Small Gov Lizard

I'm a very big deal. You reading this proves that.

[Justin Keener @JustinKeener]

“During the encounter, Howard raised the gun and fired at least one round. The detectives then fired, striking Howard. The detectives attempted to provide aid, but Howard was pronounced dead..”

I can’t believe how badly Travis County DA Garza treats officers who risk their lives for our safety. This should not have taken so long to resolve, and it’s one more example how Garza prioritizes going after cops who stop tragedies, rather than violent offenders who rob, rape, and murder.

Police accountability is important, but this is not it. This is overzealous prosecution. Garza is the one who needs accountability. His actions are putting residents in far more danger than any cop he’s inappropriately targeted.

@DouglasOConnell @CLEAT @A4PublicSafety

[Ben Thompson @BThompson_CI]

An internal audit report to be presented next week finds Austin's use of credit cards by employees is out of line with Texas peer cities & not closely monitored, increasing risks of abuse

Austin spent $45M across nearly 1,600 cards just last year

[jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL]

Wearing a rainbow flag while bashing the only country in the Middle East that doesn't kill gays.

[Austin is Corrupt @saveaustintx]

The next time an illegal k*lls someone in Austin we can blame the Mayor @KirkPWatson.

[Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard]

Hahaha yes we all know it’s because the Senate doesn’t work Thursday afternoons and Fridays. We all know this. What’s frustrating is when the leadership pretends it’s decisions are never about this when it is ALWAYS AND FOREVER ABOUT THIS.

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

“If Brian Harrison can ensure that something will be easy and require no actual fight at all, I will agree to it.”

This is quite literally the game that Boehner, McCarthy, Ryan, and McConnell leadership staffers would play.

And they are so politically inexperienced that they think this is a logical tactic.

They cannot conceive of the fact that there are actually dozens of objectives with a strategy like this, and many of them aren’t dependent on winning or losing the singular objective that they think this is about.

[ⓘSome Dogs have thumbs @MorlockP]

not even joking when I say "strip the citizenship from and deport every single one of these barbarians"

if they want to behave like Haitians, they should live among Haitians in Haiti

civilized decent people shouldn't have to put up with this

[Austin Reform @austinreforms]

Half a million in taxpayer dollars to support non-US citizens. What are we doing?

https://t.co/mSpOTm51pD

[Sunny @sunnyright]

When the youth and left fantasize about how our grandparents could afford some giant home on grandpa’s single factory salary and the rich have only gotten richer at some greater societal expense, that’s fine.

When the right joins in, David can only find implied racism.

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

Every leftist cause

"why won't you let me do a superficially nice thing

(with monstrous second-order effects)

(that also makes me a billion dollars)

why are you so mean"

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOOM — SEC. MARCO RUBIO: "To submit to the sterile vision of radical judges or soulless global bureaucrats would be to betray who we are — to betray ourselves."

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Rubio delivered this after ripping the ICC, which Trump sanctioned

The United States never joined that court and NEVER will under this administration.

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

He put in a requirement that people either work 20 hours a week, or be in training, or LOOK for work, or be disabled.

Anyone who "got kicked off" was unwilling to do any of the first three, and didn't have the excuse of the fourth.

[Mark Mitchell, Honest Pollster @honestpollster]

National Populists: We need to build a new party.

Screw that.

Kick the neocons out and make them build their new party.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

BREAKING: Senator Van Hollen says that as majority leader, he'd seek to ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER

He labels the rule is "anti-democratic"

Republicans, you got played

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Texas Democrats are zeroing in on the real problem with state-level Republicans: They were too fiscally responsible.

Lawmakers want to declare a fake emergency to raid the state's rainy-day fund to send stimulus checks with hardly any restrictions.

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

I was surprised at how much Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security are now propping up local economies and personal incomes

If you look through the data, Medicare/Medicaid have become the biggest sources of income for particularly non-metropolitan areas. Some stats in the data:

- Government transfers are now 17.6% of all personal income in the US, up from about 8% in 1970. Medicare and Medicaid are 46% of all government transfer dollars!

- 53% of counties get more than 25%+ of their income from government transfers (this covers about 72M people).

- Kentucky seems to be the home of the Colonel and government transfer programs. Twelve of the top fifteen counties receiving government transfers are there. Owsley County gets 63% of personal income from transfers, and Medicaid alone is 32% of all income in the county.

Those government transfers via Medicaid/Medicare get transmuted alchemically into jobs. Phoebe Putney Health System has 6000+ workers and is the largest employer in southwest Georgia. Dougherty County, where it's based, gets 34% of its personal income from government transfers.

In New York we have a program that pays friends and family as caregivers. In 2023 it grew by 57,000 jobs and became 38% of all job growth in the state (they’ve made changes to the program now that have flattened it).

We have become a country of healthcare jobs with a propping of government dollars. Is that fine?

I think this grand bargain worked for a while. We were still seeing economic productivity, government spending hadn’t yet gotten too crazy, etc. But a few things are happening now that suggest the bargain is falling apart.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

Our society exists to basically keep people like this afloat. They contribute nothing and take everything. Our tax dollars keep them fed and healthy and keep basic infrastructure functioning. Meanwhile, they just coast off of everyone else’s contributions.

These people are the reason your local drug store locks everything behind plastic cases and why you can’t leave your bike unlocked and unattended for 5 minutes in public.

We need intense, Singapore-style crackdowns on this behavior.

[Cliff Maloney @Maloney]

Calling on any young man or woman in America.

If you are a patriot who wants to put AMERICA FIRST and are willing to step up and run for office… please DM me.

There’s not much time left.

We need warriors.

Dog catcher
City council
State house
Congress

It doesn’t matter.

Patriots must rise to crush the commies.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The largest monopoly of them all

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

.@StephenM , please deport