@JohnStossel Bravo John and team - please keep it going! Following your voice of reason for over 20 years has always felt like a bit of much needed fresh air. Thank you!
it is vitally important for america that mamdani get elected mayor of NYC. he can help maximally and swiftly tax the rich, stand up govt-run grocery stores, eliminate the police force, freeze rents, and make public transportation free..
it’s unlikely that taxing the rich will cause them to move to other cities (collapsing nyc tax revenue), or that city-run grocery stores will fail to increase fresh vegetable consumption in the inner city, or that elimination of the NYPD will cause a rise in crime and decline in quality of life, or that freezing rents will drive landlords to dump properties (collapsing prices and property tax revenue), or that free public transportation will result in union-led kleptocracy. no way. i’m sure this time socialism will be different…
if Americans don’t want to learn the lessons of socialism’s failures elsewhere, we should aim to learn them here as quickly as possible.
let’s make sure one or two cities and states fall apart fast so the rest don’t have to.. elect mamdani!
after accruing $2 trillion in student loan debt, that they will never be able to pay down, it’s no surprise “the college educated in nyc are supporting mamdani 61-39”. the current system has failed them.
but the truth is, more government may not be the answer when too much government (indiscriminate federal student loans regardless of cost or quality of degree or institution) may have gotten them to this moment.
a gentle reminder, though, that an articulate ignoramus isn’t more correct than his less charismatic/authentic political rival. facts, data, truth still stand above theory, innuendo, and bullshit. socialism won’t work. if we have to re-learn that lesson the hard way, let’s do it fast and elect mamdani.
I had early access to what is Claude 4 (I don't know which model) & I have been very impressed.
Fun example, this is what it made in response to the prompt: "the book Piranesi as a p5js 3d space. do it for me" - just that, no other prompting (note the birds, water, lighting)
🇺🇸🌱🚀 This is such a fantastic idea that needs to become a reality. Every kid gets a $1K acct at birth to become an owner in America, compound tax-free. The financial education value of this alone makes it worth doing.
The House, Senate & WH are ALL getting behind @InvestAmerica24 bc 401k like accounts from birth seeded with $1000 in the S&P 500 just make sense! Bi-Partisan, Main Street, Common Sense. 🇺🇸🚀🤍
Time to return power from the State to individuals. Rather than ineffective gov’t programs, lets create an investment acct for each child at birth. Financial literacy, graduation rates & small biz starts all improve! And as @JTLonsdale says - “the marxists will hate this.” 🇺🇸
people are very, very strange
they are constantly angered by trivial things
but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice
@lexfridman Agree or disagree with the President, it is disgraceful to refuse to acknowledge some of the achievements that benefit all Americans or to show some respect for a mother of a murdered child… the partisan behavior is inhuman