Husband to The One…Blessed Dad…Grateful Granda…One Circle! Economics Teacher. 🏈 coach #KeepLearningForward #ProReality
Visalia, CA
Joined March 2009
- Tweets64.2K
- Following400
- Followers603
- Likes24.7K
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
BREAKING: The US economy has now experienced 78 consecutive months of expansion, the 6th-longest business cycle since 1854.
This is well above the long-term average of ~49 months and the median of ~38 months.
By comparison, the longest period without a recession was between 2009 and 2020, at 128 months.
All 5 of the most recent US expansions rank among the 7 longest economic growth periods since business cycle dating began in 1854.
Unconventional monetary policy, historically large budget deficits, alongside the AI investment boom, appear to be extending the duration of business cycles.
The data says the US economy is remarkably strong.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
Operation Economic Outcast is delivering results: the rial has plunged to record lows, Iran loaded zero crude oil onto tankers last month, and even Iran’s top security official has admitted the country is facing one of the most difficult periods in its history.
The Iranian regime allows its own people to suffer while it pours resources into terrorism. Operation Economic Outcast will not stop until the Iranian regime understands that the Trump Administration will never allow the regime to fund terrorism and develop a nuclear weapon.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
Arkansas super booster John Tyson talking about the new faces of NIL. People ask why Tyson can't do for Arkansas football what Cody Campbell is doing for Texas Tech.
"He's got oil, I've got chickens," Tyson jokes, eliciting quite a laugh at the Little Rock Touchdown Club.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
Billionaires are not the reason healthcare is expensive.
The Federal Government is.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
No person should be fired for social media posts from under the age of 18. Period. For any job in America. This should be a blanket rule. And people who try to turn these tweets into stories should be mercilessly ridiculed.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
Socialism doesn’t mean common ownership and shared responsibility.
It means that the government makes every decision and cannot be challenged.
This is pretty cool
For those not aware, NASA certified the Cybertruck as an Astronaut Emergency Egress Vehicle, allowing SpaceX to replace their aging MRAPs.
If something goes wrong on the pad, the crew needs to get as far away as possible, as quickly as possible, and Cybertruck provides that speed and protection.
A NASA spokesperson said that both the agency and SpaceX "assessed the capability of the vehicle for all situations that would be encountered in an emergency and found that the Cybertruck met NASA’s requirements."
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos spend $150B per year to directly employ nearly 2 MILLION people. Thats an average of $85K per year for 2 million people to put a roof over their head, feed their families, buy a car. I don’t have that insecure commie gene that makes people hate successful people. I see successful people and I admire them. Even when I’ve lost everything and am taking on SBA disaster loans, I still can’t fathom hating rich people just for being rich. Not all rich people earned their wealth…I live in LA, trust me, I know. But if you build a business and employ millions of people, I just don’t understand the hate. It’s pure envy and self-loathing. The irony is so much of this hate comes from people driving Teslas and ordering on Amazon while bitching on social media platforms powered by Oracle servers. This commie mentality is loserthink.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
Optimus is coming
We cut our RAM in half for the Tesla AI5 chip (now 72GB of LP5) and 1/3 for AI6 (now 144GB of LP6).
This was the only way to get enough volume for Optimus production and greatly reduces cost.
As it turns out, we think this will have a negligible effect on Optimus performance, as memory bandwidth is a bigger limiting factor than total memory storage (bandwidth was held constant).
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
The people who perform best under pressure usually aren’t trying to become someone different in the moment. They’re trusting the person they built through preparation.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.
Assets:
• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network
Film Rights:
• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first home for bold, quality storytelling.
We chose this name for a few important reasons. First and foremost, as we bring Paramount and Warner Bros. together, we wanted to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic. Both have distinct identities, extraordinary legacies and brands that have resonated with audiences for generations. We never wanted a new corporate identity to diminish, alter or overshadow either one. Instead, we wanted a name that would give the combined company an identity of its own while allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. — and all our extraordinary brands — to remain in the spotlight.
We have big goals for Skydance, and we intend to pursue them with passion, imagination and a willingness to take smart risks. At the same time, we will honor what makes Paramount and Warner Bros. special — giving both studios the opportunity to grow, tell more great stories and bring those stories to even broader audiences around the world, powered by the scale and capabilities of Skydance.
I couldn’t be more excited about what we’re going to build together.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
For years, policymakers in Europe and the US (looking at you California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey) treated refining capacity like something they could shrink without consequence.
The European mentality in particular was always "We'll just get it from somewhere else." (Russia/ Middle East)
Now we are all feeling the consequences.
You can't restrict infrastructure, discourage investment, close refining capacity, and then act surprised when prices rise during a crisis and you can't get it from somewhere else.
Self-inflicted: Europe closed 30 refineries 2009-24
Now diesel is record-high compared to oil prices
reuters.com/business/energy/… workspace.refinitiv.com ice.com/products/34361119/lo… ice.com/products/219/Brent-C… data-api.ecb.europa.eu/servi… ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databr… ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databr…
Super Intelligence (fka AI) is now acing accounting tests
'More striking is how fast AI took the lead. Just eighteen months ago, the best AI models fell short of the average accountant’s ~37% score. Today, models ace those same tasks.'
'These results are provocative. So much so that we considered not publishing them for fear of misinterpretation. But we think transparency about the findings matters as people and institutions prepare for rapidly advancing AI.'
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
David Ellison joins X.
X is the global town square.
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first home for bold, quality storytelling.
We chose this name for a few important reasons. First and foremost, as we bring Paramount and Warner Bros. together, we wanted to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic. Both have distinct identities, extraordinary legacies and brands that have resonated with audiences for generations. We never wanted a new corporate identity to diminish, alter or overshadow either one. Instead, we wanted a name that would give the combined company an identity of its own while allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. — and all our extraordinary brands — to remain in the spotlight.
We have big goals for Skydance, and we intend to pursue them with passion, imagination and a willingness to take smart risks. At the same time, we will honor what makes Paramount and Warner Bros. special — giving both studios the opportunity to grow, tell more great stories and bring those stories to even broader audiences around the world, powered by the scale and capabilities of Skydance.
I couldn’t be more excited about what we’re going to build together.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
🚨 NEW: Fox’s @MarcThiessen just laid out the IRONY on the midterms: “As your polling shows, the number one issue for Americans across — in Texas, in Iowa, everywhere else — is cost of living. The irony is that most of the cost of living, the higher prices that Americans are paying, are due to Biden-era inflation, not to Donald Trump.”
“If you look at the consumer price index, consumer prices, they’ve gone up 27.2 percent over the last five and a half years, from January 2021 until today. That means that something you bought when Joe Biden took office in January 2021, something that cost $100, now costs $127.”
“Of that $27, $21 happened under Biden — 80 percent of it. So what’s happened is Americans are upset because they’re looking and saying, “I’m paying almost 30 percent more for everything right now than I did just a few years ago.” But most of that is Biden-era inflation that has been locked in.”
“Now, Trump has contributed to it, but at a much lower rate. Inflation is about 3.3 percent, which is around the historic average going back to 1954. But the Biden-era prices have not reverted back to pre-Biden levels, and so Americans are frustrated,” he tells @BretBaier.
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
*Consumer prices today are 27.2 percent higher than they were in January 2021.
*Something that cost $100 when Biden took office now costs about $127.
*Biden bears the lion’s share of the blame for that cumulative increase.
*The consumer price index rose 21.4 percent from January 2021 to January 2025 (Biden’s term), while it has risen just 4.8 percent since Trump took office.
*In other words, of that $27 in rising costs, about $21 came on Biden’s watch.
FREE GIFT LINK: wapo.st/3VoOSCj
Donovan 🇺🇸🍀 retweeted
The U.S. economy is picking up speed: business investment jumped 9% in the second quarter, while corporate profits soared 20.8% from a year earlier. AI and data centers are driving a new wave of investment. The doom-and-gloom crowd keeps missing the story.
wsj.com/opinion/u-s-economy-…
