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California wealth tax insanity: Tony Xu, DoorDash's co-founder, would owe over $4B in tax on his $2.5B stake.

In a training manual for the group that Reneé Good was reportedly involved with, it says the lowest level of risk out all the tactics is to totally surround the officers and block them and their vehicles.

We need tests because we can’t trust grades

With all the talk of the massive fraud in government spending, here's a fun story in micro that has billion(s) dollar impact in macro. I need a few storage bins for work to hold varying pieces of equipment. Since I'm a Navy employee, I need to use our Navy purchasing system and stick to "authorized sources." The bin on the left is from GSA advantage, one of my few "authorized sources". It measures 23" x 15" x 11" and would be sufficient. It would take about 1 week of internal paperwork and approvals and once ordered would arrive in 9 days. This bin is priced at $42.79. The bin on the right is available at Home Depot. It measures 26" x 17" x 12" and is also sufficient. This bin is priced at $9.48 ($8.54 with my military discount). I can go the "authorized" route and purchase 3 of them with taxpayer money for $128.37 and get them in 2 weeks (maybe). OR, I can drive to Home Depot 6 miles away and buy 3 bins with my own money for $25.62 and have them today. Which do you think I did? Hint: I have the bins today. Now imagine this multiplied by millions of individual purchase transactions and contracts across the Department of War. The government pays FIVE times the commercial rate for virtually everything.

“For most outsiders, a principal and immediately apparent characteristic of Somalis, often strongly at variance with external circumstance, was their ‘inordinate pride and contempt for other nations.’ In their own minds, Somalis were always aristocrats among savages: Arabs in a continent of inferior Blacks; Muslims in a continent of unbelief and confusion; herdsmen encompassed by diggers of mud; sometimes conquerors but never conquered…. Consider the opinion of one British soldier, a Commanding Officer of the Somaliland Camel Corps (SCC), with many years of experience, writing in 1944: The ‘Somali is convinced that he is entirely different from and vastly superior to any East African.’”

You're in your late 20s, about to marry your girlfriend and wanting to start a family but already barely scraping by financially and still renting. You play the game. Obey the law. Imagine seeing someone who can't speak English, arriving and being given all of it.

Somalis were too incompetent to grow food, so we tried giving them some. They responded by chimping out and murdering 18 American soldiers. "Our" response was to import hundreds of thousands of them so that they could steal from Americans while ruining communities in Minnesota rather than having to steal from us in the Gulf of Aden

The mass psychosis that swept the land during the last 5 years wasn't limited to COVID. This scene was recorded in August 2020. A Black Lives Matter protest confronted White diners at a D.C. restaurants,  chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. If you survived the coercion of the last 5 years, especially by not getting vaccinate, congratulations, you have an actual moral backbone.

China is trashing the oceans. Each year, 4M tons of juvenile fish are caught before they can breed. That is 1/3 of China’s catch. China has exceeded its legal catch limits every year since 1994.