https://www.instagram.com/p/DasOrjusB_H/?igsh=MWplODl2c3RzaTFqcw==
When people say “Trust the experts”, these are the kinds of things the experts told us to do.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Monday, July 20, 2026
This Seems Like It's Not Something That Benefits The City
https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-deadly-shooting-nicollet-ave-july-20-2026
https://www.startribune.com/shooting-outside-minneapolis-nightclub-leaves-9-injured/601869798
Defund the police, they said.
Don't prosecute rioters, they said.
Don't say bad things about Somali gangs, they said.
Don't hire enough police to adequately patrol the city, they said.
Elect an prosecutor that doesn't prosecute people, they said.
It'll be amazing, they said.
Instead we get more violence on the streets of Minneapolis, maybe Bruce needs to add a verse or two.
Still Going
https://x.com/khalidi79397/status/2073646163543118010
https://x.com/khalidi79397/status/2077506583878119459?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Can you name the apartheid state? A small state, established on the ruins of empire, that defines itself as the nation-state of one specific people. Its language, its symbols, its character are reserved by law for that people alone. A quarter of its population belongs to a different ethnic group. Many of them were born there. Their parents were born there. And yet the state refuses them citizenship. Instead, it issues them a special passport marking them as something less. They cannot vote. They are barred from entire categories of employment. A permanent, legally defined underclass, sorted by ethnicity and by when their families arrived. The state demands loyalty tests. Tens of thousands of members of this minority, elderly people among them, are ordered to prove their allegiance and their command of the ruling nation's language. Those who fail receive letters: leave within 30 days or be removed by force. Grandmothers who have lived in the same apartment for fifty years are told to pack. Those who refuse can be held in detention centers while the state processes their expulsion. The state didn't stop there. It shut down the minority's media outlets. It abolished education in their mother tongue, down to the last school. It demolished their monuments and memorials. It stopped admitting members of their ethnic group at the border. Officials openly describe all of this as protecting the demographic and cultural security of the majority nation. How many UN resolutions has this country received? How many ICJ hearings? How many sanctions bills are moving through Western parliaments right now? How many students are camped on university lawns for the grandmothers in detention? How many celebrities have posted the infographic? How many artists have cancelled their shows there? How many cities have voted to divest? When did you last see a documentary about the stateless quarter of its population? A hashtag? A march? A single foreign minister expressing even mild concern? The answer to every one of these questions is zero. The country is Latvia. EU member. NATO member. Funded by Brussels, defended by Western armies, criticized by no one. Everything above is happening right now, in 2026, inside the European Union. And now a few questions for the apartheid crowd. You. The ones with the word ready to go, the flags, the chants, the infographics. Where are you on this one? You didn't know? Or you knew and it didn't fit? You scream about second-class citizens. Latvia has them by law, a quarter of the country. Where's your tent? You cry about people being expelled from their homes. Latvia is deporting pensioners over a language exam. Where's your hashtag? You say you're against ethnostates. Here's one, official, funded by the EU. Where's your boycott list? Someone handed you a word, told you where to point it, and you pointed. You didn't check the facts then. You're not checking them now.
Can you name the apartheid state #2? A country in the Middle East where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live behind checkpoints. Army posts control who enters and leaves their camps. In some of them, even bringing in cement to fix a wall requires a military permit. These Palestinians were born in this country. Their parents were born there. Their grandparents arrived in 1948. Four generations later, the state still refuses them citizenship. Not delays it. Refuses it. The rejection of their naturalization is written into the constitution itself. They cannot vote. They cannot own property. A law passed in 2001 bars them from buying so much as an apartment. If a relative dies owning a home, they cannot inherit it. The law names no ethnicity, but everyone knows exactly who it was written for. They are barred from dozens of professions. A Palestinian born in this country can graduate top of his class and still never practice as a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a pharmacist. The professional syndicates are closed to him by law. Those who do find work pay into social security and are legally excluded from most of its benefits. The state provides them no public healthcare, no public education. Their children study in overcrowded schools run by a UN agency because the country that has hosted their families for 78 years will not let them into its own. They travel on special documents marking them as something other than citizens. In 2007 the army leveled one of their camps entirely. Some 27,000 people displaced, an entire community flattened. Reconstruction dragged on for more than a decade under military restriction. No commission of inquiry. No war crimes investigation. Nothing. How many UN resolutions has this country received for any of it? How many ICJ hearings? How many sanctions bills? How many campus encampments for the engineer who cannot join the syndicate, the grandmother who cannot inherit her son's apartment, the family that needed a permit for cement? When did you last see the infographic? The hashtag? The artist cancelling a show? A single foreign minister expressing even mild concern? Zero. Every answer is zero. The country is Lebanon. The people are Palestinians. Everything above is the law today, and has been for decades, in the one country the apartheid crowd has never once looked at. You, with the keffiyeh and the chants and the word loaded and ready. You say you march for Palestinians. Lebanon has kept them stateless for 78 years, banned from property, banned from professions, sealed behind checkpoints. Where's your tent? You cry about permits and walls and military control. Lebanon requires army permission to carry building materials into a refugee camp. Where's your hashtag? You say no one should be a second-class resident of the land they were born in. Lebanon wrote it into its constitution. Where's your boycott list?
Can you name the apartheid state #3? A country that marched into a neighboring territory, claimed it as its own, and has occupied it ever since. The UN calls it a non-self-governing territory awaiting decolonization. The occupier calls it a province and dares the world to say otherwise. It moved its own citizens in by the hundreds of thousands. Settlers now outnumber the native population inside their own homeland. The state hands them housing, salaries, fuel subsidies, tax breaks to relocate onto the land, a deliberate demographic flood engineered to make the occupation permanent and to win any vote before it is ever held. That referendum on self-determination, promised in 1991 and guaranteed by the UN? Blocked for thirty-five years. The occupier will not allow it, because it knows how the natives would vote. To lock it in, the state built a wall. A sand berm seventeen hundred miles long, the longest militarized barrier on earth, longer than any wall you have been told to be outraged about. It is lined with millions of landmines and manned by tens of thousands of troops. It splits the territory in two and pens the natives who resisted into refugee camps in the desert on the far side, where a hundred and seventy thousand of them have rotted for two generations. The natives who stayed live under occupation. Their protests are crushed. Their activists are jailed, tortured, sentenced to life and to decades by military courts for opposing the takeover. Their natural resources, the phosphates, the fisheries, are stripped and sold to foreign buyers while they see none of it. Foreign journalists are expelled. Human rights monitors are barred. The territory is sealed so the world cannot watch. How many UN resolutions demanding that referendum have simply been ignored? How many ICJ opinions brushed aside? How many campus encampments for the hundred and seventy thousand in the desert camps? How many artists cancelled their shows? How many cities voted to divest? How many hashtags for the longest wall in the world? Zero. Every last one, zero. The country is Morocco. The land is Western Sahara. A textbook occupation, settlers planted to outnumber the natives, a promised vote buried for thirty-five years, the longest minefield wall on the planet, a people split between military rule and desert exile. And the state that did it signs normalization deals, hosts the summits, and gets its claim recognized by Western capitals one after another. Now the questions for the apartheid crowd. You, with the word ready and the flags folded in your bag. You say settlers replacing a native population is the ultimate crime. Morocco flooded a whole country with them and won. Where's your tent? You cry about walls and occupation. Morocco built the longest wall on earth and mined it. Where's your hashtag? You demand referendums and self-determination. Here is a people promised a vote in 1991 and still waiting. Where's your march? You never learned the name. Nobody handed it to you, so you never pointed the word at it.
"Can you name the apartheid state #4? A Middle Eastern country whose constitution reserves the presidency for members of one religion, and enshrines that religion's jurisprudence as the main source of law. Everyone else lives there on sufferance. Among them is a small mountain community, three percent of the population, rooted in the same hills for a thousand years. Born there. Parents born there. A thousand years of graves. Last July, the state's army and security forces entered their province. In the space of a week, more than 1,700 people were murdered and nearly 200,000 driven from their homes, by the UN's own count. Monitors documented over 450 field executions, by name. Women. Children. Elderly men shot in their courtyards by soldiers in government uniform. They entered the provincial hospital and killed twenty members of the medical staff. Doctors and nurses, executed at their posts. They filmed themselves doing it. They pinned down elderly clerics and shaved off their mustaches, the mark of their faith, and posted the videos laughing. They threw men from balconies. Then militias summoned from across the country poured past government lines and torched nearly every home in 35 of the minority's villages. Not a riot. House by house, village by village, on camera. Women were abducted. UN experts documented sexual violence and open calls to enslave the community's daughters. Families are still searching a year later. Then came the siege. The province has been sealed behind checkpoints ever since, surviving on a trickle of Red Crescent convoys. Residents describe it in three phrases: no food, no medicine, no schools. That was the situation last summer. It is the situation this morning. Soldiers prosecuted for any of it: effectively none. Human Rights Watch checked in January and found accountability nowhere. The executioners kept their uniforms. And it wasn't the first time. Four months earlier, the same forces massacred more than a thousand members of a different minority on the coast. Weeks after that, over a hundred more from the mountain community were killed near the capital, incited by an audio clip the government itself admitted was fake. ICJ genocide cases: zero. ICC warrants: zero. Campus encampments: zero. Cancelled concerts, divestment votes, celebrity infographics, marches: zero, zero, zero, zero. Actually, worse than zero. This country was under sanctions. The world lifted them. The same year as the massacre. The country is Syria. The minority is the Druze. The president is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who ran al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise and carried a ten million dollar American bounty on his head. Two months after the hospital, he had the podium at the UN General Assembly. Four months after, the White House. The Security Council took him off its terror list personally while Sweida starved behind his checkpoints. You chanted about a siege for two years. Sweida has been sealed for one. Can you find it on a map without searching? You said hospitals are the reddest of red lines. Name the hospital where twenty medical staff were executed. You reposted casualty counts within minutes. The week the UN counted 1,700 dead, what were you posting? You said burned villages are the signature of ethnic cleansing. Thirty-five of them, filmed by the men holding the lighters. Name one. You marched for the abducted, when the abductors wore the right uniform. Druze women were kidnapped with public calls to enslave them. How many of their names do you know? You demand arrest warrants for your villain's cabinet. This man had an actual terrorism bounty, and your governments didn't indict him. They delisted him. Where was your protest outside the summit? When the executions started, exactly one air force on earth struck the killers to slow them down. The survivors now fly that country's flag in their town square. It is the only country you call genocidal.""
It's almost like nothing has changed in the Muslim world since Mo.
Marco
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2077747894497538258?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is that it 'sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.'" "That's actually NOT TRUE. Communism does NOT sound good in theory. The world that envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul." "The world that envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity, or ambition, a world without heroes, or glory, or great causes to strive towards, without a world without miracles, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things." "And the world communism envisions is a world without God." "For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy."
Election Security, And Things That Never Happen
https://x.com/drpoolq17/status/2077914044216852626?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Nothing to see in this news story. Nothing at all.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2078209680203997486?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Must watch clip right here.
2019. Ted Lieu and former Democrat Congresswoman Jane Harman participate in a panel during the annual DEF CON conference.
DEF CON is the world's largest hacker convention. Hackers, computer security experts, intelligence community members, and many others get together to discuss ideas, threats, and to hold hacking contests.
Jane Harman served nine terms in Congress, sat on all the major security committees, and was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. She also is President of the Woodrow Wilson think tank and sits on numerous security advisory boards.
Harman: The 2020 election is not secure. At least a third of all voting machines are totally vulnerable.
Lieu and Harman were there because DEF CON had recently held a "voting village" where hackers attempted (and succeeded) in hacking into our voting machines. Teenagers were even able to hack into some machines.
Ted Lieu urged the hackers to meet with media and to speak out about how vulnerable our voting machines are. Lieu said the public needed to know how vulnerable our elections are.
Lieu also criticized McConnell for not passing election security legislation that would require paper trails for all votes. 
Democrats and the media regularly spoke about the vulnerabilities of our elections, all the way up until the 2020 election. Immediately after the 2020 election it became forbidden to question the security of our elections. They all just began reciting the talking point "It was the most secure election ever.""
https://x.com/westernlensman/status/2078099235124240500?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" "Because Russia can't hack a piece of paper.""
https://x.com/westernlensman/status/2078238685925953642?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Whoops.
https://x.com/kanekoathegreat/status/2077934849093177847?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Man that's a lot of Dams complaining about election security.
https://x.com/CBSNews/status/2077717383863513564
https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2077949629555990624
https://x.com/chriswithans/status/2078113583611920818?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" When Biden was president, they vociferously denied that foreign non-immigrants (people without green cards) were receiving Medicaid and SNAP. Now they’re calling any attempt to rein that in an attack on immigrant families. We were right. We’ve always been right. Noncitizens who aren’t even long-term permanent immigrants are using a tremendous amount of Medicaid and SNAP, both of which are federally funded. This is mostly in blue states and especially in blue cities."
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2078212189605998958?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reviewed the documents just released by the Trump Admin on election integrity and finds CIA emails showing they were working against Donald Trump to aid China and the Democrats in the 2020 election “I've been digging into the documents already and I found this November 2020 email, and it specifically states, it's a conversation among intelligence officials, it specifically states that they have, quote, deliberately massaged one of our pending PDBs. That's the president's daily brief. To avoid any direct links to the election” “This was a massive effort, what they call a multi-domain operation. That means trade, it means diplomacy, it means open-source information, it means social media. So all the levers of power China had to influence the US election” And our own CIA worked to make sure the r President wasn’t aware of any of this information, they literally removed it from his daily briefing Literally treason “In the summer of 2020, as we're heading into the election, in the intelligence community there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation. Influence operations means that you're trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate. It's different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems. And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation, and then suddenly it all was suppressed” “In some of their reports, there were in officials' own handwriting that they wanted everything out that could help President Trump in his reelection. So there was clear evidence of political and personal bias” They wanted to remove EVERYTHING that could possibly help Trump win reelection Again, literally treason Also if you remember awhile back, a former CIA officer named Pedro Israel Orta who worked at the CIA during the Trump Administration said the CIA didn’t even recognize him as the President, they wouldn’t even put his picture up on the wall which was customary for all Presidents They were actively working against him."
This Is The New Face Of The DFL Going Into The 2026 Elections, Thanks Dan.
https://x.com/rncresearch/status/2078852107130806316?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Bill Maher on the radical socialism taking over the Democrat party: "I’m not living in Communist America… I’ve read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing.”"
https://x.com/JillianMichaels/status/2078262975362986219/video/1?s=51
https://x.com/redwavepress/status/2078470471767437729?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" New York City DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo: “Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment.” Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “How much should they make? What’s fair for the landlord to make?” Gustavo Gordillo: “We don’t think that anyone should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment.” Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “What are you talking about?” "
https://x.com/redwavepress/status/2078461829638967712?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “Your family came here from Peru really in the middle of the heat of the Shining Path. They were Maoist communist guerrillas in Peru. So why did your family come to America?” New York City DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo: “The economic situation in South America and Peru was in a really bad place… much of what we could say was responsible for that actually was the imposition of capitalism and American imperialism. In many cases, it is actually what brings immigrants to the U.S. coming out of Latin America.” Martha MacCallum: “They come here because they don’t like the imposition of American imperialism in the country that they’re in.” Gustavo Gordillo: “Yes…” Martha MacCallum: “That doesn’t make much sense.”"
So, this idiot claims that the US screwed up Peru so badly that he was compelled to leave and move the the US. Make it make sense.
https://x.com/foxnews/status/2078218530412007783?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"The Democratic Socialists of America just unveiled a new, radical push to eliminate the Senate, and its co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo is now calling it an "undemocratic institution." "It gives more representation to people in smaller states," Gordillo said, as @ Martha MacCallum pushed back, noting that the House of Representatives is population-based to ensure equal representation. The DSA's platform is also calling for: — eliminating checks and balances — granting amnesty to all immigrants — abolishing the War Department — passage of a Green New Deal — establish a wealth tax — replacing the presidency and Supreme Court with a new executive and judiciary subordinate to and chosen by Congress — a 32-hour work week with no reduction in pay or benefits"
https://x.com/canarymission/status/2078127033482121253?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Complete and total stupidity.
https://x.com/canarymission/status/2078127033482121253?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"NEWS: Maine Democrat Ashley Webb, who said he would not "lie" or "deceive" people, claims in Reddit posts that he "ovulates" and has a monthly period, but because he has "external male parts" instead of "the proper hole," the period blood comes out of his anus. Despite being karyotyped as XY, he says he's "pretty positive I am the XX type." He also believes he has female "internal organs," although CAT scans have turned up nothing. Colonoscopies have also failed to validate a connection with a supposed hidden uterus."
https://x.com/justinebateman/status/2078124685137522802?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"This woman is bat-shit crazy. Refusing to pay rent = “liberatory vision of home” Paying on the schedule you agreed upon when signing the lease = “making this rent payment at the barrel of a gun” Landlords who decide to rent to you = “Exploitation and domination” Having an apt available for you to rent (because you don’t want to sleep in a park) = “Hoarding the places where we live” No one forces someone to sign a lease."
Crazy Position That The DFL Will Never Adopt
https://x.com/jesse_leg/status/2078131813080273330?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
This Seems Somehow Wrong And Discriminitory
https://x.com/olivegarden/status/2077753495764005285?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" No. The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering."
So, the Olive Garden "Never-Ending Pasta Pass" requires more ID verification that voting.
https://x.com/chuckrossdc/status/2077873437234635065?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Shot: Abdul El-Sayed's wife doesn't accept insurance or Medicaid at her psychiatry clinic Chaser: El-Sayed said doctors who don't accept Medicaid "discriminate" against black people."
Bernie Is A Moron
https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2078244554344366199?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.
Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.
And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.
So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.
Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.
And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.
An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.
Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.
Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.
Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.
Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.
Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.
Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.
Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.
And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.
That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.
Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.
I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.
You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.
"
Islam According To History
https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/2078947583687331978?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe. 632: Muhammad dies. 635: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Damascus. 636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch. 637: Muslims conquer the Holy Land. 639: Muslims conquer the first Christian country Armenia. 641: Muslims conquer the Coptic Christian country of Egypt. 650: Muslim armies reach southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "slaves" and "concubines." 711: Muslims invade Spain, and by 715, they have occupied most of it. 717: Muslims besiege Constantinople but are repelled. 730: Muslims invade France, only to be stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours. 792: The ruler of Al-Andalus calls for the invasion of France, and Muslim armies are assembled to attack it again, but they are repelled. 827: Muslims invade Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks. Sicily remains under Islamic rule until 1092. 846: Muslims invade Rome and force the Pope to pay tribute. 848: A third invasion of France occurs, and they are repelled for a third time. 909: Muslims occupy Sardinia. 937: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is burned down by Muslims, and more churches in Jerusalem are destroyed. 1009: Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem. 1012: Beginning of al-Hakim’s oppressive decrees against Christians. 1071: Turkish Muslims attack the Byzantines and occupy much of Anatolia. 1094: Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos asks Western Christendom for help against the Muslim Turkish invasions. 1095: Pope Urban II finally declares the First Crusade."
This doesn't even touch the following centuries of Muslim aggression, violence, conquest, and genocide. But, Muslim isn't a violent religion based on conquest.
He's Not Wrong
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CKHCRDtdW/?mibextid=wwXIfr
"I'm about to make an argument for why the Bible should be taught in public schools and prioritized over other religious texts. And I'm going to show you why even the most ardent atheist in America should agree with me.
First a little context…
This discussion is surfacing again because J.D. Vance was on Rogan a couple days ago, and I think he lost an argument he should have won.
On the topic of a Ten Commandments poster in Texas classrooms, Vance argued that seeing something isn't the same as being forced to believe in it. Rogan pushed back with one question: "Okay, so why not Buddhist scripture? Why not the Quran?"
I'll admit, that's a hard question to answer.
I can see how defending a display feels like an endorsement which is why there’s not a clean rebuttal to “why not everybody else’s?”
Now, for the record, I do think a reasonable case can be made that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that shaped Western legal traditions and that a passive display isn't the same as compelled devotion…
But that's not the argument I want to make today because there's something else Texas has done that I think is far more important and far more defensible...
They put Bible passages into the reading curriculum.
So here's my entire thesis in one sentence: you cannot have any basic literacy in Western civilization without knowing the Bible.
How do you read Shakespeare or Dickens or Dostoevsky or Melville or Faulkner or Toni Morrison without knowing the Bible? Half their imagery comes from it. Half the language we think with came out of a book many Americans have never opened.
When you watch a graveside scene in a movie and hear "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Where did you think that came from?
"To everything there is a season." That's Ecclesiastes, which became a number one pop single.
David and Goliath is one of the most referenced stories in Western literature and we use it to describe sporting events.
How do you read the founding documents? Or FDR? Or King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail? You can't. Not without the Bible.
And the founders weren't exactly subtle about it.
The single most cited source in political writings during the founding era was not Locke. Not Montesquieu. It was Deuteronomy.
Benjamin Franklin (who wasn't exactly a man on his knees in prayer) wanted the parting of the Red Sea on the official seal of the United States.
Our entire First Amendment rests on the religious claim that God made the free mind and no government can cram beliefs into it.
And perhaps most importantly, you cannot understand the abolition of slavery without the book of Exodus. Frederick Douglass quoted it. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted it constantly. The Promised Land, the mountaintop, let my people go. This isn't decoration on the speech. It IS the speech.
If you want your kids to understand how this country ended slavery, you have to hand them the book the people who did it were holding.
And they were singing it too. Go Down Moses. Wade in the Water. Deep River…
Enslaved people sang their way toward freedom in the language of Exodus, and that music became gospel, and gospel became soul and rock and roll. Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Aretha. There is a straight line from a burning bush to Muscle Shoals.
So to answer Rogan's question: why not the Quran?
First, the boring answer that apparently nobody complaining about this has bothered to check. The Quran IS in the Texas curriculum.
But here's the real answer…
You give priority to the text your civilization was built on. A Japanese school prioritizes Japanese texts. An Indian school prioritizes Hindu texts.
An American school should prioritize the text that shaped American law, literature, music, and civil rights movements. That's basic literacy… not endorsement.
Nobody is asking your kid to pray. Nobody is making anyone kneel.
I'm arguing that fifth graders should read about the burning bush and high schoolers should read about Job the same way they read Homer without sacrificing a goat to Athena.
The Bible in this country is load-bearing, whether you believe it's true or not.
If you don't know the roots, you probably won't care when someone starts cutting down the tree.
And perhaps that's the real objection."
Interesting Take
https://x.com/danburmawy/status/2079030535226003468?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
The Western mind, after centuries of moving away from barbarity and cruelty, can no longer comprehend evil without attaching a tangible cause to it. When a mass shooter opens fire, the default assumption is that he must be mentally ill. When rebels take up arms, the explanation is that they must be oppressed. Violence is never seen as an end in itself, it is always framed as a reaction to something external, something rational, something the West can diagnose and fix. That is why Hamas and other terrorist organizations are so disorienting to the Western imagination. Their actions are too grotesque, too irrational, to fit neatly into Western categories of cause and effect. So Westerners scramble for explanations they can live with: “occupation,” “colonization,” “oppression.” They manufacture a tangible reason that makes sense to them, even if it has little to do with the truth. But if we look at history, cruelty has never required a tangible reason. Entire empires conquered, enslaved, and slaughtered not out of desperation or defense, but simply because they could. Vikings did not need oppression to justify raiding monasteries and enslaving villagers. Mongols did not need colonization to rationalize leveling entire cities and piling up skulls. The Aztecs did not need occupation to demand thousands of human sacrifices every year. The idea that cruelty must always have a logical, material cause is a uniquely modern, uniquely Western invention. Islamic terrorism does not operate by those rules. The engine behind jihad is not material grievance, it is spiritual ambition. The reason is not socioeconomic oppression, it is theological conviction. The suicide bomber is not trying to relieve poverty; he is trying to buy salvation. The jihadist who slits throats on video is not traumatized; he is reenacting Muhammad’s example, convinced that every drop of blood shed brings him closer to paradise. Jihad is not a cry for help. It is not the desperate rebellion of the oppressed. It is a religious performance, a soteriological act, a path to redemption."
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Expertise?
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DatvdS-DvMp/
If you find the "all faith traditions" are an "equal pathway" to the "divine mystery universe", can you really be considered an expert in Christianity?
If you believe that "God, Allah, YHWH, Nirvana, and The Great Spirit" are all "equal pathways to the same fundamental truth", can you really be considered an expert in Christianity?
The DFL Is More Interested In Pushing A False Narrative, Than In Doing The WIll Of The People
https://x.com/HouseDemocrats/status/2077077816189800800
Yet the Fed just revealed that the affordability crisis was driven by unchecked immigration, and the data shows that inflation is lower now than during Biden.
https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2077119191371673797?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Ah yes. "Partisan voter suppression legislation." That's a fascinating way to describe a bill that 80-84% of Americans support — INCLUDING roughly 70% of your own voters. Quick question, and I genuinely want an answer: at what point does a policy stop being "partisan" and start being "something four out of five Americans agree on regardless of party"? Asking for a country. Let's do the math you skipped. Pew (August 2025): 83% of adults favor requiring photo ID to vote — 95% of Republicans, 71% of Democrats. Gallup: 84%. Rasmussen (March 2026): 82%, including 70% of registered Democrats. Break it down by race and the "suppression" narrative collapses further — 85% white support, 82% Hispanic, 76% Black. So either three-quarters of Black America signed up to suppress itself, or the premise is wrong. I'll let you sit with that one. The SAVE Act accepts a REAL ID, a passport, a military ID with service record, OR a birth certificate plus photo ID. Four separate paths. That's not a wall, that's a buffet. You need photo ID to buy Sudafed, board a flight, or get into most DNC events with credentials — but somehow verifying who's electing federal officials is where you draw the line. Curious hill. And "cost-of-living crisis they created" is a bold sentence from the caucus that just spent weeks holding a clean CR hostage to preserve COVID-era ACA subsidies you yourselves wrote to expire. Not one Republican voted to end those subsidies. Your own party did that in 2021. Own it. Quinn's Law #6 applies neatly here: facts are the enemy of liberalism. That's precisely why the post leads with a slogan instead of a citation."
We know that the founders did not want, and took steps to prevent, a direct democracy. Yet, if we were to put voter ID to a vote of the people it would pass overwhelmingly. Even among the ASPL and minority voters. This issue has as much or more bipartisan support as anything, Yet the DFL insists on preventing the legislature from doing to clearly expressed will of the people.
This Is A Shapshot of Your 2026 and 2028 DFL (Updated)
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/2077208201372512376?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
When people tell you what they believe and who they are, listen to them.
https://x.com/rncresearch/status/2077071966414987283?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
When Hillary advisors are warning of the danger, maybe pay attention.
https://x.com/westernlensman/status/2077008014482014211?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Because going on C-SPAN and talking about "abolishing the senate" isn't extreme at all.
https://x.com/drcharliewardq/status/2076653085787611582?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Far-left Ana Kasparian: “I will concede that Gavin Newsom’s leadership in California has been a complete and utter disaster… He changes his ideology depending on what he thinks is fresh and what’s hip at any given moment. 76% of Californians voted in favor of something known as Prop 36, which is to roll back some of the soft-on-crime policies. That requires funding. [Newsom] has been pushing back on adequately funding the efforts to essentially roll back those policies.” Neera Tanden: “So you think it’s important to have the investments in fighting crime?” Ana Kasparian: “100% yes… What we got instead was the premature closure of four prisons. Gavin Newsom is preparing to shut down the fifth state prison. As a result of the county state prisons are full to the brim of inmates… and then what they do is end up releasing people early because they don’t have room for them.” Even Democrats HATE Gavin Newsom."
Thanks CNN.
https://x.com/BelannF/status/2076663872266608891/video/1?s=51
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/2077221352071631218?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" During DSA’s launch call for its new political program, Workers Deserve More, Michaela Brangan offered a revealing vision of life under socialism. “You don’t have to have a job just to pay the bills because you don’t have a lot of bills, right? Bills are no longer a thing because there’s not for-profit businesses that are constantly trying to exploit you and trying to, you know, put you into debt.” She insists socialism is not about bureaucracy, meetings, or control. Heavens, what could possibly give anyone that impression?
Instead, Brangan presents a world where people are freed from financial anxiety and no longer have to work merely to survive. It sounds wonderful. But utopian systems, whether sold by the Left or the Right, repeatedly collide with the realities they prefer to ignore. Scarcity does not disappear. Incentives still matter. Interests still conflict. The flawed nature of humans does not disappear simply because the people designing the system believe themselves to be moral."
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