Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.

The city of Spokane is refusing to waive demolition permit fees for fire victims. After losing EVERYTHING, victims have to pay $500 to cap the water and sewer lines under their burned out house. What the fuck is the point of paying taxes? Just like California, Washington uses taxpayer dollars to buy crackpipes and heroin needles for unemployed homeless drug zombies, but when you, the working class taxpayer, lose everything you have through no fault of your own, you still have to pay for this? These city leaders are so fucking petty they'll still force fire victims to pay $35 for permission to demolish their own destroyed home. Why? You couldn't just waive it? For $35? Yeah, it's not a lot of money, but that actually makes it worse...forcing a fire victim to cough up a meager sum that in NO way actually funds the process in any meaningful way just shows that you are doing it out of spite. Just a nice little "fuck you" to the peasants. Additionally, the state of Washington is forcing fire victims to pay sales tax to replace the items they lost in the fire. Again...why? The state was never factoring in that revenue...it never existed on the balance sheet BUT for the fire. Government is collecting a windfall from people's LOSSES. There's literally zero need to collect taxes on shit that people already owned. Back during the mid 90's floods, the state legislature passed a sales tax exemption for victims replacing their stuff. If they don't do this in their next leg session, they all need to go. The one thing WA did is cut property tax on their burned out homes, which is the absolute least they could do. You assholes never maintain your forests, everybody lost everything, their pets burned alive, and now you're going tack on an extra 9.1% to the cost of rebuilding their lives...for what? Not to mention the fact that a couch today costs probably 2x as much as when they first bought the one they just lost. I fucking hate these people, man.

How long do We The People keep paying taxes?

Premarital partners strongly predict divorce likelihood. People with 9 or more premarital partners are 151% more likely to dissolve their marriages compared to people who tie the knot as virgins. In other words, this level of premarital sex increases the chances of divorce between twofold and threefold. Having between one and eight premarital sex partners increases the odds of divorce by 50%. Few Americans marry as virgins these days, the median American man now has five lifetime partners, while the median woman has three. There’s no gender difference: premarital sex raises the divorce rate for both men and women equally. Social scientists theorised that this association can be attributed to sample selection: the kinds of people liable to have a lot of sex partners are the same kinds of people who will get divorced. Or the experience of having premarital sexual partners might change people’s beliefs or behaviours in ways that make it harder to sustain a marriage later on. This recent study from the Institute for Family Studies suggests that these mechanisms cannot account for the relationship between premarital sex and divorce rates. More investigation needed. — h/t IFS

Reporters use the label "far right" 3 to 14 times more often than "far left." The term implies that the parties opposing mass migration are undemocratic. In fact, they're winning elections. The real fascists are the ones censoring, banning, and prosecuting their enemies.

@jcurleyshow , thank you for having me on your show today to discuss the most recent editorial board piece the @seattletimes put out against I-638. To those writers at the Seattle Times—let me start by saying this: I wholeheartedly stand by, now more than ever, what I said about you before when you decided to pull the @Matt_Calkins article. You ARE a woke rag who silences the voices of anyone who has a differing opinion from yours. I would also like to add that the only group doing the “fear-mongering” is you. You tell people and athletes that in order to play a sport, they have to have invasive genital exams. WRONG! I have been playing sports all my life, and never once have I had to expose myself to anyone just to prove I am a girl. You tell the voters of Washington that it is only 10–12 athletes out of many and that they affect little to no athletes. WRONG AGAIN! 1 athlete is 1 too many. That one athlete can have an effect on a whole team, a whole locker room, a whole roster spot, and a girl who has worked countless hours just to get to the point where she is now. You tell people that in order to have a safe and inclusive space for everyone, they should allow men to compete in their sports and be able to walk into their locker rooms whenever they please. What a load of BS. Have you been in a locker room when this has happened to you? Because I HAVE! To think that a paper as large as yours is too afraid to let a column run about a 17-year-old girl’s experience of having an 18-year-old man play against her girls’ basketball team and go into her locker room when she was 15 is cowardice. I will say it again—you are cowards. Here is the reality of what is happening: “transgender women” are men, and they always will be. Let’s stop calling them women when we all know darn well that they are not. This is a LIE that I refuse to accept. Seattle Times Ed Board: Kate Riley, Ryan Blethen, Melissa Davis, Josh Farley, Alex Fryer, Claudia Rowe, Carlton Winfrey, Frank A. Blethen (emeritus), and William K. Blethen (emeritus): It is a shame that you are so deeply brainwashed that you are willing to publicly spread lies about Initiative 638. It is even more of a shame to think that I, a 17-year-old girl, have more common sense to be able to stand up for what is right. I urge anyone who disagrees with me to meet with me face-to-face and have this discussion civilly. No need for hate or threats like I’ve been subjected to. I will make time: any place, anywhere, any time. As the Times and others would like to spin it—this is NOT about hate. It never has been—it’s about protecting GIRLS. The last thing I want to add is that the only thing we should say NO to is the news organizations like yours that choose to spread lies like this and have the audacity to make it look like you are trying to do the right thing. The people see through this. I am calling on the people of Washington State to choose common sense and choose to do what’s RIGHT! Vote YES on 638 to protect the real women and girls who just want a safe and fair space to compete! And for anyone hiding behind a screen saying this is AI or accusing me of not writing my own posts—this is all me. I also invite you to be brave like I have been and expose yourselves rather than hide and call a 17-year-old girl disgusting names. Takes a real tough guy to do that… about as tough as the Times for being too scared to listen to a 17-year-old’s side of the story. —Frances Staudt @Riley_Gaines_ @JenniferSey @sagesteele @megynkelly @Michele_Tafoya @Outkick @DailySignal @FoxNews @BrandiKruse @seattletimes @letsgowa @IWF @xx_xyathletics @bac37 @jk_rowling @libsoftiktok @Moms4Liberty @choeshow @jcurleyshow @stevemgordon67 @bkheywood

RT @sapinker: The degeneration of Nature, Science, NEJM, and Scientific American into woke propaganda dispensers (and their refusal to publ…

You guys are pathetic. They had plenty of money but spent it on “nature-based solutions” and gender workshops rather than the sensors and sirens. You’re not journalists you’re propagandists.

The system failed Lindsay Clancy, many say, and she should thus be found not guilty by reason of insanity. But she was in control of her actions and knew what she did was wrong. The effort to turn Clancy into a victim stems from decades of feminist dogma. By @galexybrane

China is secretly fueling America's data center rage axios.com/2026/08/28/china-a…

These people are the worst. We'd never build anything and slowly decay if they were in charge

I feel like it’s finally safe to say this out loud: The COVID era was a time of staggering overreach and repeated, official betrayal. They took our freedom, our livelihoods, and our trust, and no one has answered for it. We were forced into isolation, fueling a massive psychological crisis. Beaches, parks, and trails where transmission was virtually impossible were closed, ignoring the crucial role of sunlight and Vitamin D for immune function. The government and employers forced vaccine mandates, making millions choose between a medical treatment lacking long-term safety data and their ability to feed their families. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies were granted total immunity from liability. If you had a severe vaccine reaction, you were on your own. When people tried to share these stories of big tech silenced them and deleted their accounts. The architects of these policies, like Dr. Fauci, shifted goalposts constantly. He received a preemptive presidential pardon from Joe Biden, and when recently questioned by Congress, pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times. The biggest failure? We knew early on that metabolic dysfunction was a massive risk factor for severe COVID. Yet public health officials stayed completely silent on the importance of quality food, exercise, and true metabolic resilience. Instagram deleted my account in 2021 for pointing all of these things out. YouTube deleted multiple videos on these topics. We all lost something during those years. Whether it was someone you loved, your job, your sovereignty, or your health... I am truly sorry for your loss. If all of this makes you angry, you’re my kind of people. Let's make sure this never happens again.

Ro Khanna’s solution to taxing illiquid billionaire founders is so stupid it sounds like satire. Say you founded a private company valued at $5 billion. You do not have $5 billion (surprise). You own shares that might eventually be worth $20 billion, $500 million or zero. Government says congrats, pay up. You say, “Cool, except I don’t have the cash.” Ro’s fix? Pledge the shares to the government and borrow the money to pay the government. This idea is absolutely bonkers. The government decides what your private company is worth, taxes you based on its estimate, lends you money against it, and then takes the money back as taxes. You now have debt against the government for imaginary taxes and if you don't pay you forfeit and the own a share of your company. The government is now an appraiser, bank, creditor, tax collector and shareholder. Maybe we can fund more Learing Centers (I digress). AND...it gets even dumber. Under current federal tax rules, absent some special exemption, handing over collateral to satisfy nonrecourse debt is generally treated as a sale, which means another tax. So California lends you $250M against startup shares so you can pay California its wealth tax. Ten years later the company is toast. You can lose your company, lose your shares and still owe taxes on money you never had. And who exactly is valuing all of this? Professional investors struggle to value private companies when they have data rooms, preferred terms, board access and actual money on the line. Now government is supposed to put an annual mark on founder common and tax it? A $10B preferred financing round does not mean founder common can actually be sold at that valuation. Different share classes exist. Liquidation preferences exist. Dilution exists. Secondary discounts exist. Sometimes there isn’t a buyer at any remotely comparable price. So how do you solve this @RoKhanna? We already know how wrong these marks can be. Roughly 67% of unicorns that IPO’d in 2025 priced below their last private valuation. Yet somehow government is going to know the “correct” value every year. You take the risk. You quit the job. You work for years. You take dilution. Most startups fail and your shares go to zero. Government doesn’t share that downside. Then policymakers look backward at Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk and Jensen, the handful of guys who actually won, and use them to rewrite the economics for every kid deciding whether to take the same swing. Heads, the company dies and government says “no crying in the casino.” Tails, you actually win and suddenly you’re an evil tech billionaire who owes government 5% of the paper mark every year. GGs. Ro has to defend the moronic economics. Bernie’s job is to make sure you’re too angry to examine them. “Fair share.” “Billionaire class.” “The rich.” Instead of asking whether taxing unrealized ownership makes sense, Bernie changes the question to whether billionaires have too much money. Don’t discuss liquidity. Show the mansion. Don’t discuss valuation or incentives. Show the yacht. That is class warfare. And it matters before the company even exists. Nobody knew Bezos would become Bezos when he started Amazon. Nobody knew Facebook would become Meta. Nobody knew Nvidia would become the most important chip company in the world. Policy written around the winners changes the economics for the next generation of potential founders. You aren’t only taxing Zuckerberg after Facebook worked. You’re changing the math for the 24 yr old kid deciding whether to spend the next decade trying to build the next one. America works partly because ambitious people from all over the world come here believing the upside is worth the risk. Leave the comfortable job. Start something. Raise money. Fail. Try again. And if it finally works, own a meaningful piece of what you created. If the new deal becomes “you eat all the downside, but if your paper equity gets big enough we start taking 5% every year,” don’t act shocked when some people stop taking the risk or take it somewhere else. Bernie and Ro love showing you the lifestyle and telling you what they deem “excessive” wealth. What they rarely show is everything sitting underneath it. Take Bezos. Show his net worth going up $20B and ask why one guy needs all that money. Alright champ, let’s zoom out. Amazon employs more than 1 million people in the United States. Independent sellers using Amazon support more than 2 million U.S. jobs and paid more than $100B in wages in 2024. So before you even get to Bezos’ personal tax return, millions of people are earning money because this company exists. Those wages generate income taxes and payroll taxes. Amazon’s sales generate sales-tax revenue. Amazon itself pays corporate income taxes, employer payroll taxes and state and local taxes. In 2025 Amazon reported roughly $12.4B of federal income-tax expense, $7.9B of federal employer payroll and other taxes and fees, and $7.5B of state and local taxes. Then there’s another $24.8B collected and remitted on behalf of employees and $33.4B in sales taxes. Roughly $86B moved through those reported tax categories in one year. Did Amazon itself economically bear all $86B? Obviously not. Customers pay sales tax. Employees pay their withholding. That's how this all works. The company created the jobs, wages and transactions that created the tax base. Bernie wants you staring at Bezos’ personal tax return as though none of that exists. The million-plus employees, sellers, suppliers, truck drivers, warehouses, contractors, construction crews, software companies and retirement accounts all disappear. And quick reminder: Bezos getting $10B richer because Amazon had a good day in the market does not mean $10B landed in his bank account. The market repriced stock he already owned. When he actually sells appreciated shares, that generally creates a capital-gains tax bill. Jensen Huang got insanely rich because Nvidia became insanely valuable. Nvidia also employs roughly 42,000 people, around 31,000 in R&D, and paid more than $20 BILLION in cash income taxes in its latest fiscal year. Nearly $17B went to the federal government alone. It also reported roughly $7.9B in taxes tied to employee stock plans. So Jensen got richer. Shareholders got richer. Employees got richer. Government collected billions. All four things can be true at once. Meta spent more than $72B on capex in 2025. That money went into chips, data centers, power, construction, engineers and contractors. Not Zuckerberg’s checking account. A lot of people make money when successful companies make money. That story just sucks for class warfare. It is much easier to show the billionaire’s net worth and pretend his gain was everyone else’s loss. And federally Sanders and Khanna want to do this every year. A 5% annual tax on wealth. So forget the valuation mess for a second and just run the math. Your assets make 8% and government takes 5% of the asset value? That 5% tax just ate 62.5% of your 8% gross return, before income or capital-gains taxes. Make 5%? Your entire nominal return is gone. Make 3%? You’re selling principal to pay the tax. Obviously people react to that. Investors demand more return, founders rethink where they live and capital goes looking for better economics. Which is a bizarre experiment to run when America is already winning on startups and innovation. The U.S. has roughly 950 private unicorns and produced more than half of the world’s new unicorns in the first half of 2026. California attracted roughly $191B of venture investment in 2025, ~60% of the U.S. total. Other countries spend decades trying to manufacture this ecosystem. Startup visas, tax incentives, special programs, anything to attract founders and capital. We already have it. Maybe don’t fuck it up. Bernie calls it “fairness.” Fine. Define fair @BernieSanders The top 1% earned roughly 21% of U.S. adjusted gross income in 2023 and paid roughly 38% of federal individual income taxes, about $823B. Washington spends $6.28T, annually, and already has a $1.8T deficit through July. I don't think you need more money. Before inventing another tax base, maybe explain where the money already goes and what outcomes we're getting for it. California spent nearly $24B on homelessness and nothing got better. Billions lost to medicare fraud. There is reported $200-400B of what we know lost to it each year. Not sure giving the government more money, especially California is a good idea. But taking another dollar out of productive private capital does not magically make that dollar better allocated. Other developed countries have already wrestled with this too. The number of OECD countries with individual net wealth taxes fell from 12 in 1990 to 4 by 2017. Maybe they all got captured by billionaires. Or maybe they learned something. Valuing private assets is messy. Liquidity matters. Capital moves. People move. Incentives matter. Tax income. Tax realized gains. Close actual loopholes. Audit the stuff you already spend. America became the world’s innovation engine because people came here, took huge risks, raised capital, built companies and owned the upside when it worked. You want more people making that bet. Not fewer. Be very careful messing with that machine, especially when the people asking for more of the capital are already almost $40T in debt. “He can afford it” is not economics. “Fair share” means nothing until you define it. And envy is a terrible tax policy.

RT @InvestingCanons: Warren Buffett: “The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all liv…

I grew up on food stamps in rural Kentucky. I have founded a company that makes clean, safe nuclear energy. I have created hundreds of jobs and will create thousands more. My family and I have bled sweat and cried to build this. The idea that you can just steal this from me is awful and evil. You are not the good guys

Ro, “in your scenario, the founder could sell to pay a one time 5 percent tax or the state could sell it if he defaults on the loan” Ro, this is the biggest fuck you in the history of entrepreneurship. Ever. Creating jobs but don’t have cash. Fuck you Can’t sell shares, we will sell it for you, to whoever. Fuck you. Creating jobs. Paying great wages instead of taking cash out yourself. Fuck you Reinvesting into your company and community. Fuck You. Don’t you know that Jensen, and Lisa Su, and people who have vast amounts of liquidity already have no problem with it. Fuck You There is a huge difference between someone with liquidity , running a huge public company, and someone who has dedicated every minute of who knows how many years, to building a company, to finally have a dream financing come true , only to be insulted by a politician. “We will sell your shares for you “ GTFO

How much is it?

Seems so obvious Elon wants the price to go down so spacex and TSLA can merge.

It might seem hypocritical that Variety praises Moana for respecting Polynesian culture while attacking you for wanting Nolan’s Odyssey to respect Greek culture. But there’s actually a consistent moral through-line: They just hate White people.

Glad USA finally playing with 10 mins left cool cool cool