I’ve been waiting my entire life for a politician other than Bernie Sanders to just say this. I began assuming it would never happen, but it finally happened.
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I’ve been waiting my entire life for a politician other than Bernie Sanders to just say this. I began assuming it would never happen, but it finally happened.
And Ezra Klein and crew are part of the oligarchy.
So long as neoconservative economist advise our politicians that the markets must be fed, this will never happen in the West.
Well said. Aped because it’s easy and they’re lazy. It’s also a useful tool to distract.
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Ever? Wow! Thanks.
David you know taxpayers don’t fund spending! I understand this is a proven trope but it’s patently false and you KNOW it is! Just say our government spent….congress spent…the taxpayer was out NOTHING.
50 is cool David. Don’t sweat it.
I’d rather not destroy the planet today you hayseed.
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You’re an insult to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
That’s an important semantical distinction. The Nazis were fascists but not all fascists are Nazis. In fact, that’s irresponsible language.
I’m puzzled how this is legal at all. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 required that the number of seats in the chamber be kept at a constant 435, and a 1941 act made the reapportionment among the states by population automatic after every decennial census. The courts move far too slowly.
Wouldn’t happen in the U.S. Big government shouldn’t be involved in killing the planet. 🙄
Not everyone David but certainly the BlueAnon and MAGA cultists love it. And the uniparty establishment.
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I teach them actually. I’ll send you a link and you can take it. Tool! 🤡
Oh I see! Then do nothing to oppose him because Trump won’t fold. Got it. 🤡
Faith in MAGA? Tell the Dems to stop enabling them.
Remember when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems voted to pass Trump’s budget because Medicaid recipients would suffer? Way to work that one out.
Remember when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems voted to pass Trump’s budget because Medicaid recipients would suffer? Way to work that one out.
Spending does not correlate to inflation. It’s a myth. Never has. The question that should be asked is if there are enough goods and services available for purchase to support the spending. Spending beyond what’s available for purchase will be inflationary.
Are you purposely trying to distract the public from the Israeli genocide and illegal war with Iran? YOU ARE because you support both! Go back to Russiagating you hack.
Where are the Democrat lead anti-war protests? Astroturf No Kings rallies are approved protests. Condemning Israeli genocide and the U.S. assisting them in starting another bogus war is met with crickets. By the way New Yorkers, VOTE CUOMO! 🤡
Let’s add up the Dems cheerleading this illegal and immoral attack and then check out their AIPAC contributions.
Try attacking the actual power centers. Astroturf "No King" rallies are contrivances designed to distract.
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
In addition to using $30 million to try to buy the Dem primary, Cuomo’s oligarchs are also gonna run him in the general election even if he loses the primary. It’s another reminder that those with oligarch money get infinite chances in life, those without it are lucky to get even one chance.
Of course.
This guy needs to wait his turn. He’s 55 years too young.
Jeffries is a perfect leader for the Democrats. Ineffectual, out of touch, elitist.
15,000 people died in NY nursing homes under Cuomo. His office hid the real death toll, doctored reports, and lied to the public. He personally edited the coverup. Now he’s under DOJ investigation—and leading the race for NYC mayor. www.currentaffairs.org/news/andrew-...
Keen is very jealous of Warren. Keen’s got it wrong too. If you get can real stuff for our currency that we create with a keystroke, it’s a no brainer.
Oh he’s a shoe-in. And yes! It’s disgusting and speaks to the core rot of the party.
Great catch Dr. K!
They’re in the same de facto party. What would you expect?
Cars are deadly, inefficient, and climate-killing. Cars aren't inevitable, and they are standing in the way of a better, transit-friendly future for our country. www.currentaffairs.org/news/carmage...
There is no respect for rule of law, basic decency or morality in the Democratic Party. One can cite Trump’s many legal and ethical violations and his disregard for norms but if you’re still willing to back Cuomo, Melendez, Cuellar, etc., your outrage is hypocritical.
That was an epic beat down and that clown wasn’t even aware of it.
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William Nordhaus got a Nobel Prize for telling us everything will be fine. Joan Robinson said we should all understand economics to avoid being fooled by economists. #truth
Nice!
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@jenvb00.bsky.social Big Dem in PA State Senate race. Sign of things to come or an outlier?
This!
Only in that higher rates of taxation create greater political balance and less income inequality. Higher taxes don’t fund their education system, it’s their political will for elite education. Great point on racial hegemony being irrelevant and racist.
The primary role of taxation is to create a need for the government’s currency and NOT to fund spending. The results of this action would be greatly inflationary.
Musk: NYT is propaganda Also Musk: the story was made up by someone at DOD Also Musk: the story was leaked by someone at DOD Literally in the SAME TWEET. Make your fucking mind up! He can’t even keep his story straight within a tweet
Crypto is a scam that needs exposed as such. It’s neither a currency or commodity. It’s grift.
You’ve missed the point. A sovereign currency issuer can’t run out of money.
When was the last time there was a "strong Democrat party?" LBJ? It's been a non-stop right wing slide under GOP rule & right wing drift under Dems for almost the entirety of my 45 years on this planet.
Rahm Emanuel was a NAFTA architect, cheerleader of the Iraq War, proponent of Wall St dereg that created the financial crisis & mayor whose administration covered up the murder of a teenager. Him now being a presidential contender is a perfect commentary on today's Democratic Party.
Charles Krauthammer approved! 🤡
Syria is collapsing into a lawless, murderess state and U.S. legacy media ignores it. If it bleeds it doesn’t lead unless it fits a narrative.
Winning and losing are irrelevant as long as you kowtow to the establishment consultant class.
Kamala Harris brought on Tim Walz because he was good at aggressively taking on Republicans, and then she asked him to stop aggressively taking on Republicans.
Similar to Casey DeSantis running for Governor in Florida. We are an oligarchy.
Sign waving is an approved form of demonstration.
Leading Democrats say openly that they have no idea what to do. But the path is clear, they’re just unwilling to take it. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fec...
Unfortunately Bernie isn’t willing to tell the truth about American foreign policy. He’s right about Putin. But wrong about the U.S. which is important if you want credibility.
Daredevil Born Again drops at 9 pm. I’ll be watching that. Better theatre.
I’d argue being effective is less important than venting and receiving comfort for them. It’s a first step I guess but without a call to action, it’s simply kabuki theatre. In all my years of political consulting, sign wavers have never turned an election. They’ve validated existing feelings only.
I’m not suggesting ill intentions for all Democrats. Most are well-meaning people who’s "protesting" is performative and feckless. But sadly they drive the devastating reality of worthy and unworthy victims, white and brown victims, human and less human victims. They’re part of the problem.
Your point is excellent and I think it’s also hard for people to grasp their payroll taxes are funding nothing. They’re accounting entries. If payroll taxes are used to fund SS, how’d the initial payments go out before any funds were collected? Same as where did you get money to pay ANY taxes?
Good for moral or virtue signaling to fellow tribe members? Visibility without a call to action is performance theatre. Occupy and BDS were crushed by Democratic leadership because they worked. Honking and waving accomplish nothing thus they’re approved activities.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment that pays existing investors with money from new investors. The goal is to make investors believe they are earning profits from a business, when in reality there is no real business activity. None of this remotely describes Social Security.
To be clear though, payroll taxes are not being used to fund payments under existing statute. The government is restricted from paying out benefits more than its collects is revenue however that’s an accounting entry correct?
It saddens me to say rank and file Democrats don’t know and/or don’t care. They worship their leadership and their leaders KNOW this.
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Or more. Or Dems can wave signs at Tesla dealerships again. 🤡
Every time you hear: 1) Tax dollars 2) Government debt 3) Government going broke/bankrupt The person saying those things is WRONG and their opinions on economics should be immediately dismissed These falsehoods create or exacerbate every single problem we have globally #LearnMMT #EconSky
If your partisanship prevents you from identifying right from wrong, moral from immoral, truth from deceit, helping from hurting….you don’t have answers, you’re part of the problem.
Imagine telling an American kid born in Chicago, with zero to trace Middle Eastern DNA, that they have more rights to land 6,150 miles away in Jerusalem than a child born there to a family who’s lived, farmed, and raised families on that land for hundreds of year. It’s a crime against humanity.
youtu.be/mtDzC3i9i6A Government "debt" is our surplus.
Ross Perot WAS elected President.
Whenever you hear this from politicians, know that it is being pushed purely to benefit commercial real estate conglomerates and private equity firms like Blackstone that bought up a bunch of buildings. This has nothing to do with worker productivity. sfstandard.com/2025/02/25/s...
Energy has to be directed into something productive. Protesting at a Tesla dealership is NOT productive which is why Democratic leadership supports it.
They 100% would not because MSNBC is in the toilet about to be spun off from NBC.
YOU are rewriting history Governor. There was a negotiated peace settlement in Turkey one month after the invasion began and Biden ordered it ripped up in order to embarrass Russia at the expense of dead Ukrainians. History will not be kind to the Biden Administration’s foreign policy.
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We’ve been an oligarchy Bob! This isn’t new.
Says the warmongering New York Post.
Uniparty
The Democratic establishment would never allow that.
It’s a little rich for liberals to now be posting video clips of Bernie Sanders now, like he’s saying something new, when they rejected him twice for President.
The U.S. is the world leader!
And the guy who sold us RussiaGate is one of them.
Tommy Tuberville shut down military promotions for TEN MONTHS by himself. Tell her to go gaslight somewhere else. Participating in the helplessness caucus is absolutely mind-bendingly stupid: it's both untrue AND bad politics.
Herschend Family Entertainment owns both the Globetrotters and the Generals. D.C. politics is just as real.
You’re repeating demonstrable shown falsehoods. I recommend reading the Mueller Report, the Durham Report, and this excellent assessment in the Columbia Journalism Review by Jeff Gerth. It’s a damning look at Democratic propaganda. www.cjr.org/special_repo...
But how would they know given their preferred media outlets? They’re getting gaslit every day and won’t tune out lest they address their cognitive dissonance.
No disagreement but I bet you the die is already cast.
The People, No is a must read.
Pete Buttigieg is the nominee in 2028. The elders have already decided so she might as well get paid. 🤷🏻
No one that we’ve forced to be a tourist economy.
Sadly bailouts in the U.S. are bipartisan too.
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