Private sector economic advisor. Author of the newly released book “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”. patrickchovanec.com. #avgeek

New York, NY
It's so funny how everyone was like "You say you'll leave X but you'll never leave X" and then I left X.
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I found a fortune cookie for @MarshaBlackburn.
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I feel like I should periodically reappear on this site just to say one thing: "I told you so."
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We don't need Chinese propaganda, we've got a President who just regurgitates whatever Xi tells him.
Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
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It took a bit longer than two weeks, but I see Trump finally release his health care plan.
Trump posted this on Truth Social
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Congratulations to everyone who helped get us here.
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Oh gosh, time to post so I don't get closed out.
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Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?
If noncitizens don’t vote, then why are Democrats worried about ICE agents going anywhere near a polling location?
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Keeping my account active to prevent it from being closed. See you elsewhere.
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Here's a basic American idea: the country is filled with people who are different from me, in all kinds of ways. And they all have the same rights, same as me.
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They denied her medical care for 15 minutes, until their own medics could come. Maybe it didn't make a difference, but it's an awfully inhuman thing to do.
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I am not "back". These are my periodic posts simply to keep my account here from being shut down for inactivity and my handle stolen. I regularly share my thoughts at the other place.
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Just posting so Elon doesn't take my handle and give it to someone else.
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My one-year anniversary of leaving this hellhole came and went, and I didn't even notice.
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Republicans continue to posture on "free markets" and "pro-business", yet it would be hard to find an Administration more actively interventionist or politically punitive towards markets or business than the Trump White House. It is statist and personalist through and through.
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The notion that this is what "limited government" looks like - armed masked men accosting people in the streets, using the army to bully state and local authorities, arbitrary tariffs determining what you can buy, the President setting taxes and spending w/o Congress - is absurd.
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That's my 2 cents to keep X from shutting down my account from disuse. See you on the other side.
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I'll break my vow of Twitter silence for a moment just to post this:
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Every time I post, it's like "ha, he couldn't stay away!" To the contrary, I post every once in a blue moon simply so they don't shut my account. That's all. My life is way happier without this place.
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I'm told it's important to come back here every few months and tweet something so they don't count my account as inactive and close it, permitting someone else to claim my handle and pretend to be me.
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