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@mattvanswol Oh no people protesting. America was never supposed to have protest. The humanity JK I think your fascism is showing

Just so we are ALL CLEAR on what happened today... Educators and school administrators single-handedly CANCELLED SCHOOL for 700,000 North Carolina students... ...INCLUDING MY SON!!! To wave signs around in the street instead. The signs vary from: a) F**K ICE!!! b) Defeat Trump's Agenda c) Trump is a N*ZI d) ICE OUT!!! e) Protect trans kids f) Refuse fascism g) Stop bombing schools DO NOT TELL ME THIS WAS ABOUT KIDS. IT NEVER WAS. This was ADULTS using 700,000 children, INCLUDING MINE, as political leverage against a president they don't like. That is despicable. You know better... DO BETTER.

@elbh Then you come on here and tell a bunch of people who can't even afford property that a property tax reduction will be good for them? Lmao The delusion

@elbh Your property taxes wouldnt be so bad if your home value wasn't inflated. It's inflated because old boomers have nothing better to do than to show up a city council meetings and complain that that new development will ruin their land value

We need to watch out for people pitting the young against the old. There are good reasons to reduce property taxes for EVERYONE and that should be a priority. How can we accomplish what needs to be done without crushing citizens?

@Jerry__Grey @solitaryintp @RossKneeDeep As he swipes on grinder behind her back 🤣🤣

@solitaryintp @RossKneeDeep Our women do look like that. Yours has a penis.

This is really what TDS looks like.

@Painefulfacts @voidsrus4 @BlackLanterrn I get it. When compared to the executive or legislative branch the Supreme Court looks competent. I mean they're still revisiting "settled law" so I wouldn't go as far as to say they're doing good. But by comparison sure

@voidsrus4 @BlackLanterrn Oh yeah no there's been a lot of bad stuff. No doubt, it takes a lot more than several bad rulings to outweigh the important role of the court in maintaining the stability of our liberal democracy. If you want to reform the court there are ways to do it while maintaining legitima

Just pack the Supreme Court. Nothing fucking matters anymore. When Dems get power add 4 justices. Then next cycle Republicans will add 9 more. Then Dems +13, & so on. Keep going until every citizen of the US is on the Supreme Court. The less legitimacy it has the better

@KrystalWaterfor @AngelaBelcamino If a company is "too big to fail" then it essentially becomes ungovernable, and the basic principles of capitalism stop working. The US should take these companies over. Forcibly divest and then sell off the shell. Otherwise they have us at gunpoint. See 2008

No one seems to care about Spirit. In Iceland they held this "Let them fail" pov so in 2008 this happens. - banks collapsed, >the krona collapsed > 80% of the financial system failed. > most businesses went bankrupt. >Interest rates spiked to over 300% short - term. >recovery took years. Without intervention the cost of failure can be far higher than the cost of a bailout. Choose your poison wisely.

If Spirit Airlines can’t survive without a bailout, let it fail. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to prop up broken business models. Who agrees?

@AmendOneX @DarrigoMelanie Attacking the funding before attacking the cost is definitely a choice. This would almost certainly lead to a massive drop in attendance and a less educated population. 4 million jobs immediately put at risk. Something gotta be done, but probably more carefully

@DarrigoMelanie We should immediately stop allowing student loans. 18 year olds are too dumb to understand the implications of taking on debt to fund overpriced speculative college invoices.

The average medical debt is up to $15,445 The average student loan debt is up to $47,857 None of this is sustainable, and too many of our elected officials are being funded by the corporations, billionaires and special interest groups benefiting from our debt and exploitation.

@DanielArenson @PeterSchiff @Mike_Pence Neither of them made any real attempt at reducing spending

@PeterSchiff @Mike_Pence He can't. If Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the two most powerful men in the universe, couldn't reduce spending, nobody can. Nothing stops this train. It'll keep chugging along until it flies off the track and explodes.

The National Debt Now Exceeds the Size of the American Economy. Get ready for Democrats to clamor for higher taxes. But as Reagan said, “the problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much" For our children and grandchildren, Republicans must lead the way, back to a Balanced Federal Budget, with fiscal discipline and reform. If we don’t, no one will.

@21Blair12 @kristengough @RandPaul Deflecting with nonsense. If you stand for nothing then it's pretty hard to argue your points huh?

@Kojack_420 @kristengough @RandPaul You should stick with what you know best.

The last time debt hit these levels, America had just helped win a World War. What's our excuse today? Runaway spending. Bloated budgets. A uniparty that refuses to say no. I've said no. I'll keep saying no. But I need Americans to demand better from their representatives. wsj.com/economy/u-s-de…

@jayparsons Maybe ask them why all their are building is "luxury" apartment. You get high rent, paper thin walls, and maintenance that is guaranteed to not give a shit. All while the majority of folks are being priced out. The market wants affordable homes. Developers want easy cash

If you really think rent control doesn't reduce supply, go spend time talking to apartment developers who build that supply -- and ask them why they're not building in St. Paul MN or Montgomery County MD and why they've frozen new projects in Massachusetts.

@catturd2 Cat shit using the term "grifters" has to be the funniest shit ever 🤣🤣

But the doomer grifters said MAGA is dead.

@MendlovitzMark Well it be hard to have any less minority candidates that's for sure. For a party that's "definitely not racist" there is a VERY little representation out side of white.

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a bold prediction that touches on Democrats' deepest fear: the effective end of racial gerrymandering will usher forth the election of many new REPUBLICAN minority candidates and shatter the old lock Democrats had, especially with black voters. As the black electorate ages out, younger black men will be voting Republican in larger numbers and electing black Republicans to office.

@GBriereGiroux @GiaguDirk @Rothmus To the generations who missed out on affordable homes, pensions, and cheap college. Being asked to work till you're 70+ feels like paying for a debt that's not ours. Plenty of other ways to stay active. Sitting behind a desk for 8 hours is not it.

@Kojack_420 @GiaguDirk @Rothmus We shouldn’t discourage it. Staying active is good for a lot of people. The payroll tax discourages work at any age.

Because nobody wants to gut social security, medicare, or any other non-discretionary spending. They’re roughly 59% of total government spending with interest at 14% and discretionary at just 27%. Effectively, the welfare state is bankrupting America. The right thing is to do is very, very politically unpopular.

@21Blair12 @kristengough @RandPaul Paul Manafort Michael Milken Rick Renzi Conrad Black Paul Erickson Sholam Weiss Mark Shapiro The list goes on.. Stop pretending you care about fraud. You don't. You can't cry about fraud and the elect the fraud king to pardon a bunch of people convicted of fraud.

@Kojack_420 @kristengough @RandPaul None of this even includes the $ hundreds of billions that were given to illegals. You might want to sit this one out....

@GBriereGiroux @GiaguDirk @Rothmus Funny how we are more productive than ever now yet you're trying to make an argument that we should be working longer?

It’s a huge tax on efficiency. Makes labor more expensive and incentivizes people to stop working when they wouldn’t necessarily do it otherwise. We are no longer in the era where the work is backbreaking and 65 years old means that you lost all ability to participate/sustain society. If the government wants to help longevity pooling, make the entire purchase of a lifetime income annuity deductible (could help people smooth out years with unusually high taxable income) in exchange for taxing that entire income later.

@Mt2Aguy Texas has sky high property taxes and higher than average sales tax. The State will find a way to get theirs always. Also housing cost are driven by demand. High housing cost just means a lot of people want to live in that area. That should be worth something

Wow, amazeballs, even. What that "study" fails to mention is that your higher income in blue states is nullified by literally everything else being more expensive. Taxes, fuel, groceries, housing etc. etc.

@TerrellSocialst People are waking up. Look at Texas. Talarico won out over Crockett. I think this one election says a lot. But granted I'm not plugged in to other elections in other states

A lot of liberal voters keep misunderstanding why so many of us on the left are not satisfied with “vote blue no matter who.” It is not because we do not understand how dangerous Republicans are. We understand it very clearly. We see what Trump has done. We see what Republicans have done through the courts, through state legislatures, through attacks on voting rights, civil rights, workers, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women, education, and basic democracy itself. The difference is that we are looking at the pattern. Every few years, Democrats tell people, “Vote for us because Republicans are dangerous.” Then Democrats get power, but instead of passing the kind of transformative policies that would materially change people’s lives, they govern cautiously, protect the status quo, and tell struggling people to be patient. Then people remain broke. Rent keeps going up. Groceries keep going up. Healthcare is still too expensive. Student debt is still crushing people. Wages are still too low. Billionaires and corporations keep getting richer. People lose faith. Voters get angry, discouraged, or stay home. Then Republicans come back into power even more extreme than before. And then the same cycle starts all over again. This is what the left is trying to explain. We are not asking for more because we are spoiled. We are asking for more because the bare minimum is not stopping fascism. Fear alone cannot be the entire strategy. You cannot keep telling people democracy is on the line while refusing to use power in a way that makes democracy worth believing in. If Democrats want people to keep showing up, they have to do more than say Republicans are worse. They have to prove that when they get power, they will fight for working people with the same urgency that Republicans fight for billionaires, corporations, judges, and control. Because if Democrats keep winning power and failing to deliver transformative change, the country will keep swinging back to Republicans. And if it is not Trump, it will be someone just as bad, or worse. That is the pattern. That is why the left pushes so hard. Not because we do not care about stopping Republicans, but because we understand that the only way to stop them long-term is to actually improve people’s lives.

@OrevaZSN They are banking on AI saving American industry. They don't need you if all goes to plan. If all doesn't go to plan then they just leave with their money.

I do not understand what billionaires think the final outcome of all this is. If nobody has a living wage, they cannot buy your products, pay for your services, or rent the properties being owned and hoarded. At that point, does the whole thing not just collapse?

@Pro__Trading Crazy that as soon as they become right leaning they start revisiting settled law

The court was left leaning for 50 years. It's finally right leaning for a few years and the left is melting down.

@21Blair12 @kristengough @RandPaul Sir the national debt is 34 TRILLION. The amount your complaining about won't even cover a few days interest. Not to mention Republicans literally elected a man convicted of fraud. A man who then went on to pardon 30-50 others accused of fraud. You're not serious

@kristengough @RandPaul Seems like all these $ billions and billions of Waste, Fraud and Abuse have been from ONE side, and it wasn't the Republicans.