Eric

That was a country where you are trapped. This is a city where you can leave at any moment. It’s gonna be a mess but we can all be thankful that it will create an example another generation can point to as it seems every generation needs to learn for themselves that this doesn’t work.

I am not kidding: This is how they started with government grocery stores, mass nationalization and price controls in Venezuela.

@TRobinsonNewEra Wait, I saw a different picture of this earlier and dismissed it as a joke! It’s real? No way.

The British Citizen Award at the Palace of Westminster went to this one in recognition of her work empowering young women. Couldn't make it up.

@DschlopesIsBack I feel like Trump should use the nuclear option and preemptively pardon every registered Republican and use the autopen so we can get an amendment to this stupid power.

I think we all know why…

@Dan478663694711 @pyramuscrypto @phil_mcalister Just block him like I did

@pyramuscrypto @Hubb1e45 @phil_mcalister What is with you X bots and your weird fascination with sex when you can’t defend your position?…very odd.

A few very obvious points on Mamdani's grocery stores: 1. The supply of the discounted groceries will run out on day 1, and every day there is a new shipment. This is basic econ 101. 2. This means only the people who are lucky enough or fast enough will get these discounted groceries. Expect to see the city ration these groceries in some other way. By income, or neighborhood or some lottery system. 3. Grocery margins are notoriously low as it is (like 2-3%). These stores will lose a bunch of money selling 30% below market, or they'll sell so little it will be insignificant. 4. There is absolutely zero chance that government bureaucrats can source these products from global supply chains as efficiently as Walmart, or Meier, or Whole Foods, whose survival depends on it. Their costs will be far higher (unless they use government bludgeon to force distributors to sell to them at lower prices). 5. It's actually an incredible triumph of capitalism that you can get a pound of bananas that were shipped to your neighborhood from Equador for like 60 cents, or fresh grapes from Chile in the dead of Midwestern winter for 2 bucks a pound, and Norwegian salmon to cook in Italian olive oil for $15 -20 bucks or so. Truly stop and think about that for a minute. It's a miracle. The median full time hourly wage is around $31 dollars. For ONE HOUR of work, the median working American can get all of the groceries listed below, which is about 22,000 calories. They can feed themselves for 10 days (or a family of 4 for around 2 and a half days), with an hour of labor. This is the stupidest industry for socialists to go after.

@pyramuscrypto @Dan478663694711 @phil_mcalister You keep going back to feudalism because your economic literacy never advanced past that.

@Dan478663694711 @Hubb1e45 @phil_mcalister You would definitely let your feudal lord have his way with your wife

Capitalism has me eating cheaply as a curiosity rather than a necessity. You’ve got it exactly backwards but that’s expected of a socialist 🤣. Yesterday was a sous vide pork tenderloin with fried rice. The day before was farmed Atlantic Salmon with teriyaki sauce and white rice. The day before was Snake River Farms New York strip, cooked reverse sear, and mashed potatoes. We eat better than kings of old.

@Hubb1e45 @phil_mcalister Capitalism has this guy eating like a medieval peasant and somehow socialism is the problem

You guys keep bringing this up like he’s rich or something. My wife’s grandmother was a grocery clerk and died with a net worth of $2.5m a couple years ago. $500k retirement and $2m house. A man in his 80s who makes a senatorial salary can easily build up that much equity in his lifetime.

Now post Bernie's stats: 2012: 1 house, $400k net worth 2026: 3 houses, $3 million net worth Also Bernie between 2012 and 2026: Pension: ~ $85k a year for life Healthcare: FEHB for life. Exempt from Obamacare Benefit to humanity: negative Number of people hired: zero Ideas generated: zero Risks taken: zero Meaningful legislation passed: zero Budget deficit: From $850B to $1.9T National debt: From $16T to $40T Inflation: $100k in 2012 is worth $69k in 2026 thanks to his leadership

@mattvanswol @EndWokeness People will come and buy in bulk to resell the products elsewhere

Here's what 100% will happen, bookmark this: >Gov subsidized grocery stores open at 30% lower prices >Local grocery stores cannot compete >They go out of business >City store becomes the only option >No competition >The "food desert" they set out to fix is now worse >Demand is high, supply is low >Empty shelves become the norm >City responds the only way it can: purchase limits "2 per customer" >Rationing occurs >A rush every day, hoarding, lines >To control the bleeding, the city quietly shrinks the basket or lets quality slide >Wilted produce, thinner cuts, fewer options >Budget balloons anyway, because the subsidy never shrinks, only grows

Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores: "Prices set at 30% below retail prices"

@cafreiman All you have to do is visit San Francisco to realize progressives are the most conservative people in America. They got to be comfortable level of wealth, and they pulled up the ladder behind them.

Ironically, a lot of progressive economic policy—rent control, make-work jobs for unionists, opposition to data centers, etc.—is profoundly conservative policy in the sense of stifling change and dynamism in order to keep the status quo in place.

@I_Am_BJC Bernie sucks but $2m in houses isn’t excessive for a guy in his 80s who has been making a good salary of 4-5x the average for most of his life and has had book deals. A dude like that who actually saved in a 401k would easily be worth more than that in his retirement.

Bernie Sanders is the ultimate con man. He became a multi-millionaire by selling communism to idiots.

The way he talks about properties of metal like toughness indicates that he has a very deep understanding of how materials work that I would expect from someone with a masters degree in materials science. Then he goes on to talk about manufacturing and the system of the rocket as a whole. I’m honestly shocked. A good engineer typically only understands their own field. He understands multiple engineering disciplines at the same time while also running several companies. I had heard about his proficiency, but as an engineer myself, I’m absolutely shocked at how effortlessly he talked about deep material science, which is an extremely complicated field.

@elonmusk “He’s not even an engineer” 😂 —AOC

If you’re interested in learning why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel

@alphafox It’s only bad advice until you realize 20 years later he was right all along.

I feel targeted here.

@Chesschick01 As soon as they started suggesting that immunity after already having the virus is not a thing, I knew they had lost the argument.

After watching the Elon interview many people are shocked by how woke and retarded The Economist is. But I remember when they were pushing for the clot shot in 2021 and lowkey suggested forced vaccinations.

@JimBobW49 Remember the kids who didn’t contribute to group projects in school? Those kids vote now.

This makes a lot of sense.

@ThomasSowell That’s because the bottom half of American society didn’t start several world changing companies. But the great thing about this country is that they could. The first step is to try. This is the most upwardly mobile society in the history of the world.

“Do you think Americans are comfortable with Democratic Socialist candidates?” Bernie Sanders: “The American people are disgusted with an economic system in which one guy on top - Elon Musk - owns more wealth than the bottom half of American society.”

@WesternLensman Reporters have convinced me to not trust reporters.

MSNOW covering the WCHA: "The president has convinced a great many Americans to not trust reporters." Fails to mention that they've done just fine with that all on their own.

@Tabor56TN @realMaalouf Explain why when you ask them, they say they would be safer in Palestine than in a BBQ joint in rural Texas

You have to think in military terms. Many times, you must ally yourself. Some allies are less than desirable. There’s a huge coalition people of color, immigrants Muslims, and LBTQ. Throw in the teachers unions, the huge government worker union etc. then you go Hollywood and the environmentalist. Tossing the judiciary and even though these people may not necessarily agree or like one another as long as they can defeat western culture they’re happy. That’s the goal overthrow traditional western government and create a new communist, socialist, Marxist, or theocratic governing body. You must think in terms of warfare. That’s what you’re facing. You must understand the enemy and realize that’s what it is.

Can anyone help me understand this? Because I genuinely don’t get it. LGBT people are imprisoned, tortured, and killed in ‘Palestine.’ So how come they are the biggest supporters of the pro-Palestinian movement?

@elonmusk @SquawkCNBC @TheEconomist @zannymb She has created a strawman of you and then argues against it

@SquawkCNBC @TheEconomist @zannymb Zanny is a woke NPC with zero self-awareness

.@TheEconomist Editor-In-Chief @zannymb on her wide-ranging interview with @elonmusk: "It's irresponsible for someone who has 240 million followers to propagate things that are simply not true." cnb.cx/4fz6t0A

@reddit_lies Why do we still have libraries?

Why do we pay these people?