Cory Best

@UofAlabama alumnus. Oil, Gas, & Energy Sector Professional. I’m here give you the answers.

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@AlexEpstein @dagenmcdowell @BrianBrenberg There will be 3 classes of people those who seek wisdom from the wise, those that seek wisdom from the machine and finally those that don’t seek wisdom at all.

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@reoindustries Please help bring back the bench seat!

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

You'll never be this alive

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This map explains nicely why seafaring was so important in days gone by. I was just soooo much faster to travel on water.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Great Depression vs Silent Depression 🚨🚨🚨

Comparing costs of homes, cars, rent and income between 1930 and 2023.

These numbers are incredible.
What went wrong?

🔊 … sound on

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

Is the Social Security system broken beyond repair?

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

Reminder that the enemy class wants families like this to not only be destroyed but to suffer along the way

This is one of the most heartwarming pics I've seen in weeks

[Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline]

"The right to property… does not mean that others must provide him with property."

– Ayn Rand

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

Humanity.

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

What a time to be alive :

Emirati Astronaut already at ISS 🇦🇪

Indians about to land on Moon 🇮🇳

Americans (SpaceX) planning for Mars 🇺🇸

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

August 21, 1992. U.S. marshals invade and attack a rural homestead in Boundary county, Idaho.

Randy Weaver had decided ten years earlier that he'd had enough of society in general, opting to move his family somewhere where they might homeschool their kids and escape what he and his wife Vicki perceived as a corrupt world. The Weavers bought 20 acres on Ruby Ridge, a hillside just up from Ruby Creek, where they built a cabin and other improvements, and set about living a peaceful, primitive yet comfortable life.

After three years there, in 1984, Weaver and his neighbor Terry Kinnison had a dispute over a land deal. Kinnison lost the ensuing lawsuit and was ordered to pay Weaver court costs and damages. Kinnison, seething from the loss, wrote letters to the FBI, the Secret Service, and the county sheriff alleging that Weaver had threatened to kill President Reagan and other notable public figures.

In 1985, the FBI and Secret Service began an investigation of allegations that Weaver had made threats against Reagan and other government and law enforcement officials. On February 12, the Weavers were interviewed by two FBI agents, two Secret Service agents, and the Boundary County sheriff and his chief investigator. The Secret Service had been told that Weaver was a member of Aryan Nations and that he had a large weapons cache at his residence. Weaver denied these allegations, and no charges were filed. The next month, Randy and Vicki Weaver both filed an affidavit with the county courthouse alleging that their personal enemies were conspiring in order to provoke the FBI into attacking and killing the Weaver family.

In 1989, Weaver allegedly sold two too-much-sawed-off shotguns to someone who had led him to believe he was a weapons dealer. The "dealer" was actually an informant for the ATF. Weaver was instructed that he, too, must become an informant or face charges. When he refused, the ATF made good on their threat; the ATF alleged in their filings that Weaver was a bank robber with criminal convictions. These claims were later proven false. Still, a federal grand jury indicted Weaver in December 1990 for making and possessing illegal weapons.

Concluding it would be too dangerous to arrest Weaver at his home, ATF agents posed as broken-down motorists and arrested Weaver when he and Vicki stopped to assist. Weaver was informed of the charges against him, released on bail, and told that his trial would begin on February 19, 1991.

Sometime over the next year, the actual date of the trial was pushed back to February 20th - one day after the original date. Attempting to notify Weaver of this change, the probation office mistakenly wrote March 20th in their letter instead of February 20th, and Weaver of course missed his trial. Weaver having failed to appear, the court wrote out a bench warrant for his arrest. Due to the charges being weapons related, a federal grand jury indicted Weaver and the U.S. Marshal Service was tasked with arresting.

On August 21st, 1992, federal marshals, all heavily-armed, entered the property on foot. Randy Weaver's 14-year-old son Sammy Weaver was outside with his dog, along with Kevin Harris, a family friend. As the marshals crept up the ravine, the dog attacked them and was shot dead. Sammy, seeing the dog shot by strangers in the trees, opened fire. He too was shot and killed. Harris, after witnessing this, fired his own gun, killing one of the marshals.

Back at the cabin, Weaver, having now been told conflicting information about court dates, combined with the way the ATF had operated to open the investigation, and realizing the violence enacted against his family by federal agents, declared he would not surrender, alleging there was a conspiracy afoot.

Having lost one of their own, the marshals retreated but returned to make the climb the next day, this time accompanied by agents of the FBI, with one FBI sniper taking a position of just over 200 yards from the cabin. When Weaver and Harris opened the front door and walked out to visit Sammy's body, the sniper fired, striking Weaver in the arm. As Weaver and Harris fled back inside the cabin, the sniper fired another shot, meant for Harris. The bullet wounded Harris, but then traveled through the doorway and struck Vicki Weaver in the face as she held her infant daughter. Mrs. Weaver fell to the floor, dead. Her body would remain inside the cabin while the standoff continued.

The siege ended after eleven days, after civilian negotiators were brought in. Weaver and Harris finally surrendered and were arrested, both now facing a host of charges, including murder, conspiracy, and assault. An Idaho jury would acquit Harris of all charges. Weaver was convicted of failing to appear for the original firearms charge. He was fined $10,000 and sentenced to eighteen months in prison, credited with time served plus an additional three months, and released after sixteen months. The FBI sniper who murdered Mrs. Weaver was charged with involuntary manslaughter but this charge was dismissed on the grounds of qualified immunity.

The ATF and the FBI were both reprimanded by the Justice Department, however, the Department subsequently issued a formal statement that the officers of both agencies acted within their duties.

Remember this when you call for gun control.

Think it can't happen here? It already has 31 years ago.

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@TenLetters100 @richseng 1. It doesn’t matter if they get sued utilities have re-insurance policies that cover them, so even if they get sued they don’t pay with their cash they pay with the insurance company’s money.
2. Utilities don’t just go under and disappear because the government steps in.

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@monitoringbias He should be the US president.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Javier Milei just won the Presidential Primary in Argentina.

Javier supposedly supports:

➡️Free markets
➡️Legalizing all drugs
➡️Ending the Central Bank
➡️Legalizing concealed carry
➡️Selling off all state-owned companies
➡️Legalizing the buying and selling of organs

Many are describing him as an extremist.

What do you think?

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@PopulismUpdates Hoppe is who I’d want to run my country.

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@PopulismUpdates WE ARE SO BACK ANCAPS THEY DID IT

[Cory Best @CoryKnowsBest_]

@markmaycot The UK is literally a 3rd world country. Lmao

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

LET HIM COOK

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

He was correct ...

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

70s: tell us about aliens
Government:

80s: tell us about aliens
Government:

90s: tell us about aliens
Government:

2000s: tell us about aliens
Government:

2023: tell us about Epstein
Government:

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

What do you think is the federal government's most expensive program?

The military?

Social Security?

Nope.

The most expensive single program is paying the interest on the debt that Republicans and Democrats in Washington DC have run up in your name.

That doesn't even include paying back the principle.

That's just the interest.

Thanks to decades of debt spending, which every Congress in our lifetimes has passed, and every President in our lifetimes has signed, it will cost nearly a trillion dollars this year just to pay the interest on the debts they've run up.

That's an average of $6000 being taken out of each American taxpayer's pocket, to pay back interest on the $32 trillion (and growing) national debt.

To put that in perspective, when I was born in 1982, the entire federal budget wasn't even $1 trillion.

Imagine how much higher the interest will be when the kids being born now are in their 40s.

Our government is saddling people who haven't even been been born yet with 6 figure debts.

And today, we suffer the inflation that's caused by all the money being printed to finance these debts.

This is why the cost of living continues to skyrocket out of control.

And why?

So politicians and their billionaire corporate sponsors can live the good life on your dime, while you suffer under the consequences of their policies.

Trump and Biden have both proven that all they plan to do is run up even more debt, and saddle us with more even more interest and inflation from it.

This must end, and the two-headed uniparty monster won't end it.

It's time for us to slay that monster.