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Belgium has the highest tax burden on the average single worker in the OECD.
Yet somehow, the government still manages to spend €33 BILLION more than it collects every year.
And now politicians are fighting over another €10 billion.
I’m genuinely starting to wonder how much more money these people need.
🧵
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David Lisnard dérange à la fois le RN, LR et les macronistes.
On tient enfin le candidat qui nous débarrassera de ces fonctionnaires de la politique.
Un bijou !
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C’est une dynamique surprenante autour de @davidlisnard
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Un clown nommé Zucman (oui, oui, celui de la taxe) !
Voilà qui fait désordre !
ChatGPT et Claude auraient passé au crible 138 travaux de Gabriel Zucman et Emmanuel Saez.
Bilan annoncé : 2 035 problèmes, dont 147 susceptibles de modifier des résultats importants !
Voilà qui écorne sérieusement l’image du grand gourou de la fiscalité.
Avant de vouloir révolutionner l’impôt des Français, peut-être faudrait-il commencer par vérifier ses additions.
Illustration @grok
🤖 Made with AI
ChatGPT et Claude ont audité les travaux de @gabriel_zucman de la fameuse taxe Zucman
Le nombre d’erreurs est ASTRONOMIQUE
BRAVO ChatGPT
BRAVO Claude
Francois retweeted
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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BREAKING: Journalists investigating corruption in Ukraine will face 5 years in prison.
Zelensky wants me and my journalist colleagues to stay silent about how he’s stealing your billions.
He’s taking the last thing left - freedom of speech.
We bring you the truth.
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Milton Friedman on how “social justice” destroys a society:
“If I have a philosophy that everything belongs to society—if something happens to me, that’s not my fault, that’s because society did it to me—then the whole concept of property loses its role.”
“Why shouldn’t I steal? Why shouldn’t I destroy property? After all, it’s nobody’s. It belongs to everybody, so it belongs to nobody.”
“Moreover, if I happened to be in a lower-income group, or a deprived social group, or a discriminated-against racial group, that’s the malevolence of other people. It’s not my fault, and I have every right to get back at them.”
Francois retweeted
50 years after the publication of The Selfish Gene, it's time for books that capture the complexity of life to take centre stage
go.nature.com/4dXkdlX
Francois retweeted
Qu est ce qu il est con ce type, c est affreux, et il se prend tellement au sérieux. Un grand referendum global sur la démocratie. Lula, socialiste, corrompu condamné, libéré pour faute de procédure, le peuple brésilien convaincu qu il y a eu fraude électorale.
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The point of no return by Richard von Mises is worth reading:
"A state becomes almost unreformable when the majority of the population is financially or structurally dependent on the state (state employees, civil servants, recipients of subsidies, grants, or transfer payments, etc.). As soon as those who net benefit from or are supported by the state outnumber those who do not, the system blocks reforms, since the majority votes out of self-interest for the preservation or expansion of state services."
Does this sound familiar? Some European countries, France, Belgium, Finland are already way beyond that point, closely followed by Germany, Spain, Austria and Italy. It works for a while, as long as markets buy more sovereign debt at reasonable interest rates. The party ends when they stop though. For France, they stopped this month, Belgium will be next.
The longer the socialist illusion persists, the more painful the inevitable cuts and adjustments will be. It’s pure arithmetic. Good luck Europe, good luck Euro. Buckle up, it won’t be pretty.
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Let’s go through the peace deals Zelenskyy rejected.
• Istanbul agreement, 2022
Ukraine needed to refuse NATO accession, reduce the army, Russia would withdraw from the Kyiv reg., possibly from the Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. At that point the scale of destruction was still limited and the number of dead was far lower. In April 2022 Zelenskyy declined the deal.
• End of 2022
Russian forces withdrew from part of the Kherson region. Zelenskyy traveled to meet Biden and, acc. to my sources, later confirmed by Mr. Blinken in the New York Times, persuaded the WH to continue the war. The precise terms of any proposed deal remain unknown, but sources indicate there was readiness to declare at least a ceasefire.
• Beginning of 2023
Through unofficial channels between the United States and Russia, an understanding took shape: Putin agreed to withdraw to the borders that existed before the full-scale invasion—freeing nearly everything conquered that year—in exchange for Ukraine’s refusal of NATO accession and recognition of Crimea as Russian. Zelenskyy and Yermak refused. Since then nearly a million people have been killed or wounded, several million have become refugees, parts of the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk regions have been occupied, more of Zaporizhzhia has been taken, Kherson lies in ruins, the Chernihiv and Sumy regions face constant shelling, Kyiv itself has become almost a front-line city, the energy system has been destroyed, businesses cannot operate, exports have stalled, and the country is degrading.
• July 2024
An arrangement that began with an energy ceasefire, modeled on the Istanbul understandings and mediated through the Middle East. While negotiations were under way, Zelenskyy also planned the Kursk operation, which ultimately disrupted all the arrangements.
• March 2025
After the Oval Office clash between Trump and Zelenskyy, European leaders gathered in London in early March. The British government stated that a number of options were on the table and that Ukraine had to choose. As always, nothing came of it.
Whether Putin was prepared each time to implement any agreements remains unknown, yet on several occasions he carried out what he had promised. Does this remove his responsibility for the deaths, the horrors, and the destruction in Ukraine? No.
But the country is degrading, the state apparatus is degrading, and corruption finishes what Putin’s missiles, drones, and bombs did not destroy. Inhumanity has effectively become a state strategy and a national ideology promoted at every turn.
Ukraine simply cannot win this way—there are neither economic, nor demographic, nor any other grounds for it. Therefore, if Zelenskyy does not agree to a deal with realistic terms now, Ukraine will be forced to capitulate. And that is deeply alarming, because it can actually cost the country its independence and sovereignty.
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Je suis personne, mais si, pour une fois, ce tweet pouvait faire quelques milliers de vues....
Bravo à Mr @davidlisnard
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There is always the question of why people are losing patience with the old politics around the world.
In the United States, in Europe, in Latin America, no one can stand the maintainers of the status quo anymore.
And in Europe, the problem is hidden in cowardice.
German Chancellor Merz recently said:
“My biggest concern right now is not our economy, not the European Union, not America, not China.
My biggest concern is the impact of Russia on our society and how they are managing to destabilize our societies.”
This is the greatest synthesis of what I have been saying for a long time. Europe has clung to the excuse of a Russian threat so it does not have to discuss what really matters.
Every month some European intelligence service claims that the Russians are planning an invasion.
Instead of carrying out the reforms society actually wants, they perpetuate insecurity and fear. Fortunately, few people in Europe believe this narrative.
Where is the German leader’s speech about a major plan to make energy cheaper and bring companies back? There is none.
Where is the speech on replacing Russian gas cheaply? There is none.
Where is the speech about building new relationships with the supply chains that Europe has lacked, and lacked badly? There is none.
Where and when will this European cowardice give way to serious and independent policies?
And this does not apply only to German leadership. I could give several other examples.
When there is no Russian invasion planned for next week, they talk about Chinese sabotage. It is never them, always the others.
Let us hope the new European generations are able to take back the reins and build a future with seriousness.
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I'm old enough to remember Ukraine before February 2022. Before the great PR makeover. Before billions in British public money started flowing. Before the swastikas were quietly airbrushed out of the picture and yesterday's neo-Nazi problem became today's inconvenient history.
Back in January 2015, Ross Kemp travelled to Ukraine for his Extreme World documentary series, investigating the rise of the far right and the Azov Battalion, including its neo-Nazi elements and symbolism.
This was British mainstream television, not Russian propaganda.
Funny how quickly history gets rewritten when the geopolitical interests change and the public chequebook comes out.
Of course, Ukraine's corruption, extremist movements and internal divisions didn't magically disappear in February 2022. But suddenly, mentioning what British journalists had openly reported for years was enough to get you branded a Kremlin sympathiser.
Well, here's Ross Kemp reporting from Ukraine in 2015, long before the political rebranding.
No Russian bots. No Kremlin script. Just the history they would rather you didn't remember.
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🚨 DEBUNK - Lola-Fleur Whittaker prétend que sa mère se nourrit d’un gâteau pour déjeuner le midi sous-entendant qu’elle vient donc d’un milieu très peu aisé. Pourtant … ⤵️
Elle a obtenu un bachelor à l’université de Manchester (29 000£/an, soit 90 000£ sur l’ensemble de son cursus) avant d’intégrer Sciences Po Paris.
Lola-Fleur propose des cours particuliers à 53€ pour 50 min !
64€ de l’heure donc ce qui représente 6 SMIC horaires nets.
Sur son compte instagram on peut voir des photos d’elle en vacances à Oman 🇴🇲 , l’île de Ré 🇫🇷,Sicile 🇮🇹 , îles grecques 🇬🇷, Malaisie 🇲🇾, Égypte 🇪🇬
Son père est un cadre de la multinationale petrolière Shell et ancien expatrié à Oman.
Présentée comme une simple étudiante et "créatrice de contenus", elle s'affiche fièrement en photo avec Jean-Luc Mélenchon et d'autres personnalités de LFI et avec un badge organisation à l'un des meetings LFI. Elle a aussi réalisé un stage à l'Assemblée nationale.
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Ca fait plus de 20ans qu’on m’accuse d’être inutilement, outrageusement et excessivement pessimiste sur l’Europe, sur l UE.
En réalité, j’étais trop optimiste.
Mon pessimisme était basé sur les inéluctables effets délétères du socialisme, du cauchemar qu’est le centralisme bureaucratique à travers l’UE. Le socialisme mène toujours et partout à la faillite, à la déchéance, et au malheur des hommes.
Je n’avais pas imaginé, qu’en plus de tout ça, nous allions participer activement et financièrement à une guerre perdue d’avance contre la Russie; qu’après avoir sabordé le nucléaire, nous allions nous couper de l’abondant et bon marché gaz Russe.
On n’a probablement pas encore touché le fond; il est de bon ton de penser et de dire, que nous vivons la faillite du Libéralisme, que l’économie de marché ça ne marche pas, alors que les dépenses publiques font plus de 50% des PIB.
Il est possible/probable que nous devions encore casser plus, bcp plus, avant de comprendre. A cet égard, l’élection en France en 2027 va être révélateur.
Le pire des scenarios, est évidemment une guerre intra-Européenne, contre la puissance nucléaire qu’est la Russie, contre l’armée la plus aguerrie qui soit. Ce scenario n’est pas exclu, il n’a même jamais été plus possible, qu’aujourd’hui.
Ou, quand et comment va s’arrêter la folie ?
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Evil will always seek to destroy beauty because beauty is proof of objective standards and universal Truth.
"Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." — Dietrich von Hildebrand.
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Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
