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Me? I’m full of Energy, Empathy, Passion, Creativity, 🇺🇸Merica!, Music, and Ma Family. And I redesign for a living wage

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@keith_bishop_ She’s beautiful!!

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@ScottFriedman3 @StubHub @Brewers I didn’t know this could happen. Thanks for the education. But what a terrible way to do business.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 LISTEN: This voter walked into the booth thinking about gas, groceries, and rent, and walked out with the best case for voting red you'll hear all year.

"I realized this election is about far more than gas and groceries."

"I couldn't see myself voting for a party that hates America, apologizes for our country, is ashamed of our flag, and wants to rewrite our history."

"So I voted red, not because Republicans get everything right, but because I believe we can only fix this country if we still have a country left to fix."

That's it. That's the whole election.

Vote RED.

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@ItsNeverYou22 😢 I can’t imagine 😢

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@DairyofamadDude @the_jefferymead Wait, I think I look pretty good, and I do know a lot!

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@BCCruser @the_jefferymead Didn’t build a school, but I’ve been a foster mom and help struggling families through the court system. Does that count? And I love being called Barbie!

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@DefiantLs What did she say again?? 😂

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@blackJournals01 Wow, that is pathetic😢

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@angeldadjoe Horrible woman and representative for good governance

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@w_terrence I just had to drive on the President Obama freeway to get to a meeting. Seriously?

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@Evontiamo1 😢very sad. Too young!

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

MEDIA BLACKOUT: A white father, 25, was beaten to de*th outside a Chicago bar... and police are looking for three black men and one asian woman while the media is largely SILENT. Gee - wonder why?

Alexander “Xander” Kazanowski, a Barrington High School graduate and father of one with a second child on the way, was found unresponsive with severe head injuries around 3:20 a.m. on March 24, 2026, outside the Tune Up Bar in Avondale.

He d*ed four days later from blunt force trauma. The Cook County medical examiner ruled the de*th a hom*cide.
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Chicago police released images of four persons of interest. Official descriptions identify three black men - one in a black jacket and baseball hat, one in a black jacket over a white hoodie, and one in a blue jacket with a brown winter hat - and one asian woman in a black jacket and white pants. No arrests have been made.
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The case drew limited national coverage. Chicago has recorded more than 300 hom*cides in 2026, with the large majority of victims young black males.

Clearance rates for fatal sho*tings of white victims have historically run higher than for black victims, yet this white victim’s k*lling remains unsolved months later.
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Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest. Tips can be submitted anonymously at 1-800-535-7867 or https://t.co/bbQ7Y3z22T using reference RD # JK192078.

Anyone who recognizes the individuals in the released images or has details about the March 24 as$ault is urged to come forward.
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#Chicago #CrimeStoppers

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@FinalTelegraph Wow, what a beautiful story!❤️

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My dear American friends, in my last post I gave you a snapshot of where France stands today. Now let me show you how we got here. I want you to see the whole movie before you buy the ticket.

After the war, France was a machine. We called it the Trente Glorieuses, thirty glorious years. We built Concorde, the most beautiful aircraft ever made. We built a fleet of nuclear reactors in about fifteen years and gave ourselves some of the cleanest, cheapest electricity in the world. We built Ariane and put Europe in space. We built the TGV, the fastest train on earth. We invented the Minitel, an online network in millions of homes before most of you had heard of the internet. We were not a museum. We were builders.

Then came 1981. François Mitterrand. Think of him as our Bernie Sanders, except he actually won. At his side, in the office next to his at the Élysée, sat a 37-year-old prodigy named Jacques Attali, his special adviser for the next ten years. The brightest minds of the left, convinced they could run an economy from a ministry.

Here's what they did. They governed with Communist ministers. In 1982 they nationalized dozens of banks and the biggest industrial groups in the country: Paribas, Suez, Saint-Gobain, Thomson, Pechiney, Rhône-Poulenc. They lowered the retirement age to 60. They cut the work week to 39 hours and added a fifth week of paid vacation. They created a wealth tax. They hired massively into the public sector.

Reality hit in less than two years. Capital fled, inflation ran wild, and the franc was devalued three times. In March 1983 Mitterrand had to slam on the brakes and impose austerity just to stay in the European monetary system.

But here's the trick: the brakes never reversed anything. They just slowed the ratchet. The so-called right came back with Jacques Chirac, and nothing was undone. Under Chirac's presidency, France passed the 35-hour work week. Left or right, every government added one more program, one more rule, one more tax, and nobody ever took one away.

At the same time, the political class did something even more destructive than bad economics. It turned the youth into a political instrument. Instead of teaching young people, including millions of children of immigrants, to love the country they lived in, it taught them a story of guilt and grievance: France as the oppressor, France as the thing to resent. You cannot integrate people into a country you've taught them to despise. We are living with the consequences of that narrative today, in our schools, our suburbs, our streets.

Then forty years of slow decline, all the way to Macron. And the story has a perfect ending. In 2007, Jacques Attali chaired a commission on how to unleash French growth. Its deputy rapporteur was a young civil servant named Emmanuel Macron. The commission proposed more than 300 reforms to free the economy. Almost none were ever implemented. Even the men who built the system knew it wasn't working, and even they couldn't undo it.

No balanced budget since 1974. Public spending around 57% of GDP. Debt above 3,300 billion euros. Growth stuck under 1%.

Now the number that should keep you up at night. In 1995, GDP per person in France was about $27,000. In America, about $29,000. We were neck and neck. Today France is around $49,000. America is around $90,000. You are now nearly twice as rich per person as we are.

What changed? Not our talent. Not our engineers. Not our schools of mathematics. The only thing that changed is that we went all in on socialism. The 35 hours, the endless regulation, the taxes that chase out anyone who builds, the belief that the state should do everything and the individual should ask permission for everything.

There's a line people love to attribute to Einstein: insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We tried. For forty years, we tried. Every government promised that one more program, one more tax, one more regulation would finally fix things. You just saw where it got us.

So if you choose the Democratic Party, which is literally turning socialist in front of your eyes, you will deserve what comes next.

Let me tell you exactly what will happen if you go down that road. Nobody will vote for decline. Every single measure will sound generous, compassionate, reasonable. Your builders will slowly leave or stop building. Your state will grow every year and never shrink. Your debt will compound. And in thirty years, your kids will look at a chart like the one I just described and wonder when it all went wrong.

You still have something we lost. You have Elon Musk sending rockets to orbit and landing them on their tail. You have Palmer Luckey building the defense industry of the future. You have Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, and thousands of founders nobody has heard of yet, building in garages right now.

Trust your entrepreneurs. Don't trust your politicians.

I come from your future. Don't make it yours.

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@EverettStern1 @SecScottBessent @HSBC @SecScottBessent this is a powerful indictment against the powerful in charge. And citizens are sick of following the rules set by the powerful, when the powerful own the process. There are so many of us that want to respect our institutions. But it’s getting harder and harder.

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History is there to teach us what NOT to repeat.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

To my American friends, from a Frenchman. From a European. Before you vote in the midterms, let me give you some perspective, because we've already lived the movie you're being sold.

The Soviet Union promised equality and delivered gulags, famine, bread lines, and a state that lied about everything. Solzhenitsyn spent his life documenting it. Tens of millions dead, and an entire people taught that truth was whatever the Party said it was. Nobody votes for that on day one. You vote for "a little more state," "a little more redistribution," "a little more control over what you can say." It's a slope, not a cliff.

France is what the middle of that slope looks like. One of the heaviest tax burdens in the developed world. Public spending around 57% of GDP. A state that touches everything and fixes nothing. Schools set on fire during riots. Insecurity so normal that people stop reporting it. Engineers, founders and doctors leaving every year for London, Dubai, Lisbon, or your country. And worst of all, a whole generation that no longer believes tomorrow can be better than today. That's what kills a country. Not one bad law. The death of hope.

I build my company between Paris and San Francisco. I know exactly where ambition is welcomed and where it's punished.

You have something we don't: Elon Musk on your side. Please, listen to him. A man who voted Democrat most of his life didn't switch sides on a whim. He saw something coming. We in Europe are already living it.

Don't hand back even part of the keys. We did. Look at us.

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@MattWalshBlog Thanks for the good laugh!😂

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@spencerpratt Ignorance is bliss . . . And dangerous