Sean Duffy, CPA | Cash is King, Data is Emperor

Maybe coming up with ideas for startups is about turning the things that irritate you into opportunities.

@tomhfh @seasoner10

@seasoner10 Find me a measure of quality of life that isn’t correlated strongly with GDP per capita.

Europoor is an entirely accurate phrase. America is simply in a different league.

@bohredElectrons @johnkonrad We are building your new icebreakers.

@johnkonrad Can they even build ships anymore? According to grok, their steel mills have more or less been in free fall for domestic production thanks to green policies.

Fascinating how many people from the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand still think the King has a Navy. If you can’t deploy one carrier or destroyer during a war and your submarine missiles go plop… you have a coast guard, NOT a Navy.

@DanielBordmanOG So « sloppy » and « lazy » that the French had her sing atop the Eiffel Tower youtu.be/9wQ-GYnKPYM?si…

Fuck off Quebec. Honestly, the hostility created by the French sense of entitlement actually negatively impacts the majority of Canadians and excludes them from positions of power. You can get a CBC panelist to sneer at us all you want, but our country is weaker because of this nonsense. Produce an elite goalie and then we can entertain your absurd language laws, until then the country has serious problems to deal with so calm down and stop undermining the country. Sincerely, English speaking Canadians

@johnkonrad Google exists. Libraries. Books. Military historians. Quite a vast amount of information exists that is readily available at your fingertips but you already know that. Be better.

Why do all the SToP BeiNG MeaN To NaTo nerds crying about WW2 always forget we also fought a few skirmishes in the Pacific they refused to help with?

@Smileyyeg @soufsidebuner I’d sit this one out, bud.

@soufsidebuner I took French in school too. I don't speak it. That is not what is being argued here.

Should every single francophone also be forced to learn English?

@boutros555 @zpaikin Which ones are actively discriminated against?

@zpaikin There are few historically French communities outside of Quebec, so of course the language isn’t accommodated well there. On the flip side, there are huge endemic Anglo populations within Quebec and they’re actively discriminated against. You’re drawing a false equivalency.

Unilingual anglos do not face meaningful discrimination in government. Francophones outside Quebec have it harder than anglophones in Quebec. The protection of French is existential for French Canadians. If we don’t show French Canadians basic empathy, we will lose Canada.

@Sebast79 @terrynewman Actually, yes there is. Lines 5 and 6.

@terrynewman How is toronto metro? Any french? Shut the fuck up

Everyday, on the metro in Montreal, travellers only hear warning messages in French. No one suggests it's a moral failing. No one seems concerned about the safety of those visiting from other provinces or from countries who think Canada is bilingual.

@unseen1_unseen Tariffs can boost nominal GDP via higher prices and tax revenue, but they do not improve real economic output.

If the estimate is correct, that gives an annualized GDP growth of 3.2%. That is about a full percentage point above estimates. It would mean that nominally the economy grew by about $2 trillion in 2025 and inflation adjusted about $1 trillion. I'm not sure how to get this point across any clearer. If the 4th qrt estimate is correct, we just had the best economic output in 20 yrs(*excluding 2021 covid restart). Doomer and panicans want you to believe not only did this not happen but that we were in a recession all year. Now watch heads explode because reality is so out of step with the fake narrative.

@Freediesel1 @astraiaintel What is isolationist about expansion to the West, intervention in colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines? This is all before WW1 and WW2. What is that called?

@astraiaintel Hahahaha, just the end of the first American Act. The US had an isolationist policy until they had to go fight 2 world wars. After the second one, they implemented the Britton Woods Agreement to keep a 3rd one happening. The US has only been involved for 80 years.

@venom1s Defined benefit obligation.

There's a guy in my gym. > In his late 40s > Looks around 30–35 > Divorced > Has one of the best physiques > Always happy and helping others > Took voluntary retirement from his government job He is so happy in his 40s, while so many men in their 20s are depressed. Why is that?

@almond_luke @elseanawy Can you please address Abroad?

@elseanawy Are we saying UK or Abroad?

@ZombieJesus198 @mrgrozz @rmcfarlaneca Got it. Thanks.

@SeanDuffy_CPA @mrgrozz @rmcfarlaneca Same franchise. Arenas rebranded as the St Pats, and then when Conn Smythe bought the franchise, he renamed it the Maple Leafs.

Sens fan chirping about trophies when their franchise raised banners for cups won by an entirely different franchise during a time when the Ottoman Empire existed 💀💀💀

@mrgrozz @rmcfarlaneca 1918: Toronto Arenas 1922: Toronto St. Pats

@rmcfarlaneca Yes we claim ancient cups that our franchise actually won instead of having to claim cups won by an entirely different franchise

@ijkTA1619 @JZ281C Yet.

@JZ281C People use the ‘Centruy of Humiliation’ as a flippant byword and proverb failing to realise that often times empires and polities never recover from a death spiral. For every China, there’s an Ottoman Empire and Mongol Empire who never again come back.

@bmptrsn Had this as a millennial in the early 1990s at the very least at @HaltonPolice. I could be wrong.

a uniquely gen z canadian experience is the field trip to the children’s safety village a miniaturized town where we learned the rules of the road

@RealGregHuff @wylfcen I feel seen.

@wylfcen Of all the ways to spell Seán, why did you choose that one?

How old were you when you realized that Ian, Ivan, Ewan, Shaun, Shane, Johan, John, Juan, Jean, Janis, Hans, Evan, and Giovanni were all from Johannes, the Latin form of John, filtered through different languages and dialects?

@BlakeTOliver 2018 pricing

What accounting firms charge for personal returns: $400–$599 business returns: $1,000–$1,499 advisory: $2,000+/yr bookkeeping: $250–$500/mo CFO: $2,500/mo These are the most common ranges from Ignition’s 2025 survey of 219 U.S. firms

@Noahpinion Excited to read up on your views vis a vis the F35.

I need to write a post on "Wrong things that most people believe". A few might include: * The War on Cancer was a failure * America defunds social services to fund the military * The F-35 was a useless boondoggle * America lost the Iraq War

@JPLindsley @suehannah31 Totally get it. Agreed. It’s a slippery slope when emotions fudge contracts is what I’m saying. What you’re saying is we have to deal with people, not contracts, and right now we are losing that fight. Fair to say that’s the disconnect?

@SeanDuffy_CPA @suehannah31 so often people mistake my analysis of the mood in America as my mood. No. I'm saying--if you want peole on your side, you have to understand their mood. It's just the way it works.

The American people don't care about the Budapest Memorandum because they don't trust the people who created the Budapest Memorandum. The Ukrainian people don't trust the people who created the Budapest Memorandum because they know those people themselves don't care about the Budapest Memorandum. So let's seize upon the commonality: Neither Ukrainians nor Americans trust the people who created the Budapest Memorandum ...

@JPLindsley @suehannah31 You’re a smart guy, JP. And your critique of elite betrayal is fair. But come on, this is bigger than rage. People are dying. It is okay to reconsider your position. Alliances matter. Trust matters.

@suehannah31 @SeanDuffy_CPA The American people also feel that the bond of trust between them and Washington has long been broken.