Steven Ryder 🇺🇸
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Steven Ryder 🇺🇸
@ryderse69
Married, kids. BSEE UCSD, Navy/Gulf War Vet. Fly Navy! Libertarian leaning Independent. Ignore what they say, watch what they do. God, family, country. NY 2 Ca.
California, USA Katılım Aralık 2010
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@Handre Inflation, making the rich richer and the poor poorer since 1913.
Nothing is free, inflation is the cost of free govt stuff. I wish more people understood that. It's more than a dirty word. It keeps the poor subjugated.
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The Federal Reserve creates $4 trillion in new money, yet your grocery bill barely budges while Nvidia stock doubles in six months. Welcome to the most insidious form of inflation: when newly printed dollars bypass consumer prices and flow directly into financial assets.
You won't see this wealth transfer reflected in the Consumer Price Index. The CPI measures bread and gasoline, not Bitcoin and Berkshire Hathaway. Meanwhile, the Fed's money printing operation sends fresh liquidity straight to primary dealers, who park those dollars in stocks, bonds, and real estate. Asset owners get richer. Wage earners watch their purchasing power erode in real terms, even as official inflation statistics claim everything is fine.
This creates a vicious feedback loop that sound money advocates have warned about for decades. Cheap credit inflates asset bubbles, which the Fed then feels compelled to support with even more money printing. Each cycle makes the wealth gap wider. The Tesla shareholder benefits from artificially suppressed interest rates. The school teacher saving in a checking account gets destroyed by financial repression.
The establishment calls this "quantitative easing" and pretends it's different from old-fashioned money printing. Expanding the money supply faster than real economic growth means that new money has to go somewhere. Since 2008, it has systematically flowed into assets that wealthy people own rather than goods that working people buy.
Your 401(k) might look healthy, but you're watching monetary debasement in real time. The stock market is booming because dollars are dramatically less scarce, not because companies are dramatically more productive.
If you can, buy stocks, bitcoin, property, or gold. This makes you a beneficiary of this phenominon, not a victim.

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@ryderse69 @gman5180 The Civil War, wasn't about slavery. Fucking shit... people believe that nonsense. It's 2026. You have the library of Alexandria at your fingertips.
Horsefeathers!
It was about succession and state rights, we didn't want the )ewish industrial revolution.
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@etowner5 @LibertyJen Never give up! Good job mom and dad. Perhaps you can pay the doctors a visit.
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Miracles are real. Last week my Son graduated high school. He was born at 24 weeks. Today, he’s a healthy, awesome man with a bright future. 18 years ago, doctors questioned why me and my Wife felt so strong to continue life sustaining care. My Wife and I felt strongly that God was telling us to keep going. Marrying a strong woman who believes in prayer and has the courage to seek and follow inspiration is an incredible blessing

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@BuzzPatterson Nice! Been there, done that :-). USS Ranger and USS Carl Vinson
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@BrokenTruthTV Undoubtedly. See MCI Worldcom for a classic example
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My husband is guilt tripping me. He wants a Doberman puppy so bad and said for Father's Day that he wanted to travel to North Carolina to go get one. He said I promised when Jake (my boxer) passed, I promised him we could get one. He is bringing out all stops and bringing my daughter into this.
I dont want another puppy right now. I dont want another puppy right now. I dont want another puppy right now.
Sigh...the will power to say no... just isn't there. I really dont want another big dog again.
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@MrAndyNgo Oregon is what happens when hippies do too many drugs and then have kids.
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The UN and the west are the greatest embarrassment to democracy. 💯 🔥
Masih Alinejad 🏳️@AlinejadMasih
Here's what the "pro-human rights" crowd won't say: the UN is a joke. Guterres and his left and liberal fan club in America and Europe are the biggest embarrassment to democracy while Iranians are being slaughtered. If you're shouting "Free Palestine" from your comfortable place in the West, at least listen to our real story, we carry the wounds of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC. My speech at AJC Global Forum 2026 in Washington, D.C. #Iran @AJCGlobal
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@KOreo1111 @ZakMndebele @bennyjohnson Imagine being so ideologically blinded by your own racism that you feel Bass has done a good job.
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@ZakMndebele @bennyjohnson Imagine being so cucked to the white man that you would happily get on all 4s for MAGA. Pratt ain't shit
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@Lerianis1 @Itx_judith No. They are the same democrats who filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Want more proof? Listen to what Malcom X said about liberals.
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@Itx_judith No. The Democrats of back then when you compare their political positions to the parties of today are the REPUBLICANS of today.
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@Handre The original ad was banned in Australia. So, they made this one instead making fun of the ban itself.
youtu.be/PLVlTNjHCVM?si…

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The Chicken Tax of 1963 is one of America's most absurd exercises in economic protectionism, disguised as retaliation but functioning as pure corporate welfare for Detroit's Big Three automakers.
You probably think this story begins with chickens. It doesn't. It begins with Volkswagen Beetles flooding American driveways in the late 1950s, terrifying Ford and General Motors executives who watched their market share evaporate to superior German engineering sold at lower prices. American consumers had discovered something revolutionary: foreign manufacturers could build better vehicles for less money.
The chicken angle emerged when West Germany and France imposed tariffs on American poultry exports in 1961. President Johnson's administration, pressured heavily by United Auto Workers lobbyists and Detroit executives, saw an opening. In 1963, they slapped a 25% tariff on imported pickup trucks and commercial vans, ostensibly as retaliation for European chicken tariffs.
The chicken dispute resolved itself within a few years. The truck tariffs remained permanent.
You live with the consequences today, sixty years later. Walk into any Toyota dealership and try to buy a Japanese-built pickup truck. You can't. The Chicken Tax killed that possibility before you were born. Toyota builds the Tacoma in Texas and Mexico to avoid the tariff. Nissan builds the Frontier in Mississippi. Honda doesn't even attempt to compete in the full-size pickup market.
Ford's F-150 has dominated American truck sales for decades, not through superior innovation but through government protection from Japanese and European competition. Detroit convinced politicians to shield them from the creative destruction that would have forced them to improve their products or lose customers to better alternatives.
The numbers tell the story. In 1963, import trucks held roughly 4% of the American market. Today, after sixty years of protection, domestic manufacturers still control about 80% of pickup sales. Tariffs predictably protect inefficient producers within industries at the expense of consumers and efficient competitors. Every American who bought an overpriced, lower-quality domestic truck since 1963 paid this hidden tax.
Free market economists understood this outcome from day one. Tariffs don't protect industries; they protect inefficient producers within industries at the expense of consumers and efficient competitors.
The policy persists because concentrated benefits flow to visible constituencies while dispersed costs remain invisible to consumers. Ford executives know exactly how much the Chicken Tax increases their profits. You never calculated how much extra you paid for your last truck because foreign alternatives were banned before you could compare them.
Consider the irony. American consumers, given free choice, preferred foreign vehicles that offered better value. The government responded by eliminating that choice to protect domestic companies from their own mediocrity. This violated every principle of market economics while enriching politically connected corporations.
Sixty years later, you still can't buy the truck you actually want at the price foreign manufacturers would charge. The Chicken Tax remains, chickens forgotten, protecting Ford's profits while denying you Toyota's quality.

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@Pixie1z @AprilSpark1890 They already did. The Manchurian Candidate.
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Is it wrong that I hope this is true?
George Conway in tears says he gave up nearly $1 million of his children’s inheritance to help Biden because he wanted them to inherit a democracy, not money.
He says he pulled the car over, wiped his tears away, then drove to the fundraiser and gave Biden the check anyway.
“I was driving to a Democratic fundraiser in 2024, and I had written a check for the maximum amount that you can give, which is $929,600 to the Biden Victory Fund.
And as I was driving there, I started crying. And I had to pull the car over because I realized that the money that I was about to give, uh, was money that otherwise would have gone to my children as part of their inheritance.
And I thought to myself: I want my kids to inherit a democracy.
And so, I wiped the tears away and I drove to the fundraiser and I gave them the check.”

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@GigaBeers I believe it's David Bowie. 2nd row, 2nd from left. But I'm guessing 🤔
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