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[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@FreddyLA7 We’ll be at the game as well! Stop by the Cepra tent

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@FreddyLA7 Look for a Cepra tent. We will be there with my son’s company. Go Gators!

[Handre @Handre]

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.

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

Can you tell me why our garbage hasn’t been picked up in over a week at Perico Bay Club? @BradentonGov

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Setting aside whether her childhood accident was an unconscious act for the moment, her astonishing theory that most of the rapists, murderers, and child molesters in prison acted “accidentally” is mind-boggling. More importantly it is a powerful lesson about the liberal mind. We can now be assured that this opportunistic little piece of work, like so many of her ilk, will invariably weep for the criminal, but consider his victims, if she indeed considers them at all, as collateral damage. One thing is clear: she’s an even more dreadful monster than her vile, dangerous, deranged husband.

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@DataRepublican @EmmittSmith22 I love that you love @EmmittSmith22 ! Go Gators!

[Kyle Pitts👑 @kylepitts__]

Repost to send me to the pro bowl 🎱 #ProBowlVote

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@alexbrown96 So sad! I need a refund for the wine they’ve cost me!

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

No one becomes a clinician to do paperwork, but it's becoming a bigger and bigger administrative burden, taking time and attention away from actually treating and supporting patients.

That’s why we’re introducing Microsoft Dragon Copilot, the industry’s first AI assistant for clinical workflow.

[Modern Healthcare @modrnhealthcr]

Microsoft launches healthcare AI assistant at HIMSS https://t.co/tQtoakUelO

[Microsoft Cloud @MSCloud]

Today we introduced Dragon Copilot – the first AI assistant for clinical workflow. Learn more: https://t.co/YTnlA5QMmG

#DragonCopilot #MSFTHealth #HealthcareAI #Innovation

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@NewEmergingKing @jasonwhitlock South Georgia….been there done that. Was is Hahira?

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@GSD_Fan_Club Lucy!

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@EWErickson Scary! Hope you’re okay!

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@RealJamesWoods My dad was from Rhode Island and my grandma served us coffee milk! Also, from Englewood where I saw you at the bowling alley!

[Tim Scott @votetimscott]

This is pathetic. The far left is hostile to the state of Israel and our Jewish brothers and sisters. They embrace anti-Semitism. Worse, Biden and Harris will not stand up to them because they only care about politics and power.

[Microsoft News and Stories @MSFTnews]

Read an update on what we’ve done to help Microsoft customers recover from the recent CrowdStrike outage. Learn about our actions from the start of the incident and our collaboration with customers, cloud providers and others in the tech community. https://t.co/7lS3zl32ww

[Luke Del Rio @LDelRio12]

Very proud to be a Florid Gator and grateful to have President Ben Sasse

[GatorKolb @GatorKolb]

@HelloFresh how do I contact you about a 2 day late delivery?