There’s a bipartisan bill in the Senate right now to force the tariffs to expire after 60 days if not approved by Congress. So they’re at least putting on a show of doing something. It mentioned it on the blurb up top

It also costs a few million just to fly him to maralago. Each time. Plus charging secret service for the rooms they stay in at his properties. He’s just funneling taxpayer dollars into his own pocket.

S&P500 needs to drop at least 7% to halt things for 15 mins. It only drops 5 yesterday

Dozens of Bomb threats suppressed the election day turnout in Blue areas of swing states.

40%? Were you all in on Nike or something?

They’re going to hate women even more because you said this

So the cut that went into effect in '83 was passed in '81, just before a recession hit. So the US seeing an increase in revenue compared to the few years before that where unemployment was up over 8% and gdp dropping, is really more about the economy recovering than tax policy changes.

I didn’t act like it was nothing. It was a band-aid on a gushing artery that further cemented health insurance companies into our lives. It briefly slowled the continually rising costs people continue to struggle with today. But they pretty much called it a day for the next decade and a half-where now those same companies are auto denying 30% of their claims hoping no one fights the ruling. Without the public option Obamacare wasn’t the solution we needed. It just kicked the can down the road to our current disaster.

Decades? They had the presidency and both halves of Congress for the first two years under Obama and all they gave us was Mitt Romney’s health care plan. And again during the first half of Biden’s term.

The Democratic leadership keeps actively stopping attempts to corral the ability of congressmen to get rich off inside trading. They spent the whole campaign season last year supporting and assisting in a very public genocide. Trustbusting has basically been forgotten - we only have the illusion of choice in our much each industry from the media to even our food products are dominated by like 3-4 companies within it.

Whenever they do happen to get power, they do nothing with it, and then act surprised when they immediately lose it again.

I think they bumped up to 5th recently

Or, better idea, no parties like the founders intended

Breadlines ? That’s socialism. Can’t have that…

Your ideas got us here. With democracy hanging by a thread because both the corporate Democrats and Republicans spent decades weakening the lower classes to enrich themselves. How many 70-80% approval rating policy idea have the Democrats spurned over the years because it would mildly inconvenience their mega donors in the short term?

I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush’s no child left behind Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.

I’m not sure what these numbers are measuring, but it looks like less than 85% of schools in the US reported their data, could be a sampling bias there. Also, this is maybe at age 15, when many of the worst readers have already dropped out of school.

It looks like most countries have shitty literary levels, then. I was unaware other countries were just as bad. A quick Google showed a few results not quite in agreement saying the average for adults was 7th-8th grade in the US, or that half were below 6th.

Having been permabanned myself from reddit after 14 years, I’ve never seen that text used as anything other than a mocking tone for the thing being said.

You may have been reading it wrong this entire time.

Look at Mr moneybags, strutting around here with his “enough food to make a bowel movement”

I remember him claiming to have spoken to the president of PR, when was the island thing?

Yes, that is factual. There’s a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.

The rich people will buy up these stocks and become even more proportionally wealthy than the poor because of it.