MarkinCA

Skeptical & curious, meh PC. Things I like to do - pickleball, poker & outdoor stuff. Interested in investing , science & politics. Amateur status.

[🇺🇸 One Nation 🇺🇸 @ThinkingTramp]

@ScottAgness This is FABULOUS!!!

[Fascist Colonizer @FacistColonizer]

@FoxNews

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”

“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...

WITH NO RAIL.”

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@tseth68 @Steinernomics This 100%. It baffles me that people can vigorously complain about the DMV, the roads or any number of government “products”, then in the next breath go on about how we need to have government run health care or housing etc. Completely delusional.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@ZavalaA They are getting slammed because Democrats control everything. The result is on them, not some mysterious force beyond their control. 🙄

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@senortilt @HUSTLERCASINOLA @angfresh12 @CodyBollinger Go get em!

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@DefiantLs He should refrain from starting his sentences with “I think”.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@RealJohnDennis @RichardGrenell Or it’s just a bunch of people that grew up as nerds and decided the best way to fit in with the cool kids in college was to adopt the luxury belief mind set of the indoctrinated.

[Kent Christen @frag316]

@AmericaPapaBear @KateAus1976

[Timo @Timo_G8]

@AOC

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@ZavalaA The speed to which the D’s are all on board burying this guy is suspicious. Why now? What group are they trying to manipulate?

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@CapitolAlert So happy these guys are on top of the important issues. I’ll feel much better paying $8/gallon for gas knowing that my receipt is less toxic.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@MattMahanSJ @ZavalaA It’s not “well intentioned”. It’s a scam to extract money for politicians to buy votes and enrich their cronies. If you can’t admit that you’re obviously not going to solve the problems we face.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@FlemingWords @SoquelCreek @SoCalOpinion How humiliating it must be to spend as much money as he is on ads and still polls behind Swallwell.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@marcjoffe As a population we should have pushed back hard on carpool lanes. It might have saved us from a lot of the virtue signaling nonsense we are dealing with now.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@RandPaul @FoxNews When is the last time you guys came together to solve a meaningful issue? Useless.

[MarkinCA @Randompings]

@ggreenwald So instead of having intelligence agencies we just go poll the average American about what foreign actors they are concerned with?

[NoMoreGulags @FreedomAus80100]

@MOSSADil @D00sF1nd3r F Islam

[Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA]

Liberals need to calm down.

President Trump is not going to harm gay people, bring back slavery, or strip women of their rights...

He's not a Muslim.

[Roger Ledbetter @rledbetterCPA]

Teaching my daughter about payroll withholding

She did chores all week so I owe her $10

I hand her $7

> this isn't $10

"right, I withheld the rest"

> what does that mean

"I kept $3 of your money"

> but it's my money

"It was your money"

> what are you even doing with it?

"Funding household infrastructure"

> what

"The roof over your head. The hallway you walk through to get to the bathroom. The door locks that keep strangers out"

> you're charging me for the hallway

"I'm charging you for access to the hallway. The hallway itself was a capital expenditure"

> you're my dad. you're supposed to---

"I'm also your government"

> what if I don't want to pay for the hallway

"Then I can't guarantee the hallway"

> it's a hallway. It's already there

"For now"

She asks what else the $3 covers

"Meals, dispute resolution, nightlight maintenance"

> dispute resolution?

"When your brother takes your toys and I make him give them back. That's taxpayer funded"

> that's just parenting

"That's the Department of Justice"

> what about meals. You already feed me

"That's a social program. Not everyone qualifies"

> I'm your daughter

"Which is why you're currently enrolled"

She wants to see where the money goes

I tell her that would require a FOIA request

> what's that

"A form asking me to show you what I do with your money. Processing time is 6 to 8 weeks"

> 6 weeks to see where my $3 went?

"Could be longer. We're understaffed"

> there's two of you

She asks how she gets any of it back

"It's already spent"

> you spent my money already?

"We had a budget shortfall"

> you just took it 20 seconds ago

"And the deficit existed 30 seconds ago. The timing worked out"

> so I'm not getting it back

"I didn't say that. You might qualify for a refund"

> of my own money

"Correct. You just have to fill out a form telling me how much you made"

> you know how much I made. You paid me

"Right but I need you to tell me how much I paid you"

> so you already know the answer

"The point is compliance"

She asks what happens if she gets the number wrong

"Penalty"

> from the money I don't have because you already spent it?

"We could set up a payment plan"

> I'm 8

"Monthly installments. Very manageable"

> you're going to penalize me for getting wrong a number you already know and then make me pay you back with money you took from me

"Now you're getting it"

> I want to talk to mom

"Mom's not a qualified representative. She can't help you here"

She stormed off to her room saying how this is extortion

Slammed the door

That's my little citizen

I've never been more proud