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@Milajoy What 1970s were you living in?

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s no one saw color. We were all just Americans. Why did that change?

@DrDiGiorgio That’s not true. You are allowed to have insurance on top of what the government provides in most single payer countries.

It’s worth noting what single payer actually means: If you like your insurance, you can’t keep it. Your only option is government run insurance. No Kaiser, no HSA, no blue cross. There’s plenty to dislike about private insurance. Government insurance will be much worse.

@HaterReport 🤣😂

Nah this is INSANE “Mike Vrabel…YOU ARE THE FATHER” 😭💀

@Pro__Trading What about the last 100 years of foreign engagements don’t you get? We couldn’t bomb our way to victory in Vietnam or Afghanistan. What makes you think we can break Iran without sending ground troops in?

President Trump has to hit Iran hard. They are calling his bluff. If he backs down now, he loses all credibility for the remainder of the negotiations. It's time to light them up.

@techmudder @joekent16jan19 @kevinUSA100 I wish we left Vietnam and surrendered 5 years before 1975

Your “third option” is just surrender with extra steps. Trump isn’t repeating Reagan’s Lebanon retreat, he’s confronting the Iranian regime that’s killed Americans for decades, builds nukes, and chokes the Strait of Hormuz. Walking away now hands them the win and invites the next attack. You fought 11 tours with valor, act like it and back strength, not retreat.

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation. There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave. The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region. A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached. A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible. If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now. Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

@WhiteHouse Our president is incompetent 🤦🏼‍♂️

The Strait of Hormuz is COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS!

@RepFine This aged so poorly

This is the result of having strong leadership. Incredible work, Mr. President.

@RealWayneRoot This aged so poorly

Once again, whole world WRONG about Iran. Democrats- always wrong. But poor Tucker & Candace & MTG- all credibility lost. No one will ever listen to you again. As wrong as Democrats. Trump & US military & Israel cannot be beat. They had a plan- which was- stay loose & creative & respond quickly & change plans as often as needed. Eventually blockade strategy strangled Iran. Stock market FLYING UP! Trump wins- again. I never get sick of winning. But don't Trump critics ever get sick of losing? #BRILLIANT cnbc.com/2026/04/17/ira…

@ACTBrigitte This aged so poorly…

The lesson on the Strait of Hormuz is that President Trump is right and you should trust him.

@IngrahamAngle This aged poorly

A few hours ago President Trump told me that Iran will allow US personnel to remove the stored uranium. “We’re getting it all,” he said. “And we have learned a lot about NATO.” The plan to blockade the Iranian ports was Trump’s idea.

@cruadin This aged poorly

The most impenetrably moronic people on Twitter right now can be easily identified. They're the ones repeating the imbecilic line, "The Strait was open before Trump started [sic] this stupid war, and it's open now, so what exactly did he accomplish?" There is zero point in engaging with them. They are fully committed to the bit. Defiantly stubborn ignorance is an insurmountable barrier. Against such stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

We're getting the enriched uranium. We're getting a stop to enrichment. We're getting an end to the funding of proxies. We destroyed their Air Force, navy, air defenses, defense industrial base, and senior leadership. All done in 6 weeks. Geopolitical masterstroke

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by level of degree and sex. — U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

@DrDiGiorgio This model would work if healthcare was truly market based and information was available and easily accessible to all stakeholders within the market, but it’s not. Adam Smith’s invisible hand is not at work within the American model.

Private enterprise is more efficient than government at providing private goods. Healthcare is mostly a private good (both rivalrous and excludable). Healthcare should be provided by private enterprises. It’s the most efficient, and therefore the most compassionate.

@RojaGarimella Does the more expensive American model result in better health outcomes for the country overall?

in med school i spent a few weeks rotating at a top ICU in Germany it made me appreciate how strong clinical care is at major academic medical centers in the states the uncomfortable reality: US healthcare is best in the world if you ignore affordability

@rxVICTOR8 @chinafutureclub

@chinafutureclub Chinese cars wont lap anyone. They can barely charge without catching on fire. Chinese cars have door handles that fail to open if you get in a crash. Very unsafe. I could go on for a while.

Americans NOT being able to buy Chinese EVs is going to destroy the American car industry. If you shelter American car manufacturers from competition, the Chinese companies will lap them so badly that entire legacy car brands will disappear. It’s already happening in Japan!

@4Controversy @chinafutureclub ? China is the worlds leader in EV car manufacturing.

@chinafutureclub No one wants Chinese EV's it will be better to wait for the big REAL auto manufacturers to enter EV more heavily and most importantly safely. Chinese EV's are very unreliable.

@WhozMEECH Pau Gasol is a hall of famer

Kobe won 2 championships with his 2nd option being Pau Gasol and his 3rd option being Odom in 2009 and Artest in 2010. Although these players gave good contributions, I’m not sure we’ve seen any megastar win more with less in a 3-year span. 3 straight trips to the Finals out of the West. Back to back chips with a good but not elite roster. Kobe doesn’t get enough credit for doing what nobody thought he could do which was win without Shaq. And he did it back to back.

@fairfish77 @BeverlyHallberg Honestly though, at some point you have to prioritize. I used to work 12 hours a day. Carrying my team and getting promoted to the top. But I can’t push that hard anymore without sacrificing the support my disabled kids need.

@BeverlyHallberg Career and family are not mutually exclusive — the problem has always been the wrong partner, not ambition.

I’m 46 and have worked in DC for 26 years. During that time, I’ve met and befriended many women in high-level careers. Not one has ever told me she chose her career over marriage. In fact, all of them were trying to find a husband. The idea that Millennial or Gen X women broadly chose careers over marriage—at least anecdotally—just isn’t true.

@txsportsdoc We should learn from other countries and adopt more efficient training models that don’t undermine quality.

This is what American Medical Students face. The cost of becoming a doctor goes up while reimbursement continues to decline. The compounding interest of many student loans can be daily. Depending on the speciality one chooses, may be very challenging to pay this off. This will be another contributor to shortage of US trained physicians.