@AOC The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.
This is class warfare. It is un-American, bad for business, and ultimately hurts the very people it claims to help.
Americans are already taxed enough, far too much, actually. The real problem is not that we lack revenue; it’s how Washington wastes it through rampant spending, fraud, and abuse.
The American way is to reward entrepreneurs who build successful businesses, create jobs, and provide for their fellow citizens, not to confiscate a chunk of their profit.
Capitalism is the way.
“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”
-Teddy Roosevelt
Like everyone else, I looked at the shooting of Renee Nicole Good. From several angles. And frame by frame. I watched the reverse lights go out. The weapon leave its holster.
I looked at the before footage. The aftermath. I listened carefully to the audio. I heard the legal scholars commentary. The politicians. Etc.
But most of all, I watched it as a pair of amped up Federal Agents with a car and driver defying my orders in a tense situation. And then I watched it as a freaked out American female in fight-or-flight model with a terrifying man trying to force open my driver side door who may have barely noticed the other man in front of my car about to end my life.
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My thoughts.
This was always going to happen. A bunch of political people we don’t know playing out a drama of Sanctuary Cities, voting strategies, refugee designations, border enforcement, immigration scams, etc.
Sooner or later, given enough time, a loving widower and single dad will also pick up a gun and find a 2A solution to his grief over the Surgeon who “transitioned” his only brainwashed child while he was working two jobs in a murder suicide.
Someone wearing a Candace t-shirt calling for America-First will shoot up a Pro-Israel rally in Florida chanting about “Noticing”, Nick Fuentes and wanting their country back. Or a person will spray-paint “Never Again” on a Cybertruck and drive it into a Michigan crowd screaming “From The River To The Sea!”
Etc.
We are being set, like wind up toys, to tear each other apart and ourselves apart. my own head has been filled with so many slogans and so much hate for you by so many different people no matter who you are.
We are all in this low grade revolution.
And it will be reset today by algorithms you didn’t program, filled by speeches you didn’t write, amplified by accounts you don’t know are bot farms, directed by political strategists whose names you do not know, undoing action you would never have taken in ways you would never agree to directed by famous people you don’t know personally.
Didn’t you tweet this in 2020?
Are you no longer with Venezuelan people who are celebrating the fall of Maduro?
Or are you just playing politics?
Which one is it?
The leak of Witkoff's diplomatic call with a Russian official is so disturbing because it shows how the deep state abused its spying powers to invade the privacy of an American official working to achieve peace between Russia/Ukraine.
@ggreenwald explains:
We cannot have a coherent or productive political debate if the dialogue includes a whole bunch of random foreigners from all across the world who have no stake in this country, no skin in the game, and no first hand knowledge of our culture at all. It is very important to identify the foreign intruders and bully them mercilessly until they shut up and leave us alone. We cannot talk about or fix any of our problems with a mob of foreigners constantly barging into the conversation.
NO ONE is bringing more attention to the Epstein files than Pres Trump.
It’s getting out of control. An insider should have a conversation.
His team made promises they didn’t keep. The base is pissed.
Rightfully, so!
Your base is NOT your enemy.
Focus on regaining trust.
Like Zuck, Bezos has found the courage to stand up for truth at the exact moment it became costless to do so.
Makes me realize what a gift Elon is. He was in real trouble if the election didn’t turn out as it did. Stood up anyway.
That’s a wild call on the Eagles snapper.. I assume that’s his motion EVERY snap.
Will they call it on him everytime? Or just 1 time?
I’m not sure I understand
50%+ of young kids say something stupid online in their youth today
This is down from 100% of boys in schoolyards in the 1980s — when we didn’t actually have a permanent record (even though they told us Tele did!)
Write an apology, say what you learned since then and get back to work
Democrats are terrified of DOGE and Musk because they have never witnessed this degree of competence. It looks alien to them.
I mean that literally. People with experience see in DOGE a process that is necessarily messy but 100% on target in terms of speed, talent, and energy applied.
To the inexperienced, it probably looks like a combination of chaos and a bank heist.
I pity the inexperienced.
Elon is smart.
Tulsi is smart.
JD is smart.
RFKJr is smart.
Vivek is smart.
Trump is smart.
Obviously.
Calling everyone who is *outsmarting* you “dumb” doesn’t do what you think it does. Think about it:
A outsmarts B.
B says A is dumb.
Ergo…