Rothmus 🏴 engagement report

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• Aug 31, 202640x their median

  The bad news is Cash for Clunkers wasted $3 billion destroying 690,000 working cars. It also raised used car prices on people who can’t buy new ones. Economist Ted Gayer also showed the cost of each extra sale the program caused was about $24,000 because most were going to buy new cars in the following months anyway. And the carbon cuts cost 7x what the government’s economists said the carbon was worth. But the good news is… jk it’s all bad lmao.

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• Aug 23, 202628x their median

  The Bolsheviks ended the anti-communist peasant uprising in Tambov with poison gas. In 1920, farmers revolted against the Bolsheviks who seized their grain and starved them. The regime authorized poison gas against the forests and villages sheltering the rebels. Very few states have used poison gas against their own people in the 20th century, especially not against the very class their revolution claimed to represent. They also built concentration camps for the wives and children, threatening to execute them unless their husbands and fathers surrendered. The uprising ended with tens of thousands of peasants starved, gassed, and shot.

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• Sep 1, 202625x their median

  This was the day every sane person realized these folks didn’t “just want to be left alone.” Colorado spent over a decade trying to force Jack Phillips to bake cakes his faith forbids, and a 7-2 Supreme Court win only bought him a short pause. He declined one custom wedding cake in 2012 and offered the couple every other item in the shop. The Civil Rights Commission ordered him to design cakes for same sex weddings anyway, retrain his staff, and file regular compliance reports. One commissioner compared his Christianity to the justifications used for slavery and the Holocaust. Kennedy wrote that this was hostility toward religion and the Court ruled for Phillips. Days later, Colorado opened a new case over a cake celebrating a gender transition and kept him in court for years. The state treated his conscience as a problem that needed monitoring and correction. Winning at the highest court did not change that.

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• Aug 23, 202624x their median

  A world with zero discrimination would still produce wildly unequal group outcomes. Thomas Sowell demonstrated how firstborn sons score higher on IQ tests and land more prestigious careers than their younger brothers, but nobody blames discrimination for that gap. Canadian junior hockey shows that players born January through March dominate the leagues because the January 1 cutoff makes them the oldest and strongest kids in every age group. Overseas Chinese communities run retail across Southeast Asia, Lebanese merchants dominate trade in West Africa, and German immigrants once owned the American brewing industry. Same specialization repeats under completely different majorities and legal systems. Treating every disparity as automatic proof of discrimination starts with the wrong diagnosis, and the wrong diagnosis never delivers the right cure. But the fantasy that some planner can just rearrange people like chess pieces and force equal results remains one of the most stubborn fallacies in economics.

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• Sep 1, 202614x their median

  You can own the land and still spend 16 years in court just to build a house on it. The Sacketts bought a dry half acre lot near Priest Lake, Idaho and started construction in 2007. The EPA called it a wetland even though no water touched the property and threatened $75,000 a day in fines under a “significant nexus” theory tying it to a distant tributary. Pacific Legal Foundation took it all the way. Unanimous 2012 ruling: they could challenge the order before the fines started. Another decade of fighting. Unanimous 2023 ruling: Alito killed the nexus test and required an actual surface connection to permanent water, pulling millions of acres out of EPA control. 16 years and two 9-0 decisions just to use land they already owned.

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• Sep 19, 20269.3x their median

  >be Margaret Sanger >found what became Planned Parenthood >don’t want word getting out you want to exterminate the Negro population >call the poor “human weeds” >charity was a mistake because it let the unfit reproduce >push compulsory sterilization >speak to a women’s Klan chapter in New Jersey + dozen follow up invitations >launch the Negro Project so black ministers would front birth control in the South >keep the population control agenda hidden >movement sterilizes more than 60,000 people under state law >the Supreme Court blessed it in Buck v. Bell >Holmes writes that three generations of imbeciles were enough >Nazi Germany cited the American statutes as a model >Planned Parenthood still takes over $600 million a year from the federal government Progressive icon.

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• Sep 1, 20268.5x their median

  BREAKING: The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial could not come to a unanimous verdict The judge just sent them back to continue deliberating. https://t.co/HxzkPtSWyd

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• Aug 23, 20266.0x their median

  The Federal Reserve was designed by the bankers it was supposed to police. In November 1910, a handful of top bankers and one senator slipped onto Jekyll Island under first names only, drafted the entire framework in secret, and 3 years later Congress approved it. Paul Warburg of Kuhn Loeb helped write the rules and then became one of the Fed’s first governors. The promise was an end to banking panics. 15 years later the Great Depression hit. And since 1913, the dollar has lost 96% of its purchasing power. An institution created by bankers, run by bankers, and charged with managing the money bankers lend was never going to restrain itself.

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• Aug 31, 20265.5x their median

  Tens of thousands of scientists signed the Great Barrington Declaration before the NIH director demanded a takedown and Twitter blacklisted it so it could never trend. October 2020, the declaration called to end lockdowns, shield the elderly, and let the rest of society live. 4 days later, Francis Collins emailed Fauci calling the authors fringe epidemiologists and demanding a quick devastating published takedown. The Lancet followed with the John Snow Memorandum branding the whole approach dangerous and scientifically unsound. Twitter’s internal team put the declaration on a blacklist. Instead of gaslighting now about censorship and that there never were any lockdowns, they should all be in jail.

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• Aug 25, 20264.1x their median

  We raised $22.5M to fix both halves of the custom medical device supply chain: the paperwork that blocks them and the manufacturing that slows them. In America 🇺🇸, it's easier to prescribe a patient opioids than to get them custom insoles to prevent amputation. Three generations of my family watched that up close and couldn't fix it. Here's what we've built @HikeMedAI :

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