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New version of the BBB bill, which Hawley supports, would cause 11.8M more Americans to become uninsured, per CBO estimates.
That’s up from “only” 10.9M for the House bill, which Hawley had previously objected to. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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More in my testimony here:
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Several New York (& NJ) representatives primarily represent rich people who want tax cuts for themselves. Property and excise taxes are the closest thing we have to a wealth tax in the US (other than the estate tax), and the deduction is mostly a tax loophole for the wealthy.
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That’s true. Though I think the core that unites most of it is the ideology of white supremacy, with an honorable mention for greed/corruption. Much of the rest of it is opportunism in service of those ends
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It's literally the old "I-ran-into-her-fist" story. Sounds totally credible.
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Fair take. Personally I'd say top 10 list, but not #1. OMG US Senators say a lot of racist s#(t
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Being picked for SCOTUS isn't a popularity contest among lawyers. It's the white supremacist America elected choosing the guy who was the most hated anti-American in his law school class. A Federalist Society neo-nazi who has internalized even more bitterness from being alienated by all his peers
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It’s why the GOP has been targeting the legal profession for decades with legislation like tort reform: it’s because lawyers are disproportionately major donors to the Democratic Party.
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LOL you obviously didn’t go to law school. I did, and you couldn’t be more wrong. At almost every US law school the conservative dipshits are a tiny unpopular minority. They’re outcasts.
Lawyers actually know a lot about how government works and what’s happening. Such people don’t vote GOP.
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I expect Putin is quite proud of his asset. Decades of bribes are finally paying off.
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More like a communist dictator than any US president before him
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That’s fair
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MAGA sure has been doing the devil’s work
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I’m imagining an extreme ideological sound bite response, like “government doesn’t solve problems, it creates them.”
Perhaps a good response to that would be “like on-again off-again tariffs sewing chaos in the economy? Democratic governments actually solve problems—you should give it a try”
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There’s understandably a lot of tension, because they hate Muslims and nonwhite people, but they also really hate Jews.
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Well put. It often frustrates me that people, including Democrats on social media, often expect the left to be unthinking cheerleaders who never disagree with or criticize each other. It’s like they don’t want intellectuals in the party.
(FWIW this post just earned you a follow.)
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I mean that’s true
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Based on today’s stock market, investors seem to think it’s great!