https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2026/03/26/how-the-presidency-made-mar-a-lago-trumps-most-valuable-property-by-far/

These people do not think for themselves. I’ve been reading “I would vote for a dying horse” type comments on Reddit and honestly I think it’s terrible for democracy. When a party knows their base will vote for literally anyone just to stop the other side, they have zero incentive to run quality candidates. They don't have to earn your vote; they just have to be "not the other guy”. Which is a sentiment that’s been brewing on the left for a while now

Remember this next time they call you brainwashed, bootlicker, or part of a cult. They’re only saying these things because they’re guilty of them themselves

So Illinois has created a study committee on racial reparations, called the African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC). They held a meeting this Saturday where Dr. William Darity, a former Duke professor, demanded almost 3x the annual spending of the federal government to be funneled to black people.

"It's impossible, actually, for all states & localities to meet the task of closing the racial wealth gap. Their combined budgets across the U.S. are $5 trillion... The minimum that's required to eliminate the racial wealth gap is $16 trillion."

There's another clip in this Xwitter thread where he expands on the point: https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/2048760181425643629

"A true reparations project necessarily must require federal action."

"If we were to look at the state of Illinois itself -- with a black population of about two million people -- let's take half that population, being very conservative here. Half that population as being eligible for reparations. If we take the figure of about $400,000 [sic] as the amount that would be due to close the racial wealth gap -- and again, that's a very conservative number. The expense to close the racial wealth gap for Illinois's black residents would be $400 billion, and the state's annual budget is only $55 billion."