Amateur Pundit

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[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@sjthomsen @HoegLaw @smod4real Tariffs are taxes borne by citizens. Military conflicts cost more than taxes, and those are also borne by citizens.

Which approach is more economically efficient for inducing foreign actors to change their behavior?

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@Jason @curtis_yarvin @grok Collapsing all of politics into right vs. left, or R vs. D is like watching a football game on a 1 pixel TV.

However, whoever wins has the support of at least half the voters.

That's actually a big deal.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

Government invariably meddles in the most vital industries, chasing out capital and talent, creating shortages and rising prices. Invariably.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

True

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@RobSchneider @andybiggs4az We need to offer election workers significant rewards for whistle-blowing and turning in their bosses.

In a large precinct, a reward of just $100/ballot could make millionaires out of whistle-blowers who turn in their bosses.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@RobSchneider @andybiggs4az We need to offer election workers significant rewards for whistle-blowing and turning in their bosses.

In a large precinct, a reward of just $100/ballot could make millionaires out of whistle-blowers who turn in their bosses.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@shipwreckedcrew This isn't a poll. It's a market that can be manipulated directly by people happy to lose money.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

Repeal the 17th amendment.

Self-appointed Senators are the problem.

As the founders intended, senators should be selected and held accountable by their state legislatures.

They would still be corrupt, but they would be corrupt in many different ways.

Today, senators collude in a single form of corruption, working together to protect themselves from controversy and competition.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

Repeal the 17th amendment.

Self-appointed Senators are the problem.

As the founders intended, senators should be selected and held accountable by their state legislatures.

They would still be corrupt, but they would be corrupt in many different ways.

Today, senators collude in a single form of corruption, working together to protect themselves from controversy and competition.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@mrddmia @MarshaBlackburn @grok what are Blackburn's stated issues with the nominee?

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@RandyEBarnett @grok Tell us about the time SCOTUS ruled that a farmer growing crops on his own land for his own use could be considered engaging in interstate commerce?

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@RonDeSantis And they allowed weak businesses to be liquidated.

No bailouts.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@shipwreckedcrew It was not random banter.

Joe's absence remains a significant component of the structure of our relationship with Beijing.

Trump may even have had this precise moment in mind when he commissioned the image.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@willchamberlain And Biden's absence of leadership is an important component of the dynamic of our relationship with Beijing today.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Over the past few days I have heard a number of very sober, well-reasoned commentators on the political right talking about the midterms and related polling.

They uniformly speak about the House already being a lost cause for the GOP, and they focus on whether the GOP can hold the Senate.

Things do not need to be this way. Trump won in 2024 by large margins. The only reason that cannot be repeated this fall is if YOU—the average Trump voter—decides to let it happen.

I know, I know, I know. Trump has not made all of your hopes and dreams come true in two years’ time. You think he has done nothing, even though he has had profound victory after profound victory in areas like immigration and downsizing the federal government. You have your pet issue that has not been satisfied to the extent you demand, so you want to “Stay home and send them a message.”

Yes the GOP sucks. It’s a heinous mess of self-interest and failed status quo maintenance.

But the only thing worse is the Democrat Party.

We are running against LITERAL COMMUNISTS who want to abolish the Senate, pack the Supreme Court, add two new deep blue states, open the borders to unlimited immigration and succumb to creeping Sharia and jihad in order to literally destroy the nation. (Plus, they will spend the next two years impeaching Trump and everyone in his orbit, fully defeating what you voted for in 2024.)

So you have two choices. It’s a binary choice, there is no third option:

1. Vote for doing everything we can to pursue MAGA even if that’s not perfect.

2. Stay home and become ruled by literal Communists who want you dead.

Choose.

We can still win this fall, we just need the will to do it.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@elonmusk @skdh On earth (and maybe Mars) deep geothermal is free energy with little surface footprint. @QuaiseEnergy

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@tspooky @grok Are he and his claims credible?

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@JDVance Is this a joke? If you steal from us, we won't let you borrow money from us? Seriously?

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@CynicalPublius They chased a generation of new American doctors out of the industry.

Making it difficult for many Americans to pronounce their doctors' names today.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@Austen No. The history of regulation is the first big players in close the door behind them. Barrier to entry makes them exponentially richer.

[Amateur Pundit @onemorepundit]

@grok @Tgrafixshirts @robotaxi That's the cycle time. Unit process time (a.k.a. throughput time) is the total time for each unit.