Peggy Grant

@JustinVestinCC @misfitpatriot_ “Voting against the party on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE”

@PegThink @misfitpatriot_ What did he lie about?

JD breaks down why Massie has to go perfectly.

@ReviewsPossum It’s also because television makers generate more revenue from selling your data than they do on the sale of your television. businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-…

It's because TVs aren't subsidized by the government. The reason Doritos are so expensive is because, up until recently, people on welfare could get them with SNAP, so PepsiCo could charge whatever they wanted and had no reason to care whether or not you could afford it because their primary clientele were people who were using your tax dollars to buy them. You pay more because someone else is getting it for "free", and by "free", I mean you're paying for it with your taxes. Since the government doesn't buy TVs for people (with your money), TV manufacturers have to price competitively, hence the low TV prices.

Johnny’s last name was Gosch. Another young man, Paul Bonacci came forward admitting to helping kidnap Gosch where they both became part of the same sex trafficking ring. I personally met Bonacci and his stories were disturbing. The entire Franklin Savings and Loan scandal (that went no where) was extremely disturbing.

@joeroganhq Wasn’t there a documentary about a kid abducted into the Franklin ring? Like “what happened to so and so?” That sounds familiar to me.

Joe Rogan visibly bothered after playing an old Tim Dillon video with Bret Weinstein.

I’d love to see those workers build those yachts without capital. Do you have any comprehension as to the type of facility, tools and materials required to not only build the yachts themselves but every component piece? Do you really think a bunch of guys can get together and build a yacht out of nothing and with zero investment?

Capitalism didn't build the yachts, the workers did.

@CultureExploreX If men like Musk and Bezos are not the key, why do they not have ANY close competitors?

The flaw in this argument is that it treats wealth creators as if they create wealth alone. No billionaire builds a company without workers and a society stable enough for business to function. A society can create enormous wealth while millions of workers remain unable to afford rent, healthcare, childcare, or education. The existence of billionaires proves that wealth exists. It does not prove that the system distributes opportunity fairly.

@BasedAF1776X @PinoAmericano True or false, either way, this is the pot calling the kettle black!

@PinoAmericano Lotta Dark money from other states supporting Massie. Because of This. Lots of money from Radical Islam from overseas.

If Massie wins, he will vote with the democrats to impeach President Trump. If Ed Gallrein wins, he will vote to help Kentuckians. This vote is easy. Vote Ed Gallrein.

@PinoAmericano I’m not a democrat either and I would vote to impeach Trump! What a disaster! I was already convinced to support Massie, but thanks anyway 😉

@DineshDSouza D’Souza: I have no idea whether these allegations are true…but let me repeat them. Mr. D’Souza clearly demonstrating a lack of integrity. What a piece of 💩

Wow, I have no idea whether these allegations are true. But Massie has become an obstacle to the GOP and a willing ally of the Democrats. So I’ll be glad to see him go down.

@elron6900 @itsnwts I won’t engage someone being intentionally obtuse.

@PegThink @itsnwts Well, to be fair, my living expenses include things like food. If I don't eat, I die of starvation, and that 100% directly impacts my ability to generate income. So I challenge your assertion that "living expenses" don't directly contribute to my income generation.

If businesses ONLY pay taxes on their profit and not their revenue, then I should ONLY actually have to pay taxes after l cover my bills and rent too.

@txgermanbre Google ‘Constructive Receipt’. When assets remain invested in the company (while providing jobs and producing goods for society) there is, rightly, nothing to be taxed. Nothing received. Nothing taxed. Not rocket science (no pun intended).

“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden. A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation. And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale. Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely. That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation. People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved. Their companies rely on: public roads public courts public contract enforcement public utilities public universities public research grants public internet infrastructure public IP law public military-protected trade routes public education systems producing labor The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework. And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law. The real debate is simple: Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations? That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.

@thematrixb0t How does this guy get until May 15? 🤔

Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M." Government: "Totally reasonable." You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival." Government: "You owe taxes on $60K." You: "That's not—" Government: "File by May 15."

@travisakers Whew! I was questioning why federal government was attempting to dictate salaries paid by local school districts!

Great news! Congress is proposing a bill for public school teachers that will mandate starting base salaries of $60,000, plus a $50,000 signing bonus, overtime pay of 25% of their base salary, and student loan forgiveness of up to $60,000! Just kidding. That’s the federally mandated compensation package for an ICE agent. - BP Sweany

@RBReich In reality, the NRA is the controlled opposition that has not, in eventuality, ever met a gun control law they didn’t like 🤡

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

@SReillyid @elonmusk Musk just posted it today. Topic was unsure to me too. Grok indicated it was indicative of what Musk thought the good live was comprised of.

@PegThink @elonmusk Wow! I never saw this one. What was the topic Peggy?

Perhaps a restoration of dignity is in order

This is assuming humankind does not advance. Luxuries afforded the average person have done nothing but increase over time. One can argue about disparities in wealth, but none can successfully argue the average person has not experienced huge gains in personal comfort. Fewer human resources needed to perform menial manual labor such as those required in package sorting facilities or factory assembly lines means a shift to other fields. Unfettered capitalism (i.e., government not interfering) inevitably results in supply meeting a demand. ‘Profit’ can be a wonderful motivator. It moves people to professions in demand and investors to products in demand.

Musk, worth $470 billion, plans to become a trillionaire by replacing workers with robots. Bezos, worth $256 billion, plans to replace 600,000 jobs with robots. Zuckerberg, worth $216 billion, laid off 17,000 workers. Billionaires aren't job creators. They're job destroyers.

@ArtsyMarx1st Artsy forgot to mention the $9 million in federal funds being given to the farmers to destroy their trees. Not to mention the tariffs that have raised input costs pricing American growers out of global markets. Not exactly wanton ‘capitalism’.

this is a completely unhinged thing to do that has somehow been normalized under capitalism. imagine explaining to someone 300 years ago the idea of destroying 420k trees cuz a company went bankrupt

You (and the original post) are implying Norway has a socialist economy. It does not. It has a capitalist economy (private ownership of capital) that is heavily taxed so that it can provide many social PROGRAMS. Root words do not change characteristics when used as an adjective as opposed to a noun. *Socialist = Government ownership and control of means of production. *Democracy = A form of government deriving its power from the rule of the majority. Where is the lie in those statements?

@PegThink @JamesTate121 Oh and btw, socialism is a noun and social in this context is an adjective, so I'm not changing the meanings of words, I'm literally not even using the same word

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.