Margaret Booth
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@I_amMukhtar @elonmusk So go invent something that benefits mankind and you might be able to spend $50 a day for a longer period.
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@AD90346705 @elonmusk What is your source for claiming Musk pays so little taxes.
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@elonmusk Most of you look at your bank accounts. Now think about how far away you are to a million dollars. Then 10million.. Then 100 million.. Then Billion dollars! Understand Elon is further away from a billionaire than you are to a billionaire. Yet he still pays less taxes than you🤦🏻♂️
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@RealJamesWoods He just keeps stepping in it. All these stupid remarks will come back to haunt him in the primaries.
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@jasonllevin No. Stop listening to main stream media and conspiracy nuts.
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@adamcarolla We must have been super humans in the days when election day was one day and even if we had a job we managed to vote. Now we are so pathetic we need weeks to vote and have to mail in ballots because we're too feeble to get to the polls, not to mention too stupid to get an ID.
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Back then she was a young 55 year old with crazy ideas
Kamala Harris@KamalaHarris
Paper ballots are the smartest, safest way to ensure your vote is secure against attacks by foreign actors. Russia can’t hack a piece of paper like they can a computer. We introduced the Secure Elections Act to ensure our elections are safeguarded. We must be ready.
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@RealJamesWoods It will be ignored. The has been media won't say a word. Anything the Democrats do is fine with them as long as Republicans are defeated.
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@MyDogTeddyG @brithume Which is why so many Canadians seek out American health care. You, my friend, haven't a clue.
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@brithume You clowns realize he settled for the ACA because he couldn’t enough support for Medicare for all, right? And you also realize that even though ACA improved what we had, we still have the worst healthcare of all developed nations, right?
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In which Bernie Sanders gets a lesson in economics. Which he needs, but won't believe.
mike bski@BskiMike22802
Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one. And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you. So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip. Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook. And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review. An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes. Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died. Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result. Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data. Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan. Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it. Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator. Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS. And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair. That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat. Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it. I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers. You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run. But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover. @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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@rickpostingIndy @JustineBateman You people haven't a clue what a disaster universal health care is. We pay a 15% sales tax on everything but food. We wait years for some surgeries. I live in Canada. We all hate the health care system. We pay through the nose for our lousy health system.
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@JustineBateman Oh, helping struggling Americans, so treasonous.
Could you imagine being part of the Republican Party right now and thinking you’re not an absolute clown of a person.
So embarrassing.
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I am not aligned with any particular political party. But I am aligned with being an American and defending the kind of government we have here that has made this country possible.
The DSA platform is treason.
Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnson
THE BARBARIANS ARE INSIDE THE GATE! We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we're going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic OR trade that in, dismantle the foundations and GO DOWN THIS DARK ROAD OF DEATH TO COMMUNISM. THAT is the question.
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@KatTimpf I was 34 when my father died. We didn’t know anything was wrong. He was gone in a matter of minutes. I miss him daily but am so thankful he didn't suffer. We're all going to die but dwelling on it is unhealthy. Be thankful he saw his grandson and remember the good times.
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My dad didn’t deserve to die how he died when he died. He and my son deserved more time together. My siblings and I don’t deserve having no parents in our 30s. His death will always be a tragedy and the world will always be a worse place because this happened.
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@adamcarolla Elizabeth Warren, alias fauxchahontas, could not be more of a phoney. Fake outrage, fake caring about the "little people ", fake caring about the economy, and, most important, fake beer drinking. The irony is there are actually people who believe she cares.
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@therealroseanne @RealCandaceO That was supposed to be Madame Macrone . I hate it when the computer thinks it knows what I'm trying to sat.
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To be clear the issue is not that @RealCandaceO is a lying grifter sociopath. That’s hardly anything new to the world.
The issue is that so many people listen to a lying grifter sociopath.
That’s something that is much more rare- but everytime that happens in human history-
it’s ALWAYS A terrible terrible thing.
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@therealroseanne @RealCandaceO I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Madame MacDonald takes her for every penny she has.
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@_notnotmitchell @greggutfeld You do realize ABC paid 15 million to Trump for saying the same thing you just said. Hope he sees this post and sues you too.
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@greggutfeld President is a convicted rapist. You basically suck him off daily.
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@JonathanTurley Bill Clinton was 100% correct, and you're a fucking scumbag Nazi, Turley. You're trying to be Trump's Goebbles
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Bill Clinton's ragefest on the Fourth was something to behold as the ultimate example of clinical transference. The former president condemned the current administration for, among other things, working to "prosecute enemies, stamp out free speech" and using government as "a new profit center for themselves and their allies"...
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@elonmusk Anyone who villifies the folks who found the fraud, waste and abuse should have to pay higher taxes. So many gave their time, with no compensation, to root out the corruption in government and got a kick in the butt from politicians and the has been media. Shameful.
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@MattWalshBlog Any woman who can't define what a woman is because she's "not a biologist" isn't very bright. She is the quintessential DEI appointment.
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I hadn’t seen this. Apparently it’s real. Kentanji Jackson really put “wait for it” in a legal opinion. I believe this is the same opinion where she dropped “full stop.” We are just months away from Jackson using “lmao” and a laughing face emoji in an official legal document.
Mark@rhapsodyboard1
@MattWalshBlog Not the first time, won't be the last.
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@StevenB07217982 @krassenstein Yet another pedophile seeing pedophiles everywhere. Who groomed you?
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@krassenstein Yes! Massie seems to be one of the few politicians who has BALLS!! He will be helping even though he is no longer in congress come January 3rd to help IMPEACH THE FAT ORANGE PIG FELON PEDOFILE! NOT ONLY WILL HE BE IMPEACHED, HE WILL BE IN FRDERAL PRISON WITH OUT HIS MCDONALDS!
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MAJOR BREAKING: Thomas Massie will be giving a Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to release of ALL names of U.S. Representatives who have used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims.
I support this. Do you?
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@john_balde12345 @krassenstein It won't be paid with taxpayer funds like members of congress. Try thinking before making useless statements.
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Absolutely support congressman Thomas Massie on revealing taxes that show settlements of sexual misconduct. I wonder if it includes President Trump?
I asked that question because President Trump was found liable for sexual battery in a lawsuit filed by E Jean Caroll and she was awarded $5 million.
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@krassenstein Have wanted this for years. Bet it never happens.
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