Paul D

Retired software engineer, father of three with my lovely wife of 30+ years, big fan of music, technology and nature.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@theblaze If you would stop protecting the Senators and Representatives who want to have insecure elections to protect their incumbencies, you'd probably get some support.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@CynicalPublius Absolutely. I hope the American public learns from this and realizes how dangerous the FBI is. For our republic to stand, the FBI and the other agencies MUST be beholden to the three branches of government.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@Beth47044333 @mrosazza I'm not hiding anything...

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@SenatorHick Hey John, how do you feel about your Secretary of State refusing to allow an audit of our voter roles to help verify your "gold-standard" mail-in voting system? We're supposed to trust but never verify? Your credibility shrinks with every tweet.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@CaseykinNorCal @TechOperator A couple weeks ago we drove about 1200 miles from Colorado to California through Nevada on the "loneliest highway in America" (US 50) and used FSD on over 90% of it. Easy. Heading back that way on Saturday.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

This is the kind of crap we get from our Colorado representative. We need help to educate our district because our kind and otherwise intelligent neighbors actually vote for this. We need more than just wishy-washy Republican politicians who are full of platitudes. Any ideas @GOP_Jeffco ?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on orbital data centers:

"If @elonmusk and SpaceX are betting on this right now, there is no reason to believe this will not come to existence. Never bet against an extremely well capitalized Elon."

On NASA's mission to head back to the Moon, he said: "We can't do it without them. So the fact that they're extremely well capitalized right now is a fantastic thing, not to mention the engineering talent that's in there. Without question the greatest entrepreneur and engineer in recent history."

via Moonshots pod: https://t.co/pU8zFGWY3Y

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

The fact that you can just get in a @Tesla, input your destination, start FSD with a button on your screen, then have the car literally take you anywhere you need to go all by itself never gets old.

I don’t see myself ever owning another car other than a Tesla for this reason.

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

88% of 30 year olds are smart enough to see that would mean overpaying by 30-50% because of artificially inflated home values on top of taking 7% mortgage rates. It simply doesn’t make sense.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 JUST NOW: John Thune just said we don’t have enough VOTES amongst Republicans for a Talking Filibuster

YOU ARE THE F*CKING LEADER

TIME TO LEAD

[Denver Fail @mrosazza]

Remember this Colorado? “Infastructure kind of mood?” $3T printed out of thin air? Massive inflation? Where is the Infrastructure? Theres nothing because it all went to NGOs. And they are betting you won’t remember. #colorado #infrastructure

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

I've always thought of Socialism as the economic system and Communism as the political system. A Democratic Republic pairs well with Capitalism and Communism naturally pairs with Socialism. The former is about individual freedom.

Socialism and Communism both assume that large groups of people can work absolutely unselfishly and omnisciently for the common good. Unfortunately, they simply don't work and devolve together into totalitarianism.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

I really wish that people understood the principles of our republic well enough to know the reasons for the electoral college. It should be taught in high school. Understanding civics and political science is important if we want to keep our civilization as well as our democratic republic.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@TheRightMelissa I watched Tucker a few times on Fox. He would tell stories about liberals that sounded outrageous. When I checked them, they turned out to be so exaggerated that they were basically untrue, so I stopped watching him. The lying RINOs and fake conservatives are dangerous traitors.

[Scott K @WarriorConPat]

@EricLDaugh

[ColoradoGirl73 @ColoradoGirl73]

Republicans, he’s running against the congresswoman who thinks her child is a photo op.

CO-07 Brittany Petterson

Let’s turn out and vote!

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@NancySinatra It's easy to announce such things. The problem is that these programs simply don't work. This is why people in socialist countries work so hard to leave them.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I love Grey and think she is one of the most amazingly talented political writers I have ever known.

But I feel compelled to disagree with her on this one.

My personal story is why I disagree.

Some facts about my X account:

1. I started it in 2016 because I was sick and tired of people libeling Donald Trump as “racist.” (Think what you want about the man, but he has never had a “racist" bone in his body.)

2. On Twitter, I never had more than 2,000 followers. I was never famous. I wrote the exact same stuff I write now, except I was constantly shadow-banned, suspended, suppressed in the algorithm and ultimately permanently suspended the night of the 2020 Biden/Trump debate. I was live-Tweeting the debate and was suddenly shut up, seemingly forever—for no known reason at all.

3. Elon bought Twitter, made it X, and set my account free. After that my writing and my following went through the roof. Elon Musk has reposted me. Vice President Vance has reposted me. I became a genuine author, publishing in real periodicals. I’ve been on many podcasts and radio shows. People read what I write. I get quoted and cited often in major media outlets. All with my little rando pseudonymous account. That would have been IMPOSSIBLE without X.

4. X promised to reward true content creators, and that has been abundantly true for me. I’ve never engagement farmed, I’ve never not produced original, long-form content, I play by the X rules and monetization has, in fact, rewarded me—X pays me enough to live on these days.

5. Yes, bad stuff happens. Once my pseudonym was stripped away, I received death threats. My threads are constantly full of rabid antisemitic hate and a wide variety of insane conspiratorialists. I block people often because of their insanity—usually crazed racists, many of whom are unhappy that I’m married to a strong black woman. The “Lists” feature is broken—I am constantly added to lists of “Pedophiles” and “Racists” and “Nazis.” I have to frequently monitor that and block the list creators to preserve my account. It’s hard work.

6. X is frustratingly opaque on its rules regarding the algorithm and monetization. Making the code visible works for engineers but not the average user—X needs to explain its policies in these areas in high detail and not change them every ten minutes. Creators are being chased away due to this uncertainty.

Despite the bad things I mentioned above, X is the closest thing to a true free speech, global town square that has ever existed. Elon means well. Nikita means well. They have pledged to reward high-quality, original content, and they have.

Are there still all kinds of nasty warts?

Absolutely.

But they are striving for constant improvement, even if sometimes their efforts don’t work.

Most importantly, they have the strongest (although admittedly imperfect) commitment to free speech of any social media platform to ever exist.

I hope Grey reconsiders. We need her ferocious voice.

But I felt the need to offer a competing view so that maybe current creators and aspiring creators will not lose hope.

The Constitution is full of holes and problems, but it is still the least imperfect system of governance that has ever existed.

X also is full of holes and problems, but it is still the least imperfect free speech platform that has ever existed.

Please do not lose hope and let’s make X work for all of us, whatever our level of interest.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@SenAdamSchiff As soon as you wrote "let's be clear:" you started spouting your usual b.s. You tried to stage an unjustified coup against our President. You should be prosecuted as a traitor.

[Paul D @PltdkPaul]

@jaredpolis That's what the Democrate Party should be, but these are empty words that are trying to cover up the greedy, power-hungry, ass-covering corruption that has been allowing crime to grow while increasing the costs of living for law-abiding Coloradans. Despicable.