Weird Mountain Man

Buy #bitcoin before it buys you

It's almost worse. Biden's gafs were usually some kind of incoherency, and the explanations were basic or plead as an innocent mistake Trump says coherent retarded stuff that contradicts what he said 5 minutes ago and his followers have to do major mental gymanstics to turn everything into a 5 dimensional 7 layer dip of genius

Biden would say the dumbest things. We'd all be like wow, that's really retarded. His followers would immediately gaslight with "what he meant was..." And it's crazy to see that happening again.

@13loopKnot @Knesix @BitcoinPierre True. It is was my mistake to assume my (or any other American's) happiness was the concern of the Trump admimistration, or any other American politician

@WeirdMtnMan @Knesix @BitcoinPierre Make you feel better? Your happiness is the least of anyones concern.

I honestly thought this map was made up Hundreds of supertankers, the kind that carry two million barrels each, are currently racing toward the US Gulf Coast from every direction. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, around Africa, the scenic route, the "we were heading to Saudi Arabia but NVM" route. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and everyone panicked. Oil hit $126 a barrel. Gas hit $4 a gallon. Cable news did the thing where they put a red banner on screen and say "CRISIS" in a font that suggests you should be hoarding toilet paper. And then something happened that nobody in media seems interested in reporting, for obvious reasons. The world just... switched suppliers? Like changing your internet provider except the internet provider is the entire effing global energy economy. American oil exports are approaching record levels. Gulf Coast refineries are running at 95% capacity. Supertankers that were mid-ocean on their way to the Persian Gulf literally turned around and headed to Texas. That's not a metaphor. Ship tracking data shows them doing U-turns in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile China, which was getting 45% of its oil imports through Hormuz and paying basement prices for sanctioned Iranian crude, is now competing with Japan and Europe for the same expensive American barrels. Chinese manufacturers are already raising prices 20% on goods headed to the US. So to summarize: Iran played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States became the world's emergency gas station and China's cheap energy subsidy evaporated. This is either the most elaborate coincidence in the history of geopolitics... or someone planned the sequence Venezuela -> Iran -> profits! I'll let you figure out which one

@D4abrightfuture @Knesix @BitcoinPierre We'll be tired of winning I'm sure

@WeirdMtnMan @Knesix @BitcoinPierre Yes, because it's going to make you richer in the future

@WhiteP36885 @Knesix @BitcoinPierre Funny you think I'm a lib

@WeirdMtnMan @Knesix @BitcoinPierre Yep, especially for you and your DemLib buds. It’s the future.

@ed_fugatt @Knesix @BitcoinPierre I guess I'll pay the $5 then. I was getting tired of all the jihad I was suffering from

@WeirdMtnMan @Knesix @BitcoinPierre The difference is dumbass, Halliburton does not want to jihad your stupid ass.

The founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation vs the current executive director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.

New report ranks Utah #1 in family structure index, based on high marriage rate, high percentage of children in two-parent households, and high fertility rate. Utah is also the #1 state for: – Volunteerism – Economic Outlook – Births to Married Mothers – Weekly Church Attendance – Donations to Charitable Causes Utah has the lowest childhood poverty rate in the country and the lowest rate of households receiving public assistance or SNAP benefits. For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report has named it the best state in the nation. It’s reasonable to say that Utah is the greatest success story of the American experiment.

@FurkanGozukara Based

Absolute insanity. An expert filmmaker exposes how the Mormon Church is hoarding a staggering 350 billion dollars and buying up massive amounts of American land while still demanding money from its followers. The religious corporate greed is terrifying.

MAGA is now 90% boomers, bots and boughts. And 10% neocons using the rest of them to their ends. It went from Massie, MTG, Tucker and was replaced with Shapiro, Levin and Lindsey Graham. Dying faster than the Fox News audience.

You’ll never see the “leader” of TPUSA take a firm position like this again.

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroying the Golden Gate Bridge in California. What would you call the act? The USA-Israel the “aggressors”bombed and destroyed Iran's tallest bridge, the B1 Bridge. This will only unify the Iranian people against Israel and the United States. This is not what Trump ran on and this is not what we voted for…

@jkimballcook Source?

people can argue about the reasons for this, but the leadership of the church (and President Oaks in particular) have long been troubled by the partisan imbalance among the membership of the church, lessening the GOP chokehold on the membership is a good thing

Trump: "We're gonna bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong". Keep in mind that an initial justification for the war was to "help" Iranians.

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic. giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year. this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D). in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%. the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers" of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents. the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker. the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

@nic_carter I think modern working americans are the most taxed population in history in absolute terms

Families are hurting financially due to trillions of dollars of wasted and reckless spending that began 6 years ago today. On March 27, 2020, Congress passed Pelosi’s $2 trillion COVID bailout that funded mail-in elections. I was the ONLY Republican to stand up against it.

Some of us expressed great concern about the Iran War when it was first launched. We were shouted down and condemned as “panicans” and “blackpillers” and even Islamist sympathizers. But it’s pretty clear from how things have gone that our concerns were absolutely reasonable and legitimate. Maybe Trump will get us out of this thing soon and it still won’t spiral into a long and drawn out war. But even if that happens — and I’m not convinced it will — no thoughtful person can deny at this point that the spiral and long war scenario is very much a possibility. No reasonable person, at this stage, can say that our concerns were irrational. What looks irrational now — and always did — is the demand for blind allegiance and unthinking “trust” in our elected leaders, as though we are called to have faith in politicians like we have faith in God.

I in fact do not “trust the plan,” especially when the exact plan is never coherently articulated. The idea that we should reserve criticism of our elected leaders on the vague assumption that there must be some sort of “plan” that we mere mortals don’t understand is just embarrassing. How did “trusting the plan” work during COVID? How has it ever worked?