Duncan C

[Disciple @nezarecshatred]

@ItsNotSoar It’s never Titan

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Dave Ramsey explains why the government stopped making you pay your taxes by hand, and what would happen if it started again.

RAMSEY: “If we brought this back, there would be a revolution. People would burn Washington, DC, down.

“If the tax person from the IRS had to stand in the lobby of your company, and you got paid in cash, and you had to take your cash and hand it to the tax collector and count it out every time you got paid, people would realize how big a tick on your butt the government is, how big a parasite the government is.

“And they would, I’m telling you, there’d be pitchforks and torches.

“If you actually saw and physically had to take possession of the money and then give it back in cash to the government when you got paid, people’s faces would melt off.”

KAMEL: “Just the amount of $100 bills you’re just giving to the IRS for doing nothing. That hurts. It would be a Tea Party round two.”

RAMSEY: “So it was a really brilliant idea to do income tax withholding.”

KAMEL: “Just make it all behind the scenes.”

RAMSEY: “Brilliant psychological trick.”

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Isn't the whole point of being a journo that you un-dupe things? Your entire job is to be skeptical and investigate stuff, to catch people who are duping other people.

Stop sucking at your job!

[John Doyle @JohnDoyle]

I actually believe this, that he wishes he hadn’t done it.

I think that all media (legacy, alternative, etc.) have worked overtime to dehumanize conservatives and incentivize direct violence against us. They’re aware that they’re doing this, they like that they’re doing it, they like the results of their doing it, and they like that they can hide behind the plausible deniability of “well it’s not like I explicitly spelled it out or anything!”

So, I’m sure he wishes he hadn’t done it, because he’s ruined his life and will be executed. Hopefully he feels remorse for his actions independently of their consequences for him and repents. Though he can’t seem to stop laughing in court, so I won’t hold my breath.

But ultimately it was just a fantasy. Charlie Kirk was not an evil man working to usher in an evil Hollywood regime. You are not a hero. You are a disturbed person who responded as intended to the rhetorical lockpicking of the media, and now you will be killed as a matter of clerical procedure, and it is good that it will happen.

I hope that every other would-be or will-be assassin sees this and is dissuaded, but ultimately there won’t be real change until the media is held accountable for their role in this.

That being said, I don’t mean to hold our leaders to a frustrated, unrealistic standard of “just arrest every journalist and streamer, bro.” (Please?) But certainly there are ways to respond to what we all, and most especially the pundits themselves, know is occurring. I don’t accept that we can only sit on our hands.

[watter🔜GCX @justaddwatter]

this game has a gun that shoots the same worm over and over and if it hurts you it makes you deal more damage

[just matt @questionableway]

as a society we need to collectively re-learn that children are people and dogs are dogs

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Example of why the Founding Fathers rejected a government-by-plebiscite in favor of a republic in which representatives are supposed to “refine and enlarge” the public’s views.

[Chris @chriswithans]

The RNC better be poring over the laws of Maine looking for ways to sue the Democrats for all this. The whole point of allowing drop out replacements is for legitimate health reasons, not because they have buyer's remorse that they chose an obvious freak and creep.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

So there’s video, DNA, and a confession that implicate Tyler Robinson. This isn’t a huge mystery, and anyone who is talking about Israel or Egyptian planes should feel very embarrassed right now.

[Duncan C @DunCar3y]

@uncle_deluge Did this question come to you while thinking too hard about the name “fire ant”?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.

[Duncan C @DunCar3y]

@flatearthjape Bulk Vanderhuge!
Thick McRunfast!
Slab Bulkhead!

[American Philosophy @AmerPhilo2025]

Universal suffrage means this guy gets to vote to raise your taxes.

[Duncan C @DunCar3y]

@pokemonpatches >Gholdengo healed Gengar
>Gholdengo used Self-Destruct on Gengar

[Prison Mitch @Prisonmitch]

The USA can still advance to the round of 8 if Mike Pence has the courage.

[Otto Von Tweetmarck @OVTweetmarck]

This whole thing is undeniable proof that a sizable number of people are peasants who shouldn’t be allowed to read as they immediately start believing asinine conspiracy theories.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

JUST IN: the Fed announces you just received a pay cut at work.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

DOGE is going to be a good litmus test for political and economic illiteracy. The worlds most clueless people will all fail to recognize that the problem with DOGE was that it didn't go nearly hard enough, and was hit with red tape everywhere it tried to do anything.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

And if it wasn’t for America the insignia on the pub would be written in German.