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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.
Well now we know Lisa Murkowski is a Democrat disguised as a rino. James O’keefe’s team went to Alaska and was going to be allowed to vote even though they didn’t have ID. It was a trust me bro scenario. Meaning how many times has this been done? They did not vote but in fact exposed them. Now Lisa’s team is threatening to file a complaint against them.
And these stupid senators wonder why we want the Save America act passed?!
Because of this.
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🚨 Abdul El-Sayed to Keynote ISNA 2026 Convention Alongside Jihadist Figures Despite ISNA’s Muslim Brotherhood & Holy Land Foundation Terrorism Trial Ties 🚨
Islamic Communist Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed is listed as the keynote speaker for the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) 2026 Convention in Detroit, Michigan, which is taking place September 4-7th.
He will be speaking alongside many known jihadists, as well as @cenkuygur, who is the uncle of Islamic communist streamer Hasan Piker @hasanthehun.
ISNA @ISNAHQ has documented ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial, our nation’s largest terror financing trial.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has long faced scrutiny over its connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and its role in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) terrorism-financing prosecution.
Federal court records from the 2008 HLF trial in Dallas showed that ISNA and its related entities appeared on internal Muslim Brotherhood documents as part of the “Palestine Committee” network in North America. That network was tasked with supporting Hamas. ISNA was listed among unindicted co-conspirators by the Department of Justice. Prosecutors introduced evidence that ISNA and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) had received and transferred funds linked to HLF, which was convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.
According to the website for the event, NAIT is a sponsor for the ISNA 2026 conference. See screenshot below. 👇🏻
HLF itself was designated as a terrorist organization and shut down. Its leaders received lengthy prison sentences for material support of Islamic terrorism. Court filings and exhibits referenced ISNA’s organizational overlap and financial transactions with the convicted entities. While ISNA was never itself charged or convicted, the government maintained that the group and its leadership operated within the same Brotherhood-inspired infrastructure that supported Hamas fundraising under charitable cover.
This was all verified during the public trial, FBI affidavits, and declassified Muslim Brotherhood memoranda that was introduced as evidence at court. Despite the evidence and links to HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood, ISNA continues to operate as a major Muslim organization in America.
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@TPostMillennial No electoral college voting would allow the democrats to load up the sanctuary cities with illegals to vote for them. So basically foreign nationals would be deciding the presidency.