Daniel W. Tuller,

Retired Electrical Engineer

[Toni @ToniLL22]

Agree 🔥🔥🎯👇🎯🔥🔥

The left has moved so far left that yesterday’s Democrat would look like a conservative today.

That is the whole point.

The cartoon says, “If a liberal from 1960 showed up today, they’d be considered conservative. If a liberal from today showed up in 1960, they’d be considered an absolute lunatic.”

And honestly, that is spot on.

John F. Kennedy was not a conservative by the standards of his time, but compared to the modern Democratic Party, he would be completely out of place.

JFK believed in a strong America. He spoke proudly about patriotism. He was tough on communism. He supported tax cuts. He understood that America had enemies, and he did not seem embarrassed by the idea that this country was good, special, and worth defending.

Now compare that to the modern left.

AOC represents a wing of the Democratic Party that talks about socialism as if it is fashionable, treats border enforcement like a moral crime, attacks traditional American values, and pushes ideas that would have been unthinkable in mainstream politics just a few generations ago.

That is why the comparison works.

This is not really about one person, it is about the direction of the entire Democratic Party.

The center did not simply move.

The left dragged the whole conversation into territory that would have shocked many old-school Democrats.

Views that used to be considered radical are now treated as normal, while views that used to be mainstream are smeared as extreme.

That is the real trick.

They moved the goalposts, then acted surprised when half the country noticed.

The cartoon is funny because it is true.

A 1960 liberal would probably be called a right-winger today, and a modern progressive dropped into 1960 would sound completely insane to the average American voter of that era.

[Handre @Handre]

John Maynard Keynes lived as a quintessential elitist who despised the very people his theories claimed to help. While you hear endless praise for his "compassionate" economics, the man himself viewed workers and savers with open contempt, calling them irrational actors who needed enlightened technocrats to manage their affairs.

The Cambridge don made his fortune speculating in currencies and commodities while simultaneously advocating for government controls that would eliminate such opportunities for ordinary people. He lost his shirt in 1928, then again in 1929, proving himself a mediocre investor despite his theoretical "brilliance". His personal financial disasters never dimmed his confidence that he could engineer prosperity for entire nations.

Keynes openly admitted his theories served political expediency rather than economic truth. In a 1944 letter to Friedrich Hayek, he wrote that he expected his ideas to be temporary measures, lasting perhaps 25 years before sounder thinking would prevail. He never intended his deficit spending prescriptions to become permanent doctrine.

The man who gave intellectual cover to every government's spending addiction actually agreed with free market economists on the long run. He simply believed political reality made sound economics impossible. His famous quip "in the long run we are all dead" was political cynicism: politicians need solutions that work before the next election, consequences be damned.

You celebrate Keynes as the savior of capitalism, but he designed his system to give politicians exactly what they wanted: intellectual permission to spend money they didn't have on programs that bought votes. He knew this would end badly. He just figured someone else would clean up the mess after he died.

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud.

Americans work 40+ years…

Pay taxes.
Follow the rules.
Build the country.

Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.

Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into.

Read that again.

The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line.

This is not compassion.
This is a government priority problem.
America First was never just a slogan.
It was a warning.

Who comes first?

The taxpayer… or the system?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1943, FDR signed a law that permanently changed your relationship with your own paycheck. You just never noticed, which was entirely the point.

Before the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, Americans paid their income taxes in one lump sum. Every year, you calculated what you owed and wrote a single check to the government. You felt every dollar. You knew exactly how much the government was taking.

The 1942 wartime revenue act suddenly expanded the income tax to cover millions of working-class Americans who had never paid it before. The government desperately needed revenue. But they had a problem: how do you get people to pay a new, much larger tax without causing a revolt?

A Macy's executive named Beardsley Ruml came up with the answer. Withhold it before workers ever see it. Take it out of the paycheck automatically. Make the number on the check the only number that feels real.

It worked. The psychology was perfect. People don't grieve money they never held. The government went from collecting taxes from 7 million Americans to 60 million, almost overnight, with barely any public resistance.

They also quietly canceled 75% of what was owed from the prior year to smooth the transition. A one-time tax amnesty that almost no one remembers happened.

Economists and historians have noted for decades that withholding is a primary reason Americans never developed the visceral anti-tax anger common in countries where people write the check themselves.

You were supposed to notice. They made sure you wouldn't.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Congressman Brandon Gill says diversity is not helping America, it’s destroying us

“The melting pot simply isn't melting. That's a problem. The foreign-born population is about as high as it's ever been in American history. What is the purpose of an immigration system? The purpose of our immigration system is to benefit our people.

Historically, American immigration was predicated on two key ideas. One of those was you cannot be what's called a public burden. In other words, you can't come into the country and immediately hop on welfare and expect the American people to pay for your food and your housing, your healthcare and everything else.

The second was a concept of cultural assimilation. You were expected to come into the United the United States and to become fully American, not a hyphenated American, you're expected to adopt our customs, our core beliefs, revere our heritage just like we do.

Part of the rationale behind drastically reducing legal immigration as well as illegal immigration is allow that assimilation to actually occur, for people to actually melt and recohere as an American society.”

Around 53% of households headed by foreign-born immigrants use at least one major means-tested welfare program

I saw some data that showed 70% of Mexicans that come to America are on welfare, I made a post about it previously

No immigrant should ever qualify for any welfare programs. They should be for American citizens and American taxpayers only

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

They ruled Iryna’s killer is incompetent to stand trial.

The same system ruled this man was plenty competent enough to be released back into society dozens of times.

It’s past time to remove these left wing activist judges.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Here are four things every serious anti-communist should understand about Marxism:

First, Marxism is not primarily a set of economic policies. It is a complete philosophical system built on the claim that private property and markets are the root causes of human oppression and alienation. This is why communist regimes did not simply make economic mistakes - they systematically tried to abolish the foundations of voluntary cooperation.

Second, Marxism focuses heavily on social structures and class forces while leaving very little room for individual choice and moral responsibility. Individuals are treated largely as products of their class position rather than as autonomous agents capable of shaping their own lives. This deterministic outlook underpins both Marxism’s repeated predictive failures and its readiness to justify coercive social engineering.

Third, the authoritarianism, terror, and centralised control seen in every communist state were not distortions of Marxism. They were logical consequences of attempting to impose a total transformation of society (and Mark understood that). Once private property and markets are rejected, coercive state power becomes necessary to enforce the new order.

Fourth, Marxism has never died. It has mutated. Much of today’s identity politics, critical theory, and institutional “equity” activism draws directly from Marxist frameworks - simply replacing economic class with race, gender or other identity categories while retaining the same oppressor-versus-oppressed logic.

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

Democracy vs. Constitutional Republic

"The word "democracy" appears ZERO times in the Constitution. It also does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, nor does it appear in any of the Constitutions of the 50 states."

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution mandates: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government", therefore explicitly establishing America as a Republic, NOT a democracy.

So the democrats are LYING when they call America a "democracy."
Democracy = mob rule = tyranny.
That's EXACTLY what they want, which is likely why they use the word repeatedly.

Why aren't we taught about this in school?

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Western civilization didn’t stumble into being the most successful, innovative, and desirable force in human history by accident. It was built on a very specific set of foundations ... law and order, the scientific method, capitalism, limited government, individual responsibility, and a culture that treated truth as something worth pursuing even when it was inconvenient.

That package produced the modern world. Everything from antibiotics to airplanes to the concept of rights that actually mean something.

Now the people who inherited it have decided the highest moral act is to import millions of people from societies that never produced those things at scale, while simultaneously attacking the foundations at home. They call it compassion. It looks a lot more like deliberate demolition.

They won’t export the successful model to the third world, but they’ll import the third world into the successful model and pretend the outcomes will be the same.

This isn’t random incompetence. It’s a choice. A civilization that refuses to defend its own operating system while flooding itself with populations that run on entirely different software is not evolving ... it’s committing suicide with extra steps.

The data on crime by origin, welfare dependency, assimilation failure, and civilizational output was never supposed to matter. Only the ritual of diversity was allowed to count.

The people pushing this know exactly what they’re doing. They just don’t care what gets destroyed in the process, because they’ve convinced themselves that the West’s inheritance is something to be ashamed of rather than something to protect and extend.

They’re wrong. And the countries that actually have to live with the consequences of their experiment are going to pay for that arrogance in ways that will make the current disorder look mild by comparison.

We were never obligated to dismantle ourselves to prove we’re not racist. That was always a trap.
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[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

Sedition, published in Oct. 2018 by @epochtimes and @themarketswork, this infographic 👇👇 remains—the single most comprehensive overview to date.

Barack Obama used the entire federal government—including the state media and foreign powers—to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States.

And @DNIGabbard confirmed it all.

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[Toni @ToniLL22]

“Fill the mind with truth first, because a man who believes lies will eventually vote for his own chains.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯

-by Francis Gauthier
Storyline: The Battlefield Is the Mind The image lays down the warning: the fight starts in the mind. Not in Congress. Not on cable news. Not even at the ballot box. Those are downstream. The real battlefield is what people believe before they ever cast a vote.
By Francis Gauthier
The message is blunt: lies are weapons. And the oldest lie in the book is that man can build paradise without God, without moral law, without personal responsibility, and without liberty.

Then comes the second image — as you describe it, Bernie Sanders of Vermont standing with Graham Platner of Maine — two New England leftists wrapped in the old costume trunk of collectivist politics.

That picture is the perfect companion piece to the first one.

Because Marxism always sells itself as compassion.

It says:
“We’re here to help the worker.

#BattleForTheMind
#GuardYourMind
#TruthSetsFree
#1Peter58

“We’re here to fight the rich.”
“We’re here to make things fair.”
“We’re here to save democracy.”

Then somehow, every time, the government gets bigger, the citizen gets smaller, the bureaucrat gets bolder, and the working man ends up standing in line for permission from people who never fixed a furnace, wired a panel, ran a business, or made payroll in their life.

Same old pitch. Fresh coat of paint. Same rotten boards underneath.

Bernie has spent a lifetime preaching class warfare from the green hills of Vermont, while enjoying the comforts that come with being a permanent fixture in Washington. Platner, coming out of Maine politics, fits neatly into the same New England left-wing pipeline: dress up socialism in flannel, call it “working class,” and hope nobody checks the wiring behind the wall.

But the first image reminds us where this poison starts: the mind.

Before a people surrender their property, they first surrender their judgment.
Before they surrender their liberty, they first surrender truth.
Before they accept Marxism, they must first believe the lie that government can replace God, family, church, town, neighbor, and personal duty.

That is the trap.

New England was not built by Marxist committees. It was built by farmers, tradesmen, fishermen, mill workers, soldiers, church families, town meetings, local control, and hard-earned independence. Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire were not meant to become little socialist laboratories run by lecture-hall revolutionaries with taxpayer-funded clipboards.

So the two photos tell one story:

Guard your mind, or someone else will occupy it.

Because once the lie takes root, the rest follows: bigger government, weaker families, higher taxes, fewer freedoms, and a population trained to beg politicians for what free men used to build for themselves.

That’s not progress. That’s a cage with a ribbon on it. 🎯

Biblical principle: Truth guards liberty. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — John 8:32. Fill the mind with truth first, because a man who believes lies will eventually vote for his own chains.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk identified which jobs go first, and it destroys every assumption about who’s safe.

Musk: “AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning. Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something.”

Not factory workers. Office workers. The people who spent decades assuming education and desk jobs meant security are actually first.

Musk: “Anything that’s physically moving atoms… those jobs will exist for a much longer time.”

Output is a file? Vulnerable. Output is physical? Protected. That’s the entire framework.

Musk: “AI is really still digital.”

AI doesn’t need a body. Doesn’t need an office. Just needs access to the same software you use. Executes faster. Never tires. Costs nothing to scale.

But it can’t weld. Can’t wire a building. Can’t fix pipes or work soil.

Musk: “Literally welding, electrical work, plumbing. Those jobs will exist for a much longer time.”

Trades aren’t the vulnerable jobs. They’re the durable ones. Physical presence, real-world adaptation, manual dexterity provide protection no digital credential offers.

Analyst, accountant, paralegal, programmer, anyone producing files and documents, automates first because digital work is exactly what AI does natively.

Person moving atoms has natural defense. Physics, unpredictable environments, material resistance create friction AI can’t scale past.

Person moving bits has nothing. No friction. No physical barrier. Just software AI already operates better than most humans.

The assumption that desk work and degrees represent safety just inverted completely. College graduate producing documents faces faster displacement than the electrician producing installations.

Society spent generations telling people trades were beneath them. Pushed everyone toward offices and screens. Turns out the people who didn’t listen built the most automation-resistant careers.

Most ironic outcome of the AI revolution. The work society treated as inferior turned out to be the work society couldn’t replace. And the work society valued most turned out to be the easiest to eliminate.

[Lennox Kalifungwa @LennoxKal]

Why Socialism Should Be Rejected:

1. It assumes that the State is deity—owning all things, knowing all things, and dictating all things.
2. It demonizes private ownership of property and wealth creation.
3. It normalizes poverty; making both the rich and poor, poorer.
4. It redefines justice to refer to a disparity in economic and financial outcomes.
5. It demands the abdication of male headship and masculine responsibility.
6. It platforms feminism as a means to neutralize the household.
7. It produces a culture of infantilization that perceives young adults as perpetual children:
8. It produces a culture of deeply etched over-dependency and victimhood.
9. It immorally demands excessive taxation.
10. It leaves nations vulnerable and indebted to exploitative actors.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A Muslim passenger:
"Excuse me, can you turn off the music?"

The driver:
"Why?"

The passenger:
"Music is haram."

The driver:
"Why is music haram?"

The passenger:
"Because there was no music in the time of prophet Muhammad."

The driver:
"Well, get off then. There were no cars back then either. A camel will come pick you up."

😂🤭😂

[ipadasher @ipadasher]

Hayek nunca perdoou Friedmann

Milton Friedman carregou esse peso até o último dia. Não foi um erro qualquer. Foi o erro que ajudou a construir o Estado que ele passaria a combater pelo resto da vida.
Em 1943, em plena Segunda Guerra, o Tesouro americano precisava de dinheiro constante e previsível para financiar o esforço de guerra. Um jovem economista chamado Milton Friedman, trabalhando na divisão de pesquisa tributária, foi um o arquiteto do sistema de retenção na fonte.

A solução parecia genial na época: em vez de esperar o contribuinte pagar o imposto no final do ano ou em parcelas trimestrais, o governo passou a abocanhar sua parte direto no contracheque, antes mesmo que o salário chegasse às mãos do trabalhador.

Antes disso, a tributação tinha rosto. O americano comum sentava à mesa, pegava a caneta e escrevia um cheque real para o governo. Se ganhava 60 mil dólares por ano, via de fato os 75 mil que produzia e entregava 15 mil ao Tesouro em prestações visíveis. Cada aumento de imposto era sentido imediatamente no bolso. A dor era concreta. Os políticos viviam sob pressão constante para justificar cada dólar gasto, porque o eleitor sentia a extração em tempo real.

A retenção na fonte transformou essa perda concreta em uma abstração contábil. O governo virou um coletor de impostos não remunerado. O trabalhador recebe o holerite já “limpo”. O custo da máquina pública desaparece da percepção imediata. Pior: quando chega a hora da declaração e o governo devolve parte do que reteve a mais, milhões de pessoas comemoram o “reembolso” como se fosse um presente de generosidade estatal. Esquecem que é o próprio dinheiro delas, emprestado ao Tesouro sem juros durante o ano inteiro, enquanto o governo já gastou tudo.

Esse mecanismo anestesiou a principal força que, historicamente, limitava o crescimento do Estado: a dor da tributação. Quando o imposto não dói na hora de pagar, o eleitor para de cobrar. Daí florescem as distorções que você vê até hoje: gastos estapafurdios, subsídios bilionários para produzir, salários e privilégios para congressistas que mal aparecem no plenário. Quando a conta não chega de forma palpável, a festa dos gastos continua indefinidamente.
Friedman reconheceu o monstro que ajudara a criar. Em suas memórias, escreveu com sua honestidade habitual:

“Na época, concentrávamo-nos apenas no esforço de guerra. Não nos ocorreu que estávamos desenvolvendo a maquinaria que tornaria possível um governo que eu viria a criticar severamente por ser grande demais, intrusivo demais e destruidor da liberdade.”

E concluiu, com amargura:

“A estrada para o Leviatã está pavimentada de boas intenções.”

Ele passou a defender abertamente o fim da retenção na fonte em tempos de paz. Queria que os cidadãos sentissem o peso real dos impostos para que pudessem exercer controle efetivo sobre os gastos públicos. Queria que o custo da política voltasse a ser visível.

Foi exatamente isso que Hayek nunca perdoou.
Para o autor de O Caminho da Servidão, não existia justificativa, nem mesmo a guerra, para criar um mecanismo que tornasse o custo da coerção estatal invisível ao cidadão. Hayek entendia que a liberdade não sobrevive quando o Estado consegue extrair recursos sem que o contribuinte sinta a extração. A retenção na fonte não era apenas uma ferramenta técnica eficiente. Era a institucionalização da cegueira fiscal: o truque perfeito para que o governo cresça sem que ninguém sinta o corte.

Hoje o sistema está tão naturalizado que parece eterno. Mas a verdade permanece incômoda: enquanto o contribuinte não sentir na pele o que o Estado tira dele, a accountability vira ficção. Os políticos continuam gastando o que os eleitores não sentem que estão pagando. E o Leviatã segue crescendo, alimentado por uma anestesia que um dia foi vendida como medida temporária de guerra.

Friedman admitiu o erro. Hayek teve a lucidez de não perdoar. Resta saber se nós vamos continuar fingindo que o crime perfeito nunca aconteceu.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just a reminder that the ONLY Republican running for Mecklenburg County (Charlotte NC) District 1 dropped out of the race...

...BECAUSE NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS ARRESTED FOR FIRING SHOTS AT HIS HOME WHILE HIS WIFE AND KIDS WERE INSIDE!!!!!

Local police SPECIFICALLY CONFIRMED the attack was targeted at Aaron Marin.

Bullet holes can be seen in trees, cars, mailbox, and his kid's basketball hoop. Marin's ENTIRE FAMILY was forced to leave their home and Aaron says they live in, "constant fear."

He says his kids no longer even feel safe to play outside and they are moving now.

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY ZERO MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET COVERED THIS??????!!!!!!

REPUBLICANS ARE LITERALLY BEING SHOT AT AND THERE IS SILENCE FROM THE MEDIA!!!!!!

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?!!!!!!