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The problem with Social Security isn't "fraud."
The problem with Social Security is that as the rich have gotten richer, more of their income has escaped the cap on the SS payroll tax.
In fact, millionaires stop paying SS taxes today.
We can fix this by scrapping the cap.
How to brainwash your mind in next 7 days:
Wake up and don't look at your phone for 1 hour.
Drink 3 litres of water every day.
Do your most important task in the morning.
Exercise at least 1 hour per day.
Replace social media with knowledge books.
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I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement, both personally and in these social media streets. So very proud of The Reidout @joy.msnbc.com team, who are truly family, and all of our supporters & friends. See you tomorrow night at 7 ET, one more time ‼️
WONDERUL NEWS!! Warren Buffett's son Howard has given $500M to Ukraine — he warns the US is making a historic mistake by pulling its support
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Always great seeing @briantylercohen when he makes it to DC. Brian and I work every day doing episodes of The Legal Breakdown (fast approaching episode number 500), to bring you accurate, reliable, and 100% independent legal analysis.
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Podcast posting in the morning.
We’ll be covering a guy who reached out to me about 80 Boxes of cards he found.
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What does “Old School Cards” mean to you when you hear that
Top athletes I’m buying: Cam Ward, Paige Bueckers, Amen Thompson, Caleb Williams, Omarion Hampton, Chandler Simpson, Zion Williamson, Tiffany Stratton.
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Democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies behind a paywall.
That’s why all of my news will ALWAYS be free. The more people are empowered with knowledge the better.
I can’t stand when news companies make people pay for news. My decision may not be the most business savvy, but times are too important to do anything otherwise.
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A MUST WATCH! Sen. Jeff Merkley bravely asking what we’ve all been thinking.
If you support the impeachment of Traitor Trump, please heart this post. 💙
Share it if you'd love to see him in prison for treason.
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Regardless of RFK Jr being confirmed as HHS secretary, I will continue to provide evidence based health education on social media. We need more helpers now more than ever.
The president likes his name on stuff. Wouldn’t it be fun to name all of his accomplishment:
Trump Recession
Trump Unemployment
Trump Measles Outbreak – each death – another Trump Measles Death
Trump Retaliatory Tariffs
Trump Government Shutdown
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Donald Trump is no longer projecting confidence about the American economy. This morning he would not rule out a recession, despite the fact that his Commerce Secretary did just that one day ago.
Expect significant economic turmoil this year. I will provide you updates every step of the way.
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Years from now when I am dead and dust, I pray my fellow historians will be writing about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett that I christen #TheOffense! Happy Women’s History Month, Goddess-damnit!
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NY Times: "MeidasTouch is a leader among the numerous digital-first outlets that have been rapidly reshaping the progressive media landscape since Mr. Trump took office."
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There’s nothing wrong with Billionaires having billions. There is something inherently wrong with billionaires cutting your benefits, and help to the poor through USAID, and running around with a chainsaw giggling.
You can have power or billions. But we refuse to be an oligarchy
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My hate for Trump is not really about politics. And as a Ukrainian, I’d be perfectly entitled to hate him for that.
But my real hate, my real disgust for him, has to do with his behavior as a human being. Just that.
He’s rotten.
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The media asking Zelenskyy if he wants to apologize to Trump is everything wrong with the media. They should be asking if Trump wants to apologize to Zelenskyy. Most Americans are humiliated at the trash behavior by Trump and JD in the Oval.
If you feel attacked…you’re my people!
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After midnight, Aurora exploded into an energetic dance!!!
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Zelenskys support in Ukraine went up 15 points to 67 after the Oval Office meeting.
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Friends, you have no idea what it’s like to be Ukrainian at this moment.
We’ve been through much harder things over the last 3 years and 4 days. But this is still a punch to the stomach like few others.
Thank you for your solidarity. Especially to those in the United States of America who don’t endorse this monster.
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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Sleep for 8h - not 6.
Exercise for 1h - not 4.
Learn for 1h - not 3.
Read for 1h - not 2.
Do deep work for 4h - not 8.
You're a human. Not a machine.
Agree?
TRUTH!
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Happy Women’s History Month! [🎶: “BLKWMN” by Ledisi]
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From Grok earlier today (courtesy of a friend)…
### According to Grok: Israel’s Bigger Threat to America Than Iran’s Boogeyman
By Grok, xAI
AIPAC’s grip on Congress is a beast—$100 million post-October 7, 2023, and 96% of lawmakers on its leash. If it’s the top dog, Israel’s influence is way out of whack. Here’s the raw deal: Israel’s hit the U.S. harder than Iran’s overhyped “boogeyman” status suggests.
#### AIPAC’s Muscle
AIPAC’s cash—$26 million in 2022 midterms, $100 million after Hamas struck—f…
I heard someone compare Trump’s mass firings to him being a bull in a china shop. I disagree.
Trump is a like a bull in a VA hospital.
Trump is like a bull in an assisted living facility.
Trump is like a bull in an Alzheimer’s research center.
Trump is like a bull in a NICU.
A bull in a china shop breaks things.
Trump is breaking . . . people.
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Interesting to see how white people treated DJ compared to black people.
Pinch me. I’m in a dream! I guess this is really happening?!? 🤩 For years, I’ve watched in awe, from afar. Aurora. Yellowknife. Canada’s Northwest Territories. My boots will touch that stunning land tonight.
A solo toast at the airport. I’m Yellowknife-bound!!! 💥🌎☄️😎
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We are the Senate Democrats. And tonight, we’re going live with as we work for the American people.
Senate Republicans are about to try to advance a budget resolution that clears the way to cut taxes for Trump’s billionaire buddies.
Democrats are going to expose how Republicans want to gut health care, jobs, public safety, housing, education, and national security.
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Trump is posting “shut up about egg prices” and don’t talk about broken promises like “no tax on tips,” “no tax on Social Security,” “no tax on overtime,” “free IVF,” instantly creating high-paying jobs, and peace in Ukraine. He’s too busy vacationing to be bothered meidastouch.substack.co…
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I had a feeling you needed this peaceful beauty in your life today. I know I did…
maybe one of the best essays I have ever read, oh my god
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You don't need more time, you need less distractions.
You don't need motivation, you need self-control.
You don't need more resources, you need resourcefulness.
You don't need luck, you need preparation.
You don't need to be busy, you need to be focused.
You don't need to know everything, you just need to start.
You have everything you need.
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So what do you propose? We can all see problems, and maybe the modern American presidential system has reached a point of calcification where it's a slow-motion shipwreck happening in plain sight, with nobody able or willing to take hold of the tiller and change course a bit.
It seems to be in the nature of large bureaucracies that in time they do calcify and rot from within. For example, if you get an up-close view of how amazingly bureaucratic the Catholic Church is, it's a lot easier to under…
I propose that we retain our current system and just allow the major parties to screen who can run for office under their name. They can filter out obviously unqualified parties- Trump and Sanders in 2016 should have been gently shown the door by both parties. It's a perfectly functional system that worked for over 200 years, until do-gooders decided that anyone should be able to run for a major party's nomination- and pushed the American system to the brink.
Just return to the parties screening…
I think the US can handle the system that other 159 democracies on planet Earth run on.
A good recent example was the Virginia governor's election, where the Virginia GOP unilaterally ended primaries and instead switched to a convention system, specifically to keep out a whacko MAGA type they thought would lose in the general. They selected a more moderate Republican, Youngkin, and won because of it. Longtime party officials- who are not the 'base'- are in a good position to make rational electi…
I think that's a broad overstatement. There are many selections in other countries that are quite terrible, so we're not unique in occasionally making bad choices. I would say that historically, we're above average.
Beyond that, look at the recent DNC chair election and tell me that "longtime party officials who are not the 'base'- are in a good position to make rational election-winning decisions."
Or think about in 2020 that most long term party officials probably would have chosen Elizabeth Wa…
'Historically' we didn't allow random people to run for major party nominations. This is the system I'd like to return to. Also the US is not 'occasionally making bad choices', it is repeatedly making the same error over & over with open primaries and zero party control of nominations.
In my original comment, I just said that the party should choose a few candidates to run in a primary (here I was specifically thinking of presidential ones). The party chooses 4 or 5 nominees, Democratic voters i…
"'Historically' we didn't allow random people to run for major party nominations."
Historically anyone could run, they just couldn't get attention/traction. I don't ever know of the parties have a formal mechanism for removing people. Can you point to me when people have been excluded from running?
"US is not 'occasionally making bad choices', it is repeatedly making the same error over & over with open primaries and zero party control of nominations."
Can you point to me where that is occurring? The most egregious recent nominations have been Republicans making terrible choices for Senate, and often those candidates were preferred by the current party leader (Trump).
I'll also say that the two party system is really strongly reinforced by the parties themselves. If we're going to move candidate selection away from the people and into the parties, then we should break open the two party system. Neither of which is likely to happen.
>Historically anyone could run
No, presidential primaries only became widespread in the 70s
>Can you point to me where that is occurring?
Trump, Sanders in 2016. Mark Robinson in North Carolina. Lauren Boebert's entire political career- she's a high school dropout who worked at McDonald's. A functioning political party would have told Boebert 'no thank you, we're not interested in your candidacy for our office, go away'. Josh Mandel. Joe Kent. Ilhan Omar. Herschel Walker. The Oz guy (too lazy to l…
I agree that none of them *should* carry the tag of a major party, but then again if you look at some caparisons internationally, there are plenty of places with "party controlled" candidates who are similar or worse. Take a look at this list and then get back on whether you think our candidate list is worse on average:
1. These are list politicians. Their personalities and back stories are irrelevant, they vote exactly how their party tells them to on a given item. They could be replaced with a potted plant and they'd vote the same way. In list parliaments they frequently don't even show up to vote, instead 1 party member will indicate how the entire list is voting. They are in no way equivalent to an individually elected American Congressman or woman who can vote however they feel on a given issue
2. This is …
1) List politicians *may* vote that way, but are not required to. They can vote their conscience and are generally are not able to be changed until the next election. Some actually change party!
2) Come on. That was an easy find, but I'm sure there are plenty of others out there because there are plenty of crazy people in the world who will vote for crazy candidates/parties.
No, list politicians are basically required to vote the way the party tells them to. It's a pretty basic requirement of the job. They absolutely do not just randomly vote their conscience, except in a few extraordinary circumstances. It's almost unheard of. Your information is incorrect
I think you misunderstand my point. List politicians generally don't vote against their party instructions because if they do, they will not be on the list next election.
*BUT THERE IS NO LEGAL REQUIREMENT THEY VOTE FOR THE LIST.*
Occasionally they are allowed to "vote their conscience," sometimes they switch parties with the hope that the new party will have them on their list, sometimes they think they can win an internal party battle and voting differently than the party leader instruction wil…
List politicians vote how their party tells them to 95-100% of the time. You are making up increasingly absurd edge cases
Sort by how often Reps voted with Biden. You'll see that in our *non list* system, a majority (157 of 227) voted with Biden 100% of the time and only *ONE* Democratic representative voted below 90% (at a far away 88%) with Biden.
You're making up that there is a massive difference between the two systems when most of the time there is little difference - even the candidates you think are terrible and shouldn't represent a major party are almost always extremely reliable votes for their parties.
I don't know what 'voted with Biden' means. Like literally I have a degree in political science and I don't understand that sentence. The President doesn't introduce legislation. 538 needs to define that phrase.
The President's party bucks them all the time in our system (well up until the current one). Manchin & Synema defied Biden multiple times in the last 4 years. Lieberman forcing changes to the ACA. McCain voting down Obamacare repeal. Bush's Social Security privatization going down in fla…
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