Sam Dahl

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Dang…. This is so TRUE!!!

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING At 5:22AM President Trump just posted a video of Elizabeth Warren getting EXPOSED:

Democrats support stealing our Elections

PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

You’re getting screwed on groceries and healthcare so welfare recipients and millions of illegals can get subsidized.

You’re not on food stamps or Medicaid and you’re paying more because of them.

Government pumps demand into food and care without adding supply so prices rise for everyone who actually pays.

SNAP alone dumps over $100 billion a year into grocery demand and that money hits the same shelves you shop from.

Same thing with health insurance. Medicaid pays hospitals below cost and the shortfall gets passed straight to privately insured patients like you.

COVID printed trillions and expanded the welfare state and then the Biden administration opened the border and brought in record numbers of illegals who go right onto the programs.

And their subsidy is a line item in your budget.
This is a transfer from the people who work to the people who don’t, citizens and non alike.

And in the end they call it “compassion”, but they obviously have none towards you.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

FACT CHECKED ✅

[Tyler Ratcliff @TylerRatcliff17]

This guy speaks for millions of us, preach it brother

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

EVERY
WORD
OF
THIS

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Fact Check: True

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: "It is a lie that problems in the black community are attributed to the legacy of slavery.

Black married couples were more prevalent in the 20's than today. Black unemployment rate was lower in the 1930's than today.

The decline began in the 1960's with the welfare state."

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Incentives aren’t complicated.

We just ignore what ours are actually doing.

We tax speeders to stop speeding and cigarettes to stop smoking, yet we tax people who work and companies that make profits and subsidize those who don’t.

Then we act shocked when we get less work, less employment, fewer successful businesses, and more and more people on welfare.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later).

Your life has seasons.

Each one is unique. Characterized by its own distinct desires, struggles, opportunities, and identity.

But one reflection I've had recently is just how easy it is to completely disassociate with the present season.

To give all your time and energy toward a longing for some nostalgic memory of a prior season or an anticipation for some beautiful state of a future season.

You look back at the past and all you see is sunshine. Because it all worked out. You forget (or glaze over) the struggle you endured. You're here today. You made it. You're alive. You're doing fine.

You look forward at the future and dream on what could be. You'll have so much more. More freedom. More purpose. More health. More deep connection. More everything.

The past is beautiful and the future feels limitless. So, logically, you slowly start to treat everything about the present as the bridge. A dash connecting your past and your future. A gap to be crossed as quickly as possible.

Everything you do today is in anticipation of some eventual end state.

I'm doing this now, so that I can have that later.

Unfortunately, the danger of that dissociation with the present is significant. You may spend your entire life living for a future that has a decidedly mirage-like property. You inch closer, but when it's right in front of you, it disappears and reappears on the horizon.

You may spend your entire life skipping through the present, deferring your presence, your joy, and your very humanity to a future that never comes.

In a classic French fable, a young boy is gifted with a magic ball of golden thread. He's told that if he simply pulls on the thread, time will leap forward. The catch, of course, is that once it's pulled, it can never be put back.

The young boy takes advantage of the newfound powers. Each time he's faced with a boring day at school, a frustrating set of chores, or a scolding from his parents, he pulls the thread, skipping through to the good parts.

As an adult, he continues, leaping through mundane struggles in his marriage, the friction of having a newborn, and the boredom at work. He finds himself pulling on the thread more and more, avoiding even the most minor inconveniences of his life.

But when he wakes up one day and sees an old man looking back at him in the mirror, he's filled with regret. He realizes in that moment that as he chose to skip through the boredom, struggles, and friction, so too did he miss the real texture of being alive.

How often do we all do the same? How easily do we default into this disassociation? Disconnecting from the present in anticipation of some future.

A mentor recently asked me this:

"Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?"

It hit me hard.

And to be honest, I haven't stopped replaying those words since he said them.

Why are you in such a rush?

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

Be in the season you're in. Don't romanticize the past, don't fantasize the future. Be here. Be now. Be in this. All of its texture, depth, and struggle. All of its joy, tension, and pain. Sit with the uncertainty. Become friends with it. Fall in love with it.

Because every single thing you do today is something your younger self dreamed of and something your older self will wish they could go back and do.

The good old days are happening, right now.

And the next time you find yourself skipping through the present, remember these words:

Where are you going and why are you in such a rush?

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor.
The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers.

Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward.

Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos.

As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.”

Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress.

Time to choose your side.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Henry Nowak,

You have started a revolution all across the country and the West.

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

You have to be 16 to drive.
You have to be 18 to vote.
You have to be 21 to drink.
You have to be 25 to rent a car.

Why are teachers talking to our kids about sexuality at 12?

Why are kids encouraged to mutilate their bodies at 13?

This gender ideology madness needs to end.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Corruption

[yeet @Awk20000]

Caleb Hammer talks political extremism on the internet and its impact on IRL voting with Joe Rogan

"I want these nice things..we can have these nice things..but we can't if we just let ppl overrun them..I really think this is political capture..when u get in those ecosystems online..u can get on TikTok and it will immediately figure out within 3 min what group to put u in..and then u hear no other perspecitve"

"Especially young women, they've moved more politically extreme than any other generation..left right, i don't care..when ur politically captured then u vote for the ppl that are more politically captured on that left"

"When u start moral m-bating, it sounds right..it sounds good, like the moral thing to do..not just putting ppl in prison for a long time, sounds nice..not kicking ppl off the street when they're homeless, it sounds nice..if u disagree with 1% ur a n*zi, get out here, ur not one of us"

(Via Joe Rogan Experience 2509)