https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/heat-death-europe-ac-american-gun-violence-climate-change-hot-summer/
For all of the hoopla about gun deaths in the US, this bit of statistical data is grimly amusing.
When you then consider that the vast majority of US gun deaths are caused by a tiny percentage of the US population, and are concentrated in a handful of cities, it makes the European deaths look worse. These people are simply unlucky victims sacrificed to a secular religious movement.
https://x.com/johnlefevre/status/2072042006667297058?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2223793/treasury-ditch-maths-test-increase
" The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a "hurdle" for minority candidates. Let that sink in. The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic. This isn’t diversity. This is institutional self-sabotage."
Heaven forbid that those employed by the agency in charge of the financial system of the UK understand math.
https://x.com/infantrydort/status/2071684766001512615?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Communism has always appealed because it offers a morally simple answer to an impossibly complex human problem. >Life is unfair. >Therefore someone must be guilty. >If we punish the guilty, justice will follow. It replaces responsibility with resentment. Most importantly, it tells ordinary people they can become virtuous without becoming better. That is why it returns every generation. Not because it works, but because it flatters. History’s warning is not that these ideas begin with prison camps. They begin with moral certainty and the belief that society can be perfected if only the “right” people are given enough power to identify the guilty and reorganize everyone else’s lives. Today, that temptation is more dangerous than ever. Never before have governments and institutions possessed so much data, so many surveillance tools, so much influence over information, and such extraordinary capacity to shape public life at scale. Every generation inherits more powerful instruments than the last. Whether those instruments preserve liberty or erode it depends on the ideas guiding the hands that wield them. The lesson of the last century is not merely that communism failed. It is that no society is immune from believing that concentrating power in pursuit of moral perfection will finally succeed. History has already rendered its verdict; 100 million+ dead. Our responsibility is to remember it before we convince ourselves that this time will be different.""
https://x.com/natefriedman97/status/2071666936639869215?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"I exposed the Islamic takeover of New Jersey. The mayor of Paterson has renamed his city "the capital of Palestine in America." Main Street is now Palestine Way. I went there to ask questions about what they truly want. I'm kicked out of one of the biggest mosques in America within minutes of asking about a sheikh there who did a sermon for former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Mosque security tails me in a golf cart filming my license plate off the property. I later uncover that the mosque has 3 connections to Hamas. In the video, I go into a barbershop and immediately am asked "are you a Jew? Are you a Zionist?" before being slammed out the door under a window with a t shirt that says "Jews Did 9/11" and a photo of Sinwar, the architect of October 7th, 1200 people were killed that day including 46 Americans and Saleem honors him. I try to interview more people but most can't speak English. A man tells me "if you walk down Main Street it's like Ramallah." The mayor has declared Paterson the sister city of Ramallah. The streets are empty at 1:30pm on a Friday because everyone is at the mosque. This is a 30 min drive from NYC."
https://x.com/sarahsalviander/status/2071668533646315748?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"You can't squash the religious impulse. If you remove God, it will just manifest in other ways. In secular religion, there is abundant guilt and atonement, but little love and forgiveness. The rituals of atonement are harsh, sometimes to the point of death. Mercy? You deserve no mercy. The Earth will not take the punishment for your sins as Christ did. You will. You are the sacrifice for the sins of humankind. If you don't know what this is about: France has already recorded 1,000 excess deaths due to the recent record-breaking heat wave. The use of AC has been politicized in Europe to the point that that most everyone, including vulnerable people, are discouraged from using it even as conditions become intolerable. Why? Because of carbon emissions. Even as China releases 2x more emissions than the entire EU, the EU must sacrifice. You can't convince me this isn't pagan religion without the supernatural."
https://x.com/finaltelegraph/status/2071958788576272886?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"The Total and Unforgivable Judicial Betrayal of Amy Coney Barrett The appointment of Amy Coney Barrett was sold to the conservative movement as the crowning achievement of a multi-generational battle to restore the Constitution, a definitive placement of an uncompromising originalist in the mold of her mentor, Antonin Scalia. Instead, what the American right received was a jarring lesson in establishment capture and institutionalist anxiety. Rather than dismantling the expansive structures of the administrative state or offering a fearless defense of foundational conservative principles, Barrett has rapidly transitioned into the cozy, risk-averse center of the Roberts Court. She has chosen the applause of the mainstream legal establishment and the approval of elite circles over the rigorous execution of the judicial philosophy she championed during her confirmation hearings. She operates not as an agent of constitutional renewal but as a cautious, overly technical manager who prioritizes narrow procedural technicalities and institutional optics over substantive justice. Nowhere is this betrayal more glaring or consequential than her authorship of the disastrous June 2026 majority opinion in Watson v. Republican National Committee. In a staggering 5 to 4 ruling, Barrett completely abandoned the text of federal election statutes to side with Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices, effectively codifying the left’s preferred election landscape. By ruling that federal law does not preempt state measures allowing mail-in ballots to arrive up to five days after Election Day, Barrett single-handedly undermined the core concept of a single, secure, and uniform national Election Day. Her logic flew in the face of historical practice and common sense, drawing immediate and justified fury from conservative leaders like Senator Eric Schmitt, who rightly called the opinion shockingly wrong. This ruling did not just damage election integrity; it cemented Barrett’s reputation as a judicial disaster echoing the ghost of David Souter, a justice who campaign managers and grassroots activists now realize cannot be trusted when the institutional stakes are highest. This pattern of prioritizing beltway institutionalism over constitutional order was already on full display in March 2025, when Barrett joined the liberals and Roberts in a 5 to 4 decision that forced the taxpayer to shell out approximately 2 billion dollars in foreign aid. By rejecting the administration’s attempt to freeze funds designated for foreign development, Barrett delivered a direct and painful rebuke to executive authority and fiscal sanity. Her vote effectively shielded unaccountable globalist bureaucracies from the executive cuts voters had explicitly demanded. For a movement that expected an unyielding constitutionalist, watching Barrett side with the liberal wing to protect a massive foreign aid payout was the moment the illusion shattered. It prompted commentators and grassroot spaces to drop all pleasantries, identifying her as an establishment appeaser who folds under pressure from the permanent administrative class. Her lack of strategic fortitude extends directly into the realm of political lawfare, where she has repeatedly left the conservative movement exposed. Just before the 2025 presidential inauguration, Barrett joined Roberts to reject a critical request to delay sentencing in the New York hush-money case. This was a moment demanding an understanding of constitutional equilibrium and the protection of the executive branch from highly politicized state-level maneuvers, yet Barrett chose the path of elite etiquette over structural defense. Her record on national security and immigration tells a similar story of compromise; she joined in part with the court’s liberals on an order regarding Venezuelan detainees sent to El Salvador, actively defying a lower court’s robust efforts to secure the country and signaling an alarming reluctance to back aggressive immigration enforcement. Even when she is not actively voting with the left, her penchant for legal fussiness manages to sabotage the conservative agenda. Her abrupt recusal in the Oklahoma Catholic charter school funding case engineered a devastating 4 to 4 tie, leaving a lower court’s hostile ruling against taxpayer funding for religious institutions fully intact. By stepping aside on a technicality, she effectively handed a victory to secular progressives and dealt a severe blow to the religious liberty movement that had spent years defending her. From her viral, disapproving looks toward the populist movement during joint addresses to Congress to her consistent fracturing away from the principled conservative bloc of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, Barrett has proven to be an immense disappointment. She is a cautious institutionalist whose obsession with legal technicalities and downstream media reactions has transformed her into a reliable swing vote for the left, leaving the conservative legal movement to wonder why they fought so hard to seat a justice who treats their constitution as a tool for progressive appeasement."
https://x.com/vickiefornyc/status/2072106235957227828?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted: "I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason. Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no. Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it. We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best. This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb. And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so. What will we do next year? And the year after? The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget. But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most. Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving. The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here. We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth. And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing. This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care. And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country. We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars. Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything? It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN. At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability? The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else. I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations. We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money. Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no.""
Dan has his little incantations, which he seems to think give him some kind of power or something. Things like "Craig mistakenly opined" or the like.
His most recent is "All means all".
He seems to be sprinkling this incantation throughout multiple threads and to mean (like many things he says) everything and nothing at the same time.
The problem is that all does not always mean all.
For example. If a teacher says to her class, "You all need to take out your text books.", this all clearly does not apply beyond the walls of that particular group of students in that particular classroom at that particular moment.
Likewise, I I walk up to a table in a crowded restaurant and say "Hey y'all, it's good to see you.", my all clearly does not extend beyond the people at that table.
What Dan is praising in the SCOTUS ruling is that SCOTUS just decided that (hypothetically) if a group of SPECTRE agents came to the US to carry out a plot to blow up the US Capitol building, The White House, The Supreme Court, and introduce radioactive material into the water supply, that one of them who happened to give birth in the midst of carrying out this plot will give birth to a US citizen.
All does not always mean all.
