Dino

Rock solid. Friends seek me out and I always give 100% to a good cause

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Yeah, why isn’t the Media Covering this?

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

A man in Barnstable MA speaking on illegal immigration:

Brings to mind the Quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They do not ask for much. Just to be left alone. But when they are pushed too far, when their families, their homes, their livelihoods, or their way of life is threatened… they become the most dangerous force on earth.”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Before the weekend ends and America moves on to the next headline, we need to pause and look at a story that matters more than almost any other—the collapse of Venezuela, and what it warns us about if the last democratic superpower ever falls the same way.

This didn’t happen overnight. It happened step by step, over one generation.

VENEZUELA: HOW A PROSPEROUS NATION COLLAPSED

1992
Venezuela is the 3rd richest country in the Western Hemisphere, powered by oil and a growing middle class.

1997
Venezuelans become the 2nd largest buyers of Ford F-150s—a sign of widespread prosperity.

1998
Hugo Chávez is elected, promising to “redistribute wealth” and fix inequality.

2001
The country votes again for socialism, framed as compassion and fairness.

2003
The government imposes price controls and currency controls.
Black markets appear. Shortages begin.

2004
Private healthcare is fully socialized.

2006
Inflation rises sharply as massive welfare programs expand without real economic backing.

2007
All higher education becomes “free.”

2008
Key industries—oil services, steel, cement, telecom—are nationalized.
Production drops almost immediately.

2009
Private gun ownership is banned.

2010
The currency is devalued by 50%, crushing savings and accelerating inflation.

2011
Oil production begins a steady decline due to mismanagement and lack of investment.

2012
American politicians, like Bernie Sanders, publicly praise Venezuela’s model.

2013
Chávez dies. Nicolás Maduro takes power and tightens state control.

2014
Opposition leaders are arrested or silenced.

2015
GDP collapses. Hyperinflation begins.

2016
Severe food and medical shortages spread nationwide.

2017
The constitution is suspended. Elections are no longer meaningful.

2018
Inflation exceeds 1,000,000%. Maduro “wins” a widely fraudulent election.

2019
Unarmed civilians are killed by their own government.

2020
More than 8 million people flee the country to escape hunger and repression.

2023
Minor economic improvements fail to relieve mass poverty.

2024
Disputed elections trigger protests and global isolation.

2026
Maduro is removed by force. Venezuela is liberated after decades of ruin.

THE HARD TRUTH

It took one generation of “progressive” leadership to turn one of the richest countries on Earth into a nation defined by hunger, fear, mass graves, and mass migration.

This is the lesson history keeps teaching:

You can vote your way into socialism.
But history shows people only escape it through collapse, violence, or foreign intervention.

And here is the part Americans must understand clearly:

If this happens in the United States, there will be nobody coming to save us.

No outside superpower.
No rescue force.
No second chance.

Freedom is fragile. Prosperity is not guaranteed.
And once lost, they are brutally hard to recover.

Venezuela’s people paid the price.
America cannot afford to learn this lesson the same way.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Javier Milei: I thought being on the left was a mental problem... But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul.. Since they have no way or arguments, they go for physical violence.

[bluemontauk @bluemontauk]

Today's Dad Jokes 😂🤣🕺

[Dino @ru2cdino]

@sammyhagar It will be phenomenal

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PHOTO I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!).

2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.

3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY, OR TRAVEL!).

4. NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.

5. NO TRANSGENDER MUTILIZATION SURGERY ON OUR CHILDREN.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

I never knew he dedicated this song to the memory of his dad. I always thought this was a love song but a different kind. Hits Harder.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

Bob Costas just dropped a brutal REALITY CHECK on CNN!

They were NOT expecting this from him.

Legendary sportscaster tells it like it is.

Watch this!
#BobCostas #CNN #RealityCheck #WakeUpAmerica #MediaBias

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Here is Chris Stapleton’s AMAZING Super Bowl National Anthem to get you pumped up for what I think is going to be the best Independence Day celebration of our entire lives 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Wishing you all an early HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

[Fox News @FoxNews]

NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson says the World Cup is creating an ironic split screen across America, as fans from around the world appreciate the U.S. "so more than these socialists running for Congress."

While radical left Democrats spend their time criticizing the country, visitors from around the world are flooding social media with videos of themselves falling in love with it — from Buc-ee’s and Waffle House to free chips and salsa in Texas.

"They've never known freedom. They've never known these kinds of things, and they're seeing them for themselves. The genius of America's system, a system that rewards risk takers and entrepreneurs and job creators and innovators and people who create jobs for others and expand the economy and opportunity and broaden the pathway out of poverty for more people."

"That's what we promise to the voters, and that's what we are delivering."

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

This is so great.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Predict What Will Happen Now That Elon Musk Is A Trillionaire

Made with @grok

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

There's nothing like celebrating Father's Day with your children, grand kids and great grandsons! I hope you all had a wonderful day. My best, Bill

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

The reactions to some good ass ribs have been heelarious😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[FoxyFarmer🦊🇺🇸 @GardensR4Health]

Wow! Boston Park crew astonished by the Scottish World Cup fans because they “cleaned up after themselves”

Nicks fans burned businesses in NY after a win and Scottish fans cleaned up parks