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@LibbyTard17 If I repost your nonsense would I be labeled a re-Tarde?

Defending a trillionaire! just 0.0001% of Elon Musks wealth could solve world hunger

@RepShriThanedar Shri, nice try. According to the BLS data, You are wrong. The inflation rate when Biden left office in 1/24 was 3.9%. Trump handed Biden an inflation rate of 2.3%. You and your Democrat Party devastated Americans during Biden's term. You should be fired.

Inflation was 2.9% when Biden left office. Under Trump it has risen to 4.2%. Nice try though.

@DanielPriestley Imagine if the Beatles didn't breakup after only seven years. What caused their breakup? They say Lennon was a dreamer, but he couldn't live as one.

John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism. “Imagine no possessions” he told us. He also: – helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman – incorporated his IP holdings – moved to a lower-tax country – fiercely protected his royalties - drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes. – made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity. If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves. John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice. It doesn’t work outside of the imagination.

I see two takeaways: 1)Fauci is likely guilty ... conflicts of interest at a minimum and mass murder at the extreme. 2) Defund the CIA. They aren't a source of reliable intelligence. They are subversive to American politics. The CIA has become a existential threat to Democracy.

CIA Official Confirms Agency Flip-Flopped Over COVID-19 Origins Over Five-Day Period | Tyler Durden, Zerohedge Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a laboratory to neutral, a newly released document confirms. Originally, CIA analysts concluded that COVID-19 likely came from a high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China located near where the first cases were detected in late 2019, senior CIA officer James Erdman III told lawmakers in May. Over the span of five days in 2021, however, Edman says the agency changed its stance to 'neutral.' Then in September of 2024 during a private briefing between intelligence officials and members of Congress, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) inquired as to how the agency came to the conclusion that lab-origin vs. natural origin were about equal, according to yesterday's document release by outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard. In response, an unnamed CIA employee told Wenstrup that "he made the call to stop the shift to lab because [redacted] had come in the day before they were ready to publish which made them back off the call," according to a summary of the briefing compiled by an intelligence official. As the Epoch Times notes further, officials said in a declassified assessment based on information through August 2021 that only one agency - which was not the CIA, based on details since made public - favored a lab origin for COVID-19. An updated assessment released in mid-2023 states that the CIA was unable to determine the origin of COVID-19 because both the lab and natural origin theories “rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting.” The CIA said in 2025 that a lab origin for COVID-19 was “more likely.” The Trump administration maintains that COVID-19 came from the lab in China. More on Changes A whistleblower in 2023 told members of Congress that the CIA team tasked with analyzing the origins of COVID-19 favored a lab origin, but that after the team was paid, it changed its position. The CIA at the time denied paying analysts to reach specific conclusions. Erdman, the senior CIA official, told a Senate panel in May that he was on a team investigating how intelligence agencies handled the COVID-19 pandemic and that the CIA declined to provide documents the team had requested that may have shed light on the change. Erdman said that the team found the shift happened after Dr. Anthony Fauci, at the time the head of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - which provided funding for the lab in Wuhan - briefed intelligence officials and suggested to officials that they talk to specific scientists, including researchers who wrote a paper with which Fauci and the institute’s head secretly assisted. The paper, called “Proximal Origin,” purported to rule out a laboratory origin. Wenstrup also asked intelligence officials in the 2024 briefing about a white paper that National Center for Medical Intelligence analysts compiled as a rebuttal to the “Proximal Origin.” The authors of the white paper felt their conclusions were ignored by intelligence officials, they informed Wenstrup. A representative for the center was not prepared for the questioning, “which annoyed Wenstrup,” according to the briefing summary. Fauci Briefed Intelligence Officials Fauci briefed intelligence officials on June 4, 2021, and promoted the idea that COVID-19 had a natural origin, according to another briefing summary released by Gabbard. Fauci “recommended that [intelligence officials] take a look at Tulane’s paper on two lineages from two separate markets,” the summary states. “To Dr. Fauci, this paper’s findings were a clear indication of natural origins of COVID-19.” Fauci also “reminded the group that even for SARS, it took 12 years to make the link to a bat even though it only took 4 months to identify the natural reservoir” and that “we still haven’t identified source/origin of Ebola,” which is believed to have a natural origin, according to the summary. Fauci, who has not responded to requests for comment, told lawmakers during a hearing in 2024 that he did not talk about viral research related to COVID-19 with intelligence officials. “After the investigations began about COVID, I was briefed by intelligence agencies about possibilities of there being activities going on in different laboratories,” he said. In another readout of the 2021 briefing, Fauci was said to have suggested intelligence officials connect with three scientists whose names were redacted. “All three ... have advocated for features of the virus that they judge to be consistent with a natural origin,” the readout states. An email disclosed that one of the scientists was Kristian Andersen, a Scripps Research researcher who coauthored the “Proximal Origin.” Andersen said in private messages with coauthors that COVID-19 may have been engineered before the paper was published. He has said that further analysis of the virus altered his and others’ views. “Dr. Fauci was the behind-the-scenes adviser who, alongside his hand-picked so-called experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain-of-function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars,” Gabbard said in a video statement posted to X on June 18. “All of this in a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth and shift the blame and attention away from Fauci’s own actions.” zerohedge.com/markets/cia-of…

What about canceling my mortgage payment? Or my car payment? Or my credit cards? Contracts are just words on paper. If student loans are a bad idea, make this part of the education process. Give them a fish they eat for a day, teach them to fish and they will lear something.

Bill Maher: “What about canceling student loan debt?” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA): “If you're working class, you're first in your family to go to college, you have all this debt, and then you're paying off your debt until you're 50 or 60 and can't get a house, we can pay off that debt. And you know how we pay for it? Tax Elon Musk. Tax the billionaire.” “You're telling me we can't have healthcare and free college for Americans.” I have a better idea: Ro Khanna is reportedly worth over $200 million. How about he donates all his money to the government so it can keep funding Somali migrants' lavish lifestyles — instead of stealing it from Elon Musk? Musk creates real wealth, thousands of jobs, and better lives for THOUSANDS of Americans while INVESTING nearly everything he makes back into his companies.

@piersmorgan @netanyahu Does Piers have a deathwish?

I’ve got a better idea. Tell your mate @netanyahu to allow international media into Gaza and they can work out what really happened for themselves.

Do it! Do it now!

How did Tom Cotton decide to hitch his wagon to the Thune camp? Is the CIA involved in some sort of coersion?

Nope. Comrade Rhanna, you are the Politburo. Young people learn how to succeed by emulating people who are successful. This is human nature. When you demonize the rich successful people, young people lose this incentive. Your socialism prevents them from achieving success, and to blame others for their lack of success. You see this pattern within the Black community. Telling Blacks that successful white people is due to White Superiority and not due to hard work and ingenuity teaches them not to embrace those behaviors. They instead choose a culture of irresponsible and criminal behaviors. This traps their community in an under-performing class as compared to nearly every other racial community. Keep demonizing the Rich and you keep us on a path to poor success rates. When we look to blame someone for our lack of success in life, it just might be You instead of Donald Trump. If we observe reality clearly, this will be the result.

This is just intellectual nonsense @friedberg and wouldn't get a passing grade at a place like University Chicago in a freshman seminar. You know that. I can't believe you are defending without a shred of introspection the unfair and lopsided economy where nearly 80 percent of Americans believe the American dream is dead, but 19 billionaires are worth as much as 12 percent of our GDP (three times the concentration of the gilded age). It's a comparison, and I get the difference between stock and flow. Do you not believe that there must be some democratic check on "blind economic forces" and "blindly selfish men" seeking to hoard this nation's wealth and power. There must be some check to rampant speculation, monopolization, and war profiteering where the capital class builds fortunes in its sleep, but nurses, teachers, doctors, firefighters, carpenters, HVAC technicians who work long days can't afford to even buy a house. I am for a free enterprise system that works for hard working men and women in every part of America, not just the connected and privileged. I am for a patriotic capitalism, instead of an extractive capitalism. I celebrate entrepreneurs and those that build businesses. I am absolutely not for taking away their property or having the government control their business. A private sector is necessary to be a free society so that government does not control every aspect of our life. But men should not be allowed to buy politicians with their wealth and skew the laws in their favor. They should not be allowed to evade justice as we saw with the Epstein class. They should pay a fair tax before they die, like ordinary Americans do, so that every American can have the basic necessities of healthcare and education. There are many business leaders who still believe in the social contract and recognize their obligations to their employees, to the community, to their customers, and to our nation. I call them economic patriots. The problem is with arrogance of those billionaires who believe they are better than us, that they are entitled to rule, that somehow they are better allocators of capital than the American people. Really? The American people who defeated Nazism and communism, funded the Moon landing and creation of the internet, and who have built the greatest economic engine the world has seen. I want an America where every has the chance to build wealth, where the political opinion of a billionaire does not matter more than that of a nurse, and where the success of our business leaders leads to the success of all Americans. When young people start cheering prominent business leaders, you will know we are headed in that direction. Right now they are being booed, not by politicians, but by an entire generation that feels forsaken.

@RoKhanna And so do you. You are more wealthy than most Americans. What have you produced?

Katie thinks the scandal is that I want billionaires to pay a little more in taxes. The real scandal is that a handful of billionaires now hold vastly more wealth than millions of working Americans. I believe those who have succeeded through work and entrepreneurship, including my family, should support our nation that made that success possible. That’s the difference in our philosophy.

@JohnJHarwood You can be safely ignored.

America is lucky that this lunatic is finally out of the US government and can safely be ignored

@swd2 @StrohJulian Says the Russian asset.

@StrohJulian No they didn’t. You just got lucky.

Lots of dads are alive to celebrate Father's Day today because of American hero Dr. Fauci. Listening to the science pays off. Taking horse deworming pills does not. Thank you, sir.

@swd2 @driscoll1142 You act like a Russian asset.

@driscoll1142 The Russian asset? Hard pass.

@swd2 Millions of Dads are no longer with us due to the COVID19 Pandemic which Fauci helped materialize. Yet he was provided a full, broad pardon by the Autopen.

@raghu_venugopal @GadSaad Physician? You sound like a doctor of mediocrity.

@GadSaad Gad, I’m a Canadian physician, and I’m taxed appropriate for my income. I believe in paying my fair share. Everyday I kiss the proverbial ground of Canada. Read the newspaper more. We are astronomically lucky to live and work in Canada.

In a sane world, governments exist to improve the lives of people (at a minimum). The worst incidents of my life all stem from the provincial and federal governments repeatedly punishing me financially for being successful in ways that make you feel trapped in a Kafkaesque prison of despair. I realize that many Canadians benefit from the system, and hence will exhibit zero empathy but in a just world, this reality should not be tolerated. It can't be that a government owns 65%+ of all of your worth once all taxes are added up. Send me good vibes. Going through a very difficult time.

@BuzzPatterson Empathy and Compassion for NAZIs? What a knovel idea!

Meet Graham Platner: Every military unit has one. Graham’s the living legend of every squad bay from Ramadi to wherever the hell else he rotated through. While the rest of the platoon was wiring money home to the wife, fixing the truck, or pretending to save for that mythical “house,” Platner was the guy who treated his entire paycheck like a two-day liberty pass in Bangkok. First and fifteenth? Straight to the ATM, then straight to the bar. Beers for the whole damn platoon (until the tab hit four figures), followed by the kind of “romantic investments” that left him broke, hungover, and explaining to the First Sergeant why his dress blues smelled like regret and regret’s cheaper cousin. Other Marines came home with stories of valor. Graham came home with stories, a new tattoo he “doesn’t remember getting,” and the financial stability of a Somali pirate on shore leave. Now he’s running for Senate as the working man’s champion. Brother, the only thing you’ve ever championed is happy hour and poor decisions. The oyster farm must be doing real well to launder all those years of “supporting local talent.” Semper Fi, you magnificent degenerate. Just don’t check your campaign finance reports for “entertainment expenses.”

@Cant_Be_Rated So he can stab again? You're not as sharp as his knife and You're missing the heart of the matter. May Karmelo find remorse and rehabilitation during his time in prison.

@mitchellvii 1) We will work with the administration for the benefit of the American people. 2) We recognize the President is in charge of foreign policy and will work to support the Administration. 3) We will try to think of something good for the American people before Trump does.

What are the Democrats top 3 ideas for the midterms that should make Americans want to put them back into the majority?

@JoeConchaTV The East Wing was being rebuilt a lot faster than the Palisades. Perhaps Newsome and Bass could lear something.

David Frum goes from being a cheerleading captain of the Iraq War to root out weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist… to bejng pro-algae and pro-destruction of government property. Your reminder to never listen to the person…

@ThisWeekABC Susan, would a YouTube video have been a better strategy? Or is this strategy already been played?

Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice criticizes the Trump administration’s foreign policy in Iran. “Iran has now figured out they can use the Strait of Hormuz to hold us and the global economy hostage anytime they want. And they've been playing that game over the last 48 hours.” abcnews.link/LjdHpO7