Jim
@santak.bsky.social
Enthusiast of mathematics and spicy food, number cruncher, occasional linguistics nerd.
I still think you're real.
September 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I still think you're real.
Right
I think people being killed is bad and celebrating Charlie Kirk's death is both immoral and counter-productive.
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Right
Seconded
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Seconded
Reposted by Jim
my boss always speaks first at meetings too
Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
my boss always speaks first at meetings too
Reposted by Jim
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
Still, more than 7-in-10 U.S. adults have been a victim of an online scam or attack like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. www.pewresearch.org/...
August 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
Reposted by Jim
Even critics of tariffs just don't get it: It doesn't matter who pays the tariff, or even if no one pays it (because they forego imports). The existence of the tariff raises the market price for both foreign and domestic goods, at the expense of consumers. That is its entire function.
August 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Even critics of tariffs just don't get it: It doesn't matter who pays the tariff, or even if no one pays it (because they forego imports). The existence of the tariff raises the market price for both foreign and domestic goods, at the expense of consumers. That is its entire function.
Reposted by Jim
Forget the original. Idiocracy 2 is lit.
July 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Forget the original. Idiocracy 2 is lit.
IDK if Iran really gave advance notice of the Qatar strike, but Trump told the whole world the U.S. was about to bomb Iran. Quite a shift from the "I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is" version of Trump in 2016.
June 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
IDK if Iran really gave advance notice of the Qatar strike, but Trump told the whole world the U.S. was about to bomb Iran. Quite a shift from the "I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is" version of Trump in 2016.
"The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂I'm not even going to read the rest of the post which can't be funnier than that.
June 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂I'm not even going to read the rest of the post which can't be funnier than that.
Harsh!
Sad little Temu Military Perade.
Sad little Temu Military Perade.
June 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Harsh!
Sad little Temu Military Perade.
Sad little Temu Military Perade.
Reposted by Jim
M - O - O - N, that spells kakistocracy
June 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
M - O - O - N, that spells kakistocracy
Reposted by Jim
Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
June 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/u...
For the record,
-Lutnick did not say that,
-It doesn't matter what Lutnick said about that.
For the record,
-Lutnick did not say that,
-It doesn't matter what Lutnick said about that.
U.S. tariffs on China won't change again, Lutnick says after trade talks
Howard Lutnick said China was slow-walking key measures and the U.S. was retaliating in kind, until President Donald Trump got on the phone with Xi Jinping.
www.cnbc.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/u...
For the record,
-Lutnick did not say that,
-It doesn't matter what Lutnick said about that.
For the record,
-Lutnick did not say that,
-It doesn't matter what Lutnick said about that.
Looking forward to learning more about "Marshall Law" and maybe even "Marshall's Law."
June 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Looking forward to learning more about "Marshall Law" and maybe even "Marshall's Law."
Damn. The truth hurts.
We are all watching a crackhead argue with an elderly dementia patient, like this was the parking lot of the Waffle House nearest the Greyhound station.
June 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Damn. The truth hurts.
Reposted by Jim
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
June 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
Reposted by Jim
Today I found out I could understand the German language
June 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Today I found out I could understand the German language
Reposted by Jim
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
Enter Dark AP
Respect the writer and reporter. @apnews.com @michellelprice.bsky.social
Link to story: apnews.com/article/trum...
Link to story: apnews.com/article/trum...
June 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Enter Dark AP
June 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Jim
A technique with a storied history. During Mao's Great Leap forward, his propagandists hailed one fantastical harvest after another, calling them “Sputnik harvests,” on par with the success of the Soviet satellite.
June 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A technique with a storied history. During Mao's Great Leap forward, his propagandists hailed one fantastical harvest after another, calling them “Sputnik harvests,” on par with the success of the Soviet satellite.
Reposted by Jim
Warren’s Senate report on Musk is getting some pickup.
$TSLA
@cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...
$TSLA
@cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...
June 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Warren’s Senate report on Musk is getting some pickup.
$TSLA
@cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...
$TSLA
@cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...
He said "We'd consider it" of a hypothetical trade deal w/ Viet Nam. His "we don't want other people making them" described "certain products," not all imports. To characterize his comments as "They just don't like international trade. Period." is gaslighting. What is this person selling?
This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals.
They just don't like international trade. Period.
He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."
They just don't like international trade. Period.
He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."
KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal?
LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do
KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do
KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
June 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
He said "We'd consider it" of a hypothetical trade deal w/ Viet Nam. His "we don't want other people making them" described "certain products," not all imports. To characterize his comments as "They just don't like international trade. Period." is gaslighting. What is this person selling?