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[Helen Andrews @herandrews]

The racial hysteria of 2020 didn’t come out of nowhere. Two trends have been building for decades to force American race relations to a crossroads. We can choose a different path, or we will end up with permanent 2020 by default. https://t.co/RM5fYeE5S1

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Two Hispanic patriots kill a violent white communist who gave his life to protect Somalians engaged in massive daycare and healthcare fraud.

Somehow this all benefits GDP I’m sure.

[Frank Michael Smith @frankmikesmith]

I made this truth behind Tomlin video 2 years ago. It’s only gotten worse since. He is without question the most overrated coach of all-time

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

incredible stuff.
we all knew this was happening but to see it all written out in detail like this is wild. this shit needs to be completely gutted from society and destroyed. starting with the people who pushed it and profited off of it.
https://t.co/zMNSX97C6I

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

I am persuaded that feminization is the most portentous trend in American culture, and this is an excellent explanation of why.
It is also wonderfully written. E.g., "Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace that feels like a fraternity house, but men can’t sue when their workplace feels like a Montessori kindergarten."

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

Charlie Kirk is the most vanilla and least threatening Conservative out there. A happy enjoyer of debate and conversation and father to two beautiful children.

And they still shot him.

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

“Remember what we’re fighting for, boys. If we win someday there could be a strip mall here and a bunch of ugly apartment complexes for foreigners.”

[Spaghetti Arms @LerpTone18]

@OuiOuiGaston @CamHeywardFan Hasn’t even won a playoff game and the defense gave up 40+ in every playoff game he has ever played in!

[Maarek @Maarblek]

"Won't someone PLEASE think of the poor American merchants acting as middlemen for the Chinese government that are contractually obligated to never, ever produce anything in the United States"

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The “stolen land” people are simply low IQ with zero understanding of history or how the world works…

America was not stolen.
It was conquered.

The Native Americans were not skipping through a meadow when Europeans arrived…

They were savages.

Tribes constantly at war, taking resources (and land!) from each other.
They raided, raped, tortured and literally scalped each other. They were then conquered themselves by a people far more advanced in every quantifiable metric. The natives didn’t even have a common written language, let alone any concept of an advanced civilization. They were living thousands of years behind the rest of the world.

America was conquered. The Natives lost. It resulted in the greatest country in human history.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Hey wait a second

[J.P. Hasson @SonofHas]

The craziest part about the Lloyd Austin scandal?

Biden went a full work week without talking to his Secretary of Defense—and that was viewed as normal

[TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod]

"We are in the fight of our lives" - the speech the world NEEDS to hear right now.

Check out @KonstantinKisin's speech at @jordanbpeterson's @arc_forum 2023 👇

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

"If you consider yourself 'liberal' or even 'progressive,' it must surely be clear by now that America and her allies are the only places in the world where your values are even considered values. If our civilization is allowed to collapse, it will not be replaced by a progressive utopia. It will be replaced by chaos and barbarism."

Read @KonstantinKisin in @TheFP:

https://t.co/ysRV6L87KQ

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

tolerance of anti-social behavior, for any reason, erodes social trust, which by extension degrades our whole society. we aren't stopping crime for billionaires, they'll be fine regardless. we're stopping crime so our children don't inherit a third world country.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

They used to say evil prevails when good men fail to act. But now it prevails because good men — when they do act — are vilified, arrested, and charged with crimes.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

These companies invest a bunch of $ in the communities and create jobs, then voters elect leaders that refuse to enforce laws against theft which makes a profit impossible, & then they get attacked for closing stores losing $.

Lesson they inevitably take away is not to invest.

[Barstool Yinzers @BarstoolBurgh]

The only RB with his own army 🇮🇹 🕊️

[Micah Parsons @MicahhParsons11]

Wait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah