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March 24, 2025
TRUTH:
We need to move as if we have two years, not four, and as much of that as possible needs to happen between now and December https://t.co/u5X4FRaJPr
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) March 24, 2025
AND NOT IN A FUN WAY:
The left can never address the issues facing young men because the eradication of masculinity is the goal
The only thing the left can offer any man is the promise that they will be eaten last https://t.co/DefSO2UxyW
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) March 24, 2025
Homeschooling isn’t for everybody, but I’m increasingly convinced that public schooling isn’t for anybody.
WE NEED FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION: What’s At Stake If SCOTUS Won’t Take California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban Case.
BACKS AWAY? THEY SHOULD SHOOT THIS IDEA THROUGH THE HEAD: Trump Administration Backs Away From Guns As ‘Public Health Crisis.’
IN SO MANY WAYS. The sun has literally set on the British Empire.
TELL ME GRAY SEAL, HOW DOES IT FEEL: Experiments show gray seals can monitor their own blood oxygen levels to prevent drowning.
GOOD ADVICE FROM MY CONGRESSMAN:
Get off your victory lap. We are 1 flu season away from losing our majority. Make us follow thru with codifying @realDonaldTrump agenda.
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) March 24, 2025
Though it’s really advice for Mike Johnson and John Thune.
UPDATE: From the comments: “It would be interesting for Johnson and Thune to prepare and circulate the aforementioned list of five things I got done last week. From this distance we can’t see anything happening and it is disconcerting.”
PEOPLE SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST MANMADE DISASTERS OF ALL TIME: Jon Haidt and Zach Bausch: An EdTech Tragedy: A groundbreaking UNESCO book on the damage wrought by ed-tech during COVID school closures around the globe.
CHANGE OF THE GUARD:
🇺🇸GEN Z IS GOING RED — AND DEMOCRATS CAN’T BELIEVE IT
David Shor is stunned: Gen Z, once hailed as the future of the progressive movement, is now leaning conservative.
Trump’s support among 18-29 year olds just hit 52.7%. Young men are backing him by huge margins.
Ezra Klein… https://t.co/25jIG1czPG pic.twitter.com/ZTkBdCECWF
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 23, 2025
This is exactly what happened. The old white guys shrugged and cooperated, or cheered it on.
Now they wonder why all the young white guys hate them and everything they stand for. https://t.co/QcRrUa2BvM
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) March 22, 2025
OZEMPIC: BIG TROUBLE FOR THE BOOZE INDUSTRY. “In the US, the sector’s most important market, alcohol consumption per person fell 3 per cent last year in the biggest drop since the prohibition era a century ago, according to research by Bernstein. Drinking is now languishing at its lowest level since 1962, down 20 per cent on its 1980s peak. . . . Studies show that weight-loss and diabetes drugs, such as Wegovy and Ozempic, could cut opioid and alcohol abuse up to half. . . . He added that social media was making young people more focused on how they look and behave, which acted as a further deterrent to heavy drinking because of its weight-gain effects.”
With my distilled spirits class on a field trip to a liquor distributor, our host said that they’re really feeling the “Ozempic effect.” Though he also echoed this statement: “We suspect Gen Z’s relatively low absolute spend on alcohol has more to do with the group’s lower earnings profile.”
This article does miss that many players in the industry are also turning to cannabis products in the hopes of future growth; I don’t know how that will work out for them.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Some San Diego parents balk as tampon machines installed in 3rd-5th grade boys’ bathrooms. “Tampon Tim” Walz approves, though.
BAD INVESTMENT: 40% of $1.8 trillion student loans are late on payments as Trump seeks to abolish Dept. of Ed. As I’ve said for years, colleges should be on the hook for student loan defaults.
Note that Democrats have championed such an approach, too, so Trump can adopt it as “bipartisan!”
THERE’S A LESSON HERE: The Dumbest Investment in the World Was Better Than Owning Safe Treasurys: Argentina’s century bond defaulted but ended up a winner, an important lesson for investors.
Investors who bought Argentina’s 100-year dollar bond were laughed at in 2017 for their naiveté in buying such a long bond from a serial defaulter. Sure enough, the country failed to pay after just three years.
But investors who stuck with the country are having the last laugh. The bonds they were given in the default, plus the fat coupons on the original century bond, are now worth more than the original investment. Not just that: They are worth far more than if the dollars had been invested in “safe” U.S. Treasurys.
The turnaround in the Argentina bonds was due to President Javier Milei taking a chain saw to the bloated Argentine state, while managing to maintain his popularity.
People always said that such deep cuts were politically impossible. But the impossibility was due to ruling-class satraps protecting their rice bowls, not to what the actual voters actually wanted.
OF COURSE THEY ARE. IF THE MASSES START TALKING ABOUT WHAT’S BEEN DONE TO THEM, THE LEADERS WILL BE BURNED AT THE STAKE BY ANGRY MOBS: In Berlin, Europe’s elite are very nervous there’s too much freedom of speech.
Related:
Ther new push to destroy freedom of speech in the UK isn't to stop incidents like these, it's to stop you talking about them. https://t.co/JQo2XPa4Ee
— Graham Linehan 🎗️ (@Glinner) March 23, 2025
GRIFTERS GONNA GRIFT:
This is precisely what is happening. #WeThePeople want @elon to move even faster. We want @DOGE to keep exposing and keep shutting down as much as you can and return the power back to the people and to a lesser degree, the states.
The federal government has accumulated way… https://t.co/wDsbSfRmac
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) March 23, 2025
ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s War on Woke: Columbia and Big Law Fall in Line.
ICYMI, FROM SATURDAY:
A LITTLE ON-THE-SPOT TWITTER-JOURNALISM:
Several dozen people protested @elonmusk in front of the Pru in Boston today.
Chant: “Elon, Elon your stock’s in trouble, we’re gonna burst your Tesla bubble “ apparently unaware of Tesla’s actual stock movement. Also lots of Ukraine flags and masks for some reason. pic.twitter.com/sb8uap3KMt
— @instapundit (@instapundit) March 22, 2025
I should note that as we approached this rally we saw several Chinese couples and one woman with a stroller moving away quickly and looking worried. I don’t know if they were afraid of violence or that it might hurt their visa status to be seen there.
YEAH, THIS IS PRETTY ASYMMETRIC:
No BigLaw Trump firms exist. https://t.co/jxEfvXuCAC
— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) March 22, 2025
Related:
🧵🧵 The Law Firms that Run DC
I see a lot of articles saying how President Trump is attacking law firms in Washington DC because he is vindictive. When in fact, it has nothing to do with being vindictive, and everything to do with the fact that they are acting like an…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) March 22, 2025
CAN’T THE CCP PROVIDE THE GUARDS? HE’S THEIR ASSET MORE THAN OURS, RIGHT?
Steve Scalise nearly killed.
Two assassination attempts on Donald Trump's life.
Teslas getting firebombed as we speak.
But Mark Barabak wants to make sure you know it's Trump's fault that Eric Swalwell has to have a security guard. pic.twitter.com/D3BVrDu17A
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 24, 2025