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[Tim @timpplex]

@Dr_Eager @Kris_Sacrebleu 1960: 6% payroll tax, 52% corporate, 91% top individual rate
2019: 15% payroll tax, 20% corporate, 39% top individual rate
Why is anyone scratching their heads about automation and globalization?

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO BLESSED MSG TODAY TO GET THE STANK VIBES OUT YOUR SERVICE IS APPRECIATED

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The overall story of the second Trump admin is the abuse of power to enrich his family, reward his friends, and forgive crimes committed on his behalf, while punishing critics, threatening civil society, taxing the rest of us, and piling debt on our children.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

The U.S. government has to refund $166 billion in tariffs, PLUS interests.

Trump said he would be paying Americans checks from tariffs and eventually even replace the income tax.

So now not only are you not getting DOGE checks after he cancelled DOGE, you’re not getting tariff checks and paying the interests back on tariffs collected.

And you are also paying $2 billion a day for Trump and Netanyahu’s war in Iran.

And you are paying on avg $4 per gallon gas and inflation is rising again.

The lack of humility and understanding the struggle of regular Americans is astounding to me.

Trump and his lackeys demand loyalty and name call and bully yet Americans struggle more and more.

[Tim @timpplex]

@mattyglesias Also, if you let rich people have too much money they go chasing each other’s money into bubbles that eventually pop. It’s always a Democrat left to clean up the mess, and that’s what people remember, the Democrats presiding over the hangover.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

There are a lot of bad actors on the political scene, in both parties, but @SpeakerJohnson deserves special criticism. It's hard to think of a person who has so completely abdicated a crucial role, while spewing constant, corrosive, untruths.

[Tim @timpplex]

@shaunmmaguire Were you asleep for the past 10 years?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand.

Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes.
Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports. 
That is now over.

Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington.

Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic.

Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted.
Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.
I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.
I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
You know who has nuclear weapons?
Israel.
They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it.
Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing.
On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies.
Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.
Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace.
Not escalating war that is hurting people.
This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most.
This is not making America great again, this is evil.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Our president is a deranged lunatic and should clearly be removed from office. He’s only there because of Republican Members of Congress.

[Tim @timpplex]

@JayinKyiv How many AWACS did we lose in 20 years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hint: how many tours did Trump serve in Vietnam?

[Tim @timpplex]

@joelpollak Old white people are the only demographic that Republicans used win, or used to at least.

[Tim @timpplex]

@sentdefender Guess how many AWACS we lost in 20 years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Zero.

[Tim @timpplex]

@LangmanVince Imagine being happy to serve a king as long as he pounds on other kings.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

He’s lost control of the war and he is panicking.

[Svengerd Hoek III △ 🔱 @JailbirdSven]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Reporter: If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?

PA voter: You’re a worthless pile of sh*t.

Reporter: How many times did you vote for him?

PA voter: 3 times. That was my bad. Apparently I’m an idiot.
https://t.co/pvCzuFBkI5

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Incredible how Trump has lost all international authority.
Nobody abroad takes any of his statements seriously, because he lies all the time, knows no facts & changes his views ever so often.
What a tragedy for the US to have such a defect president.

[Tim @timpplex]

@FPWellman The last time we came out ahead by starting a war was against Spain. In the modern world, violence works best as a threat, to move negotiations along. When you pull the trigger, you lose power.