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This couldn’t be more accurate, credit to the creator of this video 👇
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In 1957, a Russian immigrant published a novel of more than a thousand pages built around one question: what happens if the people who make the world run simply stop? Its title is Atlas Shrugged. In France it's called La Grève, The Strike. It wasn't even translated into French until 2011. That tells you something. This morning, I think Elon Musk wrote the sequel. A. Where the book comes from. Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg in 1905. As a teenager, she watched Bolshevik soldiers walk into her father's pharmacy and seize it in the name of the people. Her family lost everything. Not to a competitor. To a committee. She fled to America in 1926 and spent the rest of her life writing about one distinction: those who create, and those who seize. B. The story. In Atlas Shrugged, America is sliding into decline. Not because of war. Because of rules. Year after year, a growing class of bureaucrats, regulators and planners decides that production must be controlled, shared "fairly," frozen. They never build anything. They issue directives. The worst one freezes every worker in his job and forces every inventor to hand over his patents for the public good. And one by one, the people who make the country run start disappearing. The best engineers. The industrialists. The inventors. An oil man sets his own wells on fire before vanishing. The whole country keeps repeating a question it doesn't understand: "Who is John Galt?" John Galt is the man behind the disappearances. He has convinced the creators to go on strike. They withdraw to a hidden valley in the Colorado mountains, where everyone keeps what they make and trades freely. And they let the world find out what it looks like without them. The lights go out in New York. The grey men are left alone with their directives, and discover that a directive has never produced a single kilowatt. C. The core idea. The strike isn't about money. It's about consent. Rand's insight is that the system that captures the creators runs on their cooperation. It needs them to keep producing so it has something to redistribute. The bureaucrat is a parasite who needs a host. Remove the host, and he's exposed as what he always was: useless. D. What Musk just did. This morning, Musk announced that next year he will give one of his own SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "The first of many." Here's what's fascinating. It's the strike, run in reverse. Rand's creators withdrew. Musk stays. He keeps building rockets, satellites, AI. But instead of walking away from the system, he walks around it. The value goes straight from the builder to the citizen. No ministry, no agency, no committee in the middle. Rand had to make the creators disappear to prove the bureaucrats were useless. Musk doesn't need to disappear. He just needs to stop routing value through them. Same result. The grey men are left standing in the middle of a pipe nobody uses anymore. E. The difference that changes everything. Rand's strike has a flaw her critics never stopped pointing out: ordinary people are left behind. The creators retreat to their valley. The rest of the country sits in the dark. Musk's version fixes that. He isn't taking the creators out of the world. He's bringing the world into the valley. Every kid in America becomes a shareholder in the machine. Not a spectator of the strike. A participant. That's the alliance being formed right now: builders and citizens, directly, with nothing in between. And the only people who lose that deal are the ones who never built anything. F. Why now, and not in 1957. In Rand's time, the strike was a fantasy. You couldn't produce at scale without the state's permission, and you couldn't reach every citizen without its pipes. In 2026, one founder can build rockets, run a global network from orbit, and pledge equity to 73 million children in a single post. AI will soon do in seconds what a ministry does in years. The tools of the strike finally exist. And they don't require anyone to leave. G. The ending. For seventy years, "Who is John Galt?" was a shrug. A way of saying nothing can be done. In the book, the strike ends when the creators decide the road is clear and walk back into the world to rebuild it. That's the scene we're watching. Not a man leaving. A man coming back, with a gift for every child. The grey men are about to discover what Rand promised them seventy years ago: a world that no longer needs them.
I don't know if you realize what just happened. Elon Musk is completely bypassing the State. For 100 years, we've been told the problem is capital. That it must be captured, taxed, redistributed. With an army of intermediaries standing between those who create wealth and the people: ministries, agencies, commissions, bureaucrats. Musk is doing the opposite. He's taking his capital and giving it directly to the people. One SpaceX share to every kid in America. Not a handout. Not a subsidy. A piece of the machine that's taking humanity to Mars. And he says it himself: this is the first of many. Mises understood this back in 1944: the bureaucrat creates nothing. He administers what others created, following rules that have no connection to the value produced. The day value flows directly from the one who creates it to the one who receives it, the bureaucrat has no function left. That's what's being born right now. A new liberal world order, where the very concept of the State will make less and less sense. The world we're entering is a world of abundance. AI, robots, energy, space. And that abundance won't come through the State, for one simple reason: we have a century of proof that it doesn't work. Redistribution was version 1.0. Direct distribution of capital is 2.0. While France is still debating how to tax builders even more, America is handing stock to its kids. Pick your side.
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VIDEO - Fenbendazole or Mebendazole? Well, it depends on the cancer. 🤔 And what you can get
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He nailed it
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Bamboo sheets are sold as the gentle alternative to cotton and silk, and the fabric they are made of is the one that put factory workers in asylums. Bamboo cloth is not bamboo. It is viscose. The plant is pulped, dissolved in caustic soda and carbon disulphide, and squirted through a nozzle into acid, where it sets into a thread. It was patented in England in 1892 as artificial silk, and the trade name for it was rayon. The same process makes a kitchen sponge and the cellophane on a bunch of flowers. Carbon disulphide was already notorious. French doctors in the 1850s had watched it send rubber workers blind, impotent and insane. The viscose industry needed it in enormous quantities and nothing else would do. So from the 1920s the asylums began to fill. In 1933 a doctor at a Pennsylvania rayon plant wired Alice Hamilton, the first woman on the Harvard faculty and the country's authority on industrial poisons, with a 6-word message: an epidemic of insanity has broken out. Workers were going home and attacking their wives. Men in the churn rooms were found wandering the roads. Investigators who got inside found a third of the workforce showing signs of poisoning. The companies fixed prices, sat on the evidence, and when the regulators finally came for them in the West they moved the factories to India, China and Indonesia, where the same chemical is used today. The consumer was never harmed. Only the people who made the cloth. Silk is made by a caterpillar in a mulberry tree. Wool is made by a sheep in a field. Both are a protein, same as your own hair, and both have been pulled off the animal for 5,000 years without sending anybody out of his mind. The fake silk needed a chemical that could not be made safe, and the industry's answer was to make it somewhere else.
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This is not only what they believe but have been executing since 2009.
This is a normal Democrat, by the way. The opinion she’s espousing here, that young lawyers should reconsider working for Republicans because they’ll be prosecuted on political grounds when her side takes power, is totally normal now. This is what they believe. They are totalitarians. The Democratic Party is the party of dictatorship and persecution.
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🚨 WTF! A taxpayer-funded charter school in Minnesota called Lionsgate Academy pulled in $27 MILLION with only about 400 students, according to federal education data. That's roughly $68,000 PER STUDENT. The average Minnesota school spends around $15,000. And 96% of that money comes straight from the STATE, which means YOU. Their four-year graduation rate for the class of 2023? Somewhere between 20 and 29%. What in the heck is going on in Minnesota?? After BILLIONS in fraud, taxpayers deserve to know where every dollar is going. Audit it. NOW.
My jaw is on the floor A look at the financial information of a taxpayer funded charter school in Minnesota called Lionsgate Academy shows it’s getting $33.4 million with ONLY 150 STUDENTS ENROLLED “Graduation rate, 23%…. $34 million, they can't read or write, and their graduation rate is 23%. Why does this school exist? — What is it serving” I looked into it and confirmed that of their over $33 million dollars in annual funding, 99% comes from taxpayers What in the heck is going on in Minnesota?? Americans taxpayers are being robbed blind
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October 16, 1941. In Tokyo, the moderate prime minister resigns in despair, and the man who replaces him is General Hideki Tojo, the hard-faced leader of the army's war faction. With Tojo in power, the last restraint on Japan's slide toward war with the United States falls away. Pearl Harbor is now less than two months off. Japan in the autumn of 1941 stood at a crossroads and knew it. It was bogged down in its endless war in China, and its move into Indochina, which I told you about back in September, had triggered a crushing American oil embargo. Japan imported almost all its oil, and now the tap was being closed. Its leaders faced a stark choice: back down, pull out of China and Indochina to get the oil flowing again, and accept a humiliating climb-down, or seize the oil of the Dutch East Indies and the rest of Southeast Asia by force, which meant war with the United States and the British Empire. The outgoing prime minister, Prince Konoye, had spent his last months desperately seeking a diplomatic way out, trying to negotiate with Washington, even hoping for a personal summit with Roosevelt, to avoid a war he feared Japan could not win. But he could not control his own military, above all the army, which was adamant that Japan must not retreat from China and increasingly convinced that war with America was inevitable and should come sooner rather than later, while Japan still had its stockpiles. Caught between an America that would not lift the embargo without a Japanese withdrawal and an army that would not withdraw, Konoye gave up and resigned. The man who took his place was Tojo, who had been the army minister and was the embodiment of the militarist hard line. Nicknamed "the Razor" for his sharp, uncompromising manner, Tojo was a product of the army clique that had driven Japanese expansion for a decade, a believer in military solutions and national will. His appointment as prime minister, while he also kept the army ministry and other powers, meant that the faction most willing to fight the United States now ran the government. There was a brief, cynical window in which the diplomats kept talking, but the decision was effectively made. Under Tojo, Japan set a deadline: if negotiations with America did not produce a breakthrough on Japanese terms by late November, the country would go to war. The talks, predictably, went nowhere, because neither side would give on the fundamental issue of China. And behind the diplomatic screen, the Japanese navy was already training and planning for the operation that Admiral Yamamoto had conceived, a surprise carrier strike across the Pacific against the American fleet at its Hawaiian base. So the 16th of October is one of the quiet hinge days of the war, a change of government in Tokyo that looks like ordinary politics but is really the moment the war party took full control and the countdown to Pearl Harbor began in earnest. When the bombs fell on the American fleet on the 7th of December, it was Tojo who was prime minister, and his name would become, to Americans, the face of Japanese militarism, the eastern counterpart of the dictators in Europe. His rise to power on this day was the point of no return on Japan's road to war with the United States.
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Doctors and hospitals murdered Covid-19 patients at the orders of Dr Anthony Fauci. 😡 In 2018, Remdesivir was too unethical to put into Ebola clinical trials in Africa because it had a 53% kill rate, published in medical journals. Ebola doesn't have a 53% kill rate, but it was chosen in April and May of 2020 to be the drug of choice to treat COVID. This drug was too unethical to use in an African clinical trial because it was killing 53% of the people that it was given to. We had Anthony Fauci, Deborah Burke sitting next to the President going, "we need to use Remdesivir", despite the fact that the World Health Organization said it was unethical to use it. The problem is, as long as the financial interest that dictates what product is going to be promoted is the one making the declaration of the pandemic, we have no possibility for accountability. We have no possibility for justice. And what we do is we allow people who were formed out of the eugenics office, Carnegie Mellon in 1913, that were the same group of people that established the World Health Organization in 1953. That same group of people are the ones who are making this decision. And I don't know how you feel about eugenics, but I have a problem with it.
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I would rate this a Banger!
I still shoulda joined the Air Force.
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I still shoulda joined the Air Force.
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A person who met many of the Zizians and was even targeted for recruitment into the trans cult but escaped their influence has this to say about my book so far:
Replying to @jessi_cata
So far the book is correct as far as I can tell, and even as an expert on Zizians, I am learning new historical details.
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When was the last time you heard a politician talk like @JaceYarbrough? Incredible stuff.
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My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step. Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing. What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation. College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices. Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode. Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no. So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same. That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion. In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row. If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation. If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government. Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has. Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France? Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
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University debate: "The most vegan meal on earth is a grass-fed steak." Vegan: "I'm sorry, I've read the motion three times. Is it a misprint?" Anthropologist: "No." Vegan: "You're going to stand in front of four hundred people and tell them a steak is vegan." Anthropologist: "The most vegan. I'd like credit for the full claim." Vegan: "It's a dead cow." Anthropologist: "One. What did you have for lunch?" Vegan: "A lentil and rice bowl. Nothing died for it." Anthropologist: "It came off a ploughed field. Mice, voles, ground nests, every insect in it, cleared out several times a year by a machine the width of this stage. One bullock feeds a person for twelve months. I'm on one death. You lost count at the starter." Vegan: "Those are accidents." Anthropologist: "I'll let the voles know it wasn't personal." Vegan: "Fine. The planet. Cattle take up enormous amounts of land." Anthropologist: "Hill, rain and grass. Land no plough can touch. He eats what grew there by itself and nobody has to clear a thing. Your lentils needed the field emptied first." Vegan: "We could rewild it." Anthropologist: "With what?" Vegan: "...Grazing animals." Anthropologist: "I've brought some." Vegan: "This is absurd. Humans can get everything they need from plants." Anthropologist: "There's a lawn outside. Help yourself." Vegan: "We can't digest grass." Anthropologist: "He can. Four stomachs and a vat of bacteria. He's the only system on earth that gets everything out of a plant, and he hands it over as protein, iron and the B12 you're taking as a tablet." Vegan: "So your argument is that the cow is vegan." Anthropologist: "Strictly. Never touched meat in his life. I'm simply eating a plant-based diet that's been finished properly." Vegan: "You cannot call that vegan." Anthropologist: "Fewest deaths, no plough, no supplements. If you've a better word for what you were after, I'll use it." Moderator: "Time." Vegan: "I'd like the motion read out again." Moderator: "It's still not a misprint."
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Replying to @Rep_Grijalva @Ilhan
Earlier this year, both parties teamed up to block a subpoena for Ilhan Omar’s immigration records. Today, federal agents showed up at her doorstep with a warrant for those exact files. Cry more!
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Letitia James can barely answer the question that was asked of her. The moderator had to help her through it… These are the type of minorities the democrat culture cultivates and puts into power.
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The conspiracy theorist still sit at 100%. At least they're finally saying it out loud.
U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed: “We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors.”
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U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed: “We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors.”
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