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Jan 5 7 tweets 2 min read
Trump's foreign policy is, explicitly, "if you are in this hemisphere and you rely on American military power for protection, then you are actually American territory" and to pretend this is completely unreasonable is foolish. And, critically, "don't allow China or Russia to set up shop in your borders, or else."
Jan 1 4 tweets 1 min read
Agree with this thread. I want anyone who did this or benefitted from it in prison. I want Minnesota government inspectors in prison. I want everyone in county and state governance who "knew or should have known" in prison. I want a full tracking of where Bill DiBlasio's wife sent one billion dollars and everyone who vaporized that money in prison, but I will settle for this.
Dec 31, 2025 5 tweets 1 min read
You know everything in this video is accurate and real because every single one of them are just attacking the messenger. They're doing this because they have to make sure their idiot voters don't believe this is happening and that it's all made up, which is the only way their idiot voters continue voting for them.
Dec 30, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
Reminder that, in every single case, trifecta blue governance is state-enforced elimination of voting choice and a jackpot lottery system for friends and allies. This is probably the most clear example of executive branch endorsed, massive financial fraud in recent memory and nobody cared, because Democrats never face consequences for their illegal actions, no matter how comically obvious.
Dec 29, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
This theory might not be, and probably isn't, true at all.

However, the idea that zero people were killed to keep a multibillion dollar fraud operation running in Minnesota is almost certainly false. Guys, a fraud operation doesn't happen at this scale without some number of government employees looking the other way.
Dec 16, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
The biggest "electricity come from wall" moment in European history might be current Euro governments believing that their people will go fight wars for them after the last two generations. "We know we raped your sisters and removed you from BBC and called you racist and gave away your jobs and inundated your towns with foreigners but we really need you to go fight Russia now."
Dec 15, 2025 13 tweets 2 min read
"Hands Up Don't Shoot" was the single most important cultural event of the 21st Century so far. It's not even close. It led to everything and singularly validated and allowed Me Too to progress as well.
Jul 9, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
Smart people's "obligation to their fellow man" is keeping the lights on and building bridges that don't fall down and keeping idiots from ruining the fresh water supply by shitting in it. It is not helping slow kids learn to read. It's our job to know what routers and satellites are so you can complain on the internet that we aren't doing enough for you while eating fresh strawberries from 5,000 miles away in the middle of winter.
Jun 25, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
The bigger problem here is that Republicans had a pretty good chance to pull an upset on a split ticket here and the best they had to offer was Curtis fucking Silwa for the 10th time. I do think people are thinking a bit too deeply about this. Asians voted for him because he's Asian. Whites voted for him because they actually hate Cuomo and wanted an alternative. I think anyone who ran a good campaign who wasn't Cuomo would have won.
May 28, 2025 8 tweets 3 min read
I don't know if there are any young guys out there looking for a business to get into, but every clock/watch repair guy I've ever met is 125 years old and there is like one per county. Enough that it's going to take a few weeks to fix my clock.
Jan 2, 2025 4 tweets 1 min read
For what it's worth, this happened at a playground in Bay Ridge once and one of the Italian-descended Dads took the phone, smashed it, punched the guy in the face, and physically threw him out of the playground. Oddly enough, nobody saw nothin.

Dec 31, 2024 13 tweets 3 min read
Went to a bookstore today in the SWPL town I'm visiting and there were significantly more YA fiction books with trans protagonists than white male protagonists. And by "significantly more" I mean there was exactly one YA book with a white male protagonist and it was written by Jamie Oliver. Yes that one.
Dec 26, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
The STEM "shortage" is they don't want to hire recent grads and they also don't want to hire anyone over 40. What they actually mean is there aren't enough Software 2s or 3s or their equivalents available.

They want engineers they don't have to train but also don't have to pay The primary problem with over-40 STEM people is that they're all white and Asian men, because that's the only people who went to school for CompSci in the 90s and 00s, and hiring managers are tasked with specifically ignoring those people.
Dec 26, 2024 7 tweets 2 min read
It is exceedingly more likely that your hiring managers are hiding talent from you. A secondary problem with Silicon Valley is there is a non-trivial number of experienced American engineers who are not moving their family to San Francisco.

You can make an H1B move to SF. You can't make a dad with 3 kids in school.
Oct 25, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read