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The Seven Cures
We have gone through the seven sins and watched each one grow from a private weakness into a public system. But the cures are as old as the sins, and our ancestors knew them all.
A civilization is made of what it rewards and punishes. Reward the sins, and they become systems. Reward the cures, and they become a civilization.
Against envy, admiration. Both begin the same way: by looking up at someone who has done better. Envy says: tear him down. Admiration says: show me how. One turns the feeling into destruction, the other into work. And few people envy when everyone around is doing great things.
Against pride, humility. Humility is not thinking you are small. It is knowing the world is bigger than your plan. The proud man designs a society for everyone; the humble man lets everyone design his own life. And Madison put it most simply, noting that if men were angels, no government would be necessary – so power must be divided, and ambition made to check ambition. The cure for pride is not a humble ruler. It is a system that does not need one.
Against wrath, patience. Wrath wants the punishment now, before the facts. Patience waits for them. Scaled up, patience has a name: the rule of law – evidence first, verdict last, or not at all. Every mob, from the guillotine to the hashtag, is wrath that refused to wait.
Against sloth, diligence – not overwork, but care: doing your own work, and finishing it. The surest cure is ownership. Give a man something of his own – a house, a field, a business – and he will take care of it. Take everything from him, and he will care about nothing. When someone tells you that you will own nothing and be happy, he is selling you sloth.
Against greed, generosity. Greed wants to take; generosity wants to give – and you can only give what is yours. Generosity with other people's money is not a virtue. It is greed wearing a halo. The state does not give. It moves money, and keeps a share for the moving. Many of the West's proudest hospitals, universities and cathedrals began as real gifts.
Against gluttony, temperance. Gluttony lives at the expense of later and others. Temperance leaves something on the table – for tomorrow, for the children. At the scale of a state, gluttony is called debt, and temperance a balanced budget. An old proverb says that a society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit. Temperance is love for those who come after us.
Against lust, faithfulness. Lust takes and leaves. Faithfulness stays – and builds a home. Lust is sterile. A home is where children grow up. A civilization that cures lust gets the one thing lust never gives: grandchildren.
Put the seven together, and the pattern is plain. Every sin consumes; every cure builds. You could argue it is all just a matter of time preference – how much you value today over tomorrow. Every sin wants it now. Every cure can wait – for later, and for those who come after us.
Aristocracy is a matter of time preference. Not blood, not money: the habit of thinking in generations. A politician thinks until the next election; an aristocrat, until his grandchildren. That is why a state that lives from election to election eats the future. And you need no title for it – any family that thinks in generations is founding a dynasty.
And notice how each sin became respectable: it changed its name. Envy calls itself social justice. Pride calls itself expertise. Wrath calls itself the people's anger. Sloth calls itself a right. Greed calls itself generosity – with your money. Gluttony calls itself body positivity. Lust calls itself liberation. No sin becomes a system under its own name. It needs the Lie.
So one cure comes before the other seven: call things by their names. The cures need only the truth – and someone brave enough to say it first.
The Seven Deadly Sins – at the Scale of a Civilization.
More than fourteen centuries ago, Christian monks drew up a list of seven sins. Not laws – a map of the human heart. Envy. Pride. Wrath. Sloth. Greed. Gluttony. Lust. It is still pretty much the most accurate psychology anyone has written.
The monks were looking at one soul at a time. Look at whole systems instead, and you find the same seven. A vice that stays private ruins one life. Scaled up, it becomes an institution: a tax, a ministry, an ideology, a budget line.
People will always have vices. The question is who pays for them.
Adam Smith noticed that we owe our dinner not to the butcher’s kindness but to his self-interest. A free market does not abolish greed – it puts it to work: you get rich only by serving others, and you go bankrupt if you don’t. The vice pays its own bill. Bad systems let the vice send its bill to someone else – the taxpayer, the next generation, the innocent.
A good civilization does not abolish sin. It sends the bill to the sinner.
So here is what comes next, one sin at a time:
1. Envy – the engine of socialism. If I can’t have it, nobody should.
2. Pride – the planner’s conceit, from Plato’s philosopher-king to the Brussels directive.
3. Wrath – vengeance without trial, from the guillotine to cancel culture.
4. Sloth – comfort as a political program, from bread and circuses to the empty cradle.
5. Greed – the one everybody expects us to defend. We won’t: crony capitalism, the bailout, private profit and public loss.
6. Gluttony – debt. Eating the future.
7. Lust – pleasure cut off from its consequences, and from children.
And then the cures: the four old virtues – prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude – and the institutions that make them stick.
The monks thought sin was a matter for the confessional. They were half right. It is also a matter for the budget.
Show me a country’s budget, and I will tell you which sins it subsidizes.
First up: Envy.
Envy – the Engine of Socialism.
A genie appears to a peasant: "I’ll grant you one wish." The peasant thinks for a long time. His neighbor has a goat. "Kill the neighbor’s goat."
That is envy. Not wanting what someone else has – that’s ambition, and it built most of the world. Envy is wanting him not to have it. Even if you gain nothing. Even if you lose.
Every other sin at least promises pleasure. Envy promises only that someone else will have less. And it is the one sin nobody ever confesses – because it never calls itself envy. It calls itself fairness. Justice. Equality.
Socialism is envy at scale: not lifting the bottom, but cutting the top. Thatcher caught it in one sentence in Parliament: her opponents would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.
In experiments, people will pay out of their own pocket to destroy money belonging to others. Whole countries do the same: the tax that raises little but drives away the people it targets, the school that abolishes the advanced class because not everyone can take it, the rule written to bring down whoever got ahead.
In Soviet villages, a kulak – a "rich" peasant – was often a man with two cows. Liquidating the kulaks did not give anyone a cow. It gave everyone the famine.
That is envy’s bill. Envy aims it at the successful. But the successful leave, or stop trying – and the bill comes back to everyone. Kill the goat and you get no milk. Neither does anyone else.
The Greeks knew there were two kinds of rivalry. Hesiod wrote that the potter competes with the potter, the craftsman with the craftsman – and that this strife is good, because it makes everyone work harder. The other kind only destroys.
A free society does not abolish envy. It converts it: you may have what your neighbor has – by doing what he did. Socialism converts it the other way, into policy, so that nobody has the goat.
The cure is old and simple: gratitude for what you have, and the ambition to build what you don’t.
Next: Pride.
Free Range retweeted
One of the foundational components of the "Narrative" arm of the Color Revolution plot is for the complicit media to constantly state--usually gratuitously and where such commentary is unnecessary--that President Trump's concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election are "baseless" or some dismissive variation of such language.
They do this despite the very legitimate questions about ballot harvesting, universal mail-in ballots, electronic voting anomalies, states without voter ID, the improbable vote statistics and timings of that election and the many examples of voter fraud we see every day.
So I asked Grok this question:
"Grok, please identify 100 recent news stories in major media outlets where they specifically stated that President Trump's concerns about the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election are "baseless" or "without proof" or some similar formulation. Please answer without offering your own opinion on the validity of election fraud claims."
The answer is linked below.
Once you see the enormity of this propaganda technique, it's hard to unsee it.
All for the Color Revolution!
nitter.cf/i/grok/share/c2hhcmQtM…
Free Range retweeted
Medicine prescribed going without food for 2,400 years, and then a cereal company bought a magazine.
400 BC: Hippocrates tells the sick to stop eating. Feeding an illness, he says, is how you keep one.
100 AD: Plutarch writes that a day without food beats a day of medicine. Nobody in Rome finds this controversial.
200 AD: Galen, physician to emperors, puts fevers on a fast and gets paid in gold for it.
1025: Avicenna writes the textbook Europe will teach from for six hundred years. His cure for most things is three weeks without dinner.
1200s: the Church takes meat, butter and lard off the table for a third of the year and calls the result a healthier soul. The lord keeps the venison. The peasant keeps the fast.
1527: Paracelsus calls fasting the greatest remedy, the physician within. He is drunk for a lot of his career and still right about this.
1742: Benjamin Franklin prints that the best of all medicines are rest and fasting. Poor Richard sells ten thousand copies a year.
1880: Dr Henry Tanner goes forty days without food in New York, under medical watch, with newspapers printing his weight daily. He walks out and lives to 1919.
1900: Dr Edward Dewey, a working physician in Pennsylvania, publishes a book. Its title is The No-Breakfast Plan. It goes through many printings. Patients get better. Nothing is sold.
1911: Upton Sinclair tries fasting on himself, feels extraordinary, and writes The Fasting Cure. It is a bestseller.
1917: a nutritionist called Lenna Cooper writes that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The magazine is Good Health. The magazine is published by the Kellogg family. The Kellogg family sells breakfast.
1925: a public relations man called Edward Bernays is hired by a bacon company. He writes to 4,500 doctors asking whether a hearty breakfast is healthier than a light one. They say yes. Bacon sales rise. The hearty breakfast is now science.
1965: a Scotsman called Angus Barbieri walks into a Dundee hospital at 33 stone and fasts for 382 days on water, tea and vitamins, with the doctors taking bloods throughout. He leaves at 12 stone and stays there. It goes in the record books and out of the textbooks.
1990s: the gym decides that three hours without protein destroys muscle. The protein is for sale at the desk.
2003: a study finds that people who eat breakfast are leaner. The people who eat breakfast also tend not to be shift workers, smokers or hungover, and nobody reads past the headline.
2016: a Japanese biologist wins the Nobel Prize for showing what a cell does when you stop feeding it. It cleans house. The prize is given in Stockholm with a banquet.
2024: a conference abstract announces that intermittent fasting is linked to a 91% rise in heart deaths. It is based on two days of food recall from a decade earlier. It is on every front page by lunchtime.
2026: the surgery hands you a sheet that says skipping breakfast is a risk factor, next to a bowl of cornflakes in the illustration.
Twenty-four centuries of physicians starving the sick and watching them get up.
One century of a bacon firm, a cereal firm and a protein desk, and the oldest cure in medicine is now a thing your doctor has been trained to warn you about.
Hippocrates had no funding. That turns out to have been his only error.
Free Range retweeted
There were five slave trades. You were taught about only one. 🏴🇬🇧
One. The Atlantic. Twelve million Africans shipped to the Americas. Britain banned it in 1807, then hunted it for sixty years.
Two. The Barbary trade. A million Europeans taken to North Africa. Britain bombarded Algiers in 1816.
Three. The Saharan trade. A thousand years of caravans north across the desert. Britain had its northern end banned. Tripoli, 1857.
Four. The East African trade. Twenty thousand people a year through one customs house. Britain forced the market shut. 5 June 1873.
Five. The Ottoman trade. Raiders sold Eastern Europeans south for three hundred years. Britain made the Sultan ban it in 1854.
It cost sixty years and two thousand sailors. Nobody else fought all five. 🙏🇬🇧
It isn't over. Mauritania only made it a crime in 2007. Fifty million people are in slavery today.
Someone has to remember who started the fight. ⚓🇬🇧💪
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Doing chores as a kid predicts how your life turns out better than your IQ does.
Harvard followed 456 boys from Boston's poorest neighborhoods from age 14 all the way to 47. The ones who worked hard as kids, chores, odd jobs, whatever, grew up mentally healthier and had better relationships. That mattered more than how smart they were or how much money their family had.
Kentrell kind of explained why without meaning to. Coolest man on earth, but hella structure.
A Berkeley psychologist named Diana Baumrind spent the '60s studying exactly that combo. Parents who were warm and strict at the same time raised the most capable, independent kids. Strict with no warmth did worse. So did fun with no rules.
Look at his dad's list. Out the door by 6:50am. Homework gets checked, no excuses. No dishes left in the sink. In bed by 10. Plus a four-week deep cleaning rotation that ends with him hosing down the outside of the house.
Then look at what he gets back. Friday after 6 is his once chores are done. Saturday he can be out on the block till 10 and home by 11. And the Sunday laundry line says Dad will help if he's not working.
Pretty much every rule on there earns him something. An 8-year-old can understand that deal.
When you start matters too. Marty Rossmann at the University of Minnesota went back through 84 kids from Baumrind's research. The ones doing chores at 3 or 4 were doing the best in their mid-20s, and it predicted that better than IQ did. Kids who didn't get chores till 15 or 16 mostly resented them, and it backfired.
Most of us grew up with this. In a 2014 survey of 1,001 American adults, 82% said they had regular chores as kids. Only 28% make their own kids do them.
A kid who was 10 when that survey ran is 22 now. Some of the people in these replies are about that age, saving a stranger's dad's chore list so they can run it on themselves.
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BREAKING: Declassified docs reveal just-arrested FBI officials Nikki Floris (who joined Obama Russiagate conspirator Lisa Monaco at Microsoft) + Bradley Benavides conspired in 2020 to bury tips of mass Chinese voter fraud/election interference, kept warnings out of Trump's PDB:
FLORIS: "We'll get this back in a box!"
BENAVIDES: "Fact or suggestion for them [field agents] to recall [intel report on fake Chinese voter IDs]?"
FLORIS: "Fact. Boom."
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Understand, that former FBI shadow government agent knows there's no fancy lawyering that's going to prevent what is about to happen to her.
The documentary trails she and her co-conspirators left behind themselves....it's.....well it's just too much.
They left too much evidence behind.
The one guarantee Floris had - like every member of the shadow government had - was that even if they were forced to do some PRETTY OBVIOUS SHIT, they were going to BE OK.
They would be protected. Nothing would happen to them.
They could pull off a COVID Plandemic, do a J5 pipe bomb false flag, do a J6 Fedsurrection operation to entrap/prosecute/imprison hundreds of innocent Americans...
...AND NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM.
The shadow government was **completely secure and in control**.
**HOW** could anything ever happen to them?
You gotta understand...these last 20 months, man.
Sweet baby Jesus...they never saw any of this shit coming at them.
I mean, they know they missed him in Butler. They know they failed to imprison him before the 2024 election got there, or at least keep him off the ballot.
They knew they were in for a rough time since they failed to stop him from coming back....
BUT **THIS?!**
Holy shit, THIS?
That he'd come back with a DREAM TEAM and launch a spectacularly SUCCESSFUL HOSTILE TAKEOVER of that EXECUTIVE BRANCH and it's AGENCIES?
FUCK NO, they didn't see THAT coming.
One by one by one, he's ripped them from the shadow government's grasping hands so violently and forcefully their fingers are still stinging:
1. The NSC
2. The DOJ
3. The FBI
4. The Treasury
5. The State Dept.
6. HHS
7. The US Military
8. DHS/ICE
9. Education
10. Most of the intel agencies
He took it all AWAY FROM THEM and then the blond-haired son-of-a-bitch started SHUTTING DOWN their drug and human trafficking networks all 'cross the fruited plain, shutting down the border and reasserting control away from the shadow government's cartel business partners.
And if THAT wasn't bad enough, the insufferable prick and that smarmy Bessent continued on SHUTTING DOWN ALL THEIR MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEMES OUT OF THE US TREASURY!
One by one by one the US Shadow Government franchises hidden fraud revenue streams are being exposed, cut, shut down, prosecuted.
And now its reached the stage that Trump and his people at the DOJ are **comfortable** sending a massive fuckin' signal that the next step has arrived.
After taking over.
After exposing.
After shutting down.
PROSECUTION.
The prosecution phase has arrived.
Nothing is gonna stop this.
These people can cry all they want.
They were making FUCKING WAR on their country in league with criminal foreign entities.
They deserve every fucking thing that is about to happen to them.
And you can quote me on that.
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She sat in the corner. Not because she was quiet. Because the room had already decided she wasn’t part of the conversation.
For years she watched meetings happen around her. Her partner typed. She typed back. Nobody looked—until the CEO finally asked what she was saying. First time in forty years.
She is deaf. She has been since she was two. She does not speak. Fifteen years inside the biggest tech companies, building systems while decisions moved past her.
Then she mapped the money. During the LA fires she followed a donation link. Forty percent never reached the people who had lost their homes. Once she saw it, she could not unsee it.
The data had always been public. Almost no one had looked. She built the tools. They published her name. She confirmed it herself and kept going.
What she found was a system with almost no accountability to the people whose money it spends. She had spent years in rooms where her voice was ignored. Now the filings were speaking.
That is the story. A woman who sat silent for years, who finally looked at what was already written down, and who decided the rest of us should see it too.
DATAREPUBLICAN: AN ORIGIN STORY
- based on @DataRepublican's public life story
- animated by @PoliticsOnX
Rant: Got last minute travel today, so won't be doing a Democracy Files drop today.
But saw that the person at the center of the files posted about "unimaginable horrors."
Let me tell you why I got interested in "democracy" in the first place.
I've told this story many times, but here again: I was DOGE adjacent from the very beginning. I was recruited by several DOGE teams in January 2025, because I was excited about the opportunity to finally cut spending and taming the national debt.
Bu then - Tesla Takedown protests happened. People got so worked up that they were firebombing innocent Tesla owners. A viral website with a Molotov cocktail cursor prominently featured my husband's address. I was doxxed in the middle of that, and forced to flee the state and homeschool my children.
That's when I started researching and writing UNELECTED. I quickly found the groups organizing and funding the civil unrest were all about "democracy." It made no sense to me. DOGE wasn't overturning elections. They were cutting obviously silly awards - given our national deficit, who would object to that?
Silly me!
Turns out "democracy" means diffused rule by unelected people, and all that USAID money going to marginalized groups to build a "civil society" is the foundation of that. So the immune system of "civil unrest" can be activated anytime, and terrorize anyone who dares to step out of line. Such as DOGE employees. Such as me and my family.
That research trail led me all the way to DemAID (now DRG), a group of ex-USAID officers. Led by you and Ro Tucci. @iamlisalogan and @SKDoubleDub33 found DemAID on video taking credit for these protests.
But this isn't about me. This is about the United States. And about the dozens of countries wrecked by color revolutions. You aren't solving polarization. You are the source of polarization, because in the process of building "civil society," you are displacing people's inborn allegiances and training them up to attack the very foundations a nation are founded upon.
Nor is this about revenge or anger. I'm calling on everyone to pray that no more damage is done, and that we can find a path forward that preserves our Constitutional Republic.
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James Talarico is very damaged.
We all know he supports illegals voting.
But I discovered a more disturbing story.
Either Freako himself repeatedly voted illegally and lied about it, or he has been living for years with his mother as an elected official.
I also discovered that he illegally occupied elected office in the Texas House for more than a year.
I am not making this up.
Freako is out of control.
On October 13, 2021 Talarico posted: "I'm excited to move over the county line ... (Yes, I may have to move back with my parents like a true millennial.)"
Texas Constitution article III §23 says, "If any Senator or Representative remove his residence from the district or county for which he was elected, his office shall thereby become vacant."
Now, from 2019 until January 2023, Talarico was a member in the Texas House of Representatives in HD-52, Williamson County.
Yet on November 5, 2021, he registered as a voter at his mother's house, in HD-50.
His campaign says he moved into his mother's residence that day. It provided journalists a U-Haul receipt.
His parents gave his campaign a $1,437.84 in-kind contribution labeled "Moving expenses" in December 2021.
Talarico had moved from HD-52 to HD-50, a completely different district.
He was not living in the district that he represented, yet he never vacated his seat.
Talarico thus illegally occupied elected office, until January 2023, for more than a year, in violation of the Texas Constitution, Article III §23.
Now, in June 9, 2022, Talarico bought a house in Austin, the same HD-50 as his mother's house.
The mortgage that he signed stated that he would "occupy, establish, and use the Property as Borrower's principal residence within 60 days", or August 8, 2022.
On that mortgage, "Non-Homestead Property" is unchecked, while other boxes were checked, indicating that this property was his homestead, or primary residence.
On Aug 8, 2022, the deadline day under this mortgage to move into the new house, he sold his previous house.
Yet the sale deed was signed with his mother's address as his mailing address.
So, he was registered to vote at his mother's house, and he signed his mailing address as his mother's mailing address.
Yet he signed a mortgage requiring him to live at a different house.
What's going on!
Now, on Aug 15, 2022, he refinanced that mortgage. The checked box: "Renewal and Extension of Liens Against Homestead Property."
Tax Code 11.13(j)(1)(D) says a residence homestead must be "occupied as the individual's principal residence."
Yet, he was still registered to vote at his mother's address.
Texas Election Code says:
§11.003. You "may vote only in the election precinct in which the person resides".
§1.015(a). "Residence" means domicile, "one's home and fixed place of habitation to which one intends to return after any temporary absence".
His mother's house must be his primary residence for him to vote in that election precinct, which is in precinct 191.
Yet, according to both the mortgage and its refinancing, he could not be living with his mother, but in the new house, which is in precinct 133.
Which is it?
Because if he was not living with his mother, he was voting illegally.
Now, at every vote, §63.0011(a) requires the election officer to ask each voter whether the address on the list is current and whether they've moved within the county.
If he said he had moved, he had to sign a statement giving his current address, and §15.022(a)(4) then required the registrar to correct his record.
Yet Talarico voted from his mother's address on five separate occasions, November 1, 2022, November 2, 2023, February 28, 2024, April 30, 2024, May 28, 2024.
His registration stayed at his parents' house until Sept 7, 2024.
Either Freako was living with his mother, or he voted illegally five times over the course of nearly two years.
Which is it?
Now, on April 27, 2023, Texas House Bill 1243 proposed to make voting illegally a felony.
On April 27, Talarico voted for Bucy Amendment 1 to gut the bill.
The amendment failed.
On April 27, he then voted for Manuel Amendment 2 to keep voting illegally a class A misdemeanor unless the person had a prior conviction.
That amendment also failed.
On April 27, April 28, and May 28, he then voted three additional times to block the bill.
In total, he voted five times to block the bill to make illegal voting a felony.
But the Bill passed, making voting illegally a felony, taking effect on September 1, 2023.
Talarico voted from his mother's address four more times after the Bill took effect, exposing him to four potential felony counts.
Now, on May 1, 2023, Talarico filed a sworn financial statement with the Texas Ethics Commission that marked the Travis house that he bought in 2022 as his home address.
The one we keep ping-ponging back and forth on.
In Part 7A, real property, he listed two entries:
Round Rock house (Williamson County): marked as sold in 2022 at "NET GAIN at least $47,220 or more".
Home box unmarked.
One Travis County lot: street "REDACTED PER 572.032(a-1), GOV'T CODE".
Box "X CHECK IF FILER'S HOME ADDRESS" marked.
He knew where he lived.
Or did he?
At the Texas Tribune Festival on September 24, 2026, just a month ago, he contradicted himself again.
When he was asked about the reporting about his voter registration, he responded:
"I voted where I lived, in every single election."
Now, we established early that Freako illegally occupied elected office, refusing to vacate in violation of the Texas Constitution.
But which of the following are true:
Did Freako live for years with his mother while serving as a Representative in the Texas House?
Is that why he has said, "What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Because at the end of the day, aren't we all just really big kindergartners?"
Because he lived for years with mommy?
Or, did he not live with his mother, but by registering his mother's address as his home address, engage in felony illegal voting?
Which is it?
And why won't Talafreako be straight with us?
Free Range retweeted
Hello Senator Thune,
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
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Rant: Got last minute travel today, so won't be doing a Democracy Files drop today.
But saw that the person at the center of the files posted about "unimaginable horrors."
Let me tell you why I got interested in "democracy" in the first place.
I've told this story many times, but here again: I was DOGE adjacent from the very beginning. I was recruited by several DOGE teams in January 2025, because I was excited about the opportunity to finally cut spending and taming the national debt.
Bu then - Tesla Takedown protests happened. People got so worked up that they were firebombing innocent Tesla owners. A viral website with a Molotov cocktail cursor prominently featured my husband's address. I was doxxed in the middle of that, and forced to flee the state and homeschool my children.
That's when I started researching and writing UNELECTED. I quickly found the groups organizing and funding the civil unrest were all about "democracy." It made no sense to me. DOGE wasn't overturning elections. They were cutting obviously silly awards - given our national deficit, who would object to that?
Silly me!
Turns out "democracy" means diffused rule by unelected people, and all that USAID money going to marginalized groups to build a "civil society" is the foundation of that. So the immune system of "civil unrest" can be activated anytime, and terrorize anyone who dares to step out of line. Such as DOGE employees. Such as me and my family.
That research trail led me all the way to DemAID (now DRG), a group of ex-USAID officers. Led by you and Ro Tucci. @iamlisalogan and @SKDoubleDub33 found DemAID on video taking credit for these protests.
But this isn't about me. This is about the United States. And about the dozens of countries wrecked by color revolutions. You aren't solving polarization. You are the source of polarization, because in the process of building "civil society," you are displacing people's inborn allegiances and training them up to attack the very foundations a nation are founded upon.
Nor is this about revenge or anger. I'm calling on everyone to pray that no more damage is done, and that we can find a path forward that preserves our Constitutional Republic.
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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.
The wolf begged to be freed.
“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”
The shepherd cut the rope.
The next night, three lambs were gone.
Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.
By winter, half the flock was dead.
An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”
The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”
The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”
That’s the lesson.
Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.
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These are Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations most of us had never considered. For those who may not know, Dave Ramsey is an American radio personality who offers financial advice.
No cash means absolutely NO CASH. So try this… the next store you go in and order a drink or want to buy their product and they tell you “card only”, walk away. I have done this out of principle, and will continue to do so.
Dave Ramsey repost:
HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:
* If you are struggling with your mortgage in a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you, which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.
Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.
If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card.
Cash is legal tender; it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to deposit cash.
Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.
You are welcome to share this 😊
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>be Lula
>get convicted of corruption
>get sentenced to 12 years
>get released by the STF on procedural errors
>never actually acquitted lmao
>beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022
>Jair gets thrown into jail over an alleged coup attempt
>Congress votes to cut his sentence
>Lula vetoes it
>four years later, face his son
>during a debate, threaten to also lock him up if he loses the election
>election day
>former private lawyer, now STF judge, extends voting by 2 hours nationwide
>request came from Lula's own coalition
>win by 4 million votes in a runoff with no paper trail
>next day, Moraes orders the losing candidate to surrender his passports
>victory speech: "we're going to regulate social media"
>"democracy" lmao
>RIP Brazil
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Just a reminder that the Color Revolution is not actually trying to overthrow President Trump.
Nope.
What they are actually trying to do is overthrow the Constitutional choice of We the People.
That's what this is actually about.
These ex-USAID/CIA/State/military cretins are coming after YOU.
And they are doing it all to "protect our democracy."
GRRRRRRRRR....😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
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NEWSFLASH: Dominion CTO Eric Coomer’s libel case against me for saying Dominion’s equipment rigs elections was just thrown out by the judge on summary judgment. Trial was supposed to start next Wednesday, but the judge read our evidence and realized I was correct. No libel.
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After forty years in front of the camera, I’ll be directing my first feature film, SO HELP ME GOD: a Civil War epic about a Union soldier named Albert Townsend, who should have received the Medal of Honor but didn’t.
Clerical error.
I learned of Albert through his descendants’ archival research. What I found was more than an injustice waiting to be corrected. It was a story of friendship and extraordinary courage: an unassuming young man becoming a soldier who held his ground, and his principles, under fire.
That’s a story worth telling on the largest possible scale. And we’re inviting the people who want to see it told to help bring it to the screen, as investors in the film through Republic.
We intend to do it justice: real cannons, one hundred horses, and the cast in period-accurate uniforms. We’ve brought on Mark Huffam, whose work includes Saving Private Ryan, Game of Thrones, and The Martian, to produce it. He knows what it takes to make an epic, and how much depends on the human story at its heart.
At the Medal of Honor Heritage Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I introduced the project alongside Civil War historian Brad Quinlin, members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and representatives of Civil War Roundtables. We’re also supporting the campaign for Albert’s posthumous Medal of Honor. His descendants are still fighting to see his courage properly recognized.
This picture is about friendship, love, and honor — and common people rising to accomplish extraordinary things. I want to give that story everything it deserves.
I hope you will lift the banner with us.
Learn more about the film and the opportunity to invest:
sohelpmegod.film
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Lisa Murkowski was appointed by her governor daddy to the Senate
She voted with Obama 72.3% of the time in 2013
She opposed Brett Kavanaugh for SCOTUS but supported Kentanji Brown
She voted to convict Trump in his 2nd impeachment
She’s lost 2 GOP primaries and been censured by the Alaska Republican Party
She confirmed Lloyd Austin but not Pete Hegseth
Lisa Murkowski is a Democrat
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The biggest tell for me that the election will be secure, is that the Dems are panicking and have been seeding the narrative that Trump is going to steal the election.
If the Dems were confident they were going to win, they would currently all be demanding Trump to confirm that he will “accept the results of the upcoming election”. That’s what they did in 2020 when they knew they had their full array of fraud and mass mail-in ballots.
However, in 2026, the Dems have not been doing that. They’ve been doing the exact opposite. The Dems have been focusing their messaging on the Trump administration interfering with the results, crying about the potential of federal agents at polling sites, crying about the seizure of ballots and tabulation machines, crying about Trump using foreign interference as a pretext for Executive intervention, etc.
The Dems are behaving as if they believe they are going to lose the election. They have already been laying the groundwork to launch the “Trump stole the election” narrative for a while now. That’s why they are so focused on their fake polls, so when they lose, they can say Trump cheated.
The Dems are bracing for defeat.
Everyone get out and vote, and let’s ensure their defeat is definitive.
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🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 10: THE ROLE OF FOREIGN STATES🚨
(First post deleted for typo)
How is an old government declared illegitimate and a new government declared the true successor?
Months before the actual transition, the following are achieved in advance:
• Civil society and activists get prepared for big uprisings.
• Media narratives are pre-seeded.
• Foreign officials provide cover.
The last point is what this drop is all about. You saw it last night - as soon as Lula "won" the election, EU officials and Alex Soros immediately swept in with their congratulations. That is a deliberate strategy to grant Lula legitimacy, not an organic congratulations.
The idea is to saturate the people with the idea that "this is the legitimate government, and you will accept it."
In these files, we see the various NGOs strategize on how to reach out to governments in advance and prepare them for what is coming. We also revisit how USAID OTI, the regime change arm of USAID, allegedly re-organized themselves inside the country.
We record one meeting taking place between Horizons Project and Catalonia officials. That we were able to document a meeting at all is unusual, because I'm told that these meetings are generally arranged at the highest levels and kept off the record (think Jake Sullivan, Norm Eisen level).