My mom paid off her house in 2003. Thought that was it. Thought she was done. Thought it was finally hers. Property taxes were $1,800 a year back then. She’s retired now. Fixed income. Same house. Same neighborhood. Property taxes are $24,000 a year. That’s $2,000 a month. On a house she already paid for. She’s 71 years old and the government sends her a bill every year just to stay in her own home. You never really own anything in America. You just make payments to a different landlord.

Same way metal shavings get into Wendy’s buns, malfeasance. Companies put profits above safety daily if you’ve worked an industrial job you know it too even retail like a grocery store. Likely something happened in India or wherever they made the pills that weren’t caught.

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RT @ApostateAri: In the theatre of existence, niceness is the applause of the crowd: fleeting and conditional. Goodness is fidelity to prin…

Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside? He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce. In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord. The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly. Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins: – The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him – The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty – The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him. Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise. What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise. Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good. By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.

COVID lockdowns were a live-action Stanford Prison Experiment. No basement. No fake prison. No coin flip to decide who gets the uniform. Just a press conference, an emergency declaration, and a world that divided itself, almost overnight, into guards and prisoners. In 1971, Philip Zimbardo took 24 ordinary college students. Psychologically screened. Emotionally stable. Good people. He gave half of them guard uniforms and sunglasses. The other half, prison smocks and chains. The experiment was supposed to run two weeks. He shut it down after six days. The “guards” had become cruel. Psychologically tormenting prisoners. Inventing humiliating rules. Enforcing them with genuine enthusiasm. The “prisoners” had broken. Stopped using their real names. Forgotten they could simply walk out. Nobody told the guards to be brutal. The role did. Nobody told the prisoners to lose themselves. The situation did. Now look at 2020. Within weeks, entire categories of identity were created. Essential. Non-essential. Compliant. Denier. Neighbors reported neighbors for sitting in their own gardens. Police issued fines for walking alone on empty beaches. Local officials, suddenly intoxicated with emergency powers, closed playgrounds, taped off park benches, and enforced rules that existed nowhere in law. And the medical establishment? Doctors who spent careers advocating for patient autonomy began enforcing mandates without questioning them. Hospital administrators banned family from dying relatives and called it protocol. Nurses filmed themselves doing choreographed dances in empty wards while patients died alone. The uniform changed. The behavior followed. The terrifying lesson of Stanford wasn’t that evil people do evil things. It was that ordinary people, given a role, a structure, an institutional justification, will do things they would never otherwise consider. And feel righteous doing it. The situation didn’t reveal character. It replaced it. This is what power does when it goes unchecked. It doesn’t need monsters. It just needs roles. Rules. A chain of command. Language that makes obedience sound like responsibility. “We’re just following the science.” Zimbardo followed his experiment too. Right off a cliff. The most dangerous moment in any crisis is when ordinary people stop asking whether what they’re doing is right and start asking whether it’s authorized. Your conscience doesn’t clock out because the institution told you to comply. It never did. It never should.

From high atop Mt. Evans, here is a reminder: local and state politics matter. The numbers below don’t include your local property taxes or embedded costs due to state government regulations.

Paraphrased from @COUnfiltered. Colorado's Democrat legislature is a dysfunctional HOA where homeowners are not allowed to participate, and the board is paid by the HOA company. They took away your kids, water, hummingbird feeders, ketchup and plastic forks, 1A, and 2A. F* Dems.

According to the Colorado voter roll, there are NINE active-status registered voters in this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Las Animas county, plus 14 other inactive-status registrants who apparently lived there until failry recently. The (alleged) current occupants are males aged 30, 38, 39, 53 and 83, and females aged 52, 54, 56 and 78. The assessor's office shows that the 83 and 78 y.o. individuals jointly own the property. Everyone else apparently shares the other two bedrooms. (I bet meals and bathroom visits are fun.) Nothing suspicious from a voter roll perspective going on here at all ... Jenna Griswold is on top of things.

Ask about this. Who’s for cleaning these voting roles?

Reminder, we need to follow @Erin4Parents model and #PetitionTheHellOutOfColorado . The target should be 50 ballot initiatives every cycle to unwind every evil law, the bogus fees, and the assault on Tabor. Doing 50 at once is easier than doing 1 or 3.

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How are they worse? Can you provide some metrics? Here is where Colorado sits while under democrat control.

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Eliminate primary residence property taxes Quadruple taxes on rental properties based on PRESENT values.

The Night of the Fan Mail:

so real

Telling people who can't afford a house, can't even afford a decent car, can't afford groceries, can't afford basic health care, and see little job growth that they are "living in a golden age" while you do Gatsby parties & fancy ball room renovations is NOT a winning message.