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Semper Fi.

[E @ewf70]

The past is there to be reflected on. To be learned from. It is not however, there for long term occupancy for either the mind or the heart

[Handre @Handre]

Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.

The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.

Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.

The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.

After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.

Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

“Our label is truthful, with scientific backing that the medical community accepts,” says the founder of Gormend Food.

And yet…that label is FORBIDDEN by the USDA.

Stossel TV Fellow, @trevorkraus, reports on @IJ’s lawsuit over government’s censorship of true labels.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Whoopi Goldberg’s comments reveal everything wrong with identity politics.

I didn’t marry my wife because she’s white.

She didn’t marry me because I’m Black.

We got married because we share the same values, the same faith, and the same vision for raising a family.

At no point did marrying a white woman make me less Black.

At no point did marrying a Black man make my wife less white.

What it made us was a family.

The people obsessed with race can’t understand that most Americans don’t choose friends, spouses, or family based on skin color. We choose them based on character, values, and love.

The civil rights movement wasn’t about putting race at the center of everything. It was about moving beyond it.

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

So today I had a retired US Navy three-star admiral accuse me of being a bot and having never served in the US military.

I posted a rebuttal, which basically caused this Democrat admiral to get swarmed by a social media army of veterans (and patriotic non-veterans too).

I truly appreciate the outpouring of support, but I am also quite interested in what this says about the mindset of America’s veteran community in 2026, writ large.

Most of us? We served in the GWOT and are still angry about it. We are angry that we were sent to do impossible missions of building liberal institutions in 8th Century tribal societies. We’re angry about ridiculously restrictive ROE that got our friends killed. We are angry that for much of the wars we were inadequately resourced, driving soft-skinned HMMWVs down IED Alley. We are angry that we spent all those years to have, in the end, accomplished very little. We are angry at how the VA treated us when we got out. Most of all, we are angry about watching our friends get killed or maimed (or kill themselves when they got home), seemingly all for naught.

And guess what? We are REALLY angry at the senior generals and admirals who led us down this path and never had the cajones to tell the civilian elected leadership what the real deal was. (We’re not angry at Pete Hegseth’s team—we’re angry at the generals and admirals who caused the problems he and his team are trying to fix.)

That admiral who came at me today? He was one of those GWOT senior leaders.

What you saw today was much less an outpouring of support for me and much more an outpouring of righteous anger at a righteous target.

Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, it’s an interesting phenomenon.

[I am Ken @Ikennect]

Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spencer Pratt must be doing something right, because the whole LA industrial complex from journalists to washed up comedians is crawling out to attack him.

Funny thing with stats. You can pull numbers and bend them to whatever story your heart wants. Any real stats guy will tell you that’s not insight but bias. Garbage in, headline out.

So let’s look at LA.

Nobody feels safe. Crime everywhere. People are packing up and leaving. But the spreadsheet at the LA Times says everything’s great.

Crime is just a bunch of four digit codes in a system. A robbery’s a code. A stabbing’s a code. You don’t have to lie about anything.

You just pick the softer code. Aggravated assault quietly becomes “simple assault.”
Off the books that matter. The guy still got stabbed.

This isn’t a theory btw.

The LAPD’s Inspector General audited the department and found 25K aggravated assaults downgraded to “minor incidents.” From 2008-2014.

Stabbings. Beatings that put people in the hospital. All shoved into a column where they vanish. Real violence ran 36% higher than what they reported.

And the best part? The LA Times KNOWS all this. Their own reporters broke the stories.

Then Prop 47 shows up in 2014 and hands them a bigger eraser. Anything under $950 stops being a felony. Now it’s “shoplifting.” A ticket. Guy strolls out of CVS with both arms full and legally that’s about as serious as jaywalking.

Stores stopped bothering to report it. So guess what, crime went down.

Oh, and the cops? They left too. 10,000 to 8,600, lowest in 30 years.

Fewer cops means fewer reports get written. Not sure we should call that win.

And god help you if you actually call 911. Last year LAPD answered barely half their calls in the time they’re supposed to. You wait forty minutes for a non emergency, and eventually you stop calling.

Here’s the best part: when you stop calling, the city gets to say crime went down.

Now I’ll be straight, because I’m not gonna lie to make a point. Murders did drop. 230 last year, lowest since the 1960s.

But “fewer murders” and “safest in decades” are not the same sentence, and they’re betting you won’t notice the swap.

A dead body is the one thing you can’t code away.

Everything below it, the assaults, the break ins, the smashed car windows, the stuff that actually decides whether you feel safe walking to your own door, all of it runs on reporting they’ve been caught rigging for years to push a narrative.

They even juiced the trophy number.

“101 percent homicide clearance rate.” Sounds like a miracle till you read the fine print: they’re counting decade old cold cases and dead suspects who never saw a courtroom.

So I’ll ask the LA Times. Safer for whom?

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

Multiple societies in the world still can't do this.

[Donut Operator 🍩 @DonutOperator]

@DefiantLs What an odd thing to say, Scott

[OverservedPodcast @Overserved_Pod]

The fact that this has so few views, especially on today, is criminal.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

I think 1984 was probably the best year ever for movies.

Footloose, The Karate Kid, The Never Ending Story, Sixteen Candles, Ghostbusters, Terminator, Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, Gremlins, Beverly Hills Cop, The Last Starfighter, Nightmare on Elm Street, Red Dawn ... epic year

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Dumpster Fire should replace Stephen Colbert.

[Mary Tiles Texas @MaryTilesTexas]

Men are amazing and we should say it more. Grateful for being raised the way I was.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

America used to mass-produce steelworkers, engineers, and fathers.

Now we mass-produce “stay-at-home boyfriends” who argue about Batman lore.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

An artist is either terrified of losing their audience — or an artist prioritizes the freedom to take risks. There is no in between.

[Zachary Bell @zacharyebell]

Jimmy Grimes is a United States Marine Corps combat veteran who served this country honorably. He survived war, deployments, and sacrifice… but nothing prepared him for watching his daughter fight stage 4 cancer.

I normally never share GoFundMe campaigns, but this partnership is being done directly with @gofundme, and this family truly needs support right now.

If you can help at all — donate, repost, pray, or help spread the word. Let’s show this Marine and his family they’re not fighting this battle alone. ❤️

[Habitual Linecrosser @HLC_actual]

If you ever accidentally have faith in humanity, just hop on a commercial flight. Clear that up like penicillin.

[Klara @klara_sjo]

@D162Michele I have items in my house older than the United States.. and saying that isn't exactly the own you'd think it was.

It just means they became the richest and most powerful country in the world in almost no time at all, comparatively speaking.

[Donut Operator 🍩 @DonutOperator]

@NYCMayor @AdelleNaz This….an egg… is what you tweet about over all the other vicious attacks on your citizens.

[Mary Tiles Texas @MaryTilesTexas]

Over two years ago I decided to post my tile work on 𝕏 and it’s been a fun journey ever since.

This was my first work video. The support here has been amazing and I just appreciate all of you so much. ❤️