Josh Plummer

[Burnie Senders @BurnieSendersX]

The problem is the product, comrade ☭

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

The new mail-in ballot procedure isn’t something to be afraid of. It works like this:

1. The state provides a list of the ballots they intend to mail out.

2. USPS assigns a unique barcode to each.

3. When the ballot is mailed out, this barcode is scanned to ensure uniqueness and that it matches. If there is no match or it’s a duplicate, it is not delivered.

4. When the voter mails the ballot back, the USPS scans it again and checks to make sure it matches what went out and isn’t a duplicate. Any ballots that don’t match won’t be delivered.

5. This is all done on the exterior envelope. The USPS isn’t determining eligibility or deciding who gets a ballot. They can’t see the actual votes. They are essentially just ensuring there are no duplicates, that the number mailed in isn’t greater than the number mailed out, and that the person mailing one in was the same person who received them.

This is a common sense solution and is completely reasonable.

Why would anyone oppose it unless their intention is to cheat?

[Amity @amitylee13]

Best explanation of libertarianism.

[GhettoGronk @ghetto_gronk]

Authorities have released a photo of the prostitute who set up the sting operation on 49ers owner Jed York:

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Every single politician rn

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Empisi 🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇸 @Empisiiii]

Congress should be forced to retire at 70. Salaries should be $60K, the average American salary. They should pay a minimum of $300/month for healthcare with a $1,000 deductible, like we do.

To represent us, they should live like us.

[Sarah Abv @Sarahsa09309757]

🇺🇲 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sur Fox News :

« En 1948, il y avait environ 1 million de Juifs dans les pays arabes du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, il n’en reste qu’environ 15 000.
Les chrétiens représentaient 20 % de la population du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, ils ne représentent plus que 5 %.
En Israël, en revanche, il y avait environ 150 000 Palestiniens en 1948. Aujourd’hui, ils sont près de 2 millions, soit environ 20 % de la population.
Si Israël voulait commettre un génocide contre les Palestiniens, il pourrait le faire en une minute. Il fait l’inverse : la population palestinienne autour d’Israël augmente considérablement.

Il n’y a plus de Juifs en Jordanie.
Il n’y a plus de Juifs à Gaza.
Et le nombre de chrétiens à Gaza a chuté d’environ 80 % en dix ans.
Si vous voulez voir où se déroule un véritable génocide, ce n’est pas en Israël.
Ça se passe dans toutes les nations qui l’entourent. »

Une question simple : pourquoi ce sujet est-il si rarement évoqué ?

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

"But building nuclear will take too long, 10 to 15 years, by which time it'll be too late."

That was your argument 15 years ago, and 15 years before that.

If you aren't serious about deregulating nuclear, then you aren't serious about climate change.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Isn’t this the truth?!

[David Limbaugh @DavidLimbaugh]

I confess I hate being barraged by emails and I rarely read those emails from people who always send articles and that type of thing but for some reason I read one today and I thought it really interesting so I’m going to paste it here. You may have seen it before, but I haven’t.

Conundrum

Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. (Think this one over and over…makes sense!)

"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."

The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.

Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America :

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

[Mike Kobe (Wild Horse) 🪶🇺🇸 @Oklahoma_Brave]

Can we give Lindsay Clancy's money to Emma Schols?

Emma Schols, a Swedish mother, was 31 and alone with her six children when she woke to smoke and cries. The living room was ablaze. Barely clothed, she ran repeatedly into the flames to rescue every single child.

All six emerged unharmed. Emma suffered burns over 93 percent of her body.

Doctors doubted her survival; she spent months in hospital, including weeks in a coma and on a respirator, plus dozens of surgeries.

When she awoke, her first question was whether her children lived.

[Hector Resendez - Trade School Secrets @TS_Secrets]

One of my buddy’s sons skipped college and became an electrician at 18.

He was told either college or military were his only two options.

His parents weren’t exactly excited when he went to trade school. Actually they were a little embarrassed.

Most of their friends’ kids were going off to universities. Their son was showing up to job sites at 6am.

By 21 he was making $90k

By 24 he had his master electrician license making over $120k

At 27 he started taking his own jobs on the side for a total of $200k

Last year at 29 his little “electrician business” did $1.8M with 4 vans.

Funny how that works.

His parents used to explain why he didn’t go to college.

Now they tell everyone he owns an electrical company.

We need more 18-year-olds to know this path exists.

Day 229 tagging @mikeroweworks until more parents start bragging about trade school too.

Consider to RT if you agree.

[Josh Plummer @JPlummerSE]

@Queen_9_0 Anywhere we go we try to leave it as clean as when we got there

[Mike Shelby @grayzoneintel]

this afternoon i have a client call who can only meet on microsoft teams.

so i create a microsoft teams account. set up a password, billing, 2FA, etc etc. an overly laborious process.

then i download their teams desktop app. log in, set up a passkey, re-enter my information to get that set up.

finally get to schedule a meeting, but i can't. so i click to see why. it's logged me out.

okay, microsoft. so i log back in.

but my account has been locked.

so i ask its chat bot why. no help, obviously, but it says open up a trouble ticket. okay.

so i fill out the trouble ticket form with my information and a description of what happened. again, laborious.

then i get an auto-response saying that i can't communicate with the support team because the email address i entered on the support ticket is the same as the email on the account that was locked.

microsoft, this is why everyone hates you.

[Zeducation @ZeducationYT]

Classic

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

Unbelievable.

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Emma Schols ran back into a burning house burning 93 % of her body to rescue all six of her kids.

She was on a ventilator for weeks. Doctors said people rarely survive burns that extensive. When she woke up, the first thing she asked was whether her children were alive.