D Ritt

[fred hickey @htsfhickey]

Hope everyone enjoys a fabulous 4th of July celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this great country. Those of us who are U.S. citizens are so privileged to live here!

However, we cannot become too complacent. Our brilliant founders warned us, including Ben Franklin, who was asked at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia whether our new government would be a republic or monarchy, Franklin replied: "A republic if you can keep it."

Today, there are modern leaders who would prefer other forms of government - as they try to move the country towards monarchy/despotism or a "socialist democracy."

Also from Franklin: "When the people begin to think they can vote themselves money, it will herald the end of the republic."

John Adams: “Remember Democracy never lasts long.
It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.
There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and nowhere appears in history."

For the big spenders in the Executive branch and Congress that have brought us to a $39.3 trillion dollar National Debt, here's a pertinent comment from Scottish historian and author, Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813): “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

And another quote from Tytler: "The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

A final quote from Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, a French political philosopher (1689-1755) best known for developing the theory of separation of powers (our founding fathers understood this concept so well): "The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."

[Gail Heriot @GailHeriot]

The CA Legislature tried to strike these words from the state constitution in 2020 (put there by Prop 209 in 1996). The voters smacked them down when 57.23% said NO—despite the YES campaign outspending the NO team by more than 14 to 1. Now they’re trying again—calling it a “clarification” instead of an effort to gut the provision’s application to public education. Don’t believe them. If approved by the voters, this would be a major change. The aim is to pave the way for the recommendations of California’s Task Force on Reparations. The Task Force wants to make college free to African Americans no matter how well off their parents are and to get school districts to fund individual schools based on the race of the students who attend.

@christopherrufo

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@adamtaggart @RealRickRule There needs to be a corresponding graph that shows the change in what is / was considered taxable income over the same time frame.

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@NotKennyRogers @instapundit You forgot NYC (I know, not a country)

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@JackPosobiec You can fly commercially with a full water bottle domestically in Australia, when is this coming back?

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@Israeli_Sniper Republican buy assets, Democrats buy votes

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@GuntherEagleman It became meaningless when Obama received it for a speech

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@adamtaggart @barnes_law Adam, you realize there is only Left and far right maga stooge. It is a sad state of affairs

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@BrentAWilliams2 Front hole

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@C_3C_3 You do not give prostate exams to someone with prostate cancer

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Leisure Suit Larry

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@jk_rowling Is it possible J K Rowling is the Ayn Rand of our time?

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@elonmusk But You WERE ALLOWED to protest and destroy property for BLM

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@cliftonaduncan @instapundit Or Mark Zuckerberg

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@realTrumpNewsX Let go back to beef tallow for McDonald’s French fries too

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@briantylercohen It is illegal to employ/compensate someone that is not a citizen or has appropriate work authorization from DHA. Anyone doing it is breaking state and federal law.
So where are these people working?

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@saras76 “Greasy Hobo taint” 😂

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@adamtaggart Gender and race

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@iamnot_elon Yes