Dubious Maximus

[Dubious Maximus @johnhendrix_10]

I started thinking about what I want to do with my life. So I decided to take an online career quiz. The number one result: crossing guard. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers in these trying times.

PS: I have nothing against crossing guards. I just don’t want to be one.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

No, you don't get it.

He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.

To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.

Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".

$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12

If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.

But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

[amanda @amandatalks__]

taxing unrealized capital gains would hurt him more than bill gates or Elon musk btw

[Dip Wheeler @DipWheeler]

"you're 8 months behind on chipotle klarna payments because you've been saving up for the spacex ipo?"

[James Fishback @j_fishback]

This is why I’m opposed to free healthcare. You and I shouldn’t pay for this person’s doctor’s bills.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[TankieRepublic @TankieRepublic]

@BNODesk This exact scenario happened with Reagan and Israel in 1982

[ali @alibrooke4ever]

they’re gonna die on the same day like jefferson and adams

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

I'm getting feedback from some Seniors, saying that only young people should have to pay property taxes because it's the young people that have children in the public schools.

That because Seniors don't make use of the public schools, they shouldn't have to help pay for them.

Okay, sure -- I can appreciate this logic.

So now, let's readjust everyon'e healthcare insurance costs.

Younger people barely need medical assistance at all -- so we can go ahead and adjust their rates DOWN.

Older people, however, quite often need medical assistance -- so we can do ahead and adjust their rates UP -- by right around 60%, according to the best estimates.

Afterall, we wouldn't want younger people subsidizing something that they don't personally use, right?

[Richard Spencer 🇺🇦 @RichardBSpencer]

I think we should consider a Youth Tax as an effective alternative to a Wealth Tax. The Youngs could directly transfer a portion of their income to the Olds, or perhaps have this money sent directly to Princess or Viking cruise lines, which could offer our seniors free vouchers. Others propose that what could really motivate young people is national conscription—not into the military—but as ball boys and girls at local pickle ball courts.

[Virginia Political Memes @VApoliticalmeme]

There is a plaque dedicated to a nonexistent Civil War battle at Trump National Golf Club in Northern Virginia.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

History teaches us that taking advice from neocon chicken hawks gets us endless quagmires in the Middle East.

[Plus EV Analytics @PlusEVAnalytics]

That's my quant

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king.

If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule.

If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.

[Alex @EuropaActual]

Notice how every post about the KY-04 race is either pro-Massie or anti-Massie?

No one is pro-Gallrein. That should tell you everything you need to know.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

This is just a remarkable performance today by @RepJackKimble

[Dubious Maximus @johnhendrix_10]

@RustySuretteTV Great map!

[Ryan English @gruevy]

An editor on Facebook once complained that she was sent a 1,000,000 word novel. I replied "If the labor theory of value was real, you'd publish it and he'd make a pile of money" and a lot of communist authors got really mad at me

[RichardRatBoy @RichardRatBoy1]

Frontier Airlines:

“And to my friend Spirit Airlines. Rest now. We have the watch. See you in Valhalla.”

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

Spirit Airlines didn't need a "federal bailout." It needed the Biden DoJ to allow its merger with JetBlue

But the Biden DoJ, like most dopes on TV, thought: mergers mean bigger and bigger means bad

Because they know the optimal size an airline should be