Al Buddin

Educator • Former Dir of Ticket Ops-The Citadel • Former Disney Cast Member • Former Dir of Ticket Ops-FGCU • Citadel Alum x2

[The Post and Courier @postandcourier]

Outside groups flooded South Carolina's GOP governor runoff with late ad money, led by a pro-Pamela Evette super PAC that spent $905,000. Here's how the final air war unfolded. https://t.co/51DVtjAGHA

[Brandan P. Buck @brandan_buck]

We are in this "terrible situation" because the admin waged a war in concert with a foreign country whose interests don't align with ours and did so without a coherent strategy or recognition of material, economic, or political constraint.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is what honest people do when they get into positions of power in the government, but 99.9% are just addicted to the position. Think of all the people who have been lying to you, and those who are covering up for them.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The same government that spied on Trump's campaign wants you to trust them with warrantless access to your communications. No warrant, no deal. It’s time to reform FISA 702.

[Al Buddin @AlBuddin]

Keeper turned striker has given him an incredible skill set. He is able to see the play developing from the perspective of a keeper and take action as an outfield player, and also communicate with the other outfield players more effectively than the keeper screaming from the box.

[FUTEMENTALES @FUTEMENTALES]

O atacante que tu gosta não bloqueia chute adversário pro gol com o saco aos 92 minutos de jogo

Harry Kane, o melhor atacante dos últimos 30 anos

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

1. It’s not about “needed care won’t be denied “. It’s about implementing the MOST COMPLICATED OPERATIONAL TRANSITION in the history of the world. Moving from the mixed system we have today to a system that is run by the feds is a lot harder than implementing high speed rail. Who does it ? How do they do it. What’s the actual plan ?

Anyone who thinks the transition can happen in two years is an idiot. Truly. This will be so complicated, if it’s done in ten years, with only a few dozen patients getting lost in the system and dying , it would be a miracle.

Companies have a hard time restructuring in two years. You are asking thousands of hospitals, thousands more clinics, practices , and doctors to restructure how they do business.

You are asking EVERY BUSINESS IN THIS COUNTRY , to restructure how they do benefits. It’s easy to say they won’t have to do anything. BUT LET ME GIVE YOU AN ABSOLUTE FACT.

BIG COMPANIES WONT CHANGE THEIR BENEFITS PLANS TO SAVE THEMSELVES TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OR MORE, because dealing with care navigation can be difficult. Where in that legislation is there a transition plan for patients to move from the care they are getting today to what is available via your legislation ? Do you really think those hospitals getting paid a premium to do things that only our hospitals can do are just going to accept a fraction of the amount for patients they already have ? Where is your plan for these patients ?
Who helps them when companies disband their benefits people and their TPA/Care Navigation people are fired because the Feds are now in charge ?

2. CBO Projections are ALWAYS WRONG. It is literally impossible to get the projections right. What happens if they are off by tens or hundreds of billions of dollars ?

3. How many years of litigation do you think there will be ? Have you noticed the shifts in our courts and the reality you face there ?

Then of course there are the political realities. Now and in the uncertain future.

Legislation is not a plan. Implementation is not easy. Leadership for anything like this is hard to hire. There are so many challenges that no one in your party even begins to address

There is a path to universal care. But as I have posted,IMO, it starts with either Breaking Up the Big Medicine bill and/or working with the largest employers and providers to eliminate the friction and cost of all the middlemen involved.

[The Post and Courier @postandcourier]

There’s a not-so-secret sentiment among Charleston diners: Visitors often frequent restaurants that don’t live up to the city’s high culinary chops. Do these 10 restaurants live up to the hype garnered from tourists? https://t.co/HhTRjSVbW6

[Al Buddin @AlBuddin]

@BasedMikeLee 🇺🇸

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Americans don’t want FISA 702 without a warrant

They want the SAVE America Act

If you’re with me on this, post one of these: 🇺🇸

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I like the Freedom Caucus, but attaching the SAVE Act to warrantless spying is dumb. Why would we let the government spy on us in exchange for anything?

After we trade the Fourth Amendment for parliamentary advantage, what shall we trade the First and Second Amendments for?

[Al Buddin @AlBuddin]

@BedBathBeyond @elonmusk Needs more sharks with laser beams on their heads

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Has your Nation ever lost 7-1 to Germany at the World Cup?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Legacy media is now pushing another narrative:

“Virtually all of Elon Musk’s wealth came from government help.”

This is completely false.

Government contracts are not subsidies.

SpaceX wins contracts because it offers the best product at the lowest price. NASA pays SpaceX for real launches, real cargo missions, and real astronaut transport, not charity.

SpaceX is expected to get less than 5% of its revenue from NASA this year.

Add up every government incentive Tesla and SpaceX have ever received, and it is still less than 2% of the value of Tesla and SpaceX.

Tesla did not become the world’s most valuable car company because of tax credits. It became huge because it built better EVs, better software, better batteries, and the best charging network.

And when the $7,500 EV tax credit was removed, Tesla sales increased.

The real reason they’re obsessed with Elon Musk is that he exposed how irrelevant they have become.

People no longer wait for newspaper editors, TV anchors, or corporate journalists to tell them the truth.

Legacy media lost its monopoly on information.

Now all they have left is clickbait, outrage, and anti-Elon narratives.

And that’s exactly why the trust in media is at an all time low.

[Libertarian Mama 🔔 @LibertarianMama]

I don’t care that someone is wealthier than I am.

I do care that my wealth is being stolen through taxation and inflation.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[litquidity @litcapital]

SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)

[Mark Lynch for U.S. Senate @MarkLynchSC]

Endless war and endless spending is Lindsey's legacy.

Never forget that.

[Al Buddin @AlBuddin]

@Stamick6 They could do an Angels’ style name change… The Chicagoland Bears of Indiana 😂