On Wednesday, I supported and proposed many policy amendments to improve LD 3. #mepolitics (1/9) 1. A sales tax holiday, fuel vouchers, and Maine heating accounts were all submitted as ideas to extend relief to Maine people. (2/9)

@RepNancyMace McCarthy helped us lose ME-2 in 2020 by spending $500k against me in the GOP Primary — while yelling at Club for Growth for endorsing me.

McCarthy managed to get an establishment nominee through the primary, who then lost the general in a district Trump won handily. @RepNancyMace McCarthy regularly interferes in GOP primary contests where he has no business — not usually to support anyone in particular, but to specifically oppose liberty candidates.

If the currency supply was stable and the economy was growing, each dollar you have would gradually increase in purchasing power.

You would be rewarded for saving and conserving — freeing resources in the economy for investment into future prosperity. Instead, we live under a Keynesian delusion that your money's value must gradually expire through monetary debasement to prod people into consumption.

Why save when your money will be worth less tomorrow?

My opponent’s campaign has apparently decided to start running letters attacking me in the Sun Journal over the last few day.

So far, her campaign’s letters in the paper have managed to highlight: (1) My successful legislative effort passing Constitutional Carry (which made Maine the Safest State in America)

Currency inflation has always been a direct attack on the savings of the middle class — pursued by corporate oligarchs and jealous socialists to redistribute middle class wealth into their pockets and causes. Currency inflation is less honest than direct taxation, which can be seen, measured, and restrained through civic engagement.

It is a tax on the money you have already earned and paid taxes on, draining the value of your savings.

It is a hidden double tax.

Elon Musk is now, by far, the richest man in the world.

What many on the economic left get wrong, however (led by demagogues like @ewarren), is that this translates into him sitting on a stockpile of personal extravagances — like visions of Scrooge McDuck or Richie Rich. Elon Musk’s wealth exists in high risk, high capital endeavors — including space travel, electric vehicles, cutting edge battery technology, human interface with artificial intelligence , and satellite-based internet delivery.

I keep seeing headlines telling people that inflation means it is a good time to pay down your debts.

But wouldn’t the opposite be the case?

If the dollar is losing value at a rate of 10% annually, then the value of dollar-denominated debt is also shrinking by 10%. Right? It reads like these news headlines are being written by big banks, trying to nudge people to pay off their debts early before potential hyper-inflation could wipe the value of those debts out.

I had the pleasure to meet @drsanjaygupta when he came to Maine to learn about the work we were doing expanding medical cannabis rights for treating opioid abuse.

As @joerogan said, anyone who openly changes their mind on an issue like he did deserves a degree respect. There is not nearly enough conversation happening across emerging class divides.

I am glad to hear @drsanjaygupta and @joerogan having an earnest conversation that has been missing in America.

This is an interesting point by @SenTedCruz.

Bitcoin mining is a good match for base load energy sources (like nuclear and hydro) because it runs around the clock but can also be turned off at a moment’s notice.

vice.com/en/article/jg8… The challenge with base load energy sources, like hydro and nuclear, is that they are non-dispatchable.

They tend to generate energy cheap and clean, but they run continuously — so you need consistent energy consumption on the other end for every watt produced.

By eliminating financial privacy, you will not eliminate crime—at best, you will monopolize it for government criminals.

The criminals I worry about aren't the petty thieves, but the central bankers. A petty thief can take what you have on you today.

A government-sanctioned banking cartel can inflate away your wages, siphon off your retirement savings, and enslave generations not yet born into debt.

@blake_hanner @EricDJuly Imagine multiple variants of a virus exist and you push a vaccine on everyone that only effectively reduces the spread of the dominant strain.

Afterward, those other variants overtake the dominant strain.

Use logic. What actually happened there? @blake_hanner @EricDJuly One of the scientists who pioneered mRNA vaccine technology states that it’s pretty obvious what happened.

It’s basic Darwinism.

I've begun to think we should have a jubilee.

Congress made student loans the only form of debt you cannot shake off in bankruptcy.

If you have still not found economic success twenty years after college, you should be able to declare bankruptcy and wipe out your student loans. Some will object to this.

But here's the thing — this is a system of predatory loans the millennial generation was propagandized into by the K-12 education system.

At the stroke of 18, you sign your life away and become a debt slave. All the adults tell you to.

I'm hearing apologists for the War in Afghanistan say that the occupation was "relatively inexpensive" for what it was.

Are you kidding me?

We spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan--more money than was spent on the entire rebuilding of Europe after WWII. “Afghanistan has not been and never will be conquered, and will never surrender to anyone.”

So said Babur, the first Mughal emperor, whose dynasty ruled much of central Asia in the 1500s.

I can empathize with where @marwilliamson is coming from on Afghanistan, even as I disagree with her position on remaining.

We should have empathy for those behind under Taliban control. We should advocate for their lives and freedoms through peaceful means.

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1427410164324487171

For many of us in the anti-war movement, we repeatedly watch the corporate press shed crocodile tears for people whenever a war could end.

Of course, whenever those same people are killed in the process of waging war, they are written off as "collateral damage."

Chime in if you voted for Ron Paul! Coming of age in the 9/11 era, I bought the neocon @FoxNews propaganda from figures like @BillOReilly for nine years. In the 10th grade, I even had a well-read copy of "The O-Reilly Factor for Kids."

Needless to say, I thought @RonPaul was dead wrong in 2008.

They say Bitcoin is dirty for using computers—but the fiat dollar is keeping the world dependent on oil.

Since the end of the gold standard, the fiat dollar is backed by nothing, but boosted by a petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia.

Alternative energy threatens that. Under the petrodollar agreement—which has its roots in the FDR and Nixon administrations—the US provides military support and the Saudis only accept dollars in payment for their oil.

What does “military support” for Saudi Arabia look like today?

The wars in Syria and Yemen.

In 3 days:

1000+ of the top liberty activists in America will be arriving at #Rev21;

Joining dozens of Hazlitt Coalition legislators from across the states;

Along with liberty heroes like @RonPaul, @Snowden, @ZubyMusic, and @ThomasEWoods.

#TheRevolutionIsYoursNow #TheRevolutionIsYoursNow.

And we are only the latest generation to carry it.

This revolution began in Lexington and was formally declared on the fourth of July:

"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!"

The terrorists never hated us because we were free, but the Washington political establishment always has. Twenty years ago, the political establishment sold America on war under the false pretense of "defending freedom."

By preying on our virtues and love of freedom, they got America's sons and daughters to fight and die for them in the most worthless wars in our nation's history.

Ten years ago, I misunderstood the degree to which opposition to forever war and unaccountable spy agencies was a performative act for the left. Seeing the right gradually awaken to the wrongness of these institutions, I thought we might finally have bipartisan coalitions to end the wars and restore civil liberties.

If we accept the @ACLU's argument that gun ownership was historically used to keep the unarmed enslaved, what would that imply about a society in which only government agents can keep and bear arms? First, their argument is historically fuzzy.

Gun control laws were originally passed to disenfranchise back Americans from owning firearms.

It is not the history of the 2nd Amendment that is steeped in racism, but gun control laws.

At this point, many Americans have trauma-bonded with their masks. First, the media and political establishments traumatized people with Covid hysteria.

Then they told people masks would make them safe — so they went out for the first time after months into the scary world, hyperventilating from anxiety through these masks.