@danielgothits Downtown Charleston has always been stupid expensive, even by SC standards.
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@jarvis_best Can I say something?
Anthony Weiner fumbled the hell out of that bag, at least by his standards.
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Heterosexual marriage is so beautiful ❤️
Alex Soros@AlexanderSoros
One year down, forever to go. Happy first wedding anniversary. ❤️ Photo by @annieleibovitz
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@Ironicsisyphus @RichardHanania All fair points. I don't follow Richard, but he was suggested to me by the algorithm. Sometimes tone is lost in text, especially if you're unfamiliar with a person.
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@hmna_hmna @RichardHanania But also, some of that is for services you actually use it's not purely taking money from you and giving to someone else.
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France has a law where employees must work one day a year for free. Instead of paying them, the employer gives the government money, and the government spends it on old people.
Why don’t we just declare everyone under 60 a slave and be done with it?
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@BonkDaCarnivore California mandates you poison your kids and the humidity in Florida is just fine
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Tampa: 92 with a heat index pushing it over 100 as the crushing humidity flexes its wrath
San Diego: 74 and not a cloud in the sky, with a crisp breeze.
Yeah, I don't regret agreeing to higher gas prices at all and that's a stone-cold fact.
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@mehdirhasan Did NASA build the rockets? Or did they contract that out to the private sector? The Saturn V rockets were made by Boeing, North American, and Douglas, all private sector companies.
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“Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built.”
Hey Bill, who got man to the moon? Was it the government or the private sector?
Bill Ackman@BillAckman
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
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@amaldorai Run the government for about two months. After that, we have a problem.
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You’re the President of the United States and you’ve just seized 90% of Elon Musk’s assets. What do you do now? Be specific.
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@McCormickProf A couple of things can be true.
Having one justice per judicial circuit is not a terrible idea.
Moving from 9 to 13 justices in some politically neutral way would be ideal but probably isn't possible in the current environment.
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Court-packing by either party would unleash a dynamic that would destroy the independence of the judiciary. Its advocacy by a politician should be treated by sane and reasonable people of both major parties as disqualifying that person for office. It is worse than a crank idea.
Acyn@Acyn
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country. We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court
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@BoredElonMusk 25 years ago, the discourse was about millionaires and billionaires. Now, thanks to inflation, it focuses on billionaires.
Keep it under a billion and you can stay below the radar.
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@marthagimbel And home prices are due to a different structural problem - lack of building after the 2008 financial crisis plus those cheap interest rates in response.
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@marthagimbel 6%-7% mortgage interest for a 30yr are close to historical norms. The low-interest rate environment just prior to and after Covid are the anomoly.
This is anecdata, but the interest rate I got in 2002 with excellent credit was 6.375%.
What makes the math hard is home prices.
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New from me for @TheAtlantic: the consequences of rising national debt and high deficits feel far away, but actually they're already here. The government’s deficits have saddled many American families with higher costs, largely from rising interest rates. 1/
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@Andr3jH She is ugly AF. She looks just like the democrat mascot.. a DONKEY.. She has no brains, embarrassed herself on the world stage, and doesn't have a clue what Americans really care about. If you think she's getting anywhere near the oval office... I've got a star to sell you.
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Can I say something very obvious?
Winter@LeftyWinter
AOC chatting with some folks at the Bronx brewery.
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I will be putting forward a resolution to void the fraudulent impeachment of President Trump during his first term in office.
Russia collusion never happened. This has been proven by evidence released by ODNI Gabbard. It was a terrible lie that tore this country apart, and was plotted by a weaponized intelligence agency under Obama. There is no monetary value that can be assigned to the damage this lie caused. It destroyed families’ relationships with one another, our country’s comradery, and our relationship with another nuclear super power (Russia) that could have resulted in war. Thank goodness the admin has started to restore that relationship, but HISTORY should reflect what actually transpired.
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@SeanTrende I'd be OK with having one justice per circuit, so that each circuit can have a dedicated justice.
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FDRs plan didn’t end the Lochner Court. The votes were in well before FDR announced his packing plan.
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna
.@PeteButtigieg is right on 13 justices & need 18-year term limits. Republicans took the Court to 10 under Lincoln, cut it under Johnson, & expanded it to 9 under Grant. FDR's plan ended the Lochner Court. Our generation must reform the modern Dred Scott Court.
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@juliamacfarlane The country that invented it called it soccer as an abbreviation of asSOCiation football to differentiate it from rugby.
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If any Americans are confused about whether it’s called soccer or football and don’t accept that the country that invented it calls it football - ask them what the Fs in FIFA stand for ⚽️
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@GerberKawasaki The full retirement age is already 67 for anyone born in 1960 or later, which includes current 66 year olds.
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@ReubenR80027912 The cap is $184.5k this year.
The real interesting thing is how much the cap has jumped the last few years. The jumps are outpacing inflation. It looks like a backdoor tax increase to me.
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Honest Q: haven’t the last 5yrs seen an explosion in the % of individual incomes that exceed the SS cap of $176k? Like the share of income earners whose AGI is far in excess of the SS cap has gotta be the highest ever
I don’t WANT to pay more but like…seems like prime target?
CBS News@CBSNews
Social Security is on track to become insolvent by the end of 2032, putting benefits at risk of a 22% cut. cbsn.ws/4umfAHh
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@tpkern @ilikefoodstuff @mtaibbi No. I moved to Cali in 2019 and I had to show up in person to vote in the presidential primaries in February 2020. The 100% mailed ballot was a Covid response that became permanent.
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@ilikefoodstuff @mtaibbi Hasn't there been mail in voting since the early aughts in Cali?
This has nothing to do with covid
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@Majkawscianie It depends on how it's used. In "rhythm," it's a vowel. In "year," it's a consonant.
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do americans not consider y a vowel ???
Rare Facts@rare__facts
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
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