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Aug 28Liked by Jordan Schachtel

Property rights are the foundation of Western prosperity. People who loathe them represent the savagery of a dark past. They should not be granted influence in civilized nations.

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Well said!

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"Shoulds" do not matter any more. It is all about power. Whoever has it calls the shots.

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As my deceased father who had all his property confiscated in Cuba, the only good communist is a dead one.

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A physician I used to work with had a similar story from his grandfather. Bastards came for their farm but before they arrived, his grandad cut down all the fruit trees. All these useless progressives praising socialism never lived under it.

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I talked to a Cuban exile about El Paredon… the firing wall. The Castros used firing walls to execute and to torture prisoners. When Raul is lined up against El Paredon, there should be no false executions… they should all shoot him the first time.

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Or the savagery of a new future.

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Or saving thousands to millions of lives depending on the communist regime.

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Well, Kamala Harris herself is a Communist. So was her father, Prof. Donald Harris of Stanford.

No surprise, I hope. The new Communists of the West have been coming out of the woodwork since the 60s.

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The only rational explanation for the near complete absence of disguise of such obviously destructive and insane policies is that they do not care that they are found out - they must believe they have the result pre-determined in advance.

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Eggs, omelettes. Old story.

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The results are predetermined.

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These people are dangerously insane.

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These people are Communist-totalitarians.

Do not allow the fact that they don't look like early 20th century Russian peasants fool you.

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If they win, WE will all look like Russian peasants……

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True enough, Mark. Difficult to get that across to the un-awakened, however. I don't fancy going down with the ship because they prefer to be mind-blind.

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That’s the thing that sucks so much about the situation. Our future is in large part dependent on people who have no idea what’s coming, and

If they choose wrong, they take us down with them…..

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Yes, I'm afraid that is about it.

Which is one of the reasons I keep trying to awaken them.

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Good luck with that!

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Hmm...the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. That's ringing a bell, actually a klaxon, somewhere...

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Reading Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” and how far is the US from some of the practices of motherland USSR?

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We will BE Russian presents, with no future.

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Crashing the economy is the goal

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Crashing the entire Western world is the goal.

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Ranamurti's wealth tax is simply the latest lockstep policy of globalist head office. Canada started this months ago, with capital gains tax on the upper middle class. Coming soon to the UK too.

When you see one of the Western countries run by leftwing WOKE starting some kind of destructive fad, you can be sure they will all jump on the bandwagon. That is the way this destruction campaign has been operating. Like teenage fashion crazes.

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One thing we all need to keep in mind is these nation-wreckers don't give a flying 0bama if they crush the US economy. They would love to see that happen! And they'll hope to come out on top of the pile, because the whole nation will be left unable to fight against them.

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The Second Amendment was adopted to address such concerns. Even an oblivious Administration would notice that its thugs stopped coming back from their worst assignments.

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-- On X, Ramamurti became a fierce advocate for his staple initiative under Sen. Warren, declaring that the revenues generated by the wealth tax would result in all kinds of free stuff, like the canceling of student debt, in addition to free college and “universal child care.” --

We tend to focus so sharply on the actual theft of people's money and assets that we seldom address another, equally important question: Would giving "all kinds of free stuff" to people who haven't earned it and have no right to it be a GOOD thing? Or would it promote all manner of immoral, illegal, and generally deleterious attitudes and behaviors, both immediately and through second and higher-order effects?

Try shopping that around.

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Lefties aren’t generally interested in looking to unintended or second-order consequences.

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I think they're taught to ignore them. I can't help but wonder how.

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For real. Some of them seem to be taught to be “in the now,” like some New Age-y belief about manifestation or whatever, and some of them I think understand that the whole point is destruction, so there is no purpose to think beyond that aim. The communist mentality is always about the “struggle,” never about the end goal, so they continual just stay with policies that will produce the struggle and that’s all they have to worry about.

Pretty f-ed up, because the rest of the adults in the room have to figure out the second-order consequences and how to fix the mess they place us in. 😑

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Good insights. What comes to mind in this connection is the contemporary tendency among leftists to view themselves as morally superior and their adversaries as evil. By this I mean people attached to the Left, but not part of the inner circle of strategists. The strategists know better, and a good case can be made that their aims ARE evil.

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Of course, it would. Welfare has already done some of that.

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OMGosh…first article from you I could not finish…it was like entering the vortex of lunacy…

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“unrealized gain” IS lunacy. Then when people stop trusting the banks and start avoiding them, Kamala and Co. will tax...

“Unrealized Deposits “

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Good grief. This will undoubtedly ruin our economy and the lives of many Americans, because without investment there will be no prosperity for Americans seeking to realize the American Dream.

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That's the plan.

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Looking at real estate in Costa Rica.

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Very happy you have enough money to escape.

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Don’t hold your breath waiting for a response to your very good question.

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The guy says "trillions of dollars 💸" and then says "free tuition" !!! He's a walking/talking (oxy)MORON, talking out of both sides of his mouth! He was right the first time.

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“Revenue problem”?

maybe its a...

SPENDING PROBLEM!

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It’s THEFT!!!! We are 35 trillion in debt!!!! Cut the wasteful spending!!!!

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You mean, Rmraise trillions of $$$ so the feds can send it to other countries and vote schmooze with illegal immigrants. They lie with a straight face!

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