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Pointing out bad arguments. Distrusting government. Distrusting the corporate press. Deflating warmongers. Paying attention.
Joined January 2023
When you read a hit piece on DOGE.
USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.
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Seemingly what they want? They’re compelling woke nonsense on the American people. Why would you think there’s some weird desire to allow fraud instead of the common sense, frequently stated, and obvious reason they’ve given you. You don’t have to read minds. Problem is then you can’t make up evil reasons.
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@GunnelsWarren Yeah buddy that’s how taxes work. If you don’t make any profit you don’t pay any taxes. Same thing for you, same thing for the mom and pop store, same thing for Tesla.
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🚨 As of February 7, 2025, Trump has been president for 19 days—and spent 9 of them in Florida. That’s 47% of his presidency on vacation. Each Mar-a-Lago trip costs taxpayers $3.4 million, adding up to $10.2 million so far. Where the hell is DOGE?
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@SenAdamSchiff If Adam really cared he would be starting a charity to solicit voluntary donations instead of stealing your money behind the barrel of a gun. He doesn’t care about cancer research, he cares about power, that’s why he’s in government.
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@EricRWeinstein Disagree. You should be allowed to hate anything and as long as white people are the only ones who can be hated it must be normalized for others. It’s not realistic to expect nobody to be hated. We must reconcile our ideologies with reality.
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@jamiedupree I would care about this if they hadn’t undergone naked political prosecutions of Trump.
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@emptywheel @SenKatieBritt “Stole” lol. If the left actually cared about these causes they would quit politics and start charities where they solicit voluntary donations. But they don’t care about these causes, they care about power. That’s why they’re in government stealing your money behind a gun.
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@monkeysGambit @jeremykauffman Jeremy’s point completely invalidates that though. If you don’t like the offered wage you can go start your own business. The fun thing about that is you can also pay whatever wages you want after that.
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Overwhelming majorities also support DOGE and rejected democrats at the ballot box.
@GOP 21. The criticism here is real, but it is a criticism of *elected* officials in the GOP, not the American people, regardless of how they voted. Overwhelming majorities agree Nazis are bad, the good guys won the Civil war and the Constitution is worth defending.
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Their ideas are so popular Trump just won an election based on promises to have Musk run DOGE and fix our government.
@GOP 20. There is cause for optimism though. If their ideas were popular, they wouldn't oppose the democratic system. If they thought they could constitutionally change the laws through Congress (noting that Rs control both chambers) they would.
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Jan 6 was an attempt to save our constitutional republic. The vote should not have been certified without an investigation. Courts refused for various reasons, some procedural and some evidentiary. But when they claim no evidence that is a lie they had the only evidence available publicly and required courts to compel non public evidence. That should have been done. They were right to protest.
19. January 6 was an attempt to get rid of our Constitutional republic by violence. They are now trying to achieve the same thing administratively. In both cases, they were enabled by the silent complicity of @GOP House & Senate members. Democracy is now partisan.
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Intentional misunderstanding to manipulate voters. So not only is much of what he’s saying wrong, it’s wrong on purpose to serve a narrative and this is strong evidence to support that.
18. Russ Vought (the newly appointed head of OMB and lead author of Project 2025) has said that we are in a "post constitutional era". The GOPs CPAC retreat has been in Hungary in recent years specifically so they can learn how Victor Orban destroyed their democracy from within.
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This is a fake fear built on whipping Dem voters into a hysterical state. They’re literally trying to save our country, so claiming they think it’s not worth saving is nonsensical.
17. It SHOULD be partisan to haggle over the law and spending. But we cannot allow it to become partisan to defend our democracy. The great fear and risk of this moment is that large tranches of the GOP have decided that our Constitutional Republic isn't worth preserving.
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Big difference between directing additional spending and withholding funding. Nobody thinks the president can just create funding, but there’s a good argument that he doesn’t have to approve funding.
14. Because if this President can unilaterally ignore the 14th Amendment then a future President can ignore the 2nd. If this one can block Congressionally-directed funding for EVs then another can ignore Congressional mandates not to spend taxpayer dollars on abortion.
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A free press keeps watch lol.
4. And that is in no small part because of our vigilance. A free press keeps watch. Congress has oversight authority and always faces political pressure if a scandal comes to light on our watch. And within the agencies, we have Inspectors General and whistleblower protection.
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And those millionaires make more money in the private sector because they bring their connections to the people still in government. Not because they have a special skills, just special networks.
3. Virtually all could earn more money in the private sector, and when they leave often do. They do it because they are committed to making America work. No one is perfect and they are no exception. But it's a lot easier to grift on government from the outside than the inside.
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Not a roster of billionaires. Millionaires, yes, but not billionaires. That does completely undermine the point though.
2. Second, public servants are, in my experience vastly underpaid and underappreciated. Our air traffic controllers, postal workers, veterans affairs employees, intelligence officers - and yes, elected officials - is not a roster of billionaires. Moreover...
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