The first time I met Cory Pesaturo, he had just hijacked the stage at a wedding in Boston with an accordion strapped to his chest. Little did I know he would do the impossible: make me a fan of the accordion.
Cory is — and I’m not exaggerating — the world’s best accordion player. He’s won the accordion World Championship three times. He holds the Guinness World Record for playing the accordion for the longest continuous time. He brings his accordion with him <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DPY132wkTkt/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">everywhere</a>, and can play just about anything, including the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CknQsS8uqcW/?hl=en&amp;img_index=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accordion tracks</a> in the feature film “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.”
Most recently, he took his talents to Saudi Arabia, which is now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-officially-designates-saudi-arabia-a-major-ally-of-united-states?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Officially+Designates+Saudi+Arabia+A+%E2%80%98Major%E2%80%99+Ally+Of+United+States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially</a> a “major ally” of the United States. The Saudi Arabia he presents is much different from the Saudi Arabia most Americans probably imagine. — Brent Scher
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Earlier this month, I arrived in Saudi Arabia for my second visit to a country which has always seemed like a forbidden land to the West. I’d been invited again as a guest star to play accordion in the “Riyadh Season” concert series — this time with Egypt’s biggest singing sensation, Angham.
What struck me, on both trips, was how aggressively the Saudis are betting on capitalism.
Everywhere you go, the top Western brands are visible: Dunkin’ Donuts, Texas Roadhouse, Bath &amp; Body Works, Chuck E. Cheese, and yes, Randy’s Donuts, with the giant donut on the roof are there for you in Riyadh. There is even a Disney castle and theme park.
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On every corner there seem to be concerts, tourist attractions, and massive development projects. The music you hear playing through the speakers of high-end locations? Jazz, Lady Gaga, or Burt Bacharach. The style of filming for major concerts?  Straight out of CBS’s Grammys playbook.
Could a country truly hate America if this is what I was seeing?
When I first traveled to Saudi Arabia two years ago, I didn’t even tell my father. You can’t lie to an Italian mother, of course, but my father? If he had known I was flying to a country he associated with the worst terror attack in American history, he would have tied me to my bed. Many of my friends felt the same, judging by their reactions when I returned: “Saudi Arabia? Are you insane? Are you trying to get arrested or killed?”
But over the past decade, the Kingdom, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has charted a different course. One built on peace, prosperity, and a surprisingly familiar engine: Western-style capitalism.
It is true that in Saudi Arabia, you have no real rights against the state — no First Amendment protections, no guarantee of a fair trial, a mandatory dress code, and laws that make smoking pot or ordering a margarita about as plausible as Cardi B performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto on the accordion — a stunt I once pulled to win a national title.
Yet, regardless of this different universe of ideas from the United States, I wasn’t afraid.
The free market being unleashed in Saudi Arabia, even if still in a more state-run manner, is the greatest modern example of how a country thought to be an untrustworthy foe can turn into an important ally.
What struck me most, though, was that while I was in Saudi Arabia, a Muslim socialist won the mayor’s seat in the financial capital of the world, New York City. Three different Saudis during the trip (including a Syrian security worker at the venue who had fled Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime) asked me some version of the same question: “What on earth are you Americans doing electing Mamdani? He’s crazy.” This, again, from inside the very center of Islam. And even they aren’t at all sold on the politics that Zohran Mamdani represents.
My insight is anecdotal, but the friendships I’ve formed in Saudi Arabia reveal a people not so different from my own friends back home. They want peace. They want prosperity. They want their families to be happy. They want to travel. They want to have fun.
I asked them everything — about Israel, Islamic extremism, terrorism, drinking, drugs, dating, hating their boss, weekend plans, and which video games keep them up until 4:00 a.m.
Watching a group of young men in Riyadh blast pop music at 1:30 a.m. as they inched through a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through, talking about girls and killing time, looked the same as you’d see in America. Different faiths, different cultures, same very human scene.
A handful of companies profit from global conflict. But 99.9% of businesses in a free-market economy — from Nike and Coca-Cola to Apple and Tesla — depend on global stability and rising disposable income. Peace is profitable.
In just a decade, Saudi Arabia has gone from a place many Americans fear to visit to a place I can’t recommend enough to go see. If that’s the result of “greedy capitalism,” then count me in.
Cory Pesaturo is a three-time World Champion accordionist and Guinness World Record holder who has performed on six continents and at the White House four times. In addition to giving five TEDx Talks, he is also active in the motorsports world, bringing his signature blend of innovation and artistry to audiences around the globe.
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John Adams and the other founders of the United States believed that the country they were establishing could only thrive if it remained a religious and moral society within the framework of Judeo-Christian values. In that same vein, I believe a healthy free market can only work if the people who participate in it understand that the ultimate purpose of commerce is to serve the greater good.
Unfortunately, when it comes to artificial intelligence, we are witnessing too many corporate leaders adopt a morally vacuous and inhumane attitude, one that divorces innovation and productivity from human dignity. Leaders at companies like Amazon, which is expected to cut <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/">as many as 30,000 jobs</a> very soon, are convincing themselves that eliminating human beings in favor of robots — yes, robots — is in their business’s and their customers’ best long-term interests. It is staggeringly short-sighted. Even mad.
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Competition, innovation, and productivity are principles worth adhering to because doing so leads to the best outcome for society at large. Of course, an indispensable part of all this is the commitment to provide for the destitute and those who truly cannot provide for themselves.
But right before our eyes, we are watching industry leaders succumb to pride, greed, and selfishness in a way that we couldn’t have imagined even twenty years ago. The mad dash to adopt anything and everything AI threatens to undermine both economic and social structures in potentially irreparable ways. And the only way to stop it is for corporate leaders to do something radical: recommit to the same moral principles that have undergirded our nation and society for more than two centuries.
Just in case anyone is wondering whether my perspective is driven by impracticality, mediocrity, or sentimentality, know that I have dedicated much of my career to helping organizations become successful by making them as healthy, effective, and productive as possible. What a blessing it has been that this pursuit has simultaneously served employees, leaders, customers, and, in the case of public companies, even shareholders. The new reality that AI is threatening to create will leave employees out of the equation, and ultimately, destroy the customer base of most companies because those customers will not have jobs.
Even a teenager can understand this dilemma, and yet, titans of industry seem to be allowing it to happen. There is no doubt that Amazon may be able to squeeze more margin out of its business in the short term by reducing costs related to salaries and benefits. This will benefit their leaders, the remaining employees, and shareholders for a while.
Ultimately, as more and more companies do the same, fewer people will be able to pay to have their whitening toothpaste sorted by robots and delivered by a drone. Toothpaste companies will suffer as product demand declines, leading to more layoffs. Eventually, even Amazon will have fewer robots, fewer drones, and even fewer employees. All this will take place in the name of innovation and productivity.
Again, an adolescent with a modicum of common sense can see where this is headed, even if Silicon Valley engineers with advanced degrees continue to dismiss it as fantasy. In the end, we will look back at the wanton pursuit of AI as a sort of slavish suicide, and we’ll have to answer to our children and grandchildren about what we were thinking and doing when it happened.
What is the solution? Well, it starts with adopting a new definition of success. When people make money — and I’m talking about IPOs and short-term stock windfalls — in a way that diminishes the dignity of employment, we have to call it what it is: inhuman. We have to see them the same way that people saw carpetbaggers after the Civil War. Or perhaps the way we look at pornographers and drug dealers. They are destroying the dignity of others to make themselves wealthier.
That sounds harsh, but it’s the new reality. When a man or woman claims to do something innovative at the expense of the greater good, that must be seen as exploitative.
Yes, AI is creating a whole new reality, and we must respond by changing the way we define successful innovation and productivity. People’s lives depend on it.
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Pat Lencioni is one of the founders of The Table Group, a pioneer of the organizational health movement, and the creator of <a href="https://www.workinggenius.com/about?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21520445429&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD4dDHRyei0FFfuRCa63VdPO11RDk&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwlaTGBhANEiwAoRgXBSUpr89SSKKSTeoiFk-LdSAKpBsTFlfYYrEIm9MHWtUL1HjC7imP1RoC65MQAvD_BwE">The Working Genius</a>, which helps leaders understand workplace efficiency. He is the best-selling author of “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” as well as 12 other books, which have sold over 10 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages.
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When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent engineered a unique deal with Argentina’s Javier Milei, Guy Nohra started paying attention to Bessent’s moves. 
Nohra, a venture capitalist with over three decades of experience, knows a solid operator when he sees one.
In the Trump administration, Nohra says that guy is Scott Bessent. — The Daily Wire
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After more than three decades investing in life sciences, co-founding Alta Partners and backing more than 180 breakthrough companies, I’ve learned a simple truth: innovation thrives when financial stability meets vision. Under Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, America is delivering both.
This week’s $20 billion swap line with Argentina, paired with the U.S. purchase of Argentine pesos to stabilize markets, showed a different face of American leadership — one built on partnership rather than pressure. At home, Bessent’s confirmation that fiscal year 2025 closed with a lower deficit-to-GDP ratio than the year before signaled a welcome return to fiscal discipline. For investors like me, that message matters.
In biotech, one of the few if not the only sectors where pre-revenue companies go public in bull markets, a steady and clear hand at the Department of Treasury is a must. Secretary Bessent’s quiet confidence is a welcome change from Janet Yellen’s “inflation is transitory” approach. The life sciences public sector has been in a funk since 2021 and is finally showing signs of recovery.
Furthermore, venture funding in private life sciences companies has climbed roughly 25% year over year, according to PitchBook. That is not coincidence; it is cause and effect. Bessent’s push for clarity and transparency in financial markets helps all sectors, but especially fragile ecosystems such as biotechnology.
Bessent also understands how fiscal health drives innovation. In recent remarks to community-bank CEOs, he urged them to “go on the offense” by adopting fintech and AI. That was not banker talk; it was a blueprint for growth. By modernizing lending rules and keeping borrowing costs low, he has opened new paths for regional lenders to support early-stage biotechs and rural innovation hubs.
Some critics claim his attention to global markets, such as the Argentina initiative, distracts from domestic priorities. They miss the larger point. In life sciences, borders are illusions. A stable global economy ensures supply-chain reliability, research collaboration, and steady talent flow. Bessent’s diplomacy prevents the kind of market shocks that raise costs and choke investment at home.
What sets him apart is a blend of intellectual rigor and street-smart optimism, refined through years in global markets and at the helm of his own firm, Key Square Capital. He is not a bureaucrat trading in slogans but a market-tested operator who knows how to turn downturns into momentum. In his speech at the Federal Reserve’s Community Bank Conference, he described a future where small lenders and big ideas combine to help America out-innovate China in quantum computing, biologics, and sustainable manufacturing. For those of us funding the next generation of cures, that vision is a North Star.
As we approach a decade that could redefine human health — CRISPR 2.0, personalized medicine at scale, regenerative medicine — Scott Bessent’s steady leadership is providing the runway. His policies may not make flashy headlines, but they are quietly powering America’s next economic renaissance.
To my fellow investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers: let’s double down on this moment. His 3% average GDP growth, 3% annual budget deficits (as a percentage of GDP), and three million barrel increase in domestic oil production are aggressive but achievable goals.
Let’s support the initiatives Bessent is advancing, from expanded R&amp;D incentives to bold public-private partnerships in health technology. The future of life sciences, and of American competitiveness, depends on it.
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Guy Paul Nohra is Co-Founder of Alta Partners and Co-Founder of Alta Life Sciences Spain. He is a venture capitalist, philanthropist, and former GOP gubernatorial candidate for Nevada. He holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
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Zohran Mamdani, who stunned Democrats when he snagged the party&#8217;s presumptive nomination for New York City mayor this week, lived up to his anti-capitalist reputation on Thursday.
Mamdani, a self-described Democratic socialist, came out swinging against capitalism during a television spot with CNN anchor Erin Burnett.
&#8220;Do you like capitalism?&#8221; Burnett asked the New York state assemblyman, who represents Queens.
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ZOHRAN MAMDANI: No. I have many critiques of capitalism.
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&#8220;No, I have many critiques of capitalism,&#8221; Mamdani responded. &#8220;And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago.&#8221;
&#8220;He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God&#8217;s children in this country,&#8221; Mamdani said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m focused on is dignity, and taking on income inequality.&#8221;
During a 1961 speech to the Negro American Labor Council, King reportedly <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/martin-luther-king-was-a-radical-not-a-saint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”
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In a major upset on Tuesday, Mamdani beat out former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of the Big Apple.
Cuomo is considering running as an independent in the wake of the shock results.
Current Mayor Eric Adams also launched his reelection campaign as an independent on Thursday at a rowdy rally on the steps of City Hall, where he took a shot at both Mamdani and &#8220;socialism.&#8221;
“This is a city not of socialism,” Adams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-city-not-of-socialism-eric-adams-takes-shot-at-zohran-mamdani-as-he-launches-reelection-bid?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘A+City+Not+Of+Socialism’%3A+Eric+Adams+Takes+Shot+At+Zohran+Mamdani+As+He+Launches+Reelection+Bid">said</a> at his rally. “There’s no dignity in someone giving you everything for free. There’s dignity in giving you a job, so you can provide for your family and the opportunities that you deserve. This is not a city of handouts. This is a city of hands up. We’re going to lift up the City of New York.”
Mamdani has proposed expensive policies including rent freezes, government-run grocery stores, free buses, free city universities, free child care, increasing New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour, and investing $65 million in transgender drugs and surgeries.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), another self-described democratic socialist, referenced the same quote from King in 2021, a few days after former President Joe Biden took office.
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Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, the volunteer group dedicated to crime prevention on New York’s subways and streets since the late 1970s, won the Republican nomination for mayor.
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America&#8217;s Golden Age is just getting started.
And the Left has still not recovered.
They haven’t regained their semblance of reality or normalcy. One of the reasons why there is a feeling of unity in the country overall is because the era of weird is over and the era of the normie is back.
The Left cannot embrace this. The Democratic Party cannot embrace this. And that&#8217;s worth exploring for a moment, because the most obvious thing about this current election cycle is that the Democratic Party blew it. They absolutely blew it because of wokeness.
Woke issues are an 80-20 issue in the country. Americans do not believe in discrimination on the basis of race. That is an 80-20 issue. They reject it. Americans do not believe that little boys are the same as little girls, and boys can be made into girls or vice versa. That&#8217;s an 80-20 issue.
These issues are losers for Democrats, which prompts this question: Why don&#8217;t the Democrats separate themselves from those issues?
Every time a Democrat tries to separate from it, that person is immediately raked over the coals. This happened to Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton in Massachusetts, who made the signal error of suggesting that boys should not play in girls’ sports. He was then clubbed by his entire party.
Why can&#8217;t they separate themselves from an issue like that? If it&#8217;s an 80-20 issue, why is it so vital for them to continue embracing it?
Here’s the answer: Wokeness is now the core philosophy of the Democratic Party. It is the core philosophy that the Left cannot be separated from.
The reality is that we live in a country of immense prosperity and historic wealth. The typical Left-wing case, the Marxist case, is that there are classes, and these classes are solid and impenetrable, that if you&#8217;re born poor in America, you die poor; if you&#8217;re born rich, you die rich, and your kids die rich.
That&#8217;s not true. That has never been axiomatic in America.
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One of the most amazing things about the people who stood next to Donald Trump during his inauguration, those tech bros, is that they did not all grow up uber wealthy people.
For example, my company, The Daily Wire, was founded by three people. Jeremy Boring, co-founder of the company, did not graduate from college. Caleb Robinson did not even go to college. I went to Harvard Law School, but I grew up in a 1,300 square-foot house in Burbank, California, with two bedrooms — one for my parents and one for the kids, which meant four kids in one bedroom and one bathroom for all six of us until I was 11-years-old.
The amount of income and wealth mobility in the United States is astonishing. That is always why it has been a land of opportunity, which means that in America, the typical Marxist case for the flattening and destruction of the free market in the name of equality does not work and has never worked for long.
Sometimes, it&#8217;s applied after an economic crisis when people are looking for some sort of answer. And that&#8217;s when you get the FDR administration. That&#8217;s when you get Obama.
But it doesn&#8217;t last for long because Americans are an aspirational people, a people who like innovation. We like adventure. We want exploration. The typical Left-wing economic Marxist case, that everything is economically unfair, does not tend to work in a system that has those levels of economic mobility. The aspiration most Americans have does not match up with what the Left believes, which is to free society in place, redistribute all the winnings and then everybody is equal in penury.
That is not the aspiration of the American people. When I campaigned with a series of Senate candidates during the last election cycle, whether it was up in the tip of Ohio with a bunch of white folks, or whether I was down in the Rio Grande Valley campaigning with Senator Cruz with an entirely Hispanic population, everyone wanted the same thing: to be able to keep their wealth, to build wealth for the next generation, to raise their family, to go to church, and to help their kids have a better life than they did.
That is why Marxism has never successfully been applied in the United States and will not win in the United States. And that is also the reason why for the Left, economic Marxism had to be recast as something else. It had to be recast as race Marxism or sex Marxism, which is wokeism.
The idea became that you had to completely restructure the system, to destroy capitalism.
Why? Because the Left says people are innately not different. But the beauty of capitalism is that it is a meritocracy, and you don&#8217;t have to be at the top level of any particular thing in order to succeed in the United States.
This is the theory of comparative advantage. For example, I may be really good at talking and writing, but I&#8217;m not so good at plumbing. That plumber can be highly successful and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year starting a plumbing company.
That&#8217;s one of the beauties of capitalism. But what the Left says instead is that all people are innately exactly the same — not equal before God, but innately the same. “Men” and “women” are arbitrary categories. Group differentiation is all arbitrary.
That means any inequity between those groups must be a reflection of unfairness. That&#8217;s what wokeness is: Wokeness is the argument that all disparities are discrimination.
In order for that argument to make any sense, it means that all people must be exactly the same. So the argument to destroy capitalism has to be made on the basis that we are all basically undifferentiated widgets.
This is why the Left can&#8217;t let go of those arguments. They can’t. The minute they give up that argument, they&#8217;re relegated to arguing economic Marxism again. And economic Marxism in the United States tends to lose. Bernie Sanders is popular with a relatively small cadre of the American people. His candidacy would have been a disaster for Democrats.
Thus, they&#8217;ve had to move into a weird combination of economic Marxism, economic progressivism, race Marxism, sex Marxism: Wokeness.
Why do I bring this up?
Because one thing that&#8217;s been evident in the aftermath of President Trump&#8217;s swearing-in is that the Left will never give this up. That made itself absolutely apparent yesterday at the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral.
President Trump attended, along with Melania, the entire Trump family, and Vice President Vance and his family.
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In the middle of the service, Mariann Budde, a female Episcopal bishop, spoke. She proceeded to spew a diatribe of woke-mind nonsense that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Bible or Christian traditionalism. 50 years ago, you would have been much more likely to hear this in a Communist Party hall than in a church.
The decline of religion in America has led to hearing this kind of trash in churches. So this resistance pastor got up and decided she was going to make herself famous by ripping into Donald Trump and JD Vance the day after the inauguration.
And she was going to do so by spewing absolute nonsense wokeness about trans kids who don&#8217;t exist.
When I say they don&#8217;t exist, I mean that there may be kids with gender dysphoria, but the notion that a child knows that their body is not in line with their sex is ridiculous on its face. She spewed nonsense about trans children and illegal immigrants and suggested that if President Trump wished to emulate the values of Jesus, he must abandon his entire political agenda.
I’ve noticed that Jesus was not in favor of free migration across all borders. I certainly know that Jesus was not in favor of the idea that boys and girls are the same and are interchangeable and boys can become girls.
But of course, this had nothing to do with religion.
It is what the Left has done with nearly every institution. They&#8217;ve hollowed them out. They hollowed out the church, and they stuck in a bunch of Left-wing woke garbage.
“Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land,” she pronounced.
This is ridiculous. It&#8217;s ridiculous. The notion that you are now citing the biblical injunction to be kind to the stranger in order to suggest you cannot have a border as a country is asinine. The suggestion that the Bible mandates that President Trump allow the mutilation, the hormonal sterilization of small children on the basis that they think they might be a member of the opposite sex is perverse.
Shame on whomever did not vet this woman, the same woman who said just a couple of years ago that everything about President Trump was antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.
This is all insulting, ridiculous, and divisive. It&#8217;s also bound to lose because the American people — anyone who takes the church or the Bible seriously, whether Christian or Jewish — don&#8217;t believe this. You don&#8217;t take this perspective seriously if you happen to be a person who believes in Biblical values.
But the Left can&#8217;t let it go.
The Left&#8217;s attachment to wokeness never dies.
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America’s Golden Age Starts, And The Left Still Goes Woke

America's Golden Age Starts, And The Left Still Goes Woke

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Calling all freedom-loving facial hair enthusiasts: did you know Labor Day was cooked up by a bunch of socialists? It’s true. Even though most Americans see it as a free day off work, in reality, the origins of “International Workers’ Day” have deep roots in socialist and Marxist economic principles. 
Labor Day in the U.S. has its roots in the 1894 Pullman Railway Strike, which resulted in President Grover Cleveland pushing through legislation to recognize Labor Day as a &#8220;gesture towards organized labor,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/labor-day-meaning-why-we-celebrate/">according</a> to labor historian Joshua Freeman.  
When Labor Day officially began in the U.S., many who celebrated it were pushing for fundamental changes to the “capitalist wage system” and advocating for collectivism and socialism. Of course, this radical activism associated with Labor Day soon died down as the holiday was celebrated year after year. 
Now, Labor Day is widely regarded as an end-of-summer holiday and is used by corporations to sell anything from hot dogs and soda to clothing and furniture. Capitalism wins yet again. 
There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the end of summer, and the best way to do it is by putting your money into the free market and supporting good old-fashioned American capitalism instead. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/bestsellers/products/precision-5-trial-kit-2?selling_plan=3820880085" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Razors</a> are certified woke-free and allow the hard workers who love this country to enjoy a great shave, without the side of propaganda. Plus, they’re offering a 20% off sale! No woke BS, just 20% off.
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There are plenty of other ways to say no to progressivism with Jeremy’s, including shampoo and conditioner, soap, natural deodorant, and even women’s razors for the fairer sex.
This Labor Day, stick it to the system by laboring on your stubble instead. Jeremy’s Razors are so smooth, they&#8217;ll cut through your whiskers faster than Karl Marx could say &#8220;seize the means of production.&#8221; Plus, every purchase supports the free market, using your hard-earned money to support a company that has the same values you do. It’s a win-win-win.
Those red-flag-waving demonstrators thought we needed a day off. But you know what&#8217;s really revolutionary? Stubble-free skin and a proud capitalist spirit. 
This Labor Day, say no to the hammer and sickle and say yes to Jeremy’s Razors instead. Because nothing says &#8220;I love freedom&#8221; like a good, clean shave.

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There are a few things in life that if somebody tells you, you automatically know they are a grifter. They&#8217;re a con man; they&#8217;re trying to con you into something.
The most obvious sign of a con artist is somebody who&#8217;s telling you that a well-known, well-worn truth — something that is absolutely irrefutable — is not true. They know better.
They know better because they&#8217;ve seen through the matrix, they&#8217;ve seen through that truth; that truth is actually a mask for the underlying reality.
Now, there may be some widely held notions that are untrue, but in order to debunk those notions, you would actually have to show why your notions are better.
However, if someone suggests, for example, “Hard work is useless. I have a better way to earn you fast money without a lot of work, without getting yourself educated, without putting in the hours to develop a skill set,” that person is conning you. They are lying to you.
If somebody were to tell you there is an easy way for you to get fit with no exercise while eating trash, that person would be lying to you. That person would be conning you because, obviously, you need to eat healthy and exercise if you want to be in shape.
And the biggest one of all — and it&#8217;s held true by pretty much every grifter movement of the last couple of centuries — is the idea that you should not get married, that marriage is bad for you, that somehow marriage is going to ruin your life.
Now, there are a lot of problems with the current legal structure of marriage. I agree with the critique of the current legal structure of marriage. No-fault divorce is one of the worst things that ever happened to Western civilization.
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Marriage is a commitment. That commitment is lifelong. There should actually have to be a really good reason why you are divorcing. That is particularly true if you have children because marriage is designed as the fundamental building block of institutional society. It is the place where children are reared. It is the place where you produce children, and children require stability.
It is from those fundamental building blocks of civilization — “the little platoons,” as Edmund Burke called them — that you can actually build a functional, free civilization, which is why every grifter movement of the last couple of centuries has assaulted the family from the outside.
For example, Karl Marx was very big on assaulting the family. The Communist Manifesto famously suggests abolition of the family. Why? Because the family is a place where you might learn “bourgeois” values. It&#8217;s a place where you might be inculcated into responsibility, duty, or church. These are all very bad, according to the Marxist movement, which is why the Communist Manifesto <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>,
<blockquote>On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.</blockquote>
So blowing up the family would allow for a better world. Don&#8217;t get married. Fight the fight. Blow up the traditional institutions that actually support a functional society, and fight the fight.
The idea of the Left is that every single person is basically a malleable widget violating the strictures of the evil society. This is part of the big con, which is the idea that there are things like gender roles that are rooted in biology; however, if you can see through that immutable truth, then you will have destroyed the matrix. This is the perspective of the Left, and this is why they fight the family. This is also why children have become a tote bag to this group of people. It&#8217;s something you occasionally have in order to manipulate in a particular form or fashion.
But the attack on the family is not, unfortunately, restricted to the political Left. All grifters, all con men, have to take immutable truths and subvert those immutable truths in favor of something only they have uncovered — something incredible that you never knew about. And if you just take the red pill, then you&#8217;ll know it.
You&#8217;ll know it, and then you&#8217;ll be right. You won&#8217;t have to do hard work in order to be rich. You won&#8217;t have to be a good person in order to attract a good mate. You won&#8217;t have to spend the time raising your children in order to be a successful man. They&#8217;ve discovered the secret.
The leader on this side of the movement is Andrew Tate, who got his start as a provocative reality TV star, then began a webcam business effectively grooming women into sex trafficking. According to his own admission, that&#8217;s how he made his money. Whether he says they were groomed or not, the reality is he groomed women into getting into the webcam industry and pornography.
This is Andrew Tate’s game. He&#8217;s considered entertaining because he “explodes the myths.” But the way that he “explodes the myths” is by playing a really stupid game for stupid people.
The game is like this. “I&#8217;m going to say two transgressive things, things that violate the taboos of the culture around me. One of those things is true, and one of those things is false. But because they are both transgressive and because people will oppose me on both of them — one for bad reasons and one for good reasons — I have somehow gotten under the skin of the matrix. Everyone opposes me, which is why I&#8217;m a rebel.”
That&#8217;s Andrew Tate&#8217;s entire game.
So he will say things like feminism has ruined men by usurping the male role and robbing men of their initiative. That is true. That is not politically correct to say.
But then he will say another transgressive thing that is absolutely false. For example, “Women love it when you treat them like garbage, and you should treat women like garbage; dominant men are the kind of men who treat women like garbage.”
That is not true. It&#8217;s transgressive. And it&#8217;s transgressive specifically because it&#8217;s evil. It is bad to say. It is bad to think. Women should not be treated like trash, and good women do not want to be treated like trash. Further, treating women like trash is not going to make your life better. And it is not going to make their life better.
But it is transgressive to say; it is taboo. Tate has violated many taboos, and he can get away with it because the rules don&#8217;t apply to him. He&#8217;s a “Nietzschean Ubermensch” because he is very buff and because he works out a lot and because he smokes cigars. And this means you should listen to him.
You should listen to him so much that you should pay him $49.99 a month to join Hustler&#8217;s University, where you will learn other secrets — secrets like how you don&#8217;t need hard work and initiative in order to really get ahead. You can learn his magical methods for making lots of money.
You can own a Bugatti, just like Tate owns a Bugatti. All you have to do is listen to his magical business advice, which explodes all of the matrices of truth, the immutable truths.
The reason I&#8217;m bringing up Andrew Tate is because he, again, is playing the game with two transgressive things. The true thing that he has said is, “I pray Christianity regains its strength and protects its societies against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan. If you accept everything, you stand for nothing.” I agree with every word of that statement. Christianity ought to regain its strength and protect its society against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan.
But then, Tate put out tweets like the one that he did yesterday. It comes up in the context of marriage. Yet again, he is saying an immutable truth must be exploded. That immutable truth is the fundamental good and necessity of family.
He stated, “Dear white men. You’re f***ed. You&#8217;re being replaced because none of you have children.” Even within this tweet, he is making a couple points: one true, one false.
One, Western societies are not reproducing at replacement rate. That&#8217;s very bad. But he goes further because his game is to say many transgressive things — some true, some false. <a href="https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1780180832369402005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He writes</a>: 
<blockquote>Dear white men. You’re f***ed. You&#8217;re being replaced because none of you have children. Even those of you bi***ing about the replacement online like little girls don&#8217;t find the gumption to f***. I see white men bragging about having 5 kids as if it&#8217;s an achievement. lol. Five? Lolol. Per year right? Ohhhh. All you white boys lost control of you’re (sic) women and now they won&#8217;t accept multiple wives anymore. 
Now they tell you they don&#8217;t want anymore kids. One’s (sic) enough. They don&#8217;t want to do their god given job anymore no, they want Instagram likes instead. So you’re (sic) genetic potential is stumped by the whims of some singular female. A female who takes 9 whole months to grow a single baby. Other races have multiple ovens for bread. We&#8217;re not cucked. Some **** is screaming at you about loyalty and you&#8217;re sitting there saying, “yes, baby” Jerking off to porn when she&#8217;s asleep or maybe cheating with a side***** (CONDOM ON!) Oh no I couldn&#8217;t get another woman pregnant my wife would kill me!!! Total f***ing losers. 
Soon your race will be nothing more than a few pages in a history book. A lesson on what happens when you f *** the female psyche so hard they&#8217;re obsessed with money and social media as opposed to being one of many baby factories for a king. 30 children minimum for the dons. White people? Go talk to your “best friend” wife about what to do this weekend. Maybe you can take a nice walk around the Ikea. Enjoy extinction. </blockquote>
So, one true thing, many false things. One true thing: People need to have more kids in Western civilization. But many false things: Marriage is bad. Loyalty to your spouse is bad. Society can be built on men running around having sex with 30 women and having 30 kids per year, and this is the true measure of a man.
And young men think, “Wow, that sounds amazing,” because the male sex drive looks for various women. That is just the way that mammalian biology is built. Men seek to impregnate many females. So that sounds great to a bunch of young men. Or getting off on Tate&#8217;s webcam business. It sounds amazing to them.
That&#8217;s also not how societies are built. But again, the idea is — and this is how you know it’s a con — marriage is bad. He&#8217;s actually saying marriage is bad because if you&#8217;re a “person who has five kids, lol.”
I have four kids. I’ve been married for 15 years. If you have four kids, double the replacement rate, you are doing your societal job. But that can only exist and can only create functional children, children who are going to propagate good values, if there’s a father in the home.
Here&#8217;s the thing. If you impregnate many ladies and then you leave, you have created a generation of young men who are incapable of raising themselves. The effects of single motherhood in the United States are very well known: high levels of drug use, of crime, of poverty, of suicidal ideation. It creates actual pathologies. 
That is what Andrew Tate is promoting because he is a con artist, and he&#8217;s conning you into doing something. He is conning you into giving away the only pathway toward actual societal success and personal success in favor of his vision of a Genghis Khan-like spreading of his seed.
The reason this is important is because a lot of young men are falling into this sort of treachery.

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Highly conservative new Argentinian president Javier Milei stated bluntly, “Every single state company that I can sell I will do as soon as possible.&#8221;
Milei conducted an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/exclusive-argentine-president-milei-says-theres-no-plan-b-for-economy/553AA5B2-E861-4942-A852-E89BF4D203CE?mod=hp_trending_now_video_pos1">exclusive interview</a> with Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker, who asked, “I want to know how long you think the Argentine people can wait to see signs that your plan is working.”
“They understand that this process can take about two years,” Milei, who promised to change the currency from the peso to the U.S. dollar and close the Central Bank, answered. “And even if there’s a warning sign, saying it is hard to bear the austerity for more than a year, the truth is that when we begin to see the way in which the data is flowing and how inflation is moving, we ourselves are surprised at the speed with which we are achieving results.&#8221;
“You were just in Davos, and your speech in Davos generated a lot of attention,” Tucker noted. “I want to know, what else do you need from your supporters beyond words? Is, for example, Argentina receiving new investments?”
“It is true that we would need investments because one of the things that happens is that when you make fiscal adjustments, you increase savings. If those savings are not paired up with investments, economic activity drops, followed by employment rates, and finally real wages,” Milei replied.
“Privatization. How quickly do you plan to move forward with your agenda?” Tucker asked.
“As fast as I can,” Milei stated. “Every single state company that I can sell I will do as soon as possible. The thing is that there are institutional restrictions.”
“Where will you start? With Aerolineas Argentas? The trains?” Tucker pressed.
“Whatever we can we will privatize. I mean, it’s not a question of naming which companies; it’s just a matter of technical constraints in terms of time,” Milei said. “In the last month, we bought $5 billion and the monetary base in Argentina is close to $8 billion, around $7.5 billion, so that if we finished cleaning up all the interest-bearing liabilities of the Central Bank, we would be able to dollarize for very little money.”
“Are you still thinking about adopting the dollar?” Tucker queried.
“In reality, we have always talked about a free competition among currencies. It’s a matter of what Argentines choose, and it is likely that at an initial moment, they will choose the dollar,” Milei asserted.
“Do you have a plan B?” Tucker asked.
“No. there is no plan B. There is no plan B to do things right. You either do things right or you do them right. Because if plan B is to start doing things halfway or compromise, that’s the story of Argentina, and that’s where we are now,” Milei told her.

Day Two Of The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024

‘There Is No Plan B’: Argentina’s President Milei Takes Hard Line On Return To Capitalism

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In the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/facts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facts</a>,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> explains the history behind the World Economic Forum and what Americans need to know about its power-hungry agenda. 
In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/tbdeee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a>, released on Saturday ahead of the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next week, Shapiro explained the history of the organization and how it evolved into the entity it is today. He said that the organization had little respect for representative democracy or liberty, but wanted to impose top-down control. 
“The World Economic Forum was first established in 1971, led by a German engineer, economist, and professor with a master&#8217;s from Harvard. His name was Klaus Schwab. Schwab was the originator of a theory of governance and markets he called stakeholder capitalism, defined in opposition to shareholder capitalism,” Shapiro said. 
Shareholder capitalism is when businesses primarily focus on returns to investors while stakeholder capitalism suggests that businesses should answer to the world at large. 
“This philosophy, of course, means that those who control corporations ought to act as philosopher kings, answerable to no one but their own perceptions of moral duty. Unsurprisingly, this particular argument is attractive to those who love the idea of top down command and control,” Shapiro said. 
In recent years, the WEF has pushed for a “Great Reset” of capitalism to transform industry in pursuit of the so-called fourth industrial revolution. This includes pushing the concepts of “social sustainability” and “environmental sustainability” onto global corporations. It’s a call to revolutionize the world and how it currently works, Shapiro explained.  
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“Almost certainly the new revolution will look like top down social engineering by the big brain, all in the name of smoothing out the bumps of technological change. Regulators will work hand-in-glove with big business to work out the rules for your life,” Shapiro explained.
He also said that pushing this global agenda of elite control conflicted with traditional Western concepts like liberty and representative democracy, which were disliked by the WEF.  
“If all of this sounds frightening, that&#8217;s because it is. The arrogance of the business and governmental elite seeking to control all of us is absolutely breathtaking. The policies discussed at Davos shape the elite caste in nearly all Western countries. When you hear about the end of carbon-based fossil fuels or a global tax regime or corporate governmental cooperation, a lot of that is coming from Davos and the World Economic Forum,” Shapiro concluded. “And when those globalists get together at Davos, understand the ideas they are discussing will have a real world effect on you, your business, your church, and your family.”
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Ben Shapiro Explains What Americans Need To Know About The World Economic Forum’s Agenda

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As San Francisco continues to take heat for its growing homelessness and drug problem, at least one elected official blames capitalism for the crisis in his neighborhood. 
Leftist Supervisor Dean Preston, representing the city and county of San Francisco, acknowledged the homelessness problem in his neighborhood. The Democratic socialist oversees San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, notorious for its open-air drug markets, retail theft, and homeless encampments, which accounts for around half of the city’s homeless population per a 2022 count, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. 
“I think what you’re seeing in the Tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rungs,” Preston told Freddie Sayers of UnHerd in an interview. 
“The biggest driver of why folks are on the street is because they lost their jobs, income or were evicted from their homes, usually for not being able to pay the rent,” the supervisor added, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/news/san-francisco-democrat-says-homelessness-crisis-in-his-district-is-absolutely-the-result-of-capitalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Post. “So you have major landlords literally causing folks to lose their homes, and real estate speculation making it impossible for folks to find an affordable place to live.”
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Preston also criticized the city for arresting people who were using drugs in broad daylight, arguing that San Francisco’s approach to the issue has been “inconsistent.” The city reported a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-sees-record-drug-overdose-deaths-in-august-like-a-zombie-apocalypse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record of drug overdoses</a> in August as 84 people died from overdoses in the month, equating to about five deaths every two days. San Francisco is on pace to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/san-francisco-fentanyl-meth-drug-overdoses#:~:text=In%20the%20first%20nine%20months,2020%2C%20when%20it%20saw%20720." target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit</a> more than 800 drug overdoses in 2023, which would pass the record set in 2020 when 720 died from overdoses. 
“I think it’s completely counterproductive to be arresting people for doing drugs,” Preston said. “Like, what’s the objective?” 
Sayers pressed Preston on how the issue could be resolved if he’s against enforcing laws against homeless encampments and drug use in the city. 
“The thing is, it has gotten worse, right? Because the approach that we’ve taken is very inconsistent as a city,” Preston responded. “Ramping up enforcement activities, whether it’s … sweeps of homeless people or drug use, doing a series of arrests, usually timed with some news cycle and then a few days later, a few weeks later, a few months later, the same thing happens.” 
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Preston also wants to take more money away from the city’s police department, saying he would cut $100 million out of “the very bloated police budget.” San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-defunded-police-reversing-course-next-year-calls-accountability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> to redirect $120 million away from the police budget in 2020 to support social justice causes in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death and the ensuing riots and demonstrations across the country. A year later, however, Breed submitted an emergency request to the Board of Supervisors for additional police funding as San Francisco faced a troubling shortage of officers.
Preston made headlines earlier this year when he suggested that San Francisco encourage tourists to keep belongings out of their cars, arguing the strategy would reduce car break-ins. A clip of Preston’s comments drew criticism from many people, including Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, who promised to donate $100,000 to help unseat Preston. 
“Dean Preston needs to be fired,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1705180840609673577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1705180840609673577%7Ctwgr%5Eb26134382243cd3a64bdb8f38771252d84e264ed%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Felon-musk-calls-san-francisco-supervisor-fired-citys-destruction-crime-surge">wrote</a> on X in September. “He is arguably the person most responsible for the destruction of San Francisco.”

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Leftist San Francisco Supervisor Admits City Has A Homeless Problem, Blames Capitalism

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&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/global-warming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global warming</a>&#8221; is out, &#8220;global boiling&#8221; is in, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Thursday.
“Humanity is in the hot seat,” Guterres <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference. “For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer. For the entire planet, it is a disaster. And for scientists, it is unequivocal – humans are to blame.&#8221;
The science is settled, according to Guterres, but it would seem the fear-based propaganda hasn&#8217;t worked in scaring enough of the world into submission. And so, Guterres and his team have changed the talking points.
“All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here, it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.&#8221;
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The words &quot;global warming&quot; didn&#39;t work.
The words &quot;climate change&quot; didn&#39;t work.
So now the UN Chief is using the words &quot;global boiling&quot; to push his radical green agenda. <a href="https://t.co/rzYZJSZgzI">pic.twitter.com/rzYZJSZgzI</a>
&mdash; Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielTurnerPTF/status/1684645966584958977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s easy to imagine that Guterres and the gang at the UN have a yellow notepad that looks something like this:
<blockquote><del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Global Warming</del>
<del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Climate Change</del>
<del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Extreme Weather </del>
Global boiling?</blockquote>
Would it surprise you to find out that Guterres is the former president of the Socialist International and a firm believer that the planet can only be saved by a team of &#8220;experts&#8221; and government control?
No, it probably wouldn&#8217;t surprise you; you&#8217;re a Daily Wire reader equipped with critical thinking skills. It&#8217;s easy to draw those conclusions if you pay attention.
Yet, it&#8217;s worth <a href="https://www.socialistinternational.org/fileadmin/uploads/si/Documents/Congresses/Paris_1999/AG_Address_Paris_1999.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewing</a> anyway that in 1999, Guterres gave an address outlining his desire for global socialism, and how his vision for the world would depend upon international organizations like the UN, global regulations, and cooperation between non-government actors.
He ended his speech, saying, &#8220;Dear friends and dear comrades &#8230;&#8217;We must not abandon utopia because the antagonism between ideas and reality is both the major dilemma of democratic socialism and its fascinating driving force.'&#8221;
Guterres is still pursuing that &#8220;utopia&#8221; and is using &#8220;global boiling&#8221; to enact it — with a sense of urgency, too. Don&#8217;t think, just do it, Guterres seems to be saying.
&#8220;It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C and avoid the very worst of climate change but only with dramatic, immediate climate action,&#8221; he said Thursday. &#8220;We have seen some progress &#8212; a robust rollout of renewables and some positive steps from sectors such as shipping &#8212; but none of this is going far enough or fast enough. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated action.&#8221;
Yet Guterres is wrong. The experts are not all-seeing Gods who can predict the future, much less the weather. As best-selling author George Gilder has long touted, the sort of central planning supported by Guterres cannot account for &#8220;human creativity, which always comes as a surprise to us. If creativity didn’t come as a surprise, we wouldn’t need it, and socialism would work.&#8221;
What can work?
Gilder is out with a new book, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-after-Capitalism-George-Gilder/dp/1684512247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life After Capitalism</a>.&#8221; The book isn&#8217;t against capitalism — rather it argues that its critics and many of its defenders get capitalism wrong. The driving force of capitalism is not greed, rather it&#8217;s &#8220;creativity and faith in the future.&#8221;
In the book, which casts doubts on global <del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">warming</del> boiling, Gilder writes, &#8220;Let&#8217;s assume, hypothetically, that Co2 somehow becomes a problem. Capitalism deals with problems by pursuing opportunities.&#8221;
Socialism deals with problems through more government control.
&#8220;Government mandates and directorates and global resets will not shape the future,&#8221; Gilder predicted in &#8220;Life After Capitalism.&#8221;
&#8220;They can only retard progress, and only so far as we let them, if we live in democratic countries. What will really shape the future is human creativity, and a new wave of technological entrepreneurs,&#8221; he added.
Gilder also warned, &#8220;More than ever in America, we face the prospect of a life after capitalism in its most negative sense: a life of scarcity, deprivation, and fear.&#8221;
And that is exactly what Guterres has to offer: Our time left to save the planet is scarce — so is clean air. So we must deprive ourselves of modern technologies, conveniences, and abundant resources of energy. If you don&#8217;t, everybody you know will die from &#8220;global boiling.&#8221; The experts will save the day.
What a load of bunk. Socialists never change, but the words they use to sell their ideology does.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Global Warming’ Is Out. ‘Global Boiling’ Is In, United Nations Secretary-General Says

'Global Warming' Is Out. 'Global Boiling' Is In, United Nations Secretary-General Says

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Imagine you’re the head of Mattel, and you’re hoping the new “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reviewers-barbie-movie-is-a-deeply-feminist-adventure-thats-poking-fun-at-the-patriarchy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbie</a>” movie sends your toy sales skyrocketing.
And then you hear this line of dialogue about the iconic doll:
<blockquote>You represent everything wrong with our culture. You destroyed the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism &#8230; you fascist!</blockquote>
Suddenly, the “Barbie” tie-ins got a little more… complicated. And that’s before the movie skewers both Mattel, Inc. and its fictional CEO (Will Ferrell).
This is hardly new from La La Land, a business where income inequality isn’t a bug. It’s the feature every ingenue craves. You’d think industry executives might avoid that awkward anti-capitalist messaging at all costs (much like how climate change activists fear their private jet addictions will be exposed).
And you’d be flat-out wrong.
Modern films go out of their way to smite the rich and decry income inequality. The stars inhabiting those films just so happen to be among the richest stars in the Hollywood galaxy.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
The “Barbie” film goes out of its way to not only trash consumerism, but the titular toy. And a vital character even suggests we stop buying these “fascist” dolls of flawless white women. Yes, that’s another word taken directly from the script to describe the plastic doll.
This summer features another big-budget comedy with the wealthy in its crosshairs.
The Jennifer Lawrence comedy “No Hard Feelings” finds the Oscar-winner smiting the rich early and often. She plays a bitter, broke woman named Maggie who decides to sleep with a younger man for a quick payday, courtesy of a wealthy couple who can buy just about anything.
Gross, right?
Not to Maggie. She’d rather do that than be part of the capitalist system. Lawrence’s character spends serious screen time trashing the rich. She’s drowning in debt and resents the wealthy Long Island residents keeping the local economy humming.
Her moral compass is pure, or at least she thinks it is.
Maggie all but spits in a wealthy bar customer’s face early in the film. His crime? He’s rich, and he asked for a drink minutes before the bar officially opened.
None of this was an accident. Director Gene Stupnitsky says he <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/jennifer-lawrence-no-hard-feelings-raunchy-comedy-beach-scene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embraced the anti-wealthy angle</a> to add gravitas to the story, hoping it wouldn’t overwhelm the narrative.
The ultimate irony? The aggressively liberal Lawrence fought hard to snag a <a href="https://screenrant.com/no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-salary/#:~:text=Jennifer%20Lawrence%27s%20No%20Hard%20Feelings%20Salary%20Was%20Reportedly%20%2425%20Million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-million dollar paycheck</a> to star in the film. Did she fight just as hard to make sure her co-stars got an equally large paycheck, or at least one larger than the studio initially offered? Talk about income inequality! So much privilege.
Last year saw two celebrated films similarly assault the rich.
The superior film “The Menu” featured Ralph Fiennes as a chef who invites wealthy diners to savor his revolutionary cuisine. The assorted guests, including far-left actor John Leguizamo, are portrayed as mostly shallow souls eager to climb the societal ladder.
The chef has more on his mind than keeping the dishes fresh and warm, and the story soon takes a horrific turn.
The mockery is relentless, although the film proved one of the sturdier awards season entries and didn’t get lost in its agenda.
The same can’t be said for “Triangle of Sadness,” the Best Picture nominee that scorches the elite early and often. The film’s first half is brilliant, and even Donald Trump might chuckle at its social X-ray of the fatuous elites.
A group of ultra-wealthy souls gather for an extravagant cruise, but they’re left to fend for themselves when a storm overwhelms the boat.
The moment Woody Harrelson enters the frame as the ship’s combative captain, sadly, the film’s agenda overwhelms the story. The satire’s second half is a dud with income inequality notes and a storytelling detour that sinks the initially impressive tale.
Conservatives rallied around Harrelson for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woody-harrelson-said-he-wasnt-fazed-by-backlash-from-snl-monologue-i-dont-look-at-that-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defying COVID-19 groupthink</a>, but hearing the ultra-wealthy star praise socialism in the film may be tough to swallow.
HBO’s “The White Lotus” series similarly deconstructs how the rich and famous spend their leisure time. Show creator Mike White does so with a gimlet eye for hypocrisy and a greater sense of cultural balance. He’s willing to torch the rich while mocking those who attack them without earning their slice of the financial pie.
The show’s first season showcases embittered Gen Z types — Olivia Mossbacher (Sydney Sweeney) and her pal Paula (Brittany O’Grady) — as they smirk their way through paradise.
Do they appreciate the sacrifices the Mossbachers made to get them to Maui or the endless work that gave them the chance for a once-in-a-lifetime trip like this? Of course not.
The two have little empathy for anyone other than themselves. Later in the season, Paula cracks the parents’ safe to help a resort worker, but it hardly feels like a charitable move.
The best “eat the rich” satire in recent memory may be HBO’s just-wrapped “Succession.” The celebrated drama showed the rich and famous brawling over power, fame, and family dynamics. The show drew near-universal acclaim despite its not-so-veiled attack on families like the conservative-leaning Murdoch clan.
Hollywood understandably loves to tweak the rich. Heck, many elites bring it on themselves, and great writers have famously toyed with excess in profound ways. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” rushes to mind.
It’s far less agreeable when an industry renowned for excess not only mocks it, but does so sans irony.
Sometimes, though, screenwriters still get it right.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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