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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"I am a Sharia law survivor from Iran"

Christian refugee in McKinney, TX begs City Council not to let a 5 acre Islamic center in

His warning is worth a listen:

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Young men, don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t a good capitalist because you rightfully complain about how hard it is to buy a home, pay your mounting bills, buy your family groceries, or keep a roof over your head.

It didn’t always used to be this way, the deck really is stacked against you, and turning you into debt cattle, tax slave, and lifelong renter were the goals of very wealthy and powerful people since they first assigned you a number. Because that’s what you are to them.

Your right to complain about it is written in your sweat and blood. And no. You are not experiencing “capitalism.” You are experiencing exploitation they call “capitalism.”

You are competing for a starter home against global capital with access to money you could never borrow at rates you could never get. You are paying taxes into a system that subsidizes corporations large enough to purchase the politicians who write the rules governing those corporations. You are watching losses get socialized while profits remain private, industries consolidate until “competition” means choosing which logo gets to fleece you, and financial institutions turn necessities like housing, medicine, education, and even food into investment vehicles to be squeezed for maximum yield.

That is not a free market. That is a market with a thumb and an entire federal bureaucracy sitting on the scale.

Real Capitalism requires meaningful competition, private property, enforceable contracts, and honest money. When the powerful can purchase exemptions, subsidies, bailouts, regulatory moats, preferential financing, cheap foreign labor, and political influence, while you get a mortgage at seven percent and a lecture about skipping Starbucks, somebody has rigged the %*#* game.

You work. You produce. You build. You fix. You haul. You create things people need. and then you watch an ever-growing procession of governments, banks, monopolies, middlemen, institutional investors, and politically connected parasites reach into your pocket to take it.

There is nothing anti-capitalist about objecting to that. That is a rigged table where the house writes the rules, deals the cards, owns the casino, lends you the money to play, and then calls you “anti-capitalist” and “unpatriotic” when you notice.

Heck, I’ll even complain *with* you. It’ll be fun. But we’ll have to do it while we work because a single day off might cause cascading financial ruin and then they’ll call us lazy.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Not to change the subject from burritos but when I was earning poverty wages in my 20s I used to go to Subway nearly every day and get a footlong Italian sub for 5 dollars. It was generally the only big meal I would eat in a day.

If I was hungry later at night, I could always swing by McDonald’s and grab a chicken sandwich for a dollar.

All of these people are screaming about “eating at home” but I basically never made meals at home in those days and I was able to get by. You used to be able to survive on low wages without making meals from scratch. If that’s not possible anymore then it’s a sign that our standard of living is declining. That’s a problem. You should care about that.

Anyway, I went to a Subway recently and that same sandwich was 13 dollars. McDonald’s, of course, doesn’t sell anything for a dollar anymore.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The conservatives on here denying the affordability crisis are engaged in what I can only describe as an act of political suicide. They're also lying, which is the worst part. Grocery prices are up. Housing. Energy. Insurance. Health care. Basic living expenses. It's real. It's happening. Denying it just makes you look out of touch, deceitful, and untrustworthy. It's also a completely unnecessary and unforced error. No credible person is claiming that Trump caused these price surges. You don't have to disgrace yourself by denying the reality in front of your face just to prove your loyalty to Trump. The causes for the most part are multi faceted, complicated, and longstanding. That's true. So let's discuss them. Debating whether the problem exists at all -- or, if it does exist, whether it counts as a problem -- is a total waste of time, and makes you look like a shill and a fraud.

[The Fool @lears_coxcomb]

@JohnHMcWhorter Cosmopolitan commiserations. Effete utterances.

Irrelevant, insubstantial, inevitable.

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@atrupar

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@benshapiro

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@Forbes The left : “McCarthy was evil!”

Also the left: “Tate McRae will not disavow MAGA!”

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Corporations used tariffs as a justification for raising prices. They collected the revenue, kept prices high even after tariffs ended, and now they get a 20% pure profit margin boost courtesy of taxpayers.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Grocery prices are insane. They’re still rising. Addressing this problem should be the number one priority of every elected leader. End the stupid foreign wars and focus on this issue. It’s one of the main reasons socialists are gaining power.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Not one single person of average intelligence or above, is arguing in good faith that men can become women, should be allowed in women’s sports, be imprisoned with women, or be allowed in woman’s shelters. If you’re smart and hold those positions, truth is not your top priority.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

This one page changed my life.

42 years ago today, it convinced my parents I shouldn't go back to college.

I started by upgrading PCs from a dorm room.

Today @Dell is helping build the infrastructure that powers AI, from the edge to some of the world's largest AI factories.

You never know which small decision will change everything.

Keep building🚀🙏 #PlayNiceButWin

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[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

The Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power. Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Fauci’s pardon is dated back from 2014.

Do you know what else happened in 2014?

The NIH awarded a grant to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Really makes you wonder… 🤔

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Hitler wasn't "far right". He was far left, and today's woke left shares nearly identical ideology with him.

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@wesyang

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@ATRightMovies

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

There is still such a thing as a ‘moderate democrat.’ It is a weak white man who is conservative by inclination - but insists he is a democrat and votes that way because he is totally controlled by his wife.

I’ve seen them in the wild.

[The Fool @lears_coxcomb]

@drrollergator I didn’t think the British could do even worse with food but I was wrong.