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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
They told you Obamacare would discipline the insurance giants. Force them to compete. Drive down premiums through the magic of an online marketplace with a clean government website. Then you watched the website crash in October 2013, and you watched UnitedHealth, Aetna, and Anthem post record profits while your deductible climbed past $6,000. Here is what the exchanges actually built. The law forced you to buy a product under penalty of the individual mandate, then handed the insurers a fountain of taxpayer cash to make the product look affordable. Premium tax credits flowed straight to the carriers, not to you. In 2017 the federal government paid roughly $42 billion in subsidies, and that money landed in corporate accounts. The cost-sharing reduction payments did the same thing. The risk corridor program promised to backstop insurer losses outright, which is to say it socialized the downside while the executives kept the upside. Guaranteed customers. Guaranteed revenue. A captive market created by statute. Any cartel in history would have killed for terms like that. Free market economists have a plain name for this arrangement: rent-seeking. When a firm earns its money by extracting subsidies through political channels instead of by serving customers who choose freely, it stops being a business and becomes a tax farmer. The insurers lobbied for the mandate because they understood the arithmetic better than the voters did. America's Health Insurance Plans spent millions backing the bill, then acted shocked when premiums on the individual market more than doubled between 2013 and 2017 in many states. They were not the victims of the law. They wrote the parts that mattered. Strip away the subsidy and the whole structure collapses, because the prices were never real prices. A real price emerges when a buyer who can walk away meets a seller who can lose the sale. The exchange killed both conditions. You could not walk away without a penalty, and the seller could not lose because Washington covered the gap. This is not a market. The people who keep calling it one are counting on you not noticing who cashes the check.
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"If The Strait Of Hormuz Stays Closed, The Democrats Win The Midterms- PERIOD. The Economic Wreckage Will Be So Easy To Run On!" Mike Adams Lays Out How Trump Reopening The Strait Will Boost Republican Support In The 2026 Midterms While Creating An Economic Boom For America! ⬇️WATCH ALEX JONES LIVE NOW⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts/1XxyggrOm…
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The Hill: "House Freedom Caucus Mounts Push to Codify Trump Border Policies" Click to read 👇
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Just so I understand correctly…. Mark Zuckerberg, who openly admitted numerous times on public record that he interfered with our elections and actively censored life saving information throughout Covid… …was invited to Trump’s inauguration… has been invited to dinner at the White House and talk business with Trump… was given a position on Trump’s tech advisory council… and was invited to attend Trump’s UFC birthday bash last night… …and some of y’all are just going to keep sitting there saying “gotta keep your enemies close” like it’s all part of “the plan” 😵‍💫 🤦‍♂️ No, he’s walking free and being promoted. He’s a partner. A business associate. A friend. A protected elite. Rewarded for hurting America. Who will never ever ever ever be held accountable for his crimes. And that’s not on Zuckerberg. Can’t blame him for walking around smiling and partying as a free man. No that’s on every single person in this administration welcoming him back to the White House over and over again. That’s on every social media influencer who once wanted character’s like Zuckerberg arrested who now turns a blind eye and say nothing about it. Remember all of this and add it to the list next time they say “Nobody is above the law.”
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
WOAH 🚨 California Rep Carl DeMaio says California Democrats are creating legislation to control Apple Maps and Google Maps to dictate the commute you take The bill is ‘AB 2015’ and “The politicians want to pass a bill, I can't even believe that they're trying to do this to regulate and manipulate Apple Maps, Google Maps, or whatever software you use to plot out your commute. What business is it of government what route you take? Well, a lot of them are saying that they need to protect the environment. What it means is that your commute's going to take longer. Literally, they're going to probably tell your map software, well, make sure we 'Fight climate change, so let's add 30 minutes to the commute.' This is absurd” What this bill really does is it lets cities and governments tell these navigation companies there are designated “slow streets” The fan demand these areas are “walking or biking zones” and they can’t route cars through The risk is with this power in the future they can designate areas as high pollution zones and stop people from being navigated anywhere they want This is something that must not pass
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
UK is a police state
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
FLASHBACK VIDEO: Remember The Time That Police Attacked Peaceful JFK Assassination Researchers In Dallas At Dealey Plaza In 2013? Alex Jones & A Caller Who Was There Reminisce About The Historic Demonstration 🚨WATCH/SHARE THE LIVE X STREAM: x.com/i/broadcasts/1aJbddRgo…
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
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This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
TYRANNY ALERT: UK's PM Keir Starmer Announces FULL BAN On Social Media For Kids Under 16! This Is All Part Of The UN's World ID Plan For Buying & Selling, Built Around 1st Forcing An Internet ID To Prove You're Age-Eligible To Surf The Web PLUS, Alex Jones Calls On Parents To Keep Their Children Safe Online Themselves & Not Rely On The Government To Do It For Them! 🚨WATCH ALEX JONES LIVE NOW: x.com/i/broadcasts/1aJbddRgo…
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
SUNDAY FULL SHOW: Alex Jones Gives Live Analysis On The Historic UFC Bread & Circus Event At The White House / NYC Knicks Victory Riots… Meanwhile, Trump Claims He Will Sign Iran Peace Deal Tonight After Scolding Israel for Attacking Beirut! The Alex Jones Show - FULL SHOW - 06/14/2026 Watch the Livestream! ⏬ x.com/i/broadcasts/1nxeLLWWz…
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
JUST IN: Trump Says the United States Has Officially Signed a Peace Deal With Iran to End the War Netanyahu Immediately “Rejected” the Plan Because One of the Terms Is That Israel Has to Pull Forces Out of Southern Lebanon, Which Israel Has Every Intention of Keeping Kyle Seraphin, Alex Jones, and JD Vance Give Their Take in This Important Report! Watch the Livestream! 👇 x.com/i/broadcasts/1nxeLLWWz…
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
Israeli police raided Mea Shearim and Jews welcomed them with Palestinian flags. 🇵🇸 What Zionists cannot tolerate are Jews carrying Palestinian flags. In the Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Jews do not call themselves Israeli Jews, they call themselves Palestinian Jews. Israel is not the state of the Jews.
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud. Americans work 40 years… Pay taxes. Follow the rules. Build the country. Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month. Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into. Read that again. The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line. This is not compassion. This is a government priority problem. America First was never just a slogan. It was a warning. Who comes first? The taxpayer… or the system? FOLLOW ME THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
An Investigation Into the Gaslighter In Chief Dan Bongino — The Self Anointed “PodFather” Is Now Claiming That Tucker Carlson Has Fabricated a Report That President Trump Ordered An End To The Investigation Of His Attempted Assassination in Butler, PA. In This Report/Breakdown, Alex Jones Dissects Bongino’s Lies And Exposes Why You Cannot Believe Anything That Comes Out Of Bongino’s Mouth Concerning Epstein, His Death, The Butler PA Assassination Attempt And Much More! 🔴TUNE IN LIVE!⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts/1OGwbbeaY…
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
🚨FREE TOMMY ROBINSON NOW!! Then ARREST Keir Starmer And Charge Him With TREASON!!!🚨
I'M A TERRORIST AGAIN I have been detained at Heathrow Airport today for the best part of 3 hours. I was detained under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. My phone has been seized by the police. So here we go again, looks like more defence and court fees ffs!!! Absolute fucking madness. Please help kick off my legal fund for defence here - urbanscoop.news/support-us/
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Ed Rankin, PhD retweeted
🔥What am I missing? Elon Musk built companies. How did so many politicians become multi-millionaires on government salaries? Explain it to me like I’m 5.
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Replying to @ClassicLearner
Yep. At least 80% of humans will vote for and believe whatever the perceived-authority weighted sum of the information they've been exposed to is. This is why education was the first field to be targeted followed by media/hollywood etc.
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Replying to @ClassicLearner
A subject on my mind this morning; we have a population that mostly won't think for themselves, & use MSM as their source of truth w/o verifying facts. Now AI coming, & people are using it as a source of truth without using their own reason. Below a man is arrested from an AI match, but clearly its a different person🙄 x.com/LovinTheTruth5/status/…

Replying to @WallStreetApes
Clearly it's a different person, the jaw line is pretty obvious
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