@RealChaosOrder @mattyglesias indeed, it's important to support trump so as to take down the imminent threat of <checks notes> david dayen
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@mattyglesias You willing to back Trump to take them down? Or would you prefer to be defeated while telling yourself you're totally righteous?
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@RJPilkenton @mattyglesias @ddayen wait, you think lina khan wanted to work for binance but just couldn't bc she didn't play her cards right? this is like the most nihilistic take on the whole internet
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@mattyglesias Or @ddayen, perhaps Ms. Khan couldn't get any big payoffs from for-profits given they know she's ideologically their foe. Furthermore, I'm sure she's not working for peanuts at Columbia and she gets paid big $ in speaking fees ($50k+ per). Give the class-warfare a rest, please.
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@BlakeAshby1 @mattyglesias not that "complex" why a wealthy, well-connected man would rather take an eight-figure consulting job at poly than do hard work at a not-for-profit, but okay
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@mattyglesias Yes, disappointing, and often self-defeating, the degree to which some on the left create artificial morality standards so they can judge people on the other side of the lines they create. Life is complex, unlike passing judgement
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@mattyglesias "charities are bullies and famous guys cashing out for eight-figure consulting jobs at crypto scams are victims" how am i falling for the world's most obvious engagement farming
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@mattyglesias um 99% of us work for for-profit businesses bc we don't have plausible alternatives, not because we have some sort of ideological belief in their goodness. like is that really what you think? "people work for kalshi bc they think it is good"? lmao
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@Ibncorsair @TheWayOfWade @_theFleshPrince Good point, Trump is very subtle and hard to read, there were no signs at all that he might not be completely on the level or a mentally ill narcissist saying whatever he thought would get him a reaction in the moment.
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@TheWayOfWade @_theFleshPrince You’re not a man if you can be lied to by another man that easily how can you protect a family if you’re that gullible?
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yeah bro you feel stupid because you're stupid as fuck lmfao
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Joe Rogan guest: This war shit bugs me. I feel so stupid. Because when they were doing their no war thing, that was a big deal to me. No more wars, fuck yes, focus on the country, why are we blowing up children in other countries for oil? It's literally the opposite now. How many Iranian schoolgirls did Trump blow up?
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@determinatus @barbarismcrit Ds who FAIL to get elected are often those who couldn't get the money and institutional support to build a plausible campaign infrastructure.
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@barbarismcrit Think about that for a second
Do you think the democrats who FAIL to get elected are MORE popular?
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Because on basically every 90/10 issue elected democrats are in the 10.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110
So, what is the main reason why the Democratic Party remains unpopular despite the lunacy of this presidency?
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@KeithOlbermann @JasonLaCanfora I mean, fuck em all but the democrats did lean into this shit too.
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Chuck will always find a way to bothsides the victim and the predator. It is a compulsion with him.
Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Perhaps Trump would have done this regardless, but let’s not forget Biden created this pre-emptive pardon precedent. The only good news that might come out of this pardon corruption: we will get a bipartisan supported Constitutional amendment to create a Congressional nullification process for all presidential pardons.
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@kar_nels @jdcmedlock Doing better than most non-UT, non-ID red states, but still in the middle of the the pack wrt most metrics, and scraping the bottom in terms of innovation.
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I'm endlessly frustrated with blue state governance, but this analysis is sloppy. Hanania spends a lot of time looking GDP change without ever looking at absolute levels of GDP. If red states have been growing faster for 40 years, why aren't they richer than blue states?
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
WSJ reports on red states and blue states moving further apart on taxes. We have enough data now to call it. The low tax, low regulation model is superior. richardhanania.com/p/forty-years-…
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@libertarian_ass @DeathMetalV Federal revenue as a share of the GDP fell from about 18.7% in 1981 (the last year bf the Reagan tax cuts) to 16.5% in 1984 (when the tax cuts were fully implemented). It fell from 19.8% in 2000 (the last year bf the Bush tax cuts) to abt 15.4% in 2004.
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@DeathMetalV What has any president done to gut social security? Every time the tax rate is lowered, the amount of taxes (both absolute and as a percentage of GDP) has gone up.
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Every time a Republican has been president their biggest agendas have been to gut social security, lower taxes for the top 1%, and essentially make life harder on anyone below their mega donors. Nearly all recessions since the 50's happened under a Republican president.
Jay’V@JayVTheGreat
You bots are ridiculous. 😂😭 Republicans aren’t the ones raising taxes, spending tax dollars to push left-wing agendas in foreign countries, letting immigrants defraud their states, or spending tax dollars prioritizing illegal immigrants over Americans. You idiots blame Republicans, capitalism, and America for your own failures. The Biden administration spent billions on left wing garbage, raised inflation to historic levels, but yea, let’s blame republicans. 🤡
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@Nowooski @SpecialPuppy1 If you think CA has bad services, I hope you never have to live in literally any other state.
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@SpecialPuppy1 In California, it’s from looking around and seeing how the $ is being spent.
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Where is the anti-tax revolt in the Democratic Party coming from?
Katie Porter@katieporterca
0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs. As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
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@M4rcieBandwidth @SpecialPuppy1 Yes, except CA Ds actually are pretty good abt innovating with policy and convincing people that our tax dollars are being used effectively. That's one of the reasons this aboutface seems so random!
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@SpecialPuppy1 Zero willingness to actually innovate with policy, zero confidence in their ability to persuade people that their tax dollars are being used effectively, and infinite willingness to abandon silly things like "consequences" and "economic reality" if they interfere with virality
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@fairer4scoring @SpecialPuppy1 Sounds like you need a better union?
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@SpecialPuppy1 It’s coming from the fact that taxes paid by hardworking private sector employees are used for gold plated jobs and retirement for public union employees, who don’t do their job, are lazy and entitled.
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@chaboard2 @ettingermentum Well, I mean, he lost to two people who are now the least-liked political figures in the nation, which suggests that at least some voters feel like they got it wrong!
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@ettingermentum One of them got his ass kicked twice when actually running and the other one is sadly not eligible to ever run.
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The only public figures in this country who have even scraped positive national favorability are Jermone Powell Bernie Sanders and Zohran and the response by the average Dem campaign to run on abolishing the IRS for “affordability” fuck my chud life
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@crallara @AlZeidenfeld You have the causality reversed. They lobby BECAUSE they want to pay low/no taxes.
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Because 10% of $50,000 means a whole hell of a lot more to that earner than 10% of $500,000 does to the other one.
Progressive tax rates make a lot more sense than regressive tax rates, and a flat tax is regressive.
Corbin K. Smith@CorbinSmithNFL
I have a really dumb question: Why can't we just have a flat tax rate for every person? And get rid of the stupid deductions, etc? Just have everyone pay the same rate in the U.S.? It would save us from so many damn problems. And all these idiotic arguments.
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@JGONYC @AlZeidenfeld Like, movie stars lived in houses that, in 2026 dollars, cost $700-800k! They vacationed in 900 sq ft tract homes in Palm Springs that they drove to. It was all just extremely different and more equitable.
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@JGONYC @AlZeidenfeld This is one of those conventional wisdom takes that's just... wrong. We used to have a marginal income rate in the 90s, and the result, quite simply, was that we didn't produce ultra-super-rich people the way we do now.
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@Behind_The_Syst @DeItaone This is literally letting China have all the chips they can get lol
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@DeItaone Commerce scraps the red-tape nightmare on AI chips. No more handcuffing Nvidia & AMD exports worldwide. America leads, China stays behind. Winning! 🔥
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U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT WITHDRAWS PLANNED RULE ON AI CHIP EXPORTS -- GOVERNMENT WEBSITE
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@lili_shtupp @ExMiserian597 lol dick cheney endorsed kamala harris. do you think dick cheney is a centrist liberal?
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@AMEXAndrewSPG @ExMiserian597 Who endorsed Bernie. Yes come on. Own her.
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Centrists love to use Fetterman to dunk on progressives but the difference is we’ve fully disowned him, admitted we were wrong, and are committed to removing him the first chance we get.
Find me a single time when centrists took responsibility for losing two elections to Trump.
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@lili_shtupp @ExMiserian597 her most vocal supporter was joe rogan. like, c'mon.
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@AMEXAndrewSPG @ExMiserian597 I don’t hear anyone claiming she was a spokesperson. The claim is that leftists and progressives propped her up. Bernie and friends were her most vocal supporters. Why do y’all lie so much? As if it’s not documented.
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