1,185 Photos and videos
It'd seem to be basic logic that to understand what politicians want to spend more on you find out their top priorities and for what they want to cut, find out their bottom priorities.
Why do people in the small government movement show so little interest in the latter?
22
5
85
I remember Conservative Inc doing this joke during the Clinton years. The favorite tool back then was IRS audits.
The Justice Department is not a tool for the President to investigate his political opponents.
Welcome to the BS investigations club, Governor Newsom. You’re in good company.
42
The business community has plenty of value extractors who are value creation hostile.
This is a major problem with modern capitalism.
They’re the extractors NIMBY PE vulture bloodsucking emotionally manipulative narcissists. You think I’m joking & I’m not. What they wanted was a Silicon Valley to extract more wealth from without any inconvenience to them specifically. Not all of them, but too many imho.
29
I don't understand the anti-vaxxers, at all. They leave low-hanging fruit unpicked.
The FDA vaccine list has 98 entries. The WHO preapproved vaccine list has 282 entries.
Why are the two lists so different?
fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biolo…
extranet.who.int/prequal/vac…
34
TMLutas retweeted
Jun 15
I still loved America when Joe Biden was president.
I disagreed strongly with him. I opposed almost all of his policies. I thought most of the things his administration did were damaging to the country.
But here's the thing: I never stopped loving America.
You see, America is bigger than her government.
America is not Joe Biden.
America is not Donald Trump.
America is not Congress.
America is not the bureaucracy.
Governments come and go. Administrations rise and fall. Politicians make mistakes, abuse power, pass bad laws, and sometimes do genuinely terrible things.
But America is bigger than any of that.
It’s the culture, the people, the communities, the traditions, the freedoms, the churches, the charities, the families, the businesses, the neighbors who help each other when disaster strikes. It’s the idea that free people can govern themselves and build something better. (And disagree while trying)
A president can damage the government.
A Congress can damage institutions.
Neither Biden nor Trump can destroy the spirit of America unless we decide to surrender it ourselves.
If your love of your country depends entirely on who occupies the White House, then what you love isn’t really your country. It’s a political administration.
I loved America under Biden. I love America under Trump.
I’ll still love America long after both of them are gone.
De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.
I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more.
I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class.
I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.
I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.
And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.
240
1,063
6,139
104,461
TMLutas retweeted
Jun 15
If Elon Musk can solve all the world's problems with his trillion dollars, why are we giving the government 7 trillion every year? Seems that we're owed a sizable refund.
12
46
315
3,589
MAGA includes being the captain of our own fate. It will never win until that is bipartisan. We can’t hate each other so much that we won’t provide continuity on being in charge of ourselves.
The Republic can’t survive it.
Jun 14
The teenager who built Oculus VR in his garage, and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion, talks about the most uncomfortable argument about American manufacturing.
"You cannot divorce innovation from the act of manufacturing. You make the stuff, that's where the innovation takes place."
"We were not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore. We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package that gets sent to the real engineers in China, and they actually figure out how to do the work."
"They don't get 50% more for their dollar. They get like 10x for their dollar. Things that here would take a million dollars, you do there for $50,000, $100,000."
"Their people are just genuinely extremely good. They have the world's best battery engineers, many of the world's best metallurgists, many of the world's best optical engineers."
"The largest laptop manufacturer for the Pentagon is Lenovo, which is owned by China. Their headquarters has a flagpole with the CCP party flag and then the Lenovo logo under it. It's nuts."
PS. Follow us @themetav3rse for latest news on emerging technology and internet culture.
2
3
81
AI is not getting the cat right, completely wrong attitude.
😂🤣
2
79
TMLutas retweeted
Jun 14
Арнольд Шварценеггер: "Знаешь, почему большинство талантливых людей так и остаются никем? Они включают фальшивую скромность. Они говорят: «Я творец, я просто делаю свою работу. Пускай мир сам меня заметит».
Это чушь. Ты можешь быть гением, создавать лучшие продукты или писать шедевры. Но если люди об этом не знают, у тебя ничего нет. Абсолютный ноль. Твой талант просто умрёт вместе с тобой.
Умение продавать, продвигать себя. Доносить свою ценность до других и убеждать — это не грязное ремесло. Это величайшее искусство, без которого ты никто.
Чем больше людей узнают о том, на что ты способен, тем ближе ты к вершине. Перестань прятаться в тени. Выходи и учись заявлять о себе на весь мир. Твой успех зависит только от этого"
417
2,571
15,312
905,655
TMLutas retweeted
Jun 14
2,791
7,865
39,943
64,328,639