David (@walterrothbard) · DIRTY

David

@walterrothbard

ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊Libertarian/Voluntaryist/Anarchist. Tolerant Christian fundamentalist. Happily married (to @millennialhippie.bsky.social 💑👫) homeschooling father of 8 kids! #ProudNonVoter

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David@walterrothbard· 23d

Pov: you're trying to prep to teach Sunday School tomorrow

Picture of my daughter's white cat blocking my access to my laptop

David@walterrothbard· 27d

Very, very disappointed that this part of the VBS script last night, from 1 Samuel 24:3, was not more disruptive.

Field test finding

We thought kids might get really silly and giggly about Saul going to the bathroom (which would have been OK -- because they are kids!). But they just giggled a little and kept turning in to David. It was less of a silly or disruptive moment than we imagined.

David@walterrothbard· 29d

VBS let's gooooooooooooooooo!

David@walterrothbard· Jul 18

Rizz rizz

Screen capture from an animated cartoon. Red misshapen building in the foreground left. Blue misshapen building in the background, right. Between them are round cars pink and yellow with prominent antennas sticking up. Caption at the bottom says "Rizz rizz"

David@walterrothbard· Jul 9

Image of Frederic Bastiat in yellow on black background with quote from azquotes.com

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

David@walterrothbard· Jul 8

David@walterrothbard· Jul 8

Heading back home today, and I wish I'd brought this shirt to wear through US customs. But @millennialhippie.bsky.social is glad I did not! 😆

David@walterrothbard· Jul 6

So very tired of this justification. I will never demand perfection. I will always insist that you not demand I be subjected to demands, disrespect, judgment, criticism, unsolicited advice, angry outbursts.

The changes you want me to make in how I treat you are unreasonable. You’re demanding perfection.
You have no right to demand perfection of me unless you yourself are perfect.
Therefore, unless you yourself are perfect, you cannot ask me to make any changes.
It’s the perfect (ahem) way to bring any discussion to a standstill. The child’s concerns are dismissed, the parent is relieved of any need to change, the child is reminded that he or she is at least as imperfect as the parent, and the parent scores a subtle moral victory. No wonder estranged parents roll around in this theme like it’s catnip

David@walterrothbard· Jul 5

When you realize your government is constantly stirring up military conflict all over the globe, you never go back to those red circles.

David@walterrothbard· Jul 2

Pray for mexico

David@walterrothbard· Jul 2

Orwell in Mexico

David@walterrothbard· Jun 29

All capital white text on black background

You treat the wounds of my people carelessly, saying peace peace when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14

David@walterrothbard· Jun 27

How many people have to die before negativity about Obama doesn't score political points any more? 🙄 What year even is this?

David@walterrothbard· Jun 25

Same day he chose to vote "present" instead of opposing Trump's war powers.

Tweet from Rand Paul @RandPaul
Dr. Fauci buried the truth, silenced scientists, and lied to Congress. I've been fighting for accountability since day one, and I won’t stop until it’s achieved.

Quote tweeted by myself, with this response:
Sir, it's 2026. Nobody freaking cares. End the wars.

David@walterrothbard· Jun 23

"Oh those people are terrorists, you say? What terrorist things are they doing? Oh, they’re killing military forces who are invading their country?"

Two panel image from Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

With captions

Top panel: I'm just wondering what our objective is, Lieutenant.

To bring peace and prosperity to the planet. To install a regime loyal to the Emperor and eradicate the hostiles.

Bottom panel: But it's their planet. We're the hostiles.

David@walterrothbard· Jun 22

I knew

Headline from NPR
Did you know? Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand were close friends

David@walterrothbard· Jun 22

"small government"

Headline from The Washington Post
Alan Greenspan, most powerful central banker of modern times, dies at 100

David@walterrothbard· Jun 22

Tweet from Handre @Handre
Dated 7:19 AM - Jun 22, 2026
Alan Greenspan died today, and the man who spent two decades inflating bubbles will be eulogized as a maestro. Fitting, because he understood exactly what he was doing.

In 1966 a younger Greenspan wrote an essay called "Gold and Economic Freedom." He laid out the case with precision. The gold standard protected savers from confiscation by inflation. Welfare statists hated gold because it stood in the way of their deficits. He wrote that the abandonment of gold made deficit spending a "scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth." He was right. He knew it. Then he took the job running the printing press.

From August 1987 to January 2006 Greenspan sat atop the Federal Reserve and did the opposite of everything that essay defended. After the 1987 crash he flooded the banks with liquidity and taught a generation of traders that the central bank would catch them every time they fell. They named the reflex after him: the Greenspan put. He cut the federal funds rate to 1 percent by June 2003 and held it there, and you watched housing prices detach from any sane relationship to income. Mortgage credit gushed. He went on television in February 2004 and suggested Americans consider adjustable-rate mortgages, roughly eighteen months before he started hiking rates into those very borrowers. The man who warned in 1966 about the hidden confiscation of wealth engineered the largest credit distortion in postwar history.

Then came the apology that wasn't one. In October 2008, sitting before Congress as the wreckage smoked, Greenspan confessed he had found "a flaw" in his model of how the world worked. He was "shocked" that lenders had not policed themselves. You don't get to spend twenty years pricing risk at zero and then act surprised when men respond to the incentives you built. Any committee of economists cannot set the price of money better than a market can.

Greenspan knew the answer at 40 and spent the next half cent…

David@walterrothbard· Jun 21

Guess what I got for Father's day!

Photo of myself in Bluey pajamas with a Bluey shirt that says "in my Bandit era"

David@walterrothbard· Jun 21

Dan Quayle: Can I do the lyrics to "This Little Light of Mine"? Me: No Dan Quayle: I'm gonna do them anyway. Dan Quayle:

One line of lyrics and music notation, singing "I'm-a gonna let it shine. Whoe." "Whoe" is misspelled with an "e" at the end, the way Dan Quayle famously misspelled "potatoe."

David@walterrothbard· Jun 20

David@walterrothbard· Jun 19

You're worth learning not to be mean to.

I snapped at her, spoke to her harshly—cruelly. As the
words left my mouth, I could feel everything in the room
come to a stop. The gravy stopped bubbling, the molecules
of air stopped orbiting. Even Nina Simone seemed to
pause. Meg walked out of the room, disappearing for a full
fifteen minutes.
I went and found her upstairs. She was sitting in the
bedroom. She was calm, but said in a quiet, level tone that
she would never stand for being spoken to like that.
I nodded.
She wanted to know where it came from.
I don’t know.
Where did you ever hear a man speak like that to a
woman? Did you overhear adults speak that way when you
were growing up?
I cleared my throat, looked away. Yes.
She wasn’t going to tolerate that kind of partner. Or co-
parent. That kind of life. She wasn’t going to raise children
in an atmosphere of anger or disrespect. She laid it all out,
super-clear. We both knew my anger hadn’t been caused by
anything to do with our conversation. It came from
somewhere deep inside, somewhere that needed to be
excavated, and it was obvious that I could use some help
with the job.
W
I’ve tried therapy, I told her. Willy told me to go. Never
found the right person. Didn’t work.
No, she said softly. Try again.

David@walterrothbard· Jun 19

Tweet from Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus dated 2026-06-17 09:01

Kohen Wiley, 1 year old, shot and killed by Mississippi police.

Sam Abu Haikal, 7 months old, shot and killed by the IDF in the West Bank.

Both killed while in the car with their families.

If you don't think these two incidents are related, you're not paying attention.

Lower left: a photo of Kohen Wiley in checked overalls with Pixar Cars Lightning McQueen on them and matching shirt. Kohen is standing. He is looking directly at the camera peacefully. He is Black with short hair. His right hand is resting on something and is not visible; his left hand is at his side and all five of his little fingers are visible

Lower right: a photo of Sam Abu Haikal in a baby standing bouncer. Sam's mouth is open and big eyes are looking at the camera. Sam's holding on to what looks like one of the toys attached to the bouncer. Sam's little feet are visible standing on the floor beneath the bouncer. The picture is somewhat blurry.

David@walterrothbard· Jun 13

Gm, all! Only 195 days until Christmas!

Photo of myself, wearing a gray shirt that says in white capital letters "Immigrants & refugees are welcome in my America." There's a laptop in my lap. Above my head on the wall behind me is a wood plaque of the hymn Amazing Grace in shaped notes with six verses. I'm sitting in a green chair.

David@walterrothbard· Jun 3

Nah. Shut up, Bluesky.

David@walterrothbard· May 27

David@walterrothbard· May 27

Hello, Juneau!

David@walterrothbard· May 26

David@walterrothbard· May 19

Forever loved. Forever remembered. Forever honored. Forever spoken of.

Picture of my daughter Eva on the right in a hospital bed sitting next to her best friend on the left, now deceased. Eva is completely bald.

Left to right: Eva's twin brother; their little sister; their best friend; Eva