travis4nh
@travis4nh
Followers
13K
Following
53K
Media
3K
Statuses
30K
NH state rep from Hillsborough 28 A+ rating from @nhliberty I came here to chew bubble gum and fight for a free New Hampshire...and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Weare, NH
Joined July 2022
Zoning sucks, but it's an attempt to deal with some actual thorny issues. A long-form 3-part essay on externalities, zoning, libertarianism, and a new technology: tradeable development easements.
17
22
175
RT @JobsNowPR: Can you imagine this in any other context? . It would be like posting a dating profile on your refrigerator and then claimin….
0
3
0
RT @JobsNowPR: We have so far asked this question and not a single immigration advocate can ever answer why companies need secret job board….
0
19
0
RT @shprockets: Travis, this is what I tell people why NH is so successful & efficient. It's the part time legislature; ie, the 'secret sau….
0
3
0
"Americans are just less skilled . which is why H1-B recruiters hide the job listings in print newspapers in obscure markets where no American will see them, and explain 'we don't want applications, we just want regulatory compliance' ". ok sure.
Call this what it is: entitlement. Some conservatives don't want competition from hardworking immigrants who outwork & outperform them. And here I'd been told progressives are the ones against merit.
3
11
96
RT @RepThomasMassie: White House says helping me secure a vote to release all the Epstein files is a “Hostile Act.”. They’re threatening an….
0
4K
0
government is bad, mostly, but NH's small scale, high human capital, and low funding for government (which means it's not stuffed with People of Patronage lodged in sinecures to buy Dem votes) means that it functions surprising well here.
Dealing with the various departments of the state of New Hampshire is so quaint. Half the time you just have to drive up there to Concord, and the other half there's someone on the line, but nobody working at the back end, or it's just one old guy.
1
4
23
3/. He needs to go back.
@travis4nh An internet search says he is Somali and was brought over from Kenya in 2008. I pointed this out and a bunch of people were like "he was a really nice kid" and "he grew up here" (I pointed out that he's spent half his life here, the other half in Africa and prison. ). Growing.
1
1
13
132/. > But in the long-term it is a failure of the ideas that were used to justify independence in the first place. Strongly disagree. Independent central banks are Good, Actually
1/ Central bank independence is probably coming to an end. In the short-term, this is due to radical and somewhat political moves made by the Trump administration. But in the long-term it is a failure of the ideas that were used to justify independence in the first place. 🧵
1
0
0
Also: a lot of cocaine that is trafficked from Colombia via Venezuela goes through ports in the Dominican Republic, and is then smuggled on smaller boats to Puerto Rico before making it to the mainland US. So why isn’t the US blowing up boats off of the DR or our own territory?.
1
1
49
2/. concur!. "You can just do things" (destroy the New Deal apparatus).
@travis4nh Institutions != society, especially government institutions. They can be replaced, and rather quickly.
0
0
7
I tried to have a conversation with one once about the efficacy of statins, and whether they alter health outcomes, or if they alter a marker that is associated with health outcomes. We ended up each thinking the other was an idiot. One of us was right.
4 out of 5 Harvard doctors fail an introductory statistics question. Expertise is real, but most "experts" are shockingly innumerate
4
4
65
2/. The actual founding document of the US government says that the government was formed for the benefit of the founders and their descendants (and not any random Pakistani who wants to move to the US and get free government housing and welfare)
0
3
27
1/. "Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition" is a quote a de facto campaign speech by a radical president who was intent on conquering a coequal nation of people who didn't want to be ruled by New England puritans, delivered almost a century after the Founding.
I think our ancestors would not have been especially confused at the claim that our nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
1
3
39
there's a variant: being mad at biology and demanding that the government censor people who tell the truth about it. e.g. Lionel Shriver's "Mania" or our actual world where you can't mention Things
progressivism is basically being mad at biology and demanding the government and society fix it.
0
4
21
.@nhpr is upset that government-owned institutions in a democracy might have to take direction from the demos. "the peasants are revolting".
nhpr.org
How has the institution interacted with the federal government? Who decides what goes in a Smithsonian museum?
1
2
11
> destruction of the occupied institutions
Elected leftists in central and local government drove the domination of all small state and semi-state institutions with their own people. It wasn't easy, they faced opposition from the institutions themselves, and setbacks when their opponents were in office. But they were.
4
0
11
Wow. Someone really really wants to get an H1-B. I guess that means that existing American workers should just roll over and accept being laid off, and existing American citizens should just consent to having their culture overrun. Never thought about it that way! Thanks James!
Do you know what it feels like to chase the American dream as a legal immigrant?. It starts with years of work in India, waiting, hoping, praying — just to enter the H-1B lottery. If they get lucky in the lottery, the petition moves to the USCIS. Endless months of silence. Will.
8
11
187