Jake Day

My politics in 4 people.

@bgetsbetter @BobMurphyEcon Not until it changes again next week! Links or not, I'm throttled like crazy.

@BobMurphyEcon Not sure if you heard but the algo doesn't punish you now for linking out directly in the main tweet as long as there's adequate textual context preceding it.

If you want a deep dive on the historical backdrop and significance of the US government debt surpassing 100% of GDP--and an Austrian response to an MMT "meh" about it--this video is for you. (Link next.)

@Gnome4308 Not the kind of woman you'd want to spend any extended period of time with.

Has anyone ever seen a woman in the passenger seat of a squatted truck?

@WhiteHouse @Scottdo37307290 You spelled Paytriot wrong.

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@anishmoonka @dajoker36 Nothing says Marcy like that watch.

A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks. It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design. In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself. The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it. This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials. Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against. Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.

@KooKKz1 Impossible choice.

Airwolf or Knight Rider?

This seems….unwise

@MattH_4America @SageOfScoob It'll be the LAST nail.

If Thomas Massie loses his primary in 11 days, it will be because of $ from Israel and Trump's fat, orange mouth. It will be the final nail in the coffin for real America First. There will be no point in "voting" after that if the best patriot we have in DC is exterminated.

My favorite time of the day, is when I get up hours before everyone else, make my coffee, and watch a Tarantino flick.

@amitylee13 Morning!

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To the politicians: You can't tax your way out of this. To the voters: You can't vote your way out of this. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

@mattvanswol @Butters09016449 So let's stop paying taxes.

Just so we are all on the same page: Illegals are voting. Illegals are getting free food. Illegals are getting free childcare. Illegals are getting free education. Illegals are getting free tax credits. Illegals are getting free healthcare. Illegals are getting free housing assistance. Illegals are getting free legal representation. Illegals are getting free mental health services. Illegals are getting free college tuition in over a dozen states. It is the most insane scam ever perpetrated on the American people.

@bgetsbetter I'm learning this quickly.

No he wouldn't. Charlie stopped that the second Trump got elected. We already have the data on this. Charlie kissed Trump's ring 100% of the time.

@ewarren Just think how much more "affordable"things would be if you stopped voting for so much spending.

In the richest country in the world, you shouldn't have to sell your blood to afford groceries and rent.

@Jim_Jordan Let's just eliminate taxes then. Simple solution.

Illegal aliens are getting taxpayer-funded benefits. Migrants are becoming Medicare millionaires. And Americans are paying for it.

@bgetsbetter @anarchoscc If he thinks that's a satanic star, wait until he sees the 6 pointed one.

Should I make gear with a "satanic anarchy star" on the next run of @anarchoscc merch?

Amity Dolby, Cassie Clark, Amanda Griffiths on Are You Smarter Than A Politician? Gameshow x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Hania16836 The Cuda

@ancaptim @TCNetwork @tedcruz Excellent

@TCNetwork @LeftCoastSpeed @tedcruz Welcome to use my banger

If you’re not @tedcruz, keep scrolling.

HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents. Launching this summer. Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave. Stop talking about lowering costs for families — DO IT!