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@beinlibertarian Healthy/young people would opt out(dumb cause healthy people get disabled too). So the revenue side would opt out, expense side would stay in. Congratulations, your debt elimination plan increases it

Everyone is talking about the National Debt But nobody is offering solutions. So here goes… If Social Security were optional, would you opt out?

@mitchellvii It's sort of stagflation but for job market. Noone's hiring, noone's firing(except people making AI because if they don't say their AI is replacing people, the hype bubble will burst). I think everyone else is wait and see on AI while not having the growth to force hiring instead

Wait, I thought the economy was in freefall and everyone was miserable? I guess maybe the media pollsters are lying?

@C_3C_3 I'd like to know the 10 items? So much of the narrative has changed since 94

This explains everything.👇

@TheRabbitHole Capitalism might work, but whatever the US is doing since Nixon doesn't

Capitalism works actually

@politicalmath The crazy thing is all these Trump supporters post that he lost money in his first term like he's a martyr but ignore that he told everyone he was worth 10 billion when he ran in 2016 so all these charts really expose is that he's a huge liar

I have a genuine question: Why didn't Trump enrich himself during his first term? Trump became president and his net-worth dropped by 50%. That runs completely counter to this current narrative & maybe is something we should address?

@lone_rides What an idiot

POV: the test is just one question: is the US a democracy or a republic?

@mitchellvii Midterms are always just a referendum on the president. Y'all took the house 22 complaining about inflation and gas prices under Biden(and even rode that same message through 24). So why wouldn't the other side just do that if both are up since you've been in power?

Here's the thing I'm trying to understand. All of these polls and prediction markets claiming Democrats will roll in November but they don't even have a platform! Do you know the Democrat 2026 platform? I don't. No one does.

@Mike_Pence Reagan lied. Trickle down economics never worked. Clinton balanced the budget with spending cuts and Bush came in with the top priority of literally cutting checks to make that surplus disappear. Any spending cuts get eaten up with republican tax cuts and their wars.

The National Debt Now Exceeds the Size of the American Economy. Get ready for Democrats to clamor for higher taxes. But as Reagan said, “the problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much" For our children and grandchildren, Republicans must lead the way, back to a Balanced Federal Budget, with fiscal discipline and reform. If we don’t, no one will.

@Bubblebathgirl Just have a global pandemic that shuts down everything and drops oil prices to negative. It's a great plan, your average goes way down and you can own your political competition on the internet with some bar graphs.

Gasoline price averages under Obama, Trump, and Biden. For Obama and Trump, it’s both of their respective terms. Even with recent increases during the Iran conflict, Trump still beats Obama and obliterates Biden. So when Democrats talk about gas prices, give them an education.

@BasedMikeLee 95% GDP vs 105% is pretty much meaningless. It sucks we've literally blown up a lot of that money, but we aren't anywhere close to not being able to sell our debt at good rates. Biggest risk is congress cause they made up the debt ceiling and randomly threaten to default for fun

National Debt > GDP = Bad Very bad

@joeroganhq I disagree with him that we can't find a way for 10 billion to live on earth sustainably, but he's not saying kill people. Birth rate goes down as mortality rate decreases. He's saying vaccines lead to less death. People have less kids as confidence each will survive increases

Bill Gates in 2010: "The world today has 6.8 billion people... if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."

@LuckyFYSA @caroljsroth Self directed IRAs are thing. Literally can invest in anything you can buy with a checkbook

@caroljsroth Yes but IRA’s are restricted in what types of securities you can invest in.

Isn’t that an IRA?

@SenRickScott Regan lied. Tried trickle down economics for 40 years GDP hasn't risen any faster. Clinton tried cutting spending to get a surplus and then Bush literally just cuts checks to erase it as first priority. Republicans just want to borrow money and send it to rich people via tax cuts

The national debt is now LARGER than the U.S. economy. That’s just embarrassing. I’ve been warning about this for years. Now the consequences are all around us. It’s a drag on our economy. American families are struggling, dealing with inflation, and higher costs of living because of Washington’s spending addiction. It’s only going to get worse until we cut up the credit cards and get serious. wsj.com/economy/u-s-de…

@hiarun02 SQL was built so sales people could get the data they need right out of the database and now it's the backbone of so many apps. Maybe english via llm will become the new programming language/compiler combo but business people are still going to have someone else do it

Software engineers, what’s your backup plan if AI writes better code than you in the next 2 years?

@Austen Companies don't have 10x of good ideas and they think in quarters. They'll do both in this hypothetical. Fire 90% in q1. Show efficiency, pump the stock. Hire with an AI focus in q2. Cash in on hype, pump the stock. Launch a bunch of dumb ideas. Lose money. Downsize again

Say AI lets one person build 10x as much stuff. What happens? a. You fire 90% of your team b. You build 10x as much stuff. Most companies will obviously choose B. You probably hire more now that one person can build 10x as much stuff.

Sometimes it feels like I’m the only person who thinks AI will create far more jobs than it destroys. Isn’t that the obvious outcome of this?

@Republicans I literally don't know what "literally" means

Your guy was literally a vegetable.

@theobjectivist It was independent auditors coming in and checking they were at least a year away at all times. It was a show of a united world against them. Now it's just us with the only plan to keep bombing in a permanent war until we get leadership with better ideas

To those who claim to be men of reason, what does your reason tell you Iran will do if it gets a nuclear weapon? Hakeem and men like him treat that signature as if it were currency. It is not. It is the autograph of a killer, sold in exchange for billions in unfrozen assets and the legal right to enrich uranium on a timer set by them. A signature from a regime that chants "Death to America" every day is not a contract. It is a receipt for the bribe you paid him to keep murdering on a schedule of his choosing. The paper was worthless, as are its signers.

@PoliticalStacy Just going to link to vice chair of the party. x.com/malcolmkenyatt…

Not once, after President Trump’s assassination attempts did Democrats open their mouths about gun control. Not once.

@bekahj One of the parties decided to put their whole identity behind trickle down economics despite every economist saying it wouldn't work. It didn't and they had to pivot to culture wars as policy to keep giving tax cuts to their rich friends w/o any results to show

I’m only 57 but I remember a time when you didn’t even know what political party your friends and neighbors were. We were all just Americans and we were mostly united. What happened?

@GuntherEagleman Dumbest thing I've seen on the internet today

🚨 THIS IS COMMON SENSE 🇺🇸 End property taxes at 65, let seniors stay in their homes instead of being taxed out by greedy local governments. No more forcing retirees to sell the house they’ve paid off just to pay endless taxes. Protect our seniors.