Kyle Schroeder

Tesla produces the most American made cars, with batteries manufactured right here in the USA, for them to be eligible for anything less than 100% of the new/proposed EV tax credit is the result of pure corruption. Hey President Biden, I dare you to #saytesla @elonmusk @JoeBiden

@aakashgupta People were excited to see the new Star Wars movies for love of the old Star Wars movies. The new ones absolutely sucked though. The smartest thing Disney could do is set fire to these, act like they never happened, reset, and make movies the fans actually want.

Disney is about to delete five years of canon because Rey doesn't move toys. The sequel trilogy did $4.47B at the box office. Force Awakens $2.07B, Last Jedi $1.33B, Rise of Skywalker $1.07B. The merchandise tells a different story. Star Wars merchandise peaked at $700M in 2015 when Force Awakens launched. By 2019, the year Rise of Skywalker shipped with a billion-dollar marketing push as the supposed finale of the Skywalker Saga, Hasbro's Star Wars line was doing roughly $150M. A 70%+ collapse during the trilogy's own theatrical run. Then 2020 happened. No new movies. A streaming show legally unavailable in most international markets. Hasbro's Star Wars revenue grew 70% year-over-year. One character named Grogu outsold three years of sequel-trilogy merchandise. The sequel cast specifically can't move inventory at any price point. Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, Holdo: Walmart clearance for years. Diamond Select's president said sales on TFA and TLJ products "were not too strong." Hasbro silently stopped producing Rise of Skywalker figures mid-line. There is no mass-market action figure for Poe, Finn, Lando, unmasked Kylo, Palpatine, or Leia from that movie. The licensees gave up before the trilogy finished releasing. The Lucasfilm acquisition was a $4.05B bet on the merchandise flywheel that built modern Hollywood toy licensing. Kenner's best year selling Original Trilogy toys, adjusted for inflation, outperformed the entire Disney era combined. That's the asset Disney bought. Galaxy's Edge runs the same play. Over $1B per park to build a Star Wars land set on a sequel-era planet nobody cared about. Both parks underperformed projections. The Mandalorian-themed expansion now under construction is the admission. If the rumor lands, this is the most expensive retcon in entertainment history. Five years of IP development written off because the licensees voted with their order books. Luke, Han, Leia, Vader, Boba, Mando, Grogu, Ahsoka generate revenue. The sequel cast generates returns.

@Treesapp6 @CBSNews Dumb

@CBSNews No arrest the little fucker for illegally operating a dirt bike on city sidewalks and streets.

A woman in Spokane County is facing felony and misdemeanor charges after allegedly driving onto a sidewalk and trying to hit a juvenile on a dirt bike, then later showing up at a stranger’s home and attempting to break in.

@LionForgeDyn @CBSNews The only person that is stupid here is you defending this behavior by blaming the bikes.

@tedlieu Not kidding, just a joke…

I have a red line in determining which Democrat I will support for President. That person must commit to removing the stain of trump’s name from every single federal building, and kick it off with a grand public ceremony. With fireworks. You think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding.

@JoshuaLisec @CaudilloNuclear No.

@CaudilloNuclear nooooo she’s cute bro bro

The face of a woman whose husband waits 15 minutes in the car after work before going inside.

@anishmoonka It’s somewhat like Camus’ take of Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the mountain.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

@LizzieMarbach I don’t even play video games, but you know what’s far more unattractive? Entitled controlling nags, that think they can, overtly or covertly, dictate what men can do with their time. Some (not all) women should just stick to their cats and boxed wine and simply leave men alone.

I know this is unpopular, but it will always be unattractive for a grown man to play video games. Some women might be understanding or pretend like they don’t care that you spend hours playing, but they do. It is extremely unattractive to women and will never not be. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@mediakincade @josh_ai @SenWarren Just stop it. They were looking to sell to Jet Blue during the Biden administration. They said at the time if the sale didn’t go through that they would go bankrupt. This indisputable. Now here we are.

@josh_ai @SenWarren No. Spirit airlines died the final death because trump killed tourism. He raised cost of fuel. He raised cost of everything. Americans can't afford vacations. Americans are scaredxto leave home.

NEW: Donald Trump gave Meta $8 BILLION by creating a new tax loophole for billionaire corporations. All while millions of Americans struggled to pay for food and health care.

@SenWarren Democrats (primarily) have allowed hundreds of billions if not a trillion dollars of annual fraud, waste, and abuse to occur, undeterred and unpunished. How much food and healthcare could $1T annually pay for?

@MarioNawfal Like Marx himself, she is an entitled, lazy, envious, no-nothing, do-nothing like all good Marxists are.

🇺🇸 Seattle's socialist Mayor Katie Wilson couldn't answer basic questions from a reporter. Her staffers end it on the spot. It wasn't hostile, just a local news interview. If you can't answer basic questions, you shouldn't be running the city.

@PeteButtigieg Now do fraud, waste, and abuse. How much fraud, waste, and abuse of our tax $ across the country annually? $500B? $1T? $50B for destroying the murderous terroristic regime that slaughters its own people and subjugates its women & is working on a nuke is $ extremely well spent.

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads. Don't let this White House insult your intelligence by blowing your money on war, then saying America can't afford nice things.

@esjesjesj China? The country with actual slaves and concentration camps to this day? I think we can pass on looking to them as a guide for worker’s rights.

Can you imagine America doing something this cool

@esjesjesj You have mental problems, you weird little mossy-toothed ferret.

100% fuck her. She doesn’t need to be a public personality but she wants the spotlight. No one forced her to go on Logan Paul’s fucking podcast

@MatrixMysteries Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying a dollar for any mayor to fly to Europe. Zero.

"It’s unsafe for me as a black women to RISK flying economy." New Orleans Mayor spent $30,000 in TAXPAYER funds on first class flights to France and Switzerland. City policy requires the lowest available airfare, with upgrades paid personally—yet she refuses to pay it back.

@TimRunsHisMouth Same as Karl Marx himself. Lazy, entitled, narcissistic, envious, arrogant, do-nothing.

This is the reaction of a spoiled child whose parents paid her bills up until the point that she became mayor… She has no grasp of reality or economics. Seattle is extra cooked.

@SubMessX 3rd highest gas taxes in the nation. If that weren’t enough, we also get to pay those lovely tolls that were supposed to be gone in the 70s, yet are still around & keep going up. We also pay the 2nd highest property taxes in the US. I’m sure we’re getting our $ worth though 🙄

Why is gasoline so expensive in Illinois? Why is that?

@MJTruthUltra Great now the entirety of the city can turn into the south side of Chicago. Should work out really well for everyone. And with his anti-police stance & new youth conflict resolution program, deletion of the word mob & other creative language, I’m sure everyone will be super safe.

Q: “Mayor Johnson, we see empty storefronts everywhere.. what is your plan for investors to see value in these areas again?” Mayor Brandon Johnson: “We don’t need storefronts.. We’re going to build more low-income affordable housing.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ rumble.com/v7967wc-chicag…

@PNWConservative Lazy, entitled, envious, narcissistic do-nothings like all good Marxists.

The Mayor of Seattle is 43 years old. Never had a real job until just before being elected mayor. Her mom and dad still pay for her childcare (her husband chooses not to work either). And now she mocks the business community and those who want to keep what they earned. 🖕

@jainshilpa_ @DrJesseMorse 1st you’re a dentist. 2nd she wasn’t close to obese & most likely not diabetic. I can almost guarantee the health risks in her case of using semaglutide far outweigh any benefit. 3rd if you actually do have a medical degree, even if just a dentist, you’re being irresponsible.

@DrJesseMorse GLP-1s like semaglutide are among the most effective tools for obesity/diabetes, with proven benefits on cardiometabolic health, far outweighing cosmetic concerns for many patients. Real medicine weighs benefits vs. manageable downsides.

“Ozempic face” is nearly impossible to reverse Advice: AVOID OZEMPIC/Semaglutide

@Captain_Gallo I’m sorry that you are wrong and too much of a simpleton to realize it, and that you need to consistently label people instead of actually use your brain. You’re clearly not in finance, you can do a quick Google search to learn that hedge funds are varied & provide many services.

Hedge funds are not businesses. They produce nothing.