@cosmic_wastee@RealAshlar What is wrong with you? Look into your heart and soul. This child is capable of all the same emotions. Before you comment, spend some time around autistic children and open your heart and mind.
**🚨 MASSACHUSETTS DEMS LOOK TO CREATE OFFICIAL STATE ISLAM COMMISSION. IS MASSACHUSETTS TRYING TO MAKE lSLAM THE OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION!?!?🚨**
The woke Democrats in Massachusetts just advanced a bill to create a **permanent GOVERNMENT ISLAM COMMISSION**!
Bill S.2134 would set up an official 11-member state body for “people who practice Islam” that:
- Recommends Muslims for government jobs and positions (a religious test for office?!)
- Proposes new laws to fight “Islamophobia”
- Takes YOUR taxpayer money + private funding to push Islamist agendas
- “Fosters unity” among Muslim groups across the state
Backed by Democrat Sen. James Eldridge and multiple Democratic co-sponsors — It’s already cleared key committees and is sitting in Ways and Means, ready to take effect December 2026 if it passes.
This is **not** for any other religion — just Islam.
Enough is enough. This is cultural surrender and a direct attack on American values. If we don’t stop this now, every blue state will follow.
It is up to you to inform people—a report of this kind would never exist in the MSM.
S H A R E if you want NO special Islamic government commissions in America!
Bernie. Senator Sanders. My man.
This is the finest post you have ever written, and I mean that sincerely. You just published the single most devastating indictment of government economic intervention in modern American history, and you did it believing it was an argument FOR more government. You are living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Standing ovation. Truly. Now let me show you what you actually posted, because I do not think anybody on your staff ran it past a calculator. Or a person. Or a calculator operated by a person.
THE MATH YOU LEFT OUT
One 1973 dollar equals $7.52 today. That is BLS, not Bski. I know arithmetic is the enemy here, but ride with me.
Healthcare, $441 becomes $3,317. You listed $15,474. Real increase, 4.7x.
Home, $35,500 becomes $267,010. You listed $475,400. Real increase, 1.8x.
Rent, $133 becomes $1,000. You listed $2,017. Real increase, 2x.
Tuition, $514 becomes $3,866. You listed $11,950. Real increase, 3.1x.
Still bad. I am not pretending otherwise, and nobody is throwing a parade. But the gap between what you posted and what is true is wide enough to drive a bus through, and you were counting on nobody looking.
You posted raw nominal figures with no deflator, to an audience you assumed could not run the conversion. That is not economics, Senator. That is muddying the water to make it look deep.
YOUR CLOSING QUESTION, ANSWERED
"Has your income kept up?"
Median household income, 1973: $10,500. Census Bureau, report P60-96.
Median household income, latest: $83,730. Census Bureau.
That is a 697 percent increase. General prices rose 652 percent over the identical window. Income WON. By forty-five points. That number was one search away, which apparently was one search too many.
So the honest answer is YES. Median income slightly outran overall inflation. It simply failed to outrun the four categories you hand-picked, and you cling to those four the way a drunkard clings to a lamppost. For support, not for illumination.
THE QUESTION YOU CAREFULLY DID NOT ASK
What do healthcare, housing, rent, and college tuition have in common? Take your time. I have been grading freshman biology for a decade; I am comfortable with silence.
They are the four most subsidized, most regulated, most government-saturated markets in the United States. Every single one. Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.
Meanwhile televisions, computers, toys, software, clothing, and cell service, the sectors Washington mostly left alone, collapsed in real price. Televisions are down roughly 97 percent since 2000. Funny how the stuff Congress never touched got cheaper. Almost like there is a pattern here, visible from space, waving a flag.
Government touches it, price explodes. Government keeps its hands off, price falls. Fifty-three years, same country, same currency, same workers. If your model cannot explain that, your model has a leak in the think tank.
That is not a talking point. That is a controlled experiment, and you are standing in the smoking crater of your own hypothesis requesting a larger appropriation. This is high-IQ stupid. Brilliant man. Not a lick of sense.
Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You proved it with four data points and a rhetorical question. All foam, no beer.
AND WHY, EXACTLY, 1973?
Bold pick. Let me guess what Washington does next. Congress severs the dollar from gold entirely and hands itself an unlimited printing press... wait, I am being told they already did that. August fifteenth, 1971. Fully floating by March 1973. You chose the first clean year of the pure fiat dollar as your baseline, which is a bit like dating the fire from the moment somebody hid the extinguisher.
What is next, Senator? Congress rebuilds all of American medicine around third-party payment so that no patient ever sees a price again... wait, they already did THAT one too. Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973. Signed December 29, 1973. He is more confused than a chameleon in a bag of Skittles.
You picked the crime scene and labeled it the control group. Your thesis has more holes than a screen door on a submarine in a hurricane.
COLLEGE: YOU SUBSIDIZED IT INTO ORBIT
The Education Amendments of 1972 created the federal grant that became Pell. Federal aid expanded for fifty years afterward, and tuition followed it like a shadow. Faster than green grass through a goose.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Staff Report 733: every additional dollar of subsidized federal student loan capacity passed through into higher tuition at roughly SIXTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. That is the Fed. Not a podcast. Not me. And I am glad you are not letting education get in the way of your ignorance on it.
You handed colleges a blank check drawn on the signature of eighteen-year-olds, and colleges cashed it. Now the proposed fix is more of the exact thing that broke it, a solution ranking somewhere between an inflatable dartboard and a cordless extension cord.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.
HOUSING AND RENT: ALSO YOU
Single-family-only zoning. Minimum lot sizes. Parking minimums. Environmental review that turns a duplex into a six-year lawsuit. Then a decade of near-zero rates flooding a supply-starved market with cheap money. Every one of those was sold as help, and every one made it worse, which at this point is less a policy record than a magic trick performed by a man who cannot find his own shadow on a sunny day.
Also, median new home 1973: about 1,525 square feet. Today: over 2,200, with central air, multiple bathrooms, and an attached garage. You are comparing a Pinto to a Tahoe and billing the difference to greed. You can put lipstick on that pig. It is still a pig.
Want cheaper rent? Legalize building. That is the entire policy, it costs the taxpayer nothing, and that is precisely why it will never interest you. Clouds without rain. All promise, no delivery. Jude 12. Proverbs 25:14.
HEALTHCARE: SENATOR, YOU VOTED FOR THIS
Everybody reading, sit with this one, because it is the whole ballgame and they are counting on you skimming past it.
The ACA COVID subsidies were written as TEMPORARY in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, then extended as TEMPORARY in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. NOT ONE Republican voted for either bill. You voted for BOTH, @BernieSanders. You set the expiration date yourself, with your own hand, which makes the outrage about as credible as a handshake agreement with a used-car salesman.
Then your party shut the government down for 43 days demanding them back, which was a public confession, on the record, that a law named the AFFORDABLE Care Act is not affordable without emergency pandemic cash. The new CR passed. The government is open. That confession is still sitting in the transcript, and no press release is going to sand it off. They lie like fish swim.
Translated into plain English: "Last December my boss gave me a $1,000 bonus. This December he did not. Therefore he cut my pay and he is heartless." Take that argument to an actual employer and report back. Whoever drafted it could not pour water out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel, and as a policy position it is about as useful as a solar-powered flashlight.
And why are YOU the loudest defender of routing every American through a government-guaranteed insurance conglomerate, rather than Health Savings Accounts and real price transparency, where the patient holds the dollar and the provider competes for it? Your side lit candles for Luigi Mangione over his hatred of that industry. Now you are its most reliable revenue stream. Pick a lane. You have more positions than a yoga instructor and less spine than a jellyfish.
Trying to reason with this is like trying to baptize a cat.
WHAT HAVE YOU ACTUALLY DELIVERED?
Sworn in January 1991. Thirty-five years in Congress. Congresswebsitee lists over four hundred bills you led as primary sponsor. THREE became law. Two of them renamed post offices in Vermont. Four hundred swings, three contacts, two of them buildings that already existed.
He has been in Congress so long the only thing he has passed is gas.
The brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in the womb and does not stop until you get elected to Congress.
Thirty-five years of this exact post. Same slides, new dates. Delusions of adequacy dressed up as a movement. And every one of those four lines got WORSE on your watch, in a chamber you sat in, on votes you personally cast. At what point does the diagnosis become the prescription, Senator? At what point do we admit the fire marshal keeps showing up smelling like gasoline?
THE PART ABOUT YOUR HOUSES
You own three homes while lecturing me about housing prices. Some hogs have all four feet and their snout in the trough.
So here is my standing offer, and it applies to every millionaire in that chamber hollering about the rich. Before the next "tax the rich" post, voluntarily remit DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe. Standard deduction only. No itemizing. No carve-outs, no foundations, no trusts, no clever accountant in Burlington. Publish the return. Until somebody does that, the sermon is a gray sprinkle on a rainbow cupcake.
Lead by example and I will sit through the whole homily. Until then it is a snollygoster selling indulgences, and the people who wrote the loopholes are the same people using them. All hat and no cattle.
WHILE WE ARE COUNTING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
Every proposal you have ever floated arrives with the same page torn out. The one that says who pays. Medicare for All. Free college. Universal this, guaranteed that. Trillions in promises and never once a figure that survives contact with a calculator. If we discovered life on Mars, your caucus would try to send it money.
We have not had a real budget since Moby Dick was a minnow. There is always money for the next program and never a nickel to fix the last one, and somehow that is everyone's fault except the fault of the men who wrote it. Enough money to burn a wet mule, and not one dollar of accountability attached to any of it.
MY OWN MODEST PROPOSAL
Since price is apparently just a policy choice, allow me one. Mandatory GPA redistribution. Every student above a 3.5 surrenders points to every student below a 2.0. Everyone graduates. Nobody left behind. This is not a radical idea. It is just common sense, and I say that with a straight face, which is more than your last budget resolution managed.
While we are at it, free ice cream every Monday, and the store simply eats the cost. Also common sense. If stupidity were a renewable resource, this chamber would have solved the energy crisis in 1974.
We cannot run the greatest economy in human history on fairy dust and unicorn urine. Apparently we can run a gradebook on it. If that struck you as blatherskite, congratulations, you have now audited my entire objection to your economics.
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, JANUARY 10, 1963
Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr. read 45 Communist Goals into the permanent record. Goal 17: get control of the schools and use them as transmission belts for socialism. Goal 32: support any socialist movement giving centralized control over education, social agencies, and welfare programs. Goal 40: discredit the family as an institution. Read that list, then read your platform, and tell me it is a coincidence with a straight face.
I am not asking anybody to believe in a conspiracy. I am asking them to grade the outcomes. That is what a science teacher does. A mountebank peddles the intention. A scientist checks the result.
Quinn's Sixth Law: facts are the enemy of liberalism. Quinn's Twenty-Fifth: liberals are great at giving away other people's money. Both were on full display in your original post, and neither one required a single assist from me. I just held up the mirror.
You speak an infinite deal of nothing, Senator. Shakespeare said it first, and he said it better.
ONE LAST THING, BECAUSE IT MATTERS
Wages are not decreed. They are agreed. Two free people shake hands. An employer offers, a worker accepts or walks, and if nobody accepts, the employer raises the offer or closes the doors. That is not exploitation, that is arithmetic, and treating it as villainy is a Billy-goat brain attached to a mockingbird mouth.
Price labor above what it produces and the least-skilled worker does not receive a raise. He receives a locked door. No first job, no resume, no rung one, and a lifetime of dependency he will vote to protect, because he is rational and you engineered his only rational choice. That is not compassion. That is a trap with a ribbon on it.
Every party that ever needed an underclass called it something noble. The antebellum South called it care. Jim Crow called it order. Yours calls it compassion. Same architecture, better branding, and in a battle of wits your economics would show up unarmed.
You cannot fix stupid. But you can vote it out of office.
But what do I know. I am only a high school science teacher, a medically retired Army combat medic, and a man who ran the deflator before he posted the chart.
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🔥 They Edited His Confession, Hid the Full Tape, Convicted Him Anyway. Then the “Bribers” Walked Free. Now a Four-Star Admiral Rots in Prison While the Corrupt DOJ Unit That Did It Got Shut Down.
America just locked up the former Vice Chief of Naval Operations — the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, commander of all forces across Europe, Africa, and Russia — for six years on bribery charges.
The people who supposedly paid the bribe? A federal jury acquitted them. Not a hung jury. Full acquittal. On all counts.
Let that marinate.
Admiral Robert P. Burke, four stars. 40+ years of service. Decorated beyond what most Americans can comprehend. Convicted May 2025. Sentenced to 72 months in federal prison.
The evidence the government used to convict him? Three cherry-picked snippets. Out of a TWO-HOUR interview Burke voluntarily gave investigators. His attorney fought to play the full tape. The judge said no. The jury heard only what prosecutors wanted them to hear.
His own lawyer described the trial as “the exact opposite” of normal: the prosecution was the one objecting to keep evidence out. They didn’t want the jury to see the full context. Because the full context, according to Parlatore, shows there was no bribe.
Meanwhile, the two Next Jump CEOs — Kim and Messenger — got their full defense. First trial: hung jury. Second trial: not guilty on everything. The edited confession that convicted Burke? Wasn’t even played at their trial. And they still walked.
You cannot logically “accept” a bribe that nobody “paid.” The law allows inconsistent verdicts. Reality doesn’t.
Here’s the part that should make every American’s blood boil:
The DOJ’s Public Integrity Section brought the case. The Trump administration has since dismantled that unit. Why? Because it was corrupt. Parlatore’s words, not mine: “a corrupt unit within DOJ that the president got rid of because of the abuses.”
This is the same unit that destroyed Ted Stevens. Same playbook. Hide exculpatory evidence. Edit statements. Convict first, let appeals sort out the wreckage later.
Then, weeks before the co-defendants’ second trial, discovery material finally surfaced — staff interviews that, per Parlatore, “completely contradicted what the government’s theory was at trial.” Evidence that should have been turned over before Burke’s trial. Wasn’t.
Burke’s appeal is pending in the D.C. Circuit. The judges grilled prosecutors hard in April. One judge couldn’t understand why 45 minutes were cut from Burke’s interview. Parlatore walked out thinking a reversal is coming.
But here’s the real question:
Why does a man sit in prison for “accepting a bribe” when a jury has acquitted the supposed bribe-payers of their peers?
Why did the government get to curate what evidence the jury heard?
And what does it say about our justice system that the unit responsible for this conviction no longer exists because it was too corrupt to keep?
President Trump has the power to end this with a stroke of a pen. A pardon isn’t just mercy here — it’s correction of an institutional failure.
Admiral Burke gave his life to this country. The country owes him better than a conviction built on edited tape and a prosecution unit that’s since been put in the trash where it belongs.
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Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.
Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.
And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.
So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.
Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.
And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.
An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.
Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.
Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.
Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.
Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.
Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.
Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.
Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.
And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.
That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.
Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.
I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.
You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.
But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.
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@Melissa22461016@CletaMitchell@realDonaldTrump You are highly educated according to your bio - do a little research about the suits. See what was dismissed because of standing or some other reason. Check how many actually got to produce evidence to a court. Then watch and listen without bias.