Cleaning Up Voter Rolls Shows How Fast Politics Can Flip

Send us Fan MailYou ever look at your paycheck, see what disappears into taxes, and wonder who decided that was a good idea? We start Memorial Day with a blunt “peasants” reality check, reacting to a viral clip about Colorado taxpayers footing the bill for transition-related care. That sparks a bigger conversation about public spending incentives, why populist policies catch fire, and the widening gap between what working people think they’re paying for and what government actually funds. Then we pivot hard into safety and the local consequences of hands-off leadership: Seattle gun violence near Aurora Avenue, neighbors describing shots hitting homes, and the claim that sex trafficking activity is spilling into quieter suburbs. From there we connect the dots to law-and-order crackdowns like FBI task forces, and we argue that removing repeat offenders can change daily life faster than any new slogan about guns. Politics threads through everything: Oregon cleaning up voter rolls and a gas tax referendum that collapses, the Texas Cornyn vs Paxton fight, and campaign messaging that seems built for a narrow activist culture. Immigration policy becomes a major focus too, from border numbers and work permits to the reported shift requiring green card applicants to wait outside the U.S., plus the real labor and housing pressures that follow. We close with the big arc: Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, and why energy shocks hit “kitchen table” budgets first. On the private stream we go deep on the economy with Ray Dalio’s warning about a breaking monetary order, Kevin Warsh on AI productivity and rate cuts, and our strongest take of the day: the crypto world is splitting into regulated rails versus Bitcoin as savings outside the system. If you got value from this, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What topic should we go after next?Support the showGet off Zero, the EASIEST WAY TO BUY BITCOIN #BTChttps://river.com/invite?r=Y6QR4HBWCQGhost Phones, Laptops and Tablets, Mark37 has it allhttps://Mark37.com/ref/live1776Thursday Night PRIVATE IGNITE presentation via ZoomRegister for our FREE Ignite webinar every Thursday at 4:30p PST 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/48vKR1Dwww.PeasantsPerspective.comwww.LeftBehindandWithout.orgwww.DollarsVoteLouder.comwww.politicalremodel.com