Tyler Schwerdtfeger⚽

Decide what kind of day you are going to have. Decide what kind of life you are going to live. K-State class of 2018.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Austin Metcalf is dead.

Let’s stop dancing around the obvious.

Austin Metcalf received the death penalty.

Karmelo Anthony received 35 years.

One of them lives.
One of them gets a gravestone.

Save the faux outrage.

The real victim in this case is NOT the convicted killer.

The real victim is the young man who will never come home again and the family that will spend the rest of their lives grieving a loss that can never be undone.

This was a track meet.

A place for competition, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

NOT violence.
NOT murder.

And spare us the racial narratives.

Murder is wrong regardless of the race of the victim or the perpetrator. Any decent society should be able to agree on that.

Austin Metcalf lost everything.

His family got a life sentence of grief.

And while some are busy turning this tragedy into a racial debate, the Metcalf family is looking at the empty chair at the dinner table and remembering who actually paid the highest price.

Austin Metcalf got the death penalty.

Never forget that.

[ryan van der veer @sumbios]

How Europe Is Designing a Tax System You Can’t Escape.

The Netherlands is introducing a 36% tax on unrealized investment gains in 2028, even if you don’t sell your assets.

The tax will be due each year on paper profits.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The California wealth tax is not on income…

It’s 5% of your net worth.
It’s state seizure of private assets.

This is now on the ballot and likely to pass.
Realize where we are.

[Lars Mapstead @LibertarianLars]

Reasonable Tax brackets

$0-$50,000 : 0%
$50,001-$100,000 : 0%
$100,001-$200,000 : 0%
$200,001-$500,000 : 0%
$500,001-$1,000,000 : 0%
$1,000,001-$5,000,000 : 0%
$5,000,001-$10,000,000: 0%
$10,000,000+ : 0%

[Stelios Panagiotou @Panagiotou90St]

Milei is right. Rewarding the unproductive and the inefficient in exchange for political support is one of the main causes of European decline.

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

Europe destroyed its economic growth by punishing those who generate wealth.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 THE U.S. SENATE JUST VOTED TO BAN A FEDERAL RESERVE CBDC UNTIL 2030

THE FED CANNOT ISSUE A DIGITAL DOLLAR

HUGE WIN FOR #BITCOIN

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 🔥

[ἐκον βρω @EconBreau]

Socialism is the theory that if you abolish profit, bread will somehow bake itself out of moral superiority.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Either incarcerate or innocent people suffer

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Hey Eric I’d never heard of you but quick google search said you were literally removed from House Intelligence Committee for having your office infiltrated by a Chinese spy named Fang Fang😭😭 Can’t even make it up. Maybe sit out the National Security lectures. Politicians man🫣

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

The leaders in Cuba might as well just pack up and move to Brazil now.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I always laugh at yo-yo’s who don’t have the 1st clue what information the President had that forced this decision. Even politicians who despise him but were briefed on the situation seem to agree with this operation. I guess lotta podcasters know better. 😂. Gotta keep the lights on somehow. Borderline traitors if you ask me. Iran is a terror nation with a long history of some of the worst human rights atrocities in the world. Nobody disputes that fact.They hate Americans. They hate Israel. They hate all Jews. They hate the West. They would kill us all if given the chance. They just murdered tens of thousands of their own people. The rest of the Middle East is on our side. The Iranian people are on our side. It isn’t that complicated to support our Troops and our country this morning. We are on the right side here. God Bless America . 🇺🇸

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Megan Rapinoe made it her life's mission to get U.S. Soccer to pay her team the exact same amount as the men's team even though the women's game brought in much less revenue.

The USA men's hockey team, on the other hand, spent years fighting with the NHL for a collective bargaining agreement that allowed them to represent the United States at the Olympics for no pay at all.

The difference between narcissism and patriotism.

[Jesse Tevelow @jtevelow]

With all the ridiculous FUD people spread about Bitcoin, I wanted to create a comprehensive resource to dispel the common myths and reiterate the core truths of the most powerful invention in human history.

Please share with friends as a reference. Happy stacking. 🟠

[Handre @Handre]

In 1959, Fidel Castro promised to redistribute Cuba's wealth and create equality for all. Within a decade, the island that once exported sugar and cigars to the world couldn't even keep its own lights on. The wealthy fled, but instead of their riches trickling down to the poor, everyone just became equally poor together.

The revolucionarios had calculated that seizing the means of production would mean seizing prosperity itself. What they discovered instead was that prosperity isn't sitting in some vault waiting to be redistributed—it's created daily by millions of voluntary exchanges, investments, and entrepreneurial risks. When you abolish those mechanisms, you don't redistribute wealth; you redistribute poverty.

Today's politicians make the same mathematical error Castro did: they see inequality and assume it represents a fixed pie that just needs better slicing. They never ask why some pies grow while others shrink, or why the countries promising equality most loudly seem to deliver scarcity most efficiently.

The cruel irony is that the only truly "equal" outcome socialism reliably produces is making everyone equally worse off than they started.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis takes HUGE victory lap on New York and Ugandan Mayor Mamdani as they consider SURGING TAXES on Americans

"Florida now has almost 4 million more residents than NY, yet their budget is over TWICE AS LARGE as Florida's!" ☀️🔥

"New York City with 8 million people has a larger budget than the entire state of Florida and yet our infrastructure is better, our roads are better, services are better."

"These are CHOICES. They don't respect the taxpayers in these places and people have rebelled now."

"It's not just taxes. You have homeless problem. You obviously have had crime problem in some of these areas for a number of years."

"We have no state income tax in Florida, which we're gonna keep. We have a sales tax, but the necessities of life are actually exempt."

"So food, medication, baby items, you don't even pay sales tax on that."

"And so if somebody is struggling trying to make ends meet, we've done a lot to reduce the burdens on them."

"We've stood for people that are working hard. We respect the taxpayers and the proof's in the pudding!"

"How can you possibly argue that it would be OK to have a budget TWICE as large like New York State? Given the substandard results that they have, it's a choice of how they're treating taxpayers."

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

This is insane.

1971:
-Gold was $43/oz
-Average hourly wage was $3.70
-Time needed to buy one oz of gold: 11.6 hours

2026:
-Gold: $5,000/oz
-Average hourly wage: $28
-Time needed to buy one oz of gold: 179 hours

What does this mean?

Your time is literally less valuable today than it was 50 years ago. Look at it this way:

In 1971: Work 12 hours ➡️ get 1 ounce of gold

In 2026: Work 12 hours ➡️ get 0.07 ounces of gold

Gold is still gold. One hour is still one hour. Wtf is happening?

We haven't used sound money since 1971, when U.S. President Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard. Money became infinitely printable, with nothing required to back it.

So they printed money, over and over. And over. And over. And over again.

Every time they printed new dollars, the dollar became worth less. Think about it like this:

If there's 10 copies of a rare painting, and then they make 1,000 new copies, all the copies become worth less. That's what happens when you increase the supply.

That's what's been happening to the dollar since 1971. And guess what?

The money you use represents your time.

You give time and energy to the market, the market gives you money in return. That money reflects the time you gave.

It's no wonder that time has become less valuable as the dollar has become less valuable.

We don't use gold to measure our time and energy. We use a money that can be printed out of thin air by a small, central group of elites that we have no real say over.

Anybody with the power to print money from nothing will eventually abuse that power. That's what's been happening since 1971.

As a result, it now takes more of your time to earn the same amount of gold, which is completely backwards from a species that is supposed to be progressing.

It should be going the other way. As we develop new technologies and bring more productivity to the market, it should take *less* time to earn the same amount of gold.

The only way -- THE ONLY WAY -- to stop your time from becoming less valuable is to use a different form of money. You must exit the dollar system. You cannot escape time-debasement if you are in a system with monetary-debasement.

You need a system that cannot be debased.

We have a monetary system that was explicitly created to prevent monetary debasement once and for all. We have evidence for those that have chosen that system.

If your money was Bitcoin, this is how much time it would take to buy one ounce of gold:

2012: 208 days

2016: 2 days, 22 hours

2020: 4 hours, 28 minutes

2024: 56 minutes

The dollar loses value over time, because it can be infinitely debased. The longer you use it as money, the more time you lose.

Bitcoin gains value over time, because it is the only money that cannot be debased. The longer you use it as money, the more time you gain.

The game is alignment.

Choose wisely.

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Imagine being in a political movement that feels it cannot win if Voter ID is required.

[Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand]

If you are a doctor and believe a man can get pregnant, you should lose your medical license. Period.