thelabdude

Opinions are my own

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

"Together, they have lit the US Constitution on fire, abused the American people with fantastical lies and brutal violence. They are gangsters and fascists. They are venomous clowns and broken children. They are the worst of the worst when it comes to patriotism, decency and loyalty to the greatest achievement in the history of human civilization, the American Republic."

https://t.co/8tyTxOM9bV

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

We have reached the point where any statement made by a Trump administration official must be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

If you’re wondering what a domestic terrorist looks like.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

The president of the United States is extremely mentally ill and it’s putting all of our lives at risk. The 25th Amendment exists for a reason—we need to invoke it immediately.

[LifeEducation.org @LifeEd_org]

If they made the max income for the 40 years preceding 2020, then the most that they could have paid in is detailed below. Even if you included the employer's share, it is far below the amount she claims. If this is wrong, which assumptions did I get wrong? From ChatGPT:

Using the Social Security (OASDI) payroll tax only (not Medicare), the max you could have personally paid over a 40-year career 1981–2020 (inclusive) is:

≈ $191,412 total employee Social Security tax (nominal dollars).

How that’s computed:

Each year has a taxable maximum (“contribution and benefit base”).

Your max employee OASDI tax each year = (taxable max) × (employee OASDI rate).

I used the actual employee rates where they differed:
1984 had an employee credit (effective employee OASDI rate 5.4%).
2011–2012 had the 2-point “payroll tax holiday” (effective employee OASDI rate 4.2%).

So the total is the sum of all annual maxima from 1981–2020 based on SSA’s taxable maximum table and SSA’s OASDI rate table/footnotes .

If you mean “paid into Social Security” including the employer match, then the maximum combined (employee + employer) over 1981–2020 is:

≈ $387,275 total credited via payroll taxes (nominal dollars).
(Employer paid the full statutory share even in 2011–2012; employee was reduced.)

Notes (to avoid surprises):

This is not inflation-adjusted; it’s the literal dollars withheld/paid in each year.
This is OASDI only (Social Security). Medicare is separate (HI 1.45% with no wage cap after 1993).

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Hard to believe that 77 million dumb fucks voted for this piece of shit.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

You’re a drug addict who paid $200M to elect a convicted felon who raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you"

Then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch"

America, how can you be ok with this?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Moskowitz on Noem: "Is she hiding her face like her ICE agents now? By the way -- is this what the $800 billion went to? Every day we see her after some new tragedy, she's wearing a different outfit with a different hat. She looks ridiculous. She's not just an embarrassment to the country, she's an embarrassment to you and the president. She deserves to be removed from her job, and if not impeached."

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

You have no idea who this woman was. You have no idea what she believed. You have no idea what an actual investigation might show. A 37-year-old American citizen was killed. Her 6-year-old son has been orphaned. Her family and friends are going through the worst moment of their lives. And all you can do is call her a "deranged leftist"?

Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you?

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Donald Trump just kidnapped another country’s leader so you’d forget he raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein. This is fucking insane.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

As 2026 rolls in & we approach the one-year anniversary of when Elon Musk did a full-on Nazi salute at a rally after Trump’s inauguration, let us remember he is the main reason why at least 600K people have died (2/3 were children) due to the gutting of USAID.
Fuck Elon Musk.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Dear Liberals,

You and I are not friends.

We disagree on everything from abortion to the Second Amendment. Your belief system is abhorrent to nearly every personal and political value I hold.

That said, you did try to warn us about Trump.

You screamed and yelled from the mountaintops that he was not what he presented himself to be, and I, like many, refused to listen.

I mocked you. I laughed at you when he won. I felt entitled to his victory because I dedicated eight years of my life to his campaign.

My eyes are now open.

This is not the man I voted for.

When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong.

I am sorry.

I apologize.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Donald Trump isn’t just the worst president ever, he’s the worst American in history. He’s a malignant narcissist, a sociopath and a sadist who’s incapable of feeling empathy and cannot fake humanity. Attacking the dead is who he is. There is no cure for this level of evil.

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

Oh look, a Republican president is leading the country into a recession just like every Republican president for the last 50 years

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Jimmy Kimmel:
“Putting a made-up medal around your neck and bragging about it is like masturbating and telling your friends you got laid this weekend.”

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want my tax dollars going to bailout farmers who overwhelmingly voted for the man who bankrupted them. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop relying on the government assistance they are against.