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I’ve been around the block a few times, I’m educated, I care about the world and believe in trying to make it a little better place. Leaving 135k at Twitter, retired, economics, MBA, information science, investor, don’t tolerate fools, life long learner.
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Trump is not a negotiator. He was nothing but a belligerent asshole today in dealing with Ukraine. He literally thinks he's making assholes great again. Like hell, we're far worse off. Our allies can't respect us anymore and they know they can't trust us. Things are going downhill quickly.

The worst part about Trump trying to screw Ukraine is that our allies will know they can't trust him or America anymore. This is catastrophic for our national security as well as our economy. Trump is turning all our allies away, Canada, Mexico, Europe... There is no way that's a win for the US.

Holy shit, Trump went totally off the rails with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. Trump is all in on the side of Russia's Putin. He couldn't have made it more clear. This is very bad for America, our economy, jobs and our allies. It's also a win for China when America is weaker.

WTAF are they doing in America? Trump’s wall doesn’t work.

In what world did Trump think it was a good idea to bring the sex trafficing Tate brothers into America? So we are importing criminals now? Must be getting really weird over on truth social

Lots of "Very Serious People" don't want to admit what is plain and obvious and in front of our eyes and explains so much: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are two of the most ignorant and uninformed people to ever be allowed near public office anywhere in the western world. It's obvious to all of us.

Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

Facts that matter:

Technically it’s not a meme, but it still gets my vote for meme of the day.

No more work-from-home, government workers, except for Kash Patel, who will run the FBI from Las Vegas www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science. Entire NIH departments will have no leaders. World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators. Is this what they want? Chaos? Destruction?

Count me in.

Fearing repercussions from your government. Fearing the sudden loss of healthcare for your whole family. Fearing that what the government intends for you is mere sadism—trauma without purpose or justification. This is what evil men do when we let them spend a lifetime doing evil without consequence.

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

The truth is disgustingly obvious and …. Ignored…

NEW: senior spokesperson for the DoJ, 23-year civil servant, and disabled Marine Veteran RESIGNS citing a toxic and hostile work environment.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

A strong, independent media is essential in a free society. However, the oligarch controlled media is not going to protect us. The billionaires sitting on stage with Trump are not victims. They will profit from his lies and cannot be trusted to safeguard democracy.

It’s a national pastime to make fun of weather forecasts when they get something wrong. But they’re absolutely invaluable the other 97% of the time. Firing them is not a solution. It’s stupidly bad. flip.it/jNz4Oi

Pending home sales in southern red states fell 9.5% last month even though the inventory of houses for sale went up. Tariffs, inflation and higher interest rates are going to hurt poor southern red states worse than western blue states. That's what Trump is doing for them.

Trump is about to start selling US citizenship to Russians, Chinese, drug dealers, criminals and anyone else who has $5 million. His wall is going to keep the wrong people out. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

Trump is about to implement 25% tariffs on everything we import from Canada and Mexico. They are our two largest trading partners, with our safest supply chains, and part of the North America Free Trade Agreement Trump negotiated last time he was in office. It's batshit crazy insanity.

If I had any Tesla stock I’d sell it. But I saw this shit coming years ago and sold it then. I want nothing to do with the guy. He’s too dirty.

Musk today at Trump cabinet meeting: If we don't cut government spending America will go bankrupt. Translation: If we don't fire a lot of people and cut other aid programs I won't get more tax cuts or multi billion dollar government contracts.

The simple truth is in the reply.

I think I finally cracked the code: woke means people who are educated and aren’t racists. The anti woke crowd are ignorant, bigoted and racists. PS, these are just the judges that aren’t white or male who blocked Trump and Elon. There’s a lot more white ones.

💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

The front page of the New York Times, July 31, 1965, showing LBJ signing the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965 into law in the presence of Harry Truman.

I heart Tina Smith.

This is the way.

Don’t conflate the American people with what Trump does. He’s not representing us. Maga are just a bunch of dupes who will wake-up when the shit finally hits their fan too.

Hero

Great job Elon. How many times have you fired people you had no clue about what they do? You’re out there firing people based on nothing but your personal self interests or beliefs without any real knowledge or concern for others. flip.it/teOJtz

There's no better place to post this than x/Twitter. (I had to post it there first.) Tesla’s stock dropped on Tuesday as a new report shows demand falls sharply in Europe, with sales dropping a precipitous 45% in January. My friends sold theirs months ago. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-s...

Wow. A “knack for habitual lying?” That’s the understatement of the decade. It doesn’t begin to cover the depth of his depravity.

This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

Gay Valimont is the Dem nominee in the Florida special election to replace Matt Gaetz on April 1st. The House is currently 216 Dems & 217 Reps. 𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗣 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 6 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀. Winning this critical election would put Trump & Elon's disastrous agenda on HALT!!!

If you only read one Tweet for the rest of the year this is the one that tells you what’s coming.

Trump and Elon are taking away more American jobs than immigrants ever did. And deporting immigrants won’t bring those jobs back. It’s that simple.

The only reason Trump hadn’t fired Elon yet is that he supports what he’s doing and plans to throw him under the bus when the shit hits the fan. He’ll plead ignorance of course and say Elon was the water boy. flip.it/JYr69L