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Armchair Economist retweeted
Between 1994 and 2017: The Democrats shifted more drastically to the Left than The Republicans shifted to the right.
The meme does have a basis in reality.
Armchair Economist retweeted
>Doesn't want to live in Canada because of Liberal policies.
>Wants you to vote to make America Canada.
Armchair Economist retweeted
Missouri solved illegal immigration. Other states just complain.
The Show-Me State didn’t talk — it acted:
• 2008: 90% of voters made English the official language. No government services in any other language.
• Cops must verify immigration status on arrest and report illegals to the feds.
• Zero access to food stamps or Missouri HealthNet.
• No taxpayer-funded financial aid for illegals at any public college — and schools must certify compliance every year.
Result: Missouri has almost no illegals. They simply aren’t welcome, and they get nothing from taxpayers.
Arizona and others spent years grandstanding while Missouri quietly locked the door. The media ignores it because the results expose the open-border failure everywhere else.
Other states could do the same. They choose not to.
#Missouri #IllegalImmigration #AmericaFirst
Armchair Economist retweeted
- Release two massive flops
- Spend decade on huge IP Dragon Age game
- $200 million+ budget
- It releases, only sell 1.5 million copies
- Spend half decade on another huge IP
- Its still in early development
- Studio shutdown
But yeah just blame solely private equity. Sure.
This is private equity, this is what it does.
Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit.
The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.
And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in.
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Armchair Economist retweeted
Incentives drive outcomes.
If you pay NGOs based on the number of homeless people they manage, they will **never** decrease the number of homeless people.
The data is very clear on this.
Armchair Economist retweeted
"You mean everything is a popularity contest starting in High School?"
"Always has been."
Armchair Economist retweeted
A New York jury just awarded $2 MILLION to a young woman who underwent a double mastectomy at 16 and later detransitioned.
The jury found her psychologist and surgeon liable for malpractice.
Her case alleged that serious mental-health issues, including depression, body dysmorphia, anorexia and autism-spectrum traits, were not adequately addressed before an irreversible procedure was performed on a minor.
Now watch what happens when someone like her speaks publicly.
For years we were told regret was exceedingly rare. We were told these procedures were necessary care. We were told questioning the process itself was dangerous.
But when a detransitioner stands up and says, “This happened to me,” suddenly she becomes the problem.
That is the epistemic tell.
When evidence supports the narrative, it is celebrated.
When evidence contradicts the narrative, the person carrying the evidence gets attacked.
A jury heard the testimony. A jury examined the evidence. A jury found malpractice. And a jury put the damages at $2 million.
You don’t protect vulnerable young people by demanding silence from the ones who came back and said, “I wish someone had slowed this down.”
You protect them by listening.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
Armchair Economist retweeted
Your kid needs 8 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to become a resident doctor.
High School → 4 years college → 4 years medical school → Residency
Meanwhile, someone from India, Pakistan, or Sudan can finish a 5-year program after high school, come to US on H-1B/J-1 visa, and take the same residency.
High School → 5 years medical school → Residency
Why is it easier for them to become US doctors, and so much harder for our kids?
Armchair Economist retweeted
BREAKING: Minneapolis daycare owner featured in Nick Shirley’s video Fahima Egeh Mahamud, PLEADS GUILTY to over $4 million fraud scheme
Armchair Economist retweeted
The claim on this can is true.
A single nuclear fuel pellet the size of a gummy bear produces the same amount of energy as one ton of coal. The amount of nuclear fuel it would take to meet all of your energy needs for your entire life could fit in a soda can.
All of the waste from your usage would also fit inside a soda can.
If you had one can for every person in the United States today and stacked them into a cube, that cube would be 164 feet tall and 164 feet wide, or about half the length of a football field.
Yes, if 100% of our electricity was generated by nuclear power, the total lifetime nuclear fuel and waste produced by every single person in the United States right now would fit in a single football field.
Actually, since spent nuclear fuel is recyclable, the amount of waste would be a lot less than that. If we recycled all of it, we would have a shot glass worth of waste per person's entire lifetime.
Armchair Economist retweeted
Shabana Mahmood bans asylum seekers from being housed near schools and nurseries
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Armchair Economist retweeted
The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.
He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.
RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.
Armchair Economist retweeted
Raise H-1B fees to $100K and Big Tech does not stop hiring.
They stop hiring here.
The next loophole is not a visa.
It is offshoring.
Want to actually protect U.S. jobs? Start here:
1. End tax breaks for offshoring
• Close loopholes that let corporations deduct costs for moving jobs abroad.
• Reverse the perverse incentives that make it cheaper to offshore than to hire at home.
2. Tie federal contracts to U.S. hiring
• Any company receiving government contracts (defense, infrastructure, IT, healthcare) must meet strict domestic hiring quotas.
• No federal dollars should subsidize firms that ship jobs overseas.
3. Penalize outsourcing-heavy firms
• Impose fees or surtaxes on corporations that maintain large offshore headcounts while cutting U.S. staff.
• Make labor arbitrage less profitable than keeping jobs local.
4. Reward firms that invest in U.S. workers
• Provide tax credits for companies that hire and train American graduates, veterans, and underrepresented groups.
• Highlight “Made in America” labor the same way we do with manufacturing.
5. Mandatory transparency
• Require public reporting on the % of a company’s workforce that is U.S.-based vs. offshore.
• Shine a light on hidden outsourcing pipelines through shell staffing firms.
6. Reform OPT & staffing loopholes
• Crack down on body shops that “bench” H-1Bs or cycle OPT students at below-market wages.
• Enforce prevailing wage rules aggressively.
7. Invest in U.S. upskilling pipelines
• Fund large-scale training programs in cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and IT for American citizens.
• Partner with firms like SkillStorm to build a cleared, cloud-ready workforce without visa dependence.
8. Strategic tariffs or taxes on outsourced services
• Just like we tariff goods, consider modest levies on IT and back-office services outsourced abroad to rebalance costs.
@JDVance @SenEricSchmitt @SenatorBanks @RepGosar @SenatorDurbin @USCISJoe @SenSanders @berniemoreno
Armchair Economist retweeted
The narrative that "he was just filming and it pissed off the cops" is a false one.
The narrative that he was only trying to protect those two women, is a false one.
They, as a team, and others there, were actively interfering with a legitimate operation.
That's why the cops shoved them off of the street.
That doesn't mean he deserved to die.
When grabbed, he resisted arrest.
That doesn't mean he deserved to die.
He was armed, and chose to insert himself in an active operation, and resist arrest.
That doesn't mean he deserved to die.
The agent who yelled "GUN" and took the gun, had the gun go off before he could yell "CLEAR", and other agents followed their training (or lack thereof) and shot him.
All that the other officers knew was that there was a called out gun sighting, and a gun shot, and a guy resisting arrest.
You see an agent after the shooting stopped, run over to the body and ask "where's the f*%king gun!?!". He believed he was shooting an armed man, resisting arrest...because that's exactly what he was doing.
He didn't deserve to die, but his own actions, poor decisions, and actual criminal activity were every bit a factor in his death, as the bumbling agents.
Yes, I think the shooting was unnecessary. I think there were a million other ways that scenario could have been handled by the agents.
I don't believe he deserved to die. I don't believe the agents were threatened whatsoever.
Recklessness by all involved ended up with a man losing his life.
23% of all ICE activity has been happening in Texas. We don't see these things happening there.
2% of ICE operations happening in Minnesota and we have 3 shootings of American Citizens.
What's the difference?
Blue States have organized resistance campaigns designed to insert American citizens into ICE operations to interfere... intentionally... purposely...directly.
Interfering with law enforcement operations is not only illegal, but it's dumb. This is how people get killed.
Resisting arrest is not only illegal, but it's dumb. This is how people get killed.
In the 2nd Amendment community, there is a wise saying that goes "I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6" referring to the 12 members on a jury as opposed to 6 pall bearers carrying your casket.
It's used to make the wise argument that it is smart to carry in gun free zones. Because they are soft targets often sought out by active shooters and other violent criminals.
The same principle applies, but is not used, when people interact with law enforcement.
Would you rather be right, or be dead?
Make good decisions when dealing with law enforcement, and survive. Then take the fight up in court. Meanwhile, use every platform available to highlight the injustice done to you. Name departments, cities, towns, supervisors, and specific officers by name. Expose them.
But, interfering with an operation and resisting arrest, while carrying a gun, is a recipe that will end like we saw.
Was it legal for him to be armed there? Yes.
Should he carry everywhere? Yes.
Is it another level of stupid to interfere with operations and then resist arrest...while armed?
My goodness...yes.
When we carry, we take on additional responsibilities. He neglected his.
It's absolutely possible to stand with the policing up of illegal aliens, while at the same time calling law enforcement reckless.
It's absolutely possible to call law enforcement reckless and point out the recklessness of fellow citizens at the same time.
It's absolutely possible to recognize nuance, details, a quickly changing, hyper dynamic situation and the humanity of all involved.
He didn't have to die.
Liberty only exists when it's orderly.
None of this was orderly. Not by anyone involved.
When liberty is taken, lives are lost.
He didn't have to die.
Here is the guy and the two ladies stopping traffic in the middle of the street. You can hear him yelling at the person in the white SUV. You can see the border patrol agents parked across the street in front of the place where they were going to arrest the criminal illegal alien and coming out of their cars. You can then see the two women go right towards the agent who was by his car and stand in front of him obstructing an active operation. It can't be seen in this video but we know from other videos that the guy went across the street to the area where the agents were. The two women and the guy all inserted themselves in an active operation.
This is dangerous for officers and for the public. These officers have only a few minutes to get in there, execute the warrant, arrest the illegal alien (who may be armed since he is a criminal) and pull him out into their car.
These people are going after these officers with loud whistles, blocking traffic, confronting them. The people out there applauding this behavior, saying that it is citizens' right to do that, or instigating it are putting civilians in danger.