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Trump built a base on conspiracy and vengeance. When he doesn’t pursue those things; his base gets testy.
The other thing to keep in mind with polls like this is that Trump can be unfavorable for doing too much OR too little. I do NOT think Trump has well unified opposition from that perspective.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Would you mind laying out the top 3 police state points?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m all for treatment of borrowing against asset appreciation as income and taxing it. It’s one of the more egregious gaps in the U.S. taxation scheme.
And, as is always the case when talking about Billionaires, the juice isn’t really worth the squeeze. $80 billion is a drop in the bucket. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
I’m also a fan of crediting some proportion of tax base back to billionaire founders and growers. So if Bezos founds a company that employs hundreds of thousands of people and still holds those shares, IMHO he should get partial credit for the income, SS, and Medicare tax base from those jobs. I’d count that only for founders or people who bought very small companies and grew them.
By that measure, the Walton heirs don’t get credit, but Bezos probably gets a tax refund!
We should tax things we don’t really want more of. If we don’t want more billionaire founders, then by all means, tax them. I think GR and I would be on the same page to say we shouldn’t want a bunch of idle billionaire heirs and heiresses. Founders? We want them. Lots of them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I luckily run a business that’s small enough that I can tel whomever whatever.
I had an analyst who was an attractive tall slender blond Russian gal. She went to a client site with a black bra under a sheer white top. I wasn’t comfortable with the conversation but basically told her to cover up. Probably a lawsuit in a bigger company.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Bezos and that blow up doll he calls a wife aren’t helping.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Awful. But, like the Trump phenomenon, which was a logical and extreme response to republicans peddling a “fight” narrative in 2015, this is a logical response to Democrats peddling helplessness and fear.
he still has to win in the general election, and all the candidates are flawed. God help NYC.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I go away for a day and world war 3 is averted.
my take? This was all orchestrated after Israel attacked. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Israel had damaged Iran so badly that the U.S. said “salvage what you can, we are sending a kill shot, and then this thing is over.”
Both iran and Israel took the deal
that’s realpolitik. Kudos to trump the incompetent one.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I hope you guys won’t leave, but I understand. We’ve had a very long run and this little lifeboat of a website has served its purpose.
The CEB of old had some really good debate from some really smart people. I learned a lot.
as to your observations, Mick, I get it. I had a massive career shift more than a decade ago, largely driven by a backstab from a fellow executive female who was having an affair with the CEO. It has turned out great for me. I took the leap into hanging out my own shingle and have been reasonably happy working with people I want to work with and building a really strong team of younger professionals in the process.
there are industries out there that don’t discriminate like you are articulating. And then there are those that simply think straight white men are bad. I don’t have any time for them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Hey. There’s no active censorship on the site. It doesn’t like it when there are lots of links. I don’t know about attachments.
Try just linking once to the image you want to post.
Rocky left the site a long time ago because he swore I was suppressing his posts. It’s just wordpress trying not to allow spam, and I never could figure out how to turn off the filter completely.
im certainly not censoring you. You bring balance to the force.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There ought to be a law that paid speech is no longer free speech. If you are a paid protester, you are a subcontractor or employee, not a free citizen.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Interesting graphic and even more interesting when you consider Biden was a 1-term president.
I find it hard to believe that a Presidential signature on an act of clemency has zero witnesses. I have to have a notary show that I signed a legal document and you’re telling me the President can overturn a jury trial without even showing he signed a document? That’s just astounding and to me it’s not a matter of presidential competency, it’s a question of moral turpitude of the people around a given president. Imagine if a president lost his memory and then a staffer just decided to pardon all the murderers on death row! That would be akin to a coup.
Probably would never happen though.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Once you have drug zombies on streetcorners and people defecating in the streets, is there any lower to go?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)People have gotten wise to the reality that owning an MTV-cribs worthy home is very, very expensive.
We have four A/C units in our house… built in 2008, the “premium” lennox units are always in need of repair. I can afford it, but would love to have a smaller house with half the complexity.
We have areas of our house that are almost never used. It’s certainly a nice home but I could do with a fraction of the space.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Here’s a question… What happens when Harvard is in front of the Supreme court? Do justices have to recuse themselves who have undergraduate and graduate degrees from there?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t like this move but it remains a political winner for Trump.
Pooling “best and brightest” with “antisemite bullies” is a mistake by Harvard.
I’m only slightly amused at Trump playing a hardline position with Harvard using rules no doubt written to prevent right-leaning racists from creating their own academic enclaves. Hoisted with their own petard.
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