Baron of Booze

The hard truth is:the corridor of freedom is narrow.Every generation has to walk it again.Not by burning institutions down,but by keeping them honest.

Freedom doesn’t survive by accident.It survives because people keep showing up & fighting for it. Every generation has a role in pushing us forward

When the state gets too strong, it’s tyrannical. When it’s too weak, anarchy takes over. But when both hold each other accountable: when government serves and citizens stay engaged, that’s where liberty lives.
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In their book The Narrow Corridor, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (you should read this) reveal something profound:
Societies stay free only when the power of the people and the power of the state grow together—in tension, but in trust.

We like to believe freedom is something we win. A revolution happens. A constitution is written. The good guys prevail. But freedom isn’t a prize you win once, it’s something you continually practice at in an infinite game.
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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You speak of freedom, yet you practice tyranny.

And when a government can do that to you without a warrant, without a reason, without a consequence, then it doesn’t matter what they call you: citizen, voter, taxpayer, but in reality you are nothing but their prisoner.
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They call themselves the party of freedom. But freedom doesn’t break down your door in the dead of night. Freedom doesn’t zip-tie your children while you watch. Freedom doesn’t strip you naked, drag you into the street, and throw you into a van with no lawyer, no trial, no call.
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Just saw it

Reports are that he hasn’t been seen since Tuesday

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Imagine passing on Kamala Harris over the price of eggs… only to watch everything get more expensive, lose your health insurance, see soldiers patrolling your neighborhood, and be stuck with a geriatric capitulating president ranting about ending ten wars (of countries he can’t name) all at once.

🙄

Let’s see em

Are we doing it right?

Keep people exhausted and they won’t organize. Keep them struggling and they won’t unite. Keep them divided and they won’t resist. The system isn’t failing, it’s doing exactly what it was built to do.

When fear replaces integrity and prejudice replaces critical thinking, the great American experiment doesn’t just lose its way—it risks losing everything. We built the most prolific democracy in human history… but it survives only if we can to keep it.

It was never about the values, it was about holding power and finding someone to blame for their own struggles, even when those struggles were shaped by their own choices at the ballot box.

Republicans who claimed to stand for faith, law, and country abandoned those ideals to defend a leader who violated the Constitution, profited from public office, and lived in direct opposition to the principles they preached.

Over the past decade, I’ve learned a hard truth: values only matter if they hold when it’s inconvenient.

The most sobering truth I’ve learned in the past decade is this:

Republicans never meant a word of what they claimed to stand for. Not one.

Look at the gerrymandering
It’s awful.

When Trump refuses to leave in 2028, history will mark the day he federalized and militarized D.C. (without a shred of justification) as the opening move of his coup.

put 100 red ants and 100 black ants in a jar, nothing happens. shake the jar and they start killing each other.

Black ant vs red ant.
But the real enemy?
The one shaking the damn jar.

👀 Sounds familiar?

we’re so busy fighting each other, left vs right, we forget to ask:

Who’s shaking the jar?

“conservative values” thru history…
• 1776:Backed King George
• 1860:Fought to preserve slavery
• 1920:Said women shouldn’t vote
• 1964:no to Civil Rights Act
• 1967:Tried to ban interracial marriage
• 1983:no to HIV research “it only kills gay men”
• 2015:no to gay marriage

& now in 2025…👀

Only the best people…

Well. There’s that…

This.

This is trending…yet unconfirmed

Cool story bro 😎