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Warped brains

and their cure.

View in browser One of my guests on the Tom Woods Show this week is Cliff Maloney, whose organization Citizens Alliance focuses on the nuts-and-bolts work of politics: they’re knocking on 160,000 doors for Thomas Massie, for example. Just this week Maloney’s book Run Right, a detailed manual on exactly what is involved in running a winning political campaign, was released, and although I realize running for office sounds like a fate worse than death to many of my readers, for those of you thinking about it this book is truly indispensable. You don’t know what you don’t know, and when you read this book you’ll realize just how much you didn’t know — and you’ll be glad you know it now. In the second half of our conversation we talk about the Thomas Massie race in Kentucky. It blows my mind that I have Massie opponents on my list. I expect FOX News viewers, who live in an alternate universe constructed by neocons (who are not your friends, I should not have to point out), to oppose Massie, whom they think is a “liberal Republican.” I expect better from my subscribers. Many of you started following me because of Covid. Massie was excellent on Fauci, on masks, on the vaccine mandates, the whole thing. To put it mildly, not all Republicans were. If there’s anyone in the House better than Massie on guns, I’d like to know who it is. As I mentioned yesterday, this week everyone is up in arms about the kill switch they just found out is going in everyone’s cars starting in 2027 — the government is going to let AI decide if your car should be disabled because of your driving. Well, if you’d been following Massie, you’d know he stood practically alone pushing back against the Democrats on this. A significant chunk of Republicans were too busy stabbing us in the back and siding with the Democrats to come to Massie’s aid. Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, when some Republicans ran and hid, and he grilled Merrick Garland about how many FBI assets were at the Capitol on January 6. Not exactly what an anti-Trump congressman would do. Just this week Massie scored legislative victories when Congress struck down immunity for pesticides and also started a pilot of Massie's PRIME Act, which strikes down regulatory barriers that have made it gratuitously difficult for consumers and producers alike who would like to make meats like beef, pork, and lamb available for purchase from local farmers. Every last meat eater in America should support that. Massie has one of the best voting records in U.S. history, in my opinion. And as for presidential war powers, where the FOX News viewer is very unhappy, Massie is merely holding to the views of Senator Robert Taft, who was to the right of all of Massie’s current-day critics, and who for good measure was known in his day as “Mr. Republican.” If Sean Hannity and Mark Levin hadn’t warped unsuspecting conservatives’ brains for 30 years, they would already know these things. Even if you oppose Massie here and there on tactics and strategy, you cannot, as an American patriot, allow three outside billionaires to install a nonentity — whom they favor precisely because he’s a nonentity and thus a pushover for what they want. You cannot support that. That is an insult to you as an American. To make matters worse, the nonentity has ducked all debates, and even public events where there will be questions from the press! You’re going to let billionaires install someone like that, who is obviously there just to serve them? No way. I refuse to believe that. My readers are red-blooded Americans and would never stand for that. I don’t care about whatever criticism you may have of Massie: this absolutely cannot stand.  Your disagreements with Massie are like chewing gum in school. The problems with “Ed Gallrein” are like school shootings. At any rate, Cliff reported that Massie seems to be up by a few points. Three reputable polls find Massie up by three, up by eight, and down by four, respectively. It would be demoralizing in the extreme for the outside billionaires to win this one and knock out the best congressman we have — who by my assessment is to the right of Trump on virtually everything. I remind you that Massie has essentially been blacklisted by FOX News for the past 18 months, so without social media he’d have had a much harder time communicating with the public. So when we’re inclined to denounce it, we need to remember that.  I’m back to offering my four-week masterclasses, and this latest one is precisely on how to spread ideas and/or make sales and build your subscriber base with social media. Hundreds of millions of people are on these platforms; Ron Paul didn’t refuse to debate 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. 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 knuckleheads figured it out. Your customers, your ideological compatriots, your future subscribers, they’re all out there, and I’ll show you how to find them. Early-bird special is in effect but not for much longer: https://www.tomwoods.com/socialmediamastery Tom Woods

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This headline should win a prize for evil

View in browser Yesterday on Twitter/X, someone posted what he described as the worst headline during all of Covid, on the sixth anniversary of its publication in The Atlantic: That's a blast from the past for my longtime readers who have been with me since at least back then. Those readers know that none of the useless government measures did a thing to help anyone, because I showed you all the charts. You cannot tell one state from another. And if you look within a state, you cannot label on a chart when things like the George Floyd riots occurred, or when a mask mandate was introduced, or when Thanksgiving was. All of those things, and others besides, should have been glaring on a chart, but they were not. I told the person who posted that headline from The Atlantic that I consider this headline from the Washington Post, immediately after Iowa repealed its useless statewide Covid restrictions, to be a close runner-up: Later that year, a chart of health outcomes in the Midwestern states did not show Iowa to have been any kind of outlier, and in fact if the lines representing the various states of the Midwest had been unlabeled, it would have been impossible to tell which state was Iowa. Needless to say, no apology was ever forthcoming from the Post. After all those newsletters I wrote to you back then, and all the times we exploded the official myth-making, I couldn't let it all vanish into the ether. Thus I wrote Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, which features a foreword by the current director of the National Institutes of Health. I could have hired someone to narrate the audiobook, but I needed my contempt for the insanity to come through the audio, not to mention the sarcasm that accompanied so much of my writing on this. Treat yourself:   https://www.tomwoods.com/diaryaudiobook Two notes for you: (1) I've had a cancellation, so I have a single female role available for my Philadelphia murder mystery dinner party on May 20. If you’d like to take that role, you may attend the event for free, as my guest. Just reply to this email to let me know you’d like the role and it’s yours. First come, first served! (2) My old friend Mark Monoscalco -- he was one of the participants in the Family Feud event at the 2000th episode of the Tom Woods Show, and who introduced himself as being from "the Union of Soviet Socialist Islands," by which he meant Hawaii -- has just written a book on the history of the idea of freedom: The Forbidden Idea. This book lays out the philosophy and history of that idea, and its subsidiary ideas, in a clear, compelling way. If you want to better understand the principles of a free society, and how they can be advanced in your own life, this book is for you. If you already are confident in your knowledge, it’s a perfect gift for someone who isn’t -- yet. Check it out: TheForbiddenIdea.com Tom Woods

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What 57 evil Republicans did

while you weren't watching.

View in browser 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:   https://www.tomwoods.com/socialmediamastery Tom Woods

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