Ryan Spanton

Live in the Pacific NW, work on software. Go Ducks!

[Ryan Spanton @RyanSpanton]

King County is the largest county in WA, 2.2 million people.
This is their covid info site.
https://t.co/Qkdk5I8DXv

Select Demographics, sel Deaths, sel Last 30 days.

Age 0-19: 22% of population, 0 deaths
Age 60+: 18% of pop, 86% of deaths

Unmask the school kids.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

All the best people declare war on Hogwarts. Have you ever considered dividing your gender identity into separate pieces and storing it in hidden objects, so you can’t be invalidated to death?

[The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript]

One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.

A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.

And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.

Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.

We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.

Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.

Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.

And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.

That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.

Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.

I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.

But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.

Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.

Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.

I’m going with the beaver.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

On this Remembrance Day…

Your grandfather didn't sleep in the trenches holding a picture of his family so people could show their papers to buy food…

This can never happen again…

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Days Trump has been POTUS: 2,123
Days GOP controlled Congress: 1,375
Days Congress was on recess: 897 (42%)

Trump recess appointments allowed by Congress: 0

Trump is the only POTUS in history to have recess appointments blocked by his own party.

Not Democrats.

McConnell and Thune.

Traitors.

[Lulu Solomon @lulu_solomo]

"Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women and girls, even if they believe they are."

From Justice Thomas's supreme court concurrence ruling that it is lawful to exclude boys from girl's sports

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Remember when the cashier at CVS is trying to jab you with a shot, it's all about the money. Remember also that this cashier has no medical training and will be nowhere to be found when you have an adverse reaction.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

This is what people are tired of.

School boards, government officials & corporate execs making back room deals and telling voters & everyday folks they are just too dumb to understand that boys can actually become girls with the wave of a wand. So they -- the elites -- will decide for the people.

The people know better and they are absolutely sick of it.

[Oregon Football @oregonfootball]

Game 9: Rip the Script

Presented by @pepsi.

#GoDucks

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

Tonight the Seattle School Board voted unanimously to fight I-638, a measure Washington voters just passed.

They talked it over behind closed doors, then came out and voted against the voters.

So I said it to their faces:
"35 counties said YES. King County doesn't get a veto!"

One school board doesn't get to overrule the rest of the state. Respect the vote.

Justice delayed is justice denied. 638 NOW.

#638NOW #RespectTheVote
@thehoffather @BrandiKruse @bethsd @WestCoastTerf @JenniferSey @letsgowa @SeaPubSchools

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The caravans are back. If you get in, you get amnesty. That's the message they received.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

George Floyd was a drug addled violent criminal hobo who died of a drug overdose and then was venerated as a literal saint while leftists burned down entire city blocks in revenge. Charlie Kirk was a political commentator who never committed any crimes and was gunned down on camera while speaking peacefully in front of an audience, and nobody responded by rioting or committing any acts of violence or reprisals anywhere at all. So, no, joking about George Floyd is not the same as joking about Charlie Kirk. The two men, and the circumstances around their deaths, and the subsequent reactions, have no resemblance at all. There is no comparison except that they both died, and that's it. Anyone trying to draw this moral equivalency is lying or stupid or both. And any conservative claiming that we have to tolerate the Charlie jokes because we criticized George Floyd is a submissive cucked shill and should be disregarded on this issue and every other.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Let me repeat this critical point: After a very public federal lawsuit demanding that the CDC identify the studies it claims support that the vaccines on its schedule given in the first six months of life do not cause autism...

[Mike Raabe @raabenducks1]

Thank you @OhioStateFB marching band. Very nice gesture! #GoDucks

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Dan Lanning pointing to the scoreboard while Ohio State and Oregon players scuffle is an all time move.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Logan Mihailoff - a boy - ran in the cross country state meet today in Washington.

In a field of 155, he placed 15th. Top 10%.

Is he setting the world on fire? No.

But his time today would not have even qualified him for state in boys. Top boys in the state run mid 14, low 15 minutes. He ran 18:53.

And he took a spot from a girl.

The results only prove that he's a less than mediocre male athlete.

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

Keep in mind that nothing like this pro- forma session extravaganza has been done on this level to ANY President

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

Hey @SenMikeLee: On November 2, why did you convene a Senate pro-forma session to prevent President Trump from making recess appointments?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You've avoided nearly all of my questions, Norah, because you're literally incapable of answering them. Your mind is firmly closed to any evidence or facts that undermine your preferred narrative. You consider it immoral for anyone to even question you, even though you voluntarily and confidently entered this discussion. You're like a flat-earther. Nothing I or anyone else says to you will permeate your stubborn quasi-religious beliefs, because to change your mind would take away a core part of your self image, which is as somebody who is kinder and better and more righteous than the nasty people still advocating for the safety of women and girls.

You repeat your thought-terminating clichés and unevidenced assertions, which I assume sound clever inside your echo chamber, but which, outside it, make you appear not only dim, but a total moral vacuum. Increased risk to females? Who cares. Women threatened by violence? Of course those poor trans-identified men lash out when they meet resistance! What is a gender identity? You can't really say, but like the flat-earther, you're sure it exists, because your tribe is held together by belief in it, and pride themselves on their blind faith in it.

I keep waiting for a single gender ideologue or trans activist to truly engage with the facts, but all of you sheer away from them like horses from fireworks. It truly is like talking to cult members who're incapable of engaging in rational debate and just keep chanting the mantras, consigning all serious questions to the 'evil' bin.

I've been told I'm on the wrong side of history thousands of times. By debating people like you, I've come to realise that your ilk's idea of the 'right side of history' means stripping women and girls' of their rights, excusing male violence against women, siding with those issuing death and rape threats and attempting to suppress critical thought and freedom of speech.

Maybe, like the flat-earthers, you genuinely think history will vindicate you. I believe people will look back on this period and analyse your arguments, not because they admire them, but because they're trying to fathom how so many supposedly intelligent people fell, hook, line and sinker for a bunch of vacuous, post-modern, pseudo-intellectual cobblers, while being completely indifferent to the real world harm they were enabling.

[Lulu Solomon @lulu_solomo]

Reminder: Washington just had a teen boy switch mid season to girl's cross country. He went from placing 76/302 amongst boys to 7th place in the entire state against girls. A girl was kept from regionals because of him.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

If men who claim to be women are women, isn’t it just that another woman has been elected? To frame it as the election of a “trans” is to confirm they are something other than women. Which is our entire point. They’re men.