Greg Gerner @gerner04

I appreciate the direct response, Congressman @RoKhanna. You've raised a real question, so let me answer it seriously. You're partly right, and I'll grant it fully: the Founders who established a government to protect individual rights performed an achievement no inventor can match, because they built the precondition for every other achievement. Jefferson and the framers created the framework of liberty. Lincoln preserved it and extended its promise to those wrongly denied it. On that we agree. The statesman who secures freedom is a hero of the highest order. But notice the distinction that matters. Those men are great precisely to the degree they protected liberty, not to the degree they exercised power. The Founders' greatness was in handing power back. Lincoln's was in ending a violation of rights, slavery, the gravest in our history. That is why FDR doesn't belong with them. He did the opposite. He expanded the state at the expense of the freedom the Founders secured: seizing gold under threat of prison, attempting to pack the Court, building the apparatus that treats your earnings as the government's to allocate. He used power; he didn't restrain it. And here is the deeper point. You frame it as Rockefeller and Musk versus the statesmen, as if they compete. They don't. The statesman's whole purpose is to protect the conditions, namely individual rights, in which the producer can create. The Founders, along with Locke and Aristotle, built the house. Musk, Rockefeller, Bezos, and Vanderbilt are examples of what free men do inside it. If you fully understood the principle of individual rights, you would be fighting against men and women like Warren, AOC, Sanders, and the rest of these collectivist statists in both parties, instead of advocating ideas that deprive individuals of the very rights you claim to honor.

Ro Khanna @RoKhanna

2 months ago

The greatest builders were the architects and perfectors of our democracy. The leaders who shaped the laws of the nation created the conditions for liberty and our economic success. Rockefeller or Musk do not rival a Lincoln, FDR or Washington.

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“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.” As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you: 1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in. 2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business. 3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail. If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor. So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.

That's because they don't love America.

New York Post @nypost

2 months ago

Bill Maher says artists quitting Freedom 250 concert makes it look like Dems 'don't love America' trib.al/8E7iKLz

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@Maryangel216 @CoriBush They just rewrite history to suit there agenda.

@JimHansonDC @CynicalPublius Agree with everything except the unproductive classes. These elites want productive lower classes to produce things the will consume, living high while the rest of us scrounge and scratch for the scraps they throw at us as the laugh.

@ManhattanMingle Says it all. Anyone who can't see it are either morons or agree with this a**h**l.

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@CynicalPublius I had to provide photo id and a biometric scan to access my Social Security benefit statement online today. I guess minorities and women are now excluded from this as well…

@CynicalPublius Absolutely correct. There has not been enough change in Washington to warrant the continued support of either party. I for one was expecting more changes in how burocrocy is run, more cutting if the deficit and exposure of ALL corruption on both sides.

@weave_bj @ScottJenningsKY Because the rules are not for them or their supporters

@HarnerJeff74670 @ScottJenningsKY Because they are hypocrites. Rules are for others, not them. Remember COVID lockdown?

Democrats suddenly have a problem with masks as soon as ICE agents try to protect themselves from being doxxed and targeted by criminals. Certainly didn't see this much outrage about masked protesters attacking cops and lighting police cars on fire 🤔

@EndWokeness Hmm mmm ..... maybe they are afraid of retaliation on them or their family from the cartels or gang they belong to like what happens in their home countries?

I am glad this is being discussed. It is not sexist to acknowledge all of what is said here. I will take it a step further. It is the same for fireman. If my house is burning down, I want someone coming to save me that can carry my fat ass out of the house. Now let’s consider police. Most violent criminals are men. Can women go toe to toe when men are resisting arrest? I said what I said.

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius

2 years ago

I’ve seen some great articles about how Trump’s election is causing a “preference cascade,” i.e., people suddenly realize that they are not alone in their thinking, that so many others share that thinking, and that it’s OK to say those things out loud again. It’s a “the emperor

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@TheFive Bye bye ....

@IanJaeger29 Bye, bye .....

Lessons of the election America is a center right country at heart. Only 25 per cent are liberal and the other 75 per cent won’t be ruled by the 25. Campaigns are about issues and serious proposals and positions and you can’t avoid having them. Demonizing opponents and using law fare to try to jail your opponents can and will backfire. Voters don’t listen to Hollywood celebrities when it comes to voting. Most voters see Hollywood as great for entertaining but as far removed from their concerns when it comes to voting. The working class and middle America voters are done being disrespected by college elites. They want real, merit-based opportunities not government subsidies. Identity politics is ultimately losing politics as voters care more about issues not identity when living their lives. Young people are waking up and beginning to reject woke politics and their turn to the center is the surprise of the election. America wants a country with real borders and a working immigration system. America’s innovation comes from preserving freedom and opportunity not from government direction. America supports Israel and sees Iran as an enemy of civilization. The mainstream media allowed itself to become a tool for a political party and an ideology and needs to reform itself. And finally, Joe Biden should never have run for re-election.

From the always astute @MarkHalperin on his Wide World of News site today:

Brendan Carr is so right. $42 billion plan to extend internet to millions of Americans has been in progress for 1,037 days. Zero people have been connected — no homes, no businesses, none. Starlink could make a difference

Trump is trying to "steal your democracy" by running for office. Meanwhile, Democrats are. . . Importing millions of fake asylum seekers to political battleground states to create one-party Democrat rule. Pack the Supreme Court to remove it as a separate branch of government. Remove the filibuster to neuter the minority party. Censor and jail dissenters as "misinformation." Control the entire news industry to keep the public uninformed via a mesh network of hoaxes, from Fine People Hoax to the J6 Insurrection Hoax. Bankrupt and jail independent political voices. Maintain a voting system that cannot be fully audited, by design. Fake pollsters support any suspicious vote outcomes. Take away your most useful firearms. Weaponize assassins of political opponents via media messaging.