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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 18h

Have you voted yet?

Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 1d

We grant the Execution of all the Laws to the Executive Branch.

The problem is that Congress has given up actually writing laws and The Supreme Court has actually given up interpreting laws.

All three GOP branches gave up caring about The Constitution.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 2d

Just one, single, serious journalist should ask him why he's not pushing The Fed to push interest rates below zero.

Then ask him what interest rates do to inflation, which he clearly hasn't done anything to decrease.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 3d

It is the same here. And even hourly people who may have been working 20 hours per week before are kept right at 29 hours so medium and large businesses don't get penalized under the Affordable Care Act.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 3d

I thought the $8/hr (and no benefits) was amazing for that time, having left McDonald's making $5.45/hr.
Amazing for me then, but not for anyone that was working to live, to eat, to support a family.

They are still hiring in some places for $8/hr in 2025, for less than 29 hrs/week.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 3d

When I was hired at Walmart (May 2000), there were formal training sessions in the Personnel room, followed by an "informal" session with Larry who was directed to urge anyone applying for Food Stamps etc to be sure they weren't wearing their new blue vest when they went into those offices.

An American Catbus in London @hayao.lol · 3d

Wal*Mart has a whole program to get their employees on federal aid because nobody can afford to live on their dogshit wages

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 5d

#NoKings except Haynes King #10 #gojackets

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 5d

There is no justifiable reason to drop tear gas, a literal chemical weapon, banned from being used even in WAR, as they leave a scene.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 7d

It's not "allowed" now.

The Constitution can't make the GOP Congress grow spines suddenly.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 8d

The Dept of Interior will start carving his face into Rushmore before 2027...

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 8d

I thought Noem was dating Corey Lewandowski?

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 9d

If the Census counts prisoners in the prison county they are held, but not students in the county where they study, we know it's not about getting an accurate census, but about disenfranchising as many blue-leaning voters as possible...

Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 9d

To be fair, Rand Paul doesn't care about healthcare either.
He's just doing it to be ornery and act like it's about the deficit.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 9d

In the mean time, 100% of American consumers will pay higher prices before (and after) any new domestic manufacturing comes online, to maybe create 5% new manufacturing jobs.

Also as often as TACOs, most businesses will probably just sit and wait 3 years instead of investing in new plants.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 11d

The authorities didn't think to check The Happiness Hotel for the burgers.

Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 11d

Trump would rather have one of his kids succeed him than Vance.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 14d

Also, these chats and organizations include dudes up to 40-years-old.

They are literally teaching the teenagers and twenties that this kind of language is 'acceptable'.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 15d

So... This is how we all end up driving Yugos.

Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 16d

Things haven't budged in the last 14 days. Hours of coverage shrugging and saying "welp, no progress today" serves whom?

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 16d

Ah, yes, the "small" vocal group that doesn't want a King of America

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 17d

you don't live there. You don't have legal authorization to work there

You were clearly a visitor.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 20d

So we just rotate the whole city, it's fine...

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 22d

Who the hell asks the President of the United States this question?
Not a real journalist.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 23d

How de we know? Because you never heard reported the breakout. You never heard "200 (or however many) Hamas combatants". You never heard 50 or 100 dead Israeli security" or IDF or otherwise.
Only the total dead.

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Formerly @Tallboy_the23rd before Elon ruined Twitter @23tallboy.bsky.social · 23d

Where did the 1100 number come from? What independent sources?
Or so you just take Israeli government numbers at face value?

Many Israeli civilians were killed but part of that 1100 were Israeli noncivilians and Palestinian civilians and Palestinian noncivilians.

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