Gary Cunagin

[Matthew H @MattH_4America]

The traitors:

Laura Loomer
Mark Levin
Ben Shapiro
Randy Fine
Sean Hannity
Lady Lindsey Graham
Mike Johnson
John Thune
Ted Cruz

The patriots:

Thomas Massie
Tucker Carlson
Nick Fuentes
MTG
Joe Kent
Rand Paul
Ron DeSantis
Alex Jones
James Fishback
Mark Lynch

Which way, America?

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@HistoryWJacob Wonder if E.P. was from Somalia? Kinda sounds like it…

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@CharlesMullins2 But, what about the corn farmers?

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@derek__olson Not sure the petroglyphs are of any more religious significance than the art on the sids of train cars.

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@Milajoy Claw it back+

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@WallStreetApes Just need 1 big tornado and hail storm to cut and shuffle all of that.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

THE FIRST VACUUM TUBE INTEGRATED CITCUT WAS INVENTED TO BEAT UNFAIR TAXES.

The 1926 German Radio Tax: How One Clever Tube Beat the Bureaucrats (And Why Governments Will Repeat the Mistake with Robots)

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In 1926, the German government had a brilliant idea for raising revenue from the exciting new world of radio broadcasting: tax the radios themselves. Not by their price, size, or even their power consumption. No. They taxed them by the number of vacuum tubes (or, more precisely, by the number of valveholders or sockets they contained).

The more tubes your receiver had, the higher the Rundfunksteuer (radio tax) you paid. It was a classic case of early 20th century bureaucracy trying to squeeze money out of technology it barely understood.
Enter Loewe Audion GmbH, a German radio manufacturer. They were not about to let a silly per tube tax kill their business. In 1926, they introduced the Loewe 3NF.

A single glass envelope that packed three triode vacuum tubes, plus two fixed capacitors and four fixed resistors, all sealed inside one unit. It was essentially a complete radio receiver circuit in one tube.

A full featured three stage radio now only needed one socket, so it was taxed as a humble single tube set.

The 3NF let Loewe undercut competitors dramatically, and roughly one million of these ingenious devices were produced.

It was, quite literally, one of the worlds first integrated circuits. Decades before the silicon chip. But born not from Moores Law, but from tax evasion.

When one filament eventually burned out (as tubes did back then), the whole expensive assembly had to be replaced, but Loewe even offered a repair service. Innovation driven by government overreach?

Sounds familiar.

Governments Never Learn

Fast forward a century. Radio tubes are long gone, replaced by transistors, microchips, and now AI powered robots and autonomous systems. Yet the bureaucratic impulse remains exactly the same: when something new and productive emerges, tax it by counting its parts in the most literal, outdated way possible.

Imagine the future headlines: New EU Robot Tax Bill: Levy Based on Number of Actuators, Sensors, or AI Cores or how large the parameters. Or an American proposal: Tax robots per motor or per teraflop of compute.

Policymakers, desperate for revenue as automation displaces traditional jobs, will inevitably reach for the same blunt instrument Germany used in 1926.

They will ignore value created, economic output, or societal benefit, and instead fixate on something countable and physical. Just like counting glowing glass envelopes in a wooden radio cabinet.

The 3NF proved that clever engineers will always find a workaround. Companies will design single actuator humanoid robots that somehow perform like multi limbed ones, or cloud based AI systems that minimize on device taxable hardware. Innovation will be diverted into tax dodging contortions rather than genuine progress. Meanwhile, the tax collectors will be left scratching their heads, just as they were when the first 3NF equipped Loewe radios flooded the market.

History does not repeat, but it rhymes. In 1926, the German state tried to meter the future with 19th century logic and got outmaneuvered by a single brilliant tube.

A hundred years later, when robots roam factories, homes, and streets, the same shortsightedness will return. Because governments, like bad comedians, only have one joke.

The Loewe 3NF was not just a radio part. It was a warning: tax the technology stupidly, and the technology will tax you right back.

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@USAttyEssayli Don't forget the claw back.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A hilarious April fools video made by the police

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@Legacy411 I was an adult before 300 baud dialup. So glad I got to grow up riding bikes and playing in the creek.

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@atensnut Works every time…but the last time.

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

Worked at a nature center years ago. We would put live traps out to catch luckless field mice to feed our snake collection. We would usually smother (squeeze) in a gloved hand for less aggressive snakes(black rat). Mice needed to be more lively for more aggressive snakes(blue racers).

Someone emptied a trap in the blue racer cage without realizing it was a shrew. Came in next morning to find a chubby shrew in the cage looking for more snakes to kill.

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@nickshirleyy Claw Back...

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@DC_Draino I'm 75 and live in the US, my kids want to take me on a vacation to Canada... Should I be concerned?

[Rick Rule @RealRickRule]

a bit more honest...

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@TakeThatClouds @MarkRogers55808 As a pilot and engineer, chemtrails are pure Bull shit.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨

This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.

Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn't new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.

But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."

They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, "international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces," and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.

At what point does this become treason?

As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
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[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Scary and an effective ad.

[Gary Cunagin @boatgopher]

@liberty_lyss Bacon grease tastes better.