Brian J. Collins

Autodidact, trivia-master, writer, gamer, CEO. -- Love music, magic, making life better. -- He/him.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

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[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

Iykyk. That's hilarious 😂
(Glad he's okay, first and foremost)

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Prior to today’s Old-Timers’ Day Game, the Yankees made the following roster moves:
• Reinstated RHP/UTIL/HOF Mariano Rivera (#42) from the 364-day injured list.

[Robert Littal BSO @BSO]

Fauci helped with Aids/HIV, Swine Flu, MERS and Ebola treatment, turned a cancer 98% mortality rate into a 93% remission rate. Served under Republican and Democratic presidents with no issues. Spends 1 summer with Trump, and now you idiots are listening to Aaron Rodgers?

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

I -hate- conspiracy theories. This doesn't feel like one.

And the Democrats -would- fall on their swords to not start a civil war about it.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

I had to say something about this. I filmed the Madison Square Garden rally that Trump had in October 2024 Elon was there they were so self-confident that they were gonna win that’s when musk announced doge like it was a done deal. Because they knew they were gonna win.

Trump won all this swing states it never been done in history while the down ballot was all democrat

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he called off the attacks at Iran because a deal on the Strait of Hormuz is "eminent" and "ultimately the denuclearization"

​Minutes later, Iran's IRGC launched an anti-ship cruise missile at a US-backed oil tanker.

You can't Truth Social your way out of hostile missile fire. Trump’s endless bluffing is making America look weaker and more humiliated by the hour.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Vance: One of the great things about the United States is when we see a baby who needs help, we help our fellow Americans

(The Trump administration has kicked 1.5 million kids off of SNAP)

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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[Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh]

@TheJFreakinC “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 462-63 (1987).

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@trouble_man90 He's so deeply arrogant. It's a smugness that permeates his interactions. He's clearly intelligent, but he talks like he's the only intelligent one within earshot, and that's never a good trait.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@scott_squires @JaredRyanSears That's a lot of words to say nothing of substance, let alone reality.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@FPWellman @tedcruz Corruption is the problem, and the current administration has as much if not more corruption than any government in the history of the planet.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Josh Turek has plans to make life better for every Iowan. Now, Iowa, the ball is in your court. Let’s work to get @turek4iowa to the U.S. Senate. https://t.co/ViPiQpkFhT

[PoliticOhMyGawd @PoliticOhMyGawd]

@AricToler Imagine losing a military son or daughter and while you’re still mourning their death, you find out they got scratched off the casualty list because the President wanted his Dead People Bar Graph to look better.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@AaronRegunberg DARVO: helluva drug.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@GoodTimesSB @ekertesz88 You can't literally follow this thread back and realize that you replied to someone else and I replied to you? Man, no wonder y'all are so lost. You can't even reading comprehension.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@GoodTimesSB It wasn't my post, dumbass.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

ALL of this.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

Trump Accounts are no longer going to be optional- so if you ever plan on having a child in the USA, you should read what I found:

According to the @SocialSecurity Administration's announcement last week, they are modifying the hospital birth registration form so that a Trump Account is AUTOMATICALLY created for your child through that same process.

It will be bundled into the Enumeration at Birth program (EAB), which is the already automated gov pipeline that gives your newborn a Social Security number. It’s one box that you check, you don’t have the option of unbundling it. So if you want your kid to have a Social Security number, they have to have a Trump account.

Which is strange, because according to the IRS and @USTreasury’s public announcements, these accounts only open when a parent actively elects to open one. So which is it? Why is nobody in the government interested in explaining this flagrant contradiction?

Who is going to answer the basic question of what a parent does if they don’t want a government-linked investment account (one that collects biometric data, by the way) created for their child at the exact moment their child’s Social Security number issued?

They can call it a savings account all they want, but a $1,000 deposit is a hell of a cheap price for building a lifelong financial file on every American child before they can consent to anything.

And once the government normalizes linking a person’s identity, financial activity, and predictive systems from birth, who gets to decide what that data will be used to predict later?

We deserve answers immediately. @ndstudio @WhiteHouse

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@GoodTimesSB @ekertesz88 Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about tangerines.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Imagine if Joe Biden took us to war to distract from his child raping scandal and then said the war was won every day for 140 days and when US troops were killed proceed to go golfing and attend the World Cup. Just imagine that for a fucking second.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@GoodTimesSB @ekertesz88 Nah. Not a shred of proof. Just more lies and fraud.

[Brian J. Collins @BrianJCollins75]

@ekertesz88 Mainly because he's a narcissist.

Everything makes more sense through that lens, even though it's still just as ugly.