John Burris

Former State Rep/House GOP Leader. Conservative. Partner at CAG. Believer in assistance for people; not mad bc they’re poor. Opposed to government control.

[John Burris @john_burris]

I’m not a falafel hushpuppy expert, but I had one at Big Orange that seems like the best you could ever have.

[John Burris @john_burris]

All of a sudden it’s dragon flies and mosquitos. Seasons are worlds apart.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "The bottom 2% in terms of income in the United States, the bottom 5%, and for sure the top 1% all live better than John D. Rockefeller was living when I was six years old."

"John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world and, today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, better transportation. You can do everything better than he could."

"When I was born, the dentist didn't use novocaine!"

[Dow @mark_dow]

Trump has won this war 7 times.

He’s negotiated a peace settlement 12 times.

And he’s opened the Strait of Hormuz at least 4 times.

What more do you want from him?

[John Burris @john_burris]

Riding out some rain at the Purple Cow & rethinking some snobbery I’ve held on the inside. An impressively good turkey Reuben and habanero salsa (separately).

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Employers are clamoring for workers who can do doctor-like work but who are trained faster and can cost them less. https://t.co/wAzTIMcPwh

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Never forget.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

i can still live another 50 years if @Mike_Pence has the courage

[1926 Live @100YearsAgoLive]

In a budget speech, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces a betting tax.

The 5% tax on stakes paid at racecourses or through credit bookmakers is expected to raise £6 million in a full year.

Gamblers are upset.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The "invisible guest theory" is a 25-year-old psychology experiment with a TikTok rebrand, and the actual mechanism is more useful than the viral version.

Cornell ran this in 2000. Made students wear a Barry Manilow t-shirt into a room full of strangers. Students predicted 50% of the room noticed the shirt. Actual number: 23%. Less than half what they expected. The researchers called it the spotlight effect.

The mechanism is anchoring. Your brain starts with your own experience of the moment, which is extremely vivid and detailed because you're living it, and then tries to adjust for how much less other people are paying attention. The adjustment is always too small. You feel 100% of your own embarrassment and assume everyone else feels at least 60% of it. They feel about 15%.

But here's what the viral version leaves out. Gilovich ran a follow-up and found the effect works in BOTH directions. People also overestimate how much others notice their positive contributions. You think your clever joke landed with the whole room. It didn't. You think everyone saw you handle that tense moment well. They didn't. The spotlight shines equally on your wins and your failures, which means both are mostly invisible.

The real freedom isn't "nobody's judging you." The real freedom is that nobody's paying nearly as much attention as you think, to anything you do, good or bad. Once you internalize that, you stop performing entirely.

[John Burris @john_burris]

A lot of good stuff here. The adults love to talk about the kids (appropriately), but the kids learn from the parents. If you’re gonna rag on a generation you gotta rag on who raised it.

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Ben Sasse: "What’s really happening is these superdevices in our pockets — the largest tools any median individual’s ever had access to in all of human history — allow our consciousness to leave the time and place where we actually live, the places where we break bread, the people who are living next door to us, the people that you can physically touch and hug, the small platoons of real community, and we allow our consciousness to go really far away"

[John Burris @john_burris]

“Unprecedented” is an overused word, especially in politics. But Donald Trump live-tweeting Middle Eastern wars checks the box. I have less of an opinion about what helps or hurts, just sitting on my back porch thinking what interesting times.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

BREAKING 🔴

Trump: "There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!" - President DONALD J. TRUMP

[John Burris @john_burris]

It’s my favorite time of year for Facebook check-in. Intense dialogue and name-calling in the comments on any post about “What kind of snake is this?” Close second is “What kind of animal track is this in my snow?” & third is always election night Facebook.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

It is amazing how he can say this crap with a straight face.

[John Burris @john_burris]

Old man tweet.. in 2010 it was a huge deal in #arpx when a majority of Republican caucus signed the “No New Tax Pledge.” Gov & many others called it crazy. 2011 was first session #arleg didn’t raise taxes on the net. 2013 was first income tax cut in history. And now here we are.

[AFP Arkansas @AFPArkansas]

Thank you Senator Brad Simon for supporting a simpler, more competitive tax future for Arkansas. 🇺🇸

Does your legislator support the Pathway to Zero? Check here: https://t.co/GnijKH8rZb

[John Burris @john_burris]

@robertwcoon I’m ok with none. A bunch of finches, chickadees and tufted titmouses around here.

[John Burris @john_burris]

It seems as if I see fewer robins today than I did as a kid. Is the perception wrong, it is location specific, or do others get the same feeling? Other birds abound. Just no robins, which was the staple as a kid.

[KATV News @KATVNews]

The former chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board was indicted on charges that he drugged and abducted patients at a psychiatric facility in order to get more money from health care reimbursements, according to an indictment released on Monday.
https://t.co/hM0IWzYIaA

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent. https://t.co/IspakEQUHg

[John Burris @john_burris]

I never even considered french fries in ice cream but started doing it by accident and love it. (Daisy Queen in Marshall likes to bag it right).