Socially liberal fiscally conservative GAYCON. I speak my mind, piss off. Follow at your own risk. Can be NSFW.
Oklahoma, USA
Joined July 2016
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🚨 750 gallons of water flowing every MINUTE, and it's being reused.
CNBC goes inside the next generation of data center cooling technology, where water circulates in a closed loop instead of constantly drawing fresh water from local supplies.
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BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”
Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”
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WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS, AFTER 400 YEARS, ARE STILL TOLD THEY DONT BELONG IN SOUTH AFRICA.
WHITE AMERICANS, AFTER
500 YEARS, ARE STILL CALLED INVADERS IN AMERICA.
BUT THE ILLEGAL MIGRANT FROM THE THIRD WORLD WHO ARRIVED LAST TUESDAY IS SUPPOSEDLY JUST AS AMERICAN AS EVERYONE ELSE.
STUPIDITY RUNS RAMPANT!
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Federal income tax was supposed to be temporary and only for the rich.
Lincoln approved it in 1861 to pay for the Civil War. It only hit higher earners, and when the war was over, Congress let it die in 1872.
But in 1894, Congress tried again. The Supreme Court struck it down the following year as unconstitutional.
So in 1913, the politicians changed the Constitution. The 16th Amendment cleared the way for a permanent income tax, although it was still sold as a tax on the wealthy.
At first, that’s how it worked. Only about 3% of Americans paid it.
Then during Franklin Roosevelt’s administration, rates went up, the exemptions came down... and by 1943 the government was taking its cut straight out of your paycheck.
By 1945, most American workers were paying.
The first 1040 instructions were one page. Today they run over 100.
And all working Americans know the sting every time they look at their paycheck.
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Two Republican senators from Arkansas, with Democrats about seven weeks from taking over the Senate, have decided this is the moment to sit on one of President Trump's last appeals court picks… because they wanted somebody else.
Let me explain what is going on. Trump nominated U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky to the Eighth Circuit, and according to judicial nominations insiders, John Boozman and Tom Cotton are working against him because they preferred Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Cody Hiland for the seat. Nobody, on either side, is questioning Rudofsky's record or his qualifications… they just wanted their guy.
When he had his hearing in September, his own home state senators did not even introduce him, which almost never happens, and this week Boozman put out a statement saying he continues to "appreciate Judge Rudofsky's service in the Eastern District of Arkansas." Translation… stay where you are. The Judiciary Committee vote is set for November 17, and if they get their way it never moves.
Rob Luther, who worked judicial nominations in the White House Counsel's Office in Trump's first term, says Boozman is standing in the way of the first Trump-majority circuit court. Mike Davis called it an unforgivable sin for Boozman and Cotton. And they are right. You do not get to lose the majority, burn the last weeks you have on a turf fight over who gets the robe, and then go home and tell Arkansas voters you stood with the President.
How is this even a thing? The voters just told you they are done with a Senate that does nothing, and the first thing you do with your final weeks of power is protect a favor? Make no mistake, it is not Democrats standing in the way of this nomination, it is Republicans, and they are doing it quietly hoping none of you notice.
I have watched this movie for years. The cool kids club takes care of its own and the people who put them there get the bill.
@JohnBoozman @SenTomCotton, move the nomination. Seven weeks. Let him through and stop playing games with the bench.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
🚨 UPDATE: Arkansas GOP Sens. Tom Cotton and John Boozman are being accused of BLOCKING one of President Trump's final appeals court nominees, Judge Lee Rudofsky
Wtf? LET HIM THROUGH!
Judicial nominations insiders say the two are opposing Rudofsky's Eighth Circuit nomination because they want a different pick: Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Cody Hiland, per Bloomberg
Attorney Mike Davis: "This is an unforgivable sin for Boozman and Cotton." @mrddmia
Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are accused of "doing their bidding" on the Judiciary Committee 😠
TRUMP IS CLEAR: DO NOT LEAVE ANY VACANCIES FOR THE DEMS.
CONFIRM NOW.
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🚨 HEGSETH ASKS THE OBVIOUS: Where was the impeachment vote for Lloyd Austin?
Afghanistan humiliated America. Austin went AWOL for a week. A Chinese spy balloon floated across the country.
Not one impeachment vote.
Now Hegseth hits the Houthis, flattens Fordow and Natanz, and wrecks Iran's military, and Massie wants HIM gone.
Weakness got a pass. Winning gets impeached.
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Had a majority in both houses for two years.
Trump in the White House.
They could’ve done anything they wanted to do. They could’ve absolutely codified an America First agenda.
Instead they took vacations, traded stocks, fought each other, fought Trump, and stepped over their own mothers for 90 seconds of airtime on Fox News.
Now they’d surrender.
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Dear Muslim
As Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast approaching,
Please avoid driving cars through crowds, blowing innocent people up with pipe bombs, and going on stabbing sprees.
Dear non-Muslims,
As Ramadan is just 92 days away,
Please avoid eating in front of Muslims who are fasting.
Please avoid drinking in their presence.
Do not deliberately tempt those observing the fast.
Muslims will be fasting from dawn until sunset.
A little consideration and respect go a long way. ❤️🌙
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This is why the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators) should be repealed.
Before the 17th Senators were appointed for 6 year terms by the State Legislature to represent the interests of the State.
Legislatures also wanted their own turns as a U.S. Senator and would NEVER send brain dead fossils to DC for decades.
Repeal the 17th!
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I would like to personally congratulate @ChuckGrassley for his role in last night's election disaster.
Without Chuck leading the Senate Judiciary Committee, all of President Trump's Judicial nominations would be confirmed and sitting on the bench right now.
Atta boy, Chuck!
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This is what Islam did to America 25 years ago.
I’ll never understand how any American can vote for a Muslim politician.
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Another reason Daylight Saving time sucks is that it makes people complain about Standard time. If we never had DST you wouldn't have anything to complain about. Summer days are long, winter days are short. STFU already.
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As a gay man, I'll say what a lot of us are thinking.
We fought to be left alone. To marry the man we love, keep our jobs, and live a quiet life.
We won.
Then woke activists took our letters, stapled on a dozen causes we never signed up for, and started calling us bigots for saying sex is real.
That isn't our movement anymore.
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So a sitting United States Senator goes on camera a week before Election Day and says "we have lawyers who are already drafting the emergency case to be brought to the Supreme Court of the United States before the election and then in the immediate aftermath"… before the election. Not after a single vote was counted, not after anything happened, but before.
And then Ed Markey keeps going, thousands of lawyers getting ready to be deployed at election stations in the key states, and "we have to be ready on Election Day to have a national strike," with millions of people coming out of their homes to protest what he already calls an electoral crime. A crime that has not happened yet, on a day that has not happened yet.
Let me explain what you are looking at. When you write the lawsuit before the election and stage the crowd before the results, you are not protecting an election, you are pre-contesting one, and the outcome only counts if it goes your way. Now imagine a Republican senator saying those exact words on camera… how long before every network was running the word insurrection around the clock?
I watched them call people like us dangerous for asking questions about machines. Markey plans the strike out loud and it is just another interview in Boston.
@SenMarkey, if you are so sure you are winning big, why are the Supreme Court briefs already written? Go vote. All of you.
Markey Reveals Color Revolution Plan: Unions & Workers to Shut Down Nation?
Senator Markey must have participated in the organized Ed Holder Election War Game Exercises.
In a interview conducted today, Senator Ed Markey stated that lawyers were already drafting an emergency case to bring before the U.S.
Supreme Court both before and immediately after the election. He added that thousands of lawyers were being prepared for deployment to key polling stations across multiple states.
Markey further said preparations needed to include readiness for a national strike on Election Day, with millions of people taking to the streets to protest what he described as an attempted electoral crime. He specifically called for workers, unions, and businesses to shut down in a manner similar to the response in Minneapolis following the deaths of Alex Freddi and Renee Goode.
Markey argued that the president was growing increasingly desperate because Republican fortunes had slipped, citing repeated visits to Texas to protect an otherwise safe Senate seat and campaigning in historically safe Republican states such as Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.
The Senator predicted that an anticipated large Democratic victory would prompt some Republicans in the House and Senate to distance themselves from the MAGA agenda rather than become “sacrificial lambs.”
Markey expressed concern that desperation could lead to the deployment of ICE agents or the military, and he said the public mobilization would demonstrate outrage to the Supreme Court if an emergency petition were filed.
This is why voters must choose common sense candidates in this midterm cycle. The modern Jacobins are out for blood, and only a decisive choice at the ballot box can save our republic.
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🚨 JUST IN: Leftist Hennepin County prosecutors in Minneapolis just hit journalists James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with FELONY unlawful voting and identity theft charges for filming an undercover video exposing Minnesota's giant "voter vouching" loophole that DOES NOT REQUIRE VOTER ID
This is MADNESS 😡
Even the prosecutors' own charging documents admit that NEITHER O'Keefe nor Higby ever cast a ballot!
During Minnesota's primary, @CamHigby and @JamesOKeefeIII walked into Minneapolis precincts in disguise to show on camera how Minnesota law lets a single person "vouch" for up to 8 unregistered people at the polls with zero photo ID — and walked out before voting
Instead of fixing a glaring election vulnerability, Soros-backed prosecutor Mary Moriarty are prosecuting the journalists who exposed it!
THEY ARE INNOCENT.
Keep them protected!
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HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent], and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.
