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CHINA COULD DESTROY USA AIRCRAFT CARRIERS WITH HYPERSONIC MISSILES IN MINUTES IN FIGHT OVER TAIWAN! USA DOES NOT HAVE EVEN ONE HYPERSONIC MISSILE AND CHINA HAS 600!

China would defeat the US military in a war over Taiwan, according to a top-secret US government assessment.

US reliance on costly, sophisticated weapons leaves it exposed to China’s ability to mass-produce cheaper systems in overwhelming numbers, the highly classified “Overmatch Brief” warns.

A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.

Losing Taiwan, the US’s key bulwark against Chinese power in the western Pacific, would deliver a severe strategic and symbolic blow to Washington.

The country’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford – recently sent to the Caribbean for Donald Trump’s crackdown on drug traffickers – is often destroyed in the wargames outlined in the brief.

The $13bn (£9.75bn) vessel, which entered service in 2022 after years of delays, is vulnerable to attacks from diesel-electric submarines and China’s arsenal of some 600 hypersonic missiles, capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound.

Beijing displayed its ship-destroying YJ-17 missiles, estimated to travel at eight times the speed of sound, at a military parade in September.

Nevertheless, the Pentagon is planning to build nine additional Ford-class aircraft carriers, while it has yet to deploy a single hypersonic missile.

China paraded ship-destroying missiles at a military parade in September Credit: VCG via Getty Images

Eric Gomez, a research fellow at the Taiwan Security Monitor, said the end result was unclear when he participated in a wargame for a Taiwan conflict, but noted the US suffered heavy losses.

“The US loses a lot of ships in the process. A lot of F-35s and other tactical aircraft in the theatre are degraded pretty rapidly too,” he told The Telegraph.

“I think the high cost of it was really sobering when we did the after-action summaries, and we’re like, ‘Okay, like, you guys lost 100-plus fifth-generation aircraft, multiple destroyers, a couple of submarines, a couple of carriers’.

“It’s like, ‘oh gosh, man, that was a heavy toll’.”

Hegseth: China could destroy US carriers in minutes

Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.

China has significantly expanded its arsenal of short, medium, and intermediate-range missiles, which means it could destroy many of the US’s advanced weapons well before they could reach Taiwan.

ELITE UNIVERSITIES CLAIM THAT 38% OF THEIR STUDENTS ARE CLAIMING(lying about) A DISABILITY TO GET MORE FOR TESTS!

Cheaters Faking Disabilities Are Dragging Colleges Into Crisis

Having ‘ADHD’ does not make you disabled.

The campus of Stanford University (Robert Gareth/Unsplash)

A large proportion of college students, law students, and medical students are willfully cheating and lying to get better grades. Nowhere is this happening more than at elite universities, where there is exponential growth in the number of students claiming disabilities in order to get the “accommodation” of time and a half on their exams.

Nationwide, 20 percent of college students now claim to have a disability. That number has quintupled over the past decade. Of course, there is no plausible scenario in which the number of disabilities among young people would actually increase fivefold (unless a city were carpet-bombed), so this must be a trend with a purpose. Plus, the more elite the school, the higher the rate of “disability,” even though one would think debilitating cognitive and learning disabilities would make attendance at such schools less likely. At Stanford University, for instance, 38 percent of undergrads are officially registered as being disabled. Certain populations also have extremely high rates of diagnosed disability. For example, 54 percent of nonbinary students at American colleges today are registered as having a disability. (RELATED: The Outrageous Scandal That Should Be Rocking Higher Education)

[M]ost of these “disabled” students are liars and cheaters who know they have no actual impediment that prevents them from taking an exam within an allotted timeframe.

Many assessments in the mainstream media on the surge of “accommodations” speak in gentle tones about whether additional safeguards are needed and whether the system has become “unfair.” But make no mistake about it, most of these “disabled” students are liars and cheaters who know they have no actual impediment that prevents them from taking an exam within an allotted timeframe. (RELATED: America’s Universities: A Multi-Generational Perspective)

Their decision to take extra time on their exams — which has been shown by several studies to significantly increase the likelihood of a better grade — is a purposeful act to hurt their classmates in favor of advantaging themselves. It is wrong. Even if they have genuinely fallen for the claim that anxiety and “ADHD” entitle elite college, law, or medical students to 150 percent time on exams, they’re guilty because they know that they are perfectly capable of reading the exam and giving an answer, and that a lower score is the result of low effort and/or low intelligence. After all, half of these students had no disability until after they showed up at their university.

The time and a half given to students with “disabilities” is certainly not leveling the playing field. Several studies have found that giving students extra time has about the same effect on increasing scores for students with and without disabilities. Those benefits to students with “disabilities” can be seen in the rise in LSAT scores in recent years, which can be attributed to the increased rates of test-takers receiving time and a half. Conveniently, these “disabled” test-takers who get time and a half on the LSAT do, on average, better than their non-disabled peers.

These “disabled” students do serious harm to students who are actually disabled. College students who are blind, paralyzed, missing limbs, have cerebral palsy, have severe dyslexia, are recovering from surgery, etc., etc. actually need accommodations. Students with fake disabilities who monopolize the resources of accommodations testing offices for the purpose of cheating steal resources from students who genuinely need them. Plus, they cast suspicion on the students who need accommodations by means of promoting widespread resentment toward accommodations.

This month, the Atlantic published an essay on this growing phenomenon. The author, Rose Horowitch, argued that the explosion of accommodations in higher education “has put the entire idea of fairness at risk.” She traced the origin of this explosion in accommodation grants back to a 2008 amendment from the Association on Higher Education and Disability that called for colleges to give significant consideration to students’ own assessment of their disability and not to rely only on medical diagnoses. The organization claimed that “(r)equiring extensive medical and scientific evidence” actually “perpetuates a deviance model of disability.” In addition, the American Psychiatric Association in 2013 expanded the definition of ADHD — the “disability” that 17 percent of college students claim to have — to the amorphous standard that a person’s symptoms need only to “interfere with, or reduce the quality” of academic functioning.

Horowitch doesn’t say this, but ADHD is a diagnosis that is made to account for totally disparate behaviors in people. For example, one person with “ADHD” could be a 21-year-old woman who gets distracted by TikTok when she’s supposed to be studying, and another person with “ADHD” could be a 11-year-old boy who has intense anger and is willfully disobedient toward all adults. In other words, ADHD can be applied to people who aren’t the best at staying focused (a difficult task for almost everyone, it turns out), and it can describe people with a range of other serious mental disorders. Brain scans of those with an “ADHD” diagnosis have found nothing in common among those with the condition that is distinct from the rest of the population. Brain scans have also found nothing consistently deficient in the brains of people with ADHD. Therefore, a diagnosis of ADHD means and describes practically nothing coherent. And yet, there are many ADHD activists who claim that there is something wrong with the brain chemistry of people who have ADHD, and that this can only be solved by stimulants that are controlled substances. (These activists still haven’t shown what is wrong with the brain chemistry of people with ADHD, or demonstrated that the stimulants have positive effects in the long term.)

Even though ADHD means so little and has such a low standard for diagnosis, many psychiatrists have been known to diagnose patients with it even when the basic standards are not met. In a survey, nearly half of psychologists said the purpose of a psychoeducational assessment was to secure accommodations for a student rather than to discover if the student is in need of them. Others advertise that they will provide a diagnosis for accommodations. One assessment company, for instance, publicly bragged that it had a “95 percent success rate in getting learning disability accommodations.” The company’s owner even said in a YouTube video that he wasn’t aware of a case in which a client had been denied accommodations. A different cognitive testing company had a banner on its website that said “Get ACT Extra Time.”

Thus, it’s become easy for parents to essentially buy their kid a diagnosis that will unlock time and a half on his or her exams. Another piece of evidence for this is the fact that disability accommodations are given more frequently at schools with students from wealthier families.

But really, parents don’t even need to buy their kids a diagnosis. In a recent study in Canada, 23 universities approved a (fictional) student’s request for extra time on her exams because of ADHD. Here’s the twist: The official neuropsychological battery, which was given to the universities, stated that she was within normal range for everything. All she had to do to get accommodations was state that she felt she had ADHD. The researcher, Allyson G. Harrison, reported that she was inspired to do the study by a similar study that was conducted in the U.S. that also “found almost perfect compliance” with the student’s request. The researcher refused to publish that study, she said, because he feared institutional backlash.

Increasingly, diagnoses of anxiety and/or depression are accounting for a greater proportion of students who receive extra time on their exams. At Ohio State, students with these mental health difficulties constitute 36 percent of those receiving accommodations. These students also tend to receive leniencies, such as being able to skip class or turn in assignments late.

Of course, it seems quite clear that teenagers with anxiety and depression would be better off being held to the same standard as their peers instead of being coddled into feelings of helplessness and insufficiency. Having depression and anxiety might mean you need help and therapy, but it certainly doesn’t make you too stupid to take your exam in the normal amount of time.

Also, about this time and a half for exams. There’s no scientific rationale for it. Harrison explained to the Chronicle on Higher Education that there’s no significant research on what extra time might be appropriate for certain disabilities. “It’s just throwing darts,” she said. Students in Australia with disabilities, for instance, only receive 115 percent time for exams.

In recent years, many employers have reported that college graduates are unprepared for the workforce. Of course, getting concessions and easier exams for claiming to have the “disability” of “ADHD” at a time when rigor in higher education is falling each year is hardly the best preparation for the workplace. After all, you don’t get time and a half to do your job.

In 2023, Brett Seaton, then a student at the University of Pennsylvania who was diagnosed with ADHD but refused to accept accommodations, wrote about what exactly is supposed to happen when these coddled students show up at their place of work post-graduation and aren’t given concessions. He said:

Employers trust Penn to educate students and to prepare them to enter the workforce. Imagine how surprised they will be when they find out that in time-sensitive situations, accommodated students function at half of the processing speeds of non-accommodated students. Accommodated students will feel slow and behind, while employers will be frustrated and more likely to fire them for their slow rate of creating value.

What will be much worse is when doctors who received time and a half on their exams start treating patients. Unfortunately, doctors with “ADHD” will also not receive time and a half to help a patient in a medical emergency.

By choosing to give so many students such unwarranted benefits, universities are putting their reputations at serious risk. Students are graduating from their schools entitled and unprepared. Genuine merit is overshadowed by those who game the system. And, as most college courses are graded on a curve, either officially or unofficially, each student who is not cheating is being robbed of the grades he or she deserves. Universities’ entire system of academic integrity has collapsed, and the value of their degrees has fallen.

Surely, these schools are terrified of getting sued by students who claim their disabilities were not accommodated. But there is no reason that time and a half on an exam should be a “reasonable” accommodation for ADHD, depression, or anxiety. Universities need to fight back against the liars and the cheaters.

THE POPE IS BLIND TO ISLAMIC TAKEOVER!

THE POPE’S WAR ON CHRISTENDOM: HIS ISLAMIC FANTASY VS. EUROPE’S BLOODY REALITY

The Pope’s interfaith rhetoric collapses against Europe’s blood-soaked reality, revealing a globalist agenda that demands Christian nations surrender to the very forces destroying them.

On his carefully orchestrated “interfaith” tour through Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV was confronted with a question he could no longer avoid: whether Islam threatens the Christian identity of the West.

The Pope was asked a serious and unavoidable question: “Is Islam a threat to the Christian identity of the West?”

Rather than answering with Scripture, historical understanding, or even basic honesty, he delivered a set of rehearsed globalist talking points. He dismissed the concerns of millions of Europeans by claiming that their fears are “created by people against immigration.” He insisted that Western Christians “should be less fearful,” and he even suggested that Lebanon — a nation shattered by sectarian violence and Islamist dominance- should serve as the model for Europe and the United States.

This is not spiritual guidance. It is ideological blindness, and the moment it collides with reality, it crumbles.

POINT 1: Fear Was Not Created by Political Rhetoric. It Was Created by Reality.

Europeans did not become fearful because commentators told them to be. They became fearful because jihadist violence entered their daily lives.

How can anyone call it “fearmongering” to recall Father Jacques Hamel, who was beheaded at his own altar in France?

Or the Nice truck massacre that killed eighty-six innocent people?
Or the Bataclan slaughter, where ninety concertgoers were tortured and massacred?
Or the Vienna Islamic State attack, or the London Bridge terrorists who stabbed passersby while shouting “Allahu Akbar”?

These are not abstract policy debates. They are lived experiences. Europeans fear for their families because mothers have been murdered while attending Christmas markets, priests have been attacked mid-Mass, and schoolgirls have been stabbed or raped on their way home.

Their fear is not imagined. It is earned through blood and suffering.

POINT 2: Lebanon Is Not a Model of Coexistence. It Is a Warning.

When the Pope presents Lebanon as a model for Europe, he ignores the country’s tragic history. Lebanon was once approximately 80 percent Christian, a prosperous and Western-oriented nation often called the “Paris of the Middle East.” What followed, however, was not peaceful coexistence. Islamist militias rose to power, civil war erupted, Hezbollah entrenched itself, and Christians were driven out, slaughtered, or reduced to a vulnerable minority.

Lebanon did not evolve into a harmonious, pluralistic society. It became a case study in demographic conquest and political submission. To call this a “model” for Europe is to endorse Christian decline, the consolidation of Islamic political power, and the erosion of civil society.

Europe does not need Lebanon’s fate recreated on its soil. Yet that is precisely the trajectory the Pope’s narrative supports.

POINT 3: Dialogue Means Nothing When Only One Side Is Dying.

The Pope speaks earnestly of “dialogue,” “friendship,” and “mutual respect.” But these phrases ring hollow in the face of ongoing violence. Try telling European priests who now celebrate Mass behind locked doors that “dialogue” is sufficient. Try telling Jewish children who require armed guards just to attend school. Try telling the women of Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom who have been raped by “refugees” that they are simply misunderstanding the situation. Try telling Christians in Nigeria, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Kenya, whose communities are decimated by Islamist violence, that the Vatican’s calls for dialogue are enough to protect them.

Christians facing persecution do not need gentle diplomatic slogans. They need truth. And the truth is that the Qur’an’s teachings on Jesus, Christians, and Jews cannot peacefully coexist with Christian civilization. Islamic scholars openly teach that Jesus will return to destroy the Cross, abolish Christianity, and establish Islam as the only legitimate religion. That doctrine is not dialogue. It is replacement.

POINT 4: Islam’s “Jesus” Is a Weapon, Not a Bridge.

While the Pope praises interfaith harmony, Islamic activists across the West are promoting a deceptive campaign built around the claim “We love Jesus too.” This is not an attempt at genuine connection. It is theological infiltration. The “Isa” of Islam is not the Son of God, was not crucified, did not rise from the dead, and cannot save anyone. In Islamic prophecy, Isa returns for one purpose: to eliminate all religions except Islam.

This is not a bridge between faiths. It is a strategic weapon used to dismantle Christian belief from within. As RAIR has exposed in “The Counterfeit Christ: Islam’s War to Replace Jesus,” Islam does not honor Jesus; it redefines Him to erase Christianity.

POINT 5: The Pope Preaches Blindness While Christians Pay the Cost.

When the Pope tells Europeans to “be less fearful,” he erases the lived trauma of victims. Tell that to the families devastated by the Stockholm truck attack. Tell that to the teenagers who were blown apart at the Manchester Arena. Tell that to the families of those murdered at the Berlin Christmas market. Tell that to Catholic teachers who are now afraid to wear a cross in public.

Fear is not hatred. Fear is the normal, rational response of a civilization under assault. The Pope’s attempt to reframe self-preservation as moral failure is not compassion. It is a dangerous confusion of surrender with virtue.

POINT 6: Why Is He Promoting Mass Muslim Migration Into the West?

If the Pope wants to lecture Christians about fear, he must confront the truth he refuses to acknowledge. The Vatican is deeply embedded in the global refugee-resettlement industry, a billion-dollar network that moves overwhelmingly Muslim populations into Western Christian nations while presenting itself as “charity.” The Catholic Church receives vast sums of government and UN funding for resettlement programs. This is not merely a moral stance. It is a financial system.

The Pope also refuses to discuss his alignment with Amy Pope, the UN’s migration chief, who is shaping the demographic future of the West. He met privately with her just days before attacking President Trump’s border protections. Under her leadership, the IOM has become the operational engine of global population transfer, and its priorities are heavily influenced by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The Vatican provides the moral justification, while the UN provides the infrastructure. This is not compassion. It is coordination.

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And when the Pope claims Lebanon as his model, he is not describing peaceful coexistence. He is describing demographic replacement dressed as virtue.

THE QUESTION HE CANNOT ESCAPE

Why must Europe and America absorb endless waves of Muslim migrants while the Vatican partners with the very institutions orchestrating the demographic transformation of the West?

The answer is clear: This agenda has nothing to do with hospitality, mercy, or Scripture. It is the Great Replacement wrapped in religious language.

The Pope never pressures the fifty-seven Muslim-majority nations of the OIC to take in refugees. He demands only that Christian nations abandon their borders. This is not peace. It is a population transfer disguised as a moral duty.

THE FINAL VERDICT

As Christians across Europe bury their dead after jihadist violence, Pope Leo XIV scolds them for feeling fear. Meanwhile, he collaborates with UN migration architects, pressures Western governments to remain borderless, and helps funnel millions of Muslim migrants into the very communities already breaking under the strain.

If he wants to lecture Christians about fear, he must first explain why he is actively helping engineer the demographic invasion he insists they should ignore. Until he answers that question, his sermons are meaningless.

A shepherd who leads his flock toward wolves is not compassionate. He is complicit.

FRAUD, FRAUD AND CONTINUED MASSIVE FRAUD IN OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES

Fake People and Phony SSNs Had 100% Success in Getting Obamacare Subsidy, Fraud Investigation Finds

—A scathing new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report identified rampant fraud and systemic failures in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace just as Congress is battling over the future of Obamacare’s enhanced premium subsidies.

The report, released Wednesday, revealed that fictitious identities, invalid Social Security numbers, and even deceased individuals were easily approved for taxpayer-funded subsidies. Every single application investigators submitted using fabricated or invalid Social Security numbers in 2024 was approved for coverage.

“Republicans have sounded the alarm on the flawed structural integrity of Obamacare and how Democrats’ failed policies to temporarily prop up the program have exacerbated fraud, hurt patients, increased the burden on American taxpayers,” Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and one of the members who requested the GAO investigation, said in a statement.

“The concerning findings from GAO’s report further confirm that Republican efforts to strengthen, secure, and sustain our federal health programs are critical and necessary to ensure access to quality health care at prices Americans can afford,” Guthrie added.

The month-long government shutdown that ended just before Thanksgiving stemmed largely from Democrats’ refusal to budge on the expiring Obamacare premium subsidies, which they passed without a single Republican vote in 2021 and set to expire at the end of 2025.

Those subsidies were originally limited to households earning between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level. However, Democrats removed the upper-income cap and increased the subsidy amounts, and in some cases reduced premiums to zero.

Fraud is especially widespread among enrollees reporting incomes between 100% and 150% of the federal poverty level, who qualify for zero-premium plans. Critics say zero-premium plans create opportunities for bad actors to sign up unsuspecting victims without their knowledge.

In nine states, the number of sign-ups at that income level exceeded the number of eligible residents, according to a joint report from the Foundation for Government Accountability and the Paragon Health Institute.

GAO’s undercover investigation found that 100% of the fictitious applications it submitted were approved in late 2024, and 18 out of 20 fake applicants were still receiving subsidized coverage for 2025. ACA marketplaces approved coverage even when no documents were requested, or fake documents were submitted, including those related to the applicants’ citizenship status.

The government watchdog also uncovered 66,000 Social Security numbers with more than a year’s worth of subsidized coverage in 2024, including one number used for the equivalent of 71 years of coverage — in a single plan year.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which manages the ACA marketplace, does not block new applications using the same Social Security number, according to the report.

Additionally, 58,000 SSNs receiving benefits in 2023 matched Social Security death data, resulting in $94 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies being sent to health insurers on behalf of deceased individuals.

“For years, we were told we could keep our plan, keep our doctor, and premiums would go down. None of it happened,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said in a statement. “This new report confirms what we already knew: under Obamacare, hardworking Americans saw their premiums skyrocket and their healthcare choices shrink, all while fraud benefited insurance companies.”

Democrats, meanwhile, warn that without extending the expanded subsidies, millions of Americans will face steep premium hikes and loss of coverage.

ACA premiums are projected to rise by 20% on average in 2026, but Paragon’s earlier analysis found that the expiring subsidy would account for just 3.3% of those premiums. The group also found that Obamacare plan premiums have grown nearly twice as fast as employer-sponsored plans since the ACA took effect.

TREASURY SECRETARY CALLS OUT THE GIANT TAXPAYER MONEY DRAIN FOR ILLEGALS IN THE COUNTRY

FINALLY: Treasury’s Bessent Takes Aim at Taxpayer Drain From Illegal Aliens

For years, American workers have shouldered the load of a broken immigration system that lets in millions without a plan, while their hard-earned dollars flow into programs that reward lawbreakers. Now, with Scott Bessent at the helm of the Treasury Department, that era of unchecked spending is facing a reckoning.

Bessent, the Wall Street veteran who took over as the nation’s 79th Treasury secretary in January, has kicked off a direct assault on the loopholes allowing illegal aliens to tap into federal tax breaks and wire billions back home without a second thought.

Bessent’s office laid it out plain: The department is “reviewing the tax status of ITIN filers with a focus on preventing access to refundable credits such as the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.” Those Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers—ITINs—have long been a backdoor for non-citizens to file returns and snag refunds, even as they dodge the full weight of citizenship.

It’s a setup that’s funneled an estimated $4.2 billion in child tax credits alone to households with at least one illegal alien last year, according to Treasury data. And that’s just the start. Bessent’s team is also eyeing restrictions on remittances, those cross-border cash transfers that hit $96 billion from the U.S. to Latin America in 2024, per World Bank figures. “We’re looking at ways to limit or tax those outflows to keep more money circulating in the American economy,” a department insider told Fox Business on Friday.

This push comes straight from President Trump’s playbook, echoing his February executive order that slammed the door on “all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.” That order, which Bessent has called a “vital first step,” forced agencies to scour their books for any federal dollars propping up sanctuary cities or padding programs that indirectly aid those here unlawfully.

The math tells a grim story: The Federation for American Immigration Reform pegs the annual cost of illegal immigration at $182 billion, with Medicaid emergency care for illegals alone gobbling up $16.2 billion under the previous administration—a 124% spike from Trump’s first term. Critics in Washington whisper that these moves are just theater, but the fine print suggests otherwise. By tightening ITIN rules, Treasury could claw back billions that might otherwise go toward extending the 2017 tax cuts for working families—the very families Bessent vowed to protect during his Senate confirmation.

Bessent’s no stranger to big bets. The South Carolina-born hedge fund manager built a fortune spotting market shifts, first at George Soros’s firm in the ’90s, then launching his own outfit, Key Square, which raked in returns during global turmoil. He backed Trump’s tariff threats on China during his January hearing, arguing they’d force fairer trade without tanking growth.

Now, applying that same sharp eye to immigration, he’s betting that cutting off these incentives will slow the flood at the border. “Illegal immigration imposes crushing burdens on American taxpayers,” Trump said in a statement tied to the order, and Bessent’s actions back it up. Remittances aren’t just money leaving the country; they’re a lifeline for cartels and smugglers, with U.S. officials estimating that up to 20% of those transfers tie back to drug money laundering, based on a 2023 DEA report.

Of course, not everyone’s cheering. Immigrant advocacy groups are already filing lawsuits, claiming this targets families and kids who “just want a shot at the dream.” But let’s be real: The dream was never supposed to come at the expense of citizens waiting in line, or taxpayers footing the bill for schools, hospitals, and now tax refunds they never earned. Bessent’s review could wrap up by spring, with proposed rules hitting the Federal Register soon after. If it sticks, it might finally make the system play fair—prioritizing the folks who built this country, not the ones gaming it.

In a nation where borders mean something and budgets balance on trust, these steps feel like common sense long overdue. With Trump’s team digging in, the message is clear: America’s resources stay with Americans. Whether the courts or Congress throw up roadblocks remains to be seen, but for now, the Treasury’s got its sights locked.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S THANKSGIVING MESSAGE ABOUT THE MASS MIGRATION APPROVED BY BIDEN’S AUTOPEN!?

A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being “Politically Correct,” and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration.

The official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.

They and their children are supported through massive payments from Patriotic American Citizens who, because of their beautiful hearts, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape, or form.

They put up with what has happened to our Country, but it’s eating them alive to do so! A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family.

The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.).

As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota.

Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone.

The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc. Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many. I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.

These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process.

Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!

CRYPTO SCHEMES CONTINUE TO STEAL BILLIONS!

More Nations Unite to Sanction Prince Group, a Huge Crypto Scam Organization Making Billions

Imagine scrolling through your social media feed, only to click on what seems like a golden opportunity—a friendly chat that blooms into a crypto investment tip promising quick riches. Before you know it, you’ve wired thousands to an offshore account, and poof, it’s gone. That’s the grim reality for countless Americans ensnared by “pig butchering” scams, those insidious operations where fraudsters groom victims online before bleeding them dry. Now, South Korea’s bold entry into the fray against these networks is a shot in the arm for U.S. efforts to reclaim our economic security from foreign predators.

On Thursday, Seoul dropped its first-ever independent sanctions aimed at transnational crime, targeting a whopping 15 individuals and 132 entities. This isn’t just paperwork—it’s the “largest single sanction measure in history,” as South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs put it in an official release. “It shows the government’s firm determination to actively respond to online organized crime in Southeast Asia that is causing serious damage at home and abroad.”

For everyday Americans, whose retirement savings and hard-earned cash fuel these scams to the tune of billions lost annually, this means fewer safe havens for the crooks.

At the heart of the crackdown sits the Prince Group, a Cambodia-based conglomerate led by Chen Zhi, a 38-year-old Chinese national also known as “Vincent.” U.S. authorities have painted a stark picture: Prince allegedly ran sprawling “scam centers” in Cambodia and Myanmar, stuffing them with trafficked workers—lured by bogus job ads—forced to man 1,250 mobile phones controlling 76,000 fake social media accounts.

These setups didn’t just target South Koreans; they preyed on folks worldwide, including a surge of American victims in recent years. The U.S. Treasury slapped Prince with a “Transnational Criminal Organization” label back in October, right alongside the UK, which detailed how these outfits peddle love scams and crypto cons under the shadow of torture threats.

Zhi himself faces federal charges in New York for wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, with the Department of Justice seizing about $15 billion in bitcoin from his wallets on October 14. That’s real money—enough to fund entire communities back home—stolen from trusting Americans chasing the dream of financial independence.

And it’s not isolated: The same sanctions netted Huione Group, another Cambodian player the Treasury fingered in May as a key laundry for North Korean cyber heists and Southeast Asian fraud rings.

“Huione Group serves as a critical node for laundering proceeds of cyber heists carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and for Transnational Criminal Organizations in Southeast Asia perpetrating virtual currency investment scams,” the department warned.

Prince, for its part, fired back through high-powered U.S. lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner. “The recent allegations are baseless and appear aimed at justifying the unlawful seizure of assets worth billions of dollars,” the group claimed in a November 11 statement.

They’re lawyered up and denying it all—but the mounting evidence from Phnom Penh to Washington tells a different story. Singapore piled on last month, freezing over 150 million Singapore dollars in assets tied to the network, from bank accounts to cold hard cash.

This international pile-on didn’t happen in a vacuum. It kicked into high gear after a gut-wrenching incident in August: a South Korean university student tortured to death in a Cambodian scam compound. That tragedy spurred Seoul and Phnom Penh to launch a joint task force in October, a practical step toward dismantling these human-trafficking-fueled fraud factories. For the U.S., it’s a reminder of why we lead on sanctions—our Treasury’s moves often light the fuse for allies to follow, starving these operations of the global financial lifelines they need to thrive.

What does this mean for American families and businesses? Less tolerance for the kind of economic sabotage that erodes trust in our markets and drains wealth from Main Street. These scams aren’t victimless—they hit retirees in Florida, young investors in Texas, and small savers everywhere, turning the promise of American opportunity into a nightmare. By joining forces with Seoul, London, and beyond, we’re not just punishing the guilty; we’re fortifying our borders against digital thieves. It’s a win for free enterprise, where honest work and smart risks should pay off, not line the pockets of overseas kingpins.

As probes deepen, keep an eye on your inboxes and feeds—verify before you invest, and report the suspicious. In the end, cracking down on these empires isn’t charity; it’s essential to keeping America’s economic engine humming strong.

COLOR CODED WOKE NEW ENGLAND AREAS AND BONUS FOR NEW YORK, CLEVELAND AND CHICAGO ENJOY THE HILARITY

This Color Coded Map Describing Different Parts Of Massachusetts Is So Spot-On It Hurts. BONUS – Hoodmaps Breakdowns Of NYC, Chicago, and Cleveland

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This thing right here is a masterpiece.

Most maps care about roads and rivers. This one cares about shit you mutter to yourself in the car when you miss your exit.

It is not about counties, its about stereotypes. Which, in New England, count as official documentation and are basically legally binding.

This has been making the rounds of Masshole twitter the last 48 hours, and honestly, whoever doctored up these captions hit it out of the park. Let’s take a lap around the good old Bay State, giving the most honest tour of New England ever.

The North

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Cows

Way up top above Western Mass, what some might call Vermont you got “Cows”. That is the whole shabang. No Starbucks. No sidewalks. Just barns, mud, and kids in Carhartt who can fix tractors with duct tape and a YouTube video.

Gay hippies

Slide east a little and you hit “Gay hippies”. This is the UVM heartland. It is basically Ben & Jerry’s in human form. Subarus with every cause imaginable on the bumper, flannels, pronouns in the bio, and thirty different kinds of hummus in the fridge.

Pumpkins and anarchists

Head east in New Hampshire and we are in the land of “Pumpkins and anarchists”. Around these parts it is permanently October.

Every porch has a carved gourd, and every town meeting has one guy screaming about zoning laws while sipping small-batch cider out of a mason jar. It’s quaint but the people here never let you forget their license plates say “Live Free or DIE” on them for a reason.

Republican refugee zone

Then it flips hard into the “Republican refugee zone”. That is where people go when they want zero taxes, six ATVs, and a Facebook page where they post nothing but Constitution and founding father memes while lounging in a hot tub.

Tax-free shopping

Right below that is “Tax-free shopping”-ville. This is the pilgrimage site. Here they legit have liquor warehouses the size of Gillette, and outlet malls packed with Mass plates flying over the border to save eight dollars on a flatscreen.

Vacation & Lobstahs

Off the coast, you get “Vacation & Lobstahs”. Maine. If you’re lucky and they got it like that, your parents rent a cottage, you fall in love with one lobster roll that costs your entire allowance, and the whole town closes down at like 8 p.m. And don’t let Hampton Beach fool you.

Beaches with killer flies

That little red strip is “Beaches with killer flies.”

It looks absolutely gorgeous in photos. But in real life you are being physically attacked by insects that I swear are actually attracted to Off bug repellant.

The Western Edge

Definitely NOT New England

To the west, you have “Definitely NOT New England.” Upstate New York. Everyone that lives there owns three Adirondacks hoodies and will fistfight you if you suggest they really shouldn’t be Yankees fans because they’re technically closer to Boston and Toronto than they are NYC.

Cultured Hill-Folk

Cross the border into western Massachusetts and you are in the land of the “Cultured Hill-Folk”.

AKA the Berkshires.

Rich city people LARPing as rugged mountain folk between trips to Tanglewood and farm-to-table brunch. A really special place.

Hippie farmers

Next patch west we reach the “Hippie farmers”.

They farm everything. Kale, weed, and lengthy explanations. While driving through here, be forewarned that if you stop at a roadside stand to buy eggs, you will somehow leave with a TED Talk on Monsanto.

Hippie students

Below that is “Hippie students.” UMass, Amherst, Northampton. Every third person living here is in a band and a co-op and some non-traditional relationship structure. Book it. The entire local economy is comprised of thrift stores, burritos, and vape cartridges.

Blight & Basketball

Head south from Umass and you get nothing but “Blight & Basketball.”

Springfield.

Honestly the saddest place I’ve personally ever been. Respectfully speaking of course.

This is (somehow) home of the Basketball Hall of Fame and has way more Dunkins than functioning traffic lights. You come here once for a school field trip and once to buy a sketchy used car off craigslist and then hopefully never again.

Annexed Territory of the Evil Empire

Farther south is “Annexed Territory of the Evil Empire.”

Yankee land. Technically New England, but spiritually this is the visitors dugout at Fenway. YES Network is the default here. NESN is not available.

Hell

Under that, with the arrow, is Hell. AKA New York City. Amazing food, elite nightlife, plus traffic, crime, and prices that will make you question every life choice you have ever made.

Central Mass

THERE BE DRAGONS HERE

Right in the middle of Massachusetts, there is apparently a map just says “THERE BE DRAGONS HERE”. That is is cute and the person who made this map made me chuckle with that one. My take is that that is just a polite way of saying, “No one outside 495 can name a single town in this area.”

Snow and long commutes (oh yeah and Worcester)

Next to that is “Snow and long commutes (oh yeah and Worcester).”

That is where you spend half your life shoveling and the other half parked on the Pike wondering why you have not moved to literally anywhere else. Worcester gets tossed in like an afterthought, which is exactly how the state treats it. Personally, I would have gone with Timberlands, Polo hats, DUIs, and heroine, but that’s just me.

The Suburban Ring

Leafy, Liberal, and Loaded

To the east is “Leafy, Liberal, and Loaded.”

Every single driveway without fail has a Volvo or Tesla parked in it, every yard has a rainbow or BLM sign, and every dad has a LinkedIn headline longer than the Old Testament.

Mill Towns & Methadone

Up north is “Mill Towns & Methadone.” The dozens and dozens of red brick factories scattered in every town here used to power the Industrial Revolution. Now they are half loft apartments with Edison bulbs and half settings for your cousin’s relapse story. And the women resemble the sisters in The Fighter. It’s uncanny.

Boston And Friends

Townies & Immigrants

Around the harbor you hit what is essentially Plymouth Rock for “Townies & Immigrants”. We’re talkin triple-deckers, laundry on porches, and every grandmother lives on a block with four official languages and eight pizza spots. (And they’re all named “something House Of Pizza”)

Every bar has a framed picture of someone’s cousin who “almost” made the Bruins.

Commies

Cross the river and you are in The People’s Republic of Cambridge, aka “Commies”.

This is Cambridge and Somerville. Home to elite educational institutions and people who pay four grand a month to share a house with six roommates and then spend their free time arguing about bus lanes on Twitter. Special place.

The Hub of the Universe

At the center of everything, literally, the little red speck, is “The Hub of the Universe”. That is downtown Boston baby.

Six streets, all one way, and not one going where you need.

Ask anyone from there, and you would think they invented democracy and seafood. The most overly self-confident people you will ever encounter.

North Shore

Witches, fishermen, and quaint-ass towns

Up in the northeast, along the north shore you have Witches, Fishermen, and quaint-ass towns. We’re talkling Salem, Gloucester, Rockport. Half tourists filming witch TikToks, half people who have been on boats since age nine and hate your fucking rental car and tourist ass being in their town.

(Sidebar- if I had one bone to pick with this map maker, it would be how do you leave “roast beef sandwiches” off the Northshore? They practically invented the damn thing.)

The South And Southeast

Gillette Stadium

Head south of Boston and there is a giant blue blob labeled “Gillette Stadium.”

Foxboro, Walpole, Sharon, Route 1, whatever. It all merges into one massive parking lot where people grill in a snowstorm to watch the Pats play for 3 hours so they can get back in their cars and wait 5 hours to get out of the parking lot.

Irish Riviera(r)

Slide east from there and you’re into the “Irish Riviera(r).”

South Shore beaches where every other family name starts with O’. The bars pour Guinness year round, and half the town migrates to Florida from January to March like pale Catholic geese.

Cranberry Bogs

Below that is “Cranberry Bogs”. Depending on the month, you either get beautiful Hallmark scenery or the most depressing stretch of Route 28 you have ever white-knuckled through. No in between.

West Portugal

Hugging the coast here you hit “West Portugal.” Here is the land of John Feitelberg- New Bedford and Fall River.

Unreal Portuguese food, Ronaldo jerseys hanging in every bar. If the Brazilian mafia is a thing, this is their base.

Rotaries & Traffic jams

Then you smash into “Rotaries & Traffic jams”. Braintree, Weymouth, all the ramps where civil engineers just gave up. You’ve never seen anything more chaotic in your life. Don’t even bother attempting to drive without pissing somebody else off. It’s impossible.

Connecticut And Rhode Island

Questionably New England

Western Connecticut is “Questionably New England” according to this map. Yes, I agree, it looks like New York, claims New England, and basically lives at Target. These people make me sick. They will wear a Yankees hat on Saturday, and then a Pats jersey on Sunday.

Pretty New England

Eastern Connecticut is “Pretty New England.” Which is fair. Here you have covered bridges, and farm stands as far as the eye can see. And parents who still send handwritten Christmas cards with a family newsletter no one asked for. (“What’s your mailing address?”)

People who talk weirder and drive worse than us

Then you hit Rhode Island, aka Rhody- formally titled “People who talk weirder and drive worse than us”. I love this one so much. The artist couldn’t have been more correct. Been saying it my whole life. Bostonians get made the most fun of, but the Rhode Island accent sounds like Boston and Long Island got in a bar fight. It’s wild.

(Sidebar- Every on-ramp is a fight for life. And I’m pretty sure newborn infants come out of the womb with a Pall Mall in their fingers asking for a light)

Cape & Islands

White Florida

Cross the ~~Bourne~~ Fasoli bridge and you are in “White Florida”. Older couples, golf carts, and guys whose entire personality is knowing the tide chart. Plus the best fried seafood you will ever have in your life.

Wahm beaches

The next zone is “Wahm beaches.” This is “the family Cape”. Here you’ll find plenty of moms in big hats yelling at their translucent children to “Put more sunscreen on” while the kids house Del’s lemonade. (I am fucking obsessed with Del’s)

Wicked cold beaches

Curl around the arm and you get “Wicked cold beaches”. The water is about 38 degrees in August. On a good day. You go in once, lose feeling in your legs, and then insist it was “so refreshing” while your teeth chatter out of your skull.

Gaycationland

At the very tip is “Gaycationland.” Provincetown. Drag brunch, rainbow flags, paintings you can’t afford, and nightlife that makes straight people look like they have never had fun correctly in their lives. (Fun fact – I saw my first over-the-pants handjob here when I was like 6 while waiting in line for ice cream behind a group of guys and am still in therapy all these years later.)

The White Caribbean

Finally the islands- “The White Caribbean.”

Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.

Everything costs triple or quadruple, and you will still happily pay it just to post one sunset from here, and pretend you have a boat.

This map hits all the marks because every New Englander secretly agrees with it. We will talk trash endlessly about each other all day, Cows vs Cranberry Bogs vs Commies, but the second someone from outside the six-state bubble opens their mouth, we close ranks like the Battle of The Bastards.

BONUS –

This isn’t anything new, but there’s still a decent number of people out there who have never heard of “Hoodmaps“.

If you want to kill some time around the post-Thanksgiving dinner table this week, pull this baby up and pull up your city. Zoom in, neighborhood by neighborhood, and watch hilarity ensue.

Here are a few of the best – Enjoy

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THE MOST SECURE FLORIDA HOMESTEAD IS NOT ON ANY BEACH

Inside Secret Florida Enclave Luring Celebrities and Billionaires With Unrivaled Privacy, Military Guards—and Incredible Mansions

Secret Florida Enclave of luxury homes and celebrities

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An exclusive community in southern Florida is proving itself to be a rising power player in the luxury housing market, going toe-to-toe against the likes of Palm Beach and Miami in a David vs. Goliath-style battle of wealth and privilege.

For years, Florida’s most moneyed residents have flocked to Miami and its surrounding areas, seeking out a life of luxury rarely found elsewhere in the U.S. Yet that dominance is now being challenged by a little-known neighborhood located in Delray Beach, about 90 minutes north of “the Magic City.”

Just last month, Hollywood A-lister Mark Wahlberg made headlines when he dropped $37 million on a newly constructed megamansion inside the enclave—only to be followed weeks later by Rockstar energy drink founder Russ Weiner, who is in contract on two properties in the community, worth a total of $43 million.

So what is it about this secretive sanctuary that has helped to reel in such high-profile property owners?

On paper, Stone Creek Ranch—a “prestigious” enclave made up of less than 40 luxury homes—is a world away from Miami, Manalapan, and Palm Beach: It offers no beaches, no celebrity-approved nightlife, and no glitzy designer shopping.

Yet it offers one very particular luxury that is proving to be quite the draw among the one percent: total and absolute privacy that is safeguarded by a team of armed professionals who watch over the community 24/7—a majority of whom come from previous jobs in law enforcement or the military.

Prospective residents’ entry into the community is policed just as carefully: Any homebuyers seeking to purchase one of just 37 private residences within Stone Creek are required to go through rigorous criminal background checks before they can even attempt to secure a home there.

An exclusive and secretive Florida enclave is quickly becoming the new hot spot for rich and powerful homebuyers, including the likes of actor Mark Wahlberg, who just bought a $37 million mansion there. Daniel Petroni

Stone Creek Ranch in Delray Beach, FL, offers one very important amenity that cannot be found in places like Miami or Palm Beach: total privacy that is safeguarded by a team of armed guards.Daniel Petroni

For the rich and powerful, that level of security and privacy is far more “valuable” than any beach or boat dock could ever be, according to real estate agent Senada Adzem of Douglas Elliman, whose team has been responsible for the sale of a majority of homes inside Stone Creek.

Adzem tells Realtor.com® that she has seen a significant shift in her wealthy clients’ demands over the last few years. Those who would once never have considered living in a Florida mansion without private beach access or a dock capable of housing their yacht are now turning their backs on those amenities in favor of seclusion away from prying eyes.

“I’m working with a very high-profile couple right now [who] no longer want to live on Star Island in Miami … because [they feel they cannot] enjoy their pool or their yard with people on boats going past and taking pictures,” Adzem revealed.

“They just want to have their peace. And that makes so much sense. [Privacy] is valuable to them. They’d rather have all this privacy where no one is looking at them, they can run around with their kids, they can wear whatever. That’s what’s really valuable.”

In a bid to secure that oh-so sought-after luxury, that couple has turned to Stone Creek, Adzem revealed, noting that she is currently trying to secure them a property in an off-market deal—because none of the community’s mansions are actually on the market.

Although each of the properties in Stone Creek offers water frontage, because they overlook a private lake, there is no risk of strangers sailing past in a boat and gawking at your backyard—a threat that looms over even the most exclusive areas of Miami and Palm Beach, including the infamous Indian Creek Island, where the likes of Tom Brady and Jeff Bezos currently reside.

That privacy is amplified by the fact that the majority of properties in Stone Creek offer very impressive acreage, which keeps a good distance between each home and makes it feel “like you don’t have neighbors at all.”

Another big draw of Stone Creek is one that Adzem says many people “overlook,” but has often been one of the most alluring aspects of the community: its access to five of the top private schools in Palm Beach County.

As for the homes themselves, there is an extraordinary level of extravagance and luxury on offer to discerning homebuyers.

Wahlberg’s new property, for example, spans 18,206 square feet and boasts seven bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms, two powder rooms, a home theater, cigar lounge, wine cellar, gym, sauna, guesthouse, and resort-style pool.

A Florida Mansion next door to Mark Wahlberg — Listing agent Senada Adzem revealed that many of her clients are now seeking out homes in Stone Creek Ranch instead of places like Palm Beach. Daniel Petroni Photography

An aerial view of Florida Mansion next door to Mark Wahlberg — The community is located around a man-made lake, which means there is no risk of strangers sailing past in boats and looking into your backyard. Daniel Petroni Photography

Christened Palazzo di Lago, the mansion was designed by developer Aldo Stark, who drew inspiration from Italian architecture to create an “architectural masterpiece” that was described as offering “the pinnacle of luxury living in South Florida.”

Luxurious finishes and fixtures can be found in every room of the home, including “exquisite crystal chandeliers” that were custom-designed to cast an “ethereal glow” throughout the dwelling.

One of the more unique amenities in the home is its hidden cigar lounge, which boasts an advanced air-purification system.

Just across the lake sits a similarly opulent mansion—currently under offer by Rockstar founder Weiner—which is known as Villa Ananda and sprawls across nearly 11,500 square feet.

It is situated on a 2.5-acre waterfront plot with an “extraordinary” 660 feet of private water frontage and boasts some truly amazing amenities, including an enormous primary suite that occupies an entire wing, a glittering pool, and a “club room” with a 150-inch projection screen.

Additionally, Stark is currently in the process of building an even more impressive Stone Creek property that will be listed “in the $75 million range,” Adzem revealed.

Wahlberg’s purchase of his home also highlighted another lesser-publicized detail about the value of homes in Stone Creek: impressive ROI potential.

As first reported by CNBC, the actor’s new mansion underwent a 118% price increase between January 2020, when it sold for $17 million, and October 2025, when Wahlberg paid $37 million for the dwelling.

While Adzem noted that she cannot guarantee that kind of lucrative return on every property within Stone Creek, she said that the skyrocketing value of Wahlberg’s new home is indicative of trends she is seeing within the community.

“I do see the pattern in terms of rising values within the community,” she revealed. “I started working in this community in 2018 and I saw the potential where you have something that’s really unique.”

Stone Creek Ranch — For the rich and powerful, that level of security and privacy is far more “valuable” than any beach or boat dock could ever be, according to Adzem. Daniel Petroni Photography

Market trends in Delray Beach mirror this impressive increase in home value, with Realtor.com data revealing that the median listing price in the area has shot up from $617,000 in October 2018 to $1.1 million in October 2025, a growth of more than 80%.

Demand for homes has also gone through a very similar surge. When Adzem first began marketing properties in Stone Creek, she admits that the community was a bit of a “steep road” to convince her wealthy clientele of the community’s appeal—particularly because many of them wanted homes that offered golf course access or private clubhouses.

“It was a steep road for me, because many prospects would say, ‘I want to be on the ocean, I want to be on the coast, and I want to have a yacht in front or I want to be able to walk on the beach,'” she explained.

Now, however, instead of having to pitch homebuyers on the “value” of Stone Creek, she says clients are requesting properties within the enclave.

“We have clients who can afford to live anywhere in the world but they choose to live in Stone Creek,” she explained. “We’ve sold 17 properties in the past five years, both homes and lots, and garnered global attention.

“I no longer have to explain what Stone Creek Ranch offers because you have so many big names in business and celebrity who live there.

“The buyers who have appreciated what Stone Creek has to offer understand that they can still go to the ocean, but they can also not worry about their family when they’re traveling and they can have full-time security personnel. They don’t have to think about people walking by their home and seeing into their backyard.”

Stone Creek is also conveniently located at what Adzem describes as a “nexus” between several popular locations, including the “artsy” community of Delray Beach, Miami, and Boca Raton, providing residents with the best of every world.

“Delray is a new hot spot with a really cool vibe: You have fabulous restaurants, you have the art scene. I almost compare it to Soho in New York, it’s a very vibrant, young scene,” Adzem added.

“A lot of our clients really appreciate the fact that they can have their big resort-style mansions in private, then they can go to Palm Beach in 30 minutes, or they can go to downtown Delray and to the beach. Then they can go to Miami, which takes about an hour.

“Boca Raton is also less than half an hour away and features amazing restaurants, and a really beautiful, affluent scene.”

BABY BOOMERS ARE RICHEST GENERATION WITH $85 TRILLION IN ASSETS

Baby Boomers are richest generation with $85 TRILLION in assets—younger gens have no chance of catching up

Boomers “entered the labor force during decades of strong economic growth, rising productivity and relatively high real wages.”

The Baby Boomer generation holds $85 trillion in assets, meaning they are the wealthiest generation so far in the United States. However, new research has shown their success will be difficult to match by other generations.

According to research from NYU economics professor Edward Wolf, the reason comes down to timing as well as investing in the stock market and other assets before they grew in value. The four decades between 1983 and 2022, when Baby Boomers saw their wealth increase, also saw the wealth of others decline in real value, as detailed in a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

“It’s astonishing how their relative wealth has taken off in the last 30-plus years,” said NYU economics professor Edward Wolff, per the Washington Post. “They started out as among the poorest groups in terms of wealth back in 1983.”

The generated wealth of the Baby Boomer generation came from uniquely favorable timing of investments as well as real estate. With housing costs, the Baby Boomer generation also paid a smaller portion of their expenses to housing costs.

Olivia Mitchell, a professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said that Boomers “entered the labor force during decades of strong economic growth, rising productivity and relatively high real wages.”

They were able to invest and earn during their prime years in the workforce in bull markets during the 1980s and 1990s. There were lower tuition costs, lower healthcare costs, as well as a number of other advantages.

Additionally, they had a number of favorable tax policies, such as lower capital gains tax rates. In contrast, younger generations of Millennials got their careers started in the 2000s, with the Great Recession running from 2007 to 2009. Markets afterwards have also been more volatile.

“Particularly for middle-income workers, real wage gains since the 2000s have been modest, compared to the robust wage growth that Boomers benefited from mid-career,” Mitchell added. By age 30, Millennials had about two times the debt as their Baby Boomer counterparts, according to Jeremy Ney, a professor of business at Columbia University.

After World War II, “You had this tremendous boom that many got to ride for a very long period of time,” Ney said. “And when you compare that to the bursting of the dot-com bubble, when you compare that to the 2008 housing crisis, when you compare that to the declines of covid, it made it much more difficult for people to invest, accumulate wealth,” Ney added.

About half of the wealth held by Boomers is tied up in stocks, bonds, or other mutual funds held in retirement accounts, and had over $85 trillion through the second quarter of 2025. Younger generations, however, are much more likely to have debt, leaving less to save or invest.

Boomers were also in a better position to refinance their homes during the Great Recession when interest rates were dropped by the Fed, meaning housing costs were able to be lowered for many in the Boomer generation.