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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLol... AOC schools Scott Walker, far-right former Governor:
Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because its only $10.
Then we taxed the billionaire in town because hes making tons of money underpaying the townspeople.
Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10. When you got home, your parents took $7 from you. The students said: Thats not fair! Even 5th graders get it.
Link to tweet
Hassler
(3,392 posts)Out of office. He could use his freetime to learn something, but he's too dumb to even think of it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,727 posts)No need to learn something if you're always right. BLEAH.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,471 posts)dmr
(28,349 posts)I'm a stable genius. I've got the best brain.
And my head I'd be a scratchin'
While my thoughts are busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,471 posts)Thanks.
calimary
(81,527 posts)Dirty CONS: McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and more. Ukrainian/Russian-owned. The research!
A little bit of digging that could pay off now - AND LATER, when certain republi-CONS might think they're presidential material:
A report about one Len Blavatnik, an individual with US and UK citizenship, Ukrainian (OF COURSE!!!)-born billionaire who's friends with Russian oligarchs close to Putin, Oleg Deripaska in particular. Doling out some "6.35 million dollars to republican candidates and incumbent senators, using two holding companies, Access Industries and A1 Altep Holdings."
If the above report is true, then ol' Mitchy-boy is bought and paid-for. Linked to Putin. ($3.5 million)
So is Lindsey Graham. ($800K)
So is Marco Rubio. (1.5 million)
So is John Kasich. ($250K)
So is Scott Walker. (1.1 million)
So was the now-deceased John McCain (the low-ball on the list, only $200K)
Here's a report from the Dallas Morning News - from August of 2017 (!!!!! - NOBODY's picked up on this!!!!) :
Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.
Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns
(more at link)
Scotch-Irish
(464 posts)Colbert could do some fine work with this information!!!!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)As you are going home, the neighborhood bully insists you pay him $40 to keep the streets "safe" by building a wall around the block.
Meanwhile, the gazillionaires only have to pay $20 because they are the ones who keep the neighborhood bully in charge.
KPN
(15,665 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 15, 2019, 09:39 PM - Edit history (1)
them and their BS big time. She may even make some penetration into and despite the dull receptors of deplorables brains.
demmiblue
(36,900 posts)As more of life moves online, we've developed new vocabulary to refer to online interactions, good and bad. One word that's gaining traction is clapback.
What exactly is a clapback?
Not to be confused with a garden-variety diss, a clapback is deemed by most as a targeted, often viciously acute comeback intended to place someone in much-needed check. The goal of the clapback is to 👏Shut. 👏It. 👏Down
Aaron Edwards & Ira Madison III, BuzzFeed.com, 18 Feb. 2015
Clapbacks are now so much a part of our regular discourse online that even your humble dictionary has been accused of clapping back.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/clapback-meaning-origin
Some have criticized her for using her time to post on social media. It certainly is a wee portion of time compared to those who have scheduled call time (she doesn't court those types of donors):
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/call-time-congressional-fundraising_n_2427291.html
Perseus
(4,341 posts)and she "clapbacks" them?
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Though the wall of stupidity is practically impenetrable.
Yosemito
(648 posts)In a separate thread, a couple of the US were upset that she fact-checked Walker, for some strange reason. They dont want to many people learning that Walker is a liar.
demmiblue
(36,900 posts)I ignore people who spam their own tweets.
I only could see five responses...
IronLionZion
(45,554 posts)if we got a 70% top tax bracket, it still would not change the taxes paid by people in the lower brackets. It only affects income above all those other brackets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/07/how-tax-brackets-actually-work-simple-visual-guide/?utm_term=.8775ebffec6d
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)demmiblue
(36,900 posts)I am in Michigan, so I can appreciate that comment! Gov. Whitmer is a much needed breath of fresh air.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Glad to see these guys being slowly but surely purged.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Mickju
(1,805 posts)maxrandb
(15,364 posts)All to slam Democrats. Fucking Joe the Plumber fucksticks from Dumbfuckistan 'Murika actually believe that a 70% top marginal tax rate means if you make $50K a year the gubmint is going to take $35K of it
Why has it taken 40 years and a 29 year old freshman congresswoman to explain it so succinctly?
Get off the sidelines Democrats!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)She slams them right back and makes them look for what they are, fools!
In time, these fools will stop going after her knowing that she is going to take their masks off.