Socially distanced sooner than most of you.
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mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
You want a federal government so small, so limited in scope, and so unobtrusive that the average American barely notices it exists.
mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
The answer isn’t getting the right person into power.
The answer is limiting power so that the person doesn’t matter.
It’s the cost of having to relocate to a community in a commutable distance. That’s a $5000 mortgage in 2025 for a job that is clearly paying too much and will get cut in 2027.
Turn on your replies, coward.
The people be unserious about remote. They gon say the 120K would get eaten up by gas, lunch, and work clothes.
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“…It makes it looks like you don't care about the truth.”
I'm sorry but you can't get facts and numbers completely wildly wrong and then have everyone say "Well it's OK because at least these silly mistakes got us to focus on the cost of living". It just hurts your cause. It makes it looks like you don't care about the truth.
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My girlfriend left me because “trading took all my time.”
She said: “Choose me or those charts.”
I chose the charts.
6 months later, I flew her and her new boyfriend first-class to Dubai…
paid for everything with one withdrawal.
When we landed, she looked at me with tears and said:
“I was wrong. You really did it.”
I smiled and said:
“I never stopped loving you.
I just loved my future more.”
Sometimes, the ones who leave don’t understand the vision…
until the vision starts paying for their dreams, too.
If they walked away because you wouldn’t quit…
let them walk.
One day they’ll look back and realize
they left the person who was about to change their life.
Keep trading.
Keep building.
Keep proving love isn’t the only thing worth fighting for.
Your empire is loading…
and when it arrives, even the ones who doubted will want a seat at the table.
Lock in.
The glow-up is coming.
And it’s going to be expensive. 🤍🔥
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What does this do for us in 2025?
I was told America has no leverage.
Trump Tariffs Push Japan’s Economy Into Contraction - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/11/16/busin…
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mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
It won't be long before the pharmaceutical companies run ads for drugs to make the seasonal early-sunset blues go away, with unrealistically happy people dancing in the moonlight.
mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
I've been managing people in IT for 30 years. WFH is the most family-friendly innovation this century. So many parents I've worked with can make raising a family work because one or both can WFH.
And we're getting rid of it because it's bad for commercial real estate
This is the sort of dude who asks if a referendum is Republican or Democrat before deciding, never votes in off-year elections, doesn’t know their congressional district… and dominates political discourse.
Most people realize as teenagers that politics are a bundled good and you don’t get to assemble a custom deck of them a la carte
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mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
I’m biased, but my main takeaway from the Trump administration so far is that libertarians were right all along.
Give the federal government more and more power, and eventually someone will abuse it.
mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
A whole lot of BS political views basically amount to assuming that life in our hard won civilisations is just the way things are, and that you can simply remove the foundations.
Only a society protected by vaccines produces anti-vaxxers. Only a society with a strong military produces pacifists. Only a society with large scale industrial farming produces organic foodies. Only societies with cheap energy produce degrowthers.
You don’t get to enjoy the ends whilst condemning the means, and still be taken seriously.
mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
The main intellectual problem facing the American conservative movement at the moment:
my therapist said this to me, and it hit me like a brick “don’t buy stocks, funds or ETFs that ever decrease in price”
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mdwainwright (parroty) retweeted
The US would not have gone through the last ten years of insanity and division if Romney had won in 2012.
One of Trump's few redeeming qualities was his willingness to criticize the Iraq War a decade ago. Bill Kristol opposes Trump for this reason, which is misguided.
Never been prouder to have stood for the last decade alongside Never Trump friends and associates—and millions of Americans—against this man who is both a wannabe dictator and an actual sociopath.
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