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Sam Stone retweeted
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.
Sam Stone retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: POLISH PRESIDENT STORMS HIS OWN HIGHEST COURT AT 1 AM 🚨
Karol Nawrocki just walked straight into the Constitutional Tribunal building after turning his plane around mid-flight from Senegal.
He looked the pro-EU judges in the eye and told them they are NOT judges.
Their attempted takeover is OVER.
“You are not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal!”
🔥🔥🔥
This is the elected President of Poland personally ending a coup in real time.
Donald Tusk’s camp declared the Tribunal’s president (Bogdan Święczkowski) “suspended,” sent police to surround the building, and tried to seize control with judges who were never sworn in by the President. Nawrocki cut his trip short, flew home, arrived after midnight with the head of the Supreme Court, and forced his way inside through the pushing and scuffling at the doors.
He is not backing down.
Poland’s highest court was being hijacked. The President just took it back. 🇵🇱
Go get ’em, Mr. President! 🇺🇸
This is what standing up to a power grab looks like.
Sam Stone retweeted
🚨HOLY CRAP!!!
🔥Polish MP Grzegorz Braun removed the EU flag in front of the government building AND SET IT ON FIRE 🇪🇺🔥
He claimed that Poland would not display the symbols of what he called a dark organization.
"This is Poland, not Brussels". 👏👏👏🔥
Sam Stone retweeted
🚨HORRIFIC: What happened in Paris yesterday was horrific. A man is dead. Others are fighting for their lives. A 12-year-old girl was shot eight times.
And before the blood was even dry, Macron was on camera declaring it a “racist terrorist attack.” Declaring that victims were selected for the colour of their skin and their religion.
He called it a “turning point.”
Then he said this:
“It is the first time we have had a terrorist act that was planned to kill our compatriots, our children, based on the colour of their skin or their religion.”
The FIRST time.
Let that sink in.
The first time?
That single sentence should make every French citizen furious.
So Toulouse wasn’t a turning point? When Mohamed Merah walked into a Jewish school and executed a rabbi and three small children point-blank, one of them just three years old?
Charlie Hebdo wasn’t a turning point? When Islamists massacred journalists for drawing cartoons?
Hyper Cacher wasn’t a turning point? When four Jews were murdered simply for being Jews while shopping for Shabbat?
The Bataclan wasn’t a turning point? When 90 young people were slaughtered like animals inside a concert hall?
Nice wasn’t a turning point? When a truck was driven through families and 86 people were crushed to death, children included?
Father Jacques Hamel wasn’t a turning point? When his throat was slit at the altar of his own church?
Samuel Paty wasn’t a turning point? When a teacher was beheaded in the street for showing his class free speech?
Dominique Bernard wasn’t a turning point?
How many corpses did France have to bury before it counted? How many Jewish children, journalists, shoppers, concertgoers, priests and teachers had to die?
And let’s be clear about something else: the investigation into yesterday’s horror is still establishing motive. The facts are still being gathered.
Yet Macron already has the narrative, the motive, the moral, and the political lesson ready to go.
If the evidence proves racist intent, then condemn it to the fullest extent of the law. Call it what it is. No one will defend it.
But do not rewrite French history to do it.
Do not insult the memory of the dead to serve today’s narrative.
France changed long ago. The French people know it because they lived it. They bled through it.
They remember the little girl in Toulouse. They remember the editors slumped over their desks. They remember the hostages in the kosher store. They remember the bodies on the floor of the Bataclan. They remember the strollers shattered on the promenade in Nice. They remember the priest. They remember the teacher.
You can try to push those atrocities into the background because they are inconvenient to your politics.
But you cannot make a nation forget what it saw with its own eyes.
Politicians can rewrite the narrative.
They will never rewrite people’s memories.
And they will never make France forget its dead.
Sam Stone retweeted
An Open Letter to the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni @mscott
Regarding the appointment of Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice
Dear Professor Scott,
I read with absolute disgust that the University of Sydney has appointed Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice, where she will apparently be sharing her wisdom on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust.
You cannot be serious.
You are quoted as saying:
"Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other."
Appointing Jacinda Ardern to teach social cohesion is rather like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to teach a course on wellbeing, or Jimmy Savile to run the local daycare centre. The sheer absurdity would almost be funny if the consequences of her leadership weren't so hideously tragic.
My name is Alia Bland. I am a co-founder of Voices for Freedom, an organisation established in New Zealand in 2020. For years, we stood alongside tens of thousands of ordinary Kiwis whose lives were torn apart by the policies of Ardern's government.
While the international media fawned over her kindness and compassion, we were dealing with the wreckage.
At the height of the COVID response, we were receiving upwards of 1,000 emails a day. Desperate people reaching out because they had lost their jobs, their incomes, their homes and, in many cases, their will to live.
People nearing retirement were forced to sell family homes they had spent decades paying off. Some are still living in caravans five years later.
Marriages collapsed. Families fractured. Lifelong friendships were destroyed. People who had served their communities for decades were suddenly treated like lepers because they declined a medical procedure.
Some of the people who came to us had spent their entire lives believing New Zealand was a decent, fair-minded country. Watching that belief crumble, and seeing what it did to them, was heartbreaking.
I cannot adequately describe the anguish in those emails. The desperation of parents wondering how they would feed and house their families. The humiliation of hardworking people being marched out of professions they loved. The despair of people who had done everything society asked of them, only to discover that their own government considered them disposable.
And presiding over it all was Jacinda Ardern, smiling for the cameras and telling the world how kind New Zealand was.
Kind? For whom?
Her government deliberately created a two-class society. Ardern herself acknowledged it publicly. New Zealanders were excluded from workplaces, businesses, events and ordinary social life. People were coerced into accepting a medical intervention under threat of losing their livelihoods.
And those who suffered adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines faced another nightmare. We fought for vaccine-injured New Zealanders whose lives had been devastated by serious physical harm, while many struggled to have their injuries acknowledged or receive adequate support.
The government's public assurances about vaccine safety deserve particular scrutiny. Officials knew about the myocarditis risk, including among young people. We have examined the records. Yet people raising legitimate questions about those risks were routinely dismissed and vilified.
The damage went far beyond lost incomes and broken relationships. An enormous number of New Zealanders lost faith in the very institutions they had trusted their entire lives. Government, health authorities, education, police and the media. That trust has not magically returned because Ardern has moved on to more prestigious surroundings.
While her government was busy marginalising people, we were building a nationwide support network to help them survive.
Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand.
We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on.
Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them.
And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion?
It is sickening.
Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment?
Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them?
Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand?
I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause.
Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences.
I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do...
But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price.
We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up.
Some of those people will never recover what they lost.
And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy.
What an absolute disgrace.
Yours sincerely,
Alia Bland
Co-founder, Voices for Freedom
New Zealand
Sam Stone retweeted
I’m in agreement From Fox News. I wonder how loud it’ll get if Trump could pull this off. It will be interesting.
President Trump is asking everyone to share this, in three days, most people in the United States will have seen the message. This is an idea that should be passed around, regardless of political party.
The TRUMP Rules:
1. Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. And no more perks go with them.
2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as ALL Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise at the ok same rate as the COLA for monthly Social Security recipients minus 1% if having a budget balance deficit.
5. Congress loses their current care system and participates in the same health care system (Medicare) as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e. NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts by and for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor and privilege, NOT a career.
The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work … not get all kinds of freebies. Term limits of 2 terms and treat them like a regular citizen!
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I AGREE SO IM SHARING!
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This should be done immediately!!!
Thank you! Copy/Paste and SHARE
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Trump has not asked people to share this. The "in three days, most people in the United States will have this message" wording comes from a chain message that has circulated online since 2009. Trump's name was attached to it later. politifact.com/factchecks/201…
Sam Stone retweeted
The Long March Through France's Institutions Has Reached the Streets
France's burning town halls and barricaded schools did not emerge from nowhere. Grievances over teacher shortages, neglected buildings and public spending were real. So was the willingness of revolutionary activists to exploit them. Behind the disorder lies a question European governments have avoided for decades: what happens when institutions become battlegrounds for competing ideologies while foreign powers exploit the divisions?
In the late 1960s, the revolutionary Left embraced the long march through the institutions. Universities, education, journalism and public administration offered opportunities to reshape society over generations. France already possessed a formidable communist tradition, but 1968 gave institutional radicalism new momentum. Fifty years later, the language remains familiar. Capitalism is oppression, Western power is imperialism, and established authority exists to be challenged.
Alongside this developed another movement with different ambitions. The Muslim Brotherhood pursued influence through religious associations, education, charities and community representation. France's Interior Ministry warned in 2025 about its institutional strategy. Its report identified Étudiants musulmans de France as associated with Brotherhood-linked organisations. In February's student welfare elections, EMF-backed lists gained eleven representatives. On 15 October, EMF publicly supported the school demonstrations.
The revolutionary Left and political Islam envisage profoundly different societies. One draws upon Marxism, the other religious authority. Yet Gaza has demonstrated how readily their campaigns converge. Communist student organisations, Islamist-associated networks and pro-Palestinian movements can advance the same immediate cause despite disagreements about what follows. The Iranian Revolution offers a warning. Secular leftists helped overthrow the Shah alongside Islamists, only to discover that Khomeini's victorious movement had little tolerance for former allies.
Then there is the money. Investigative reporting has documented Qatar's historical financing of religious and cultural institutions in Europe. A French judicial investigation has examined alleged Qatari payments to political and media intermediaries. Le Monde reported evidence pointing towards Qatari entities in an influence operation involving French contacts. None establishes Qatari involvement in the riots, but the findings raise questions about foreign money purchasing influence inside democratic societies.
China, Russia and Iran present further concerns. Reporting has linked a Shanghai-based financier accused of promoting Beijing's interests to international activist media networks. French intelligence has documented Russian disinformation operations. Iran maintains intelligence and proxy networks across Europe. On 13 October, France's foreign minister warned that foreign actors were exploiting divisions over immigration, secularism and Israel-Palestine. Their role in the violence remains unproven, but their interest in exploiting it is clear.
The danger lies in examining everything separately. University radicalism becomes education policy. Islamist influence falls to religious regulators. Foreign financing goes to investigators. Disinformation becomes an intelligence matter. Meanwhile, the political consequences accumulate across institutions entrusted with preserving a common civic culture.
France must establish who organised the violence, who financed the surrounding networks and whether foreign interests played any operational role. But the deeper questions will remain when the streets are cleared. Decades of ideological influence cannot be undone by arresting rioters.
A republic cannot preserve its authority indefinitely while refusing to examine who shapes the loyalties, assumptions and ambitions of the generations it educates.
Sam Stone retweeted
Canada needs a leader who can acknowledge that what's happening in Europe has already taken root here.
Sam Stone retweeted
War just meters from the Milan cathedral, Duomo. The symbol of Christianity in Italy and Europe, surrounded by smoke bombs, firecrackers and police vans under attack. This is not a protest. This is urban guerrilla warfare in the heart of our history and faith. And many of those you see in the video are not even Italian. Milan, October 17th. Wake up.
Sam Stone retweeted
Evidence is overwhelming. From grooming to islam to covid & BLM. BBC is compromised organisation. Requires removal. Reform just retain entrenched attitudes.
Its as corrupt as the Fabian govt. How many of its board are active Fabians. They would be screaming if they were Masons
Sam Stone retweeted
Rome collapsed because Romans stopped enforcing the conditions that made Roman citizenship worth anything. The same is happening to France right now.
The Western Empire's third- and fourth-century emperors, desperate for tax revenue and military manpower, settled entire Gothic and Frankish tribal confederacies inside the limes without demanding assimilation, military oaths, or any meaningful integration into Roman economic life. In 382 AD, Theodosius I settled roughly 100,000 Visigoths in the Balkans under their own chieftains, exempt from Roman law. They owed Rome nothing, and they acted accordingly. By 410, Rome fell.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire ran a version of the same experiment. Vienna absorbed millions of Slavic, Magyar, and Romanian subjects into a single fiscal and administrative unit without establishing coherent property rights or common rule of law across ethnicities. Capital fled the peripheral regions because contract enforcement varied by ethnicity and political connection. The empire spent itself policing internal tensions rather than producing anything.
Open borders can work when you couple them with private property, enforceable contracts, and zero access to a welfare state. Every historical collapse involved governments absorbing populations onto public land, public payroll, or public grain dole. Welfare states and open borders function as a single detonator, not two separate policies.
Sam Stone retweeted
Do I have any followers in the San Bernardino area. I need a favor. There is a dog I’m trying to rescue scheduled for death tomorrow
Sam Stone retweeted
So let me get this straight, hormones make women crazy. Crazy enough to kill three innocent babies and be exonerated of guilt, but prescribing hormones to children who think they’re the opposite gender has no psychological effects whatsoever?
Did I get that right?
Sam Stone retweeted
The university system is an institution almost fully controlled by the Woke Left. It will run cities, states, and societies comparably, and this is worth focusing on.
Huge increases in expenses facilitated by foolish state intervention with real costs piled onto the people.
Dysfunctional, expansive, expensive, and meddling administrative bureaucratic apparatus.
Complete failure of mission to the point of threatening collapse.
Blatant incompetence throughout the structure and elevation of incompetence through bogus mechanisms everyone is then required to respect and support.
Completely dysfunctional sociocultural environment under its mismanagement.
Laughing stock of most of the outside world.
And more.