I'm sure, more than any other POTUS in my lifetime, Trump personifies the Ugly American. He insulted and dictated to allies, he initiated trade wars, he out-bombed Obama (but discontinued reporting of civilian casualties), he cut legal immigration, etc.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Trump refuses to reform senior entitlement programs that are running in the red on a pay-as-you-go basis, which means the government is eroding its reserves making up the difference. Longer lifetimes, a growing base of retirees & a lower labor force participation rate contribute.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
When I saw Lady Gaga trending, I was hoping she had brought back her meat dress.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
I have my own issues with fellow libertarian/conservative Massie. But this leftist is wrong in criticizing Massie on these issues. For example, lynching already violated federal laws, and Juneteenth wasn't the end of slavery; it was the 13th Amendment 6 months later. https://t.co/vKtI8ErGka
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Note the Trumpkin troll doesn't point out that jobs under Trump actually contracted but have grown under Biden. By my count, 15 banks failed under Trump, 3 under Biden. As for "open borders", Trump cut LEGAL immigration only.#BidenWorstPresidentEver https://t.co/i5yfropgEY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Apparently, another square on progressive coverall bingo can be filled in: the first Asian actress Oscar.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
I have a dream that one day individual performance will be considered on merit and less on incidental characteristics like one's racial identity, beyond one's control.
It's all about spending, stupid. Hypocritical leftists weren't concerned over financial Armageddon when Barry Obama voted against lifting the debt limit.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Trump is like his own train wreck. All the rubberneckers are curious about wrecks. That doesn't imply they want to be in one.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Do not underestimate the stupidity of a Trumpkin.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
One dude actually wrote Trump has roughly 4 times the followers as Biden on Twitter and we're expected to believe he lost the election?
Trump was making news cycles with provocative tweets. Even Never Trumpers followed him.
Yes, Trump's tariffs hurt the economy, but Biden has largely left them in place. Obama and Biden had trillion-dollar deficits in recovering economies. Under none of these Presidents did we see for a yearly growth at or over the long-term growth trend. Their deficits affect growth
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
No, Trump was not responsible for COVID-19 deaths, but no doubt the failure to quarantine returning Americans from China, the failed government rollout of testing and Trump's hostility to testing exacerbated the issue. You have to credit Trump with expediting vaccine approval.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Wow. If you're a home plate baseball umpire, you need to have a thick skin. In this case the batter protested a called strike 2. A pissed-off ump calls him out on the next pitch, in a different zip code.https://t.co/NuTXwjOvWm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
SVB lost money on liquidating older MBS to meet withdrawals (recall the price of bonds is inversely related to interest rates). Losses contracted bank equity. Advisers saw this as the canary in the coal mine and triggered a bank run among larger depositors beyond FDIC limits.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
So, Walgreen is abiding by pro-abort California's access to abortifacients. That's not enough for Newsom. He wants to end the state's business with Walgreen's unless they agree to do the same with other states with differing laws.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 13, 2023
Even the Biden Administration admits its loan cancellation bribe to young voters is going to cost a quarter trillion over the coming decade. Other estimates double that.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
Dodd N. Frankenstein has just been exposed by co-author Frank's presence on the failed Signature Bank's board.https://t.co/zlFjjuwJ1V
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
"Barney Frank"
This is beyond incompetent hopeful thinking. No, POTUS does not have authority to spend money on his own. Even Pelosi said that when she was Speaker. Biden is trying to stretch an exception for Gulf War veterans. This SCOTUS ruling will not even be close. https://t.co/MJ2mpT3Lly
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
Banking is the most heavily regulated industry. The problem here was the Fed, which was created to deal with bank panics, has been aggressively raising rates. Because of economic conditions, SVB customers had to draw down on deposits. SVB had to sell MBS at losses for currency.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
Today we are celebrating the anniversary of Karl Marx's death.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
I was a freshman high school geek whose curly hair was unruly in hot south Texas weather. My world history teacher nicknamed me "Einstein", it quickly caught on and lasted through graduation.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
"Albert Einstein"
Pope Francis seemed to open the door to the idea of making the vow of celibacy voluntary for priest candidates. (The Church has struggled to attract enough men to staff parishes.) I know it was a factor in my decision not to pursue the vocation.https://t.co/uClhhf84TP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
Neither the Dems nor the GOP have abstained from foreign interventions. If you want a party which in principle stands against foreign intervention and for free trade, the Libertarian Party is your best option next year.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
"World War III"
There is a reason why DeSantis got a record reelection vote against former GOP Governor Crist. Trump, on the other hand, didn't reach 47% in either of his election bids.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
The Willow project approval is a rare moment of economic sanity from the Biden Administration, which in concept contributes to energy security underlying our economy. Leftist trolls, like the OP, are hypocrites on nuclear power and have unrealistic expectations on transition. https://t.co/4KM6pRossD
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
It's true that we are all mortal and will die one day. But Old Man Trump is closer to the average man's lifespan. If Trump gets reelected, things will be better for Trumpkins in the afterlife because hell will have frozen over. https://t.co/L4dGUqgJ4i
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
Megalomaniacal Biden bureaucrats are targeting water usage in washers. Could showers and toilets be next?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
This is beyond disingenuous partisan rubbish. House was controlled by Dems through 1994, 2007-2010, 2018-2021. The House GOP had the only 4 balanced budgets. Only the Dems passed growth crippling tax and regulation hikes. Among Dems, only Obama had up to 6 months of recession. https://t.co/h5neyXhRPu
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2023
Carter asked Biden to give his eulogy. You know what that means: Carter knows Biden will plagiarize from the world's greatest eulogies.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
"President Carter"
Lots of people find it hard to live from paycheck to paycheck under BidInflation. I'm sure they would like other people to pay their other own personal bills--high credit card bills, utilities, mortgages, etc.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
Point of fact: Congress did not pass college loan cancellation. https://t.co/rhGyFk2ZXM
Biden's futile attempt to unilaterally expand regulatory authority will be canceled by SCOTUS, just like in the case of his predecessor, Obama.https://t.co/tmzVAOM9Im
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
"Executive Order"
A loser dude in Singapore is suing a woman for ruining his reputation by refusing to date him. We are all wondering the same thing: was Trump in Asia?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
I remember one presumptuous woman who made it known she would never date me. I wasn't attracted to her and never considered it.
Fox & Friends is heavily rotating the story of a downed US drone by Russian jets over Interational waters of the Black Sea and treated it like an unprovoked military attack. They also mocked a restrained response from the Biden Administration. Be clear: no war with Russia.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
Central government has intrinsic hubris and incompetence in regulation, which Hayek explained in "The Fatal Conceit". It's like seizing a balloon on one side. One would think the Fed would be aware of its rate hikes on low-earning bonds sold early to finance withdrawals.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
\Be clear: Obama didn't do a damn thing to earn the Nobel Prize. He was simply anyone other than George W. Bush. He subsequently went on to launch drone attacks in undeclared wars, meddle disastrously in the Middle East (e.g., Libya), and upsized hostilities in Afghanistan. https://t.co/anUsBqyv4o
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
A lot of college loan deadbeats on Twitter shamelessly demanding a bailout at the expense of taxpayers. The rest of us have to pay our own bills.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
The problem is Biden doesn't hold the power of the purse and Congress never authorized the spending. SCOTUS will cancel Biden's order
One of the tough things in being a libertarian is when one's politics affect family members. My late dad and a niece have worked for USPS, and I favor privatization. I have at least 1 other niece who is still paying off her college loans and would benefit from loan cancellation.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
The SVB board was dominated by non-banking wealthy Dem donors. The problem SVB faced is something every finance 101 student knows: the price of bonds varies inversely with interest rates. SVB had to cash in low-interest bonds at huge losses to finance withdrawals.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. I see Aubry is trending; I don't know her, but David Gates does: https://t.co/I23hKRP2QF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
My latest post is on Kaepernick who recently threw his white adoptive parents under the bus.https://t.co/QWYjLLyhqz
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
The dude can do a lot of damage with a pen and a phone. https://t.co/VClN6lBpAn
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2023
Between leftists and Trumpkins, Twitter is a wasteland.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
Biden was NOT involved in the Nord Stream explosions.
Messy withdraws are not impeachable crimes.
Immigration law enables refugee entry & "open borders" are constitutional.
Strategic reserves are not in Constitution https://t.co/BOMyij9PUy
Dems are clueless in their obsession to get Trump indicted. If you want him out of next year's election, don't make him a martyr. Remember, indictment doesn't mean conviction and Trump will promote any "exoneration".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
We libertarians have issues with the government loan monopoly in principle; it should be privatized. There is no Constitutional enumerated banking or education power. A cancellation policy creates moral hazard, creates a bad precedent. Students need to be held responsible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
The leftist troll doesn't understand the concept of negative income tax. Suppose the exemption amount is $50K, the subsidy rate is 50%, and you make $40K. This means the government would pay you .5*(50k-40k)=5K. https://t.co/wP0aBUMk6n
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
A variation of the idea of the negative income tax emerged from the Nixon presidency, i.e., the earned income tax credit. Hazlitt criticized the concept below:https://t.co/wbjt8oJ4Qh
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
It's not just you. Note you can block the obnoxious ones.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
I made all payments on my $1600 college loan, including all the interest cost payments. I think you are leaving out salient information, like maybe you didn't make interest-related payments. If you made all scheduled payments, it may be a processing error.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
I was a double-major in math & philosophy with a perfect 4.0 in tough majors. I was advised not to get a PhD in my first love, philosophy, because the only jobs available were if a professor died or retired.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2023
Trump is that kid you remember who flips the gameboard over when he loses so nobody else can win.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2023
"TRUMP WON AND YOU KNOW IT"
Wow. My UH Cougars, a #1 seed in its region for March Madness, finally pulled a double-digit win, but the score was tighter most of the game. Not in my cable package so I had to track the score on CBS' Tennessee game.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2023
Life expectancy in France is about 79 for men, 85 for women. France is facing huge deficits if it maintains the status quo of eligibility for 62, and Macron has used a French Constitutional bypass vs. a tough vote on deferring retirement to 64. France is having a meltdown.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2023
There is little doubt that Bush and Obama's interventionist policies resulted in collateral damage.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2023
But Putin has been deliberately targeting non-military targets in a wave of state-sanctioned terrorism. Not a valid comparison.https://t.co/zwgCEht4tF
"Bush and Obama"
"While the latest genetic evidence found animal and viral genes in the same location, it still does not point to an infected animal—or an animal’s genetic sequence that shows evidence of infection with the virus."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2023
Trump is still trying to manipulate people into a state or panic. He's whining about the "stolen" election, falsely accusing Mexico of dumping violent or mentally ill people. He's added inflation to his bitching, but does he blame the vast pandemic spending he signed into law?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2023
Jones was able to appeal the case based on new evidence. That's where Jones settled the case for the alleged "hush money", which largely went to legal fees. Clinton was a public sector executive for his misconduct. Trump's misconduct was while in the private sector.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2023
I don't know how people come up with these comparisons. I think Trumpkins are desperately trying to compare Trump's misconduct. Jones filed her suit in 1994. The alleged incident occurred in 1991 while Clinton was governor. Clinton's affair with Ms. Flowers was a subject in 1992
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2023
My UH Cougars beat Auburn to make the sweet 16. I have to admit I was worried at the half. Once again, my cable package sucked. I was tracking it over the UT game on CBS. Now I have 2 alma mater teams in the sweet 16.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2023
Donald Trump is no martyr. He's a self-serving manipulative ink stain in American history. Corrupt plutocrats like Trump should be held responsible for their misconduct.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2023
"Dan Bongino"
Strange; now he's copying Kaepernick. https://t.co/Z7X6b7C3GH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2023
