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[Namakan @Comfynumb15]

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." ... Thomas Jefferson

[Namakan @Comfynumb15]

Well stated...

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Ro Khanna built his little morality cathedral on the idea that wealth inequality is some national sin requiring government punishment.

Then Grover Norquist walked in, flipped on the lights, and pointed straight at the altar.

You first, Congressman.

That’s the kill shot.

Not because $11.6 million is the whole debate. Not because one check solves federal spending. But because it exposes the entire wealth-tax racket for what it is: a sermon for other people’s wallets.

Khanna wants the state to stalk accumulated success like a repo man with a badge. Your assets. Your business. Your investments. Your unrealized gains. Your family holdings. Your illiquid property. All of it tossed onto the government scale so bureaucrats can decide how much of your life’s work they feel entitled to this year.

And they call that justice.

No, that’s not justice.

That’s envy with a spreadsheet.

That’s confiscation wearing a charity-shop halo.

That’s politicians who benefited from capitalism trying to kneecap the ladder after they climbed it.

Silicon Valley didn’t become Silicon Valley because some federal tax ghoul audited ambition into existence. It was built by risk, capital, failure, obsession, invention, and reward. The wealth-tax crowd shows up after the engine works, throws sand in the gears, and congratulates itself for caring about the workers stranded on the side of the road.

Grover’s envelope did what a thousand policy papers couldn’t.

It forced the preacher to face his own gospel.

If Ro Khanna believes wealth confiscation is moral, he doesn’t need a law.

He needs a pen.

Cut the check, Ro.

Or admit the revolution was always scheduled to begin in someone else’s bank account.
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[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Ro Khanna: "Epstein Class"
Mao Zedong: "Landlord class"

Mao slaughtered 45 million Chinese to seize and hold total power.

He rejected any moderate path. Revolution meant one class exterminating another. Landlords anchored the old order, so Mao sent teams with clipboards and guns into every village to map exactly who owned property and who did not. The Land Investigation Movement turned those maps into death lists.

Peasants were ordered to dig the graves.

He bought their allegiance with stolen land and the promise of ownership. Mao carried propaganda pamphlets in one hand and bullets in the other from the start. Illiterate masses responded to simple targets... smash imperialism, feudalism, and the landlord class.

During the civil war he promised peasants land, women equality, minorities autonomy, and intellectuals respect. Every pledge was a temporary weapon. Once the Nationalists were defeated and central power consolidated, Mao revoked them all. Rich peasants faced liquidation. Minorities lost their concessions. The land handed to peasants was seized again and locked inside state communes.

To prevent any internal challenge, Mao embedded political commissars in every military unit. These officers held direct lines to the secret police and executed commanders who showed the slightest deviation. The same system scaled to the communes. The Party now controlled the food supply and decided who ate and who starved.

Dissent became impossible when survival itself required absolute obedience. No major domestic insurgency could form against a regime that could starve entire regions at will.

45 million dead. A master class in building totalitarian control from nothing but lies, surveys, mass graves, and the threat of engineered famine.

[Saint James Hartline @JamesHartline]

HIGH PRIORITY NEWS ALERT: The Southern Poverty Law Center financial fraud scandal is about to get a whole lot bigger. I have uncovered massive violations of Federal election laws and IRS violations involving the 501c3 non-profit charity SPLC and their 501c4 SPLC Action Fund and their other PACs New Southern Leaders PAC and New Southern Majority IE PAC. The 501c3 non-profit SPLC is running all of their entities, including their 501c4 political action committees, as one big honey pot in which the 501c3 non-profit SPLC has transferred millions of dollars in cash from their 501c3 to their PACs to spend the money on political campaigning to get Democrats elected. This is an absolute violation of Federal law under the FEC and the IRS.

501c3 non-profit charities like the Southern Poverty Law Center are forbidden by Federal law from spending their revenue on political campaigns or elections. Often charitable organizations will set up separate 501c4 political action committees (PACs) to engage in political activities that the charity is forbidden from engaging in. 501c3 non-profit charities can transfer funds to a 501c4 for lobbying purposes, but they cannot transfer funds for political purposes or candidate endorsements.

In Screenshot 1, a May 5, 2021 warning letter from the FEC to the SPLC Action Fund indicates the SPLC Action Fund failed to file any mandated reports for contributions the PAC received at the same time the SPLC Action Fund spent $1,078,842 in support of the Democrat senatorial campaigns of Jon Ossoff, Raphael Wanock and Cal Cunningham. At no time has the SPLC Action Fund ever reported any individual contributions to the PAC despite spending vast amounts of money to get Democrat candidates elected.

Screenshot 2 shows an 8879-TE IRS filing from the SPLC Action Fund website that does not align with other IRS 990 filings or the FEC filings. In that 8879-TE IRS filing from 2023 it shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center transferred $3,375,000 in cash to the SPLC Action Fund. That same filing also shows another $784,000 in payments received from the SPLC.

On the one hand, the SPLC Action Fund states on its IRS filings that it is not defined as a political organization, but in the same filings it states it supports (political) candidates who align with the EXEMPT purpose the SPLC Action Fund.

Screenshot 3 shows a portion of the massive amount of money that the SPLC Action Fund has spent to get Democrats elected to Congress. It also shows the SPLC Action Fund reported no contributions received — despite the fact that the SPLC Action Fund continues to expend large amounts of money and resources to get Democrats elected to Congress and to offices in local state and community races in a number of different states. At no time, has the SPLC Action Fund ever reported receiving any individual contributions to the FEC.

Screenshot 4 shows the huge amount of cash the SPLC Action Fund has recently transferred to the other SPLC political action commttees in the state of Alabama.

Screenshot 4 also shows the SPLC Action Fund website maintains an extensive displayed list of the Democrat candidates the PAC has endorsed for congress and state, county and local races in multiple states.

It must be presumed that all of the money the SPLC Action Fund is spending to get Democrats elected is money that has been transferred to the PAC from the 501c3 non-profit charity Southern Poverty Law Center. This is clearly a violation of Federal election laws and IRS regulations, and it borders on money laundering.

[NODAWOLF ❕❕❕ @NodaWolf]

Imagine if the Governor of Ohio resigned, moved to a rural farm town, and began to create hundreds of trucking companies that launder money into a tax-exempt religious organization…

That’s exactly what is happening in Maineville, Ohio.

Except it’s not a US Government official, it’s a foreign government official from Uzbekistan.

And it’s not just one foreign government official. It is many.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The oldest hand to sign the Declaration of Independence shook so badly the man could barely hold the pen. He signed anyway, and what he said while doing it should be carved somewhere. Here's the story.

Stephen Hopkins was born in Rhode Island in 1707. No money, no fancy schooling, almost no formal education at all. His mother and grandfather taught him at home, and from there he did the rest himself. He read everything he could get his hands on and became a surveyor and an astronomer by sheer self-teaching.

A poor self-taught kid then did this with his life. Justice of the peace at 23. Speaker of the Rhode Island House seven times. Chief justice for eleven years. Governor nine separate times. He basically taught himself into running an entire colony.

He was also a complicated man, and honesty demands we say it. He had enslaved people in his household, and later in life he turned against the trade, freeing people he held and pushing a 1774 bill to stop the importation of slaves into Rhode Island. A man wrestling with his own contradictions in real time.

By the time independence came, he was old. Nearly 69 when he got to the Continental Congress, one of the oldest men in the room, second in age only to his friend Benjamin Franklin.

And here's the thing. He was sick. He had palsy, a condition that made his hands shake so violently that writing was genuinely painful. For a man whose whole life ran on reading and writing, his own hands were betraying him.

So when the moment came to sign the most dangerous document in America, treason against a king, he could barely do it. He reached over with his left hand, gripped his trembling right hand to steady it, and forced the pen across the page.

And as he did it, he said the line they should put on a wall:

"My hand trembles, but my heart does not."

He went on to help draft the Articles of Confederation before his health finally pulled him out of public life. He died in 1785.

A self-made man, an old man, a shaking man, who looked down at hands that would barely obey him and signed his name to a revolution anyway.

Stephen Hopkins. The heart doesn't tremble.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

An IT expert, after gaining access to a forensic image of the Dominion Rigging Management System in Mesa County, Colorado, demonstrates how Dominion Rigging Systems overthrows governments, including the United States government on Nov. 3, 2020, and most recently in Brazil.

Trump votes were switched to Joe Biden in seconds by simply changing the index number—and without a trace.

And Tina Peters was sent to prison.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

USAID gets defunded and communists can’t win elections in South America anymore.

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

$200 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars was allegedly funneled back from Ukraine via USAID to fund Biden's re-election and to line Democrat politician's pockets.

This is why "aid" was being sent to Ukraine every other day. It was being laundered straight back to their own pockets. Sam Bankman-Fried played the same game, siphoning taxpayer funds, and bankrolling the DNC to rig elections.

Investigations target China and Ukraine for laundering aid money and producing fake IDs and ballots to help steal U.S. elections. It's the same game being played over and over again and the only ones that lose are the American taxpaying citizens.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

The Hoover Dam was completed in 1936.

Its concrete is still curing.

Concrete doesn't "dry." It undergoes a chemical reaction called hydration — calcium silicate crystals grow and interlock over decades.

In thin pours, hydration completes in weeks.
In mass concrete — pours measured in thousands of cubic yards — the reaction continues for centuries.

The Hoover Dam contains 3.3 million cubic yards of concrete.
The deepest internal sections have never fully hydrated.

Engineers knew this when they built it.
They designed around it — using cooling pipes, joint systems, and a pour sequence that let each section partially cure before the next was added.

The dam gets marginally stronger every year.
It will reach peak strength sometime around the year 2500.

Something built by humans in 1936 will still be actively becoming what it was designed to be in 2500.

That's what engineering for permanence looks like.

[Namakan @Comfynumb15]

@JohnCleese If her rules were followed she would be tied up tightly. Arf!

[Namakan @Comfynumb15]

@Liberfach0 Could it be...cultural?

[Namakan @Comfynumb15]

@JRobFromMN They don't want work or responsibilities.

[William Meijer @williameijer]

Gender equality is the most potent contraceptive (r ≈ 0.81)

[William Meijer @williameijer]

Something I’ve learned these last few years is that everyone says they are interested in the truth, but very, very, very few people are truly interested in the truth, let alone cognitively and emotionally equipped to discover it and deal with the consequences.

This makes serious conversations with 99.9% of people not only useless but counterproductive. They will walk away feeling dumb, anomic, and blame you for it.

Whenever someone knows more about something than I do—which happens often—I listen and keep an open mind. I’ve learned that this cannot be expected of others, especially not of the overeducated.

Those more educated than they are smart are actually less cognitively flexible than others because their intelligence and self-worth are crystallized and fragile—in need of protection—rather than fluid and antifragile—craving adversity and discovery

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Samuel Adams, he knew

[Namakan @Comfynumb15]

@romanhelmetguy I'll risk it.

[Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24]

And people will still look at you with a straight face and tell you that guns are the problem

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

Valerie Jarrrett at the opening ceremony of Obama's grotesque-looking presidential library is exactly what is destroying Western civilization. The glasses, the vapid face, the cult-like mindless recitation of a land acknowledgement. Just sheer delusion.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

The Chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board, Devin Nunes,

CONFIRMS: that Barack Obama ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago because he was looking for this—his ICA report, the falsified intelligence report used to frame Donald Trump in an effort to overthrow the United States government.

King Solomon @jsolomonReports was asked by Devin to join the board: MORE DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE ARE COMING:

[Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24]

This is very telling