Ryan Servant

Known to tweet about Markets, Fintech and/or International Finance. Abolitionist. Small L Libertarian. Mennonite. Higher Ed Tech Admin. Not the realtor.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

What if I have $350k down?

This is a useless thought exercise without quantitative data. I also wouldn’t buy a $400000 house with zero down. Even making $130k.

[theficouple @theficouple]

Hot take:

If you want a $400,000 home but make less than $130,000/yr?

You cannot comfortably afford a $400,000 home.

...Do you agree?

[Isabel22 @isabel_cumming]

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[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

@isabel_cumming Appreciate all your hard work Isabel!

[Kmele 🖐 @kmele]

*Compliance* can’t be everything where training is inadequate + alleged misconduct is barely investigated.

Example: If you get conflicting directions from a law enforcement officer —and let’s presume this officer is reliably unprofessional in other ways too— how do you *comply*?

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Follow the Constitution.
Uphold the Bill of Rights.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

@RoguePOTUSStaff @KaitMarieox @NatlParkService The US constitution? It’s the same reason why a hate group can’t permit&fence off town square and only let the people they like in. I guess the could in a vaccuum, but they can’t *legally* get the park service to enforce.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Administrative warrants have never lawfully been used to enter a home, nor are they recognized by the Supreme Court or any court in this context.

Warrants under common law were judicial warrants. The Fourth Amendment requires a warrant from the judiciary. That’s the point of it!

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Another appalling and disgraceful effort by DHS to mislead the public and erode rights secured by the Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment requires a judicial warrant to enter a home. The purpose is to ensure that a separate branch of government serves as a check.

An administrative warrant comes from the executive branch, the same branch seeking entry. It’s like getting permission from yourself. This is wholly insufficient under the Fourth Amendment.

What DHS is doing is about as un-American and anti-American as it gets. Americans fought a revolution over this, and everyone should speak out against it.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

@RoguePOTUSStaff @KaitMarieox @NatlParkService Not quite. Separation must be justified by credible safety concerns, not convenience, optics, or a permit holder’s preferences.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

@JustinWeather Somebody help me here. How do we have highs in the mid teens, but have freezing rain?

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Whew US 30-year yield.

You're not getting a cheaper mortgage

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

This isn't just going to ruin the housing market. This is going to ruin generations.

[Annmarie Hordern @annmarie]

Kevin Hassett tells Fox Business: “We’re going to allow people to take money out of their 401(k)s and use that for a down payment… The president will put the final plan out in Davos next week.”

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

All of those things are true. Is it possible that the more prescient reason be that the restaurant & business offering doesn’t actually appeal to the demographic that they want to persuade to purchase their goods?

[Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt]

Towson foot traffic hasn't totally come back after the pandemic.
People do sports betting on their phones vs a sports book facility
DJs and big crowds usually lead to pushback in the community.
All factors affecting the Greene Turtle in Towson

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

@Super70sSports

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

These are such reductivist arguments. You should do the tasks that need to be taken care of to manage your home and/if children. All parties should meaningfully contribute and fill in where needed. This is almost always a poor communication issue.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Hot Debate going around:

If you earn 100% of the money, should you have to do 50% of the childcare and household chores?

[Kmele 🖐 @kmele]

An explicitly illiberal project built on the delusion of achieving permanent political and ideological dominance.

Politicize everything. Deploy lawfare against your political rivals (and anyone standing too close to them). Purge dissent. Expand executive power, even at the expense of constitutional fidelity. And most importantly, assume (against all reason) that once seized, power will remain safely in your hands — and that if it somehow slips away, your enemies will suddenly rediscover restraint.

It’s an astoundingly shortsighted and tragically common form of self-deception: the belief that you can normalize abuses without eventually being consumed by them.

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The rhetoric is almost comically bellicose (the ⚔️ emoji radiates *scrawny theater kid who always dreamed of making the varsity football squad* energy), but bravado isn’t strength. And delusions of grandeur are not a strategy.

The Trump administration isn’t just embracing this approach — it’s already demonstrating how incoherent and self-defeating it is in practice.

These aren’t “new tactics.” It’s a clumsy retread of old, doomed ideas — the kind that leave you weaker than when you started.

“Get ready.”
Diabolically cringe.

Classical liberalism isn’t magic. It doesn’t defend or renew itself. Every generation must relearn why it matters — and fight to safeguard it against threats foreign and domestic, and perhaps especially domestic. Whatever its defects, I prefer classical liberalism to Rufo’s prescription. He is part of the problem. Been true for some time.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

When journalism is at its zenith, publications are relying on collective knowledge and heavily sourced insight to give consumers the most valuable knowledge available. It becomes fractured and useless when it’s driven by piecemeal punditry.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

Probably about 10 years ago when CNN reliable sources reported on a story about iron reserve shortages, in which it was clear they had no idea what they were talking about and had done no research on the story.

[Ryan Servant @rjservant]

They suddenly become polymaths with vast knowledge outside of their area of expertise and are able to opine on any subject with incredible clarity. None of which serves the audience for those publishing the information.