DaggaRoosta
@daggaroosta.bsky.social
Middle-aged straight Texan man with a center-left economic policy background who also believes it's good to rethink historical race narratives, that trans folk deserve respect and guns do not have inherent rights. And no I will not call them "skeets"
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DaggaRoosta
@daggaroosta.bsky.social
· Sep 18
reverting back to quasi-anonymity for um, no reason, why do you ask
Right. The Federalist Society wants to advance terminally unpopular conservative goals, like ending abortion and entitlements, by coaching judges to provide legal cover for anti-democratic right-wing power grabs, no matter how contorted or flimsy their logic needs to be. It's why we're here today
John Roberts turned the presidency into a kingship. With a literal get-out-of jail card from the court, Trump can do whatever he wants. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/doWp8Me
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Right. The Federalist Society wants to advance terminally unpopular conservative goals, like ending abortion and entitlements, by coaching judges to provide legal cover for anti-democratic right-wing power grabs, no matter how contorted or flimsy their logic needs to be. It's why we're here today
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Late, but here's USC's 3OT buzzer beating winner (via Fox CBB)
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Late, but here's USC's 3OT buzzer beating winner (via Fox CBB)
All these dipshits who wax poetic about productivity increases under AI will need to explain to me: who will own these hyper-productive machines? And who will find themselves replaced by them?
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
All these dipshits who wax poetic about productivity increases under AI will need to explain to me: who will own these hyper-productive machines? And who will find themselves replaced by them?
Part of the problem here - and part of the disconnect many feel when the affordability topic arises - is anxiety about savings. Outside the Boomer generation few people have saved what a retirement planner would consider adequate. It's inefficient! If you can save, profits aren't being maximized
In a few years we’re going to look back on the “affordability crisis” of 2025 as an embarrassment and everyone will pretend they thought it was ridiculous all along
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Part of the problem here - and part of the disconnect many feel when the affordability topic arises - is anxiety about savings. Outside the Boomer generation few people have saved what a retirement planner would consider adequate. It's inefficient! If you can save, profits aren't being maximized
With a sample size of 614, over 97% of detainees have NO CRIMINAL RECORD AT ALL? That's WILD.
For comparison, 22% of American adults have a criminal record. 8% have a FELONY record.
That's strong statistical evidence that working class immigrants are among the most law-abiding groups in Chicago!
For comparison, 22% of American adults have a criminal record. 8% have a FELONY record.
That's strong statistical evidence that working class immigrants are among the most law-abiding groups in Chicago!
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
www.commondreams.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
With a sample size of 614, over 97% of detainees have NO CRIMINAL RECORD AT ALL? That's WILD.
For comparison, 22% of American adults have a criminal record. 8% have a FELONY record.
That's strong statistical evidence that working class immigrants are among the most law-abiding groups in Chicago!
For comparison, 22% of American adults have a criminal record. 8% have a FELONY record.
That's strong statistical evidence that working class immigrants are among the most law-abiding groups in Chicago!
Our tech sector is sick and corrupted by monopoly power and the whims of high finance. The Chinese are currently whipping us in innovation because American Tech stockholders are uncritical cheerleaders and the companies want the tech to be expensive, it helps them prop up insane deals and valuations
This doesn't look like good news for the Silicon Valley AI bros, but great news for the rest of the country www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
China’s AI models achieve 90% of U.S. performance with fraction of capex By Investing.com
China’s AI models achieve 90% of U.S. performance with fraction of capex
www.investing.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Our tech sector is sick and corrupted by monopoly power and the whims of high finance. The Chinese are currently whipping us in innovation because American Tech stockholders are uncritical cheerleaders and the companies want the tech to be expensive, it helps them prop up insane deals and valuations
This makes the existing system stupider. Plan info and 100% of the subsidy already goes to consumers via the exchanges.
Trump wants to send checks so he can put his name on them. But deciding how much each check should be and who gets them is not a trivial task. Fuck that up and people die
Trump wants to send checks so he can put his name on them. But deciding how much each check should be and who gets them is not a trivial task. Fuck that up and people die
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This makes the existing system stupider. Plan info and 100% of the subsidy already goes to consumers via the exchanges.
Trump wants to send checks so he can put his name on them. But deciding how much each check should be and who gets them is not a trivial task. Fuck that up and people die
Trump wants to send checks so he can put his name on them. But deciding how much each check should be and who gets them is not a trivial task. Fuck that up and people die
Not sure I agree. MTG does have a finger on the pulse of her constituents and they know the only immigrants taking *American jobs with good salaries* are coming in on H1-Bs. Actually fixing this is anathema to the business class but important to the MAGA base; it's a potentially huge wedge issue
She is trying to outflank Trump and Vance on the Stephen Miller style right except people like Stephen Miller know to just swallow their pride on this issue and others if Trump commands them to do so
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Promoting H-1B visas to replace American jobs, bringing in 600k Chinese students to replace American students' opportunities -- those are not America first positions. I would love to see Air Force One stay home and there be nothing but a focus in the WH on a domestic agenda"
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Not sure I agree. MTG does have a finger on the pulse of her constituents and they know the only immigrants taking *American jobs with good salaries* are coming in on H1-Bs. Actually fixing this is anathema to the business class but important to the MAGA base; it's a potentially huge wedge issue
I agree with this - problem is, too many people comfort themselves by saying MAGA is not fascism when the whole deal with social reactionary politics is that you can’t know when it’s going to turn into fascism, or Putinism, or something new and horrible until it does
Knowing what you're fighting is part of fighting more effectively. In medicine, if you think you're treating a ruptured spleen when't really appendicitis, you're going to make mistakes, waste your energies, and do things that might make things *worse.* So, too, does it go in politics.
People have the right to choose what we should focus on as the beatings and imprisonments and looting spiral. Definitions, for example.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I agree with this - problem is, too many people comfort themselves by saying MAGA is not fascism when the whole deal with social reactionary politics is that you can’t know when it’s going to turn into fascism, or Putinism, or something new and horrible until it does
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I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
This deserves a full read y'all. He's saying this matters to the Catholic League because most priests assaulting altar boys are being unfairly tarred as pedophiles. See, their targets were usually postpubescent boys, which means they're just garden variety gays. For real though
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This deserves a full read y'all. He's saying this matters to the Catholic League because most priests assaulting altar boys are being unfairly tarred as pedophiles. See, their targets were usually postpubescent boys, which means they're just garden variety gays. For real though
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They are straight up robbing taxpayers blind at this point and not even trying to hide it. Just ransacking the treasury out in the open. This motherfucker pleaded guilty! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
They are straight up robbing taxpayers blind at this point and not even trying to hide it. Just ransacking the treasury out in the open. This motherfucker pleaded guilty! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
LOL, absolutely not. Undocumented workers contribute *way* more in labor production than they raise prices with their consumption. Most are saving and sending money back home. This is utter hogwash and it's in service of popularizing ethnic cleansing on American soil. Dudes like this belong in jail
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
LOL, absolutely not. Undocumented workers contribute *way* more in labor production than they raise prices with their consumption. Most are saving and sending money back home. This is utter hogwash and it's in service of popularizing ethnic cleansing on American soil. Dudes like this belong in jail
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True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
The immense cost of making recreational drugs illegal in the US - grift for the prison industrial complex, the huge distortion of life both domestically and across the Americas - does not remotely stack up to the collective benefits of making them illegal. We should regulate drugs, not ban them
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The immense cost of making recreational drugs illegal in the US - grift for the prison industrial complex, the huge distortion of life both domestically and across the Americas - does not remotely stack up to the collective benefits of making them illegal. We should regulate drugs, not ban them
Conservative power brokers love Grok because it's that right wing search engine they've always wanted. Plus it's got dials for the operators to turn up or down the racism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc., depending on the trends and the daily party message
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Conservative power brokers love Grok because it's that right wing search engine they've always wanted. Plus it's got dials for the operators to turn up or down the racism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc., depending on the trends and the daily party message
So short-sighted. If the GOP killed the filibuster to pass a national abortion ban, they'd get drummed in every election, then in three years the Dems could roll all of it back *and actually do stuff*.
The GOP doesn't want that smoke. If they did, they'd have gotten rid of the filibuster already!
The GOP doesn't want that smoke. If they did, they'd have gotten rid of the filibuster already!
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So short-sighted. If the GOP killed the filibuster to pass a national abortion ban, they'd get drummed in every election, then in three years the Dems could roll all of it back *and actually do stuff*.
The GOP doesn't want that smoke. If they did, they'd have gotten rid of the filibuster already!
The GOP doesn't want that smoke. If they did, they'd have gotten rid of the filibuster already!
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As we were saying--
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As we were saying--
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
This is true and it’s *the primary reason* Twitter/X broke so many brains. It’s traumatic being dogpiled by a bunch of randos who make every effort to aggravate their tone. It must feel wildly unfair even when you’ve been caught in a mistake. Some people can ignore and discount it but most won’t
It affects you because WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY, and people get their opinions from other people. You have a reputation in your community and if you are freely targeted for abuse by hundreds or thousands (or, sometimes, tens of thousands) of people, it changes your role in the community.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is true and it’s *the primary reason* Twitter/X broke so many brains. It’s traumatic being dogpiled by a bunch of randos who make every effort to aggravate their tone. It must feel wildly unfair even when you’ve been caught in a mistake. Some people can ignore and discount it but most won’t
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in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
My dude you literally just stopped standing up for lower premiums! The vote will only be remembered as an embarrassment
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
My dude you literally just stopped standing up for lower premiums! The vote will only be remembered as an embarrassment
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Can confirm, it worked
Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it.
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Can confirm, it worked
This is all true and a good reminder - but it's worth pointing out these causes have a single ur-cause: our health care spending is structured in a way to prevent basic price discipline
The reasons healthcare is expensive are straightforward, and the list does not include Obamacare cepr.net/publications...
Why Is Healthcare Expensive?
Americans overpay for healthcare due to drug patents, private insurance waste, and inflated medical salaries—despite Obamacare slowing cost growth.
cepr.net
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is all true and a good reminder - but it's worth pointing out these causes have a single ur-cause: our health care spending is structured in a way to prevent basic price discipline
The Dems do this because, after all this Trump shit, they still see themselves more as governing partners with Republicans than as fighters for Democratic interests
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Dems do this because, after all this Trump shit, they still see themselves more as governing partners with Republicans than as fighters for Democratic interests