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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.Henry Ford
Daniel Sanchez-Estrada received a longer sentence than most murderers. His crime: transporting a box of paper the government didn’t like. The paper was constitutionally protected speech. The sentence was 30 years. One of these things is not like the other, unless you live in the United States in 2026.
Not metaphorically. Gregg Phillips said he once found himself at a Waffle House 50 miles from where he’d been standing moments earlier. He cited the Bible in his defense. He told critics “haters gonna hate.” The Department of Homeland Security has finally decided maybe the guy who claims to teleport shouldn’t be running disaster response.
Dexter Taylor—software engineer, electronic music composer, and amateur philosopher—who baked his neighbor pound cake every year for his birthday, is currently in a maximum security prison serving a 10-year sentence for the non-crime of owning unlicensed firearms. There were no victims. There was no violence. There was no violation of the Constitution. Taylor was not accused of threatening anyone, selling anything, or firing a shot. He was prosecuted for having a hobby.
Judge Abena Darkeh told his attorney the exceptionally illegal: “Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom.”
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez promised to run “the most progressive DA’s office in the country,” then secured a longer sentence for Dexter Taylor than a man who repeatedly sexually assaulted a young girl, a man convicted of second-degree manslaughter, and a woman who stole nearly a million dollars. All of those cases had victims. Taylor’s did not.
Better late than accountable.
Trump’s task force for repelling a foreign invasion arrested 88 people in April. Seventy of them were American. Most cases had no cartel, no border crossing, no foreign connection at all. The invasion is us. ICE are just the DEA with a better branding budget.
Honkies most affected.
The Pung family of Isabella County, Michigan, contested a $1,600 tax bill that a tribunal had already ruled they didn’t owe. Patricia DePriest, the local tax assessor, was undeterred. “I don’t care what he says,” she said of the judge who ruled in the family’s favor. Justice Barrett, during oral arguments, compared DePriest to Inspector Javert — “but it was even worse because Jean Valjean hadn’t stolen the bread.” Penalties pushed the debt to $2,242. The county seized their home and sold it at auction for $76,000, then kept the profit.
Isabella County assessed the Pungs’ 3,000-square-foot home at $194,400. In 2020, the year after the auction, it sold on the open market for $195,000. The family lost ≈$118,000 in equity — more than 5,000% of the disputed debt. The house sold again last year for $342,000. Inspector Javert, at least, had principles.
The solution: a $500 bounty paid to anyone handing out stitches.
Four years in federal prison. No violence, no victims, no property damage. A man owned a plant the government doesn’t like and exercised a constitutional right the government claims to respect — he just did both at the same time. SCOTUS ruled unanimously that this was, in fact, insane. When the liberal and conservative wings of the Court agree on something, the something was probably very stupid to begin with.
Seattle has solved the problem of delivery drivers not making enough by making sure there are fewer delivery drivers.
In related news, Elizabeth Warren has discovered the single largest voting bloc in America.