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I am highly confident society will derive greater benefit if that capital is in Elon’s hands than in the hands of the government.

Go fuck yourself commie.

It wasn’t easy, but we’re excited to be doubling the size of Veritas Village - Coronado!

Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer. Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.

RT @angelmompatti: @RepJasonCrow You know who walked around free for 11 months in Colorado? The illegal alien that did this to my daughter…

Six weeks. SIX FLIPPING WEEKS. Lucy has not heard our voices. She hasn't slept on her rug. She hasn't gone for a ride in the truck. She hasn't been snuggled by her family, played with Lex, or run free in her own field. SIX WEEKS. She's been locked in a tiny cell, sleeping on concrete, likely wondering why we abandoned her. SIX WEEKS. She's eleven years old. She doesn't have endless time ahead of her. She could get sick. Her health could fail. Every day matters. And while everyone moves at a snail's pace, without a care in the world, time keeps slipping away from MY DOG—the dog who was taken because a petty neighbor decided to call the authorities when she slipped out of her collar in our OWN YARD! This wasn't some outrageous act! This wasn't a purposeful violation of anything and didn’t cause incident. This wasn't the terrifying incident the neighbors or government would like people to believe it was. It was a normal, everyday occurrence that happened on our private property! We could have lied. We could have denied it happened. No one had proof otherwise: But that's not who we are. So for six weeks, my Lucy—my eleven-year-old dog who stood watch over our family through deployment after deployment, who kept me company during the lonely nights when I watched the news and wondered if my husband would make it home alive—has sat in prison. This is a sick abuse of the law, and an innocent animal is paying the price. Not for biting someone. Not for attacking someone. Not for leaving and roaming the neighborhood. For being in her own yard. Let that sink in. And because malicious neighbors refused to mind their own business, and because officials with the power to do the right thing have refused to exercise any bit of common sense, she remains there. They make me sick. The abuse of power makes me sick. The character assassination makes me sick. The lies make me sick. The fact that people who have never met us, never spoken to us, and don't know the first thing about our family have spent years trying to destroy our peace makes me sick. Enough is enough! Let Lucy come home already! Is this really the hill anyone wants to die on? It’s a single dog. It’s an average family. Send her back and leave us alone. That’s all we want. And for those who have participated in this injustice—whether through malice, cowardice, pride, or indifference, know this: God sees every bit of it. He knows the truth. And one day, every one of us will answer to Him. Until our Lucy is home and beyond. We will not stop fighting. #savelucy

Everyone shouts "Tax the Rich"... but look at the facts. A $150k earner pays around $30,600 in federal tax. A $25k earner pays about $1,200. It takes 25 people on $25k to contribute what one person on $150k does. So why drive high earners out of the U.S. when they already shoulder most of the burden? The problem isn't how much tax is collected. The problem is how much the government wastes. Stop blaming the rich. Start holding the government to account.

Nobody deserves today more than Sienna ❤️ Her family came all the way from Wales to pick her up and put her at ease. Huge smile on my face

It’s pays to keep people on the streets. If the problem was solved what would these organizations do? (Very short list or the many) 1. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) Total Revenue (recent FY): ~$104M–$117M Government Funding: Substantial (often 40–60% via HUD/CoC, HRSA, Medicaid-related, state/local contracts; program services ~$33M–$44M).  Top Executives & Pay (latest FY): • Britta Fisher (President & CEO): $335,000 $15,205 = ~$350,205 • Jamal Moloo (VP Integrated Health Services): $324,574 $45,512 = ~$370,086 • Elise Ter Haar (Clinical Director): ~$287,150 $15k = ~$302k • Daniel Lewis (Physician): ~$285k • Lisa Thompson (Chief Program Officer): ~$280k • Pete Stoller (CFO): ~$272k other • Others (e.g., Rollin Oden, Joseph Horvath, etc.): Multiple $200k–$270k Total Executive Compensation (key officers): ~$2.11M (1.9% of expenses).  2. Denver Rescue Mission Total Revenue (recent FY): ~$52M–$66M Government Funding: ~22–29% via program service contracts (~$11M–$15M annually; includes city shelter contracts).  Top Executives & Pay (FY ending ~2024, part-year for some): • Brad Meuli (Former President/CEO): $185,920 $118,425 = ~$304,345 • Chris Jorgensen (Former CFO): $171,700 $16,898 = ~$188,598 • Tracy Brooks (VP Homelessness Resolutions): ~$116k–$144k • Ashley Irwin (VP Operations): ~$108k–$129k • Dennis Van Kampen (Current President/CEO): $0 reported in transition year Total Executive Compensation (key officers): ~$1.44M.  3. Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Total Revenue: Smaller scale (tens of millions). Government Funding: Significant mix (often 20–50% via HUD/ESG, local contracts like Colorado Springs/Douglas County, state funds).  Top Executive & Pay: • Andy Barton (President & CEO): ~$140k–$193k range (varies by filing; exact recent ~$150k with benefits in similar data). Total Executive Compensation: Lower overall (hundreds of thousands for top roles; smaller organization).  4. Metro Denver Homeless Initiative (MDHI) Total Revenue: ~$3M–$4M (coordinator role). Government Funding: Heavily reliant on HUD CoC grants (administers/distributes ~$30M annually to region) state/local grants.  Top Executives & Pay: • Jason Johnson (Executive Director, recent): Not fully detailed yet (typical $130k–$150k range). • Prior/Interim leadership: ~$139k. Total Executive Compensation: ~$225k–$275k (smaller entity; executive pay 5–7% of expenses).

My dad got a blood clot last year. ER visit: $31,000. Insurance covered: $6,200. He owed: $24,000. He has insurance. He has a supplemental plan. He's 71 years old and making payment arrangements. The American healthcare system doesn't fail people. It was designed this way.

So let me get this straight… Citizens get pissed that Colorado roads are held together with crack sealant, expired hopes, and orange cones from 2007, so they launch a ballot initiative to constitutionally force transportation money toward… you know… transportation. And the State Senate’s response is HB26-1430. A bill specifically designed to basically go: “Ok sure, you can vote for road funding… but we’re gonna offset it, redirect it, cut fees somewhere else, reshuffle transfers, and accountant-ninja kick the actual impact into another dimension.” That is objectively insane behavior. Imagine your wife gives you grocery money and instead of buying groceries you buy Pokémon cards, vape juice, and a fog machine. Then when she locks the grocery money in a safe you respond by taking money out of the electric bill to buy the same dumb shit anyway. That’s basically what this is. The entire point of the citizen initiative was: • Stop diverting transportation money • Prioritize roads • Force long-term infrastructure funding • Prevent the yearly budget shell game And the legislature looked at that and said: “Counterpoint: what if we keep the shell game?” Colorado government has become addicted to moving money around like a drunk guy shifting debt between credit cards while insisting he’s financially responsible because he used a different Visa this month. And before somebody screams “BUT THE BUDGET,” congratulations, you just identified the actual issue: The state doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending priority problem. You cannot tell people there’s “no money for roads” while simultaneously funding 9 million studies, 47 advisory committees, pilot programs that never end, and bureaucratic ecosystems that reproduce like rabbits the second federal grant money appears. HB26-1430 is basically lawmakers looking voters dead in the eyes and saying: “Aw that’s cute. You thought ballot initiatives still controlled government.” #copolitics

Spencer Pratt to Nithya Raman on homelessness:“I’ll go below the freeway tomorrow with her to find some of these people she’s going to ‘offer treatment’ for. She’s going to get stabbed in the neck. These people don’t want a bed—they want fentanyl…”

12 days difference in these photos. Rocky was broken. Terrified and lashing out. His eyes were red raw and bulging with pain. Look at the soft and dignified dog he is now. He can also see quite a bit. Rocky was down but he wasn’t out ❤️

Yes, but Bezos employs over 1.5 million people at Amazon. That’s a lot of jobs he created, even after some layoffs. How many jobs have you created? For all the value Bezos has provided his customers and employees, he deserves a yacht. What value have you provided to anyone?

NYC is so toast

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

So not only did sanctuary policies facilitate circumstances that allowed an unlicensed, uninsured illegal alien to hit my 22yo daughter and then flee, leaving her permanently and profoundly disabled, our esteemed @GovofCO (sarcasm) will actively hinder needed therapies and services for her as well as hinder my ability to be her full time caregiver because she requires 24/7 care. While simultaneously throwing millions upon millions of dollars, to services for people like the woman that stole my daughter’s future. Who did not have to pay one cent towards her medical expenses (remember, no insurance). We were denied the wheelchair Carissa needs and I pay for her physical therapy out of pocket. But people who should not be here will have all their medical needs provided. Let that sink in.