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Matt,
Just like so many I've responded to today on this thread, you argue against me like a collectivist would. You make sweeping generalizations about Boomers that are absurd on their face. "Your generation did this and that, and you're ALL evil selfish bastards" is the upshot.
Really?
Many of us conservative Republicans have argued for major reforms or even to phase out Social Security. That wasn't politically expedient or popular, but some of us agued for it anyway. For decades! Where were you then, Matt? I don't recall hearing your name mentioned. You weren't involved then, were you? I was. So were millions of Boomers.
They were called Republicans (and Libertarians).
And when Bush proposed a modest change to the program to invest 3% of funds in the stock market, many of us supported that as an alternative to it sitting around waiting to be spent by politicians. But no, even that was too "extreme" for Democrats. It went down in flames. You were about 15 then, Matt...so you probably don't remember. Bush's proposal would have saved the program in hindsight.
DEMOCRATS were for the status quo. Not Republicans. Some lost their seats supporting it.
I'm old enough to remember when Newt was Speaker and we had a shot at a balanced budget amendment. I was all for it. DEMOCRATS were not.
It failed because of DEMOCRATS! It fell one vote short in the Senate. We fought like hell for that. What were you doing then Matt? That's right. You were only ten. Not your fault. But it wasn't the fault of "Boomers" either. It was Democrats.
It was DEMOCRATS, Matt. Not "Boomers". It was policy choices made by DEMOCRATS repeatedly, decade by decade. You should know this. You're a semi-professional historian. It could be your next special.
But do you really think that ALL retired Boomers haven't been screaming for cutting spending most of their lives? About half of them have been. I'm one of them. Look up how many times I've criticized my own President for absurd spending levels and having zero concern for debts and deficits. Trump even REMOVED the words "debt" and "deficit" from the party platform in 2024. How is $40T in debt, $2T in deficits, and $1T in interest "America First"? It isn't.
So here I am... approaching retirement after 50 years in the workforce. I've tried repeatedly to advocate for reforms or abolition of Social Security and failed because of Democrats. I paid FICA taxes under threat of fines or prison by the government for 50 years (21 of which at the double rate for the self-employed). And now your argument is that I (and ALL Boomers collectively) are selfish and greedy to actually TAKE the benefit that they agreed to pay me in exchange for confiscating my retirement savings?
I seem to recall you making an argument that you didn't want to "divide the right" by condemning certain people for their unpopular policy choices. "We need to unite.", you said. But here you are, Matt: Every Republican and conservative born between the years 1945 and 1964 are evil, selfish, greedy bastards who hate their children and grandchildren because they have the gall to collect a check from a program to which they were compelled to contribute their entire lives.
I am a big fan of yours, Matt. I support any efforts you would make to alter or abolish Social Security. Go for it. Lead the movement. And good luck getting President Trump on board.
But any plan has to be reasonably gradual. You cannot possibly expect middle class retirees to just rip up the checks that they have counted on for 50 years and end the program instantly. Nor can you vilify conservative and Republican Boomers for bad policy choices that they vocally OPPOSED for decades, simply because of their birth year.
RIP Josephine and all the victims and heros of 9/11. I will never forget.
Josephine Harris was 59, a Port Authority bookkeeper with a bad leg, walking down from the 73rd floor of the North Tower on September 11.
By the time the firefighters of Ladder
Company 6 found her in the stairwell, she was exhausted and crying.
They had just been ordered out.
The other tower was already gone.
They did not leave her.
Firefighter Bill Butler put her arm over his shoulder.
“Josephine,” he said, “we’re going to get you out of here today.”
Their pace became hers.
Lower down she collapsed and told them to go on without her.
They refused.
Then the North Tower fell.
Stairwell B held.
The building peeled away around them.
Fourteen people survived in that pocket: firefighters, a Port Authority officer, and Josephine.
People who had passed them on the stairs did not.
The men of Ladder 6 called her their guardian angel.
They believed she slowed them just enough.
Without her they would have been lower when it came down.
Without them, she would not have made it out.
When she died years later, those firefighters carried her coffin.
One of them named a daughter after her.
She was not trying to save anyone.
She was a tired woman who could not walk any faster.
That was enough.
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
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The Counter-March – What You Actually Do on Monday
Gramsci’s side won because ordinary people made ordinary career decisions with a fifty-year horizon. Not heroes. Teachers, editors, functionaries, each one making a choice that looked small. That is the whole secret, and it is entirely available to us. A Council can issue verdicts; it cannot fill ten thousand positions. That part is yours.
Here is the strategy, stated plainly.
1. Choose institutions by whether they still answer to results. Anything that must produce something real — engineering, medicine, energy, defense, construction, software, finance where the position is marked to market — is still governed by reality and cannot be captured for long, because reality audits it. Anything that produces only reports, assessments, and compliance answers to nobody. Enter the first kind. For the second kind, don’t spend a career fighting to retake it – build its replacement.
2. Become excellent first, and visibly so. Gramsci’s marchers were often mediocre, and it didn’t matter, because the institutions they entered had stopped measuring. Ours have not. Competence is the only tenure available to us: it is very hard to remove the best engineer in the building, and very easy to remove the second-best one with opinions. Earn the position before you use it.
3. Do not resign in disgust. That is the single most common mistake, and it is exactly what the system wants – every honest person who walks out has completed the selection process on the other side’s behalf. Stay, do the work, be useful, and refuse the small lies. Internal emigration keeps you sane; it does not keep the institution.
4. Build the parallel where entry is closed. Some institutions cannot be retaken – the accreditation is captured, the pipeline is closed, the mission is corrupted at the root. Fine. Start the school, the journal, the apprenticeship, the prize, the fund, the training program. Small and functioning beats large and theoretical. The other side needed the state’s permission to build; we need almost none, which is a historically unusual advantage and will not last forever.
5. Hire. This is the step almost everyone skips. Every founder, partner, and manager reading this controls positions – and positions are the actual currency of the long march. One person who hires on merit for twenty years moves more than a hundred who post. If you have hiring power and you use it for anything other than the best person available, you are running the other side’s program with your own money.
6. Have children, and form them. The march succeeded across three generations because it captured formation. Nothing in this piece matters if the people who agree with it don’t reproduce, and nothing they inherit matters if they’re formed by institutions that despise it. Everything else on this list is a means. This is the end – the only item that is not a strategy but the thing the strategy is for.
7. Say true things in public, under your own name, at survivable cost. Not martyrdom – calibrated, repeated, unremarkable honesty from people who cannot easily be fired. The system’s power was never the punishment; it was the anticipation of punishment. Every person who speaks plainly and is still employed a year later lowers the price for everyone watching.
8. Play the fifty-year game. The march took from 1968 to roughly 2015 to complete. Anyone expecting a decisive victory in one electoral cycle will quit in disappointment, which is itself part of why the other side won. Choose things that compound: skills, institutions, children, reputations.
The other side’s advantage was never intelligence or funding. It was patience combined with direction – thousands of uncoordinated people pushing the same way for fifty years. We now have the direction, the vocabulary, and for the first time in a century, unblocked distribution. What remains is the boring part: the arriving, the staffing, and the staying.
Choose the institution. Be excellent in it. Hire well. Raise children. Say true things out loud. Then do it for thirty years. There is no shortcut, and looking for one is how the last fifty years were lost.
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.
Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.
1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.
2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.
4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.
5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.
6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.
7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.
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Look at the date in this picture… July 25, 2015.
This was the post that started it all.
But what many people don’t know is that even before this moment, I had a simple prayer… I asked God to use me as His vessel. I didn’t get an answer that day. Not a month later. Not even a year later. It took time.
And then one day… this happened.
A simple act, pulling over to help someone in need—turned into something I never could have imagined. Looking back now, I’m still amazed at how one moment of obedience turned into a movement that has impacted thousands.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: when you ask God to use you, He will. It just might not happen on your timeline. And during that waiting season, He’s not ignoring you, He’s preparing you.
So stay ready. Stay faithful. Because when your moment comes… it can change everything.
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In 2004, the Tennessee Air National Guard honored Dolly Parton with “nose art” on one of their KC-135s.
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This is a crazy exchange.
@dbongino challenges @GenFlynn as to whether he has ever taken foreign influence money. He says it’s a “straight and hard NO”
But we have a long list of public records that directly contradict this:
- Between 2015-2016, Flynn took around 68K USD from Russia-connected entities (including RT)
- Flynn received 530K USD from Turkey without properly disclosing. He admitted omissions from his FARA filing during his guilty plea.
- Most recently, Flynn registered under FARA for a contract where he gets paid 100K USD per month by the Republic of Srpska for consulting.
Those are just the examples we know about…
I’m not saying that no one is allowed to do consulting work for foreign entities, but the straight denial of it despite public records should raise red flags.
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I’ve been trying to put my thoughts on Flock cameras together and this image captures it perfectly.
Love the crime stopping part; the rest is going to be a natural outcome of ruthless, constant, all-seeing surveillance.
Couple this with AI and phone tracking and you can add the instantaneous issuance of fines/citations for the smallest offense.
56 in a 55mph zone? Fined.
Jaywalk? Fined before you finish crossing the street.
We are rapidly approaching the Panopticon envisioned by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.
And it ain’t pretty. Look it up.
Hat tip @EdSilvia6.
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If writing that feels “taboo,” it sounds like you need to get out of your abusive relationship with whomever you think you’re pleasing by keeping quiet.
SARAH VINE: To even write this feels taboo. But we need to talk about how so many Western women are being sexually assaulted and murdered by migrants from misogynist cultures trib.al/tTb9C2m
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A Dispatch from Room 8 with My Dad
I write to you as we move from the dark of the night going into morn from Room 8 at West Virginia University hospital in Morgantown, WV. I am bedside with my father, as he lies tucked into a hospital bed under a blanket with a pattern of bluebirds and flower petals, a press of oxygen flowing into him and his arms a roadmap to his past two months.
I’ve been bedside with my father since May when he first got diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia, pancreatitis, swallowing disorder and now Covid. Born in the summer of 1933, my father has gone from being a vibrant 92, digging in his garden of okra and jasmine flowers, to a fragile 93, wasting away.
I’m writing because we need help. If you have expertise in these illnesses or innovative medical detective work like you’re doing @austinTK, please message me, reply here, call me or email me? Please share my message so it reaches the right people to help my dad.
Last night, whipsawing between hospital delirium and lucidity while fiercely fighting disease, he said: “I enjoy life!”
Years ago, as West Virginia COVID czar, Dr. @ClayMarsh @WVUHealth implemented a plan to protect seniors from COVID called “Operation Save Our Wisdom,” and today I am grateful to him for unleashing his teams to save my dad’s wisdom.
I am blessed for the family I have come to know at @FoxNews Digital, led by editor-in-chief @PorterBerry and fueled by colleagues like @dorgan_michael and @MizellPreston.
Something magical has happened in these dark hospital rooms lit up with control panels: once the girl who regaled in my father’s stories of queens in India, I fell in love with my father all over again, no longer cajoling him to turn up the volume on his forever-failing hearing aids but grateful that he simply breathed beside me. He warmed my hands when I once ran track in ice-cold rain, and now I warm his, so the pulse oximeter can best read his breathing.
I remember every journey he has made with me, driving me in our Subaru to an interview in Manhattan for an internship at Harper’s Magazine, though he’d never heard of the publication, @walterkirn and @amandafortini. He drove me to DC for graduate school, where I first learned statistical analysis, @DataRepublican @data_republican.
When my friend Danny Pearl was kidnapped, @judeaPearl, my father told me, “It is your farz,” or duty, to try to find Danny. When I returned home with a baby in my belly, my father built a room on his home for my son and me, baby blue paint under his nails.
I thought we’d dodged a bullet after my father was discharged. You knew the grip test is a key to longevity? We’re nothing without our throat swallowing muscles strong.
On June 14, I zipped to DC to cover protests after wishing my dad a happy 93rd birthday in rehab in Fairmont, WV, home to gymnast Mary Lou Retton. I did a street report for @TomiLahren @BigWeekendShow and @DrMarcSiegel interviewed me. Thank you Dr. Siegel for your intellectual support now.
I zipped back from DC that day to continue to learn from occupational, physical and speech therapists — some of the most underrated gems in healthcare — how to best support my father as he learned how to walk to the mailbox and back.
Then, on the eve of Fourth of July, we were back in ER, again this time with aspirational pneumonia. A week ago, my father’s respiration rate spiked with a new diagnosis of Covid. What I have learned is we must indeed be at our loved one’s bedside to give them the best chance at survival, as @DrSuneelDhand says. @DrJBhattacharya, I’m sorry about your mother’s passing.
As @austinxwalker has done after getting slain by Covid, I have turned to technology, AI and large-language models to make sense of the data. Austin, my dad was a tech pioneer and data scientist. Let’s talk.
It is ironic that he survived the Bengal Famine of 1943 and now struggles with protein consumption. Please help me see him to recovery to protect his wisdom — our wisdom. ❤️
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Ro believes that if he tweets enough about his trip that we’ll all forget that he was the #1 champion of the Nazi tattoo guy. This person so desperately wants to be president. Good luck with that.
Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.
When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.
They made a huge mistake.
You will be hearing more soon. nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/po…
This approach is rooted in the Soviet doctrine of reinforcing success - do we really want to apply it to Western logistics distribution?
