george raguz

[Charles Wing-Uexküll @CWingUexkull]

"if Appalachia was a third world nation for white people"

You'd get an economy roughly the size of Spain's, divided among half as many people, giving you a GDP per capita comparable to Finland or Canada.

Finance & manufacturing are the top industries (15.6% & 14.1% of regional GDP, respectively). Note the irrelevance of tourism (3% of GDP) compared to other 'third world nations.'

Appalachistan would have a slightly lower Gini coefficient (less income inequality) than the U.S. as a whole. The unemployment rate is ~4%, comparable to the rest of the U.S. & half of France's.

Counting associates degrees + bachelors, Appalachistan would have a tertiary educational attainment rate of 39%, higher than the EU.

Counting bachelor's degrees only (4 yrs in the U.S. vs. 3 yrs in the EU, so biased toward EU), Appalachistan's educational attainment is comparable to Germany (29% vs 30%).

[Grav @Grav_Amundsen]

We have reached a point in the discourse where "its bad to murder your toddler children" is a conservative viewpoint.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

To the public, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Russiagate, and Hillary’s email server appeared to be separate and unrelated events. But they never were. In fact, the best way to understand them is as a single, decade-long FBI operation to deceive the American people.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Don’t worry, liberals. President Trump is not going to harm gay people, bring back slavery, or strip women of their rights. But there is a religion you’re voting into office that will.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Why can’t communists be communist the way the Amish are Amish, as in, peacefully, voluntarily, among themselves, without taking anyone else’s property or forcing anyone else to participate?

If communism is really about cooperation and community, why does everyone else have to be forced into it?

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

So 66,000 convicted felons got their rights restored by Abigail Spanberger in just 7 months. So we are to believe in 140 working days, an average of 471 applications for restoration were reviewed per day, & were considered on an “individualized, case-by-case basis” as required by the Va Constitution & the Va Supreme Court. Does anyone actually think this occurred? Why has the legacy media never asked her this question?

[george raguz @iremovealldoubt]

@DrunkRepub 10% of boomers served in Vietnam. 25% of greatest gen served in ww2. The millennials are just boomers 2.0

[george raguz @iremovealldoubt]

@megbasham @socialistadri It’s purposefully misunderstood.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Milton Friedman: “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. But also, in order to spend somebody else’s money, you first have to take it away from them.”

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

If you're 90 on your deathbed and you get to go back and relive 1 memory before perishing, playing catch with your 4 yr old would be more appealing than sitting alone with coffee. So when your 4 yo asks to play catch, just say to yourself you're 90, you went back in time for this

[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

This is why we defunded you, @NPR.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Carl Sagan

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Just a quick reminder that they arrested this guy for paddleboarding alone in the ocean during Covid while Anthony Fauci had dinner with Jake Tapper and his wife in DC and Gavin Newsome hosted a party with friends in California.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

The muslim suspect in yesterday's vehicle ramming attack in Berlin, Abdul Ballout, has been shot & killed by police after a manhunt earlier today but the story here is truly insane.

The jihadist was born in Berlin to middle eastern shia invader parents. He was then DEPORTED for being a jihadist.

He was then arrested by German authorities while overseas and brought back to Germany for trial. He was convicted of plotting jihadist attacks in Germany as part of the ongoing Holy War in May of 2026 but was released back out into the streets after promising to attend "de-radicalization classes" (it's a bad sign when your Western country has such classes...).

Within a couple months he funded and then executed this week's attack that has killed 1 and injured over 30 people in Berlin.

No word on what cool ass German gun the police used to kill him but my money is on that MP5 A3 🤌🏽🇩🇪

Plan accordingly...

#berlin #enrichment #islam #germany #attack #police #jihad #holywar #shia #caliphate #Deutschland

[george raguz @iremovealldoubt]

@MattWalshBlog The participation trophies didn’t go anywhere but they now require more hours to obtain.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Thank you @nytimes for your honest and accurate reporting. We must fight against the extremist religion of the car in question that caused it to plow into the LBTQ parade. Cars are born peaceful. They are self-radicalized online but vehicle extremists.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

If a white nationalist said Black people weren’t rational, couldn’t plan ahead, and couldn’t keep a schedule, we would call him racist before he finished the sentence.

In 2020, the Smithsonian published an infographic that put those very qualities under “White culture.”

I commented on it then. It’s making the rounds again, so I’m saying it again now.

How can we Black people let something like this go unchallenged when our children are the ones who will absorb its message?

The graphic lists objective and rational thinking, cause and effect, quantitative thinking, hard work, self-reliance, planning for the future, delayed gratification, strict schedules, respect for authority, and decision-making as features of “White culture.” It then says that people of color have internalized aspects of that culture.

Think about the implication. These virtues are supposedly foreign to us, and if we value them, we are “acting White.”

I reject that completely.

These are human virtues. People of every skin color need them and are capable of cultivating them if they want to thrive, raise strong families, build businesses, and create better societies.

To the countless Black people who, like me, have always prized hard work, planning, and delayed gratification, this graphic is an insult. It reinforces damaging stereotypes and pushes a victimhood mindset on our youth.

This is racist and ignorant, no matter who approved it.

I’m done with the Smithsonian for this.

Real progress would teach our children that these virtues belong to them too, and that becoming disciplined, thoughtful, and responsible does not make them any less Black.

[TheOmegaMan @TheOmegaMan7]

Nolan's Odysseus is really a woman ...I mean he's endlessly ruminating on the past, while spending years in an SSRI-addled therapy session with Calypso, and replacing real actions and leadership with an empty-performative "sail west" to honor the dead ... it's about him and not them. There's no glory to be had in a feminist world view...only recriminations

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is New York Police Officer Quathisha Epps

- She made over $400,000 last year
- $204k was from her salary, the rest was from overtime which she is under investigation for “falsified overtime hours”
- Because of this, she retired and will now get $16k PER MONTH from taxpayers

Her pay was a base salary of $204,000 plus an additional $204,000 in overtime. She claimed to work over 1,600 hours in overtime

There was an internal affairs investigation that probed allegations of falsified overtime, it even included self-approving time slips (Very easy way to commit massive fraud)

Despite this she was allowed to just file for early retirement. She retired and was still eligible for roughly $16k per month

She’s receiving the money to this day