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I've paid school taxes for 35 years simply for being a homeowner.
My kids are grown now, but I'm still paying school taxes.
Oh, I forgot to mention, we sacrificed and put our kids through private school without any help from our government.
@GuntherEagleman What needs to happen and what will happen are two totally different things. If you haven’t noticed, no(earthly)body is really “in control”. This makes my faith in Christ even stronger. Even though I hear “JC they’re getting away with it” every day.
Main Street is hurting:
Headline GDP and stocks look fine, but small retailers, restaurants, and local service businesses face thinner margins, higher costs, and weaker demand.
Prices for groceries, rent, insurance, and materials are still much higher than a few years ago. Wages rose, yet many families feel the squeeze every time they shop or pay bills. Discretionary spending drops first, and that hits independent shops hardest.
Higher interest rates raised borrowing costs. Rents and taxes climbed. Labor stays expensive. National chains absorb this better than local operators.
Working people remain cautious. Quieter storefronts and delayed expansions show it.
Strong corporate numbers do not equal a healthy Main Street. Local businesses need room to hire, invest, and stay open. Too many are still just surviving.
@MORNINGSTAR857@0xbeehive What about the 6% that is being paid out by XAI in Money? What about the finance arm of XAI the banking arm? Why is nobody talking about that? Is it a bleed? Is it a positive? Is it a loss leader?
🔥 They Edited His Confession, Hid the Full Tape, Convicted Him Anyway. Then the “Bribers” Walked Free. Now a Four-Star Admiral Rots in Prison While the Corrupt DOJ Unit That Did It Got Shut Down.
America just locked up the former Vice Chief of Naval Operations — the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, commander of all forces across Europe, Africa, and Russia — for six years on bribery charges.
The people who supposedly paid the bribe? A federal jury acquitted them. Not a hung jury. Full acquittal. On all counts.
Let that marinate.
Admiral Robert P. Burke, four stars. 40+ years of service. Decorated beyond what most Americans can comprehend. Convicted May 2025. Sentenced to 72 months in federal prison.
The evidence the government used to convict him? Three cherry-picked snippets. Out of a TWO-HOUR interview Burke voluntarily gave investigators. His attorney fought to play the full tape. The judge said no. The jury heard only what prosecutors wanted them to hear.
His own lawyer described the trial as “the exact opposite” of normal: the prosecution was the one objecting to keep evidence out. They didn’t want the jury to see the full context. Because the full context, according to Parlatore, shows there was no bribe.
Meanwhile, the two Next Jump CEOs — Kim and Messenger — got their full defense. First trial: hung jury. Second trial: not guilty on everything. The edited confession that convicted Burke? Wasn’t even played at their trial. And they still walked.
You cannot logically “accept” a bribe that nobody “paid.” The law allows inconsistent verdicts. Reality doesn’t.
Here’s the part that should make every American’s blood boil:
The DOJ’s Public Integrity Section brought the case. The Trump administration has since dismantled that unit. Why? Because it was corrupt. Parlatore’s words, not mine: “a corrupt unit within DOJ that the president got rid of because of the abuses.”
This is the same unit that destroyed Ted Stevens. Same playbook. Hide exculpatory evidence. Edit statements. Convict first, let appeals sort out the wreckage later.
Then, weeks before the co-defendants’ second trial, discovery material finally surfaced — staff interviews that, per Parlatore, “completely contradicted what the government’s theory was at trial.” Evidence that should have been turned over before Burke’s trial. Wasn’t.
Burke’s appeal is pending in the D.C. Circuit. The judges grilled prosecutors hard in April. One judge couldn’t understand why 45 minutes were cut from Burke’s interview. Parlatore walked out thinking a reversal is coming.
But here’s the real question:
Why does a man sit in prison for “accepting a bribe” when a jury has acquitted the supposed bribe-payers of their peers?
Why did the government get to curate what evidence the jury heard?
And what does it say about our justice system that the unit responsible for this conviction no longer exists because it was too corrupt to keep?
President Trump has the power to end this with a stroke of a pen. A pardon isn’t just mercy here — it’s correction of an institutional failure.
Admiral Burke gave his life to this country. The country owes him better than a conviction built on edited tape and a prosecution unit that’s since been put in the trash where it belongs.
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