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From gab.ai:

Did the US government kill people by poisoning alcohol during prohibition?

Yes, during the Prohibition era in the United States, the government did knowingly allow and, in some cases, directly facilitate the poisoning of alcohol. This occurred through a program known as the "restraint of trade," which was part of the Volstead Act, the legislation that enforced Prohibition. The Volstead Act allowed the government to seize and destroy alcohol that was being produced and sold illicitly. However, in many cases, the government chose to allow the alcohol to remain on the market, even though it was known to be contaminated or poisoned. This policy was based on the belief that if people became sick or died from drinking contaminated alcohol, it would lead to increased support for Prohibition and a reduction in demand for alcoholic beverages. The government hoped that this would make it easier to enforce the ban on alcohol production and sales. In some cases, the government even directly facilitated the poisoning of alcohol. For example, during the 1920s, there were reports of the U.S. Treasury Department adding toxic chemicals to illicitly produced alcohol, in an attempt to make it less appealing to consumers and reduce demand. While the government's actions were intended to enforce Prohibition and reduce alcohol consumption, they ultimately led to thousands of deaths and injuries from contaminated and poisoned alcohol. This tragic outcome highlights the unintended consequences of government policies and the importance of considering the potential impact of such policies on public health and safety.

https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/wheres-waldo-new-report-shows-dc

Last year, we worked together with Senator Joni Ernst’s office to quantify the federal bureaucracy. We asked questions like: How many are there? What are they earning compared to the private sector? Where are they located? How do they perform? And how much vacation do they enjoy on taxpayers’ dime?

Many of the answers were pretty damning.

Our findings were documented here on Substack and at Newsweek in our joint oped, “Where’s Waldo at Club Fed?”

We found that after just three years of federal employment, workers enjoyed 44 days of paid time off. Nine weeks of vacation must be nice!

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average real wage for a private worker (FY21) was $54,339 – but at 109 of 125 federal agencies in DC, the average salary was over $100K.

When questioned by Congress in 2023 about how many employees had returned to the office after Covid, Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja had no idea. ...

A new report this month from Senator Ernst, aptly titled “Out of Office,” dives even deeper. Those vacation days are just philosophical at this point, as the Covid lockdown has given way to an endless era of work-from-home and telework policies. They’re “phoning it in” – literally!

Among federal buildings in DC, just TWELVE PERCENT of office space is occupied.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/more-americans-calling-for-breakup-of-dangerous-powerful-monopoly-the-government

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/doge-days-of-the-color-war-friday

Never forget that the deep state and its revolutionary toolbox are amoral, in the same way that sharks and coral snakes are amoral. It’s a kind of amorality that always produces evil. The government justifies these tactics by claiming color revolution is cheaper and less destructive than waging kinetic war using missiles, tanks, bombs, and space lasers. But they know what they’re doing is wrong, which is why it is always kept secret.

They don’t care about anything except power. They don’t care about you, me, life, death, or even their precious jabs. Remember this summer, when we learned the Pentagon got caught pushing anti-vaccine propaganda in the Phillippines while it was mandating the shots at home?

The quantum of official evil is nearly indescribable. If the Pentagon truly believed the vaccines saved lives, then they intentionally doomed countless Filipinos who believed the Pentagon’s anti-vax propaganda (not to mention others outside Phillippines to whom the Pentagon’s propaganda leaked). On the other hand, if the Pentagon knew the vaccines did not work, then knowing that they still forced our U.S. service members to take the shots anyway, along with the unnecessary risks.

It’s calculated hypocrisy. This is how the deep state operates—playing both sides of every conflict, every crisis, every debate, as long as it serves the ultimate goal of consolidating power. They don’t just manipulate narratives; they manufacture them. When caught, they simply pivot, bury the truth under layers of mind-numbing obfuscation, or dismiss critics as conspiracy theorists. It’s a game of plausible deniability, where the human cost is nothing more than a line item on the geopolitical spreadsheet.

In the Philippines, the propaganda wasn’t just a one-off mistake—it was a deliberate operation, coldly calculated to overthrow a government that was becoming too friendly to the Chinese. And it worked. The new regime is enthusiastically pro-American and anti-Chinese, and it already allowing us to build more military bases there.

Well, what's the rest of the story?

Patrick says

Well, what's the rest of the story?

That is a well-known story of how the Federal government was able to regulate this farmer through the Federal government's ability to "regulate interstate commerce" even though the farmer never had any commerce out of his state.

Patrick says

Well, what's the rest of the story?

his name was Filburn, government and scotus full of communist faggots fucked him. it’s a very sad story.

@patrick there’s another case that is the reason for our cultural struggles. it was 1962. Engel vs Vitale. that was the case that doomed our nation.

Thanks @FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden I had not heard of it.

Grok:

The 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Engel v. Vitale (370 U.S. 421) was a landmark case that ruled it unconstitutional for public schools to sponsor or require official prayers, even if they were nondenominational and voluntary. It’s a cornerstone of First Amendment jurisprudence, specifically the Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from establishing or promoting religion.

Imagine how far less intrusive a government that gets it's revenue from:

* Tariffs
* Per Capita/Head Tax

would be over income taxes.

Why are so many glibertarians opposed to replacing the income tax with Tariffs?

AmericanKulak says

Why are so many glibertarians opposed to replacing the income tax with Tariffs?

Because one of the Libertarian tenets is the free flow of people and capital across borders.

HeadSet says

Because one of the Libertarian tenets is the free flow of people and capital across borders.

Correct.

"I'll shoot you if you enter my private property border, which is an abstract concept guaranteed by governance, but I don't recognize national borders, which is also an abstract concept..."

Libertarians seem to lack the concept of civic virtue.

Patrick says

Libertarians seem to lack the concept of civic virtue.

Life experience taught me that libertarians are just people who believe in freedom when it benefits them, and not at all when there is no benefit. Being for free trade is great when you get cheap labor from overseas but sell in US at higher prices. They aren't too crazy about you buying stuff from China directly without them as a middle man... suddenly needs regulation. I don't see libertarians any different than anyone else.

Everything is so manipulated, I don't even know what the truth is anymore. Liberals used to be for freedom, now are like zombies on a farm repeating whatever left wing propaganda about illegals being more important than the rest of us. Conservatives basically were assholes who loved money and big corporate donors while hating working man, that is still there, but kinda mixed with Trump populism. I don't know it anymore.

Fortwaye says

Conservatives basically were assholes who loved money and big corporate donors while hating working man

That is a left-wing caricature of a Conservative. What you are actually describing is the elite, which is what today's Dems have evolved into.

https://www.oftwominds.com/

Wealthiest counties in the US by median household income:

Loudoun County, Virginia $178,707
Santa Clara County, California $159,674
San Mateo County, California $156,000
Falls Church, Virginia $154,734
Fairfax County, Virginia $150,113
Howard County, Maryland $146,982
Douglas County, Colorado $145,737
Nassau County, New York $143,408
Los Alamos County, New Mexico $143,188
Marin County, California $142,785

4/10 are in the DC area.

Why are they so rich? It's not because they have a lot of entrepreneurs who have found ways to serve their fellow man.

Patrick says

Wealthiest counties in the US by median household income:

Loudoun County, Virginia $178,707
Santa Clara County, California $159,674
San Mateo County, California $156,000
Falls Church, Virginia $154,734

Falls Church is not a county. I presume they included Falls Church because in Virginia, cities and counties are completely separate. No city in VA is part of any county.

I asked AI about that:

Falls Church is not a county but an independent city in Virginia with county-level governance. In the U.S., some cities, like Falls Church, function as county equivalents for statistical and administrative purposes, separate from surrounding counties (in this case, Fairfax County). This explains why it appears in lists of "wealthiest counties" despite being a city.

https://billionairepsycho.substack.com/p/soviet-america

Today’s Soviet America has been objectively worse than many sci-fi dystopian movies. Because cinema needs to entertain an audience — narratives require dramatic suspense, wish fulfillment, and a charismatic hero. Real life, in contrast, has no such requirement to elevate heroism above the sordid slums of the favela. Many aspects of modern American life resemble the opaque bureaucracy of a Kafka novel, but in this absurdist and hyperreal version of America, the tangled maze of circuitous, redundant, and arbitrary paperwork is a ritual humiliation staffed by obese black women who mock their own customers.

A recent Frontier Airlines incident, captured in a viral video, involved a
passenger being refused check-in and taunted by staff after being hit with a
$25 fee. The situation escalated, leading to the termination of the employees
involved.

A passenger, flying from Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) to Boston,
arrived 50 minutes before his flight but hadn't checked in online.

He was informed that he would need to pay a $25 fee to check in at the counter
because he missed the airline's 60-minute check-in deadline.

The passenger was then allegedly refused service and taunted by Frontier Airlines
employees.

A viral video captured the heated exchange, showing the employees arguing with the
passenger and refusing to let him check in.

Frontier Airlines confirmed the individuals in question, who work for a third-party
contractor, were no longer associated with the airline account, according to ABC11 News.

The incident highlights potential issues with Frontier Airlines' check-in policies and
customer service training, as well as the agency's reliance on third-party
contractors.

This video shows the Frontier Airlines agents taunting a passenger...

Patrick says

Many aspects of modern American life resemble the opaque bureaucracy of a Kafka novel, but in this absurdist and hyperreal version of America, the tangled maze of circuitous, redundant, and arbitrary paperwork is a ritual humiliation staffed by obese black women who mock their own customers

Haha perfectly said!