eric-hainline.bsky.social
A dying breed, soon to be a fossil: conservative, compassionate, empathetic, supportive, believer in facts, truth, honor, integrity, democracy, science, education, liberty. In other words, the antithesis of MAGAts.
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I’m unsure I follow. If we break down each state by total population and number of house seats, and divide the former by the latter, CA has 758k per House rep. Out in the prairie, KS has 617K and OK has 818K. I could go on but that doesn’t seem so egregious.
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No no no. Rand Paul is not on the side of righteousness here.
Paul wants the House to further the evisceration of services in order to lower that debt number. He is totally on board with transferring the burden of onto the shoulders of the poor.
His point is that the bill doesn’t go far enough.
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This is interesting. It’s almost as if corporations are adding margin to the tariff fee they had to pay and are passing along.
Which kinda makes sense. Capital is an asset. Companies seek to realize a minimum return when they spend that capital. Paying a tariff is capital not spent on inventory.
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It was patently obvious well ahead of his election that Trump’s deportation plans would be a giant shit show. The logistics for this level of horror, from top to bottom, are totally beyond him.
And in the end this criminality “fixes” nothing. Mass immigration will return as soon as Trump’s gone.
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109% of all human stupidity caught in the same photo, from a planet that is ever so thankful it is that far way.
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Remember that with Blanche, accusations are all that is required. Proof is some silly thing that judges use to get in his way.
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This fight is really about which one of them wants to kick the most people off of healthcare in order to give the rich people the largest tax breaks.
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Yep. Abolish the agency and terminate every single person involved. The only people fired will be, by definition, those willing to act in every unconstitutional act they were asked to do, and have no business being paid by American citizens.
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Never underestimate the depth of latent Republican hatred for the US Constitution. All it has ever done is get in their way of being outright assholes.
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“Sir, clearly you are unfamiliar with the English language. The term ‘holding steady’ would mean losing close to 0 jobs. We lost 8,000 in one month in one sector. That is losing ground and not holding steady.”
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Just a friendly reminder that Congress cannot pass legislation that violates the constitution. Of Congress wants to alter the constitution, it cannot do so without approval by the states.
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I doubt that even MAGAts believe any of this. They are just satisfied that Trump is not admitting the truth, just so that the rest of us don’t get proven to have been right all along.
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Uh…the people who refuse to allow the American people to see their financial records, just ruled that government contractors can have access to the financial records of Americans?
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By the time A redo Garcia gets to court these chuckleheads will be claiming that he is actually Pol Pot still living under an alias.
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“Show your face, show your badge!”
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He is absolutely right. It’s just that his ‘movement’ is the socio-political equivalent of bowels.
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Uh…with this “transitioning”, will the federal government continue to be subsidizing that health care cost once those 19million people are on employer-provided insurance?
No? They no longer will have federal support for their health care??
Yeah. You have kicked them off.
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None of this is a distraction. It’s ALL very real and very damaging and each and every thing requires attention and documentation.
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I dunno where that data comes from. We had about 174 million taxpayers last year. TOTAL federal benefits (direct subsidies, tax breaks, etc) are estimated at $760 billion. That’s less than $4400 per taxpayer.
Even taking the highest estimate of direct subsidies, $50B, it’s only $287 per taxpayer.
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This is a level of spin well beyond parody. Even a few degrees beyond utter stupidity.
Not a single Dem has one iota of power to prevent the release of those files. Trump and Bondi have had 3 months to blow up Democrats.
That the files are still held secret can mean it’s impossible to redact Trump
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First reaction: not news.
Second reaction: of course NYT would have spent years sane washing Trump and belittling Biden. Nobody would buy a book series that announces a criminal in prison did crimes.
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Is this a serious question? If yes, have we not been paying strips since the 1970’s?
Large pieces of legislation are rarely fully read by the person casting the vote. They get committee reports on sections, and summaries from the interns, and lies from the lobbyists. And then track media reports.
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70 million people are actually cheering for this. They are celebrating this as a victory. All the time that new job creations were rocketing and unemployment falling during Biden’s term, they were whining that those were all government jobs
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I doubt Musk had any access to that file. This is just him trying to be a part of one of the social media memes to seem hip.
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The NRA’s Gravy Seal Brigade, having prepared for this moment for decades now, will be right there. But first they have to stop for donuts.
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We actually can grow bananas in America. We already grow them in Hawaii, Florida, South Georgia and California.
A better argument would be fresh food products consumed during winter months when the northern hemisphere growing season has ended.
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It’s probably true. It probably IS retribution against Musk. Not that this is a bad thing.
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I’m thinking of the California ballot initiative system.
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There is probably some HR person within the administration tasked with keeping track of performances like this, and that guy’s year-end bonus is tied to how well he dodged being forced to burn Trump on the facts.
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My corporate tax plan:
If any company can prove that the maximum total compensation delta between the highest corporate officer and the lowest of its employees is within 50x they enjoy 1975 tax rates. Otherwise, they get the 1955 tax rates.
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Which he tends to do using open channels.