DSA Co-chair Gustavo Gordillo just explained to Martha MacCallum that his family fled Peru during the violence of the Maoist Shining Path to escape the ravages of the "imposition of capitalism and American imperialism" . . . so they came to the United States...
We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.
The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.
Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").
Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.
And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.
I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.
Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.
Communism, in a nutshell.
Shut down the entire immigration system. We have no idea who will be in control of the government in two years, so let's fix this thing now. Look at what the open border policy is still doing to our country, even after 18 months of Trump in office. We don't need excuses or the administration bowing to the pressure of the media when an incident happens. We need them to deport, deport, deport. If we don't get this country under control now, who knows what it will look like under another radical open border Democrat presidency. Sometimes you have to shut off the noise and get it done. That's what America voted for.
Vice President JD Vance: “I still feel a certain sense of heartbreak over LA. Because every time I’m in LA, you can see why this was like the quintessentially American city. The architecture is beautiful. It's got its own vibe going. Like you said, the weather is amazing. And then you drive through Skid Row and you're like, ‘How could any state or any city let this happen?’”
Joe Rogan: “Skid Row is now 55 blocks. It was 50 blocks just like a year or two ago.”
JD Vance: “[You get to this fancy downtown Los Angeles building] like fancy food and fancy wine, and then there are armed guards outside of it and these gigantic walls. And I realized when I was there, you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of going to the US embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like super security, crazy wealth and privilege and status on the inside and squalor and misery on the outside.”
“It's the first time I'd ever thought America, like this part of America, is actually more like a third world country than anything that I thought we'd ever become.”
90 years ago today, Indiana saw its hottest temperature ever recorded when Collegeville hit 116 degrees.
Please keep this in mind as temps across our state hit the mid-90s this week and people start screaming about global warming as local TV news weather maps burst into flames.
Long post....buckles in.
I started digging into the proposed truck repair facility at 8600 Combs Road in Franklin Township, and the more I looked, the more questions I had.
Within just a small sample of the surrounding area are more than 200 trucking-related businesses. A few examples include:
-Rai Trans
-Sardar Trucking
-Amrit Transport
-Yuvraj Freight
-Butala Transport
-Dhanda Express
Then things get even more interesting.
According to INBiz, Punjab Property was dissolved in 2024. Yet the mailing address listed on the property records points to an address in Pendleton where two trucking businesses are registered.
It doesn't stop there.
The previous owner of 8600 Combs Road, MJRR Property, had four governing individuals. Public records show that two of the listed addresses are also associated with trucking businesses.
Maybe each of these facts, standing alone, doesn't prove anything. But taken together, they raise legitimate questions.
Is this really just a truck repair shop, or is it intended to support a much larger trucking operation?
If that's the long-term plan, the surrounding community deserves clear answers before any approvals are granted.
The environmental impact also cannot be ignored.
The proposed project would permanently alter approximately 10 acres of the Pleasant Run wetland complex to allow for a truck repair facility.
Residents are also concerned about what expanded truck traffic could mean for nearby neighborhoods, including a subdivision directly across the street, along with increased noise, air quality impacts, and changes to the character of the area.
My opinion...This is about demoralizing the neighborhood and the Indians showing everyone they can do whatever they want without consequence.
Let's be honest. It's going to happen. Just like we saw with the gas station last week. Republicans don't want to piss of a voter base and Democrats want more money for the city.
https://t.co/FYhHgHBhru
On behalf of the largest police news outlet in the world, we're officially calling for the resignation or termination of this officer IMMEDIATELY.
A female Fort Worth police officer was caught on camera threatening to ticket a retired federal law enforcement officer and Christian street preacher for “offensive speech.”
The officer told the man that if someone is offended by his preaching, then “we have a problem” and said she would issue him a ticket. When he asked if she was really going to ticket him for offensive speech, she replied, “Yes, I am.”
This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment. Police officers do not have the authority to ticket people for speech that offends others. That is the exact opposite of how freedom of speech works in America.
The fact that this officer targeted a retired federal law enforcement officer who was simply preaching makes this even more unacceptable.
Departments that employ officers who openly disregard the Constitution need to clean house. This kind of behavior erodes public trust and makes every good officer’s job harder.
Pass this along so more people see what is happening on our streets.
#FortWorthPD #FirstAmendment
Historian Johan Norberg explains that one of the major factors in taking down the Roman Empire that’s rarely discussed, is the rise in entitlement spending
So many people started receiving welfare and it kept getting expanded, it quickly skyrocket inflation and destroyed their currency
“What caused the fall of ancient Rome? There were many reasons; disease, famine, barbarian invaders but historian Johan Norberg covers one rarely talked about. You say entitlement spending played a big role”
“The emperors wanted to become popular by handing out free stuff to people. Originally, this started small. You just handed the very poor means of subsistence, make sure that they would but that group was enlarged because it was popular — So the group that lived on the public's expense grew larger all the time
And emperors complained about this constantly while they were expanding it.
Everyone from Caesar and onwards said, "Oh, we've gotta reform this system because it means that we have fewer people working and more people consuming." But no one succeeded. Instead, it was expanded all the time became more and more costly. So the Romans could conquer the world, but they couldn't do entitlement reform”
“It just reminds me of what I see in the West”
“It's a very worrying sign in each of these civilizations. Once you have an ever-expanding system of entitlements that you can't afford, then you have to deal with it in different ways. Well, some of them just try to conquer other people’s and take their stuff. But once you run out of that, you have to resort to inflation. Rome started to debase the currency
— The Emperor Diocletian, he blamed greedy businessmen for inflation, something that we hear today as well. So he imposed price controls on more than 1,000 goods and even imposed the death penalty on any merchant that increased the price above a certain level. But obviously it all failed because he kept debasing the currency. So inflation kept going, prices kept rising, It only happened in the shadow economy and undermined the Roman Empire completely”
I looked into this and found roughly 20% of the entire population ended up on welfare, it got so out of control they devalued their currency by 98%
This is exactly what’s happening in America
America is Rome and we’re falling the same way they did
I was born in New York City 54 years ago by a young black single mother. This was at a time when free abortions were booming in the inner cities. Statistically I'm very fortunate Planned Parenthood didn't get me too.
The Uzbek truck company owner who organizes the fundraiser for the Islamic Center of Maineville, Ohio has a $2.5 MILLION mansion with an indoor swimming pool. Lmao
@michaelcrow@USATODAY Mr Crow...does your appreciation of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" mean you'll allow 89 year old Mr Robert Young to keep his house? Or do you still intend on removing it to allow for green space on your campus? @michaelcrow@ASU
Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.
And the reason is worse than they think.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.
Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.
Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.
Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.
A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.
Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.
That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.
A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.
Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability. There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his signature, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.
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Yet again proving why we have to find another company to support in the USA.
What reason do you have for not hiring an American for this position?
🌅🇺🇸 Kicked off Independence Day weekend with an early morning ski run to celebrate 250 years of freedom!
My team and I are crisscrossing the state today and tomorrow — and we can’t wait to see everyone as we honor the best state in the greatest nation the world has ever known.