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By decree of his excellency General George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army, on this July 4th, in honor of our Independence Day:
Americans are to refrain from all blackpilling, squabbling, complaining and mogging (exceptions made for mogging Europeans).
All good citizens shall be expected to be merry, patriotic, andof a general happy temperament.
Criticism of size and quantity of fireworks displays, aircraft flyovers, and food and alcohol consumption shall not be accepted and offenders will be shot.
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Why do you think people said that girls have cooties? It’s an acronym COOTIES: Chinese Overseas Operative Trained in Espionage & Statecraft.
They’ve been warning people about spies since childhood.
Americans love the idea of immigration enforcement but they don’t want to see how the sausage is made.
The solution is to use detainers and go after job sites employing illegal labor.
Unfortunately the latter is hard to do for certain political fundraising reasons.
Hispanics Said Enforcement Went Too Far
The polling question this post and others are pointing to asked voters to name the most important issue facing the country. It was not asking what drove their vote. Atlas Intel asked that question, and immigration enforcement came back as the most cited issue for Hispanics.
You don't have to like that result, but this same exit poll points the same way. Hispanics now trust Democrats over Republicans on immigration by 15 points. ICE is underwater with them by 38. And 68 percent say the administration's enforcement has gone too far. By the way, those voters broke for Democratic 87 to 10.
The same exit poll also shows 76 percent of Hispanics naming immigration enforcement as a crucial or a major factor in their vote. That group went Democratic by 23.
Did every Hispanic walk into the booth thinking about ICE? No. Three out of four of them did, but plenty didn't, and those broke for Democrats by even wider margins. Would Republicans have done better with Hispanics if the economy were stronger? Perhaps, but it's also not like the economy is in free fall. The Hispanic poverty rate hit a record low last year.
We should talk about the economy, but no honest 2026 post-mortem can pretend that immigration enforcement was not a factor in the GOP's losses with Hispanic voters. Tariffs don't explain Hispanic Democrats voting at record levels across the Rio Grande Valley. Neither does Iran.
What to do about this is for policymakers to debate. Whether it happened isn't debatable.
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Memphis Mayor Paul Young confirming @elonmusk’s statement that Memphis is booming because of the data centers:
“This year was $54 million in taxes generated. Last year about $25 million — it was the second-largest taxpaying property in Shelby County.”
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“You have a responsibility to look beyond your pocketbook.”
I am warning everyone right now, we are going to lose the entire Untied States of America in 2028 if the GOP messaging does not take a 180 degree turn and run in the other direction.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum blames the midterm results on selfish voters who were unwilling to "suffer financially for a higher good": "Nobody likes to do it, but we all suffer." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…
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Honestly, if you haven‘t been „warned“, „bashed“ or honeypotted by the Chinese Government and/or the Chinese Communist Party at least once in your career, perhaps you are not so good at your job and should consider doing something lighter and nicer for a living. Like gardening.
If you believed the clap trap on twitter, you’d think Canadians were avoiding the U.S. like the plague.
Numbers and real life tell a different story.
Immigrant visas to the US have collapsed almost everywhere since Trump’s new policies, except for two places, per WSJ
Change in monthly US immigrant visas:
Canada: +142%
Mexico: +17%
Western Europe: -16%
Southeast Asia: -17%
Central America: -30%
East Asia: -33%
Caribbean: -53%
South America: -60%
South Asia: -63%
Australia & Oceania: -73%
Middle East: -81%
Eastern Europe: -84%
Africa: -89%
Central Asia: -99%
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BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
The benefit of being a Guild Navigator is that you are a Demi-God with an elongated life span who gets to be high on space heroin 24/7 and everyone in the known universe needs you to transport anything.
Great job for childless Silicon Valley autists with a power fantasy.
Can any dune book reader explain why anyone would choose to become a navigator in Dune?
In the world of Dune, navigators are barely human anymore. They spend years immersed in highly concentrated spice gas, causing their bodies to mutate severely until they resemble strange fish-like creatures. So, why would anyone accept such a terrible price?
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Can any dune book reader explain why anyone would choose to become a navigator in Dune?
In the world of Dune, navigators are barely human anymore. They spend years immersed in highly concentrated spice gas, causing their bodies to mutate severely until they resemble strange fish-like creatures. So, why would anyone accept such a terrible price?
“Free stuff” politics is here to stay for the immediate future. The political battle of the future will be over conservative vs liberal social order.
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“Oh yeah Elon? Well I’m gonna shit myself in my own car.
How do you like that?!”
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
This is a broken, deranged and utterly toxic individual.
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Republican groups lost $1.1 billion in midterm Senate races while Democrat groups only lost $12 million, despite spending just over half of that of Republicans, at $677 million.
The massive funding differential between Republicans and Democrats had little impact on the decisions of voters at the ballot box.
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The CCP has pulled the honeypot play so many times, you’d think these CEOs would start wondering about the beautiful runway model they are sleeping with who has an unusual interest in chip design.
Breaking News: Nvidia opened an investigation into Jensen Huang, its CEO, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business executive who U.S. intelligence determined to be a Chinese spy. nyti.ms/3ViPMAt
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you should not cheat on your wife and you should especially not cheat on your wife with a chinese spy imo
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Did backing the war help candidates?
Not with most voters. 44% said a candidate’s support for the war on Iran made them less likely to vote for that person. Only 13% said more likely.
Democrats were the most opposed (76% less likely). Independents leaned the same way, 43% to 5%. Republicans were the one group where it helped, 32% to 13%, though 40% said it didn’t make much difference.
