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agent33 retweeted
“Nothing but respect”? Obama said Romney was a felon who gave his employees cancer and would push the elderly off of cliffs. Biden said he would put black people back in chains.
This was barely a decade ago. 2 competent, fully coherent, men in their 50s/60s disagreeing at the margins about ways to make our society a little more productive. Nothing but respect for one another. We’ve completely spiraled out of control politically since then.
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agent33 retweeted
When Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes were asked about President Trump attending a game, they said it was an honor to play in front of the president. If this locker room is divided, it’s the intolerant ones who have the issue.
Giants starting QB just divided his locker room
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agent33 retweeted
OK, for those of you who are not NFL fans, please allow me to identify the folks involved here: 1. Jaxson Dart is the second year quarterback of the New York Football Giants. He is from Utah, graduated from Ole Miss, and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yesterday he introduced President Trump at a political rally in New York, not too far from New York City. 2. Abdul Carter is a second year edge rusher for the New York Football Giants. He is from Philadelphia and graduated from Penn State. He is a devout Muslim who prays to Allah on the field before games, and is extremely open about his faith in and out of the locker room. When Carter saw that his teammate had the temerity to accept the honor of introducing President Trump, he ripped him on X. 3. Both Carter and Dart were 1st Round draft picks last year, and both had strong rookie seasons. Giants’ ownership and management hopefully consider them to be the cornerstones of a team-wide revival to be led by new head coach John Harbaugh (a Super Bowl winner with the Baltimore Ravens and also someone who is not afraid to meet with President Trump). (That optimism exists even though Carter could not stay awake in team meetings last season.) So with that background in mind, I have this to say to Abdul Carter: Muslim terrorists destroyed a large swathe of New York City in the name of Allah, yet you are accepted on your team and in NYC, and no one challenges your beliefs or your right to express them. So how about you shut the fudge up, focus on learning how to sack the QB at the NFL level, learn how to stay awake in team meetings, and stop tearing your team apart when your teammate is given the honor of introducing the President of the United States of America? This is a free country. You are free to worship a deity that enslaves women, and Dart is free to say hello to the President. How about you just accept that, Abdul? Deal?
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agent33 retweeted
The locker room is a sacred place because it brings together everyone from all walks of life and beliefs for one common goal. Calling a teammate out publicly for his political views and to get attention is nasty work.
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agent33 retweeted
This is the problem with socialism. The answer is always more money. Never a number. Never a limit. Never a point where voters are allowed to ask, after we spent all this, why are the results still mediocre? NYC Public Schools is already running a roughly $44.6 billion budget. Depending on how you count the all in costs, that puts spending in the neighborhood of $40,000 plus per student. That's more than most private schools charge. So what's the amount of money per pupil that will make New York public schools adequate? How much wealth should be redistributed to those Queens teachers to make the system "fair?" We see this in healthcare, too. Any potential cut to Medicaid is dooming poor people to die. @SenSchumer claimed over 50,000 people were going to die if we made even the slightest cut to Medicaid. Fine. Then say the quiet part out loud. What is the target spend per Medicaid enrollee? What happens when spending rises and patients still cannot get care? Let's get those numbers out there, find a way to fairly tax the wealthy to fund the safety-net, and then be done with it. $50k per student per year? $10,000 per Medicaid beneficiary with some age-adjustment? $200,000 per mile of high speed rail track? They can never tell you. One, because they have never run a business before, so they have no idea how to actually look at a balance sheet. But, two, they don't want the money to go to the teachers, students, patients, or choo choo train. They want wealth redistributed from class enemies like Bezos to their political allies. They want to fund things that sound nice. "Free childcare" "Free diapers" "Free Faith Healers" so they can take money from people they don't like and give it to people they do like. But, again because they have never run an actual business and because their only motiviation is to just not fail badly enough to prevent their re-election, the services come in way over budget and under-quality. They're spending other people's money on other people, and as Milton Friedman points out, that's when you stop caring about both price and quality. So the people to whom they promised free stuff look at their free stuff and are disappointed. "I was supposed to get healthcare but now I need to wait a year for my knee replacement." So they blame their class enemies and say "well it would work if we could just take MORE of their money and redistribute it." So they take more money, but the quality doesn't improve. Their political allies, the union bosses and NGO CEOs get big paychecks they then funnel back into their campaigns. And again, and again. Until all the people who actually produce wealth have been taxed into oblivion. You have no more Amazon. No more abundance. Just bread lines and poverty. And that teacher in Queens still isn't getting paid what they are worth.
I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.
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agent33 retweeted
The divide on X today: Everyone who owns a home: “There’s nothing wrong with making your own lunch, I brown bag all the time and rarely eat out.” Renters, criers, basement dwellers, people upset they can’t possibly “ever” buy a home: “I HAVE to spend $28 every day at Chipotle, why do you want me to STARVE?”
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agent33 retweeted
Okay but this very much is an "everyone deserves a pony" thing. I'm a mid-career attorney. I can definitely "afford" to eat lunch at a restaurant every day in the sense that I have that much money in my bank account. But I don't because that's wildly irresponsible. 1/?
I suppose I'll be accused of being a leftist for saying this, but working professionals shouldn’t have to brown‑bag it to succeed in a modern society. I don't mean that in the “everyone deserves a pony” sense. I mean it in the “my car doesn’t sound right” sense.
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The Supreme Court should not be “balanced” or seek to give wins to “both sides.” Its job is to correctly interpret the law. If one side keeps advancing interpretations of the law that are incorrect, they should lose more often.
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agent33 retweeted
Why should a stranger have a greater claim to my hard-earned property than my own children? They don’t. It’s my property. I earned it. The choice of what to do with it belongs to me alone, not to anyone else. Hard for vultures and parasites to understand.
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agent33 retweeted
Brin escaped the Soviet Union & built Google into one of the most valuable companies in human history, creating 100s of thousands of jobs trillions in value. While he created unprecedented value, youre a socialist who owns 3 homes but has never contributed anything to society.
Google founder Sergey Brin's wealth has DOUBLED to $311 billion since Trump's election. Now he’s spending $57M to oppose a 5% billionaires' wealth tax in California. He’d rather millions lose healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.
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agent33 retweeted
Jeff Bezos has benefited me by making goods and services I like to use. You are a parasite who has done nothing but take money from me to spend frivolously. In a just society, you would be living in a cardboard box. You should be thankful each day life isn't fair.
The reality of American life today: Jeff Bezos, worth $290 billion, spent: $10 million on the Met Gala $120 million on a penthouse $500 million on a yacht Meanwhile, he‘s planning to throw 600,000 Amazon workers out on the streets and replace them with robots. Unacceptable.
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agent33 retweeted
The reason not one Democrat has been able to moderate on trans inclusion in sports is that they are stumped by Chase Strangio's conundrum: moderating on sports would mean accepting and acting on the (true) premise that trans girls aren't real girls. (They are boys.) Any claim made in the sports domain also applies to all other sex-segregated domains. Contrary to claims made by would-be moderates on this issue, there is simply no way to give ground in any domain without acknowledging the basic falsehood at the foundation of a movement that exists to deploy state power to force people to affirm. The transgender movement designed it this way, to permit no retreat on any front, by making its appeal based on a truth claim: "trans women are women." The advantage of this truth claim was that it resolved every question at once. The problem with this truth claim was that it was, in fact, untrue, and self-evidently so, such that it could not withstand any scrutiny and could only be upheld through a societal campaign of repression which it became the responsibility of the political party endorsing it to enact. All those seeking to triangulate on this issue are forever caught in this impasse, which is why no one tries to escape it, and those who do try find themselves quickly ensnared and unable to do anything about the deep unfairness that this agenda forces them to inflict on a generation of girls. As a result, there are male rapists and murderers in women's prisons across Blue America, and parents having their custody stripped from them by courts if they won't affirm a harmful falsehood that will leave their children sterilized, and millions of children being trained to hate and fear and seek to destroy those who reject false secular dogmas taught to them from the earliest age as the only truth. There can only be a clean break wherein people admit that we have to stop propagandizing children to believe falsehoods, stop acting like it's morally compulsory to treat a falsehood as if it is true, stop punishing people for telling a truth, acknowledge that all of this is profoundly corrosive to the moral and epistemic foundation of a reason-based society in a way that matters to every other aspect of a reason-based order, and that in fact threatens the continuation of that order precisely because the institutions that are stewards of this reason-based order have become infected by it more than any other faction of society. The whole thing has to be scrapped. Of course we have no precedent for societal institutions going all in on such a self-evident falsehood and thus we have no roadmap for how to pull back in a way that saves enough face for those responsible for inflicting this on society to consider doing so. In the process of inflaming this ludicrous travesty of a civil rights movement, a subpopulation of hundreds of thousands of children have been memed into existence, told their lives depend upon the fulfillment of impossible promises that can never be true, told that the non-fulfillment of these impossible promises is a form of genocide, and as a result we already see members of this subpopulation routinely acting out in the form of murderous rampages planned or executed by mentally comborbid youth who were told that pretending to be something they are not would be the resolution of all their problems, and that the whole world not being compelled by law to participate in upholding the falsehood that they've been told their existence requires is violence. This is the Democrats' -- and societies -- dilemma that it may or may not have the resources to solve.
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agent33 retweeted
Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30 smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000 will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
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agent33 retweeted
All three of the liberal justices dissented from the order allowing Texas to use their new congressional map. But these same justices all voted with a unanimous court back in February to allow California to use its new maps. The three liberal justices are simply progressive activists wearing black robes.
The Supreme Court has handed Republicans in Texas a win by striking down lower a court block on the state's new congressional district map. Kagan, Sotomayor & Jackson dissented.
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agent33 retweeted
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I don’t understand how this doesn’t infinitely regress. If the insurance company is evil for not paying for the care that would save your life, then the doctor is similarly evil for not providing the care, anyway, even if the insurance company won’t pay for it. And if that’s the case, then you’re evil for not putting every spare dollar you have into building hospitals and paying doctors.
This is terminal law brain. If you're getting wealthy by enforcing a policy of aggressive denial of health insurance claims, which then results in deaths, I mean maybe "murder" is a triggering word but whatever it is, it's deeply unethical and immoral, even if it's "legal".
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agent33 retweeted
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Subtext is we can in fact clean up our cities but we just choose not to in the day to day
This is awesome: The Pittsburgh government is cleaning up the streets for the NFL draft this week. Crews are painting over graffiti, making electrical repairs to the enhanced lighting system and picking up litter. Allegheny County is doing it right 👏
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agent33 retweeted
We do need a better way of transitioning people off of welfare once they start to come up in life. The way it’s set up now, if you’re busting your butt, but you need help, you won’t get it. But if you’re doing nothing, you get all the help and resources forever. This needs to change.
Florida mom in tears as she is about to lose her Section 8 housing assistance after starting a new job: “I feel like I got punished for trying and getting a job”
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agent33 retweeted
You don't get to have "Everyone is equally American" and "Racial groups must have adequate representation." Fucking pick one. You don't get both.
Replying to @upstatefederlst
The alternative to ensuring ethnic/racial groups have an adequate say in their government is second-class citizenship for minorities. If you want that, say it. But if you don't...why don't you just try to court those voters? There's no law that says racial minorities vote D.
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agent33 retweeted
In 2021 our portfolio company Fridge No More raised $19M and opened 49 stores in NYC, employed 300 people and was able to deliver goods to your door in under 15 minutes, paying above minimum wage to couriers (they were actually so happy with their jobs they offered to work for free when the company couldn’t get funding). Unlike Mamdani’s store they had to pay rent and taxes. This is $387K per store including all the R&D, CapEX, and a central processing facility. Somehow when a socialist politician is trying to do that it’s 100x more and takes 3 years. Remember my words it will not end at $30M. Very soon they’ll ask for more.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the first city-owned grocery store – which carries a whopping $30 million expected price tag – won’t open until 2029. trib.al/zJEMm8D
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agent33 retweeted
They put scars on women’s faces for a job interview experiment… then secretly removed them. The women went in believing they had visible disfigurements — and came out reporting massive discrimination, with interviewers supposedly referencing their “scars.” Konstantin Kisin used this study to make a powerful point: constantly telling people they’re oppressed or disadvantaged primes them to see discrimination everywhere, even when it isn’t there. It’s the same psychological effect as buying a new car and suddenly noticing that model on every street. The ideology of victimhood doesn’t just describe reality — it actively shapes it. We should be teaching young people they’re strong and capable of overcoming adversity, not training them to see themselves as permanent victims. What’s one way you’ve seen this “victimhood mindset” play out in real life?
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