Pragmatic skeptic. Recovering academic. Corporate AI researcher, but hates it. Enjoys painful hard work and building new things.
Austin, Texas
Joined September 2026
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Weak men exploit power to enrich themselves.
Trump’s government is deeply corrupted and debilitated
#MAGA
June 18: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $500K in Boeing stock. Same day Boeing gets $880M US Navy contract.
June 24: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $250K in Palantir stock. Same day Palantir gets $45.8M government contract.
In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and he would have faced at least 2 years in jail.
When someone attacks those that believe moral values that are rooted in universal norms outside the self, you tend to find critics that prove your point in the most ironic sense.
JP Riley retweeted
Ossoff: Now maybe you saw Trump's so desperate he's begging Putin for diesel. But listen to this, at the very same time, the White House is brokering the sale of billions in Russian energy assets to people who fund the Trump family and the Trump campaign. We're talking oil fields, refineries, gas stations all over the world to be sold to the first family's cronies in a deal brokered and backed by the U.S. government…
Amidst a global energy crisis, the president's son-in-law and the president's business partner are brokering the sale of Russian oil fields to the first family's friends. The same friends who have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump family businesses.
And then there's Marco Rubio committing $1.6 billion of your money to back the Trump boys' mining interests in Kazakhstan. Did you hear about that? Pete Hegseth steering hundreds of millions of Pentagon dollars to back Don Jr.'s magnet investment. Venezuelan oil money turning up in Qatari bank accounts. Because, see, they are literally the elites they pretend to hate. And here's the bottom line: If you're involved in any of this, next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God, in front of the United States Congress.
Quite possibly the single worst attempt to blame, avoid, and beg by a vice president in my lifetime.
Great job, @JDVance
🥴 JD struggles through surprisingly contentious CBS town hall 🥴
Vance faced a number of tough questions from audience members and from Tony Dokoupil during exchanges like this:
JD VANCE: The biggest reason why gas prices are so high is because when Joe Biden ...
DOKOUPIL: It's almost been two years. At a certain point it becomes your economy, not Biden's economy
Here's a supercut of Vance having a hard time explaining the sluggish economy, Trump's corruption, why the US hasn't already won the Iran war, and more:
Bring back a system focused on creating greatness.
These fucking morons have no concept of what Trump’s policies actually are much less what the effects have been.
The ignorance among the MAGA right is profound. It’s become a slavish ideology.
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JP Riley retweeted
Another way the current administration is trapped in the ZERO-SUM FALLACY: The H-1B visa situation.
+ You are NOT taking a job from a citizen, rather creating jobs by increasing overal economic output. Plus these people (even vegetarians) SPEND locally.
+ The US has long been benefiting from other countries' brain drain; without it its edge wd collapse. Tesla, Von Braun, von Neumann, Fermi & Einstein did NOT each take the job of a citizen.
+ It the problem is anti-Indian racism, say it, don't play games.
This is not a typical economic reality. Not only has evidence shown that tariffs induce persistently higher output costs but destroy the incentive to attract domestic competition!
The tariff zealots are as bad as the Marxists.
nber.org/papers/w33100
Reminds me of @PhilWMagness warning @oren_cass that tariffs were already unpopular.
Well… they are about to be a lot less so.
A new survey from @InnovateEconomy and @EchelonInsights finds that the Trump administration’s tariff agenda has become significantly more unpopular over the past year, fueled by a collapse of support among blue collar workers.
The Trump effect
While CPI inflation up to 3.7%, inflation is much higher in many crucial categories:
1. Fuel Oil Inflation: +74.2%
2. Gasoline Inflation: +34.2%
3. Airline Fares Inflation: +22.4%
4. Car Repair Inflation: +5.8%
5. Hospital Services Inflation: +5.6%
6. Utility Gas Inflation: +5.0%
7. Electricity Inflation: +4.4%
8. Fruits and Vegetables Inflation: +3.7%
This marks the 67th-straight month with US CPI inflation above the Fed's 2% target.
After 5+ years of persistent inflation, the top 1% of US households are now worth ~14 TIMES the bottom 50%.
Affordability is still getting worse.
So much for #MAGA and @realDonaldTrump.
Real wages are falling, and have been falling for months.
ALT Line chart titled "Inflation adjusted hourly wages are falling" shows real hourly wages for private sector workers in January 2025 dollars from March 2024 to September 2026. Real wages climbed from $35.38 in March 2024 to a peak of $36.30 in November 2025, then fell to $35.86 by September 2026, eroding most of the inflation-adjusted gains workers had achieved over the prior 20 months.
Of course.
Trump’s tariffs raised prices on more than imports. New York Fed researchers found they also pushed up the cost of American-made goods.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/america…
JP Riley retweeted
Some folks are missing @PeterSchiff’s point:
ALL government spending is paid for by citizens, through taxes, inflation, interest, AND debt (deferred tax).
The Big Beautiful Bill increased spending by $100’s of billions over the next few years, so it increased what YOU MUST PAY.
Imagine arguing for a counterfactual based on a rounding error with no consideration of the variance.
Now imagine showing this chart as a function of being able to service the debt.
The right has become financially incompetent because their ideas cannot fail.
Deeply misleading.
National debt is running around $3 trillion lower than it would have been if Biden's debt path had continued.
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I know that at a certain point it makes me sound naive, but I think we should be clear that a president announcing a ceasefire signed by two warring countries that doesn't actually exist is and should be the sort of thing that gets him swiftly removed from office.
It takes a delusional narcissist to sincerely believe that they have the ability to just declare and things will be.
Or… he is a grifter desperately buying time.
