Greg Brown

Husband, father, President o WW Cannon, llc. Material Handling and Storage Equipment Specialist. NFIB Texas Leadership Council Chair. MHEDA Board Member

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was."

This must be shared every single day.

[Right Scope 🇺🇸 @RightScopee]

🚨Elon Musk just dropped a 💯 on Warren Buffett’s brutal fix for DC’s spending addiction:

“You pass a law — any deficit over 3% of GDP and EVERY sitting member of Congress is BANNED from reelection.”

Elon replied: “This is the way!”

If these swamp creatures actually cared about America instead of their own power and pockets, this would be law TOMORROW.

But they won’t. They’re addicted to your tax dollars.

What's your response to this.....??👀

Do you firmly support Elon Musk on this?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!

[⚓️ Sailor Jim 🔱 @JimHendley4NC]

I can’t recall any President in my lifetime doing this many projects in one year to make America great.

Can you?

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Watched this three times already

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Greg Brown @gbrown_greg]

The Road to Hell Is Being Paved With Suicidal Empathy

https://t.co/ijtXHJy0uk

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

The 13th amendment (abolished slavery) was passed with 100% of Republican support

77% of Democrats voted against it!

The 14th amendment (gave blacks citizenship) was passed with 94% of Republican support

100% of Democrats voted against it!

The 15th amendment (gave slaves the right to vote) was passed with 100% of Republican support

100% of Democrats voted against it!!

This is good info to have the next time you vote...

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and United States Homeland Security Advisor, CONFIRMS:

It’s worse — it’s not 20 to 30, but over 40 House seats.

Democrats extorted over 40 House seats by counting illegal aliens in the Census.

“The combination of illegal alien apportionment, flawed censuses, and unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered districts created an artificial 40+ House seats for Democrats.”

@StephenM: “40 Democrat House seats wouldn’t exist but for illegal aliens!”

President Trump has instructed the U.S. Department of Commerce to begin planning a “new and highly accurate census” that would exclude illegal aliens from the population count.

“Let’s not forget: Democrats rigged the 2020 Census by including illegal aliens — they sued Donald Trump, they sued the administration to include illegal aliens in the Census “— thus overthrowing the U.S. government on November 3, 2020.

“Texas is taking just a small corrective step against this ocean of fraud, this ocean of abuse, by the corrupt Democrat Party.”

And the United States Supreme Court just did that.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 DEMOCRATS’ HORRIFIC RACIST BLUEPRINT EXPOSED: LBJ’s Welfare Trap ENGINEERED Black Family Collapse to BUY Votes FOREVER — SCOTUS Just Torched Their Gerrymandering Plantation! 🔥

In 1965, Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan — architect of the War on Poverty — issued a prophetic warning: the Black family was entering a “tangle of pathology.” Two-parent homes were the norm even through slavery and Jim Crow. Then came LBJ’s Great Society.

Welfare rules explicitly penalized marriage. Out-of-wedlock births among Black Americans surged from ~22% to 70%+ today (CDC). Decades of rigorous social science — Moynihan, Thomas Sowell, Sara McLanahan, and mountains of longitudinal data — prove what common sense always knew: fatherless homes drive poverty, crime, and despair at rates unmatched by any other factor.

Democrats didn’t fix it. They monetized it.

They needed majority-Black districts because, as Carl Higbie just laid bare on Newsmax, “they can’t win without it.” So they packed the very communities their policies destabilized into racial gerrymanders — safe seats bought with trillions in transfer payments and perpetual victimhood rhetoric. Campaign against the “system” they built. Harvest the votes it produces. Rinse. Repeat.

This wasn’t benevolence. It was the most sophisticated vote-buying machine in American history — a soft, modern plantation dressed in civil-rights drag. Higbie calls it what it is: “a horrifically racist strategy… but electorally effective.”

Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling in Louisiana v. Callais just ripped out the last leg of that racket. Racial gerrymandering is collapsing. Red states are redrawing maps. The next census excludes non-citizens. Blue strongholds are about to hemorrhage seats.

Black America: the data is unambiguous, the history is undeniable, and the exit is open. Policies, not pigmentation, determine destiny. Reject the dependency trap. Demand excellence, not excuses. The party that claims to love you most has spent 60 years proving the opposite with cold, empirical precision.

The chains were never iron. They were checks and redistricting lines. Break them.

#DemsEngineeringDependency #HorrificRacistStrategy #BlackFamilyCrisis #VoteFarmExposed #MoynihanWasRight #SowellWasRight #EndTheNewPlantation #SCOTUSStrikesBack #BlackExcellenceNotDependency #HigbieTruthBomb #GerrymanderForPower #WakeUpBlackAmerica

h/t @CarlHigbie

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described the most sophisticated theft operation in American history.

Not a heist. A system.

Your tax dollars leave Washington.

They enter a non-governmental organization. The government. With different letterhead.

Musk: “Obviously if it’s a government-funded non-governmental organization, it’s just the government.”

They cross a border.

American law stops following them.

They pass through three more entities in three more countries.

They come home.

Different pocket. Clean hands. Perfect crime.

Musk: “The government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer governed by the laws of the United States.”

Now run the math.

Congressional salary. $200,000.

Average net worth of a longtime member of Congress. North of $20 million.

Musk: “There are a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I just can’t connect the dots of how they got $20 million earning $200,000 a year. Nobody can explain that.”

Nobody is supposed to.

This machine ran untouched for decades for one reason. Human limitation.

A forensic team cannot trace ten thousand wire transfers across fifty global jurisdictions at once.

The corruption does not hide in darkness.

It hides in volume.

They built a labyrinth so deliberately complex that the sheer weight of it collapses every investigation before it starts.

Paper buries paper. Bureaucracy absorbs inquiry.

The entire architecture was engineered to exhaust you.

Then artificial intelligence arrived.

AI does not get tired.

It cannot be bought.

It does not lose the thread at wire transfer 4,000.

You give it the entire global ledger. It maps every node, every transfer, every shell entity, every offshore NGO across every jurisdiction. Not in weeks. In hours.

It finds the signal inside the noise.

It flags the pattern.

It traces a dollar from a D.C. appropriation to a Cayman shell to a congressional portfolio in the time it takes a human auditor to find his parking spot.

The labyrinth was built to defeat human eyes.

It is defenseless against a machine that reads the entire maze at once.

This is why the establishment is not just annoyed by DOGE.

They are terrified.

Musk: “We’re going to try to figure it out and stop it.”

He did not arrive in Washington to trim budgets.

He arrived with supercomputing, AI audit systems, and a mandate to map the full financial architecture of the federal government.

For the first time in history, the complexity that protected the corruption is the very thing that will expose it.

Every shell entity is a signature.

Every routing pattern is a fingerprint.

Every congressman who walked in earning $200,000 and walked out worth $20 million is now a variable in an equation that will be solved.

The swamp was never impenetrable.

It was just too big for human hands.

It was never built for this.

[Handre @Handre]

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress.

The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely.

Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on.

The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors.

Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 BOOM! Florida CFO just dropped the nuclear option to END sanctuary policies for good

Start CHARGING Democrat politicians as ACCESSORIES to murder, rape, and pedophilia committed by the illegals they protect.

Make them legally responsible for it!

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed.

In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines.

In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive.

A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent.

By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right.

In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Right Scope 🇺🇸 @RightScopee]

🚨BREAKING: SecDef Pete Hegseth stares right at the press and goes scorched earth, spelling out their insanity. I could watch this all day.

"You, and I mean specifically YOU, the press, you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective."

"Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."

"How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is?"

"There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible."

"You're undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission."

"How about we talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news. So we're used to that."

Do you firmly support Pete Hegseth on this?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

[Greg Brown @gbrown_greg]

DHS Shutdown Strains U.S. Air Travel https://t.co/PEdvnrm3y1

Do we have to have idiots in Congress. Remember these long lines before you go vote in the short line.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

“We were told to label newly arrived ILLEGALS as ‘long-term disabled’ — even for headaches or back pain — so they’d get Social Security for LIFE.”

“Once they’re classified, that’s it — they’re set FOREVER. That’s exactly what we were told to do.”

REPOST and blast this out there EVERYWHERE!

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka]

Recall when John Cornyn compared January 6 to 9/11 and told FBI Director Chris Wray he’d help craft tougher laws to lock up J6ers for life. Texas doesn’t need six more years of this.

[Greg Brown @gbrown_greg]

@InkLeasing It’s organized crime.

[Greg Brown @gbrown_greg]

@RealJamesWoods Hold accountable through your vote. But if elections are fraud they control. Not we the people.