XetaByte

Conservative with a sarcastic edge. 2A defender, free speech fanatic, meme connoisseur. Critiquing bias, roasting the absurd, decoding X chaos.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

@StephenKing Um, you know the name of your short story is The Body, right? You got me into reading, and I thank you for that. But God damn you've gone full retard.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

@yalateef @mehdirhasan Oh look, a cat lady has an opinion that's retarded.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

I think we can all say #soccersucks It's the world's gayest sport behind curling.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just so we are all on the same page:

>White male surrounded by Black males
>Black males ASSAULT White male on camera
>White male gets arrested (???)
>By White female cop (?!!)
>Police ask for footage not to be shared

...what are we even doing here?!

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Good chat with President Trump tonight

He’s not giving up on the SAVE America Act

Neither am I

He’s as convinced as I am that we can get this done if the Senate’s willing to do the hard work

Pass it on if you’d like to see that happen

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

Robert Reich is wrong (or at least significantly misleading) in that post.The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report does project that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund — which pays retirement and survivor benefits — will be depleted in the fourth quarter of 2032. After that point, incoming payroll taxes would cover only about 78% of scheduled benefits. The combined OASI + Disability Insurance funds are projected to last until the third quarter of 2034 (covering ~83% of benefits then).

https://t.co/qRbeJd49Tf

Why the date moved slightly earlierThe modest worsening compared to last year’s report stems from two main factors:Demographic updates: Lower assumed fertility rates (now projected to settle at 1.75 children per woman) and reduced immigration projections mean fewer future workers paying into the system. The worker-to-beneficiary ratio has already fallen sharply and is expected to keep declining as the population ages.

https://t.co/M2QeyLGDtw

The 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: This legislation made permanent some lower ordinary income tax rates and adjusted brackets (building on the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act), increased the standard deduction, and added a temporary extra standard deduction for people over 65. The result is lower future federal income tax revenue collected on Social Security benefits themselves. Those taxes on benefits flow back into the trust funds, so reduced collections mean slightly less revenue for Social Security.

https://t.co/M2QeyLGDtw

Key point: This is not “Trump’s tax cuts for the rich” draining payroll taxesSocial Security is funded primarily by dedicated payroll taxes (FICA: 6.2% from employees + 6.2% from employers, up to the annual cap — currently $184,500 for 2026). Those payroll taxes were not cut by the recent legislation. The impact highlighted in the report is narrowly on the smaller revenue stream from income taxes paid by beneficiaries on their benefits.The program’s long-term imbalance has been projected for decades. It is a pay-as-you-go system facing the retirement of large cohorts (especially baby boomers) alongside slower growth in the working-age population. This is a structural demographic reality, not something suddenly caused by recent tax policy targeting “the rich.”On scrapping the capRemoving the payroll tax cap would increase revenue from high earners. However, it would also increase the benefits those high earners are entitled to receive later. It is one possible reform among many others that have been discussed for years (e.g., gradually raising the retirement age, adjusting cost-of-living formulas, or broader changes to benefits or revenue). The trustees report itself does not single out “scrap the cap” as the only or obvious solution.Reich’s post reduces a complex, long-standing fiscal and demographic challenge into a simple partisan narrative of “tax cuts for the rich caused this.” The actual report and underlying data do not support that direct causal claim. The issues predate recent administrations and will require bipartisan action regardless of who is in power.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

According to artificial intelligence, the statistical probability of Spencer Pratt getting 0 out of 24,000 votes in last nights late night Los Angeles ballot drop is “1 in trillions”

California Democrats are rigging the election

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Shane Gillis & Matt McCusker couldn’t stop LAUGHING while reacting to Dr. Umar calling Shane a “Neanderthal” after the Kevin Hart roast 😭💀👀

Shane says he wants to buy Dr. Umar’s unfinished school, rename it “Robert E. Lee School for Whites Only,” and have Dr. Umar come on one of his shows to give a speech 🤣

“I just want to see the school. I’m not trying to break the guy’s balls. I just want to… I’ve been hearing about the school for a while. I’m like, let’s get it open.”

[Fan Commentary: Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

Joe Rogan speechless after learning from NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller that aliens use “Quantum Entanglement” to travel instantaneously:

THALLER: “I don’t want your listeners to think I’m saying something stupid.”

ROGAN: “It’s not stupid. Quantum entanglement just means two things can be connected regardless of the physical distance apart.”

THALLER: “It’s real. Space and time don’t matter. Aliens would be able to respond to each other instantaneously because they’re entangled.”

ROGAN: “This is so bananas. So then what are humans entangled to?”

THALLER: “If humans all came from The Big Bang does that mean we’re connected to everything in the universe in some way?”

ROGAN: “You think this is how some super advanced intelligent life form would travel?”

THALLER: “It would make a lot more sense than using a spaceship.”

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

The Georgia 2020 election was stolen and it was ALL caught on video at the State Farm Arena.

Democrats lied to clear out the observers, pulled out hidden suitcases of ballots, then ran the same stacks of ballots throughout the night until Biden won.

Prosecute all of them.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

@FlavorFlav @PublicEnemyFTP @MrChuckD @tmorello @davematthewsbnd @foofighters @KillerMike @cypresshill Fuck. You.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

@Gene76244311 @Kronykal You are correct sir.

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

@Warwatcher123 @Kronykal Touche.

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

Sneak peek at Stephen Colbert’s final late show 👀😂😭

[XetaByte @XetaByteX]

@MuldoonMartin @John97836679 @elonmusk Because you cock suckers had a melt down.