@dbongino 1. You are a fraud.
2. Massie is one of the only real Americans left who isn’t obviously compromised.
3. You used to be respected. What happened? Just another sellout bought and paid for by a little foreign country occupying our government & making us fight their wars.
@GovMikeHuckabee@realDonaldTrump Glad that Tucker is America first and not bought and paid for by the Zionist Israeli regime that owns both you and most of the American government. You are despicable, detestable, and an embarrassment to America. Stay in Israel, please. Forever.
Welfare State explained for people who actually work for a living.
The system is working. Just not for you.
You wake up before your kids do. You drive an hour to a job that barely covers the bills. You eat lunch at your desk. You miss the school play. You come home tired, check your paycheck, and half of it's gone before you touch it.
Now picture your neighbor.
She hasn't worked in three years. Her kids are in free childcare. Her rent is paid by the state. Her groceries are covered. Her healthcare is free. She takes home more than you do.
Not because she's cheating the system. Because the system told her to.
Her caseworker ran the numbers on an $18/hour job offer. Taking it would lose her food assistance, childcare, cash benefits, healthcare. All in, that job would leave her $27,000 poorer per year than staying home.
She didn't take it. You'd have done the same.
Now picture your buddy and his girlfriend. Together six years. Two kids. They want to get married. But the government charges them $20,200 a year to be a legal family. So on paper, they aren't one.
Now picture your uncle. Bad back but functional. He can work. But disability pays $28,000 plus free healthcare. Working part-time pays $22,000 with nothing. Over 1,400 law firms exist solely to help people make that switch. Less than 1% ever come back to work.
These aren't lazy people. They're doing basic math.
And the math is everywhere.
There are over 80 federal welfare programs in this country. Not 5. Not 10. Over 80. That's before you touch the states. California adds 23 more. New York adds 24.
A family of four on maximum federal benefits takes home $90,000 a year. Tax free. Without working.
You know what the median family that actually works makes? $80,000. Before taxes.
Read that again. The family on welfare takes home more than the family going to work every day. And the working family is paying for it.
In California, a family of four can pull $114,000 a year in combined benefits. In New York City, $118,000. The city will pay $4,100 a month for your apartment alone. That's a doorman building.
It doesn't stop at the border.
In the UK, a jobless family with three kids takes home £46,000 in benefits. A family with both parents working full-time on minimum wage? £28,000. You'd need to earn £71,000 to match what the non-working family gets for free. And in November 2025, the UK removed its child benefit cap entirely. Every additional child now unlocks more money. No limit.
Now here's the part that should make you set your phone down.
There's a nurse in Sacramento. She makes $85,000. Works nights. Takes home $61,000 after taxes. No childcare help. No food assistance. No housing voucher. Makes too much for any of it. She is funding a system that pays other people more than she takes home. And her only return on investment is the bill.
Maybe that nurse is your wife. Maybe that family making $65,000 with two jobs and no help is yours. You were told to go to school, get a job, work hard, play by the rules. And for that you get to fund a system that pays people more than you make.
$1.2 trillion a year. $3,600 from every working American. Fifty years. Same poverty rate as 1973.
We didn't build a safety net. We built a gateway drug. You get on one program, that qualifies you for three more, those qualify you for five more. Before long you're enrolled in fifteen programs and any attempt to earn more costs you thousands in lost benefits.
The system doesn't help you climb out. It makes climbing out expensive.
And if you dare question any of it, you're "heartless." You "hate poor people." You "want children to starve."
No. I want a system that helps people get back on their feet. Not one that pays them to stay down.
When you can stack 80 programs to clear six figures without working, you don't have a safety net. You have a country addicted to dependence.
Every bureaucrat needs the poverty to justify their job. Every politician needs the dependency to justify their vote. Every program needs more funding to justify its existence.
They don't want to solve poverty. A solved problem doesn't need a budget.
You paid for it. You're still paying for it.
And the people running it are going to ask you to pay more.
@elonmusk Great, same as Hulu began charging (which is why we switched to YouTube TV a few months ago).
We just need “X TV” to come into existence!🙏🏻 Also, an “X Phone” to replace iPhone….
@rawsalerts …Meanwhile Gates just donated $50 million to Harris under the guise of a charitable organization, mainly to be put toward a “get out of an indictment for covid crimes” and/or “stay out of prison for sex crimes against minors” card.
@elonmusk is single-handedly saving humanity.
This is insane‼️ After watching the Vice Presidential Debate last night, this guy downloads the ‘CBP One’ APP to find out how easy it is to gain access into our country!!!!
“There is no way to cross check who I say I am with who I really am.”
Must watch and share!!! 🚨🚨👇🏼
This Is BIG ‼️
“I'm not making it up. The University of Nebraska just got a got done with one of their studies that the way to save the world on carbon is raise more cows. K. And that's because cows are carbon negative”
“They produce more oxygen than they put off methane and carbon. It means to eat more cheese burgers or steaks. Beef, to save the world.”
“According to a 2023 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) report, beef production can be climate-neutral or even better if management practices are optimized to minimize emissions and maximize abilities to store carbon.
Some of the ways UNL research suggests that cattle’s carbon footprint can be reduced include:
Diet: Cattle that eat more forage and added fats produce less methane and other greenhouse gases than those that eat more grain and less forage. Fat supplements can also reduce the need for grain.
Production efficiency: Improving production efficiency can result in more cattle being marketed or more live weight being produced while using fewer resources. This can be achieved through breeding, feeding, and health programs.
Supply chain: Buying feed that’s grown nearby can reduce shipping emissions.”
Homelessness in the USA was the highest ever on record in 2023, per Heather Long of WaPo.
In 2024, homeless shelters and services are seeing an uptick in people WITH JOBS who are living in cars
@Cancelcloco Any imminent threat to the PRESIDENT should have been enough to take out the shooter BEFORE he fired! Everyone should question this—democrats, republicans, independents, EVERYONE!
The typical American household spends about $768 more monthly on goods and services these days compared to 2020 because of inflation, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
I’ve Been Holding Onto This Video & Now That Donald Trump Suggested Eliminating The Income Tax & Replacing It With Tariffs You Should Watch This
“I don't think people understand the depth in which the federal income tax has screwed the American people because the income tax didn't exist for the first 137 years America was a country. It was implemented in 1913 and shortly after that, the income tax would become the government's primary source of generating revenue.
The government would basically own your labor. So you’re taxed at 33%. 1/3 of your work for the entire year belongs to the government.
But before the federal income tax, tariffs were the government's primary source of generating revenue.
So the government would come along and say, if companies want to import goods from other countries, they have to pay a tax on those goods. And this was the government's primary way of generating revenue.
So let's use Nike as an example. They want to outsource their labor to other countries, India, China, and basically hire people that work for under $1 a day, basically sweatshops. They want sweatshops. Well, when they go to import those goods into the United States of America, they would be forced to pay that tariff. So if it's 25%, they would have to pay a 25% tax on the value of the goods coming into the country.
Now, they could either pay that themselves in which now the government's primary way of generating revenue is through these international corporations that want to outsource labor and do international business, or they could negotiate with the company that they're importing from. I mean, in this case, it's themselves, but if they're working with another company, they could say, hey, if you want us to keep manufacturing in China, if you want us to keep manufacturing in India, you have to help us with these tariffs. And now the government's primary way of generating revenue would not be by taking money from you, the federal income tax, but it's from charging those international corporations and corporations that are in other countries.
Isn't that a lot better than them taking the money from me and you? And yes, the price of international goods might go up. In fact, price of goods will go up. But that's okay because there's also an additional incentive for companies like Nike and all companies now to manufacture goods in America, which means American manufacturing would boom.
And this is in theory, this is what had actually happened and what the federal income tax really took away from us because from the period of 1860 to 1900, America had emerged as the preeminent manufacturing country in the world.
American steel, American oil, Europeans would come to America and they couldn't believe that we had electric powered curling irons. The United States of America, our country had become the innovative center of the world and jobs were booming. People talk about 1910 1920 1930 with the unions with Detroit and Detroit being the manufacturing center of the world, but that was really all of the United States of America. But once the federal income tax was passed, once that was established, the government no longer needed tariffs to be its primary source of revenue.
Now the primary source of revenue was reaching directly into our pockets. And once the government was able to do that, they were able to seriously consider abandoning economic protectionism, abandoning those tariffs so that international corporations could outsource our jobs to other countries and the government wouldn't be hurt.
The cost of goods would go down and the international corporations would do better than ever. But we would lose our jobs and the government would take ownership over our labor. And that was the real cost of the federal income tax.
And that's the conversation they don't want Americans having”
I can’t transcribe it all due to X’s text limits but this is an excellent listen