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Especially yours. I completely agree that Trump is the swamp. The system is rigged. He’s right about that. He’s just recalibrating the rigging so it benefits him. The little guy loses again.

Now that the resident constitutional expert and conspiracy maven has checked in, which rights were violated and how exactly were those rights violated?

Yeah me too. It was a great episode. Make sure to burn me with it when you have the chance. I’ll get a good laugh out of it.

When you go for a tour do you wait in line or just barge in with zip ties and swing from the rafters? And do you support the pardoning of the rioters who harmed police? I’m gonna guess no to the first one and yea to the second one. Sick and sad.

4D chess. Or "4-d" ounces of Silver Thunder. Probably the latter.

Under the authority pursuant to which the tariffs are being imposed, you gotta pick fentanyl. FYI.

Yup. And then he'll tank it again in April. "Dumped" and "subsidized" are the key words there. That is what tariffs should be used for. Not for whatever the F reason Trump comes up with on a weekday to justify whatever tariff he's thinking of at the moment.

First storming of the Capitol since what, 1812? But other people did stuff too that might have been bad, even though of infinitely lesser degree, so you whitewash it. Got it.

Hoax. Also, relative to this award, do you put it on the refrigerator at home? Or is it more of a mantle situation? Or, do you scan it onto a t-shirt and wear the t-shirt like, everywhere, so people, including Simpsons fans, can know how SMRT you are?

I don't have a problem with the means testing. I think it's generally a good idea, so long as the floor/ceiling is very high, and there's an on-ramp for people who experience need later in life (think post-divorce, or post-medical event, etc.). I also completely agree on the belt tightening. There is a debt bomb hanging around out there, and we cannot continue to spend at wartime levels given the current tax structure. That again leads to an issue. Trump/MAGA cut the highest marginal tax bracket. The rich folks got fat, and the little guys like us got the scraps. The options really are to keep the current tax structure and gut the stuff that a lot of America--including and specifically MAGA--depend on, avoid the gutting by significantly raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, or, in my view, find some sort of middle ground where belts are modestly tightened in other areas (I'm not against federal job cuts, but totally against the way it's being done), top marginal tax rates are raised, and the tax code is better enforced (a Biden approach that in my view was a smart one).

All that says to me is that it's far less likely that you are getting this award of which you speak.

No disagreement there. But the promise was "no cuts." Unless one prints money or there is a massive inflow of funds dedicated to Social Security, that doesn't happen without a freeze. This is not partisan, it's reality: the Trump math doesn't work. COL will rise with tariffs (and is already rising now). IRS income is going to be way down. Tariffs will not come close to making up the difference. The federal budget is way out of whack. Trump tax cuts for the rich are likely to be continued by this Congress. The massive fraud and waste of which MAGA complains isn't materializing, and therefore is highly unlikely to realize the savings Trump needs to keep his promises. So what's the solution? Social Security freeze, asking states to contribute more to Medicaid/Medicare, and more borrowing. Unless, of course, MAGA raises the top tax rates on rich folks and raises corporate taxes. Which it would seem populists would want to do, but their leader (a rich guy, allegedly, himself) seems to have different ideas. So, in the end, the little guy is getting sold a bill of goods once again, all while distracted by trannies and insults and UFO/JFK conspiracies.

Let’s see how social security recipients feel about your sleight of hand. Tax cuts for rich folks so you can freeze social security for poor folks. I don’t think even you know what that means. And you say that you’re the smartest teacher in Florida. Must be a veritable sea of morons down there if that’s remotely close to true.

Agreed. They did him dirty. Bad look.

So freezing benefits for future years will not constitute a cut? (Arguably it is a cut if social security doesn’t keep up with the cost of living, but let’s not make it too complicated.). Simple mathematics indicate that “freeze” is where it’s heading. MAGA is going to learn the hard way the difference between “diminution” or “freeze” and “cut.”