Austin D. Bridgewater

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Austin D. Bridgewater

Austin D. Bridgewater

@adbridgewater

Christian | Husband and Father | American I seek to be a voice of the People we were intended to be at our founding

California, USA Katılım Mart 2024
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
I think that gold is not necessarily a good measure of inflation not because it is speculative, but because it isn’t really the “money” in modern economics like debt and credit is. I do, however, think the general price of gold is a window into inflations past, but not necessarily a good measure of ongoing inflationary monetary conditions.
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
@FrenlyOfficer By that logic, every single thing on earth is a terrible measure for inflation because of speculation. The Dollar itself is subject to this.
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
It may sound counterintuitive, but when gold goes up, it’s more likely due to risk of DEFLATION as a result of past inflationary conditions not because inflationary conditions are about to be unleashed. When one feels deflationary worries, one is more likely to seek safety and being risk-averse (think gold and treasuries) as opposed to risk-on assets like stocks or illiquid and leveraged assets like houses. This can particularly be seen with rising intermediate to long bond (10+ yr maturity) yields during the Great Inflation of Covid with higher CPI prints in 2021-22 while gold stayed relatively flat (especially when compared to gold’s price movement over the past 2-2.5years).
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
You can quite literally spot the two largest housing crashes over the last 50 years on this chart (as well as the pre-2008 housing bubble), but go off about how it's a retarded way to examine the housing market. I'm sure online arrogance and smugposting about how much everyone else is an idiot is strongly correlated with intelligence.
GBR@GayBearRes

If you can’t figure out why this is a retarded way to price housing, then I’d strongly suggest seeking Canadian healthcare

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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
Ignoring the tax because the law necessarily infringes on a fundamental right is standing enough and anything other than that is judicial tyranny. Unconstitutional laws are unconstitutional ab initio, not when politicians in black robes deign to deem the plebes worthy of being heard and their arguments meritorious.
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Rob Romano
Rob Romano@2Aupdates·
@MorosKostas If they didn't pay the tax, they don't have standing because they didn't pay it If they did pay the tax, they don't have standing because the tax didn't stop them from owning a gun
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Kostas Moros
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas·
This is one of those briefs that is frustrating to read because even though its arguments stink, it has a very good chance of winning because California courts are not fair at all, and especially unfair on the Second Amendment. They make the Ninth Circuit look like the Fifth Circuit by comparison.
Rob Romano@2Aupdates

The California Attorney General makes the same argument that Governor Newsom criticized Trump for making about tariffs: That the gun tax isn't a tax on consumers because businesses have to pay it and nothing requires them to pass on the cost

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Kostas Moros
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas·
California argues that even though the Ninth Circuit has admitted there is an ancillary right to acquire arms, that doesn't mean there is any right to *sell* them! (Note: California bans making your own gun at home)
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
@gunpolicy @2Aupdates The last time I read the Second Amendment, I could not find the “Common Use test”, however, I could find the words “shall not be infringed”.
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
Why wouldn’t they let it stand? “The People have spoken” will be the basis for their refusal to pass judgment on the election and the plausibly unconstitutional referendum. They showed their illegitimacy the moment they decided to knowingly kick the can past the election deadline. They wanted to know how the political winds would blow so as to not be on the “wrong” side.
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Kostas Moros
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas·
If "Yes" wins by under 5 points, that's close enough that the biased wording ("restore fairness") may have actually swung the result. If the courts let this stand even with that Orwellian wording, they are illegitimate.
Quantus Insights@QuantusInsights

NEW: The New York Times live tracker on the Virginia Redistricting Referendum is showing a sharp split between the current raw vote and the projected final result. With roughly 30% of the vote reported, the raw count stands at: 🔴 No: 53.2% 🔵 Yes: 46.8% But NYT’s live forecast estimate currently projects: 🟦 Yes +3.6 Their model says “Yes” has more remaining votes outstanding than “No” and could finish with about 52% of the final vote. In other words, the current No lead appears to be driven by the vote counted so far, while the remaining vote is expected to come from stronger Yes areas. This is an early example of why raw returns alone can be misleading in Virginia, especially when higher-density and more Democratic-leaning localities may report later.

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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
When Republicans were in power, they had a ballot referendum to enshrine Right to Work in the Virginia constitution. They worded the ballot question like a piece of legislation, with multiple sub-sections specifying what part of the Constitution would be amended under what circumstances. The entire thing looked like it was written by lawyers, for lawyers. No one understood what it was or meant, so even the GOP's own voters voted NO. When Democrats took power, they literally said on the ballot question that their 10-1 gerrymander plan would "restore fairness". There should be a lesson for you here. One side is serious about winning at all costs, and the other side honestly doesn't care if they win or lose. They just want to make sure that they lose "legally".
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
I will 100% be voting in the Democratic primary for the 7th District lobstermander, and I encourage all Right-wing Virginians to do the same. There are two strategies when doing this, depending on the environment and the district in question: 1) Vote for the most idiotic candidate who can win to ensure that Dems have lightning rods in Congress that the Right can fundraise and organize against. 2) Vote for the most Right-wing candidate who can win and subvert the Democratic Party from within. Either works for different reasons.
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Dr. Ben Braddock@GraduatedBen

Virginians should treat Congressional races as one-party. Run as Democrats, vote in Democratic primaries. Blue dog democrats like Chap Petersen could, with rightwing support, win primaries in the new districts that are much more watered down (D+8) versus the old Dem districts (D+39).

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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
@ChristianHeiens For someone who rails against proceduralism, it strikes me as strange that you don’t bring up alternative methods to vindicate our just causes much, if at all
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Christian Heiens 🏛
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens·
To tell you the truth, I do not believe Virginia can be saved electorally, and I have serious doubts about whether America itself can, too. But I'm still here, fighting every election cycle as I have since I turned 18, because I know of no other way to live.
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
I’m sorry, are you upset that farmers are going bankrupt (a free market error correcting process), that the market demands lower priced goods (part of the process of price discovery in free markets), or that the importation of foreign labor is undesired but apparently the viable solution (a non-free market solution subsidizing those businesses or companies that can only compete under such conditions)? Markets demand many things and not all of them good. Being against the proposed removal of foreigners for the sake of financial success misses the whole point. You guys are substituting economics for politics thinking that economics is the only or most important thing for a society as if people are incapable of seeking a higher calling than material goods or that their political desires should always be subservient to the economic desires of others. Immigration isn’t only an economic calculation, but a political and civilizational one. You call it communistic to desire a cohesive American culture, but actively rail against the removal of a communistic solution to economic woes.
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DataAmerican (small a)
DataAmerican (small a)@DataAmericanUSA·
@adbridgewater @RockChartrand @MattWalshBlog "Admonish and dismiss" yeah, we do that when people start spouting commie bullshit. How can farmers pay more when the market demands lowest priced produce? Is government supposed to subsidize further? Do you even know how many small farmers went bankrupt this year and last? Stfu
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BambooRebel
BambooRebel@5ams0n_·
The largest govt in history cannot be trusted with FISA powers.
TenthAmendmentCenter@TenthAmendment

@realmflynnJR 💯 FISA cannot be reformed, fixed, or anything and remain within the bounds of the constitution. The largest government in history cannot be trusted with this kind of power anyway

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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
@RockChartrand @MattWalshBlog Who will join you in your crusade for the strictest adherence to your ideological agenda when you are so ready to admonish and dismiss the people most likely to uphold your worldview against those others who, when in sufficient numbers, can and have subverted it?
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Rock Chartrand🤑
Rock Chartrand🤑@RockChartrand·
Matt is making a socialist argument. The right usually understands wages are set by supply, demand, and productivity. Then it becomes “just pay more,” the same AOC and Bernie Sanders logic behind minimum wage laws they normally oppose. You don’t get to reject price controls in one context and smuggle them back in through nationalism in another. Applied consistently, you either accept market wages across the board or you openly support wage controls. And it doesn’t stop at wages. If labor costs are forced up, prices follow. He has no sympathy for farmers, but will he have sympathy for everyone paying more… or will that suddenly become “greed” and “price gouging” so he can hold onto his economic illiteracy?
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
While one could generally agree with this, it’s arguably the “money” that ultimately contributes the most to the leviathan as there is no natural limiting factor to how much and how fast the leviathan can grow since it can all now just be “borrowed” and fed ad infinitum to the government, its bureaucracies, their constuencies, the politicians, and their benefactors in various circular schemes.
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
Of the many many things that need to be done to reform our government, I believe fixing the issue of public sector unions is #2 (right behind fixing voting integrity). Public sector unions are what give the Leviathan so much of its funding and power. 1. We pay taxes. 2. The taxes pay the salaries of government employees. 3. Union dues are skimmed off those salaries. 4. The union then gives those "donations" to Democrat candidates nationally. 5. Elected Democrats ensure there are more and more government jobs with more and more pay and benefits. 6. Rinse, wash, repeat. The tyranny that exists in American today is largely due to the existence of public sector unions. We must find a way to outlaw unions in the public sector.
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos

One union spends more on political contributions in Washington than the entire tech industry.

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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
“We want to make life prohibitively expensive and take away your ability to do anything about it by shoving it down your throats as punishment.” — The Left me They support both the destruction of the currency’s purchasing power in furtherance of their ideological agendas and desire to punish Americans with and for their shenanigans by placing unlawful, prohibitive taxes and restrictions on our ability to purchase arms necessary to combat their shameful and idiotically destructive policies and behaviors. We, the American People, should punish them for their despicable and treasonous actions.
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News2A
News2A@News2ATeam·
The left and their brainwashed constituents will rabidly support the reinstatement of an 'inflation-adjusted' tax on NFA items, which some estimates have put at about $4,000. And because the uni-party was never going to repeal the NFA, the clock is ticking.
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Kostas Moros
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas·
Not true, if you are otherwise a law-abiding citizen and get arrested for possession of non-compliant guns, they will absolutely throw the book at you! Charles Foehner, a retiree, defended himself from attack in NYC from a criminal who had over a dozen prior arrests and kept getting released. It was clear self-defense, so they didn't charge him with the homicide. But because some of the guns he owned were not properly registered, he is now serving 4 years in prison. This is how antigun "common sense" works: violent criminals get released, peaceable citizens get ensnared.
Bonchie@bonchieredstate

He got probation for shooting up a car outside a school. Probation. The left’s views on guns are totally contradictory. On one hand, they demand strict gun control laws. On the other, their social justice crusade requires not enforcing them. A circle that can’t be squared.

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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
"In a land of liberty, it is extremely dangerous to make a distinct order of the profession of arms. In absolute monarchies this is indeed necessary for the safety of the prince, and arises from the main principle of their constitution, which is, governing by fear" — Jonathan Williams Austin, Boston Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1778) Our rights don’t come from words written on parchment, buffoons convened in theatrical zoos, nor are they dependent on the permission of others.
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News2A
News2A@News2ATeam·
@SenRandPaul We laud your effort. But this post (about a year's silence on the infringement of constitutional liberties) shows the Second Amendment has become a second-class right.
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Senator Rand Paul
Senator Rand Paul@SenRandPaul·
I requested information from the ATF on a secretive program that appears to allow the federal government to monitor law-abiding Americans attempting to exercising their second amendment rights. I plan to follow up since we haven’t heard anything in almost a year.
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Rob Romano
Rob Romano@2Aupdates·
@MorosKostas But it would have been down 200% if it was enforced!!!1!!1!
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Kostas Moros
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas·
DC's panicked briefing in Benson over magazines is such a funny contrast to the actual data, which shows that DC is pretty much the most peaceful it has ever been. Homicides are down 56% vs the same time last year, which was already way down from prior years. Clearly, ceasing enforcement of the magazine capacity limits did not lead to "blood in the streets."
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Austin D. Bridgewater
Austin D. Bridgewater@adbridgewater·
@News2ATeam I’m having a hard time finding the words “in common use” anywhere in the text of the 2nd Amendment. Although, I can find “shall not be infringed”.
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News2A
News2A@News2ATeam·
| NEWS | news2a.com/national/secon… Another improperly applied Bruen test and some magical interpretation about the "plain text" of the Second Amendment. (Note: And while taking stun guns out of the hands of private citizens, there are large exemptions for law enforcement, as usual.) @gunpolicy @2AFDN
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