Steak and Shake: "The root of the rot is index funds." Most people aren't ready for this conversation, but investing in index funds means handing absurd amounts of influence to the executives of BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. The "Big Three" have ingeniously harnessed the power of YOUR MONEY, steering corporate policy by voting on your behalf at shareholder meetings. To pick companies at random, the Big Three manage 22% of Moderna shares, 19% of Coca-Cola shares, and 25% of Target shares (as of last year). This gives them the muscle to push their ESG program: environment, social, governance. Thus you get people like Larry Fink saying ominous things like “At BlackRock we are forcing behaviors … You have to force behaviors." He can say that only because we turn our money over to him.

The defining characteristic of a warrior is fighting, one’s honor outweighs one’s life. Men like that cannot be ruled. Excessive concern for outcomes is the product of “civilized” man and it is why he will endure endless insults and ignominy and do nothing. “I wouldn’t win so I’ll let people shit on me forever. At least I survived” This is the root of bad conscience, of resentment. Wishing to strike back, but hating oneself for an unwillingness to act This is the root of all our current problems

Washington State CENTRAL WASHINGTON LAND GRAB Mike Clayton inspects a bin full of sweetheart cherries. The Claytons are one of many farming families who have seen thousands of acres of Washington’s fertile land along with water rights scooped up by investment firms and private holding companies. Family orchards are forced to sell in Central Washington in latest land grab By Seattle Times August 8, 2026 I FIRST LEARNED about April Clayton in the early summer of 2025 from the president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association. I’d written to him to say I hoped to speak with an orchardist who’d recently gone broke — having heard, I added, that a lot of them had. “April Clayton,” he wrote back, “had to lease out her orchards last year. April would be a good one for you to meet.” April Clayton picks Rainier cherries from her family’s orchard. After the family lost the farm she took a job teaching chemistry at Wenatchee Valley College. I went online and listened to her on a podcast called “Real Food, Real People.” “I kind of resisted getting into farming at first,” she said, “because I didn’t want to be known as Mike’s wife. I’d just finished my Ph.D. I didn’t want to be, Oh, the farmer … Oh, you know, his wife.” I called her. She was driving, on speaker phone. She drove endlessly, she told me. From her house it was 40 minutes to Wenatchee, where she almost always went for groceries. Right now, as we spoke, her daughter, Jojo, was at a theater day camp even further away, in Leavenworth. If she took Jojo to camp, then stopped for groceries, then went home, that meant 2½ hours of driving. Picking up Jojo at the end of the day meant another 2½ hours. She was in Wenatchee a lot these days, she said, because since they’d lost the farm she’d taken a job teaching chemistry at Wenatchee Valley College. Jojo, 13, loved performing in musical productions, and was in a troupe called StageKids. John, on the other hand — April’s 15-year-old son — was a relative homebody. What John liked to do was operate heavy equipment on the farm and play video games in the basement. As for Mike — April’s husband — he still did what he’d done before they’d leased away the farm: plant, irrigate, prune, thin, harvest, and manage apple and cherry orchards. He was supposed to be getting a salary for that, and April and Mike were supposed to be getting $1,450 annually for each acre they leased out, too, but so far, in year two of their lease, they’d hardly been paid. The guy they were leasing to, April explained, had gotten overextended and, just like them, was biting the dust. Say you’re an orchardist with a few acres of apples who contracts with a packer to ship your fruit to retailers. The contract ensures that when you deliver your apples, the packer will pay you for them. That said, the price you get for a bin of apples might be less than you paid to fill it. You don’t get to say, “My bins of apples are $100 each this year.” The packer, instead, names the price per bin. Something else: If all you do is grow apples, the price you get for them will determine your financial fate, but if growing apples is only one aspect of your business, meaningful advantages will accrue to you. If, on top of growing apples, you buy them from other growers, sort and pack both yours and theirs, and market and ship both yours and theirs, you can take a loss on growing apples and make it up elsewhere. You can also lowball growers you buy apples from, and keep doing that until they are losing so much money they are all but forced to sell their orchards to you. Buying up orchards and vertically integrating has obvious benefits. If you grow, pack and ship a hundred million apples and make a penny on each, you’ll make a million dollars, but if all you do is grow a million apples — paying, along the way, everything it costs to bring them to maturity and get them off your trees — you’ll be lucky to make $5,000. Story continues in comments. @POTUS @VP

REVEALED: Top American generals formed a secret backchannel with a CCP military intelligence front that instructed them: “We wish you would advocate positions” favorable to China. Some ended up on China’s payroll. 🧵

🚨#BREAKING: Officials in Houston TX are PANICKING after TWO MORE Flock cameras were chopped down yesterday. This makes 4 Flock cams destroyed in 3 days. Allegedly, the public is sending hundreds of tips saying things like, "the cameras are succumbing to heat exhaustion..."

The Viking Crusader army that never lost a battle: In 1107, King Sigurd I of Norway became the first king in Europe to personally lead a crusade to the Holy Land, sailing with 60 ships and 5,000 men. The map shows their journey as recorded in the Heimskringla. The red line is the route by sea: from Norway to England, down the coast of Portugal, through Gibraltar, across the Mediterranean to Jerusalem, and on to Constantinople. The green line is the journey home by land, after Sigurd gave all his ships to the Byzantine Emperor. Three years. Thousands of kilometers. Nine battles. Zero defeats. For his service, Sigurd received a splinter of the True Cross, on the condition that he bring it to the resting place of Saint Olaf in Norway.

So antifa found out where we live already! Pretty sure it was Seattle pd that released it! Transtifa antifa domestic terrorists violently targeted and busted our bedroom window at 330 am this morning and bear maced me my wife and my dog and popped all our tires yet again all because they don’t want me exercising my first amendment rights and recording their violence and calls to violence against ICE agents and our President Donald Trump! My wife is innocent and they got her the worst! These “people” need to be held accountable! This is TERRORISM! Plain and simple! @Andjustice25979 @MrAndyNgo @choeshow @camhigby @ImFiredUp2 @nicksortor @nickshirleyy @GDaddyzs @NobleOne

🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!! Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down... ...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions. So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up... ...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out." In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring. It gets worse. When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer. So just to recap: The contract is expired. The elected body said no. Nobody re-authorized it. Flock won't say what it's doing with the data. ...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police

$30 burgers, here we come! Thanks commies!

Brave 18-year-old Destiny chased me down in the heart of Belltown’s notorious open-air drug market to speak out against the dealers and the predatory chaos destroying our streets. These markets target teens. Destiny is clear: Shut them down and make fentanyl possession a felony. Our kids deserve better. Time for real consequences. @MayorofSeattle @GovBobFerguson @SeattlePD

The Fourth Amendment was written for a reason. The founders lived under a government that searched homes, seized papers, and invaded private life without justification. They built a wall against it. Washington has spent decades quietly tearing that wall down, one surveillance program, one secret court order, and one warrantless data purchase at a time. My Fourth Amendment Restoration and Protection Act rebuilds it. Government exists to protect your rights, not trade them away to the highest bidder or the most powerful agency.

🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what this fake degree ring actually means to your life.. because most people only think about visa fraud as a paperwork problem.. those 100,000 seized certificates weren't for desk jobs.. they were for medicine.. nursing.. engineering.. IT.. fields where a fake credential doesn't just steal a job.. it puts someone in a hospital treating your family.. and here's the part nobody's connecting.. 100,000 seized is 10% of the estimated total.. 900,000 fake degrees are still out there.. attached to real people.. working real jobs.. inside real companies and real hospitals that verified nothing.. a former US consular officer who processed 51,000 H-1B applications in Chennai said 80 to 90% of the applicants she saw used fraudulent documentation.. a 2008 USCIS audit found more than 13% of already-approved H-1Bs were fraudulent.. that was 18 years ago.. the program kept running.. Manav Bharti University sold 36,025 fake degrees while issuing only 5,455 real ones.. this has been running since at least 2010.. this isn't a printer in a back room.. it's a supply chain.. fake seals.. fake holograms.. fake transcripts.. 22 universities.. multiple states.. an estimated 1 million documents worldwide.. your doctor might have one of these degrees.. the system worked for the forgers.. just not for you. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨 FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

Way better view of us being viciously attacked with a baseball bat! Seattle pride violence against ppl with cameras! Absolute disgrace! This city is controlled by radicals trans ideology! Violent trans ideology! @Andjustice25979 @MrAndyNgo @GroundZeroPDX1 @GroundZeroPDX1

Seattle police told @Tommy4Trump420 and his crew to stay in the “Free Speech Zone” so they wouldn’t get attacked? So the solution is to put the people being targeted into one designated area? That seems like an easy way to corner and identify the very people you’re supposedly trying to protect. SEATTLE IS CORRUPT!! Pray for our patriots!

They used Flock cameras to track him down and then the Judge says they don’t violate rights because they can’t be used to track your movement. We are so F’d

🤣🤣☠️☠️ He got that Holy Ghost fire alright 🔥🔥

Practically all modern Leftists think "Democracy" just means "vooting" and that the more vooting you do, the more democratic a system is. But democracy has to mean more than just casting a ballot. You have to first answer the question of what these ballots are being cast for, and who gets to cast one? Imagine if ancient Athens bought into all the modern Progressive libtard arguments about how "no human is illegal" and decided to grant universal suffrage to every resident of the Persian Empire. The Persians would have conquered all of Greece without a single battle ever being fought. Why would they need to invade at all? They could have just elected Xerxes as the new Archon of Athens and subjugated the city without a struggle, all while claiming they were "defending democracy". So, unless you want a system where democracy grants the masses the ability to dissolve itself, you have to draw hard boundaries between who is permitted to cast a ballot and who isn't. But Leftists are unwilling to draw any distinctions at all between the in-group and the out-group, aside from declaring the "far Right" to be the out-group. The Progressive is just going to inevitably respond with "Yeah, duh. We don't want Nazis, Fascists, and racists running our society. They're the outgroup. They shouldn't get a say. It's called the paradox of tolerance, chud. We want to tolerate immigrants and refugees and asylum seekers, and we don't want to tolerate racist scum like you." But the moment they give this response (and they always will), they're just proving my point about how democracy must be more than just vooting. It HAS to draw a hard distinction between who is in and who is out. Progressives might buy their own propaganda about how they're really just making a universal moral distinction, but would a monarchist or a Catholic integralist define enemies the same way? How about an Islamist or Confucianist? Would the ancient Athenians or Persians have thought about it this way? Would even the Founding Fathers have thought of this way 250 years ago? Obviously not. Which means the distinction Progressives are drawing isn't actually universalist at all. It's political. It always has been political. There is no universalist political system, and every attempt to moralize about creating one is just a thinly veiled attempt to conceal one's own friend/enemy distinction under the guise of "just being a good heckerino person". It's all fake. When these people say that no human is illegal and that they'd rather trade their "fascist" neighbor for an asylum seeker from Sudan, they're revealing that Progressivism isn't actually trying to expand some utopian vision of universal democracy at all. They are trying to impose their ideological will on society in the name of a fantasy world that they claim gives them the moral justification to seek out power and wield it to disenfranchise their enemies, many of whom were their classmates, coworkers, neighbors, and even family members.

The Muslim invaders raped so many European women and killed so many European men as they blitzed across the Mediterranean world that the population went from looking like Romans to looking like Arabs And even if they didn't tax churches, they abducted Christian boys and raped them, or turned them into janissaries, as shown by the twin tales of Skanderbeg and his brother This is why Martel and the Franks were heroic for stopping them at Tours, the Hospitallers were heroic for stopping them at Malta, and the Poles were heroic for saving Vienna Muslim invasion brought with it the same problems as Muslim migration, which is the horrific rape, abuse, and murder of Christians

Before the 1950s, clover was a STANDARD component of American lawns. Seed mixes included it on purpose. Then broadleaf herbicides were invented. They killed clover along with "weeds." So the chemical companies rebranded clover as a weed — to sell more herbicide. That's it. That's the whole story. Clover is not a weed. It's the future of your lawn. White Dutch clover (Trifolium repens): Self-fertilizing — fixes nitrogen from the air into the soil. No fertilizer needed. EVER. …and it feeds the grass around it for free. Drought-resistant — stays green when grass goes brown. Bee paradise — constant blooms from May to frost. Chokes out weeds — dense growth shades out weed seeds. No mowing needed (stays 4-6 inches) — or mow monthly. Soft underfoot — kids love it. Costs $5-10 to overseed 1,000 sq ft. How to add clover to your existing lawn: Overseed in spring or fall. Scatter seed (2 oz per 1,000 sq ft). Water lightly for 2 weeks. Done. Stop using broadleaf herbicides (they kill clover). Stop fertilizing (clover makes its own). Mow at 3-4 inches. The lawn industry told you clover was a weed so they could sell you chemicals. Take your lawn back.

What is going on @KofC ???