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Always have something to say. Should probably type more carefully.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

The refs are right on the verge of just adding points to the scoreboard for the Chiefs

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

You can love America or you can love the Chiefs

But you cannot love both

[John @iam_johnw]

Nobody

Luvu when Jalen hurts is getting ready to tush push

[FOX Sports: NFL @NFLonFOX]

Alright, here comes the goal line play for the Eagles.

Luvu:

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

Jayden Daniels has been great

His team just needs to stop turning the ball over

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

The NFL showing how to tackle Patrick Mahomes to avoid a penalty 🤣

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@HanShawnity @nflmemes @EmpireStatePol I’ve been a fan of Jayden Daniels this whole season, about as long as you’ve been a lions fan 😂

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I promised to myself that I would not comment further on Jimmy Carter’s death, but it bothers me to see so many otherwise sensible conservatives spouting the “Bad President, good man” line that the Democrat/Media Complex has been spinning for 40+ years. Thus, I feel the need to drop some truth bombs, propriety at time of death notwithstanding.

Yes, he hammered a few nails on some houses for poor people. But that alone does not make one a “good man,” when the rest of the track record is so awful.

After Carter lost in spectacular fashion in 1980, he did not do what every other President before him did and retire to a quiet, private life. He could have farmed peanuts in Plains with Rosalynn. Instead, he bitterly engaged in active and public efforts to undermine the policies of the elected Republicans who came after him. He INVENTED the jealous, manipulative ex-President model that Obama put on steroids in 2016.

Jimmy Carter flew around the world for decades, un-asked by America, on self-appointed missions of national importance, almost always involving gleefully interacting with raging antisemitic terrorist and/or Communist leaders, always working against the official policies of the ACTUALLY ELECTED Presidents. Carter’s hatred of Israel bordered on pathological, and reeked of a sort of cloaked antisemitism that has become quite fashionable today. Somehow Jimmy Carter convinced himself that he was such an important and historic figure that he stood outside and above the U.S. systems of election and governance, even though no one other than the Yassar Arafats and Hugo Chavezs of the world asked him to do so.

Jimmy Carter was a bitter, angry narcissist who cloaked his lifelong, seething rage at the indignity of being body-slammed by Ronald Reagan (someone he considered lesser than himself in every regard) with that genteel "Southern gentleman" accent, vague scripture references and the occasional hammered nail. He purposely and vengefully wreaked havoc on America’s official foreign policy for decades and he INVENTED the concept of a meddling ex-President poisoning American political discourse. (In that regard, Obama has been Carter v.2.0—we have Carter to thank for that.)

Literally every aspect of the man’s self-serving public life was harmful to America, he knew that, and he did it all anyway because narcissists always operate like that—they cannot help it, and they can never admit fault. Carter's "good man" image was a carefully constructed and nurtured illusion, one that he gladly worked with the corrupt media to maintain.

So please consider these factors before pronouncing “Bad President, good man.” Sometimes truth needs to be said even when some find that truth untimely.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Let me explain how labor works using the Airline industry as an example and why the "we don't have enough talent!" argument is flawed.

There was a time when a regional airline pilot would make $18,000 a year, have to sleep on a mattress in a crashpad, and have a second job just to make ends meet.

When the 1,500 ATP rule came into play after the 2009 Colgan crash, the barriers to entry became even more massive. Why pay $50-80K (at the time) to get all your ratings and bum it as an instructor for 2-3 years just to get a job that pays less than McDonald's with only a faint hope of ever making a major airline 10-20 years down the road (and even then, the majors didn't pay nearly as much as they do today).

The result was fewer and fewer people pursuing aviation as a career. But by the mid-2010s, demand for air travel started to heavily increase. This was the beginning of the pilot shortage. The regional airlines, unable to simply import pilots from foreign countries, increased pay (to around $50K a year starting), and more people started to pursue aviation as a career.

Fast-forward to the downturn resulting from COVID-19 and the Airline industry thought demand was never going to be the same. They gave early retirement to thousands of pilots to shed costs in preparation for a significant retraction of passengers for decades to come.

What the Airlines didn't expect was for demand to return so quickly. By 2021, they needed to hire like crazy to fill seats.

What did the regional airlines do to make their quotas? They raised pay to nearly $100K a year for a first-year First Officer. Work rules were also strengthened to provide a better quality of life. Suddenly, becoming an airline pilot was really popular again, and as of 2024, there is no pilot shortage.

For context, airlines do not sponsor visas (outside of a few exceptions with Australians) so essentially all that talent came from within America.

What does that tell us about the tech companies and the supposed lack of "talent" that means we must keep letting them abuse H1-Bs visas? It tells us that if a true free market system of pay and work rules not inhibited by companies being able to blackmail foreign workers with visas exists, more Americans will seek to become engineers and will fill the void.

That doesn't mean you don't need legal immigration. There will always be value in allowing the best and brightest to come here. But the current system goes well beyond that into just being crony capitalism that disadvantages American taxpayers.

This is not a culture problem. It's not people watching too much "Saved By the Bell" or wanting to play football in high school. It's a system problem that has disincentivized Americans from pursuing certain fields, and it needs reform.

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@JeffSechelski @MikeCranny @BillAckman @DOGE @VivekGRamaswamy That’s ridiculous for a number of reasons, but foremost of which is that Elon claims to be a free speech advocate, and free speech advocates work out their differences with discussion, not with threats of force

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@charliekirk11 She’ll be a Republican next year

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@TheJackForge Yeah just another incident of casual unidentified car sized drones flying over NJ, near a military base

Nothing to see here

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@Billman__ @twicrates @DrewP_Ballz_sol @Tagliatellino Ratioed by 4x Bill man
Unfortunately

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@chairmang

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@chairmang Yeah but their Navy is crap

China is using muskets compared to our M4’s

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@KatLilly86 @mikethenavyguy William is not a politician with responsibilities

The adults that go to Taylor Swift concerts are usually women, and even that is borderline childish

But for a grown man 🤣

[Better Type Carefully @therealBTC]

@TheTNHoller Happening in the USA:

Man goes on MSDNC to talk about how wonderful it is to be a woman

Imagine if it was a schizophrenic talking about how wonderful it is to be George Washington and the news people are just nodding along 🤣