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For my own future reference
Well, I am convinced that we are living under a congressional tyranny, starting in 1913.
Taxes throughout history have been used as a way to oppress people, and this is no different. The only thing different is the framing of it as funding for social "welfare". Meaning they took something explicitly used to oppress people and then started making people ask for it. We found out that these social welfare programs are simply a vehicle for theft without oversight. Every dollar we give the government only buys about 10 cents worth of anything after the bureaucracy rakes it for their cut.
Back to 1913 - Congress already had the purse strings but tariffs just didn't satisfy their desire to spend unfathomable amounts of money. Enter the 16th amendment - Congress changes the line
"No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unless in proportion to the census or enumeration here in for directed to be taken." to "the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Essentially they gave themselves the power to tax us without any sort of guardrails, Then later that year passed the Federal Reserve Act, which allowed them to leverage debt against the taxes they collect from us.
The very next year we started funding international kinetic wars, starting with world war I popping off in 1914.
I'm running out of characters but basically I think the solution is that we need to overturn the 16th amendment and abolish the Federal Reserve Act. These two things allowed Congress to start crushing the American people with the oppressive taxes we have today, all while delivering very little because of the large portion of it that is going into the bureaucracy and then being defrauded. If you dump a dollar into a machine and it gives you 10 cents on the other side and that's all you get, you have to stop dumping dollars into it or eventually there will be none left
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Calley Means: “It is impossible to describe how demonic DC culture is.”
“We’re robbing the American people.”
“It’s not one party.”
“Republicans or Democrats … didn’t vote to have people that are accepting money from foreign countries.”
“Have their kids working at lobbying firms that are making tens of millions of dollars.”
“Have a centralized policy process that is entirely dictated not by voters, but by lobbyists.”
“I actually spoke to some of my friends who are top lobbyists, I’m like, is this right to you?”
“Americans are going to … rebel.”
“I’m like, why are you doing this?”
“It’s the game.”
“I have a good career, good life.”
“This is how DC works.”
“Chuck Schumer gave a speech to the hospital lobbyists two weeks ago saying, I’m going to have your back.”
“He went around to all the lobbyists saying, we’re going to help you out.”
“Every firm and every company in DC is shifting to Schumer’s former staffers or Jeffries’s former staffers.”
“This is how it works.”
“Congress and the Senate, I don’t think they’ve passed a bill in the past 20 years that’s significantly taken on special interest.”
@calleymeans @joerogan
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Americans must first break their addiction to depending on government for everything. Otherwise, communism will continue to sell.
Republicans wasted 4 years of progress and it only took them 2 years to do it.
This is the only thing Congress is good at.
Oh, and making trillions of dollars disappear
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The rate at which individuals with IQs below 90 (the US average is around 98) completed college has increased approximately 6-fold in men and 10-fold in women relative to rates in the previous generation.
Today, the average college student isn't all that much smarter than the average American. A degree from most colleges signals little more than what a high school diploma signaled 100 years ago.
It's worth noting that the position of the Democratic Party has been that college enrollment should be expanded, and most of the progressive wing of the party believes that college education ought to be subsidized by the taxpayer. In fact, college enrollment should be reduced and hundreds of non-selective colleges should be shuttered.
Yeah, no shit. Nobody did anything to fix the crooked media. Did they think MSM would just have a change of heart after he won in 2024?
THE MEDIA IS STILL RUNNING COVER FOR DEMOCRATS
@DavidBozell says the post-election media coverage shows the same old double standard — openly celebrating Democrat wins while treating Republicans very differently.
He pointed to The View and ABC, arguing broadcasters operating on the public airwaves shouldn’t be acting like partisan cheerleaders.
Bozell also cited MRC data showing Apple News featured 49 negative Trump headlines and zero positive in October, while Google News had 47 negative and just one positive.
“48% of the country is saying that they get their news from these apps.”
@stinchfield1776
They are just going to lock us all in our homes while prices skyrocket as they carry out unprecedented lawfare if 2018 is any indicator. Why does Charlie Brown keep trying to kick Lucy's balls? He knows they have been removed...
BREAKING: @FoxNews has obtained a letter sent today by GOP House Majority Leader Steve Scalise to all House GOP committee Chairmen with recommendations on how best to use their remaining days in power to prepare for upcoming House Democrat investigations and "retribution".
"You all will be a key line of defense in this fight", Scalise writes.
Recommendations include: “Identifying administration officials, programs and authorities, and external allies, including conservative partners and industry leaders likely on their target list” and considering how recent SCOTUS decisions will affect oversight moving forward.
Letter 👇🏻
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Two leftist Marxist students celebrating the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, 1979.
Sahar Mohammadi (left) and Maryam Rafiei (right).
Maryam Rafiei was later executed by the same regime in the 1988 prison massacres, along with thousands of other leftist political activists.
The revolution ate its own.
They hated the Shah of Iran so much that they cheered Khomeini’s arrival, convinced the revolution would bring freedom and modernity.
Reminds you of anything today?
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Why are all the people who were warning of fascism suddenly bragging about the coming show trials, reeducation camps, and nationalization?
I'm trying to work for myself again but you definitely need the capital to get rolling and that is the chicken/egg part... If you have zero capital to start, you need a high paying career first because bills don't stop just because you start a business. But the worst part of starting a business is dealing with the government, by far. Regulations, taxes, permits, zoning... When people talk about seizing the means of production or government-run businesses they clearly have never seen how the government operates anything.
It's rather awkward to claim workers don't want to work for billionaires when capitalism already allows them to pool their resources, start worker owned cooperatives, and keep the profits.
Yet relatively few do.
Even more awkward is advocating communism, where worker ownership has historically meant political elites controlling everything supposedly owned by workers.
Under capitalism, you're free to become your own boss, collectively or individually. Under communism, you're expected to work for the state.
And if starting a cooperative requires too much effort, investment, risk, and responsibility, perhaps you've discovered why the people who assume those burdens expect a return.
You say workers don't want to work for billionaires. Fine. What's stopping them from working for themselves?
The left is beyond parody. Amazing. They thought they were voting against racists, not for them 😂😂😂😂😂 we've all known the left were the actual racists. Why else would they make literally everything about race? The Supreme Court had to tell these guys they couldn't segregate voters by race anymore on their district maps 😂😂😂 my god the illusory effect is astoundingly effective
