Brian Manning

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ALMOST FRIDAY AND AMERICA’S GOING TO THE MOON 🚀🇺🇸🦅

I compare Trump hitting IRAN now to Roosevelt attacking Japan BEFORE Pearl Harbor, or England hitting Hitler BEFORE he invaded Poland, or tightening up airline security BEFORE 9/11. We in the West always seem to wait until AFTER the disaster to take action. Trump is different.

This didn’t get enough attention.

@drpezeshkian I ain't reading all that bro. I'm happy for you though. Or sorry it happened.

To the people of the United States of America

I dare someone to go post this on Bluesky

Rooting for failure, achieving embarrassment @TheEconomist

Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.

We're going back to the fucking moon, that's why.

The IRGC: “We don’t want the bomb. We never did.” Those opposing the war: “They don’t want the bomb!” Deputy Speaker of the Parliament: “We wanted the bomb.” Well, there goes that lie!

Jamie Dimon, CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase, backs up President Trump on the war with Iran: "It’s much more important that this be successfully completed than what the market does." "I hear some people say, 'they weren't an imminent threat.' A threat means I’m threatening you—I might do something bad. These people have been doing something bad for 47 years. They’ve been killing people, they’ve been killing Americans, they funded that terrible Hamas thing. Several Americans were killed on October 7th. They’ve had proxy wars, they’ve been threatening people. I think people were surprised to find out they had a ballistic missile that can go 3,000 miles. These are bad people and they needed to be stopped."

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This is funny. What if you invested in the S&P 500 every time CNBC had a "Markets in Turmoil" special? Well... your average return after one year would be 40%, with a 100% success rate.

@jack This should also be done for the government (especially the administrative state).

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.