Stephen Miller on @seanhannity: “The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization." pic.twitter.com/CImsq4EVYv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 26, 2025

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Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin pic.twitter.com/dYAbZPtcwu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025

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This country is far to diverse at this point to put people in jail for burning a piece of cloth.

Trump swings and misses on this one.

Still owns a great batting average.

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We wanted Ted Williams and got Tony Gwynn

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and, at times, Ty Cobb.....

SCOTUS got it wrong on flag burning as free speech. Sets a precedent for tearing down statutes, defacing art, etc......things a civil society should find a way to discourage.

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those statues and art belong to someone else. There's already laws for that and free speech doesn't override those laws.

If you want to burn a flag, buy your own flag. Don't destroy someone else's property.

This man just said this is the first step in putting black people in detainment camps...

Here’s the bigger cycle I see:

1. Black people are very sensitive to racial issues.

2. Democrats exploit that sensitivity to gain support.

3. The message is almost always about racism,… pic.twitter.com/L5Sgl5Es7Q

— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) August 26, 2025

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Stephen Miller on @seanhannity: “The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization." pic.twitter.com/CImsq4EVYv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 26, 2025

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Right now I'm seeing a lot of Republican extremism like government ownership of private companies and barring of clearly protected free speech like flag burning.

Why can't we just act normal? We could have so many wins right now and we can't help ourselves.

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Stephen Miller on @seanhannity: “The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization." pic.twitter.com/CImsq4EVYv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 26, 2025

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Right now I'm seeing a lot of Republican extremism like government ownership of private companies and barring of clearly protected free speech like flag burning.

Why can't we just act normal? We could have so many wins right now and we can't help ourselves.

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Both parties seem more beholden to their extremes lately.

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— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) August 26, 2025

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Lutnick on Rand Paul calling the Intel nationalism "a step toward socialism": "That is not socialism. I'll tell you what that is. That's the best businessman in the United States of America, in the Oval Office, doing fair things for us, the American taxpayers." pic.twitter.com/uFp8oPbrUO

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2025

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We used to let companies fail and allow another one or a competitor to rise in its stead. You'd think we'd have learned by now the hazard of government propping up failing or failed companies.

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Banks and automakers would disagree

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They were the ones who broke moral hazard. Permanently it would appear.

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Trump on Intel boss: "He walked in wanting to keep his job and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States. We do a lot of deals like that. I'll do more of them." pic.twitter.com/NZJHuFTcCt

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 22, 2025

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This is how hou know even conservatives know Trump is full of B.S. They would be going apeshut if they actually believed what Trump said.

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there you go again, making "shut" up.

One of the many pathologies of globalism is that it taught our corporations to think of themselves as citizens of the world, with no superseding obligations to their home country. A few decades down the road, and we were in a situation where our largest, wealthiest, and in many cases most national security sensitive companies were deeply in bed with the Chinese government (via parastatals) and directly balancing and/or triangulating in order to protect equities in an irritably intolerant China (at the expense of equities of a far more tolerant USA). It even got to the point where companies were actually suppressing pro-US and/or anti-China messaging in their ads, products, and workforce.

That's why we are seeing this step with Intel. USG representation on the board will stop the corporate slide into quiet Chinese vassal-ship. We don't have to take stakes in all the companies. Just a few. The rest will see the writing on the wall and take steps to avoid the same fate. In the meantime, the asset side of the US balance sheet just got bigger. Whenever the problem abates, the shares can be sold to reduce debt.

What it is not is a slide into socialism. If Trump were intent on government ownership stakes throughout the private sector, he would not be proposing to sell Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.

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Just read what you just said. The government could take a stake in companies throughout the private sector, and as long as Trump intends to sell Fannie Mae&Freddie Mac, it's not socialism. Whew, what a load.
LOL no, the load is you making such a flimsy straw man. I said no such thing.

First, I didn't say it's socialism, I said it is bad and a precursor to nationalizing private companies we deem necessary. Guess who else did that?
I didn't say you were a socialist. I merely pointed out that taking a minority share of a single private company is not a socialist agenda.

And second, if the government actually started strong arming companies throughout the private sector into giving it shares, I'd hesitate to call it socialism; it would be closer to communism, though on its own, not outright communism.

I wonder if you see the slide in politics, you have lubed the slide up, gotten 13 fire hoses plumbed in, and you're teetering at the top, strapped to a JetSki. You are just about to endorse the nationalization of companies, because the motherland requires it.
Again, taking an 11% share of a single company is not a nationalization program.

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I not at all a fan of the USG owning shares of private companies. But I can see what's at play here. It makes sense. We will know soon enough if Trump is intent on an outright USG takeover of the Tech industry. In the meantime, we have no reason to suspect he will. Such would be inconsistent with everything he's said and done throughout his life, to include governance in his first term. If that changes, I'll be screaming about it, more loudly than I have been screaming about big Tech being in bed with China. What I'm not going to do is continue to allow our Corporations to show equal deference to our greatest geopolitical rival. Our companies are going to be American First, or they'll face consequences.

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I agree. It's unbelievable that globalists expect the USG to tolerate it's own companies showing more deference to geopolitical rivals than to the USG.

You are apparently too young to remember much history. Did we allow IBM to set up manufacturing operations using sensitive technologies in the USSR? Did we allow Soviets to move here to manage all or parts of major corporations? Of course not. It would have been insane to have done so. Makes no sense that we should tolerate such now with China. If you don't like that, Mr. CEO, move yer feckin' family and HQS to Beijing and see how that works out for you.

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So now you're lumping in Taiwan with China. Who needs to move to China when you're making this country mimic their tactics? Unbelievable.

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This country is far to diverse at this point to put people in jail for burning a piece of cloth.

Trump swings and misses on this one.

Still owns a great batting average.

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We wanted Ted Williams and got Tony Gwynn

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and, at times, Ty Cobb.....

SCOTUS got it wrong on flag burning as free speech. Sets a precedent for tearing down statutes, defacing art, etc......things a civil society should find a way to discourage.

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those statues and art belong to someone else. There's already laws for that and free speech doesn't override those laws.

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And the government abandoned it's responsibility to protect those works of art and statues and prosecute those who destroyed those works of art and violated the law.


Really makes you question notions of the "law" in general.

I mean if certain groups can destroy art and riot at will with no repercussions then what does it mean to have laws at all?

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I agree that people who buy their own flags have a right to do what they want with them

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." pic.twitter.com/CR2T6Srb5C

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025

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Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin pic.twitter.com/dYAbZPtcwu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025

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****ing really? Venezuela 2.0. Maybe Trump can hire Zohran Mamdani to be CEO of Lockheed Martin.

Why don't we go ahead and have a government monopoly of the oil industry like Mexico has? Seems to be working for them. This nationalization kick of private industry needs to stop!!!

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Trump's setting the precedent so the next Democratic administration can do that with big oil. Just think how they could advance their climate agenda by doing that. This administration seems determined to kill the golden goose and principles of freedom simultaneously.

Trump: The autism is such a tremendous horror show, how are you doing on that?

RFK Jr: We are doing very well. We will have announcements as promised in September. We are finding interventions now that are almost certainly causing autism pic.twitter.com/vhcOV5uId8

— FactPost (@factpostnews) August 26, 2025

The H-1B program is a scam. @GovRonDeSantis: ‘Companies lay off Americans while bringing in new H-1Bs. It’s not the best and brightest—it’s a cottage industry, mostly from one country. With AI displacing young workers, why import more foreign labor instead of protecting our… pic.twitter.com/87P6SrsGYx

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 27, 2025

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The H-1B program is a scam. @GovRonDeSantis: ‘Companies lay off Americans while bringing in new H-1Bs. It’s not the best and brightest—it’s a cottage industry, mostly from one country. With AI displacing young workers, why import more foreign labor instead of protecting our… pic.twitter.com/87P6SrsGYx

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 27, 2025

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Just a note that there are just over 700,000 total workers on H1Bs and the vast majority are experienced, not early career. And to get a perspective on numbers, that's less than .5% of the US labor force, and even if you took it to key sectors like technology it's at most 4% of the US technology workforce.

Exploited foreign workers ARE the new slavery. In the end, the Democrats never really changed at all.

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This country is far to diverse at this point to put people in jail for burning a piece of cloth.

Trump swings and misses on this one.

Still owns a great batting average.

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We wanted Ted Williams and got Tony Gwynn

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and, at times, Ty Cobb.....

SCOTUS got it wrong on flag burning as free speech. Sets a precedent for tearing down statutes, defacing art, etc......things a civil society should find a way to discourage.

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those statues and art belong to someone else. There's already laws for that and free speech doesn't override those laws.

If you want to burn a flag, buy your own flag. Don't destroy someone else's property.

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in most municipalities, you cannot burn leaves in your back yard. you pretty much cannot burn anything except a steak on a purpose built grill for doing so.

Burning a flag in a crowd of people on your town square is a fire hazard to everyone and everything in the immediate area. Those doing such should be fined, and if necessary, arrested as a public menace.

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Trump on Intel boss: "He walked in wanting to keep his job and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States. We do a lot of deals like that. I'll do more of them." pic.twitter.com/NZJHuFTcCt

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 22, 2025

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This is how hou know even conservatives know Trump is full of B.S. They would be going apeshut if they actually believed what Trump said.

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there you go again, making "shut" up.

One of the many pathologies of globalism is that it taught our corporations to think of themselves as citizens of the world, with no superseding obligations to their home country. A few decades down the road, and we were in a situation where our largest, wealthiest, and in many cases most national security sensitive companies were deeply in bed with the Chinese government (via parastatals) and directly balancing and/or triangulating in order to protect equities in an irritably intolerant China (at the expense of equities of a far more tolerant USA). It even got to the point where companies were actually suppressing pro-US and/or anti-China messaging in their ads, products, and workforce.

That's why we are seeing this step with Intel. USG representation on the board will stop the corporate slide into quiet Chinese vassal-ship. We don't have to take stakes in all the companies. Just a few. The rest will see the writing on the wall and take steps to avoid the same fate. In the meantime, the asset side of the US balance sheet just got bigger. Whenever the problem abates, the shares can be sold to reduce debt.

What it is not is a slide into socialism. If Trump were intent on government ownership stakes throughout the private sector, he would not be proposing to sell Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.

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Just read what you just said. The government could take a stake in companies throughout the private sector, and as long as Trump intends to sell Fannie Mae&Freddie Mac, it's not socialism. Whew, what a load.
LOL no, the load is you making such a flimsy straw man. I said no such thing.

First, I didn't say it's socialism, I said it is bad and a precursor to nationalizing private companies we deem necessary. Guess who else did that?
I didn't say you were a socialist. I merely pointed out that taking a minority share of a single private company is not a socialist agenda.

And second, if the government actually started strong arming companies throughout the private sector into giving it shares, I'd hesitate to call it socialism; it would be closer to communism, though on its own, not outright communism.

I wonder if you see the slide in politics, you have lubed the slide up, gotten 13 fire hoses plumbed in, and you're teetering at the top, strapped to a JetSki. You are just about to endorse the nationalization of companies, because the motherland requires it.
Again, taking an 11% share of a single company is not a nationalization program.

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I not at all a fan of the USG owning shares of private companies. But I can see what's at play here. It makes sense. We will know soon enough if Trump is intent on an outright USG takeover of the Tech industry. In the meantime, we have no reason to suspect he will. Such would be inconsistent with everything he's said and done throughout his life, to include governance in his first term. If that changes, I'll be screaming about it, more loudly than I have been screaming about big Tech being in bed with China. What I'm not going to do is continue to allow our Corporations to show equal deference to our greatest geopolitical rival. Our companies are going to be American First, or they'll face consequences.

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I agree. It's unbelievable that globalists expect the USG to tolerate it's own companies showing more deference to geopolitical rivals than to the USG.

You are apparently too young to remember much history. Did we allow IBM to set up manufacturing operations using sensitive technologies in the USSR? Did we allow Soviets to move here to manage all or parts of major corporations? Of course not. It would have been insane to have done so. Makes no sense that we should tolerate such now with China. If you don't like that, Mr. CEO, move yer feckin' family and HQS to Beijing and see how that works out for you.

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So now you're lumping in Taiwan with China. Who needs to move to China when you're making this country mimic their tactics? Unbelievable.

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News Flash I: Beijing is in China, not Taiwan.

News Flash II: we do have a problem with our economic supply chain being enmeshed with parastatals owned by our greatest geopolitical rival, particularly the ones related to defense, national security, technology, energy, etc..... China is installing malware on electrical grid equipment, fer crissakes. ('memba that time we let the Soviets build a new Embassy for us in Moscow, or were you still in diapers at the time?) Your adversaries, most particularly the ones who know they cannot stand against you in an open field, will find a way to undermine you, weaken you, distract you....... Please explain the logic of why we would build militaries to protect critical industries, then let those industries move production abroad and/or allow adversaries to enter into partnership with those industries (here or elsewhere) for the purpose of having leverage over US policy.

News Flash III: Open borders for people, jobs, and money is not just a failed libertarian experiment....it is an extraordinary anomaly in human history. Whatever can be said about its positive effects on wealth generation, no one is more free because of it, and it is increasingly obvious that the social costs of it have outweighed the benefits of it. THAT'S WHY IT'S COLLAPSING. It no longer serves the common good. No, trade is not going away, but it is going to return to reality. Borders are going to matter again.

I say again......trade policy ALWAYS serves national security policy. Always has. Always will. What you're seeing here is merely a return to reality. The rise of AI is the new space race. We are going to win it. That will require paring back our relationships with China (who is our great rival in AI). We cannot allow our capital, financial and intellectual, to become assets of our greatest geopolitical rival.

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Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin pic.twitter.com/dYAbZPtcwu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025

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****ing really? Venezuela 2.0. Maybe Trump can hire Zohran Mamdani to be CEO of Lockheed Martin.

Why don't we go ahead and have a government monopoly of the oil industry like Mexico has? Seems to be working for them. This nationalization kick of private industry needs to stop!!!

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Trump's setting the precedent so the next Democratic administration can do that with big oil. Just think how they could advance their climate agenda by doing that. This administration seems determined to kill the golden goose and principles of freedom simultaneously.

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This is what worries me the most about taking stakes in private companies. I hadn't thought of big oil but it is probably more likely than gun manufacturers.

Here's the scenario. The octavia cortez administration makes moves that drives up the price of oil. They then declare a national emergency and acquire stakes in oil companies. Over the next 4 years they scuttle the companies from the inside. I have to buy a portable solar panel to keep my home utilities running when electricity prices soar. octavia cortez claims we saved the planet.

Trump: "You have 14 year old kids that are just as tough as a 25 year old, just as dangerous, and they carry the same gun. We have to make a provision where they are treated like older people ... you have 14 year old kids that are evil. They're sick. And they have to be put away" pic.twitter.com/LLLaTVD2mW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025

I’m not for socializing any of it, but why does the GOP seem to have a double standard now? pic.twitter.com/MsPXIPkZuA

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 26, 2025

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Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." pic.twitter.com/CR2T6Srb5C

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025

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He's wrong of course. I hope he's trolling the Dems. I don't think they ever said that but they certainly acted that way.

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The H-1B program is a scam. @GovRonDeSantis: ‘Companies lay off Americans while bringing in new H-1Bs. It’s not the best and brightest—it’s a cottage industry, mostly from one country. With AI displacing young workers, why import more foreign labor instead of protecting our… pic.twitter.com/87P6SrsGYx

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 27, 2025

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Just a note that there are just over 700,000 total workers on H1Bs and the vast majority are experienced, not early career. And to get a perspective on numbers, that's less than .5% of the US labor force, and even if you took it to key sectors like technology it's at most 4% of the US technology workforce.

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A more important stat is their percentage of the labor force in their particular field. The number of foreign engineers compared to all workers is meaningless but their percentage of engineers is far more important. I suspect that that number is shocking.

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Exploited foreign workers ARE the new slavery. In the end, the Democrats never really changed at all.

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Truth. This h e'd los to explain the fascist obsession with illegal aliens, including rapists and murderers. It's mainly about stealing elections but the Dems are fine with exploiting these people in many ways. For ex as mole, many of them are sex slaves including several hundred thousand children.

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I’m not for socializing any of it, but why does the GOP seem to have a double standard now? pic.twitter.com/MsPXIPkZuA

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 26, 2025

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Maddie is 100% correct on this. Socialism is a terrible idea all the time because it is evil and always fails.

Lutnick: We have billions to universities for them to do research and they invent things and who owns those patents? Universities. So we are going to make a deal with them all, which is if we give them the money, don't you think it is fair that the US get a piece of that? pic.twitter.com/zgLhSukFrs

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 26, 2025

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more than 76,000 pounds of illegal drugs, including 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, in the largest single-operation drug seizure in its history. pic.twitter.com/u9VqCwWSgs

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 27, 2025

BREAKING: AOC has submitted her latest annual financial disclosure.

According to the filing, her only reported assets include under $66,000 across various bank accounts and less than $15,000 in a mutual fund.

She also continues to carry up to $50,000 in student loan debt dating…

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 27, 2025

Trump Vows To Nationalize As Many Private Companies As It Takes To Defeat Socialism https://t.co/bhnEW6OP2K pic.twitter.com/IDf9tp7XxI

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 26, 2025

BREAKING: Trump admin to revoke federal funding from California, New Mexico and Washington for allowing non-English speaking foreigners to drive semi trucks.

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) August 26, 2025

Trump: I will have a majority in the Fed soon… we have to have lower interest rates.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 26, 2025

Trump’s tax law cuts income for the poorest 10% by $1,200 per year, per CBO

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 27, 2025

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Trump’s tax law cuts income for the poorest 10% by $1,200 per year, per CBO

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 27, 2025

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Not sure I understand this. I don't believe the lowest ten percent are paying taxes now. How are they getting a tax cut? Or are people that previously paid $-0- taxes now paying an average of $1,200 per year? The X post is a little confusing.

Maybe one of you Accounting or Tax folks can explain it.

I don't know why he spends time getting tangled up in some of these petty battles...

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I don't know why he spends time getting tangled up in some of these petty battles...

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he is a 12 year old girl trapped in an old man's body..