Tim Scholand

[Byron York @ByronYork]

Josh Barro on the 41 year-old Democratic Senate candidate in Maine: https://t.co/cjFspKXLmP

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

unclear how to persuade people who believe in outright theft away from their opinion, or if it even makes sense to try anymore. communists don’t believe in liberalism, they only believe in jailing you and taking your things. treat them as you would a home invader.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Everyone should read this quote.

America does not *automatically* produce a surfeit of jobs and wealth.

America produces jobs and wealth because our system protects property rights, enforces contracts, and otherwise mostly frees ambitious people to go out and get paid to solve problems for others, which generates wealth for them and for everyone else.

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Prices are critical information without an economy cannot function

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

And I’m still wondering why your team thought I’d want to play footsy with a guy who is a Nazi?

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

"Working hard" is not how you get rich. It's not why people give you money. Hasan doesn't work 20x harder than a teacher, why does he make 20x more?

You get money by providing something people want. Hasan entertains people, so they subscribe or donate to him, buy his merchandise etc.

Similarly, Bezos got rich by doing something people wanted. Customers want to shop from their phones or laptops and have stuff delivered and people want to rent computers. Those things make Amazon a valuable company. Investors want to own a valuable company so they buy shares of Amazon.

Bezos provided a great many people stuff that they wanted. They paid Bezos in exchange. As a result, Bezos has a lot of money. Nobody paid Bezos because they thought he worked super hard. They paid him because he gave them something they wanted more than the money they paid.

If I want to have a ditch dug and worker A will use a spoon and B will use an excavator, I am not going to pay worker A more even though it will be much harder work!

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is laughably unhinged. JPMorgan, Dell, Bloomberg, Citadel, and more are massive employers—run by billionaires—that drive enormous investment & tax revenue to NYC. They're a major reason why the city has the highest GDP in the world. Wildly delusional stuff here.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

if bezos handed a billion dollars to nyc public schools tomorrow literally nothing would change and everyone knows it, bc the problem isn’t lack of funds it’s shitty government. but these people don’t care bc they don’t care about kids. they just hate you and want your things.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Democrats can make this exact map via referendum. They just have to follow the rules the democratically elected legislature set for itself to inform the public on time, and then they have to not bring absolutely JV shit to SCOTUS and then act surprised.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

The Arab Secretary General in the lead up to the Arab attack in 1948.

How psychotic do you have to be to want to have the United States honor this?

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

this is the kind of messaging you craft for public education when you believe the purpose of public education is giving unions money rather than educating children

[Brad Smith @CommishSmith]

In Citizens United, the Govt argued that it could censor a documentary about a major presidential candidate in an election year, on the theory that—like every other movie you have ever seen on TV, cable, streaming, or in a theater—a corporation was involved in its production or distribution. That cannot be correct, and is why Citizens United is plainly correct. @charlescwcooke @whignewtons

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

The American stock market isn't only larger than the European ones.

Its extraordinary wealth is more widely shared with households.

And it would be even more widely shared if the U.S. had adopted George W. Bush's private accounts for Social Security two decades ago.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

To borrow a phrase from @JonahDispatch, economic populists simultaneously lament the opening of factories in the 18th century and the closing of them in the 21st.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

On the NYC budget: Remember that Thatcher said that the problem with socialism is that you *eventually* run out of other people’s money, not that you immediately run out of other people’s money.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

Also "will of the people" to stop anyone from doing anything is just an HOA. We will not HOA America