Jared Ryan Sears

Congress, you want a raise? Give one to Americans first. When no American is living in poverty. When every worker is paid a livable wage. When healthcare, housing, and groceries are affordable. When Social Security is fully funded. When the American Dream is actually achievable, that is when you can have a raise because that is when you've finally done your job.

Nice to hear the Secretary of State admit that Trump's poorly planned war is illegal and how much economic damage it has caused to the world. Oh, he's talking about how unfair it is that Iran retaliated after having their leaders killed, schools bombed, and infrastructure attacked.

SECRETARY RUBIO: The straits have to be open. What’s happening there is illegal. It’s unsustainable for the world and it’s unacceptable.

@djtimm It is a term that has been in use for a long time. livingwage.mit.edu/pages/faqs

I have been seeing that word (livable) a lot in the last month. Was it just added it to the newspeak lefty lexicon? Words and phrases with nebulous definitions are great for those who want to make up their own. What is your idea of a livable wage? Making $25 an hour puts you in the top 50% of earners. Is that livable? I have a feeling I know what your answer will be. (tip sended)

I don't understand how anyone is confused about why consumer sentiment is at record lows or thinks it is just "vibes". 🔸Half of all full-time workers are not paid a livable wage. 🔸There are more unemployed people than job openings, so there are no better-paying jobs for people to move into. 🔸Inflation is rising faster than wages, meaning people are falling further behind. 🔸About half of Americans could not cover a $1,000 emergency without taking on debt due to a lack of savings. 🔸So it should be no surprise that credit card debt is at record highs as people do take on more debt to survive. 🔸27 million lack health insurance, a number that will increase by millions more now that subsidies have ended. 🔸There is a looming fear that AI is going to take many of the jobs, and no one is talking about how to manage that. 🔸For more traditional economic numbers: GDP growth is low, the national debt is so high that the public owns more debt than the entire value the US creates each year (something not seen since WWII), job growth has been almost non-existent, and blue-collar jobs have been lost Sure, stock markets are doing well, but they aren't the economy—the top 1% own half of all the wealth invested in stocks and mutual funds. The bottom 50% owns just 1%. Every day, hard-working Americans don't care that the stock market is up when they aren't paid a wage that covers expenses and have no opportunity to improve their position in life. Not only should there be no confusion on why people feel the economy is bad, but we should also be asking why anyone is pretending it is good.

I see you've given up on pretending inflation is outpacing wages. The average wage gain is 3.6%. Many are well below that. Inflation is still rising, so the problem is worsening. Half of all full-time workers are not being paid a livable wage, so yes, any amount of falling further behind is painful. But let's dismiss the problems that a massive amount of the population is facing, so we don't have to be concerned with fixing them.

@JaredRyanSears So if you were making $50 an hour and your wages grew to $51.80 you are going to complain that they weren't raised to $51.90? Doesn't sound life ending. That and a dime will get you a cup of coffee (in 1950).

1) Trump is the president. There is no talking about other people first and then getting back to Trump. There is no pass, no whataboutism, when you are the leader of the nation. 2) Trump has lied about this war every single day, including the claim that there was any imminent threat and that Iran was working on a nuclear weapon when our own intelligence agencies say Iran was not. That is a serious problem. 3) Trump has brought us into a new war, ruined our standing on the world stage, destroyed our economy, bankrupted farms, and continues to try to divide the nation further. We need to fix Trump's crap now, not later.

@JaredRyanSears 1) How is it that @TheDemocrats can't admit the the @DemSocialists DSA has taken over the Democrat Party? 2) How is it that @TheDemocrats think that @KamalaHarris in 2026 might be a good candidate for President in 2028? Fix some of this crap and then get back to me on Trump.

How is it that no matter how often Trump claims peace in Iran is imminent, only for the war to continue, the news and markets still believe him each time? We are in week 13. Trump first claimed the war would be over "very soon" on March 9th. This weekend, a deal was supposedly "imminent", before it wasn't, and then suddenly the information was that there was no rush. The information that has come out on potential deals is that it would be an agreement to figure out an actual deal on the highly enriched Uranium, the claimed reason for the war, over the next couple of months. That is nothing. I cannot understand how any reputable news organization can accept anything this administration says as fact until other sources confirm it.

@cigarcame1 You comment on my post, and when presented with facts, you block me? MAGA really is a bunch of snowflakes.

Did I forget that jobs were being added every month, GDP growth was high, the debt-to-GDP ratio decreased, and that in 2024, the economy was so strong it was called the envy of the world and boosted the entire global outlook? No, I didn't forget. Which is why it is all the more frustrating how badly Trump destroyed the economy.

@djtimm Why show an out of date graph instead of looking at actual data? Inflation over the past year: 3.8% Wage gains over the past year: 3.6% 3.8% > 3.6% Or you could read any of the articles with headlines like this:

You haven't been following very closely. Direct quote from the US 2025 intelligence threat assessment and link to the document: "We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003" Other governments and international organizations have said the same thing. dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…

I’ve been following this 3+ decades. The “intelligence community” did NOT say Iran wasn’t working on a nuclear weapon. They have said repeatedly that Iran is doing everything needed to develop a nuclear weapon. In other words, to be a short step from having one. Play semantics for political reasons all you want, but it doesn’t help get centrist votes and that’s the main reason Trump is President and why centrists like me, who vote blue 80% of the time, didn’t show up. While I voted for Kamala, I did not give her the five figures I gave Biden because her messaging sucked. Yours does too. You’re wrong or lying about Iran’s very clear nuclear ambitions and it’s extremely counterproductive.

@realannapaulina Ridiculous nonsense. Obama's deal limited enrichment, allowed inspections, and Iran was abiding by it until Trump tore up the agreement. On top of all of that, Iran wasn't working on a nuclear weapon. Trump's lackeys are the most pathetic.

100%

@KirkSpano @netanyahu @realDonaldTrump Make sure to tell that to the US intelligence community, which put out a threat assessment specifically stating Iran wasn't working on a nuclear weapon. Anyone who believes anything Trump says is a fool.

@JaredRyanSears @netanyahu @realDonaldTrump Anyone who thinks Iran wasn’t working towards a nuclear weapon is a brutal combination of ignorant and stupid.

I spoke last night with President @realDonaldTrump about the memorandum of understanding to reopen the Straits of Hormuz and the upcoming negotiations toward a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. I expressed my deep appreciation to President Trump for his unwavering commitment to Israel’s security, including during Operation Roaring Lion and Epic Fury, when American and Israeli forces fought shoulder to shoulder against the Iranian threat. President Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger. That means dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites and removing its enriched nuclear material from its territory. President Trump also reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against threats on every front, including Lebanon. The partnership between us and our two countries has been proven on the battlefield and has never been stronger.  My policy, like President Trump’s, remains unchanged: Iran will not have nuclear weapons.

This year, the US is spending over $1 trillion on the military. The administration has requested $1.5 trillion for next year. For what? What do we gain from this massive spending? The spending didn’t allow us to defeat Iran in a war we started. There has been massive damage to 15 US bases in eight countries, along with damage to critical energy infrastructure in those countries. Iran was able to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt supply lines, causing gas prices to skyrocket and inflation to reach its highest level in three years. It is still rising. America used up a large supply of expensive, critical munitions, and 42 aircraft were lost or damaged. In the end, the deal we get with Iran to bring about peace will be the same, or worse, than the deal we previously had before this president tore it up. We have to delay and cancel weapons sales to other nations as panic about how low our supplies are running sets in. And this came about after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where we quickly discovered that our artillery, patriot missile, and HIMARS rocket munition stockpiles were not sufficient for an actual war. Then there is the fact that the US isn’t prepared for modern warfare at all. America spent decades investing in extremely expensive, slow-to-build weapons systems that get exhausted in days, while lacking proper drones and drone defenses. We’re using missiles that cost $2-4 million each to shoot down drones that cost anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000. China and Russia lead in the area of hypersonic missiles, missiles that no nation, including the US, has a proven defense against. How is America spending this much money and still ending up behind other nations' military capabilities? Why are we spending so much on the military when we have a $39 trillion national debt and more debt held by the public than at any point since WWII? We don’t need to increase the military budget. We need to freeze it and not spend a single penny more until it finally passes an audit, which the Pentagon has never done, and it has a plan on how to use the resources and funding it already has to modernize itself. While the military addresses its issues, any new funds that would have gone to it should be directed toward solving the serious, systemic issues facing America. We could use the proposed increase to the military budget to end poverty and homelessness in America while ensuring everyone has comprehensive primary care. America needs to fix its priorities.

Trump started a war without Congressional approval, said it would be a short excursion, caused inflation to rise to the highest in 3 years and gas prices to soar, and has no clue how to end it without Iran being in a better position than before it started. Trump is a pathetic fool who is far too incompetent to be in the White House.

EVERY American should be supporting POTUS during these PEACE negotiations ref Iran.

No. Trump has no clue what he's doing. That's why Trump went to war to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon when his own intelligence community told him it wasn't working on one, and just eight months after he claimed to have obliterated Iran's nuclear program. Now, Trump is trying to negotiate to reopen a strait that was already open, which US intelligence warned Iran would close if attacked, and the illegal war is in the 13th week of what was supposed to be a short "excursion". Trump is an incompetent fool.

EVERY American should be supporting POTUS during these PEACE negotiations ref Iran. He knows what he is doing.

@atrupar Yes, keep dismissing the struggles people are facing, the difficulty of high gas prices, and the fact that inflation is rising faster than wages. The midterms are coming up fast.

Hassett claims record low consumer sentiment is "driven by Democrats who have Trump derangement syndrome"

Why blatantly lie about what anyone can look up? Here is the NYTs' most recent reporting: "But neither the United States nor Iran released a copy of the proposed framework, leaving the contours of the deal in doubt. The future of Iran’s nuclear program, part of Mr. Trump’s case for launching the war, was unclear. U.S. and Iranian officials also gave clashing statements as to what had been agreed. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said Iran must give up its stockpile of enriched uranium, which the U.S. and Israel fear could be used to build a nuclear weapon. Two U.S. officials said the proposed agreement included an apparent commitment by Tehran to give up the uranium, although exactly how would be deferred to a later round of talks. Three Iranian officials said the memorandum of understanding said nothing about the fate of Iran’s nuclear program. The Iranian officials said the memorandum stipulated only that all nuclear matters would be negotiated within 30 to 60 days. Like the American officials, they spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive subject." Just another framework of a framework, where each side is saying contradictory statements nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

War virtually always ends with negotiations. Critics of President Trump’s peace negotiations should give President Trump the space to find an American First solution.

@CornpopCressley @rhysajlucero The 2025 US intelligence threat assessment report is right there on the government website for anyone to read. Other foreign governments and international organizations also determined Iran wasn't working on a nuclear weapon.

@JaredRyanSears @rhysajlucero Who told you they weren't working on a nuke? The Mullahs, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy maybe?

The Senate finally did its job and successfully voted to limit Trump's use of military force in Iran. The House was set to vote on it, but because the vote was going to succeed, they sent everyone home instead of bringing the vote to the floor. The war is incredibly unpopular. It has caused gas to stay above $4.50 and inflation to rise faster than wages. But instead of Congress doing its job or representing the people, of putting country over party, it ran away from a vote that would have given the American people exactly what they wanted: an end to the illegal war. Next month, we will hear that inflation is rising even faster and that hard-working Americans are falling even further behind. But Republicans refuse to do anything about it because Trump might make an angry tweet. The incompetence and corruption on display are staggering.