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@KenGardner11 @minervas_muse "Independents" are low-info voters. At this point, you either like Trump or you don't. They don't really vote in primaries. Turnout in these races are always low and among the politically engaged. In the Republican primaries the politically engaged are MAGA voters

@minervas_muse Texas has open primaries.

Not sure how to reconcile Trump's dismal poll numbers with how actual voters vote in races in which he has been involved, both in 2024 and 2026. Not buying the notion that independents dislike Trump as much as Democrats do. Maybe something isn't quite right with the polling.

@hypedmunch @Michaeldudufudu If they're so smart why aren't they self-sufficiently successful in India?

Seriously that poor man speaks like them and gestures like them and never got a good education to utilize his superior intellect. I have told people about this and they don't believe me. There are white people in these countries literally abandoned by their own and who are essentially stuck in a life worse than a nightmare.

Abandoning your 10 year old to fend for himself in India has gotta be one of the cruelest things you can do

@Tiger_Rider_ @BumSquashington U don’t live in India relax buddy

@BumSquashington You realise Indians are in more places than just Tesco right?

Billy who didn't finish school, he applies to the local Tesco to make ends meet. The manager is Indian, the entire staff are Indian. He does not hear back

@LifeofTabor @avidseries That’s lowk impressive though

@avidseries India is a dominant force in the Olympics. just the other ones

This is a huge progression. Two years ago, the Indian record was 10.2 seconds. But let's be real, this time doesn't even put him in the top 500 fastest men of all time. And for a nation of 1.4 billion, that's embarrassing.

@etcetera_etc_ @feelsdesperate Yeah genuinely wtf is this. $80k in nyc for a fresh grad (presumably) is not terrible

@feelsdesperate People exaggerate the salary needed to live in NYC insanely. The median income is $80k. That is a perfectly liveable wage in the city and if you can’t make it work on that salary alone, you’re an idiot.

This is a good example of what radicalizes Mamdani’s base: Ostensibly the type of person who takes this job is going to be sort of smart and well educated (credentialed) but they’re only going to be comfortable financially and lifestyle-wise in NYC if they have a trust fund or it’s a second-income vanity career. You can get off a plane from wherever and barely speak English and make this much driving an Uber. Nurses in NYC can easily make $150k a year. The dynamics of our economy that funnel people into these sort-of-high-status/ mediocre-salary jobs make them insane and then they become Leftists who want to burn everything down.

@MattBraynard @romanhelmetguy "- a true monopoly - as a permanent state. Not an unreasonable definition." No, it's unreasonable and retarded

I think you're missing her point because you're being unnecessarily obtuse. Rand would define a monopoly - a true monopoly - as a permanent state. Not an unreasonable definition. She says that cannot exist because ingenuity can always overcome the barriers to entry (or creation of new, alternative markets) in a capitalist system. So in her view, "temporary" monopolies are not safe in the same way that government monopolies that we've witnessed in the energy or healthcare sector are.

This is her dumbest take. Monopolies form naturally. Monopolies are much more profitable than competitive industries. So if you find yourself in a competitive industry, it makes sense to buy out or collude with all your competitors, or to temporarily take a loss in order to drive them out of business. The government itself is a naturally-forming monopoly on violence. Ayn Rand is frequently guilty of this kind of magical thinking in which everything would be perfect if the government just disappeared. Well, there are still large parts of Africa today in which there is effectively no government. Is it utopia? Meanwhile the Industrial Revolution could not have taken place without the financial incentives put in place by intellectual property law such as patents, which require an incredibly strong government to enforce. The right really needs to get away from this whole “everything the government does is bad” loser mindset.

@eddieenhanced1 @spank_williamjr @mattyglesias @JTLonsdale @ZacharyGraves Crime in every city in the country is trending down retard

@spank_williamjr @mattyglesias @JTLonsdale @ZacharyGraves Matt’s original question was simply “What ‘Red City’ was doing well on crime…if it’s trending down in Ft Worth, then it’s doing well. The NYC, SF, question is sort of falling into the logic trap of “Why don’t we do what Scandavia is doing around xyz policy”

We could jail a small number of criminals in every blue city and massively reduce crime, making everyone safer. But the left thinks it’s racist to enforce the law. So we all suffer. If your windshield was smashed, or your family hurt by a repeat offender, how would you feel?

@CoralMSmith @KalshiPolitics Looks like Putsch has 7 voters now!

@KalshiPolitics Really?? Cuz we just went down to all vote for him today Family of 6

UPDATE: Casey Putsch has a 0.8% chance to deafest Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio Republican Governor primary on Tuesday

@catboyautist How much did you put in?

People ask me how they can start making money trading mentions. The free-est things you can do is watch these mention markets on sports matches with 0 volume that no one wants to trade/pay attention to, keep track of which strikes are said and when and then keep buying them after the fact. They normally don't get bonded to 99c because there aren't enough people who care to do that. So you can just farm $100+ in free money every game if you're willing to sit down for a few hours. Here I made 900$ clicking a word that was already said! Go make some money!

@bernardbulletin Im crine it still resolved yes

Some people are *really good* at predicting

@KaV_2599 @CausalMarkets Didn't Jane Street get banned from India?

@CausalMarkets Indian Retail investors are far more emotional over logical and this mentality runs the market.

Question is why there isnt Indian Hedge Funds, Trading Firms, Market Makers in indian stock market with high scale. The ones I see are either satellite offices of firms already in US/EU or Much smaller operation which honestly any other firm can one shot them out.

@tocchanTX @f1isabadsport @WeBackbhyw @rushicrypto Using the national median is actually retarded. Use a specific city at least. And he's probably not going to make $260k in tech moving to the middle of nowhere

Good point on income ratio. However, doesn’t change the fact that 650k home is nowhere near average. One wants to work in an industry where one’s limited to certain areas where home prices are not average. One then has to deal with enormous mortgage and possible financial ruin. Still a need vs want.

A guy I used to work with hit me up last night. Dude was making $260k in tech. Nice house, $4,700/month mortgage, two cars, vacations every few months. Got laid off 7 months ago. Still nothing. Said he’s down to $22k and burning $5,500 a month. Wife at home, one kid. He told me he checks his bank app before he even gets out of bed now. This is someone I saw winning in real life. Save your money. Because when it flips, it flips fast.

@MiddaKneged @RichardHanania We should send you instead. One less retard posting bs on social media

NY Times: “Iran has been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them, according to U.S. officials.” This keeps getting more amazing.

@shortyy1836 @StevenTDennis The gov takes in $4 trillion a year bud. The $200 billion collected is not doing shit. The BBB literally expands the deficit by a trillion a year. I’m sure you listen to everything Trump tells you, keep on waiting for that tariff dividend payment!

@DrCola12 @StevenTDennis They do have a lot to do with how our government makes money....which does, in fact, have a trickle down effect on my tax bill and our nation's financial prosperity 😉

Company donated steel to ballroom, then got tariff exemption, per NYT.

@shortyy1836 @StevenTDennis Brother tariffs have nothing to do with your tax bill

@DrCola12 @StevenTDennis Are you retarded? The problem with not having any tariffs is we pay other countries tariffs and they take advantage of us, hence why the average American's tax bill before the BBB was absolutely insane 😬

@shortyy1836 @StevenTDennis Are you retarded the problem with tariffs is that they encourage this bullshit corruption where a donation will get you a tariff exemption. Not just for the ballroom steel

@StevenTDennis ....well you aren't going to slap a tariff on something that is being GIVEN to you 🤔 that's just common sense! If he would've said "thanks, but you still have to pay the tariff" then y'all would've said he's greedy and ungrateful 🤡😂

@nick_field90 Yeah and instead of a sane justice we got Alito

George W. Bush couldn't get a Supreme Court confirmation with a 55-45 majority, so of course, that was Democrats' fault x.com/politico/statu…

@KidKobun @CyberGreen09 Work a job that actually has some skill instead of something that a retarded kid can do

@CyberGreen09 Thi sht boils my blood. I have worked and busted my ass since I was 12. These filthy fcking scammers come in and flood the country WE all built. Everyone should be riding a knife's edge right now.

Americans are getting laid off every day while foreigners on work visas, (often hired through ethno-nepotism, fake credentials, and shady kickbacks), get to live the American Dream. They're buying new oversized homes in Texas while American workers can't even start families.

@PredMTrader The clip got posted to social media but cut out of the interview😭. Yikes

A pre-recorded clip showed Usha saying “literacy” in her Fox News interview The strike got bonded up to 97% When the interview aired - the clip was cut Nothing is ever 100%

@fuzzbool @Empty_America Apparently only 300 to 500 people annually get a 1600. If that's true the minimum at Harvard would be around 1590.

@Empty_America There are still more of them.

If Harvard admitted students strictly by SAT score, filling slots in descending order starting at 1600, what would be the lowest SAT score admitted to the school? And what would be the resulting demographics of the student body?