Unpopular opinion:
Traveling is wildly overrated unless you're genuinely wealthy.
People talk about it like it's the meaning of life, but for most people it's just an expensive headache wrapped in Instagram filters.
You spend months saving money, then pay ridiculous prices for flights, hotels, baggage fees, taxis, food, and tourist attractions.
The airport experience is a nightmare:
• Long security lines
• Delayed flights
• Canceled flights
• Lost luggage
• $10 bottles of water
• Sitting in a metal tube for hours with no legroom
Then you finally arrive exhausted, only to discover you're standing in line with thousands of other tourists trying to take the exact same photo.
Everyone says, "It's about the experience."
What experience?
Being stressed, sleep deprived, overcharged, and counting down the days until you're back in your own bed?
For me, nothing beats having money in the bank, sleeping in my own house, eating food I actually like, and avoiding the chaos altogether.
Maybe I'm missing something, but spending thousands to be uncomfortable in a different location has never sounded like a great deal.
Amazing. Now we know why Monsanto went after the dandelions. 🌿
Just one leaf of this "weed" found in every garden might hold the power to change everything.
It kills up to 96% of leukemia cells in just 48 hours.
Sounds like science fiction, right? But nature has been hiding effective remedies right under our noses.
We had to lower the average IQ for being mentally retarded from 85 to 75, because it would mean 52% of black people would be classified as retarded.
We did it so we don’t offend them, and now we have to hear how they invented everything and built the world
A megachurch pastor with over a billion followers was just found in the Epstein files.
And honestly, the Epstein stuff is tame compared to what this guy did.
@WallStreetApes The Republican Party exists only as a way for folks to feel like they are making some kind of choice. Controlled opposition. The last two years have shown this beyond a shadow of doubt. How? Complete inaction.
Senator Rand Paul went and saw the gold at Fort Knox today. I don't believe this for a second. Why can't we get a full audit of the gold? Instead we get one man's word with no pictures? Something seems shady about this.
Our food in America is a science experiment
“Did you know US bagged lettuce is soaked in chlorine, gassed for 14 days, and sealed in it? It's also illegal in 30 countries. Make it make sense”
- US lettuce processors commonly wash bagged salads like spring mix, romaine in chlorinated water. Approved by the FDA
- Our lettuce is sealed in gas. It’s called Modified Atmosphere Packaging. After washing and drying, bagged salads are sealed in special plastic bags with adjusted gas levels lower oxygen, higher CO2, nitrogen. This is don’t to slow spoilage and can extend shelf life to around 10-16 days from packaging
- The lettuce itself is not banned in 30 counties but the process of chlorine washes. The chlorine-washed poultry and produce has been banned in the EU since 1997 and a bunch of other countries
Again, our food is a science experiments. How is any of this legal
@goddek Indeed, and we will talk about it for the next few years.That is all we will do,talk.All of these had the approval of both parties, but sure, we will vote ourselves out of it.🙄 Swapping swamp for swamp has really worked, right?
The strange thing about celebrating the 250th anniversary of Independence Day is that we live under a more tyrannical government now than the one that the founders fought for independence from.
As we approach our 250th anniversary, I believe it's worth noting that our government is only actually 165 years old.
The American Republic established in 1776 ended in 1861.
The Civil War cost almost a million lives: one out of every five white men of military age in the South and one out of every ten in the North. It destroyed virtually all of the wealth in the South — a 90% reduction to per capita GDP. The South would not recover economically until 1950.
But the real cost of the war wasn't economic. It was political.
The Civil War destroyed the Federalist system that our founders built to ensure the central government's power remained genuinely limited. Not limited by the goodwill of its legislators, which is no limit at all, but limited by the existence of rival sovereign States, which could restrain the central government and each other through competition.
After 1865 the only real limit to federal power was the self-restraint of the men in office. And that didn't last for long...
But, before we look at the long-term impact of America's first war of aggression, let us dispel a critical myth: that the Civil War ended slavery. Slavery was ending because of technology and economics. And it would have ended just as surely if no war had ever been fought between the States.
Britain abolished slavery, without a war, throughout its empire in 1833, freeing some 700,000 people in the West Indies alone. France abolished slavery in its colonies in 1848. Russia — the most backward great power in Europe — emancipated some twenty-three million serfs in 1861, the very year of Sumter. The Netherlands freed the slaves of Surinam and Curaçao in 1863. Across the entire industrializing world, unfree labor was abandoned within a single compressed generation. And, in no other great nation, was war required.
In America, slavery did not end because of General Grant and the boys in blue. It did not end because of a moral awakening. The cause was economic.
Chattel slavery extracts muscle power from human beings. Therefore, slavery only makes economic sense if muscle power is the binding constraint on production. Once machines had multiplied the labor output of muscle by hundreds of times, slavery was not only immoral but inefficient. In an industrial economy a slave costs more than he yields. As a result, capital flees from slavery into factories. All over the world. And even in the South.
Slavery ended everywhere at roughly the same time for the same reason: innovation and economics. It would have ended in the American South regardless of who won at Gettysburg. Even Brazil, the last holdout in the Western hemisphere, freed its 725,000 slaves with the Golden Law of 1888. No war was required: slavery was no longer productive.
With apologies to the celebrants of Juneteenth, slavery was not legally abolished in the United States until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in December 1865. The institution died, not because of the war, but because the world had entered the machine age.
The unnecessary destruction of half of our country and almost a million people wasn't the greatest tragedy of the Civil War. The greatest tragedy was the loss of Federalism and the hard-won liberty Americans won in the Revolution.
The Civil War destroyed the federal structure of the American republic, in which the several States were sovereign in their own spheres, with genuinely different legal systems, cultures, and traditions. The national government was beholden to the States, with only limited and enumerated powers.
The clearest proof of this change lies in our language. Before 1861, the United States was a plural noun. Men said the United States "are." After 1865 our country became singular. The United States "is."
The doctrine that a state could check the central government — by interposition, by nullification, in the last resort by departure — died at Appomattox, and with it the last structural brake on the power of the federal government died too.
The framers had not relied on parchment to limit the government they created. They relied on competition. So long as the States were genuinely sovereign — so long as a man oppressed in one State could remove to another, so long as the national government had to reckon with twenty or thirty rival centers of authority each jealous of its own jurisdiction — the central government could not easily grow into a Leviathan. The States were not administrative subdivisions. They were the Constitution's immune system.
What followed the Civil War was America's first empire -- in the South. And Empire's require a strong central government. Thus began a long erosion of the line between the citizen and the State, and between private institutions and public power.
Twelve years after the war, the Supreme Court considered whether a State could fix by law the prices a private grain warehouse charged its customers. The owners argued it was a taking of their property without due process — that what a man does with his own property, and what he charges for its use, is rightfully his own affair. The Court disagreed. Chief Justice Waite ruled that when private property is "affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only," and may be regulated by the government for the common good (Munn v. Illinois, 1877).
That was the end of private property in America. After all, if the national legislature may decide which property is "affected with a public interest," and may then dictate its prices and uses, there is in principle no property the government may not control.
Justice Stephen Field saw it and dissented with prophetic fury. The doctrine, he warned, "is nothing less than a bold assertion of absolute power by the State to control at its discretion the property and business of the citizen." A legislature that could fix the uses and prices of property "against the consent of the owner" could "deprive him of the property as completely as by a special act for its confiscation or destruction."
New York City's landlords are finding out the truth of this reality. They believe they own their properties. But they are about to find out otherwise, as rents will now be controlled by the mayor, who is a communist. This will spread. A communist ruling over all of America is only a matter of time. Why? Because the law provides an unlimited incentive for such power. There is nothing in America the government cannot take from you. Nothing.
The proof of the unlimited central authority was established in blood. The courts followed where the armies led. And the first American Empire — the North's conquest of the South — led to more such military adventures, which continue to this day.
In its first century, the United States heeded its founders' warnings against entangling alliances, a large standing army, and foreign military adventures. But the creation of the massive Northern army created its own momentum. Only 20 years after Reconstruction, the country clamored for another Empire and war against Spain. America became an imperial power, with possessions from the Caribbean to the far Pacific — Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines.
The consolidated nation that emerged from the Civil War was the precondition for the American Empire that emerged in 1898. Power flows to the center, and the center's reach has no natural boundary.
The Leviathan must be fed.
In 1913, every American became a direct serf to the national government: The Sixteenth Amendment gave the federal government the power to tax incomes directly. The size of a government is set, in the end, by the size of its revenues. The income tax removed the ceiling.
The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified the same year, provided for the direct election of United States senators. Under the original Constitution, senators were chosen by the state legislatures. This was the last vestige of State sovereignty. It could not be allowed to stand. The Senate stopped being the guardian of federalism.
And… then… with these Constitutional impediments finally vanquished, you saw Leviathan act to ensure its permanent dominance: it would control the money supply.
In December of 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System. The power over money, which the Constitution had strictly withheld from the central government, was enshrined into law. Income tax, a central bank, and the removal of the states from the Senate — all in one year.
The Revolution that began in 1861 was complete. America's Empire had begun.
Munn established that the government may dictate the use of private property. 1898 established that the consolidated nation would project power without limit beyond its borders. 1913 established the revenue, the money power, and the removal of the states from their guard post. The 1964 Civil Rights Act expanded this dictatorial power into every private transaction in America.
Government of the people, for the people, and by the people has been destroyed.
We now live in an Empire, not a Republic.
The Civil War didn't free any slaves; it enslaved all of us.
@RT_com It's crazy that the middle weigh champion of the world can't celebrate our great nation's anniversary because he criticized a foreign country.. It's starting to look like they control the world... Charlie Kirk was right they do play into all the stereotypes..
@goddek 25 minutes of sustained attack on an unarmed American ship. 70% casualty rate. 59 years of silence. And we're still sending their troops to fight their wars: https://t.co/5jolhIHsfT
🚨 🫀🫁🧠BOMBSHELL DOCTOR EXPOSES THE GRISLY ORGAN HARVESTING SCAM: 🫀🫁🧠🚨
"You CAN'T get organs from a cadaver— they're stealing them from LIVING kids & young adults 16-30 while they're STILL BREATHING on ventilators!"
Dr. Paul Byrne reveals they push Narcan on overdose victims just to rush them into the ER for fresh organs... then lie to grieving families: "Your daughter Sally would want to 'do something good.'"
"See, you cannot get any organs from a cadaver. Every organ that's transplanted is a healthy organ, and you can only get healthy organs from living persons. You cannot get any organs for transplant from a cadaver.”
“So you don't put it on your (driver’s) license?”
“And the things I'm telling you is that you are not allowed to hear. And because if you hear it, you will be upset, as all three of you are upset — and rightly so, you should be upset, because whose organs do they want? They want the organs from the, certainly from all children, but especially the people who are sixteen to thirty.”
“And their life is in jeopardy. If they're unconscious and on a ventilator, they're going to get their organs. And they do everything to get their organs. And once the organs are taken, you can't bring them back to life.”
“And so what they do is they tell the relatives, 'Well, your daughter Sally would really like to do something good, and this is a way to make something good out of this tragedy,' or your son.”
“While they have been getting organs from accidents and gunshot wounds, they now get more organs from overdose of drugs than they do from accidents and gunshot wounds combined. There are eight deaths a day from overdose in Ohio, and they get their organs — that's what they want.”
“And so what are they doing? They're giving the policemen the Narcan to counteract the drug, which gets them into the emergency room, but it doesn't save their life. It gets them in the emergency room, and they still get their organs. It's so diabolically disgusting. Oh, it really is. See, it's so bad."
This is pure evil. Brain death is a LIE. Share before they delete it! 😱 #OrganHarvesting #BrainDeathHoax #WakeUpAmerica