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1 year
I have been pondering Stan Druckenmiller's recent interviews. So here are the numbers. We are currently 31 Trillion in debt nationally. The FED's balance sheet sits at 8.5 Trillion. The US government collected 4.9 Trillion in tax receipts in 2022. The US spent 6.267
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@Rich_Cooper I, I, I, I, I, I, me, me, me, my, my, my. And then the kicker... "All of my friends have their partners that they PRIORITIZE and I am being left behind." and finishes with more I, I , me, me, my, my. She is so close and yet so far.
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@KimStrassel It is about exactly what Matt said it was about. Single item spending bills. It is not super hard to understand.
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@engineers_feed It depends if page one was started on the left or right side.
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@patrickbetdavid 4.) They turn off comments.
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@ZubyMusic @ModestyQueen19 A father's number one job in regards to his daughters. "Keep 'em off the pole." It is both a metaphor and literal.
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@NYTimesPR How is it grounded in bad faith if they have American relatives buried overseas or domestically in military graves? The NyTimes has been operating in bad faith for quite a while now.
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Just got off the phone with a friend drilling shale in West Texas. Works for one the top 2 drilling companies by size in the US. They can not finish drilling wells because they can not get casing to complete the cement jobs. @DoombergT
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@profgalloway Because innovation always happens by committee. Spoke like a true tenured professor from his safe ivory tower. Go build something yourself and then you can comment.
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@imetatronink I disagree that Tucker was out oh his league buddy. I think we have become so inured to, "Journalists" interrupting their guest every time their, "producer" screams something into their earpiece we have forgotten what true journalism is. Tucker was respectful and listened.
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@jordanbpeterson They do however seems to give rise to activities by the media and the government that would make the folks that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about quite proud. Australia has fallen.
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@engineers_feed Yes. Do the force diagram. If he is just holding the rope stationary the force is split in half. i.e. Half of his weight supported by his arms, half by his seat. If he exerts pulling force on the rope that exceeds half the weight, he lightens the load on the seat, and thus
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@DoombergT Fixed it for ya.
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@elonmusk Short sellers... $TSLA
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@RWMaloneMD And realize this is where they wanted to take us... Australia has fallen....
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@AllenBGlines From this guy's twitter bio. "Head of the Allen B. Glines Center for Public Advocacy - Fighting for the Rights of Children...." Baron was 15 when his father left the Whitehouse. Hunter Biden was 51 at that same time. Do these people think at all before they post?
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@VDHanson Everybody knows it is not equal justice. The question becomes what will anybody do about it.
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@engineers_feed The magnet induces a current in the copper plate, which in turn produces a magnetic field. The direction of this current always opposes the change in the magnet's field, resulting in the magnet being repelled. Or slowed by gravity in this case. Another example that demonstrates
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Truly exceptional.
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Konstantine Kisin Gives a Reality Check to Indoctrinated Woke Students at the Oxford Union “The only thing that wokeness has to offer is to brainwash bright young minds like you to believe you are victims” @KonstantinKisin
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@stkirsch Thanks Steve... Now do the FAA having to change the parameters for EKG's because so many pilots started failing their physicals after the k-shot. Cliff notes. Myocarditis (scar tissue on the heart) causes an increase in milliseconds between the time the signal is sent to the
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@donnabrazile Definitely the most vicious attack we have ever seen. We nearly did not survive it. At lease we have you to help us chart a path forward through these treacherous times and help us define reality.
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@goddeketal @isabellarileyus Don't make assumptions?
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@AustinTunnell Welcome to the world of the trades being bought by private equity.
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@Jason Would love see some Cali/silicon valley types trying to make connections/fast trip on a rig with a spinning chain working 14 12's. Would be a great 6 month internship. Would change their lives forever for the better.
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@imetatronink I disagree in part. Where we agree wholeheartedly is it was a master class in Statesmanship, history, logic, and perhaps most importantly the long litany of insults Russia has borne by the US state department, intelligence services, all backed by the MIC. They all need a
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@engineers_feed Nothing like noticing your nitpicking noggin notifying your napping subconscious about other similar words nipping, nibbling, and notifying as they wait for the naming and numbering.
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@Chris_Repke @jeremykauffman 1000 tests 1 true positive 50 false positives So 1 out of 51 test positives is correctly identified as positive 1/51 is percentage of true positives. So less than a 2% chance (1.96455...%) someone actually has the disease based on the test results. happy to be disabused
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@aginnt This is where the US would have ended up had we followed the lead of California, New York, Michigan, and DC.
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@cgray209 She got triggered by reality.
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@engineers_feed Divide 20 by half (of 20) 20/10 = 2 Add 10 10 + 2 = 12
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@BretWeinstein If they cover it they will talk about the, "Far right, fringe minority" so it will not matter. Here is a small sample of the the hard working, freedom loving Canadians they will be disparaging.
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@RealCandaceO @British_Airways Seems rather not random.
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@engineers_feed Government money printing
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@ClimateDefiance You misspelled, "hilarious."
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@JonathanTurley Nancy is trying to deflect attention from the fact they got slaughtered in the house.
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@AnnCoulter I think you are way off base Ann. Folks are really pissed about the government overreach due to the corona scam and I believe it will be the primary driver come election day.
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@DavidSacks I remember my stomach turning, years ago, when Trump said things were rigged. His character/mannerism is so appalling at times it overshadows his message. Now I understand, I just wasn't ready to hear it. Did not want to accept what it meant at a deep level. Its hard to take
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@Jkylebass @DavidSacks Kyle, I have been following this particular topic with great interest for more than 20 years. Curious to know how/what do you think about the US Sec of State (Baker) promising Russia/Gorbachev NATO would not expand? (It did in 4 waves) Also, there have been several US
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@engineers_feed 2 minutes. One for the train engine to make it through. Another for the tail end.
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@ScottAdamsSays It is not that it is not a real problem. It is that the measures adopted to solve the problem (Lockdowns, erosion of civil rights, use of the issue politically, etc) were ill thought out, and led to massive fraud/lying/obfuscation, and unessacry financial carnage and debt.
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@ZubyMusic @Rich_Cooper It is painful. Neither do I know how people can lack self-awarness to that degree. But I know some do. One of the reasons mythology has been loved, revered, and past the test of time. Myths do a great job of pointing out the extreme edge cases in the human condition. In
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@UN_Women Have at it ladies. 14 days on, 14 days off. 12 hours a day. Rain, Heat (115++), Snow, Sleet. Come get you some.
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@PeterDiamandis This guy is in his nineties, drinks 5 cokes a day, and is a billionaire. So I am going to need a bit of further convincing please.
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@Rich_Cooper Was running a company before I met my last wife. Discussed the situation and she verbally agreed and agreed in email the company would not be pursued if things did not work out. Did not sign a prenup. Divorce court - Guess what she wants. And the court was willing to pursue
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@ElectionWiz Could this be why?
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@kylenabecker Going on the offensive now. Good.
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@RealJamesWoods All it would take is one guy in an ICE jacket to start a stampede.
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@fox5dc @polan13 Good thing she has not come into contact with many folks who have gone off to far flung destinations while asymptomatic.
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@AllMattNYT I will lay out why that is the case. 1.) Its long form conversation. Speaking back and forth as opposed to being spoken at. 2.) Joe ask tons of questions. Then shuts up. And listens. 3.) Joe doesn't pretend to be the expert at everything. He brings the experts on.
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@AlexBerenson That is a really bad take.
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@Newsweek Amazing how many mainstream publications have been co-opted.
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@kylascan @duncan__c His point, which is the correct one, is that that chart is nearly meaningless without the data he suggested overlayed.
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@elonmusk And some things they both say are false.
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@ParikPatelCFA You have got it backwards this time. The main stream media would claim, "He died from COVID."
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@engineers_feed Worst case 1st draw Brown 2nd draw Blue 3rd draw Black 4th draw match
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@EricRWeinstein Relax. Google is on the case.
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@krmaher Quite the litany of callowness. #1 - Conflate words with physical harm. #2 - Further distort an existing to distortion to conflate it with race. The more self-loathing the better. #3 - Buttress utterance with self proclaimed title of, "boss lady." Boss alone is neither,
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@FoxNews McCarthy lied to the people he was elected to "lead."
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@GregAbbott_TX Great start. Double it. Minimize the distance between the consequences of their vocalized political wailings and reality.
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1.) Texas tall tales you will not see reported in the mainstream media. Seems like a hell of a story to me but I ain't no newspaper man. An off duty US Border Patrol Agent named Jacob Alvarado was shooting the breeze with the old men down at the local barber shop on his day off
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@jordanbpeterson The police are being directed to allow this. Full stop
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@LukeGromen 1.4 Billion Chinese .333B Americans To reach parity the Chinese would need to be producing 420% the electricity... or 1700 TW hours. They are closing in.
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@benshapiro Free shit at every store tonight.... Just watch...
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@profplum99 El Salvador was going to get screwed by rising dollar strength regardless. The end of the bitcoin story has yet to be written.
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@boriquagato Model 3 is now outselling ALL of these BMW models combined in the US. All of them combined.... $TSLA $Tesla
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@RubinReport The Sikhs are coming, the Sikhs are coming!!!!
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@catturd2 Nah... was climate change what was the culprit.
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@RWMaloneMD That idea in a picture.. The girl on the right (Fiona Lashells) was suspended 38 time from school for refusing to wear a mask. She finally won her battle and told the school board she hoped they ended up in jail. Out of the mouth of babes...
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@elonmusk @engineers_feed Crazy that we are still using 110/120 in the US. Lots of extra copper.
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@HuffPostPol Did he shoot anybody? That is the difference right?
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@jordanbpeterson Couple of points... 1.) Russia is not running out of troops. 2.) Russia has already offered peace/negotiations. US won't have it. 3.) Russian winter offensive is beginning. Russia will take more territory and offer to negotiate again but from an even stronger position.
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@BretWeinstein Same can be said for how Texas and Florida state governments reacted to COVID.
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@mehdirhasan Journalists only ask tough questions when they have been told to by those who sign their paychecks. The FTX/Sam Bankman media Love fest/Road Show demonstrated that in spades. Again....
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@GregAbbott_TX @KenPaxtonTX The US/Mexico border is wide open while the Biden administration is trying to implement intra-state vaccine passports. Wish this blatant hypocrisy was being called out daily from the highest levels.
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@lexfridman @YouTube @TeamYouTube Yep... that is the tone many start out with. Good luck Lex. Love your work.
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@naomirwolf @burningplat Sorry about that Naomi. Meanwhile in Texas, while in the company of 73,125 of your closest Neanderthals buddies... It is interesting to see people losing their mind when the narrative they put so much stock in turns out to be just not true.
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@benshapiro Expect no acknowledgment, remorse or change of course. She is irredeemable.
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@engineers_feed Neither because neither raise matches inflation.
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@born_sage @Jkylebass @DavidSacks You are skipping over a couple of parts friend. In addition to the points I raised. 1.) The CIA formenting a coup on your Western Border. Not once. 2.) Russian speaking and identifying civilians being shelled/etc. By that same country after the coup mentioned above. And
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@Cernovich @LeonydusJohnson 2 predictions 1.) Police in some jurisdictions will start resigning en masse. 2.) More conservative states will pass laws shielding citizens from taking actions against rioters.
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@RubinReport @elonmusk It is a satire account fyi.
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@RichardTCasey @SantiagoAuFund @RaoulGMI @Halsrethink @mnicoletos @MacroVoices @LukeGromen @DoombergT @ttmygh All commodity cycles are not created equal. A commodity cycle at the end of a decades-long debt super cycle is something all together different. The rules have changed for how currencies will be priced going forward. Faith is worth less. Molecules and Joules are worth more.
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Isn't that the truth. Think about what that means for a second.
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@KimStrassel @WSJopinion Thank you for all you do Kim,
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@DavidSacks Now the issue is that given Russia's relative strength as Ukraine has no option but to retreat, Russia will wisely take more territory then would have previously given their initial willingness to call a ceasefire over a year ago was sabotaged by the US.
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This administration is literally insane and promoting insanity. It is a national security risk because it will most certainly erode morale, and perhaps more importantly provide a guidepost for the scope and scale of what is, "acceptable behavior."
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This week in Bahrain the Navy told sailors that they talk to their children at age 12 about gender identity, sex, STD’s, pregnancy, etc. without notifying parents. When asked if "the Navy’s policy circumvents a parents right to know?" the @USNavy official answered "Yes". Insane.
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@engineers_feed No. The wheels would start spinning so fast they would RUD nearly instantly. Effectively all of the power generated by the engines would be translated into rotational acceleration of the wheels until they disintegrate. It is a rate of rate of acceleration problem.
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@anangbhai @benshapiro Think she got "mansplained"
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@Fabien_Levy @NYCMayor Expensive photo op given they surely were worth more being sold even at wholesale auction prices then just crushing them and selling them for scrap?
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@WatchChad Would love see the Dixie Chicks go do down
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@DavidSacks It is not about the money. It is about them losing an unearned privilege.
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Australia is the best real-life, real-time billboard for the 2nd Amendment and NRA I have seen so far in my life time. It is what America could have become we had followed the lead of New York and California.
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😂 @DoombergT The force is strong in this one?
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Florida Governor @RonDeSantisFL exempts gas stoves from state taxes.
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@RealCandaceO How did the conspiracy theorist win? Slowly... then all at once.
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@stkirsch Because it is not a vaccine.
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@JonathanTurley The opposite of legislating from the bench. As was intended.
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@culturaltutor A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode, coughing and hiccoughing, thoughtfully through the streets of Scarborough
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@historydefined The guy is a class act. Stayed out of the limelight and let his super talented wife do her thing.
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