>>11250431(LB)

Don't know about others, but my parents encouraged me to read, to look up things that I was curious about. When I asked my Mom what does this word mean, she'd say, go look it up in the dictionary. I read our whole encyclopedia set over the course of ten years or so. And we had a lot of books at home, Ayn Rand among them - I wasn't told to read them, I just felt a hunger to find out about things. I guess reading Atlas Shrugged when I was 15-16, and Solzhenitsyn about the same time, redpilled me. Read Cancer Ward some time, it's not as turgid as his other books, and shows a world that leftists/globalists are trending towards.

I think most kids are naturally curious, but when parents/teachers stifle that curiosity with "it's just the way it is, don't ask so many questions," they turn into sheep.

>>11250837

I don't remember that, it's been prolly 20-30 years since I reread it, but it's on my bookshelf.

TY for bringing it up, I'll have to read it again some snowy day this winter.

>>11250844

Doesn't make sense. Why would he abandon the van, walk somewhere and get another car, then show up asking about the van? The article doesn't say the van was broke down, but maybe it was.

>>11250892

There's a fine line between an ordinary constituent visiting a Congressman's office to talk about some issue of importance, and someone who's paid to talk about an issue of concern with a Congressman.

Where do you draw the line, say with some businessman in a district who's concerned about some regulation or lack thereof that's affecting his business, and a business that stands to make money by the same action?

>>11250908

Yeah, those cigar commercials bug me. Doesn't Rudy have enough money that he can put the evidence on YT for free?

>>11250944

It doesn't cost anything to post a video on YT.