@MakeUSAVAT privatize social security
There are discussions about US politics, with some users analyzing past elections and politicians. The Virginia House of Delegates election recently saw Democrats win [--] seats, similar to [--] years ago, but with a different coalition. Some users are also debating socialism, citing historical figures like Vito Marcantonio, and discussing other politicians, including Reagan and Trump.
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @crediblehulk @irishpatri0t @punishedcasa @arthurboreman @whatdidyousay82 @traderlln @racepopeiii @admalez @roon0292 @altccc @fvfot @cokeynesian @graverobbah @meanfieldzane @jbarro @doctorrageberg @vijayvinyl @buccocapital @thogge @pascals2018
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"@FellForItAgainA You should record a time lapse of yourself making one of these"
X Link 2025-08-02T02:49Z [---] followers, 91.5K engagements
"If a liberal says this they get called an open borders shitlib by a conservative. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them." https://t.co/facqM6JcH5 Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them." https://t.co/facqM6JcH5"
X Link 2025-10-11T23:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@nikicaga Democrats could thwart republicans but it would take things that these people would hate"
X Link 2025-11-13T01:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@roon0292 @alt_ccc @Mwilburn123 Carter being a lousy president got Reagan elected Carter lost because of the economy and the volcker shock hurt the economy short term. What Volcker had to do was necessary Arguable given that much of the inflation then was caused by an oil shock"
X Link 2025-12-18T15:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"We could have avoided ALL of this We could have avoided ALL of this https://t.co/NA5zseTOAI We could have avoided ALL of this https://t.co/NA5zseTOAI"
X Link 2026-01-28T05:33Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@soft_fox_lad @RyanRadia kovid killed [--] khour krispy kreme in aleksandria"
X Link 2026-02-02T08:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@StatisticUrban I think it's somewhat unfair to blame George W Bush on the great recession he actually responded to the recession quite fine with what time he had"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Incomes for the bottom can grow without minimum wage increases. Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $852 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2026: $265 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2026: $249 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 an hour 2026: $7.25 an hour https://t.co/lUXdBZkLmh Welcome to the Divided States of Oligarchy Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $852 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18 billion 2026: $265 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $44 billion 2026: $249 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009:"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@kpertsev @kpomerleau @MorlockP it's not leftist to call for property taxes property taxes in some sense are unrealized gains tax but they are very efficient so it's moot"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_coolredacted @avidseries @woke8yearold This would either increase pay for services or force them to downsize and allow younger people to buy the home. They are paying for services as part of a social contract what do we get out of paying for their social security you may ask"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@alt_ccc Moderate in what ways exactly economically"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MaxNordau @damintoell"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:17Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@3xcalibaneur Starmer is just a sensitive young labour boy who just so happened to appoint Mandelson to a position of power knowing of his connections to epstein"
X Link 2026-02-07T01:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The essence of a leftist is misunderstanding things Bernie sanders did not say "would influence" as in some vague time in the future he said that the then current coverage was influenced by that which was indeed conspiratorial at the time. The Essence of Being A Leftist Is Being Dismissed As Unserious for Being Correct Too Early WP editor Marty Baron in 2019: Sanders is a conspiracy theorist for saying Bezos would influence WP Baron in 2026: Bezos ruined WP with a sickening effort to curry favor with Trump." https://t.co/8BoR1RmjYn The Essence of Being A Leftist Is Being Dismissed As"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"This was in [----] nearly [--] years ago where the Washington post was for the most part independent of Bezoz. Remember they endorsed both Warren(someone who wall street and the rich don't like) and Klobuchar for the [----] presidential primaries https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/klobuchar-campaign-press-release-new-york-times-editorial-board-endorses-amy-klobuchar-for https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/klobuchar-campaign-press-release-new-york-times-editorial-board-endorses-amy-klobuchar-for"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SenGoldBars I agree but the supreme court would probably find it against the 1st amendment"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BananaRep405 @SenGoldBars Yeah we know Bill Nelson ran a shitty campaign no need to gloat"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PNACstreetgang those are fake jewish numbers James Thomas Fishback will totally win /s"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@IrishPatri0t Not only is upper Michigan now supposedly a new state Arkansas is blue and parts of Canada or some other place have joined America"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:24Z [---] followers, 16.3K engagements
"@MikeDiplockre "we're gonna beat Keir Starmer fr fr no cap straight bussin""
X Link 2026-02-07T11:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PollTracker2024 He'd vote GOP downballot and vote Winsome Sears he's not a stupid republican"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@avrilbradley23 John McCain lost because republicans were really unpopular because of the Iraq War and also the economy was melting down"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@gamer4321447413 @avrilbradley23 People were more negative on the Iraq War in [----] then they were compared to 2004"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@CentristMadness I used to think that maybe billionaires and rich people are some type of sophisticated class of people who are above us but it's probably closer to the truth that they are like us succumbing to the same brainrot just with more money"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@FvFot @jeffspross The unemployment rate is low and prime age employment to population ratio is at near highs so the second graph is moot. the first is just gdp divided by CPI what am I looking at that's not the right deflator"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@FvFot @jeffspross https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5nx2mm/glassstegall_would_have_saved_us https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5nx2mm/glassstegall_would_have_saved_us"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NeokoAKtion @KareemRifai Should we starve all cubans because of the actions of their government"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
""Adopt the euro" Horrible idea "Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO its 240-page election programme published on Saturday said." @Reuters @magyarpeterMP https://t.co/5pHv7Ylb5h "Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO its 240-page election programme published on Saturday said." @Reuters @magyarpeterMP https://t.co/5pHv7Ylb5h"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheAleksee Kerry didn't do that bad in [----] he was closer to winning in [----] than Kamala was in 2024"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@number_pizza111 without immigrants we'd have no american style pizza"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@captgouda24 @Lib_Development only cause tariffs and somewhat immigration otherwise they are not"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Lux_Stella_ @grok can you finish grrm martin's last two books"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CenTexLib @DJBranham"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@The_Clermontian They probably should be fiscally restrained somewhat lest inflation become a larger problem"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@besttrousers will @ingramlaw reject the unemployment rate That's also "self-reported" by the CPS"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@CoKeynesian Somewhat related but the first wave of inflation in the great inflation from 1966-1981 was caused by LBJ deficit financing the vietnam war while also deficit financing his new great society thus running the economy hot"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@dilanesper I don't think it cost the election but it probably hurt given that the swing voters and medain voter were probably to somewhat to the left of her on gaza"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@punished_casa I am willing to sacrifice every principle on the alter of tax rises more spending and deregulation"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Graverobbah @nazzobetweeting @lilbabygandhi NATO is not an imperialist bloc it's a defense alliance for the most part. Yes Ukraine wants to Join NATO the defense alliance because it doesn't want countries to invade it. Also the global north does not "exploit the south" and the EU is a trade alliance"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Graverobbah @nazzobetweeting @lilbabygandhi Yes they are mostly a defense alliance most of what they do is provide defense for the members. Libya Afghanistan and Macedonia(why are you even bringing this up it much more mundane compared to the former)"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Graverobbah @nazzobetweeting @lilbabygandhi Also Libya was not out of nowhere it was to stop Gaddafi the dictator of Libya it was legal under international law and approved by the UN"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@elephant_ben If you ignore foreign policy George W Bush wasn't even that bad on domestic policy. The debt didn't growth much under him as a share of gdp before 2008(great recession which he didn't cause) deficit as share of gdp wasn't that large and even declining before 2008"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BarneyFlames In the long term I could see Puerto Rico being a swing state or even republican"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:25Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@_alice_evans UK and US gdp per capita have diverged somewhat(mostly post pandemic) but this chart is flawed cause it doesn't adjust for changing exchange rates. If you adjust for inflation and PPP for most of recent history their growht has been fairly similar"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@arrobajotita @alt_ccc how is it a gift to republican"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@arrobajotita @alt_ccc The compact only goes into effect if there are enough states in who have a combined electoral vote of 270"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@number_pizza111 @MeathGuerilla It's funny that he whines about multiculturalism when he's literally from lebanon"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@savanarola5 @jasonc_nc Brexit was stupid cause it didn't even reduce immigration it just mean that they shifted from EU migrants to non EU migrants"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Yes trump's first term is much better than his first. One can hold this belief while still thinking his first term was bad. This is a perfectly coherent view. "Trump is way worse than Trump." https://t.co/ruP1e5OJuB "Trump is way worse than Trump." https://t.co/ruP1e5OJuB"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ferald_gord I like this brookings plan https://www.brookings.edu/articles/fixing-social-security-blueprint-for-a-bipartisan-solution/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/fixing-social-security-blueprint-for-a-bipartisan-solution/"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@CaidanPhoenix @AzLibertyGuy13 @electionsjoe Nearly half of medicare funding comes from the general revenue and social securities trust fund will run out in less than a decade. Social security and medicare aren't the cause of current debt but they are certainty an issue regarding long term debt"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@avrilbradley23 @DrewPavlou Project liberal people would have a seizure if they knew 20th century South Korean economic policy"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@brownliberite how can you possibly say this as a centrist"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CromRedoubt @The_Clermontian it bottomed out at [---] and was generally around 2%"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@AlexNowrasteh @LettDominik Conrad Rule is stupid the ability to use reconciliation to deficit is good because sometimes you just need fiscal stimulus and not all deficit spending is bad"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mattyglesias The left argument is supposed to be GDP growth is good and what matters is how we distribute it not that GDP is fake and not important"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@IrishPatri0t Mostly cause of population growth revisions it wouldn't actually effect the unemployment rate or prime age employment rate since less people means less employed but also less unemployment and less in labor force overall"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@ix_qix @elliotismz the middle class only shrunk in the sense that more have moved into the upper middle class"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ECaliberSeven This good actually chances are if they do another reconciliation it might a horrible bill filled with the worst economic policy driven by the fear of trump losing the midterms and being unrestrained"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@souljagoyteller Mandelson was literally emailing epstein about not public tax policy proposals related to banks and also on future bailouts while he was part of the government and the GFC was ongoing"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@mean_field_zane just population growth differences won't effect unemployment rate or prime age epop"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@tacitdimension This might be a stupid question but I still don't exactly understand why the US borrows to finance deficits when it could with the central bank printing(note same primary deficit just eventually no interest outlays). I guess it has to do with bonds being a useful asset"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@The_Clermontian @souljagoyteller sloppy as in the tax and bank stuff was accidentally sent to epstein"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:24Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@IrishPatri0t I don't think any policy they have left is going to be that great high probability it would be some populist "trump rebate" as a literal attempt to buy votes"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@AnonymousLeftie This old grandpa joe shtick is sort of cute but it's hard to excuse because of gaza"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@punished_casa @mean_field_zane doesn't it sort of defeats the purpose of crypto originally as some decentralized currency free from the influences of some government"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@punished_casa @mean_field_zane Yeah the flexibility to commit crime"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mean_field_zane @punished_casa I though the money multiplier was not exactly how banks work in the real world"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@gavv_ii @punished_casa latinxs but for nerds"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Akhmatovist @davidk368430332 Moldova is a third world country"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Woodrow Wilson was a good president. Woodrow Wilson was the worst ever and it's not even close https://t.co/cbrlgoH9F9 Woodrow Wilson was the worst ever and it's not even close https://t.co/cbrlgoH9F9"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MarcGoldwein isn't it more meaningful to display it as a share of GDP or at least in inflation adjusted terms"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@KJVPopulist it's not a voter id bill"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@jbarro Without The Jones act US shipbuilding would be even lower The Jones Act isn't perfect an Ideally we'd subsidize ship building like we use to have ship building capacity"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk @RepThomasMassie How is it non libertarian to want to support this You can argue against but it's not unlibertarian"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@spudchungus Nah the arch will look nice"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@roon0292 Most of it will be from higher interest payments not the primary deficit (which will actually decline). It's also not useful to view deficits in nominal figures not adjusted for GDP but even then deficits will go from [----] to [----] percent which is not that good"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@roon0292 It will only be painful I suppose in the sense that we have to adjust the deficit but running the higher deficits will only be painful if we have significantly higher inflation or interest rates. We still probably should do some fiscal consolidation because of long term debt"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Whatdidyousay82 @jbarro It does not cost families 1000s of dollars each year and it's not anti american"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Whatdidyousay82 @gatoratlaw @jbarro We still build military ships yes but without american ship builders which the jones acts supports it would be harder"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Whatdidyousay82 @jbarro HI and PR are not the northeast AFAIK and the lack of pipelines is because of NIMBYs in the northeast not the jones act"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MarxoidNess @AidanSimardone total support for israel somewhat Do Wall Street's Bidding Nope. Hostility to Russia Iran & China Yes why is this suppose to be bad. Full-spectrum Dominance What Let Money Rule Politics Sort of Neoliberalism rocks neoliberalism is meaningless as a term"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SolInvi24645112 @jbarro"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Fuck you and your stupid coal. Kentucky coal is BACK and its because President Trump fights for American energy. Proud to be at the White House today as the President signs an Executive Order for the @DeptofWar to purchase more American coal. God bless our miners. God bless KY. God bless the USA. https://t.co/7Y8nGUESVC Kentucky coal is BACK and its because President Trump fights for American energy. Proud to be at the White House today as the President signs an Executive Order for the @DeptofWar to purchase more American coal. God bless our miners. God bless KY. God bless the USA."
X Link 2026-02-12T02:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@bakerybruh @ImNotOwned Democrats lost because of inflation and immigration not exactly really feckless leadership. Biden was not Obama redux"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@bakerybruh @ImNotOwned The main problem of Obama was lack of fiscal stimulus and improperly handling foreclosures which we did not have under Biden. Moreover Biden was to the left of Obama on policy but ham strung by Joe Manchin and Sinema"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PalasRaven @ryangrim You think George W Bush is better a president"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@alt_ccc Republicans voting for RFK: "You know this RKF fellow seems like a competent guy vs this creepy nixon who seems odd and conservative I think i'll buck my party and vote for him" Democrats voting for Nixon: "That goddamn ****** lover can't win the white house""
X Link 2026-02-12T04:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@basedog14 @bakerybruh @ImNotOwned So you think they didn't lose because of inflation and immigration but some third thing"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Cirrus_Fishing @PalasRaven @ryangrim Biden was uncontrolled Anarcho-Tyranny style laws. Open borders. Somewhat. No security for citizens. Punishing legal people with jobs. No"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Cirrus_Fishing @PalasRaven @ryangrim We did not have a complete open border under Joe Biden not anyone could come we had weak border control yes but not open borders"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@alexis_in_nc what is the earliest you have precinct results for"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Alonso_GD ok but what hole"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@baldr246 @oshiimid Me when I lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Japanese_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_Cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Japanese_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Japanese_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_Cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Japanese_general_election"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@VautismSpeaks No it's a stupid diagnosis of what happened Kamala lost because of inflation(some of which was just unavoidable) and immigration. To the extent there were errors it was mostly not from being too centrist except with israel"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:21Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Biden was not Obama redux and if you think this you know nothing about the policy of Obama or Biden. @ImNotOwned https://t.co/5IWr7t0TIN @ImNotOwned https://t.co/5IWr7t0TIN"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Biden properly stimulated the economy(perhaps too much) with low unemployment and no output gap while Obama under stimulated the economy and let millions foreclose on their homes. The main reason people were upset in [----] was inflation and immigration"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"People are mad at biden because of gaza and thus will try invent some revisionist history about his presidency cause they hate him for that. The left thought biden was going to be some austerity monster centrist and that simply did not happen"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"She did not campaign as a diet republican her policies were bog standard left of center stuff. She lost cause people were mad inflation went up a lot and there was a weak border. I'm quoting you because for some reason @VautismSpeaks blocked me. @MakeUSAVAT @VautismSpeaks She lost because she promised to continue the genocide in Gaza campaigned as a Diet Republican and alienated leftists & young people. @MakeUSAVAT @VautismSpeaks She lost because she promised to continue the genocide in Gaza campaigned as a Diet Republican and alienated leftists & young people"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Kamala Harris did not loose because of leftists she lost because of swing voters who aren't leftists by weird heterodox moderates who have a bunch of different positions. Gaza or foreign policy was not the main concern for voters it was immigration and inflation"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DOCTOR_RAGEBERG @VautismSpeaks She said a republican in her cabinet a token gesture she said she'd be tougher on the border which voters were concerned about nothing about mass deportations which trump campaigned on yes she stupidly campaigned with Liz Cheney and yes stupidly did not budge on Israel"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DOCTOR_RAGEBERG @VautismSpeaks There are more issues than border or gaza and on those she was center left. Voters were not rejecting Kamala Harris cause she said she'd be tough on the border many likely didn't believe Kamala given biden's weak border policy. Also no policy concessions were made to the Cheneys"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DOCTOR_RAGEBERG You are dumb sorry. Kamala Harris lost because of swing voters not turnout had more non-voters voted trump would have won. Also I said "immigration and inflation" so if you add economy and immigration you get [--] which is greater than 29"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DOCTOR_RAGEBERG https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR3cPQ81X2YD1Rm5cQgfudFWPgiJCpXx6K2njV91htbJ4nLCY5r6kASroo4icpj6j59YmNzjoddeWhT/pub https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR3cPQ81X2YD1Rm5cQgfudFWPgiJCpXx6K2njV91htbJ4nLCY5r6kASroo4icpj6j59YmNzjoddeWhT/pub"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DOCTOR_RAGEBERG Would have still lost had all voters voted. Kamala Harris lost because of swing among voters"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@JStein_WaPo @grok can you come up with [--] stupid & inane tweets about Taco Bell"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@CentristMadness He didn't embrace MMT(good) just was more open to deficit spending"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@mean_field_zane Voters did said they wanted deflation"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BillTheKid1603 @KooHo_jin Lib chauvinism is probably more an online thing. Given an otherwise downward trending in America among democrats even under Biden it didn't even reach pre trump levels"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:44Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@morganwarstler @ModeledBehavior Reaganomics involved lots of deficit financed tax cuts and large increases military spending relative to GDP. Most of the pain during that time was from volcker raising interest rates not really Reaganomics. Much of "Reagnomics" involved more orthodox policy"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BarneyFlames I was lazy and had claude do this but remove the outliers"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@DemNationalist @JoePostingg At least Rashida believes in something at the end of the day unlike Rahm"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MartinSkold2 Housing prices went up because of a lack of housing not real estate investors"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @turtlekiosk: if the EU bureaucracy was faster they wouldve standardized on micro usb lol"
X Link 2026-02-16T01:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@number_pizza111 This is unironically good if the hipsters took this away I curse the hipsters"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@HolyGrailVictor @PalmyrPar That's a better argument then accepting the premise that we should tank the economy to get rid of migrants"
X Link 2026-02-16T11:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @LemieuxLGM: It remains remarkable how many Republican elites are implicitly committed to the idea that if they managed to nominate a no"
X Link 2026-02-16T01:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PeteMaverickM @JamesSurowiecki @TSBurkhardt It's not about coherence it's that american still officially maintains a one china policy even if it de facto works with taiwan"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@burgieee__ If Jesus came to america he'd vote Donald Trump"
X Link 2026-02-16T06:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Prominent_Bryan Wouldn't it be better it just be fixed with inflation"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@jeffspross "lower taxes" AFAIK the rest are true to some extent but the latter not really. The democrats usually try to raise taxes even under Clinton"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:45Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DemTimeIsNow @BayAreaNewLibs @ProBillionaires most aren't "corporations" as we think but people who own small amounts of housing at most 9-10. Institutional investors i.e. investors owning more than [---] are very small"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I did not realize how low france's inflation had gotten. Of course some of this is just that energy has been experiencing deflation for past couple months but even if you look at core inflation it's still pretty low. they just make shit up https://t.co/7p7SWz6Lps they just make shit up https://t.co/7p7SWz6Lps"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@oren_cass @AnnCoulter @commonplc Ann Coulter the person who said she wouldn't vote for Vivek Ramaswamy because he's an Indian"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@mischrev @narrenhut"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"inequality has been flat for 10+ years Income inequality is at a 60-year high in America. Worker share of GDP is at a 75-year low. The economic divide is the challenge of our time. Income inequality is at a 60-year high in America. Worker share of GDP is at a 75-year low. The economic divide is the challenge of our time"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:07Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DerekPederson3 liberalization did boost india's GDP growth trend but India's GDP did grow under this so called "socialist" period"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nagamyzuna @punished_casa He's bad but given his lack of experience you have to wonder what part of this is him and other just idiot conservatives pushing anti woke stuff"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Lux_Stella_ Also inflation is higher in the UK than it is in canada"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SwitchRepairSho @MattZeitlin Me when I lie"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SwitchRepairSho @MattZeitlin BTW I am not a republican and I have no idea why you are blocking me. BLS is not being faked and this the same data a democratic administration would cite"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Undorkins @vijayvinyl I made no comment on the morality gaza war I merely mentioned that it's insignificant in a world where we emit more than [--] billion carbon emissions. Focusing on the carbon emissions of a war is what a stupid liberal would do instead of focusing on the deaths"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Undorkins @vijayvinyl Can you do math [--] million divided by [--] billion is less than a percent of total carbon emissions not even 0.5% it's stupid to focus on"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Undorkins @vijayvinyl Environmentalists focusing on the gaza war is silly when there are other policy choices that will have a much large impact on carbon emissions. It's not all interconnected it's just that most environmentalists are leftists and gaza has become the issue du jour"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@punished_casa @shapiromentum Was Gerhard Schroder more austre than Clinton From what I know Schroder mostly just did cuts to unemployment insurance and welfare to get more people to work not much other deficit reduction"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@traderlln @buccocapital @thogge Obama raised taxes on the rich while Trump cut them he also expanded medicaid. It's funny you concern troll about the rich poor gap when you support trump who cares zilch about it You can see the top tax rates on the rich fall when the TCJA signed by trump went into effect"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@traderlln @buccocapital @thogge Obama also passed a stimulus bill which was larger than the bank portions of TARP and things like a temporary payroll tax cut to help stimulate the economy"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@traderlln @buccocapital @thogge you can see the temporary dips in the after tax and transfer GINI coefficient(the figure we actually care about since those who worry about inequality often call for some tax and transfer figure to reduce it) dips during [----] and [----] cause of the stimulus programs"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@traderlln @buccocapital @thogge You also see the temporary COVID programs. The biggest permanent increase under here is under Trump in 2018"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@traderlln @buccocapital @thogge Trump did not win the popular vote in [----] Hillary Clinton did he lost in [----] and he won the popular vote in [----] because people were mad at inflation. What is hurting main street exactly Obamacare reduced inequality and helped many poor people with medicaid expansion"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BottomStructure @vijayvinyl The U.S. military is thesingle largest institutional sourceof greenhouse gas emissions in the world despite reducing emissions down from [--] million tons in [----] Largest = it being signfigant in the grand scheme of things it's less than 1% of global carbon emissions"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BottomStructure @vijayvinyl the Kyoto Protocol under pressure from the U.S. government exempted militaries from setting emissions targets. This isn't really relevant "
X Link 2026-02-14T05:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BarneyFlames I lean towards this but I also think tat AI feels a lot more expansive than past technology thus can do a lot more jobs than otherwise compared to past technologies"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:13Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@IrishPatri0t we basically have [--] years of nothing ever happens in American politics with trump being a lame duck"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Greece was forced into austerity and deficit reduction you idiot. In [----] Europe accidentally ran history's greatest macroeconomic experiment. Greece got the full Keynesian stimulus treatmentmassive spending money printing bailouts galore. Meanwhile Estonia chose the Austrian path: brutal budget cuts no bailouts and actual austerity. https://t.co/EvwLTUZBCs In [----] Europe accidentally ran history's greatest macroeconomic experiment. Greece got the full Keynesian stimulus treatmentmassive spending money printing bailouts galore. Meanwhile Estonia chose the Austrian path: brutal budget cuts no"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@BillTheKid1603 She's been saying this for some time at this point although it's ironic given a big issue in [----] was immigration and part of the reason she gave for voting for her was to stop the so called bad immigration policy of donald trump"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@gen0m1cs Most people when polled support a pathway to legal citizenship"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RacePopeIII @pascals2018 A tax on wealth not just a sur tax on millionaires"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@pascals2018 @RacePopeIII no it's not semantics there is a difference between an asset tax and an income tax"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"thank claude"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TomY1467430 @MOrcmisha @DastDn This is bad deflation it's from not enough aggregate demand not some great productivity boost. We already have an example of deflation being bad the great depression"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TomY1467430 @MOrcmisha @DastDn No it's from their lack of aggregate demand china isn't having some sudden boost in productivity. China was taking manufacturing before they didn't have deflation and raising wages would generally mean higher inflation"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@pascals2018 @RacePopeIII a wealth tax applies on assets not income that we base on it on some threshold doesn't make it the same. Also usually wealth tax thresholds are based on wealth not income"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RacePopeIII @osintfemboy this is what Richard Spencer is thinking when he voted for Kamala"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@IrishPatri0t @shaulamoder @Briani642 [----] is almost [--] years ago"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CoopTory What do you hope Mark Carney focuses on economically"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@notworkinghard1 if you took away medicare social security medicaid SNAP unemployment insurance etc. away most Americans would scream I wouldn't say our money exactly is badly spent most Americans are just ignorant of the federal budget"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SenGoldBars I was actually watching the live stream when trump got shot because I was worried that Trump was gonna pick Vance(spoiler he did) so I was watching trump in the days before the RNC to see if who he would pick and thought there was a chance he'd give hints at this rally"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @jmhorp: Just 0.29% of employed men have two full-time jobs roughly the same tiny fraction as in the 1990s"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ArthurBoreman What are we even talking about We are debating a cause"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk It's not a terrible framing the unemployment rate did lower under FDR so under his presidency before WW2 people did gain"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk I am not trying to say that you are straw manning me I am saying that you have to consider where FDR was starting out. Having the unemployment rate fall as FDR did made the poorest 50% better under him"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk It really took [--] years to get [--] pp less unemployment but then the [----] recession derailed that. Had there been no WW2 it would have taken until [----] to get to 5% unemployment"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk I am not answering that question because that's not what we are asking. We should be judging the rate of progression"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk The question was if Roosevelt made the economy better for the bottom 50% lowering the unemployment rate by [--] pp makes the bottom 50% better"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk the correct response to Roosevelt having 8% GDP growth was that he was in an economic depression so it's easy to have 8% GDP growth cause you have a lot of catch up to potential GDP"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @AlexGodofsky: Zucman gets mad whenever the stock market goes up more or less. That's his whole deal"
X Link 2026-02-16T00:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk No one is getting stabbed we are going from a higher level to a lower level of unemployment not a low level of unemployment to a higher level. Roosevelt started out with 25% unemployment it did not reach that during his term"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk It is hard to access records from [---] years back"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BovrilG We were robbed of a world where Sherrod Brown(democrat from Ohio) ran for governor and we got unofficial slogans like "Vote brown not brown""
X Link 2026-02-16T11:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Admalez @CoKeynesian No Greece is still poorer than from before its peak"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Admalez @CoKeynesian The former is nominal and the later is just yoy inflation wages have declined in greece in inflation adjusted terms this is undeniable"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"What the Mississippi [----] Interracial marriage Amendment looked like when compared to presidential elections in general the more democratic a county was the more it supported the amendment with there being some counties that supported Jimmy Carter in [----] but voted No on it. Valentines Day reading for Black History Month Three states have held referendums to repeal their defunct bans on interracial marriage. Such bans were invalidated by the [----] Loving v Virginia case I look at all three votes in this article https://t.co/mHD9wwtLAb https://t.co/FZV0l2SORC Valentines Day reading for Black"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I can't respond because lindsay blocked me but from the medicaid lost only around [--] million or so lost health insurance many of the people who lost medicaid already had health insurance more people will loose health insurance under trump than Biden"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ArthurBoreman You mean the president with his mandate for healthcare reform passed his partisan healthcare reform legislature after months of trying to get republicans to work with him got [--] senate votes and then a majority in the house The healthcare bill being fairly moderate itself"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@gen0m1cs "Biden deported more people than Trump. A fact nobody talks about because everybody is brainwashed by conservative horse shit." No one talks about this point because it's horseshit itself. BTW trump is deporting around 230k in his second term no more fence sitting for centrists"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @_rotimia: The idea there will be zero deportations or no human being is illegal isnt a policy. If you have immigration laws someone"
X Link 2026-02-16T01:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @daveweigel: Hes been saying this since [----] around Peak Woke https://youtu.be/qaHLd8de6nMsi=PQ3v2GnD9CVYHJZ1 https://youtu.be/qaHLd8de6nMsi=PQ3v2GnD9CVYHJZ1"
X Link 2026-02-16T02:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BillTheKid1603 @BarneyFlames Ok but it's not as if bush knew [----] was going to happen. There wasn't some elite consensus which bush would have been following to prevent it"
X Link 2026-02-16T02:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@EricMGarcia TL;DR latinos are becoming swing voters"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RtrnSanity At least america's future will be somewhere I can be proud of rather than somewhere I hate"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@punished_casa @BarackObama @MichelleObama I was told by some magazine cover that Obama had a secret gay lover"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NewFreedomGuy what is blud doing making fun of the US like this you are a conservative you are not supposed to poke fun a this"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@centristlol This course does seem like a waste of time and resources though"
X Link 2026-02-16T09:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RealLiv04 Better success of getting some left of center government under here plus a few points then a farage government though"
X Link 2026-02-16T11:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@LilyArtemisTO I have that bread pillow also"
X Link 2026-02-16T11:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk They are not cherry picked the represent a conservative if anything downward slope on unemployment"
X Link 2026-02-16T21:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_Credible_Hulk I were to cherry pick I would have made a more downward slope by choosing something on the blue line during [----] before pearl harbor"
X Link 2026-02-16T21:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Here is what a map of the literacy rate in America in [----] looks like with a more granular color scale. Here's an illiteracy map from the [----] US census. - White is 1% illiteracy - Yellow is 1-2% - Red is 2.1-4.3% - Grey is 4.4% https://t.co/0e2XMkg6fX Here's an illiteracy map from the [----] US census. - White is 1% illiteracy - Yellow is 1-2% - Red is 2.1-4.3% - Grey is 4.4% https://t.co/0e2XMkg6fX"
X Link 2026-01-20T08:33Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Only time where you can go to press the [--] years back button on FRED and it shows the start of Joe Biden's presidency"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:29Z [---] followers, 19.5K engagements
"@IrishPatri0t What are they going to do if the population grows beyond [--] million via people having more children supposing that happens just start forcing abortions"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:34Z [---] followers, 15.8K engagements
"@Admalez @CoKeynesian Hard to call this a success"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Admalez @CoKeynesian I don't believe those charts are adjusted for inflation on the substack but Greece's GDP has been increasing since [----] yet real wages have been declining how is that a long term success"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Populist slop most of the government is mandatory spending in the form of entitlements and welfare https://t.co/Tdx5SXg657 https://t.co/Tdx5SXg657"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Did leftists really think it was possible to maintain a medicaid where they do absolutely mo income verification forever BTW is was not Trump's it was the house democrats who put it in the pandemic aid packages. https://x.com/lindsayballant/status/2022726125953458592 https://x.com/lindsayballant/status/2022726125953458592"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @mtkonczal: Beyond the coding error the paper also: (1) selectively removed periods of high-growth-high-debt economies in the 1940s (C"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ArthurBoreman Democrats lost [----] because the economy was terrible they did not lose [----] solely because of the ACA. Also the ACA was one single legislation which was not all or most pf the criticism Obama faced"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ArthurBoreman Obamacare is not why the DNC lost many states legislatures because It was not the main reason he had negative polling and Obama was not the only reason state legislatures were lost under him"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
""2) Biden deported more people than Trump. A fact nobody talks about because everybody is brainwashed by conservative horse shit." Nope(look at the blue bar). As fascism rips through America maybe dont bolster the bullshit of the far-right. 1) immigration is good - full stop. For the economy government revenue and the culture of America. 2) Biden deported more people than Trump. A fact nobody talks about because everybody is As fascism rips through America maybe dont bolster the bullshit of the far-right. 1) immigration is good - full stop. For the economy government revenue and the culture"
X Link 2026-02-16T00:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @extradeadjcb: Patriot"
X Link 2026-02-16T00:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
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