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[Xpose Trophy Hunting @XposeTrophyHunt]

Robert Beall, Texas 'a country boy' loves to kill threatened wildlife in Africa. Posing with a cheetah he hunted in Namibia. He is a shame to humankind. 🤬
#BanTrophyHunting RT
@SARA2001NOOR @Angelux1111 @Lin11W @Gail7175 @Protect_Wldlife @PhaedraXTeddy

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Meet MI Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s sister

This is what she thinks of the U.S.

She’s also a professor at @UChicago.

Why is @UChicago employing this radical lunatic who wants America to burn?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The same people who lectured you to wear a mask when you entered a restaurant and then said you could take the mask off at your table during Covid to eat also believe men can become women and compete in women’s sports. Exact. Same. People.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Chicago kitten torturer and executioner gets 4.5 years - then walks free the same day he reports to prison.

Thomas Martel, 25, bought kittens online and named every single one Shelly.

He drowned them, mutilated them, decapitated them, and microwaved them inside his Wicker Park apartment.

His girlfriend found a Snapchat video of a kitten still alive with the caption “Right before I m*rdered her.” He admitted he had been k*lling cats since he was a child.

He pleaded guilty to animal torture and aggravated cruelty.

A Cook County judge sentenced him to 54 months. Illinois then credited him with 1,079 days already spent on electronic monitoring.

Martel reported to the Department of Corrections on June 23 and walked out the same day. He is now serving six months of supervised release and living in his family’s Northbrook home.

This is not justice. It is a free pass for a sadist. Animal torture this deliberate is a warning sign the system just ignored.

Make sure everyone in America knows who Thomas Martel is.

#AnimalTorture #IllinoisJustice

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This is the spirit that built this nation

Ryder Williams and Jordan Salinas

[Strider @TraderStrider]

Tesla H1B filing for a Sr Accountant at $105,276 salary.

Apparently Tesla is not capable of finding an American accountant?

Any thoughts @elonmusk ?

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Attention everyone in Flower Mound, Texas area

The Hive Bakery apparently hates Conservatives and our country. This was their message for the 4th of July:

“We refuse to observe this holiday. F*** this fascist regime”

Would be a shame if everyone in the area saw this!

[Dedmeow5 @dedmeow5]

hey @JDVance in the spirit of Memorial Day, could you please help bring some awareness to this matter?

US army veteran @brendanmjones dog Lucy has been taken & is at risk of being put down bc of a catty neighbor..

Imagine if Atlas was in the same situation, what would you do?

#SaveLucy

[National Police Association @NatPoliceAssoc]

Saving Lucy: A Veteran’s War Dog Deserves Better Than Bureaucratic Euthanasia https://t.co/qVC7GeQUMh

[Dolly Spice- Jones 🌱🎵 @Herb_Minstrel]

A letter from Lucy’s veterinarian after the incident with the jogger.

#savelucy

[OneSmallVoice 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @onesmallvoice]

Please RP and email until Lucy is safe at home!!!!!

[Dog Mom @SBDogMom]

I’ve been off X all day.

I just now logged on and the first thing I did was check to see if Lucy was reunited with her family.

This is sickening! An incident that hurt no one (IN HER OWN YARD) has taken away a 12 year old pup from her family and basically jailed her!

This could literally happen to any of us. My heart is broken for this family, and especially Lucy.

My dear God, please someone with a heart & understanding allow Lucy to reunite with her family.

We have actual criminals walking the streets but we’re going to shatter hearts and keep a dog away from her family? Really?!

Please keep sharing and get #SaveLucy trending!

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

This morning, the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn) filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Data Analyst

Salary: $79,584

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

This H-1B scam is obscene and happens coast to coast for jobs that not only Americans WILL do but always have done.

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

Turning Point USA condemns in the strongest terms the TikTok audio trend that uses or references the assassination of our founder, Charlie Kirk, for entertainment.

Charlie Kirk was the victim of a real act of political violence. Turning that into viral content is grotesque and dehumanizing. There is nothing harmless, funny, or acceptable about it. It reflects a culture that trivializes violence and reduces real human loss to a punchline.

This has no place on TikTok. Or anywhere. This audio needs to be removed.

[The Based Mother (née Elena) @TheBasedMother]

Can anyone identify these 3 young women? They should be on every American's No Hire List.

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

I’m fucking livid.

Last night this country crossed into blood-soaked territory for the third goddamn time.

A sitting president...was targeted for assassination again, and the legacy media, the Democrats, and the Republicans are all complicit in the slow poison that made it possible.

I’m chewing broken glass and tasting copper right now because I understand the psychology too well:

when you spend years dehumanizing the opposition, when every network and every pundit frames the other side as existential evil rather than fellow citizens, you don’t get debate.

You get rifle scopes and manifesto pages.

You get three attempts on the same man in a republic that once prided itself on peaceful transfer of power.

The left cheers the body count in silence or with snide “thoughts and prayers” memes.

The right wrings its hands then pivots to fundraising.

Both sides built this arena where political violence is no longer unthinkable...it’s the next logical step.

And every legacy outlet that turned politics into bloodsport is now pretending shock while their ratings spike.

No president, Democrat or Republican, should ever have to dodge bullets from his own countrymen.

Period.

But here we are, because we let hatred become the national dialect.

I’m done being polite.

The rot is bipartisan and the next attempt is already being incubated in the fever dreams both parties keep feeding.

Wake the fuck up, America, before the fourth one succeeds and we stop pretending this is still a republic.