Oh, Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. I read this post twice. The first time I laughed. The second time I actually got a little angry, because I sat there and counted, and I realized you just handed the whole country a list of ten people who have done more for the working class than you have in thirty-five years, and you did it on purpose, thinking it made THEM look bad. Let me walk you through your own list, since clearly nobody on your staff did. Elon Musk. Born in South Africa. Jensen Huang. Born in Taiwan, washed dishes and bused tables at a Denny's, and then started Nvidia in a booth at a Denny's. I love that. I genuinely love that story. Lisa Su, also born in Taiwan, took over AMD in 2014 when everybody was writing its obituary and brought it back from the dead. Satya Nadella, born in India. Sundar Pichai, grew up in a two-room apartment in Chennai. Tim Cook, a shipyard worker's kid from a little town in Alabama. Michael Dell, a college kid with about a thousand bucks and a dorm room. Half of them weren't even born here. They came to this country with a brain and a dream and they BUILT something. I teach kids every single day who need to hear stories exactly like that. Kids from homes where nobody has ever owned a business. And you want to hold these people up as villains? Senator, you are not the sharpest crayon in the box, and I say that as someone who has personally watched a sophomore eat a crayon. Also, while we're here. "Got richer" is not a paycheck. Nobody backed a Brinks truck up to Elon's house with 658 billion dollars in it. That is the stock price of a company going up. You know who else owns that stock? Every pipefitter, nurse, and retired teacher with a 401(k) or a pension fund. When those numbers go up, THEIR retirement goes up. You are standing on a soapbox, furious, that working people's retirement accounts grew. The lights are on, Bernie. Nobody's home. I'm not sure anybody has been home since disco. Now. You want to talk about who has actually done something for working people? Fine. Let's do it. I'm going to take attendance. Musk gave us tens of thousands of American factory jobs at Tesla, in California and Texas and Nevada. And Starlink, which finally gave internet to rural families the cable companies laughed at for twenty years. When Hurricane Helene wiped out those mountain towns in North Carolina and the phones were dead, Starlink showed up. Where were you? Michael and Susan Dell put up 6.25 BILLION dollars of their own money, their own, to seed Trump Accounts for about 25 million American kids. And here's the part that made me set my coffee down. Those accounts exist because of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The one YOU voted against. So a billionaire, the kind of guy you call an oligarch, is funding a savings account for working-class kids that you tried to stop from ever existing. I had to read that twice too. Jensen Huang built the chips that run the AI you're suddenly so worried about, and his company's stock turned a lot of regular engineers and technicians into the first people in their families to ever have real money. Bezos. Over a million American jobs, no degree needed, health insurance on day one, the same plan the executives have. Four billion dollars to get groceries delivered into rural food deserts, and yes, they take SNAP and EBT. Zuckerberg lets a grandmother in Ohio see her grandkids in Texas on video for free. Lisa Su saved an American company and every job in it. Sam Altman put a free AI tutor on every phone in America. Tim Cook made the phone. Nadella's software runs the front office of basically every school I've ever worked in. And Pichai gave the world free search, free maps, free email, and YouTube. Oh, and every single one of those paychecks has the employer half of Social Security and Medicare paid on it. That's the money that pays for the programs you give speeches about. They fill the bucket, Bernie. You stand next to the bucket with a bullhorn. Okay. Your turn. Thirty-five years in Congress. Thirty-five years. The bills you wrote that actually became law? Two post offices got new names, and veterans got a cost-of-living adjustment. That's it. That's the list. I have kids who've done more with a group project and a glue stick. Two post offices. I want that on your headstone. "He named two post offices. And he was very upset." And what did it cost us? A taxpayer salary for thirty-five years. A taxpayer pension waiting for you. Three houses. Two hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars on private jets in ONE quarter of 2025. Plus a pile of book money from writing about how nobody should have a pile of money. What's next, Bernie? Getting rich selling books about how getting rich is evil... wait. I'm being told you already did that. See, the people on your list got rich by giving working people something they WANTED. People handed over their money on purpose, with a smile, and got a phone or a package or a paycheck back. You got comfortable by taking working people's money through the tax code and handing back nothing they asked for. That's not a trade. That's a vacuum hose with a campaign sticker on it. And honestly? Nothing would've been better. Because every time you "helped," we paid for it. Let me pull out your report card. You're not going to like it. Obamacare. You voted YES. The government's own HHS numbers showed average individual-market premiums in the HealthCare.gov states more than DOUBLED from 2013 to 2017. People had insurance with deductibles so high they couldn't afford to actually use it. "If you like your plan, you can keep it." Remember that one? Millions of people remember it. They couldn't keep it. Quinn's First Law of Liberalism says liberalism always produces the exact opposite of what it promises, and the proof is right there in the name. The Affordable Care Act made care unaffordable. I couldn't write a better joke if I tried, and believe me, I've tried. The American Rescue Plan in 2021. You were Budget Committee chairman. You pushed 1.9 trillion dollars through on a party-line vote while economists in your OWN party, Larry Summers for one, were waving their arms screaming this would light inflation on fire. By June 2022 inflation hit 9.1 percent. Forty-year high. I remember standing in the grocery store with my wife, doing math on a cart full of food for four kids, putting stuff back. That was your rescue, Bernie. Inflation is the meanest tax there is because it hits the waitress and the welder first and never has your name on the bill. Then the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. You voted YES. It did not reduce inflation. Not even a little. It did extend the temporary COVID Obamacare subsidies through the end of 2025, with an expiration date DEMOCRATS picked. Zero Republicans voted for it. Zero. So when premiums jumped this year and your party lost its mind about "Republicans raising your health care costs," I just sat there shaking my head. You built the cliff. You picked the date. Then you pointed at the other guy when people fell off it. You couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel. The 2017 Trump tax cuts. You voted NO. The Tax Policy Center found about 91 percent of middle-income households got a tax cut that first year. Nine out of ten regular families kept more of their own money, and you voted no on every one of them. The One Big Beautiful Bill in 2025. NO again. No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. A bigger child tax credit. Tax rates for working families that would've gone UP otherwise. Those Trump Accounts Michael Dell just dropped billions into. You called it the most dangerous bill in modern history. Go tell that to a waitress in Burlington who gets to keep her tips now. Actually, don't. She's busy working. And your 17 dollar minimum wage. Bernie, I TEACH these kids. Sixteen, seventeen years old, no diploma yet, nothing on the resume, just trying to get that first job. Force a business to pay a kid with zero experience more than he can produce and the answer isn't a raise. The answer is "no." You're not raising their wage. You're locking the front door and hanging a nice little sign on it about fairness. Some of my students are going to sit on the wrong side of that door because of people like you, and that is the part that honestly makes me mad. Oh, and the 1994 crime bill. You voted for that too, then spent years apologizing when your own base decided it wrecked working-class neighborhoods. Even your fans think you blew that one. So here's the final tally, and I'm grading generously. Your ten "oligarchs": jobs, paychecks, phones, chips, internet, software, day-one health insurance, groceries in food deserts, and a six-billion-dollar head start for 25 million kids. You: premiums that doubled, a forty-year inflation high, an Obamacare cliff your own party dated, a NO on tax cuts for nine out of ten middle-class families, a NO on no tax on tips, and two renamed post offices. They made our lives cheaper and easier. You made them more expensive and then sent a fundraising email about it. The wheel's spinning, but the hamster clocked out a long time ago. Quinn's Law Number Nine says that to a liberal, intentions matter more than outcomes. Your whole post proves it. Your INTENTION is that AI should "improve life for all humanity." Their OUTCOME is a kid in my district pulling up a free AI tutor on a phone Tim Cook built, over a network Elon launched, on a chip Jensen designed. One of you did the homework. The other one wrote a note to the teacher about how homework is unfair. And I have to say it. Just YESTERDAY you were pushing a bill to ban superintelligence and shut the AI labs down. Today AI has to serve all of humanity. Which is it, Bernie? Pick a lane. You're swerving more than a raccoon in headlights. You know what the government version of AI would look like? I'll tell you. It'd launch like HealthCare.gov and crash in an hour. It'd need a continuing resolution every ninety days. It'd cost three times the estimate. And every question you asked it would get the same answer: "Your call is important to us. Please hold for the next available billionaire to blame." Also, everybody gets a free robot butler on Tuesdays, and the robot companies just eat the cost. It's not a radical idea. It's just common sense. Now, the Xi dinner. You're SHOCKED that a president sat down with China's leader and brought American tech CEOs along. Shocked! What's next, a Democrat president throwing Xi a White House state dinner with Mark Zuckerberg in the room... wait, I'm hearing Obama already did that. September 2015. Same week Xi was in Seattle meeting the heads of Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. Not a peep out of you. And forgive me, but a man who went on his HONEYMOON to the Soviet Union does not get to clutch his pearls because some capitalists ate dinner with a communist. That's not a principle, Bernie. That's a mood. Quinn's Law Number Twenty-Five: liberals are great at giving away other people's money. Never their own. Michael Dell wrote his check himself. You wrote a tweet asking somebody else to write one. Which brings me back to my standing offer, because I make it every single time and nobody ever takes me up on it. I keep hearing rich Democrats scream "tax the rich" when they ARE the rich. They know every loophole. Some of them wrote the loopholes, and then used them on their own tax returns. So here it is. File with the standard deduction. No itemizing. Pay DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe. Post the return. Do that, and I'll listen to you lecture about billionaires. Until then you're just a fopdoodle with a jet budget, one sandwich short of a picnic and two houses past hypocrisy. Look. Ten people on your list feed the working class. You feed OFF the working class, and then you send us the invoice. I've got four kids, a teacher's paycheck, and a grocery bill that still hasn't recovered from your "rescue." So with all the respect I can find, Senator, and I'm really digging here... please stop helping. We cannot afford it. But what do I know? I'm only a physics teacher who knows the difference between net worth and a paycheck, which apparently puts me about thirty-five years ahead of a sitting United States Senator. @TPUSA @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar #MAGA #Trump

WOW 🚨 Democrat Washington Rep Pramila Jayapal says she launched “Resistance trainings” against the Trump Admin and ICE and already has over 30,000 members These are online and in person seminars to train how to obstruct ICE, ORGANIZING PROTESTS, teach boycotting businesses, create movements, ‘local organizing’ and more I looked more into this and get training sessions are from 90 minutes to 2 hours on Zoom, with breakout groups. Also in person trainings are held. She said they’ve trained about 30,000 people across all 50 states She has a website and an online form to signup and grow their resistance How in the heck is this allowed??

House Democrats are fighting to lower costs, protect healthcare and hold the crooks accountable.

NEW: Donald Trump made 1,156 personal financial trades in July. It should be illegal for the president to trade individual stocks - period.

BE HONEST! Do you support DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin deporting 70,000 illegal aliens every month?

Affordability: inflation stacks

AMERICANS: HERE'S SOMETHING MOST OF YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T NOTICED. I'm sitting thousands of miles away in Papua New Guinea, so I see your economy from a completely different angle. When President Trump took office in January 2025: 🇺🇸 US$1 ≈ K3.99 Today: 🇺🇸 US$1 ≈ K4.44–K4.45 That's roughly an 11% increase in the number of PNG kina one US dollar buys. Put US$5,000 into perspective: Then: ≈ K19,945 Now: ≈ K22,200 That's more than K2,000 in additional purchasing power in PNG from the exact same US$5,000. Obviously, exchange rates move for many reasons - including what happens in PNG itself - but when you're sitting outside America, movements in the dollar become VERY noticeable. I was part owner and running a procurement business under most of Joe Biden's term. We constantly imported parts and materials for the oil and gas and mining industries. I HAVE LITERALLY NOT SEEN SUCH AN INCREASE IN BUYING POWER OF THE US DOLLAR WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. LITERALLY!!! Now look at some of the other numbers coming out of America: 📈 Real median household income: RECORD HIGH - $87,460 📉 Official poverty rate: 10.2% 🛒 Food-at-home inflation: 2.2% 👷 Unemployment: 4.1% 🚔 Violent crime: DOWN 9.3% in 2025 🔻 Murder: DOWN 18.1% 📉 Murder rate: 4.1 per 100,000 - tied with 1955 and 1956 📈 The S&P 500 remains roughly 11% higher in 2026, despite its recent pullback from the August record. And yet Americans have recently given President Trump some of his lowest economic approval numbers of his second term. THAT is the part I'm fascinated by. WHAT AM I MISSING? Because two things can be true simultaneously: America can have genuinely strong economic indicators... AND millions of Americans can still feel squeezed. Prices are still substantially higher than several years AGO because prices NEVER go down. Mortgage rates remain painful. Energy prices have jumped amid the Iran conflict. And inflation has not disappeared but cooled down. So I'm not telling Americans how they should feel about their economy. I'm asking a different question: How large is the gap between America's measurable economic reality and Americans' PERCEPTION of that reality? Because from where I'm sitting in Papua New Guinea, some of the numbers coming out of America look VERY different from the picture Americans seem to be hearing every day. And that gap between DATA and PERCEPTION deserves a serious conversation.

🚨 WE ARE WATCHING AN EXTRAORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL BATTLE OVER PERCEPTION. Turn on the media and you'd think EVERYTHING is dramatically worse under President Trump. Then look at the numbers. Compared with the same stage of Biden's presidency, the figures being circulated show: INFLATION 🟦 Biden: +12.3% 🟥 Trump: +4.3% GROCERIES 🟦 Biden: +15.8% 🟥 Trump: +3.3% GAS 🟦 Biden: +69% 🟥 Trump: +12% RENT 🟦 Biden: +7.7% 🟥 Trump: +4.5% ELECTRICITY 🟦 Biden: +19.1% 🟥 Trump: +8.4% NEW & USED CARS 🟦 Biden: +23.9% 🟥 Trump: −1.2% That doesn't mean Americans aren't feeling real affordability pressure. They ARE. But during Biden's term, I REMEMBER the media making it feel like everything was fine but the opposite was felt by Americans in the real world. Today, it seems to be the opposite. People's conditions are improving but the perception is that life is worse. That's exactly why you have to separate how people feel, what they're being told, and what the underlying data actually show. We're heading toward the 2026 midterms. QUESTION EVERYTHING. CHECK THE NUMBERS YOURSELF. 🇺🇸

Here it is: ITALY GATE: Barack Obama and Matteo Renzi, former PM of Italy, orchestrated the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020. The single most damning testimony of the 2020 election. Maria Zack: “Today, I’m going to play an audio tape that should shock you all. It will shock America.” Stephen Serrafini, along with General Claudio Graziano, a board member of Leonardo Aerospace, were involved. Italian intelligence provided the US with documents, calls, and photos of CIA agents—all funded by Barack Obama, who diverted $400 million in cash sent to Iran, funneling it through the Dubai to operatives in Italy and Merrill Lynch in Switzerland. Affidavits and Evidence: An affidavit delivered to the U.S. Congress from an Italian defense company employee, CONFESSING “Work to change the results of the US election.” Audio evidence was also acquired from within the CIA and the State Department—Larry Johnson. Maria Zack “Italian Intelligence Services. She said, uncle, Arturo came home and said he doesn’t understand why we’re stealing America’s election.” “The Italian Intel Services reached out to us on Nov. 18. They said something happened. We’re watching a coup d’état in the United States of America. They were fearful of meeting with anyone. Two affidavits were delivered to Congress, and they came from Italian citizens.” “Today, I’m going to play an audio tape that should shock you all. It will shock America.” “A defense contracting firm experienced unusual activity, with people coming in and out that the intelligence services witnessed—people traveling from Frankfurt into the Italian U.S. Embassy in Rome on Via Veneto. This allowed individuals to come forward and, according to Italian intelligence services, work with Leonardo to change the results of the United States election.” “The audio you are about to hear (audio recording, 4:27 mark) comes from an individual who is a member of the CIA and State Department. His name is Larry Johnson. Many of you may not know, but I personally hand-delivered a letter to Donald Trump on Christmas Eve 2020, detailing who stole the election, where, and how. My primary goal was to bring one of the people from the satellite center, Arturo Della, to America because he was willing to testify.” “There were people who refused to assist, whom I thought would. But what was most shocking was this voice recording, which I will play now.”(audio recording, 4:27 mark) Maria Zach continues: “Now you should be asking me, who are they that actually coordinated and conspired the overthrow? Ok Stefano Serafini, on your left, is actually a member of our State Department who retired just days before the election. He was coordinating with General Claudio Graziano. General Graziano is also, at the time, the EU Commander, and they were meeting across the street at the Saint Regis Hotel, and it was with Ignacio Moncada, who is the CEO of Fata, which is the fat SBA, which is a subsidiary of Leonardo, one of the largest defense contracting firms in the world. They are the largest in Italy, and they receive numerous United States military and intelligence contracts. That should frighten everybody right now. No, they were meeting in his hotel, and in March 2020 they were coordinating this plan. The Italian intelligence services actually provided me with a cell phone number for the go order, and it goes to General Graziano. So then you ask, well, they concoct the plan. They have to go get the IT guys. Who’s gonna do it? Well, they already had a guy. His name is Charles Robinson. He is a telemetry expert. He came in a week prior to the election of November 2020. He uploaded spike software, and he had traveled from Frankfurt.” 📝 In other words: If you thought 2016 was bad, 2016 was just an attempted overthrow; 2020 was the overthrow. Precisely why Chris Krebs Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) designated November 3, 2020 the most secure election in US history.

Ilhan Omar just dropped the “Make ICE Pay Act.” She wants to strip $140 BILLION from ICE and Border Patrol and hand it to states, NGOs, and “communities impacted” by deportations. That’s after Somali fraud rings already looted tens of billions from American taxpayers. Now she wants another $140B taken from the agencies that enforce the law and given to the people who broke it. HUD would run the slush fund. Eligible: Minnesota (Operation Metro Surge), California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine. Defund the border. Pay the illegal. That’s the bill. Share this. #MakeICEPay #IlhanOmar #BorderSecurity #AmericaFirst #Deportations #StopTheStealOfTaxes

If Democrats take the majority, it's not enough for us to go back to the status quo before Trump came into office. We need to have a bold agenda like Medicare for All that will dramatically reduce costs and improve the lives of Americans.

A new study analyzed daily temperatures from 992 long-running weather stations across 29 countries covering the years 1899 to 2024. Then it compared those temperatures to cumulative human CO2 emissions. They don't match. From 1899 to 1940, the planet warmed at a rate of 0.022 C per year, even though emissions were low. Then from 1941 to 1982, temperatures cooled, despite CO2 emissions more than tripling. From 1983 to 2024, warming returned, but slower than before, at a rate of 0.017 C per year, even as emissions rose 8.6 times higher than during the earlier warming phase. As the author conclude: "These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming." This is because the strongest warming occurred before major modern emissions kicked in, and later periods with far more CO2 show weaker warming, or even cooling. Earth's climate is still governed by natural variability.

Bernie's Math Homework: A $72 Trillion Question Nobody In The Senate Wants To Show Their Work On Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. I read your thread twice, once for content and once to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the part where a man who has held federal office since the Ford administration is lecturing ME about what is "too expensive." You want to talk about UnitedHealth's profits like they materialized in a vacuum, completely unconnected to the fifteen-year-old law that guaranteed insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base whether they perform well or not. That law is called the Affordable Care Act, Senator, and last I checked, you voted for it. You didn't just witness the fattening of the insurance cow. You helped build the pasture, installed the fence, and handed out the feed, and now you're standing in front of the barn acting shocked that the cow got fat. Somewhere a tree is tirelessly producing oxygen for you tonight, and I think it's owed an apology, because you are not using yours particularly well this evening. Let's start with the sleight of hand in paragraph one. You call the current system "cruel, broken, and dysfunctional," which, fine, I'll grant you the applause line — even a stopped clock, Senator. But here's what a lot of folks quietly whisper about the ACA and never say on the record: the entire architecture was never designed to be a permanent fix. It was designed to be expensive enough, and dependent enough on subsidy, that it would eventually collapse into the very single-payer system you're pitching tonight. That was Obama's stated goal in private strategy sessions long before it was yours in public speeches. Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. You wrote a bill called the AFFORDABLE Care Act. Fifteen years later you're standing on the Senate floor admitting it isn't affordable. That's not an insult from me, Senator. That's a confession from you, and confessions from a snollygoster of your tenure are rarer than a two-dollar bill, so I'm framing this one. Now to the number that should have every accountant in America reaching for the smelling salts: $72 trillion over ten years if "we do nothing." I'd love to see the model behind that figure, because your own side's favorite Yale/PERI study — the one claiming $1 trillion in annual savings and 114,000 lives saved — has been picked apart by health economists for baking in administrative-savings assumptions that have never once materialized in the real world. Meanwhile, independent nonpartisan estimates of full Medicare for All implementation run $25 to $44 trillion over a decade on the LOW end, and up to 40 to 60 percent of the entire federal budget on the high end. That's bigger than Social Security. Bigger than defense. You want the reins to more than half the federal checkbook from the same government that, and I want you to sit with this one, ALREADY runs three single-payer systems into a documented state of disrepair: Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service. All three are noted for fraud, waste, and corruption. Why exactly would we hand over the rest of American medicine to an operation that can't run the parts it already owns? Couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel, and you want the keys to the whole house. If stupidity were a renewable resource, this proposal alone would solve the energy crisis. Let's talk about what "guaranteed healthcare" actually looks like once a government sets a fixed global budget, because it never means what the campaign poster implies. The United Kingdom's NHS currently has roughly 7.4 million people sitting on a waiting list. Canada's average wait for specialist treatment sits at 27.4 weeks — over half a year to see a specialist for a system you'd hold up as the model. When a country caps the total pot of money for healthcare, somebody, somewhere, in an office you never voted for, has to decide who gets the expensive treatment and who gets a wait-list number and a pamphlet. Ask your Canadian and British counterparts how many of THEIR citizens fly to Cleveland or Houston for care they can't get fast enough at home. Innovation doesn't happen in systems that ration by waiting line instead of by price; it happens in the system that's currently subsidizing the entire planet's drug research because it's the only market left where a return on investment is still possible. You want to nationalize the goose right after everyone else stopped feeding it, and you have the nerve to call that compassion. And since we're doing incentive structures tonight, Senator, here's a question I'd genuinely like a straight answer on. When the budget for a nationalized system is fixed, and a hip replacement for a 78-year-old costs the same line item as a hip replacement for a 38-year-old worker still paying into the system, which patient does the bureaucrat's spreadsheet favor? I'm not the one who invented cost-per-quality-adjusted-life-year calculations — the health economists who built NICE in Britain did that, and it already factors age and remaining productive years into treatment approval. You can dress it up in whatever language you'd like. Call it stewardship. Call it efficiency. I call it exactly what it is: a system where somebody's grandmother gets a pat on the head and a prescription for ibuprofen while the math gets done in a back office. If brains were dynamite, half of Congress couldn't blow their nose, and yet here we are pretending fixed budgets and unlimited demand can coexist without somebody, somewhere, drawing a line nobody voted on. Here's the part that should really sting, and I say this as someone who watched it happen in real time. Your own party just finished a forty-three day shutdown demanding permanent extension of the same ACA subsidies you're using tonight as evidence the system is broken. Those subsidies were written as TEMPORARY line items in Biden's Autopen's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Zero Republican votes on either bill. Your party wrote the expiration date. When it arrived exactly as scheduled, your caucus shut down the federal government and then had the nerve to act shocked that a temporary Christmas bonus, in fact, expired on schedule. I keep hearing that ending the subsidy is somehow cruel, and yet nobody on your side has explained why a program can survive fifteen years and still require emergency pandemic cash to stay "affordable." And here's the part that really ought to embarrass you personally, Senator: back in 2013 YOU said Republicans "cannot continue to hold the American people hostage because of their hatred for the Affordable Care Act." In 2019 you said "end this horrific shutdown — stop taking hostages." In 2025, when your own party did the exact same thing over the exact same law, you went quiet in public and voted with the hostage-takers you spent a decade condemning. Quinn's Law Twenty-Two: the bigger the lie, the more the liberal repeats it. Quinn's Law Twenty-Three: liberals love the law right up until it's inconvenient, then they just don't follow it. You're not a statesman on this one, Senator. You're a weathervane with a Vermont accent. Let's also revisit the insurance-company villain routine, because the hypocrisy here could power a small city. Your party's online base spent an entire news cycle canonizing a 26-year-old accused of murdering a health insurance CEO as some kind of folk hero, motivated, allegedly, by hatred of the insurance industry. Now here you are, defending a law that GUARANTEES that same industry a permanently subsidized customer base by federal statute. You can't cheer the vigilante and defend the victim's business model in the same news year without somebody noticing the whiplash. If you actually cared about breaking the insurance industry's grip, you'd be championing Health Savings Accounts, which put healthcare dollars directly under the individual's control instead of a bureaucracy's. But HSAs give power to the person, not the agency, and that's precisely why your side has never supported them with any real enthusiasm. Blatherskite is a word for a certain kind of talker, Senator, and I think you've earned it fair and square tonight — somebody who produces an impressive quantity of noise that, examined closely, contains no substance that survives contact with arithmetic. Now, about the messenger. Because I would be doing my viewers a disservice if I let the argument stand without a word about the man delivering it. You are eighty-three years old, Senator. You own three houses. Your campaign spent $221,000 on chartered private aircraft in a single quarter last year, and when a reporter asked you about the mild irony of flying a $15,000-an-hour jet while denouncing the wealthy, your actual answer was "no apologies for that... you think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" No, Senator, apparently you are not going to sit in line with the rest of us — the same rest of us you'd like sitting in an NHS-style line for a hip replacement while you catch a connecting flight in first class. You honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988 and came back enthusiastic about what you saw there. A Democratic senator recently visited a formerly communist country and asked the locals what they thought of American politicians warming back up to socialism. Their answer, word for word: "that's the worst thing ever... you are morons." Not misguided. Not idealistic. Morons — from people who actually lived in the bread line you're romanticizing from a leased jet. And here's the detail that I think explains everything, Senator, and I say this as gently as a man with a whiteboard can say it: you tried this once already, on a much smaller scale, and you couldn't hack it. You spent time as a young man on a hippie socialist commune, and by every account you did not stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. If a Vermont commune of a few dozen willing adults couldn't hold you, I have genuine, science-teacher-grade doubts about your ability to run a healthcare system for 340 million Americans who never agreed to live there in the first place. You are, in the most literal sense available, the poster child for why socialism doesn't work — because even the guy selling it to us full-time couldn't make it work for himself in a group small enough to fit in a farmhouse. So here's my counteroffer, Senator, and I want it on the record that I am saying this with a completely straight face: maybe I'm for socialism after all. On one condition. We get to deport every parasite in the system who refuses to contribute a life's worth of work to keep it running. No exceptions. No sob stories. Socialism doesn't care about sob stories, Senator — that's YOUR line, not mine, you've just never applied it to yourself. Pack your bags. Send them all to Greenland. I hear it's lovely this time of year, and I understand the president's been looking to expand our footprint up there anyway. Somebody has to be first in line. Since we're apparently finding $72 trillion in the couch cushions for a program that hasn't passed, I do have a much smaller question. Who pays for it, Senator? I keep hearing "tax the rich" from your side, and I'll believe the sincerity of that slogan the day one of you voluntarily pays double what the IRS says you owe with no itemized deductions, standard deduction only, before lecturing the rest of us about fair shares. Until then it's just theater, and not even good theater — Lindsay Lohan handing you the keys to the minibar would be a more responsible use of resources. This country was founded by geniuses and every generation since has managed to elect a fresh batch of people who think a $72 trillion program pays for itself if you just believe hard enough. My family of six runs on a teacher's salary, and I could not get away with your math homework in my own classroom, let alone in front of 340 million people who actually have to pay the bill. I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup, poop out a smarter healthcare plan than the one you posted tonight, and still have time to grade papers before first period. And before anyone accuses me of pulling a conspiracy theory out of thin air, on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong stood on the floor of the House and read into the permanent Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America, sourced from Cleon Skousen's research. Goal Number 30 calls for discrediting the American founding in favor of the belief that centralized government planning is superior to a free market. Goal Number 32 calls for supporting any movement that hands centralized control over any part of the culture to the state, education, welfare, and social agencies included. I'm not asking anyone to believe in a sixty-year plot. I'm asking you to look at tonight's thread and tell me, honestly, which goal it more closely resembles. You've spent sixty years auditioning for both, Senator, and tonight you finally landed the part. I have three questions for you, and I'd genuinely like an answer, though I won't be holding my breath long enough to turn a different color over it. Did you not read the actual cost projections on your own bill and are just repeating what the base wants to hear regardless of the math? Are you no longer sharp enough at eighty-three to understand what a $72 trillion price tag actually does to a currency? Or do you understand it perfectly well and are simply comfortable deceiving the people who send you back to Washington every six years? Pick one. There is no fourth option, and "all of the above" is not the flex you think it is. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who insists on reading the CBO score before I sign my name to anything, unlike a man who apparently could not even survive the small-scale pilot program of his own ideology. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks @TPUSA

The start of a great run.

Illegal union busting? You mean the states who have right to work laws? Bernie, you're full of BS.