Colten Cripe

saying the quiet part out loud

[Colten Cripe @Colten_Cripe23]

Building something special in west Michigan! Cannot wait to get started! Anchor up ⚪️🔵⚓️

[The Portal Report @ThePortalReport]

Bethel (NAIA) G Austin Cripe (@Austin_Cripe) is available, he tells TPR.

🔷6’3 Guard
🔷1st Team All Conference, NCCAA All-American
🔷16.5PPG, 4.1RPG, 2.5APG, 1.4SPG on 49% FG, 45% 3PT
🔷96 made 3PT this season

🎥⬇️

[Austin @Austin_Cripe]

6’3 Guard - RS So

Grad Student with 2 Years of Eligibility Remaining - 3.6 gpa

Bethel University - Crossroads League
(NAIA)

1st Team All Crossroads League
4th in POY Voting
26-9 Record

16.5 ppg 4.1 rpg 2.5 apg 1.4 spg
48.9 FG% 45.7 3FG% 96 made 3’s

[CSPAN @cspan]

Elon Musk at CPAC: "This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy."

Full video here: https://t.co/1ZoWVmLCIT

[UFC @ufc]

President @RealDonaldTrump in the building for #UFC309

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.

Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!

We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining 🤣🤣

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: Donald J. Trump has won the 2024 presidential election and will become the 47th president of the United States.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸The future is gonna be so 🔥 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

BREAKING: Elon Musk and 𝕏 at the Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let that sink in!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

You can judge the quality of a leader by the talent and intelligence of their direct reports. Strong leaders hire team members that are smarter than they are. Weak leaders hire weak direct reports. They don’t want to be outshone by the people they employ.

@JDVance vs. @GovTimWalz is a clear reference check on @realDonaldTrump vs. @KamalaHarris and their ability to identify and recruit talent.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I'm trying to calculate my "fair share" of taxes, according to Kamala Harris, and I need some help.

For example, during my adult life I have paid about ten times as much taxes as the average citizen, and I consume relatively little in public services. How much does Harris want to cut my taxes while raising taxes on the middle class to make it fair?

Or we could look at the raw dollar amount of taxes paid without regard to individual consumption. Here again, I'm in for a big tax cut to achieve fairness.

Or we could factor in hours worked, so the people who work the hardest are incentivized. That seems fair. Again, I'm in for a juicy tax break under the fairness plan.

It also seems to me that Democrats are the reason for the massive migrant expenses of late. I will accept reparations from Democrats for whatever that cost me.

Or we could go by percentages. If you add up my federal taxes, my California state taxes, my property taxes, and my sales taxes, my tax rate is around 60%. I look forward to reducing that to get me some fairness.

Or we could tax the unrealized gains of the assets I accumulated over my lifetime, also known as theft, in which case I will move to El Salvador. For fairness.

Can someone help me pick the right approach?

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The top 1 percent of income earners pay almost 50 percent of federal income taxes. The top 10 percent pay 75 percent of the taxes. The bottom 50 percent pay 2 percent. In what way is this “fair”? And how in God’s name do you make it more fair by making the people who already pay for almost everything pay even more? What definition of fairness are we using here?

[cole hocker @cole_hocker]

OLYMPIC CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Colten Cripe @Colten_Cripe23]

@T_Gatzemeier Thanks for sharing. Curious where you found the 15 year rule resets with beneficiary change? I thought it was from when account originally opened up and funded.

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

If we confiscated ALL of the net worth of the top 400 billionaires in the US (there are only like 600 anyway) -- we'd get around $4-5Trillion. This would require
- dismantling every one of the most successful companies in the US
- breaking them up & selling them to necessarily foreign interests (since no one left in the US can buy them)
- literally *millions* will lose their jobs or experience severe restructuring
- everything that makes the US economy remotely competitive would be eviscerated
- everyone with even a hint of wealth left to protect would vanish from this country as soon as the planes could fit their butts into seats
- the poor and middle class would be left to eat their own feces & burn their furniture to stay warm during winter...

And we could fund the US govt's voracious greed for LESS THAN ONE YEAR...

The really fun part is that we'd still have a deficit of like $2T.

If you think our country's debt problem is because we DoNT TaX billionaires EnUF, I urge you to go back to elementary school and learn how to count.

[Balaji @balajis]

LOSING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN

Let’s be real: US political leaders since the Gulf War are perhaps the worst leaders in the history of the world.

In 1991, they inherited a hyperpower that wins everywhere without fighting. But by 2021 they produced a declining power that fights everywhere without winning. It’s thirty years of unmitigated domestic and international failure, from San Francisco to Syria, from financial crisis to coronavirus.

With every inherited advantage, US leaders nevertheless produced historical collapses in life expectancy[1] and manufacturing capacity[2], in patriotic loyalty and involvement in community[3]. They also delivered concomitant rises in drug overdoses[4], out-of-wedlock births[5], and homeless encampments[6].

And no, they have no historical, philosophical, or literary depth. The historical analogies begin and end with 1939. The philosophy is little more than constant accusations of racism. And the reading level of US presidential speeches has measurably[7] dropped like a rock, to idiocratically elementary levels.

The only thing the establishment *has* delivered on is their own bottom line. Think about Pelosi’s stocks[8], BLM’s mansions[9], Obama’s book deals, and 10% for the big guy. The corruption is now flagrant and public. As others have observed, we’re in the looting-the-treasury phase of imperial collapse, as the national debt soars past $33T with literally no limit in sight.

STUPID, OR EVIL?
And that's what leads to the "conspiracy theories." Are US leaders stupid, or evil? Did they unintentionally ruin what was once the greatest country on earth, or was it intentional and done for their own gain?

The conspiracy theories are a way for mere proles to make sense of the senseless. They aren't all wrong, mind you — WMD was fake, the AAA mortgage-backed securities were fake, Russiagate was fake, and so on. Evil was involved in intentionally faking these stories.

But ultimately, thinking of US leadership as evil gives them too much credit. It's just hard to remain global #1. The nature of entropy means there are countless ways for the world order to shatter, and only a few ways to keep it intact. Maybe George Washington could find one of those ways, but we have Joe Biden. And that's why DC is losing the Mandate of Heaven[10].

[1]: https://t.co/USoeXzI5AR
[2]: https://t.co/jjn8Gwz6zi
[3]: https://t.co/Ts1Ya44imK
[4]: https://t.co/YNX8NUXUOx
[5]: https://t.co/yGYVcEAR8w
[6]: https://t.co/mBiCgL2kVz
[7]: https://t.co/U9AXZzTfGD
[8]: https://t.co/ztInETxmw0
[9]: https://t.co/BDpameYVpn
[10]: https://t.co/00q7bHP8z7

[Colten Cripe @Colten_Cripe23]

@CryptoNewsYes Where’s the full video of this?

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

This was Tucker Carlson Tonight’s last moment.

Eating pizza with the hero delivery man who stopped a car jacker.

I can’t think of a better way for the greatest cable news show in history to end.

[Barstool WN @BarstoolWn]

❓Sectional Championship Tonight!
🗺️ Northwood High School
🤺 vs. Northwood
⏰ 7:30 est.
🎽 Theme: Jersey Night

See you there!! #ChargerNation

@WestNobleAD @WestNobleHoops

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

America’s strength is not our diversity but the ideals that unify us across our differences. Merit. Free speech. Truth. Accountability. I believe deep in my bones these ideals still exist, and I am running for President to revive them.

https://t.co/LcDB04ihNQ