The year is 2036. California has passed anti-renter legislation modeled on Austro-Hungarian anti-Roma laws that allows the rooted and noble homeowner to kill the wandering renter. The entire state's tax base consists of unrealized capital gains taxes. HSR from Fresno to Bakersfield is almost done.
He and Al Pacino really steal the show
Lawsuit settlement with State Farm requires rate increase reductions for property owners and increases for renters policyholders
They’re coming up with new and exciting ways for renters to subsidize property owners here in the Golden State all the time. It’s frankly incredible how many different levers they find to take money out of renters pockets and give it to homeowners and landlords.
And no, repeating it and then suggestively arching an eyebrow doesn’t count. It’s the US president spreading an absurd lie to cover up an enormous massacre of children - a dreadful historic moment
Salinger was appointed to that seat after he died and then went on to fumble so badly he became the only Democratic incumbent to lose in the landslide year of 1964
We had California Kennedy (Tunney) and they replaced him with a self-hating Japanese conservative who LARPed as Scottish
"Talarico is RFK" no, Talarico is McGovern, Texas had RFK and rejected him
Cory Booker is sort of like Zohran Mamdani if Zohran had the politics of Bill Clinton but still wanted to make you think he was Zohran Mamdani, so you end up with big bold proposals that don’t really do anything and are stupid
Notably, Keynes did say that you need to increase taxes in times of plenty so you can decrease them in times of hardship!
I am rapidly becoming a left-wing fiscal conservative. You will have universal healthcare and you will pay for it.
* there was, but they weren't states with Senators that could vote to break the filibuster, you know what I mean
Filibuster is key here, and remember, there was no Alaska or Hawaii at the time.
I hope you like the welfare state we have, because we're never going to be taxing people higher than we are now.
What exactly do you do at work again?
WTI crude is up 24% 187 upvotes 64 comments Inevitable-Scheme-38 1h Edited This is what we get for Abraham Lincoln not letting General Sherman absolutely shitface the entire South. This is what we get for letting Southerners vote in the first place. Get ready folks, the best is yet to come! The dumbest people in the US are the ones with all the voting power, yay!!
your average r/stocks poster now has "William T Sherman didn't go far enough" as a baseline, things are going Well for capitalism I see
Probably the worst part of the oil rain in Tehran is that so many people's barrels and rain collectors are contaminated now
Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
Bahrain mentioned!
for those unaware, this would be perfidy, explicitly prohibited by the 1907 Hague convention and 1977 protocol to the Geneva conventions as war crimes; these (particularly The Hague convention) are customary international law and thus binding on Israel
In 1976, conservative economics professor Phil Gramm challenged Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) from his right in the primary.
Gramm would lose, be elected as a Democratic Congressman, switch parties in office, and then serve in the state's other seat alongside Bentsen as a Republican Senator.
Tapper's uncontrollable urge to fuck anything with the American flag on it is a medical condition and should be treated with sympathy and pity, but in no way encouraged.
Bosnia: We support America's men and women in uniform who are serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, we did not support the ill-conceived and inconsistent policies that led to their deployment. In 1992, candidate Bill Clinton pledged to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, but once in office he ignored his promises. For three years, Bill Clinton upheld the illegal and unjust arms embargo on Bosnia and allowed genocidal aggression to go virtually unchallenged, while Bob Dole successfully led the effort in the Congress to lift the U.S. arms embargo. Once again, Bill Clinton subordinated American national interests to the United Nations in vetoing bipartisan legislation that would have lifted the U.S. arms embargo and rendered the deployment of American forces unnecessary. At the same time Bill Clinton was opposing congressional efforts to lift the arms embargo, he made a secret decision to allow the terrorist Iranian regime to supply arms to Bosnia. This duplicitous policy has endangered U.S. and Allied forces and given Iran a foothold in Europe. We look forward to a timely withdrawal of U.S. forces from Bosnia and recognize that providing the Bosnian Federation with adequate weapons and training is the only realistic exit strategy. We support the democratic process in Bosnia and, when conditions exist, the conduct of free and fair elections. We support bringing indicted war criminals to justice. We encourage the peoples of the region - and in particular those of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro - to play a constructive role in fostering peace and stability there. We note with concern that repression and human rights abuses are escalating in Kosova and support the appointment of a U.S. special envoy to help resolve the situation there.
Dole and His Rivals on Bosnia Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole’s endorsement of sending U.S. troops to Bosnia has given rivals for the Republican presidential nomination something they have been looking for: an issue that sets them apart from the front-runner. FOR “We have a responsibility to the American forces there, and it shouldn’t be political.” --Sen. Bob Dole AGAINST “America has limited national interests in Bosnia and no reason to believe that our intervention will be decisive in promoting those interests.” --Sen. Phil Gramm ***** “Bosnia is Beirut all over again. A bloody, religious, ethnic and civil war, in which all sides have perpetrated horrors and all sides have been victims of horrors.” --Patrick J. Buchanan ***** “The U.S. should not be peacekeeping in an area where peace does not exist and where the conditions for getting out remain unstated.” --Lamar Alexander
I'd say Bosnia was in some ways the first major situation where you saw right-wing opposition to humanitarian intervention (well, Somalia too); the 1996 RNC platform was relatively moderate, but Dole was attacked from his right in the primaries.
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A key missing piece here is the conservative opposition to the Bosnian War I think
He's not allowed within 500 feet of them
☝️ refuses to acknowledge the dangers of Hinduphobic thoughts and actions in academia
stream chat informed me of this new incredible wojak
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