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If you make me laugh, if you make me cry, if you make me kiss my ass goodbye (climate change), if you make me think, if you make me try, if you make me wonder why, I will follow you.

Me: Tax the rich Q: But what about all the waste, fraud and abuse? Me: investigate and prosecute waste, fraud and abuse AND tax the rich. Q: But the rich create jobs Me: Great. So they can enjoy the profits created from that labor AND pay taxes on that profit. Q: It will just make them leave America. Me: There is no tax haven in the world like the American tax haven. No they won’t. Q: Our national debt is because spending is out of control! Me: It is, but that is also something that rich people have trained you to say so that you’ll argue that they shouldn’t be taxed. Create Medicare for all ($600 billion in savings), cut the military budget in half ($500 billion). There’s a trillion right there. AND tax the rich. Q: …. Me: Exactly. Tax the rich.

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI. Twice. Now, Trump cronies at DOJ pay him $1.25 million of your taxpayer money to reward him for his corrupt loyalty. The federal government … as racketeering organization.

Donald Trump Jr. bought into a company. 3 months later, his dad's Pentagon handed them $620 million in taxpayer dollars. Democrats forced a vote to subpoena Don Jr. today to come clean about this shady deal. But Republicans blocked it and even shut down the hearing to protect him.

I showed a Trump post to my psychologist friend and asked her to do a proper profile. This was, in retrospect, like asking a vet to look at a particularly diseased badger. She put down her coffee, read it twice, and said: “Right. Where do you want me to start?” The all-caps, she explained, isn’t emphasis. It’s dysregulation. A regulated adult uses punctuation to signal importance. Trump uses volume, because volume is what worked in the room he grew up in. Fred Trump’s household rewarded dominance and punished weakness. Donald learned early that the loudest person wins. He never updated that software. He never updates anything. The man is essentially Windows Vista with a spray tan. “NATO HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.” The word absolutely is doing a lot of work there. Psychologists call this black-and-white thinking, a cognitive pattern strongly associated with narcissistic personality structures. The world is either total loyalty or total betrayal. No middle ground. No nuance. No evidence of a functioning cerebral cortex. “MILITARILY DECIMATED.” She paused on this one. Self-glorification dressed as fact, she said. He has no military background, never served, and has a well-documented terror of illness and physical danger. Bone spurs, famously. Four of them. One per deferment. So he compensates verbally, hard and consistently, because words are his only battlefield and even there he fights like a man wearing oven mitts. “THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO.” The people who most loudly declare their independence, she said, are almost always the most terrified of abandonment. Classic counterdependence. The kid who announces he doesn’t need friends. In the playground. Alone. Eating his lunch next to a bin. The threat with no content, “NEVER FORGET THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME,” she found genuinely fascinating. It has the grammatical structure of consequence without any actual consequence attached. It’s what you say when you want to punish someone but lack both the means and the attention span to follow through. And then the signature. His own name. On his own platform. As if the man might otherwise forget who he is halfway through a sentence, which, to be fair, seems increasingly plausible. She sat back and said: “This is a man who has been pretending to be formidable for so long he can no longer locate the frightened little boy underneath. But he’s still there. He’s always there. TACO is always there. Screaming in capital letters at people who stopped listening years ago.” I paid for the coffee. It was the least I could do. She’s going to need therapy after this. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Trump had a hateful hypomanic episode last night continuing to this morning. He made venomous posts, declaring his defiance against anyone and everyone. His gut is a simmering stew of agitation, rage, and desperation. His malignant pathologies rule him, filling his disordered brain with paranoid fantasies of revenge alongside fantastical visions of inflicting destruction and in doing so, regaining his grandiosity. He hates having to pull back or pivot on anything. No deal with the Dems on TSA. No advice from allies, who betrayed him. More tariffs, SCOTUS be damned. No stupid questions from the press. No bad news from aides - this one is scariest - it means he starts off ignorant, gets more ignorant as each day progresses. He wonders how it is that he - the most powerful person in the world - still has to deal with so much disrespect. Does he have to teach EVERYONE a lesson? He is paranoid and seeking scapegoats. He is telling himself that polls must be fake, war reports are fake, everything that doesn't emanate from him is fake. This is the core narrative he wants to sell. It's also his only answer. HIS reality must rule. This will be his justification for escalating in Iran, AND his justification for using emergency powers to secure the midterms. Friends - none of us know how this plays out, because so far, the GOP is content to let the naked Emperor run loose. Know this: Neither you nor I can EVER feel the kind of confused desperation and rage Trump feels now. This is a man who knows he's in his final chapter. He's confounded that he, all that he is, all that he ever said he was, his lifetime of secrets and lies and false constructs - is vulnerable to exposure. He needs and wants his grandiosity. Everyone is dumb. Everyone is lying. Only he speaks truth. How can he possibly sleep? This is a malignant narcissist with extreme power, in decline, trapped. History tells us that this is the single most dangerous thing, possible.

@EricLDaugh @timmerax Another lie, why would you bring it up and then investigate?

🚨 HOLY CRAP! DNI Tulsi Gabbard has learned that US intelligence intercepted Ukraine government plans to route HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of American tax dollars to boost Biden's 2024 campaign against Donald Trump, and the DNC — Just The News Gabbard is now asking the US Agency for International Development to determine if the "plot" was carried out. The US tax dollars were earmarked for Ukraine to use for "clean energy" Gabbard's team even found that the communications — intercepted under BIDEN — were NOT even thoroughly investigated IMAGINE THAT. Investigate and expose it all, DNI Gabbard!

Elizabeth Warren is introducing a wealth tax. The bill would impose an annual 2% tax on the net worth of households over $50 million, with billionaires paying 3%. And, to deter the ultra-rich from leaving the country to avoid the tax, the bill would also levy a 40% "exit tax" on anyone worth more than $50 million who renounces their U.S. citizenship.

They're guarding the White House?

Trump: "It was brought to my attention today that we’re the only country that does mail-in voting. Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating."

@RepDexterOR Face it folks our country is being bankrupted by the most corrupt president in history and nothing is going to stop him.

BREAKING: I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in. Republicans left the hearing room.

@EricLDaugh How low will this guy go to make a buck?

🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson reveals GENIUS idea, put up a poster of the Congressional vote tally in airports nationwide showing Democrats DEFUNDED TSA and DHS Yes! Do this! 🔥 "That vote tally should be blown up, put at poster size in EVERY AIRPORT TERMINAL. So they can SEE who voted to keep those lines at TSA winding around the airports and to endanger everybody's lives!"

@HeatherThomasAF So great to have you back, and no it is not lost on me what you went thru... We need as many voices as we can get to stop this mob in chief from robbing our country blind.

Dear Baby Jesus, deliver us from flaccid old men.

@BasedMikeLee I can't believe how far some people will go to lie and subvert our democracy, better vote folks. The save act only saves trump.

1. This is a lie 2. Read the damn bill 3. The text beginning on page 12, line 22 makes abundantly clear that what you’re saying isn’t true 4. Why can’t Senate Democrats argue against this bill without lying?

@digijordan @Figure_robot If the rich take all the jobs the people will revolt, this is bad, too many guns in this country to pull this shit.

The White House today had a @Figure_robot explain to the world that it will soon be replacing teachers… And it will. It will also replace surgeons, lawyers, pilots, truck drivers, police officers, soldiers and basically every other job. And believe it or not…this is good.

@actingliketommy @OneBadDude_ Its bad, really bad and I see no way out of this mob running our government.

@OneBadDude_ You’ll lose war and high gas prices and no Epstein files and the Trump admin looting the government? You hyperbolic twat. Jeezus.

This should scare the hell out of everyone. The midterms are coming. Stop the bickering, stop the infighting, head down, eyes on the prize. If we f**k this up, we lose everything we’ve worked the last decade for. If we lose the midterms, we lose the country, perhaps forever.

@OneBadDude_ Bruh… “We lose everything we worked the last decade for” Are you kidding me right now?

@allenanalysis This is the AI future they want for us? Those robots will only cost 250 thousand for the bare minimum, this is the rich slapping the middle class right in the face.

🚨 Melania Trump this morning: Proposes an AI system—“Plato”—as a replacement for teachers. “Literature, art, science, mathematics, history… the entire corpus of knowledge… at home.” Replace teachers? With a machine? AI over teachers. That’s the idea. Instead of calling for better pay for our nation's educators/heroes. Sad day!