Marc Chase

Editor @UnWonked. 40 years in markets taught me to price in disappointment. Politics confirmed it.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

I miss the days when a guy cheating on his wife only ruined two people’s finances.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@WalshFreedom You really don't realize you're everything you hate about Trump, do you?

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@SenSanders Bernie, sure... nobody wants a "Chernobyl-type meltdown"

But if we pause development while China goes full steam ahead, what's the plan?

Ask them nicely to wait for us?

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

More importantly: How much, who pays, and by when?

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

With our new majority, we must:

✅ Deliver bold cost relief
✅ Get big money out of politics
✅ Ban gerrymandering
✅ Pass universal healthcare
✅ Invest in education 
✅ Create a pathway to citizenship
✅ Build millions of homes
✅ Regulate AI & data centers
✅ End forever wars

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@jamestalarico Big list. If you can only get one through, which is it?

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

5/5 My Point

AI has made me a better writer, researcher, and apparently an aspiring 1900s political cartoonist.

But I don't want AI deciding what I think. How I write, or how to express myself.

Use AI to research. Use it to challenge yourself. Just don't hand it your personality for the sake of more content faster.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

In 1770, the trick was hiding a human inside the machine. Now we hide the machine inside the human.
(A thread)

Something pretty funny is happening on X. Half of my timeline went from looking like they failed third-grade English, to sounding like college professors.

Then everyone started to recognize AI.

Now, we're telling AI to carefully construct sloppy writing. That's noticeable, too.

We're using AI to disguise the fact that we're using AI. 😂

Anyway, I use AI. A lot. It's technology and nothing to be embarrassed about.

But i think there's a sweet spot between being lazy and refusing to use it at all. It's important to keep that human connection.

Tech = Good. Turning into Robots = bad.

Here's how I use it.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

4/5 The Cartoons

This is my favorite part.

As I'm researching and writing, pictures start forming in my head. Sometimes its a politician juggling promises. Sometimes its a ridiculous scene that explains the entire article in a single image without a single word.

I've always loved those old newspaper political cartoons. If I were starting my career all over again, political cartoonist would probably be on the list.

One small problem. I can't draw worth a shit.

Now, I can describe what I'm picturing in my head and and AI does an Amazing job. I LOVE IT.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

Depends on how you ask: Getting in the door his harder today, sometimes much harder. The price and the down payment are 6X 1981 (I just recently ran numbers on '81)

Paying it off was harder in '81: at 16.64% interest. Buyers paid back 422% of the price over 30 years. Today its 204%

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@Paschal40565381 Honestly, I'm less worried about what's in it than where it ends up. Stronger bills get written all the time. They just retire to the desk drawer.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

Rounding 38% of the country down to "nobody" is winner-take-all math.

Adam, in all his wisdom, is actually making the case for the electoral college.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Nobody likes the electoral college.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@AdamKinzinger Under a straight popular vote, which states stop getting campaign visits first, and is that better or worse than now?

Fortunately, the constitution doesn't have a like button, Adam.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

Sigh. We've reached the point where fact-checking feels like an unnecessary extra step.

We can just assume they're all full of shit and save everyone some time.

To be fair she has co-sponsored a stronger bill... that is sitting in a desk drawer somewhere.

As usual, Congress has found yet another way to support a ban on congressional stock trading without actually banning Congressional stock trading.

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

We need to ban presidents and members of Congress from stock trading.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@ProfAnthony0114 Wow. Congratulations, that's pretty impressive.

[Marc Chase @MarcChaseWrites]

@ewarren That's roughly $2.3 trillion in promises and only $1 trillion in proposed tax revenue.

I understand your relationship with math is complicated, but we're still missing $1.3 trillion.

We just gonna wing it and tax some random rich folks along the way?