Jay @Reasonable_Con

This is how the Obama Administration sold Haiti TPS to the American people in 2010. It was controversial at the time because it rewarded people who came here illegally. Democrats’ promise of 18 months turned into 16 years.

Soccer refs: We 3D-scanned all 1,248 players before the tournament, track every limb 50 times a second, and can confirm you are offside by a toenail. No goal. Soccer refs: Added time? I'm thinking... seven minutes. Actually, ten. Could be twelve. Hard to say really.

There is no political gain to be had from saying this, this is legitimately a man who has contemplated the inner life of grass

Polymarket @Polymarket

4 days ago

JUST IN: President Trump declares that “grass has a life just like people have a life.”

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A deal came across my desk this week Largest revenue-collecting enterprise in America: > 71M customers > 185M people funding it > Mandatory participation > No competitors > No churn On paper it's the best business model I've ever seen, so I ran diligence It's Social Security Put my analyst on the financials: > He came back in 4 hours > He did not look well Started with the revenue model: > 12.4% of every dollar you earn > 6.2% withheld from your paycheck > 6.2% paid by your employer, which is your money taking a longer route > Applied to the first $184,500 of income, then it stops That's the collection engine Then I traced where the money goes First finding: > Nothing was set aside > The money comes in from workers and goes out to retirees the same month > The surplus got spent the moment it arrived > The "trust fund" everyone talks about is $2.56T of the government holding IOUs from itself > It has paid out more than it took in every year since 2021 > Last year the shortfall hit $160B > I asked him where the actual money was > He said "it already left, sir" Second finding: > The model only works if the people paying in can cover the people cashing out > In 1960 there were more than 5 workers for every person collecting a check > Today there are fewer than 3 > In 20 years there will be fewer than 2.5 > And 4.1M Americans are turning 65 every year right now > The largest wave of retirements in the country's history > My son was at the table > He looked at the chart > He said "so fewer and fewer people are paying for more and more people, and at some point it stops working?" > I said "that's the structure, yes" > He went back to his cereal > My analyst looked up from his laptop > He said "sir, with respect, this looks like a pyramid scheme" > I corrected him > A pyramid scheme is illegal > This one is mandatory Third finding: > The headline says the money runs out in 2034 > Then my analyst found the footnote > It is not one fund > The old-age and survivors fund and a separate disability fund, kept apart by law > The 2034 number blends them > Un-blend them and the retirement side, the one almost everyone is counting on, goes first > Not someday. Not a generation from now > The fourth quarter of 2032 > After that the math only allows it to pay 78 cents on every dollar it promised > A 22% cut. Automatic. No vote required. What it would take to close the gap: > Raise the 12.4% payroll tax to roughly 16.8% > Cut every benefit by more than 20%, immediately and permanently > Or some combination of the two A remediation plan that's actually passed: none. Pulled the cap table: > The first person ever to collect a monthly check was a woman named Ida May Fuller > She paid in $24.75 > Her employer paid another $24.75, which was also her money > She collected $22,888.92 > More than 460 times what went in The model front-loaded its winners My wife read it over my shoulder She did not argue with any of it She never does She just looked at me, then looked at the ceiling, and said nothing She thinks I take things too far She also thinks I'm right Here's my diligence conclusion: > Took your money for 40 years > Spent it the month it arrived > Set nothing aside > Built a model that runs on demographics it no longer has > Left a 22% cut to trigger in 2032 > Has no fix that ever passed In any other deal we'd have a word for this In this one we call it your retirement I'm not saying anything The economic model is saying it Make common sense common again Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

Always wild this was real and not some adult swim type skit.

People who dismiss Vance just don’t like him and want him to have no political future. The reality is that he is an extremely talented communicator. He dismantled Tim Walz in the VP debate, and he handles every venue (even hostile venues) with intelligence and poise.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox

2 days ago

Bill Maher demands JD Vance “own” ICE being “too mean,” the way he owned the “childless cat ladies” line. Instead, Vance handed him reality, in plain terms, with a smile. By the time Vance finished, all Maher could do was grumble. He knew he’d lost.

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The average tick would die of nicotine poisoning if you smoked one cigarette before it bit you. Make sure to take a drag every few minutes on a hike. It’s for your health. You likely only have 6 months of this being effective before nicotine resistant ticks are accidentally released from the national laboratory for preventing ticks from developing nicotine resistance

“We make two deeply homophobic regimes play on Pride night, in one of the gayest cities in America.”

Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport

4 days ago

🚨JUST IN: Iran wants FIFA to prevent any “ceremonies or promotional activities” in support of the LGBTQ community Seattle’s local World Cup host committee has designated the upcoming game between Iran and Egypt a “Pride Match”

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What happened to my bank account? Absolutely nothing. You believed a lie. You believed a lie that was told to you by your political class, and your news media, to keep you from asking uncomfortable questions about how much you are paying in tax, where that money is going, and what quality of care you actually receive for the portion of it they didn't steal. Don't believe me? Look at the pictures. Look. At. Them. That's my wife, @acrobatichobbit. Before and after. That's a five centimeter mass. Stage 4 metastatic melanoma. The worst kind of cancer, the most vicious form of assassin your own body can betray you with. That bright area? Blood. Ten years ago, anywhere in the world, the scan on the left is a death sentence... an endless gauntlet of painful surgeries, followed by chemotherapy, hair loss, uncontrolled vomiting, wasting away to nothing, death. In America, today, it's not. We have things here. Genetic therapies. Tailored viruses that attack tumor cells. Drugs that highlight cancers for your immune system, drag them kicking and screaming into the spotlight to be killed. I won't tell you about her exact course of treatment, because that's none of your goddamned business, but I will tell you that it cost American drug companies and medical researchers a fortune to discover. A fortune that your nation cannot afford because you chose socialism instead of progress. And socialism, however fine-sounding in theory, simply does not work. Were she and I British, living in Britain, relying on the National Health Service, I would be a widower now. Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money? Yes. This technology was expensive to create, and the people who did so deserve to pay their mortgages and feed their kids. So do the oncologists and surgeons. Many of the men who cared for her were old men, experienced men, long past retirement age, still working because when your profession is clawing souls back from the void, sitting on a beach with a pina colada instead just doesn't hit the same. They deserve every cent. Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money? Yes. Did I pay it? No. Because believe it or not, when things are ruinously expensive, but vitally necessary, we here in America come up with ways to deal with that. Ways that don't involve creating a big pot of money and entrusting it to corrupt slimeballs. We have insurance. And sometimes insurance isn't cheap, but the bite it takes is a hell of a lot less of what we have than the tax man takes from you. And insurance companies sometimes have to make hard decisions about which spending choices will save the most people. I know about this in detail, because that is my wife's profession. She creates the mathematical models that pay for all this stuff. The insurance that saved her is the exact same plan that she provides to others. And at the end of an awful year and a half of treatment, awful because cancer medicines make you far sicker than the cancer itself... We were left whole. Battered and wounded in spirit, but financially whole, at least. The only loss we took was the blow to my career as a novelist, because it turns out you can't write stories while your wife is dying, and you don't automatically recover that ability afterwards. Not right away. I wondered every day if she was going to live or die. I wondered every day what the hell I was going to with myself without her. But I never wondered, not for a moment, how the hell we were going to pay for all this. Your government doesn't solve the problem. It is the problem. They lie to you.

MatLab crashes @memecrashes

3 days ago

@StructuredThou1 sure, then tell me what happens to your bank account when you get a brain tumor in the US

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🚨JUST IN: Iran wants FIFA to prevent any “ceremonies or promotional activities” in support of the LGBTQ community Seattle’s local World Cup host committee has designated the upcoming game between Iran and Egypt a “Pride Match”

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@PolymarketBlitz It’s probably because of economic status - NHLs make much more than any other of the athletes so they don’t need to commit crimes. It’s blantant white privilege at its finest. If we maybe raised the salaries of the other sports leagues they wouldn’t commit as many crimes

Kicked out of the Richmond DSA for opening up the floor with a reminder that we are meeting on occupied Confederate land

Yeah I’m pretty sure we can get some mileage out of the phrase “committed a non-basketball act” lmao

WNBA Communications @WNBAComms

4 days ago

Phoenix Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas Receives Flagrant Foul 2 Penalty and a One-Game Suspension

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The Phillies are the first team in MLB history to hit a go-ahead HR in the ninth inning of three consecutive games !!! h/t @EliasSports

MLB @MLB

3 days ago

BRYCE HARPER FOR THE LEAD 🔔 The @Phillies strike AGAIN in the 9th inning!

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Me to my 6 Year Old: hey buddy. Team USA doesn’t play until after your bedtime tonight Him: in this house, we stay up for America. Me: jesus, ok. What snacks should we have?

picking a random college major on a whim at 18

Ran into some Scots who were planning on going to New Orleans before Miami in order to take a break. You are not drying out in New Orleans. You don't understand how insane you sound right now

One of the Antifa terrorists said "I don't consent to a search" after having just launched an armed attack on the government. It just goes to show the incredible delusion that leftists are under and the psychological result of their having been typically allowed to break the law.

Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo

5 days ago

Left-wing media, angry over the convictions and sentencing of the North Texas Antifa terror cell members, claim the incident was a peaceful "protest" by activists engaging in First Amendment-protected activity. But the jury saw the truth at trial. Here is the body camera

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U.S. intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing an alleged plot to redirect hundreds of millions of American tax dollars earmarked for clean energy projects in Ukraine back to the US to fund then-President Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and the DNC, according to declassified documents obtained by JTN.