Marcello Santomauro

Libertarian, Dad, Brother, Son, not necessarily in that order.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Them: "Taxation isn't theft because we have the “consent of the governed” through the vote.

Me: "That is an interesting definition of consent. Tell me. if a group of five people encounters a lone traveler, and four of them vote to take his bag, does the vote make the taking an act of “sharing” rather than “robbery”?

Them: "No, that’s just a mob. We have laws and a social contract."

Me: "Ah, so the number of people involved doesn't change the nature of the act? If the mob grows to a million, is the traveler’s bag still his property?”

Them: "Well, yes. But we vote on things we all need! It’s for the common good."

Me: "I see. Let us test the “common good” logic against the most private property of all: the body. If a crowd of men decides, by majority vote, that a woman’s body should be used for their pleasure or “the common good” of the tribe, does the vote grant her consent?"

Them: "That’s a horrific comparison! No! That is a violent crime because her body belongs to her, not the crowd."

Me: "So we agree: A person’s body is theirs by right, and no amount of voting can transfer that ownership to the majority?"

Them: "Obviously."

Me: "Then tell me - what is labor? Is it not the use of one's body and time over a day, a month, or a year?"

Them: "I suppose it is."

Me: "If I own my body, I must own my labor. And if I own my labor, I must own the fruit of that labor - the wages I earned. If the crowd cannot vote to take my body, by what logic can they vote to take the product of my body’s work?"

Them: "But how would we fund things? How would we protect the poor? Without income taxes, everything would collapse!"

Me: "So, the theft of labor, ie one’s body, is necessary because you cannot imagine a better way to pay for things?"

Them: "It’s not theft! It’s the price we pay for society!"

Me: "If a man steals your car but uses the money to buy bread for the hungry, has the theft vanished? Or do we simply have a thief with a good excuse?"

Them: "You’re being impossible. It’s just how the world works!"

Me: No, it is you being impossible. Impossible in that you wish to fit two opposing ideas into the same. The “consent” you speak of is merely a mask. You do not believe in the vote; you believe in the utility of the haul. You are a man who claims he hates violence, yet asks his friends to vote on which neighbor to rob for dinner. Oh, and it doesn’t have to work this way. But it will as long as people think the way you think…

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

President Trump is considering "stimulus" checks (again).

We should all remember the last time that President Trump sent out "stimulus" checks. It was the "CARES Act," which ignited the massive inflation that we're still suffering from today.

How can a government that has no money, that racks up record deficits, be in a position to give out "rebates" anyway?

They're not.

Tariff revenues (that Americans overwhelmingly pay) don't put the government into the black, making it capable of giving "rebates." The government is way in the red.

That means the "stimulus" checks will have to come from the Fed counterfeiting more dollars.

Ready for even higher prices? We're not!

Watch @RonPaul & @ChrisRossini below:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The U.S. Govt. taking a 10% stake in $INTC is not only unconstitutional, it’s a bad idea. Trump wasn’t hired to run a hedge fund. This is a very bad precedent to set, as it moves our nation further away from free-market capitalism. Had Biden done this, Republicans would be livid.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

5 years ago, #Covid hit.

Politicians imposed harsh rules.

Today, we know how WRONG they were.

Let’s NEVER forget their incompetence, and their eagerness to control us:

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

We need to stop using the income tax to arbitrarily pick winners and losers. Why should someone who makes 200k have to pay taxes if someone making 150k doesn’t? What about someone who has 4 dependents and makes 250k? A person making 150k with no dependents is already in a better financial position. The goal should be to reduce or eliminate taxes for everyone. The tax system already penalizes you for success. This would only make that problem worse.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Many people are great at their jobs, but retarded on the Internet. As long as the speech he used was constitutionally protected, there should be no harm to our country in his return. We don’t have free speech to talk about the weather, it’s there to say very uncomfortable things.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

LFG 🔥🔥

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

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[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This would make him the single greatest president in American history

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Trump should abolish TSA

Share if you agree

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal.

As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed.

Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception.

Ignominious! Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I introduced the National Constitutional Carry Act to prohibit states from requiring a permit to carry a firearm.

No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.

Let’s get this done!
https://t.co/Jze41D5FwL

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Play The Long Game President Trump
By, Chris Rossini (@chrisrossini)

It’s easy to gain weight, but difficult to lose weight.

It’s easy to rack up debt, but difficult to pay it off.

So it is with freedom. It’s easy to let freedom slip away, but very difficult to get it back.

As relieving as it is to see the election results and the overwhelming support for President Trump to change the direction of our nation, we must resist the temptation of believing that this will be easy.

It will not.

Once the celebrations subside, the reality of 100+ years of damage will be there waiting for us.

The resistance to change (even if it’s for the better) will be intense.

Human nature is such that we seek to maintain the status quo, even if the status quo is detrimental and destroying us.

Fortunately, this goes both ways.

If the status quo is to vigilantly guard your faith, family and freedom (as it was in the early years of America’s history) then tyranny has a very difficult time gaining a foothold.

But alas, the second 100 years of America’s history have been the opposite of the first.

Faith was kicked to the curb, the family was virtually destroyed, and Americans continually succumbed to the seductions of the state.

Today, we have the biggest government in the history of the world; and as a consequence, the "land of the free" has become a distant memory.

Addiction to government replaced the love of freedom.

Being a busybody replaced 'live and let live'.

The world's tapestry of nations and cultures was replaced by endless wars and a drive for global conformity.

Predictably, this has morally and economically bankrupted America.

Other nations no longer seek to replicate us. They don't want to be "woke"; nor do they want to be destroyed in the name of "freedom and democracy."

Fortunately for us, the vast majority of America doesn't want to be "woke" either!

But change for America will bring anger; on top of the anger that already exists.

So, play the long game President Trump.

Seek for the results of your actions to outlive all of us.

Plant good seeds today.

Rip out as many weeds as you can.

The Dept. of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), with Elon Musk at the helm, is a brilliant idea!

Get us out of the business of miserably attempting to rule the world. We literally can’t be the world’s busybody any longer.

We must be a nation that cares for itself, with goodwill and good relations with the rest of the world.

A nation that cares for itself will instinctively re-learn and bring back the virtues of faith, family and freedom.

When that time arrives (someday in the distant future) Americans will look back at our time with a sense of fondness, in the same way that we look back with fondness on 1776.

[hoe_math = PsychoMath @ItIsHoeMath]

I understand where Ian is coming from, but this is a deadly mistake

This is the strategy that causes us to lose every time. You cannot fight with honor against an opponent that has none.

Ian is treating Democrats like they are two separate groups: the evil, child-trafficking elites (.00001%), and normal everyday people who may be a bit misled. (99.99999%).

In reality, it's more like this:
1. Elites (<1%)
2. Self-interested leeches (~25%)
3. Cluster-B mental patients (~30%)
4. Opportunistic snakes trying to control group 3 (male feminists / betas / college professors / journalists) (~10%)
5. Genuinely psychotic manipulators (~15%)
6. Normal, everyday people who may be a little bit brainwashed (~20%)

Groups 1-5 not only do not care about your sportsmanlike gestures of goodwill, they will use them against you while pretending to have a change of heart.

None of them are going to respond to us "being the bigger man." These people are like the bad guy in the cartoon movie who loses the fight, but then the hero has mercy and holds out a hand to help him up, and the bad guy stabs him in the back.

Don't be that hero!

Don't forget what happened to other countries where leftism won.

In China, they have cameras scan your face and automatically demote your social status for minor infractions.

In Britain, they throw people in prison for jokes and mildly offensive opinions.

Even in the USA, we have people thrown in prison with no trial for years for "insurrection" when all they did was walk through a government building. Millions lost their jobs over forced, untested shots. The police don't arrest criminals, but they will crush you for defending yourself from a criminal.

That's what groups 1-5 want for you. They're not going to change.

You should try to figure out who in your life is just misled and in need of help. But if you do try and what you get back is more of the same "you're Hitler" bullshit, you're not talking to someone who's misled, you're talking to a genuinely evil or broken person who doesn't want to change.

So yeah, help the people you can help. If you can.

But don't be naive! Bad guys are bad. They're not misunderstood. Don't offer them peace. They don't want it.