I would like to hear these too because as someone with a modicum of wealth I have to disagree.
I am not a Trump worshiper, but financially he has been very very good for me 
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I have a lot of other complaints about him, but not this.
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Shitty economic policies can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, but I typically assume Trump critics think Paul Krugman or just straight up socialism are good economic policies.
Speaking of which, after sending a lot of smoke signals over the decades, Senator Warren finally explains what her rain dance has been all about this whole time: Democrats are Democratic Socialists.
I have always found the honesty of Democratic Socialists refreshing compared to Democrats who pretend that isn’t what the party has been about since Obama.
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Matt Taibbi is the best of Gen X in all of media. He can see straight through the smoke while being a ruthless arsonist of unsupported media narratives.
I kind of forgot about him for a long time but since joining X he’s been one of my go-to authors decades after I first read him when I subscribed to Rolling Stone.
I don’t make many predictions but we appear to be heading into historically unprecedented political conflict in the USA. A grand jury is convening with what appears to be real evidence of a seditious conspiracy. Texas is redistricting in a way that will crush Democrats, with other states potentially following.
The Democrats can’t respond in kind, since their states are already heavily gerrymandered.
Trump cuts the funding for their propaganda and their activists. Their dedicated mouthpieces are losing audience. They can’t import new voters, and their base is being deported.
I don’t think Democrats and the Republican swamp creatures are about to go quietly into that good night. They will rage, rage against the dying of their lies.
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Well, I only listen to people with money on economics - those with money that have made it / earned it.
Being in government for your entire career and insider trading doesn’t count in my book.
It is always funny to see the hypocritical left turn to body shaming and insults of a beautiful woman when she doesn’t fit their mold.
Particularly when it is mostly obese and hideous creatures.
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Same with academia. My cousin is a boba fide genius, capable of discussing statistics and probability on a level that maybe 100 people in the country could understand.
He’s also never worked outside of academia and has never been a financially independent adult at age 45.
He reads The Economist and Krugman.
He just exists in a completely different reality than anyone who has to compete in the real world. Krugman’s spectacular record of failed predictions doesn’t seem to phase him one bit.
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Intelligence is good. I know a few people that are absolutely brilliant, but not successful by monetary means. And probably could never be.
I have close friends that would be considered lower on the pure intelligence scale, but have been unfathomably successful in making money / business. There are definitely different types of intelligence. I will take a medium intellectual intelligence person with superb people skills any day in the real world.
I am somewhere in the middle with above average people skills and the lack of fear / ability to easily read a room and speak accordingly.
I find the outrage over her hilarious. Ridiculous, but also hilarious.
Like, she’s not doing onlyfans and marketing herself as a sex worker with a nose ring, an identity crisis, and emotional support weed, so she’s evil!
This and so many more things like it are the ridiculous result of not having a political platform, but just being against what ever the other side is for, or likes.
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If childhood aptitude test scores are the measure, chances are I would have the highest score in a room with 100 random people.
My cousin would probably score the highest in a room with a million people.
Intelligence is only a partial indicator of success, with the sum of the other parts being much more important.
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I feel attacked bro. 
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! Not really though.
I bet I could beat his ass…
I still love you though.
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He’s maybe 170lbs at 6’4", so yeah. I’m the only roughneck still alive in the family.
Even after living in Oregon and being assaulted by a transient he still refuses to carry any kind of personal protection. I advised handgun training, which he flatly refused. Then recommended various tasers, which also made him uncomfortable. His solution?
A wrench on the floorboard of his vehicle. Apparently he’s willing to bludgeon someone until they stop, but not shoot or electrocute someone until they stop.
I love him dearly but we exist in two separate realities. The same applies to much of my family, unfortunately. Things haven’t been the same since Trump’s first run, when my mom was an organizing member of The Villagers for Trump, which half of the family saw as akin to supporting Hitler. A decade later, much of the family (including very high IQ professionals) still believes he’s literally Hitler and still finds CNN and MSNBC to be trustworthy sources of news. I’ve explained a lot of what I’ve documented here in this thread about Lewiston to my uncle, who seems to believe I’m either making it all up or just being fooled by Fox news, which I don’t watch.
It’s quite sad what all of the manufactured narratives have done to the country. My brother and his wife started shunning my kid and I over the vaccine, and never really stopped, even after it was proven to be a sham medical treatment.
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Hey, look! The opposite of what Maine Democrats said would happen just happened again!
Maine Democrats’ entire operation is a vampire economy scam.
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i mean, not releasing the epstein files as promised is a pretty big fucking scandal, tbh.
I know you still have belief in the system, but I do not. And genuinely, I do not think the dems are losing support the way you think they are.
The craziest states (California, Washington-Portland) are still in full support and only the right is losing support at this time.
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It would be difficult to come up with a worse way of handling this situation than what has been done by the Trump administration.
It begs the question, why not end it by releasing the files unredacted? The obvious reason would be that releasing the files would be more damaging to Trump and or the GoP than the current strategy. Given the popularity of the current strategy, them files must be juicy.
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A lot can happen in the next 3 years with Epstein, and with a lot of the other bad actors and architects of this attack from within, which is becoming safe to call an actual Socialist coup attempt. I think that’s what it is going to be remembered as once “historians” agree on the facts of what happened.
I can’t speak to what’s happening in other Dem states, but I’m assuming they operate similarly to Maine when it comes to absence of citizenship and residency with voting. I mean, Maine Democrats state it on their party platform that they want everyone here to vote.
Of course Maine Democrats still have to choose their words carefully and vaguely, since it is still a crime for a non-citizen to vote in a Maine election, along with a lot of college students who don’t have residency. But it’s happening and I’m convinced it is happening a LOT.
All of this is to say that when democrats say a word like “voter” it doesn’t mean “US Citizen”. Same with media and even “independent” influencers. How many are in Lewiston? Nobody knows, because it isn’t systematically tracked. Not even ICE knows how many noncitizens are here, or how many are here illegally, but one fact I do know is that our public school is 1/3 non-English speaking and approximately 50 percent Muslim, with a student body of 6k. For comparison, in the 2000 Census it was roughly only 5k smaller population and 95 percent white, less than one percent Muslim.
There are MANY towns just like Lewiston, some with more dramatic number, some with less, but the scale of the migration and the fact that it was mostly US taxpayer funded is true. Like every other policy (think transgenderism) they will call you crazy if you say “you’re going to let boys in the girl’s bathroom”, then it starts happening and boys built like gazelles start dominating women’s track. A city councilor in Lewiston thinks the “migrant invasion” is a right-wing myth, or at least he says so publicly.
The only reason I know that number about our public schools is from watching boring school board meetings. Grok or google won’t know that fact, because it has never been mentioned in any news publication.
All that was just to say that Democratic support has been largely propped up with slippery language (voters not citizens), and similar word games in the media and even the people taking the polls. I could see some Trump voters sitting out, but I don’t see anyone running into the arms of Democrats. They’re kinda stuck with their holdouts and they are coming out as actual Marxists, openly.
I know you generally agree with me on that stuff, but what I’m saying is that the sum of Trump’s policy actions so far are definitely systematically dismantling the whole machine that made that possible, and that matters A LOT.
It also appears that the whole Epstein thing is still in motion.
Do you support what’s happening with Maxwell?
He’s dismantling AIPAC?
This is what I’ve been saying. The optics are HORRIBLE to not follow through as promised, but there are SO many ways to mitigate damage in the interim (assuming hes actually going to release the files).
Everyone on the right needs to withdraw support from the MAGA group until the files are released. These scumbags need to know they’re going to lose the next election and EVERY election afterwards if they don’t follow through.
I will believe Trump, Buongino, Patel, Bondi, etc. are personally named in the flight logs until they can prove otherwise.
If I were in that position, I’d be releasing the files as fast as humanly possible. Hell, I blocked a poster here who insinuated I was saying pedophile-related things because I WON’T be associated with that ilk.
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