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🚨 BREAKING: Montana has now completely banned corporate spending in politics.
Republicans are now suing to reverse it.
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All this "transplants flipped Texas" stuff is serious cope.
Ted Cruz is Canadian.
Ken Paxton is from North Dakota.
Dan Patrick is from Baltimore.
Elon Musk is from South Africa.
Joe Rogan is from Jersey.
Talarico: Native Texan. Ginajosa: Native Texan.
As of 2023, the percentage of citizens living in Texas who were born there is actually higher than the national average. It's not even top 25 in percentage of transplants.
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The richest 10% of Americans own 87% of all US stocks held by households.
Share of US household stock ownership by wealth, per Goldman Sachs using Federal Reserve data:
Top 1%: 47%
Next 9% (top 2–10%): 40%
Next 40% (10–50%): 12%
Bottom 50%: 1%
Half of America owns just 1% of the stock market.
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the first 48 hours of Woke 2 has already produced more humor than the entire decade of Woke 1
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OMB data (fiscal years):
Republicans:
Reagan: $79B deficit → $153B (+$74B)
GHW Bush: $153B → $255B (+$102B)
GWB: $128B surplus → $1.41T (+$1.54T)
Trump: $665B → $2.77T (+$2.1T)
Democrats:
Clinton: $255B → $128B surplus (−$383B)
Obama: $1.41T → $665B (−$745B)
Biden: $2.77T → $1.78T (−$1.0T)
Democrats cut the annual deficit; Republicans raised it. Congress sets the budget; recessions/wars/COVID also drive the numbers.
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Here’s another clip of a woman reading Trump’s words verbatim from a recent rally in Mississippi that puts a giant magnifying glass over how gone he is cognitively and unfit he is for office.
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Americans’ paychecks have been losing to inflation for about six months straight.
Real average hourly earnings, which adjust pay for inflation, have fallen year over year every month since April, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In September, prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier, while pay rose only about 3%.
That left real wages down 0.7% over the past year, the steepest drop in more than three years.
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BREAKING: The US government borrowed a record $839 billion this week via its sales of Treasury bills and notes, both to repay holders of maturing debt and to raise the additional capital needed to finance the federal deficit.
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BREAKING: America's 706 biggest corporations paid a 10.4% tax rate on $1.88 TRILLION in profits last year.
That's the lowest rate researchers have found in more than 40 years of tracking.
It's also less than half the 21% rate they're supposed to pay.
This is insane.
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You're telling me the President owns up to $23.1 million of Chevron
AND up to $18.4 million of Exxon
AND gas is up 40% in a year
AND his trades show up weeks after he makes them
AND the House voted to ban itself from trading stocks, but the bill doesn't cover him
And we're the ones who get banned for posting it.
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Two Saudis named Muhammad used Jared Kushner to funnel money to Donald Trump, the Russians hacked his phone the Dutch flipped a Russian agent and the story broke. The American media says nothing and bashes El Sayed all day for wanting to help America.
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Kanye West informed us all that Jared was Trump's handler years ago and we all laughed st him
