The thing to realize about the left is that they didn’t hate the UFC event at the White House because it was some kind of desecration or whatever. They hated it because they know they could never come close to rivaling it in its spectacle or the enthusiasm around it. They can’t think like that. They’ve spent too long hating the country and everything patriotic. All their attempts at celebrations end up nothing more than a display of mental illness and sexual degeneracy and the more public they are with it the more average Americans reject it.

I don't cry for much. Friends passing. Doggos passing. But this got me.

Alex Soros is interesting because he’s a billionaire heir who dedicates his life to making cities less safe. He’s like a Reverse Batman.

Trump's Executive Order on USPS & Mail-In Ballots could finally end rigged elections in California & beyond, regulating mail-in voting at the federal level. The EO puts states on the hook to accompany a list of the eligible voters that are going to vote federally and who they're going to provide mail-in ballots to and also adds a unique intelligent mail barcode for tracking. Trump's March 31, 2026 EO directs the Postmaster General to start proposed rulemaking within 60 days to create uniform national standards for mail-in and absentee ballots. Ballot envelope must be marked "Official Election Mail" with USPS-approved logo/markings. Must be automation-compatible with a unique Intelligent Mail barcode for tracking. Must pass USPS envelope design review for compliance. States must notify USPS at least 90 days before a federal election if they plan to use mail-in/absentee ballots via USPS. States must submit a list of eligible voters at least 60 days before the election. USPS shall not transmit mail-in or absentee ballots to anyone not on a State-specific list. USPS must create and maintain a "Mail-In and Absentee Participation List" for each state. Providing states with lists of enrolled individuals with unique barcode identifiers. All processes must comply with the Privacy Act. Final rule must be issued no later than 120 days from the EO date. This is a HUGE win for election integrity. @JovanHPulitzer

The United States used to lead the way. How is the rest of the world waking up before America? 🤔

Elon Musk isn't stealing anything from me. The Government? Stealing quite a lot, actually.

The fastest way to get vigilantes... ...is to make them necessary.

My car can’t rape children en masse. My pizza doesn’t steal billions of my taxes through fake learing centers. My coffee doesn’t rape and murder me because of a language barrier. My shirt doesn’t behead people in the streets. My letters don’t kill and cook protected migratory birds on the beach. My numbers don’t need taxpayer funded housing and food. My democracy doesn’t abuse the ER like it’s a personal doctor’s office then foots me with the bill. My electric doesn’t set up illegal birthing centers so its kids can gain full citizenship and benefits.

This clip of Charles Payne during Obama's second term is really incredible. Well done Charles. In 2010 Obama put the federal government directly in charge of lending money to students. Eliminating private lending made the loans much easier to get, but they were not less expensive. Before Obama took office, outstanding student debt was less than $100 billion. By 2015, outstanding student debt was approximately $800 billion and almost a third of the borrowers were in default. Of course the price of college continued to soar the entire time. This is the best part. Payne predicted that someday the politicians would be promising to forgive student debt as a way to buy votes. He was spot on. There are people like Ro Khanna on this site right now arguing that Elon Musk should be paying down the student debt when it's a problem that politicians created.

The reason health care is so expensive in the US isn't because of Elon Musk, it's because of members of congress like Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, so I'm not really sure why we should be taking the money from him, we should be taking it from her. Health care spending in the US is well over $5 trillion a year, so even if we seized the entirety of Elon Musk's fortune, it would not even pay for three months of the expense. After those three months, where would she and the rest of the people to blame in Congress go to find more money to take to feed into the economic furnace they created? The government does many, many things to drive up the price of health care, from deliberately restricting the supply of doctors at the behest of the AMA, to “certificate of need” laws that restrict the supply of health care facilities, to federal regulations that restrict the supply of already expensive medicines. In addition, the government subsidizes demand for health care while restricting that supply, and as anyone who has gotten a decent grade in econ could tell you, that results in unbounded increases in cost. I don't see justice in asking Elon Musk to pay for a mess that rests firmly with Congress. If Ms. Ocasio-Cortez wishes to find the person responsible, she can go and look in a mirror.

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works. When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on. Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths. Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana. It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable. Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help. Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys. Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept. In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't. You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions. But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher. Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person. This has already happened. Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity. You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together. The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart. He thinks they sound crazy.

Cave Catgirl simple Nyanderthal. Need smart tribe explain this thing. Elon sell electric cars. Elon sell satellite internet. Elon launch rockets. Elon make things people want buy. (Including governments!) Somehow this make Cave Catgirl poorer? Please explain slowly. Use small words. If Elon become rich by taking Cave Catgirl mammoth, Cave Catgirl understand. If Elon become rich by stealing Cave Catgirl hut, Cave Catgirl understand. If Elon become rich by government pointing spear and taking Cave Catgirl shiny rocks, Cave Catgirl understand. But that not argument being made. Argument seem be: "Man build companies. People buy products. Investors think companies valuable. Therefore Cave Catgirl poorer." In fact, GOVERNMENTS do these things. Government take mammoth, because they say it endangered. Government take hut if no pay property tax. Government take spear, say stick dangerous. Say only special government police should have stick. Please explain why Nyanderthal should be angry at Elon, and not Government? Cave Catgirl no follow. Did Tesla make Cave Catgirl poorer? No. Did Starlink make Cave Catgirl poorer? No. Did SpaceX make Cave Catgirl poorer? No. In fact, SpaceX doing things NASA should have figured out years earlier while tribe paying Russians to take astronauts to space. That seem opposite of poorer. Starlink do more to give remote people internet than all of Government. This also seem like good thing. Cave Catgirl notice weird thing. When local bakery become successful, tribe clap. When plumber become successful, tribe clap. When businessman become successful, tribe suddenly act like success itself crime. Very strange. Now if you want argue government favoritism, subsidies, regulatory capture, or cronyism? Good discussion. Cave Catgirl listen. Simply pointing at giant number and shouting: "LOOK! HE HAVE MORE SHINY ROCKS THAN ME!" This not actually argument. It envy. Wise holy man on cross say this is sin. Before demanding wealth tax, first explain how man selling products people willingly buy somehow making Cave Catgirl poorer. Because Cave Catgirl just humble Nyanderthal. Cave Catgirl not seeing connection.

That weepy Ugandan Healthcare worker in Northern Ireland video has been bothering me a lot and I think I figured out why. Also, this is going to get real insane real quick. First, the obvious question is: Why the hell are there *Ugandan* healthcare workers in Northern Ireland? Seriously, think about that for a second. That's weird. It might've been normalized to the natives, but it's not normal. That's weird. But it gets weirder. Turns out just under 50% of Northern Ireland's nursing school grads are foreign born. Consider the impact of that statement. Consider a nation, of any kind and any size, where anywhere near fifty percent of those who attend its schools in a critical industry (like HEALTHCARE) are foreigners. Who will then, very likely, be employed in by that nation for the foreseeable future. You can't convince me that the women of Northern Ireland are simply too stupid or disinterested to attend their own schools. I understand the rationale that everyone is told is that there are "Shortages", but stop and think about that for a second and that argument falls apart. Northern Ireland has just shy of a million women, and the nursing school graduate class was only 1700, with 800 being foreign born. You're going to tell me with a straight face they couldn't find 800 more women out of a million that would be interested in a career in Nursing? That the ONLY option was to import women from Nigeria, and India, and Uganda? Yeah, I was making that confused face too. I mean WHY would the British authorities conspire to import Ugandan nurses, that seems like such a bizarre thing to do. But then it became crystal clear. You import Ugandan nurses because you CAN'T get rid of them. See it now? If your nation's entire healthcare is exclusively dependent on Foreigners to function... you HAVE to keep them around. You don't have a choice. The people of Northern Ireland don't have a choice. If they expel the immigrants their entire healthcare system collapses. The Government *intentionally* refused to train its own women to be nurses because that would require the natives accept foreign born healthcare workers. And their children. And their husbands. And their culture. Forcing any patriots who wanted to expel them to make a hard choice.. and making it no choice at all for the elderly. Expel them and you die because there will be no one trained to take care of you. So pick one. Either the Government and it's educational system is utterly convinced that the native women of Northern Ireland are just too useless to take care of their own people. Or... their Government found an insidiously clever way to ensure the natives could never expel the invaders. And that's why you have supremely "sympathetic" Ugandan mothers talking about her children's letters being put to the torch... but she courageously saved her work uniform. Why Nigerian Nurses in Northern Ireland are threatening to leave, and they want to make sure you KNOW that she's a nurse. They want some old woman alone in some old house to look on that in horror and realize there won't be anyone to take care of her. Because that Nigerian Nurse, or someone just like her is the only choice she's got. Very much by design. How unbelievably evil.

It's so unbelievably dark. Have you noticed? It seems everyone speaking out in favor of the people of Northern Ireland are foreigners. But why? Well because their own Government made very clear that speaking up for Northern Ireland in a voice too loud can be very very risky. I realized something when people kept getting accused of not understanding the local politics of Northern Ireland. Because they're not wrong. Mind you, in our defense, it's a pretty complicated place with a pretty complicated history. Might not seem that way to natives but to people on the other side of the world? Yeah. I'd made an offhand comment. "We're dumb, but we're enthusiastic". See, I'd been reading post after post of people in Government and Media who were utterly convinced Northern Ireland owed the rest of the world access to Northern Ireland. Which, I mean, seems insane. And I'd watched as a lot of people were fighting against them tooth and nail. And it was then I noticed. Few *posts* were, almost none, were written in support of Northern Ireland being free of mass migration. It seemed like everyone fighting in favor of Northern Ireland were foreigners who mostly just understood there was something deeply wrong, but didn't quite know the particulars. But on the other side? On the other side it was post after post after post sneering at those who would even dream of questioning the mass influx of Migrants. One decidedly pro migrant post flat out told the people of Northern Ireland that they were parasites (the natives!) who couldn't survive without immigrants. Who were too stupid, too impoverished, and too weak to stand on their own. I couldn't believe it even as I read it. And there was no one countering it. Not that I saw. Maybe it's an X thing, probably is to some extent, but it blew my mind. Why? Because I suspect it's dangerously close to being illegal to do so in the UK. It's within kissing distance of illegal for the people of Northern Ireland to say "We don't need immigrants to survive, and we don't want them". Nominally the those in Northern Ireland have the right to comment, "protest", etc so long as it doesn't incite. But we all know a thumb on the scale when we see one and it's clear to me that there is definitely a chilling effect at work. Truth is if these people thought they could be heard without fear of reprisal we would be having an entirely different discussion right now.

The thing Anthropic's repugnant and overbearing “safety controls” on their new model demonstrates, conclusively I think, is that if we allow one or two companies to control all AI research and development, we will also be giving those companies veto power over what thoughts we are allowed to think, what information we are allowed to know, what conversations we are allowed to have. The only solution to this is an open, fiercely competitive market where customers can freely choose to leave when a company behaves like this. Anthropic has repeatedly sought various forms of regulatory capture during its history, attempting to use the law itself as a weapon to prevent competitors from entering the marketplace to allow it to seize sole control over AI R&D. We cannot afford to give such companies opportunities for regulatory capture. The only sure way to keep our society and our minds free is to prevent firms like this from getting their way with legislators. We must keep the marketplace for AI open, and not allowing regulations to be abused to gatekeep who may and may not compete.

The message of a protest is "we don't like this". The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it". People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world. They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are. If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence. And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table. Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that. Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power. (Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.) When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can. And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc. This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight". They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict. This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table. A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care. A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

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Lex Luthor was the hero.