Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
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Turning states into third world countries, one ignorant policy at a time
Man, pick up one staffer who has played ncaa football or 2K. This is what the 12 year lapse of ncaa titles did to our society
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
ITS YOUR FUCKING LEGACY YOU FUCKING TOADSTOOL, YOU FUCKING VOTED THE MEASLES MAN IN. DRACULA IS NOW A TERRIBLE LEGACY ON MY HOUSEHOLD AFTER IINVITED HIM IN AND LET HIM NIBBLE ON MY CHILDREN
Saluting from the toilet as RFK continues to make us healthier
Nothing that a few swinging pull-ups and medically unnecessary testosterone can’t fix
Families of sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spoke to Military Times about multiple incidents in which sailors have attempted to go overboard amid the ship's extended deployment in support of combat operations in the Middle East
About damn time. When will these toddlers learn some self dependency? How about you go out and earn your faffle? Also, we speak English in America, not babble
More than 4 million people nationwide were dropped from the federal food assistance program known as SNAP from July 2025 through March, according to a nonpartisan think tank. Arizona has seen the sharpest decline.
Trump trying to a nuke a hurricane was just a preamble to the entire GOP starting a bombing campaign with the Canadian forest
Celebrating 250 years of America by inhaling all the pollutants we’ve been poisoned with over the last century. Fireworks will be followed by a lead paint taste testing
MLM-ification of the entire economy. Either it all crashes and we suffer a giant recession, or the Nazi-edgelord becomes a lone hegemonic power. A win-win if you will
I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Moving latrines upriver because drinking contaminated water is what our warrior forefathers did, and they died a warriors death, shitting their brains out
Breaking news: The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.” https://wapo.st/4eAG2sx
President pedophile creating monetary fund to give back to pedophiles. He really looks out for the little guy, you don’t know which Jan 6th guy will turn into the next pageant owner
BREAKING: It's official. The Trump DOJ just confirmed the creation of a $1.776 billion slush fund that can be used to pay Trump allies who claim they've been wrongfully targeted by the Biden admin's ‘weaponization' — including, reportedly, Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
God this sucks. “Can anyone save us? I, a US Senator, cannot do anything. The only thing that can save us is the golden hearted troop.” I have and will ignore all the war crimes the noble troop has already committed
It’s moments like these that are why we made the video to service members last year. And I hope and believe our troops — especially those in command — will have the moral clarity to push back if they are given clearly illegal orders.
The dumbest among us harbor the tools to annihilate us all
The furious masturbating for justifications the execution just reinforces the notion that we are fucked.
Wow, the MAGA pigs really have lost even the Reddit conservative community now - the one that WAS on board with “well, killing Renee Good was justified because she was a lesbian bitch” www.reddit.com/r/Conservati...