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I'm betting that the causal arrow does not point in the "more billionaires cause higher standard of living direction."
Probably points in the "people become billionaires through rent seeking in a high standard of living countries" direction.
Let's get a few billionaires to move to places like Kenya and Afghanistan and see if that pulls anyone out of poverty.
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It's worth noting once again that @StephenM is a racist and a fascist, and the face of "the cruelty is the point" MAGA fascism. #DimestoreGoebbels
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The 2026 midterms are over, and the MAGA coalition simply melted down. Democrats won races in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and...South Carolina. Probably Mississippi.
But how did they do it? What does that tell us about American politics?
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This is freakin’ hilarious.
MAGA Spent 100% More To Lose The Midterms 😭 youtube.com/shorts/YtGaUiNwf… via @YouTube
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This anecdote says all you need to know about @StephenM:
“As a high school student, Stephen Miller once told a booing crowd of his classmates that he was “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” Now he gets to reckon with a colossal political mess of his own making as the next White House chief of staff.”
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After last week's historic victories, it's time for Democrats to demonstrate that they got the message: voters hate the uniparty, and demand a Democratic Party that is no longer beholden to corporations, AIPAC, big donors, and billionaires.
Americans want the law to protect and bind everyone equally rather than protecting the wealthy without binding them while binding the poor without protecting them.
If @RepJeffries and @SenSchumer don't want to lead that party to that place, they can get the fuck out of the way.
Voters said quite clearly that they want an end to fascism, oligarchy, and genocide in Gaza and elsewhere.
We said out loud that we want access to health care that does not create billionaire profits for health insurance companies.
We want an egalitarian society that holds the police accountable when they violate our rights and does not permit masked federal agents to run roughshod through our communities arresting our neighbors while leaving actual criminals alone.
Leaders like Jeffries and Schumer need to get with that program or walk off into the sunset.
“Tuesday was a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also of the Democratic party’s own complicity in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide & the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.”
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Am I reading it wrong, or is "Habibi" the Arabic equivalent to "Bless your heart?"
“JD, [bless your heart], there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January."
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Trump doubling down on what lost Texas: mass deportation of non-criminal members of local communities who have families, businesses, and important jobs.
My question is: will anyone outside Trump’s immediate staff follow his instructions? Will cabinet secretaries follow his orders?
If so…
Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller: America’s doors are closed fully to asylum seekers. It’s a very simple, a very elegant, a very… complete solution.
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Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed Responds to Being Called Cocky youtube.com/shorts/GKeqE7lRh… via @YouTube
All of this. Stand up to the fascist bullies. @MarkHalperin
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“Last night he insulted the vice president. He was extremely rude and crude to Mike Rogers.”
What a classic Halperin take. @MikeRogersForMI and @JDVance spend months calling @AbdulElSayed a terrorist, “evil” and a “psychopath” because he doesn’t share their faith, but he’s the rude one for using the Arabic equivalent to “bless your heart” on Vance and telling Rogers to shove his Buckeye “somewhere else.”
Perfect example of how these faux centrist pundits hold Democrats and Republicans to different standards.
Progressives want someone to fight back against the fascists, who Halperin seems to be OK with (he’s invited to the parties again). El Sayed won in part because he does this, and it’s about fracking time someone did (looking at you, @RepJeffries and @SenSchumer).
If you think that’s rude, maybe you’re one of the fascists.
Abdul El-Sayed’s prospects for becoming a dominant figure in Congress are clouded by how “he doesn’t play nicely,” says @MarkHalperin. “A freshman senator who comes in and acts the way he does? I don’t think that’s going to go over particularly well with his older peers. Last night he insulted the vice president. He was extremely rude and crude to Mike Rogers.” El-Sayed, Mark says, must also compete with an “all star team” of incoming freshmen Democratic Senators — “a paraplegic gold medalist, a female pediatrician, two pastors, a logger” — who lack his sharp elbows. @LarryOConnor @KevinPWalling
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This man understands both the political moment and the political task. We need more of this in Virginia.
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Initial thoughts on last night's clear rejection of MAGA fascism. More to come this week on Two Crusty Old Combat Soldiers and Foggy Bottom Line Live. patreon.com/FoggyBottomLine/…
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