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Oct 25 6 tweets 1 min read
Of all the many reasons I want Trump to win, one of top ten is that I want the US's 250th birthday in 2026 to be over the top Trump bonkers with like gold plated tanks and 50 state flyovers. I want Europeans to look at it and say "Jaysus, calm down you jingoistic Yanks" but secretly seethe at the awesomeness of the spectacle.
Oct 11 20 tweets 4 min read
Let's talk about this lil' guy. This is Prop 1 on the New York ballot this year. Democrats are attempting to define as, and only as, a measure to protect abortion in New York.

ballotpedia.org/New_York_Propo… This is the current text of the New York's equal protection Clause:

"No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race, color, creed or religion, be subjected to any discrimination in his or
Sep 22 4 tweets 1 min read
My man "Karim" out here just running a primer on how to destroy towns while leeching federal dollars. Image The most frustrating thing about this Twitter feed is it's probably entirely true and almost definitely works if you literally do not remotely care about being a multi-state slumlord.
Sep 3 9 tweets 2 min read
America cannot build enough housing for the current situation. The only housing solution is to deport everyone who isn't supposed to be here and brutally crack down on crime that makes places uninhabitable. The former gets you a million housing units per year at best. The latter gets you tens of millions of housing units per year.
Aug 30 11 tweets 2 min read
Hardcore pro-lifers really need to wrap their heads around the fact that they have to spend like 30 years changing hearts and minds before they can just assert their will on people. Like, you're really trying to skip a bunch of steps here guys.
Aug 13 9 tweets 3 min read
In the original, Snow White just cleans the house and cooks a meal.

In 2024, we can't have that, so she just makes the dwarves clean after they already spent a day in the mines. The apple is in this trailer but I cannot imagine any context in which they allow the prince to kiss her without consent or rescue her in any way, so I will be surprised if she even ends up under the sleep spell.
Jul 13 5 tweets 1 min read
Jul 12 5 tweets 1 min read
OK, but who? Who is this exciting person? If they somehow convince 2000 delegates to turn on Biden, all he really has to do is threaten to hold the issue in court until state ballot access deadlines start to pass.
Jul 2 4 tweets 1 min read
Been touring the burnt out husks of Western New York Cities for the last few days. I heard we get tribunals and camps soon? Guys can we send the tribunals to Niagara Falls. I think it'd be a cute little town without the huge violent crime rate.
Jun 18 20 tweets 5 min read
The land border is 1200 miles long.

Men every half mile is 2400 men.

There are 19,000 men in the Texas National Guard. We pretend this problem is hard, but it isn't. Especially with drones.
Jun 12 6 tweets 2 min read
Albany, NY also tried this model where they placed a government-supported grocery store in a "food desert" and it lasted less than two years before it collapsed into debt and corruption then just closed.
Image As it turned out, "the community" didn't actually care about having fresh food available locally. They preferred the McDonald's that was there previously. But McDonald's didn't want to be there anymore.
May 22 9 tweets 2 min read
Multicultural spaces, like America, cannot have public services like this because there is not a universal cultural expectation to keep them clean and nice.

Switzerland could have them. We could not. "We should have nice public laundromats" and "You can't stop the homeless guys from jerking off in the library" are the same people.
Apr 18 8 tweets 2 min read
What I'm learning over the last 48 hours is that people really believe that ingrained cultural values just happen.

Which is why most of them can't grasp why "ocean plastic only comes from 8 rivers." This shouldn't be surprising, as we've watched atheists free-ride in Christian culture without understanding why the entire thing collapses in an atheist culture.
Apr 17 7 tweets 1 min read
Women do not understand how often they're approached, an ongoing series. RN Atheist will say shit talk about "transactions" while cynically ignoring the woman in question is essentially asking for free protection from the OP.

But that's just his "responsibility." She has none.
Apr 15 8 tweets 2 min read
This past weekend, 3 eggs, home fries, and sausage cost me $14.79 at a diner.

Nobody's wages have not gone up enough to counter that a $6 meal now costs $15. I am also very curious how often the "huge vacation season" predictions that happen every time there's a Democratic president in office actually reflect reality.
Mar 31 6 tweets 2 min read
My brother in law lives in something that looks like this just outside of Dallas. Just this for like 5 square miles. Centrally planned and recently built. And I cannot for the life of me understand why they didn't sprinkle some bars, restaurants, and small grocery stores in it. For all the well-deserved mockery that bodega discourse receives, a bodega every few blocks would be a massive quality of life improvement.

You could, for instance, get a half gallon of milk without it being a 40 minute round trip. Or have a couple beers and not drive home.
Feb 23 10 tweets 2 min read
I agree. Just say it. You have to state the problem openly in order to begin solving it. Nobody except European governments view government as public good. They view it as personal enrichment service for friends.

When you begin handing your governments over to those same people, your government starts looking like where those people came from.
Feb 20 9 tweets 2 min read
Very few people are going to win a 1v1 with Jon Stewart in a format like this but the answer is "children should not be exposed to sexual deviancy, that should be obvious, and I don't find it necessary to elaborate further." "It's a comedy show."
"Children can't put comedy in context. Because they're children. For the same reason you wouldn't show them horror movies."
"Shouldn't that be a parent decision?"
"We already decided some decisions need be taken out of parents' hands. That's why CPS exists."
Feb 18 9 tweets 2 min read
New York has basically fined a real estate developer for doing regular real estate development things during a housing crisis. She's doing damage control. "What'd he do?"
"He got a building loan using an existing asset as collateral and then and paid it back with interest."
Feb 15 12 tweets 2 min read
Everyone can make fun of the Tucker in Moscow thing and that's fine, but nobody seems willing to admit that most US cities are transforming at various speeds into unlivable holes and nobody seems to have a plan to stop it. "Well that's what they voted for!"

OK, yes, but then you're admitting that democracy is bad and doesn't work. We agree! What's next?
Jan 17 8 tweets 2 min read
His job is the girl with him, not two randos he's never met. He's between the attacker and his girl at every point. He correctly has no interest leaving her alone and dying for you. Nor should he.