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@ZubyMusic I am pretty sure that is the exact reason we started a country.

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@Nick_Offerman I saw you in a commercial while on a Carnival Cruise last week. What a pleasant surprise.

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@NHLFlyers What do you expect from highest ever career ppg player?

[Jim VandeHei @JimVandeHei]

🚨🚨 The most powerful populist of this century is at risk of becoming what he ran against — a deficit-spending interventionist asking working-class Americans to shoulder the cost of war. https://t.co/hJJBzBSKG1

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@marknorm Or Monica's

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@XboxGamePass Pretty sure I saw a black mirror episode about this.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent.

For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern.

The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her.

The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself.

Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future.

This is how ideological takeover works.

A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs.

It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to.

Then it moves inward.

It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt.

At that point, the civilization turns on itself.

Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system.

They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them.

And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left.

The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself.

The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.

[The GAS Virus @thegasvirus]

TODAY IS STEVE CONTI (DA RUMBLE)'S BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday Steve!

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@frankiemacd How much do you tip your barber, Frankie?

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@clashreport

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@VancityReynolds @RMcElhenney 3-1 Wrexham

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@MrBeast What about the other 105K?

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@MrBeast @grok what is the answer to puzzle?

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@mikeroweworks Good thing they spent the $217,000 on something important. I'm sure that money is better with the committee members than maybe giving residents money towards trade schools.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

https://t.co/BEjgsIt0lT
I don’t want to pick a fight with those who genuinely believe that reparations are a good idea, although doing so is tempting, especially at 37,000 feet with nothing better to do. But I do think it’s important to point out that many of those who claim to support the logic of paying every eligible black person $5 million have refused to contribute a single penny to the cause. Consider the extraordinary virtue signaling coming out San Francisco this month.

Here’s the short version, in case the article is behind a paywall. An ordinance creating a reparations fund for Black residents in San Francisco has finally been signed into law, but the program lacks an identified source of funding. Mayor Daniel Lurie has stated that no city funds will be used, (even though he signed the law!) emphasizing the fund's reliance on private donations…none of which have been received.

In other words, no one who pushed this preposterous idea forward has pledged a penny toward its practical implementation. I refer specifically to the philanthropists on The San Francisco Board of Supervisors: The 11-member star chamber who unanimously approved the legislation on December 16, 2025. More specifically, I refer to Supervisors Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, and Wong.

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission is now tasked with overseeing this fund, which is intended to accept private donations to support recommendations from the African American Reparations Advisory Committee. Again - no many has been contributed. Not a penny. But the city has already spent approximately $217,000 on stipends for the reparations committee members who developed the proposal.

If you think the whole thing sounds merely crazy, consider the math. The major cost component of the proposal is the $5 million payment for each black citizen who is 18 years or older. The Census Bureau estimates there are 35,445 individuals who are 18 years or older, given the age distribution of the African American population. Eligibility for the $5 million payments is very broad so we can assume that all African Americans 18 years and older currently living in the city will be eligible for these payments. Paying $5 million to 35,455 individuals totals about $175 billion. To put this in perspective, the city’s budget for the current fiscal year is $14 billion, while this proposed sum exceeds the current state budgets of all US states except for California, New York, and Texas.

Again, I’m not sharing this to start a conversation about the wisdom or the folly of reparations. I’m sharing this to further illustrate the rank hypocrisy of our elected officials, and their endless desire to be celebrated by the people who voted them in. Today, those people are congratulating themselves for establishing a fund that absolutely no one is funding - including them.

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@clashreport Just saying, but didn't Pete Hegseth do the same thing with Signalgate?

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@NHLPR @NHL_On_TNT @Sportsnet Boooo. We want @JimJPhilly calling our games.

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@missgingermoon @FossilLocator Piggy Bank

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@SteveContiDAGOD Steve: Hey hallway, I think we should go on vacation.

Hallway: Sure, it is getting cold. Maybe we can go somewhere warm with a beach.

Steve: Or...how about Utah?

Hallway: ...

[Jax Goss @belgatherial]

That moment when your 7 year old makes up a holiday, and people start wanting to actually celebrate it. <3

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