Fishstick

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[GINGERSKOL💜💛 @GlowSurfing]

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[American Nightmare 🇺🇸 @thewakeninq]

WOW! Japan 🇯🇵 has just launched a BEAUTIFUL fireworks display for America's 250th birthday in Tokyo, after lighting up both the Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge red, white and blue

Japan honors America🇺🇸 with pride!

Democrats raise the Somali flag while JAPAN is even more patriotic than the left.

Blue cities that are canceling their 250 celebrations should watch this and TAKE NOTES!

[Fishstick @33lbGopher]

OK, it’s now been 250 years. Sure, as a country we have made mistakes, but that doesn’t mean we’re hell on earth as some living here want you to believe. But 250 years? I say we’re doing a lot of things right. Celebrate, enjoy, be safe.

[Fishstick @33lbGopher]

@ImumorinSa27683 @SqSehrish Huh?

[Fishstick @33lbGopher]

@MrWhiplash_ And nothing will happen, no one will be held accountable.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[For ღ of God ✟ & Country 🇺🇸 @CMSGF52777]

@EricLDaugh 📢 HEY @SenateGOP

✔️ WE PAY YOUR SALARY.

✔️ WE WANT THE SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSED.

➡️ DO YOU JOB‼️

SINCERELY,
85% OF AMERICANS

[Fishstick @33lbGopher]

@otokyo 36

[One Bad Dude @OneBadDude_]

If your candidate was forced through the primaries with ZERO votes, don’t talk to me about kings.

If your side has made multiple attempts on the presidents life, don’t talk to me about saving democracy.

If you don’t know what a woman is, don’t tell me to trust the science.

If you think that President Trump staged attacks on himself, don’t talk to me about conspiracy theories.

If you are boosted with Covid jabs, don’t talk to me about a cult.

If you’re trying to convince children to be uncomfortable in their own skin, don’t talk to me about brainwashing.

If you support abortion on demand, don’t talk to me about religion.

If you supported a vegetable as president, don’t talk to me about invoking the 25th amendment.

If you have armed security, don’t tell me the rest of us need gun control.

If you’re inviting illegals into our country by the millions, don’t tell me we don’t need secure borders and elections.

If you’re misappropriating billions of our tax dollars, don’t tell me not to worry about fraud.

If you burn our flag, don’t tell me how to run our country.

Enough is enough!

[Toni @ToniLL22]

I love this. 👇
To the person who wrote this, thank you for sharing what so many of us think of our President.♥️🇺🇸

Mr. President,
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I don’t know if you’ll ever read this. Probably not. But I’m writing it anyway because my wife and I talk about this all the time, and somebody needs to say it out loud.
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We can’t wait for the day you’re no longer President.
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Not because we’re tired of you. The opposite. Because you deserve to go home. You deserve quiet mornings. You deserve to sit on your own porch without the weight of 330 million people sitting on your shoulders. You deserve your family back. You deserve peace.
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You didn’t have to do any of this.
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You had the money.
You had the name.
You had the life most men only dream about.
You could’ve spent the rest of your days golfing, traveling, watching your grandkids grow up.
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Instead you stepped into a fire that nearly cost you everything.
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They mocked you. They sued you. They raided your home. They tried to bankrupt you. They tried to lock you up. They dragged your wife and kids through the mud. They put a bullet through your ear and you got up with your fist in the air and kept going.
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For what?
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For us. Regular people. Truck drivers. Welders. Waitresses. Roughnecks. Farmers. Single moms working two jobs. Grandparents on a fixed income watching the country they built get handed away.
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You didn’t owe us a thing. And you gave us everything.
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You risked your name. Your legacy. Your safety. Your family’s safety. Your brand. Your freedom. All of it. So this country could have one more shot at being what it was supposed to be.
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And the truth nobody wants to admit?
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We didn’t deserve a President like you.
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A nation this divided, this ungrateful, this asleep at the wheel didn’t earn a man willing to bleed for it. But God sent you anyway. And I’ll thank Him for that until the day I die. 🙏
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So when the day finally comes that you walk away from that desk, I hope you sleep good. I hope your wife laughs again without looking over her shoulder. I hope your kids breathe easy. I hope you golf till the sun goes down and nobody bothers you for nothing.
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You earned every bit of it.
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Thank you, Mr. President. From a truck driver in Texas who prays for you often.
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God bless you. God bless your family. And God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸

[Fishstick @33lbGopher]

@LouWagstaff @JoshHall2024 Another idiot.

[Sue Knows Best @sues86453]

Pay attention now!

Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table.

Ready?... now pay attention....

Joe legal: $25.00 per hour × 40 hours = $1,000.00 per week or $52,000.00 per year. Now, take 31% away for State and Federal taxes. Joe legal now has $31,231.00.

Jose illegal: $15.00 an hour × 40 hours = $600.00 per week or $31,200.00 per year. Jose illegal pays no taxes. Jose illegal now has $31,200.00.

Joe legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe legal now has $24,031.00.

Jose illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the State and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe legal spends $500.00 per month for food or $6,000.00 per year. Joe legal now has $18,031.00.

Jose illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe legal pays rent of 1,200.00 per month or $14,400.00 per year. Joe legal now has $9,631.00.

Jose illegal receives $500.00 per month Federal rent subsidy. Jose illegal pays out that $500.00 per month or $6,000.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe legal pays $200.00 per month or $2,400.00 per year for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance. Joe legal now has $7,231.00.

Jose illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance."... and still has $31,000.00.

Joe legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline.. etc.

Jose illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline and what he sends out of the country every month....

Joe legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe legal's and Jose illegal's children both attend the same elementary school.

Joe legal pays for his children's lunches while...

Jose illegal's children get a government-sponsored lunch.

Jose illegal's children have an after school ESL program.

Joe legal's children go home.

Now, when they reach college age...

Joe legal's kids may not get into a State school and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State schools through his taxes, while...

Jose illegal's kids go to the, 'head of the class' because they are a minority.

Joe legal and Jose illegal both benefit from the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not.

Do you get it, now?

If we vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens,... we are part of the problem.

Its way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Look, I get it, Dems.

You think buying Greenland is dumb.

You think trash-talking NATO is dumb.

You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb.

You think bombing Iran is dumb.

Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it.

But that’s not the point.

Every administration in American history has done dumb things.

Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy.

LBJ had Vietnam.

Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1.

W. had “Mission Accomplished.”

Obama had…. where do I even begin?

Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions.

What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for.

That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for.

A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency.

That’s the new threshold, Democrats.
That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible.

Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland.

But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care.

Zero F’s given by me.

[Tar_&_Feather_Enthusiast @RefuseWokeness]

MAGA is your next door neighbor who works 5 days a week at his dead end middle management job, mows his grass on Saturdays and attends Church with his family on Sundays and is just trying to keep his bills paid, his family provided for and some money left over to retire before he dies.

MAGA is an hourly operator at a local manufacturing plant working 55 hours a week hoping for more so he can take his boys hunting next season and buy his family of 5 the minivan they desperately need.

MAGA is the owner and operator of his own contract trucking business driving on the road 16 hours a day for as many days as he can each week just to keep his family clothed and fed which he can barely do after cutting his rates low enough to compete with illegal drivers who aren’t even literate in their own language never mind English but somehow they are able to get their trucks paid for by others because Americans last.

MAGA is the long retired Sergeant Major who spent years overseas watching his military brethren die one by one only to return to a country full of uninformed overly indoctrinated spoiled twats calling him a murderer but he carried on still lives in the same small town, still gets the news paper, lives on his minimal VA benefits, social security, flies 🇺🇸 in his yard, and still drives his old fixed up 67 Ford in every holiday parade.

MAGA is the 6th generation farmer who’s had to sell off most of his family’s land just to keep his stock fed and watered each year while being undercut by the corporate owned illegal cheap labor hiring land striping industrial farm just up the road.

MAGA is the house wife who spends her whole day keeping her house together, picking kids up and dropping them off to and from school, sports, and recitals, then cooks dinner and prepares the next day lunches for her family before going to bed each night praying to God for her family’s safety and that her kids will grow up to be everything she knows they can be in the country she loves.

MAGA is a 24 year old Engineering grad student who’s been competing with foreigners for internships who already have their entire college paid for by NGO’s floated by the taxes her parents have been paying their whole lives but have been siphoned off by emotionally manipulative political class power hungry criminals.

MAGA is America, not the GOP, not internet influencers, podcast bros, or even President Trump. MAGA is the blood, sweat, and tears, that make this country great by living our lives, providing for our families, chasing the American dream, fighting for our country when called to do so, and showing up to the voting block when it’s time to make our voices heard.

We are and always will be America First because MAGA is America.
🇺🇸

[Siggy Flicker @siggyflicker]

I may piss a few of you off by posting this. We can handle it one of two ways: discuss it like adults or you can unfriend me. Your choice. You have your opinion and I have mine. Before anyone gets their panties in a wad, I add that my ancestors came here from other countries, as did most everyone else's ancestors, and they learned the language and worked and never once did I hear any of them trash America. They became citizens, were proud to be one and some served in the military! I am nice to everyone and I have no problem with anyone coming here and making a good life for themselves and their family, BUT if you are coming here and expect us to become what you just came from, then that’s not happening! Return and work on your country and make it better where you can be proud to live in it.

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of AMERICA, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

“IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT.”

Take it or leave it. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.

We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language.

Most Americans believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.

If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our "culture." We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us. This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.

But once you are done complaining and whining about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great AMERICAN freedom,

"THE RIGHT TO LEAVE".

If you aren't happy here, then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country that accepted you.

NOTE:
IF we circulate this among ourselves, WE will find the courage to start speaking and voicing the same truths.
If you agree, please SEND THIS ON and as for those who disagree, move to a country that suits you and live there. "
THANK YOU! 🇺🇸

Copy and Paste if you want...
I can't be the only American that feels this way..

[Fishstick @33lbGopher]

@thedaywar90 I hope you really don’t believe that.

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

Here's a little number I like to call "FUCK BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN."

Springsteen said Trump is the "living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for," and suggested he should be consigned to the "trash heap of history."

Seriously?

Because from where I'm sitting, 25A was SPECIFICALLY designed to keep people with ADVANCED ALZHEIMER'S from taking power.

It was made for people who forget where they are.

People who freeze up at White House events on camera.

People who stumble and stammer through basic sentences.

People who can’t find their way off the stage.

People who trip over sandbags.

People who fall repeatedly up the steps of Air Force One.

PEOPLE WHO MELT DOWN DURING THE MOST CRUCIAL DEBATE OF THEIR CAMPAIGN.

In other words, the 25th Amendment was specifically designed to keep AMERICA from having a president as INCAPACITATED as JOE BIDEN was.

But where the hell was Brucey when that walking disaster was in the Oval Office?

Where was his righteous outrage when Biden was slurring through speeches?

Where was his “trash heap of history” talk when the country was being run by a man who couldn’t even make it through a speech without babbling?

Nowhere.

This fake-ass “working class hero” watched an obviously senile president destroy the country for four years and said NOTHING.

But the second Trump wins, suddenly he’s clutching his pearls and screaming about tyranny and the 25th Amendment.

What a pathetic, hypocritical has-been.

"Hey Bruce, why don't you set THESE lyrics to music, you anti-American asshole."

[🔥🇺🇸 KC 🇺🇸🔥 @KCPayTreeIt]

Yo @GOP,

You worthless fucks. We the people, handed you back the White House with President Trump, a Senate majority, a House majority, the popular vote, and all seven swing states in 2024. All you spineless, self-serving bastards had to do was have the guts to deliver.

Pass the SAVE America Act. Prosecute those responsible for an intentional invasion of the United States. Go after those involved in Epstein Island crimes, including trafficking and sexual abuse. Hold accountable those tied to Russia collusion. Charge and deport fraudulent foreign actors who have been robbing U.S. taxpayers.

Mass arrests, followed by bank accounts frozen for those involved in the DOGE fraud. Seize their personal property, and liquidate stocks to repay the American people they stole from. Take down demonic Fraudci, Gates, and other health officials for the crimes against humanity leading to killing and mangling of millions of Americans from CONVID and the clot shots. Arrest those who allowed fentanyl to pour through our borders, poisoning our youth and destroying our communities. Take down the people who committed treason when orchestrating the stolen election of 2020.

This should keep you busy until 2028. Now get to work and do the damn job you were elected to do and are paid by the American people to do.

We will primary every last one of you RINO swamp creatures.

Sincerely,
The Majority 🇺🇸

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Bernie Sanders - millionaire socialist, owner of three houses, champion of the working class - was just caught flying Delta First Class out of Washington while the TSA agents he helped screw over cannot pay their bills.

Not coach. Not economy. First Class. Leather seats and warm towels while the people keeping his flight safe go home to empty bank accounts. 😡

And here is what that image tells you about every single thing Bernie Sanders has ever said about income inequality.

This is the man who has spent 40 years in Washington screaming about the billionaire class and the suffering of working Americans. He helped engineer the Democrat shutdown that left TSA workers without paychecks. He voted with Chuck Schumer to hold their salaries hostage for open border policies. Then he walked straight past those same underpaid workers, handed his bag to the First Class attendant, and settled into his seat without a moment of reflection.

That is not a gaffe. That is who he is. That is who he has always been. The socialist lecture is for you. The First Class seat is for him. Remember every word Bernie Sanders has ever said about fairness and equality the next time you see him boarding from the front of the plane while the workers he claims to represent eat into their savings. No more excuses. No more games.