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@SullyCNBC Bad political and fiscal policy equals bad results.

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Bill Gates among others and the US government has poisoned our food and it's legal.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Norway brought their own fish to the World Cup, and America took it personally.

Roughly five hundred and eighty kilos of it, flown across the Atlantic by a chef who has cooked for the team for thirty five years. Salmon, trout, halibut, brown cheese, a hundred kilos of Jarlsberg, king crab, snow crab, the lot. Four meals a day for sixty people, all shipped into a country with more food than anywhere on earth, on the apparent grounds that none of it could be trusted.

You can see their point. They landed in the nation that looked at cheese and invented a version that comes in a spray can. That looked at bread and made it sweeter than cake. That put corn syrup in the salad dressing and called the bin lorry a food truck. Somewhere in Greensboro there is a team chef who took one look at the local options and quietly ordered a pallet of halibut.

The internet decided this was arrogance. Searches for the Norway diet went up by thousands of percent. A journalist actually asked the coach whether they had enough fish to last to the final, which is the single most Norwegian sentence ever spoken at a press conference.

And here is the joke underneath it. A team eating fresh fish and real cheese has become an international talking point, a novelty, a faintly eccentric Viking eating disorder. Not because it is strange. Because everyone else is running on gels, powders and a fizzy drink the colour of a warning label, and a plate of actual food now looks like performance art.

Norway play England on Saturday. Whatever the score, the fish has already made its point. Turns out the marginal gain the sports scientists keep hunting for was just food that hadn't been to a factory.

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@Sassafrass_84 Atheist they're wearing eye protection.

[Burgess Owens @BurgessOwens]

Bigotry is as ugly as ugly gets….Why is it that those who harbor it, regardless of color, always feel that hatred is cool?

Talk about a league that’s blowing it BIG TIME!!!

[Leah Rain ✝️🇺🇸🎸🏝️ @LeahRain77]

Sophie has something to say about the treatment of she and Caitlin Clark by the players and the league !
And she’s absolutely correct 🔥🔥

[PPoppaPuff @Ppoppapuff]

@Danhightower No dip. LMFAO

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I still live in the state of NY. Big state. Where do I purchase the retard repellant? Can I get that on Amazon?

[PPoppaPuff @Ppoppapuff]

@TiffanyFong Depends... but it's definitely not while she's sitting in a Tesla. Sorry Elon.

[Joe Redden | The Older Millennial @teameffujoe]

We only call it Soccer because the Brits called it Soccer.

[PPoppaPuff @Ppoppapuff]

@ShooterMcGavin This tweet ain't gonna age well Mr. McGavin.

[Brian Sullivan @SullyCNBC]

Lots of calls for a wealth tax lately.

It sounds good: tax the super-rich more so we can have more money for government services.

But a couple of quick things you won't hear in the sound bites.

Europe tried a wealth tax and mostly abandoned it. One big reason is that countries found that the cost of enforcing it were often higher than the tax revenue it brought in. Little to no money actually made it to those who needed it.

To tax 'wealth' you need an army of new, highly trained (and highly paid) IRS agents to comb through super complex situations. Taxing income is relatively easy. Just take a specific % of a specific number and deduct a few things. Taxing wealth is hard, messy and incredibly complex (again, don't believe me .. ask the European nations who tried and abandoned it).

And then what do you do when wealth falls?

Let's say a family is worth $20 billion. They are taxed. Their family stock (and remember that 'wealth' is going to almost always be in stock, never in income) falls by 50%. Does the IRS have to write a billion-dollar refund check back to the family for taxing them on wealth that no longer exists? The family will sue for the money back. Which means another army of IRS agents will spend years tied up in analysis and litigation. Everyday taxpayers can and will fight audits over relatively small sums of money. What do you think the rich and their team of accountants are going to do?

But we are a democracy and its voters demand it or Congress votes for it, let's give it a try. Maybe we can do taxes better than Europe. We certainly are a lot richer these days as they've driven themselves into a ditch.

One upside of a new wealth tax would certainly be on DC real estate. We'd have to hire a massive number of new, well-paid auditors who will need a place to live.

Anyway, you don't have to believe me. I work for CNBC know a lot of rich people so this will largely be discounted anyway.

Do some quick research or use Chat or Gemini or whatever and let it give you an unvarnished answer.

But like all things you hear ... things are usually more complex than simple sound bites -- or X posts -- can relate.

Always happy to have polite, kind and fair debates on any topic. Look forward to further discussion.

Go USA soccer and Go Knicks!

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

Very few times have I EVER heard the Star Spangled Banner sang this impressively. Bravo chads 🥃

[PPoppaPuff @Ppoppapuff]

@EthansAnalyst First lesson in homeownership

The house 'eats'

Second lesson

Murphy's law

Put that into your model

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Translation. The upcoming NYFG season is fucked before it starts. Because politics is more important than winning.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Here we have a football player that can’t cope with a Teammate that has a different political view. I bet he called his momma and cried like a little B6 🤣😂🤣. JT Lawrence has a different Political view as well and he played with NY, you gonna say something about that?

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@RyanMcbeth I prefer to read it in an AOC or Warren accent. If by all accounts they were even paying attention. But I 100% appreciate the premise and got a chuckle out of it.

[PPoppaPuff @Ppoppapuff]

Would that guy who bought all those Tomahawks REALLY be be brought in front of congress for fraud waste & abuse though?

[Ryan McBeth @RyanMcbeth]

American Decliner @esaagar is Lying About America’s 🇺🇸 Weapons Production Capacity

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“I am in favor of reducing taxes under any circumstances, for any excuse, with any reason whatsoever.”

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@TiffanyFong The wings used to be solid. Can skip rest of food menu.

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@nicksortor Check the Pentagon's pizza tracker