Patrick Healy

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Hey @firstcitizens your app is on the fritz. May want to have someone take a look at that.

@VoicesUnheard @NCCapitol @insideclimate @NCDOT In fairness, Apex is a city of about 85K people. There's supermarkets - along with one of the highest income per capita in the state.....

🚨 Another one bites the dust. Over 100 Apex residents packed a town hall to push back against a massive data center proposal. This small town doesn’t even have a supermarket… yet they want to drop a huge energy-hungry data center right next to homes. Residents raised concerns about: • an already strained power grid • massive water usage • wildlife disruption • constant industrial noise One woman organized the community… and suddenly the room was full. Turns out when people actually show up and speak out, things change. And here’s the thing… Towns across the country are starting to push back on these projects. 👏 Proud of Apex. Proud of North Carolina.

@HawkEmDownChris Zep. No contest.

Who are you listening to first? A) AC/DC B) Led Zeppelin C) The Rolling Stones

@GuntherEagleman The DSM-5 already did.

Yes.

This theory has been around for quite some time. Every day, it makes more and more sense.

@TrumpsHurricane It's always in the eyes....

What is the first thought that comes to mind when you look into this Liberal Woman's Eyes ??

@elonmusk This is outstanding. Fact check anything up here on the fly. Liars are going to be exposed much more easily - and likely lose their minds.....

Yes

@stephenchip This is pretty dope.

Two weeks in Japan. Hundreds of photos. One creative rabbit hole I couldn’t resist going down. Last year, I created a song as an experiment. I wanted to blend Japanese and English lyrics and see what kind of mood it would create. It turned into something atmospheric and different from anything I’d done before. Then my wife and I spent two incredible weeks in Japan late last year, and the experience stuck with me. Seeing the temples, shrines, and local shops while my wife and I wandered around Kyoto left a lasting impression. When I got back, I realized that the song needed a visual story. So I decided to build a full music video around it. I started by fleshing out the concept and writing a shot list like a real production. Then the fun began. What’s interesting is that many of the locations you see in the video actually started as photos I took while my wife and I wandered around Kyoto. Those images became the foundation for the environments that were later generated and brought to life with AI. It was a fascinating, creative process. Part music creation, part photography, part storytelling, and part AI experimentation. Tools used in the process: Nano Banana Pro (@FlowbyGoogle) – for image generation Midjourney (@midjourney) – for additional image creation Google VEO3 (@FlowbyGoogle) – for video generation Kling 3.0 (@Kling_ai) – for video generation Final Cut Pro (@Apple) – for editing SUNO (@suno) – for song generation Amazing how far the creative toolset has come. If you have an idea in your head, you can now actually build it! Take a minute to watch Rain + Light (雨と光) and tell me what stood out to you. Would love to hear your feedback.

@zainvvm @MaryaDyFatyma @HassanAliChess @GicanMgo @AirlornMent Didn't he already do this with Doge coin?

@proud_native_am I'm so good with this

I'm truly sorry if I offended anyone while I was wearing my "Caucasians" shirt. I thought I was honoring you.

@HuffPost nice ratio, losers.

If waving the American flag or chanting “USA!” turns you off right now, you're not alone.  huffpost.com/entry/theres-a…

Her husband is being taken by ICE after being in America illegally for over 3 decades. Is this what you voted for?

@Houseofyogi New York is too arrogant to figure this out. The masses don't make enough so Mamdani is able to demonize the rich and fool the poor into thinking that he's going to take the richest money and give it to them, directly or indirectly. They've all been fooled because it was easy.

NYC taxes explained for people who don't pay attention: Property tax. Income tax. Sales tax. Unincorporated business tax. Commercial rent tax. Hotel tax. Mortgage recording tax. Mansion tax. Utility tax. Congestion pricing. Twenty-plus taxes. And the mayor wants more. Let me show you what that actually feels like. You're 26. First real job. $85,000. You feel rich. Then you see your paycheck. Federal takes a cut. Fine. Then New York State takes 6%. Then New York City takes another 3.5%. Then there's a "metropolitan commuter mobility tax" you've never heard of. Your $85K is now $54K before rent. You grab coffee. 8.875% sales tax. You take an Uber to the airport. Congestion pricing just added $9. Your landlord raised rent, he's passing along a property tax increase you'll never see on a bill but you're paying every month. You're not rich. You're not even comfortable. You're just surviving. But fine. It's New York. You chose this. Now here's the part nobody talks about. In 2000, NYC's budget was $40 billion for 8 million people. That's about $5,000 per person. Today it's $121 billion for 8.5 million people. $14,244 per person. Population grew 6%. Inflation was 82%. Spending per person nearly tripled. So things must be three times better, right? In 2017, 51% of New Yorkers rated quality of life as good. Today it's 34%. Only 12% think the city spends money wisely. Only 22% feel safe on the subway at night. Felony assaults hit a 24-year high. They spend $31,000 per student on education. Less than half kids can read at grade level. They tripled the spending. Everything got worse. Where'd the money go? Pensions up 115%. Outsourced contracts up $7 billion. A brand new $5 billion asylum seeker expense that didn't exist three years ago. Social services doubled. 302,000 city employees. Debt ballooning. And the new mayor doesn't look at this and say "we need to spend better." He says "we need to tax more." A 2% income tax hike that would push the combined state and city rate to 16.8% -> the highest in the entire country. Tax increases that impact everyone. His supporters chant "tax the rich" at rallies. The top 1% already pay 40% of the city's income tax. And they're leaving anyway. NYC's share of the nation's millionaires dropped from 7% to 4%. They have accountants. They have Florida. You know who can't leave? Your uncle with the restaurant. Your parents in that house. You, watching your paycheck disappear into twenty taxes before you can save a dollar. You need to make $312,000 in New York to live the same lifestyle as someone making $125,000 in Houston. Houston spends $2,850 per person. No state income tax. No city income tax. Population growing. NYC spends five times more. Worse results. NYC is a Netflix subscription that keeps raising the price while the product gets worse. And you can't cancel. $40 billion wasn't enough. $60 billion wasn't enough. $80 billion. $100 billion. Now $121 billion. It will never be enough. Because the problem was never revenue. There is enough money. There has always been enough money. They don't need more of yours. They need to do better with what they already take. I hope you understand what's at stake.

@StephenKing Just TDS. Y'all got to settle down. The hyperbole you all use is very dangerous. And so much of it is slander - and in other cases liable. It sparks violence that those of you who speak like this are indirectly responsible for. There's blood on your hands, sir.

Very tired of progressives being demonized as "lunatic leftists." We're not.

@cenkuygur @RepThomasMassie @HasanKhxnx

@RepThomasMassie @HasanKhxnx I am also not suicidal. I'm very happy person in my real life. My car functions well. Also a really good swimmer. Have there been threats in the real world that prompt me to say this? Yes. Does it look like the people we're exposing have any boundaries?

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?” Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks. The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp. Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept! The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote. Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this. Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic. The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package. There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next. This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL. The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced. The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act. The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along. If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

@TimRunsHisMouth Shocker

Don’t need an official study to already come to this conclusion.

Hey @misfitsmarket, this is a great concept and has massive potential. But the way you have the structured is extremely frustrating from a user experience. You need to revisit the way you allow people to shop. This current version is awful.

@ImGinnyRobinson Cops get nervous because this is what an actual gangster dresses like - even if this guy's not.

I firmly believe that all men dressing like this again would start to fix things. Look at how everyone is so shocked by how much he respects himself. 😅 This is actual insane aura. 🙂‍↔️

Absolutely not. YUK!! I’d rather be a vegetarian.