everyone on here is a tough guy

@SaraForTexLege Me: What’s your tax plan? You: TAKE IT ALL TAKE IT ALL!! Me: that never works You: with my made up stats, WE SAVE MONEY WHEN GOVERNMENT RUNS IT!! ME: that has never ever happened in the history of government You: TAKE IT ALL!!

Me: Tax the rich Q: But what about all the waste, fraud and abuse? Me: investigate and prosecute waste, fraud and abuse AND tax the rich. Q: But the rich create jobs Me: Great. So they can enjoy the profits created from that labor AND pay taxes on that profit. Q: It will just make them leave America. Me: There is no tax haven in the world like the American tax haven. No they won’t. Q: Our national debt is because spending is out of control! Me: It is, but that is also something that rich people have trained you to say so that you’ll argue that they shouldn’t be taxed. Create Medicare for all ($600 billion in savings), cut the military budget in half ($500 billion). There’s a trillion right there. AND tax the rich. Q: …. Me: Exactly. Tax the rich.

@PeterHamby It’s so easy. Go get that free money PetHamster

Nick’s shirt is funny bc his taxes went to the guy standing next to him

@NotArguing9 @CommishSmith True. Usually one can parlay one degree into another white collar job though that requires a college degree.

@schmidthawk @CommishSmith Those reasons or they chose an over-saturated field.

I'm not going to dis AOC's B.A., but do you really think earning a bachelor's degree is a more impressive achievement than taking a small family business w/ 6 employees and turning it into a company with over 300 employees and $20 million in annual sales? If so, you're an idiot.

Let’s see. Execution. Logistics. Problem solving. Financial acumen. Marketing. Public relations. Interpersonal communication. Hiring. Firing. Accountability. It is ridiculous to question his lack of a degree. The only question is expertise in the areas he will oversee but the head of the organization is different than the experts in an organization. Sometimes it makes a difference but does not seem to be a requirement.

I am not saying I am a huge Markwayne Mullin fan (and dude, seriously, just go by Mark), but plumbing work is hard. I do it. Slopes, angles, venting. Designing a drain, waste, and vent system is applied physics. Code compliance would challenge most lawyers. Jimmy Kimmel could not plumb a toilet if his life depended on it. The little guy couldn’t change his own oil. I would take a plumber over an actor any day every day. I’d take a plumber over someone with a PhD in philosophy. Frankly, I’d take a plumber over most Doctors, as their arrogance far exceeds their intellect.

@aqtertiam @CommishSmith Apparently there is this huge discussion about Mullin not having a degree but built up a business compared to AOC who has a degree but her real world experience is bartending. And then there is you replying as if you don’t care but taking the time to reply as if you do care.

@schmidthawk @CommishSmith Who fucking cares?

I agree companies will hire unrelated degrees. A liberal arts degree if you are trained for critical thinking can be very valuable. In my experience, technical degrees usually result in the technical area of study. I think that is what is extremely unusual for Cortez. She has a technical degree and did not obtain a job in the field of study. And to your point, she did not get a job in another field where her degree, critical thinking, and those other areas are of value.

@schmidthawk @CommishSmith So what experience of yours you speakdo of? The bottom line, which you ought to know, is that many corporations intentionally hire people with unrelated degrees because they value critical thinking and the determination to study hard and analyze things.

I went to college and the business and accounting folks I graduated with almost all got jobs. The ones who struggled to get jobs or even went to a different field may have had difficulty in social skills, emotional intelligence, real life problem solving, needed too much guidance/difficulty with ambiguity amongst other things. They would make up these items by being generally smart, diligent, extra communication, or additional effort. These are not bad things but put them lower on the hiring ladder because there are many graduates competing. These people could get jobs in their area sometimes but they would have to keep after it. It’s unusual to see someone never get a job in their area unless they give up or present extremely poorly whenever interviewing.

@KettleHoleDevil @CommishSmith Fair enough. I retract my statement as a misunderstanding of the reply. My apologies.

@schmidthawk @CommishSmith *pushes up nerd glasses even higher than you* Technically, it’s not a take on your comment. It’s a riff on your comment to mock the boomers with Fox-fueled AOCDS that the replies to the original tweet are full of.

@christianserino @VerumVulnero1 ChatGPT said Amazon paid $27b in the last five years per the 10-k. Is that something. Anything? Or are you going to move the goalpost.

@VerumVulnero1 Just make the corporations pay. Not their “fair share”. Something! Anything! S and C class corporations netting billions of dollars aren’t paying anything at all. How? Why?

Once again, wealth taxes are very obviously unconstitutional and any proposal that does not address that is unserious and should be treated as such.

@KettleHoleDevil @CommishSmith I did not say she was stupid but your take on my comment is stupid.

@schmidthawk @CommishSmith My experience is that people determined to believe AOC is stupid are boomers freebasing Fox News.

@DanielTurnerPTF I thought this was sarcasm but you were serious. 🙄

I’ll be the one brave enough to say it: climate change. Climate change, the greatest threat we face as a nation, with the guarantee of rising sea levels and extreme weather events, that’s what is responsible. And nothing else.

@kp_official_1 ChatGPT estimates about a half percent of Pennsylvania workers or 16,000 people make minimum wage.

Putting things into perspective like this should be enough to make people revolt

Seems like making Harry Potter black and Snape white is more interesting. Make Lily white and Potters dad black. Lots of interesting actions if you want to call out current social constructs. But whatever. I am not going to get fired up about it. Hopefully it’s good regardless.

@hisugarfoxx Well, Snape is actually the most important character in the whole series because he played both sides to keep Harry safe. They decided to give that position to DEI. D diversity E equality I nclusion Or D idn't E arn I t

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 why Adam Driver wasn’t cast as Snape in the new Harry Potter series

@fuckyouiquit “Also still benefit” is misleading. The assumption is these people have capped benefits.

6% of eligible voters in the US earns more than $184k a year. The other 94% would absolutely benefit from this and remember who saved social security. That 6% also still benefit from it. Try again.

Yeah. You have to use the assumption that benefits are capped but the tax is not. That’s a different program. Effectively, you want high earners to fund the program. If you uncap benefits since this is a retirement program then you end up with the real issue; living a lot longer than retirement age while reducing reducing the proportion of workers to retireee is killing the program.

Every dollar earned below $184,500 a year has a Social Security tax of 12.4%. Everything after that cap is exempt. If we lift this cap on the wealthiest earners, Social Security would be fully funded till 2070. The cap should not exist.

@BartimusPrime19 Don’t worry, I talked to Trump and we’re going to have ice hand out water at all locations

Reminder that people are not allowed to hand out water in polling lines in Georgia

“I’m not a conspiracy guy” Immediately does not believe anything. Immediately skeptical of any answer that does not fit his narrative. What are they supposed to do. Stay on the ground and sit on Trump until the whole outside area is cleared. That’s a few agents. There are obviously other agents doing other jobs. You don’t have to be a moron just because you dislike Trump.

@schmidthawk @DafuqRUwearing @Microinteracti1 Sure. And they were 100% positive that there was only one shooter, right? In real time?

The Art of Getting Shot Reagan took a bullet on a Monday afternoon in 1981 and had the absolute nerve to walk into the limousine under his own power before anyone realised he was bleeding internally. He then told his wife “Honey, I forgot to duck,” and informed the surgical team he hoped they voted Republican. The man had a hole in his lung and was workshopping one-liners. Butler, Pennsylvania, July 2024. A rifle cracks. Trump grabs his ear, drops behind the podium, then rises – slowly, deliberately – fist raised, blood streaked theatrically across his cheek, as the American flag descends behind him like a director called action. “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Trump and the crowd erupts. You know, the deep state and all that. The photographers, somehow, got every frame. Now pause. Professional photographers at a chaotic, panicked shooting scene. Every agent’s instinct screaming GET HIM DOWN. And yet: wide shot, tight shot, silhouette against the flag, fist in the air, golden hour lighting. A sequence so perfectly composed it would embarrass a Hollywood unit photographer. The FBI found the shooter on the roof. A roof that Secret Service had been warned about. A roof with a direct sightline. A roof that remained unoccupied until it wasn’t. And now Viktor Orban. Hungary. Election approaching. Leaked documents suggesting a staged assassination attempt – enough to generate sympathy, not enough to cause actual damage. The same script, different country, cheaper production values. Reagan bled because someone shot him. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

We can always have questions but there are so many people that conclusively state it was fake yet the facts on the ground make way more sense than all the things necessary for a conspiracy. The incident cleared quickly from shots fired to assassin killed. Everyone has a job to do and these guys are to escort him and basically act as shields. At least that’s my understanding.

@DafuqRUwearing @schmidthawk @Microinteracti1 How do they know that no more shots will be fired? I'm not even a conspiracy guy but I've got questions here.

@DafuqRUwearing @YankReb69 @Microinteracti1 That picture is when they got him back off the ground. They have received a message about neutralizing the assassin. They are wanting to escort him out of the area while he wanted his shoes I think.

@YankReb69 @schmidthawk @Microinteracti1 Why are they all facing him and not with their backs to him looking for danger?