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Thanks for today's Takes.

I think the essence of what we are seeing is best highlighted in Wednesday's DPH (just watched this morning;-)) The Trump visit to the Halem bodega and the NYT poll both show the capturing of the public narrative by We the People. The DS Rat Bastards cannot get away with their same old bullshit tricks that they have used all of our lives. We are the news now!!!

Eyes wide open.

God Wins!

God Bless!!!

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Gosh I truly hope you are right God wins. Because this is so stressful for me being surrounded by family that does not see. I have many people stop talking to me and job search has been relentless. This post Covid medical world is not good. I stayed away from facilities because it was not good and want to continue staying away. I’m praying for we the people. Trying to do things to help where I can. Please let God Win. We need him for all our sakes. Nice to come here to chat .

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I too have lost contact with family (2 sons) and our "non-essential work" was closed down so my wife & I reinvented ourselves (only through God's will). Prayer works, no fear, God is Good!

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Man, I love these daily updates. Sometimes the tone of it gives me the chills in a NCSWIC way. Glad to have found Badlands!

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Love reading the Badlands News Brief every day although I am not as knowledgeable as the contributors. I am finding that I have to skip some of the news as I have no idea what the acronym stands for. I try to read and guess by the content but I am failing more frequently. Can the contributors define the acronym at least once in their comments, please?

Trying to stay informed!

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You can always ask in the comments. Someone will help you out. The commenters here are a pretty decent bunch.

And don't feel stupid about asking. We all have to learn sometime, and there will be others like you who also don't understand, but are afraid to ask.

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There is a 5-minute video in the link. Therein, Representative Mike Garcia (CA-27) burns Christopher Wray to the ground. It's hard to set slime afire. Mr. Garcia's words to Wray are a nuclear blowtorch.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/16/mike-garcia-tells-fbi-director-chris-wray-his-agency-has-ideologically-inverted-and-now-represents-the-usa-equivalent-of-the-soviet-secret-police/

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For a few years the narrative was that the problem with the FBI was it’s leadership…now we begin the narrative ‘corrupt to the core’. 👍

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The IMF is telling us exactly what we are doing to ourselves as well as them. Actually, it should be clear to us except no one in politics or the media or the deep state wants us to understand. So, may I help?

In the year 2000, the national debt was $5.67 Trillion and the GDP was $10.25 Trillion. Presently the debt is $34.64 Trillion and the GDP stands at $27.9 Trillion. This absolutely should define our problem. The compounded growth of GDP has been 4.45% for 24 years while the Debt has compounded at a rate of 7.83%. This has to stop because it is killing America!

Another way to look at the same facts is the debt in 2000 was 55.3% of GDP. Today it is 124% of GDP. What was sustainable during the 20th century was 17 to 25% but was allowed to slowly increase over time. So, we lulled ourselves into accepting an unsustainable situation.

Around 1954 Albert Einstein was asked what he considered man’s greatest invention? It was assumed he might say it was developing steam power or splitting the atom, but he answered, “Compound Interest.” He was brilliant!

Compound growth was the key to America’s fantastic boom and was the proof of the brilliance of America’s founding father’s concept. But, compound loss is what is destroying America today. Why am I the only one explaining this rationally? My friends, this is just math! We have to take America back from the politicians who are selling us down the road. Let’s start with some education into the math behind our success and failure. It is the same mathematics.

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By the way, the killing of America is absolutely an invention of the Democrat Party. They understand what made us great and they have figured out how to pick our pocket without getting caught!

The math is the proof of what I am saying. I might argue this is why the Democrats are killing math in our schools. They know the math does not favor their future success if America figures out how evil they are in their underhanded fleecing of us.

The RINOs are almost as bad. They have glommed onto the trickery and played like they are fighting the theft, but their hands are in our pockets too. These evil clowns know where the money is and they know how to take it from us. If they cannot tax us, they spend anyway and let inflation do the pocket picking. We still pay, or should I say, free enterprise Capitalism pays?

We are seeing all of this today in real time. The Democrat Congress who lost power in 2022 screwed us going out the door and the RINO’s helped! Their games left the incoming Congress hamstrung and dealing with run away inflation. If this was not evil, I do not know what is.

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It was…..and, it might just lead to the abolishment of the IRS and implementation of the fair tax….

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Apr 18·edited Apr 18

Something about the FairTax that I have never heard anyone talk about, even Mike Huckabee who championed it when running in 2016 for President, is this:

It will automatically and instantly reverse the favorable treatment imports get in the tax code. How? By treating domestic and foreign competitors identically.

Right now, products made in the USA are taxed in the form of income and other related taxes paid by their manufacturers, employees of those companies, their vendors and service providers... basically at almost every level. Foreign competitors are often untaxed, or very lightly taxed, even in some cases subsidized, by governments who use export policy as a means of gaining competitive advantage.

That changes overnight when the taxes are paid by the consumer when (s)he buys the product. Whether foreign or domestic made, the taxes are the same. This is fairly obvious, once someone points it out.

A consequence of this observation is that once one major economy in the world moves to a consumption tax, then soon all other countries will be forced to follow, to avoid losing market share and remain competitive.

Free of IRS terror and the 'sword of Damocles' hanging forever over our heads in the form of threatened IRS audits (which are often as much about tax revenue as Trump's trials are about justice), the US economy will take off like a skyrocket on the 4th of July.

And freedom shall reign forevermore... because once we are un-shackled economically, it is only a matter of time until we no longer will accept being shackled politically or in any other manner.

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Great comment…

Thanks WildBill 🙏❤️

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Apr 19·edited Apr 19

There is nothing FAIR about 501 C and Foundations that pay NO TAX. I guess I just have ZERO TRUST for anything they come up with. Always seems to be a trick up their sleeves. It starts at 10% and then goes up every year until its 50% and 75%... Where is the Lottery Money that was supposed to relieve us of state and Federal taxes. How much are they making on fines? Licenses? Permits? We dont get to know any of that. Wheres the return on our money?

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All good questions, that [they] do not want to answer. If you've been watching them lately, they just ignore questions they don't like. Subpoena? Nope. Forget it. Court order? Screw you, let's see you enforce it -- oh yeah, we control all the cops...

As for the foundations, including university endowments, they should be forced to wind down by distributing all of their assets, and accepting no new contributions, in a limited time -- say five years.

Also I suspect most here are not aware of the fact that 'charitable' foundations are actually required to distribute a small part of their assets each year (~1%) by donating to charitable causes. However, they can donate to each other and it counts. A big circle jerk, basically; they follow the letter of the law but give their middle finger to the intent.

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Apr 19·edited Apr 19

The Governor RINO DeWINE, here yesterday announced how great it is that the clinics will now be right in your schools. Im guessing thats a gift from Gates and the Millions he contributed, and the CDC Gates Owned, who cant wait to get closer in your kids health/Jab/Vaccine, trans care/Indoctrination. I do not like the idea of medical clinics in our schools! Parents should reject these abortionist and drug pushers!

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Yes, indeed!!👍👍👍

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Thanks for the concise explanation, Jim!👍👍

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That story on the NYC Bodegas is awesome! We Know Trump won, this proves it...won 2020 I mean!

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And he'll win in a landslide in '24.

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Apr 18·edited Apr 18

Nice brief analysis on "Sanctions" GBPH ... and on "Iran Strike" as well (you did cheat just a little w/the video clip, but it was a useful cheat). By George, I think he's getting it! And you, too Ashe, on "Fake News." And BB, you got it a long time ago. Carry on all of you. Vive la Brief!

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Brava, bravo, ladies and gents👏👏👏

As always, enjoy your daily takes. Thank you!

And God bless!

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The “diversity club” reveals the hypocrisy of their group think.

NPR “ responds to accusations of political bias, censorship and social engineering by suspending their own journalist making such claims, thereby proving his point”

Hopefully the liberals with a few critical thinking brain cells left will get it!?

🍿”cascading exposure of the Media Industrial Complex”- BB🍿

The American Democrats (along with the Uniparty crooks) trying so hard to support Ukraine are stumbling into confusion over the same setup in Israel 🍿

🙏Eliminate the IRS🙏❤️🇺🇸

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👍 Well stated, Feather!!🇺🇸❤️

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“Fair tax day” HAHA!!

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$95+ billion to the 2 existing proxy states and the wanna be proxy…..at a time where the current spending is totally out of control. At least the House has introduced a resolution on Fair Tax…truly is the most equitable way.

Speaking of proxy states, Zelensky is ramping up the whining about Israel getting help and Ukraine’s out of the loop? Panic ratcheting up.

London Bridge is falling down as Ghost reminds us they are trapped…. NPR had a great classical music segment….nut that was all. NEVER use government funds for media….

Thank you, truthers and God bless you!🙏🙏

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“ Speaking of proxy states, Zelensky is ramping up the whining about Israel getting help and Ukraine’s out of the loop? Panic ratcheting up.” 👍

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Blessings ALtab 🙏❤️🕊🇺🇸🌎📚🎶

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Apr 18·edited Apr 22

I vote we don't give another stinking dime to the deep state thieves! Oh Great!! Abolish IRS!!! Such BS. In the next breath, a straight Tax... Such BS!! Trillions to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. Billions to politicians via the back door. Just a different THEFT Process. Do we even believe this garbage from these liars? What's the difference between the IRS government collectors and another Gov collection process? We are supposed to think, "WOW THATS GREAT". They just change the tactic, and they are back in business robbing us. 32 trillion debt is probably 64 trillion. Who will do the accounting and the auditing? Answer, (drumroll) None-your-business. No, I think they just want a shortcut. Maybe a special "Digital ID Bank card to your account/NWO "Passport" tracker"? Direct access to your cash right from your phone "So Convenient", and you can earn 'Cash Back' or points for good behavior, tax break of 1% off, and obedience incentives too!! Maybe even a SNITCH Bonus for turning in anyone who is making some cash on the side!!! They already told us we "will have nothing and be happy". I have ZERO TRUST in the Pedophiles to make good decisions for us! Gates Clinton Soros Obama Bush ect ect.... foundations, still don't pay taxes. They also don't have to report where that money comes from. How about we change that law? How about they pay the fkn taxes for a change. Its so much easier to send the money out to other countries and get the kickbacks through the backdoor. No accounting necessary there... Sweet Pick'ns for the UniPedo's and you under their complete control. Talking badly about them in social media, text, or your phone, being monitored for 24/7 by AI will cost you more in fines in the additional small print added by the Information tax police/former IRS agents, right after the vote at 3am passes the UNIPARTY. No time to waste!!

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Watch this!

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