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@sunratan.bsky.social

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture 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?

20/8/2025, 12:47:23 AM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

17/8/2025, 5:14:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep going and you’ll become completely irrelevant - look where your principles have gotten us.

16/8/2025, 7:15:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

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4/8/2025, 1:53:20 AM | 1527 261 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

31/7/2025, 2:23:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

My company is developing AI that will do that and much much more.

27/7/2025, 6:37:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Sign me up!

27/7/2025, 1:09:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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 …

29/6/2025, 3:14:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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!

27/6/2025, 2:03:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

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21/6/2025, 2:23:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

17/6/2025, 8:11:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah he doesn’t wear the pins of failed states like Somalia … or the US!

13/6/2025, 8:43:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

11/6/2025, 9:32:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

9/6/2025, 11:04:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

23/5/2025, 9:23:29 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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...

21/5/2025, 12:58:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

He forgot that Obama is immune from prosecution for any official acts. John Roberts said so.

18/5/2025, 5:24:23 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless they’re passengers and it’s a one-way trip, right?

9/5/2025, 7:40:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

If it weren’t for the First Amendment - maybe they should choose the next president?

9/5/2025, 12:05:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

OMFG.

1/5/2025, 3:17:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)

Does he have a ‘666’ tattooed above his hairline? This is really sick and twisted stuff.

30/4/2025, 1:58:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

What did they think was going to happen?

27/4/2025, 8:55:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

People seriously believe this?

22/4/2025, 11:10:13 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s one way to rebuild the manufacturing base. I guess.

22/4/2025, 5:30:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

The ultimate D.E.I. hire, right?

20/4/2025, 11:48:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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)

20/4/2025, 9:53:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

That would mean actual accountability.

20/4/2025, 9:50:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

20/4/2025, 7:33:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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!

15/4/2025, 4:36:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

I honestly dare them to run even a semblance of a government without us.

15/4/2025, 2:50:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

15/4/2025, 2:50:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

13/4/2025, 3:36:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

13/4/2025, 3:17:26 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

13/4/2025, 12:17:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

13/4/2025, 12:17:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@samd.bsky.social) reposted

New York City’s congestion pricing program open.substack.com/pub/betterci...

11/4/2025, 3:49:18 AM | 178 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

10/4/2025, 1:03:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

You honestly can’t fix stupid.

5/4/2025, 12:37:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

28/3/2025, 1:24:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)

Like, no taxation without representation?

26/3/2025, 6:55:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Too bad he doesn’t have the votes for that.

26/3/2025, 2:40:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

No taxation without representation.

25/3/2025, 11:42:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

23/3/2025, 5:21:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)

The federal workforce has done nothing wrong and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.

19/3/2025, 6:06:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

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18/3/2025, 5:43:43 PM | 813 201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

17/3/2025, 4:33:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn’t Elon Musk one of those? Just sayin …

16/3/2025, 2:40:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

One predicts this will not go well.

16/3/2025, 2:37:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s not that good a technologist - his team would have left fingerprints.

12/3/2025, 8:07:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

So you’re saying cheese sticks don’t make her fart?

12/3/2025, 8:02:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

9/3/2025, 5:07:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

9/3/2025, 5:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

As I recall, Navalny ended up dead in jail and Putin is still in power.

9/3/2025, 3:11:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

9/3/2025, 2:41:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

This is sadly actually probably true. Or start a war …

9/3/2025, 2:38:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

What an assclown. Seriously.

9/3/2025, 2:23:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh you’re so not getting it.

7/3/2025, 5:50:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

6/3/2025, 9:43:13 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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!!!

4/3/2025, 8:25:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

He is the new Leader of the Free World. #slavaukraini

4/3/2025, 1:28:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/3/2025, 11:16:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

1/3/2025, 2:05:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Understand the thought but they in particular need to hang back. This is a long game.

1/3/2025, 1:53:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks! This is going to turn into a major self-own.

26/2/2025, 9:20:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

What did he do?

26/2/2025, 9:07:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

25/2/2025, 3:27:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Or a reality TV show.

25/2/2025, 1:41:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

The first rule of Fight Club …

24/2/2025, 1:48:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

And with good reason!

23/2/2025, 4:12:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)

Vive le Resistance!

23/2/2025, 2:25:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s always the ‘80s in New York City.

23/2/2025, 2:15:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

That was funny. Sort of. I guess.

20/2/2025, 7:26:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s a nefarious plot! If only …

14/2/2025, 8:53:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

And you’ll need to wear your underwear on the outside.

13/2/2025, 12:00:58 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

13/2/2025, 12:00:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

12/2/2025, 2:47:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

12/2/2025, 2:44:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

$175 billion … for what exactly???

11/2/2025, 9:10:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Judicial review is not written into the Constitution - that’s kind of a problem right now.

11/2/2025, 8:55:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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 …

10/2/2025, 5:25:58 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

7/2/2025, 7:29:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Well it was the economically and industrially weak states that left last time.

7/2/2025, 7:05:34 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Problem is that the US needs SpaceX for a whole bunch of different reasons.

6/2/2025, 3:07:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

6/2/2025, 2:28:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s honestly not very bright, is he?

6/2/2025, 12:16:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

What he’s saying is that Elon Musk’s interests are now America’s interests.

6/2/2025, 12:14:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Do tell!!!

6/2/2025, 12:11:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

5/2/2025, 11:06:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)

Capital idea.

5/2/2025, 10:57:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

What facts are you arguing?

5/2/2025, 1:38:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

5/2/2025, 12:56:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Well yours appears to be beach real estate … like Gaza.

5/2/2025, 12:55:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice try. Next.

5/2/2025, 12:53:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

5/2/2025, 12:51:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

No apparently you are. You did something stupid now you get to roil in it. Enjoy!

5/2/2025, 12:48:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Well you own the aftermath. Own I and live in it.

5/2/2025, 12:44:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

Talk about imperial overreach, honestly. With what army?

5/2/2025, 12:36:38 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social) reply parent

How does he plan to do that, exactly?

5/2/2025, 12:00:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sunratan.bsky.social (@sunratan.bsky.social)

When is Schumer up anyway? I really hope AOC primaries him.

4/2/2025, 9:50:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

4/2/2025, 1:33:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view