And he's been saying it for about 25 years. He told us all how wrong it is that his effective tax rate is so much less than his secretary's. Not in a million years would you hear Musk, Bezos, Zuck, or any of the rest of them say that. Musk thinks he's fooling us with his tattered Mars t-shirt.
No confederate flag ever flew in congress until Jan 6 2021. They kept saying the "south will rise again" but they never said how though.
I'm hoping to see O Fortuna/Carmina Burana used as the score to something amusing/ironic, like a Trump fart montage. Jones ruined that piece for me.
Plus the $10B he wants for his non-governmental "Board of Peace" that he will be appointed chairman for life and he would have the sole right to appoint the next chairman. He's a money vacuum.
I'm half expecting him to sue for royalties on all the buildings and facilities he's slapped his name on. If he gets his own highway he'll build toll booths every mile.
So, did it work? Was she able to leave?
That's probably the creepiest thing I'll read this week!
Ha, "Globei"! I gather that's now a slur for people who understand we live on a spheroid planet. They're both ignorant and sanctimonious.
First thing I thought of! Once again Trek was prescient. Odds of the Eugenics Wars should pop soon on Polymarket.
"Independent" in the vast majority of those cases unfortunately translates to, "I'll still vote Republican, but I don't want people to know." The personality traits of people who could ever have have voted for a monster like Trump don't tend to just go away. Gullibility is at the top of the list.
The curve was the first giveaway. The depth is a close second. It would be deeper than a few Everests are tall. We're going to be so screwed when AI is fully weaponized. Human brains just can't keep up.
That's frame worthy, or at least get it on a coffee mug!
* Loosening of FCC ownership limits to the point where there are no real limits.
* Citizens United which gutted campaign finance laws and led directly to ownership of our elections and government by oligarchs and corporations.
This has been little more than a hostile takeover of the US by capital.
* Roger Stone spearheading the Brook's Brothers riot leading to scotus installing GWB.
* Scalia inventing Unitary Executive theory which grossly exaggerates presidential powers.
* The impact of the vast network of right wing stink tanks, predominately Heritage Foundation & FedSoc.
It's good for Cliff Notes but is missing some key elements
* The coalition of single issue republican dunces assembled by the likes of Lee Atwater and Grover Norquist
* The Moral Majority who helped foment a vast network of activist evangelicals.
WSJ posted the first major expose into Trump profiting from pardon power. Funny how the guy who will sue at the drop of a hat over the slightest critical coverage didn't sue WSJ for that. Afraid of the discovery process maybe?
No, that it doesn't. I'm more of a policy wonk than a slogan writer.
Thanks for focusing on effective rates rather than statutory. It's all that matters in the final analysis, and it seems to be what many progressives most often miss, even folks like Sen Sanders and AOC. I'm sure they know, but they don't expend enough energy helping people understand the difference.
You get the same result, with less ability for the right to propagandize to people who have no idea how taxes work, like the people who were convinced that the Estate Tax is a "death tax".
A 90% statutory bracket would be a propaganda gift to the right. They barely need to frame it since it sounds scary enough on its own. A better solution is raising it some, and then getting rid of loopholes that only serve the wealthy.
Dems need to legislate smarter, not just bigger. Examining the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy during the decades of 90% statutory rates reveals that no one ever paid it because many of the same loopholes existed then. Effective rates were definitely higher than today though.
Well...he does like 2 Corinthians. Some say as much as Hitler speeches.
The only time a buck stops at Trump is when he's able to grab it and shove it in his pocket.
So did they actually close the doors at 4, or did they send dancing sign people out to the sidewalk to lure people in with a promise of free snacks?
That's likely why they're employing this strategy. It's a divide and conquer move. They're trying to expand the bigotry pool by making gender affirming care a scapegoat should hospitals refuse to comply and get defunded. It's insidious.
I watch the cycle every couple years. I don't know why, but it feels so perfect in its imperfection.
Oh cool, it's been months since I've had to feed my block list. It's been so hungry.
Be the change you want to see?
It's not a motorcycle, baby. It's a chopper
Weird how you feel free to invoke the word genocide, which itself is "maximal alarmist", but MJ needs a paddling for accurately quoting language that was employed by the GOP. Just sayin...