Mattson Wade

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Muslim Panel Gets Shut Down After Ex-Muslim Exposes the “Ugly Truth” About Islam”

Ex-Muslim : Sit for one second. I'm going to say this, and I promise you, I'm going to be done.

Muslims don't have a faith. Let me explain to you.

If you are any intelligent person that understands history and understands religious studies, you will see how many holes are in the narrative.

When you take the text and look at it, you will see that there's no way this can be from God.

You can't be a prophet and marry a six-year-old. If you are the prophet for all times, then your actions should apply for all times.
Ex-Muslim: Let me tell you something. For people of color, Black people, Islam is not for us. no.

According to them, Black people cannot go to heaven.

One of Muhammad's slaves the slaves he loved to trade were Black people.

Ex-Muslim: Most Muslims don't even know their faith.

I grew up in it. I grew up around it. Some of my good friends were Muslims.

They are so strongly indoctrinated that it is not about what the book says.

Right now, I've been posting this because of some things that I've seen coming.

You don't understand what is happening right before you.

You cannot fight an ideology with prayer. You fight it with an ideology.

Ex-Muslim: If you see a Muslim telling you there is radical Islam, it's a lie.

It's not radical Islam. Islam is just radical.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Elite Light @KristineElite]

@WallStreetApes
That is so true! I didn't ever think of it that way - one side is collectivism the other individualism!

[Mattson Wade @Texanprimus]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans need to know the truth behind the story Zohran Mamdani used to say America needs to accept mass migration

Zohran Mamdani said “I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration. The story of the Hijra reminds us that Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina."

Here’s the part that he left out and it’s VERY important

- Muhammad started his religion in Mecca, where he made about 70 converts until the citizens of Mecca literally chased him out of the city

- So he fled from Mecca to Medina, which was a mostly Jewish city that was occupied and controlled by 3 opposing Jewish tribes

- He then he made a treaty with the Jewish tribes, establishing himself for the first time as a political leader. So Muhammad continued to gain followers and grow politically and militarily until he eventually got big enough and strong enough that he just decided, "Well, I don't have to follow these treaties anymore." And so for two of the tribes, he voided the treaty, and he cast them out. He expelled them out of Medina.

- The final tribe that was still in Medina, he brought all of the men from the tribe into the middle of the city and beheaded them and then all of the women and the children from the tribe were either sold off or brought into slavery

Now this is the story that Zohran Mamdani references. “Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina."

Yeah, except for within 5 years, Muhammad had killed, enslaved or expelled every Jew from Medina

Zohran Mamdani literally used this story as his reasoning to say we need to accept mass migration

The story ends with mass murder of the native people and the compelled takeover of the land by Muslims

That’s our future

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

I’ve heard the saying that “God gives his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers.” But when I see the disciples that Jesus chose and suffered for His name sake, I don’t see Him choosing the “toughest soldiers”, as I learn about men and women in the past and even today who have laid down their lives for Jesus, once again I don’t see God choosing His “toughest soldiers.” But I see a strong and mighty God choosing weak men and woman, and empowering them by His Holy Spirit to face some of the toughest battles and be used for His glory.

I once thought I was a “tough soldier” until I met Jesus, I then realized that I’m so weak without Him, and apart from Jesus I can’t do anything. I need Jesus daily. The only way that I can truly become who God wants me to be and truly do what God wants me to do, is not by my power not by my might, but only by The Spirit of The Living God. Thank you Jesus.

[Mattson Wade @Texanprimus]

College football is only a month away. How bad will the refs be this year. How often will they put their finger on the scale for favored team. Ranking 10 worst officiating calls of 2025 college football season - On3 https://t.co/auhRc6qpjJ

[Mattson Wade @Texanprimus]

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[Mattson Wade @Texanprimus]

@gorddahlen @TSN_Sports I think you fail to understand that the red card issuance was in violation to the rules and that is why it was repealed. You mean that consequence?