Elephants Never Forget

@ChrisMartzWX Or at least in 2005.

I understand your argument. And, I don’t blame you. My point is that the money you paid into Social Security for x number of years has already been spent. It’s gone. So, in order for you to get your hundreds of thousands back, realistically, it would have to come from the Payroll taxes of currently working Americans and printing of money by the U.S. Treasury. And, that is already what the existing system does. The solution to the problem we have with Social Security cannot be what’s causing problem to begin with. Unless Social Security is privatized such that you have your OWN fund, then any other solution will cause certain people some serious economic pain. This is why this scam should have been dealt with 50 years ago.

@RobotVoices @Pro__Trading Clinton expanded border patrol by 40 percent and bragged about how few illegals crossed the border. Read the 1996 DNC platform - more extreme on the border than Trump.

@Pro__Trading And if/when Democrats do nominate another Bill Clinton, you will keep crying that they are the most extreme, awful person ever who will let in 20 M illegals and mandate gender changes or whatever bullshit the GOP tells you.

All the Democrats have to do is nominate a non-insane run of the mill white guy in 2028 and they're probably the favorites to win. That's it. Some guy who doesn't think we should transgender first graders or let 20 million illegals pour in. Basically, just re-run the Bill Clinton campaign. But they can't do it. They are fully captured by the extreme elements in their party. They will nominate a ticket of Harris because she's black and Buttigieg because he's gay and they'll double down on the bat shit crazy policies of the past five years. They can't stop.

@fishstark @BenSasse The religious half.

All right @BenSasse, let's make a bet. Let's divide the US in half. I'll let you pick which half. In your half, you ban Candy Crush. In my half we institute 16 weeks of paid parental leave, universal childcare, & a restored child tax credit. Let's see which has more babies.

@justuseKsharps @GrantrGregory @Jesse_Leg The craziest part of that stat is the question was not a nebulous use of the word “rigged” which could mean a variety of things (media partisanship to ballot stuffing) it specifically said tampering with vote tallies! There’s zero evidence of that insanity.

@GrantrGregory @Jesse_Leg 66% of Democrats believed the 2016 election was rigged & stolen;

There are actually a surprising number of demonstrably false or wildly overstated conspiratorial claims that "mainstream" Democrats have adopted whole cloth: - The libelous charge that Israel is committing “genocide;” - The idea that police are systematically hunting unarmed Black men throughout America; - Apocalyptic claims that large parts of the U.S. will soon be uninhabitable due to climate change; - Russiagate; etc.

@ChrisCillizza 46% of the left is now Alex jones. Congrats to the media on your accomplishment!

So depressing. And idiotic.

@johnstribe @tperry1134 Do you believe in the daughter’s right to choose life? Oh nah, she’s too small to matter? Because we called her stage of life “fetus” (Greek for offspring) she has to die without having a choice.

@tperry1134 I believe it’s a fetus until it is born or able to live on its own without being attached to the mother. I do not believe in abortion in all cases. But I do support a woman’s right to choose.

Which abortion is your favorite? The one where the unborn baby's body is crush and sucked out with a hose or the one where the baby is cut apart with a knife? Please enlighten us.

@AustinJustice Violence is a political decision.

"Blue cities are radical hellscapes that can't fix crime." Counterpoint: Baltimore. Baltimore had 334 murders in 2022. Last year it had 133, the lowest since 1977. The turning point was that voters defenestrated a Soros-backed prosecutor Marilyn Mosby who averaged 333 homicides a year across eight years and declined to use mandatory minimum sentences. (She was later convicted of mortgage fraud, so there's that too.) Her replacement, Ivan Bates, ran on the Democratic ticket with a simple message: repeat violent offenders belong in prison. Maryland law already allowed five years with no parole for convicted felons caught carrying a gun, but Mosby never used it. Bates used it a lot. In just two years, his office sent more than 2K repeat violent offenders to prison, double his predecessor's TOTAL. The city paired that with a precision intervention program that identified the small number of people driving most of the violence, which led to 631 arrests (94% haven't reoffended). Police also seized 2,480 firearms last year alone, including hundreds of ghost guns, while maintaining a 64% homicide clearance rate. When shooters know they'll get caught and actually prosecuted, behavior changes. Sandtown-Winchester, once the most violent neighborhoods in the city, just went a year without a killing! Carjackings (-51%) and robberies (-24%) are also down. Baltimore didn't change demographics, or its culture, its rules, or much of anything else in those years. It simply voted in a new Democratic prosecutor, who decided the city needed to finally put violent criminals in prison.

@danpfeiffer @marcorubio Why can’t Zambia pay for the drugs to save their own people? Their debt to gdp is lower than ours. Are we supposed to care more about zambias than the Zambia government does?

Great job @marcorubio Hope you’re proud of yourself

@JanCBS @ComfortablySmug The people shopping at the mall also are instigating, condoning and supporting violence against their political enemies.

This is not only wrong but stupid. I was literally talking about this with one of my daughters this morning. She pointed out how anyone can walk into a wedding or concert or mall and start shooting. We actually were in a safe space at WHCD. We were in a completely secure ballroom protected by layers of secret service. Most people don’t get that protection from mentally disturbed assailants

@ChrisCillizza @chucktodd Incredible. Amazing amounts of incredibleness.

"I'm not going to any more events where Trump is at them. I don't feel safe." --@chucktodd

@teddyschleifer Isn’t he an immigrant? Aren’t republicans and MAGA supposedly super racist against immigrants?!

Sergey Brin’s girlfriend has shown off photos to friends of him wearing a red MAGA hat. nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…

@ChrisMartzWX While true on SS, there’s certainly a ton of fraud in Medicaid.

@the_ngtv @TukiFromKL Were people unaware the Koch brothers are pro mass immigration and illegal immigration? They were very open about it.

CATO is not some neutral it’s a libertarian think tank with an explicit open borders agenda for decades. The Koch brothers businesses have benefited from cheap labor. This isn’t independent research it’s advocacy dressed as data. They consistently downplay downsides to push more immigration. It mixes legal high skilled inflows with today’s illegal surge, hides costs by crediting U.S born kids to natives even if born to illegals ,ignores remittances and local burdens and downplays wage suppression. Low skilled illegal immigration floods construction, service etc cutting wages 3-9% for competing native dropouts and It subsidizes employers while shifting real costs onto taxpayers and working class Americans. Skilled legal immigration can net positive mass low skilled illegal doesn’t. The surplus claim crumbles under honest accounting

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023.. not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute.. they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid.. the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

@PotatoMcWhiskey If it “works” because they don’t have to pay taxes, then couldn’t we create more “affordability” by reducing business taxes? If it works, and is copied, wouldn’t the city collect fewer taxes anyways?

I find it really weird that neoliberal types are like "this will be a disaster" Bro, its an experiment. What if it works? You should be thinking about the consequences of the results on your ideology not shouting it down. Sure it might fail, but what if it works?

@admcollingwood It’s because the new radar is physically larger and can’t fit in the old nose cone.

For the F35 this is especially important. The whole point of it was the advanced avionics. Remove them and you're left with a stealth-ish lard bucket. On the broader point: it seems that China is simply not going to help the US rearm, or to replace the weapons it squandered in Ukraine, Yemen and Iran.

@Tracomaster @mherrmann_ @aakashgupta I pay 3k a year in premiums with a 1k deductible. For a family of 5. Can see any specialist we want without a referral. And pay a smaller percent of my income in federal taxes than Europeans. So my health care is cheaper and so much better.

@mherrmann_ @aakashgupta L take Break a leg and a Europoort can run their dryer for 5 years 24/7 for the cost of one visit to the hospital. Double that if you had to take an ambulance. Oh you got insurance? Nice 600$ a month you're spending. The average European has a much higher living standard

Every European drying rack is the answer to a math problem Americans never have to solve. Spain residential power runs €0.29/kWh. Germany €0.38. Texas runs $0.13. A conventional dryer eats roughly 4 kWh per cycle, so a single load costs €1.16 in Madrid vs $0.52 in Houston. Five loads a week, 52 weeks, you're at €300/year in Spain vs $135 in Texas just to spin a heated drum. Stack the appliance economics. EU energy efficiency rules pushed cheap vented dryers off shelves years ago. The replacement is the heat pump dryer, which uses 50-60% less energy but retails €800-1500 vs $400 for a US vented unit. Worse upfront cost, worse running cost. Then the apartment constraint. Most European flats don't have venting infrastructure and don't have a dedicated laundry room. The washer sits in the bathroom or kitchen. There's no space for a second machine even if the running cost made sense. The drying rack costs €30. Lasts a decade. Uses zero electricity. What you're looking at is a household that ran the numbers and refused to spend €2,000+ over ten years to dry clothes 6 hours faster than physics does for free. The Texan at $0.13/kWh in a 200 sqm house was always buying the dryer. The Spaniard at €0.29/kWh in an 80 sqm flat was always buying the rack.

@roddreher @dpheneghan1 No I don’t think POTUS should have to respond to the ramblings of every lunatic.

@dpheneghan1 Oh, come on, a failed (thank God) assassin tries to kill the POTUS, and says in an evil manifesto why he acted, and you don't think it's legit for a reporter to ask POTUS for his response? Trump could have said, "These disgusting lies are driving ppl to violence," etc.

I don't know why Trump blamed the journalist for asking about the allegations in the would-be assassin's manifesto. They were disgusting allegations, yes, but any reporter would ask for POTUS's response. He was unfair to Norah O'Donnell. axios.com/2026/04/26/tru…

@tiatg01 @ShinytasticRuby @yvessirae Unborn baby girls have the same right to be killed by their mother as unborn baby boys.

@ShinytasticRuby @yvessirae Abortion is a big one - there's no law preventing men from expressing bodily autonomy. Equal pay and pensions as well. If you search it up you'll see that if a score of 100 means full legal equality, the US scores 91. It's not super low but it's not full legal quality either

“What rights do men have that women don't?” I mean... if you really want to play dumb, go ahead. But the reason we even HAVE this conversation is because only 14 out of 195 countries give women full legal equality. And yes, I can literally name all of them, because the list is that short: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands. I'll wait till reality catches up to you.

@25_cycle @MelikAbdul_ Now that makes sense. Thanks!

@GasLightingLNG @MelikAbdul_ The WH proposed banquet hall is 22,000 Ft², there are several office, a movie theater, and a 25,000 Ft² ballroom.

White House ballroom max capacity is 1350 Washington Hilton max is 4100 WHCA dinner had 2600 attendees Is that math math'n?

@SenatorHick We are the wealthiest country in the world. Everyone should live in mansions, marry super models and ride unicorns to work. I’m smart like this senator.

We are the wealthiest country in the world. Health care should be affordable, accessible, and universal. Full stop.