Ex-everything I was taught and told in college. Ex-Democrat. Ex-Establishment Republican. Ex-Ex-Christian.

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Today's man bites dog story. Uber's CEO stunned when employees burn through entire year's Claude budget in 4 months, AFTER creating a bonus structure that rewarded employees for how much Claude they use. Incentives explain outcomes, maybe?
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I'll go to my grave disappointed in the sheer number of Americans that cheat other Americans of the reward they should have earned for their labor.
One Policy That Screwed American Workers: No Nationwide E-Verify Mandate Congress never made E-Verify mandatory for all employers despite decades of promises. This allowed companies to continue hiring illegal workers without fear of meaningful penalties and kept the underground labor market thriving. American workers in construction agriculture and service industries faced direct wage competition from unauthorized labor while employers saved on payroll taxes and benefits. The lack of a simple nationwide check continues to undermine legal workers every day. Bookmark it so you can show the receipts. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you have seen this in your town or industry. They Dont Work for You
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Hayden runs the biggest spam account since Nigeria invented princes.
After 31 years as a pedestrianized plaza, the famous car-free stretch in front of the White House has been converted into a parking lot.
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Everything turned to crap with Nixon: the original RINO. There wasn't a socialist idea he didn't embrace: Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, China rapprochement, Amtrak, the end of Bretton Woods system, OSHA, Salt I, and Title IX. He destroyed wealth. Offshored manufacturing. Turned every auto and appliance into crap. Turbocharged inflation. Enriched banks. Cheated pensioners. Created a vast cohort of entitled, whiny, overeducated, liberals working for the government, NGOs, and schools. Created a sprawling, unaccountable bureaucracy of scolds and socialist do-gooders. Turned the military into a DEI bureaucracy. He was Woodrow Wilson reincarnated.
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Good news! I'm reliably informed by our progressive-democrat-marxist media that we're just one more tax increase and airline bankruptcy away from prosperity for all.
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This! If an expert is quoted in the WSJ or NYT, they're almost certainly wrong. Those are political-wind measuring stations, when they're not actually manufacturing the blowing.
Replying to @zriboua
All those China bulls are basically ignorant. The Chinese Government (including LGFVs and SOEs) have 300% debt to GDP. This is actually worse than it looks because China doesn’t write down bad debts, so GDP is significantly inflated. Chinese household debt to income is higher than that of US households. China is a paper tiger when it comes to economic might. In 20 years, with hindsight, people will see how foolish it was to think China would outgrow the US—just like the fools in the 80s with PhDs and Nobels who thought Japan and the Soviet Union would eclipse the US. These people are generally not serious thinkers. They don’t understand how the macroeconomy works and are living in fairy tales.
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The fascinating thing about Trump is he offers every counterparty, enemy or merely reluctant malingerer, the easy way or the hard way. The fascinating thing about nearly every counterparty is they nearly always choose the hard way, then are appalled by the consequences of their own poor decisions. You would think by now there was plenty of evidence for anyone, even an EU bureaucrat or the short-timer just appointed as Iran's new supreme commander, to understand him. It's not complicated! But they don't. It's a fascinating exposure of a flaw of civilization and education that encourages people to think there are published rules enforced by a group of people that actually command all the power of arms and treasure, as if elections are just for show and presidents don't matter. It might be that way in the EU but it is not in the US. Trump really does control the military and treasury, just as Biden (or his handlers) did, or Obama. Even in the US there is a sizable population inistent that the government is really run by people above any constitutional authority. (Not that they haven't tried.) The easiest way to understand Trump is merely to listen to him. He tells you about his goals, way in advance, and the consequences of getting in his way. Marvel movies were popular because people wanted to believe in superheroes that were above the plane of human existence, operating on secular principles of right and wrong. It was rather silly and implausible - not the super power part, the knowing what was right and wrong part. The error of the Marvel franchise was its arrogance in thinking it could explore those questions in a secular fashion. It quickly turned into moody navel-gazing. Superheroes are not the real world. The real world runs on raw power, aka leverage, and the willingness to use it. Trump gets that better than almost everyone today, arguably better than any president since or before FDR. Arguably Trump is a modern-day Lincoln, if not in polish, certainly in his understanding of power. In matters of guile, negotiation, a comprehensive use of every tool in the drawer, and using his enemies' weaknesses against them, Trump has no peer in American history.
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I understand the concern about oil price and impact on U.S. and other economies. The constant fretting about it this week is like observing in January 1942 that U-boats are sinking ships in U.S. waters off Philadelphia, and predicting the world is gonna end by March. I know most of us didn't expect this to be video game cheat code war, but any sort of direct action against anyone, even the dope in the trailer home threatening to shoot up the trailer park, entails some messiness and some known unknowns. Idiots gifted the IRGC a half-century to build organization and weaponry to do precisely this. And ANY threat to their power was inevitably leading to this result. The last 25 years of dawdling and delusion has made it only worse, and further dawdling would make it green-glowing Tel Aviv and Washington, DC-worse. It's not that easy to kill all the roaches in the rental house, in a day, unless you just burn it down. Doesn't appear to me that the U.S. and Israel intend to go nuclear, which would most assuredly open the SOH immediately but with some definite collateral damage. Possibly the U.S. impresses the foreign shipping. That would be relatively straightforward, too. But messy. I wouldn't imagine that isn't in an options table, though. Please get back to me next month, if you see no plan and no improvement. I don't see anything yet that looks like it won't work in a reasonable amount of time. Unless you were content to hope that the IRGC would neither acquire nuclear weapons nor determine to use them to extort us and their neighbors, and maybe just use them anyway, for spite, there is no other plan.
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I was going to be a historian. Went to grad school even. Reading historical accounts, I wondered what it was like to be in a village and one day out of the blue, a crowd of men takes everything they can steal including the honor and lives of women and children, and burns what they can't. I wondered what it was like to live in Frankfurt or Osaka in 1937, knowing your country's government was run by idiots, but not quite expecting them to be so idiotic they'd arrange to have the city leveled and half its people killed. Now I know what it was like for them: a feeling every day of lurking doom, and every day a prayer, "Please God, just get me through this life intact, and my wife and children too." We're still today just as deeply vulnerable to the depredations of evil and cupidity, whether from without or within, as people were in past millennia. And we have not become more sophisticated. I'm confident at least one-half the people in this country, plopped into Frankfurt or Osaka in 1937, even given freedom to choose their leadership, would choose poorly. In fairness, though, their other easy-button options at the ballot box would be little different, just as our choice at the general election today is often between someone with terrible ideas and delusional understandings of economics and technology, and in a hurry, and someone with equally poor judgement but thinking we should go to the same terrible places but slower. Effective popular control of governance seems as ephemeral and impossible now as we know that it was in the past. If Western Civilization a century from now persists anywhere, in any enclave, I think that will be a matter of unusually good luck. Effective leaders, willing to take big risks for big changes, who want to extend life's good things not just to their crowd of palace insiders but primarily to the common people, are scarce. Only rarely appear Washingtons, Ataturks, Churchills, Thatchers, Bukeles, and Trumps. People with power resent the competition and exterminate or isolate them. And democracy? To rephrase Mencken, it enables people to select any plan and any goal, no matter how stupid or infeasible.
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Holding prosecutors criminally liable for poor judgement is a dangerous place to go. But the current system isn't working, either. Any ideas? Recalls take too long and turn into referendums on unrelated matters.
AUSTIN MAN pulled up to a 7-Eleven at 3 a.m., shot a father of five dead in the parking lot, and drove off. Caleb Jenkins now faces murder charges. But prosecutors had chances to stop him. November 2023: Jenkins, a convicted felon, was caught with a firearm. DA José Garza's office declined to prosecute. No charges filed. That same month: arrested for assault causing bodily injury/family violence. He skipped court. Bond was forfeited. Warrant issued. Re-arrested. Bond increased again. That case is still pending, two-plus years later. August 2024: caught with over four ounces of marijuana. DA declined again. No charges filed. October 2025: Quinton Arnold is dead in a 7-Eleven parking lot. Jenkins' record since 2012: • 3 gun charges — 2 days jail total • Felon caught with firearm — DA passed • 2 family violence assaults — dismissed or deferred • Protective order violation — dismissed • Multiple marijuana charges — dismissed or declined • Skipped court repeatedly across multiple cases A felon with a gun. Prosecutors said pass. Now there's a dead body.
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DeSantis is the governor every state needs.
They Don’t Work for You But DeSantis Does… and They Hate Him for It. Florida Fights Back Against Globalism Florida is thriving. Not by joining the globalist system, but by defying it. • #1 economy • #1 in education • Lowest illegal alien burden per capita • Actual border enforcement inside the state Why? Because Governor Ron DeSantis enforced the law. Driving an illegal alien is trafficking under Florida law even for carpool. Vehicle? Seized Employers? Massive fines No licenses for illegals No sanctuary cities Visa abuse? Targeted head-on DeSantis didn’t just talk tough-he built a system where illegal entry has consequences. And when globalist companies tried to flood the job market with cheap visa workers? > “We’ve got college grads who can’t get hired, because corporations want indentured labor from overseas.” – Gov. Ron DeSantis -2025 He called out the H-1B visa scam, and blocked it from becoming Florida law. He banned state contracts for firms abusing foreign labor loopholes. He revmoved H1B hiring by State Colleges. Florida vs the Globalist States • Teachers don’t have to instruct in 150 languages, they teach in English • Classrooms focus on learning, not translation • University of Florida: #1 public school in the U.S. – Why? Just 20% foreign enrollment – No flood of fake foreign master’s degrees – Priority: American students Compare that to other states collapsing under open border policies, foreign crime rings, and wage suppression. DeSantis proved America First governance works. Florida didn’t crumble. It became the model. They call it fascism. Because it’s not for sale. Bookmark. Share. Follow. Because in Florida, the government works for its citizens. But in most states… They Don’t Work for You @GovRonDeSantis @StephenM @ICEgov @USCIS Tag your Governor!
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This!
They Dont Work for You We say that all the time so folks ask... who do they work for anyways? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has done more economic damage to American workers than most groups labeled "terrorist organizations" ever could. Yes - that is a fact and it is not stated lightly. The Chamber of Commerce works directly in concert with our foreign adversaries and hire politicians of both parties when they leave office too. Here is the explanation... Terrorist attacks cause sudden, tragic costs- billions in direct damage, lost lives, market shocks. But the Chamber's sustained lobbying for open trade with China, visa expansions, and offshoring-friendly policies helped fuel the China trade deficit that cost 3.7–3.8 million U.S. jobs from 2001 onward, mostly in manufacturing (2.8–2.9 million lost). Entire communities hollowed out, wages suppressed, factories shuttered-slow-bleed devastation that never makes headlines like a bombing. Ever wonder where those fancy DC houses with high price tags come from? Selling us out is profitable. The Chamber spent 72 million in lobbying in 2025 alone, partnering with WEF on "talent mobility" and advocating China ties through its China Center. They push policies that prioritize corporate profits and global access over domestic workers. Our politicians line up for hand outs from them like pigs for slop. One side gets cheap labor and market access. The other gets replaced. Is this "free enterprise" or institutional betrayal on a massive scale? If you have to think about that for too long then you aren't paying attention. Sources: Economic Policy Institute on China trade job losses; Coalition for a Prosperous America estimates; OpenSecrets Chamber lobbying 2025; U.S. Chamber China Center policy pages.
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You would think laid-off Washington Post journalists would even for one second wonder if they had any culpability in their employer's financial straits. However, that would require honest self-appraisal and humility, qualities they apparently do not possess. It's hard to feel sympathy for people that deny all responsibility for their own woes, or even to consider their actions as a possible contribution. Truly, legacy media journalists are the Palestinians of America.
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Without an iota of doubt.
Stephen Miller rocks He’s one of the best staffers in White House history Repost if you agree that @StephenM deserves admiration and respect
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It's amazing how many people in the US think that India is something special. If they can't even do basic stuff like pick up trash, how on God's Green Earth will they ever be reliable for anything that takes rigor and discipline? In Iraq, rehabilitating infrastructure, I inherited from predecessors several Indian contracts for parts and materials. The Iraqis had prior experience with India, all of it bad, HATED the idea of them supplying anything, and beseeched me to cancel the contracts. I was able to cancel all but one contract, about $3 million dollars of steel fasteners. The material provided was junk - wrong metallurgy, improperly heat treated.
Quick teaser before I drop the full bomb with receipts: Y'all know my series on why India's visa labor is the LAST place you'd want it from - fake creds, nepotism hiring, connections over competence, used as a corruption funnel... ? Well what about ... Offshoring whole ops there? Even worse nightmare. Big companies keep trying, keep failing HARDER over time. Projects? ~14% chance they actually succeed (bigger = bigger disaster). Manufacturing? 7-9% tops, good luck. Pharma giants flop repeatedly. Car lines, semi fabs? Total mess. Philips shifting more over there right now, watch the same story play out: culture clashes, insane turnover, fraud in processes, zero real credentials sticking. They 'make' stuff, sure, but it sucks, no top-tier wins anywhere. IBM barely scrapes by and even they're struggling. It's so bad that they will claim stuff made in India that they just turned around from China or Korea by slapping a sticker on it. Oh. And they can't sustain jack once they ship it. MBAs, CFOs, greedy boards chase cheap labor savings... ignore the mountains of evidence it's a money pit getting deeper. I'm going to step out on a Ledge and guarantee that there is no way you can be successful in a culture where they don't even have the ability to build Bridges that stand, water towers that stay up, or much less pick up the trash. Look most Indians won't even put their money in their own financial institutions because they don't trust them- not making this up. Full post coming soon with the why/how they fail every time. Buckle up, it's brutal. Drop your horror stories below if you've lived it. BTW- Grok checked all of this. Probably why this account is search banned right now because I keep bringing the facts. Here's the deal... The culture in India is- why pay to go to school when I could just pay for a degree? Why learn the material when I can just have AI do it?? Why apply directly to jobs when I can just kick back my pay and get any job I want through connections??
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Next week's Broncos Quarterback.
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This summarizes and fully analyzes all of the Trump Tariffs Issue. Two minutes to read. SCOTUS, I hope, will agree with Trump.
SCOTUS and the Trump Doctrine. Supreme Court is not merely tidying up a tariff statute; it is, in effect, ruling on the Trump Doctrine itself. The IEEPA tariffs case has become the vehicle through which the justices will decide whether a vision of economic sovereignty as national security is an acceptable constitutional operating system for the United States. From statutory skirmish to Trump doctrine test. What began as a dispute over the reach of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act now doubles as a referendum on whether control over trade flows, supply chains and capital should be treated as core elements of U.S. security, on par with tanks and treaties. The live question is no longer just whether IEEPA supports “reciprocal” tariffs; it is whether a permanent, crisis‑framed economic nationalism can sit comfortably inside the constitutional architecture. Why the delay. The delay is itself a form of judgment. By stretching out deliberations while leaving the tariff regime in place, the Court avoids being the proximate cause of market turmoil or diplomatic rupture, yet quietly preserves the very leverage the executive has built. The more time the justices spend hunting for a narrow, carefully hedged opinion, the clearer it becomes that they see this case not as a routine statutory correction but as a structural decision about how much economic firepower a president may wield in the name of security. Economic sovereignty as a constitutional value. The Trump Doctrine treats tariffs, export controls and investment restrictions as routine instruments of national defense rather than exceptional tools reserved for rare emergencies. A decision that preserves the core of IEEPA‑based tariffs, even while pruning procedures or tightening definitions, effectively elevates that logic from political program to constitutionally tolerated practice. If the Court accepts that Congress may delegate sweeping economic war‑powers to the president in the name of national security, it is blessing the underlying premise that economic sovereignty is itself a constitutional interest worthy of deference. Judicial caution as quiet endorsement? The Court’s caution, its reluctance to abruptly dismantle the tariff edifice or deliver a clean, hostile break—already functions as a form of quiet validation. By allowing the regime to persist while it searches for a narrow path, the Court signals that destabilising the executive’s economic leverage is a step it is unwilling to take lightly. That caution is not neutral; it tilts the field toward a world in which the fusion of trade and security is treated as a legitimate baseline rather than an aberration to be swiftly corrected. Likely outcome: trim, don’t topple? The most plausible outcome is a ruling that trims the edges without toppling the structure: tightening how emergencies are declared, policing some excesses, perhaps clipping the most aggressive readings of IEEPA, but ultimately leaving intact the president’s ability to weaponise access to the U.S. market. That kind of decision allows the Court to speak the language of restraint and separation of powers while, in practice, ratifying the central feature of the Trump Doctrine: that a president may run foreign policy through tariffs and financial coercion with broad legal shelter. The Trump Doctrine, judicially normalized. Once that line is drawn, the post‑war, rules‑based trading order is no longer merely eroded by executive practice; it is eclipsed by constitutional precedent. The old assumption, that multilateral tariff disciplines constrain Washington except in narrow, time‑bound emergencies, gives way to a hierarchy in which U.S. security claims and economic sovereignty sit at the top. In that hierarchy, the Trump Doctrine is no longer just a presidential preference disputed in think‑tank papers. It becomes a doctrine the Supreme Court has heard, weighed and, in crucial respects, allowed to stand.
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