sreda, 5. avgust 2026

Worst election messaging ever

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The GOP message going into the midterms is so disastrously bad it's hard to believe they're not deliberately throwing the election.

They've taken the single stupidest page out of the Joe Biden playbook -- "The economy is actually great, but people are too dumb to realize it" -- and magnified it.

Auron MacIntyre just released a video on his X account making this exact point. 

And it is not in our imagination: Joel Berry, formerly of the Babylon Bee, thought it was a good idea to tell everyone how cheaply his family had made burritos, followed by
"I'm beginning to think the affordability crisis is really an 'I don’t know how to cook' crisis."

This is the same person who, in 2024, tweeted at Kamala Harris that he missed the America in which he could afford groceries.

So in under two years, as grocery prices have continued to rise, Joel Berry has somehow had an easier time affording them.

We all know what's happening, of course: these influencers live and die by being on the team, so to speak, and the team has told them that the messaging is going to be that the affordability problem is in the people's imaginations.

The messaging is: groceries are fine, gas is fine, housing is fine. Now vote for us!

Now it's true: the very worst of the price rises did occur under Joe Biden, and although prices have obviously not come down, the rate of increase has slowed.

But when you tell America that you can get the price of housing down by 40 percent by repealing regulations, and then we're still looking at a 40 to 50 percent increase over the past six years, that's a problem -- especially when the President professes to be bored by the subject, and even says it wouldn't be good for older Americans if housing prices fell.

The GOP could have made this its signature issue. It could have said: we are going to leave no stone unturned, appointing a blue-ribbon commission to identify every single cause of rising prices in these areas -- and although the Fed is at the heart of it, there are reasons specific to these individual markets as well.

I would appoint Professor Bryan Caplan to that commission; on the Tom Woods Show he explained, elaborating on points in his book Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, how housing prices in parts of America could be reduced by as much as 50 percent.

The momentum on the issue has therefore shifted to the Democrats -- I was about to say "the worst sector of the Democrats," but they're all so terrible I refuse to rank them.

So what do we do, right now, about the problem? Apart from writing angry social media posts (which our side specializes in), that is.

I see both sides of this issue. I recognize that there is a lot that is out of the hands of the individual citizen and -- angry as this will make some of you -- is going to require a political solution. Matt Walsh is right about this: no matter how responsible and hard-working an individual citizen is, he cannot on his own overcome "the end of the Welfare State that’s bleeding the working man dry, nor can it stop pointless foreign wars, or address any of a dozen other policy-level issues that are causing everyday life to be far more costly and financially burdensome than it should be."


At the same time, I am not a sit-around-and-wait guy, either. I want to find what is within my reach, and what I can accomplish even if the political problems never get solved.

While I understand and sympathize with people's frustration about the state of things -- heck, I write about that almost every day -- there are multiple reasons that being alive right now, in 2026, with all its flaws and problems, gives you more opportunity than has ever before existed. You can do things we ourselves could not have imagined when we were kids -- or even five years ago.

Next to nobody has figured this out, which amazes me.

I am about to host a live presentation on the kind of solopreneur business that was completely unavailable to our parents, and even to ourselves not all that long ago.

I am going to show you every single step of how to build it. I will assume no prior knowledge.

I am going to show you how to run it. And you can run it any time of day or night from just about anywhere in the world.

Almost nobody knows this material, because why would they? What school anywhere is preparing people for life in 2026?

I'm doing the presentation for free, and there is nothing for sale on it. So if you're afraid it might stink, don't worry: it doesn't cost anything, so you won't be out any dough.

But it will not stink. I am damn good at this.

And by the way, if you already have a business,
 I can almost guarantee this webinar is going to show you sacks of dough sitting on the floor that you've been overlooking.

Since nobody is coming to help us, we have to help each other. This presentation is my contribution to that cause.

What's the catch, Woods? The catch is: you have to be there live. No replay on this.

Here's the link to reserve your spot:

https://www.tomwoods.com/project2026


Tom Woods







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