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Loving husband and father who's not afraid to show his emotions and marvels at the beauty of the human condition. And hates people in Costco.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

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Leaked internal memo to all MSM: "OK, this looks bad. We were unable to stop Nick Shirley, so everone pivot and accuse Trump of exactly what we did 4 years ago".

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

#BREAKING California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Department of Justice is investigating him and his wife https://t.co/vddrnb7ubk

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What you may or may not understand is if Tom ever killed Jerry, the cartoon would be over. Hence the non solutions prevalent at all levels of government.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

I actually don’t care who’s LA Mayor. I just want to hire someone who is willing to bring on an adequate number of @LAPD for a city this size; properly equip the @LAFD; pick up the trash in the streets and on the freeways; get rid of all homeless encampments and put the mentally ill people who light fires, harass us at red lights, walk onto the freeways, etc into treatment; uphold existing laws and punish the increasing crime; fill potholes and file down the tire-popping ridges in the roads and freeways; shutdown and prosecute street take-overs that block traffic and scar the intersections; and stop “losing” billions of our tax dollars on various unfinished city projects.
It’s a very low bar.

@spencerpratt was the only person in this race who planned on doing something about any of it. I’d be fine if Bass as the @MayorOfLA had been interested in doing any of that the past 4 years. I’d be fine if @nithyavraman had gone in this direction during her years in City Council. But now it seems they want us to believe that most of the people in LA just love the city as the mess that it is, and in fact want the very people who made it this way to continue on and make it even worse.

Ok. I don’t believe you at all. But, I guess we’ll all get to watch you make a mess of the Olympics and any other event (natural or planned) that occurs here. It’s remarkable that competence is in such short supply.

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@PMSFilmNoir may be Chronic Tacoing, but are you familiar with The Empty Trap by John D MacDonald? Not Travis McGee, but just as fun.

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@young_maymay OK, just like you can't close the border? You can do whatever you set your mind to. Enforce municipal laws.

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It's drug addiction. Enforce municipal laws. Offer two choices in desert tent cities. Camp Hope for those who want help and Camp Desperation for those who do not. The former will provide all the tools to move forward. The latter includes free drugs and an 'Escape from NY' vibe.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

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Sure. I have many bot followers. They all seem to like me.

[Stella X @Stellaaa]

If you’re in California & not a Democrat, hit me up I want to follow you

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Is there anything so caveman as working with one monitor?

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@Theoldp Sounds like there's something in the water up there.

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@PetrosAndMoney Your official @AnaheimDucks show of record. Not even close.

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Very chippy at Honda Center.

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Not even touching his Triple Dipper app.

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@PetrosAndMoney just saw @timcates looking bummed at Chili's after that quick Vegas goal. Went to the bathroom and came back looking pumped!!

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

Gavin Newsom just announced a shiny new taxpayer funded program giving free diapers to newborns leaving California hospitals and his administration is partnering with Baby2Baby with almost $20 MILLION in state funds to manufacture them.

I’m sure it’s a total coincidence that one of Baby2Baby’s Co-CEOs, Norah Weinstein, sits on the board of Gavin Newsom’s wife’s California Partners Project.

There is nothing that Gavin Newsom can’t grift.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 WOW. California governor candidate Steve Hilton (R) exposes that Gavin Newsom and Democrats shoved a $1,350 PER MONTH CHARGE for 20 years on every new single family home into a bill

"They snuck it into the bill that was supposed to SOLVE their housing crisis!"

"Vehicle Miles Travelled, and it's yet another sneaky, stealthy way that the Democrats in charge of California want to gouge you for the crime of driving your car."

"They're trying to punish single-family homes. They want to stop single-family homes from being built, and so they're going to put this charge on it, VMT, because if you build a new home, people are going to drive to their new home. That's vehicle miles travelled."

"They are trying to sneak in a charge, wait for it, of $1,350 per month for 20 years on every new single-family home. And this is in the bill, AB130, that Gavin Newsom said would solve the housing crisis. They don't want to solve the housing crisis."

California needs to wake up and vote red for once!

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@GavinNewsom There's no such thing as free diapers Gav.

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@TomSteyer It's almost as if you have no clue as to what you're speaking about.

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@TomSteyer Gaslighting

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@TomSteyer You are insane.

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@PMSFilmNoir The Postman Always Rings Twice? Wail it or sail it?