Public Toilets

 https://x.com/nottheirscript/status/2120593137110593793?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms. A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated. And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either. Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy. We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor. Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom. Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business. And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there. That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result. Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them. I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it. But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves. Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience. Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources."

Substack BOT

 https://open.substack.com/pub/pastormarc/p/masturbating-ourselves-to-death?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

 https://open.substack.com/pub/bethelmcgrew/p/n-t-wright-and-the-inner-ring?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

  https://factsoverfactions.substack.com/p/fair-share-is-a-slogan-the-tax-return?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

 https://open.substack.com/pub/edwest/p/children-of-men-is-really-happening?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

BOT

 https://x.com/drewhlive/status/2119588958120345975?s=51

" Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay. "

 https://x.com/wsjopinion/status/2118392917647606100?s=51

 https://x.com/varrock/status/2119229337815912847?s=51

" Multiple med/pre-med students at the University of Michigan were caught planning to poison future patients if they weren't "aligned with Palestine" while also planning to kill fellow students and teachers. U of M refused to condemn their actions."

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbXkjqjjb7/

Please, I hope they ignore this advice. 

 https://x.com/efischberger/status/2118793572048605388?s=51

 "CNN’s Van Jones says Democrat operatives coordinated tens of thousands of people through the “American Accountability Network” to amplify their unaffordability message across social media. “The Republicans never figured out what we were doing,” Jones said. He described the participants as “online humans, not bots” and claimed the campaign generated 32.5 million daily hits on Instagram, 88.8 million on X and 185 million on Facebook "Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative.....They couldn't get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that.""

 https://x.com/BlaireWhite/status/2118777123414663670

Yet the DFL useful idiots will continue to vote for this. 

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbYA8ajmta/

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbUuR1N9TB/

 https://x.com/nina_mahsati/status/21188143046610

" The American feminists were so obsessed with The Handmaid’s Tale that they voted to make it a reality."

 https://x.com/vigilantfox/status/2118932616912970163?s=51

 "Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education. The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her. MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school." HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities." MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one." HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad." MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better." HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia." MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—" HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period." MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue." HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time." MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW." ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW." MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one." CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test. And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500. Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power. A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws. If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students.""

 

 

 

BOT

 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2120502936585322524?s=51

 "Colorado State Senator Iman Jodeh, who’s celebrated as the first muslim elected to the Colorado legislature, is advertising an internship program at the Colorado Capitol Qualifications are you have to be muslim or north african. This is illegal."

https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/2120352150349893757?s=51

 "Denmark actually did the math on mass migration, and the results are brutal Their Ministry of Finance counted every tax paid and every public expense for every resident, broken down by where they came from and how old they are Immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey cost the state about $11,000 PER PERSON every single year. Western immigrants pay in about $7,800 more than they take The first group is a net cost at EVERY age of their life "The economy needs migration" is one of the biggest lies ever sold to the West."

 

I know that the government of Denmark isn't a revered news outlet, but maybe their figures are trustworthy anyway.  

https://x.com/nervana_1/status/2117745789116252269?s=51

 https://x.com/glennbeck/status/2119879631021178988?s=51

' Van Jones just ADMITTED exactly how the Democrats tricked the American people leading up to the midterms. The Democrats needed you to believe that the economy under Trump was historically terrible. So they screamed “affordability” as often as they could. Yes, things were rough. But what they didn’t tell you is that an economic boom was emerging. As

@VDHanson

explained on my show last week, 165,000 new jobs were just announced. The poverty rate is at an all-time low at 10.2%. The per capita family income is $87,000, a new record. The GDP was just revised at 3.4, and the Atlanta Fed said it’ll be 5 by the end of the year. The stock market was also 20,000 points higher and income was $14,000 higher than it was during the 2022 midterms when Biden stopped the red wave. During that election, inflation was at a record of 9.1% and gas prices were about the same as they are now. That’s the honest truth: Looking at the metrics, Trump’s 2026 economy is BETTER or THE SAME as in 2022 under Biden. But in 2022, the media didn’t focus on the economy. They insisted Biden did a great job getting us out of the COVID era and the high gas prices due to the Ukraine war were worth it. This time around, Van Jones bragged on CNN that a secret operation called the “American Accountability Network” coordinated tens of thousands of real people to blast hundreds of millions of targeted posts across social media to con the American people into believing the economy was in total ruin. And he wanted CNN viewers to know that they shouldn’t be worried: he was “given permission” to reveal this secret weapon! Um, BY WHO? Who told him that it’s okay to reveal and brag about how the Democrats lied to the American people?"

 

For Dan and the rest of the useful idiots out there, this is what you fell for. 

 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19LVeXUHgE/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

 James Talarico won the Senate seat in Texas and I haven’t heard any accusations of “Christian Nationalism”.

That’s strange.

I’ve been assured by places like CNN that Christian nationalism is an ideology rooted in the belief that our “laws and institutions should reflect Christian values.” And I was assured this was a bad thing.

But hold on a minute…

Talarico’s victory speech compared his political victory to David defeating Goliath, quoted the Great Commandment as the basis for his political agenda, compared himself to Jesus flipping tables, told voters "it's time for us to overturn the tables," and had a Bible verse (“Love Thy Neighbor") on his podium.

Something tells me if a conservative politician did that, every outlet that's spent the last several years warning you about the dangers of "Christian nationalism" would be applying that label before the speech was over.

But let's take Talarico at his word. He says his politics are built on "love thy neighbor."

Funny how the "neighbor" Talarico advocates for doesn't include the unborn child in the womb, the 12-year-old girl who doesn't want boys in her locker room, the female athlete who lost her scholarship to a male, the families of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, the 70,000 Americans killed by fentanyl pouring across the border every year…

(Shall I go on?)

… the children fast-tracked onto puberty blockers they can't consent to, the parents told they have no right to know what their child is being taught about sex and gender, the cake baker sued for following his faith, or the victims of the soft-on-crime policies his side champions (like Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed to death by a man with 14 prior arrests who never should have been free).

"Love thy neighbor" apparently only applies when it doesn't conflict with your politics.

But at least he's not a Christian nationalist. Apparently, that label's reserved just for the other team."

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfgdHtFSMvK/

Trump backpedals on immigration enforcement.   Will Art criticize this change?  

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfbVC8YNg3n/

 

England Might Be Lost

 https://x.com/ukhomeoffice/status/2120154068504969538

 "Respect Orders are now in force. Persistent offenders of anti-social behaviour face tough restrictions and could be ordered to tackle the root causes of their behaviour, including through drug or alcohol treatment and anger-management courses."

 

 

 https://x.com/msmelchen/status/2120503266324729912?s=51

 "Post-war England did not need court orders for basic civility. Lee Kuan Yew, studying in Britain in the late 1940s, described a scarred but orderly country - bomb sites cleared with bricks neatly stacked, little gardens planted among the ruins, and an honor system newspaper stand at Piccadilly Circus where people took a paper and left the money unattended. In his memoirs, he noted the understated pride and discipline of a people who had just been through years of war and privation. The British students and professionals he met were reserved but impeccably mannered. There was no need for constant supervision because society functioned on high trust and shared expectations. That is the England that inspired him, so he set out to model it through using a strong rule of law to achieve cleanliness, public order, and competence. All the while, he rejected the UK policies that he knew were liabilities - the expanding welfare state that discouraged enterprise and erode social norms. Singapore kept the discipline and added stricter enforcement, low tolerance for disorder, and an insistence on assimilation and standards. The result is a city-state with far lower rates of street crime and anti-social behavior than contemporary Britain, despite denser living conditions. Meanwhile, through a series of self-cucking decisions that ultimately culminated in mass migration from lower-trust or incompatible cultures, Britain lost its manners. LKY later visited Britain again and observed the results directly - loss of trust, coarseness, urban decay, drugs, muggings on the Tube, empty churches alongside packed mosques, and a multi-racial society that had lost its cohesion. The gulf between the 1940s Britain he admired and the 1990s–2000s Britain he criticized was painfully obvious. The whole idea of "Respect Orders" is so laughable. It's the stuff that Monty Python would have had a field day with. The truth is, it's really a public confession that persistent anti-social behavior is now so entrenched that the state is reduced to issuing civil orders as a bandaid that carries the threat of two years’ jail time. Also what use is treating just the symptom (persistent public nuisance) when nothing is being done to stop migration or integrate immigrants? When a population that was once famous for queuing without signs and leaving belongings unattended now requires judicial threats to stop people from making life miserable for everyone else, I think you can safely say that society is dead. We all also know that these "Respect Orders" will not be applied evenly. They will function as a flexible tool for suppressing the "wrong" kind of public irritation while the right kind of disruption continues largely unchecked. A group of residents quietly holding signs outside a proposed asylum site can be portrayed as intimidating vulnerable people. A young YouTuber filming the exterior of a migrant hotel, speaking to local residents about crime spikes or public costs, or simply documenting litter and disorder will be far more vulnerable to a "Respect Order" than a Just Stop Oil activist who has repeatedly blocked motorways. A parent filming a school protest over curriculum materials can be framed as causing distress to staff. A local campaigner challenging the siting of a traveller encampment, or documenting street harassment statistics that cut against official narratives, can be restricted from entire town centres. Meanwhile, repeated low-level violence or intimidation linked to certain imported cultural conflicts is more often logged as “community tensions” requiring de-escalation rather than restriction orders and mandatory treatment. Anti-social behaviour is defined as conduct “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.” You understand how vague that is. Like your fat ass could be distressing to me in the public domain, no? So what will happen is that the threshold will be raise or lowered according to the identity of the complainant and the politics of the target. Respect is earned. It shouldn't be legislated. If you have to legislate it then Britain needs to do the FULL LEE KUAN YEW and bring down the hammer on rule of law equally. It has to be strict and indifferent to identity or woke sensibilities. Laws against drugs, disorder, littering, or public nuisance were enforced hard and across the board."

Some Agreement.

 https://holypost.substack.com/p/i-welcome-the-blue-wave-not-the-blue?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

" 

Throughout their campaigns, I found myself in the odd position, as a Christian and a pastor, of wishing both Paxton and Talarico would talk less about Jesus. It’s not that I think politicians need to keep their beliefs quiet. It’s that both Paxton and Talarico’s versions of faith seem to fit so tidily into their political parties’ priorities. Talarico, very famously, stumbled through a specious theological argument about how God is for abortion rights because he asked for Mary’s consent before Jesus’s miraculous conception. He has quoted the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas in sermons. He seems at times contemptuous of traditional Christian sexual ethics. He referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus.” In short, he’s a pretty typical progressive, mainline seminary student. This doesn’t mean I think he shouldn’t have a voice (or a senate seat, for that matter), but it also does not represent anything all that unique or countercultural. It’s predictable. Same old.

Already, media outlets are hailing Talarico’s victory as a new rise of the religious left. But simply replacing a partisan and politically captive religious right with an equally partisan and politically captive religious left is still harmful for the church and for her public witness."

 

I'm gonna guess that I don't agree with much that the author would believe either theologically or politically, but I think that she is spot on with her assessment of the DFL sudden;y embracing Talarico and Hamilton and their christianity.  

Pardon Me

 The new DFL majority has made it quote clear that their primary focus upon taking power is going to be investigating Trump, his appointees, and businesses/donors who the DFL doesn't like.  

If I were Trump, I would simply provide anyone who might be targeted with a preemptive pardon.   Obviously since Biden used this tactic, the ASPL cannot complain about Trump following precedent.  

However, if the DFL wants to waste two years in pointless witch hunts instead of legislating, maybe Trump should save the pardons until later.