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@joknows46 @Acyn it's all an act. Jennings is paid an utterly obscene amount of money to be That Guy.

@Acyn Jennings is an insufferable fucking tool who is constantly performing for an audience of one. I really wish CNN would stop giving him a platform.

Rogin: This is the most unpopular war in American history, and for good reason. And the longer it goes on, the worse those numbers are going to look. There is no instance in history of prolonged war benefiting any nation. Jennings: How do you know it’s going to be prolonged? Rogin: That’t the story of pretty much every war ever Jennings: We haven’t had a war since WW2 Rogin: I think the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan generations would take issue with that

@Divine137 @CryptoNobler Fed was explicitly set up to be independent of the other branches. SC has affirmed its legality. You're against that whole concept? Or just with Powell?

@redskin_potato @CryptoNobler The President was elected. Powell wasn't. He is using monetary policy that is contrary to the elected Executive. That's TDS.

🚨 BREAKING 🇺🇸 U.S. CORE PPI CAME IN HIGHER THAN EXPECTED. EXPECTATION = 3.7% ACTUAL = 3.9% THIS MEANS INFLATION IS HEATING UP. NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR BITCOIN AND RISK ASSETS...

@DearDiaryMeme @DudeWhoInvests rate cuts and liquidity injections weaken the dollar and should be good for gold

@DudeWhoInvests Markets are forward looking. Iran conflict might be over in a few weeks. After that Fed clearly has room to cut aggressively. And with labor market mark downs they are edging towards large liquidity injections. People getting ready for that. Don’t want to be stuck in gold.

Makes LITERALLY ZERO sense. GOLD the hedge for geopolitical instability is crashing in the face of geopolitical instability. Can’t make this up.

@Beet_34_ @AdamFerrellNFL letting the Browns trade more picks is like giving a 16 year old the keys to your new BMW, a full tank of gas, and a fifth of Jack Daniels

@AdamFerrellNFL I find it hysterical that the team that made the worst trade in history (Watson) wants to be able to destroy their future even more by trading picks 5 years from now 🤣🤣🤣

Rule changes proposed today: #Steelers - Making it permanent for teams to not have talks with more than 5 unrestricted free agents during free agency period. #Browns - Ability to trade for picks 5 years out. #Jets - Reward bottom 5 teams with 2 2nd round comp picks.

@S2artMike @AdamFerrellNFL or relegation to the Lingerie Football League ... it's that still a thing?

@AdamFerrellNFL I propose for the Jets that if you succeed in ranking in the bottom five 5yrs consecutively that the owner is forced to sell the team

@AdamFerrellNFL @SweetParkhurst haha that's so #jets ... top 5 pick every year isn't enough, we have to reward mediocrity even more

@Divine137 @CryptoNobler Powell doesn't suffer from TDS, he just wants to be left alone to do his job, rather than being constantly harassed.

@redskin_potato @CryptoNobler Warsh is against the FED managing economy and allows the Executive to push its agendas. He also is against forward speculation. To suggest you know he is bsing is to claim to be a mind reader. The fact he doesn't suffer from TDS, as the above the law Powell does is already a win

@NASA_Tim @Bitcoin_Teddy oof

He was wise in many ways. His father was murdered in 1931 during the Great Depression. He had to go into the coal mines as soon as he graduated high school. He and his brother worked together in the mine. Their first two weeks they worked 16 hour days, six days a week and when they were done they owed the company $0.35. They had not been able to break even, let alone make any money.

Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.” No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay $3200 for rent and $10 for eggs. You didn’t graduate into $50K student debt and $0 job security. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.

@NASA_Tim @Bitcoin_Teddy Tim's grandfather went on to marry Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and changed his name to imelda. (JK Tim, he sounds like a wise man)

Only 90 years ago it was not guaranteed you would be able to get enough food to survive from one year to the next. When my grandfather died he had 91 pairs of shoes. He would go around to garage sales and if he found a pair that would fit him for a dollar or less he would buy them. I asked him one time why he had all those shoes and he told me “Timmy, you only go through one winter in Ohio without shoes before you never let it happen again. You never know what is going to happen in this life.” Quit whining and go to work.

@Antonio82687742 @Bitcoin_Teddy it's very tough right now. but no, the scenario you describe for a low wage boomer to retire with not a care in the world is fiction. check out all the senior workers at McD, BK, Walmart, etc

@Bitcoin_Teddy Boomers could be school district maintenance workers and retire with a pension of passive income for the rest of their lives. We have to become investment bankers and buy apartment complexes just for a shot at taking our 70’s off if we live that long.

@GaryH72058 @ZhengYe594960 @Bitcoin_Teddy that's going from the frying pan into the fire! roommates yes, marriage/gf driven by finances no!

@ZhengYe594960 @Bitcoin_Teddy Ever consider a girl friend/future wife a help mate ? Thats what adults do , they form new house holds that help each other in good times & in bad.

@ZhengYe594960 @Bitcoin_Teddy It's not easy, my friend. The folks who are downplaying your struggles don't understand how tough it is right now. Its hard to find a job and inflation is unrelenting. Throw in AI eating CS jobs. Their tone is wrong but the message is right: FIND A WAY TO GET THAT DEGREE!

This 'we all struggled' line is too real but Gen Z is actually drowning. I am pursuing degree in my final semester currently . Internship start next month and graduation in July/August. I have to make a decision whether to dropout or not this month and get a job instead to help to pay for some of the living expenses because my parents have separated and my dad didn't support the family anymore. If I give up my degree this month, I have to pay back the loan & scholarships 😔 #GenZ #Burnout

@DollarSigns69 @ZhengYe594960 @Bitcoin_Teddy "make sure you have a job lined up" is easier said than done.

@ZhengYe594960 @Bitcoin_Teddy Not finding a way to get it done when you are that close is just quitting on your part. You should be doing everything you can to make sure you have a job lined up after you graduate. That puts you in way better position than anything you’ll get now quitting school.

@Divine137 @CryptoNobler Warsh said what Trump wants to hear to get nominated. He has a history as an inflation hawk. Besides, he's just one vote.

@redskin_potato @CryptoNobler Warsh has stated you drop rates, allow the economy to have liquidity and limit the Fed’s purchases of government debt and go with shorter term securities and allowing growth of economy to outpace inflation.

@old_dwayne @academic_la He said "sure, why not, go for it. " Occams Razor explanation: Israel is playing chess, Trump is playing checkers, and there was nobody in the room smart enough to warn Trump of the trap.

@academic_la Or, hear me out, hes lying and knew in advance just didnt like the consequences

Trump is pissed off. Israel is clearly trying to lock the United States into this disastrous conflict in Iran. Trump has every reason to pull out before economic and military disaster befall the country and his party. So Israel have done the following to force his hand: 1) The assassination of Ali Larijani was designed to eliminate the most viable Iranian negotiator who could have brokered a grand bargain with Trump. 2) Trump has signaled a desire to wrap up kinetic operations, the IDF recently announced a new list of thousands of internal security targets like the Basij and IRGC infrastructure that would require weeks or months of additional strikes 3) Israel pressured the Trump administration to include the total dismantling of Hezbollah and the Houthis as a prerequisite for any ceasefire, terms Iran is virtually guaranteed to reject, thereby blocking any diplomatic exit 4) By shifting from strikes on missile sites to decapitation strikes on Iranian political leadership, Israel is pushing for regime collapse. This creates a power vacuum that prevents Trump from declaring victory 5) Netanyahu’s rhetoric of "Total Victory" mirrors his approach in Gaza, creating a public expectation that anything less than the end of the Islamic Republic is a failure, which traps Trump between his America First base and his pro-Israel base 6) The attack on Iran's South Pars gas field extends the conflict by initiating a cycle of Iranian counter-escalation against Gulf energy infrastructure, forcing a prolonged U.S. naval presence to protect global oil flows. The physical destruction of infrastructure eliminates immediate diplomatic oil-for-peace deals, forcing a slower, more volatile regime collapse strategy 7) When the war shifts from deterrence to regime survival, the target is no longer a specific policy but the existence of the government itself. This makes the regime less likely to compromise, as they perceive any concession as a step toward their own execution or collapse. The US is now trapped in a war of Israel's making, in which it has knowingly destroyed all offramps. That is why Trump is so frustrated and lashing out at Israel.

@InternLon @cabsav456 voter ID is fine. All the other provisions stuffed in is the problem. And BTW, there's a good chance that SAVE would backfire spectacularly, and hurt the GOP.

@cabsav456 Voter id requirements are bad? Every other country has them.

Conservatism, at its core, has always stood for: • rule of law • national security • limited government • election integrity • individual liberty Expanding federal control over voter verification systems is not limited government. Government taking stakes in private companies is not free-market conservatism. DHS using administrative workarounds to sidestep judicial safeguards on U.S. citizens is not constitutionalism. Backing away from FISA reforms after years of concern about surveillance abuses is not defending civil liberties. If your principles only apply when it's politically convenient, they're not principles. You don't get to pick and choose depending on who's in power. These are bedrock principles that should apply under any administration. I'm still a conservative. My principles have not changed. If you're suddenly comfortable with more federal overreach and less privacy, you're the one who's changed. Not me.

@jimiuorio 1 million Americans died. How do you reconcile that with your 500x error rate ?

Does anyone dispute these facts…in March of 2020 there was a nationwide panic that was based on an imperial college study that suggested that covid had a 3-4% fatality rate. Policy was crafted based on that study. By May everyone knew that those estimates were over stated by about 500x. The new information would have never caused a panic…but the ball was already rolling…what did I get wrong?

@JQPublic001 @M_Zot_ike @r0ck3t23 not really. it's about 10%.

@redskin_potato @M_Zot_ike @r0ck3t23 The vast majority of the global population already lives in squalor

Elon Musk just described the white-collar extinction event. On Joe Rogan. Casually. Musk: “Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.” Not gradually. Not eventually. Lightning. The assumption most professionals are operating on is that AI will assist them. Make them faster. Augment what they do. That assumption is the most expensive mistake a person can make right now. Musk: “Just like digital computers took over the job of people doing manual calculations. But much faster.” Think about that analogy for a moment. We used to employ entire rooms of people whose sole function was arithmetic. Highly educated. Well-compensated. Essential to every organization that ran on numbers. Then the computer arrived and the entire category disappeared. Not shrank. Disappeared. Nobody talks about it as a tragedy anymore because the transition happened before most people alive today were born. It’s just history. A curiosity. That same transition is happening right now to coding, writing, analysis, research, legal work, financial modeling. Every profession whose output lives entirely on a screen. The difference is the speed. Digital computers took decades to displace manual calculation. This is moving in years. If your work begins and ends on a screen, you are not competing with a tool that makes someone else more productive. You are competing with a replacement that does not sleep, does not need benefits, and gets cheaper every six months. Musk is not predicting this future. He is describing the present tense.

@end3of6days9 Braces have *always* been expensive. They used to be a luxury for rich kids ($2,000 in the 70s). Now everybody gets them.

This mom gets the estimate for her teenage son's braces and her reaction is pure, relatable shock. She sits there staring at the paper: over $6,000 for full top-and-bottom braces. "What? Like who can afford over $6,000 for braces?" she says, voice cracking with disbelief. Her son needs them for an overbite and just one or two crooked teeth—"his teeth aren't even that crooked"—but it's still full treatment. She thought maybe it was $1,900 or something (perhaps a down payment), but nope, the numbers are real. He's got two insurances (one through mom, one through dad), yet the estimate only factors in dad's. She hopes hers kicks in more, especially since her daughter only needed top braces before. But even so, she's floored: "Oh my god, this can't be real. This can't be real. Parents, is this real?" This is the everyday reality hitting so many families right now. A basic need like fixing your kid's teeth turns into a massive financial gut punch—thousands out of pocket, even with insurance, while you're already dealing with life’s other curveballs. Kids shouldn't have to go without straight teeth and confidence because orthodontics costs more than a used car. Parents shouldn't have to choose between braces and bills. Who's been hit with a braces quote that made you do a double-take? Or is this just what we Americans have to deal with in 2026?

@mbp4860 @nettermike @VladTheInflator Democrats tax and spend, Republicans cut taxes, then borrow and spend on other stuff. Both parties suck eggs.

@nettermike @VladTheInflator Well all the people who voted for democrats here you go, this is what you voted for ! WAKE UP PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN

California Democrats have cooked up a new “Property Transfer Tax” that would charge homeowners 5-6% on every home sale — based on the sale price, not your equity. That means if your home is worth $700,000 to $1 million — which is common in California — you could get hit with a tax bill of $42,000 to $60,000 just for selling your home! That’s right: after years of paying your mortgage, property taxes, insurance, and upkeep, Sacramento politicians want to grab tens of thousands more when you sell.