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So was Nancy Pelosi.
These positions are avatars for everyone’s grievances within the party. Republicans hated McConnell, now they hate Thune.
Normies wanting them replaced makes sense because they don’t understand the role.
People whose job is political analysis are embarrassing themselves by leaning into the populist slop because they want an audience.
Chuck Schumer is legitimately one of the least popular politicians in the country right next to Trump himself.
The American people voted for change and that's exactly what we should deliver. To keep the exact same leaders would be to spit in their faces.
Schumer has been Senate Majority Leader before, he is extremely experienced, but there is the practical reality of perception and what voters expect from us.
Jeffries is going to be the Speaker and I hope he represents us well, but Schumer already has a handful of Democratic Senators, like Elissa Slotkin and Adam Hamilton, questioning his viability.
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Very true. If FDR was president today he would build hyperscale datacenters on western BLM land. The Civilian Superintelligence Corps would be building transmission lines. The TVA would be a vast nuclear buildout.
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Health Care reform is inevitable, so I think the moderates need to come up with a plan asap. These costs are out of control and will get worse.
But the problem is that M4A is a demand subsidy and medical care is supply constrained, so absent supply reforms, M4A would backfire spectacularly.
A possible detente: left gets their way on some version of M4All and Israel. Mods get their way on some cultural issues, education reform, Obama era energy policy, and an orderly border.
Govern with the understanding that the mandate is about affordability. Vanquish MAGA into the dustbin of history.
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We desperately need to get over the slopulist delusion that extremely competent government officials, who likely have options to earn far more in the private sector, should not earn salaries commensurate with their skillset
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Men will deride astrology as nonsense and yet confidently predict the direction of bond yields
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89% of senior citizens support raising taxes on younger workers to maintain their benefits.
The median primary voter is 65.
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0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year
BREAKING: Amazon data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025
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Amazon's data centers withdrew 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, down 2% from 2024 despite expansion, or less than 0.1% of annual U.S. landscape irrigation. aboutamazon.com/news/sustainab…
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partial list of pathologies that all contribute to high cost and worse overall performance:
* supply bottlenecks for providers
* incredibly high cost of labor
* explosion of administrative bloat
* Certificate of Need laws
* The entire 'non-profit' hospital deception
* Hospital chain consolidation/market power
* Opaque pricing/billing practices
* Overtreatment/overtesting
* Obese/unhealthy population
* the entire structural mess that is drug pricing
* Imbalance towards specialty care
* Deficiencies in rural healthcare
Insurance companies belong in that list too, but they're not the single unique villain that some people want them to be.
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I actually think we should tax old people and do more to encourage household formation among 22-35 year olds instead.
They earned it. They deserve it.
NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY! The golden age for seniors' golden years. 🇺🇸
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The "NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY" is a temporary $6,000 tax deduction for seniors 65+, making benefits tax-free for ~51 million recipients (88%). Benefits remain taxable under federal law, so higher-income seniors may still pay taxes. Expires after 2028.
taxfoundation.org/blog/no-tax-on…
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/correct…
waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/08/18/no-…
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Every month or so Ossoff comes out of hibernation to instruct the entire party how to message correctly
Ossoff: "The president apparently promised pardons for the entire WH staff, which I guess is the kind of thing you do when you run the WH like a casino. Now, maybe the West Wing is too busy placing Kashi and Polymarket bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt ... in Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices."
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This is spot on:
Have you noticed that politics is increasingly adolescent? It's not just name-calling. It's the increasing insistence that we just shouldn't have to do hard things, like pay taxes. Obviously Trump is a big driver, but I think a lot is downstream of COVID. joshbarro.com/p/the-adolesce…
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"No taxes" is like running for student council president on a platform of "no homework" – at Belmont, MA
It needs to be beat into people’s skulls that the lowest income earners in the US already pay extraordinarily low taxes in comparison to other western countries with large social safety nets.
Impossible to increase/maintain benefits while relying solely on “taxing the rich”…
0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That’s thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs.
As Governor, I’ll work the issue at both ends—lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
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Today in @TheArgumentMag, Milan Singh and I do a deep dive into the data on who is ordering food delivery.
theargumentmag.com/p/whos-re…
