PatriaVandia

Trying to meet everyone on this planet. Bit of an energy expert from my banking and trading days.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@Jason______A I simultaneously don’t want to hear about other peoples’ problems but also feel the obligation to help them fix them so they don’t spiral into fucking hurricanes

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Further explanation which I think is insightful:

Washington DC is culturally liberal. The institutions that long-tenure senators interact with daily: the press corps, the think tanks both parties actually attend (Brookings, CFR, Aspen, Carnegie), the schools their kids go to, the dinner parties are all left-of-center. That creates asymmetric social pressure:

A Republican who drifts left gets rewarded. The press calls them a "statesman," a "maverick," a "reasonable voice." They get invited to the bipartisan events. Their kids don't get weird looks at Sidwell Friends. McCain got this. Collins gets this. Murkowski gets this. There's a whole media infrastructure that celebrates the "heroic moderate Republican."

A Democrat who drifts right gets... nothing. There's no equivalent conservative institutional establishment in DC that would celebrate them. No black-tie dinner full of journalists who would applaud them for being "courageous" by moving right. Their base would primary them. The press wouldn't reward them. So they don't.

The incentive structure is one-directional. DC's Overton window is set by the press corps and the permanent institutions, and it pulls left. Republicans face constant pressure to accept that frame as the price of being taken seriously. Democrats are already inside the frame.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@StevenPWalsh @feelsdesperate Haha this is 100% the most correct explanation. Dudes hit the place with the fattest burger or the largest steak with no pomp and circumstance when they grab meals. They don’t want to split a single 1oz salmon and cough up $200 for “the vibe”.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@PEoperator @ExcelHumor Completely agree. Being stuck in excel is the equivalent of running an X-ray on a person but not being given time to interpret the results and provide remedies/solutions.

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

In 2024, Washington, D.C. recorded a homicide rate ranging between 27.3 and 27.54 per 100,000 residents, marking one of the highest rates among U.S. cities. Mexico City boasts a murder rate of 10/100k and Ottawa achieves an incredible 1.3/100k. DC has the highest murder per capita rate of almost any capital city in the world.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@BowTiedBroke How attached are you to the foot on the right?

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@Couillon45s @NewsFinOil Was gonna say the same thing. These drivers likely literally stepped straight from a smuggler’s trailer into an uber car to drive to start making money. Speaking English should be the least of worries.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@SidKeVichaar Does this help explain anything to you:

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@piersmorgan

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@InezFeltscher @Hertz @hertz is awful. Use @nationalcares when they don’t have my car they throw an even nicer car at me.

[CLM @CindyLM1969]

@DefiantLs If you use they/them. You can not use "I" in your sentences. It has to be us. They have ruined logic and English.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@Cernovich Posts like this are basically a “virtual coup”. Americans are reading what their hard-earned dollars are being spent on and are revolting by shining a light on it. Love it.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@IamTravisNelson Whatever you need to cling to to ease your grief…

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@BillKristol Can you just come out as a liberal at this point?

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

@MrJonCryer https://t.co/YEB0VGDegh

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If anyone needed further proof that I strongly support freedom of speech, please note that even a nutcase like Olbermann, who is literally calling for my arrest and government seizure of my companies, is in no way being censored

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

There is a mask off moment when you realise that a huge number of people long for a totalitarian police state, provided it only targets their enemies.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s a direct quote of Master Yoda!

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@davidaxelrod If it’s a lie, please explain why only five Democrats voted for the bill to protect elections from non-citizen voting and why President Biden pledged to veto a bill requiring election participation to be citizen only.

[PatriaVandia @patriot20171]

Can we get this trending: where is Akon?