Southern Discomfort

Policy, politics, and rhetoric. Classical liberal. The more I learn, the less, I realize, I knew.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@mtaibbi The mortgage lenders knew all along... "get this shit off our books... Yesterday!"

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@FrancescaHongWI So, like all progressives, you are fixated on, and wish to pass laws restricting... What you think "they think"

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@Dawid_Palka_ Same.
That’s the tweet.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@jpodhoretz @NellieBowles Absolutely essential way to start every Friday

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@Thesilkyselite @jeffreytucker Same thing with labor unions. The media never covers stories on the dishonesty of labor unions because the writers on the news networks… are union members. It’s the story that will never,ever, ever, be written about

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

Trump lost fair and square in 2020. Only women can get pregnant. The Trump assassination attempts were real. Mitch McConnell is alive. Michelle Obama is not a man. Barack Obama is a citizen. America is less racist than most countries. Police stop crime. Tariffs hurt the economy.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤣🤣

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Feds placed the pipe bombs and fomented the demonstrations on January 6, 2021. One day this will be known as certainly as the fact that COVID was the result of U.S. funded lab research.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@skilfuldotcom @WhiskeyMD247365 @JonahDispatch I'm not an expert, but I do have enough of a facility with Excel. At least enough so that if I invent an utterly nonsensical metric, I can create a spreadsheet and graph that tracks said nonsensical metric over time.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@WhiskeyMD247365 @JonahDispatch Yes, the rich get more prosperous. The poor get more prosperous. Everyone gets more prosperous. Gosh, we have to find something to bitch about - Let's call it "The Gini Coefficient" That has a fancy and official ring to it!

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

@billybinion Jonah Goldberg nailed it. On foreign policy Trump views himself as a mob boss. Mob bosses show respect to the other mob bosses. Not so much to the capos and soldiers.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

נוסח ההסכם שפורסם אתמול הוא המדויק (ווידאתי אישית).

​הדבר הממשי היחיד בו הוא פתיחת מצר הורמוז לשיט חופשי. כל השאר זה מילים יפות שתלויות ב"הסכם סופי", שהסיכוי שייחתם נמוך מהסיכוי שאלביס יקום לתחייה.

​בשורה התחתונה: זה הסכם של "שקט ונפט זול עד בחירות המיד-טרם". זהו.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@ForecasterEnten @neoavatara Ramen May beat Bass by 4…. On election night… but give it three weeks of post election voting, once they have a number of how many extra votes they need, and Bass will remarkably pull ahead to win.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@BonillaJL Only one thing could motivate @DanaBashCNN to point out malfeasance on the part of a D politician. Word has gone out from the DNC that he is a liability, and for the DNC-PR media to kneecap him.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@LibertyCappy Low trust societies with a rich tradition of nepotism v traditional British Protestant ethic.

[Matthew Kobach @mkobach]

The Gregorian calendar is broken. We should fix it:

• 13 month year
• 28 days each month
• Every month starts on Monday
• Every month ends on Sunday

Add a new month between June and July called “Sol.”

Add “Year Day” after Dec 28 where everyone has the day off.

Then fix the holidays:

New Year’s Day: January 1
MLK Day: Jan 15
Super Bowl Monday: February 8
Christmas: February 25–26
Easter Monday: April 8
Valentine’s Day: April 23
Memorial Day: May 22
Juneteenth: June 19
Independence Day: Sol 11–12
Labor Day: July 22
Halloween: October 26
Election Day: November 8
Thanksgiving: November 25–26
Year Day

You’re welcome.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@Andercot @Aristos_Revenge There actually is a modern day Wakanda. It is Liberia, one of the most impoverished societies in all humanity.

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@LtRevDan He is at work, hence the collared shirt

[Southern Discomfort @SouthernDiscom6]

@LtRevDan The shorts and bare feet are all part of the show.