$1.50

Speaker Ryan tweeted about how great the "tax cut" was citing a woman whose pay went up enough to cover her COSTCO membership.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/03/paul-ryan-deleted-tweet-tax-democrats-389082?lo=ap_f1

Personally I think the hotdog/soda combo is a better deal for $1.50.

Someone on Twitter cracked: "Let them eat cake samples."

Another twitter response was:

(from a Koch Brother)
I was pleasantly surprised to find an extra $26,873,211 in my paycheck last week. This will be more than enough to buy several more Paul Ryans.

Randy Bryce, who is running against Paul Ryan, tweeted this message after Ryan deleted his tweet.

Moments ago, @PRyan deleted this tweet after we told him just how out of touch he was. Show Paul Ryan what you think of his tax bill. Chip in $1.50 now to help us repeal and replace Ryan permanently this November.https://t.co/c3Fii4Q0Jn

— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) February" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/IronStache/status/959877025854050304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2018

In the 48 hours after the tweet was deleted, the Bryce campaign says it's raised more than $150,000 from 12,253 individual donations. Nearly half of those contributions were for $1.50. The average contribution was $12.39. Nearly $50,000 was pledged in recurring donations through the election.

https://patch.com/wisconsin/mountpleasant/paul-ryans-1-50-tweet-pays-big-dividend-opponent

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

Great workout routine, however, at my taxpayer-funded gym.

@kthnry, thank you. I just contributed $1.50 to Randy Bryce here.

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

If he had any taste it would have been Atlas Shrugged.

Now I'm not sure...hey, either one.  

Morganna said:
 

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

If he had any taste it would have been Atlas Shrugged.

GL2 said:

Now I'm not sure...hey, either one.  

It was "Atlas Shrugged".  Which is important, since it means that this quote applies:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Not the first time I used it here (see https://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/global-warming-or-outright-lies#discussion-replies-1232549) but what the heck.

Original source: http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html

Never read either. 

LOST said:

Never read either. 

Gee, I wish they had the internet when I was growing up...

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/atlas-shrugged/book-summary

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/the-lord-of-the-rings/book-summary/the-fellowship-of-the-ring

Read the summaries very quickly. Glad I never read the books.

Ryan's CV is underwhelming at best.  He's not as sharp as he would like us to believe.

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

yahooyahoo said:

Ryan's CV is underwhelming at best.  He's not as sharp as he would like us to believe.

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

Yes, this. It's the American culture of marketing. We market products, ideas, and people irrespective of their substance.. He's packaged and marketed. NO substance.

given his policy ideas he's either seriously not bright, or he's dishonest. Or some combination of the two.

yahooyahoo said:

Ryan's CV is underwhelming at best.  He's not as sharp as he would like us to believe.

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

I'm going with the combo.

ml1 said:

given his policy ideas he's either seriously not bright, or he's dishonest. Or some combination of the two.

yahooyahoo said:

Ryan's CV is underwhelming at best.  He's not as sharp as he would like us to believe.

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

The Fountainhead is a pretty good book, actually. You shouldn't criticize a book you haven't read.

db, yeahbut, good enough to live your life by?  Or more like something that's a valuable(?) early experience, but then you move on?

It's like living your life by the Bible. Extremism, rigidity, or fundamentalism of any kind is dangerous.

nohero said:

Morganna said:
 

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

If he had any taste it would have been Atlas Shrugged.

GL2 said:

Now I'm not sure...hey, either one.  

It was "Atlas Shrugged".  Which is important, since it means that this quote applies:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Not the first time I used it here (see https://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/global-warming-or-outright-lies#discussion-replies-1232549) but what the heck.

Original source: http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html

Love that quote! Read both and read Atlas Shrugged at about 14. As a Tolkien fan, who has the books on the entryway mantle, I cracked up when I finished reading the quote!

Currently have a cat in my rescue which I named Meriadoc Brandybuck. (See Morgan Le Fay Cat Rescue thread.) Got Peregrin Took adopted last month.

well, I don't think there are very many novels that one should be fanatically devoted to.

It's a good read, and as 20 year old when I first read it, I learned an awful lot. I still think it's quite insightful, particularly in the parts that are devoted to how one can manipulate the media. It's almost like a playbook for what conservatives have been doing for the last 40 years.

mjc said:

db, yeahbut, good enough to live your life by?  Or more like something that's a valuable(?) early experience, but then you move on?

drummerboy said:

Another twitter response was:

(from a Koch Brother)
I was pleasantly surprised to find an extra $26,873,211 in my paycheck last week. This will be more than enough to buy several more Paul Ryans.

I hope he’ll be able to ‘squeak by’ with it.

nohero said:

Morganna said:
 

GL2 said:

The golden boy "wonk" has serious well-funded competition this year. Ryan's a guy who's spent his entire career (except for a few months in the family business) in DC. Made his staff read The Fountainhead. His achievements?

How clueless must one be to tweet the $1.50 thing!

If he had any taste it would have been Atlas Shrugged.

GL2 said:

Now I'm not sure...hey, either one.  

It was "Atlas Shrugged".  Which is important, since it means that this quote applies:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Not the first time I used it here (see https://maplewood.worldwebs.com/forums/discussion/global-warming-or-outright-lies#discussion-replies-1232549) but what the heck.

Original source: http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html

Thanks for the book correction. And the anecdote is a hoot.

LOST said:

Never read either. 

Well, it's too late now...assuming you're over age 22 and have realistic ideas. Folks outgrow this stuff.

You know what: if Ryan said "I love DC and have spent most all of my adult life here," I'd have more respect. But he joins the drain-the-swamp crap, the Washington-is-broken stuff, etc. The guy spends weekends at home on our dime, but quickly hurries back to his natural habitat.

Anyone here spend lotsa bucks on a gym? Not Paul. He also built that adorable physique on my dime.