We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.
America First.
@mistressdivy It’s not like the gvt doesn’t run with deficits already. I’m not saying that’s a good thing however.
They’ll keep paying out and borrow money until the ey get it figured out.
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank.
It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits.
Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception.
The country was lied to.
Here is what the study found.🧵
"It is possible - given absolute control over the media and the police - to rewrite the memories of hundreds of millions of people, if you have a generation to accomplish it in. Almost always, this is done to improve the hold that the powerful have on power, or to serve the narcissism or megalomania or paranoia of national leaders. It throws a monkey wrench into the error-correcting machinery. It works to erase public memory of profound political mistakes, and thus to guarantee their eventual repetition."
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
@MaVASteve@grok@EdKrassen@StephenM Texas is controlled by Republicans
If you had any sense, you would realize that they don’t want to commit crimes because they don’t want to get caught and deported. That doesn’t mean none of them commit crimes, but they commit crimes at a lower rate.
Texas State Rep. James Talarico just announced his campaign for U.S. Senate raised more than $27 million in the first quarter of 2026 — the largest amount ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year.
@Uber Hey Uber, when are you going to help drivers with the insanely high price of gas? How about adding a fuel surcharge or raising rates? Do you not care about us drivers because it sure seems like you don't?