sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Supply and demand. Boomers who treated their homes as their main asset opposed housing construction and here we are. Next question?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Supply and demand. Boomers who treated their homes as their main asset opposed housing construction and here we are. Next question?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
I like both but have a dog as I love her and we can do fun things like take walks together.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep going and you’ll become completely irrelevant - look where your principles have gotten us.
Caroleeena (@caroleeena.bsky.social) reposted
I insist on our Star Trek future. I'm going to do everything in my power to make our Star Trek future happen, even if I won't be here to enjoy it.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
The irony is that young, working age people who are not mentally ill don’t use much health care.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
My company is developing AI that will do that and much much more.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Sign me up!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Does that mean that if New York doesn’t get federal funds we don’t have to pay federal taxes? Asking for a friend …
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s the one part of his platform that’s most iffy from an economist’s perspective but seems like something people like Lander can help shape. Definitely onboard with an affordability agenda!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Those wet steps always make me nervous - have been up and down those stairs a lot since first went to Yosemite as a teen and now 60.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah he doesn’t wear the pins of failed states like Somalia … or the US!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
And yes I think that’s all on the table for the next election. The cuts to the government programs are going to cause the system to collapse.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
All of you purists need to get over it. I’d rather win than be right - and it’s actually smart politics to figure out how to coopt the manosphere.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah and more and more of your money will be paid as interest to people who own federal debt. Think about that.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
This is like paid media for the Cuomo campaign, isn’t it? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
He forgot that Obama is immune from prosecution for any official acts. John Roberts said so.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless they’re passengers and it’s a one-way trip, right?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
If it weren’t for the First Amendment - maybe they should choose the next president?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
OMFG.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
Does he have a ‘666’ tattooed above his hairline? This is really sick and twisted stuff.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
What did they think was going to happen?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
People seriously believe this?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s one way to rebuild the manufacturing base. I guess.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
The ultimate D.E.I. hire, right?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
The first rule of fight club … (yes, am Harvard government school alum and have been navigating this for years)
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
That would mean actual accountability.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
We’re in the transition to the Fifth Republic. And these transitions are always painful - look at the Civil War.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
Havard f’ing University today not only joined but became a leader of the Resistance. Let than sink in. Veritas - and to the Revolution!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
I honestly dare them to run even a semblance of a government without us.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m a Harvard government school alum. Good think we have a law school. They’re fucking with the wrong people.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Young able-bodied men are they might be on Medicaid don’t use much health care and don’t cost that much. Next question?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Easy for you to say - you’re not the governor of a state that needs federal assistance. Disappointed in your black and white thinking.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
This time we will need either break apart finally or will need Nuremberg trials to finally end it.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
It is not unrivaled. It is simply the latest eruption of the Civil War that sorta started in 1861 but can be traced to the post-revolution era and the tension between the commercial economy of the northern colonies and the soave-based commercial economy of the South.
Sam (@samd.bsky.social) reposted
New York City’s congestion pricing program open.substack.com/pub/betterci...
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Please don’t do this to someone awesome who clearly got unknowingly put into a very bad situation. We either hang together or we will hang separately.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
You honestly can’t fix stupid.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait but then Musk says he’ll primary them! This is going to all be truly even weirder than anything we’ve seen to date.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
Like, no taxation without representation?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Too bad he doesn’t have the votes for that.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
No taxation without representation.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure it will work as I’m guessing they already have plenty of time on their hands.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
The federal workforce has done nothing wrong and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.
jethro. 🗯️ (@jethrostudio.bsky.social) reposted
The guy who took a chainsaw to our nation can’t seem to figure out why people are taking chainsaws to his products. These aren’t evil attacks. They’re attacks against evil.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
This is article is the authors basically them validating abundance liberalism but saying it’s either not enough or taking the wrong approach. lol.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn’t Elon Musk one of those? Just sayin …
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
One predicts this will not go well.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s not that good a technologist - his team would have left fingerprints.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
So you’re saying cheese sticks don’t make her fart?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
And beyond that it’s standing in defense of institutions that people perceive to be broken because many of them are. We’re in a transition to our Fifth Republic. The fourth was based on the Administrative Procedures Act and the next on AI. This will be rough because Dems didn’t see this.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
That seemed to be the theme of a lot of what they were saying before the election and what mattered was the price of eggs mixed with toxic masculinity.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
As I recall, Navalny ended up dead in jail and Putin is still in power.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m a 60-something and I left San Francisco for New York as it’s become soul-crushingly boring. New York to me is better than ever, Eric Adams notwithstanding.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
This is sadly actually probably true. Or start a war …
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
What an assclown. Seriously.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh you’re so not getting it.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
You really want to keep dying on that cross? Most Democrats agree with him and the ludicrousness of picking pronouns.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually the way to do this is to come in as 10 new states, all of which would at least initially be blue, and stage a takeover in reverse!!!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
He is the new Leader of the Free World. #slavaukraini
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s stupid as a reduction in government spending will show up in its impact on consumption.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
He is indeed the new leader of the Free World - which is no longer a concept tethered to where you live.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Understand the thought but they in particular need to hang back. This is a long game.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks! This is going to turn into a major self-own.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
What did he do?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sitting in traffic on 10th Avenue now and I suspect it’s roadwork. That said, the biggest flaw in the current approach is that pricing isn’t dynamic based on relative demand.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Or a reality TV show.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
The first rule of Fight Club …
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
And with good reason!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
Vive le Resistance!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s always the ‘80s in New York City.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
That was funny. Sort of. I guess.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a nefarious plot! If only …
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
And you’ll need to wear your underwear on the outside.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
How long do you think it will take for President Newsom to then rename it for both Kennedy and Obama? Take that, f-yards.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Josh - I think you’re great but your business model seems rooted in hyperventilating. I invite you to take a more historical perspective. Larry McMillin was likely one of your Webb teachers and I imagine he would invite you to do so as well.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m on your side but you need to chill out. I went to Webb like you did and the Harvard Kennedy School and interned at the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs that Reagan established as the engine of deregulation. This will be a wave crashing on a beach. C’est plus la meme chose.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
$175 billion … for what exactly???
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Judicial review is not written into the Constitution - that’s kind of a problem right now.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
You know people could just zero out their tax withholding. Never in the world would I suggest this but, as Trump says, people are saying …
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Well they did it after Hoover and Republicans were locked out of the House majority for most of next five decades. There are cycles, right?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Well it was the economically and industrially weak states that left last time.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Problem is that the US needs SpaceX for a whole bunch of different reasons.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
No he should be doing his job and getting his state the aid it needs after a devastating natural disaster. That his first and only job right now - not running for president.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s honestly not very bright, is he?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
What he’s saying is that Elon Musk’s interests are now America’s interests.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Do tell!!!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Does he get, like, paid to say stuff like this, like people actually pay him for his opinion?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
Capital idea.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
What facts are you arguing?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol. You are a halfwit and we’re better off without you in the US! Be well! /off
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Well yours appears to be beach real estate … like Gaza.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice try. Next.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
So you’ve fled America and now you get to officially shut the fuck up. Did you actually vote for Trump who is now suggesting ethnically cleansing Gaza so it can become Trump City? God you are pathetic.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
No apparently you are. You did something stupid now you get to roil in it. Enjoy!
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Well you own the aftermath. Own I and live in it.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
Talk about imperial overreach, honestly. With what army?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent
How does he plan to do that, exactly?
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
When is Schumer up anyway? I really hope AOC primaries him.
sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)
Actually they’d be 10 states with 20 senators that would vote Democrat for the next gajillion years. Sounds like a plan to me.