Jurist | Redacteur | Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem (R. Reagan) | 🇳🇱
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Kim Tjoa retweeted
Hayek finished the job of obliterating the entire socialist project in 1945 with one devastating insight: the knowledge needed to run an economy does not exist in any one place.
It is scattered across millions of minds – the farmer who knows his field, the shopkeeper who knows his street, the engineer who knows his machine – and only prices can gather it. No planner can collect it, because most of it cannot even be written down. The socialists spent the next eighty years building bigger ministries to collect it anyway.
And yet here we are, watching politicians explain that this time it will work, because now they have data, experts and algorithms. They cannot tell you how many nurses a single hospital will need next winter – how exactly are they going to know what three hundred million people want, need and can make, every day, in every town?
Every Soviet shop with left shoes only, every empty Venezuelan shelf, every five-year plan fulfilled on paper was just Hayek being proven right. He left the planners one sentence to hang over their desks: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." But sure, let's give the committee a supercomputer. What could go wrong?
Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them.
And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy?
Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?
Kim Tjoa retweeted
We showed up. We voted. We did not cross over.
Democrats materialized 20 million more votes.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Breaking;‼️ De fraude barst momenteel in alle hevigheid los. De minister van Binnenlandse Veiligheid heeft zojuist onthuld dat in slechts VIER staten —Californië, New Jersey, Pennsylvania en Nevada— 250.000 niet-staatsburgers geregistreerd staan om te stemmen. ¡250.000 in slechts 4 staten! En er zijn nog 46 meer te controleren. Dit is slechts het topje van de ijsberg. Dit gaat enorm worden. Kijk maar gewoon. 🍿🔥
#ElectionFraud #WakeUp #ClownWorld
RT @PaulGoldEagle
Kim Tjoa retweeted
🚨 CHINA IS LOSING AN ENTIRE GENERATION
And the numbers are TERRIFYING.
For decades, young Chinese were promised a simple deal:
Study hard. Get a good job. Become richer than your parents.
That deal is breaking:
Youth unemployment for 16–24 year olds is now 18%.
For 25–29 year olds: 7.4%.
China’s overall urban unemployment rate: just 5.2%.
And 12.7 MILLION college graduates entered the job market this year.
A RECORD.
But here’s where it gets much worse.
China now has roughly 37 MILLION fewer urban jobs than it would have if the pre-COVID employment trend had continued.
One prominent Chinese economist estimates the REAL broader unemployment rate could already be around 10%.
That is nearly DOUBLE the official number.
And unemployment is only part of the crisis.
China’s property collapse destroyed millions of jobs across construction, real estate and everything connected to them.
Tech companies have been cutting staff.
And now AI is coming for the exact jobs young graduates need most.
Some of China’s biggest employers privately told the government that full AI adoption could eliminate 30% OR MORE of their existing jobs.
Think about that.
China already has millions of young people struggling to find work...
And the technology Beijing wants to dominate could eliminate even more entry-level jobs.
Meanwhile, the number of Chinese workers relying on temporary and gig work is exploding:
2025 → 280 MILLION
2026 → 320 MILLION
That is more than 40% of China’s workforce.
And this is where the economic problem becomes something much bigger.
Young people are delaying marriage.
They’re delaying children.
They’re moving back in with their parents.
Some are abandoning traditional careers completely.
Because why spend years studying, competing and working...
If the reward at the end keeps disappearing?
This is the part everyone should be paying attention to.
China spent decades building an economy where every generation expected to become richer than the one before it.
Now an entire generation is beginning to question whether that is still possible.
That creates a brutal feedback loop:
No stable job → less spending.
Less spending → weaker businesses.
No financial security → fewer marriages and children.
Fewer families → even weaker housing demand.
Weaker housing → more pressure on the economy.
And around it goes.
China’s biggest long-term problem may not be GDP growth.
It may be something much harder to fix:
AN ENTIRE GENERATION LOSING CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE.
Once that happens, cutting rates and printing money won’t solve everything.
Remember, I’ve been trading markets for over 15 years.
I follow what central banks, governments and the biggest institutions are doing in real time, and when I see something important developing, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do.
Turn notifications on.
If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
“Many of our educators, our intelligentsia and our media -- not to mention our politicians-- promote an attitude that other people's achievements are grievances, rather than examples.”
— Thomas Sowell
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Geen uitlaat. Wel uitstoot.
De vervuiling zit in de mijn, de accufabriek en de elektriciteitscentrale. Buiten beeld, vaak in een ander land. Hier plakken we er het etiket ‘emissievrij’ op.
Een stekker maakt die keten niet schoon.
🎥 @Electroversenet
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Dat Abdul #ElSayed in zijn overwinningsspeech als Amerikaanse senator-elect - officieel vanaf 3 januari - begint met het uitspreken van twee Arabisch-religieuze uitdrukkingen, inshallah en alhamdulillah, zou geen luid applaus, maar een golf van koude rillingen moeten veroorzaken.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time!”
Ik ben helaas bang dat de komende zes jaar (!) de rode loper wordt uitgerold voor een verdere islamisering van binnenuit, nota bene binnen de Senaat van een land dat door moslimextremisten intens wordt gehaat en dat zij met alle mogelijke middelen proberen te vernietigen.
Met El-Sayed heeft #Michigan mijns inziens het paard van Troje binnengehaald. Nog voordat de poorten opengingen, waren er signalen, onder meer op basis van bepaalde contacten uit zijn directe omgeving, die de vraag opriepen of El-Sayed mogelijk een 'Trojaanse infiltrant' is die door bewuste religieuze misleiding (taqiyya) de poorten wist te openen.
En toch werden al deze alarmbellen genegeerd. Degenen die wél het lef hadden het vermeende gevaar te benoemen, werden al snel weggezet als islamofoob of fascist. El-Sayed zelf lacht inmiddels breeduit, alsof hij nauwelijks kan geloven hoe eenvoudig een intifada in het naïeve, woke en useful-idiot-rijke 2026 kan verlopen 🙄
#Midterms2026 #Midterms #islamisering #Islamization
‼️ JUST NOW: In his Michigan Senate victory speech, @AbdulElSayed says, in an Arabic accent “My name is Abdulrahman Mohammad El-Sayed,” now feeling free to be himself.
He goes on to use more Arabic, saying “alhamdulillah” & translates that to “praise be to God.”
Making it clear that he will embrace Islam very openly in office.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Deze man heeft gewonnen. Allemaal naar New York nu voor “gratis alles”. 🎉
Democrat Nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan Abdul El-Sayed wants open borders and no deportations:
“We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors.”
Get out and VOTE Republican against this.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Abdul El-Sayed won de Senaatsverkiezing in de staat Michigan, niet in New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Unit…
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Peter Thiel's critique of European tech is sharper than most people quote it:
"In the social democratic European societies, it's acceptable to be moderately successful. It's not acceptable to be wildly successful."
That's not a cultural observation. It's a structural diagnosis.
Look at the pattern: Skype sold to Microsoft. Spotify relocated to New York and listed in the US. DeepMind sold to Google before it could compound. Klarna — one of Europe's most valuable fintechs — spent years being investigated and regulated the moment it hit scale.
The moment a European startup gets big enough to matter, the social contract shifts. Regulators, press, and public sentiment move from neutral to hostile. So founders learn to exit early — not because they lack ambition, but because the system taxes it.
Europe produces world-class talent and early-stage innovation. It just doesn't retain the compounding.
The constraint isn't capital. It's the ceiling culture places on acceptable ambition — and founders respond rationally to the incentives they're actually given.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Things in Western Europe will improve when a few hard realities are understood:
1. Europe has no God-given right to be wealthy or stable. Things can & will decline and fall apart if not maintained and adapted to new realities. Things that worked in the 1970s may be counterproductive now.
2. Energy is the basis of the economy. Without it, nothing else matters. While efficiency will be important, any economy where energy is scarce will inevitably be one that struggles
3. Not all cultures are equal. Some create prosperity, some lead to misery, some are outright evil. If Europe doesn't accept this, the cultural basis of its previous success & prosperity will be destroyed forever
4. Have kids, or die out. In the long term, few things matter this much. You can't create a European future if there are no Europeans left for it, and as the experiences of the last few decades show, non-European immigration simply makes Europe culturally less European - and doesn't magically make these people culturally European.
5. The state can not - and should not - save every individual from him/herself from him/her bad choices or ineptitudes. The idea of a nanny state which can ensure that everyone always live comfortably with minimal effort & contributions 100% of time is not feasible. The socialist promises of 30 years of wealthy retirements for everyone and Europe being able to take on endless low skill immigration were lies.
6. If a society has no way for ambitious & creative people to get rich from working hard, everyone will get poorer because of it. The hard truth is that much of our economic future depends on businesses being built & transformed by ambitious & sometimes ruthless individuals. Not everyone is able or willing to do this, and without them, there is no one to employ others and no wealth & growth to tax. But if businesses & wealth are seen solely as an evil force to be taxed into oblivion, they will go elsewhere.
7. In some cases, the best way for society to deal with a criminal is to lock them up and throw away the key. A small percentage of humans are ticking time bombs - low IQs, high aggression potential, psychopathic traits, socialised into criminal structures or a culture of lawlessness. Society can't fix them. They go in and out of court rooms and across Europe states, NGOs & social workers waste billions of hours & Euros to try & fix the unfixable. Not least because of mass immigration from dysfunctional societies, our legal systems & high trust societies built on principles such as the benefit of the doubt & correction via socialisation are overwhelmed by the amount of aggressive young men with no interest to contribute to society.
All of this is fixable. But the first step is accepting reality.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Europe is: Homer. Aristotle. Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo Buonarroti. William Shakespeare. Galileo Galilei. René Descartes. Isaac Newton. Antonio Vivaldi. Johann Sebastian Bach. Voltaire. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ludwig van Beethoven. Charles Darwin. Leo Tolstoy. Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Vincent van Gogh. Nikola Tesla. Guglielmo Marconi. Albert Einstein. Pablo Picasso. Niels Bohr. George Orwell.
The EU is: a 33 year old plague of nameless, soulless bureaucrats in overpriced suits.
Hope this helps you grasp the difference.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Thomas Sowell explains the economic case for tax cuts and why lower taxes can encourage investment, productivity, and economic growth.
A powerful argument for the idea that people should keep more of what they earn.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
President Trump heeft zojuist de menigte verbijsterd door twee volle minuten Democraten in hun eigen woorden te laten vertellen hoe ze zich voelen
- “Ik hou van Tr*ns Kinderen”
- “Ik ben een Christen die het Christendom haat”
- “We zouden het Huwelijk volledig moeten afschaffen”
- “God is non Binair”
- “Ik ben tegen Kiezerspaspoort”
- “Het is tijd om ICE af te schaffen”
- “Ik wil 10 miljoen gelukszoekers in ons land legaliseren”
- “We zouden niemand moeten deporteren”
- “Schaf Politie en Gevangenissen af”
- “Amerika verdiende 9/11”
- “Ik haat dit verdomde land”
Stuur dit naar iedereen die je kent. Dit is precies hoe Democraten die zich kandidaat stellen voelen
Kim Tjoa retweeted
DISNEY WORKERS, DEPUTY AND YOUTH COACH AMONG 281 ARRESTED IN FLORIDA HUMAN TRAFFICKING STING
A massive, multi-agency undercover operation in Polk County led to the arrest of 281 people facing nearly 500 new criminal charges targeting online child predators and human trafficking operations.
Detectives wrapped up a seven-day operation called Operation Polk Around & Find Out II, running dual undercover investigations at the same time. The first sting targeted adults attempting to travel to meet minors for sexual activity, resulting in 32 arrests.
The second sting targeted human trafficking networks, capturing 249 additional people, including 117 accused sex buyers and 122 individuals accused of prostitution. In total, the 281 suspects face 488 new charges, including 198 felonies and 290 misdemeanors, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
Full article:
fox5ny.com/news/disney-worke…
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Ludwig von Mises built the intellectual case against central planning so thoroughly that his critics never actually refuted it. They ignored it, mocked it, then watched the Soviet Union collapse in 1991, confirming every word.
His 1920 paper on socialist calculation cut to the bone: without private property and genuine price signals, planners fly blind. Prices carry information no committee can replicate. Kill the market, kill the signal, and you get Soviet bread lines and Venezuelan grocery shelves stripped bare.
Mises lived this. He fled Vienna in 1940 with the Nazis closing in, arrived in New York nearly broke, and rebuilt his career at NYU largely without a paid faculty position. The establishment academia of his era dismissed him because he made their Keynesian comfort too expensive to keep.
Human Action, published in 1949, remains the most comprehensive defense of individual liberty and market order ever written. You live inside an economy shaped by bad ideas Mises systematically destroyed, but nobody told you.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
Wouldn’t it have been better to just put walls up around our borders 30 years ago?
Kim Tjoa retweeted
BREAKING:
Dutch football supporters from Ado den Haag are chasing young second and third-generation would-be migrant looters in The Hague.
Kim Tjoa retweeted
This is a ridiculous attempt to bring up a case from eight years ago. You have no real arguments to justify your indefensible actions - just like Hungary’s new government. The truth is that you are just as much of an arrogant, Brussels-backed liberal authoritarian as Péter Magyar. And both of you will fall into the very traps you have set for others.
