The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

It is time for a change. Time for a change from treating rhetoric as a substitute for reality, where "work every day to make this country better" means another round of programs paid for with borrowed money. Time for facts and reason instead of slogans. The facts: $40 trillion in debt, $2 trillion added this year alone, and both parties still promising more. The candidates you're endorsing offer government-run healthcare and bigger spending, which is more of what produced the crisis we find ourselves in and which people like Obama want to ignore in favor of their political religion. You told us this week that your Iran deal kept the peace while the regime hid its weapons archive and enriched toward a bomb. Words don't restrain dictatorships and words don't balance budgets. A real change would be a government that protects rights, spends within its means, and leaves producers free. You and everyone on your ballot is offering the opposite.

Ro Khanna must have learned arithmetic in the government schools he wants to expand, because he cannot add. Start with what he leaves out. The federal deficit for fiscal 2026, closed last month, is $2 trillion. Spending of $7.4 trillion against revenue of $5.4 trillion. For every dollar collected, Washington spent $1.37. Interest on the debt runs about $1.1 trillion, more than the entire military. Total debt passed $40 trillion in August. That is before Medicare for All, free college, free childcare, and trade schools. Medicare for All alone runs around $3 trillion a year. Taxing every billionaire at 5 percent raises about $420 billion. One time. Then the money is gone and the program is permanent. His France math fails the same way. Social Security is 5 percent of GDP, but he skips Medicare at nearly 4 percent more. Government at every level already spends 39 percent of GDP here. Add his list and we are France, with a deficit that was already the highest in the developed world. The post-war boom he invokes ran on a federal government spending about 17 percent of GDP and a debt that fell from 106 percent of GDP to 38 by 1965. He proposes the reverse and calls it the same thing. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in economics from the University of Chicago. He knows what these numbers mean. He writes this garbage anyway, because he is counting votes, not dollars.

Agreed, no software should reach into your account and move money without your authorization. That is a job for licensed professionals like Bernie, who have been doing it by statute for 35 years and call it compassion. The difference is the bank will reverse an unauthorized withdrawal. The IRS will not.

This is another example of why @brithume is my favorite news anchor. The administration's envoy calls Putin a humanitarian, and Hume calls him what he is, a war criminal, on Fox's own air. No other host there will challenge Trump like that.

What he means is that only men like himself via government force should be able to do any of these. AI is a tool. It fires nobody and denies nobody. A decision maker does those things, and the only question is who that decision maker is and whether you can walk away from him. An insurer that denies your claim can be fired, sued, or left for a competitor. Under his Medicare for All, the government is the only payer allowed by law. When it denies your care, there is no second door, no appeal to a rival, no exit. He is not proposing to protect you from a denial. He is proposing to decide who issues it, and his answer is the one institution you can never leave. The tool does not worry him. Your independence from him does.

Faith is the one commodity Washington holds in surplus. Congress takes it on faith that a $40 trillion debt pays itself. You take it on faith that the debt has nothing to do with federal health programs, the largest item in the budget at $1.8 trillion a year. You take it on faith that Medicare for All needs no price tag, that a billion dollars sits idle in a vault, and that a 7 percent annual tax on capital leaves the capital standing. Faith is belief without evidence. Reason is the faculty that identifies the facts and accepts them whether they flatter your platform or not. The trustees publish the facts every June. The Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund runs short in 2033 and the law cuts payments 11 percent automatically. The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund runs short in 2032 and the law cuts benefits 22 percent automatically. Prayer does not move either date. Washington has all the faith it can hold. What it lacks is reason, and you are campaigning to bring more of the first.

"I want to see people not die" is the argument of every appeaser in history, and it deserves the answer history gave it. World War II killed roughly 70 to 85 million people. Over 400,000 of them were Americans. By Hannity's logic, the moral course in 1941 would have been surrender. Let Hitler keep Europe. Let Japan keep the Pacific. People would stop dying. The war should have been settled long ago. The American Revolution killed roughly 25,000 Americans. About 6,800 fell in battle. Out of a population of 2.5 million, that is one percent of the country, the equivalent of over 3 million Americans today. By Hannity's logic, Washington should have settled long ago. The colonists were outgunned, outspent, and losing men they could not replace. Accept the Crown's terms, stop the dying, take the deal. Had they followed that advice, there is no United States. There is no Constitution. There is no free nation for Hannity to broadcast from. Every liberty he exercises tonight exists because men at Valley Forge rejected the argument he is making. Observe what this argument demands and of whom. It asks nothing of the aggressor. Russia can end every death tomorrow by going home. Instead the demand lands on the victim. Stop defending yourself, your resistance is the problem. That is not a plea for peace. That is a plea for the aggressor's victory delivered in humanitarian language. A man who counts corpses without asking who initiated the killing has dropped the one fact that gives the count moral meaning. 32,000 soldiers lost in a month is Putin's doing. He started this war. He continues it. He can stop it at any hour he chooses. Blaming Ukraine for those deaths is like blaming the man who fights fires for the smoke. If "people not dying" is the standard, there is only one way to stop it. Make aggression fatal to the aggressor. This kind of intellectual corruption is the reason that Hannity's own network puts Trump's approval at 36%, with 64% disapproving and why Trump is about to hand the country back to the Democrats.

Anyone who believes this is even possible has lost his grip on reality or learned math from Bernie, AOC or Ro Khanna. Run the numbers. $1,000 a week from one company = $52,000 a year per person Times 3 to 5 companies = $156,000 to $260,000 a year per person Times 262 million American adults = $41 to $68 trillion a year US GDP is about $31 trillion. All federal revenue is about $5.5 trillion. Total after-tax profit of every corporation in America is under $4 trillion. One week of checks from one company, $262 billion, is around ten times OpenAI's annual revenue. The plan requires a handful of firms to pay out more than every dollar produced in the country, every year, forever. That's the simple math problem. The deeper one is that money isn't wealth. A check is a claim on goods somebody produced. If nobody works, the check buys whatever the machines make, and prices rise until the checks are worth exactly what backs them, which is nothing. Printing claims on production that doesn't exist is how you get Weimar, not leisure. Walsh is right that it's a dystopia. He's wrong about who'd be writing the checks. No company can. Only a government with a printing press would try.

I don’t see it ending well. 40 trillion in debt. 2 trillion in yearly deficits. A Republican administration taking partial ownership of the means of production. The expansion of the welfare state by both parties and the refusal to address this crisis decade after decade.

This is what happens when men like Ro Khanna promise a generation of young people that everything will be free, and then reality catches up. The looters' money runs dry, there is nothing left to confiscate, and the youth demand more, exactly as they were taught. Khanna is condoning their actions right now. Khanna is a despicable morally corrupt man who is now trying to cash in on this tragedy to push his twisted political agenda. Look at what he is praising. In France, 24 schools burned or ransacked, 6,100 arrests, hundreds injured, headteachers attacked. In Tirana, students set fires and stormed the Education Ministry. Even France's prime minister said burning down a high school does not improve it. Khanna calls it young people telling their governments they want a future. And notice the schools. France spends more public money on education than almost any nation on earth, and the buildings are still crumbling. The welfare state did not fail these students for lack of funding. It failed because it was the welfare state. He blames wealth in the hands of a few. The few did not torch the schools. The students did, after a lifetime of hearing their needs were a claim on everyone else. "America's Next New Deal" is the same promise. Khanna wants the French result here.