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Why am I on Twitter?

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

So damn good. I’ve listened and watched this 10 times. You should too.

[DJ @dkjax8]

Fixed it for you: Elon CREATED multiple companies that are now worth over a trillion dollars. Companies that have helped improve the lives of people all over the world. Kudos to him.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.

The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.

We need a wealth tax.

[DJ @dkjax8]

@jane78956 @MikeBales Did you feel the same way when inflation spiked to 9% under Biden? Somehow I doubt it.

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

My piece on Fed Independence and Jerome Powell…Cry Me A River…Real Clear Politics

Jerome Powell and So-Called 'Fed Independence' https://t.co/XHH7a79TgL

[DJ @dkjax8]

@SenWarren But you wouldn’t. That’s why common sense Americans are against it. You could do that now, but have chosen to pad your and your donors pockets, and watch half of it disappear due to fraud. Honestly, I don’t know how any politician sleeps at night.

[DJ @dkjax8]

@HankWinslow @wesbury I spy the beginning of the end. Such a shame for a beautiful state.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bill Maher drops a reality bomb on Zohram Mamdani voters with a brutal history lesson on socialism.

“We’ve run this experiment many times, and the results are always obvious,” Maher said.

He looked straight into the camera and delivered a blunt warning about Mamdani.

“Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it’s the Republican Party.”

“Here’s capitalist South Korea at night from space,” Maher presented, showing a country lit up and thriving.

“Here’s socialist North Korea,” he followed, with the map pitch dark.

“Yeah. In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet style economics, went all in on capitalism and now their economy is as big as Japan and people there have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes.”

“Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez’s socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism in the last century or any century, a f*cking mess.”

“It turned one of Latin America’s richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing. If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you’re in for a rude awokening.”

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

This is the most dishonest reporting we’ve seen in a long time.

Two jihadis threw two IEDs into a crowd of anti-Zohran protesters.

On video.

Yet NBC reports these bombs were “found.”

And implies they belonged to the conservative protesters.

Truly a new low in journalism.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me tell you about the greatest unintentional science experiment in the history of progressive governance.

Zohran Mamdani — the brand-new mayor of New York City, population TEN MILLION — decided the city needed emergency snow shovelers. Simple enough. He went on TV, promoted it city-wide, and set up signup sheets at sanitation garages across all five boroughs.

You know how many people showed up at the Manhattan location? ZERO. Brooklyn? ZERO. One Queens garage? Not a soul — and I quote a city worker there: "I haven't seen anybody sign up yet today. No one."

One Brooklyn location managed to scrape together 35 volunteers before the snow even started falling.

35 people. One city. Ten million residents.

Now, I teach biology, so I recognize a failed experiment when I see one. This is what happens when reality collides with ideology at highway speed.

Here is the part that would be funny if 19 people had not died freezing on his streets during the PREVIOUS cold snap. Mamdani was asked about those 19 deaths — "unhoused" people, pardon me for the crime of using plain English — and his response was essentially: well, some of them died from drug overdoses, so... not all my fault?

Remarkable crisis management. Truly.

But back to the shoveling. This is the same man whose political identity is built on screaming "LIVING WAGES" until his voice gives out. The same movement that tells us $15 an hour is poverty and $20 is barely survivable in a major American city. So when an actual emergency hit his actual city, the very best he could offer was $19 an hour — in a place where a bagel costs $7.

Naturally, nobody showed up. So in a full-on panic, he rushed out a new video bumping the pay to $30 an hour.

Oh, and he required TWO forms of identification to participate.

Let that sit for a second.

The political party that has spent YEARS insisting that asking for ONE form of ID to vote is Jim Crow 2.0, segregation reborn, a fundamental assault on democracy — that party's mayor is now requiring TWO forms of ID to pick up a snow shovel for thirty bucks.

I teach science. We call this a logical inconsistency. Other people call it something less polite.

Quinn's Law #1 applies here like a surgical instrument: "Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent." Champion of the working class cannot get working-class people to work. Advocate for living wages offers wages nobody will accept. Opponent of voter ID demands more ID than a polling place.

And Quinn's Law #25 deserves a bow too: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." Notice it was $19 of TAXPAYER money, not Mamdani's own. The moment it was HIS administration's crisis to manage, suddenly the generosity of spirit evaporated faster than the budget surplus.

Bernie Sanders ran a presidential campaign on $15 minimum wage while paying his own field organizers an average of $13 an hour for 60-hour weeks. Now Mamdani runs a city on "living wage" rhetoric while offering emergency pay that would not cover the subway fare to get there and back.

Same energy. Different decade. Same results.

What is next — Mamdani holds a press conference on income inequality... wait, I just heard he already scheduled one for Thursday.

The man has been mayor for roughly two months. In that time: 19 unhoused people died on his watch, the city is heading into a historic blizzard with a QUARTER of the snow removal staff used in prior storms, and his great mobilization strategy produced 35 shovelers total.

This is what you get when you elect someone whose entire qualification is performance. Everything is theater. Everything is a press release. Everything is racial grievance politics dressed up as governance. The moment the snow actually falls and the city needs someone who knows how to RUN something — you get an emergency video and a $30 plea.

New York City has one of the largest municipal budgets on the planet. They could have rented equipment. They could have contracted crews. They could have activated protocols that actually existed BEFORE the blizzard radar showed up.

Instead, the mayor's plan was to crowdsource manual labor from random citizens and pay them in wages that the mayor's own party calls "poverty level."

Quinn's Law #5: "When liberalism conflicts with reality, reality must give way."

Reality did not cooperate this time.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who understands that experiments with a 35-out-of-10,000,000 participation rate are called FAILURES, not pilot programs.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Listen to this.

[DJ @dkjax8]

The @GOP does not represent the average Conservative American today. Politics is broken, both parties have become a ruling class who vote to make themselves richer at the cost of freedom, safety, and future of citizens.

[DJ @dkjax8]

We’re doomed.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Democrats really are that dumb.

Q: Would you trade Trump for Maduro?

LIBS: "Yeah. Maduro was democratically elected." 🤯

"Maduro could come be our president? Oh, ANY DAY! All the check marks are there. Not white, he's a minority!" 🤡

"Probably, sure."

"More than likely, of course!"

"If a Maduro out here can bring us to revolution? I'd support it."

Unbelievable. Unreal.

H/t Stephanie Hamill/Insta

[Restricted Daily @RestrictedDaily]

The government can “lose” billions of dollars and nobody goes to jail, but if you misplace a few thousand or mess up paperwork they’ll come straight for you. Funny how accountability only exists for regular people.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

🎯🎯

[DJ @dkjax8]

@HenricCont @BoringBiz_ Can you help me understand the difference between the two? What math was wrong? Sincerely asking.

[DJ @dkjax8]

@wesbury Elon doesn’t “have” a trillion dollars. He owns companies that are worth that much. What exactly are they going to tax? What this fool is proposing is seizing private property and/or intentionally devaluing Elon’s businesses. Liberals want full blown communism. Insanity.

[DJ @dkjax8]

@wesbury What is happening in the UK? Seems like I see a new headline every week that makes me shake my head in disbelief. Scary stuff that makes Atlas Shrugged read like a children’s book. Why do liberals insist on fulfilling fiction prophecy?

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

The Federal Budget was $3 trillion annually in 2008, it’s exploded to over $7 trillion today. There is no way anyone can keep track. Cut the size of government.

Somali terror group al-Shabab ‘taking a cut’ of stolen Minnesota taxpayer money https://t.co/AFaV240ovK

[DJ @dkjax8]

@Tapped_Arcade @rebourn @R3dPillPatriot @ImBreckWorsham Congrats, your simple IRR on your house is ~3.7%. Not counting interest costs, insurance and maintenance. “Gaining home equity” is often no better than a savings account when all factors considered.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

The dumbing down of America.