The Political Thread 2021

Every time someone ends up linking me to this bitch she gets more insane:

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1355698375493099521

She has a pinned tweet from January 7th asking to retweet if “you still have Trump’s back”.
Literally the day after the damn storming of the capitol.

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I was curious about which backwater state could possibly elect MTG into office…and turns out it was JAWJUH.

I mean, you guys did a good job earlier this month but CMON MAN!

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Which one?

“I don’t want to answer the question”

https://twitter.com/jvagle/status/1355903746384003076?s=19
https://twitter.com/jvagle/status/1355903965490249729?s=19

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Yes, you don’t. You already told us so.

Is there something that’s confusing you?

Wow, I am surprised by this. I listened to the current Mayor of Miami in a radio interview when he was running for office years ago, and I remember clearly he said he wanted to build a space for tech companies similar to Silicon Valley in Miami. He’s a republican, but he sounded very moderate and centrist. He mentioned the city lacking in technology positions whereas manufacturing and farming abound. So, I am glad he managed to pull this off this vision he had.

Join Us in Miami! Love, Masters of the Universe

Silicon Valley techies and Wall Street titans have bought homes and moved businesses there in the pandemic, coaxed by an eager mayor.

America’s business leaders, freed from the office, looked around the country, taking note of its coronavirus lockdowns, taxes and rabble rousers. And many said as if in unison: Miami!

Blackstone Group: Miami!

Elliott Management: Miami!

Silicon Valley venture capitalists: Miami!

And the charming mayor, Francis X. Suarez, a registered Republican, knowing he had an especially easy sell at the moment, said: Welcome.

As tech leaders have decamped from San Francisco and Wall Street titans from New York, many have spread across the country to locations with sun, lower taxes and — preferably — more relaxed lockdowns. Coming from places run by progressive governments that were sometimes openly antagonistic toward local elites, many were thrilled to move to towns that seemed to want them more.

Some chose Austin, Texas. Others gravitated to Boulder, Colo. But perhaps the most vocal faction came to Miami.

“It was a lightning-in-the-bottle moment,” said Mr. Suarez, 43, who became mayor in 2017. “For them to hear an elected official saying, ‘Hey, we want you, hey, we appreciate you’ — I didn’t realize what a sensitive moment it was in terms of how people felt they were being treated by the governments where they lived.”

Dozens of big names have arrived. There was a tech contingent: Keith Rabois, a PayPal co-founder and investor, and his husband. Then their friend Peter Thiel, the tech investor and prominent conservative. Jon Oringer, founder of the stock-photography provider Shutterstock, and the media mogul Bryan Goldberg. Steven Galanis, the head of the celebrity-video product Cameo, is here. Elon Musk is talking about building car tunnels under Miami.

https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1351080594940293124

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1351091106805645312

There are also hedge funds and private equity funds. Paul Singer’s Elliott Management is moving its headquarters to the Miami area, as is Carl Icahn’s firm, Icahn Enterprises. Others are opening major Miami offices: Kenneth Griffin’s Citadel as well as Blackstone. Goldman Sachs is weighing moving parts of its operation to Miami.

Rich people have always moved to Miami to enjoy their wealth and while away their time on the water. It is unclear if these newcomers are just the latest generation to do that, or if they will really build new companies in the city.

“We recognize the amazing and unique natural gifts that G-d and geology bestowed on California, but enough is enough,” wrote David Blumberg, a venture capitalist who runs Blumberg Capital and moved from San Francisco to Miami in November. “We certainly hope and pray that California will take action to remedy the disastrous self-inflicted political situation and restore its former luster and quality of life, but for now we are voting with our feet.”

To Miami!

Mr. Suarez, who launched a program called eStart this week to simplify the process of starting a business in his town, credited a combination of the federal cap on state tax deductions, Covid-19, and leftward-moving politics in New York and San Francisco for making the Miami moment happen.

“Not only are you seeing more and more of your money going to government, you’re seeing more of your money going to a government that doesn’t want you,” he said. “So it’s like a double whammy.”

On Thursday, he went live on Twitter with the chief operating officer of SoftBank to announce the Japanese conglomerate had committed $100 million to investing in Miami tech companies or tech companies willing to move to the city.

Mr. Suarez is not above gimmicky stunts.

https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1354488469091975168

Anyone in tech who flies to Miami can also ask to stay in a special discounted hotel suite with a body-scanning mattress made by a start-up called Eight Sleep. Eight Sleep’s founders also just moved to Miami.

https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1350953381943238656

https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1350954891410337798

Fun fact: @Phantom_Miria is a guy.

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I am, it’s just weird having to correct people when they get it wrong.

You let the ugly jack off squad down. They’ve been trying to seek vengeance ever since you’ve gg’d.

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Ugh I feel caught in friendly fire.

It’s been years since I actually looked into this but last check I fall into the camp of a plane didn’t hit the pentagon

All external camera footage that was remotely pointed in the pentagons direction from a roughly 4 block radius was seized and buried. There was a leaked (from an atm I believe) clip that showed something missile shaped (i.e. didn’t look like a commercial plane) that flies out of frame and explodes back into frame.

Change my mind…for real…I don’t want lumped in with the qrazies

I’m not up to the time commitment of debunking that level of spurious claim, particularly not 20 years later when I’m in no position to verify any given photo is what they say it is.

Suffice it to say that 4 planes were hijacked, it’s impossible to even question what happened to 3 of them, and anyone would have to be super horny for conspiracy not to Occam’s Razor the shit out of what happened with the fourth.

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Can you read this article? It’s from the Financial Times about Biden having a more hawkish attitude against China than Republicans and detractors would say, which is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

https://twitter.com/Dimi/status/1355882800801591303

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Yeah I don’t know why even twenty years later people still going on about 9/11 conspiracy theories, despite every theory being debunked. Greene’s case is especially funny with her saying there’s no evidence of the plane hitting the Pentagon… despite all the evidence of the plane hitting the Pentagon.

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Gimme a source that debunks the not a plane in the pentagon theory.

Popular Mechanics was known for debunking a lot of the WTC theories so here’s some info from them in regards to the Pentagon attack. I’m not exactly sure what you’re looking for.

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Fuel beams can’t melt jet steel.

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The Jewish space laser hit the Pentagon.

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Just did my 2020 taxes and I owe another $6500. Thanks Obama.

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