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“No trans surgery for children without parental consent” is meaningless. The kids who are mutilated almost always have parental consent. The consent of the parents is not the issue. The issue is that the procedure is barbaric and insane, no matter if parents agree to it or not.

In one of the most iconic moments in State of the Union history, Trump checkmated every Democrat by asking Congress to stand if they agree: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. The Democrats stayed seated.

The whole debate about which countries have "the right to exist" is based on a false premise. There is no "right to exist" for nations. What does that even mean? How can a country be entitled to exist? Every country on Earth came into existence through force and remains in existence through force. If you can't defend your existence, you will not exist anymore. The history of civilization is full of countries that existed and then ceased to exist. Are the rights of those countless now non-existent countries being perpetually violated by their non-existence? It makes no sense. If you can defend your existence, then you can exist. If you can't, then eventually you won't exist. It's really that simple. A right is an entitlement, by definition, and there is no country that has an eternal entitlement to exist whether it can defend and support itself or not. The very concept is absurd, meaningless.

🚨 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE 🇺🇸 “Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S.” — Hunter Hess (finished 10th) "This is all about our country right now. I love the USA... We're so proud to be Americans." — Jack Hughes (WON GOLD 🥇)

For the uninitiated, beating the Canadians in hockey is like beating the French at surrendering. Huge upset.

JB signed 50 tax hikes, doubled the gas tax, and kept Illinois at the top of the property tax charts. Look at your taxes, Illinois. That’s the real theft.

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Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.

In kindergarten terms, tax cuts are the teacher not taking half your cookie. Student debt cancellations are the teacher taking all your cookie to give to someone else because they already ate theirs.

I talked about this a few days ago. PepsiCo cut snack prices by 15% after RFK Jr. said SNAP benefits can't be used to pay for them. Corporations don't care whether or not you can afford it if they know the government (the taxpayer) is paying for the people who get it for "free". The same thing applies to college tuition and healthcare. If you've ever wondered how these companies stay in business when no one can afford their products and services, it's because the clients who get it paid for by the taxpayer more than make up for the people who aren't buying it because they can't afford it.

He called you “historically illiterate,” which means you don’t know history. He didn’t call you literally “illiterate,” which would mean you can’t read, which might also be true. But you are clearly also semantically illiterate, as you don’t understand the meaning of words.

Interesting.

Leftists truly cannot comprehend the concept of NET. A billionaire who makes £100,000,000 in a year, uses tax breaks to only pay £20,000,000 in tax, while using 0 government welfare/benefits - is still a net POSITIVE. An immigrant with no useful skills, who doesn’t speak English, and earns £15,000 a year, while using £30,000 in benefits, is a net NEGATIVE. Multiply the immigrant scenario by millions, and you have a societal collapse on your hands.

If there was as much outrage about this as there is about ICE raids, we wouldn’t need ICE raids.

If greed were the problem, the fix would be obvious. Undercut them. Start a business. Pay workers more. Take only the “acceptable” profit by your own standard. Charge less. Win customers. Put the greedy firms out of business. If price gouging were real and systemic, that strategy would dominate. Capitalism allows exactly that. Nothing stops worker owned co ops from competing today. So why is the solution always regulation, price controls, and redistribution instead of competition? If the goal is worker ownership, build it. If the goal is lower prices, offer them. When the answer is force instead of competition, it suggests the problem is power, not greed.

The left can't seem to decide if South America is a beautiful and rich cultural utopia the US should embrace and be humbled by or if it's a comprehensive hellscape millions are desperately fleeing and the US has the sole responsibility of protecting them from certain death.

This is such hot garbage. The billionaires aren't cheating the system to pay no taxes, ProPublica is cheating at how they show the numbers. When selling investments, you are only taxed on the gains. If you invested $1 million in a company a decade ago and sell it this year for $1 million (because the company sucked), you have a million in income but owe no taxes because there was no gains. If you actually lose money, like selling it for $500k this year, you have loses. You might then sell a different investment, also $1 million, that grew to $1.5 million. The losses match the gains, so while you now have $2 million, you own no taxes. Taxes hurt investment, so they certainly "manage" them. If you want to sell your million dollar investment that's now $1.5 million, you have to pay around 30% tax on that, so that when you roll it over into another investment, you are rolling over $1.35 million. It's thus better simply to leave your money in a poor investment and let it continue to grow rather than roll it over into a new investment. It may not be even "good" or "bad". You want a balanced portfolio. You don't want to be waited too heavily on high tech like Apple. When one sector is too profitable, you want move some of those gains into other sectors. So when you have a big loss, then that's an opportunity to sell your Apple shares. By cherry picking 4 years when 4 billionaires paid no taxes, ProPublica gave the false impression they earned a lot of money and cheated at paying taxes. No, in the long run, you eventually pay all the taxes. All those billionaires have paid billions in taxes in other years, ones deliberately obscured by ProPublica. For example, in 2021, Elon Musk paid $11 billion in taxes when he sold 16 million Tesla shares in order to fund his other efforts. It's not Musk cheating the taxman, but ProPublica cheating their readers.

This is one of those insane things happening under Democrat governance where if you tried to tell a normie about it they just simply wouldn’t believe you.

If you showed this video to a first responder the day after 9/11 they would have thought that we lost a war.