Here it is:
There’s nothing Democrats do without cheating — including ramming higher taxes down the throats of the American taxpayer at 4:30 in the morning, around the same time frame they rig everything else, including overthrowing your government.
Illinois’ attempt to raise taxes failed. The law only allows a maximum of two votes.
Here are Democrats meeting at 4:30 AM, illegally taking a third vote and attempting to ram a tax increase down the throats of the citizens of Illinois.
Leader Patrick Windhorst called out Democrats on the House floor:
“Madam Speaker, I don’t believe you recorded the prior vote when we had the verification. I believe that was inappropriate. I think it’s clear to everybody what’s going on here. It takes a supermajority.
How many times does it take to get this right in your mind? You passed these rules. These are your rules. I think you’re wrong with the motion to reconsider. That’s not the appropriate process.
Rule 72 is clear about what is to occur with concurrences. It says you get two votes on a concurrence. Both of those failed.
I think it should be clear to everyone in this state what this supermajority is willing to do to ram a tax increase down the throats of the citizens of Illinois at 4:30 in the morning. Three votes. Three votes.
Three votes. Request a verification.”
Now, if John Thune doesn’t think the Democrats will nuke the filibuster—he is a f**king Democrat.
Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress.
The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely.
Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on.
The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors.
Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.
RFK Jr: We’ve already shut down 500 hospices in Los Angeles, and incidentally we haven’t had one call, complaining because clearly these were fraudulent.
As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.”
At the same time, I felt a deep envy.
Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses.
In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak.
The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference.
One side risks everything to save their own.
The other sacrifices their own to stay in power.
This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.
@NewYorkStateAG Only mass mail-in ballots. Individuals can still request a ballot like the have for many decades before COVID when many states adopted California’s crooked ways.
Democrats will fight harder for the baby in the womb of an illegal to become an American citizen, than they’ll fight for the baby in the womb of an American, and their right to life.
Birthright citizenship is a scam.