Robert Roper

MU grad & rower, doggy dad, Maven @mavenwave, technology and data geek, real estate investor, traveler, city dweller with love for the outdoors, Austin, TX

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

IL elected officials doing quite a number on revenue sources with the city...

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Statement from Chairman George H. McCaskey and President & CEO Kevin Warren:

[Morez Johnson Jr. @morezjohnsonJr]

AGTG🙏🏾 Let’s do it

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

RFK Jr. Tells Senate Glyphosate Causes Cancer https://t.co/xJxbPx7cCt

[Yaxel Lendeborg @Yaxel_Lendeborg]

Thank you Michigan for the best year of my life! ❤️ Go blue forever !〽️

[Michigan Men's Basketball @umichbball]

🎥 The National Championship Cinematic Recap

[Desmond Howard @DesmondHoward]

G Rice ➡️ Yaxel. I love it. Congrats @umichbball. Hard earned. Well deserved. #GoBlue

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

What a time to be alive!

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

this is shocking:

> US collects $2.4T in income tax, but spends $1.5T on fraud

> if we didn't have to pay for fraud, only $900b would need to be collected

> this means anyone with less 500k in income could pay *literally $0* in income tax

we don't need to raise taxes. we need to cut fraud

[Austin Berg @Austin__Berg]

NEW: Last week marked the 17th anniversary of Chicago selling 36,000 parking meters to private investors for 75 years in exchange for $1.15B in cash.

The parking meters have since generated $2B for the investors, with 58 years still left on the lease.

It is the most infamous political tale in modern Chicago history. And the one thing Chicagoans of all political stripes agree on: they hate it.

Yet despite all the attention, Chicago learned the wrong lessons from the parking meter deal.

In this week's edition of The Last Ward, we learn how to hate it for the right reasons ⬇️

https://t.co/BBAdzJePKc

[ESPN @espn]

Won by 40. Won by 30. Won by 40 again ‼️

The Michigan players certainly earned their $1 million in NIL earnings at the Players Era Festival 💰

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

No! Austin is a terrible place to live. We dont need more people! 😆

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Move to Austin! It gets better very year.

So many cool, world-class people are moving to Austin from SF, LA, NY, London and many other parts of the world!

Austin++

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

@thogge Our 2-party political system and everything around it - lobbying, special interest groups, insider trading/conflicts of interest, super PACs, no term limits

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Just posted Q3 earnings. We delivered our first-ever $100B quarter driven by double-digit growth across every major part of our business. (Five years ago, our quarterly revenue was at $50B🚀)

Our full-stack approach to AI is driving real momentum and we’re shipping at speed. 

Thank you to our employees and partners around the world for the terrific quarter!

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

I had my first child in October 2013:
- 2 nights in hospital
- Top tier Blue Cross coverage
- My bill: $18,000

The major provisions of Obamacare went into effect on January 1, 2014.

I had my second child in December 2014:
- 2 nights in hospital (identical process)
- Top tier Blue Cross coverage
- My bill: $32,000

When I inquired with a friendly doctor, he said, "People like you have to subsidize the system."

Fast forward to 2025... every healthy person who takes care to themselves is subsidizing the poor, unhealthy, and obese.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Robert F Kennedy Jr announced US Taxpayers are spending $72,900,000 PER DAY for soda and candy for people on EBT Food Stamps

That’s $26,608,500,000 per year just on CANDY AND SODA

RFK Jr “We spend $405 million a day on food stamps. That's what the taxpayer is spending. 10% is going to sugary drinks. Another 8% is going to candies. So we are poisoning 60% of our kids who are getting food stamps.”

“The poorest kids, the kids who can least afford to get sick, and we are poisoning them. We are deeming them diabetes, and then we're paying for it upfront with food stamps. We're paying for it again with Medicaid. the rest of his life”

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

@dkornecki @WGNNews Total population is also down since the 80's

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

@keethers I should look at the latest census but it doesn't change the fact that blacks make up a large percentage of the population and the homicide rates.

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

72 hours. Felt incredible, near out-of-body experience with clarity, and heightened and acute awareness. And definitely felt reintroduction of caffeine, taste, etc. Great way to reset or kickstart cleaner eating. Going in didn't think I could handle >24 hours

[Gary Brecka @thegarybrecka]

If you’ve ever tried water fasting, what was your biggest takeaway?

🧠 Mental clarity
🔥 Fat loss
🦠 Detox
😴 Better sleep
🧘 Discipline
🤮 Detox symptoms

Curious what others felt too.

[Robert Roper @RobertNRoper]

@Awake_IL Were the 4 years of Chicago public school experience from when he was enrolled in high school there?