BD Carter

Attracted to Shiny objects. Open source Unix geek. 5th generation Oregonian. Minarchist. Minimal state, maximum liberty, self-governance, personal freedom.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Will the Federal Reserve crush the Trump Boom?

Asteroids keep bouncing off this economy:
➡️ Biggest War in 20 years
➡️ $100 oil
➡️ "Strangling" tariffs
➡️ The supposed AI jobs apocalypse

A panicked Fed could finally feed us into the job shredder.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Canada is headed for another recession.

Their open-borders PM blames migrant cuts. Effectively admitting Liberals were using mass migration to fake the GDP numbers.

The "Biden Miracle" on steroids.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

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[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

SpaceX goes public in 3 days.

At $1.8 trillion and 100 times sales it's the most expensive IPO in history.

But remember Elon is the only man alive who’s built two trillion-dollar companies — 3 counting OpenAI.

And SpaceX will be at the center of every frontier technology.

[BD Carter @dcbd127]

@oregoncatalyst I think you mean 1976.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Job openings jump 731,000 -- the second-highest on record.

While job creation is running 2x population growth.

All with $100 oil and a promised AI job apocalypse 🤔

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

The right has a “terrifying” new weapon:
Beautiful women

Because the right celebrates beauty as much as the left worships failure.

Considering young women are the only demographic that still votes Woke, if the left loses them it’s game over.

[Libertarian Party of Linn County @LinnCountyLP]

Fun fact:

The "liber" in Libertarian comes from the Latin word *liber*, which means "free."

It is not short for liberal, despite what many people assume. Libertarian literally means someone who values liberty and individual freedom.

Whether you're conservative, liberal, independent, or somewhere in between, freedom is something most Americans can agree is worth protecting.

[Cascade Policy Institute @CascadePolicy]

Every $1B in FSTC scholarships could fund tuition for 77,000 students or tutoring for 300,000 more. If Oregon doesn't opt in, that money goes to kids in other states.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Comrade Mamdani comes for the landlords.

New York rents just hit $4,700 for a 1 bedroom while 50,000 units sit empty.

Mamdani’s solution is seize the properties and hand them to scam NGO’s.

Communism will work this time ✌️

[OregonWolf @WhitewolfOr7]

Oregon was once a land of rugged opportunity, timber, tech pioneers, and hardworking families building the American Dream in the Pacific Northwest. But starting in the late 1980s, as Democrats locked in control of the governorship and legislature with no Republican trifecta in decades, the state became a laboratory for leftist experiments. The results? Skyrocketing homelessness, urban decay in Portland, failing schools, businesses fleeing, and policies that punish success while coddling chaos. Oregon Democrats own this mess.
After the last Republican governor, Vic Atiyeh, left office in 1987, one party Democrat rule took over. They shifted school funding with Measure 5 in 1990, promising relief but delivering bureaucratic bloat and mediocre outcomes. Instead of strong basics in reading, writing, and math, Oregon kids get indoctrination. Today, too many Oregon schools rank poorly nationally, captured by unions that prioritize politics over parents and standards.
Fast forward to the progressive era: Portland’s embrace of “defund the police,” harm reduction, and radical experiments turned a vibrant city into a national punchline. Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalized hard drugs, flooding streets with fentanyl and open air addiction. Homeless encampments exploded, businesses boarded up, and downtown entered a “doom loop” of crime, vacant storefronts, and declining foot traffic. Violent crime spikes followed George Floyd era policies, with slow police response times making neighborhoods unsafe. Even after partial reversals, the damage from decades of soft on crime Democrat governance is baked in.
Economically, high taxes including income taxes that drive talent away and anti business regulations have stalled growth. While the nation recovered, Portland’s metro lost thousands of jobs in recent years, with high paying sectors hit hard. Housing costs soared due to restrictive zoning and progressive mandates, pricing out working families. Population growth slowed as Oregonians voted with their feet, heading to lower tax, safer states. Overreliance on volatile income taxes and social spending experiments left budgets strained, even as roads crumbled and services lagged.
Homelessness remains a disgrace under leaders like Tina Kotek, tents everywhere, failed “housing first” approaches without accountability, and billions spent with little results. Green deals and environmental extremism hurt traditional industries like logging and energy, trading blue collar jobs for virtue signals. Democrat supermajorities keep doubling down more spending, more rules, more excuses.
The pattern in Oregon mirrors the national Democrat playbook, erode law and order, expand government dependency, prioritize ideology over results, and watch American exceptionalism bleed out. From the 1980s timber transitions mishandled through today’s urban collapse and economic stagnation, Oregon proves that unchecked progressive governance doesn’t build, it destroys. Oregonians deserve better: lower taxes, safer streets, school choice, and policies that reward work, not welfare. It’s time to reject the failed Democrat vision that turned the Beaver State into a cautionary tale. America, and Oregon, can do better. 🇺🇸 🐺

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Jeff Bezos goes full Elon, arguing to slash government while ending taxes for everybody under $75,000.

It’s nice to see billionaires realize the communists are not their friends.

And considering Elon's done more than our GOP Congress, having another ally would be nice.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Company fires entire HR department, stock soars as culture goes from woke clownshow to “get ‘er done.”

HR is an $88 billion ideological commissar that makes workers miserable, crushes companies, and actually reduces diversity as employees walk on eggshells.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Major study finds voters have statistically zero influence on Congress.

In case you’re curious why the 80% issues don’t pass, from crime to open borders to secure elections.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Study finds more than 50% of immigrant households in America are on welfare --including legal immigrants.

A rich country can cherry-pick the top 0.1% of migrants.

Instead, this is what we import.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

The UN wants $131 trillion in “reparations” for colonialism.

Including $26 trillion from the US.

The kicker is colonialism was the best thing that ever happened to the Third World.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Democrats are “panicked” as Republicans redraw up to 19 seats for the Midterms.

Democrats spent 60 years drawing congressional districts like Salvador Dali on bath salts.

Now they’re horrified Republicans are fighting back.

[Real Ed Diehl @Real_EdDiehl]

🚨 Oregonians Deserve Relief: Ed Diehl Calls on @GovTinaKotek to Immediately Suspend the 66-Cent Gas Tax Burden as Prices Hit $5.30+ per Gallon

With gas prices among the highest in the nation, Oregonians are struggling at the pump. The 40-cent state gas tax plus approximately 26 cents per gallon from the Clean Fuels Program adds roughly 66 cents or more to every gallon. This is a direct hit to working families, farmers, truckers, and small businesses.

When I’m Governor, we will lower taxes, creating greater affordability and a thriving Oregon for working families, seniors, and businesses. Enough is enough.

Join the fight https://t.co/SQuWZ3gH7c

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Britain’s elite just had their wigs handed to them, losing 1,500 seats in local elections.

And handing populist Reform almost as may seats as both main parties *combined.*

When Britain breaks it will break hard.