Just_Gary

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

My goal is to earn five figures trading the markets this week. My secondary goal is to keep as many of those five figures as I can on the left side of the decimal point.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

So are you racist, or ignorant?

Those are genuinely the only two options on the table, and I ask as a science teacher who assigns exactly this reading. The minimum wage — the policy you are waving around like a moral trophy — was BUILT to hurt the very people you claim to be fighting for. That is not a hot take. That is the documented historical record. So either you do not know it (ignorant), or you know it and you are pushing it anyway (worse than ignorant).

Let me teach the class you apparently skipped.

Princeton economist Thomas Leonard spent an entire career documenting this. Progressive economists — the intellectual grandparents of your caucus — championed wage floors specifically to price "unemployables" out of the labor market. Their word. Not mine. And "unemployables" meant Black Americans, immigrants, and the disabled. Then came the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, pushed by Southern Democrats and union bosses who were furious that Black construction workers kept winning federal contracts by accepting competitive wages. Representative Martin Dies said it out loud, on the House floor, in the Congressional Record: you cannot prescribe the same wages for the Black man as the white man. The FLSA of 1938 then conveniently excluded farm and domestic work — the exact sectors where Black labor was concentrated in the Jim Crow South. Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate and not exactly a wild-eyed radical, called it "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." That was 1966. So. Racist, or ignorant? Take your time.

Now the part where your heart is supposedly in the right place. It is not helping a single soul. A sixteen-year-old with zero skills and an empty resume is HIRABLE at $7.25. That same kid is UNEMPLOYABLE at $15, because no business on this green Earth pays forty-two grand a year for someone who needs six months of training before they produce a dime of value. Two-thirds of more than a hundred studies (Neumark and Wascher) found negative employment effects. South Carolina: wage hikes cut teen employment by 8.9 percent, and cut it for workers without a high school diploma by 15.5 percent. The CBO said a $17 floor knocks 350,000 people OUT of the labor force entirely. Not up into better jobs. Out.

Here is the revolutionary concept the crayon-eating wing of economic policy cannot seem to grasp, bless the collective heart: wages are a VOLUNTARY agreement. A worker accepts what a business offers. If nobody accepts, the business raises the offer or it folds. McDonald's already pays well above your sacred $7.25, and they will happily tell you the crew job is a STEPPING STONE, not a life sentence. Walmart store managers clear six figures with no college debt. The ladder works fine. You are the one sawing off the bottom rung with a smile and calling the sawdust "a decent quality of life."

And I have to ask what I ask every Democrat, so here it is: what have you actually DONE for the people of Pennsylvania? Because from the cheap seats, the whole pitch is another handout, another dependency, another rung deleted — and a dependent population that has nowhere left to vote but back to you. The antebellum South needed a captive underclass to keep one party in power. The chains got swapped for talking points. The math did not budge an inch. Quinn's First Law of Liberalism, stated plainly: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You set out to lift the low-wage worker, and you erase his first job. Every single time.

Somewhere a village is short one economist, and I think we found where. The elevator on this policy never left the basement, and you keep mashing the button expecting a penthouse. Running on dial-up in a fiber-optic world. 404: labor economics not found.

But what do I know. I am only a science teacher who actually read Thomas Leonard, the Congressional Record, and the CBO score instead of getting my economics from a caucus meme with a stock photo.
@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks

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[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

Happy 250th, USA! @orderflowlabs

[Sean Sawyer, MS @SeanSoundPsych]

9 spots filled, 1 left. We start at 7:15 EST. The group locks in at 6:15 EST.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@SenWarren Are there different grades of "ratio?"

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@dontbsalti Brings new meaning to the term "I'd hit that bid."

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

The police just came to my office and confiscated all my firearms.

Just happened.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

As usual, Hollywood gets it wrong. And of course the government gets it wrong.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@XyzeeeTrades I think I speak for almost everyone when I say there is interest in seeing a video about how you managed this. However, there will be about three or four people who will think this is not a real trade and that it's a waste of time watching you. Just ignore those dumbasses.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@TheTradingNinja You keep doing you, brother! You're an inspiration to most of us out here in the General Public, but you're an inspiration mainly to your daughter. I have two sons, so I completely understand what that means.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

When your 15 year old New Balance kicks have a blowout, just duct tape those suckers and put 'em to work as yard project footwear. @orderflowlabs

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

Wow! @grok is this real? If not, what do we need to do to make it happen?

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@RepOgles Term Limits

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@TradingLucid

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

Does @LeoTheTiger know about this "encouragement ritual"? @orderflowlabs

[AJ @ajtradinglucid]

@dontbsalti No I don't just tell them good luck.

I personally give each one a slap on the ass before their first trade and say "Go get em tiger."

Obviously only after getting their consent.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

That's what it's SUPPOSED to do!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Chuck Schumer says the SAVE America Act will "allow ICE to kick TENS OF MILLIONS of people off the voter rolls"

WOW! Schumer just OPENLY ADMITTED voter rolls are PLAGUED WITH ILLEGALS.

The quiet part has just been said out loud!

And he’s crediting @elonmusk for making it happen 🤣

We ALL KNEW illegals were voting, but now it's confirmed by none other than Chuck Schumer

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

Hey @junkbrands love your stuff! https://t.co/NSKY0TSG15

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@TheTradingNinja I've seen a few redheads in my neck of the woods lately, so I don't think there's a shortage.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@JimScalpert I think that's an awesome result! Now you get to teach AI what it means to not be a dick for two ticks. Or... since it's AI, not to be a dildo for two ticks.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@Book_of_Job I keep a jar of marmalade close by, in case I find a dragon with a hemorrhoid while I'm trading on the DOM.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@XyzeeeTrades Were you on the stream today? I didn't see you.

[Just_Gary @Its_just_Gary]

@salmaogs Here you go! The next time @leothetiger
is talking about TPO charts and you're not sure when A period is, or what time L period starts, take a look at this clock. I made it using a cheap clock from Walmart and a stencil kit. @orderflowlabs @NinjaTrader