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[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Minneapolis, May 2020.

Velshi as fire raged behind him: “This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly."

Same guy.

[This. Is. Wabbaloo @wabbaloo_here]

@WallStreetApes “they team”

[This. Is. Wabbaloo @wabbaloo_here]

@EndWokeness Typical useful idiots.

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@canalCCore2 Looks more like a lava factory to me.

[Norcalhoodie @YIN_and_YANG_oo]

SGA didn’t start this
This is 100% the NBA’s fault for not respecting its own game. The NBA can stop this if they want to but they won’t.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

If you’re ever feeling intellectually inadequate, just remember that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stood at George Floyd’s funeral sobbing through spit and snot into his mask over a man he didn’t even know from Adam.

Performance art at its finest.

[This. Is. Wabbaloo @wabbaloo_here]

@TheStingisBack IMHO, this was a terrible sequel and a terrible movie.

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@City_of_Helotes Was that a weather emergency siren sounding at 7:05pm on Sunday 12 April?

[This. Is. Wabbaloo @wabbaloo_here]

@Oilfield_Rando @DataRepublican The argument about “fighting for Israel” is just stupid. People really need to learn history.

[This. Is. Wabbaloo @wabbaloo_here]

@DefiantLs Sorry to say, but someone kidnapped the French president and substituted a stronger, manlier facsimile.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

OMG

The grown man who yelled at a girl and called her a “c*nt” for supporting ICE has reportedly been identified as the treasurer for the District 12 Arizona Democratic Party

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@CollinRugg Sheesh, this mf’er will cry on command for anything.

[Barry Rosen @brosen1501]

I was the press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when I was taken hostage for 444 days by the zealous followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. During that time, the spokesperson for the hostage‑takers, Massoumeh Ebtekar—whom we called “Mary”—interrogated us with venom and publicly threatened to put us on “trial” and execute us on the spot.

Today, in a bitter irony, Ebtekar’s son, Issah Hashemi, lives comfortably in Los Angeles and works as an academic.

And now another example of this hypocrisy has been challenged. Dr. Fatemeh Larijani‑Ardeshir, daughter of Ali Larijani—the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a key figure in the violent crackdown on Iranian protesters—was just “dismissed” from Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute. This came only days after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Ali Larijani and other architects of the Islamic Republic’s repression. Emory has not said whether her dismissal is tied to those sanctions.

For many in the Iranian diaspora—and for those of us who survived captivity—the presence of regime offspring living privileged lives in the U.S. has become a flashpoint for anger after decades of repression. We have watched the Islamic Republic murder thousands of protesters, extort grieving families for the bodies of their loved ones, and force them to bury their children in silence.

Meanwhile, the children of regime elites enjoy safety, freedom, and opportunity in the very country their parents condemn.

This contradiction is now at the center of a growing movement—one gaining momentum with each new revelation. Justice demands that we confront this hypocrisy.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Just a week before his fatal fight with Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Alex Pretti had ANOTHER tussle with federal agents causing him to break a rib

The dude was a full on MILITANT impeding ICE operations — not a “protestor”

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Davos is basically all the people who have created the problems, denied their existence and then called us names for pointing them out... explaining what the problems are and how we desperately need to fix them.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Newsom: "We're one of 16 states to provide care to people regardless of their immigration status."

So now they’re just admitting this after saying it “wasn’t happening” and calling people conspiracy theorists

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

🇮🇪 Irish Prime Minister, Micheál Martin, speaking at the WEF: “One of the most positive things about Europe is that it’s a beacon, and bastion, of free speech and freedom of assembly.”

This is the same Country that jailed a teacher for “misgendering” a student earlier this week.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

“There is no media cartel”

“We promise”

[🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 @drinkonsaturday]

You can tell he's never considered it before. They never think beyond themselves.