Spontaneous_Planner

Engineer turned reluctant s/w developer & personal finance geek. My family is in an unwanted eminent domain battle w/the corrupt Ok Turnpike Authority
she/her

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

Combined totals of lives and houses destroyed and displaced by the proposed Oklahoma Turnpike expansion: ~600 homes destroyed, ~3100 directly adjacent and affected.

#StopTheTollOK

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@jennyrozelle @dickensbrothers Every company is pushing paperless communication and I continue to click 'no' because I think this piece of mail may be the only clue to the accounts existence if I die.

But I think this is a problem

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@uberminch @herandrews I WISH we had assisted suicide.

My grandma died of Alzheimer's one wall away from me and if have that diagnosis I wish to God I could nope out before it gets advanced

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@herandrews My story has similarities to yours. My brother's death @ 21 was a family tragedy that my parents will never get over. It was also a family blessing because suddenly we were free to live.

And as eldest daughter, the crushing weight of my future responsibility was gone😔

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@astrasdoctor Sharing a name can be convenient, but I propose taking whichever name you both like the most or making one up.
My husband's name was better than mine & I don't regret taking it - but I will forever be bitter that I lost my mom's maiden name which was niche and unusual and I love!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

I don’t know if people understand that what the Trump regime is doing is historic. They are looting the treasury right in front of our eyes as they collapse the economy and start illegal wars of aggression. The corruption is so severe and brazen that it truly boggles the mind to take it all in.

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@consultingbooks @middle_class_us In a country where health insurance is tied to a job, entrepreneurship is a choice only some people get to make

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

As Sun Tzu famously said, start as many wars as possible, spread your resources as thinly as you can, attack everyone all at once

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump is doing to the U.S. what he did to all his businesses: siphon out as much cash as he can and leave the debts to the investors, in this case, the U.S. taxpayer.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

How is a person supposed to tell if they are having a psychotic break or not these days?

Everyone else can see the big rabbit listening to Trump talk about bombing Iran, right?

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@DividendGrowth Babies are cheaper than teenagers and you only get the credit 17 times!
If I could choose, I'd prefer to get the tax credit for one more teenage year than having it for the year that baby didn't even exist.
(Assuming tax laws stay the same - BIG if)

[Spontaneous_Planner @LeanOutEngineer]

@JeromeAdamsMD Popcorn ceiling Asbestos removal, $15k plus moving out of our house for weeks 😭

[Heather Thomas @HeatherThomasAF]

So Trump waged this war to...(checks notes)...ease sanctions on Iran and Russia, kill little girls, destroy American bases across the Middle East, cause a worldwide oil crisis, destroy the last remaining shreds of goodwill towards America from former allies, bankrupt the country, inspire vengeful terrorists to harm Americans, hand the formerly free SOH to Iran, and feed his sons billions in defense contracts.
And we still aren't distracted from Epstein.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Every dollar earned below $184,500 a year has a Social Security tax of 12.4%. Everything after that cap is exempt. If we lift this cap on the wealthiest earners, Social Security would be fully funded till 2070. The cap should not exist.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America. 

Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.

They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.

This was not a drill.

This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.

Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.

Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.

The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  https://t.co/lxQD3X8jaM

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA is the richest country on the planet it could have everything, the best healthcare, the best schools, the longest life expectancy, the best wages, the best pensions.

Instead it has 1000 billionaires with $10tn.

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

USPS? For sale. The military? Subcontracted to the Saudis/Israelis. The debt? YOURS!!!