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Historian, Library user, veteran, husband and father.
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Oh, he’ll be a Democrat next week if the story makes it to next week, if the RW media has any say in it.
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Is that where the conspiracy charges come from? It doesn’t seem like he was conspiring with anyone local.
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We need to work in a bit about “you are paying this tax because trump wants his buddies to pay less tax.”
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“No Dark Helmet! We didn’t see you playing with your dolls again!”
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Yup, Scotch whisky, French wine, and Italian suits could have it all by themselves. Since #doughfacedonny doesn’t drink and buys suits at Kmart or whatever he probably didn’t realize the importance of those products to the cultured rich.
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Someone’s grandparents stroked out because of Mr tariffs playing 52 pick up with their retirement accounts. But bill ack is happy so I guess it’s okay.
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Taxing billionaires out of existence has to be the most imperative, throbbing concern in American policy discussions going forward.
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And that will do absolutely nothing. The victims will have to sue tom homan and trump personally.
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Yeah, I guess you’re right. 😞
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Does no one remember the massive demonstrations before Iraq that dubya brushed off by saying “I’m not running this country like it is a focus group” and invaded anyway? I’m afraid these demonstrations will do nothing but mark them as targets.
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In this case it is less “government” than the billionaires who are occupying it at the moment are pushing people towards action.
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I usually carried a nomex balaclava but I could see how baklava could be useful. 😉
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Reminiscent of the gilded age factories where owners simply didn’t clean the bathrooms to discourage the workers from taking bathroom breaks. In addition to chaining emergency exits and refusing to install safety features on the machines. I suppose that is next for doge.
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Idiot America should be required reading.
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Nothing can penetrate the shamelessness shield, fire away professor!
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I agree. But this will be interpreted as an empty threat. And, always performing for corporate media, Dems think it’s some kind of courage to thwart their voters’ will.
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Tariffs as a regressive tax on the poor is the truth. He was blathering on during the campaign about how much money was left on the table because we didn’t have tariffs and whining that the government could be funded exclusively by tariffs. And nobody could break through the shamelessness shield.
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Mrs. Kraken likes to put the news on first thing in the morning and they never fail to air that disgusting face and whatever verbal diarrhea is falling out of it. Ruins my whole day.
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The least self-aware oligarch that ever lived.
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“Yes, they are definitely spitting in your food.”
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It’s possible that some people will realize that they have nothing to lose and fight back but I’m not holding my breath. Revolutions start with the frustrated elite aspirants, and all of them have student loans and debt up to their eyeballs. I don’t know what it would take to ignite the spark.
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Unfortunately they are going to make sure that all of us suffer far more, the billionaires thought we peasants were getting a little comfortable so it’s time to collapse it all. They lost some paper wealth, we will lose jobs, healthcare, savings and homes.
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Then today is the best day to get to work.
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That’s true, however every time a deplorable sneaks into the White House and breaks everything, Dem activists call for a new party because the consultants had made all the wrong moves and wasted our donations on useless tv ads. Building a new party is going to be really hard.
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We’ll never really know how many of these supposed swingers were real and how many are figments of musk’s digital scam imagination.
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You know what else young men like: Ayn Rand. Kinda backs you up man. I remember being a young man once too, I had a lot of dumb ideas but somehow managed to not get hurt. Today the internet remembers all.
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I suspect they may have meant in the primary.
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They are going to crash the economy, not because it is good for them but because they have to keep everyone divided and scared. Business slowing down? Mass layoffs. Record profits? Mass layoffs.
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One weapon the bosses use is to threaten jobs, usually passively, saying “think about all the little people whose jobs you threaten by boycotting this business.” The unspoken assumption is belied constantly when the bosses lay people off anyway. So don’t let them pull your heartstrings.
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Republican words are worthless. They love that the unelected billionaire is taking the heat for doing what all republicans want.
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There’s no such thing as “the American people” in any meaningful sense beyond a shared geographical location. We are many nations all stuck together, and most dislike each other in even the best of times.
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I used to call my blog “The Gloomy Historian” for this reason after dubya was re-elected. And no matter how much I banged my head against the wall this time around it was the same story.
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And maybe they will realize that the sky doesn’t fall because you speak the truth.
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What would a collapse look like? All of them will still be in office, they will still be able to do a lot of damage. Their term doesn’t end for another 47 months.
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I don’t know the exact proportion but combat arms, the service members who pull triggers, is ridiculously low compared to all of the support services you mentioned.
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I admit, the bear of despair has caught me and I can’t summon the will to keep up with that fecal trough. Glad you are holding down the fort professor.
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You have to ask yourself which is more important,yelling at people who agree with you most of the way, or stopping the fascists? Re-litigate the past or fight for the future? Of course they should have acted more urgently but woulda, shoulda, could’ve won’t help.