I'd always thought policy through tax-advantaged savings accounts and partially-refundable tax credits was the final stage of Coward Neoliberalism, but turns out there's a second health bar that's just "Let's Fucking Dynamite Tax Revenue and See What Happens"
this is dumb as hell
having spent some time in this district within the last few weeks i will set aside her electoral prospects and suggest this candidate will be lucky to make it to election day without getting beaten to death
middle class people don't actually pay that much in federal tax relative to other expenses, the bigger challenge is that they don't feel like they get their money's worth. easy counterfactual is modest rate increase covering Medicare for All and annihilating health insurance premiums
underscored by Booker's incredibly obvious unwillingness to actually do confiscatory taxation on billionaires (cmon man), which wouldn't even balance those scales
(centrist swinging for a big policy idea) "what if we just took a big shit on revenue to no real benefit"
this is insanely stupid
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
Fuck you for agreeing with the premise before even indicating concern you leathery old shit
Sick, evil fucking idiots. Not just monstrous but deeply stupid. The people of Iran deserve our solidarity.
ok i think im done with evangelion spinoffs at this point
(good for them tho)
Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
If I was President I woulda done this for that Dredd movie about Judge Dredd because that movie kicks ass and then we’d have more movies about Judge Dredd
Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
and he swangin
theonion.com/exhausted-no... in retrospect maybe he shouldn't have tried to do this
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
"you wanted a pony" is the guilt talking. the knowledge that you didn't push the party to do the right thing out of triangulation and cowardice. you tried to play a very dangerous game of enticing the enemy at the expense of alienating your allies and you're lashing out the people who warned you.
You can conclude that these people simply do not understand how negotiating works - that you start by shooting for the moon and force them to talk you down to something like this, extracting pain for every concession - or that they just don't want more than this.
new york magazine has a very nasty article out about my beautiful golden throne, which they say is the only thing keeping me alive. when I'm sitting on my big beautiful throne I am NOT ASLEEP!! I am directing the beacon of the astronomican, something sleepy joe did very badly may I add
shingy and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race
One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way
The guy was being held down on the ground by like 6 scumbags and he was shot point blank while doubled over on his knees after the piece of shit pistol whipped him several times. Now you don’t have to watch.
That's nasty
