Evan Garfield

Basically just Mitt retweets. Firmly Independent. 3rd-party advocate. Denver Nuggets and BYU Cougars

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

Fox News is completely out of touch with our generation

[Acyn @Acyn]

Watters: Some of these kids have never had real jobs and are complaining things are expensive. Things are expensive when you don't have a real job. Do you think that's getting traction? Complaining?

Leavitt: Unfortunately I do because this generation, my generation, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths.

Watters: Is it laziness?

Leavitt: A little bit.

Watters: If they misbehave, make them join the army.

Leavitt: Send them to Cuba. Send them to Iran.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Approval on immigration had been a comparative bright spot for Trump. But there has been a persistent decline over the past few months and today almost certainly makes that worse. He's losing the normies not just the libs.

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

My heart hurts for my home state and my country. Any defense of ICE today is unforgivable and signals that, at a fundamental level, our values are incompatible and our political disagreements have become permanent moral ones.

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

@Big12Conference 💰

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

@EdWhelanEPPC @JonahDispatch It has her picture on the link. This isn't the gotcha you think it is

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

Had this guy seen how the Department of Homeland Security tweets now? I’ll show you unprofessional and sophomoric

[John E. Hoover 🌮 @johnehoover]

“The Big 12’s unprompted response is unprofessional, unacademic, unappreciative, and sophomoric — frankly, one of the many reasons that Joe Castiglione and the Sooners have long wanted out of the league.”

More here:

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

The functional rate of unemployment is basically as low as it’s been in 30 years

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

The fact that this clip was posted in support of the younger guy shows how delusional these influencers are. He gets absolutely bodied

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Just infuriating. Make any "not our problem" argument you want, but these are potentially millions of real parents, children, and siblings who will needlessly die.

And before you say "we can't afford it," its around 0.1% of spending and its already been paid for. We and our European allies can afford it if we wish, these impoverished nations cannot.

So say whatever you want - "not our problem," "we can't afford it," "Bill Gates should pay," "who cares about black kids in Africa" - but understand that these are real people with real families who will die to save the American taxpayer no money now and maybe a couple bucks down the road. Put down the tribalist snark and try to find an ounce of humanity.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I'm hearing from experts around the world about what the destruction of USAID is meaning: "a global health massacre," in the words of a doctor who has devoted her life to humanitarian work on the front lines. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Pregnant women not getting micronutrients to prevent neural tube defects. Programs against schistosomiasis abandoned. HIV positive patients left without ARV's. Water no longer purified. Surveillance against Ebola and bird flu set back. TB patients unable to get medicine. I've long argued that USAID should be reformed, but this Trump/Musk demolition is cruel and incompetent and benefits China, while killing children just as wonderful as our own.

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

I have a new life rule. Don’t take medical advice from doctors that pay for X so they can make money / clout from outlandish statements. The vax raises risk of clots, but not as much as actually getting Covid.

[Jesse Morse, M.D. @DrJesseMorse]

That’s a blood clot…

How much you want to make a bet he received the COVID vaccine?

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

Really, why are our leaders the way they are? The adults in the room have been brainwashed by meme culture

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Bruh, not another dime from the U.S.

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

Russia was the original aggressor.

Ukraine was not.

The far-right is on the side of the aggressor.

Ask yourself why.

This guy’s an idiot.

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

Russia wants peace.

The USA wants peace.

Ukraine does not want peace.

Europe does not want peace.

Ask yourself why.

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

@collinsworth55 If you lose money you can claim that loss on your taxes to decrease your tax burden. And you’re only taxed if you sell the asset. Why does capital gains make any less sense than income or sales tax?

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

“Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!"

Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of which was unrelated to the pandemic. This time around, Trump has proposed roughly $8 trillion more in tax cuts and spending hikes over the decade. And right now, a GOP Congress is preparing to abandon most reconciliation cuts and instead add $325 billion this year in new spending. We’re headed towards $4 trillion deficits within a decade.

So, no, I don’t get excited when DOGE cancels $1 billion in govt contracts. Or saves $3 billion in federal workforce reductions out of a $7,000 billion budget. Not when Trump and Congress are also preparing to add $800 billion more annually in proposed new tax cuts and spending.

And no, the huge savings are not coming. Even (unrealistically) eliminating 20% of the federal workforce would save $60 billion, and overhauling federal systems to sharply reduce payment errors may save perhaps $80 billion (and is probably unlikely too). For all of DOGE’s bluster, administrative and executive reforms would at best save 1-2% of federal spending and offset only a small fraction of Trump’s red ink agenda.

That leaves trying to unilaterally impound spending such as USAID—which is wildly illegal—or actually going to Congress to pare back spending the constitutional way. But Trump has already taken Social Security, Medicare, defense, veterans, border (and interest) off the table, which is 2/3 of all spending and is driving deficits. And the GOP Congress seems ready to give up on cutting the remaining one-third of spending. Want to cut spending and the deficit? How about they stop passing budget-busting bills. Don’t brag about your coupon-clipping frugality at the same time you are buying a $250,000 Ferrari. I’m not going to cheer Trump and DOGE for adding “only” $750 billion to deficits instead of $800 billion. We’re still going backwards.

I’ve spent decades studying the federal budget. I know that $7 trillion(!) behemoth inside and out – where the money really goes, and where the savings opportunities lie. So I can also detect bullshitters who talk tough about trillion-dollar spending cuts without doing their homework. It’s the ones who claim most spending goes to undefined “waste,” federal salaries, immigrants, foreigners, Ukraine, or non-working welfare recipients. It’s the ones who claim we can easily balance the budget or cut $1 trillion without specifying exactly what line-items to cut. Or that we can return to 2019 spending levels for each program, which means a 20% inflationary cut, defaulting on the federal debt, and kicking off every senior who has since retired into Social Security and Medicare. It’s all hot air and empty bluster. Tough talk without following through on anything substantive. Just wait until you see the final deficit numbers in October.

And this is why GOP movements to cut spending always fail. They make absurdly ambitious promises without doing their homework, understanding where the money goes, and specifying real plans to fix it. You can’t significantly cut the deficit just by cutting waste, firing bureaucrats, and defunding immigrants and foreigners. There are no easy short cuts. You have to stop cutting taxes and then address Social Security, Medicare, defense, and a lot of other popular programs. Wake me when the GOP goes there.

So, no, I will not get excited about a couple billion in DOGE savings on one hand while Trump pushes Congress to add $8 trillion over the decade in tax cuts and spending with the other hand. I’m not that gullible.

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

@Manhattva @KUTV2News Honestly curious, what about this is funny to you?

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

@jhallito @MUSSemeritus Also not true that the leading TE had 79 yards

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

@Yeshua_4Me @LeadingReport I guarantee you John Curtis will have no issue in the next primary

[Evan Garfield @evgarf]

What the hell kind of question is this?! And why are we treating it like news?

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

When asked if he fears assassination for taking on Big Pharma, the CIA, and the FBI, RFK Jr. answered with unwavering courage, stating that dying is not the worst fate—living as slaves, watching our children lose the freedoms that countless generations of Americans fought and died to protect, is.

He boldly declared that our generation must be ready to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to defend those freedoms, no matter the personal cost.

He emphasized that true patriotism requires standing up for what’s right, no matter the danger, for the sake of our country’s future.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

If present trends continue, this Trump victory will swamp all the micro-explanations. Shapiro as VP wouldn't have changed this. Keeping Arab-Americans in Michigan wouldn't have changed this. It's all the big stuff -- defeat in Afghanistan, a porous border, inflation, and (yes, this really matters) Biden's refusal to acknowledge reality and step aside in time for Democrats to have a real primary.