The only sustainable foundation for a functioning society is a firm grounding in objective reality.
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Nobody ever talks about this, but the reason you have to go to college is A, because Griggs v. Duke Power Company made it illegal for presumptive employers to IQ test, and B, inner city High-Schools basically aren't allowed to fail a student as long as they physically show up.
So you end up in this trap where a High-School diploma that you worked very hard for means nothing, because a kid who did coloring books and addition and subtraction got a paper saying he has the same qualification. Ok, then just give me an intelligence test, oh wait you cant, thats also illegal because it causes "disparate impact". So now the only proxy for basically literacy and ~105~ IQ is a 4 year meaningless degree that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.
But wait, now they hand those out to anyone, (1/4 of 4yr grads have an IQ of or below 95), so now you need a Master's, or specialty training, or a million other bullshit things. So you get them, but wait, a diploma mill in Hyderabad cranked out 100M guys who also have a Master's on paper, and will work for 1/3 the price, so now you dont have a job. Ok, ill work construction, but wait, you dont live in a State with strong Unions, so any non-specialized construction work is done by slaves from Guatemala, so you decide to stay home and take Percocet instead.
Awesome system we've built.
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85% of the worlds refugees are Muslim. Not one of the 56 Muslim countries are taking in refugees. Even though 11 of these countries are the richest in the world.
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I think it's very important to realize that there is a small but quickly growing faction of the political spectrum that will cheer when
-- your family Tesla gets firebombed
-- a CEO gets executed in the street
-- a podcaster is murdered at a college debate event
-- a candidate for POTUS is shot in the head
-- the world's greatest entrepreneur is publicly threatened with execution at a fairly mainstream event
One election angle I don't see much mention of is this being a reckoning on the generally low quality of officeholders the Tea Party movement produced. They turned the party over but couldn't do the job well enough to build broad appeal.
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The most racist white man you know would likely run into a burning building to save a black family
And the most anti-racist, liberal white woman you know would likely laugh at you and your family homeless on the street after she had you fired from your job for your opinions
The party that celebrated the assassination of a nonviolent ideological rival and lamented failure of assassination of the sitting president will now be in power.
It has increasingly angered me over my adult life how the liberal view is to orient around an ideal imagined state yet to also just shrug and allow the worst depraved degradation to persist, making life worse for everyone & moving us away from an ideal.
Le preguntaron a Bukele en Argentina cómo sacaron a los jóvenes del modelo del narco: la casa grande, el coche caro el smartphone… cuando trabajar honesto tarda años. Su respuesta duele porque es verdad
"El gobierno llega tarde si espera reinsertar al que ya violó, ya mató y ya cortó cabezas. A un niño de 6 u 8 años sí se le puede cambiar la vida. Al que ya eligió el mal... el joven que vende tomates en el mercado, suda, carga, gana $5… y en la esquina el pandillero se los quita. ¿Qué incentivo gana? ¿Vender tomates o ser el que cobra? Por eso nunca se gana la guerra de incentivos si el criminal sigue en la calle.
Porque el Estado no puede pagarle triple salario mínimo para que deje el crimen. Eso no es gobierno, sino ingenuidad cara. Un organismo me dijo: «no puedes acabar el crimen de un golpe, son 70 mil empleos, esa plata llega a los hogares y se gasta legal». Lo que ellos insinuaban era que dejara vivir al cáncer para no lastimar la economía. Bukele les respondió con otra analogía: si tengo cáncer con metástasis y me ofrecen cirugía, quimio y quedar débil… pero vivo, me opero. No me quedo así nomás esperando que el tumor sea educado."
Le dijeron que el PIB podía caer hasta 10% por sacar esa economía sucia. No cayó. Subió. Porque el miedo también es un impuesto. Y ese sí lo pagábamos todos los días. Sacaron al pandillero de la ecuación y no sólo para castigarlo, sino para que el muchacho que todavía no entra en ese mundo vea otro menú. Ya no es: «me hago pandillero y gano». Ahora es: «me hago pandillero y pierdo mi libertad». Eso no es odio, es orden. Es proteger a la familia que sí trabaja, a la que manda la remesa, a la que nunca tuvo casa grande porque no cobraba renta de sangre. 30 años de discursos. 7 años de resultados. El resto es teoría para intelectuales.
Tal vez necesitamos un Bukele en España. Y en el mundo.
And they can't afford to defend themselves. Modern Europe has built itself into a vast welfare state. Without outsourced national defense, none of it works. teapawt.net/BBCWorld/status/211652…
Starmer tells Dublin crowd Europe can no longer rely on US to 'bankroll' its defence bbc.in/4A2JXFY
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In FY2026, the Trump admin delivered the first full year with virtually zero third-world refugees admitted; 99.9% were White South Africans.
FY2026 is the first first-ever fiscal year with zero Border Patrol releases, and 2026 has the lowest asylum grant rate in U.S. history.
ALT MPI, CATO, TRAC, CBP, @derzum_
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A San Francisco Federal Reserve paper recently found that the influx of unauthorized immigrants under the radical left accounted for 20% of rent growth during the 2021-2024 Bidenflation surge.
By contrast, President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are producing the opposite effect. State-level data show a strong association between increased immigration enforcement and more affordable rents.
@POTUS will always put American families FIRST.
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The Seven Deadly Sins – at the Scale of a Civilization.
More than fourteen centuries ago, Christian monks drew up a list of seven sins. Not laws – a map of the human heart. Envy. Pride. Wrath. Sloth. Greed. Gluttony. Lust. It is still pretty much the most accurate psychology anyone has written.
The monks were looking at one soul at a time. Look at whole systems instead, and you find the same seven. A vice that stays private ruins one life. Scaled up, it becomes an institution: a tax, a ministry, an ideology, a budget line.
People will always have vices. The question is who pays for them.
Adam Smith noticed that we owe our dinner not to the butcher’s kindness but to his self-interest. A free market does not abolish greed – it puts it to work: you get rich only by serving others, and you go bankrupt if you don’t. The vice pays its own bill. Bad systems let the vice send its bill to someone else – the taxpayer, the next generation, the innocent.
A good civilization does not abolish sin. It sends the bill to the sinner.
So here is what comes next, one sin at a time:
1. Envy – the engine of socialism. If I can’t have it, nobody should.
2. Pride – the planner’s conceit, from Plato’s philosopher-king to the Brussels directive.
3. Wrath – vengeance without trial, from the guillotine to cancel culture.
4. Sloth – comfort as a political program, from bread and circuses to the empty cradle.
5. Greed – the one everybody expects us to defend. We won’t: crony capitalism, the bailout, private profit and public loss.
6. Gluttony – debt. Eating the future.
7. Lust – pleasure cut off from its consequences, and from children.
And then the cures: the four old virtues – prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude – and the institutions that make them stick.
The monks thought sin was a matter for the confessional. They were half right. It is also a matter for the budget.
Show me a country’s budget, and I will tell you which sins it subsidizes.
First up: Envy.
Envy – the Engine of Socialism.
A genie appears to a peasant: "I’ll grant you one wish." The peasant thinks for a long time. His neighbor has a goat. "Kill the neighbor’s goat."
That is envy. Not wanting what someone else has – that’s ambition, and it built most of the world. Envy is wanting him not to have it. Even if you gain nothing. Even if you lose.
Every other sin at least promises pleasure. Envy promises only that someone else will have less. And it is the one sin nobody ever confesses – because it never calls itself envy. It calls itself fairness. Justice. Equality.
Socialism is envy at scale: not lifting the bottom, but cutting the top. Thatcher caught it in one sentence in Parliament: her opponents would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
In experiments, people will pay out of their own pocket to destroy money belonging to others. Whole countries do the same: the tax that raises little but drives away the people it targets, the school that abolishes the advanced class because not everyone can take it, the rule written to bring down whoever got ahead.
In Soviet villages, a kulak – a "rich" peasant – was often a man with two cows. Liquidating the kulaks did not give anyone a cow. It gave everyone the famine.
That is envy’s bill. Envy aims it at the successful. But the successful leave, or stop trying – and the bill comes back to everyone. Kill the goat and you get no milk. Neither does anyone else.
The Greeks knew there were two kinds of rivalry. Hesiod wrote that the potter competes with the potter, the craftsman with the craftsman – and that this strife is good, because it makes everyone work harder. The other kind only destroys.
A free society does not abolish envy. It converts it: you may have what your neighbor has – by doing what he did. Socialism converts it the other way, into policy, so that nobody has the goat.
The cure is old and simple: gratitude for what you have, and the ambition to build what you don’t.
Next: Pride.
Reality Always Collects – Who Pays for Being Wrong?
We have written about books and films, popes and presidents, Rome and Warsaw, art, money, children. It looks like many subjects. It is one.
Every mistake and lie gets paid for. Sooner or later, in full. Reality always collects. The only questions are when – and who pays.
A good society makes the person who is wrong pay. Quickly, a little, himself. The business with a bad idea goes bankrupt. The politician who governs badly loses the election. The rocket explodes on the test pad, not with people on board. Small failures, early, paid by the people responsible. That is how a society learns.
A bad system does the opposite. It protects the person who is wrong. It postpones the bill and passes it on – and the bill grows, and arrives later, much larger, at the door of someone who did nothing. The children. The poor. The next generation. Sometimes an entire country.
A lie is a loan taken out against reality. You borrow comfort today; someone else repays it tomorrow, with interest.
Once you see this, history becomes simple. The intellectual in his café designs the perfect society; the peasant pays with his life. Cambodia paid for ideas born in Paris. Rousseau wrote a celebrated book on raising children; his own five children paid for it in an orphanage. Rome cheated on its money until prices told the truth and the empire could no longer pay its soldiers.
Look at our own time with the same question. The official who cannot be fired. The program that never has to show results. The art that cannot be judged. The promotion for loyalty instead of competence. The law designed so it can never be undone. The expert who was wrong and is still on television. Being wrong costs them nothing. Someone else pays.
They always prefer abstractions to the particular. A real person sends a bill. This is why every utopia loves "humanity" – and sacrifices people.
What our civilization built – slowly, over centuries – is the opposite: ways of making the bill reach the right address. The market, where a price tells the truth. Science, where the experiment decides. Courts and free elections, where even the powerful can be removed. Free speech, where anyone can point at the mistake. The family, where parents live with the results. Common sense – the lessons our ancestors paid for, so we would not have to pay again. And building: a bridge stands or it doesn’t, a rocket flies or it doesn’t. You cannot lie your way through that.
Demography – the final invoice. A civilization that doesn’t reproduce pays with its existence.
The truth vs the lie – in the end, it all comes down to that. And the lie never stands alone: it needs fear to protect it. Fear is what stops people from sending the bill. Communism and its heirs also do it to us by muddying reality and sowing confusion – when nothing is clear, nobody can tell what the bill is, or whose.
The good news: for the first time, we have a real chance to switch – from a society built on fear and lies to one built on truth. For most of history, lying was cheap and checking was expensive. That is changing. Anyone can now check and say out loud what doesn’t add up – and soon machines will check faster than any liar can talk. The bill is starting to find its address. That is why some people are suddenly so nervous.
In Poland we lived inside a system built entirely on unpaid bills. Everyone knew. Nobody could say it. In 1989 the bill came due all at once, and a system that looked eternal disappeared almost overnight. We have seen how this ends.
So, the same three things as always.
Tell the truth – keep the books honest, starting with your own.
Have courage – send the bill to the right address, even when the address is powerful.
And build – put your work in front of reality and let it judge you.
Reality is patient. But it always collects. The only choice is whether we pay early, in small amounts, ourselves – or late, catastrophically, through our children.
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No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And they have you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say.
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs.
The signs were ready before you were even angry.
AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power.
VOTE RED RED RED on November 3rd
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Indigenous & black people in North America have no idea how nostalgic they will be for the ever-compliant white devil once they're overrun by people who feel zero need to acknowledge their existence in any capacity, or tolerate them in any way. Their norm is structural exclusion.
This is dangerous dishonesty. The chaotic images that people dislike with ICE are due to local & state authorities deciding that federal law is optional and refusing to coordinate with federal law enforcement. This forces ICE to carry the operations into communities themselves.
