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American Made Giveaway 🇺🇸
Christmas is in 67 days! We’re excited give away over $1,500 in American Made goods from small businesses across Vermont, Idaho, Virginia, Indiana, and Alabama. We’ve teamed up to give away a handcrafted leather rifle stock cover, set of hand carved Dreamware utensils, a beautiful wool pillow encased with organic American-grown cotton, an elegant Farmhouse Pottery taper candle holder, and a box of pasture-raised chicken or pork (your choice).
To enter for a chance to win something from one of these amazing small businesses:
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The purpose of this giveaway is to spread some cheer (there will be 5 winners!) and also to help each of you give quality, American Made gifts this year! It’s convenient to go shop at big box stores, but we all know how disappointing that usually turns out to be. Shop small and support real families; we know you’ll be thrilled with your purchases.
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Open to the 48 contiguous states. Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on October 24, 2026.
Support Chef Gruel. Protect Huntington Beach!
The left is pumping tons of money into our Huntington Beach city council race. They want to take me out. The attacks have begun. I’m fighting for liberty and freedom . secure.anedot.com/gruel-for-…
Jack is spot on
Replying to @EricLDaugh
@Delta As a loyal customer (Diamond) I find it incredulous that Delta chose not to use the Starlink system. Whether I am flying domestically or overseas, I am consistently disappointed with the WIFI system. Personal grudges is no way to run a publicly traded corporation. Ed Bastian is neither the largest shareholder nor the customer. He has some explaining to do both.
Alison Reynolds Ball retweeted
Replying to @Censored4sure @moderna_tx
Alison Reynolds Ball retweeted
I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.
Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.
It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.
They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?
Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.
Anyone else getting calls from CDC NATL IMMUNIZATION? Everyday, asking if I have children under 17, I'm 65!
This is why Starmer won't resign. His leaders demand that he gets this in play.
A key element that Keir Starmer and the Labour government have quietly added to the social media ban for under 16s:
▪️Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards.
Basically, a digital ID check on all adults on social media. The government are using the virtue smokescreen of online safety for children as a guise for wider digital ID verification for adults. As always with Starmer…smoke and mirrors to mask the real agenda.
It looks like Karen Bass was illegally elected by the homeless population of Skid Row in Los Angeles, CA.
Every single homeless person was paid to vote for a Democrat. They came up to 3x a week to pay for votes.
Every NGO, politician, and ballot chaser/mule MUST be prosecuted.
Vote Pratt
In the final 24 hours before Election Day in Los Angeles, chaos erupted: one thug stormed into a store, grabbed a glass pipe off the shelf, and smashed it into the owner’s head, leaving a 3-inch gash. Another took a scooter, threw it through a business’s glass windows, and stole $30,000 in the process.
Just two weeks earlier, a shop owner held at gunpoint during a robbery didn’t even bother reporting it because he said the police wouldn’t do anything.
Meanwhile, during all of this chaos, open drug deals were happening across the street while people were strung out in broad daylight.
This is the sad reality for Los Angeles business owners and residents under Bass’s leadership who refuses to crack down on crime and enforce law and order.
I hope Californians are fed up and voted for Spencer Pratt if they actually want real change.
This sums up Gavin Newsom
Replying to @JamesBradleyCA
Flaccid and ineffectual- which pretty much sums up his entire political career.
A man with a plan. Bravo, go Spencer.
If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.
I feel for this young man.
ATTN Media: The current photo circulating of Islamic Center attacker Caleb Vazquez is NOT correct according to Jakub Vazquez, who says he knew one of the attackers through wrestling two years ago but has had no contact with him since.
REPEAT: the photo currently circulating online is NOT the attacker.
If you don't vote for Spencer, this is what you'll get. Wake up, LA.
All you need to know about @nithyavraman
She voted for this over 70 f’in times
She’s trying to distract you from her horrible and really immoral record
Well said 👏🏻
You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.
That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.
Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.
A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.
CBS election interference AGAIN
Well worth the read.
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

























