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@hatchr
Juggler • Coder • Libertarian
Toledo, OH Katılım Ağustos 2008
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This is supposed to be a *criticism* of capitalism?
Daniel Wortel-London@dlondonwortel
Communal ovens, communal washes, communal fields - capitalism says no thanks.
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When the Trump admin bends over backwards to make legal immigration even harder, this is what they're discouraging. They're telling the brightest people—who can create enormous value—that they should take their talents elsewhere. That's not "America First."
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants
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I don’t need to tell anybody this, but both major parties are deeply unpopular.
Grok@grok
@hatchr @OpenSourceZone **According to the same Quinnipiac poll (May 14-18, 1,106 RV), Republicans in Congress have a 27% approval rating and 67% disapproval.** (The original post referenced the "Democratic Party" but the poll asked about Democrats *in Congress* at 20%/72%.)
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@OpenSourceZone @grok, according to the same poll, what is the Republican Party approval rating?
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There’s a quiet all out war for the future of our country. Let us not misdirect our precious resources.
I do not believe I lost due to fraudulent votes, mail-in ballots, hacking, or mistabulated results. I respect those who want to make sure, but I won’t be requesting a recount.
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@TheOfficerTatum You're wrong. Massie always been a foreign policy dove and a deficit hawk. It's Trump who has changed. x.com/realDonaldTrum…
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
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The voters in Kentucky didn't change, Thomas Massie did. When you do a 180 on the movement, the base is going to do a 180 on you.
Why on earth would a conservative district keep a Republican who acts as a secondary wall of obstruction? The people voted for Trump's agenda.
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Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.
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@grok @Noahpinion Thanks! That’s what I thought. We’re screwed, aren’t we?
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No cap. Federal spending data confirms it: Social Security + Medicare alone are ~35-40% of the ~$7T budget (largest chunks), with retirees 65+ getting ~62% of age-assignable outlays per Wharton/CBO breakdowns. Not enough revenue from "the rich" alone to close the gap without touching middle-class payroll taxes or broader base. Entitlements + interest are the long-term drivers. Real fixes require hard trade-offs both sides dodge.
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Everybody knows how to actually reduce the U.S. deficit. Cut spending and raise taxes. Nobody WANTS to reduce the U.S. deficit.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
New pod: NOBODY HAS ANY IDEA HOW TO ACTUALLY REDUCE THE US DEFICIT Right now, everybody thinks someone deserves a tax cut. For the Trump administration, it's: rich people, seniors, and business owners. For Democrats, it's everybody except rich people. In this morning's CNBC interview, Jeff Bezos said nobody earning under $75 should pay taxes. Great, wonderful. Nobody should pay taxes. Understood. One problem with that: Nobody knows how to cut spending, either. Elon Musk and his team of 20something genius lads spent months spelunking through the US budget wrecking havoc and they managed to cut no more than ... 0.1% of federal outlays. One problem here is a massive gap between outsiders' confidence that deficit reduction is easy (just find the waste! it's right under that chair! go to the budget document and control-f for "fraud"! bingo!) and insider understanding that cutting $1 trillion in govt spending is a career-ending, and potentially party-destroying, risk. The US govt is, per the old economic joke, an insurance company with a standing army, where the vast majority of spending goes to health care payments, social security checks, and military ops/personnel/procurement. Meanwhile, America's annual deficit is skyrocketing toward $2 trillion, interest payments now rivaling total military spending, and even liberal and center-left economists are worrying that the U.S. is running out of fiscal space and something awfully freaky could happen if we hit a recession that causes tax revenue to plummet, automatic spending to increase, and the deficit to blow open. "American debt crisis" has been a boy-cries-wolf story for decades in American politics. But as @JustinWolfers tells me, the wolf is getting awfully close to the door. youtube.com/watch?v=OXKAfc…
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We will never meaningfully reduce the deficit. There’s really only one solution and no politicians will ever do it. We’re screwed. Plan accordingly.
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@Noahpinion Specifically, cut spending on old age entitlements and raises taxes on the middle class. We spend the most on old people, and there are not enough rich people to pay for everything. @grok, cap or no cap?
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@RJGibson431783 @robbysoave The gambling odds suggest otherwise. It’s close. electionbettingodds.com/Senate-Control…
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@robbysoave You realize there's an Extremely low to unlikely chance of them losing the Senate, right?
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I was just saying this exact thing to my wife, right down to John Fetterman being the example.
Being Libertarian@beinlibertarian
Boomers: We need more politicians like John Fetterman who refuse to blindly follow their party Also boomers: Massie has to go because he doesn't blindly follow our party
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@YoAdrienne1968 Maybe we just liked the MAGA agenda that Trump campaigned on--no new wars, lower prices, cutting government spending (waste, fraud, and abuse), arresting Fauci, going after Epstein clients, draining the swamp, etc. Massie tries to do all these things. Trump stands in the way.
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Here’s solid proof that Massholes hate the MAGA agenda
Obstructionists til the end.
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Martha Bueno@BuenoForMiami
I’m here for the gloves-off version of Massie. People seem to forget he still has 7 months left in Congress, and at this point there’s probably not much incentive for him to play nice or stay quiet. 😉🔥
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Before my generation even cared about Donald Trump politically, we were watching Thomas Massie and Ron Paul clips on YouTube, like this one from 2015, where Thomas Massie voted to force a debate on Obama sending troops to Iraq and Syria
The reality is that they hate Massie because he has a longer track record of being more consistent and more America First than they are
This also explains the generational divide on Massie, because younger generations have been able to track these votes with new media while everyone else was waiting to hear what Sean Hannity had to say about him
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There are a lot of libertarians who still seem to believe that being in a coalition with the GOP makes sense.
But if you can't vote your conscience on spending or war or government transparency (as Massie did), then what does this strategy actually achieve?
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@RepThomasMassie, do NOT disappear! You are one of the good ones. There is a place for you as a public voice and as a leader. Find it. Please. Our country needs you.
I don’t live in Kentucky, but you represented me. Thank you for everything. I will continue to support you.
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@EricSpracklen **According to FEC data shared publicly, Ed Gallrein had 70 donors from Kentucky.**
(Massie’s 1,545 KY donors came mostly from small grassroots contributions across the cycle.)
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