Jason Slade

Luckiest Husband alive, father to 4 great kids, Business owner, Die hard BYU fan

[Jason Slade @Jasonlslade]

@espn Wait…. Don’t tell me. Also 26 shot attempts? Stop forcing this nonsense.

[Jason Slade @Jasonlslade]

@T_Cloud4 Just leave. Find somewhere else that fits you better. The greatest country in the history of the world allows you to make your ignorant comments without reprisal. Good luck spewing your ignorance anywhere else on this planet.

[Terrell Williams @XRPBYU]

BYU's S&C and Medical team (shout-out Doc Mayne) is in my very biased opinion the best in the country. 💪🔥

To leave Fall camp with zero season ending injuries is a testament to those guys, and players taking their guidance.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

We’ve had a Republican led Senate for almost 2 years.

- 0 recess appointments.
- 0 election laws.
- $40,000,000 weekly to the Taliban.

Our @SenateGOP has been a huge disappointment. They suck.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Stan Druckenmiller says it again…

"Anyone who says we don’t have to cut entitlements is lying. We can either cut them now or we’re going to cut them later. But if we cut them later, it’s going to be much more painful."

[JOHN MACDONALD @JOHNMACCW5]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

Everyone shouts "Tax the Rich"... but look at the facts.

A $150k earner pays around $30,600 in federal tax.

A $25k earner pays about $1,200.

It takes 25 people on $25k to contribute what one person on $150k does.

So why drive high earners out of the U.S. when they already shoulder most of the burden?

The problem isn't how much tax is collected.

The problem is how much the government wastes.

Stop blaming the rich.

Start holding the government to account.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse.

Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

[Dean Cain @Deancain]

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[LibertyBelle @LibertyBellaaa]

I went in work today. I told my boss that I hate our company and am actively working to dismantle it. I pledged my allegiance to our competitor. I told them our company sucks and I’m taking two weeks off, with pay. Who cares what our customers want. I’m doing what I want.

Just kidding. I’d get fired.
Only members of Congress are allowed to do that.

[Jason Slade @Jasonlslade]

@real_Caroline_K Your account was hacked. Or this is an early April fools joke.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.

President Trump has taken action that his predecessors have long deferred. Under his leadership, America is no longer managing the Iranian threat. We are ending it. Those who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership. Those who tether themselves to Tehran should expect to share in the isolation of a withering regime.

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett]

47% of government spending is on some form of welfare. Only 8% is on defense.

Reducing welfare spending is profoundly difficult politically...but it must be done or we will go the way of Rome.

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

SCOOP: Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent will do whatever it takes to "put the fear of God" into the bond vigilantes, shorting the long end of the curve in an attempt to drive the 10 year yield to 5%, Wall Street executives with direct knowledge of his thinking say. That would include buy backs, selling short-term debt, possible elimination of long-dated bonds like the 20 year etc. It's a short-term solution to keep yields from soaring further, strangling growth as the midterms approach, they say, and doesn't address the real problem: Debt now at the $40 trillion level, and competition for capital from AI buildout. Longer term, don't look for austerity coming out of the Trump White House in its remaining years, they say. The plan remains top possibly "grow" out of the debt level through increased tax revs because the cure for such high debt levels would be recession inducing taxes or austerity. Story developing

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Nobody against data centers understands data centers.

Nobody against Flock cameras understands how they work or what they do.

Nobody demanding Medicare for All knows how Medicare currently functions or what it would cost.

Nobody saying “tax the rich” knows how much the rich already pay in taxes.

Nobody saying “seize the means of production” knows how to build or maintian the means of production.

Nobody saying “fund education” knows how much we already spend on education.

Nobody saying “no new wars” understands geopolitics.

Nobody saying “ban corporate landlords” knows what percentage of homes corporations actually own.

Nobody saying “developers are greedy” understands why housing costs what it does.

Nobody demanding price controls understands what happens to supply when you cap prices.

Nobody saying billionaires could “end homelessness” knows what governments already spend on homelessness.

Nobody saying “just build public housing” knows what it costs government to build a single unit.

Nobody demanding free college knows how much universities already receive from taxpayers.

Nobody saying “just nationalize it” can look at what the government already operates and understand why that's a bad idea.

Modern politics increasingly rewards having the strongest possible opinion about something you have spent the least possible time trying to understand.

The American voter increasingly demand sensationalism and they have no idea how wealthy they are compared to the rest of the world.

They may end up being the cause of their self inflicted belt tightening and they are in no way ready for an ounce of actual poverty.

We need immediate competence to take over sensationalism and social media, especially tiktok is the enemy of that.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Ground beef is expensive because the U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it has been in roughly 75 years.

Why is the herd so small?

The shortage developed during the Biden administration as years of drought forced ranchers to cull cows, while high feed and input costs made matters worse.

The cattle cycle takes years to reverse.

And no, cattle don’t magically appear because people are angry about grocery prices.

Cattle take 18–24 months just to reach slaughter weight. Rebuilding the breeding herd takes even longer.

So what did Trump do?

He announced a 90-day deal allowing up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef into the U.S. with no out-of-quota tariffs and a commitment to sell it 25% BELOW current market prices.

The goal?

Give working families some relief at the grocery store NOW while American ranchers rebuild the herd.

A temporary increase in supply to help lower the price of one of the most expensive grocery staples without permanently undercutting U.S. cattle producers.

That’s called a practical solution.

But sure, keep complaining about literally everything.

God forbid anyone acknowledge a concrete step that could actually LOWER food prices.

A simple “thank you” would do.

Good grief.

[American Alpha @AmericanAlphaX]

Let’s see if I’ve got this right…

5 Democrat states are suing Trump to keep Somalians defrauding America.

19 states are suing him to allow forced sex change operations on kids.

22 states are suing him to hide voter data.

21 states are suing him to give SNAP benefits to illegal immigrants.

Stop calling them liberals and start calling them what they really are… traitors & communists. Let’s make that a trend.

[Vitruvius Republic 🇺🇸 @realMAG1775]

They were silent when Biden gutted the herd. Now rage at a 90-day window for cheaper beef. Ranchers need long-term help. Families need lower prices today. Trump is trying both. One-sided critics only see the import.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 NOW — REP. CHU (D): Do you agree with Trump that you don't care about Americans' financial situation?!

SCOTT BESSENT: Who was the president during World War I?

CHU: I don't know

BESSENT: You don't know? [...] Trump does care. He is FUTURE-PROOFING. I can tell you Americans' financial situations would be devastated if Iran got a nuclear weapon, and there was a permanent shutdown of energy out of the Middle East. And I promise you President WOODROW WILSON — who was president during WWI — the Germans did not attack us. He got into that, it was a war of principle, and President Wilson felt the same.