James Medlock
@jdcmedlock
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Northern California | He/Him
Joined February 2014
I'll bet anyone $1 million dollars that the US does not enter hyperinflation
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Conservatives love doing the opposite of occam's razor. "Over 10% of people are on food stamps because over 10% of people are in poverty" is too simple. It has to mean there are actually half a billion people in America.
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Everyone is so used to talking about housing, where supply responses are often illegal, that people often forget that subsidizing things that have elastic supply results in more supply.
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In areas with increased SNAP take-up rates, grocery prices increased *less*
Grocery store prices are artificially inflated by SNAP, welfare programs, etc.
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Funny how many bluegrass prodigies California has produced. Molly Tuttle? Palo Alto. Chris Thile? Oceanside. At a certain point they’re just going to have to accept that the libs get bluegrass now and start deriding it as goyslop
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I love going to Hardly Strictly and enjoying those sweet bluegrass tunes alongside 750k blue haired coastal liberal elites like god intended.
A rich Jewish financier and then his foundation after he died fund a free bluegrass festival every year in San Francisco that 750,000 people go to
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(JD Vance on the jury at the nuremberg trials) So we’re crucifying these kids for running an uncomfortable summer camp?
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Creative destruction is also the most under-appreciated reason for why high minimum wages can improve economic efficiency
The 2025 laureates in economic sciences Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt studied the mechanisms behind sustained growth. In an article from 1992, they constructed a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the
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guy who returns his TV to Best Buy because owning it doesn’t entitle him to a lifetime of free TV service
Ron DeSantis on property taxes: "If I go to Best Buy and buy a TV, I pay a sales tax—but I don’t keep paying taxes on it year after year!" https://t.co/4Cp2RIJZ1F
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I log off for a day and SB 79 passes, Trump puts tariff seppuku back on, and the Mariners are going to the ALCS. I should log off more...
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That's right
Update: This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-used urbanism is now LEGAL to build in most California cities
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“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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Which ads produced today will conservatives hold up in 40 years as proof things used to be better
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I encourage the GOP to run with this messaging about 20 million people who are disproportionately middle income small business owners
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Canola oil is clearly the best of the neutral oils, but in this antiwoke era they should consider rebranding to rapeseed oil
learned about "canola oil" it's like olive oil, but it's way better because it doesn't taste anything like olive. thank you canada
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JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.
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Everyone is arguing over Bari's ideology but the biggest issue with her running a major media organization isn't ideology so much as the incessant focus on culture war over material politics
Bari Weiss is weird because for someone who's entire life is devoted to covering politics she doesn't really seem to care or talk about 95% of issues. What's her opinion on the One Big Beautiful Bill for instance
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That screenshot undersells it. An individual making $28k would see their annual premium rise from $180 to $905. And the subsidies bring more healthy people into the risk pool and lower unsubsidized premiums too.
Democrat Senators (or staffers) keep posting screenshots like this hoping you’re as dumb as they are. If you look closely you’ll see the tax credit only shifts $46 - the larger jump in premiums has nothing to do with Republicans, it’s because Obamacare is trash.
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