Jake

[Jake @jake730_]

Call me crazy but I don’t think politicians should have most of these luxuries.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

JD Vance:

My life is, dude, totally transformed. I don't go to the grocery store anymore. People go to the grocery store for me.

Most of my meals—like when I cook a meal, I love to cook actually. I'm a big baker. I like to cook for my kids as a special occasion, but I don't have to cook anymore because I've got an army of people who are willing to cook my food.

My life is so weird. I fly around on a 757. No more TSA lines for me and the kids. It's so weird.

But it can become the sort of thing that, if you internalize it, you start to be an entitled asshole.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.

Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.

Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.

This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.

Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.

His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.

If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I think it's good when poor kids get to visit the aquarium.

[Keaton Weiss @thatkeaton]

‘We can’t invest in America because we’re fighting wars’ is literally the opposite of what he ran on.

Biggest scam in modern political history, hands down.

[Jake @jake730_]

Get this wrinkly tangerine off my screen I want to watch Survivor

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Trump’s war is costing about $2 BILLION a day.

That’s the same as:
• 270,000 Pell Grants helping students afford college
• A full year of rent for 143,000 families
• Nearly 4 years of the 988 suicide crisis hotline
• 3+ months of WIC nutrition for moms and babies
• 29 days of breakfast and lunch for every public school kid in America
• All the humanitarian aid the U.S. gives the UN in a year
• A year of free preschool for 110,000 low-income kids
• A month of SNAP for nearly 10 million Americans
• A month of Medicaid for nearly 3 million Americans

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

That’s the way it is.

They give orders from a beach club, some other Americans die in a desert.

They make money off the government, everyone else owes more.

They get away with crimes, and the people who protest them get arrested and even killed. And on and on. The way it is.

[Darius Butler @DariusJButler]

Killed it 🔥🔥🔥

Show, visuals were dope. For the people triggered by a halftime performer please go touch some grass

[Jake @jake730_]

@ToneDigz Kid “I like ‘em underage” Rock

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: VP Vance called the court order absurd.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

And you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of Vance’s bullshit politics, that makes me angry.

That’s why I went to court, and that’s why we’re putting dollars on people’s SNAP cards—because that’s what the people of Pennsylvania deserve. And America deserves better than J.D. Vance.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Ok tim

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WOW! TOMORROW HISTORY WILL BE MADE. KaroLYIN LEAVITT WILL HAVE NO ANSWERS FOR THE SUPPOSED “FAKE MEDIA” ABOUT CALIFORNIA’S BEAUTIFUL MAPS. PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY ARE THE GREATEST MAPS EVER CREATED — EVEN BETTER THAN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'. DONALD “THE FAILURE” TRUMP BE WARNED, TOMORROW MAY BE THE WORST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. ALL BECAUSE YOU “MISSED THE DEADLINE.” LIBERATION DAY FOR AMERICA!!! — GCN

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

July 18: If we have a smart president, you're never going to let the dollar slide. If you have a dummy, that could happen.

July 25: A weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money. It doesn't sound good, but you make a hell of a lot more money with a weaker dollar than you do with a strong dollar

[basement escapee rita #williameklund @ritasbasement]

i've always wanted to ratio the white house

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

If you’re stupid

[Racism Watchdog @RacismDog]

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[Jake @jake730_]

Best new artist #bignightahtjellyroll