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@Noahpinion I remember when you used to say unequivocally that all immigration is always good…

Immigration isn't always good, but the Americans who sit around thinking about how much they hate immigrants are the absolute scum of our country.

@cogmeyer @otter401 And in Arizona…

@xcitablboy @otter401 Yet it absolutely happens all over the world.

The slow approval process for CA Forever wasn't the driver of Saronic's decision to choose the Port of Brownsville location in spite of claims to the contrary. The real pivot point in the negotiations was the union requirement (both constructing the shipyard and building the ships) attached to California Forever vs complete non-union in Texas The son of one my best friends is on Gov Abbott's staff and was part of the TX process. His words: -California Forever was never a serious choice for Saronic and was only used as leverage to negotiate the the best deal in TX. Saronic never really considered doing their shipyard in CA. TX knew CA Forever was a bluff card. -Port of Brownsville shipyard will be built with non-union construction labor at a much lower cost than a union shipyard at CA Forever -Actual ship building at the Port of Brownsville will be done with non-union labor at a far lower cost whereas California Forever would have required a union ship builder workforce At the end of the day there was a massive difference in construction and ship building costs between Port of Brownsville and CA Forever and it made TX the clear choice for Saronic Had CA gotten the approvals in place timely it would not have changed Saronic's ultimate decision. CA Forever is/was significantly non-competitive from a cost perspective and that drove the decision.

@cogmeyer @otter401 Some benefits? Try building fabs at all at that scale and on that schedule without organized labor lol

@cogmeyer @otter401 All the chip fabs in AZ are being built using union labor….

@romanhelmetguy Bargaining phase cometh….

Tech people are not right wing. They are (for the most part) obscenely rich foreigners who agree with the left about everything except who should get to keep their money. Their families are all leftists. Their employees are all leftists. They are never going to help the right.

@Noahpinion The left can’t even figure out which bathroom to use dude….

Both of these tweets are true, and they illustrate the iron law of American politics: The right and the left are both dumb, but the right is always a little dumber

@Acyn She’s slobbing hard for a job at Fox

Watters: Some of these kids have never had real jobs and are complaining things are expensive. Things are expensive when you don't have a real job. Do you think that's getting traction? Complaining? Leavitt: Unfortunately I do because this generation, my generation, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths. Watters: Is it laziness? Leavitt: A little bit. Watters: If they misbehave, make them join the army. Leavitt: Send them to Cuba. Send them to Iran.

@LuluGNavarro If only you’d ever admit stuff like this happens only in your wildest dreams! Sad!

Fascinating.

@Noahpinion The difference is you’ve been dead ass wrong about all of this!

No. Trump did BROAD tariffs on ALL products from U.S. ALLIES. Krugman is suggesting TARGETED tariffs on SPECIFIC products from a HOSTILE country. This is what Biden did, not Trump. People need to understand the difference!! noahpinion.blog/p/why-targeted…

@jimiuorio @watson1787 You were never promised purchasing power bud

@watson1787 Not if they are going to continue corrosive dollar policies..

There appear to be a number of economists who are tasked with the job of furthering the narrative that U.S. boomers may need to “compromise” on the social security and Medicare benefits we were promised. I know I can speak for many but not all with an answer…no

@jimiuorio @GreenPlusAnE Jim you’ll get every penny of it but you won’t be able to buy a carton of milk with a single check

The 39 trillion of debt is directly correlated to the amount of revenue they collect..do a regression on that…also, I don’t care where they get the money to pay me every penny that’s owed..I will not compromise and we are not “all in this together”…I think there’s way more who think like me than think like you on this matter..

89% of senior citizens support raising taxes on younger workers to maintain their benefits. The median primary voter is 65.

@HeinrichKuttler sunlovekids.com/products/baby-… Game changer

apropos of nothing, this bouncer is such a game changer for newborns. a lot of early child rearing is just an engineering problem.

@rando_scrolling @jmhorp @talmonsmith Ok

@xcitablboy @jmhorp @talmonsmith According to Census in 2024 over 44% of the employed have a bachelor's or higher.

From 2000 to 2025 the real earnings of full-time workers essentially went unchanged: --real median weekly earnings for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher inched up by only $51 --for noncollege-educated workers? even flatter: weekly earnings grew from $963 to to $980

@jmhorp @talmonsmith 2/3’s of Americans don’t have a degree….

@talmonsmith They increased by over $200 per week for bachelor's degree holders -- that's $10,000 more real annual income!

@moultano You should go talk to some normal people…

We have this skilled immigration debate every year or so, and every time the right has become both more unhinged and more divorced from reality. I can't tell to what extent that reflects actual political opinion or Twitter becoming even more of a right wing echo chamber.

@SomeBitchIIKnow Exactly

The argument, since the inception of H-1B over 30 years ago, is that there is a gap in talent that urgently needed to be filled. In thirty years, zero effort has been made to mitigate so-called talent gaps with domestic workers. There is no exit plan. You're being obtuse on purpose.

@credealjunkie The PW requirement arbitrage is not as much as you think.

You’re the San Francisco housing czar for a day. You can do three things. What are you doing and why? I’ll start:

@mattyglesias Implicit in your response is the answer to why Trump was elected. “as the labor market finally got good”. It took Obama’s entire eight years to move the unemployment rate from 10% to 5% lol

@citrini @juliajeler Why has that stock been such a dog then?

Local tractor supply store is really popping, economy is still good.

@Noahpinion x.com/gvtcontractor/…

Some tech people in SF have a quiet, deep-seated contempt for people of average IQ, or people who work outside tech. For some, this feeds into a complacency toward the idea of AI putting the normies on permanent welfare -- they think normies are already useless anyway.