Wednesday, April 29, 2026

What 57 evil Republicans did

If you spend much time on social media, particularly Twitter/X, you know that a bunch of people have suddenly noticed that in 2027 a provision requiring automobile manufacturers to include a "kill switch" in your car is about to go into effect.

This provision was supported by Democrats and dozens and dozens of Republicans in the House, and that's how it became law (as part of a piece of federal legislation pertaining to "infrastructure investment and jobs").

Now there's one particular congressman who happens to have led the way in opposing the kill switch, offering an amendment to remove that provision, and some 164 Republican congressmen voted in favor of this congressman's amendment.

Those 164 votes were not enough to overcome all the Democrats or the 57 Republicans (including the execrable Congressman Randy Fine) who decided government officials ought to be able to shut down your car.

Because of the congressman I'm telling you about but haven't yet named, I already knew about the kill switch issue, long before it was suddenly discovered yesterday by the social media world.

The mandated technology must passively monitor driver performance (via cameras, sensors, AI, etc., tracking things like eye movement, steering, and swerving) and automatically prevent or limit operation of the vehicle if it detects possible impairment, as from alcohol or drugs.

The congressman says the mandate forces constant government-mandated surveillance into every new car, thereby turning personal vehicles into tools for behavior monitoring and control. He argues that this sets a dangerous precedent for regulators to manage individual conduct through technology.

Further, the car becomes "judge, jury, and executioner." There is no appeal process if the system wrongly disables the vehicle. The dashboard/AI system makes an instantaneous, unappealable decision with life-altering consequences.

As the congressman says, "The looming Orwellian automobile kill switch deadline threatens civil liberties. When your car shuts down because it doesn’t approve of your driving, how will you appeal your roadside conviction?"

Then, too, he says, the technology is unworkable and prone to dangerous false positives. "The technology needed for this doesn’t even exist," says the congressman. He offers examples such as a driver swerving in a snowstorm to avoid a pet or obstacle, only for the car to shut down because the system misreads it as impairment.

Not that anyone cares anymore, but the congressman also notes that the measure is unconstitutional, and that obviously no such power was granted to the federal government.

And it drives up car costs, but we already know our overlords don't care about that.

I presume you know by now that the congressman in question is Thomas Massie, the man we are inexplicably urged to hate. (It's not actually inexplicable; you and I know the reason.)

FOX News watchers are finding out about the kill switch only this week, because that network has blackballed Massie, who's been banned for 18 months.

Some of the worst Republicans imaginable have revolving-door access to FOX News, but Massie, who has one of the best voting records of any congressman in the past two hundred years, can't be allowed to speak.

That's always how it goes: the left gets a pass, and the right gets the hammer. Especially within Conservatism, Inc.

Much respect for Massie -- who, if the Republican Party weren't full of losers, would have prevented this Orwellian provision from becoming federal law.

Now by coincidence, right now I happen to be offering a four-week masterclass on how to force social media to do your bidding: how to get your ideas (even unpopular ones) seen by lots of people, and how to use it to make more sales and generate more subscribers.

We all criticize social media, but without it Massie would have been seriously impaired in his ability to communicate with the public. So when we’re inclined to denounce it, we need to remember that.

Whatever we may think about some of the individuals involved in them, these platforms have hundreds of millions of members. Ron Paul didn’t refuse to appear in the Republican presidential debates on the grounds that the debates were being covered by evil institutions like CBS News and CNN, after all. He wanted to reach people, so he did those debates anyway.

You and I also need to reach people. But social media is frustrating: you post and post and get no traction. Then you see Laura Loomer getting massive traction, and life seems unfair.

Well, this masterclass will show you what actually works, and how so many knuckleheads (who are not as smart as you are, dear reader) figured it out. Your customers, your ideological compatriots, your future subscribers, they’re all out there, and we'll show you how to find them. Early-bird special is in effect:

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Tom Woods

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The institution that hates you the most

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After this weekend's successful Ron Paul Institute conference, which you may have heard about on social media, I found myself marveling at the achievements of Dr. Paul -- who turns 91 this year.

In particular, he allowed people to break free from the artificial constraints of the past, according to which tough-guy right-wingers love war, and wimpy, peacenik left-wingers hate it. It's incredible to me that anyone ever fell for that: you think Mao Tse-Tung hated war? Sure he did.

As I've said before, mainstream left-liberals overwhelmingly supported nearly all the major American wars from the Spanish-American War to the present, and we've memory-holed the Old Right of the 1950s and the Buchananite right of the 1990s and 2000s that warned against war.

But the intellectual liberation the Ron Paul movement launched went much further than that.

Dr. Paul told me more than once that he considered his homeschool curriculum to be one of his most important contributions, because it would help form the minds of bright young people for many decades to come.

The media will portray the Ron Paul Curriculum as pushing a point of view, as opposed to what they laughingly insist is the neutral, just-the-facts approach taken in the government's schools.

Whatever is being taught in the schools, neutral it certainly ain't.

For over a dozen years, young people sit in classrooms dominated by people who despise everything their parents stand for, and from whom those young people will assuredly be taught outright parodies of the truth.

As I run through the basic narrative of U.S. history in my head, I'm imagining how the standard classroom teacher would cover it.

The American War for Independence will be portrayed as having been fought over the snore-inducing principle of "no taxation without representation," thereby leaving kids with the impression that now that they have taxation with representation, the Founders would be perfectly happy.

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 will not be mentioned, even though the Kentucky Resolutions have been described as the most systematic exposition of the Jeffersonian "compact" theory of the Union.

The mainstream discussion of nullification and secession during the first decades of the republic will not be mentioned.

Andrew Jackson will be portrayed as an egalitarian (even the dope Arthur Schlesinger tried to make Jackson out to be a proto-New Dealer) because he ran on "equal rights"; the teacher doesn't realize, or doesn't care, that for Jackson "equal rights" meant that nobody got special privileges from the federal government -- everyone "equally" got no government benefit. Not exactly FDR!

None of the stuff about the separation of bank and state put forth by Jacksonian laissez-fairists like William Gouge and William Leggett will be mentioned -- the kids' teachers know nothing about it, and if they did, they'd be so horrified they'd want to keep quiet about it.

Abraham Lincoln will be portrayed as a cartoon character, fighting those southern devils out of a devotion to racial egalitarianism (a position he in reality opposed). None of the constitutional arguments advanced in support of secession will be mentioned, much less evaluated, since 19th-century southerners have no arguments an 8th-grade teacher feels obligated to take seriously.

In the later decades of the 19th century, no distinction will be made between entrepreneurs who made their fortunes by offering goods at lower prices, and entrepreneurs who owed at least some of their success to government privilege. They will all be portrayed as exploiters, even though (1) consumers enjoyed consistently falling prices during this period, and (2) workers saw real wages rising consistently.

I could go on, but stop and reflect that the classroom portrayal of these issues is actually much worse than I've described it here, because I left the wokery out.

Well, as we approach the end of the current school year, it's time to prepare for the next. I devoted two years of my life to creating hundreds of videos on history for the K-12 Ron Paul Curriculum (my courses are designed for high schoolers), and I can assure you that your students will get an intellectual formation that you and I would have given our right arms for.

Check it out, and if you decide to enroll your family, be sure to do so through my link below, because only through my link do you get my $160 worth of free goodies:

https://www.RonPaulHomeschool.com

Tom Woods