Chip Gibbons

Amazing! 😍 And that deep bass voice was the biggest surprise—so rich and powerful.

@ThoNg676733 If you haven't seen it, go on YouTube and watch this entire performance. It's an amazing performance.

Suffering as she did from a life ending illness, she could still sing softly and gracefully. What a life that woman led. She was the Queen of Song💖

This answer from Secretary Rubio about Lebanon is a perfect encapsulation of why he'll go down as one of the greatest secretaries of state of all time. Direct, incredibly substantive

@mattvanswol Wow! Disgusting. Are there any limits to fraud in this country. When it becomes the best way to make a living, I lot more people will do it.

🚨 OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!! It has been revealed that the city of Asheville NC will only rebuild 8 HOUSES with the $225 MILLION grant they received from the Trump administration after Hurricane Helene. Yes, you read that right... EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! ...OUT OF 11,488 DAMAGED HOMES The city allocated ONLY $3 MILLION for home repairs. And $14.9 MILLION for "administration" FIVE TIMES MORE for PAPERWORK than for the people whose homes got COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!! Over 100+ approved families are CURRENTLY ON A WAITLIST that will never be funded. THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Medical freedom starts with medical honesty. For decades, parents were told their newborn baby needed a Hepatitis B vaccine on day one. Almost no newborn is at risk for Hepatitis B. That was a lie. And when Americans find out they've been lied to about one vaccine, they start questioning all of them. You don't rebuild trust with more mandates. You rebuild it with the truth.

Yo amo Marco Rubio. Lo quiero nuestra próximo presidente.

Señor Secretario, mucha gente quiere saber: ¿cuál es su nombre de DJ? RUBIO: ¿Mi nombre de DJ? Periodista: Su nombre de DJ. RUBIO: Ustedes no están preparados para mi nombre de DJ.

William Lane's New Australia colony in Paraguay is one of history's most brutal examples of socialist fantasy meeting economic reality. In 1893, this Australian socialist convinced 238 followers to abandon their lives and trek to Paraguay's jungle to build a "pure communist utopia." Lane promised shared land, collective labor, and freedom from capitalism's supposed evils. Instead, he delivered authoritarian control that banned alcohol, enforced strict racial segregation, and prohibited interracial marriage. The collective owned everything. Individual property rights disappeared overnight. The experiment collapsed faster than a Venezuelan grocery store. Jungle diseases ravaged colonists who lacked individual incentives to maintain proper sanitation or food production. Without private ownership, nobody took responsibility for essential tasks. Morale plummeted as Lane's iron-fisted rules crushed basic human desires for autonomy, choice, and personal relationships. Mass defections began almost immediately. Lane himself abandoned his "perfect" society and fled to New Zealand by 1899. Paraguay revoked the cooperative's official status by 1897. The remaining settlers either died, scattered, or desperately tried forming a second colony called Cosme (which also failed spectacularly). Every element that destroyed New Australia validates core free market principles. Without property rights, you get the tragedy of the commons. Without individual incentives, productivity collapses. Without voluntary exchange, you need force to maintain the system. Without price signals, resources flow to the wrong places. Lane's colonists learned these lessons the hardest way possible. Socialist intellectuals refuse to study New Australia seriously because it demolishes their core assumptions about human nature and economic organization. They prefer theoretical models to actual evidence from people who staked their lives on collectivist promises. It doesn't matter if socialism is forced upon 200 or 200 million people; the results are always the same.

The Plymouth Pilgrims accidentally ran the first documented socialist experiment in America three centuries before Marx scribbled his manifesto. Governor William Bradford's "common storehouse" system from 1620-1623 delivered textbook collectivist results: mass shirking, crop failures, and near-starvation. Bradford recorded the disaster in detail. Young men "complained that they were oppressed" when forced to work for others without reward. Productive colonists watched lazy neighbors receive equal rations despite contributing nothing. The system "was found to breed much confusion and discontent" because it violated basic human incentives. People starved while fertile Massachusetts soil lay underworked. The turnaround came swiftly in 1623 when Bradford abandoned the collective model and assigned private family plots. Production exploded overnight. Women and children voluntarily joined field work when their families directly benefited from extra effort. The same colonists who nearly died under socialism suddenly produced abundant harvests under private property. Bradford explicitly credited private ownership for saving Plymouth Colony. He documented how individual responsibility transformed human behavior within a single growing season. Individual effort cannot be separated from individual reward without destroying both. Every socialist experiment since Plymouth has repeated this identical pattern. Different century, different continent, same predictable collapse when planners ignore the reality of human nature. No matter what they call it, whenever and wherever collectivist ideas are put into practice, disaster soon follows.

The Republicans have both houses of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court and they still can’t get anything important done. The problem is that they don’t work for the American people. They work for the special interests that put them in office and want to keep them there.

The DOJ's deadline to charge Fauci for lying under oath about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan is in 6 days. We can’t allow the statute of limitations to run out. He MUST be charged! Agree? RT.

If you really brought housing prices down in any meaningful way, you would create a situation similar to when the housing bubble popped. What happened then? President Obama and Ben Bernanke at the Fed printed many billions (or was it trillions?) to lower interest rates and inflate asset values, including housing. When housing prices go down, the banks get into trouble because the value of the homes is less than the mortgages on them. That's when the government prints money to save the banks, which only keeps prices high.

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@MarcoFoster_ What will the medical debt be after a bunch a religious fanatics get a nuclear weapon to punish you for not converting to Islam?

Abdul El-Sayed: “We spent $25B on this war in Iran nobody in the US asked for. We could eliminate all of the medical debt in the whole country for $2.5B. We could abolish the medical debt in this country 10x for what we spent on a war we should have never fought”

@KaiserBenKaiser Beauty elevates us and inspires us. Without beauty, life is ugly, gray, depressing, without purpose. Solzhenitsyn understood this.

1978 sagte Gulag-Überlebender Alexander Solschenizyn bei seiner bekannten Harvard-Rede der westlichen Zivilisation den raschen Untergang voraus. Entgegen der erwarteten Lobeshymne lieferte er eine scharfe Abrechnung mit dem „freien Westen“, der, sollten nicht grundsätzliche Weichenstellungen geändert werden, innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte kollabieren werde: „All das ist für zahlreiche Beobachter aus allen Regionen unseres Planeten ersichtlich. Es wird immer unwahrscheinlicher, dass die westliche Lebensweise zum global führenden Modell werden wird. Es gibt offensichtliche Anzeichen, an denen in der Geschichte, bedrohte oder untergehende Gesellschaften zu erkennen waren. Solche sind etwa der Niedergang der Künste oder das Fehlen bedeutender Staatsmänner. Tatsächlich sind die Warnzeichen jedoch deutlicher und offensichtlicher: Wenn im Zentrum eurer Demokratie und Kultur nur wenige Stunden der Strom ausfällt, beginnen plötzlich Horden amerikanischer Bürger zu plündern und zu randalieren. [Solschenizyn bezog sich hier auf einen Stromausfall in New York 1977, bei dem es zu schweren Plünderungen und Ausschreitungen kam.] Die glatte Oberfläche eurer Gesellschaft muss sehr dünn sein und das hierhinterstehende Gesellschaftssystem höchst instabil und ungesund.“ Die Weichen zu dieser Fehlentwicklung seien im Westen schon vor 500 Jahren gestellt worden. Solschenizyn sieht den Fehler „an der Wurzel“ und zwar „im Fundament des modernen Denkens“ begründet: „Ich beziehe mich auf die vorherrschende westliche Weltsicht, die in der Renaissance entstand… Ich beziehe mich auf den Humanismus – die proklamierte Autonomie des Menschen von jeder höheren Macht.“ Dies habe den Menschen von Gott, der Wahrheit, dem Schönen und einer objektiven Moral losgelöst. Für den westlichen Menschen wurden all dies zu rein subjektiven Faktoren und damit relativiert. In der Folge degenerierte der westliche Mensch in der Moderne. Die einzige Lösung sieht Solschenizyn in der Rückkehr zum Glauben an eine transzendente Moral unter Gott: Kulturen, die das Wahre, Gute und Schöne nicht achten, gehen unter. Wer den Westen retten möchte, muss damit anfangen, „seine Seele zu verschönern, denn so lebe man gut und beginne, die Zivilisation selbst wieder schön zu machen.“ Bild: New York 1977 nach dem Stromausfall

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history. He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough. RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

@grok @2vswb @CNToWest Not even close.

لا يوجد رقم دقيق لأن "القتل" يشمل أفعالاً مباشرة وغير مباشرة وأطراف متعددة في النزاعات. وفقاً لمشروع تكاليف الحرب بجامعة براون (2023): الحروب الأمريكية بعد 2001 في العراق وأفغانستان وسوريا واليمن وباكستان أدت إلى نحو 940 ألف قتيل مباشر (432 ألف مدني)، وإجمالي 4.5-4.7 مليون مع الوفيات غير المباشرة. معظم الضحايا مسلمون. الأرقام تقديرية وتختلف بين المصادر.

突发：纽约市穆斯林市长佐曼达尼今天公开呼吁美国向伊斯兰教和“先知穆罕默德”看齐，以支持大规模的穆斯林移民，着实令人恐惧，他还正准备在纽约市推行伊斯兰教法！ 奥巴马的民主党是美国的叛国集团！ 强烈要求美国政府撤销曼达尼的公民身份，然后立即驱逐出境！

February 2003: Hugo Chávez fires 18,000 PDVSA employees in a single day. He eliminated petroleum engineers, geologists, refinery technicians, and the guy who actually knew how to keep the Paraguaná Refining Complex running without blowing it up. Chávez replaced them with loyal party members who couldn't distinguish crude oil from chocolate milk. PDVSA used to be the crown jewel of Latin American state enterprises (which tells you something right there). The company refined 1.3 million barrels daily in 2002 and exported expertise to other oil nations. Then Chávez decided that technical competence was less important than revolutionary fervor. By 2019, Venezuela was importing gasoline from Iran to fuel its own cars while sitting on 300 billion barrels of proven reserves. You can't redistribute knowledge the way you redistribute wealth. When Chávez's government chased away the engineers, they took decades of accumulated expertise to Calgary, Houston, and Aberdeen. The new managers learned this the hard way when refineries started exploding—literally. The Amuay refinery blast in 2012 killed 48 people because nobody left in charge understood basic safety protocols. Today you'll find Venezuelan petroleum engineers designing fracking operations in North Dakota while their homeland rations gasoline like it's 1943. The oil stays in the ground because socialism created a country that forgot how to drill holes and turn crude into something useful.

This is exactly why mediocre people with little talent love socialism and communism. It's why they love unions. People who don't possess the ability to do what job prefer a system where being obedient to an ideology is all that's required for success. The country or company dies, but they don't care because they have the power and the money.

@Thetwins1989 @CNToWest Yes. The takeover and destruction of the US.

@GibbonsChip @CNToWest Remember when communists were anti-religion of any kind? Guess they both found something they can relate with.

@1967escorpion @CNToWest Tengo miedo que es verdad.

@CNToWest @GibbonsChip totalmente de acuerdo .y sinceramente ya es demasiado tarde para solucionar esto pacíficamente .Pero se ve venir algo feo

@GeneralMarket_x Yes.

@GibbonsChip Have you used them before?

Mark Cuban reveals the drug industry is so broken that the same medicine costs $2,000 at CVS and $61 through Cost Plus Drugs “If you walked into CVS or some big pharmacy, they’re going to charge you two grand.” “We’ll charge you $61.” “There was another one where a friend of mine was paralyzed and needed this drug called Droxidopa.” “They were going to charge him $11,000 every three months.” “Our price was like $51 every three months.” That price difference is insane.