of intellectuals, is something like the epicenter of Western leftism. French Theory was exported to American campuses, and what it planted is coming back today under other names. I see so many patterns from what happened in France now playing out in the US.
My work here is to connect the dots. To understand where all this chaos comes from, and above all how to move past it.
If you want to help, it's simple:
→ follow and share
→ introduce me to anyone or any company that needs to produce video, whether promo, marketing, training or internal comms. We’re building the best product on the market, and every intro counts.
→ reshare and lke
My email: briva [at] argil [dot] ai
And thank you, America, for being America. I love your country. Protect it.
Glad to have you here. We're just getting started.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
An elderly woman leads her family to pray the Rosary 📿.
Our world has not been completely destroyed because of the prayers of people like these people here.
In the month of October, pray the Rosary.
Pray with great devotion.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Pensacola Police Detective Angela Nieto, End of Watch October 14, 2026.
Officer Nieto was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident that occurred yesterday evening at 8:00.
Please keep her and her loved ones in your prayers.
Source: Pensacola Police Department
Deacon Rigo retweeted
The Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia, currently has 70 men preparing for the Catholic priesthood, including 20 who began formation this year.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Six months ago, the Taliban legalized sexual slavery and permanently banned girls from schools.
Why are all the human rights activists silent?
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Feliz Solemnidad de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jesús, madre del Carmelo Descalzo y Doctora de la Iglesia
@ocdcuria @matcherassi @ProfEmilioMart1 @carmelitequotes @ocdslondon @jshocds @GeneraleOCD
Deacon Rigo retweeted
🚨A 23-year-old Iranian student named Najmeh Amini has been sentenced to death for a social media post the regime calls “insulting the prophet.”
She was beaten and arrested during protests, held for months in Vakilabad Prison with no real lawyer, and now faces the gallows, plus 12 more years for daring to speak against the regime.
This is what Islamic theocracy does to young women who refuse to stay silent. Where is the United Nations? Where are the liberal feminists who march for every other cause?
Be her voice before they hang her.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Today, they hanged him. The Islamic Republic executed Ali-Sina Mostafavi, an Iranian mountaineer.
Let’s be brutally honest. The Islamic Republic will not stop hanging people because we tweet, share hashtags, or beg for mercy.
We Iranians wake up every day knowing that another family may receive a phone call announcing that their loved one has been executed.
How many more bodies must hang before world leaders understand that condemnation without consequences is not a policy?
The United Nations has documented serious human rights violations, forced confessions, and grossly unfair trials in Iran. This is not a lack of information. It is a lack of political will.
Stop treating executions as a routine human rights concern. Treat them as an international emergency.
We, the people of Iran, are exhausted from burying our loved ones while the world issues statements.
We are not asking you to save us with your sympathy. We are demanding that you stop granting impunity to those who kill us.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
CAN’T WAIT FOR MEDICARE-FOR-ALL!
“A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
“At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said ‘if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday.’
“He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
“Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
“He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
“He told an interviewer: ‘I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way.’
“The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.”
—Tweet by @multiplanet1
Deacon Rigo retweeted
Dr. Cathy Schanzer, a devout Catholic ophthalmologist, performed more than 10,000 eye operations in Africa, helping poor people regain their sight. A daily Massgoer, she and her husband adopted seven children and helped establish a permanent eye clinic in Sierra Leone.
After battling brain cancer for 27 months, she died on June 4, 2025. During her illness, she offered all her suffering as a prayer for her family and friends, that they might grow closer to Jesus Christ and His Church.
Deacon Rigo retweeted
When this 17-year-old girl found out she was dying, she spent 25 minutes alone in her room. And what happened next would leave even her doctors speechless... ⤵️
Her name was Chiara Badano, and in 1988, she started having terrible pain in her shoulder. Doctors thought she'd pulled a muscle. But when the pain wouldn't stop, they ran more tests and discovered something devastating.
Chiara had bone cancer, and it had already spread. She was only 17.
When she got home, she fell onto her bed and didn't speak for 25 minutes. Her mother could see how much she was struggling. Chiara knew what this meant. She might never get to grow up, get married, or have a family.
But after 25 minutes, she made a decision that would change everything. Instead of turning away from God, she chose to give Him her suffering.
And she began repeating one prayer:
"For you, Jesus, if you want it, I want it too."
Over the next two years, things only got worse. The cancer spread. Chemotherapy left her unable to walk, and the pain became unbearable.
But something strange was happening. The more Chiara suffered, the more people noticed her joy.
She would smile through the pain. Her family even caught her singing when she thought nobody was listening. And when doctors offered her morphine, she refused because she wanted to stay alert and offer her suffering to Jesus on the cross.
Her friends would visit, hoping to cheer her up. But they soon realized they were the ones who needed her.
People began calling her "Luce," meaning "light," because of the joy she brought to everyone around her. Even one of her doctors said her smile showed them that death wasn't the end.
But as Chiara's life came to an end, she made one final request that broke her mother's heart.
She asked to be buried in a wedding dress.
Not because she was getting married on earth, but because she believed she was about to meet Jesus, the one she had given her whole life to.
She even told her mother not to cry at her funeral, but to have everyone sing.
On October 7, 1990, Chiara died just weeks before turning 19. And her final words were:
"Goodbye. Be happy because I'm happy."
In 2010, the Catholic Church declared her Blessed Chiara Luce Badano.
She couldn't choose whether the cancer would take her life. But she could choose whether it would take her faith.
And she never stopped saying yes to Jesus.
💬 Have you ever gone through something so painful that you struggled to understand why God allowed it?
Deacon Rigo retweeted
St. Paul says: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Pause and reflect on the extent to which your life reflects to others the fruit of the Spirit. Promise to make the changes that are necessary.