Obviously Chamath knows this, but US tax rates already fit on one page of simple English. The other 6999 pages enumerate every edge case of what counts as income and what doesn’t and what the deductions are, which you still need to define for a flat tax!
Is this his 1st wife? Or the woman w whom he cheated on his 1st wife? Or his 2nd wife? Or the woman w whom he cheated on his 2nd wife & had a child while married to the 2nd wife? Or his 3rd wife, who is the woman w whom he cheated & had a child while married to the 2nd wife?
Trump still has the sauce. No one else could have made picks like these. Every selection is like drafting a kicker in the first round but the kicker has a Wikipedia section titled Allegations and is also not really a kicker
@NickyFrank30 I’m sure at least one of these DC/VA women is connected to a GOP lobbying firm
Reeks of the “Concerned Moms” stuff that sprang up in Fairfax/Loudoun and turned out they were all GOP astroturfers
@Taniel Collins has a tough job ahead of she’s going to top her own shitty justification for confirming Kavanaugh. Basically “I believe *Ford* believes it happened, but I also believe she’s misremembering her own traumatic lived experience”
@EmmaVigeland Lillian here going with “I was *this* close to voting Harris except for every aspect of how the campaign unfolded. That was the nail in the coffin for me”
@ChiefTeef8@agraybee Dems got nasty in 2006 with the Bush immigration bill. The bill broke the House GOP in two, and the larger half opposed it. Ds had plenty of votes to force a discharge petition and pass it. We hated Bush so much by then that we let it burn. Feels similar today. Let the fires rage
Relative to the nation the only states with significant trends right were NY (R+5.6), NJ (R+4.5), FL (R+3.8), and MA (R+2.8)
(FWIW there were 23 states that had a >D+2.5 trend)
Democrats get great news from Orange County, where Derek Tran won today's batch of ballots by 19% & netted 1,919 votes over #CA45 GOP Rep. Michelle Steel.
Steel's overall margin is cut by a third; she's now up 50.7% to 49.3%, with a lot left in the OC.
@schlagteslinks OR/WA Dems lost a ton of their WWC support in the 90s. From 1994-2006 the WWC in both states shifted red but PDX/SEA suburbs hadn’t shifted blue yet. Those years were a brief strong point for PNW Republicans
Today it means the blue base is pretty white and cosmopolitan-liberal