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God grant me Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”

“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely think a lot of millennials are reaching the same conclusion at the same time.

We grew up watching technology make life better every year. Cell phones. iPods. Smartphones. An app for everything. It felt like the future was arriving right in front of us, and we couldn’t wait for what came next.

Then somewhere along the way, it changed.

Everything became a subscription. Social media became algorithms. Every day feels like another once-in-a-lifetime event. The things that were supposed to save us time somehow ended up demanding more of our attention than ever.

We were sold convenience.

What we got was a world that feels faster, louder, more expensive, and somehow less human.

And that’s why so many people I know dream about a completely different life now. Not more technology. Not more optimization.

Just a quiet job, a flip phone, a small town, and a place where life feels real again.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Straight talk from Mike Rowe as he explains why our country’s focus must be on training our young people for trades rather than pushing them into a college degree they may never be able to use.

“We’ve got 7.2M men not participating in the workforce, and not looking for work.

We have $1.7 T in student loan debt on the books.

We’ve got 7.6M positions that don’t require a 4 yr degree, and yet we keep lending money to kids who are never going to be able to pay it back; to train them for jobs that don’t exist anymore.

If we want to close the skills gap,
we need to make a more persuasive case.”

[Motivasyon @motivasyonhane]

Arkadaşlar kadın erkek farketmez şu seriyi kaydedin 5-10 gün 20 gün 50 gün ne zaman tam anlamı ile yapabilirseniz yapın 24 saniyede vücuttaki her kasınızı çalıştırır sizi makina yapar

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

My reaction when I see my wife telling the kids how important it is to be patient and to apologize when being wrong.

[RG | BEATS @DR_BEATS_KICK]

Can you rt this? Maybe we can make a difference

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

He was right then and now!

[Lunix @SolLunix]

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M."
Government: "Totally reasonable."

You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival."
Government: "You owe taxes on $60K."
You: "That's not—"
Government: "File by May 15."

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

An entire empire was overthrown over a two percent tax on a breakfast beverage.

Look at what you tolerate now.

You are taxed when you earn it. Taxed when you spend it. Taxed when you save it. Taxed when you invest it.

And when you die, they tax whatever is left.

That is not a system. That is a harvest.

You commute in a car you paid sales tax to buy. You drive it on roads you were already taxed to build. You fill it with gas taxed by the gallon.

When you sell that car, the next buyer pays sales tax on it again. The same car. Taxed every time it changes hands.

You arrive at a job where your salary is cut before it ever touches your hands.

If you work for yourself, you pay both sides. Two people on paper. Neither one keeps what they earned.

Then you go home.

Every bill you open has a government standing behind it with its hand out.

You buy a house with money they already took their share of. Then they charge you property tax on it every year for the rest of your life.

You want to renovate your own kitchen. You need a permit. You want to build a deck on your own land. You need a permit.

You pay for the property. Then you pay for permission to use it.

Stop paying property tax and they seize your home.

Not because you missed a mortgage payment. Because you missed a payment to the government for the privilege of keeping what is already yours.

You do not own your home. You rent it from the state.

If you leave something behind for your children, they are taxed on what you were already taxed to earn.

The same wealth. Taxed at every stage of your life. Then taxed one final time because you had the audacity to die.

They found a way to monetize your absence.

We are told this is the price of civilization.

It is not. It is architecture.

The most effective prison ever built is the one where the inmates believe they are free.

They did not take your freedom. They priced you out of it.

If you kept the full value of your labor, you would be free within years. Not decades. Years.

The system cannot allow that.

A machine built on consumption needs a consumer that never stops.

You did not sign a social contract. You were assigned one.

Now pay attention.

They spent decades perfecting the extraction of your productivity.

Now they are building the technology to replace you.

AI is not coming for your job because corporations are greedy. It is coming because a system that already takes half your output just realized it can take all of it. Without needing you in the equation.

You were never the point of this arrangement.

You were the input.

And the moment they engineer a cheaper one, you become a rounding error on a quarterly earnings call.

They did not build AI to free you. They built it to finish what the tax code started.

It was never about the tea. It was about the precedent.

Today we hand over half our waking lives and thank them for the potholes.

You do not live in a free economy. You live in a subscription you never signed up for.

And the penalty for canceling is everything you have.

[Renee @TexasCowgrl1111]

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $246,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $246,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
So why does owning a home work differently?
Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
It’s about being charged for value you never received.
And people are starting to notice.

This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The uniparty in action

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

This is one of the most perfect things the internet has ever created.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them.

They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

[Dating Dynamics @Dating_Dynamics]

My parents were married for 33 years.

Not once did I hear the word “divorce” mentioned in our home.

Not during arguments, financial pressure, or difficult seasons. Never.

Before my wedding, my father took me aside and shared a few words that have stayed with me ever since….

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Whitney Cummings on Joe Rogan unleashed a savage takedown of liberal hypocrisy that had everyone nodding:

“I was as liberal as it gets—blue hair, rescue pitbulls, ‘everyone’s equal.’

But then it turned into diversity… except diversity of thought.

We don’t believe in gender, but we need a female president?

My body my choice… unless it’s a baby needing a hep B vaccine from butt sex or needles?

We believe the seas are rising… but we live on the coast?

Would you buy a beach house if you truly believed that?”

Comics spot hypocrisy like sharks smell blood—and Whitney’s got the receipts.

Still liberal, still conservative, or just allergic to inconsistency now?

What’s the most glaring hypocrisy you’ve noticed lately?