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@wayofftheres You wake up to yelling, you are half asleep, you grab your gun and walk out into your living room where the door is open and several dudes are shining bright ass fucking lights in your eyes. Can’t see shit. Dude didn’t commit a crime and never even raised his gun. Good shoot?

Good shoot, fuck em

This one blows my mind. Veteran has his life savings stolen from him by Navada Highway Patrol. Stephen Lara was driving from Texas to California to visit his daughters. He was pulled over by the Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) on I-80 for allegedly following a tanker truck too closely. During the stop: ​Lara was transparent with officers, voluntarily disclosing that he had a large amount of cash—$82,374—stored in his trunk in a zip-top bag. ​He explained that he preferred to keep his life savings in cash due to a distrust of banks and provided receipts to show the money was legally withdrawn from his accounts. ​Despite Lara’s cooperation and the lack of any evidence of a crime (no drugs or illegal items were found), the officers used a drug-sniffing dog to "alert" on the money. ​Under Civil Asset Forfeiture laws, the NHP seized the entire amount and handed it over to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) through a process known as "equitable sharing." Lara, represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ), filed a federal lawsuit to get his money back. The case highlighted several controversial aspects of the legal system: ​Civil Asset Forfeiture: This practice allows the government to seize property suspected of being involved in a crime, even if the owner is never charged or convicted. ​The "Loophole": By handing the money to the DEA, the NHP could bypass Nevada’s stricter state laws regarding forfeiture and receive up to 80% of the proceeds back from the federal government. After months of legal pressure and growing media attention, the DEA eventually agreed to return the full $82,374 to Lara. It's unbelievable that anyone would have to go through all of this, but even worse one of our heros that served for our county. My opinion they should have had to pay interest on the money they basically stole from him.

@chrismartenson @LozzaFox @jordanbpeterson “If you don’t know what you want to do in life just do something, maybe you go sideways or even backwards but with each new experience you will learn what you like and don’t like and be one step closer to where you want to be”-JP. This advice helped me a lot

@LozzaFox @jordanbpeterson He could have been truly great. But threw it away on supporting Bibi and his demon clutch. We're talking a few extra paper promise tickets for his soul. Worst trade ever. So, rather unrmarkable in the scheme of things. Tragic, but true.

In a world of cowards, he gave young men a glimpse of becoming a hero. At such personal cost. And such persecution. Pray for @jordanbpeterson

Soviet chandelier factories received production quotas measured in tons, not quality or function. Factory managers responded rationally to the incentive structure: they packed chandeliers with extra metal, concrete, and lead weights to hit their tonnage targets. The heavier the chandelier, the better their performance metrics looked to central planners in Moscow. Apartment dwellers across the USSR paid the price. Chandeliers weighing hundreds of pounds crashed through ceilings, destroying furniture and injuring families below. Reports from the 1970s and 1980s document dozens of ceiling collapses in Kiev, Leningrad, and Moscow as these industrial monstrosities proved too heavy for residential construction. Factory managers got their bonuses while citizens dodged falling light fixtures. The system worked exactly as designed. When you divorce production decisions from market prices and consumer preferences, you get perverse outcomes. Central planners measured success through crude metrics they could track from their desks, not through the satisfaction of end users. Factory managers optimized for the measurement system, not for making chandeliers that actually functioned as lighting. You see identical dynamics today wherever bureaucrats substitute their judgment for market mechanisms. Public school systems optimize for standardized test scores rather than education. Hospitals game Medicare reimbursement codes rather than focus on patient outcomes. Police departments chase arrest quotas rather than reducing crime. The Soviet chandelier problem lives on in every corner of the administrative state. The market solves the chandelier problem instantly through profit and loss. Customers refuse to buy chandeliers that destroy their homes, driving bad producers out of business and rewarding those who build functional products.

@staceyLcook @esaagar You spent your money on the Iraq war and aid to Africa. Cut all SS!

@esaagar Dude. You have no idea how seniors are living on a fixed income. You try living on their fixed income and then have an opinion.

No actually they literally can because their “fixed income” is inflation adjusted and tax free while mine and others are the opposite!

Lindsey Graham pushed the Afghan Resettlement Act and expanded visa programs that brought the terrorist who killed Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom into this country. He promised, “they will make great citizens.” His open-border agenda isn’t compassionate. It’s dangerous, and American families are paying the price.

🚨 Day 38 fighting for my channel 🚨 My 13-year-old YouTube history channel (@Panzerpicture) full of WW2 archive footage, tanks & veteran stories was suddenly deleted in February over **false** "sexual abuse-related content" claims. No warning. No real appeal. Locked out ever since. This was a massive historical archive I built for over a decade. Now gone in minutes. I have Crohn’s disease and the stress is destroying my health. All I want is a **human review** from YouTube. If you believe in preserving history and fair treatment for creators, please: → RT & share widely → Tag @TeamYouTube @YouTube @YouTubeCreators We need real human oversight, not broken AI strikes. #YouTube #HistoryMatters #WW2History #TankHistory #RestorePanzerPicture #CreatorRights

If you want a house west of the 5 in San Diego, you have to make your generational wealth elsewhere (13% top tax rate, capital gains taxed as ordinary income in CA, good luck compounding) and pray that a boomer doesn’t have/refuses to pass their property down to their kids. Prop 13 persists when property is handed down to kids through trusts, and the capital gains basis “steps up” when the property is inherited. (Eg, if your parents bought a house at 600k, it’s worth 3 mill now, and you inherit it, your cap gains will only be taxed at the price you sell it less 3 mill.) Everything in CA is set up for the people to never leave — I mean, why would you? — which is why it’s so grating that they demand open borders for everyone else. Would it be so much to stop treating people who live in less picturesque, perfectly temperate places as lesser life forms for wanting to preserve what they’ve come to love about their own area? By 2030, almost all of these properties in north county will only be transferred by inheritance, which is why the prices keep going through the roof. These are all “forever homes”. Part of the reason these CA power brokers keep trying to direct class conflict in the rest of the US is bc everyone knows this territory is not defensible forever.

@swd2 No the population declines, wages go up because there are less workers, people’s quality of life improves, they have more children and the cycle repeats

An aging population with no immigrants is how a civilization dies.

@iknowgoodthings @Tildiditagain @imetatronink @soclose2me The ceasefire is good for Iran not bad. They are choking the world’s economy day by day without getting bombed for it. It’s free money to them

@Tildiditagain @imetatronink @soclose2me Indeed I agree with you there.

You can argue epistemologically, or emotionally against how Trump has played the global macro political game vis-a-vis with Iran/China/Russia.... Can claim he has/is failing/flailing/tacoing etc. If you expressed your, "opinion" as a long oil position you currently are getting your ass handed to you. It's pretty good filter to filter peoples policitally based rants/opinions through. Curious to see how it plays out medium/long term. @LukeGromen @TgMacro @imetatronink @DoombergT

The US dropped a Friday night notice lifting sanctions on Russian oil for another month. Comes just 2 days after Treasury Secretary Bessant said the US would not renew the waiver.

@plantationdrip So America owns Israel when all this is said and done? Most retarded analogy I’ve ever seen

"We're fighting Mexico, why?? For a bunch of worthless scrubland full of Comanches, on behalf of Texas separatists? Waste of resources. The world will hate us for this." "Someone bull-whip this whining halfwit."

@KobeissiLetter Aragachi said it was completely open THROUGH THE APPROVED ROUTE.

What just happened? Yesterday, at 8:45 AM ET, Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi announced that the Strait of Hormuz was "completely open" for all commercial vessels. At 9:06 AM ET, President Trump thanked Iran for reopening the Strait. Then, at 10:20 AM ET, Trump said Iran and the US were working together to remove all mines from the Strait of Hormuz. Between 10:40 AM ET and 12:00 PM ET, President Trump said Iran agreed to "never close the Strait again" and to "suspend its nuclear program indefinitely." Suddenly, at 6:14 PM ET, Iran's Speaker of the Parliament said Trump made "seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false." Now, Iran has CLOSED the Strait of Hormuz again and oil tankers are being struck. What just happened behind the scenes?

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

@Cernovich Trump just re approved fisa

Mexico is fast on its way to a full digital currency. Big Tech wants data centers. All to track Americans. Trump has made costly political mistakes, this is objectively true and not up for debate. Even so, the push for digital ID by Democrats will have you begging for Trump back.

@Cernovich We were a nation of immigrants because the border was constantly expanding and then the manufacturing boom happened. Those days are done, lots of unemployed now, we do not need more people

Told you it was a bad appointment.

A couple of influencers on here are circulating a misread of a new Cato Institute analysis on X, and unfortunately the VP @JDVance appears to have picked it up and shared the same incorrect stat. Cato estimates a ~90% drop in **overseas** H-1B petitions (largely from outsourcing firms sponsoring workers located outside the U.S.). This is being misrepresented as a 90% drop in total NEW H-1B visa issuances by @USCIS, which isn’t correct. The cap is still fully exhausted and has consistently reached the 85,000 statutory limit in recent years, and @USCIS has recently announced that this year’s lottery registrations met the cap. This points to a reshuffling of recipients rather than an actual reduction in total numbers. That distinction matters because treating this as a major cut overstates progress and reduces the urgency for meaningful reform. The changes so far are largely cosmetic and mainly shift visas toward international students already in the U.S. and large firms like Google and Amazon, without meaningfully improving opportunities for recent graduates overall. More substantive reforms, such as ending STEM-OPT (3-yr work authorization for international students) and H-4 EAD (work authorization for spouses of H-1Bs) can be done through rulemaking since they were created administratively. Time is of the essence. These steps should have been underway already, since rulemaking takes a very long time. There is still an opportunity to get them done, but inaccurate claims like this distract from the urgency of acting.

@sentdefender And the few ships that did transit are all still going through the Iranian toll booth

Vessel traffic as seen via MarineTraffic.com in the Strait of Hormuz and entrance to the Gulf of Oman over the last 36 hours shows traffic through the strait is still significantly lower than normal levels.

@Timcast Then why did the US lift sanctions on Iranian oil allowing them to export to china for over a month while its allies starved? Why not blockade Iran and cutoff china immediately?

I think its possible the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz was the intended condition. I did not come up with this idea, but with US crude pushing record levels and China livid after getting cut off from a major supplier there are some things to consider. Trump can't come out and say "we went to war over oil" so we get a handful of excuses like Nuclear weapons or human rights abuses. The war is driving up gas prices in the US and people are pissed off. The Trump admin can't just come out and say "we are intentionally mkaing it hard for you so it will be harder for China" The idea is that Trump is taking a hit to the US economy in an effort to bring an even greater hit to China and other debt holders or adversaries. Considering that the US responded recently with a blockade of the strait I think this is a reasonable conclusion. x.com/Timcast/status…

@nonregemesse Anybody who would burn their child alive to be king is evil. Anybody who gets tricked by a witch into believing they’re the “chosen one” is a retard. He was an evil retard

This is why Stannis is so great. Everyone gets their due. Credit when credit is earned. Scorn when scorn is earned. If he had a dragon he’d have made a great king.