Benji
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@benjimast Yet the White House told me they were out of seats and didn’t have room for me?? 🤔
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Trump’s got the 1992 Dream Team of the business world with him on AF1 for this China trip:
- Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
- “Tim Apple” (lmao)
- Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock ($14T AUM)
- Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone
- Kelly Ortberg, CEO of Boeing
- Brian Sikes, CEO of Cargill (ag giant that touches nearly every item in your kitchen)
- Jane Fraser, CEO of Citi
- Larry Culp, CEO of GE Aerospace and former CEO of Danaher (low-key guy but one of the most talented business leaders of our generation)
- David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs
- Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron (semiconductor company with $860B market cap)
- Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm
Just an insane line up. Can’t think of any other president who could get this many heavy hitters to clear their schedules and fly halfway across the world in the same entourage.
Trillions of dollars of commercial, trade, capex, and M&A deals are going to result from this trip. Pay close attention to all of it.
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I’d be so embarrassed if I had kids that looked up to people like this
Right Wing Cope@RightWingCope
Unmarried MAGA ‘Alpha’ Male podcaster Myron Gaines claims “Female vaginas are disgusting”
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@hansmast shared the article with me. Link here:
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@JeremyJuggler @jbillinson Jan 6 for example. Many people were angry and offended that Trump was not going to be the next president. I don’t think that is evidence they were right.
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@JeremyJuggler @jbillinson That’s a fair point. Unless you believe that morality/ethics are objective like some (including myself) do.
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Where would you rank this fictional NBA legend?
3x NBA champion
2x Finals MVP
4x MVP
3x DPOY
7x All-star
5x All-NBA first team
1x All-NBA second team
4x All-Defensive first team
1x All-Defensive second team
2x scoring champ
5x Block champ
1x NBA cup
1x All-Rookie
2x Olympic gold medals
2x FIBA WC gold medals
1x Olympic MVP
1x FIBA MVP
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@EWErickson Erick could’ve just tweeted, “wrong” to reveal to us his ignorance of tax rates but instead he spilled a paragraph of ink to reveal his arrogance to accompany the ignorance.
Much better content this way.
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One of the side benefits of this hell site is you get to see people who think of themselves as experts reveal they don't really know what they are talking about, but presume themselves smarter than the legion of accountants and lawyers who help athletes navigate their finances.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
I cannot believe this. Kelsey Plum really thinks that if she earned a dollar more (giving her a million-dollar salary), she would have to pay an extra $13,000 in income tax. That is not how marginal tax rates work! If she earned a dollar more, she'd pay an extra 13 cents.
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@MarcoPWoll Are you trying to tell me that the New Testament isn’t aligned with the algorithm? 😳
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@benjimast Sir you're undermining the entire engagement model of our platform.
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@sonofabeachy @Smuphy Just a few more bombs. The regime is gonna collapse. Plz. Trust the plan.
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@DentistryUnder1 The whole system seems like price and service has been decoupled which is a fairly important mechanism in order for the market to deliver what people need!
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@benjimast And the people that refuse to pay their bill are the same people that will be upset when the county hospital closes resulting from insolvency due to bad debt.
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"XYZ is a scam"
"But they provide a service I really want"
"So I went there of my own free will"
"Then I refused to pay the bill"
"Why aren't more people doing this?"
Dr. Sydney Watson@SydneyLWatson
Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.
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@benjimast Oh medical billing is completely screwed up, no argument here.
It is just foreign to my worldview to ask for & receive a service, then refuse to pay the bill.
Or to call something a scam and then continually (voluntarily) engage with it.
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