🚨JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis has dropped a bombshell, demanding the complete abolition of property taxes across the United States.
"It's almost like they have to pay rent to the government, just to be able to enjoy their property. That's wrong. We need to do something about it."
@PrinceEliii I blame lawyers and a**holes looking for giant $ettlements. The US is a sue happy nation. Litigation drives up the cost and liability of car ownership, home ownership, business ownership, healthcare, crossing the street…
@adamlwingfield Where do you live? These are not suited for gulf coast states. Fam in TX and LA who take care and pride in grilling can’t keep the flat top from rusting.
@CroAglo@J_K_Wood Divorce is painful and abuse is more than beatings. What do you do with an addict that resorts to emotional blackmail? Calls you a worthless bleep daily while you’re trying to provide and care for his children. What message do kids get when this is type of “marriage” is modeled?
The @DOGE team is making a real difference fixing broken software, computer and communications systems in the government.
It is difficult to convey with words just how messed up the systems are!
Tech Support is sorely needed.
In an interview recorded yesterday, Hoover Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell criticizes the tariffs President Trump instituted earlier today. Watch the complete interview with Dr. Sowell on @UncKnowledge with Peter Robinson (@P_M_Robinson) on April 15th, 2025.
The vision of the US as a giant bank served by a giant military and kept functioning by lots of poor people on bikes and in cars delivering food to the bankers and their adjuncts before returning to their rentals to enjoy crappy imported goods manufactured by the bankers' foreign clients has, well, failed to inspire.
America has become addicted to cheap foreign baubles and easy money (i.e., fake fiat currency) at the expense of its long-term economic health. We allowed ourselves to be transformed from a cast iron economy which made things into a largely paper economy which depends on the good graces of foreign nations for its own survival. This is a recipe for civilizational suicide.
We don’t make our own weapons, food, machines, vehicles, plastics, medicines, or computers. The whole COVID insanity, with its shutdowns and shortages and supply-chain chaos, was a blaring alarm warning us that the economy we thought was so strong was shockingly fragile.
Imagine a prosperous farmer, now surrounded by enemies and competitors, who over time outsourced most farming activities to his neighbors because they could do the work and provide the materials more cheaply than he could. He sold off his equipment and laid off his farm-hands because it was just easier and less expensive for others to do the work and maintain the machinery. But one day, his neighbors said no more, and now he finds himself in the position of being unable to fertilize his land, or plow his fields, or harvest his crops. Even if he had kept his old tractors and implements, he sold off all his welding equipment and spare parts and raw materials, so repairing anything would be impossible. On top of that, he doesn’t remember all that much about repairing the equipment anyway because he hasn’t done it for years.
So now he finds himself in control of once-fertile and productive land that he can’t utilize, and the people he used to rely on for help now refuse to lift a finger, because they see an opportunity to bankrupt their old neighbor and business partner, allowing them to buy up all that land for themselves at fire sale prices.
That’s where America now is as a country. We stripped our economy down and sold it for parts, happy to have the cash in our pockets and ignorant of the possibility the good times could ever end.
Trump has understood these dynamics for decades, and is trying to reset our priorities to give us an economy that isn’t built on a foundation of paper. That requires resetting all of our trade relationships and recreating the conditions that built an economy and civilization that together were the envy of the world.
There will of course be some short-term pain as part of that process. Muscles must ache before they grow stronger. And addicts have to go through withdrawal before they can come out clean on the other side. In fact, the angry reactions from self-styled “free traders” who have gotten rich off of our leaders mortgaging our country’s long-term economic health for short-term cash resemble the drug dealer enraged that one of his best customers is about to go clean. “You’ll never survive the withdrawal symptoms,” he says. “You want what I’m selling. You need it. You can’t live without it.”
The reality is we cannot survive if we continue to remain addicted to cheap foreign crap. We cannot survive if we are unable to make our own food and medicine and vehicles and weapons and computers. A farmer who is wholly dependent upon his enemies to plow and seed and fertilize and harvest his land is a farmer who will starve. Likewise, a nation that depends entirely on its enemies to power its economy is a nation destined to become history rather than shape it.
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🚨 THE AUTOPEN SCAM: Trump and his bumbling cronies are screaming about autopen signatures on pardons—but guess what? The Federal Register has published hundreds of Trump’s own documents this term, including pardons, and every single one carries an autopen signature.
The truth? Every single president—Biden, Trump, Obama, both Bushes, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Nixon—has used reproduction signatures or autopen in the Federal Register. This has been standard procedure for over 50 years. Before 1969, the Government Publishing Office typed them. Since then, they’ve been stamped or digitally added.
And yet, suddenly, Trump is pretending this is some kind of scandal—for everyone but himself.
It’s not just hypocrisy. It’s a lie.
Presidential pardons don’t get revoked just because someone declares them "VOID." That’s not how the law works. The Autopen has been used by presidents for decades, including Trump. This isn’t a real legal argument—it’s just whining.