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HYPOTHETICALLY… IF I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $125,000 IN 2002 AND THE COUNTY NOW SAYS IT’S WORTH $487,000, WHERE DID I ACTUALLY MAKE $362,000?
Did I sell it? No.
Did I receive $362,000? No.
Did somebody hand me a check for the new assessed value? Obviously not.
But my property taxes still go up because, on paper, my house is suddenly worth hundreds of thousands more.
That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.
This isn’t income.
It isn’t cash sitting in my bank account.
It’s a number someone assigned to my property, and now I’m being billed based on that number.
If my stock portfolio doubles but I don’t sell, I haven’t turned that gain into cash.
If my salary stays the same, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax because someone thinks I’m worth more.
So why does owning a home work differently?
WHY AM I PAYING TAX ON A GAIN I NEVER REALIZED?
A house isn’t just an investment.
It’s where people live.
You can pay off the mortgage, own the property outright, and still face a bigger bill every year because the value of the house went up on paper.
At some point, you have to ask what “owning” something actually means if the cost of keeping it can keep rising because of money you never received.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER THE HOUSE IS “WORTH” MORE.
IT’S ABOUT BEING CHARGED FOR VALUE YOU NEVER TURNED INTO CASH.
And people are starting to notice.
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DEMOCRATS: "It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote so Voter ID is just stupid and unnecessary"
ME: "It's already illegal for minors to drink alcohol so we don't need to check IDs at stores or bars anymore?"
THAT is exactly how idiotic that argument is!!
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🔥🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST DROPPED A HISTORICAL BOMB AND THE SWAMP IS SHAKING 🚨🔥
America DID NOT need an income tax for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR YEARS.
From 1789 to 1913 this nation ran on TARIFFS paid at the PORTS — not stolen from your paycheck every two weeks.
Customs duties funded 80–95% of the entire federal government before the Civil War and still about HALF afterward. That’s how they built the country with a SMALL government.
Then came the 1880s… the Treasury was DROWNING in such MASSIVE SURPLUSES they created the Tariff Commission of 1882 just to figure out what the hell to do with all the extra money. They paid down the Civil War debt. They didn’t need an IRS. They didn’t need to raid your wages.
Tariffs built AMERICA.
Income tax built the SWAMP. 🐊👺💸
THE INCOME TAX WILL BE ERADICATED.
WATCH HISTORY REPEAT.
WATCH THE PAYCHECK THEFT END.
WATCH AMERICA WIN AGAIN. 💥💥💥🇺🇸
This is not theory. This is 124 years of proof. Trump is right. The people are waking up. The era of being a slush fund is OVER.
RT if you’re done being robbed.
Like if you want your money back.
Comment 🔥 if you’re ready for the greatest tax reset in American history.
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THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT JUST PUT THIS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION DURING THE NFL GAMES.
“This is the final battle with you at my side.
We will demolish the deep state.
We will expel the warmongers from our government.
We will drive out the globalists.
We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists.
We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.
We will rout the fake news media,
and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”
PAID FOR BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
Not a campaign.
Not a PAC.
The actual United States government.
They’re not working us over anymore.
We’re working them over.
This is the final battle.
And it’s live on national TV.
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You lived through FOUR YEARS of the Biden disaster - runaway inflation, an open border, weaponized government, weakness abroad and cultural insanity at home.
Now you’re telling me you can’t give President Trump four full years to repair it?
In less than two years:
🔥 Illegal border crossings collapsed
🔥 “Catch and release” was dismantled
🔥 Remain in Mexico was restored
🔥 Deportations and cartel enforcement intensified
🔥 Biden’s federal DEI machine was dismantled
🔥 Biological sex was restored in federal policy
🔥 Men were pushed back out of women’s sports
🔥 The military returned its focus to readiness - not woke social experiments
🔥 Biden’s EV mandates and energy restrictions were reversed
🔥 American oil, gas, mining and infrastructure were reopened
🔥 The Paris climate agenda was abandoned
🔥 Federal hiring, waste and bureaucracy were challenged
🔥 Permanent tax relief and pro-growth policies replaced Biden’s tax-and-spend direction
🔥 America stopped apologizing and started negotiating from strength again
No, every price hasn’t fallen yet. You cannot create trillions in inflation, flood a country with millions of illegal immigrants, bury businesses in regulation and destabilize the world - then repair everything in a few months.
Trump deserves criticism when he gets something wrong.
But abandoning the entire agenda before the turnaround has had four full years would be political suicide.
You gave Biden four years to BREAK it.
Give President Trump four years to FIX it.
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Just to clear the air: I’m a Make America Great Again conservative, but that doesn’t mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Let’s break it down, because I’m tired of being told what I believe and what I stand for. Spoiler: not every conservative is the same, but most of us I know share these same principles.
1. I believe America should never depend on another country for energy, protection, or basic supply and demand. We are strongest when we build, produce, and protect things right here in the USA.
2. I believe America must put itself first. We cannot pour from an empty cup. Our country should prioritize our own people before trying to save the world.
3. I believe only legal citizens have the right to vote. You must have a valid ID to vote. I also believe in a secure election process.
4. I believe no foreign aid should be given until every veteran at home is taken care of.
5. I believe immigrants make America stronger — when they come legally. If your first act in this country is breaking the law, you aren’t an upstanding citizen.
6. You can marry who you want. I may agree or disagree with your lifestyle, but your life is not mine to judge, I leave that to God Almighty.
7. I believe men are men and women are women. Surgery or hormone don’t change that. Men should use men’s bathrooms, and women should use women’s bathrooms.
8. I believe schools are for education, not indoctrination. Kids should learn math, history, reading, and science - not political propaganda. They should not be taught they were “born in the wrong body” or pushed into gender delusion.
9. I believe America is in a mental health crisis. Mental health care is real, it matters, and it desperately needs to be addressed.
10. I believe guns aren’t the problem - people are. Gun control only infringes on constitutional rights. But I also believe in common sense: background checks are necessary to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill.
I’m a conservative because I believe in faith, family, freedom, and personal responsibility. I don’t want a government that controls every aspect of our lives - I want a government that protects our rights, secures our borders, defends our freedoms, and then gets out of the way. We are strongest when Americans take care of America first, when families are supported, when our veterans are honored, and when our children are given truth, not propaganda. I love this country, and I believe it’s worth fighting for.
I shared this, if you believe as I do, do the same.
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On Monday morning… Fire John Thune, arrest Adam Schiff, and deport Ilhan Omar.
We would sweep the midterms guaranteed.
Wouldn’t need to spend a penny.
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Not my list. I stand by it anyway. If Washington, Madison, and Jefferson saw this perk machine, they’d be spinning.
Congress should:
1. Get paid only in office — no pension, no carry-over perks
2. Pay into Social Security and live on it like the rest of us
3. Fund any extra retirement themselves
4. Stop voting themselves raises; cap increases below Social Security COLA when we’re in deficit
5. Use Medicare, not a separate plan
6. Follow every law they pass, including trading rules
7. Lose the self-written contracts
8. Serve two terms, then return to private life
Office is a tour of duty. Not a lifestyle.
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Maybe instead of making Medicare, Medicaid & social security recipients work until they drop, we should require Congress to work for a fucking change. They make $174K a year, plus $79 per day for meals & incidentals. And now, once again, they’re on a break.
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Dear summer,
We need to talk. I think this is over. Back in May you seemed charming enough, all sunshine and long evenings, and I thought maybe this year would be different. It wasn’t. You became possessive. You followed me everywhere. You turned my car into an oven, my lawn into shredded wheat, and every metal object outdoors into something that requires an oven mitt.
I want to break up. I'd like to see other seasons. In fact, I’ve been thinking a lot about Fall. In my memories, Fall has cool mornings, football, open windows, and the basic decency to let me sit outside without being slow-roasted. Heck, I’ve even caught myself looking forward to Winter. WINTER, Summer. Look what you’ve done to me!
So pack up your mosquitoes, cicadas, crickets, 105-degree afternoons, drought, sunburn, sweat, and electric bills big enough to make me consider getting a second mortgage, and get out. And take your blast of hot air that hits me when I open the front door with you. Maybe someday, probably during a miserable February cold snap, I’ll remember you fondly and wonder whether I gave up too soon. I didn’t. It's just that, by then, I'll be lonely and confused.
Goodbye, summer. Don’t call. Don’t text. And for the love of God, stop coming back every October.
Love, Traces of Texas
Laurie Geston retweeted
🚨 SHOCKING EXPOSÉ: CONGRESS WAS RIGGED! 🚨
“Installed like plumbing fixtures.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville just dropped a BOMB: A handful of Congressmen and Senators are sitting in Washington ONLY because of Venezuela and Dominion voting machines.
The deck was STACKED against Trump — and it trickled down to steal seats across America. Venezuela did MASSIVE damage to our Republic.
Maduro in jail? Time for the FULL TRUTH to come out NOW.
These “representatives” weren’t ELECTED — they were INSTALLED.
RT if you want paper ballots and real elections! 🔥
#ElectionIntegrity #DominionExposed #DrainTheSwamp #Trump2028
Laurie Geston retweeted
Older Americans, you already lived through this.
You were told globalization would make goods CHEAPER.
And it did.
But nobody told you the full price.
In 1979, America had roughly 19.6 MILLION manufacturing jobs.
Then the model changed.
During the 1980s and 1990s, American companies increasingly moved production overseas because labor and manufacturing costs were lower.
Consumers benefited.
TVs got cheaper.
Clothes got cheaper.
Electronics got cheaper.
Household goods got cheaper.
But then something else happened.
The factories in American towns started closing.
Steel.
Textiles.
Furniture.
Machinery.
Electronics.
Auto parts.
Jobs that once allowed someone without a four-year degree to buy a house, raise a family and retire disappeared.
Then came the major policy decisions.
1994: NAFTA took effect after being negotiated under President George H. W. Bush and implemented under President Bill Clinton.
2000: President Clinton signed Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.
December 2001: China entered the WTO.
The argument was simple:
Open global markets.
Move production where it is cheapest.
Give American consumers cheaper products.
And perhaps greater economic integration would eventually change China.
That was the BET.
Then came what economists later called:
THE CHINA SHOCK.
Between 2000 and 2010, America lost almost 6 MILLION manufacturing jobs.
Not all because of China.
Automation mattered.
Technology mattered.
Recessions mattered.
But researchers estimate Chinese import competition contributed to roughly 2–2.4 MILLION American job losses from 1999–2011.
And here is what Washington missed.
A worker who lost a factory job Monday did NOT magically find an equally good job Tuesday.
Some towns never recovered.
Wages fell.
Communities declined.
Families were disrupted.
The economist said:
“The economy will adjust.”
The worker discovered:
I AM the adjustment.
Then America sold the next generation another idea:
GO TO COLLEGE.
The factory job your father had was disappearing.
So get a degree.
Borrow money.
Enter the new economy.
Student debt went from roughly $340 BILLION in 2001 to about $1.65 TRILLION today.
Think about that generational progression.
Grandfather:
Factory → paycheck → house → family.
Father:
Factory closes → economy restructures.
Son or daughter:
Borrow tens of thousands of dollars because now you need a degree to compete.
Meanwhile politicians in BOTH parties kept the basic globalization model moving.
Then COVID hit in 2020.
Suddenly America discovered that the cheapest supply chain isn't necessarily the safest supply chain.
Pharmaceuticals.
Semiconductors.
Medical equipment.
Critical minerals.
Electronics.
Industrial components.
So much had become dependent on production thousands of miles away.
President Trump had already begun challenging that model.
In 2018, he imposed major tariffs on Chinese goods.
Washington screamed:
TRADE WAR.
And yes, tariffs can raise costs.
That criticism is legitimate.
But President Trump was asking a fundamentally different question.
For decades Washington asked:
Where can we make this CHEAPEST?
President Trump asked:
What does America NEED to be able to make itself?
Then something interesting happened.
President Biden came in…
…and kept many Trump-era China tariffs.
Industrial policy returned.
Semiconductors became a national-security issue.
Critical minerals became a national-security issue.
Domestic manufacturing became a national-security issue.
Why?
Because the argument had changed.
Now President Trump is back.
And Americans are understandably looking at:
Gas.
Groceries.
Rent.
Insurance.
Interest rates.
Mortgage payments.
Those bills matter TODAY.
But underneath that noise, America is attempting something much bigger:
Rebuilding domestic manufacturing.
Rebuilding supply chains.
Expanding semiconductor production.
Expanding pharmaceuticals.
Expanding steel.
Expanding energy.
Expanding advanced manufacturing.
Companies including TSMC, Micron, Apple, NVIDIA, Hyundai, GM, Ford, Eli Lilly, Roche and Johnson & Johnson have announced major U.S. investments.
But understand this:
An announcement is not a factory.
Factories take YEARS.
Semiconductor fabs take YEARS.
Mines take YEARS.
Supply chains take YEARS.
Workforces take YEARS to rebuild.
So here's the contradiction.
America spent roughly 40 YEARS building this economic model…
Then expects President Trump to reverse it in roughly 20 MONTHS.
Read that again.
FORTY YEARS IN.
TWENTY MONTHS OUT.
You should criticize President Trump when policies fail.
Demand lower prices.
Demand results.
Demand accountability.
But also understand what is happening beneath the daily headlines.
America spent decades telling capital:
GO WHERE PRODUCTION IS CHEAPEST.
Now America is trying to tell capital:
BUILD IT HERE.
That transition was never going to happen overnight.
The real question isn't whether every Trump policy works.
Some won't.
The question is:
Twenty years from now, will Americans look back at this period as the moment the country finally understood that the CHEAPEST economy isn't always the STRONGEST economy?
Because millions of Americans already lived through what happened the last time Washington made that gamble.
They watched the factory close.
They watched the jobs leave.
They sent their children to college.
They watched the debt pile up.
And now America is trying to build some of it back.
That is the story underneath the noise.
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President Trump is not trying to win the next news cycle.
He is trying to change the structure of America.
That distinction matters.
Americans are rightly worried about groceries, gas, rent, mortgages and everyday costs.
But there is a bigger question:
What is this President actually trying to build?
Energy independence.
Manufacturing.
Trade.
Border security.
Defense.
Supply chains.
Government efficiency.
Foreign policy realignment.
These things do not change overnight.
A refinery takes years.
A factory takes years.
A supply chain takes years.
Major trade and geopolitical shifts can take even longer.
That is the difference between chasing applause today and building a legacy for tomorrow.
You can criticize President Trump.
You SHOULD hold him accountable.
But understand the strategy, the timeline and the intended outcome before judging every decision through a 24-hour headline.
Because politics today is an information war.
Politicians spin.
Media chase clicks.
Algorithms reward outrage.
People read three lines and think they understand the whole issue.
That is dangerous.
Take a few minutes every day to understand how government actually works.
Learn how policy moves.
Learn how long implementation takes.
Learn how energy, trade, debt and foreign policy eventually hit your household.
OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE THE DIRECTION THE COUNTRY IS GOING.
You do not need to worship politicians or go to school to understand everything.
You need to become harder to manipulate.
Read.
Question.
Think.
God gave you a brain.
Use it.
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Teddy Roosevelt had it so right‼️‼️
In 1919, days before he died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote:
“If the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else… But this is predicated upon the person becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag…🇺🇸
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Equal rights. Undivided loyalty. That was the deal. 🔥🔥🔥
#American #TeddyRoosevelt #OneFlag #OneLanguage #OneLoyalty
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ARE YOU WONDERING WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS REALLY DOING?
Let me tell you what I see.
I hear people asking why President Trump is fighting with Canada, dealing with Venezuela, using tariffs and talking so much about energy. Those are fair questions. When people are paying more for gas, groceries and electricity, they are naturally worried about today.
I understand that because I am paying those bills too. But if we only look at the price on the gas pump, we are going to miss the biggest part of what President Trump is doing.
Remember Clinton and Bush’s new world order? Well for more than 30 years, presidents from both parties managed America’s decline, the only way the new world order works is to tear down America and build up the rest of the world. They sent our factories to China, made us depend on OPEC for oil and allowed foreign countries to control the minerals needed to run our economy. They called it free trade, but there was nothing free about America losing millions of jobs while China grew rich and powerful.
President Trump is the first president in my lifetime who looked at that entire system and said we are not doing this anymore.
He is not just trying to lower gas prices next month. He is rebuilding America so no foreign country can hold us hostage for the next 50 to 100 years.
His administration is negotiating a deal that could give the United States an ownership stake in more than a dozen Venezuelan oil fields holding around 90 billion barrels of proven reserves. If completed, that could more than double America’s oil reserves.
That oil will not reach your gas tank next week. Socialism destroyed Venezuela’s oil industry, and rebuilding it will take years and billions of dollars. President Trump is thinking past the next election and planning for the future of our children and grandchildren.
The fight with Canada is also about much more than a few tariffs. Canada has some of the world’s largest supplies of uranium, which is needed for nuclear power, and potash, which is needed to make fertilizer and grow food. At the same time, Canada has been sending uranium and potash to China while expecting full access to the American market.
President Trump is telling Canada it cannot have it both ways. You cannot expect all the benefits of being America’s closest trading partner while helping strengthen Communist China.
Canada must choose which side it is on.
That is a major reason behind this trade fight. The tariffs are leverage, not the final goal. Canada depends heavily on the American market and cannot replace it. President Trump holds the stronger hand, and I believe we will win if Republicans stand behind him and give him time to finish the job.
Now look at the whole map. The United States has oil, natural gas, farmland and manufacturing. Canada has uranium and potash. Venezuela has oil. Argentina, Chile and Bolivia have lithium. Brazil has iron, rare earth minerals and farmland. Mexico has manufacturing capacity.
The Western Hemisphere has almost everything we need to feed ourselves, fuel ourselves, build our own goods and defend ourselves without begging China, Iran, Russia or OPEC for anything.
That is what President Trump is really building.
He is building an America where Iran cannot raise the price of every gallon of gas by threatening one shipping lane. China cannot shut down our factories by withholding critical minerals. OPEC cannot control our economy by cutting oil production.
A war 8,000 miles away may still be a tragedy, but it should not become an American family’s mortgage payment. Our young people should be working good-paying jobs in American factories, mines and refineries instead of carrying rifles through another endless war overseas.
I am not telling you every decision will be painless or that everything will happen exactly as planned. No honest person can promise that. I am telling you there is a much bigger plan at work than the media is explaining.
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We tolerated Obama for 8 years, and Biden for 4, and kept quiet.
BUT we remember:
the women’s march with vagina hats
the 4 years of attacks & impeachments
“not our president” & the “Resistance…”
Maxine Walters telling followers to harass us in restaurants
the Presidents spokesperson being kicked out a restaurant
hundreds of Trump supporters physically attacked
Trump supporters getting Doxed & fired from jobs
riots & looting
“a comedian” holding up the President’s severed head
a play in Central park paid with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump
Robert de Niro yelling “F" Trump” at the Tony’s & getting a standing ovation.
Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address.
the total in the tank move on the mainstream media
the non-stop & live fact checking on our President and his supporters
non-stop in your face lies & open cover-ups from the media
the President & his staff being spied on
the Little Sisters of the Poor being mercilessly persecuted for practicing their Catholic Faith
the Democrat led hate-filled reaction to SCOTUS’ Roe reversal
five Senators shot on a ball field
every so-called comedy show turn into nothing but a Trump hate fest
95% negative coverage in the news
the state governors asking & getting everything they ask for & then blaming Trump for their problems
people banging on the Supreme Court doors
that Hollywood said they would leave after Trump was elected but they stayed
being called Nazis
being called Deplorables
being called Fascists
biden calling us "garbage" and Kamala (and the media) trying to tell us to "get past it because Biden doesn't matter anymore"
This list is endless & doesn’t even cover the recent unveiling of corruption & several assassination attempts on President Trump.
I will never give the Democrats a break for all the trouble they’ve caused.
They’ve dug a very very deep hole and it’s going to take a very long time for them to crawl out of it, if ever.
This Country & its people Do Not want Socialism or Communism.
“No Power For You Sleazy Politicians”
