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BIGWAVE BRAND

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Economics 101 in action

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Andrew Kolvet
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet·
Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin just compared ICE agents enforcing immigration law to the British Redcoats who tyrannized the colonies. Traffic stops equal American Revolution 2.0, according to her. What an absolute crock of crap. They hate you and they hate American citizens.
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Glockford Files@GlockfordFiles·
If Barry Obama wanted his presidential library to look as dark and ugly as his soul, then he nailed it.
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BIGWAVE BRAND
BIGWAVE BRAND@SeawayCo11·
@elonmusk Good, minus deforestation. No defoliation. Photosynthesis is precious,vital and nonnegotiable.
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J Michael Waller
J Michael Waller@JMichaelWaller·
This is not mere partisanship. They remain intent on building a one-party state. There is no arguing this point. Add up everything they do and the direction is obvious.
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav

Spanberger announces full 50-state redistricting plan for when Democrats take the House. She can say these things out loud now because she won (twice) and Democrats have seen how even with a trifecta, Republicans are too spineless to fight and win.

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Wid Lyman
Wid Lyman@Wid_Lyman·
August 25, 2025. Governor Spanberger, then nominee, tells ABC7 she has no plans to redistrict Virginia. “Short answer is, no.”
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G. F. Allen
G. F. Allen@AuthorGFAllen·
Name a book that’s an absolute 11/10. 📕
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jRoD
jRoD@JByGodRod·
My wife just asked me how come she has never seen a black catcher, and i honestly had no answer?
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Boston Herald@bostonherald·
Gov. Maura Healey continues to push for $1,745 in refunds from the Trump administration for every Massachusetts household while urging businesses to apply for their own federal refunds. bostonherald.com/2026/04/22/hea…
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🇺🇸Hot Pepper
🇺🇸Hot Pepper@Hot_Pepper76·
The 50 best bands of all time according to Rolling Stone magazine. Who got left out, and which band is ranked a little too high?
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S_U_Network@S_U_Network·
True or False: You rank Tony Gwynn higher than Derek Jeter among the greatest players in MLB history.
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Handre@Handre·
Capital gains tax represents one of the most egregious examples of double taxation in the federal code, yet politicians treat it as if they're taxing "unearned" income for the first time. You earn $100,000, pay income tax on it, and save $70,000 after Uncle Sam takes his cut. You invest that already-taxed money in stocks, real estate, or bonds. Ten years later, you sell for $140,000. The government swoops in again, demanding capital gains tax on your $70,000 profit. They're taxing the same economic activity twice: your initial productive work that generated the savings, then the delayed consumption that made investment possible. Capital gains represent nothing more than the time value of money plus compensation for risk. When you save instead of consume immediately, you defer gratification to provide capital for productive investment. That $70,000 you invested didn't sit idle; it funded business expansion, job creation, and economic growth. The return you earned reflects both the productive use of that capital and inflation's erosion of purchasing power over time. The double taxation becomes even more perverse when you consider inflation. If your $70,000 investment becomes $140,000 over ten years, but inflation averaged 3% annually, your real purchasing power increased by roughly $18,000, not $70,000. Yet the IRS taxes the entire nominal gain, including the portion that merely kept pace with their own monetary debasement. Every dollar collected through capital gains tax is a dollar stolen twice; once from your labor, again from your thrift.
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Emir Han
Emir Han@RealEmirHan·
Steven Seagal says Tom Cruise was one of the worst casting choices in The Last Samurai. “They have a 5-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. He had never been to Japan. He doesn’t speak Japanese. He has never held a sword. They make him the Last Samurai.” “I was raised in Japan. I was schooled in martial arts. I was given the title of master. We got 450,000 phone calls from everybody in the world saying, ‘That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” “Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it. It’s just a classic example of Hollywood and the politics.”
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BIGWAVE BRAND@SeawayCo11·
@EricLDaugh …..way to celebrate the genius of our Constitution Virginia…..geeesh… please find LHGrey
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 BREAKING: Virginia voters have PASSED the egregiously Congressional gerrymandering map, expected to give 10 SEATS to Democrats — only 1 seat to Republicans, per DDHQ That means over 90% of Virginia becomes represented by DEMOCRATS, disenfranchising a HUGE swath of the entire state The courts MUST strike this down! FLORIDA must jump in! Their special session is coming up. This is why the GOP must ALWAYS play hardball on redistricting. DON'T BACK DOWN FROM THIS!
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LHGrey™️
LHGrey™️@grey4626·
This is absolutely fucking disgusting...but it was as predictable as the sunrise over a battlefield already rigged by the enemy. Virginia’s narrow “YES” on this sham constitutional amendment didn’t just hand the Democrat machine a loaded gun; it let them chamber the round, cock the hammer, and point it straight at the heart of every conservative voter in the Commonwealth. A “fairness” referendum, they called it. What a masterclass in Orwellian venom, dressed up in the silk tie of ballot language so deliberately misleading it borders on outright fraud. In 2020, Virginia’s voters...you, the sovereign people...ratified a hard-won amendment creating an independent, bipartisan Redistricting Commission precisely to rip the map-drawing pen from the grubby hands of partisan legislators. That was the people’s will, enshrined in Article II, Section 6-A of our Constitution: a firewall against the very gerrymandering that defined the old corrupt order. Now these same Democrat overlords in the General Assembly have engineered a mid-decade override...temporarily, they smirk...because “other states did it first.” Bullshit. This isn’t reciprocity; it’s a calculated coup d’état against the very compact between citizen and state. By Article I, Section 2 and the Elections Clause, the people delegated redistricting to a neutral process post-census. This amendment doesn’t “restore fairness”...it torches it, vesting unchecked power in a supermajority legislature that has already pre-drawn a 10D-1R slaughter map for 2026. It’s not amendment; it’s nullification of the 2020 compact by the very body the people stripped of that power. The Virginia Supreme Court knows the stench...oral arguments April 27 on the unlawful special-session extensions and the ballot’s psychological sleight-of-hand. Grave concerns were already signaled. If precedent holds, this house of cards collapses like the fraudulent edifice it is. But here’s the deeper, more lethal psychology at play...the part that should make every patriot’s blood boil with predatory clarity. Democrats didn’t win this on merit; they won it on engineered apathy and narrative hypnosis. A special-election turnout engineered to be microscopic. Ballot wording crafted like a predator’s lure: “restore fairness in the upcoming elections.” Who the hell says no to fairness? It’s the same dark triad manipulation...deception, emotional priming, moral licensing...that authoritarian impulses have always weaponized against free peoples. They framed it as righteous retaliation against Trump-era maps elsewhere, while their own hands dripped with the ink of raw partisan carve-outs. Voters who tuned out? They weren’t lazy; they were lulled into the comfort of “it’s just one referendum.” That’s how republics die...not with tanks in the streets, but with a shrug and a 50.3% yes from the low-information herd. RINOs who stayed silent or played nice? They’re not cowards; they’re complicit enablers, psychological co-dependents in the slow-motion suicide of conservative power. Weakness invites predation. History’s verdict is merciless on those who mistake procedural niceties for principle. This is tyranny by plebiscite, wrapped in the velvet glove of “democracy.” It doesn’t just steal four congressional seats for 2026...it poisons the well of self-government, proving once again that the left views the Constitution not as a covenant but as Silly Putty to be stretched until it snaps in their favor. Predictable? Yes. Because power without restraint always devours restraint itself. The fight isn’t over. The Supreme Court still holds the blade. Virginia patriots...remember the faces of silence. Primary the weak. Expose the architects. We do not yield to disguised despotism. Not now. Not ever. 💀⚖️⚔️
RINO Removal Project@RINO_Removal

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 VIRGINIA DEM POWER GRAB PASSES — BUT THE FIGHT ISN’T OVER A narrow “YES” vote just handed Democrats exactly what they wanted: control. This redistricting amendment isn’t “fairness” — it’s a rigged scheme that locks in a pre-drawn map, turning Virginia into a 10D–1R stronghold heading into the 2026 midterms. A competitive battleground just got engineered into a one-party machine. And let’s be honest — RINOs who failed to fight this early, or didn’t sound the alarm on the deceptive ballot language, helped make this possible. Playing nice with the swamp always ends the same way: lost seats, diluted voices, and conservatives shut out. But this fight is NOT finished. Multiple lawsuits are already in motion at the Virginia Supreme Court, challenging the shady process — from unlawful session extensions to misleading ballot wording. Oral arguments are set for April 27. And here’s the key: the Court has already signaled “grave concern.” There is real precedent for overturning flawed referendums. If the Court acts, this entire scheme could be thrown out. That’s the window. This is exactly why the RINO Removal Project exists: Weak Republicans get steamrolled. Fighters expose it, confront it, and replace the ones who won’t. Virginia patriots — take notes. Remember who stood up… and who stayed silent. Because the next fight starts now.

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