The purpose of billionaire taxes is to reduce their money thereby reducing their power thereby reducing their ability to thwart democracy, not necessarily to fund government programs. That’s just the gift with purchase.

ButIf we froze income tax payments due to their waste, theft, and fraud, we would get into big trouble.

To little, too late.

It’s nice to see some things never change, like McArdle’s passive aggressive support for the most disgusting and harmful billionaires on the planet.

Somebody doesn’t become an ally when they decide it’s more beneficial to attack Trump than to ride his coattails.

The moment in which you have eliminated from your life anyone who tells you “no.”

Shopping carts should have horns.

Heh. If you can edit your prompts to be clearer, you can also edit your writing to be clearer. If the chatpot works better than your brain, maybe you are in the wrong profession. Ditto for choosing to outsource your work.

If the only way to gain power is to move right, why are we being told to accept people on the right who appear to be moving left?

People have the memory of a goldfish-or are trying to push the D party right.

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

Akhenaten his ass.

Anyone who thinks the trans panic is about protecting women hasn't been paying attention.

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What kind of Disney-assed nonsense is this. If I wanted a candelabra to burst into song, I’d move into a cursed castle.

As an aside-she is not a lady. A lady treats everyone with dignity. She doesn’t deserve that elevation.

The man gets government-paid healthcare. Outrage! Tyranny!

The essence of authoritarianism is that people who have risen to the top of the hierarchy brainwash the lower classes into believing a hierarchy is the natural order of the universe. They rise through merit, we don’t due to lack of merit. Their justification is “we are very stupid.”

The people who make money hunting down trans people, who gain fame, who worm their way into national attention, are not going to just go away if they eliminate their prey. They’ll find another target to keep the grift going. Immigrants, trans people-they are the vehicle, not the goal.

We all need a safe place.

Would that be your solution, Joe? Your final solution?

Trump doesn’t have friends, he has co-conspirators.

As a woman, I’m sure people could find many academic articles supporting the old belief that I should have no legal rights, but I’m not going to assume good faith of anyone supporting my return to being little more than the property of a man. Things change. Tough shit.

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I used to have a sock puppet account but it got lost in the dryer.

I’m glad to see Lander is not listening to undemocratic statement against primaries.

Do they do this to inflate their numbers?

He’s doing it so, so wrong. And it’s not like someone hasn’t done it infinitely better.

Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

Please let that be the Mother Ship. We will deliver our Leader to your doorstep.

Rich people kill you for money. They are not your friends.

This kind of thing doesn’t happen to me but I did see Rudy Tomjanovich at Mass once because we went to the same church.

He's never leaving.

I’m guessing it will hard for Ds to conduct a Congressional investigation into Trump’s actions after he puts them in jail.

The man has nuclear weapons and our D leaders are talking about waiting to act until the win the House and Republicans respond to subpoenas, which will be never.

We know what will happen with the people who become disenchanted with Trump because we saw what happened with George Bush. Those people switched over to supporting Trump. God only knows what monster they will support next, but it won’t be a D.

The man’s brains are scrambled eggs but he also sees no problem with taking another country that doesn’t belong to him, which is a big honking warning sign.

Eccentric detective from Louisiana. No, not that one. The other one.

don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it

Bless his heart. I hope someone is holding his hand when he crosses the street.

See also: Texas.

You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.

People pile up billions of dollars to live a life without restrictions and then they imprison themselves behind security for fear of losing any of that wealth.

So we have restarted the American slave trade, in a way.

The purpose of putting Turning Point into the schools is to get free campaign labor.

It‘s not unthinkable. Parents think about it from the child‘s birth. They schedule vaccinations, take kids to the doctor, and endure the screaming and crying. All because they thought about their kid dying if they were not vaccinated. You trust measles more than the shot? How did that work out?

Their origin story is seedy country preachers telling grannies, on tv or radio, to send them money to save souls and get a lurid pamphlet in return.

My grandmother contracted scarlet fever and became deaf.

The people who elevate loyalty to a personality over the good of the nation. Like Trump fans, they believe the leader would solve the nation’s problems if they were not being held back by internal disloyalty and external sabotage. Thus purging the party is their solution.

A person who buys an immigration Golden Ticket buys houses. An immigrant joins with other immigrants or family and rents a house or apartment from an investment group that bought up hundreds of houses. And yet the right never blames the rich.