Trip McNeely

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Look at the history of the world and you will find one consistent truth that the left tries to bury under piles of academic jargon and fake morality.

Communism is the ideology of the loser.

It is the chosen philosophy of the insufferable loser who cannot compete, the jealous crybaby who cannot succeed, and the bitter fool who wants to drag everyone else down to their level. These people are not visionaries. They are monsters and demons who dress up their envy in the language of justice. They are the devil in a cheap suit, preaching about equality while plotting to destroy anyone better than them. And that is everyone.

The communist is an evil and wicked creature. They are cruel and hateful by nature. Their entire worldview is built on being vicious, savage, and brutal to anyone who possesses what they do not. They are ruthless and merciless predators who would rather see a city burn than see a neighbor succeed through hard work. They are cold-blooded and heartless souls who view human life as expendable fuel for their failed experiments. They are soulless and demonic agents of an infernal and hellish vision that has left a trail of death across the globe. They are cursed and damned by their own stupidity and malice.

The collectivist, consumed by a bitter and jealous rage, chooses instead to weaponize his own inadequacy. He views achievement and strength with a spiteful, venomous resentment, seeking to drag excellence down into the mud of equal misery.

The track record of this ideology reveals its true architecture. Beneath polished academic rhetoric lies a corrosive, destructive doctrine rooted in weakness and fragile vanity. The activist acts like an insufferable crybaby, demanding that civilization rearrange itself to subsidize his mediocrity. When that demand fails, the mask slips to expose a ruthless, cold-blooded apparatus. From the Soviet gulags to the Cambodian killing fields, the practical execution of this dogma produced a dark, grim reality that left millions dead, economies ruined, and human potential shattered.

Collectivism operates as a toxic rot within the body politic. It preys on the insecure and the desperate, providing moral cover for state-sanctioned theft and bureaucratic subjugation. Its utopian promises inevitably deliver an infernal, bleak wasteland governed by paranoia, scarcity, and violent coercion. A free people defends its future by seeing this philosophy for what it truly is: an organized rebellion of the envious against the capable, designed to punish greatness and crown the incompetent.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon has created $3 trillion of value with his companies and pays the salaries of 150,000 people.

Bernie helped create $36 trillion of debt with his time in Congress and pays the salaries of 0 people.

Elon’s wealth is not the problem, Bernie’s communist policies are.

Simple.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Ro Khanna’s solution to taxing illiquid billionaire founders is so stupid it sounds like satire.

Say you founded a private company valued at $5 billion.

You do not have $5 billion (surprise).

You own shares that might eventually be worth $20 billion, $500 million or zero.

Government says congrats, pay up.

You say, “Cool, except I don’t have the cash.”

Ro’s fix? Pledge the shares to the government and borrow the money to pay the government.

This idea is absolutely bonkers.

The government decides what your private company is worth, taxes you based on its estimate, lends you money against it, and then takes the money back as taxes.

You now have debt against the government for imaginary taxes and if you don't pay you forfeit and the own a share of your company.

The government is now an appraiser, bank, creditor, tax collector and shareholder. Maybe we can fund more Learing Centers (I digress).

AND...it gets even dumber.

Under current federal tax rules, absent some special exemption, handing over collateral to satisfy nonrecourse debt is generally treated as a sale, which means another tax.

So California lends you $250M against startup shares so you can pay California its wealth tax. Ten years later the company is toast. You can lose your company, lose your shares and still owe taxes on money you never had.

And who exactly is valuing all of this?

Professional investors struggle to value private companies when they have data rooms, preferred terms, board access and actual money on the line.

Now government is supposed to put an annual mark on founder common and tax it?

A $10B preferred financing round does not mean founder common can actually be sold at that valuation. Different share classes exist. Liquidation preferences exist. Dilution exists. Secondary discounts exist. Sometimes there isn’t a buyer at any remotely comparable price.

So how do you solve this @RoKhanna?

We already know how wrong these marks can be. Roughly 67% of unicorns that IPO’d in 2025 priced below their last private valuation.

Yet somehow government is going to know the “correct” value every year.

You take the risk. You quit the job. You work for years. You take dilution. Most startups fail and your shares go to zero.

Government doesn’t share that downside.

Then policymakers look backward at Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk and Jensen, the handful of guys who actually won, and use them to rewrite the economics for every kid deciding whether to take the same swing.

Heads, the company dies and government says “no crying in the casino.”

Tails, you actually win and suddenly you’re an evil tech billionaire who owes government 5% of the paper mark every year.

GGs.

Ro has to defend the moronic economics. Bernie’s job is to make sure you’re too angry to examine them.

“Fair share.” “Billionaire class.” “The rich.”

Instead of asking whether taxing unrealized ownership makes sense, Bernie changes the question to whether billionaires have too much money.

Don’t discuss liquidity. Show the mansion.

Don’t discuss valuation or incentives. Show the yacht.

That is class warfare.

And it matters before the company even exists.

Nobody knew Bezos would become Bezos when he started Amazon.

Nobody knew Facebook would become Meta.

Nobody knew Nvidia would become the most important chip company in the world.

Policy written around the winners changes the economics for the next generation of potential founders.

You aren’t only taxing Zuckerberg after Facebook worked. You’re changing the math for the 24 yr old kid deciding whether to spend the next decade trying to build the next one.

America works partly because ambitious people from all over the world come here believing the upside is worth the risk.

Leave the comfortable job. Start something. Raise money. Fail. Try again.

And if it finally works, own a meaningful piece of what you created.

If the new deal becomes “you eat all the downside, but if your paper equity gets big enough we start taking 5% every year,” don’t act shocked when some people stop taking the risk or take it somewhere else.

Bernie and Ro love showing you the lifestyle and telling you what they deem “excessive” wealth. What they rarely show is everything sitting underneath it.

Take Bezos.

Show his net worth going up $20B and ask why one guy needs all that money.

Alright champ, let’s zoom out.

Amazon employs more than 1 million people in the United States. Independent sellers using Amazon support more than 2 million U.S. jobs and paid more than $100B in wages in 2024.

So before you even get to Bezos’ personal tax return, millions of people are earning money because this company exists.

Those wages generate income taxes and payroll taxes.

Amazon’s sales generate sales-tax revenue.

Amazon itself pays corporate income taxes, employer payroll taxes and state and local taxes.

In 2025 Amazon reported roughly $12.4B of federal income-tax expense, $7.9B of federal employer payroll and other taxes and fees, and $7.5B of state and local taxes.

Then there’s another $24.8B collected and remitted on behalf of employees and $33.4B in sales taxes.

Roughly $86B moved through those reported tax categories in one year.

Did Amazon itself economically bear all $86B? Obviously not.

Customers pay sales tax. Employees pay their withholding.

That's how this all works. The company created the jobs, wages and transactions that created the tax base.

Bernie wants you staring at Bezos’ personal tax return as though none of that exists.

The million-plus employees, sellers, suppliers, truck drivers, warehouses, contractors, construction crews, software companies and retirement accounts all disappear.

And quick reminder: Bezos getting $10B richer because Amazon had a good day in the market does not mean $10B landed in his bank account. The market repriced stock he already owned.

When he actually sells appreciated shares, that generally creates a capital-gains tax bill.

Jensen Huang got insanely rich because Nvidia became insanely valuable.

Nvidia also employs roughly 42,000 people, around 31,000 in R&D, and paid more than $20 BILLION in cash income taxes in its latest fiscal year.

Nearly $17B went to the federal government alone.

It also reported roughly $7.9B in taxes tied to employee stock plans.

So Jensen got richer. Shareholders got richer. Employees got richer. Government collected billions.

All four things can be true at once.

Meta spent more than $72B on capex in 2025. That money went into chips, data centers, power, construction, engineers and contractors.

Not Zuckerberg’s checking account.

A lot of people make money when successful companies make money.

That story just sucks for class warfare. It is much easier to show the billionaire’s net worth and pretend his gain was everyone else’s loss.

And federally Sanders and Khanna want to do this every year.

A 5% annual tax on wealth.

So forget the valuation mess for a second and just run the math.

Your assets make 8% and government takes 5% of the asset value?

That 5% tax just ate 62.5% of your 8% gross return, before income or capital-gains taxes.

Make 5%? Your entire nominal return is gone.

Make 3%? You’re selling principal to pay the tax.

Obviously people react to that. Investors demand more return, founders rethink where they live and capital goes looking for better economics.

Which is a bizarre experiment to run when America is already winning on startups and innovation.

The U.S. has roughly 950 private unicorns and produced more than half of the world’s new unicorns in the first half of 2026.

California attracted roughly $191B of venture investment in 2025, ~60% of the U.S. total.

Other countries spend decades trying to manufacture this ecosystem. Startup visas, tax incentives, special programs, anything to attract founders and capital.

We already have it. Maybe don’t fuck it up.

Bernie calls it “fairness.” Fine. Define fair @BernieSanders

The top 1% earned roughly 21% of U.S. adjusted gross income in 2023 and paid roughly 38% of federal individual income taxes, about $823B.

Washington spends $6.28T, annually, and already has a $1.8T deficit through July.

I don't think you need more money.

Before inventing another tax base, maybe explain where the money already goes and what outcomes we're getting for it.

California spent nearly $24B on homelessness and nothing got better. Billions lost to medicare fraud. There is reported $200-400B of what we know lost to it each year.

Not sure giving the government more money, especially California is a good idea.

But taking another dollar out of productive private capital does not magically make that dollar better allocated.

Other developed countries have already wrestled with this too.

The number of OECD countries with individual net wealth taxes fell from 12 in 1990 to 4 by 2017.

Maybe they all got captured by billionaires. Or maybe they learned something.

Valuing private assets is messy. Liquidity matters. Capital moves. People move. Incentives matter.

Tax income. Tax realized gains. Close actual loopholes. Audit the stuff you already spend.

America became the world’s innovation engine because people came here, took huge risks, raised capital, built companies and owned the upside when it worked.

You want more people making that bet.

Not fewer.

Be very careful messing with that machine, especially when the people asking for more of the capital are already almost $40T in debt.

“He can afford it” is not economics.

“Fair share” means nothing until you define it.

And envy is a terrible tax policy.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 GREG GUTFELD just said it PERFECTLY:

"It reveals an essential truth about socialism...it cannot exist unless you enforce it aggressively, which means it is antithetical to human nature! If this stuff is so INNATE, WHY do you have to FORCE it down our throats?!"

"CAPITALISM doesn't need a movement. There's no Republican capitalist society. Socialism needs a movement because they need to FORCE it!"

"Capitalism — flaws and all — most resembles human behavior, which is where we are, we live by incentives and disincentives."

"We like to trade by and sell goods. We need that. We'll give you this. That's how it works."

"Socialism has to aggressively tell you that this is superior because you won't buy it!"

@greggutfeld

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Hell yeah!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s all fake and gay.

Government and media manufactured the “class war” then pivoted to race war to absolve the state of blame for the 2008 crisis, sideline the Tea Party with racist media attacks, and consolidate power in leftist hands.

The crash was produced by Fed money printing, Fannie and Freddie guarantees, and government mandates that forced risky loans into the system.
When it collapsed the insiders got bailed out. The public absorbed the damage.

The Tea Party demanded accountability for the bailouts and spending.
Media met that challenge by branding the movement racist from the start. That attack neutralized a direct threat to big government and crony finance.
Occupy was tolerated because it focused on banks and left the state’s central role untouched.

And since the “racist” accusations worked on the Tea Party, the pivot to race delivered new tools for state expansion.

Media usage of the word racist surged after 2012. Equity and systemic claims became the justification for deeper government reach into hiring, lending, education, and speech.

The result is consolidated leftist power. The administrative state grew larger and more intrusive. Progressive ideology gained institutional dominance while opposition gets preemptively discredited rather than debated on substance.

This sequence protected the government from reckoning with the crisis it created and shifted authority toward those who thrive on bigger government and identity based control.

Now the woke narrative is crumbling, watch them pivot back to a class war.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In the ancient world, the way many people gained great wealth was by forming gangs of strong men, beating up their neighbors, and taking their stuff.

People still speak with admiration of men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, but they were little better than gangsters who enriched themselves through armed robbery.

This was a negative sum game, and assured that people remained poor and unhappy for thousands of years.

Eventually, however, we figured out that respecting each other’s rights, building things, and trading meant that we could play positive sum games instead. We could increase the amount of wealth, and all would benefit. As a result, we moved from living in unheated shacks to living in what our ancestors would’ve thought of as paradise in only a few hundred years.

However, there are still people out there who think that beating someone up and taking their stuff is a really great idea.

It is the great task of our civilization to shun such people, as they are not fit to be part of society.

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.

Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.

The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.

[marfdrat @marfdrat]

These are the utterances of a loser who has never built anything, and is completely envious of someone who built amazing things, and enriched the lives of millions of people. He has consequently been rewarded with fabulous wealth - you can't stand it, and want to punish him for it.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Ro, you’re lying and you know it.

You compared a man’s net worth to a country’s GDP. A balance sheet to a year of output. You went to Yale. You learned the difference between a stock and annual output flow.

But being a politician and lawyer, you love to lie and gaslight the economic illiterates, it’s your entire business model.

You want a 5% tax on Elon to fund free trade school for every American.

Trade school costs $80B/yr, you can’t even fund a year.

Elon doesn’t have $55B in cash. It’s stock. You know this.

To pay, he sells roughly $70B of Tesla and SpaceX shares, and the sale itself gets taxed on top. SpaceX raised $75B at its IPO this morning at a $1.77 trillion valuation.

Imagine him selling that amount every year.

Ro isn’t taxing Elon. He’s taxing everyone who gas exposure to the market. Every pension fund and index fund on the planet gets wrecked. And given Ro, he’ll insider trade and short before the bill passes.

And for what? To rip capital from the best allocator alive and hand it to the most incompetent institution in human history. Elon turned PayPal gains into Tesla and SpaceX: 120,000 jobs, launch costs down 90%, two industries that didn’t exist, a $1.77 trillion company from nothing.

You’ve never built anything. You’ve never employed anyone. You’ve never created a dollar of value in your life. You collect a government salary and demand tribute from men who do what you can’t.

Your machine spends $7 trillion a year and still runs a $1.8 trillion deficit. It loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud. More than your entire tax raises. The Department of Education went from $34 billion in 2000 to $268 billion in 2024. 8x the money. Reading scores at multi-decade lows. Trade schools still unfunded.

You don’t lack money. You lack competence, and you want Elon to subsidize it.

You haven’t donated your wealth. You haven’t moved into government housing. Empty your accounts first, Ro. Then preach.

Elon’s options get taxed as ordinary income at the top rate when exercised. Over $500 billion in lifetime taxes, the largest tax stream from one human ever. You want $55 billion now in a way that craters the shares the $500 billion depends on. Your tax doesn’t raise money. It kills the companies, kills the jobs, kills the pensions, and torches a bigger check already in the mail.

You’re the monkey in the middle, Ro. You can’t build. You can’t allocate. You can’t even count. So you eat from everyone else’s pie and call it fairness.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

So City Hall first gang-rapes private rental housing with a sadistic cocktail of rent controls, confiscatory taxes, psychotic mandates, bullshit violations, endless fees, weaponized lawsuits, and a bureaucratic death-grip so tight it makes breathing illegal.

Then, when landlords can't shit gold bricks or perform open-heart surgery on crumbling buildings with pocket-change revenue, these same corrupt parasites point at the wreckage and screech "EVIL BAD LANDLORD!" at the top of their lungs like the hysterical frauds they are.

Enter the vulture lawyers. Enter the seizure porn. Enter the glorious transfer to their "responsible stewards" ... a pack of politically connected nonprofits, deranged activist cults, slimy tenant mobs, and regime ass-kissers.

This is nothing but highway robbery in a progressive costume.

And that precious little "bad landlord" smear? Who the fuck defines it? The same brain-dead government clowns whose own public housing projects look like third-world shit-pits ... moldy walls, leaking ceilings, rat infestations, dead elevators, no heat, and decay so bad it makes the Soviet Union look like a luxury resort?

Before Mamdani starts creaming his pants fantasizing about nationalizing private buildings, maybe he should wipe the drool off his chin and explain why every goddamn government housing project is already a festering, piss-stained disaster.

Anyone claiming this nightmare ends at "chronic neglect" is either a lying piece of shit or a full-blown useful idiot.

Today: "Bad landlord." Tomorrow: "Too much equity, comrade." By Friday: "Not aligned with our glorious community values."

Same rancid Marxist cockroach agenda. New shiny label. Same fucking theft.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens."

And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds.

Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before.

Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax.

A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program.

Simple.

They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why.

They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed.

They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak.

By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that...

And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren???

Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget.

NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K.

NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane.

The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol.

So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that.

A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical.

It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools

THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY.

Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough.

Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem.

That's the SCAM.

Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her.

Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal.

Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck.

Outrage is deflection.

They'd rather she pay.

Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

NYT in full meltdown: 'Elon borrowed against SpaceX assets to build his companies!'

Holy shit, are you telling me a businessman used collateral and loans to fuel insane growth instead of just starting a fake daycare for free Medicaid grift?

The commie brain literally cannot process the concept of debt backed by actual repayment ability, and 'struggling companies'? LMAO, those 'struggling' bets created reusable rockets, Starlink, and Tesla.

You clowns don’t understand collateral, leverage, or basic capitalism. You’re not journalists ... you’re economic illiterates playing as activists.

Thanks NYT, for yet another masterclass in why nobody should waste a single second reading your garbage. Peak regime media stupidity.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The anti-capitalist brainrot is so powerful.

It's actually virtually *impossible* to become a billionaire without creating an immense amount of wealth for other people.

Billionaires usually employ hundreds to tens of thousands of other people, to say nothing of creating products, goods and services that are so valuable people are prepared to voluntarily part with their hard-earned money in exchange.

People want to hate on big tech oligarchs and there's a lot to dislike, but the one thing you definitely can't argue is they haven't created wealth for other people.

How many millionaires are there just because Google, YouTube and other platforms exist? How many people have a good job because of them?

In communist societies and dictatorships, the best way to create wealth is using power to control "state" resources. That's why most Russian billionaires are very close friends and allies of Vladimir Putin. In a capitalist society, the best way to create wealth is to solve other people's problems for money at scale.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Hey, we’ve got ultra-wealthy people paying property taxes on multimillion-dollar vacation homes, living here maybe 3 weeks a year, and dumping a ton of money into the local economy while barely using any government services.

So overall, they put way more into the system than they take out.

Let’s tax them extra so they stop.

Brilliant.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."

Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.

One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.

Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.

The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.

500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.

The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.

You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.

"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.

Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.

Today his own party would call him a fascist.

The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.

The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.

The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.

Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:

Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.

Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.

Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.

State ideology forced on families. Democrats.

Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.

Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.

Cult of personality. Both sides.

Ultranationalism. Republicans.

Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.

You marched against kings on Saturday.

You marched FOR kings.

You just didn't know which was which.

Stop being gaslit.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy]

Fuck these people, its always the same.

🖕🖕🖕

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

The Democratic Party Has Become Anti-American Prosperity

Bernie Sanders says billionaires shouldn't exist.

Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley's own congressman, just backed a wealth tax on unrealized gains. When the founders said they'd leave, he quoted FDR: "I will miss them very much."

Here's what nobody in the Democratic Party can answer:

"What is your plan for American prosperity?"
Not redistribution. Not fairness. Prosperity. Growth. Building things.

They can't answer it. They don't even try.

That's why Silicon Valley walked away from them.

The numbers tell you everything.

The federal government spends $19,932 per year for every man, woman, and child in America.

That's $80,000 for a family of four. Just federal. Before your state takes its cut.

That number has nearly TRIPLED since 1975. Adjusted for inflation. Per person.

Education: $20,387 per student. Third highest on the planet. Math scores DROPPED over 20 years. Estonia spends half what we do and destroys us.

Healthcare: Most expensive on earth. Double the next country. Life expectancy ranks behind Cuba.

We tripled the budget. Outcomes got worse.

And Bernie's answer is more money. Khanna's answer is tax founders on stock they can't even sell.

You don't have a revenue problem when you're spending $80K per family and kids can't read. You have a broken machine.

Here's what Bernie won't tell you about his favorite talking point.

He praised China for "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization."

He's right. 800 million people. Greatest economic achievement in human history.

But China was poor, starving, and stagnant WHEN it was actually communist. The Great Leap Forward killed millions. That was the system working as designed.

Then in 1978, Deng Xiaoping did the unthinkable. He let people build things. Private enterprise. Foreign investment. Special Economic Zones.

Today 60% of China's economy is private sector. 9 out of 10 new jobs come from private companies.

China got rich by doing the exact opposite of what Bernie proposes. He accidentally proved his own framework wrong.

Ro Khanna saw all of this. Co-authored the CHIPS Act. Talked about production, factories, competing with China. Watched the playbook work.

Then went home to California and endorsed taxing founders on imaginary money.

The builders noticed. And they left.

Marc Andreessen voted Democrat his entire life. Clinton. Gore. Kerry. Obama. Hillary.

Then the Biden administration "flat-out tried to kill us."

FTC blocking deals. SEC suing crypto companies. AI regulation modeled after Europe. A continent that hasn't built a major tech company in 30 years.

Andreessen said the administration showed "seething contempt" for the people building the future.

So he left. Musk left. Sacks. Chamath. Palmer Luckey. Bill Ackman. All left.

Not because they love Trump. Because the Democratic Party declared war on the people who build things.

When the builders warned California that a wealth tax on unrealized gains would trigger an exodus, Khanna laughed.

Peter Thiel started planning his exit. Larry Page set up LLCs in Florida. Vinod Khosla, a Khanna donor, told him publicly: "You are so wrong." Even Newsom opposed it.

California: $97 billion surplus to $68 billion deficit in three years. 200,000 people leaving per year. Dead last on U-Haul's migration index five years running.

Tesla left. Chevron left. In-N-Out left.

The state that invented Silicon Valley is punishing the people who built it. The politicians are mocking them on the way out.

Now stop listening to the policy. Listen to the language.

"Billionaires shouldn't exist."

"They didn't build that."

"Economic royalists."

"I will miss them very much."

Every civilization that destroyed itself started by demonizing its builders.

France, 1789. Government spent itself broke. Instead of fixing the machine, they turned on the wealthy. What followed wasn't equality. It was the Terror. Guillotines. A dictator. Decades of collapse.

Mao did the same. Anyone who built anything was the enemy. China starved for decades. Until 1978. The year they stopped punishing builders. The year the prosperity started.

Venezuela. Cuba. Soviet Union. Same script every time.

Demonize success. Seize assets. Promise equality. Deliver poverty.

Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna aren't storming the Bastille. But they're writing the speeches that come right before it.

The countries that went from poverty to prosperity in a single generation? Singapore. South Korea. Taiwan. Hong Kong.

They didn't tax wealth. They created it. Low taxes. Export discipline. Fiscal accountability. Rewarding the people who build.

That's what a prosperity agenda looks like.

America tripled its budget in 50 years and can't explain where the results went. This was never a revenue problem. This was never "the rich aren't paying enough."

It's a thinking problem.

The builders already left. The exodus is real. The only question is whether anyone figures this out before there's nothing left to redistribute.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

If Elon Musk liquidated his entire wealth tomorrow and gave all his money to the poor it would legitimately be a disaster for humanity.

Trillions of dollars in wealth would be incinerated, multiple companies at the frontier of human technological advancement would be destroyed, human space exploration would be set back decades.

And for what?

Most people would just use the money on drugs, porn, crypto and online sports gambling.

Destroy SpaceX, Tesla, xAI so that idiots can spend a $200 Elon stimmy cheque on OnlyFans and online sports gambling. The worst trade off in history.

Consider actual reality here.

Elon’s wealth is tied up in shares so if he tried to liquidate all his positions at once, the stock price would immediately crash, destroying trillions in value for normal middle class people whose pensions rely on stock market growth. Ultimately Elon could probably only recover 10-15% of the headline $850 billion figure if he tried to immediately go liquid. Then you would have to divide that up across hundreds of million of people.

If you tried to target the poorest people on Earth - those earning less than $3 a day - you would have to try distribute about $100 billion to 800 million people. About $120 each.

Logistically you would lose at least 20-30% of that on last mile delivery: banking fees, security, fraud, identifying the poor, preventing corruption. So you end up getting $90 to 800 million seperate people. That is one month of income.

The equivalent of a COVID stimmy cheque in a rich world country. Did COVID stimmy cheques solve the problem of poverty in the US? No, of course not, because one time infusions of cash are not enough to end poverty.

Even if you kept the program just within the United States it would largely be pointless. Divide 100 billion across the 40 million Americans below the federal poverty line - you get a $2500 payment per person. Roughly the equivalent of two COVID stimmy cheques. Not exactly world changing stuff.

Studies show that significant amounts of money from COVID stimmy cheques in America and Australia went directly to non-essential spending - gambling, day trading, crypto, online porn.

Studies from Australia show that when people were allowed to liquidate their superannuation (retirement fund savings) during COVID, they spent massive amounts on gambling. Up to 11% of all funds withdrawn from superannuation went towards online gambling.

Sadly the reality is that many poor people do not know how to manage money.

If you think the poor are only poor due to lack of money, you’re an idiot. Poverty is unfortunately far more complex than that, which is why so many poor people who win the lottery wind up going broke.

Elon could liquidate everything tomorrow, destroy all his companies. The end result would be a redistribution of wealth away from productive enterprises (companies pushing the frontier of human knowledge and civilizational advancement) towards some of the most non-productive ends imaginable: organised crime, drugs, prostitution, porn, online gambling.

Legitimate world historic disaster.

I would rather Elon keep the money.