He could've written a much better post about how the poverty line is too low without tying it to the ridiculous claim that anything under $140k is poverty. But he didn't write that post, he wrote the ridiculous one, and so that's what people are responding to.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

He knew all along. The claim that he had no idea what it was is completely implausible *and* contradicted by people who knew him.

Slop. Touting the effectiveness of their own push-polling. Just look at this wording.

He did receive treatment for his injury and it was highly successful. He posted on reddit urging other people with back injuries to get the surgery like he did. There's no indication that he had any *personal* grievance with insurers - that was just an assumption that stuck bc it makes a good story.

Her thing about bananas was actually pretty reasonable except that it started from a (fairly common) misconception about the carbon costs of long-distance cargo shipping

Admitting that she does a lot of coke definitely didn't help her avoid becoming a meme though

nobody with good intentions will validate your fears infinitely. if that's what you fundamentally crave you're basically lost

Politico, the gossip rag owned by a billionaire who told his employees to pray for Trump's success, sure would love for us to think that.

They didn't throw us under the bus. That is a lie.

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What? The paper clearly states that those restrictions only apply to the affordable/low-income units and not to the market-rate ones.

A lot of internet leftists will insist against all evidence that the party has gotten steadily more right-wing every election. A zombie idea from the 90s that people just refuse to let go of.