BBQ Cook, Old guy. I used to write software the hard way. I grew up inside the DC beltway. I believe in this country and want to preserve our democracy.
Palm Bay, Florida
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Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
@AGJamesUthmeier should not be lecturing anybody about transparency. See: Hope Florida & Alligator Alcatraz.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth, and anyone else who played a role in cutting off Ukraine's ability to defend itself must answer for it. Congress must get to the bottom of this.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
What’s up with all the tech billionaires just gobbling like hogs at our public trough?
Burgum wants to destroy our public lands, killing endangered species and poisoning water with data centers he’s invested in. With no responsibility or accountability for the dead zones he’ll create because Trump waived it.
Those lands are ours, not his!
Pay your fair share and wipe your own bum, Doug.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
The voters corrected the wrong choice that ever put an unqualified closeted litte freak like you in any position of power or authority.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
I know I wrote a post like this recently, but I feel like I am going to explode if I hear another Republican misuse the word "socialism."
For my Republican friends out there, let me explain what socialism actually means. Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially or publicly owned, including through state ownership.
Universal healthcare is not socialism. Social welfare programs designed to prevent homelessness and poverty are not socialism. Free public education is not socialism. In fact, it is entirely possible to have a highly capitalist economy alongside an extensive social welfare system. Even Milton Friedman, one of the most influential advocates of free-market capitalism, supported a negative income tax to provide a basic income floor for the poor.
So please stop with the BS accusations of socialism every time someone proposes a social welfare program.
Ironically, some of the most conspicuous examples of state intervention in private enterprise in contemporary America come from the Trump administration itself. Its increasingly dirigiste economic policies include acquiring ownership stakes in private companies, asserting government control over corporate decisions, and imposing economically damaging tariffs on American businesses and consumers.
If you are genuinely concerned about government interference in free markets, perhaps you should start there.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
TRUMP: "Iran is not a war." It can’t be a war if for 5 mos. nobody was hurt, killed, or anything else.
We haven’t lost anybody in 7 months, so I don’t think that’s a war.” US families have had 23 service members killed and 866 wounded since fighting began.
Time to remove him.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
Remember the floating prison that our sailors and Marines were trapped on for 8+ months because of Trump's disastrous war?
19-year-old Nicholas McKelvey, who jumped from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in despair after 255 days of 12-hour shifts, relentless heat, scarce food, and missing his daughter’s birth, was just charged with “malingering” and given a general discharge that costs him his GI Bill.
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed eight suicide attempts across the strike group on a 321-day deployment that set a modern record for consecutive days at sea.
The ship had only a handful of mental-health specialists for 5,000+ sailors.
Military leadership under Hegseth are treating a documented mental-health crisis among dedicated United States service members, as a disciplinary problem.
This administration does NOT care about our armed forces!
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
Fastball finally came to eat this morning. There were six feline friends enjoying the sun on the back porch when I got home. I put food out and went up front to call her. I heard her cry before I saw her. And she was hungry.
Caring for feral cats is a heartfelt commitment. Every day, I strive to provide them with food and care, but it’s a challenge without support. Your donations can help ensure they stay healthy and safe. Please consider contributing. Every bit helps!
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Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
I agree with my friend @BernieSanders.
Sending Medicare for All to Trump's desk is a win-win for Democrats.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
Robot successfully builds space structure in first autonomous construction demo: phys.org/news/2026-11-robot-…
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Profit isn't the only signal. Feeling great about helping people. Changing people's lives. Helping your country. Putting people in a position to succeed. To enjoy their lives. People get to pick their own motivations. If they are fortunate, they will reach those goals.
That's the beauty of capitalism. People get to choose the reward that motivates them.
Entrepreneurs can choose to make as much money as possible. Or not. They can choose to make enough money to focus on using their most valuable asset, their time, to not have to work at all. They can choose to make money to help people.
But. Every entrepreneur that wants to reach their goals needs people. People to work for them, buy from them, sell to them. Even the person in the basement with nothing but AI, needs to connect to humans to reach their personal goals.
Capitalism works. But not for everyone.
Where Capitalism fails people, Capitalism isn't the problem. It's the people that put profits above all else that are the problem.
If you put your personal net worth or cash flow above all else, you may make insane amounts of money, but you will suffer the greatest indignity. You will be hated. Your time will not be your own. You will never experience the joy that comes from helping others.
No one is born knowing where their life will take them. We get to do our best, in our circumstances, to try to enjoy our lives.
Capitalism allows us to try to get there. Capitalism allows people who have achieved those goals to help others. Capitalism allows us to choose our own personal path.
Unfortunately, we don't all get there. But we get to try to choose the path we want.
The signal is personal choice. Not profit.
Mark. Do you hear yourself?
You say government doesn't have to make a profit, and that is true. It is the whole problem. Profit is the signal that tells a producer he created more value than he consumed. Government has no such signal, which is why it cannot know whether anything it does is worth doing. That is not a friction AI removes. It is the absence of the one piece of information AI would need.
And everyone else in your plan does have to make a profit. The researcher who spends ten years on a molecule that may never get through the FDA. The engineer who designs the scanner. The company that risks capital on a manufacturing line. The doctor who borrowed three hundred thousand dollars for the right to work ninety hour weeks. The nurse. The hospital that has to keep the lights on. Every one of them has to take in more than they put out or they stop, and when they stop, the care stops with them. Government not needing a profit means nothing if the people who make the thing still do.
Then there are the people whose money you intend to run through the Treasury. They earned it. They need it. And they have a right to it that does not depend on whether your commission has a good use in mind. A government that doesn't have to make a profit is a government that only has to take, and the taking is the part you keep leaving out of the pitch.
You know all of this. You built Cost Plus on exactly these premises. Publish a price, earn a margin, let the customer decide. You just refuse to grant the people who make medicine the same thing you granted yourself.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
🇺🇸JD Vance: "Murders in NYC have reached the lowest level in recorded history under Trump."
🇺🇸Zohran: "Bro, the reality is NYC dropped murders to historic lows while you were busy burning taxpayers' money in wars. Next time you want credit try doing the job first you fool."
Zohran Mamdani is now the most popular leader all over the United States🔥
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
"I don’t want Jared Kushner to be investigated because he’s the president’s son-in-law. I want him investigated because he’s potentially laundered and embezzled $2 billion dollars in funds from the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I don’t want Stephen Miller investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who’s at the center of the Trump brain trust. I want him investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who has violated the due-process rights of millions of people and, potentially, directly violated court orders. I don’t want Pete Hegseth investigated because he’s a toxic psychopath who is unqualified to lead America’s military forces. I want him investigated because he’s a fucking murderer who needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, either in this country or The Hague." thenation.com/article/politi…
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
Stephen Miller: “Birthright citizenship should be illegal. They are anchor babies.”
Fact: Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 but his parents did not become US citizens until 1975. After he was born, his parents traveled frequently back-and-forth to Cuba.
Tracy Amadon 🤦🏻🌏🚽🗿 retweeted
We now have intel that another strike is being prepared – targeting our energy sector, bridges across the Dnipro, and civilian infrastructure. The Air Force and the Armed Forces of Ukraine overall are preparing to protect us. We need interceptor missiles for our Patriots. Every agreement matters, and every day counts when it comes to deliveries. We're asking our partners very strongly: please don't put off deliveries.
Please stay safe, given the threat of missile attacks. Glory to Ukraine!
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WCK teams are bringing meals directly to families in Central Florida who have no way to reach food after historic flooding made the roads impassable. In Brevard County, we met a 103-year-old man whose home was surrounded by water. We’re serving him —and neighbors across the county—for as long as the roads stay closed. Hear from WCK's Charlie for @WESH: wesh.com/article/world-centr…
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