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[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

They spent years screaming that mail-in voting was the single most secure, flawless, ironclad system mankind had ever devised. Questioning it made you a dangerous conspiracy theorist who probably enjoyed fish pizza.

Then the Postal Service said, “Okay, let’s add a barcode and check the ballots against actual eligible voter lists.” Suddenly it was the end of democracy, unconstitutional, racist, fascist, and guaranteed to disenfranchise tens of millions. The same people who insisted the system needed zero verification lost their minds the second anyone suggested basic chain of custody.

That reaction only makes sense when you look at what they’re actually protecting.

Los Angeles has a billion-dollar homeless services bureaucracy that can’t house anyone, can’t account for the money, and gets its funding pulled even by liberal county officials because it’s become a useless, bloated mess.

But that same operation maintains detailed instructions for registering “unhoused clients” ... their words for drug-addled or outright crazy people ... and routing their mail-in ballots through shelters and agency offices. Cross streets count as a residence. “Frank’s backyard” is apparently a valid address. The federal government even hosts guides in multiple languages teaching NGOs how to help people who just got here sign up before their citizenship paperwork is sorted. “I help you, you help me.”

They can’t find the receipts. They can’t find the homeless. But they never lose a voter registration form.

A simple barcode would ruin the whole arrangement. Ballots wouldn’t magically appear from vague intersections anymore. They’d show up in batches from single service centers on the same day. Fiction addresses would get returned to sender. And the people who spent five years calling the system perfect would have to explain why basic tracking feels like an existential threat.
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[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

All the credit for 'debunking' the Biden administration's intelligence reports that doubted foreign involvement in Havana Syndrome goes to @DNIGabbard

What you are unlikely to see in legacy media coverage is that our small team broke the story yesterday..

And Gabbard initiated the new review of directed energy attacks in response to our independent reporting which revealed evidence of progressive brain injury and brain cell death.

As a independent journalist, I was able to take the Havana Syndrome reporting further on @x than I ever could at @cbsnews under the old leadership.

Thank you to the CIA, NSA, State Department, DoD and Space Force whistleblowers who trusted independent journalism and came forward.

Thank you for sharing!

[Donnie Cope @dcopechatter]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities. Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent. Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔 One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt. Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Deaths in the US so far in 2026, by cause:

Drowning: approximately 1000 (22 kids in Texas alone)
Mushroom poisoning: 4
Rattlesnake: 3
Lightning: 2
Marathon: 1
Measles: 0

And, oh yeah, overdose: approximately 30000

Let's try to scare people some MORE about measles, huh?

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

It's remarkable how often the argument boils down to:

"Someone else has more than I think they should."

No fraud is alleged.

No theft is alleged.

No rights violation is identified.

Just a large number followed by a demand for the government to take it.

The entire case for a wealth tax begins with the premise that success creates a public claim on the life and property of the successful.

The disagreement isn't over economics.

It's over whether other people have a right to what they didn't create, earn, or voluntarily receive.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Roughly half of all new drugs and a huge share of medical innovation come out of the US, funded by American prices and American profits.

Norway negotiates cheap drug prices because the US market already paid the R&D bill. Every “efficient” European system is quietly subsidized by American patients. Socialize the US system and you don’t just change America you slow the pipeline of cures for everyone on Earth.

The US tax-and-benefit structure lets productive people keep dramatically more of what they earn. A skilled American doesn’t just out-earn a Norwegian this year and they build a surplus that is invested and compounded for 40 years. That’s why median US household wealth and top-end mobility outpace Scandinavia’s.

America allows for raw growth, innovation, that is the reason the world’s ambitious immigrants line up for America, not Oslo.

The US treats you as the owner of your own life: your money, your insurance choices, your tradeoffs. Yes, you carry risk the same way you do as a business owner instead of an employee.

A state that shields you from every downside also decides what care you may have, what it will pay for, and how long you’ll wait. Americans with means never wait.

The GoFundMe line in that tweet describes the system’s worst outcome; the waitlist for a hip replacement is Norway’s everyday outcome.

If you don’t have a life threatening emergency you wait for weeks and months for medical treatment.

Five million culturally homogeneous people sitting on the largest per-capita oil fund on Earth is not a policy lesson though it’s a lottery ticket.

And yet still everyone wants to come to America.

Why?

Because America rewards people who want a better life. Who work hard for that better life.

The question is always the same. Do you want to control your own destiny or do you want to be told by the state how you must live.

Me, I’d rather work harder and control my own destiny.

But it’s easy for a Norwegian to say that because our system has innovated almost everything they need access to over there.

[Lydia Moynihan @LydiaMoynihan]

Voter rolls in LA country increased by 691,000 people since 2018 despite the county losing 366,600 residents…

I can understand why people have serious questions about ballot harvesting, voter registration, and election results in LA county.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Gas prices spiked to $4.50 when Trump was choking off Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

They hit $5.00 under Biden because Democrats printed trillions and gutted American energy production.

Two completely different problems.
One protected America’s interests.

The other punished American families.

Which one were you cool with?

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

As an Ex-Muslim turned Christian apologist, here is how I handle almost every Muslim objection:

Stop playing theological whack-a-mole with Islam. It will be fruitless.

When I debate Muslims, I don’t start with the Trinity.

I'm not starting with original sin.

I'm not starting with "How can God have a Son?"

I start with one question:

Is the Bible the revelation of God, or not?

Because every other debate comes after that.

I believe in the Trinity because the Bible teaches it, I believe in original sin because the Bible teaches it and I believe Jesus is the Son of God because the Bible teaches it.

Muslims believe the same about the Quran. They believe Islam because the Quran tells them to.

That's the real issue that so many Christians miss.

Why spend hours arguing doctrine when the deeper question is: Which book actually comes from God?

If the Bible is historically reliable and divinely inspired, then most objections disappear before they even begin.

You can debate theology forever, but if we're reading from different books with different authorities, we're never getting to the root of the issue.
Settle the Book issue first.

Then the conversation stops being an argument.

It becomes a Bible study.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

Americans are exhausted.

Every year we’re told there’s no money for veterans, no money for infrastructure, no money for addiction treatment, no money for struggling families.

Then billions vanish in fraud schemes and suddenly we’re told accountability is the real problem.

Whether you’re Republican, Democrat, or Independent, one principle should be universal:

If you steal taxpayer dollars, you should be investigated, prosecuted, and forced to repay what was taken.

No excuses.

No special treatment.

No political protection.

The American taxpayer is not an ATM for fraudsters and government grifters.

The question isn’t why people are angry.

The question is why accountability has become controversial.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

A $300M yacht isn't money set on fire. It's a vast act of production. Those vessels take 3 to 4 years to build and employ hundreds: naval architects, marine engineers, welders, electricians, carpenters, interior craftsmen, plus the shipyard and the entire supply chain feeding it. Then a permanent crew of dozens, dockworkers, mechanics, and provisioners for the life of the ship. The "obscene" yacht is a payroll for hundreds of skilled workers who chose that trade freely.

But notice the con you're really running. You don't want those workers employed. You want the Meta workers envious. The yacht and the layoffs have nothing to do with each other, except in the resentment you're trying to manufacture.

Now the layoffs themselves. A company cuts staff when it must reduce costs or correct over-hiring, which is exactly how a business stays alive to employ anyone at all. And what drives costs up? The taxes, mandates, and regulations you demand every single day. You spend your career making it more expensive to employ Americans, then feign shock when employing Americans gets more expensive.

You don't grasp that wealth is produced, not seized from a pile. So you treat one man's success as another's loss. It isn't. The yacht builder, the Meta engineer, and Zuckerberg can all prosper at once, in a system you'd dismantle for the pleasure of watching the rich brought low.

Envy is not an economic policy but it is apparently all @SenWarren and her socialist allies know.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on how ‘social justice’ destroys a society:

“If I have a philosophy that everything belongs to society—if something happens to me, that’s not my fault, that’s because society did it to me—then the whole concept of property loses its role.”

“Why shouldn’t I steal? Why shouldn’t I destroy property? After all, it’s nobody’s. It belongs to everybody, so it belongs to nobody.”

“Moreover, if I happened to be in a lower-income group, or a deprived social group, or a discriminated-against racial group, that’s the malevolence of other people. It’s not my fault, and I have every right to get back at them.”

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

NEW: The Mellon Foundation gave $1.5 million to establish a "center for the defense of academic freedom."

In audio I've obtained, the group's leader says his goal is to undermine the newly launched classical civics centers: "map who these f---ers are... and knock them out." 🧵

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Cenk Uygur? Silent.

Mehdi Hasan? Silent.

Ana Kasparian? Silent.

Francesca Albanese? Silent.

Greta Thunberg? Silent.

[Live Action @LiveAction]

“At 12 years old, after moving from Mexico City to Los Angeles, my world shattered. I was kidnapped by two men, repeatedly r*ped, and left for dead.

No one is ever prepared for that to happen.”

Lianna embraced the life of her daughter.

“We must choose life under all circumstances, because life is worth fighting for.”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Platner,

Ratio.

That's it. That's the whole rebuttal.

You are someone who, by the virtue of his Reddit posts, manages to be simultaneously a filthy-literal-Communist and anti-Semite. That in itself is an egregious sin, because literal, card-carrying Communists are fundamentally at odds with America's norms.

But if that weren't enough, you have voluminous Reddit posts defending the Nazi Totenkopf symbol. You clearly knew the tattoo you got and you defended it publicly. There's no either/or way about it.

Scum attracts scum. Which is why you can comfortably swim in both literal-Communist and literal-antisemitic far-right circles.

I am no fan of Sue Collins. But the fact you are running against her, that you have even the smallest chance of defeating her --

you, as someone who is a self-admitted Communist, someone who has Nazi sympathies -- not to mention all the horrific, personal-life stuff --

You are the worst candidate in history, right AND left. You are the authoritarian evil that every "democracy" group speaks about, yet they will hypocritically not say a word against because they believe that being anti-Trump is more important than allying with Communists or Nazis.

You are not "populist." On the contrary:

You are the perfected example of how liberal democracy has rotted so far that they'd rather stay silent about you, hoping you'll win against the most moderate Republican in the Senate, than to hand Trump the possibility of retaining the Senate.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Politicians tax the productive who refuse to vote for them to bribe the dependent who will.

This shrinks the pool of creators while exploding the pool of takers until the entire system collapses under its own weight.

The real class struggle is between makers and takers.

[Mike Harlow @NotMikeHarlow]

“What is the evidence of voter fraud in LA?”

Imagine I tell you let’s play a game. We’re going to flip a coin. If it’s tails, I’ll give you $100. If it’s heads, you owe me $100.

Then I walk into the next room. When I return, I tell you “It was heads”.

Maybe I’m telling the truth. Maybe I’m a well intentioned and honest person, and the fact that this seems incredibly shady is just a total coincidence. Or maybe I scammed you. The point is you have no way of knowing. You may claim that I just scammed you… but there’s “NO EVIDENCE” that I did!

And THAT is our election process.

For years now in our elections, we have seen irregularity after irregularity, numbers that don’t make sense, math that doesn’t add up, statistical impossibilities — all of which always seems to exclusively benefit one party.

In our legal system, REASONABLE SUSPICION is the standard in which law enforcement can investigate a possible crime. Why is that not the same standard for our elections?

Every American deserves to have faith in our electoral process. And there is just no objective way that anybody can have faith in the current system. If our elections were clean, there would be transparency, and investigations would be welcomed.

School children are told “Show your work” when it comes to math homework. That’s all most of us are saying when it comes to the corrupt bastards handling these ballots:

Show your work. 🤔

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Let me explain this slowly, because you have the whole thing backwards.

Social Security was broken the day it was born. It is not an investment. There is no account with your name on it. The money taken from you is handed to today's retirees, and your benefits will be paid by taxing tomorrow's workers. That is the exact structure of a Ponzi scheme. It works only while each generation is large enough to fund the one before it, and it collapses the moment the math turns, which was guaranteed from the start.

So when you blame the 2032 shortfall on Trump's tax cuts, you are pointing at a leak on the deck of a ship that was built to sink. Every rational critic warned of this from day one, decades before Trump existed. You are now using our argument to demand more of the poison that caused it.

And your fix? "Scrap the cap." Take more. That is what is said every time the scheme nears collapse: raise the tax, lift the cap, push the reckoning onto the next worker. It does not save the system. It just enlarges the eventual fall and seizes more of a man's earnings along the way.

You cannot rescue a Ponzi scheme by feeding it. You can only stop forcing people into it. The problem was never the rate. It was the premise: that one man's retirement is a claim on another man's paycheck. It never was, and no cap, cut, or increase will change that.