Billy Binion

Due process makes America great, actually. Pass it on.

@JillCollin3107 I’m not a Democrat, please use your brain Jill

@billybinion You FINALLY get it! Gifting the nomination to Kamala is not how this should work. Presidents represent many millions more-aren’t suppose to be given out as a kind gesture. Just reinforces the idea that Democrats use democracy as performance art. Difference: 6 months vs 4 YEARS!

I'm sincerely sorry for this woman's loss, but this is not how this should work. Senate seats—which represent millions of people—aren't supposed to be given out as a kind gesture. All this does is reinforce the idea that Congress is performance art.

Totally agree with you re: bad behavior. But your proposal is about as feasible as ticketing everyone who jaywalks—many of whom do so when cyclists have the right of way, fwiw, which on a few occasions has nearly sent me flying into traffic. The cameras you mention are notoriously inaccurate with cars, and would be worse with bikes, where ID is even less clear. And for non-owners, you’d be demanding private companies hand over a lot of people’s personal info, which would be a legal nightmare, esp as renters claim (truthfully or not) that someone else was using their account. This response is probably more than you bargained for, but the TLDR is that if such a plan was workable, I promise DC of all places would probably have tried it.

Every rented bike has GPS and the renter’s ID and credit card info. The computers know who is biking the wrong way on one way streets. They could know who is running red lights. I don’t like the surveillance stuff, I also don’t like unalloyed douchey behavior that endangers people.

Hey DC if you want to keep using traffic enforcement to fund everything, maybe cool it installing speed cameras everywhere and start fining people on e-bikes going the wrong way on one-way streets? Been nearly wiped out twice as a pedestrian by e-bikers running stop signs going the wrong way. Hugely dangerous. Should be hugely illegal too.

@LJS527 Every time someone calls the president a “ruler” George Washington winces in his grave

@billybinion I would normally say that Scott deserves grace cause his friend just died, but this is a pattern with him now, glazing Trump like a Krispy Kreme 🍩

This is embarrassing. Trump is not the “ruler.” He’s not a king. He’s a government employee, and no one owes him fealty or obedience when he’s wrong. Please stop worshiping politicians. It’s debasing.

The rich irony here is that Tim Scott is a senator, whose job is explicitly to provide a check on the president, not bow down to him. But Congress decided to give its power away to the executive branch, so here we are.

A lot of politicians want you to believe the rich pay 0 taxes. Meanwhile, some millionaires left NY and the state lost *$11 billion* in tax revenue. The top 1% of earners pay ~45% of all state income taxes each year. “Tax the rich!” is mostly bankrupt sloganeering.

It’s funny they used a photo of Mamdani for this because the data cuts off at 2022. But it’s a reminder of how much worse things could get. Demonizing & punishing the people who fund your tax base—so much so that they leave—is an epic self-own. Incentives matter.

@RinainDC @RepTimmons Thank you 🥲

Best take I’ve seen on this, Billy. Thoughtful and reasoned. That’s why I advocated for @RepTimmons so hard. I love SC, know so many of its elected and non-elected citizens well & as of this year - have family who moved in-state! I get nothing out of giving my recommendation for who would’ve been the best nat sec pick - which matters so much in Senate right now. Family is everything but Gov should’ve & could’ve picked the best person for the job!

@SouthernKeeks Pretty!

@BaltimorePeace @JamesCTobias I can assure you that outing Lindsey Graham as someone who hires gay prostitutes would've been many journalists' dream

@billybinion @JamesCTobias That assumes that any real journalists ever investigated these claims. 🤷

I'm highly skeptical of allegations like this, and you should be too. The idea that a sitting senator hired multiple gay prostitutes and *not one* could ever corroborate it with a credible media outlet isn't impossible, but it defies basic common sense.

It's hard to think of two demographics more eager to out a conservative politician: gay guys and people in media. You're telling me Lindsey Graham hired a fleet of the former for sex, and not one of them could get someone in the latter to run with it? Really?

It is so easy to just google “what is a heart attack” before making an absolute clown of yourself on X dot com

This website so often incentivizes and rewards the absolute lowest-IQ content. It’s so embarrassing.

We're so close to inventing TV

Populism in a nutshell👇. Public opinion is great for setting goals (lower housing costs!) and terrible for setting the policies to achieve them. Its the difference between asking voters whether we should try to go to Mars vs. the exact science & engineering to get us there.

@billybinion correct

I do not understand how people take a competition seriously when it seems like officials decide major penalties by consulting a Magic 8 Ball.

@gratefulred1 maybe that's true, but the rules have been applied haphazardly and inconsistently, which is hard to take seriously (especially as someone who is new to watching the sport)

@billybinion That was a studs up challenge that struck the defenders shin. It wasn't the worst, but that's how players get their legs snapped in half. A 2-match ban would have been normal in the English Premier League.