🧵/1: After some serious thought, I have come to the conclusion that a separation of economy and State is supremely necessary in our modern America and many other societies the world over.
This is why people built guillotines.
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls, when asked about 60% of Americans struggling with affordability: "Affordability? What are you talking about?... I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes... Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do."
I would sooner trust a spring-loaded foul-tempered rattlesnake over Crowdstrike and yet somehow they’re being handed thousands of zero-day exploits (“to patch”) on a silver platter
Every single Trump advisor is now - off the record - telling the @nytimes they were opposed Netanyahu's argument for the Iran war.
THAT'S how well the war is going.
Ratcliffe: "Farcical."
Rubio: “It’s bullshit”
Caine: "Standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell."
Wiles: against "being dragged into another war in the Middle East."
Cheung: "How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian nuclear facilities had been totally obliterated?"
@LindseyGrahamSC Every war you and your masters have started has ended in disaster.
You're trying to turn Iran into Syria or Libya. Please stop pretending otherwise.
Interventionists of all stripes speak as if we are, perpetually, only a small handful of government interventions away from solving all of our societal problems.
It’s how progressives talk about poverty, and how war hawks talk about peace.
"It was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
George Orwell, 1984
The cowardice of Congress is the best argument ever that term limits would be better than what we have now. If losing your precious House seat is so important to you that you will jettison all morals, constitutional oaths and civic pride you shouldn't have the job to begin with.
Public comments are 4:1 against this proposed tax on businesses. We'll be there on July 1st to show our opposition to this to government overreach.
Local news is starting to notice:
https://t.co/0qlQzpuiP5
I’m reminded of this clip as I watch them desperately try to tell you cutting USAID kills people, rather than keeping USAID being the thing that kills people.