As we approach Columbus Day, we reflect on the remarkable transformation of Columbus Circle.
Under the Biden administration, the fountain was broken down and covered in pro-Hamas graffiti.
Now, thanks to @POTUS, it is a symbol of American greatness!
This woman is explaining why she can no longer work starting with: “Let me get on here and piss some people off. I’m white, I’m nonbinary, I’m gay, I have a fucking pink mullet, and I’m chronically ill and disabled. I don’t really work a job, and when I do, I can’t work more than 15 hours a week. Matter of fact, right now, I am currently unemployed.”
The crazy part is that if you open TikTok, you can run into videos like hers almost every day from other young people who identify as chronically ill and disabled. And, of course, many of them are part of the queer community, and the majority are liberal white women with brightly dyed hair.
It’s 2026. Medicine is better than it has ever been, yet more people seem to be sick, and these aren’t elderly patients. They’re young and able-bodied.
I don’t know if something is in the air or the food, if there’s some incentive for doctors to diagnose these people with various illnesses and put them on medication, turning them into lifelong patients, or if this is simply a mental health issue that isn’t being properly treated. But this is not normal. There is no way this many young people can be sick with the same illnesses, during the same period, all at once, while trying to get disability benefits and accommodations.
She wasn’t actively on social media much but she posted numerous videos showing off her dance talents for the past last year. Strangely enough her mobility doesn’t look abnormal and not even once I couldn’t see a video of her using a cane to move around just the opposite.
I’ve seen people who fought and beat cancer, as well as visibly disabled people missing limbs or joints, who don’t make videos explaining why they can’t work or live a normal life, unlike so many people who have their entire adult lives ahead of them. Someone needs to look into this phenomenon because the math isn’t mathing.
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.
Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.
What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.
The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.
@VoteMarsha is a mother and a grandmother who has always fought to protect children. In Arkansas, we are putting kids first with Bell to Bell: No Cell so students can have fewer distractions, better learning opportunities, and less worries in the classroom, and I believe Tennessee will be the next state to follow under Marsha Blackburn's leadership.
🚨 MUST WATCH VIDEO: "The Odyssey" star John Leguizamo demanded that anyone who supports ICE not watch his movies.
STAR OF THE ODYSSEY: "If you follow ICE, unfollow me, don’t come to my shows and don’t watch my movies."
America's Mayor Live 🇺🇸
If I were in Congress, the 3 most important pieces of legislation I would champion are:
1) End birthright citizenship & limit it to children of American citizens
2) The SAVE America Act to require photo ID & documentary proof of citizenship
3) Codify that the Census should ONLY include American citizens — neither illegal aliens nor legal non-citizens should count in the apportionment of House seats
🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Oz have just announced OVER *ONE MILLION* PEOPLE are on Obamacare with NO Social Security number…
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It’s one big racket! Shut it down!
“They submit applications for fake people and enroll stolen identities all to collect millions of dollars in fees from insurance companies for selling plans they never legitimately sold!”
“The Obamacare marketplace is plagued by fraud, in large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity guardrails.”
“More than a million people enrolled in Obamacare without social security numbers on file. That is a glaring warning side of fraud.”
“If even a single person was on Obamacare with no social security number, we should have found out why are we paying people who we don't know if they actually exist.”
“Shady insurance agents and other bad actors have been getting paid to enroll unsuspecting Americans in health plans they never signed up for.”
“Thanks to this aggressive enforcement strategywe've already eliminated thousands of fraudulent policies and we're just getting started.”
“We’re also working with insurers to cancel every policy that should never have been issued and recover every tax payer dollar that was fraudulently paid out.”
This is why we need to pass Trump’s plan!
@LeaderJohnThune If you care about your family & presumably our families, then why do you refuse to secure our elections to protect us?
It’s time to stop stalling the SAVE America Act.
Discrimination against Christians in the MLB keeps happening. Take a look at the Director from the @Nationals we caught on tape saying the Nationals don't show Catholic pitcher Trevor Williams on their social media because of his faith.
OMG is here to help @AAGDhillon.