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It is about services. Property taxes are a wealth tax. We can do away with them, but governments will have to find another way to replace the lost revenue in order to pay for services like police, courts, fire, streets, utilities, schools, etc. What do you suggest governments tax instead to balance their budget and pay for those services?

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in. If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009 Now the county says it’s worth $246,000. Did I sell it? No. Did I make a profit? No. Did I get a check for $246,000? No. But my taxes jumped like I did. That’s the problem. This isn’t income. This isn’t cash. This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it. If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell. If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax. So why does owning a home work differently? Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains? A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money. You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it. This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.” It’s about being charged for value you never received. And people are starting to notice. This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️

Sidetracking questions, denial, projection of blame, lying, exaggerating, minimizing harm, are all manipulations used by common criminals to escape responsibility. Trump is not the only elected official who uses these. As voters we need to do better and elect ethical people to office.

I cannot unsee this. I've been watching Trump answer questions for years. The confidence. The certainty. The way he shuts down a room. I genuinely thought he was one of the sharpest communicators alive. Then one day I caught myself finishing his sentence before he said it. Not guessing. Knowing. Word for word. Before he said it. So I pulled the transcripts. Press conferences. Interviews. Sprays. Egg prices. Greenland. January 6th. Military strikes. Different years. Different reporters. Completely different topics. Same thing every time. Every single time Trump is asked a question — any question — he runs the exact same 7 steps. In the exact same order. Without exception. This is not personality. This is not confidence. This is not charisma. This is a deliberate repeatable formula. And I can prove it. His actual words. Public record. Verify every single one yourself. 📷 STEP 1 — KILL THE QUESTION (First thing every time — make the question itself the problem.) 📷 "That's a stupid question." / "Fake news." 📷 STEP 2 — KILL WHO ASKED IT (Destroy the source so the question has nowhere to stand.) 📷 "Your ratings are terrible. Nobody watches your network." 📷 STEP 3 — INSERT HIMSELF (Every topic. Every time. Without fail. It always lands here.) 📷 "Nobody has ever done what I've done." 📷 STEP 4 — SCALE IT TO THE BIGGEST CLAIM POSSIBLE (Not good. Not great. The greatest. Ever. In history. Every single time.) 📷 "More than any administration — by far." / "Nobody has ever had crowds like I've had — in history, for any country." 📷 STEP 5 — UNNAMED PEOPLE AGREE (Faceless. Countless. Unverifiable. Always there.) 📷 "Smart people are saying it. Great people. A lot of people." 📷 STEP 6 — VAGUE THREAT (Something bad will happen. Never specified. Always implied.) 📷 "All hell will break out." / "They know it. Believe me." 📷 STEP 7 — LOOP BACK TO HIMSELF (Different words. Same destination. Formula complete.) 📷 "It's been an amazing period of time. Page after page of accomplishments." The question was never answered. The formula just ran. Go back and watch any clip. Any year. Any topic. Any reporter. Count the steps. I'll wait. This is the part nobody wants to sit with: Real conviction engages with the actual question. It sometimes stumbles. Sometimes says I don't know. It changes shape based on what's in front of it. A formula runs the same 7 steps whether the topic is war or egg prices. Which means the response was never built for the question. It was built for you. To feel powerful. To feel certain. To stop you from noticing that nothing was actually answered. And it worked. For years it worked. Pull any transcript. Public record. Count the steps yourself. This isn't about politics. This is about what you were never supposed to notice. I've found the same deliberate pattern running in another major figure in this administration. Different slots. Same principle. Same effect. Next post I break it down. Follow or miss it. VIA~~ Jamie Hoo

@travelingflying If immigrants uphold all the laws and become law abiding, does it matter?

Andrew Tate: ”The average White family has a different approach towards their financial stability and their emotional investments towards children. Third worlders will just have kids; they won’t say, “Can I afford to have this kid?” They will just have kids. When you let them into a country you have to be prepared for them to have more children than the native population. They will outbreed the natives. If you let in 10% of third worlders it is 10% for a while but not for long. The only possible end result of this is the absolute replacement of the native population. Which then begs the question: is a country a place on the map and a name or is a country the people who live in it? I would argue that if you replace all the British people with people from somewhere else it doesn’t become Britain anymore. If you took all the Norwegians and replaced them with Indians, would it be Norway? I don’t think it would be.” He is right.

It might have started sooner than 1973. In 1953 our CIA and British MI6 engineered and pushed a coup that took out Iran's democratically elected president. As a result Britain regained BP that Iran had nationalized and America got some control of oil exports. The Sha, who had been the figure head Monarch in 1953, replaced the president and took absolute control. Although he modernized the country, in time he became a very repressive dictator, angered traditional clerics, which ultimately led to the 1979 revolution.

This Iran Crisis Didn't Start With Trump. It Started in 1973. Watch today's interview: youtu.be/fNzcAK--2eE

@vlogging_sam @TheRabbitHole What ever the true numbers are does not really matter in the grand scheme of things. Slavery was inhumane.

@coexist4better @TheRabbitHole This post is talking about the 13 colonies specifically. You’re talking about the americas as a whole of which Brazil received the most along with the Caribbean in second. I believe the US received around 300k-500k which is less than the number you showed

Thomas Sowell on the complicated history of slavery

Interesting. Some physicists believe our bodies continually exchange molecules and electrons with the clothes we ware, the chairs we sit in, the gardens we create, everything we come in contact with. When we leave a place, we leave a trail of molecules behind. If that is true, perhaps that explains why when something we spent time with gets ruined or dies, we also grieve spiritually, as part of ourselves dies with it.

知らなかった。妊娠すると、赤ちゃんの細胞が27年以上、母親の体の中に生き続けるらしい。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 「マイクロキメリズム」と言って、妊娠中に胎盤を通じて赤ちゃんの細胞が母親の血液に入り込んで、臓器や脳にまで定着するそう。2012年のワシントン大学の研究では、調査した女性の約63%の脳から赤ちゃん由来の細胞が見つかってる。 しかもこの細胞、ただ残るだけじゃない。 母親の心臓や肝臓がダメージを受けたとき、赤ちゃんの細胞がそこに集まって、組織の修復を助けてくれる。 細胞レベルで母を守ってくれてる。 そしてもう一つ、流産や死産になった赤ちゃんの細胞も母親の体に残る。 妊娠って細胞レベルで、永遠にお母さんになる、我が子とのつながりは一生モノ。 親子の絆は細胞レベル、尊すぎる...

@oelma__ June has just 30 days, not 31 or 37.

What is wrong in this picture?

If negotiations fail, Congress has to make that authorization, so the military does not have its resources all tied up. We will have to clean up Trump's mess. A negotiated peace is really the best option, one similar to the previous treaty where Iran was permitted to have nuclear power for nonmilitary purposes under supervision and observation. Otherwise, we will be there for years, killing and dying. Unfortunately, our diplomats have questionable skills, when you consider how they speak to our trusted allies. Hopefully, they won't be as insulting.

Today's Poll Question at Smerconish.com: Should Congress authorize the use of military force against Iran? As tensions escalate and a fragile ceasefire nears expiration, Michael Smerconish breaks down the legal, political, and strategic stakes behind a potential Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). Download & Listen Now: link.podtrac.com/smerconishpod

@RepOgles Americans are in deep trouble if they elect people who can only see two options to a problem/situation. As voters we can and need to do better.

America goes two ways. Option A: Muslims and globalists institute THEIR laws on our society. OPTION B: Christian men stand up and take their country back. I’m going with option B.

@Wthmoni skin

Don’t cheat… just answer 😤

Many Americans are afraid of socialism because it brings on thoughts of communist countries who violated human rights. Socialism is not the same as communism. In the U.S. we are capitalists, but we have adopted many socialist programs without violating human rights. Those programs include Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Veterans Administration, FEMA, public schools, and many more. With an aging population, declining birth rate, mass deportations with fewer tax paying workers and paying customers to our economy, we may need more socialist programs to care for the elderly and disabled. This is not saying we give up on capitalism. Free enterprise is crucial to a healthy economy and national human spirit. Unfortunately, capitalism is dependent upon population growth and expanding markets. With tax cuts, human services need to be cut to balance the budget, or we go further into debt. We are now $38+ trillion in debt. Over the last several decades, both Democrat and Republican administrations have put our children and grandchildren in the worst financial position. Our current administration has added $3-5 trillion to the debt and is asking for a trillion more for the military.

@KeruboSk Probably most baby boomers have talked with someone born in the 1800s. My grandmother was born in 1889.

Just out of curiosity… who out there has actually talked to someone born in the 1800s during their lifetime?

@AveryDaye It appears you have a misunderstanding what most liberals want. Keep listening.

It’s so easy to be a liberal. Everything sounds nice in theory… “open borders, people just want a better life” “Tax the rich so things are less expensive” “Free healthcare for all” …but it falls apart in practice. The liberal way of thinking is lazy and lacks a greater understanding of how things actually work. It’s about virtue signaling instead of working to problem solve for the best idea.

If the goal is to remove the enriched uranium and prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon, the war will probably last years. Heavy equipment will need to be used to dig out the radioactive material. Before that, boots on the ground will be needed to secure the area with fortifications. Iranians will probably attack new U.S. bases in Iran to prevent the removal. Iranians may even start enriching uranium somewhere else in the country, so our military will have to search and destroy those sites. An alternative to this scenario is for the government to negotiate a deal similar to the one ripped up by the Trump administration in 2018, where they allow Iran to have a nuclear program for nonmilitary purposes under supervision and observation.

67% of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s handling of the conflict in Iran, per NBC. What’s your thoughts on this?

Everything you have stated is true. Unfortunately, so many people had political prejudices (perhaps not you), that they did not listen or ignored the warnings from Democrats and Independents, who saw Trump for who he really is, beyond the celebrity persona. There are millions of Republicans who are much more ethical, more competent, and more responsible, who would be doing a better job leading our nation than our current President. Unfortunately, voters don't always do their own research.

I voted for Donald Trump because I believed he was the lesser of two evils. Not because I thought he was perfect — but because I believed the message. No new wars. End the existing ones. Put America First. That was the promise that sold it. But now I’m watching something very different unfold. Conflicts aren’t cooling down — they’re expanding. Money is still flowing overseas in massive amounts. Military aid keeps stretching across multiple fronts. And at home? Prices keep climbing. Families are stretched thin just buying groceries. Veterans are still struggling on the streets. Debt and stress are everywhere you look. So I keep asking the same question: Where did America First go? Because I didn’t vote for global escalation. I didn’t vote for endless foreign spending. I voted for stability at home and peace abroad. And right now… that promise feels further away than ever. That’s why people aren’t just disappointed anymore. They’re questioning everything.

With peace talks failing, it is most likely Americans will need to prepare for a longer war than initially planned. In order to remove enriched uranium from Iran, heavy machinery will probably have to be moved in. Before that, boots on the ground will be needed to secure the area with fortifications made. They will most likely have to put in an airport. Iranians will not stand for this and will repeatedly attack. They believe their sovereignty gives them the right to have nuclear power as do most nations. Considering the determination to have nuclear power, they will most likely enrich Uranium somewhere else in another part of their country. They may even try to purchase nuclear weapons from their allies. Because we attacked them while negotiations were underway, they may have vengeance in their hearts lasting years. I pray that I am wrong.

Send me your thoughts now on Iran and I will read some @CNN @cnni when @BarakRavid joins me to start the 9am hour axios.com/2026/04/17/tru…

@noravibes_ If you are looking for words that start with capital T and end with capital T, you are probably correct, but there are many words that start with t and end with t. 3 examples: taint, tent, tint

No word starts with “T” and ends with “T.” Prove me wrong—no Google allowed.

It sounds like you have met every right-winger and left-winger in the world to know that every right-winger thinks and behaves the same as every other right-winger. Similarly, you seem to know that every left-winger thinks and behaves the same as every left-winger. Should I follow your practice of grouping people into just two groups of people? Do all moderates think and act the same? I have come to the conclusion that there are only two types of people: those that think there are only two types of people, and those that don't. Seeing people as individuals and unique is just too difficult. For people who cannot sense sarcasm, this is sarcasm.

Wenn der Rechte keine Waffen mag, dann kauft er sie einfach nicht. Wenn der Linke keine Waffen mag, fordert er ein Verbot aller Waffen. Wenn sich der Rechte als Vegetarier bezeichnet, isst er kein Fleisch. Wenn sich ein Linker als Vegetarier bezeichnet, möchte er Fleisch für alle verbieten. Wenn der Rechte homosexuell ist, führt er oder sie sein Privatleben im Stillen. Wenn ein Linker homosexuell ist, fordert er gesetzlich Respekt für sich. Wenn der Rechte ruiniert ist, denkt er darüber nach, wie er seine Situation verbessern kann. Der Linke sucht jemanden, der dafür Verantwortung übernimmt. Der ungläubige Rechte geht einfach nicht in die Kirche. Der ungläubige Linke fordert das Ende aller Erwähnungen von Gott und Religion. Links will verbieten, rechts will leben! (𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒎, 𝒌𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒎 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒕)

Insurance companies would lose money if we had universal healthcare. It is very likely the big insurance companies donate heavily to both the Democrat and Republican parties. Politicians then attach the word "socialism" to "universal healthcare", knowing many people associate socialism with human rights abuses. Despite this fear, the U.S. has already adopted many socialist programs without violating human rights. Some examples include Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Public Schools, FEMA, Veterans Affairs, and many more.