Long line but great vibe!

Reminder: the AFL-CIO is literally one of the four core NED grantees as appointed by Congress, and for a few years, was the top grantee as they were considered the most destabilizing next to CIPE, NDI, and IRI. But they grifted this money so badly and caused a massive partisan scandal in France, that NED was forced to pass a rule that no one of the grantees could get a disproportionate amount at the risk of Congress would capitulating and pulling NED funding altogether.

Whenever you see AFL-CIO post something, know it’s not on member dues. It’s on our taxpayer money.

Oof… but what’s good for the goose, all that…

What kind of logic is even that? Money going to troops sooner rather than later is somehow stealing from troops? Particularly if it's in the form of a direct transfer as opposed to some abstract "affordable housing" subsidy which undoubtedly goes to landlords? Why does this asinine rationale even have 18K likes?

I trace a quasi-religious belief in the power of non-tariffs in my book. Basically: tariffs implicitly admit that a borderless liberal utopia isn't possible.

https://x.com/i/status/2001838940018647345
At this point, regardless of whether one supports tariffs or not, it should be clear that "tariffs cause inflation" is false. The record simply does not support it. If this fails under real-world observation, why doesn't that call into question all economical science claims in general? We heard almost every single mainstream economist predicting runaway inflation as a result of tariffs. It didn't happen. Ergo, why should we be trusting any modern economics in general?

And when do we stop treating tariffs as a uniquely destructive policy tool, and instead acknowledge what they actually are: a choice about what is taxed, as opposed to the individual?

Here’s what you don’t understand: this isn’t just Elon’s question, it’s all our question. Because you all act just that gae.

Why are the EU Commisars so gae?

Answer, please.

Gavin, the difference between you and me is that I don’t consider hundreds of thousands of overdoses to be a bragging point. How can you make this kind of post with a straight face (with the big orange $19 sticker and all) and not understand why the rest of us consider California to be a dystopia?

If these words fly over your head, just invite Xi for another visit. Your CCP overlord seems to be the only one who can spur you into actually doing your job of cleaning the streets.

Going to take a controversial stance here. The “poor kid” you’re referencing was never going to stay in the background. He is actively being groomed into career activism-slash-leadership at the expense of US taxpayer money. He was always setting himself up to extort our collective guilt and dollars. I have negative sympathy for him — I’m glad he got exposed sooner rather than later.

And I can say that confidently as someone who’s walked the talk of being doxxed.

The only way leftists win arguments is by building strawmen, proclaiming “this is what the opposition thinks,” and then burning those strawmen down

This post is Exhibit A

FRIDAY NIGHT THOUGHTS

Many critics have correctly noticed I've worked closely with the Chinese.

I've been an atheist most of my adult life. But for the most part I've been sympathetic with the right wing. And at a point in time, that brought me close to the "China is awesome" wing.

When I traveled to Beijing in 2008, even then, I was amazed at how everything just ... worked. There was no homeless. Society was extremely high trust. China just ... worked. And every visit since confirmed that.

My father, who traveled all over the world for the military, confirmed the same. China ... just works.

Except ... on the last day of the visit wherein I was ready to move to China, which @data_republican can asset to, we got sequestered in a hotel room and we were told to not to peek out out blindfolds. So we did anyway, and saw a very scary military parade of China's missile capability and all that. We witnessed this at the threat of being prisoned for even peeking behind window blinds.

What's the point of this story?

Fast foward to 2020: my husband and I were constrained from the government in everything, in the COVID-19 era.

We had young, restless children.

We went to the local playground, which was closed down.

What did we do?

We tore off the tape. That's all we did.

In China, we would have been shot on the spot. That is the price of trading safety for freedom.

When I hear others speak of Qatar in this way, it hurts at a visceral level.

Qatar is a slave state.

Qatar trades freedom for safety.

Anyone who says Qatar is "good" simply hasn't stayed long enough to see that trade-off.

America is flawed for sure. But America is still the best country in the world.

The only way to center your morality is not in a country, or in an authority. You have to center it in God. There's no other option that solves the cognitive dissonance the world hands to you.

With luck, OCR phase will be done by end of Amfest. Then comes the LLM phase!

Gae protesting happening outside of the Amfest convention now. They’re chanting the F-word in front of my kids.

What NGO made this custom flag?

Hello Mr. Brandstatter,

You want to talk about United States billionaires getting involved in European elections? Let’s talk about the most famous one. George Soros spending countless dollars to install globalist-friendly leaders:

🇷🇸 Serbia / Yugoslavia (2000) 🗓️ Bulldozer Revolution 💰 ~$8.9M+ 🏦 via Open Society Foundations funding Serbian NGOs, media, and political infrastructure aimed at regime change

🇬🇪 Georgia (2003) 🗓️ Rose Revolution 💰 $4.6M 🏦 Open Society Georgia Foundation 📡 funding media, legal reform, civil society, and election-adjacent institutions

🇺🇦 Ukraine (2004) 🗓️ Orange Revolution 💰 $8.24M direct + ~$2.04M indirect 🏦 International Renaissance Foundation 🗳️ election monitoring, activist networks, media support

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan (2005) 🗓️ Tulip Revolution 💰 $3.82M direct + ~$2.35M indirect 🏦 Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan 📢 civil society, media, political NGOs

🇲🇩 Moldova (2009) 🗓️ “Twitter Revolution” 💰 part of $72M regional emergency influx 🏦 OSF 🧨 rapid funding to sustain protest movements and opposition infrastructure during unrest

🇺🇦 Ukraine (2013–2014) 🗓️ Euromaidan / Revolution of Dignity 💰 $12.42M 🏦 International Renaissance Foundation 🧱 long-term political, legal, and civil-society capacity building preceding and during regime change

🇲🇰 North Macedonia (2016) 🗓️ Colorful Revolution 💰 $5.79M 🏦 Open Society Institute–Macedonia 📰 judiciary activism, protest support, media and NGO coordination

🇦🇲 Armenia (2018) 🗓️ Velvet Revolution 💰 $3.95M (>$53M cumulative by 2020) 🏦 Open Society Foundation–Armenia 🧭 sustained democracy-promotion infrastructure preceding political turnover

The sad thing is, this is only a partial list of American billionaire interference. Ford, Rockefeller, Obama, and countless other foundations all pour their own money to overturn elections. Then the US taxpayer apparatus through USAID layers even more on top of that.

You never complain about that money. Instead, you are clutching your pearls when a billionaire correctly noticed on social media (no spending even!) that EU is increasingly disrespecting the norms they claim to guard: dissent, pluralism, and freedom of speech.

You are a hypocrite, Helmut. The facts prove it. And you never answered the question of why you are so gae.

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