Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American.
And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars!
You don't think that's worth it?
The white identitarians have more cultural and political power today than they did at any point in the past half century—and now that DEI and anti-racism are in retreat, they're moving on to a more ambitious goal, @thomaschattwill argues. https://t.co/2tuoROz9Uo
And there was me thinking they might be a bit busy trying to negotiate an end to the war in the Middle East. And it’s a bit rich to be lectured about civilisation by a country that is struggling to get to its 250 year mark.
@Elex_Michaelson 80% of CA votes are done by mail?
Voting by mail has been identified by the bipartisan studies to be the #1 method of potential fraud.
Now we see the problem.
@gregbagwell In the U.S., we consistently check the press on inaccurate reporting. Shashank was being educated on how it works. Too bad you can't do that in the UK.
Not sure I will ever get used to how casually powerful people baselessly seed suspicion about our elections like this.
Call California ridiculously slow, by all means. But this goes well beyond that.
No, SBF does not own any Anthropic shares. The ~$500M investment (via Alameda/FTX in the 2022 Series B he led, ~8% stake) was an FTX asset. The bankruptcy estate sold the entire position in 2024 for ~$1.3B.
At Anthropic’s recent ~$965B valuation, that stake would be worth $70B+, but it’s long gone to new buyers.
@TMTLongShort scratch healthcare from the list.
it's a human capital problem.
Who's going to the ER and putting their trust in the hands of a robot doctor?
First step is to require any hospitals that enjoy Non Profit Tax Benefits, to publish monthly all of their actual General Ledger transactions and invoices.
You are non profit. You are being subsidized and often funded by taxpayers. We are your stakeholders, along with patients. There ain't a damn economic thing that you can't show.
And no, Medicare Cost Reports are not comprehensive accounting reports.. They are pretty much useless for this.
Second step is to make all NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements for any financial healthcare agreement, illegal
It's beyond insane that US Senators, and POTUS, can't see what the federal government is paying for medications being provided through TriCare.
With these sources of data, then, and pretty much only then, could proponents of M4A begin to figure out a plan
Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.
The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO.
In August 2022, HMS Prince of Wales sailed out of Portsmouth to cross the Atlantic for joint exercises with the US Navy. She was the pride of the modern Royal Navy. A four-billion-pound aircraft carrier. The flagship of Global Britain.
She made it about 20 miles.
Then the propeller shaft coupling sheared & one of only two carriers in the entire British fleet limped back to port and spent the better part of a year in dry dock while American carriers did the work Britain had promised to do.
That’s the Royal Navy in 2026. It’s a museum with a TickTock account.
I’ve called the Canadian Navy a glorified Coast Guard but the UK can’t even keep migrant boats off its shores.
Nelson had over 100 ships of the line at Trafalgar. The fleet that fought WW2 had over 900 warships.
Horatio Nelson
John Fisher
Andrew Cunningham
David Beatty
Bertram Ramsay
Edward Hawke
George Rodney
Richard Howe
John Jellico
And First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are all spinning in their graves.
If they were resurrected today they would each give British PMs the lash.
Today the Royal Navy has roughly 70 commissioned vessels. Maybe 15 of them are meaningful surface combatants.
It sounds marginally ok but any given day, a significant percentage are in dry dock, undermanned, or waiting for spare parts.
And China launches more tonnage in a quarter than the Royal Navy possesses in total.
You do not rule the waves. You do not rule the Channel. You rule a Wikipedia.
And it gets worse.
You don’t even rule the world’s imagination anymore. Master and Commander came out a quarter century ago and nobody’s planning a sequel.
Scooby Doo got a sequel, Jack Aubrey does not.
It’s sad. It’s pathetic.
But even more sad is the fact you don’t stand up and demand one. Neither does the former Navy commanding officer you call King.
You have decided to roll over instead.
All six Type 45 destroyers, the backbone of Britain’s air defense fleet, had to be pulled back for emergency refits because their engines lose power in warm water. Read that again.
They were practically useless in the Red Sea because they don’t have enough missiles and you didn’t buy the anti-air computers for their deck guns.
Your last few nuclear submarine launches went plop and instead of trying again or calling the American missile manufacturer to court… you shrugged.
This is the nuclear deterrent that is supposed to be the foundation of British sovereignty, the reason Britain sits at the UN Security Council, the last credible claim to great power status. It fell in the water next to the boat.
Your ancestors circumnavigated the globe in wooden ships powered by rope and canvas. You built a billion-pound destroyer that overheats off Bahrain.
Your frigates are too few to cover your own approaches. When Russian submarines transit the English Channel, the French Navy often shadows them because the Royal Navy cannot respond in time. The French. In your Channel. Protecting you.
Nelson ain’t spinning in his tomb. He’s in the Atlantic laughing at you.
Americans patrol the Gulf you depend on for energy. Americans keep Taiwan’s chips flowing to your factories. Americans are the reason the Houthis have not fully closed the Red Sea to British-flagged shipping.
We are happy to help until now. Until Starmer tried selling off our only base in the Indian Oceans then refused to let us land planes.
OUR OWN BASE
Yes he relented but only under pressure.
We will help protect your interests but on one condition:
DO NOTHING
No selling bases
No overflight refusals
No more dock denials in Gibraltar
No crazy ROE debates
No politicians demeaning us in debates
No threating Elon Musk
And no more 134 Royal Navy Admirals in cosplaying aboard your 15 broken warships.
Tell them to hang up their uniforms and go home.
OR STAND UP, make the king overthrow parliament & fund a proper navy
Fight for your birthright or F*ck off.
Your choice.