Michael Elliott

I am a AVP Branch Manager at Wintrust Mortgage NMLS: 638056 Wintrust Mortgage NMLS #449042

[Joshua Haymes @haymes_joshua]

They’ve been hiding minority crimes & blaming them on white people for decades.

Imagine what the real numbers are.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Every time you see a noncitizen in a public college or university, an American was denied access.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

DON’T LET THIS STORY GET BURIED...

In 2021, CNN anchor Drew Griffin looks Dr. Rashid Buttar in the eye and says:

“I’m vaccinated. You think there is a ticking time bomb in me and I’m going to die?”

Dr. Buttar’s chilling reply:
“I hope not, but I’ll be happy to meet you in three years and see how you’re doing.”

Drew Griffin was diagnosed with cancer shortly after the shot… and died of TURBO CANCER in 2022.

He never made it to that three-year check-in.

This is what happens when warnings are mocked. Millions more are walking time bombs.

[Michael Elliott @Mpelliott72]

Wow creepy

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

So just to be clear: a US Senator can disappear off the face of the planet and there’s nothing ANYBODY can do about it?

The people of Kentucky are just told to sit down and shut up while half of their Senators are MIA?

Complete bullsht.

[Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory]

Indiana has an illegal immigrant problem because Republicans privately allow this invasion, working with Democrat mayors while publicly saying the opposite.

It all happened under a super majority Republican legislature and Republican governors!

It's the ultimate betrayal.

[Michael Elliott @Mpelliott72]

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[Michael Elliott @Mpelliott72]

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[H-1B Abuse Tracker @H1BExpose]

Unbelievable. Indian CEO that just fired 3200 Americans.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Microsoft continues to lay off thousands of American employees, while simultaneously applying for thousands of H-1B visas.

This is absurd and should be illegal.

[SawanoguchiSae @SawanoguchiSae]

The USA is under attack from India, from the inside.

American IT professionals with decades of experience are losing jobs to Indians with fake degrees.

This is an act of aggression against all American families and it's coming from India.

[Cathlina King 🇺🇸 @AmeraucanaLover]

🚨BREAKING: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced the firing of 3,200 American employees.

Sharma, who was appointed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, has also filed for thousands of H-1B visa hires this year.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Police officer becomes a whistleblower and says that Flock Safety Cameras are not what were being told they are

He says they are not just capturing license plates, they are capturing everything and being used for mass surveillance without a warrant, “It records the make, the model, color, bumping stickers, you name it — it's a very sophisticated AI software that uses a camera system to track and monitor every vehicle that goes by the camera lens”

“This information is shared city to city and even state to state without a warrant”

“Your consent was never required nor even asked for or even thought about when your city governments was putting up this new technology.

For example, the chief of the Pateka Police Department, she was confronted by a local reporter on this very question of what gave them the right to put up these cameras without consulting the public. Her response was, so the criminals wouldn't know about it and avoid detection. So there you go. That's their best argument about”

He says he brought up concerns about privacy and transparency and in return he was suspended without pay

He says we are headed the same way as the soviets and China

He says this is what you’re told by authority, “If you are worrying about it, it's because you have something to hide.

The philosophy that this innovation is already grounded on is already proven to be rotten. It's grounded on this idea that you, the citizen, are first and foremost a potential suspect or potential defendant that needs to be tracked and monitored for your safety and for the safety of others. It's the same philosophy that the Soviets and many authoritarian states during the 20th century adopted, and we all know how that worked out for them. It's the same philosophy that the Chinese are currently adopting right now and they have a similar surveillance system”

Keep in mind I’ve also shared videos of the Flock camera called “Condor”

This goes beyond vehicles and actually tracks you as you walk by. The cameras follow you, can zoom in and automatically detect you in areas

This goes way beyond license plate reading. This is the mass surveillance network being established in America

We are right around the corner from a police state

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

ÚLTIMA HORA - Después de que se revelara que se abrieron 50 mezquitas en Dallas Fort Worth en los últimos 24 meses, una mujer descubrió que el mayor donante del gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, es un musulmán paquistaní que le ha dado más de 14 millones de dólares, incluidos 2 millones de dólares solo este año.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

This you?

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

We tried to subpoena her and her brother-husband's immigration records. Both parties killed it and protected her.

[Tommyboi4209 @Tommy4Trump420]

So antifa found out where we live already! Pretty sure it was Seattle pd that released it! Transtifa antifa domestic terrorists violently targeted and busted our bedroom window at 330 am this morning and bear maced me my wife and my dog and popped all our tires yet again all because they don’t want me exercising my first amendment rights and recording their violence and calls to violence against ICE agents and our President Donald Trump!
My wife is innocent and they got her the worst! These “people” need to be held accountable! This is TERRORISM! Plain and simple! @Andjustice25979 @MrAndyNgo @choeshow @camhigby @ImFiredUp2 @nicksortor @nickshirleyy @GDaddyzs @NobleOne

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Sandlot has the single greatest vision of American life ever put on film.

This scene is what it’s all about. 🇺🇸