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Robert Watson retweeted
8 years ago, in this brilliant interview, Hungary’s Foreign Minister refused to be bullied by Emily Maitlis on immigration.
He’s been totally vindicated.
Robert Watson retweeted
Recessions are supposed to hurt. That pain is the cure, not the disease.
When credit expands beyond real savings, the central bank manufactures a boom that cannot last. Businesses build factories for demand that borrowed money fabricated. Workers take jobs that only exist because interest rates sat artificially low. When the correction arrives, those malinvestments need to liquidate. Wages fall in some sectors, capital shifts, weaker firms close. Painful, yes. Fatal, no.
The depression arrives when government refuses to let the correction finish its work.
Herbert Hoover did this with textbook precision between 1929 and 1932. He signed Smoot-Hawley, raised the top income tax rate from 25% to 63%, pushed wages above market-clearing levels through industry agreements, and expanded federal spending by 50%. Every intervention delayed liquidation. Franklin Roosevelt then deepened and extended those same policies for a decade, keeping unemployment above 14% through 1940 when the private economy, left alone, would have recovered years earlier.
Governments prop up insolvent banks, subsidize failing industries, and inflate prices to prevent the nominal wage adjustments that would restore employment. Each intervention signals investors to wait. Capital sits idle because the rules keep changing. The recovery never gets traction because the government keeps moving the floor.
Robert Watson retweeted
I honestly do not understand how any American who is not already a literal Communist or a literal Jihadist could vote Democrat after hearing what Slotkin said below.
This is LITERALLY totalitarianism. It's not the fake "fascism" the Left likes to accuse the Right of, it is the REAL THING.
Undeniably.
Irrefutably.
This is a sitting member of Congress who was in the CIA saying that dissent from what she believes will result in imprisonment.
This is straight out of Solzhenitsyn. Straight out of Orwell. This is something an early Nazi would have said in 1932 under the Weimar Republic.
Please please PLEASE share her words with everyone you know. The Democrat/Media Complex will try to bury this. It is up to us on social media, on blogs and via texts and emails to get the word out.
The only way to stop these monsters is to make sure that voters who don't really keep up on politics understand the actual threat, see it with their own eyes and hear it with their own ears.
Please. Spread the word to anyone who will listen. And even those who won't listen.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
Abdul El-Sayed: A Muslim Brotherhood Puppet and a Grave National Security Threat hotair.com/josh-hammer/2026/…
Robert Watson retweeted
The idea that poverty is man-made rather than the default starting point is one the dumbest and most dangerous misconceptions in economics, politics and life.
Robert Watson retweeted
The debate between communism and capitalism is ultimately a test of whether you prefer inconvenient truths or comforting promises.
Capitalism asks you to accept that prosperity must be produced, that scarcity cannot be wished away, and that nobody owes you the fruits of someone else's labor.
Communism promises to overcome these realities through collective ownership and redistribution.
The appeal of a promise is easy to understand. The harder question is whether it can be fulfilled, and at what cost to individual freedom.
Robert Watson retweeted
Let me get this straight, Cooper's latest ad is blaming Whatley for the rise in utility rates. Whatley was a lobbyist for the utility companies. He was doing his job, advocating for his clients. He had no power or role in setting utility rates. That fell to the NC General Assembly and was approved by Roy Cooper. If Roy Cooper really wants to know who was responsible for the rise in utility rates he should look in the mirror. Instead, he's hoping the voting public is ignorant and will buy his lies. If Cooper will lie about something so demonstrably proven to be untrue what else will he lie about?
Robert Watson retweeted
Fantasy has nothing to do with the distinction. Capitalism is based on private property, voluntary exchange, and individual rights.
You're blaming capitalism for government policies that violate its fundamental principles: compulsory redistribution, subsidies, political favoritism, and trillions in debt to finance spending beyond its means.
The real fantasy is imagining that the consequences of violating capitalist principles somehow discredit capitalism itself, while advocating giving the very government responsible even greater economic power.
Robert Watson retweeted
I made a list of 63 of U.S. Senate candidate James Talafreako's most insane and deranged statements.
Sourced and referenced.
1. "Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six" 2021-04-20, Texas House Public Education Committee
2. "God is non-binary." 2021-10-14, Texas House
3. "Our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign." 2022-02, Texas Humane Legislation Network fundraiser
4. "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?" 2021-03-04, Activist Theology
5. "In context of abortion … God asks for Mary's consent … So, to me that is a an affirmation in one of our most central stories, that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
6. "Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X
7. "#AhmaudArbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism. The virus kills our black neighbors if they’re jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, or carrying a bag of Skittles... White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go" 2020-05-08, Twitter
8. "Young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country and I think only by understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum
9. "Restoration, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. … it's exactly why we need … to invest in black communities, to invest in black Texans" 2026-07-20, DeSoto town hall
10. "I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism, but the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
11. "Defund the police is considered off limits in our political debate when defunding health services, defunding public education has been the stated policy of our state government for decades now." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
12. "Governor Abbott has filled this special session agenda with far right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas" 2021-07-19, FOX 7 Austin
13. "Are districts getting, you know, almost hopefully near unanimous consent for students to learn about [sex education,] maybe the most important topic that they'll learn about in school?" 2022-07, Texas House Public Education Committee
14. "Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
15. "God is not a Christian." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
16. "So, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti-gay and anti-abortion, there really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
17. "Jesus is the prophetic voice in my own life, but it could be for you a different prophetic voice from a different faith tradition." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
18. "I oppose voter ID." 2021-07-13, Fox News Primetime
19. "Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in federal offices" 2022-06-24, Letter to President Biden
20. "Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?" 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
21. "I don't want you in my school doing discipline." 2019-02, The Trey Blocker Show
22. "For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
23. "That [oil and gas] industry is not gonna last." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum
24. "Our system of policing is deeply broken. We must replace it with something new and something better." 2020-09-02, Honest Austin
25. "The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage" 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
26. "I'm not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no Black members of the jury [in Anthony’s case]." 2026-08-05, The Breakfast Club
27. "Our office is the first in the history of the Capitol to add pronouns to our official business cards." 2021-03-31, Twitter/X
28. "If we took just half of what we spend on wars, prisons, and policing, and spent it on education, healthcare, and jobs, we could make prisons obsolete." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation
29. "Jesus came to transform the world. Christian nationalism is here to maintain the status quo. They have co-opted the son of God. They've turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear-mongering fascist." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
30. "In Genesis, God creates life by breathing life into the first human being, which we later call Adam. That life starts when you take your first breath." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
31. "ICE executed a man in broad daylight on our streets just this morning. It's time to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that actually is going to focus on public safety." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown
32. "I'm Season 2 [of Judaism, Christianity and Islam]—the most violent season. My religion has done more damage to both of those religions than they've done to each other." 2026-02-23, The New Yorker
33. "I think there are some folks … that would think that if you deny your child's gender identity that that's incredibly harmful. And whether or not we can—we label it with the term abuse, I mean, it's abusive for sure." 2019-04-03, Texas House Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee
34. "Our system, our public education system, particularly here in Texas is not built for poor students. It's not built for students of color." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
35. "I felt like I didn't have the time or space or training or resources to have the really important conversations with my students … I was trapped in a system that was focused purely on academics, reading, writing, arithmetic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
36. "Prison is violence." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation
37. "But inevitably we're going to spend hours hearing bills that are just kind of conspiracy theory, right, driven, and kind of kooky stuff." 2022-07-26, Texas House Public Education Committee
38. "I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers." 2023-09-16, The State of Belief
39. "God is a verb." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
40. "And again, I haven't studied this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will even say that there is a, there is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
41. "People who're like, "You're in seminary, you're studying to become a minister. Why wouldn't you want the Ten Commandments in every classroom?" … I said I thought the bill was un-Christian." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
42. "Incarnation, by the way, is not just limited to Jesus, it's everybody." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
43. "The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so, if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul." 2026-04-22, CNN The Lead
44. "An assault weapon ban, a large capacity magazine ban" 2020, Virtual voter meet-and-greet
45. "I don't care what taxes you have to raise, but you're not going to make our students and our teachers, you're not going to make the sick and the elderly pay for this pandemic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
46. "Platforms like YouTube, 4chan, and Parlor are radicalizing an entire generation of white boys." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X
47. "Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image. There's nothing wrong with them. Nothing at all. They are perfect. They are beautiful, and they are sacred." 2021-10-14, Texas House
48. "The only person to teach Jesus something was a woman. Even the son of God had something to learn from one of God's daughters." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
49. "We only have Jesus because a woman consented to creating him." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
50. "Resurrection is when we see Christ in everyone and everything." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
51. "Billions of people across the globe celebrate Passover, Easter, and Ramadan. We may use different lyrics, but we are singing the same hymn." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
52. "The current administration has grown the size of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, except it's not people doing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is a secret police force that is terrorizing communities." 2025-12-14, Jubilee: Surrounded
53. "I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine. … I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes." 2025-12-19, Houston campaign town hall
54. "I would not vote to send any offensive weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu that he is currently using to slaughter children in Gaza." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown
55. "And I taught a lot of undocumented students. And those students tended to be my most patriotic students." 2026-03-19, The Bulwark Podcast, Dallas
56. "I think the Supreme Court needs to be overhauled. … I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices." 2026-09-09, Fox Special Report, Dallas
57. "The first thing is to elect candidates who recognize institutional racism and are committed to dismantling it." 2018, Reddit AMA
58. "As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 2019-07-12, Twitter
59. "This bill [SB 14, restricting gender-transition care for minors,] I think is the most dangerous bill that's being heard on this floor this session." 2023-05-12, Texas House
60. "Meet Tim Dunn & Farris Wilks—two billionaires from West Texas. … Their ultimate goal is even more ambitious: transforming Texas into an authoritarian, Christian Nationalist state." 2023-10-05, Twitter/X
61. "Jesus lost, and Trump is obsessed with winning. … And on Good Friday, Jesus lost his reputation, lost his ministry, lost his friends, lost his life." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
62. "Matthew 25 tells us how we will be judged and saved: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner. Nothing about being a Christian. Nothing about going to church. Nothing about reading the Bible." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
63. "It was a new state curriculum that would teach Christian Bible stories as historical fact, as the only truth to our youngest students, … And to push propaganda, to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral and should trouble all of us." 2025-08-05, Faithfully (CAP Action / Interfaith Alliance)
Robert Watson retweeted
There are three amendments on your ballot this November. I'm voting YES on all three.
Amendment 1: photo ID for every way you vote, including by mail.
Amendment 2: lowers the cap on the state income tax from 7% to 3.5%, starting in 2027. It's a ceiling, not a rate.
Amendment 3: the General Assembly has to limit how much local governments can raise your property taxes. That protects homeowners and seniors.
For a lot of yall they're on the BACK of the ballot. Flip it over.
Early voting runs Oct. 15 through 3pm on Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 3.
ALT I'm voting YES on all three amendments
Robert Watson retweeted
By undermining the incentive to produce. When the producer becomes a sacrificial animal whose success creates an obligation to serve others, rather than being free to enjoy the rewards of his own effort and exchange by mutual consent, you punish the very activity that creates prosperity.
Produce more, surrender more. Succeed, become more obligated.
It's one of the easiest economic contradictions to identify. Socialism depends on the production it systematically discourages.
Islam is a totalitarian worldview using religion as a sword & shield. But this column advises against a blunt ban, b/c impact on other religions. Rather, a targeted shot at "theocracy" is advised ... like communism it is violative of Constitution.
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Robert Watson retweeted
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act carried a $1.2 trillion price tag and a noble-sounding name. Congress passed it in November 2021, Biden signed it, and the press celebrated. Roads, bridges, broadband. The whole sales pitch. What actually landed in the bill tells a different story.
Genuine infrastructure spending, the kind that moves physical goods and connects people to markets, accounted for roughly $110 billion of that $1.2 trillion. Roads and bridges got $40 billion in new money. Passenger and freight rail received $66 billion. Broadband pulled another $65 billion. Add it up, and you are still well under 20% of the total, and the real figure for hard infrastructure sits closer to 10% once you strip out programs that would have passed in any normal appropriations cycle.
The remaining $1.1 trillion went to things Congress rebranded as infrastructure. Workforce development, climate resilience programs, electric vehicle subsidies, community development block grants.
This is how Washington operates. Take a word the public trusts, attach it to everything in the hopper, and dare anyone to vote against "roads and bridges." The label launders the spending. You pay for it through deficit financing that the Federal Reserve then monetizes, which erodes your purchasing power as reliably as a direct tax, just less visibly.
No federal agency holds the information needed to allocate capital better than private investors who face actual profit and loss. Amtrak lost money on food service alone for thirty consecutive years before anyone noticed. The bill does not fix one pothole more efficiently because Amtrak now has $22 billion to spend.
No government builds infrastructure. They pass the actual work to their connected cronies in the private sector, after taking their cut.
At least we know Biden actually signed this in person.👇
Robert Watson retweeted
OK, North Carolina, if you are remotely considering a vote for Cooper for Senate… here is why Whatley is the ONLY choice!
1. While governor, Cooper vetoed 104 bills – nearly three times the combined totals of all previous governors. He cannot work across the aisle.
2. Cooper consistently aligned with the Biden administration on immigration and refused to work for a stronger border.
3. Cooper did not join other governors in publicly condemning Biden’s handling of the border.
4. In 2019, Cooper vetoed a “born-alive” abortion bill that would have required medical care for infants born alive after a failed abortion procedure.
5. The NC legislature passed a bill known as the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (2023) requiring school and college sports teams to be designated by biological sex at birth. Cooper vetoed the bill.
6. In 2023, Cooper vetoed a package of bills related to transgender youth, including restrictions on gender-affirming care and sports participation.
7. Cooper has consistently opposed voter ID (photo identification) requirements for voting in North Carolina,
8. On Tuesday, Feb 24, 2021 Cooper vetoed a bill giving parents the ability to opt out of school mask mandates.
9. In 2021 Cooper, as governor, allowed early release of 3500 prisoners. Nearly half of them reoffended.
10. Former Governor Roy Cooper tries to present himself but his lack of criticism indicates he would not offer opposition to the extreme left wing part of his party.
11. If Cooper is elected to the U. S. Senate it is almost certain that he will vote for Chuck Schumer to head the Senate.
12. In Sept 2024 Cooper vetoed a bill that would have expanded funding for private school voucher programs.
13. Teacher Zoe Welsh was brutally murdered in her home. The accused murderer had twenty previous arrests but had been released to the public by a Cooper appointed judge. Cooper is consistently soft on crime.
VOTE FOR WHATLEY!
Robert Watson retweeted
Elizabeth Waffle is 88 years old. She lives in a trailer in Milan, Michigan. No computer. Spotty phone internet. Modest pension after her house burned down.
Federal records put her name on 14,696 ActBlue donations totaling nearly $150,000 over five years. Roughly eight a day. Average under ten bucks each. Forty-seven of them to Abdul El-Sayed.
When Charlie LeDuff showed her the paperwork, she said the only thing that fit.
“Hell no. I don’t have that kind of money.”
Democrats spent years selling the country a “small-dollar grassroots” story. The machine that powered it is under House investigation for foreign donations, weakened fraud checks, passport “verification” that only counted characters, and a legal team that walked out after 2024. Their CEO took the Fifth.
The names stayed on the filings. The money still moved. El-Sayed is the nominee.
They call it small donors. She calls it impossible.
"... historically poor states like Mississippi and Arkansas, with relatively new voucher and performance-based systems, are showing major improvements in scores among their students. Yet when these same policies are proposed in blue states, they are routinely blocked by the powerful teachers’ unions."
Education Cartel and the Blue State School Scam jonathanturley.org/2026/10/0…
"Rubio noted that we are at a crossroads. 'The course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of atrophy, servitude and decline'".
powerlineblog.com/archives/2…
"Class before competence. That sums up the appeal of Pete Buttigieg. He strokes the sociological erogenous zones of the educated elite. He may suck as an actual manager, but he sounds like me."
hotair.com/david-strom/2026/…
