I am a second-generation American. I was BORN in the United States. I was raised here. This is the only country I have ever called home. I grew up believing in mostly conservative principles. Individual liberty, meritocracy, personal responsibility, and the American Dream. I believed these were values worth defending. But somewhere along the way, something went terribly wrong. I watched fellow Americans being told they didn't belong because of the immutable characteristics like ancestry. I watched patriotism become a test of ethnicity. I watched people who spent their entire lives loving this country being treated like outsiders in their own homeland. And perhaps the most heartbreaking part was the silence of people we once considered political allies. Let me make something absolutely clear. My American identity is NOT conditional on my skin color. My citizenship is NOT diminished by my surname. And my patriotism does NOT require validation from anyone. I can disagree with you on immigration, economics, foreign policy, or virtually any political issue. That is democracy. But I will NEVER entertain a debate about whether I belong in the country where I was born. No political party is entitled to my unconditional loyalty. Especially not at the expense of my dignity. I did not come to America. I was born in America. And I refuse to spend the rest of my life proving that I belong in my own country. I am an American. Not a guest. Not a foreigner. Not a second-class citizen. An American. Full stop.

A short history of currency debasement: Debasement is the oldest con in government. Rome ran it better than anyone until the twentieth century came along and said, "hold my beer." Under Augustus, the denarius started at 4.5 grams of nearly pure silver. By Nero's reign in 64 AD, the emperor had shaved it down to about 90 percent silver. Nero had fire damage to repair and games to fund. His successors kept clipping. By the time Gallienus ruled around 260 AD, the denarius and its descendant, the antoninianus, carried around 5 percent silver, a copper slug dipped in a thin silver wash that rubbed off in your palm. Prices in the empire rose more than a thousandfold across the third century. Diocletian then responded with the Edict on Maximum Prices in 301 AD, threatening death to any merchant who charged what the debased coins were actually worth. Merchants did the sensible thing and stopped selling. Shelves emptied. This method never changed, only the technology. Henry VIII of England ran the Great Debasement from 1544 to 1551, dropping the silver content of his coinage from 92.5 percent to 25 percent and pocketing the difference. Londoners noticed the king's copper nose showing through the silver on his own portrait and nicknamed him Old Coppernose. Clipping coins requires effort. Running a printing press requires almost none, which is why the modern state loves paper and loves screens even more. John Law gave France a preview in 1720 with his Banque Royale and a flood of paper livres backed by Mississippi fantasies. The scheme collapsed within a year. The French liked the lesson so little they repeated it with the assignats of the 1790s, printing until the notes were worth essentially nothing and executing speculators in between runs of the press. Then came central banking, which industrialized the whole operation and gave it a respectable name. The Federal Reserve opened in 1914. A dollar from that year buys you about three cents of goods today, a 97 percent loss of value, achieved without clipping a single coin. Nixon closed the gold window on August 15, 1971, and after that nothing anchored the dollar except the promises of the people printing it. The Fed expanded its balance sheet from roughly 870 billion dollars in 2007 to nearly 9 trillion by 2022. Your savings account paid less interest than the currency lost. Debasement transfers wealth from whoever holds the money to whoever prints it first. That is the entire mechanism, from Nero's mint to the Fed's open market desk. The man who spends the new money early buys at old prices. By the time the fresh units reach your wages, the prices already moved. You hold the bag. Gold held its weight for five thousand years because no committee could vote it into existence, and governments abandoned it for exactly this reason.

The majority of welfare recipients in Arkansas are -in fact- White. Therefore, if you pick a random welfare recipient in Arkansas, they will probably be White. "Per capita" arguments don't change that.

Given the choice, libertarians will always side with the communists. They are fundamentally a left wing movement.

Americans objectively cannot compete with brown slave labor and visa-indentured servants with degrees from Punjabi diploma mills making pennies on the dollar. Your ideology is based on being rootless mercenaries. You’re disgusting.

I’ve been going hard at the Pagan Right lately so here’s a little palate cleanser by way of reminder: Leftism is a satanic religion disguised as a political party; its sacrament is baby murder, and it’s designed to destroy this beautiful country. It has to be crushed.