I read too much, and still worry too little.
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TAX THE RICH
The part almost nobody discusses when celebrating how much a high earner pays in taxes: Where did the money to pay that tax come from?
Take a medical specialist earning $773,000, paying $365,000 in taxes, and keeping $408,000.
My argument is straightforward: Hold everything else constant—the specialist, their workload, the demand for their services, and the take-home compensation necessary to secure their work.
If $408,000 in take-home pay is sufficient compensation, eliminating the income tax means that same compensation can be delivered for $408,000 instead of $773,000.
Same specialist. Same work. Same take-home pay. But $365,000 less required to fund the position.
Do the same for administration, insurance and ancillary staff… ie medical device sales
The tax doesn’t create another appointment, improve a procedure, or add another specialist.
Each of the players taxed at 40%-50%, increases the gross revenue necessary to support the same take-home compensation for each of them.
That revenue comes from somewhere: patients, premiums, and public spending—including money supplied mostly by working- and middle-class households who NEED those services.
My point is clear:
A tax collected from high earners in certain fields, is embedded in the price everyone else pays… But disproportionately paid by poor and middle class America with their post-taxed dollars.
Pointing to someone’s tax bill tells us who remitted the money. It does not, by itself, tell us who ultimately funded it.
We did. We paid those taxes - with obscenely high yet necessary prices for services that should cost 1/5th as much, and could, if we didn’t TAX THE RICH. (The WORKING Rich)
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Hey @grok, approximately what percentage of USA based verified accounts on X are pro-Israel vs Anti-Israel based on the sentiment of their posts?
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Forever into history @SpeakerJohnson’s only legacy, will be as a pedophile protecting coward.
A traitor and an enemy of the people.
That’s the tweet.
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Breaking: congressman @RepThomasMassie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @PeteHegseth RIGHT NOW.
youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
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NFL is a fucking scam ass org.
If Hunter Henry aggravated his injury, they need to announce that shit.
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Massive Cyberattack on blood banks in France, warms inventory to 110°C from -30°C.
Just prior to this attack, Cyber firm Claroty was caught remotely tampering with refer systems, hacking/hijacking temps in EU.
@grok, where (country) was this firm founded?
Country only!
The public disgust with #nfl officiating is reaching a palpably dangerous level.
They’d be smart to review the Roman circus for a historical analysis of what happens when puppeteers take liberties.
While modern pop culture heavily associates Roman unrest with gladiators in the Colosseum, the truly massive, explosive fan rebellions actually happened at the chariot racing tracks— known as circuses in the West (like the Circus Maximus) and hippodromes in the East.
The ultimate culmination of circus fan violence occurred in Constantinople (the capital of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire) at the Hippodrome.
The Nika Riots (532 AD): The Deadliest Fan Uprising
The Uprising: On January 13, 532 AD, during a day of races, the usually bitter rivals (the Blues and the Greens) unexpectedly joined forces. They changed their usual racing chants to a unified cry of "Nika!" (Greek for "Victory!" or "Conquer!").
Did you get that?
Opposing team fans, joined forces to create a unified attack on the institution.
In modern times, it seems the NFL wants this to happen, and are doing everything in their power to manipulate the outcomes of games— likely hoping for an event to occur that allows them to require more government subsidies than those they already get.
They don’t care about you and I, the players or teams, or their respective ability-based performance. They care about division, stoking anger, and the eventual outcome from their snake-like activities— being financially beneficial to them, more than if they’d just let teams play the game the way the fans expect.
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@grok, what accounts on X should I tag to get some attention to this video I recorded the other day?
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Data-centers could become prisons, an American future where capacity to house MILLIONS of inmates is our new reality.
• El Paso/Socorro, Texas: Warehouses purchased for a proposed 8,500-bed immigration detention complex.
• Roxbury, New Jersey: A warehouse purchased for $129.3 million for proposed conversion into immigration detention space.
• San Antonio, Texas: A 640,000-square-foot warehouse purchased for proposed conversion into a detention facility accommodating up to 1,500 people.
• Romulus, Michigan: A 261,000-square-foot warehouse purchased for $34.7 million for a proposed 500-bed detention facility.
• Oakwood, Georgia: A roughly 500,000-square-foot warehouse proposed for conversion into immigration detention space.
• Social Circle, Georgia: A million-square-foot warehouse purchased for $128.6 million for a proposed detention facility holding thousands.
‼️URGENT‼️
America may be building the infrastructure for mass incarceration under the banner of an AI boom — and waiting for proof of a coordinated plan could mean waiting until that infrastructure is already in place.
That is the danger I see in the data-center gold rush - an inevitable bubble burst that hands the federal government 5,000+ prepackaged, fully functioning prisons.
The scenario is straightforward: private capital finances a nationwide network of large, secured industrial buildings.
When AI revenues fail to justify the investments and ongoing costs of operating with quickly obsolete hardware, distressed facilities will become acquisition targets.
Only then will the Government step in, and infrastructure that was sold to communities as economic development, becomes available for an entirely different purpose.
Mass Detention.
A data center is not a turnkey prison.
But land, windowless buildings, out of sight of most public-view, utilities, and secured perimeters provide a great starting point for a bad future reality.
Granted, conversion requires money and political will. But, neither is an insurmountable obstacle for a government committed to expanding detention.
Seemingly unrelated, the public response (or lack thereof) to recent aggressive immigration enforcement, matters. The militarized and untrained immigration officers marching armed down the street, matters.
Every tolerated public abuse signals how much further authorities may be able to go than in the past.
It need not be an organized “test” to function as one. We have failed.
The danger is where these trajectories meet: obvious financially vulnerable infrastructure and a government already proven to be willing to expand its power to detain.
Just consider the hypothetical scale: 5,000 moderately sized facilities. 1,000 beds each.
Five. million. people. detained. simultaneously.
If they ever announced a plan to build thousands of prisons, and the public got a chance to resist… We would resist. The intent would be too obvious.
However, if they let private industry convince you to approve thousands of industrial developments individually, one by one, subsidized by capital markets, government loan guarantees, local tax-abatements, then the government can pursue quick-conversions later, and the fight begins with the buildings already standing.
If I’m not clear so far: I suspect the data-center boom is simply a Trojan horse for building mass-detention facilities.
Suspicion is not proof of a secret plan. It is a reason to investigate ownership, financing, government contracts, and any proposed changes of use—NOW.
The time to demand answers is BEFORE the purpose changes and the doors lock behind you.
@TuckerCarlson @josephfcox @nytimes @wapo @nickshirleyy @NickJFuentes @latimes @nypost
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I was checking bags at Kona Airport on The Big Island, Hawai’i… Then, this kid just pops through the bag conveyer.
Mild panic ensued, then he was just handed over to the first Hawaiian to claim him.
😂🫣
My Controversial College Football Opinion:
Watching @ArmyWP_Football and/or @NavyFB should NOT require a subscription to a streaming service.
Their games should be available to every home, and to anyone within the US that wants to watch or even re-stream them, free of charge.
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‼️URGENT‼️
America may be building the infrastructure for mass incarceration under the banner of an AI boom — and waiting for proof of a coordinated plan could mean waiting until that infrastructure is already in place.
That is the danger I see in the data-center gold rush - an inevitable bubble burst that hands the federal government 5,000+ prepackaged, fully functioning prisons.
The scenario is straightforward: private capital finances a nationwide network of large, secured industrial buildings.
When AI revenues fail to justify the investments and ongoing costs of operating with quickly obsolete hardware, distressed facilities will become acquisition targets.
Only then will the Government step in, and infrastructure that was sold to communities as economic development, becomes available for an entirely different purpose.
Mass Detention.
A data center is not a turnkey prison.
But land, windowless buildings, out of sight of most public-view, utilities, and secured perimeters provide a great starting point for a bad future reality.
Granted, conversion requires money and political will. But, neither is an insurmountable obstacle for a government committed to expanding detention.
Seemingly unrelated, the public response (or lack thereof) to recent aggressive immigration enforcement, matters. The militarized and untrained immigration officers marching armed down the street, matters.
Every tolerated public abuse signals how much further authorities may be able to go than in the past.
It need not be an organized “test” to function as one. We have failed.
The danger is where these trajectories meet: obvious financially vulnerable infrastructure and a government already proven to be willing to expand its power to detain.
Just consider the hypothetical scale: 5,000 moderately sized facilities. 1,000 beds each.
Five. million. people. detained. simultaneously.
If they ever announced a plan to build thousands of prisons, and the public got a chance to resist… We would resist. The intent would be too obvious.
However, if they let private industry convince you to approve thousands of industrial developments individually, one by one, subsidized by capital markets, government loan guarantees, local tax-abatements, then the government can pursue quick-conversions later, and the fight begins with the buildings already standing.
If I’m not clear so far: I suspect the data-center boom is simply a Trojan horse for building mass-detention facilities.
Suspicion is not proof of a secret plan. It is a reason to investigate ownership, financing, government contracts, and any proposed changes of use—NOW.
The time to demand answers is BEFORE the purpose changes and the doors lock behind you.
@TuckerCarlson @josephfcox @nytimes @wapo @nickshirleyy @NickJFuentes @latimes @nypost
Just remember, @nvidia CEO @JensenHuang built his business with proprietary technology that his cousin stole/shared with him while she was an executive at IBM.
Now, she’s the CEO of @AMD and he’s the CEO of Nvidia. FIRST COUSINS.
Collectively, the two hold arguably the most concentrated/centralized power over AI and its infrastructure, across the entirety of the planet.
Some would argue, that this is not just an equivalent to, but is the embodiment of a singular, unmonitored and uncontrolled power-center, over all of humanity.
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Macklemore’s speech is not automatically #antisemitism. “Free Palestine” and attacking Israeli policy are political claims.
Plenty of Jews make the same *exact claim. And they should, because why shouldn’t they?
Treating every #Israel critique as Jew-hatred is a habit that cheapens real antisemitism.
The genocide line from a pop stage is sloppy and maximalist; it is also the vernacular of a large activist bloc, not a secret Nazi code.
@RobertKrafts reaching back to a 2014 costume @macklemore already apologized for is a thin “history” if that is the main exhibit.
If there is a thicker file, Kraft has not put it on the table. Why? Because there’s not one, there never was.
But what’s the takeaway? We now know, Robert Kraft has the influence to quickly blacklist anyone he chooses from every stadium in America, and likely beyond.
That’s a real problem.
Not because he owns Gillette Stadium, he certainly has a right to decline to host someone on property he owns.
The problem is much simpler.
Most NFL stadiums are subsidized with taxpayer money.
In essence, If Macklemore has earned money in a state and consequently has paid taxes in a state that paid for a stadium he’s blacklisted from performing at, should we reevaluate public-private partnerships that abandon the individual right to generally constitutional demonstrations of speech and expression?
We have a name for what Robert Kraft is participating in when he networks to destroy an individual for their beliefs.
That’s a cartel.
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I really like how this one line from @Outkick’s + @AlejandroAveela, where he inadvertently concedes to the tropes that Zionists control the public narrative and silence their detractors:
“Private venue owners have zero obligation to host speech they oppose on their own property.
The truth is, @RobertKrafts is under no obligation to finance or host rhetoric that attacks his community on his own stage.”
The real truth is, NFL stadiums are built as public-private partnerships. They are in large part, financed with tax dollars paid by everyone.
Maybe Alejandro ought to get with the times, even Republicans are fed-up with Zionist faux-victimhood and media control.
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So @AskWorkspace - would you like to explain how you used my Google Pay payment method to recurrently charge for a ‘workspace’ seat of which was never authorized on a personal Gmail account, and that provides ZERO functionality?
This isn’t an arbitration matter, this is a criminal offense.
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Iran hiked gasoline prices *on its own people* the *same week* it announced an exclusion zone in Hormuz and claimed a *new missile test* against US ships.
Is the regime punching above its weight… or just bleeding out in public?
Reply with 🔥 if you think they still have cards left
Reply with 💀 if you think this ends in 2026
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Hey @grok,
Explain ulysses S grant’s motivation behind expelling “Jews as a class” during the Civil War.
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