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“tax the rich” offends too many people in a country where 82% of adults make less than $100k a year

I propose that we end ALL federal funding and tax breaks for nonprofits. If their cause is righteous, then those who support them will fund them. No organization is truly “non-profit” if they have paid employees. Yes, I think this should apply to churches, too.

The Democrats have been screaming that Jim Crow is back! Just to test it out, I went outside to see if I now have less rights as a black man. I started humming a negro spiritual and set out on my way. Got on a bus. Sat in front. No one said anything to me. Took it one stop and then did the walk of shame back to my truck. Went to a restaurant. Sat at the counter. The nice man behind it asked me if I wanted a menu. I informed him this was just a test and he passed. The look of confusion on his face let me know the Democrats hadn’t informed him I can’t sit at restaurant counters. Looked for separate bathrooms and water fountains. Couldn’t find a single one. Got immediate side eye from an older black woman when I asked her if she’d noticed any separate water fountains or bathrooms. Her answer wasn’t Christian. Tried looking for a freedom march so I could join it and see if I’d get hosed or dogs turned on me. No marches. I did see someone with a Pomeranian dog, though, but it didn’t attack me. So… based on my evidence, Jim Crow is still dead. The Democrats lied.

Narrative violation: with the right policy, new data centers can *lower* electricity prices by spreading the fixed costs of the grid out among more paying customers.

In the United States, white people earn significantly more than black people on average. But as soon as you compare blacks and whites with the same IQ, that gap disappears like magic... This is one of the clearest pieces of evidence that systemic racism isn't what's driving the raw overall income disparity between the two groups.

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take. No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare. The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral. Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year. Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes. Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment. The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.” America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be. Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities. Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis. It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

I cannot believe we have a major political party that is debating whether or not non-citizens should be allowed to vote. If we're allowing foreign nationals to vote, what's the point of being a citizen?

The more I research the Israel-Palestine conflict, the more I learn that the Palestinians lied about practically everything.

Palisades Fire ends up being one of the most destructive acts of left wing terrorism in modern history. The arsonist Rinderknecht searched “free Luigi Mangione,” “let’s take down all the billionaires” and “let’s kill all the billionaires” before setting the Lachman Fire which ultimately ignored the Palisades conflagration 12 killed, 6,800 homes destroyed