Chris Hynes

Settle our differences with debate, not with de bullet. Words may trigger, but it's the trigger that broadens , not kills . Each round of an argument brings better understanding-- the value our words create, the realization each of us wants a better life, society, world.

@DavidSacks1207 @MetamateDaz High earners already get way less back per dollar of contributions than low earners.

Maybe what should happen is higher earners pay longer and more into SS. A tier system so people who make $500k don’t pay the same amount of into SS as the person who makes $184k. There are ways to increase the level of the pool in the water. Unfortunately our country’s leadership is too lazy to take in the hard stuff. It’s been that way for decades.

Most people don't realize but Americans only pay Social Security taxes on income under $184,500. What that means is anyone that makes over that stops paying Social Security at $184,501. If the Social Security earnings cap were removed they would have enough money for universal health care.

Exactly.

@AOC If you relate products that people want, and you do it efficiently, you can earn your billion. You exploit no one. Customers and employees choose you of their own free will. Unlike Congress, where getting 51% of the vote allows you to force all of us to do your bidding.

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

@GavinNewsom Why should there be “black” districts or “white” districts? You pushed prop 50, designed to disenfranchise 40% of your citizens in the basis of ideology.

Confederate states are rushing through rigged maps to erase Black districts off the map. If this doesn’t make you angry, it should.

@SenWarren When this is over, you can only hope your supporters forget your anti-American rant designed to Keep those who would nuke us in power. You have no ability to look beyond your next campaign.

Republicans voted not once, not twice, but FIVE TIMES to continue Trump’s war with Iran. The American people won’t forget that.

@bkavoussi @BillAckman Oh, you really wanted to rent Ken Griffin's penthouse? If you can't afford an area, move somewhere else, where you can get a job to afford the rent, or improve your skills. This is how you succeed, not by being "offended."

Unfortunately, there is a severe housing shortage in NYC, so the idea that there are so many apartments sitting vacant in NYC is offensive to many ordinary New Yorkers trying to make a living. Zohran should be doing more to allow new housing construction, but there are too many apartments sitting vacant as investment properties, not as places to live.

Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so. Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations. Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami. These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more. While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help. I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.

@najam_ali There is this principle of freedom of navigation in international waters. Or maybe the US should collect a toll as the world's price to pay for our efforts to protect the Middle East oil states for the past 80 years.

I am genuinely struggling to understand this logic. If the rest of the world is willing to pay a small toll to Iran to keep oil flowing and stabilise markets, then why does the U.S. feel the need to block all shipping, especially when it is not dependent on that oil?

@BussyKeaton And if we knew what it was and did it ourselves they would call it exploitative, cultural appropriation.

Th ultimate expression of Woke: saying it's racist to call out obnoxious main character syndrome AND expecting everyone to know what a fucking zaghrouta is lol. That's obviously *extremely* distracting from the concert that everyone is there to enjoy.

@MrWalnutzz @DemocraticWins Perhaps if parents realized the responsibility they take on when they have children…but democrats don’t believe in personal responsibility except when they want responsible people to be responsible for more taxes.

@DemocraticWins MAGA cultists: “I’m pro life…but helping these children succeed or be healthy? Nahhh”

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump just made clear the U.S. government won’t fund childcare services because we’re a big country that’s fighting wars. No wonder the American people don’t think he cares about them. Wow.

@Megatron_ron That's better than Iran holding it hostage.

BREAKING: 🇸🇦🇦🇪🇮🇱 Netanyahu says the oil from the Gulf states will pass trough Israel in the future After the Iranian war, the [Strait of] Hormuz needs to be bypassed using pipelines from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu proposes a radical idea of pipelines stretching from the Gulf to Israel, carrying crude. In this way it bypasses the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The proposal would give Tel Aviv massive leverage power over the GCC and can hold the entire Arab Gulf hostage in the future.

@Geniustechw Two agents, large crowd. Agents attacked, and if they don't act forcefully, risk more joining the attack, then someone gets killed. More than justified, it's necessary. Don't interfere with officers. Mistakes can be sorted out by lawyers later, instead of men with guns.

As ICE Agents were busy arresting an illegal alien, an 80-year-old liberal tried to impede and obstructed them. The result was him getting sent to the floor by an ICE agent. What do you think, was this justified? x.com/ViralVideos/st…

@BernieSanders Fire most of the government, everybody can pay less. By the way, Bernie, most of Elon's wealth is paper, and if he tried to realize it, that paper would be worth a lot less. At least he makes self-driving cars for the rest of us who can't afford a driver.

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, recently paid an effective tax rate of less than 3.3%. That is less than the average truck driver, nurse and teacher. YES, we must demand the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Scaramucci No, he did it to himself, with his arrogance, and his ruinous policies.

Let me tell you exactly what Fox figured out in 1993. Roger Ailes looked around and asked — who’s the threat? Not Bill Clinton, the threat is Hillary Clinton. They spent billions of dollars over decades destroying her narrative. By the time she ran for president 51% of the country had a negative opinion of her before she said a word on the campaign trail. That’s the playbook. Now ask yourself — where’s the threat today? California. The fourth largest economy in the world. Agriculture, Defense, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, AI. — which is literally the exportation of American culture globally. A politician coming out of California from the left could beat the right decisively. So what do you do? Spend billions destroying the narrative around California. Make it synonymous with crime and homelessness and radical politics. Do it for two or three decades until the brand is toxic. Newsom has an image problem today the exact same way Hillary had an image problem. It was manufactured. Deliberately. Systematically.

@Skyler1Crypto @KobeissiLetter And the Iranians are paragons of truth?

@KobeissiLetter I'm more inclined to believe Iran, since Trump is a complete liar who hasn't kept a single one of his promises

BREAKING: President Trump says Iranian negotiators are "begging the US to make a deal" while they "publicly state that they are only looking at our proposal." "They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is no turning back, and it won't be pretty," Trump says.

The EU doesn’t want to fight. They are happy to let Ukrainians die to weaken the EU’s enemy, Russia. Just as they were happy to let American spend its defense money to bankrupt the Russians trying to keep op. And now they want to let the US spend money to keep their oil flowing in Hormuz. Will someone please send them the bill.

@astraiaintel Nice now hope the eu wil cut of Zelenskyy completely. And America not selling weapons anymore for Zelenskyy Then let him make choices but not over the back of eu tax payers Enough is enough

@amanpour Now that we are in a conflict, we are just rearranging delivery schedules to make sure we restock first before exporting. Eventually Ukraine will get its materiel. If Europe didn’t free ride for 50 years, their own production would give them a stronger negotiating position.

Are you SERIOUS, Pentagon?

@politico This is an emerging area of law as society debates how to handle old activities now enabled on a mass scale. Let states experiment for a while and let the Feds observe before we decelop a national solution.

Gavin Newsom to ban California officials from insider betting on prediction markets dlvr.it/TRkNkL

@FurkanGozukara It would only be humiliating if they achieved their demands. If they don't, it will be just another extreme statement they make as a general rule.

Iran just dropped the most humiliating ultimatum on Washington. They demand the closure of ALL US bases in the region, a $2M toll for Western ships in Hormuz, and $100 billion in reparations. They are treating the US like a defeated empire.

@_MAGA_NEWS_ We've been defending the Saudis since 1945. They worried about Britain then. For years, they have known they are as much at risk from Iran as Israel is. Hardly "jaw-dropping" that they would like to get rid of this risk. Important alliance for the US. We need to get it done.

🚨 JUST IN: In a jaw-dropping development reported by The New York Times, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has privately urged President Trump to sustain and intensify the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran. He reportedly views it as a rare "historic opportunity" to fundamentally reshape the Middle East. According to the report, over the past week the Crown Prince has advised Trump that the United States should seek to dismantle Iran's current government, emphasizing that Tehran's leadership represents a persistent long-term threat to Gulf security that can only be neutralized by removing the regime.

@chrissomebody @MosiniElisa Our problem is Europe thinks we have to defend them, and they may be right. If we don't defend them, will the Russians invade and enslave them, and use their economic strength against us? Or would the Russians fail as usual at manufacturing?

Enjoy figuring out how to defend yourselves. Without the US, NATO is nothing. While we would lose some bases and early warning systems, we will be better off without NATO members who have consistently refused to carry their weight until Trump pressured them into it. Europe has long been rude to the US while we have consistently gone above and beyond. It’s interesting to sit back now and watch your spineless leaders try to figure out every way possible to avoid being partners and instead continue being freeloaders. Enjoy learning how to speak Russian.

Yes, and we Europeans will remember the US betrayal. We will remember your blackmail. We will remember your threats. We will remember your malice. We are Europeans, and we will never forget those who try, now or in the future, to harm Europe or the European people. 🇪🇺