William Meservy

DOGE is a scam, and this weekly-updated Musk Watch DOGE tracker deserves more traction and publicity: doge.muskwatch.com

The tracker allows — in granular detail — one to view how much DOGE inflates the value of what it says it’s doing.

In reality, federal expenditures haven’t dropped at all.

It sincerely doesn’t feel good to be so validated about how bad Trump would be. Watching a predicted train wreck is still watching a train wreck.

Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11 Trillion | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 2025-02-06-In a closed-door meeting with House Leadership today President Trump reportedly outlined his tax priorities.

The money we will pay just on the interest of Trump’s deficit-exploding tax proposals will be an order of magnitude greater each year than what we pay on total foreign aid expenditures each year.

That’s how dumb all of this USAID talk is.

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So so important to know & remember. Foreign aid & immigration are not sinking us. We can’t get to solutions with scapegoats.

Why did Americans stop caring about the national debt? Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.

Probably worth reading the following as well: reason.com/2024/07/13/t...

You’ve been deceived. Sorry!

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As we experience the fallout from Trump’s pause of federal loans and grants, let us not forget what really drives spending and deficits👇

Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!

Critics of this post ignore data associating church-attendance with a good life/society.

That’s their prerogative. But—while it’s one thing to believe in God without empirical evidence—it’s altogether another to decry church attendance in the face of strong empirical evidence showing its benefits.

Here's what I've learned about Bluesky.

The average user HATES religion.

I can’t speak for Scientology, but people leave the LDS faith all the time and are still loved.

At some point I'm going to write a book called,

You Should Go to Church Even If You Don't Believe In Any of It.

From a purely pro-social, pro-democracy perspective, attending a house of worship regularly is a very good thing.

Kamala is for they/them - Wikipedia

Looking at the data (as opposed to what I’ve been told by several people), I think you are right and that these people are conflating whose political ads they were.

I find this interesting and instructive:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_...

There’s nothing to be fooled about here. I’m reporting what run-of-the-mill Democrats from Nevada have expressed to me post election.

The market and the law defines meritocracy.

Kamala Harris was repeatedly running television ads promoting transgender rights.

I have had about 30 people in Nevada tell me they think that’s why she lost there—because no one knew her economic plan but everyone knew she’d make sure transgender athletes could compete with women athletes.

I really hope that Bluesky will become THE place to be, but at its current stage I'm inclined to use X, still.

There are simply too many limitations I dislike (60 sec videos, can't post multiple images/videos on one post, threading is terrible...).

The major climate groups monitoring global temperature released their estimates for 2024. The anomalies range from +1.46 to +1.62°C, likely the first post-industrial year with Earth +1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions. The 30-year climate average is still ~1.2°C but obviously increasing 🧪 +...

I think people are very tired of the forced frameworks—many of which seem to undermine meritocracy. Trainings can feel over-the-top and infantilizing, and initiatives which prioritize minorities in any way commonly feel unfair to people.

MOST everyone wants and believes in fairness and pluralism.

John Deere, Ford, and Harley Davidson have also dropped DEI initiatives.

Again: the tide has turned against DEI. In the real world (as opposed to the online one), people are generally quite sick of DEI, and they are voting it down. Companies see that.

Democrats are best when they focus on being the party of evidence-based decision making, not the minority-obsessed finger-waggers.

We can achieve real pluralism faster by governing well than we can by lecturing people.

Since I posted this thread, META, Walmart, Amazon, and McDonalds have dropped DEI programs.

Bluesky needs to know how to win future elections: making Democrats the party of DEI, transgender athletes, pronouns, hardline abortion stances, etc is a great way to lose both elections and the culture war.

I’m supposed to have this tribal hatred of Liz Cheney despite her sacrificing her career to fight the one threat I care most about. And I’m supposed to have this tribal loyalty to leftists who continually refusal to do the absolute bare minimum and support a liberal Dem against that threat. Nah.

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

I have a feeling this meme format is going to get a lot of use over the next four years.

These are not serious people. These are children playing with matches. And the CCP has to be rejoicing.

NEW: Georgia Republicans have voted unanimously to expel former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan from the party. His “sin”? choosing to put country over party by endorsing VP Harris.

In a statement, Georgia Republicans declared:
“Geoff Duncan is hereby demanded to cease calling himself a ‘Republican’”

We can all agree, no matter our politics, that chef José Andrés deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his amazing work with World Central Kitchen in disaster-stricken areas across the U.S. and the world.

You can’t simultaneously both welcome technological improvement/automation and hate immigrants for tAkInG jObS aWaY.

Just admit you’re a degrowther who doesn’t understand economics. Or maybe choose to learn something: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of...

America should invent a walkable city with good public transit that's also doesn't get too cold in the winter and is sunny.

The closest we have is San Francisco.