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@GovernorVA 🤡🤮

The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election and the votes of more than three million Virginians. These Virginians made their voices heard — casting their ballots in good faith to push back against a President who said he’s “entitled” to more seats in Congress before voters go to the polls. As Governor, I will make sure voters know when and how to cast their votes this year. Because our votes are how we choose the representation we deserve.

@GN1ch @MarkLeberer @RickSanchezTV That is a fair assessment. Democracies are more messy

@DemsRMarxists @MarkLeberer @RickSanchezTV Won’t argue with them stealing our IP and mimicking our tech. But it’s no longer the case that China only copies other nations & builds cheap imitations. While our citizens have fought w/ each other & our military wastes time in the ME, China advanced significantly.

Did you hear President Xi warning Trump about falling into the “Thucydides Trap”? Let me explain. China is negotiating from a position of absolute strength— and for once, Trump is facing a rival power that refuses to bend on tariffs, sanctions, Iran, or Taiwan. Xi’s message is clear: the era of uncontested American dominance is ending — and the US cannot afford a direct confrontation with Beijing over Taiwan.

@GN1ch @MarkLeberer @RickSanchezTV Nope. China is a worthy opponent, nothing more. They stole our IP or were given most of their mfg expertise by our stupid politicians. They have as much debt, bad demographics and zero transparency.

@DemsRMarxists @MarkLeberer @RickSanchezTV Honestly, I wish I was. Blows my mind that Americans who code as “patriotic” deal with this by ignoring it. It’s delusional and a dereliction of duty as a responsible American.

@GN1ch @MarkLeberer @RickSanchezTV Wrong

@MarkLeberer @RickSanchezTV China’s military might is already at least equivalent to ours. U.S. global influence is clearly in massive decline. “Freedom & Liberty” is about all we have the upper hand in.

@Rondo2 @thematrixb0t @Nutandbolter He’s pretending to be a tough guy. Looks like a 140 lb beta

@thematrixb0t @Nutandbolter What’s he revolting for? He gets paid well for pretending… Just say thank you maybe.

Breaking Bad star Giancarlo Esposito says it's time for a "revolution," says some people would die, but "the rest of us" would survive. "They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up... in Washington, they'll kill a 500, 50 million or however..." "But the rest of us would survive... This is the time for a revolution."

@vinpo58 @C_Rocktails @JonathanTurley It’s usually cloudy because of Democrat policies. They are trying to kill a once great city

@DemsRMarxists @C_Rocktails @JonathanTurley What color is the sky in your neighborhood?

The Democratic gambit led by Gov. Spanberger to gerrymander virtually every GOP district out of Virginia has backfired in spectacular fashion. The state Supreme Court has now nullified the results of the redistricting vote...axios.com/local/richmond…

@C_Rocktails @JonathanTurley Virginia will be back next election cycle and they will do it lawfully and it will pass

@DemsRMarxists @JonathanTurley Meet you back here when half of these fail at state Supreme or SCOTUS? Because half will, on both sides. Or can’t you be objective?

@C_Rocktails @JonathanTurley And I’m fine with that result. Do you think I like this nonsense as a conservative living in Illinois. Look at the shape of district 5, my district. It makes me puke but it wasn’t drafted illegally

@J3ffMiller @feelsdesperate Correct. Should have been 7-0 if not for partisan judges.

@feelsdesperate When you read on the specific procedural defects identified by the court, this whole thing is really quite outrageous. It's not like this was some vague, judgement call on the court's part. The referendum failed for obvious reasons.

Brutal. Just brutal.

@C_Rocktails @JonathanTurley Look at the respective states constitutions genius

I remember back a decade or so when you were something akin to a legitimate voice, before you became a Conservative parrot. Here's how I know you're a hack: you use the following words to describe this "gambit to gerrymander"... "backfired in spectacular fashion". Did you comment on the recent "gambits" of all these states? Texas Florida North Carolina Missouri Ohio Tennessee California Utah

@LadySmithDonna @HypnoticTree105 @gothburz No he cannot. Anyone that thinks like this is not remotely smart or driven enough to be that successful

@HypnoticTree105 @gothburz His money is his money. He donates plenty to charity. He also gives more than his share to taxes. Stop being envious! You can do what he did if you work as hard as he does.

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

@Chicago_History Cafe la Cave Come Back Inn Gennaro’s on Taylor St

What's the one Chicagoland Restaurant that you always wish you could still go to? Is there one you went to as a kid, and now you have your own kids, that you think they would have loved going to? Our personal favorites just to name a few? • KOW KOW (Pratt & Cicero) • The Signature Room (John Hancock) • The Parthenon (Greek Town) • Mattson's (Over By There) • John's Garage (IYKYK) • Don Roth's (Spinning Salad Bowl) • Max's Italian Beef (On Western) There. Just listed some bangers. Make @chicago_history proud & try to remember some forgotten favorites that don't quite get the recognition that they truly deserve. #ChicagoHistory ☑️

@lgpt @teslaownersSV Bluesky? Sure

@teslaownersSV Nice try, but most news organizations use tools that publish across multiple social media platforms at once. And, while some come here first for speed, for reach and engagement they go to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. And Bluesky,

The quiet shift no one is tracking: A year ago, defending free speech on X got you called a chaos agent. Now the same journalists demanding moderation are running their scoops on the platform first, because that's where the audience went. The market voted. The narrative is catching up second.

@RileyXsko_Music @TheLaurenChen Look at the shape of Quigley’s district and get back to me

@TheLaurenChen IL resident here: our urban, suburban and exurban areas tend to vote Democrat. Meaning the places with the most people voted Democrat and the places with the least amount of people voted Republican. Hope this helps, good luck with your failing brain!

Want to talk gerrymandering? On the left is how Illinois voters voted in the 2024 Presidential election by precinct On the right is the same election, broken down by congressional district Kamala Harris ended up getting all 19 of Illinois's electoral votes 🤡

@LA_Mngr_CarylF @Nick_Davidov You don’t understand economics. California has a spending problem. The public sector unions and politicians will never have enough taxation and regulation. You will still have a beautiful state but built on a foundation of sand and progressive dreams.

@Nick_Davidov “We’re LeAvInG” Bye Everyone remember Undocumented immigrants pay a higher effective tax rate than the top 1% in 40 states Reagan’s “trickle down” economics NEVER WORKED- The rich have become richer as the middle class became poorer covering for the rich.

I love California, but If the CA wealth tax passes I’m likely to leave. I’m not anywhere close to a billionaire but none of the taxes our companies or family pays would go to support this lunacy. I think I won’t be alone. Bankruptcy and austerity might actually be better for California in long term even though it will hurt a lot of people not deserving this in the short term. People who turn on their cars praying not to see a check engine light. While bureaucrats throw billions of public money around on waste, fraud, and destroying the markets.

@gibby_joe52901 @Houseofyogi 🤮🤡

@Houseofyogi Lol Trump starts a war that doubles jet fuel prices permanently and you blame Warren 😂

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

@mattfortgang1 @DAVIDHALBRIGHT1 Sure….because the Iranian regime is so trustworthy. The Obama administration rolls out the talking points and the lemmings jump right in

@DAVIDHALBRIGHT1 Seems like the success was needed because Trump pulled out of the 2018 agreement

That may be true, but it is a small part of story, and I am surprised NYT focuses only on the production of enriched uranium prior to the start of the June 2025 war. Israel and the United States destroyed Iran’s centrifuge program and its ability to make centrifuges and more feed gas. Iran is no longer enriching uranium. The stocks of enriched uranium are believed to be bottled up in underground sites, where attempts at access can be readily detected. Israel attacked at least 8 sites involved in making the nuclear weapon itself, something rarely reported in the media. While the regime is widely publicly perceived as more motivated to decide to make nuclear weapons, its means to do so are severely degraded. While before the June war Iran could have built a nuclear weapon with near certainty in less than six months, it will face a much more difficult struggle to succeed if it tries in the coming months, and the probability of succeeding in six months is now much less technically certain. That real risk of failing to successfully build a nuclear weapon may be a deterrent against trying. Whatever one thinks of the right or wrong of the bombing campaigns, it sure looks like they achieved some real success in significantly setting back Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons and its confidence in trying, especially regarding the weapon itself.

@geibuu @Ryaltre @chamath Quit wasting taxpayer money John. It’s a simple concept. Your clown car California government is a blend of idiocy, incompetence and corruption

@Ryaltre @chamath What is the alternative to income tax if you want a global hegemony?

As you go to work today and settle into the week, please study the form below. You will soon need to fill this out EVERY year and tell the government what you own and then allow them to tell you how much its worth. That is the framework that is enabled by the Trojan Horse "Billionaire Tax" that is trying to get passed. Give them credit: they cleverly use Billionaires as the hook, but build in the language and the framework that will allow the Legislature to simply extend the tax to everyone and make it yearly. And this is where the form below comes in... In this case, ask yourself, will it be you or the Billionaires that will be able to fill this out properly and avoid penalties. As much as Billionaires can be pushed to do more for society, we all know that they have the infrastructure to manage these kinds of disclosures...middle class Californians do not and they will be the ones that get penalized in the end.

@TerribleLeather @Osint613 Don’t hold your breath. Regulation and the nanny state is in their DNA.

@Osint613 I really hope Europe is able to deregulate, shrink government, unite, and save the continent.

German Chancellor Merz: "With 450 million consumers, we are already larger than the United States. We must break free from what is holding us back. We are being slowed down by labor costs, energy prices, taxes, and social contributions. We must push through reforms, and overcome resistance."

@Chodbin35 @TimedRome7264 @DominicMcGregor We could borrow one of the UK’s six destroyers if they weren’t in the shop for repairs. It’s a shame what has become of the once invincible Royal Navy.

@DemsRMarxists @TimedRome7264 @DominicMcGregor They couldn't fight the tide in the bath.

If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.