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LogGrad98 said:
I'm thinking thegoldstandard is just a Trumper. I've posted twice now in response to his posts directly about the revenue side of that equation and he's ignored it both times. He just wants to go at the "Trump is great" angle in a slightly different way.
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How much tax would you like people to pay?
 
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Bucknutz said:
How much tax would you like people to pay?
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At a minimum let the Trump tax cuts expire. That's already cost us $4 trillion and the fact that a very minimal amount of that is from anyone outside the top 10% means ordinary folks won't feel it. And realistically neither will the top 10% due to the sheer volume of their wealth.
 
fishonjazz said:
Maybe all this stuff exists and I just don't know about it but I saw this and it made me think.
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I listened to a podcast episode not too long ago about how the richest families in America 100 years ago were pretty cutthroat businessmen but did a lot of philanthropy. Perhaps to offset their ugly business side? At any rate, they did a lot of good with their money. But today’s richest, especially in the tech industry, are a bunch of awkward, desperate, many of them are autistic weirdos. Like Musk, money isn’t enough. They want the power and respect and the vengeance they seek for never being invited to the cool kid’s table at lunch. When you see how guys like Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Musk operate, it makes a lot of sense. These guys aren’t trying to make the world better. They want to rule.

www.theatlantic.com

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
 
LogGrad98 said:
Proof is mounting that nothing Musk is doing does anything except harm.

www.economist.com

Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit
www.economist.com www.economist.com
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What a shock.

If anyone has been paying attention to twitter, they’d know that it operated far better pre-musk ownership that post. It’s impossible to get reliable news from that platform anymore. Plenty of porn, Russian bots, and crypto ads though!

Bobby knight wanted to be buried *** up so journalists could kiss his ***. Before I die I want Americans to finally realize that just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re smart. And government should never ever ever be run like a business.
 
The Thriller said:
What a shock.

If anyone has been paying attention to twitter, they’d know that it operated far better pre-musk ownership that post. It’s impossible to get reliable news from that platform anymore. Plenty of porn, Russian bots, and crypto ads though!

Bobby knight wanted to be buried *** up so journalists could kiss his ***. Before I die I want Americans to finally realize that just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re smart. And government should never ever ever be run like a business.
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I'm happy to say that I have never once had a Twitter/X account.
 
Hmm.

www.independent.co.uk

Trump suggests he’s above the law with ominous Napoleon quote

Trump’s allies and Elon Musk are attacking checks and balances with threats to the courts
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Donald Trump appeared to quote Napoleon Bonaparte by way of Rod Steiger on Saturday afternoon after his blitzkrieg of executive actions and threats to federal agencies under Elon Musk were challenged in courts across the country, raising alarms that his administration is preparing to shred court orders and ignite a constitutional crisis.

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” the president wrote on Truth Social and X.

The official White House account on X also shared the message, endorsing his apparent belief that the president of the United States is incapable of breaking any law…..

The world’s wealthiest man and his allies have repeated false and inflated claims about how the three branches of government operate, and how a system of checks and balances is designed to prevent the presidency from accumulating supreme authority.

Their comments are raising alarms among constitutional scholars and legal analysts for an impending constitutional crisis — which the White House blames on the judges, not the president’s spurious legal actions and the administration’s baseless insistence that he should not be subject to checks and balances in the courts.

The New York Times’s Jamelle Bouie called Trump’s latest statement “the single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president.”

“We're getting into real Führerprinzip territory here,” added conservative Trump critic Bill Kristol, referencing executive authority under Nazi Germany, granting the word of the führer above all.

Musk’s ongoing campaign to delegitimize the courts followed Vice President JD Vance’s claim that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”
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MAGA will love this tweet, little realizing what they are endorsing. Except those among them who know exactly what they are endorsing.


View: https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1890831570535055759

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Red said:
Hmm.

www.independent.co.uk

Trump suggests he’s above the law with ominous Napoleon quote

Trump’s allies and Elon Musk are attacking checks and balances with threats to the courts
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Donald Trump appeared to quote Napoleon Bonaparte by way of Rod Steiger on Saturday afternoon after his blitzkrieg of executive actions and threats to federal agencies under Elon Musk were challenged in courts across the country, raising alarms that his administration is preparing to shred court orders and ignite a constitutional crisis.

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” the president wrote on Truth Social and X.

The official White House account on X also shared the message, endorsing his apparent belief that the president of the United States is incapable of breaking any law…..

The world’s wealthiest man and his allies have repeated false and inflated claims about how the three branches of government operate, and how a system of checks and balances is designed to prevent the presidency from accumulating supreme authority.

Their comments are raising alarms among constitutional scholars and legal analysts for an impending constitutional crisis — which the White House blames on the judges, not the president’s spurious legal actions and the administration’s baseless insistence that he should not be subject to checks and balances in the courts.

The New York Times’s Jamelle Bouie called Trump’s latest statement “the single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president.”

“We're getting into real Führerprinzip territory here,” added conservative Trump critic Bill Kristol, referencing executive authority under Nazi Germany, granting the word of the führer above all.

Musk’s ongoing campaign to delegitimize the courts followed Vice President JD Vance’s claim that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”
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MAGA will love this tweet, little realizing what they are endorsing. Except those among them who know exactly what they are endorsing.


View: https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1890831570535055759

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Again this is where we need to see our elected officials stepping up to defend the Constitution by continuing to throw this stuff to the courts. And it's about time the legislative branch got off their asses and started looking at things they can do legislatively to stop the bleeding. But this means mostly Democrats since the Republicans have proven time and again that all they want is Dear Leader Trump to be president until he dies. Which frankly can't come soon enough.
 
The Rapist and his henchmen turning our democratic allies into adversaries and our dictatorial adversaries into allies.

Yeah let's leave Ukraine and the rest of Europe out of the conversation for their future and give Putin and MBS whatever they want.



Europe

Trump's Ukraine envoy pulls no punches with Europe, says EU might not have place in Russia peace talks​

The US is hoping to quickly facilitate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine​


www.foxnews.com

Trump's Ukraine envoy pulls no punches with Europe, says EU might not have place in Russia peace talks

U.S. Special Enjoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg hinted that Europe might not have a seat at the table when peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia begin.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
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LogGrad98 said:
Again this is where we need to see our elected officials stepping up to defend the Constitution by continuing to throw this stuff to the courts. And it's about time the legislative branch got off their asses and started looking at things they can do legislatively to stop the bleeding. But this means mostly Democrats since the Republicans have proven time and again that all they want is Dear Leader Trump to be president until he dies. Which frankly can't come soon enough.
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Why? If you’re a Republican, what’s the incentive? Is there any? Cuz im not seeing any. Stand up to Trump and you’ll get yourself a primary, kicked out of a lot of GOP golf clubs and inner circles, and possibly be terrorized by Musk and Trump’s brown shirts. And you won’t change a damn thing. Trump won’t be impeached or convicted. And you won’t have enough fellow republicans to stop his agenda.

Wasn’t Romney paying like $100,000 dollars a year for security or something? Why cross Trump? Your political career will be over and your family will forever be endangered by Musk and the MAGA mafia.
 
The Thriller said:
Why? If you’re a Republican, what’s the incentive? Is there any? Cuz im not seeing any. Stand up to Trump and you’ll get yourself a primary, kicked out of a lot of GOP golf clubs and inner circles, and possibly be terrorized by Musk and Trump’s brown shirts. And you won’t change a damn thing. Trump won’t be impeached or convicted. And you won’t have enough fellow republicans to stop his agenda.

Wasn’t Romney paying like $100,000 dollars a year for security or something? Why cross Trump? Your political career will be over and your family will forever be endangered by Musk and the MAGA mafia.
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I said we can't count on the Republicans in that post.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I said we can't count on the Republicans in that post.
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Ok, I missed that.

So what are they supposed to do aside from messaging? They have zero political power. Every single Democrat could vote against Trump’s initiatives and the best they can do is slow them down.

Can this democracy really be saved when one of the two major political parties (and the one currently in power and financed by the richest men in the world) is working to undermine democracy at every turn?
 
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