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@mlimbacher @accnetwork @CalFootball @qb_fernando A century-old rivalry across the San Francisco Bay ... "Atlantic Coast" indeed. It's 100% absurd

@accnetwork @CalFootball @qb_fernando Classic ACC rivalry game.

“THAT WAS AN AMAZING COMEBACK … I LOVE MY BOYS … GO BEARS FOREVER!” Fernando Mendoza overcome with emotion after his game-winning drive vs. Stanford 🥹 @CalFootball | @qb_fernando

@DavidSacks @theallinpod That’s touching, but you’re so disingenuous. Imagine lambasting Biden for weaponizing the justice system in your Why I Love Trump post, when Biden’s DOJ is prosecuting top Dems and his own son. Meanwhile, you got Mr. “Lock Her Up” literally promising to do just this! #Taxcuts

Exactly right. What fans tell me they like about @theallinpod is that it's 4 friends who can still disagree with each other. There's a reason you don't see debate shows on MSM anymore. Their goal is not to illuminate but to silence the opposition completely.

@DavidSacks Your analysis of Trump conviction was sophomoric and misleading. You harp on about how the trial was politically motivated but elide the fact that 12 jurors came to a quick unanimous decision. And you slipped in the “Soros-funded judge” … like a wannabe Jesse Waters on FoxNews

Why I’m Backing President Trump As many press accounts have reported, I’m hosting a fundraising event for President Donald J. Trump at my home in San Francisco this evening. Over the last couple of years, I have hosted events for presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as several Congressional figures in both major parties. I give to many, but endorse few. But today I am giving my endorsement to our 45th President, Donald J. Trump, to be our 47th President. My reasons rest on four main issues that I think are vital to American prosperity, security, and stability – issues where the Biden administration has veered badly off course and where I believe President Trump can lead us back. 1. The Economy President Biden took over an economy that was already recovering strongly from the Covid-induced shock of Q2 2020. Demand had roared back, and employment had recovered. But he chose to keep priming the pump with unnecessary Covid stimulus – almost $2 trillion of it, passed on a straight party-line vote in March of 2021, with trillions more to follow for “infrastructure,” green energy, and “inflation reduction.” Biden did this despite early warnings from former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers that it could lead to inflation. When the inflation came, the Biden administration dismissed it as “transitory.” In fact, inflation still remains persistently high even after the fastest interest-rate tightening cycle in memory. As a result of Biden’s inflation, average Americans have lost roughly a fifth of their purchasing power over the last few years. Moreover, any American who needs a mortgage, car loan, or credit card debt faces much higher interest costs, which further constrain their purchasing power. It’s no different for our federal government, which now must devote over a trillion dollars annually to interest on its $34 trillion debt, a massive sum that’s been growing by a trillion dollars every hundred days. This trajectory is unsustainable, yet Biden’s 2025 budget calls for even higher spending. Growth has already slowed from 3.4 percent in the last quarter of 2023 to an anemic 1.3 percent in the first quarter of this year. We can’t afford another four years of Bidenomics. 2. Foreign Policy / Ukraine War President Trump left office with ISIS defeated, the Abraham Accords signed, and no new wars raging on the global stage. Three and a half years later, the world is on fire. President Biden has made several strategic choices that have contributed to this situation. In his first year in office, Biden unnecessarily alienated the Saudis before realizing that they are an indispensable partner in the Middle East. He also presided over a chaotic withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan (right policy, abysmal execution). But his biggest blunder by far has been in Ukraine. His administration immediately began pushing for Ukraine’s admission to NATO, despite no unanimity among the existing NATO members that such a move was a good idea. When this predictably antagonized the Russians, the Biden administration doubled down at every turn, insisting that “NATO’s door is open, and will remain open” with respect to Ukraine. Biden himself baited Russia when he said he didn’t “accept anybody’s red lines.” After the invasion, there was still a chance to stop the war in its early weeks before much loss of life and destruction had occurred. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators had signed a draft agreement in Istanbul that would have seen Russia retreat to its pre-invasion borders in exchange for Ukrainian neutrality. But the Biden administration rejected that deal as well as General Milley’s advice to seek a diplomatic solution in November 2022. As the war of attrition grinds on, the Ukrainians face ever-mounting casualties and infrastructure damage. Still, President Biden keeps allowing the conflict to escalate and risk World War III. Every escalation that Biden initially resisted – Abrams tanks, F-16’s, ATACMs, allowing Ukraine to hit targets in Russia – he has eventually acquiesced to. There is just one more escalation to go: NATO troops on the ground fighting Russia directly. And our European allies like Emmanuel Macron are already spoiling for exactly this scenario. With Biden, our choices are limited to fighting the proxy war to the last Ukrainian, or fighting Russia ourselves. President Trump has said he wants the dying in Ukraine to stop, and that he will seek to end the war through a negotiated settlement. Ukraine will no longer be able to get the deal we talked them out of in April 2022, but we can still save Ukraine as an independent nation and avert world war. 3. The Border As an immigrant to the United States myself, I certainly believe in America’s history of strengthening its ranks by welcoming talented people from other nations seeking freedom and opportunity. But that promise requires an orderly process of legal immigration that emphasizes skills and the principles of American citizenship. This was the preferred policy under President Trump. What Biden ushered in was a de facto open border policy. On his first day in office, he repealed President Trump’s executive orders restricting illegal immigration and stopped construction of a border wall, selling off parts of it for scrap metal. This quickly resulted in a massive spike in illegal border crossings and a chaotic and dangerous situation on our southern border. President Biden (along with the hapless Kamala Harris and the malevolent Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas) responded to growing concerns by gaslighting the American public, saying there was no problem at the border despite constant videos of masses of people sprinting across it. When the situation became too dire to ignore or deny, Biden claimed he didn’t have the executive authority to do anything about it and blamed Republicans for not sending him legislation. But this week, facing abysmal polling numbers on this issue, Biden suddenly discovered he has executive authority after all. The order he signed is a tepid, too little-too late effort to slow the tidal wave of illegal immigration in time for the election. But Biden has shown he is not serious on this issue. If he wins a second term, the open border policy will resume, and tens of millions more illegals will stream across the border. 4. Lawfare A bedrock of the political stability we’ve enjoyed in America over the last 250 years is that we don’t accept attempts to jail political opponents in order to win an election. Yet Biden has pushed for selective and unprecedented prosecutions of his once and future opponent from the moment he assumed office. Merrick Garland took a long look at the January 6 situation and didn’t see a path to prosecute Trump, even after a one-sided Congressional committee sent a highly-prejudiced referral to his Justice Department. Press stories then appeared describing Biden’s frustration with Garland’s reticence. The result was Jack Smith at the federal level and Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis at the state level. All have pursued cases based on novel legal theories heretofore unseen and designed to get Trump. In the NY case, Bragg resurrected a dead book-keeping misdemeanor into 34 felonies by claiming it was in the service of a second crime that he never defined and that the judge never insisted the jury unanimously agree on. My immigration to this country as a young boy happened because my parents disagreed with the political system of their home country. That government sought to solve its political disagreements by imprisoning its political enemies. What a sad irony that the lawfare we escaped has now reared its ugly head in America of all places. President Biden keeps insisting that a return of President Trump to the White House threatens democracy. But his administration is the one that has colluded with tech platforms to censor the Internet, used the intelligence community to cover up his son Hunter’s laptop, and pursued elective prosecutions against his political opponents. Conclusion: The A/B Test The voters have experienced four years of President Trump and four years of President Biden. In tech, we call this an A/B test. With respect to economic policy, foreign policy, border policy, and legal fairness, Trump performed better. He is the President who deserves a second term.

@DavidSacks Garbage! I listened to your podcast. So cringey, you’ll stay “besties” friends forever regardless of politics and Trump. Or the way you lick each other with flattery. One of you said the quiet part out loud: Trump tax cuts more than pay for your $contributions.

@HawleyMO You show the historical knowledge and the logic of a toddler! Fist up, Senator Treason. You’re a fraud

Not since the Alien and Sedition Acts in the 1790s has a president tried to CRIMINALIZE his political opposition. Congrats, Joe Biden. You’re the worst president ever

@BenjiNaesen Wow Benji, language. Spoken like a true ESL student from Belgium.

Nostalgic feelings towards the days where Lutsenko and his teammate were getting fucked by a lone Kristoff, and now Lutsenko is fucking the entire team of UAE in terms of GC. #ilGirodAbruzzo

@sfchronicle @emily_hoeven I agree that the debate was uninformative, cringe-worthy and simply debased our politics. But no need to twist this into a gender critique (“male rage”)

OPINION: "I didn’t have high hopes that the Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis debate would be civil or substantive. But things were even worse than I thought. The closest thing to a winner Thursday night was unhinged male rage," writes columnist Emily Hoeven. trib.al/o99QjaX

@Sandra_Gulland @ryangrim @intercept @WCA_LitAgency @HarperCollins Why do you and Ryan on Intercept not mention JB’s long and very public affair with Hippolyte Charles? You make it sound like she’s devoted - after being so put upon by her first husband - while NB is hurtful to her with his mistresses. Seems terribly ahistorical.

I was honoured to be interviewed by @ryangrim for Deconstructed, an @Intercept podcast about Josephine B. It was fun! @WCA_LitAgency @HarperCollins @PenguinRandomHouse theintercept.com/2023/11/19/dec…

But the op-ed page (Collins, Blow) stays in the job helping Elon rebrand his company and Mr Trump create social truth

Thanks NYT editors @carolynryan @nycscribe for referring simply to “posted on social media” vs. touting Trump’s non-sensical “truth social.” Same with “formerly known as Twitter.” No need for NYT to provide free advertising for these platform brands nytimes.com/2023/10/25/nyr…

@Yascha_Mounk Thanks for another constructive comment. You sound like MAGA with a PhD. “Institutions suck. Trust no one. Figure it out for yourselves, whatever feels truthy.” Instead, why not accentuate the positive and help build on it?

The speed with which the institutions that a healthy democracy needs to function—from newspapers to universities—are squandering the trust of the public is truly remarkable. All of us will pay a hefty price for their dereliction of duty.

@Megatech_SDE @Yascha_Mounk Disagree! The leading news organizations of the English-speaking world are the last best sources of reliable truth. Of course they make mistakes and often show bias. How could they not? They’re a collection of humans. But they strive to get it right. What’s your alternative?

@Yascha_Mounk Newspapers and Universities used to be necessities, but in the age of ubiquitous information they are severely outdated. The pains in today's society are those institutions screaming on their deathbed. The louder they scream, the quicker we'll replace them with something better.

@Yascha_Mounk Yascha, read the comments to your post and the idiotic conspiracy theories you stir up. You might as well preach, “Don’t trust the NYTimes! Don’t trust media. Don’t trust anyone! Just scrape up whatever you want to believe from the social media gutter.”

@Yascha_Mounk Nonsense! Your screen-grab disproves your point. Biden and Israel say this. Gaza officials say that. The Middle East seethes. That’s no blame. You are blinded by bias. Why the need to constantly tear down our best news orgs? It’s Trumpy “blame the media” but with a PhD.

CNN, BBC and NYT all sent push alerts blaming Israel for killing hundreds of civilians at the hospital. If, as now looks likely, it is confirmed that the cause was a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad, will they send push alerts correcting the original story? Of course not.

@Yascha_Mounk And you conveniently overlook this! Days ago, the NYT was critiquing themselves and all media, well before you thought it helpful to chime in. nytimes.com/2023/10/18/bus…

@DavidSacks “Idiots” … Nice way to conduct a civil discussion. No wonder Twitter is circling the drain. Maybe you go back to helping Ron DeSantis launch that sizzling campaign.

@JumboVismaRoad Seizing defeat from the jaws of victory! On the verge of the greatest season of team success in memory, @JumboVismaRoad seems intent on trashing its team, its sponsor brands like @cervelo and the entire sport. "Cycling is a team sport" becomes a laugh line.

🇪🇸 #LaVuelta23 Primoz! ⚡️

@Paulo_Escalona @JumboVismaRoad You're right, you don't understand. Name your cycling hero who ever won a grand tour without leaning hard on teammates, often calling on them to slow the pace. And in this case there's NO OUTSIDE THREAT!

@JumboVismaRoad I dont understand all this crying. It's professional sport for g.s. First of all it was Kuss who went out of his role (that much about respect) and if I was him I'd hate to win La Vuelta or anything at all if it wasn't by my own talent and effort. I'd love to see him win tho.

@hough_paddy @JumboVismaRoad @cervelo If you & JV don't fix this tomorrow, it'll be TERRIBLE for your brand in your US/Can home market. You're on brink of a fairy tale season (3 riders, 3 wins), and it goes up in smoke. It's simple tomorrow: PR and JV ride with/for Sepp the entire way, like he has for them.

@JumboVismaRoad The sponsor's should really think hard about this situation. Not a great look for them .

@Jason @realDonaldTrump A Trump bootlick? Very on-brand! Do it on Twitter Live like that hilarious DeSantis campaign launch, dumbest in modern history!

I'd be REALLY excited to have @realDonaldTrump on the All In Podcast... I think it's 50-50 right now.