John Quick

Boat inhabitant. AV Tech. Bicycle courier. Writer of song lyrics. Single. Occasional grammar police smartass.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@ErickBoe @DeanBaker13 @atrupar "Alternative facts"
https://t.co/QpdSTmeCWb

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@DuncanW228 @Acyn "Rubio used to be a sane, clear thinking man."
Er.... you sure about that?
https://t.co/diAhQ4vdWY

[Duncan Wilson @DuncanW228]

@Acyn Rubio used to be a sane, clear thinking man. He has since sold his soul to the devil by joining the tRump gang and lost his credibility in the process. He’ll end up lost and morally adrift like previously tossed-aside fools like Rudy Giuliani and the My Pillow Guy…

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@AmberWoods100 Yeah, but he endorsed false conspiracy theories about California’s primary vote count, so that made him highly qualified in Trumpworld.
https://t.co/MY3mpsPycg

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

2/
Jay Clayton’s background is in corporate law, financial regulation, and federal prosecution—not intelligence.

He has never served in the intelligence community or held a traditional national security role.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@AmberWoods100 Yeah, just as back in 2001, the MSM wouldn't touch the story that had Gore been president, 9/11 would in all probability have been averted.
https://t.co/cA95mD2T3Q

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

I think it’s obvious by now that America’s mainstream media won’t touch the real stories.
Stick with me. ✊🏼 subscribe to my substack here (free readers get a lot of reporting too) https://t.co/TVMPApvsIc

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@TrackAIPAC @stephensemler Which means we've been subsidizing Israeli lawbreaking for decades.
From 2010:
https://t.co/uEyNSYGRft

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@AmberWoods100 I don't understand why the news media doesn't compare today's ICE thuggery to the Obama administration's deportation of 3 million illegals with no muss, no fuss.
https://t.co/bPrqkLCigD

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

More than 500 babies and toddlers have been detained by ICE since Trump’s return to office.

On an average day, about 25 children under the age of 3 are being held in immigration custody.

These are babies.

Not criminals. Not threats. Babies.

History is watching what we choose to tolerate.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@JohnCleese Now, John, there *is* a little more to be said.
I asked Grok:
In reality, Ahmed is a Cardiff medical student and unpaid NHS volunteer advocating for better women's health education in schools, focusing on topics like periods, endometriosis, and pelvic health.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@isaacrrr7 I asked Grok:
In reality, Ahmed is a Cardiff medical student and unpaid NHS volunteer advocating for better women's health education in schools, focusing on topics like periods, endometriosis, and pelvic health.
https://t.co/20fUYdszol

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

Conozca a Athika Ahmed, de 23 años.
Ha sido nombrada nueva Embajadora de Salud y dietista en Gales, Reino Unido.
Recibirá una remuneración mensual de 9000 libras.
A cambio, compartirá valiosos consejos de salud.
Sus consejos contribuirán a un Reino Unido más saludable.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

When @JessicaBRiedl talks - sit up and take notice!

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Showing that "uncapping the payroll tax does not fully fund Social Security" is easy and requires no complicated models or "just trust me." Its basic math you can verify yourself.

CBO projects Social Security to level off at:
- Spending around 6.0-6.2% of GDP.
- Dedicated tax revenues of 4.5% of GDP (from 4.2% in payroll taxes plus 0.3% in other small taxes).

Yet we also know that SocSec's payroll tax covers 83% of all wages. Eliminating the cap would cover 100%.

So if covering 83% collects 4.2% of GDP in payroll taxes ... then covering 100% would collect 4.2/0.83=5.06% of GDP in payroll taxes.

Add back that 0.3% of GDP from related taxes, and we're at 5.36% of GDP in Social Security revenues.

That covers half of the funding gap (see chart).

(We're giving the rosiest scenario, so let's ignore that a tax hike of this size would give back some revenues from disincentives - and we're also canceling any earned benefits from these taxes).

That's it. That's the math you can verify yourself. The key calculation is that the current payroll tax catches 83% of wages and collects 4.2% of GDP. So you can calculate what a 100% policy would collect (an additional 0.86%) and compare to the spending projections.

So, no, "eliminate the cap, problem solved" is not correct. You still have to address benefits and the eligibility age.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@NormOrnstein Why won't Congress pass a law forbidding the construction?
https://t.co/ib2a9o0iZv

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Disrupting traffic, defiling the Lincoln Memorial, endangering air traffic, breaking the law, all to satisfy a malignant narcissist.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@Acyn "you're not going to believe how crooked election was."

2011:

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@mattyglesias @PunchbowlNews Mike Johnson may have a "secret" plan, but @JessicaBRiedl has a plan already out there for all to see.
https://t.co/sHVAR2tUXu

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@JaredRyanSears @JessicaBRiedl enters the discussion
https://t.co/qEtqB36auh

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@SSWorks Yeah, Trump's policies has made a bad situation worse.
But the underlying bad situation still needs to be addressd.
https://t.co/sHVAR2tUXu

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@YourAnonNews It has to be done.
GOP and Dems need a bipartisan approach to fixing our financial mess ASAP.
We need a commission with members like @JessicaBRiedl to come up with a serious plan that will include, yes, reducing some Soc Sec benefits.
To pretend otherwise is just pandering.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@j_fishback https://t.co/qTkI9BYHB1

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@Katie_Lam_MP "As soon as I am able to updoubt..."
Freudian slip, anyone?
https://t.co/IphbjnEGUp

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Does the Northern Ireland Secretary really not think that attempting to behead someone in the street is alien to our culture?

Why do they insist on not seeing what is plain as day to the rest of us?

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@Angry_Staffer The iron law confirmed.
#ETTD
https://t.co/RRI5W9GMVK

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Knicks: 13 playoff wins in a row.

Trump shows up to sleep through the game.

Knicks lose.

Coincidence? I think not.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@Acyn He says that as if it were a bad thing...
https://t.co/22ZH4ztpzE

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cruz: If the Democrats take the House, it will be nonstop impeachment. If they take the Senate, they will shut down every confirmation for every cabinet member and judge.

[John Quick @jantonyq]

@nickshirleyy The explanation is simple.
January 1, 1900, is a widely documented default/placeholder date in voter registration databases when birth dates are missing, illegible, or not entered from legacy paper records, indicating a clerical or data maintenance issue.