Dixie Rose

Dixie Rose is our pups name.I am a huge dog lover, especially ours. I'm here for hopefully news, fun, and open exchange of ideas! Even ones I don't agree with🙂

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Just when you thought she couldn’t get any dumber…she goes and does something like this.

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@telqraft This should be made into a video game.

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@TeamTalaricoHQ There isn't a Reagan Republican alive that believes in trans children... or that men can become women by dressing as them.... and I don't think Reagan Republicans, like open borders...

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@DemocraticWins I thought your side HATED billionaires...🙄🤡

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

"Happy birthday, Bernie. Never change."

What does that even mean? Please remind us of his big accomplishments for "working people". 😂😂 He's basically just collected a government check his entire life and the perks that go along with it. Might be nice if he did change. Actually accomplish something instead of bitching about everything... for decades...

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@RepAdamSmith .... if none of those tax cuts would have happened, our country would still be $40 trillion in debt... Because you and your colleagues would have spent the rest of the money that came in... and billions more would have been wasted... it's not JUST you, it's all of you...

[Rep. Adam Smith @RepAdamSmith]

The single biggest driver of our nation’s $40 billion debt is 25 years of Republican tax cuts. Because their trademark Big, Beautiful Bill gave tax cuts to billionaires and wealthy corporations, working-class Americans will have to make up for the $4.7 trillion added to our deficits.

Balance the budget, put middle-class families first, and allow communities to invest in programs they need.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

ADAM CAROLLA: "You [Democrats] act like we’re arguing with your ideas. YOU CAN'T PULL YOUR IDEAS OFF.”

"You don't lift people out of poverty. You don't solve the homeless problem. You don't fix the environmental problem. You don't have clean, sustainable forms of energy. YOU DON'T DO ANY OF THAT STUFF. YOU TALK ABOUT IT."

ADDED CONTEXT: California spent $24,000,000,000 (that’s billion) on homelessness in five years. Despite the excessive spending, the state's own audit found Homelessness climbed 53% over the past decade to roughly 187,000 people.

High-speed rail was sold to voters in 2008 as a $33,000,000,000 bullet train from San Francisco to LA. Eighteen years later, completion sits at a whopping ZERO percent. Not a single mile of track is in service, and the state admits even the 171-mile Merced-to-Bakersfield starter segment can't be finished by the end of 2032 without more funding.

That's the Democratic Party in a nutshell. Say you want good schools, lift people out of poverty, make life better for the little guy. Then spend a whole bunch of money and get nothing done.

They say they want to end suffering for low-income communities but somehow end up solving nothing and instead extend the suffering to everyone else.

[Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 @kevinvdahlgren]

Breaking: the mayor of Denver calling fentanyl a homelessness survival drug. This is absolutely insane and ridiculous. What the hell is wrong with this guy?

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@iAnonPatriot When you make the children dumb this is the result. This is the indoctrination of our kids through public schools. At some point they will vote for the other dumb people that believe the same thing. Think @DemSocialists ...

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie's Math Homework: A $72 Trillion Question Nobody In The Senate Wants To Show Their Work On

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

I read your thread twice, once for content and once to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the part where a man who has held federal office since the Ford administration is lecturing ME about what is "too expensive." You want to talk about UnitedHealth's profits like they materialized in a vacuum, completely unconnected to the fifteen-year-old law that guaranteed insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base whether they perform well or not. That law is called the Affordable Care Act, Senator, and last I checked, you voted for it. You didn't just witness the fattening of the insurance cow. You helped build the pasture, installed the fence, and handed out the feed, and now you're standing in front of the barn acting shocked that the cow got fat. Somewhere a tree is tirelessly producing oxygen for you tonight, and I think it's owed an apology, because you are not using yours particularly well this evening.

Let's start with the sleight of hand in paragraph one. You call the current system "cruel, broken, and dysfunctional," which, fine, I'll grant you the applause line — even a stopped clock, Senator. But here's what a lot of folks quietly whisper about the ACA and never say on the record: the entire architecture was never designed to be a permanent fix. It was designed to be expensive enough, and dependent enough on subsidy, that it would eventually collapse into the very single-payer system you're pitching tonight. That was Obama's stated goal in private strategy sessions long before it was yours in public speeches. Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. You wrote a bill called the AFFORDABLE Care Act. Fifteen years later you're standing on the Senate floor admitting it isn't affordable. That's not an insult from me, Senator. That's a confession from you, and confessions from a snollygoster of your tenure are rarer than a two-dollar bill, so I'm framing this one.

Now to the number that should have every accountant in America reaching for the smelling salts: $72 trillion over ten years if "we do nothing." I'd love to see the model behind that figure, because your own side's favorite Yale/PERI study — the one claiming $1 trillion in annual savings and 114,000 lives saved — has been picked apart by health economists for baking in administrative-savings assumptions that have never once materialized in the real world. Meanwhile, independent nonpartisan estimates of full Medicare for All implementation run $25 to $44 trillion over a decade on the LOW end, and up to 40 to 60 percent of the entire federal budget on the high end. That's bigger than Social Security. Bigger than defense. You want the reins to more than half the federal checkbook from the same government that, and I want you to sit with this one, ALREADY runs three single-payer systems into a documented state of disrepair: Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service. All three are noted for fraud, waste, and corruption. Why exactly would we hand over the rest of American medicine to an operation that can't run the parts it already owns? Couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel, and you want the keys to the whole house. If stupidity were a renewable resource, this proposal alone would solve the energy crisis.

Let's talk about what "guaranteed healthcare" actually looks like once a government sets a fixed global budget, because it never means what the campaign poster implies. The United Kingdom's NHS currently has roughly 7.4 million people sitting on a waiting list. Canada's average wait for specialist treatment sits at 27.4 weeks — over half a year to see a specialist for a system you'd hold up as the model. When a country caps the total pot of money for healthcare, somebody, somewhere, in an office you never voted for, has to decide who gets the expensive treatment and who gets a wait-list number and a pamphlet. Ask your Canadian and British counterparts how many of THEIR citizens fly to Cleveland or Houston for care they can't get fast enough at home. Innovation doesn't happen in systems that ration by waiting line instead of by price; it happens in the system that's currently subsidizing the entire planet's drug research because it's the only market left where a return on investment is still possible. You want to nationalize the goose right after everyone else stopped feeding it, and you have the nerve to call that compassion.

And since we're doing incentive structures tonight, Senator, here's a question I'd genuinely like a straight answer on. When the budget for a nationalized system is fixed, and a hip replacement for a 78-year-old costs the same line item as a hip replacement for a 38-year-old worker still paying into the system, which patient does the bureaucrat's spreadsheet favor? I'm not the one who invented cost-per-quality-adjusted-life-year calculations — the health economists who built NICE in Britain did that, and it already factors age and remaining productive years into treatment approval. You can dress it up in whatever language you'd like. Call it stewardship. Call it efficiency. I call it exactly what it is: a system where somebody's grandmother gets a pat on the head and a prescription for ibuprofen while the math gets done in a back office. If brains were dynamite, half of Congress couldn't blow their nose, and yet here we are pretending fixed budgets and unlimited demand can coexist without somebody, somewhere, drawing a line nobody voted on.

Here's the part that should really sting, and I say this as someone who watched it happen in real time. Your own party just finished a forty-three day shutdown demanding permanent extension of the same ACA subsidies you're using tonight as evidence the system is broken. Those subsidies were written as TEMPORARY line items in Biden's Autopen's American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Zero Republican votes on either bill. Your party wrote the expiration date. When it arrived exactly as scheduled, your caucus shut down the federal government and then had the nerve to act shocked that a temporary Christmas bonus, in fact, expired on schedule. I keep hearing that ending the subsidy is somehow cruel, and yet nobody on your side has explained why a program can survive fifteen years and still require emergency pandemic cash to stay "affordable." And here's the part that really ought to embarrass you personally, Senator: back in 2013 YOU said Republicans "cannot continue to hold the American people hostage because of their hatred for the Affordable Care Act." In 2019 you said "end this horrific shutdown — stop taking hostages." In 2025, when your own party did the exact same thing over the exact same law, you went quiet in public and voted with the hostage-takers you spent a decade condemning. Quinn's Law Twenty-Two: the bigger the lie, the more the liberal repeats it. Quinn's Law Twenty-Three: liberals love the law right up until it's inconvenient, then they just don't follow it. You're not a statesman on this one, Senator. You're a weathervane with a Vermont accent.

Let's also revisit the insurance-company villain routine, because the hypocrisy here could power a small city. Your party's online base spent an entire news cycle canonizing a 26-year-old accused of murdering a health insurance CEO as some kind of folk hero, motivated, allegedly, by hatred of the insurance industry. Now here you are, defending a law that GUARANTEES that same industry a permanently subsidized customer base by federal statute. You can't cheer the vigilante and defend the victim's business model in the same news year without somebody noticing the whiplash. If you actually cared about breaking the insurance industry's grip, you'd be championing Health Savings Accounts, which put healthcare dollars directly under the individual's control instead of a bureaucracy's. But HSAs give power to the person, not the agency, and that's precisely why your side has never supported them with any real enthusiasm. Blatherskite is a word for a certain kind of talker, Senator, and I think you've earned it fair and square tonight — somebody who produces an impressive quantity of noise that, examined closely, contains no substance that survives contact with arithmetic.

Now, about the messenger. Because I would be doing my viewers a disservice if I let the argument stand without a word about the man delivering it. You are eighty-three years old, Senator. You own three houses. Your campaign spent $221,000 on chartered private aircraft in a single quarter last year, and when a reporter asked you about the mild irony of flying a $15,000-an-hour jet while denouncing the wealthy, your actual answer was "no apologies for that... you think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" No, Senator, apparently you are not going to sit in line with the rest of us — the same rest of us you'd like sitting in an NHS-style line for a hip replacement while you catch a connecting flight in first class. You honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988 and came back enthusiastic about what you saw there. A Democratic senator recently visited a formerly communist country and asked the locals what they thought of American politicians warming back up to socialism. Their answer, word for word: "that's the worst thing ever... you are morons." Not misguided. Not idealistic. Morons — from people who actually lived in the bread line you're romanticizing from a leased jet.

And here's the detail that I think explains everything, Senator, and I say this as gently as a man with a whiteboard can say it: you tried this once already, on a much smaller scale, and you couldn't hack it. You spent time as a young man on a hippie socialist commune, and by every account you did not stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. If a Vermont commune of a few dozen willing adults couldn't hold you, I have genuine, science-teacher-grade doubts about your ability to run a healthcare system for 340 million Americans who never agreed to live there in the first place. You are, in the most literal sense available, the poster child for why socialism doesn't work — because even the guy selling it to us full-time couldn't make it work for himself in a group small enough to fit in a farmhouse.

So here's my counteroffer, Senator, and I want it on the record that I am saying this with a completely straight face: maybe I'm for socialism after all. On one condition. We get to deport every parasite in the system who refuses to contribute a life's worth of work to keep it running. No exceptions. No sob stories. Socialism doesn't care about sob stories, Senator — that's YOUR line, not mine, you've just never applied it to yourself. Pack your bags. Send them all to Greenland. I hear it's lovely this time of year, and I understand the president's been looking to expand our footprint up there anyway. Somebody has to be first in line.

Since we're apparently finding $72 trillion in the couch cushions for a program that hasn't passed, I do have a much smaller question. Who pays for it, Senator? I keep hearing "tax the rich" from your side, and I'll believe the sincerity of that slogan the day one of you voluntarily pays double what the IRS says you owe with no itemized deductions, standard deduction only, before lecturing the rest of us about fair shares. Until then it's just theater, and not even good theater — Lindsay Lohan handing you the keys to the minibar would be a more responsible use of resources. This country was founded by geniuses and every generation since has managed to elect a fresh batch of people who think a $72 trillion program pays for itself if you just believe hard enough. My family of six runs on a teacher's salary, and I could not get away with your math homework in my own classroom, let alone in front of 340 million people who actually have to pay the bill. I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup, poop out a smarter healthcare plan than the one you posted tonight, and still have time to grade papers before first period.

And before anyone accuses me of pulling a conspiracy theory out of thin air, on January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert Herlong stood on the floor of the House and read into the permanent Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America, sourced from Cleon Skousen's research. Goal Number 30 calls for discrediting the American founding in favor of the belief that centralized government planning is superior to a free market. Goal Number 32 calls for supporting any movement that hands centralized control over any part of the culture to the state, education, welfare, and social agencies included. I'm not asking anyone to believe in a sixty-year plot. I'm asking you to look at tonight's thread and tell me, honestly, which goal it more closely resembles. You've spent sixty years auditioning for both, Senator, and tonight you finally landed the part.

I have three questions for you, and I'd genuinely like an answer, though I won't be holding my breath long enough to turn a different color over it. Did you not read the actual cost projections on your own bill and are just repeating what the base wants to hear regardless of the math? Are you no longer sharp enough at eighty-three to understand what a $72 trillion price tag actually does to a currency? Or do you understand it perfectly well and are simply comfortable deceiving the people who send you back to Washington every six years? Pick one. There is no fourth option, and "all of the above" is not the flex you think it is.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who insists on reading the CBO score before I sign my name to anything, unlike a man who apparently could not even survive the small-scale pilot program of his own ideology.

#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks @TPUSA

[Dire Straits 🎸 @DireStraits77]

WOW 🎸🫶

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon has created $3 trillion of value with his companies and pays the salaries of 150,000 people.

Bernie helped create $36 trillion of debt with his time in Congress and pays the salaries of 0 people.

Elon’s wealth is not the problem, Bernie’s communist policies are.

Simple.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

It's amazing how these people never ever talk about producing anything people need. Socialism one big bitching session for ungrateful leeches.

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@emeriticus Wow. Your takes just keep getting more dumb... Even when I didn't think it was possible...

[Zoya @Zoyag9fc]

No. Just women have periods...

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@harryjsisson No. They aren't mad about that. In fact, quite the opposite. They're very happy. It just proves a closed border helps...

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@HouseGOP The stupidity of the people that are in charge of teaching our children has reached a new pinnacle....

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@uspolitics1111 At some point we will look back and feel embarrassed that anyone considered her an "influencer".... Can you imagine how pathetic your life is that her or @hasanthehun actually influenced your thoughts on politics...😂😂

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@adammocklerr It's almost like... when you shut down the border. It actually works...🤡😂

[Dixie Rose @letsbekind2each]

@maria_drutska "The US is being run by self-obsessed high school bullies right now who hate smart people and facts."

So all the "smart people" are the morons that got us where we are today.... and if our "standing in the world" is dependent on what they think.... fuck that!!