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Since June 25, 2025, 35,076 non-English-speaking truck drivers have been placed out of service.
If we didn't have repeat offenders, that's ~70 drivers a day for more than 71 weeks. And if we had additional enforcement, they'd be off the highways for good...
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After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed.
He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself.
So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends.
Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight.
Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant.
Here's the part almost nobody sees.
For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit.
Robots break that asymmetry.
When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible.
And that changes everything politically.
So there are two scenarios.
Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse.
Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built.
That's the Western renaissance.
The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice.
The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
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Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
Ouch!
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FIFTEEN YEARS OLD! AND ALREADY FACING 11 COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER!
At what point do we stop pretending we don’t understand what’s happening to our children?
A 15-year-old, identified as Anthony Rivers III, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the October 24 shooting during FAMU’s homecoming celebrations. Twelve people were reportedly injured, including six children. The youngest was just 11 years old.
The allegations are staggering. And if proven, this young man must be held accountable.
But I want America, particularly those of us who have spent our lives watching our neighborhoods deteriorate, to consider something far more disturbing.
WHO IS RAISING OUR CHILDREN WHEN THE CULTURE BECOMES MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN THE HOME?
I have preached about this for years. We are witnessing the consequences of a toxic culture that normalizes criminality, glorifies reckless behavior, trivializes education, and increasingly treats the absence of fathers as an ordinary feature of childhood.
And then we act bewildered when children begin behaving like hardened criminals before they are old enough to graduate from high school.
Where are the policies that strengthen families? Where is the accountability for educational failure? Where are the measurable outcomes from decades of publicly funded intervention programs?
Politicians announce initiatives, celebrate appropriations, commission studies, and congratulate themselves while children in struggling neighborhoods continue to experience the same dysfunction.
THIS IS THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION.
And I refuse to accept that this is simply how our communities must live.
I am not claiming that government created this particular young man’s choices. We do not know enough about his upbringing to make that assertion. But government policies can reinforce or alleviate the conditions in which children develop. Those outcomes deserve relentless scrutiny.
Think about the children reportedly struck by gunfire. Think about their parents. Think about a 15-year-old who now faces the possibility of spending much of his life incarcerated.
Where was the intervention before this moment? What opportunities existed to redirect his trajectory? What did the institutions responsible for protecting and educating children actually accomplish?
We cannot arrest our way out of every cultural pathology. Nor can we excuse individual accountability by blaming society.
We must confront BOTH.
God designed the family to be a place of instruction, discipline, love, and moral formation. Proverbs 22:6 tells us to train up a child in the way he should go.
When we abandon that responsibility, we should not be surprised when the streets offer their own instruction.
My prayers are with every injured child, every affected family, and the parents now confronting an unimaginable situation.
I am tired of watching another generation inherit the consequences of problems that political leadership repeatedly promises to solve.
Our children deserve more than another press conference. They deserve measurable results.
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One reason why socialism ruins everything.
Milton Friedman on how “social justice” destroys a society:
“If I have a philosophy that everything belongs to society—if something happens to me, that’s not my fault, that’s because society did it to me—then the whole concept of property loses its role.”
“Why shouldn’t I steal? Why shouldn’t I destroy property? After all, it’s nobody’s. It belongs to everybody, so it belongs to nobody.”
“Moreover, if I happened to be in a lower-income group, or a deprived social group, or a discriminated-against racial group, that’s the malevolence of other people. It’s not my fault, and I have every right to get back at them.”
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Why does everything feel fake?
We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want.
We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them.
We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read.
We have colleges that charge $200K for degrees that don’t get you jobs.
We have a non-profit system that profits from our tax dollars.
We have a health care industry that profits from you staying sick.
We have “representatives” who don’t represent us.
We have “news” networks that report opinions and call them facts.
We have an insurance industry that fights every single claim.
None of it works the way they tell you it works.
And deep down, everyone knows it.
It just all feels so so fake…
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This is, quite frankly, the most honest take by a European journalist in decades. I don’t know who she is…but I love her! She’s spot on! 🔥💪
OMG 🚨 UK TV Host GOES OFF on UK Defense Secretary for refusing to connect illegal mass migration with security risks in the UK.
This might one of the best on air TV rants you will ever see. After 5 Muslims tried blowing up RAF Air Force base in London.
The people in Europe are FED UP with immigration and their failed government that protects illegals over its citizens.
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New information on a fatal hit and run crash that left a woman dead last night. She was simply outside at about 8:30 when she was randomly hit and killed.
Police arrested 22-year-old Edwin Alexander Sosa Gonzalez for operating while intoxicated and is now in the Marion County Jail.
IMPD told us Sosa Gonzalez was traveling at a high rate of speed southbound on Tibbs Avenue approaching 16th Street.
Police say he first crashed into a victim’s vehicle, then crossed traffic and drove through a gas station parking lot before hitting a woman walking in the parking lot.
Police say Sosa Gonzalez took off from the scene but was later found. He faces charges including operating while intoxicated causing death and leave the scene of a crash causing death.
According to Marion County Jail records Sosa Gonzalez is from Honduras and is being held on a federal ICE detainer.
IMPD Night Watch Captain Rob Rider told us, “It’s just a tragic event, we have a woman minding her own business, struck by someone who obviously has no regard for human life, driving recklessly,” said IMPD Night Watch Captain Rob Rider.
The coroner will likely release the victim’s name tomorrow. IMPD said the suspect’s mugshot is not available just yet.
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McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.
I can save them the 8.5 billion.
They took out the playground.
The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.
Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.
Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.
This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.
So let us talk about who used to eat there.
Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.
You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.
That was the product. The food was the cover charge.
The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.
Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.
The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.
Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.
Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.
So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.
And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.
For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.
I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.
And have you seen the new buildings.
The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.
The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.
They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.
Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.
Not for the politics. For the competence.
They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.
More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.
A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.
McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.
Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.
So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.
Put the playgrounds back.
Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.
And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.
A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.
That is the window. That is the only window you get.
You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.
That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.
Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.
Or a slide.
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Well, since you put it that way...
A bank won’t approve a $1,000,000 mortgage for someone making $100k a year.
A dealership won’t finance a $75,000 car for someone earning $35k.
But an 18 year old can take on $250,000 in student debt for a degree that leads to a $40,000 salary.
No credit check. No income verification. No reality check.
We let kids who can’t rent a car make six figure financial commitments that can follow them for decades.
Then we ask why so many young adults struggle to get ahead.
The bank protects its money.
The dealership protects its money.
The university gets paid.
And the student gets the debt.
Hi Samantha - I believe in giving credit where credit is due. Just wanted to let you know that I think you're doing a great job holding down the job on the news this week. All the best, Scott
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