Michael Sorg

Politics, Economics, and Sports. I don't think things like "price gouging" and insider trading should be illegal.

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@CDeHarde This battle looks like the future...

[Shirokuma @shirobruin]

@KTVU I’ve never seen anyone unironically and literally use the broken window fallacy.

Incredible.

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@MattWhitlock @AsheSchow As soon as they realized that's what their base wants...

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Democrats: “I can solve every problem in the world if I get $200 billion from Elon Musk!”

Normals: “You spend $7 trillion a year and you haven’t fixed all that stuff yet?”

Democrats:

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@amyklobuchar For 5% of what the federal government currently spends, we could do all of these things? Given you've been in the role of allocating tax revenues, do you just have these things low on the priority list?

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@jasonrmcintyre @pickyreviewer80 Can you find someone who worked at that rate for 17 years?
It's not a mandated wage, it's just the floor (aside from some exempt situations like internships).

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@amyklobuchar The federal government spends 25x more than that every year, if that's your priority why haven't you done it?

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@PrisonMike2782 @CryptoMikli There are a whole lot of people with that build, most never make it to the league.

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@KhanKtinga @AriFleischer "Because I can't do something, no one can!"

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@KhanKtinga @AriFleischer "I couldn't imagine someone doing something, so therefore it's impossible!"

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@AOC Why do democrats always pretend that the next dollar collected would finally be the one spent effectively?
If you think a few billion would make it so everyone had a doctor or food, why do you assign so many dollars elsewhere?

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@StephanyNuggs87 @HolderStephen Sorry you don't understand basic economics. Would you like to know why I hold those positions?

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@StephanyNuggs87 @HolderStephen Oh no, does he have cooties?

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@StephanyNuggs87 @HolderStephen Bootlicker? Are you 12?

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@chrisdmowrey He's paid more than your have, you should be forced to contribute to society on the level he has.

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@RoKhanna Just as with any government spending, any extra money goes to pet projects, while every cut dollar comes from necessities.

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@RoKhanna Where would the professors come from? The extra demand would just balloon their salary and the easy access to funds would allow colleges to charge even more. You wouldn't get half of what you thought because inflation in education would be extraordinary.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

They spent years telling us the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had to look like a stagnant swamp because that was the price of being enlightened.

An Obama-era redesign turned it into a green, algae-choked mess that started blooming within a week of reopening. The official explanation from the National Park Service was delivered with perfect bureaucratic sincerity: “This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project.” Another spokesperson added that “the conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.” It also leaked. And it smelled. These were treated as acceptable trade-offs, almost proof of moral seriousness.

The same people who designed buildings meant to dwarf human beings and make them feel small lectured everyone else about dignity and public space.

They replaced columns and ornament with Brutalist slabs and called the result progress. They let fountains sit broken and dry for decades, then acted shocked when the capital started feeling like a place people merely passed through rather than a place worth caring about.

Then Trump did the subversive thing. He looked at the reflecting pool and noticed the word “pool” in the name. Instead of convening another round of ecological theorists, he brought in people who actually fix pools. They sealed it, tinted the water blue, and ran it like a swimming pool. The algae vanished. The smell disappeared. The monuments stopped reflecting a swamp.

The absurdity isn’t just that it was broken for years. It’s that the people in charge had convinced themselves ... and tried to convince everyone else ... that fixing it would have been the extremist act.

All it took was refusing to treat basic maintenance as a political statement.
(article below)

[Michael Sorg @mrsorg]

@ThatchEffendi @On3LastAccount I voted for Nero. Sure, he allowed the city to burn, but the competition had no experience at all, they could even let the city burn!