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@statesman BUT WAIT, THE GOOD GUYS WITH THE GUNS ARE THERE #GunSafetyNOW

First, reduce corporate welfare. In 2025, at least 88 major U.S. companies had over $105B in pretax profits but paid $0 in fed income tax — Disney ($8.3B), Tesla ($5.7B), CVS, and Palantir. Before printing government checks to address Al-driven unemployment — first close tax loopholes so these companies actually contribute. This would generate revenue and make any larger response more credible. But it is only a limited first step.

@elonmusk Don't you need a federal government for that?

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

We are spending at least $500 million a day to bomb Iran. Imagine how many teachers we could hire, how many public housing units we could build, how many bridges and roads we could fix, if we spent that kind of money on improving life for working people?

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than: Walt Disney Citigroup CVS Kohl's Ticketmaster Tesla United Airlines GoDaddy Paypal Palantir Roku HP 3M PG&E Halliburton That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.

@AZ_Brittney Liar

Describe RFK Jr in one word.

@trydapital I am

Who's building this?

The Ballad of Steven Miller @StephenM #DV1 #DemsUnited

@RealAlexJones @RepThomasMassie @HasanKhxnx Sorry, who is Alex Jones?

@RepThomasMassie @HasanKhxnx Me too

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?” Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks. The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp. Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept! The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote. Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this. Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic. The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package. There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next. This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL. The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced. The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act. The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along. If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

Repressing free speech and gerrymandering are the only ways Texas #GOP stays in power. What does the Texas Education Agency say about school walkouts? kristv.com/news/local-new…

Lovely reminder of humanity from my new additional home 🙂 South Fort Worth store manager helps save the life of homeless woman in winter storm fortworthreport.org/2026/02/01/sou… via @FortWorthReport

@danholyo @politico 🤣🤣🤣

@politico Politico talking about reality is hilarious. You don’t understand just how important Greenland is and much more important it will become in the future. Trump sees the big picture.

Republicans are trying to scare Trump back to reality as he talks about taking Greenland by any means necessary. politico.com/news/2026/01/1…

My brave friend and Rabbi tells of the dangers in being Jewish in Israel today - imagine the horrors of being Palestinian at home. I glimpsed the violence facing West Bank Palestinians every day. American Jews who care about Israel must act. jta.org/2025/11/13/ide… via @JTAnews

@KenPaxtonTX @TCU Because you're a #fascist who doesn't care about facts maybe?

This doesn’t look like free speech to me. I’m going to look into this. @TCU

@crup21289 @KingsleyCortes How about this? Are u equally as concerned that all political killings in the US in 2024 were by Rightwingers? Also, Kirk killer was not a leftist, but was raised by rightwing Christian gun nuts #facts Murder & Extremism in the United States in 2024 | ADL share.google/vM7jvvtrptrt4k…

@KingsleyCortes Very concerning statistics.

1 in 4 very liberal Americans support political violence. These are domestic terrorists. There can be no unity with this evil.

@KingsleyCortes Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows share.google/KihueC5gA0MH6S…

@KingsleyCortes Oh yeah? Then why do Rightwingers commit more political violence, cause more related death? In fact, this administration just removed their own DOJ study that showed those #facts Fortunately plenty of other reports show the truth. Stop your dangerous #lies.

@AOC The only way forward re: #GUNviolence is to treat it like the #PublicHealth threat it is. Since that's not an American value now we're all in deep 💩 It'll take pragmatic, visionary leadership like yours to help get us there.

The scourge of gun violence and political violence must end. The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident of this chaos and it must stop. We cannot go down this road. There is no place for it in America and we wish for his recovery.

If anyone needs the basics in a nutshell: Doug Wilson is the self-ordained leader of a denomination he invented where he answers to virtually no one’s authority. • He preaches a heresy called Federal Vision, for which the Reformed Church of the US has publicly called for his repentance. (theonomyresources.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-call…) • He was charged with 94 ecclesiastical charges ranging from pastoral tyranny to using church funds to pay off gambling debt. When called to the carpet, he threw a tantrum, stating, “When I swing, people shatter.” (presbyteriannews.org/volumes/v10/1/…) • He lost his 501c3 status for funneling funds to himself via royalties. (moscowid.net/2016/08/10/dou…) • He keeps enabling pedophiles in his church, and he shames their victims into silence. He wrote letters to the court on behalf of child rapists and characterized one of their crimes as “a secret courtship” instead of rape, explaining that the victim looked older than she was. (homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/dou…) • When a church member’s daughter told Wilson that her father was watching her shower. Wilson covered it up and offered to facilitate her counseling sessions, where Nancy Wilson informed her that her father did “nothing illegal.” (x.com/ExaminingMosco…) • When an unsuspecting woman came to church leadership asking for help finding a husband, they paired her with a convicted serial pedophile. Wilson wrote to the court requesting approval for the union despite the expert’s warnings. Wilson officiated the wedding and asked God to bless the couple with children. Shortly after a child was born, the pedophile was sexually aroused by him, as documented on a mandatory polygraph. (heidelblog.net/2024/08/rachel… • Wilson claims he did nothing wrong and would make the same decision again. (moscowid.net/2017/08/12/ste…) • He calls wayward women names like crones and harpies and cunts. He hosts panels of men who preach that women shouldn’t vote. •He says American slavery was a good situation for slaves. (dougwils.com/books-and-cult…) • He writes obsessively about women’s breasts. Doug Wilson is the guy you choose when you care more about winning than you do about righteousness.