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—”Time to exercise our 2nd amendment rights.”

You will be in prison, and your target will own all of your stuff.

Your targets will also win a ghetto lotto, funded by taxpayers.

And in the unlikely event you luck out on target, they will collect total 24/7 care and feeding in perpetuity.

—”Glen Ellyn was being culturally enriched.”

Or maybe not.

I lived next to Glen Eylllyn for years, Many beautiful homes...

Sadly, my DuPage County, once a bastion of conservatism, is going left.
A vast wave has abandoned Chicago and brought their voting patterns with them.

At first thought, it’s a big money day for the Glen Ellyn pool.

But this crowd only consumes, and never pays.

The flash mob was originally planned for Naperville but Naperville police had a different plan, and Glen Ellyn has less than ten cops.

Anywhere there are nice things, they will steal it or destroy it.

https://youtu.be/Op5zCLl_ll8?si=pvuMRzRiNOZT-2RZ

Video depicts chaos at Glen Ellyn pool: Twerking, fireworks and manager shoved into water

Can you twerk out a car window?

Full txt:

https://archive.ph/83wHD

POWERFUL.

A house floating down the river...

You want to write about war? Brotherhood? Male alienation? Good luck.

THE ODYSSEY translated by Emily Wilson.

As good as it gets and proven over time.

I previously read a different translation, tending to MEGO.

The first half is good, into the second half and I could
not stop. I read all night, and already knew the ending! THAT GOOD.

Guessing the translator might adjust the ending for modern readers' sensibilities; fear not.

Sometimes I read a random section to enjoy it again.

On occasion, reread Tennyson's "ULYSSES".

How Ulysses(Odysseus)puts the band back together to sail forever.

"Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!"

..."Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

My kind of guys.

The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce was actually signed between the United States and France in 1778, not Russia.

Most of your post is BS!!!

—”And even when they “win” studies have shown that their lives go downhill”

A friend of a friend won two million.
A few years later, he said he overspent and had to return to work.

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https://x.com/tsgnews/status/1940442830729891899

Dead or severely disabled, coming soon.

—”Has a traffic court judge in New Jersey stopped it yet?”

That comes much later.
Soon, it will be a near-endless stream of BS lawsuits, taking years in the courts.

Coming from the same nuts that demand more bird choppers and bird burners to power $100k EVs.

Then the traffic court....

If that is your best shot, so sad, too bad.

—”Just another Democratic effort...”

...To elect our worthless fat slob governor to higher office.

—”but outside jurisdictions can fine them for infractions in those jurisdictions.”

DuPage County, next to Chicago, was once a bastion of conservatism.
THOSE DAYS ARE GONE!!!
The fat rats move out of the city and vote for more rats.

We had an ARMED carjacking at a nearby public gym, where my grandkids go!

They take Uber to a leafy suburb and jack a ride home.

—”The Rich and the Well connected never have.”

Please define “RICH”.
I have some friends and relatives who have done exceedingly well.
And they pay mega taxes, yes, still more after tax than they can spend.

I asked about the stories of rich tax avoiders with offshore accounts.
They explained the process with trusts and offshore holdings, which pay most expenses and is taxable,to make it look good, and a credit card system for offshore expenses...
And the scheme may be wiped out with any tax law changes.

I only know one elected official now retired, and I believe he is the mostly legitimate, he always said every move he makes is watched. Yes, he has three different pensions, maybe four, and government pensions somehow often pay much more than is paid in.

You need to be near the top of the food chain to avoid paying.

—”And apparently you don’t need any driving skills, and if you drink and drive and kill someone, well, whatever.”

A friend was driving home from work, light traffic on the interstate through Chiraq, minding his own business...

BANG!!!
He was center punched at high speed!!!
A local traveling at high speed down a dead-end street, blasted through the barrier, down the embankment...

My friend was released from the hospital after a couple of weeks, months of rehab...
The druged jamoke that hit him won the gettho lotto!
Free wheelchair and free money for life.

—”When you got nothin you got nothin to lose.”

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

James Baldwin

—”What a conundrum,... “

“A republic, if you can keep it”

“Fiat money with debt as a means of control.”

Russia...where 40 million people still shit outside.
The average Chinaman is lightyears ahead of the average Russian, and the Chineese have indoor plumbling.

The Russian economy has shown some resilience, but sanctions have impacted much of it. And that is after Putin worked for over 25 years to isolate the Russian economy, with little success.

“Third Russia is not a debt driven economy.”
Very much as Marx wanted it, but it did not work, then or now.
Why did Russia keep its Russian sovereign fund outside of Mother Russia? Because they had no faith in the Russian economy and this began in about 2000 when Putin came in.

” Russia has raw materials, and not an interfering bureaucracy that sets up road block to fundamentals.”

You may want to review the highly subsidized domestic natural gas prices in Russia. FAR below the cost of production. And the 40% without NG, they burn old tires if they can afford them.

“Russia has a self contained economy that doesn’t depend heavily on imports.”

Unmitigated BS.

Self-sufficient on wheat, when the crop comes in and that requires manpower, they are lacking.
Did you notice how the Russians steal all the farm equipment they can grab? Not destroying in place as a military item, they need them, and lack the production of machinery of all types.

Putin wants to give “bread and circuses”, some bread they still have, and the citizens are not smiling.
Russia had food shortages caused by a severe drought in Russia in 2010, they are still not prepared for it.

Without the war or sanctions, AIDS, alcoholism, drugs, and despair are crushing pur sang Russia and the Muslims are gaining strength for their time at the top.

DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY. Putin is just speeding up the calendar.