I am once again reminding you that you do *not* need to update your Bitcoin node software. I’m not saying you should *never* update it, I’m just saying there’s no reason to rush and you can safely run a few versions behind without issues. Bitcoin node software is backwards compatible.

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Communism has not made a single country more prosperous. Capitalism has made the entire world more prosperous. Anyway, good morning.

I don’t mean to sound dismissive, but I can’t imagine Canada poutine up much of a fight.

The UK is insane… here you have Idris Elba calling for the removal of *points* from kitchen knives to stop knife attacks… He also says they should BAN all “heritage knives” and you should need a license to own your grandad’s sword because current “loopholes” allow people to buy ninja swords. This is the same logic that leftists in the USA use for guns, blaming the guns instead of blaming the people who use them for violent attacks. Guns don’t kill people. Knives don’t kill people. PEOPLE kill people. Owning a gun is illegal in the UK (with very narrow exceptions). If making guns illegal stopped murder, then the UK wouldn’t proposing blunting knives and making swords illegal. But let’s just say the UK managed to blunt all the kitchen knives and ban all the swords, then what? Will murders stop? Of course not. What else will they need to ban? Will automobiles become illegal? After all, you can drive a car into a crowd and cause a lot of carnage. What about lashing a rock to a stick to make a club? What about chipping away at that rock to sharpen it to turn it into a rudimentary axe? What about just sharpening a stick? What about rubbing a rock against the tip of your blunted kitchen knife until it becomes a sharp point? What about glass windows? They should definitely be illegal because you can break a window, wrap a piece of cloth around a shard of glass, and voila, you have a knife. A small minority of people will always use tools to do bad things. Banning those tools doesn’t stop bad people from doing bad things. It just stops good people from using the tools. (It also leaves citizens completely disarmed and unable to resist the overreach of a fully-armed totalitarian state).

It’s a beautiful day to be alive.

The real reason Trump took our Maduro was because Maduro launched a better shitcoin than Trump. IYKYK

“If Biden would have done what Trump did with Maduro in Venezuela, democrats would have cheered!” Yes, and if Biden did what Trump did Republicans would have booed, just like democrats are doing now. Of course, Biden would never have done what Trump did because he has dementia and was being handled like a geriatric baby. But that is beside the point. This is the problem: neither side will ever let the other have a perceived win. Both sides will categorically denounce any action taken by the opposing side, regardless of the substance of said action. But this is a true brilliance of the duopoly, our Coca-Cola / Pepsi-cola democracy; no matter the action taken by Red or Blue, Red and Blue teams will support or denounce accordingly. But nothing ever changes. The duopoly exists to perpetuate the Military Industrial Complex and the Central Bank Cartel commonly known as the Federal Reserve.

Yooo who can hook me up with a brick of bolivars for posterity?

Maduro is a bad hombre.

A newly created Polymarket account invested over $30,000 yesterday in Maduro's exit. The US then took Maduro into custody overnight, and the trader profited $400,000 in less than 24 hours.

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A newly created Polymarket account invested over $30,000 yesterday in Maduro's exit. The US then took Maduro into custody overnight, and the trader...

Pete Hegseth just said that Muduro FAFO 💀

Happy Jan 3 to those who celebrate.

Communism always and forever leads to death. Anyway, goodnight.

I was exploring outside today with my son and LOOK AT WHAT WE FOUND. WHAT. A. DAY.

If you want to “tax the rich” but don’t want to “end the Fed” you’re retarded. Anyway, happy new year.

We need a wealth tax on communists.

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