Eleven to 14 years old. First they remove these kids from any sort of normalcy, any structure or expectation that they had even the smallest amount of control in their young lives by masking them, accusing with words and actions and implications that they are 'killing grandma' and are a threat just for being 'carriers', because the government said they were. They are denied the society of friends in anything but the most antiseptic of ways, they are denied the education their parents or older siblings took for granted, are inundated by parental neurosis and again through the media are told this world they've barely had a chance to know, is ending. When the 'all clear' finally arrives, they are then told they have still somehow failed because they are 'in the wrong body' and forced to grapple with emotions for which they've had zero preparation. The classroom to which they finally return is the battlefield, full of more neurotic adults insisting that compliance is the child's only path to 'control', to structure; parents bury themselves in their own hyper-neurotic frustration online and leave their kids to work out what is safe, what is not, what is logic and what is illogical and it is online where the kids eventually find 'teachers'. Some are confused like them, lost like them, certain of their own inexplicable guilt like them, but there are many 'teachers' who are NOT like them, who have found an easy way to power from the built in compliance of these kids thanks to their parents and the media's insistence that to acquiesce is to be "safe". Children look for leaders, for instruction, for validation and since their parents have dismissed the importance of this primary job in parental guidance (due to apathy, or laziness, or neurosis which they feed with their own online addiction and/or commercially incentivized pharmaceuticals which promise release from the responsibility of being responsible) the kids unwittingly find it on sites like Tik Tok or Instagram where the personality disorder of narcissism is rampant and unchecked. The children, unsupervised, 'follow', 'like', 'post' their unified frustrations and confusions, their belief in disbelief, their fury at their certainty that they are somehow ultimately at fault and MUST do something to prove they are still compliant because only through that have they found any structure at all. Logic is abandoned. In its place is emotion. Raw, inexplicable emotion. They do not think for themselves because since the time of The Great Covid Plague they have been taught, required in fact, to accept the herd is all, is them; individualism is betrayal of the herd and if attempted they will be denied even this most tenuous grasp of who and what they are. Compliance is 'safe'. To acquiesce is to be recognized as One. The keys of desperately longed for structure are dangled from the fingers of the activist-narcissist, and there is literally no one to offer an alternative. Covid Trans ideology 'Free Palestinine' 'Jewish people are evil' 'Illegal immigrants are us' And ultimately...God is a thing to be ashamed of if caught out believing in Him The 'leaders' they have chosen...through no fault of their own, are the plethora of narcissists whom they think want to save them. No one else has had the time or interest. And the narcissist grooms them to be good little soldiers in their distorted desire for more power. Eleven to 14 years old. We are allowing an entirely new generation of narcissists to thrive. They are Generation Alpha.

When a family in Vermont reached out to Baltimore restaurant owner Steve Chu asking for the recipe of a favorite dish enjoyed by their terminally ill loved one, they expected instructions. Instead, they received something far more meaningful. Steve Chu, co-owner of Ekiben, loaded his truck with ingredients and drove nearly six hours from Baltimore to Vermont. Along with his team, he set up a makeshift kitchen outside the woman's home and prepared her beloved meal fresh on-site. They refused payment and simply wanted to bring comfort and happiness during a difficult time. What began as a request for a recipe became an unforgettable act of compassion, proving that kindness often travels much farther than anyone expects.

@HillaryClinton Ma’am, as the Air Force officer who carried the nuclear football for your husband in the White House, I spent two years inside that “people’s house” with you. Remember me? I remember you. You lecture us daily about ‘respecting the institution’ while the man I protected (your husband) LOST the nuclear codes, treated the military like an afterthought, and had sex in the Oval Office. BJs in the Oval…classy. Of all the human beings on the face of the planet (and we’re giving you the benefit of the doubt), you are the LEAST qualified to comment about anything, much less decorum. The White House belongs to the people, yes — which is why they elected a fighter, not another polished grifter who’d rather rip off poor kids in Haiti than actually lead. Keep clutching your Chardonnay bottles, bitch. America’s moving on.

November 2023. The most powerful companies on Earth lined up to make him kneel. Disney. Apple. IBM. Comcast. They pulled their money and waited for the apology. The whole press corps wanted one word out of him. Sorry. Sorkin leaned in and offered him the exit. Just walk it back. Musk: “If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.” No retraction. No cleanup post at 2am. No quiet calls begging the brands back. They wrote that it was over. That he’d finally buried his own company. He was worth around $230 billion that night. This week SpaceX went public. He became the first trillionaire who has ever lived. Forbes puts him at $1.1 trillion. Almost four times the next richest person alive. This was never about him. The people threatening you only hold the power you agree to hand them. Every time you apologized to keep the peace, you taught them the price was you. He refused to pay it once, in front of the entire world. The world blinked first. The crowd never remembers who knelt. It remembers who refused to flinch. The only person who can ever make you beg is you.

CNN hosts shocked to discover that World Cup tourists think the South is welcoming | Not The Bee CNN is literally the worst, aren't they? You know our main man Freddy, the German soccer fan doing a tour of the South and live-tweeting how awesome it is? Well, CNN and Christine Brennan are, for some reason, shocked that anyone could love America, let alone the South. I saw some conversation, Wolf and Pamela, about how the rest of the world is looking at the United States and feeling that we are — it's a foreboding image and that we are inhospitable... This really sums up liberals well. Because they don't talk to people who vote differently than them, they think everyone believes America is horrible CUZ TRUMP. They couldn't be more wrong. Their wrongness is only eclipsed by their anti-Southern bigotry. But how wonderful again, that sports can bring people here and show people that the United States and you know, the South is welcoming a German tourist in a way we would never have anticipated. "A way we would have never anticipated"??? Umm, there's a little something called "Southern hospitality." The South is literally known for being friendly and welcoming. That's our thing. Isn't CNN based in Atlanta? Can liberals try not to hate their fellow countrymen for five seconds? notthebee.com/article/cnn-ho…

This you? Bernie Sanders: "You think I should wait on line at United? No apologies for my private jets."

Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record. You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary. Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.

Dear Elizabeth, During Hurricane Helene, we lost power for weeks, internet for months. All of our phones stopped working and first responders could not communicate. ...and then Elon donated Starlink and saved THOUSANDS, many of them, people I know and love WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU EVER BUILT, EVER IN YOUR MISERABLE FUCKING LIFE TO BENEFIT HUMANITY IN ANY WAY AT ALL THAT COMES REMOTELY CLOSE?!!!!!

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

I’ve been thinking, and we should have a slogan, a motto for everyone who refuses to be guilt tripped into saying things we know aren’t true, or into denying things that are. In 1633, the Catholic Church, via the Inquisition, forced Galileo to recant his claim that the Earth moved around the sun. He is said afterwards to have defiantly stated, “Eppur si muove” — “And yet it moves.” He knew that whatever the Church dictated, whatever lies they forced him to repeat, the Earth, nevertheless, continued to move. The binary and immutable nature of human sex is as scientifically certain as the motion of the Earth. Even if the entire world - every single one of us - believes that some women are born with penises, and that some people are neither male nor female, neither of these things will ever become true, just as no amount of human belief ever made the sun go around the Earth. Eppur sono uomini — and yet they are men.

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement. Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier. Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème. Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs. Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours. La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

You have to check this out… This is literally unimaginable in South Africa America is so Awesome!

This will go down as one of the greatest takedowns of a smarmy British elite on cable news. NewsNation’s Leland Vittert went to war with The Hill’s Niall Stanage for three and a half minutes over what’s happening in Belfast. Stanage tried blaming Elon Musk for “inflaming” the chaos, while Vittert kept bringing it back to the real cause — violent migrants from the Muslim world in the West. When Vittert started dropping the receipts, Stanage went into a tailspin. VITTERT: “The culture of Islam is a violent and conquering culture.” “According to the interior ministry of France, 93% of thefts and 63% of assaults on public transport in the Île-de-France region are committed by foreigners.” “At the same time, sexual violence in these spaces has increased 86% in ten years. And you’re telling me that the influx of immigrants from Muslim countries doesn’t have anything to do with this?!” STANAGE: “I am telling you that it is completely, completely an over generalization to just suggest that people of a particular religious faith are therefore intrinsically violent.” VITTERT: “I’m talking about culture...” “Okay? I’ll try another one.” “Denmark took in 321 Palestinian refugees in 1992.” “By 2019, 64% had been convicted of a crime, including 34% of their children too. A very large portion were also on welfare.” “I ask you the question though, Niall, if the statistics aren’t the problem, why does everybody get so mad when you talk about them?” @LelandVittert

LOOK how I, as a Scottish guy in America for the World Cup, was welcomed to a Texas BBQ - okay sorry other BBQs but Texas takes the lead 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

A 15-year-old girl who had loved wrestling since she was four got put on a mat against a fucking male while the adults in charge knew exactly what they were doing. She didn’t know. They did. By the end of that match she was sobbing and running to her mother after getting digitally raped through her singlet. She still had to shake the bastard’s hand. Her own coaches just walked the fuck away. Her mother reported it the next day like any decent parent would. The law and their own policy said report it to the Title IX coordinator immediately and get law enforcement involved within 48 hours. These gutless fucks did nothing for 53 days. Fifty-three fucking days of silence while they protected their precious policy and kept letting males into girls’ sports. Only when a journalist started asking questions did these cowards suddenly remember how to do their fucking jobs. The next day they finally filed the report. The principal had the balls to call the mother afterward and say they take this shit “very seriously.” Seriously? You spineless pricks sat on a sexual assault complaint for nearly two months and only moved when the press showed up. And what did it cost? The girl quit wrestling. A sport she’d loved since she was four years old. She quit because she no longer trusted the adults in charge to protect her. Students bullied the shit out of her after the story broke and not one coach or administrator lifted a finger to stop it. They protected the policy. They protected their own asses. They left the girl to carry it alone. Fuck every last one of them. (article below)

"A Ponzi scheme leads investors to believe their investments are growing when in fact their money is being used to pay off other investors who are also being defrauded of their money." I don't know, Dick, sounds like a fair description of Social Security to me.

Every time a president tries to put someone in charge of the intelligence community who might actually believe the elected executive should run it, the same group of retired officials activates on schedule. Grenell got it. Ratcliffe got it. Gabbard got it. Now Bill Pulte is getting it from John Sipher in the New York Times. The complaints are always dressed up as urgent, case-by-case warnings about “politicization” and “dangerous choices.” But after the fourth or fifth identical warning, it stops looking like analysis and starts looking like institutional policy: the president is not allowed to choose the leadership of the 18 agencies that report to him. What makes the current version especially clean is what the Times chose not to tell readers. Sipher isn’t some random former station chief who suddenly felt moved to weigh in. His public record shows senior advisory roles with the Lincoln Project and National Security Leaders for Biden ... groups whose entire purpose was defeating Trump and installing his opponents. He signed the 2020 letter that tried to frame the authentic Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation. He defended the Steele dossier when that was still fashionable in certain circles. None of that appears in the byline. Only the 28 years at CIA does. That’s the part doing the real work. The argument itself is ordinary partisan positioning. Run it through a Langley résumé and it becomes “expert testimony.” The New York Times didn’t need to fabricate anything. It simply withheld the most relevant information about who Sipher has actually been since 2014. The omission is the persuasion. Everything else is just set dressing. (article below)

He certainly showed what he's made of. Sadly, it's no wonder...I mean, did you get a good look at how the women who raised him behaved?

Millions of #Americans lose their #jobs every year because of corporate decisions, and most of them don’t provoke it by criticizing their employer. When it’s a TV personality, it’s a crime scene. #WSJopinion #WSJ wsj.com/video/wsj-opinion-wh…

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story? You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements. I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff. In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility. I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times. Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention. Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months). His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats. Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

There was a generation that did not make a fuss. You knew them. Some of you are them. Men who came back from things they never spoke about, sat down to a plate of liver and onions, and got on with the week. Women who ran households on rationing and willpower and never once announced they were overwhelmed. They had a phrase for it. Least said, soonest mended. We have decided, in our wisdom, that this was repression. That they were bottling it all up and it did them harm. There is something to that, in the extreme cases. But we threw out the whole practice along with the worst of it, and replaced it with a culture that treats every fleeting feeling as a fact that must be broadcast at once. They ate proper food. Meat, eggs, butter, offal, dripping on bread. Their brains had the materials. And on top of that they carried a code, learned without ever calling it philosophy, that said you do not inflict your every passing storm on the people around you. Hardware and software, in a flat cap. None of this is new. Composure was ordinary once, and then it quietly went out of fashion. Some of us are walking back to find it, with a fork in one hand and Marcus Aurelius in the other.