Steve Botsford

Lover of America, supply-side economics, steak, Guinness and Notre Dame Football.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

@rabois Brunson also was Mr. Basketball in Illinois and won the state title. All three levels the guy finds a way to win.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

@0x_Lotion @johnennis @pmarca

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@johnennis @pmarca Agree. I could also see it being Palmer.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

Couldn’t agree more. I am beyond grateful that Elon Musk exists and that he chose to become an American and power the next American century.

[David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 @davidu]

Between Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and other initiatives it's hard to imagine anyone who has done more in recent history to advance humanity and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people than Elon Musk.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

@EricDKoch Photo opp Waffle House will never do true justice to late night drunk Waffle House.

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@lessin Unfair comparison since New York is actually a good sports town. Also most of the wealth in SF isn’t from there originally where in New York you get some of both.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

1) The budgetary impact of military disability fraud is small enough that I’m not worried about it. Non-military disability fraud is a different story.

2) If as Platner argues he was once fully disabled but physical therapy has helped him, he should willingly reduce his disability payment. He clearly is a fully functioning human at this point.

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Tell me you’re a performative Chicagoan without telling me you’re a performative Chicagoan.

[Ryan Glasspiegel @sportsrapport]

Insane for a mayor to admit he left his city’s rivalry game early to beat the traffic lmao

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

Would love to be a fly on the wall for his first meeting with the Director of the CIA, with his entire background knowledge being the Jason Bourne movies and the first season of the Jack Ryan show.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Bill Pulte, who has never served in an intelligence role, will be the acting director of national intelligence.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

I love Nvidia but Jensen has to choose America or China. It’s a competition and there is only one winner. #StarsAndStripesForever

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Are you fucking kidding me

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

@ChicagosMayor You’re a bad guy bro. Use all the resources we can get to protect our people.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

The core democratic functions of government are national defense, justice, civil liberties, contract enforcement and stable property rights. But it does not follow that all education, science, charity, or poverty reduction must be monopolized by democratic institutions.

Civil society, markets, churches, nonprofits, philanthropists, and voluntary associations can also solve problems.

Democracy is the best system for governing people. That doesn’t automatically make it the best system for allocating every dollar in society.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

@JaneAFlegal I’m just not a fan of the over fetishization of democracy. The best schools are not run by democratic governance. While I agree our government should ensure all children get an education, if it is done by philanthropic non-democratic institutions, I won’t lose any sleep over it.

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@lxeagle17 @SeanTrende @TheArgumentMag If your only goal was to try to give America the most ideological representative Congress that you could, what would you design. Assume you had the votes for passage and the courts wouldn’t object.

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@DKThomp We must go back to pub culture. Civilization may depend on it.

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@KTmBoyle I’ve been America-maxxing for as long as I can remember. Stars and Stripes forever!!

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@EsotericCD A pen yes but the return envelope is pre-stamped. Just imagine how much better Illinois/chicago government would be if every republican voted in the democratic primary for the more moderate candidate, then voted republican in the general.

[Steve Botsford @sfbots]

@EsotericCD Voting by mail takes like 3 minutes.