Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1952... - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors.

New piece from me:
https://newrepublic.com/article/195232/mike-johnson-trump-working-class-gop-scam

Comments

tomnemo.bsky.social•4 days ago

The confusion is intentional ...

texannh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mike Johnson has abdicated his house speaker position to a demented old man who cares nothing about this country of ours!

gottobeaspirit.bsky.social•4 days ago

Worst people. Just vile. GOP cannot be honest because the vast majority of the American people really dislike its policies.

hdthoreauaway.bsky.social•3 days ago

The vast majority of America loves their policies- *they fucking consistently vote for them at every level of office, don’t they*??

American voters are epically fucking STUPID.

bohunkhusker.bsky.social•4 days ago

#BillionaireCarveouts

bussolati.bsky.social•4 days ago

Under the new Trump tax plans, in 2027 if you make less than $15,000 annually in the US you will see your taxes go UP by 18.7%.

Then in 2031, if you're making less than $15,000 annually your taxes will go up by 74.3%.

Thanks Rep Jimmy Gomez (CA) for reading the proposed tax brackets carefully.

a-climate-refugee.bsky.social•4 days ago

So that billionaires can pocket those taxes.

meh333.bsky.social•3 days ago

COMPLICIT REPORTING! Plenty of media ppl may be dumb or uninformed but not dumb or uninformed enough to believe Trump doesn’t want to help rich ppl and hurt poor ppl.

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•4 days ago

Talk about bury the lede
the 1st 9 or 10 paragraphs are just hyperventilating, adding nothing
the article actually starts about graf 9 or 10 (I think an honest old fashioned what when where why reporter would have condensed grafs 9 - 11 into one graf, the lede)

rodgilbert.bsky.social•3 days ago

What has become apparent is that the new strategy is for trump to tell the rubes what they want to hear and then tells Johnson to do what he actually wants. So the rubes think that trump is there to help them.
Same with trade “deals”. Announce big deals and everyone forgets when it never happens

thefool37.bsky.social•3 days ago

The media whores make the same "mistakes" over and over and over, which is what makes them media whores.

shirlenedez.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mike Johnson reminds me of what a typical classroom sneak would look like!

canopyguy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Welcome to your American dictatorship

okay7.bsky.social•4 days ago

The 1% greed never ends.

msdobalina.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's insatiable. As is the greed of the 5% who want to become 1%, and the 10% who want to enter the 5%. It's a self-defeating greed orgy all the way down.

sciencevinman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Placed into the category of traitor tRUMP is spewing lies AGAIN.

gram2maine.bsky.social•4 days ago

😡🍊💩 Of course it is.

sparklerblue2.bsky.social•4 days ago

Kinda like “leave it to the states to decide for themselves.”

Then backdoor talks to the AG and senators, and they swing deals so that they can overturn your vote in the states anyway ?

Yeah, we see how this works. 😏🙄

#Fascism
#RedState
#Playground

pbjmbaker.bsky.social•3 days ago

Republicans want all the money and power. They don’t GAF who they have to gaslight to get it.

mcrascle.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump is a liar; so what else is new?

docparadox.bsky.social•4 days ago

This guy thinks he's going to heaven.

THIS guy.

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

her1st.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Talked a good game?” They brought it up a couple of times without a drop of energy to it. Anyone who doesn’t just accept the talk as credible knew it was total bullshit.

crobertbuchanan.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you work in news media and you don’t assume that anything Trump says is a lie, then you are failing at your job.

Anything he says should be reported as a lie unless proven otherwise.

saintedithstein.bsky.social•4 days ago

Religion always comes before politics and money. Christians put Trump in the white house and love what he's doing

dougvee.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you believed that, you were/are in the cult of the church of MAGA. The MAGAts deserve what they voted for. Unfortunately, it fucks The rest of us that did not vote for the cuck. Thanks a lot MAGAts and the independents that sold out on his lies.

hdthoreauaway.bsky.social•4 days ago

scatmanvigoda.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gasp! Shocked!!

kritz1.bsky.social•4 days ago

No surprise here- at least for anyone paying attention

lifelearn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Little Mikey how could you?

kdjs-1.bsky.social•4 days ago

stubronstein.bsky.social•4 days ago

jashsf.bsky.social•4 days ago

We are going to go bankrupt. No question. Just like his casino.

joelyjoelyjoelyjoe.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump lied to us?!? I feel so betrayed.

gregsargent.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump recently got a lot of media attention for supposedly wanting to end the carried interest loophole. Not only does the House GOP bill *not* do this, it actually creates a new tax break for the same private equity industry, experts tell me:

https://newrepublic.com/article/195232/mike-johnson-trump-working-class-gop-scam

martijon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not even pretense. Corruption to the core.

faduda.bsky.social•4 days ago

I wonder how much that cost them...

thebirdieking.bsky.social•4 days ago

Shocking! Who would possibly read the fine print!!

maxmoranhi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Congressional Reporters Actually Read A Bill 2025 Challenge (Impossible)

epluribus.bsky.social•3 days ago

It never made sense that he would end that. Prolly just needed to extort some moola.

toimaker.bsky.social•4 days ago

Private Equity needs to be burned to the ground by the next dem administration.

gregsargent.bsky.social•4 days ago

People got played by Trump's supposed opposition to Medicaid cuts. The game works this way: Trump says he opposes cuts but also says he's fine with targeting "waste, fraud and abuse." Now the GOP bill's fixes to "fraud" could push millions off Medicaid.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195232/mike-johnson-trump-working-class-gop-scam

xpostfactoid.bsky.social•4 days ago

Bingo, Greg. What he meant (and what the whole party means) is cut *human* waste (the Medicaid expansion population, mainly).
They define who they're excreting by exclusion.

amymwb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Medicaid fraud isn’t by those receiving medical care. It’s by people like Sen. Rick Scott whose company got the biggest fine in history for committing Medicare fraud. It didn’t cost HIM a penny & now he’s in the Senate trying to cut SS, Medicare & Medicaid after he stuffed his pockets with fraud $.

ltlging.bsky.social•3 days ago

And his persistently unhealthy base will blame the "gummint" and not him.

thefool37.bsky.social•3 days ago

Finish your description of the game: say you oppose cuts, say you're targeting waste, actually jack up the deficit.

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•3 days ago

Eventually MAGA voters will realize that when Republicans say waste fraud and abuse, they’re talking about them.

elmjoe17.bsky.social•3 days ago

Lol, no, no they won't. When are people going to understand how a cult works???

elmjoe17.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yup that's been the play with DOGE from the start and the morons in this country simply buy it. Gullible fools

tacosandcats.bsky.social•4 days ago

For Trump, the working class IS the waste

gregsargent.bsky.social•4 days ago

We keep hearing that the GOP is going through an "identity crisis" over whether it will be a Trumpist/working class party or whether it will continue serving its "corporatist" and "C-suite" wing.

Funny how the C-suite wing keeps winning this argument!

https://newrepublic.com/article/195232/mike-johnson-trump-working-class-gop-scam

bash.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump’s”working class” veneer is as thin and fake as the new gold junk glued to the oval office walls

prairieguy2623.bsky.social•4 days ago

Greg, I really think you need to jettison the “they got played” framing. They’re not getting played; they think unquestioningly and uncritically blasting out everything a pathological liar who happens to be president says is how you do journalism.

prairieguy2623.bsky.social•4 days ago

Of course, the fact that they seem to cast a critical eye on partisan objections to those lies is a whole other question. But I’m certainly their response in this case would be “What? Are we not supposed to report something a president says?”

prairieguy2623.bsky.social•4 days ago

The fact that they have not, after all this time (and so, so many lies), solved the problem of reporting on a pathological liar without privileging his lies over truth tells me they simply aren’t interested in doing so.

defeatthefascists.bsky.social•4 days ago

After four years and 115 days in office (and all the lie-ridden campaigning in between), you’d think the press would stop falling for Trump’s ludicrous fantasy about championing for the working class. And yet…

sjoneswastaken.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is no such thing as a Trumpist working class party. There are bamboozled working class people who vote for Trump. Ofc, if there was any party that represented working class people he wouldn't have gotten all the way to the WH. But there isn't one. The Dems abandoned the working class long ago.

retiredlawyer.bsky.social•3 days ago

Funny like a death rattle.

tomfromorange.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Trumpist/working class” is an oxymoron.

mi-forest.bsky.social•3 days ago

republicans work for the very rich and no one else. they have been that way for DECADES! I doubt that they will ever change so we need to #VoteAllRepublicansOutOfOffice forever and for good!!

We need political parties that actually work for the American people & our planet, not greed.

cedichou.bsky.social•4 days ago

You need a complicit media to "keep hearing that". The GOP is Lucy and the media pretend they'll kick the football (they probably don't believe it themselves, they can't be that dumb, but they'll play the game)

sorensblues.bsky.social•4 days ago

The idea that Trump is a champion of the working class is ludicrous.

magatzapper.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep, and somehow despite that obvious truth, it's what got him elected.

sorensblues.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nutty, ain’t it?

drloisweiner.bsky.social•3 days ago

When you follow the money you see that's been decided: Jettison liberal capitalism in favor of authoritarianism.

smellytoe.bsky.social•4 days ago

If the media could frame this correctly, there would be no crisis. The republican party creates confusion with their words, but each and every single action they enact tilts towards the haves. It’s pretty simple.

agirlisknow1.bsky.social•4 days ago

The confusion is on purpose.
Squirrel! 🐿️

drjohn2026.bsky.social•4 days ago

the koch led dark money has bought and paid for them. they just need to spin things in a way to keep the gullible R voters from defecting.

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tale as old as time.

GOP "signals" working class polices.

Behind the scenes, the GOP passes policies to aid the rich.

anemiab.bsky.social•3 days ago

Both parties have become the Citizens United party. Our government is rotted through with corporate cash.

jdoyleoss.bsky.social•4 days ago

The C-suite has been winning this argument since Reagan, at least. The working class message is just that, messaging.

thaliamims.bsky.social•4 days ago

I can't think of a single time that Trump or the "Trumpists" have actually done anything for the working class. Not a single policy or piece of legislation that did anything but rob them.

kencomplain.bsky.social•3 days ago

It doesn’t get through to the masses because Fox News and the conservative media industry—and even other “unbiased” outlets—reports what people say, not what they do.

everythingisgrate.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s not like the corporate media to constantly regurgitate his bullshits.

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