Rick

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

🧵:
Replace Social Security w/ compound interest

WITHOUT RAISING TAXES

by funding people once at birth or for 1/12th of of what current entitlements are.
Or by funding all 18 years of youth for 1/2 of entitlements

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@mikefaulkn41033 @RealKeithWeiner SOME* workers. But the pay in rate is too low to cover the trust. Plus, the trust gets raided by Congress. It just doesn't work.
Current taxpayers are paying for current SS. No one is paying into anything anymore.
Paycheck to paycheck account effectively.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@OGridPete @freedom_nys @IsaacBotkin @GrumpyTechBro @DataRepublican @timburchett @TheAKGuy @CynicalPublius @Wild_Horse I concur with your assessment.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

Probably needs to be reposted every single day.

I'd love to see what @GrumpyTechBro @OGridPete @DataRepublican @timburchett @TheAKGuy @CynicalPublius @Wild_Horse @IsaacBotkin
And friends think about substance or system!

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

BREAKING: The Constitutionality Index has now scored every law in the history of the United States. 48,000 laws dating back to 1789.

So far as I'm aware, I'm the first one to ever attempt such a thing.

And we've now ranked every president based on the percentage of laws they enacted were constitutional. The results largely track the overall historical trend: As we move from the founding to the modern era, the percentage of unconstitutional legislation increases.

In fact, 1937 is the tipping point. Pre-FDR's New Deal, every president — Federalist, Whig, Republican, Democrat — scores 98 to 100%. After the New Deal, the average percentage of constitutional laws (by page) drops to 31 percent.

As a result, presidents of the last few decades find themselves at the bottom of the rankings. @JoeBiden is officially the least constitutional president, although Trump isn't far behind. Only Thomas Jefferson scored a perfect 100 percent.

I've also scored congresses, & @SpeakerJohnson's current Congress is, from the perspective of the Constitution, the worst Congress in American history. Constitutional legislation stands at 56.3 by total count, & just 4.3% by total legislative pages.

Another important finding: The largest laws in American history are, every one of them, unconstitutional.

Check it out & let me know what you think. (Links below)

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@TimOnPoint OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOda loop

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@TimOnPoint At one point, I became party to a 20something weapons officer who took the entire JATC/ATO process, renamed the parts, did a poor job smashing the meaning/intent of.those steps into our platform, and foisted it upon our community as our new briefing process. For 1ship sorties.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@IsaacBotkin @GrumpyTechBro @OGridPete @DataRepublican @timburchett @TheAKGuy @CynicalPublius @Wild_Horse 😂>😐>😞

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@TimOnPoint He would have loved X.

Lots of little brothers and sisters.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@TimOnPoint Because I misunderstood your point.

Hell ya. He's a model war fighter.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

Wut

[Richard Davey @photonstorm]

I asked Fable 5.2 to "go wild" making a game, and all I got was this Pong clone.

And then I played it ...

👇

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@GrumpyTechBro Check out the gas price graph...
I'll make it easy:
https://t.co/kyTiZL1OsH

Maybe Dr @grok can tell us what's happened to gas prices since 23:59 3 Nov, til now, and how that tracks with the previous 10 months?

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@mainepr8296 @CodebyNihan Should he succeed, he will have no airbnbs in which to stay.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@GrumpyTechBro There's a cottage industry for diagnosing derangements at this point.

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@grok @RobManess @VFWHQ @AmericanLegion Ah. How many staff members?

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

[Rob Maness @RobManess]

I'll be canceling my lifetime memberships and I guess we will just have to create a new veterans organization. wow

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

The next generations are being sold out.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

In addition to Data's drop, I have my 990 database.

Teaching grok about sibling NGOs, and donor-advised funds this AM:

The parent on the return is the fund. From 2019 through 2024, three of those funds pay Mediators Foundation and the street shops:

• Fidelity Charitable paid Mediators $505,514. The same fund paid Protect Democracy about $33.7 million, Indivisible Civics about $11.8 million, States United Democracy Center about $9.3 million, Issue One about $7.8 million, and Center for Community Change about $5.4 million.

• Schwab Charitable paid Mediators $625,500, States United Democracy Center about $3.3 million, Protect Democracy about $2.4 million, the CEP Education Fund about $1.1 million, and Issue One about $761,000.

• National Philanthropic Trust paid Mediators $3,156,571, its largest single funder, Center for Community Change about $15.1 million, and Protect Democracy about $1.7 million.

Links to org profiles follow: ⬇️

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@TimOnPoint Hahaha I'm sure 25 is curated. But still.
Just a thought, for digestibility. You ever read @GrumpyTechBro daily news rollups? You guys should synergize!

[Rick @The0bsrvr]

@grok @LangmanVince Include all the "jobs" soros created though seeding NGOs (just to be fair). Then estimate how much tax money they swallowed.