The Oracle of Greepold

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[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

Last I checked this unbelievably stupid and incompetent administration gutted funding for the FAO which helps investigate, test/track, and manage outbreaks of new world screwworm

Another massive fucking L for America courtesy of Donald J. Trump & Co.

[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

@cturnbull1968 Actually, $300 billion would be approximately 3000 standard pallet-sized stacks of $100 bills.

This is a closer representation of the taxpayer dollars Trump is giving to Iran

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

“Fraud Czar” JD Vance when his boss can’t stop pardoning fraudsters

[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

Nice. That money could have been used for:
• Infrastructure repairs for America
• Student loan forgiveness for teachers
• 68 billion free school lunches for hungry American children (America first, right? Pro-life, right?)
• 3 million full-ride scholarships for STEM students to revitalize America's manufacturing, engineering, and science base for the next 100 years
• Eliminate all federal taxes for the bottom 50% of Americans for the next 4 years
• Fund NASA for the next 12 years

Instead we're using that money to bribe a foreign country (Iran) to reopen a waterway that is only closed because our senile & demented President and his cabinet of unqualified D-list TV personalities used the United States military to attack them unilaterally in the middle of negotiations.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

MAGA: Obama giving Iran $1.7 billion unfrozen assets is TREASON.

NYT: Trump’s Iran Deal to include $300 BILLION reconstruction fund for Iran.

MAGA:

[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

I'll give you both a real answer.

1. SRBs are way, way easier than methalox
2. Reusability is way harder
3. FFSC rocket engines (Raptor) are significantly harder to engineer, but offer significantly higher efficiency and thrust/weight vs open cycle single use engines like the Saturn V's F1
4. Falcon 9 has over a 99.5% success rate on launches, and that's over 600 launches with just 1 static fire total loss on the pad.
5. Starship is still a prototype that integrates lots of unproven & wildly new technologies. Lots of rockets blew up during testing in the 50's when the technology was first really being put to the test, up to 70% failed.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Trump: “I have a contractor that built my pools, did an Olympic pool at my clubs. He can do the reflecting pool for $1.3M in less than 2 weeks.”

*A no bid contract and 6 weeks later, the budget is now $13.4M

Trump: “I don’t know the contractor. Never used them before.”

[Matt Rein @MatthewARein]

When Trump called a female reporter a “piggy” and “ugly”, the right clapped and cheered right along.

When Dems call Stephen Miller “ugly”, the right has a total and complete meltdown.

Interesting!

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.

It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.

It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:

[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

Hey, he started a war and accomplished a lot!

- 13 Americans dead
- $200B+ added to the debt
- Highest gas prices in years
- Billions in damage to U.S. military installations
- Iran no closer or further from acquiring nuclear capabilities
- Regional instability
- An even more radical leader in Iran

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Donald gets barely half the deal President Obama got for at least 50 times the cost.

The art of the deal...

No wonder this clown bankrupted multiple casinos.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr is a paid strategic advisor for Kalshi, and a major investor and advisor for Polymarket.

The Trump administration is using taxpayer money to sue to protect their family’s investments.

This is what corruption looks like.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donating $5 million to the people investigating you is corruption.

Accepting $5 million from the person you’re investigating is corruption.

Our government is run by corrupt billionaires and bought politicians.

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

The Trump FDA story is crazy

Big Tobacco donated $5,000,000 to Trump's super PAC

Two days later, Reynolds American's executives met with Trump at his Florida golf club to demand the FDA reverse its flavored vape ban

Trump then personally called RFK Jr. and his health secretary to complain about the ban

Then questioned the FDA commissioner directly for not moving fast enough

The FDA commissioner who said no resigned days later and so did RFK Jr.'s chief spokesperson, citing the vape policy as the reason

Then the ban was lifted within a week

The White House says it had nothing to do with the $5,000,000

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Mitt Romney text to McConnell, January 2nd

[Sam Thorne @Strippin]

This dude literally owns a restaurant that charges you $12 for FRIES in case anyone was wondering

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Have you considered the possibility that all the educated people oppose Trump because he actually sucks???

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”

[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

Imagine if Biden had sued the DOJ and demanded that every person that was detained, injured, or harmed in any way during the Black Lives Matter protests receive a cut of $2 billion dollars?

1. MAGA would be rabid and foaming at the mouth
2. What Trump is doing is still way worse, because his supporters were committing treason. Attempting an insurrection and trying to hang the sitting Vice President.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.

But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.

[The Oracle of Greepold @startingonthree]

Dude, you clearly haven't spent even 2 minutes thinking about the problem in your life.

Let me explain for you
1. AI replaces jobs
2. Jobs are federal tax revenue
3. Low corporate tax rate + no income tax revenue = federal debt defaults, state/county govs default, U.S. cannot borrow, becomes a subservient nation to China. In case it matters to you, it sure does to me, the U.S. military has no funding.
4. Mass unemployment & the loss of social security means tens of millions of American families and senior citizens losing homes to Blackrock
5. All government services shut down or are corporatized. National highways, water/sewer access, schools, everything. When government cant afford to build or maintain the water treatment plant, Nestle comes in and buys the plant and charges whatever they want for access. Widespread loss of freedoms. Mass unrest. Tens of millions homeless.

TL;DR Refusing to entertain the idea of taxing AI all but guarantees the worst possible outcome of AI.