Shrug Atlas, Shrug @ffejimus

@PhillyMayor What planet were you on in 2008?

Ten years ago today, I sat at a conference table finalizing the sale of my company. We had just wrapped up a 30 day transition period: transferring vendor lines, signing over leases, settling outstanding payables; all the grueling operational details that come with a small business acquisition. My CPA and lawyer sat beside me. Their counterparts sat across from us. Then came the moment: a check slid across the table. It was the largest amount of money I had ever seen in my life. Over a decade of work culminated in that single piece of paper. It represented 7 day workweeks and bell to bell shifts. Sleepless nights during the financial crisis. Countless hours pacing the floor, brainstorming solutions to every minor and major disaster that hits a growing business. It represented the thrill of huge wins and the crushing weight of hard losses. The months of celebration when business was booming, and the lean times spent writing hundreds of paychecks to everyone but myself. It was the arguments with bankers when we needed capital, and the courting from those same bankers when we succeeded. It was dealing with insurance claims from theft and vandalism and natural causes. It was watching with a smile as our team enjoyed the annual Christmas party and opened their year end bonuses. It was having to deliver bad news - like health insurance premiums skyrocketing under the now implemented "Affordable" Care Act - and then delivering the good news that the company was going to cover nearly all of the price hike out of its own pocket (even if we had no power over the now higher deductibles). It was watching employees buy their first homes, get married, and start families on the back of something we all built from scratch. And it was the quiet tears when our best laid plans fell apart. That is the life of a real entrepreneur. That is what it means to actually contribute to the economy and create real jobs. Thirty minutes later, the attorneys left. It was just me and my CPA, making final tax preparations. He swung his laptop around to show me the final ledger. I looked at the number. Nearly half of that record breaking check wasn't going to a church, a charity, or the family of an employee we had lost. It wasn't going to support team members welcoming new children into the world, or to any cause of measure or merit. It was going to a cold government. A government I had watched launch forever wars built on lies. A government that bailed out Wall Street while local creditors slashed my credit lines - even though we had never missed a single payment. A government that repeatedly tried to crush my industry with regulations written by massive corporations to keep small, independent operators from climbing the ladder to the tops of the towers they occupied and planned on occupying alone. That government never offered me advice. It never hired an employee. It never took a call on vacation because a store got broken into. It never had to sit at a little brother's graduation and answer a phone to hear that an employee had just been killed in a tragic accident. Nearly half. Taken. Gone. Income taxes are immoral. They also... happen to be the worst way to fund any government... if you want it ACTUALLY answerable to "we the people". In Liberty, -Michael

Correct. Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be. Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them. Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week. Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact. Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia. SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR. That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell. End of story.

varifrank @varifrank

4 days ago

STARLINK WORKS THE SAME WAY ITS ALWAYS WORKED. ITS NOT A WEAPONS SYSTEM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH UKRAINE WANTS IT TO BE.

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Reporters asks this guy, "Do you even know what you're protesting?" "We're just here to smash everything" Shows you the state that France is currently in.

Shame on you @margbrennan. You didn't bother to bring up the @Starlink version of the truth for the sake of neutrality. Ethical journalism is dead in the leftists' camp. @Starlink can not be used for military purposes. It is a violation of the contract. You can't despise legacy media enough. @RepJasonCrow, Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) you have lost the last shred of integrity for blatant lies and deception.

@kevinnbass And if Republicans win, we’ll get the same thing. It’ll just take an extra five years.

@FBIDirectorKash Took you long enough. We expect this stuff within the first six months

Another look at the @Tesla footage that saved Kevin Finley from lying police officer Erik Schwartz, who now has been *fired/forced to resign...

Step 1: cashless society Step 2: grant the state power to raid your bank account for taxes Step 3: keep raising taxes to fund their bloated welfare state & permawars abroad whenever they like, ad infinitum Step 4: empty your bank account via fines for political dissent when you oppose any of this Step 5: Switch your bank account off entirely, once the government designates you an ‘enemy of the state’ These Labour Party maniacs worship the state, because they worship power. They must be stopped.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

5 days ago

🚨 BREAKING: John Healey will announce at the Budget that HMRC will be given powers to seize money directly from the bank accounts of people who fail to pay their tax

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It is never enough - and yet they don't have enough money to pay for it all. Cause they don't have a culture of entrepreneurship, self-reliance, and work-ethic that goes beyond basically part-time work or no work at all. They want the "oligarchs" to pay for their upper-middle class lifestyle. Guess what, it doesn't work like that in the real world.

Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider

a week ago

France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE

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@RoKhanna @IfindRetards, this may be the take of the week.

This is all true. This former GOP state legislator closely aligned with DeSantis and Randy Fine -- Mike Caruso -- was arrested in August on charges of sexually abusing multiple young kids in his family, including his grandson and a niece. He had previously advocated the death penalty for pedophiles. This picture is when Caruso, Randy Fine and DeSantis went to Israel in 2023 to sign a "hate speech" law that restricted the free speech rights of Floridians on behalf of Israel. They signed it in Israel.

ADAM @adamemedia

a week ago

The man standing next to Randy Fine and Ron DeSantis, in Israel, is Mike Caruso, currently on trial for forcing his penis into his 3 year old grandson’s mouth and peeing in it. Randy Fine’s political committee donated to him.

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WE. ARE. TOTALLY. FREAKING. OCCUPIED. You CANNOT convince me otherwise.

ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham

a week ago

FBI Director Kash Patel has formally agreed to work with Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to reform Section 230, which critics say will target Americans on social media who post "conspiracy theories" about Israel.

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FBI Director Kash Patel has formally agreed to work with Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to reform Section 230, which critics say will target Americans on social media who post "conspiracy theories" about Israel.

"The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain" (WSJ, link later). The fascinating part of the European train wreck in progress is all the different pieces that are coming together at the same time. All the major European nations are in trouble with rising welfare state costs

Labrador Skeptic @SaysSimulation

2 weeks ago

"Eurozone Swung to Goods-Trade Deficit in August" (WSJ, link later). The degree of trouble Europe is getting itself into can be seen in the latest trade deficit, as Europe's core business model falls apart. Machinery & vehicle export surpluses are what paid for energy 1/

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This is the exchange. Democrats help foreigners scam federal programs in exchange for ballot harvesting. It’s as simple as that. Everyone knows it. Nothing is done about it. And our constitution has no answer for it.

Frontline Leaks @Frontlineleaks

2 weeks ago

🚨THEY FILLED THE CAR WITH BALLOTS… AND SAID WHO WAS DOING IT James O’Keefe’s undercover cameras caught it cold. A ballot harvester in Minnesota shows the trunk and dashboard packed: “You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all

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Retard got community noted into oblivion

@littleapostate You're subsidizing the bottom 2% of society. Like or not they dictate everything in your life.

Who's going to tell Trump that Russia has a diesel export ban and that Russia does not have the physical surplus capacity to fulfill these amounts without triggering severe domestic shortages. Oh wait a second it is clear the administration does know this because the announcement itself has a escape clause full delivery of the final 3 million tons would be "based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries." Given that several top refineries are completely offline or operating at 25% capacity, this clause essentially functions as an immediate roadblock to execution. So congrats! We are on market manipulation Friday. This announcement is literally is to try and bring prices down on false statements of near future diesel surplus that's not coming

Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork

3 weeks ago

BREAKING: Donald J. Trump announced following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia will supply large quantities of diesel fuel to the global and American marketplace, starting with over 300,000 tons immediately, another 500,000 tons in November,

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NYT reports that a Huckabee top aide is a literal traitor, actively covering up Israeli killings of American citizens and falsifying embassy reports about Israel’s role in settler violence.

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Adil Haque @AdHaque110

3 weeks ago

How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel | NYT nytimes.com/2026/10/08/wor…

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