A bit long, but WELL worth the read. Thanks for sharing it. I'm not holding my breath, however, for those indictments to be released.

Happy Independence Day, OUC! And as always, thanks for yet another great set today.

Will do. Happy Independence Day to you too!

They're all awful. I used to be a dreadful punster, grabbing hold of any overheard phrase in the middle of someone else's conversation and spouting a pun in a highly unwanted interruption.

Eventually I realized it was an illness, not unlike drinking or smoking to the annoyance of others. I stopped.

Result? I'm like that ex-smoker who cannot stand cigarette smoke. You can take your pun and shove it.

You're welcome and Happy Independence Day! Don't throw away the term "capitalism" yet, as it is used very well in many places such as Ayn Rand's "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal".

Love the article, great job at relaying ignorance to fact (outcome). The same type of article could be written about our representatives in the government, thier rehetoric verus their actions or lack of, and their results. The history books on Trump should be required study for future generations, but we all know that the publishing industry too has all been educated by the colleges of today. What will those books really reflect?

I think I appreciate Trump for being a dooer, he does what he says and what needs to be done. I can pat myself on the back for doing that in my job. My peers used to somehow always tranfer people into my branch when they need firing. I was the only one that fired those that needed it. It eventually resulted in me rmanaging all the branches in our regional area. I had to attend a few legal depositions along the way, but I always won by having good backup documentation (facts).

I agree. Those two are no laughing matter. One is for black supremacy and the other is an absolute idiot. On second thought, they are both absolute idiots.

AOC and Crockett..........no laughing matter.......but it did make me grin.

That's a 250th birthday worthy collection!
LOVED 'EM!

Happy Indepence Day!

Thank you Commander and mccannon01. This July 4th morning me dino learned something new.
Down with Marx's "capitalism" term of which I had no idea.
Up with "free enterprise."

Love the title.

The graphic would be better with the Heads to the side and the students going through on the conveyor.

But the title. Right On!
TL;DR the rest.

Some real groaning puns, but I laughed at everyone one of them.
Happy Independence Day everyone! 🇺🇸

When in the course of human events ...

For all you investors in FCOJ, a tiny pun-nishment ...
https://youtu.be/9B3TN2rEckQ

Thank you, OUC!
Made my INDEPENDENCE day. 👍
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wOj8uR...

or MA or CA or DC ?

When a big TBTF bank offers a $$ bonus for opening an account, one could respond by opening an account.
When the bonus is paid cash out and immediately close the account.
I favor whatever legally can be done to kill the TBTF banks without direct harm to honest people.

"Remember, Marx is the one who invented the term "capitalism"." I always attributed this to the old saying, "Even a blind squirrel gets a nut now and then." I don't think he really understood what he was saying. He was just a drunken ne'er-do-well looking for free stuff. Frederich Engels was a self-loathing spoiled rich kid that could supply the free stuff. A marriage made in hell.

This misleading seems to be happening on a massive scale.

Nice article.

The Peoples Democratic Republic of North Korea.

I would stay away from BofA, but a long time ago I opened a small account with them because they had branches in the cities I traveled to. The local bank (Credit Union) I've done business with for over 50 years doesn't have that reach. Likely, there are other solutions nowadays, but it is convenient when I need it.

I teach about hydrogels, but my daughter is the real expert on them.

In 2003, Wells Fargo bought the mortgages of several homes on my side of my street, but not the ones behind us that are at a very slightly lower elevation. Then they declared that we were in a flood zone. With our county FEMA coordinator, using the same flood service certification company that had originally said that we weren't in a flood zone, I proved that their basis for that conclusion was quite literally holding the flood zone map and a map with the homes on it up to a light and moving them up or down a little. The edge of the street had been the previous flood zone edge; now suddenly it was a few feet into my front yard. Shazam!

I paid off my mortgage immediately and never had to deal with Wells Fargo again!

Progressivism, like many terms the socialists/Communists use, is exactly the antonym of what it purports to be.

Ironically, I got asked about the hepatitis vaccine at my last doctor's visit. Nope.

Remember, Marx is the one who invented the term "capitalism". Marx never thoroughly addressed free enterprise. And ..... to be fair .... I never embraced Rand using the term.

From Charles Tips; Quora.
"What do you call, a combination of both capitalist and socialist ideas?

The proper term you are looking for is “free enterprise,” which some people call by the mistaken Marxist term of “capitalism” he conjured up as the evil force his communism would prevail over.

Free enterprise (alone among economic systems) creates wealth but also distributes that wealth widely to those in need. That latter part is indeed socialism (though not the “state socialism” usually implied) and it arrives primarily in the form of 501(c) charitable giving, which amounts to half a trillion dollars a year in the US lately. There is also a great deal of political redistribution of government funds, though that is less socialism… more at “vote buying.”