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BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced reciprocal taxes on countries imposing taxes on the United States, thereby ensuring while over 60% of Americans feel he's not doing enough to lower prices, prices will go up more.
Trump has no idea what he's doing.
@NoAboNotTheBelt How american let me travel to an entire different country and disrespect the locals for purchasing food that is acceptable in their culture and society
But but my white american society is right!
American workers should never have been forced to suffer & sacrifice because @realDonaldTrump made a promise he couldn’t keep. Public servants & members of our armed forces should never have been forced to wait in food pantry lines. We should never travel down this road again.
Republicans in Congress let Trump travel to his golf course in Ireland using American taxpayer dollars so he could promote it. He also personally is pocketing those tax dollars, via all bills for food and lodging for staff and security. This is a new level of rampant corruption.
Biden: "It's not just the folks in the White House, or who travel with me that deserve regular testing. It is folks in the meat packing and food processing plant, grocery store workers, every single American deserves safety and peace of mind."
Imagine owning a chain of hotels and having 100% occupancy twice the rate per night.
That's American tax dollars subsidizing hotel chains.
Imagine owning a chain of grocery stores and 59 million people receiving some form of food stamps.
That's American's subsidizing grocery store chains.
Imagine if you manufacture baby foods and formula's and 10 million welfare recipients' receive free formula and baby food.
That's American tax dollars subsidizing baby food manufacturers.
Imagine being a bus company that government contracts migrant travel around the country.
That's American tax dollars subsidizing the bus companies.
Imagine being the airline industry with a contract to fly illegals into the interior of the country.
That's American tax dollars subsidizing the Airlines.
What else are we subsidizing that American companies receive so much while so many other companies struggle?
Why their rent is free and you can't afford yours.
@POTUS The American dream is no longer sustainable. Unless you're an illegal. Come to America where you can have free food. Free housing. Free medical. Free travel. Free cash.
All at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Dreamers are our loved ones, nurses, teachers, and small business owners – they deserve the promise of health care just like all of us.
Today, my Administration is making that real by expanding affordable health coverage through the Affordable Care Act to DACA recipients.
CONTEST: If an African-American exSpy hosted a Round-the-World travel show driving a 6 wheeled Land Rover Defender explaining history, geopolitics, culture, people, food & the best/worst local bars ... what would it be called? Free signed book. 3..2..1 go!
Basketball has unofficially become an upper middle class & rich persons sport. It cost anywhere between $30-100 per hour to get a kid basketball training & to play on AAU teams can cost anywhere from $300-600 and that’s without travel, hotels, food, gas, new shoes, etc.
Today if a kid isn’t getting trained year round they almost have no chance of making the NBA and the average American parent doesn’t have the funds or time to invest into development.
Historically, players that came from low income backgrounds is what made the NBA because they play with a flair, passion & hunger that typically comes from not having much (LeBron, Magic, Kareem, Wilt, Iverson, Isiah Thomas, Shaq, KD, D Wade, D Rose, KG, Westbrook, Harden, etc).
Today’s NBA is filled with mostly players that come from upper middle class, well to do families or foreigners and that’s why it seems so uncompetitive and passionless which is why the ratings are way down. It’s so much money in youth basketball today so it’ll never go back to how it once was & them doubling down on prioritizing foreign players doesn’t help with the average American interest.
I believe within 15 years the NBA will be completely irrelevant in America.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou dropped the scariest sleeper agent story you’ll ever hear.
The Russians (and others) take kids basically from birth, rip them from their families, and raise them in fake American towns deep in Russia. American food, American TV, perfect American accent — the whole thing.
Then they steal the identity of a dead American baby, get them a legit passport and Social Security number, and drop them into the U.S.
They live normal lives for decades — travel agent, dad, neighbor, until one day they get “activated.”A coded radio message. Or a stranger whispering in their ear on the subway:
“Report back… or I have to kill you.”
One guy turned himself in to the FBI the second his daughter was born. He couldn’t do it anymore.
This stuff is happening. How many “Americans” around you right now are actually waiting for that call?
It’s 2024 and the @WSJ still pushes out this type of garbage.
Reckless. Bigoted. Islamophobic.
Dearborn is one of the greatest American cities in our nation.
- fastest growing city in MI
- home to the #1 travel destination in MI (Greenfield Village / Henry Ford Museum)
- home of @Ford Motor Company
- coffee/food/culture capital of MI
- among the most diverse cities in MI
Do better, @WSJ.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou dropped the scariest sleeper agent story you’ll ever hear.
The Russians (and others) take kids basically from birth, rip them from their families, and raise them in fake American towns deep in Russia. American food, American TV, perfect American accent — the whole thing.
Then they steal the identity of a dead American baby, get them a legit passport and Social Security number, and drop them into the U.S.
They live normal lives for decades — travel agent, dad, neighbor, until one day they get “activated.”A coded radio message. Or a stranger whispering in their ear on the subway:
“Report back… or I have to kill you.”
One guy turned himself in to the FBI the second his daughter was born. He couldn’t do it anymore.
This stuff is happening. How many “Americans” around you right now are actually waiting for that call?
This is why young Liberals hate Capitalism…and why they’re wrong…
Every generation eventually receives its first adult paycheck, studies the deductions, looks at the rent, looks back at the deductions, and briefly concludes that Karl Marx may have had a point.
For the average young American liberal, this revelation often occurs on a $1,300 phone while waiting for a stranger to deliver a twelve-dollar coffee from six blocks away.
She does not hate capitalism.
She hates invoices.
She hates that apartments cost money, jobs require attendance, attractive neighborhoods are already occupied, and nobody has yet created a government program that will pay her to make politically conscious ceramics in a sunlit Brooklyn loft.
What she wants is not socialism.
She wants capitalism with the consequences turned off.
1. She Thinks Socialism Means Denmark With DoorDash
When young Americans say they want socialism, they are rarely imagining the state owning farms, factories, banks, housing, newspapers, and most of the places where citizens might attempt to escape the state.
They are imagining Denmark.
More precisely, they are imagining an English-speaking Denmark where the taxes are paid by billionaires, everyone receives free therapy, the trains arrive on time, and DoorDash still brings Thai food during a blizzard.
They do not want socialism.
They want a wealthy capitalist country with better public services and no visible receipt.
That is a perfectly reasonable political argument. It is simply not the political argument they think they are making.
2. She Believes “Free” Means Nobody Paid
Free college.
Free healthcare.
Free housing.
Free childcare.
The modern socialist imagination is a magical kingdom where doctors, nurses, professors, builders, electricians, and daycare workers all report for duty because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a compelling Instagram video.
Nothing is free.
“Government-funded” means the bill has been placed inside a larger envelope, decorated with an eagle, and mailed back to the public through taxes.
Sometimes that is an excellent bargain. A civilized society should have roads, schools, emergency rooms, police, courts, and a safety net sturdy enough to catch people before they hit concrete.
But it remains a bargain.
Not a spell.
3. She Does Not Hate Capitalism. She Hates Adulthood
Her landlord wants rent on the first.
Her employer expects her to arrive on time.
The electric company has shown absolutely no interest in her emotional journey.
Someone at work used the phrase “performance review,” and she is now reasonably certain she lives under fascism.
A great deal of modern anti-capitalism is simply the shock of discovering that adulthood is not college with fewer essays.
Food costs money. Talent is not always rewarded. Some people begin life with enormous advantages. You can work hard and still fail. You can do everything properly and remain unable to afford the apartment you want.
These are real frustrations.
But abolishing private property will not make Monday morning optional.
4. She Imagines Work Would Become Nicer Under Socialism
Capitalist employment is oppressive because her boss expects her to complete tasks during working hours.
Under socialism, she imagines work becoming a gentle cooperative activity involving communal lunches, meaningful discussions, and perhaps a little pottery.
Unfortunately, socialist countries also required people to work.
The difference was that there were fewer employers, fewer career choices, less possibility of opening your own business, and considerably less sympathy when you informed the factory manager that fluorescent lighting was interfering with your boundaries.
Capitalism gives you the freedom to leave your terrible boss.
Socialism may give you one boss.
And he is also in charge of your apartment, your healthcare, your newspaper, your passport, and the police station where you will be taken after complaining about him.
5. She Could Not Survive the Loss of Consumer Choice
The average young anti-capitalist considers consumer culture spiritually empty but requires seven varieties of oat milk.
She needs ethically sourced coffee, cruelty-free mascara, vegan leather boots, vintage furniture, a mattress delivered in a box, three streaming services, same-day shipping, and a small refrigerator reserved entirely for skincare.
Then she posts that capitalism has given us nothing.
Under central planning, the Ministry of Beverages may announce that oat milk will return in November.
Perhaps.
Until then, there is powdered milk in a bag labeled MILK PRODUCT NO. 4.
The revolution has been postponed due to lactose intolerance.
6. She Wants Housing Provided, But Not That Housing
Housing is a human right.
Absolutely.
But she does not want just any housing.
She wants a charming apartment with original floors, exposed brick, good natural light, a dishwasher, in-unit laundry, no roommates, a neighborhood coffee shop, and enough space for the rescued greyhound she intends to adopt after consulting her astrologer.
Under the system she romanticizes, the Housing Allocation Office may instead assign her a concrete apartment on the eighth floor of a building named after a tractor.
It has one bedroom.
Her aunt already lives in it.
The elevator has been awaiting a replacement part since 1987.
She may file a complaint with the Housing Allocation Office, which is conveniently located inside the Housing Allocation Office.
7. She Hates Billionaires but Loves Everything They Built
The billionaire class must be abolished.
She announces this on Instagram from an iPhone while listening to Spotify, sitting in an Uber, wearing something delivered by Amazon, and checking whether her food has left the restaurant.
This does not mean billionaires should be allowed to purchase Congress, swallow entire industries, or hunt the middle class for sport.
Tax them. Regulate monopolies. Enforce labor laws. Protect competition. Stop allowing corporations to behave like medieval duchies with human-resources departments.
But perhaps admit that large-scale private enterprise has occasionally produced something more useful than a government committee studying whether to establish another government committee.
8. She Thinks Scarcity Was Invented by Republicans
Capitalism gets blamed for scarcity because prices make scarcity visible.
The apartment is expensive. The concert ticket is expensive. The handbag is expensive. The organic strawberries flown across an ocean in February are mysteriously expensive.
Socialism does not abolish scarcity.
It merely changes the way scarce things are distributed.
Instead of prices, you may get waiting lists, rationing, political connections, bribery, or a cousin named Viktor who knows somebody at the warehouse.
Capitalism says, “You cannot afford this.”
Socialism may say, “This does not officially exist.”
The first answer is cruel.
The second answer is also cruel, but accompanied by a poster of a smiling factory worker.
9. She Trusts the Government Only When Her Side Controls It
The young socialist is deeply suspicious of corporations but strangely relaxed about government power, provided the correct people are currently in government.
She wants misinformation regulated, harmful opinions removed, offensive speakers banned, troublesome employers punished, and troublesome citizens professionally destroyed.
She assumes the censorship department will always share her politics.
This is adorable.
Governments change. Definitions change. Approved opinions change. Yesterday’s protected speech becomes tomorrow’s dangerous misinformation.
The machine built to silence your enemies does not disappear when your enemies win an election.
It simply receives new management.
10. She Wants Equality With Several Personal Exceptions
Everyone should earn approximately the same amount.
Except surgeons, obviously.
And perhaps writers.
And artists.
And people with advanced degrees.
And people living in expensive cities.
And people producing culturally significant content about why everyone should earn approximately the same amount.
She supports equality but has already identified several reasons why she personally deserves a larger apartment, more interesting work, better coffee, additional travel privileges, and exemption from agricultural labor.
The collective farm needs workers.
Unfortunately, she has a podcast.
She Wants a Refund, Not a Revolution
Capitalism is not kind.
It is not your mother. It does not care about your self-esteem, your childhood wounds, or whether your landlord is emotionally available.
It is a machine.
And machines require rules, limits, maintenance, inspections, and occasionally a violent kick.
Capitalism needs competition. It needs regulation. It needs functioning institutions, affordable housing, decent schools, healthcare people can actually access, and a serious safety net. It needs governments willing to stop corporations from merging into enormous faceless organisms that own your home, your job, your groceries, and possibly your toaster.
But the answer to a badly regulated machine is not handing the entire economy to the same government that cannot renew your driver’s license without losing three forms and sending you to the wrong building.
The average young liberal does not genuinely want socialism.
She wants affordable rent, excellent healthcare, meaningful work, high wages, unlimited consumer choice, free expression, beautiful public spaces, generous vacations, abundant goods, fast delivery, and the right to complain about every last bit of it online.
In other words, she wants an extraordinarily successful capitalist society.
She just wants someone else to pay for it.
Preferably a billionaire she plans to abolish after the wedding.
Stop what you're doing. This is important. This is actually an emergency.
What did he say? The next hurdle is funding our government. The date the government funding was due was last September 2023.
Remember when I warned you about the Senate's Secret Omnibus last year and that the House has been purposely stalling on passing the budget because they planned on passing the Omnibus?
There are only 4 bills left to fund. They passed 3 continuing resolutions which kept government funded on Nancy Pelosi's last passed budget which was already a 40% increase to departments after covid.
That means that from the time the current CR expires, the departments have already received 6 months of funding at Pelosi's 40% rate.
Now once they pass the Omnibus, departments will get a full year of funding with only 6 months of fiscal 2024 left in the year to spend it. The $1.6 Trillion dollar Omnibus is really a $2.3 Trillion dollar con on Americans when you add in the past 6 months of funding the CR provided to them.
Also included in the Omnibus is billions and billions of hidden dollars in emergency funds that haven't been assigned an emergency that congress can sneak to departments without the American public knowing about because the funds will already be approved through this Omnibus vote.
Other surprises that may be in this Omnibus is possible wordage that will allow Digital Currency and open border funding to states to pay for the illegals housing, food, travel and extra income.
We have to stop them from passing that Omnibus. This has all been planned and every damn one of them in both chambers know and went along with the stall con game that they're playing on the public.
What the Democrats are doing on the government shutdown is genuinely unprecedented, and while the administration has shielded the American people from the worst of the consequences, all of this is coming, and soon:
An aviation emergency that will lead to significant travel delays for all Americans.
Food stamp and other assistance programs running out for needy Americans.
Great strains on our military and national security.
The shutdown has now passed from farce into tragedy, and the consequences of this national emergency fall on every senator and congressman who refuses to open the government.
“I got no response from Chuck Schumer’s office. I got no response from the American embassy.”
Dr. Mark Perlmutter told @amanpour that after Israel killed World Central Kitchen workers in March 2024, he repeatedly contacted New York Senator Schumer’s office and U.S. embassies seeking protection for himself and other American doctors volunteering in Gaza, as they were set to travel the same roads.
Leaving Gaza, he said he saw a line of aid trucks stretching roughly 31 miles, eight abreast, with food rotting inside as Israel blocked them from entering.
“That is enough to surround Gaza three to five times with trucks of supplies that Israel was not letting in.” Famine was declared in Gaza in July 2025.
.@POTUS, please remember that we voted for mass deportations, not for amnesty of any kind. Your successful deportation program presents a great opportunity to make jobs in agriculture, travel, and others more attractive to American workers. Let’s incentive farmers to mechanize, rather than relying on foreign workers to produce our food.
I had the pleasure of editing this year's Best American Food and Travel Writing – and I wrote an essay! You can pre-order it now at my link in bio! So many great writers are included, @mayukh.sen, @cpamzhang, @ligayamishan and @betsyandrews to name a few!
Mostly, volunteers on the Polish-Ukraine border offer food, drink, transport - a v uplifting sight.
But imagine you travel for days to safety, are stuck in a queue and have to listen for hours to an American yelling about “Jesus, Prince of peace” with loudspeaker translation 🤦🏻♂️
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