Brandon

@FightWithMemes 🤣

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@SenWarren Or we just switch to a consumption tax across the board. Then everyone pays their "fair share"

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

@ProudSocialist God I hate the term "their fair share". Like they use the roads, police, and firefighters more than you or I. Their fair share would be (total government income from taxes/ number of people in this country): that's "fair".

BREAKING: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announces he is leaving Seattle and moving to Miami. This comes on the SAME DAY Washington state passed a 9.9% “millionaires tax” on incomes over $1 million. Billionaires would rather run away like cowards than pay their fair share.

@SenWarren Maybe I need to read the Constitution again, but I don't remember "concert ticket policing" being in the enumerated powers

BREAKING: Donald Trump just betrayed every fan who’s been exploited by Ticketmaster. This fine is less than 1% of Live Nation’s revenue last year AND lets them continue to rip off fans with a 15% “Ticketmaster Tax." It's wrong. We need to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation.

@lanechanged Sounds like 15% more what I pay now and when I do get sick I have super low copays and get to choose the doctor. So no thanks

Call me a socialist commie radical if you like, but this sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me. 👇

@jonballen @kenklippenstein "Obstruction of Justice"???

@kenklippenstein We need a list of those 357 so they can be correctly and forever labeled as sexual harassment perpetrators.

House votes 357-65 to block release of congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

@spreadsheeticus Preach sir!

Bourbon is so superior to scotch that I don’t understand why anybody drinks scotch

@J_Steve_Brown @MattWalshBlog Make it comically basic and watch the tragedy of people failing. How many colors on the US flag? How many states are there? What's the capital of the United States?

@MattWalshBlog Agreed. I'd like to go a step farther and require a basic civics test to register, but that is just a dream

Conservatives generally defend Voter ID laws by insisting that all voters will be able to figure out how to get a valid ID, so the law won't disenfranchise anyone. But the truth is that a certain small percentage of voters actually won't be able to figure it out, which means that a certain percentage will be defacto disenfranchised. And that is all the MORE reason to put these laws in place. If you're so dumb, befuddled, and incompetent that you can't manage to perform such a basic task, then you are not qualified to vote. You don't deserve to have a say over the direction of the country. Stay home and let the competent adults handle it.

@spooked75 Interesting that all of the things you listed were "feelings" and not policies.

I grew up Republican. Still am in many ways. But MAGA pushed the party so far right that I get called a liberal now. Let me explain the difference: Traditional Republicans believe in: • Fiscal responsibility (balanced budgets, not exploding deficits for tax cuts) • Limited government (actual small government, not big government that punishes your enemies) • Strong institutions (courts, elections, constitutional norms matter) • Personal responsibility (your actions have consequences) • Free markets (not tariffs and trade wars) • Strong alliances (NATO, international partnerships) • Rule of law (no one is above it, including the president) MAGA Republicans believe in: • Whatever Trump says today (even if it contradicts yesterday) • Loyalty tests (agree 100% or you're a traitor/RINO) • Conspiracy theories over facts (stolen election, deep state, QAnon adjacent stuff) • Grievance politics (owning the libs > actual policy) • Personality cult (Trump loyalty above party, above country, above truth) • Performative outrage (culture war theater instead of governance) • Ends justify means (storm the Capitol, ignore election results, whatever it takes) I didn't move left. The party moved off a cliff. I still believe in conservative principles. But when you say "maybe we should respect election results" or "fiscal responsibility matters" or "rule of law applies to everyone," you get called a liberal. That's not conservatism. That's a cult.

@SteveLovesAmmo Or, just make the job contingent upon getting a security clearance. Those investigations would kick out 90% of them.

All this could end if all 535 members of Congress were audited on a yearly basis and put on public display. This should be a requirement to be a public servant for the American people.

@GovTimWalz Democrats always want others to "take the temperature down" after they filled the pot, turned it on high, and let it boil over

@KimDotcom Wrong

Warning: 90% of Trump support regarding Venezuela on social media is NOT organic. It’s bot generated. Same CIA playbook as Ukraine. Don’t be fooled. The vast majority is against what Trump did in Venezuela. The fact that they need bots to fake support shows how weak Trump is now.

@DrMoreShot72358 @LePapillonBlu2 Best receipts based reply ever!

@LePapillonBlu2 Holy schnitzel was I right. You literally have dozens of posts on how happy you are that this women beat out Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Either you actually cared about the plight of Venezuela, or you’re just a pathetic sociopath with TDS.

Can someone please explain to me how Trump invading Venezuela for oil and regime change, is any way different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for land and resources?

@RpsAgainstTrump 💯

Hey MAGA, still happy with your vote?

@rachlovesmedia @otokyo__ Agamemnon is 💯

@otokyo__ Brutus Agamemnon Rasputin

Help me out: I need a highly specific, aggressively masculine name for a tiny Chihuahua puppy. Nothing cute. I'm desperate.

@JustinWolfers Sure, then the schools will stop offering dumb degrees since they won't have a path to repayment

A smarter model for paying for college: income-based repayment. You start paying your student loans only once you earn enough to comfortably get by. That turns higher ed debt into something more like a tax surcharge on success, not a choke collar on people who are struggling.

@jonbrooks There is no such thing ever as rent that is cheaper or the same price as a mortgage.

Serious question: Why buy a house today when you can rent the exact same home for $600/month less? What am I missing?

@MaOcto @ShitpostGate Is Rust still good? I haven't played that in like 8 years

@ShitpostGate I play Rust, so everything ?

@hr_unhinged Depends on his role I guess, but if this happened to me as a software engineer I'd quit

I noticed one employee wearing noise-canceling headphones. Not earbuds. The big, cushioned over-ear kind that create a tiny personal universe. I asked if everything was alright. He said yes, he’s just trying to focus. I told him we value focus, but isolation can misread as resistance to collaboration. He said he’s literally sitting at his desk doing his job. I told him we track human presence, not just output. He asked how presence is measured. I said imperfectly, which is why it's so important. Then I logged “avoiding spontaneous culture building opportunities” in his engagement profile.