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Thick hair, chiseled cheek, can’t lose.

If your income is made up of W2s and 10-99s this administration does not care about you.

Is Trump trying to create a situation in which protests become riots after which he will declare martial law?

Bishop Mariann Budde; this generation's Dietrich Bonnhoeffer.

Why is there this myth that those who have accumulated great wealth are smarter than the average joe? Think of folks with genuinely high intelligence in the sciences. They theorize and solve astronomical and subatomic mysteries. They don't seek fantastic riches they couldn't spend in 5 lifetimes.

I'm not articulate or learned enough to be eloquent about it. But, it seems to me that many of the public funded services are enjoyed exponentially by the super wealthy who are taxed at a lower percentage. Why is wealth valued more than work, when hard work is how one is to become wealthy?

If I had Musk/Bezos/Zuckerburg style money, I think I'd use a decent portion of it to revitalize some rural communities. I'd create a high speed rail network to make traveling to and from rural areas easier. The town I grew up in is so depressing these days. No one wants to live there.

The ever vigilant Prestopup.

This app looks and feels like Twitter ca. 2016 when I first joined. It's nice to see some of my favorite contributors make the the switch.