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Trump is preparing a ground assault for Israel after the midterms. Bookmark this I hope I'm wrong
Here are some realistic outcomes I am thinking about today before a presentation on it > Iran is forced to escalate massively to break the blockade, is utilizing Yemen to distract and catch off guard when they do escalate (Araghchi & Masoud are gone in this scenario) - Saudis are lured into possible ground conflict with mercs, multi-year war > Trump waiting thru midterms to escalate, a massive GOP loss gives clearance to do just that, Strait of Hormuz situation is untenable and impeachment/inflation are very likely > WTI experiences a 'Welcome to the Inflation Era' - nominal repricing/rebasement - similar to the 70s, with a new base in the low 80s and a very wide right tail We are in living in an illusion of abundance created by (mostly stupid) politicians that think in 2 year election cycles, in reality we're much closer to an era of acute shortages unless they actually allow for price discovery and market forces to do their job Patience thru October
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40? Wow. That's awesome. Only 99,999, 960 to go.
BREAKING: Trump administration announces the “largest denaturalization effort in modern history,” filing 40 denaturalization cases in just over a month.
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Richard Baker retweeted
I want a 1988 Toyota Sunrader. It’s basically a Toyota hilux with a camper.
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Socialism is impossible. Read that again. Here is why: 1. Ludwig von Mises and the Calculation Problem; then 2. Friedrich Hayek and the Knowledge Problem. They are distinct, and it's important to understand the difference. Mises fired first. In his 1920 paper "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth," he drove a stake through the heart of central planning by showing that rational economic calculation is impossible without private ownership of the means of production. Prices are not arbitrary numbers. They are signals generated by actual bids and offers between property owners who face real profit and loss. Strip away private property, and you strip away the bidding process. Strip away the bidding process, and prices become bureaucratic guesses. A Soviet planner deciding how much steel to allocate between rail construction and tractor manufacturing has no genuine price for steel because no one is buying or selling it freely. He is flying blind. The problem is structural, not administrative. Hire smarter planners, give them faster computers; it changes nothing. The information cannot exist without the market process that generates it. Communists read this and realized Mises was right. They found a roundabout way to keep going. They would simply use prices from Western capitalist countries. Then Hayek hit them with his 1945 essay "The Use of Knowledge in Society." His target was subtly different. Hayek accepted that prices aggregate information. His contribution was to identify what kind of information markets process: local, dispersed, tacit knowledge that no central authority can collect. A warehouse manager in Düsseldorf knows that his particular supplier is three weeks behind schedule. A farmer in Kansas knows the soil conditions on his specific plot after last month's frost. A textile merchant in Lyon knows which dyes his buyers currently prefer. None of this knowledge is written down anywhere. Much of it the people holding it cannot fully articulate. It lives in habits, relationships, and on-the-ground experience accumulated over years. No survey, no commissar's report, no algorithm extracts it reliably. You cannot copy it from one country to another. Mises showed that central planners lack the mechanism to generate rational prices. Hayek showed that even if planners somehow had prices, they still could not possess the ground-level knowledge those prices encode. Mises's problem kills socialist calculation at the structural level. Hayek's problem kills it at the epistemological level. The two arguments are complementary, stacked on top of each other like floors of a building. The Soviet Union ran this entire experiment in full. Central planners in Moscow set over 20 million prices by the late Soviet period. Shortages and surpluses coexisted everywhere. Bread rotted in one city while another city's bread lines stretched around the block. Planners were not uniquely corrupt or stupid. They were operating inside an institutional structure that made rational allocation geometrically impossible, exactly as Mises predicted in 1920 and exactly as Hayek's epistemology explained in 1945. Every government price control, every production quota, every centralized allocation scheme you live under today repeats this mistake at a smaller scale. The mechanism fails whether the commodity is steel, housing, or healthcare. The scale changes; the logic does not.
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Richard Baker retweeted
New York Democrats have declared WAR ON THE AMISH. Thanks to their unconstitutional attack on religion, they're now able to fine EACH unvaccinated Amish child $2,000 EVERY SINGLE DAY. ⠀ The $118,000 bill is one day, not the cap. Three one-room schools alone already owe that much for 59 children, at $2,000 each. ⠀ Health Commissioner Mary Bassett imposed it on December 15, 2022. She called the sum conservative because it assumed only one day out of compliance. ⠀ Dygert Road was billed $52,000 for 26 children. Pleasant View was billed $46,000 for 23. ⠀ Shady Lane was billed $20,000 for 10. ⠀ Footnote 9 of the Second Circuit opinion records the state's view. Each day an unvaccinated student attends is a fresh violation and a fresh $2,000 fine. ⠀ Another day for those 59 children is another $118,000. A 180-day year at that rate is about $21 million, and the families say they cannot pay the first bill. ⠀ Joseph Miller, Jonas Smucker, and Ezra Wengerd run the schools. The schools sit in Clymer and Heuvelton, plus the Canajoharie settlement, and take no public money. ⠀ They had a religious exemption for decades. On June 13, 2019, Democrats repealed it after measles spread through Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Rockland County. ⠀ Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill. Governor Kathy Hochul left it in force. ⠀ A parent may not excuse a child for faith. ⠀ Senator James Skoufis said the exemption was made up and fake. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz called it utter garbage. ⠀ Counsel Aaron Siri told the New York Post the families can pay only if the state takes their land. Some in the community have talked of leaving the state. ⠀ The case is Miller versus McDonald. The Second Circuit ruled against them on June 30 in 2026. ⠀ A Supreme Court petition was due around September 28. Make sure EVERYONE sees this. If WE don't stand up for these incredible men and women - WHO WILL?!?!?! ⠀ Where is the “my body my choice crowd now”? 
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Richard Baker retweeted
Everything to Bernie is a poll, and the answer depends on how you word the question. Do people have a right to health care? Resounding yes. Do people have a right to keep what they earn? Resounding yes. Both cannot stand. A right to a service means a claim on the man who provides it, and that cancels his right to his own work. That contradiction runs through this poll too. 91 percent want guardrails on AI. Ask the same people whether a man may use his own property, his own computers, his own capital, for research that harms no one, and you get the same resounding yes. The second answer forbids the first. A right is a sanction to act, not a claim on what others must do or stop doing. Mine ends where yours begins, which is why rights never conflict and polls always do. So the 91 percent is beside the point. If a man is violating rights, prove it in court. If he is not, no majority and no senator has the right to stop him.
According to a new Quinnipiac poll: • 91% of Americans think it's important to put guardrails on AI • 73% worry AI could threaten humanity • 72% oppose new data centers in their community. So what have Republicans in Congress done to regulate AI over the past two years? NOTHING.
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Richard Baker retweeted
Guys I know this is controversial but I actually quite like myself, my country, its culture, history, European culture broadly and I’m not that interested in Palestine, trannies or black criminals killed in the USA.
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All true.
Technology should make everything cheaper. It does, in fact, make everything cheaper. The spreadsheet replaced entire accounting departments. The tractor replaced forty farmhands. Containerization slashed global shipping costs by roughly 90 percent after 1956. Manufacturing robots now produce goods in hours that once took weeks. Every one of these innovations compresses the real cost of production. So why does your grocery bill keep climbing? Because a counterforce erases every efficiency gain before it reaches your wallet. Central banks, primarily the Federal Reserve since 1913, expand the money supply faster than productivity grows. The Fed has increased M2 money supply by over 40 percent between 2020 and 2022 alone. Ludwig von Mises identified this mechanism precisely: every dollar created without corresponding production dilutes the purchasing power of dollars already in circulation. The gain from the robot on the factory floor disappears into the monetary expansion decided in Washington. Government spending compounds this. Federal outlays exceeded $6.7 trillion in fiscal year 2025, most of it deficit-financed, meaning newly created money chasing existing goods. Licensing regimes, zoning laws, and FDA approval timelines add years and billions to bringing productive innovations to market. Technology is genuinely winning the war against scarcity. Televisions, clothing, and computing power cost a fraction of what they did in 1990. Housing, healthcare, and education, the three sectors most saturated with government intervention, keep climbing regardless. Inflation is a policy. Deflation is what free markets deliver.
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Richard Baker retweeted
Technology should make everything cheaper. It does, in fact, make everything cheaper. The spreadsheet replaced entire accounting departments. The tractor replaced forty farmhands. Containerization slashed global shipping costs by roughly 90 percent after 1956. Manufacturing robots now produce goods in hours that once took weeks. Every one of these innovations compresses the real cost of production. So why does your grocery bill keep climbing? Because a counterforce erases every efficiency gain before it reaches your wallet. Central banks, primarily the Federal Reserve since 1913, expand the money supply faster than productivity grows. The Fed has increased M2 money supply by over 40 percent between 2020 and 2022 alone. Ludwig von Mises identified this mechanism precisely: every dollar created without corresponding production dilutes the purchasing power of dollars already in circulation. The gain from the robot on the factory floor disappears into the monetary expansion decided in Washington. Government spending compounds this. Federal outlays exceeded $6.7 trillion in fiscal year 2025, most of it deficit-financed, meaning newly created money chasing existing goods. Licensing regimes, zoning laws, and FDA approval timelines add years and billions to bringing productive innovations to market. Technology is genuinely winning the war against scarcity. Televisions, clothing, and computing power cost a fraction of what they did in 1990. Housing, healthcare, and education, the three sectors most saturated with government intervention, keep climbing regardless. Inflation is a policy. Deflation is what free markets deliver.
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Richard Baker retweeted
Remember, no one on the antigun side has ever shown that those with carry permits are any kind of criminal threat. Because they can't, all the evidence points the other way. So this kind of stuff is just about harassing a disfavored group.
Citing 'Culture of Fear,' Portland City Council Looks to Add More 'Gun-Free Zones' bearingarms.com/camedwards/2…
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Richard Baker retweeted
I'm going to treat this new plague the exact same way I treated covid which was to just going on living my life normally and I hope you join me.
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They're not even hiding it. They're gonna kill billions with a vaccine made in "israel."
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You are the most triggered faggot imaginable and you belong nowhere near a position of influence or power.
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Not only do I not care that screeners don't get chairs anymore, I prefer it. We need to figure out what else can be taken away from them (or what other unpleasant things can be added) to make that role so miserable they all just quit?
TSA agents have subjected passengers to any number of indignities for decades. Now, their union reps want flyers to fight for the return of screeners' chairs. reason.com/2026/10/07/tsa-sc…
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Richard Baker retweeted
The Fed isn’t the *only* thing causing inflation. But it enables most of what does. Hardworking Americans would be better off without it. Meanwhile, the Fed wields government authority in a way that places it largely beyond the reach of American voters. End the Fed.
Inflation is immoral. END THE FED.
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Richard Baker retweeted
End Islamic immigration Deport all Muslims currently in America on visa Denaturalize as many Muslims as possible
BREAKING: FBI arrests 18 y/o Minnesota man, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, accused of plotting a terrorist attack at the Mall of America, allegedly pledging allegiance to ISIS.
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Richard Baker retweeted
All the smartest people I know think there's a significant chance of economic collapse and prolonged power outages happening in the very near future. If your politics doesn't account for that possibility and doesn't prepare you and your friends for it, your priorities are off.
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Theyre trying to kill off White culture because White people make terrible slaves.
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The man who figured out what DNA actually looks like got WIPED from history for saying one thing out loud.. In 1953 James Watson discovered the double helix, the twisted ladder shape of DNA, basically cracking the code for how every living thing on Earth is built. He also won a Nobel Prize for it. In 2007 he told a London paper that IQ testing shows gaps between races and that genes play a role, and the results? His book tour got canceled within days, and the lab he ran for almost 40 YEARS kicked him out as chancellor. He was so blacklisted he ended up selling his Nobel medal in 2014, saying he'd become an "unperson." Then in 2019, at 90 years old, PBS asked him if he'd changed his mind. He said "No, not at all." The lab then stripped every title he had left. The test score gap he talked about is real and documented, but the "trust the science" crowd would rather destroy a man than debate why it exists. The greatest scientist of his generation essentially CANCELED for speaking his mind.
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Replying to @DamonStrong
If anyone knows this father and how to contact him, or if you are this father, please contact me. I'd like to help him and his family get justice.
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