Richard Quarles

Hi. I'm Richie. I'm an aspiring engineer who likes to do DIY projects at home.

[Sbeve @thesbeve_]

@TheNetDaily Shit like this is why I gotta ask an employee to unlock a shelf for me

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

The people have spoken. They want unlimited ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This is a vote of no confidence against balanced diet fundamentalism.

[Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87]

So you're gonna end the tariffs, right?

You're gonna end the tariffs, right?

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

You were literally THE DECIDING VOTE to confirm @RobertKennedyJr. Just like you were literally THE DECIDING VOTE to confirm Todd Blanche. You were literally the only person in the nation who could have prevented these appointments. Yet you caved. Both times. Now you own ALL OF IT

[Econymous 🇨🇦🇺🇸🍁🦅🏒⚾️🥞🍔 @Econymous_1]

Like tariffs but hate it when prices are higher.
Hate deficits but hate higher taxes and less spending.
Like bombing Iran but hate paying more for gas.
Hate communism but love govt ownership of firms.
Love the Constitution but hate how we can't force people to be Christians.

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

I love this argument because what they try to skirt by is the fact that the Jones Act prevents foreign-built ships.

We don’t prevent Volvo trucks.
We don’t prevent Airbus planes.

And we don’t prevent foreign locomotives (but most are built here anyway without protectionism).

[Tim 🏴‍☠️🏴Decentralize and nullify 🏴🏴‍☠️ @Tim_The_Sandman]

The @GOP likes to make jabs at socialism while they fully embrace it via policy decisions.

The cognitive dissonance is real.

[Mike ter Maat @miketermaat_]

Young Americans don’t need another program to help them afford a house.

They need policymakers to stop making houses so expensive to build in the first place.

Subsidizing scarcity doesn’t solve scarcity.

[Project Liberal @ProjectLiberal]

Hey @chrispavlovski, how'd this turn out?

[Joe Independent @JoeIndependent3]

@JohnPar31311344 @JaredRyanSears Standard MAGA answer. Can’t answer for any of Trump’s failures.

Their only response involves labeling Democrats traitors, socialist and communists.

That’s it. That’s all they have.

[Mike ter Maat @miketermaat_]

Congress has gotten very comfortable outsourcing one of its biggest constitutional responsibilities.

If we’re going to send Americans into harm’s way, our representatives should have to cast an actual vote.

[Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus) @_Credible_Hulk]

“Nobody asked for vaccines.
Nobody asked for cars.
Nobody asked for pasteurized milk.
Nobody asked for electricity.
Nobody asked for antibiotics”

(Turns out people don’t ask for awesome technological improvements that make life better. They just enjoy them.)

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

The NY data center ban happens because there are no political consequences for blocking new good things.

When politicians create an occupational license for hair braiders, block new unrealized technology, or act out of some other form of slopulism, their supporters love it because it feels safe. And opponents who understand the real consequences are usually fewer or aren't hit as hard because you can't see or feel the good things and economic activity that would have happened if they didn't do it.

There's no real political downside.

And by the time people realize the mistake - as with blocking nuclear power - they're out of office.

Nobody is immune to this impulse but wish we could select for politicians with foresight and backbone.

[Against Narrative @3RenChengHu]

If unions get their way, there will be no more productivity-enhancing technological progress ever, and 8 billion people will be poorer as a result.

[Mike ter Maat @miketermaat_]

We’ve reached the point where people judge a president less by whether he follows the Constitution and more by whether he hurts the people they don’t like.

That’s not strength.

That’s tribalism.

[Kim R. Holmes @kimsmithholmes]

Yes, let’s state clearly what we mean by “not working.” Tariffs don’t protect domestic industries as promised, they raise prices which hurt the lower and middle classes the most, exacerbate inflation, stifle innovation and competition, discourage investment, and produce backlashes from other countries that harm our export industry.

It takes a lot of willful ignorance to unlearn decades of centuries of hard lessons in economics.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

How soon until they ban bulldozers, tractors, & computers? #JOBS

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Imagine how much bigger the economic boom would be if Trump hadn't done tariffs, didn't start a pointless war, and signed the bipartisan housing bill.

We would've really had the Roaring 20s then.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

It's the 5th stage of protectionist grief.
1) Denial: Tariffs don't raise prices!
2) Anger: How dare these Unpatriotic & Greedy Corporations raise prices!
3) Bargaining: The tariffs helped us negotiate lower prices!
4) Depression: Maybe prices will fall once new domestic production arrives.
5) Acceptance: Actually, high prices are Good.