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@TheEconomist I like when the The Economist isn't political or overtly liberal

The franchise model is a tale of slow and steady success. And lately the model has been spreading into new categories—thanks in part to private-equity investors economist.com/business/2026/…

@SidHaig2 @DefiantLs You need therapy for your psychosis

@DefiantLs There only a few types of subhumans left in trumps cult. Billionaires that hate America. Pedophiles. Billionaires that are pedophiles. Check your bank account to find out which type of MAGA degenerate you are.

Thomas Massie: “There’s a growing number of people on the right who have a form of TDS called Trump Disappointment Syndrome.” “I’m worried that in November this is gonna cost the party a lot.”

@alt_w_v_g What's the what's the value of the real reason being your wife wanting to join the 'in-crowd'?

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week She said the campus was beautiful I asked what's the tuition She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost I made a note She said don't make a note I said I always make notes She said this isn't a deal I said everything is a deal She closed her eyes She said we'd discuss it Saturday I agreed Saturday 7:02am She came downstairs in her Saturday robe Coffee in hand I had my cargo shorts on The dining room had been cleared The projector was on The analyst was at the head of the table Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops He had been there since 6:44am I texted him at 11:14pm Friday The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model He sent a thumbs up My wife stopped in the doorway She said what is this I said you said you wanted to discuss it She said this is not a discussion I did not respond She sat down anyway The analyst stood He said good morning ma'am She did not respond He sat back down A printed deck in front of each seat A fourth copy in case Slide 1 Tuition Schedule $38,500 per year Thirteen years $500,500 nominal Before escalators The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade With escalators $648,000 My wife said okay I said I'm not done Slide 2 Opportunity Cost Even before escalators $38,500 invested annually 10% nominal return S&P long-run average since 1928 By his eighteenth birthday $944,000 My wife said we can afford it I said I know that's not the slide Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65 $83 million She was quiet The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table 8% return $31 million 10% return $83 million 12% return $222 million She did not look She said this isn't about money I said it's always about money She said no it isn't I said then what is it about She did not answer She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment I said I can the analyst already did slide 6 He flipped to slide 6 She did not look She said the school is the best in the city I said best is a feeling She said it produces the best students I said the students were already the best before they got there She said our son deserves it I said our son deserves $83 million My son walked in He is five Dinosaur pajamas He looked at the projector He looked at the open deck on the table He looked at slide 3 He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax The analyst opened a new tab My wife looked at the ceiling He said what's the discount rate The analyst set down his pen She closed her eyes He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation The analyst stopped typing He looked at me I did not say anything She stood up Sat back down He said dad can I help I said yes He pulled up a chair The analyst handed him a printout He started reading My wife watched him read She watched him for a long time She said his name He looked up She said do you like school He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions She did not respond She looked at the ceiling She walked out of the room The analyst started packing up He said should I follow up Monday sir I said no follow up needed He'll be fine Sent from my iPhone

@MetamateDaz He is pretty smart if you ask me. Anyone thinks it's fair to send taxes to Washington so they can loot it is crazy

Jeff Bezos capped his salary at $82,000. Not because he's modest or because he wanted what's best for society and his company but because salaries are taxed. Instead, he borrows against his $230 BILLION stock to fund his lifestyle UNTAXED No paycheck = no income tax. The he jumps on TV and said he pays his fair share of taxes. They think we're stupid.

@CNBC Its net neutral though. Every Amazon next day delivery item I receive starves, local business that is trying to sell the same product.

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

Insane corruption from a homeless project in Los Angeles, California - The Weingart NGO got a $30 million dollar grant for homeless housing - A senior citizen home was cleared of elderly residents - The property was listed on the market for $11.2 million, but it was then sold to Weingart for $27 million (huge gap of money that disappeared) The city pays the NGO extremely high rates, $400,000 per bed per year for homeless housing on this property The building sits empty The NGO has no obligation to put a homeless person in a bed, so they can bill for every room at $400,000 per year with no one in them It doesn’t stop there. Taxpayers also cover the purchase, operations, upkeep, and problems even if the facility sits empty The Weingart NGO operates around 10 similar homeless housing facilities We need prison sentences for every Democrat involved in these deals and every NGO executive Spencer says he will hand them over to the IRS and DOJ for investigation and prosecution I saved him some time and looked up who handed the money out Key Democrats Who Oversaw the Money - Mayor Karen Bass (Democrat) - Former Mayor Eric Garcetti (Democrat) - Key member on the Housing & Homelessness Committee is Nithya Raman (Democrat) who has been involved in oversight and funding decisions - LA County Board of Supervisors (All Democrats) I think the problem is clear

@SaltyGoat17 @VivaLaAmes11 They will still control the agenda using blackmail

Who’s ready to see a 60 Republican seat - 40 Democrat seat Senate? Can y’all imagine how much we’ll accomplish?

If you study it, go in the direction of 'mass formation psychosis', the 'Smith Mundt Modernization Act' of 2012, and the reasons why congress first passed Smith-Mundt circa 1947. Congress saw the horrors of how we inflicted psychosis upon the European people in order to assign where to direct their hate in a lockstep mass formation.

CAROLLA: “If there was one vaccine that you would tout, would it be one that cured Trump Derangement Syndrome?” RFK JR: “I told my staff today that we need an ICD code for Trump Derangement Syndrome, because it is a real thing … It should be studied.”

@LqLana @Silv101N Subsidies 😆

@Silv101N He doesn't live with me. Republicans refused to extend subsidies. More people had insurance under Obama and Biden. Interesting people now can't afford to live. Y'all punk asses always blaming someone else. Clowns.

My son just aged out of my health insurance. Two choices for him. Pay over $1,400 a month for COBRA or Pay over $400 a month on the Health Marketplace, which is actually the least expensive plan there. Apparently, I'm going to be paying for his cell phone forever to help him out. The system is not set up to help young adults succeed. Housing unaffordable. School is unaffordable and Healthcare unaffordable and you have the guy in the White House more concerned about gold for his ballroom and blue paint for the reflecting pool. #DemsUnited

In the USA, you can manipulate food to increase profits in many different ways. If one of those ways is harmful to the consumer, the producer can pay lobbyists to make sure congressmen never address it. They can pay a university to write reports that the harm is actually coming from something else, and the public suffers. This may account for a lot of the expectancy difference in your chart.

@garysavage1 Then, there is this alternative.. if your medical bills don't bankrupt you in the first place.

What socialist politicians want you to believe is that all of their "free" stuff can be paid for by just taxing the hell out of rich people. This isn't true, it never was true, and it never will be true. This is nothing more than a bald faced lie, but one that will get uninformed people to vote for them. If you want to give away a bunch of free stuff someone has to pay. Seriously, there is no free lunch in this world. If you want free health care someone has to pay. If you want free education, someone has to pay. Free busses, someone is paying. You get the picture. If you want free stuff everyone has to pay. There just aren't enough rich people with nearly enough money to fund all this free stuff. Plus if you take everything from the rich people pretty soon there won't be any rich people left and you will have to start taking from the middle class and then the poor. As Margaret Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money. When Bernie Sanders points to Scandinavia as an example of Democratic socialism (democratic socialism is just good ole fashion socialism with a more benign name, but still just socialism) he is just lying to your face and hoping you won't take the time to expose his lie. The Scandinavian countries tried socialism back in the 70's. It failed catastrophically. These are free market, capitalist countries. They pay for their "free" healthcare, education, etc. by taxing the hell out of everybody. You make $70,000 you go straight to the highest tax bracket. On top of that everything you purchase has a 25% sales tax. So you work your ass off all year and the government lets you keep less than $35,000. Then they take a big chunk of that every time you buy something. So before you buy into this democratic socialism bulls**t ask yourself if you are prepared to lower your own standard of living significantly so politicians can give everyone a bunch of free stuff. They want to win elections. That's all they really care about and they will lie to your face to do it. That's the only way this works. Everyone has to pay.

@LauraLoomer No mail in vote changes, no arrests for anything elections related. We live in a mystery movie type fantasy while those we count on to give us justice collude with the people that we think need to go to jail.

🚨 ATTENTION NEVADA 🚨 Mail in ballots have just been mailed to voters in Nevada. Roughly 25% of all primary voters in Nevada will vote by mail. Early voting begins next Saturday, May 23rd, and it’s estimated that roughly 50% of all primary voters in Nevada will vote early. Election Day for the Nevada primary is Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. Nevada lobbyist Billy Vassiliadis told The Nevada Independent @TheNVIndy on May 10th that RINO James Settelmeyer @SettelmeyerNV was one of his “favorite people” while bragging about Settelmeyer’s role in essentially enforcing the Green New Deal and sabotaging coal in Nevada. Vassiliadis was very grateful for then-Nevada State Senator Settelmeyer’s role in passing a bill aimed at canceling coal. He is quoted in the article as saying: “Vassiliadis said Settelmeyer could see reality and was key in ending coal-burning energy generation in the state — the last time he remembers such a controversial bill getting through a committee with unanimous support.” My previous reporting on this key Congressional race that is pivotal to the GOP keeping control of the House highlighted how James Settelmeyer’s woke voting record also includes support for illegal aliens obtaining driver’s licenses and support for biological men in women’s sports. What is the cause of Settelmeyer’s horrific voting record in the Nevada State Senate? Maybe Settelmeyer can explain his liberal voting record to Nevada voters before Election Day, because his policy record is so horrific, he could NEVER be trusted to be one of Nevada’s GOP Congressional nominees on a general election ballot. RECEIPTS 👇🏻

@JoshYoung Does a data center 'consume'? 💧 Or does it cycle the same water? 🔄

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Who received the 747? Trump personally? He will not be in office when its finished (strike 1) Who did he sell a pardon to? Is there proof? (Strike 2?) What no bid contract was given to his kids using tax dollars (i have no idea about this) Crypto rug pull? Or price decline? Trump did not "try to steal" $10 billion. He filed a civil lawsuit in January 2026 against the IRS and Treasury Department (which he oversees as President) seeking at least $10 billion in damages over the unauthorized leak of his (and his family's/Trump Organization's) tax returns by a former IRS contractor. Damages claimed: They seek statutory damages of $1,000 per unauthorized disclosure (including each view/share by media, readers, etc.), which they calculate to at least $10 billion—or actual damages if higher. This is based on the Internal Revenue Code's provisions allowing taxpayers to sue for unauthorized disclosures. This was the prior administrations illegal actions.

@MyrtleBeachWeek @emeriticus -Crypto rugpulls -selling pardons -getting bribed with a 747 -no bid contracts to companies owned by his failson kids -trying to steal TEN BILLION DOLLARS from the US taxpayers by suing his own treasury and ordering Bessent to settle

It's very funny that this is their latest effort to rehabilitate Vance for 2028. The anti-war thing didn't work. The pious statesman thing blew up--nobody outside the MAGA minority and delusional postlibs thinks this guy takes religion seriously, has been ebuked by two popes, etc. They briefly tried to put stories in the media to make it seem like Vance is wary of AI (another big liability for him in 2028), but nobody buys that either because he's Peter Thiel's personal pet. And now their latest thing making him the anti-corruption czar in the most corrupt administration in American history.

@Artzee_eff @emeriticus Yeah, Trump's behind all the Somali scams in Minnesota and homeless scams in California . Good detective work

@emeriticus Trump making JD the fraud czar during the most corrupt administration in history is like when Biden made Kamala the immigration czar after throwing the border open

@CortesSteve These are the people that do business in China

List of the multinational conglomerate CEO's headed to China as part of the U.S. delegation. How many of these powerbrokers are America First? Even one??? How about we take along some small business owners, factory workers, and farmers instead?

@PattyMurray @atrupar Jesus Christ you are ignorant. Gas is up due to oil disruption- but all else is from currency inflation. You are unqualified. You need to hire an economist on your staff

Translation: Trump started a war he promised he wouldn’t start and you are now paying way more for gas and groceries.

@SenRonJohnson @TheJusticeDept @FBI I would prefer not hearing these comments unless they are tied to arrests. Otherwise I view your 'what's going to happen soon' as a psyop

Biden’s cronies at @TheJusticeDept stonewalled our investigation into whether the @FBI investigated Hunter Biden’s ties to human trafficking escorts. Then, they let him off the hook despite mountains of evidence. Recent revelations don’t surprise me, but they should shock everyone.

What?!!! The left thinks they are being led by angels. They believe the Clintons ,Brennan, comey, et. Cetera are all Angelica. The left is in a mass formation psychosis possibly to a greater degree than the german public was with Nazism. At this state voting is not going to solve any of this. I dare say that you might look through history and find out what happens to an entire mass formation psychosis in defeat. Yes, in defeat. And what happens to them in the aftermath

Socialism only works if the world is inhabited by angels. Unfortunately we are in short supply of those. In a socialist/communist (they end up being the same thing) system the slacker gets rewarded. There is no incentive to over achieve or even achieve in a socialist system. Everyone gets the same allocation so why bust your ass? You're going to get the same number of loaves of bread whether you work or not. In the mind of socialists they envision a world where everyone is equal and happy. But the reality is that eventually you end up with a society of slackers just doing the bare minimum to get by. Everyone ends up equally poor and miserable instead of equally rich and happy. I would rather live in a system where hard work and ingenuity can be rewarded. I don't care one bit that a few people amass great wealth. It doesn't prevent me from trying to achieve great success myself. We used to live in a world were success was admired and motivated people. Somehow that world has been replaced by one where great success (financial) is demonized. BTW, why is Elon Musk bad but Tom Brady, Oprah and Taylor Swift are just fine?

Elon Musk opened the federal budget and found what both parties spent decades making sure nobody would ever see. The receipts. Musk: “Most of the fraudulent government payments, especially to the NGOs, go to the Democrats. Let’s say 80%, maybe 90%. 10 to 20% of it does go to Republicans.” He didn’t say one side was clean. He said both sides were eating. Musk: “The honest answer is the Republicans are partly… they’re receiving some of the fraud too. They’re getting a vig.” A vig. That’s the word you use when the house takes a cut of every bet at the table. That’s not governance. That’s a rake. And when DOGE shut off the fraudulent payments, the loudest screams didn’t come from Democrats. They came from Republicans. Musk: “When we turn off funding to a fraudulent NGO, we’d get complaints from whatever the 10% of Republicans who were receiving the money. And they would very loudly complain.” You tell someone 90% of the fraud funds their political opponents. And they still fight you to keep their 10%. Musk: “I tried telling them, ‘Well, you know, 90% of the money is going to your opponents.’” Rogan: “They want their piece.” Musk: “Yeah, they want their piece.” Rogan: “And they’ve been getting that piece for a long time.” The uniparty was never a conspiracy theory. Musk: “The whole uniparty criticism has some validity to it.” It’s a revenue model. Left and right aren’t opponents. They’re co-signers on the same account. The theater is for you. The money is for them. Every bank on earth runs AI that flags a suspicious $47 charge before you even notice it. The United States government somehow can’t catch billions in fraudulent payments to shell NGOs. The technology exists. It has for years. An algorithm doesn’t care which party you belong to. It doesn’t take a vig. It doesn’t have a donor. It just follows the money. And that’s exactly why they’ll never willingly deploy it. Musk didn’t expose a partisan scandal. He exposed the operating system of American governance. And the most dangerous thing he did wasn’t cutting the payments. It was proving both sides would rather protect the fraud than lose their cut. The system isn’t broken. It was built this way.

@decensorednews @samhusseini They're cultivating a mass formation psychosis that "aliens are real." 👽🛸

Journalist James Corbett on the alien presence/cover-up/invasion/threat narrative in 2015: “Clearly a subject that's propounded time and again, ad nauseam, in the establishment mouthpiece media — that same media that we know is lying to us about most major world events, either through direct lying or lying by omission. So why are they not omitting this little idea from the cultural context? Why are they constantly returning to [it]...?”