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@RepRoKhanna CA will be lucky if we ever have gas below $5 a gallon again because of your friends targeting oil refiners and then then subsequently choosing to close their operations in the state rather than make millions of dollars in the short term.

Trump's immoral and reckless war in Iran has shot up gas prices in my district to nearly $6 a gallon. Stop the war, stop exporting our crude oil, and pass my windfall profits tax on Big Oil to give Americans a rebate for their gas bills.

@stengel Meanwhile the regime has publicly stated their intent has been to build a nuclear weapon all along...so what did that deal do besides give Iran the money and time to pursue that objective?

You know what would be amazing if Vance and his team can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of enriched uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; keeps the straits open without charging anyone; and commits to all of this for at least ten years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

@garrytan I'm starting to think Newsom wants a Republican to win. A Republican would have no real power to legislate, but would be a convenient scapegoat for Gavin's biggest weakness in 28 (high gas prices). Either a Republican drops prices via CARB or gets to be blamed for high prices.

Matt Mahan as California governor would be an *incredible* whitepill If we want to save California, this is the one way it could happen

@Steve_Yegge Downtown San Jose has always been empty. During Christmas it picks up significantly with Christmas in the Park and also during trade shows.

I just got back from a trip to San Jose. The downtown area is an absolute ghost town, a dead city. I travel to cities all over the country and the world, and I've never seen anything like this before. It feels post-apocalyptic. My Uber driver says it's been getting progressively worse, and he decided to give me a demonstration. We stopped in the middle of a major intersection, in the middle of downtown, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, on a sunny day in April, and we got out and walked around the car. It was like Cillian Murphy walking around London in the beginning of 28 Days later. There were pigeons. That's it. And apparently at $250k/year San Jose has the highest average cost of living in the entire country, above even SF? It was a nice trip, though. Just a bit surreal.

@SenWarren What corruption did Musk engage in?

Elon Musk and DOGE said they were going to root out waste, fraud and abuse. But during that time, Trump's DOJ dropped OVER 900 criminal cases of fraud. For Trump and Musk, it was never about rooting out waste. It was always about corruption and power.

@Jason Each party likes to pretend how different their politicians are from the other party, but it is a uniparty that just does the same thing in different ways to end up at the same result.

As predicted on the pod… three handle is back. And our debt is surging… but we don’t talk about that anymore do we? The Golden Age on pause

@Xoen1X @JeremyDLytle73 @TheLaurenChen Being forced to do something with a gun to your head is exploitive VS the pursuit of capitalism being consensual volunteerism. The USSR literally became an empire and fomented revolutions were used to expand their strategic power, the very definition of imperialism.

@pdethomasco @JeremyDLytle73 @TheLaurenChen Supporting communist revolutionaries abroad is not imperialist. They are not setting up an exploitive extraction economy like capitalist nations do. Labour camps even at peak were never a significant % of the workforce.

It's crazy to me how Robin Hood is now popularized as "stealing from the rich to give to the poor" (Socialist messaging) In reality, Robin Hood stole back the taxes that a cruel leader unjustly levied against the population (Anti-socialist messaging)

@Xoen1X @JeremyDLytle73 @TheLaurenChen The USSR wasn't exploitive or imperialist? How many revolutions did they foment? How many people did they force into labor camps. Ever read the Gulag Archipelago?

@JeremyDLytle73 @TheLaurenChen In fact, socialism is the only system that raised people from poverty without relying on imperialist exploitation elsewhere.

@Scott_Wiener No longer allowed to display any flags. That is a huge difference than saying no rainbow flags allowed.

The San Francisco-born small business, Philz Coffee, just lost its community values after being bought out. Now owned by private equity firm Freeman Spogli, Philz is no longer allowed to display pride flags. This sad moment highlights the critical importance of locally-rooted businesses that support and understand the communities they serve, including the LGBTQ community.

@NotForSale80 @FinancialPhys @nypost You have been victimized by public school propaganda the same way I was. FDR's new deal made the Great Depression last years longer than it had to. leeohanian.com/New%20Deal%20P… Read this and deprogram yourself: amazon.com/Basic-Economic…

@pdethomasco @FinancialPhys @nypost No...they're government took complete control...and on the flip side, America's economy was in the dumps till the hew deal, and further when labor laws were put in place.

Dem endorsed $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers leads Carl's Jr. franchisee to bankruptcy trib.al/fR5qD96

@NotForSale80 @FinancialPhys @nypost Government regulations and guardrails is control. Argentina has a long way to go, but at one point their economy was at equilibrium with America until they started flirting more and more with guardrails and regulations and over 120 years it evolved into the clusterfuck it became.

@pdethomasco @FinancialPhys @nypost That's just not true. Argentina is not a case study because we're not talking about government control. We're talking about government regulations and guard rails, which is completely different. Also the dollar is the world's currency which gives us advantages.

@kane Politicians threatening like this is why there are only 4 refiners left in CA.

“A monopoly is when there are at least four companies competing against each other”

@David_J_Bier The majority want orderly lower levels of immigration for jobs Americans don't want to do. Only workers and their families with no criminal activity. People who would ordinarily be able to walk across the border without hopping on a plane given preference, namely Latinos.

The bots and trolls are after her faking a real grassroots movement. But nativism is an elitist DC project. Most Americans just want secure and orderly immigration. Poll after poll shows Republicans are open to her ideas about how to address people here for years.

@Trendtowar18751 @jackvlloyd And yet it is working and the people voted to give hin even more power because they like the progress he is making after decades of socialist corruption and trade unions raping the country with the help of the government.

@jackvlloyd His ideas are horrific. Shock therapy. Massive deregulation. A billionaires wet dream; a working class union members enemy.

Javier Milei is a one-in-a-billion man. But his ideas do not have to be rare. The next generation can adopt his principled respect of property rights, free speech, free markets, and capitalist prosperity, and help make it the norm for the future. Be the change you want to see.

@tastybits SF & SJ are really 1 large Bay Area metro.

Houston economy is growing at 10.6%. That’s remarkable at this size.

@NotForSale80 @FinancialPhys @nypost They don't need to care. When capitalism is functioning in full gear prices are brought down and the COL is lowered. Argentina is a case study in real time, transitioning from what was basically fascism lite 1 party socialism in transition to libertarian esque capitalism

@pdethomasco @FinancialPhys @nypost Factually incorrect. Companies could pay as high as they want to go...and the government wouldn't stop them...but they don't care about Americans being able to afford anything. Government has always had to reign them in to keep them from gouging the public.

@MikeHudema Not even based on reality. Stopping the use of fossil fuels immediately would cause hundreds of millions to die. Never give these morons power.

What we must do immediately: 1) End the use of fossil fuels 2) Build massive amounts of solar & wind 3) Electrify everything 4) Localize 5) Conserve 5) Find solutions for the last hard stuff (planes, cement) 6) Stop cutting down forests #ActOnClimate buff.ly/3r2I3Ee

@NotForSale80 @FinancialPhys @nypost Only when politicians and bureaucrats keep their presence to the minimum to settle disputes do markets work. All or problems today are caused by politicians, not capitalists. Capitalists will always utilize capital, politicians need to be regulated and restrained.

@pdethomasco @FinancialPhys @nypost The market is bankrupting Americans. The only way Capitalism works is when it's heavily regulated.

@Pontifex I guess we are a few popes away, at least, from creating a new Christian military order to defend the Christians being slaughtered around the world. This guy isn't going to do it. The church would attract and maintain so many more believers if it defended them.

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

@GovPressOffice Everyone who doesn't like a prick like you is MAGA? You are full of yourself.

MAGA pushing the same tired narrative, so we’ll share the facts: ✅ There are nearly 4x more company HQ launches within California than there are relocations out of California ✅ California is now home to the most Fortune 500 companies (2 years in a row) ✅ California is home to the most business starts of any state ✅ California is home to the most Inc 5000 companies (2 years in a row) ✅ California’s economy just grew for the 16th year in a row (5% last year) ✅ California’s economy hit a record $4.25 trillion — larger than any other state by more than $1 trillion