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28 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Lotta Republicans insisting on Sunday shows that GOP "policies" are quite popular/Trump CPAC comments will be focused on those "policies."
Strange claims from a party that literally abandoned any attempt to produce a policy platform last year -- just said it was pro-Trump
This is what they released last year instead of a policy platform washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-g…
So...what "policies" are they referring to? The only policy the GOP seems to reliably support is tax cuts (not even all that reliably, given Trump raised tariffs, which are taxes). The party's 2017 tax cut overhaul has been viewed unfavorably on net realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/t…
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1 Mar
.@Public_Citizen says it has uncovered more than a dozen last-minute Trump regulatory rollbacks that were not properly submitted to Congress in a timely manner, violating Congressional Review Act--meaning Biden admin can more easily take them off the books citizen.org/article/rollin…
these are "regulatory roll backs that remove protections for consumers, workers, immigrants, women’s health, LGTBQ communities, small farmers, and the environment, but which never took legal effect, or did so after [Biden's] January 20 regulatory 'freeze” memo.'"
among Trump's last-minute rules that were never submitted to Congress, as CRA requires, and therefore never legally went into effect: regs allowing less energy-efficient products, such as showerheads, dishwashers, washer-dryers. This was a feature of Trump rally speeches
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27 Feb
I get #readermail about my “ignorence”
Someday I'm going to create a scrapbook of all the times people wrote me calling me a stuped moran or whatever. They are the best genre of #readermail
E.g.:
another classic
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24 Feb
I have been wondering if people will go back to wearing uncomfortable business clothes once the pandemic ends, or if we've been forever spoiled by a year dressing as slobs.
Apparently there is a compromise:
Similarly, been wondering if longer, shaggier hair will become more normalized/trendier (especially on men) or it will become trendy to crop hair short and sharp as a signal of finally being able to consume services outside the home and break with the covid era.
maybe there will be a compromise on hair, as with the business pajamas, and mullets will be back in fashion
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7 Jan
45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol building. today.yougov.com/topics/politic… Image
Also, a majority of Republicans blame *Joe Biden* for the storming of the Capitol Image
Also also, Republican survey respondents said these were protestors and patriots, not criminals or domestic terrorists Image
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7 Jan
Where is the "personal responsibility" we've so often heard Republicans prattle on about?
People like Hawley aided and abetted this president. They helped brain-poison the GOP base, lying to them about election conspiracies. They fomented this armed insurrection. Own it.
Seriously. For today's seditious acts, egged on by Trump + GOP leadership, Ted Cruz bizarrely blames Beto O'Rouke. Sarah Palin & Fox anchors blame Antifa. Republican survey respondents blame Joe Biden.
TAKE SOME DAMN RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
Trump told us, and you, that he'd do this. He literally said "there won’t be a transfer" of power. He said only way he could lose would be if election were rigged against him.
Republicans asked about these comments often refused to directly condemn them. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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28 Dec 20
Arguably the bigger problem is that a lot of recipients *wouldn't* spend the money (whether at Wal-Mart or elsewhere) -- savings for high-income households, many of whom would qualify for some amount of stimulus aid, are already way up. Stim check likely to get saved by them too
The households with a greater marginal propensity to consume are the lower-income ones that suffered an employment loss. Targeting aid to them (through UI, food stamps, direct checks) is not only more humanitarian/fairer; it's also likely to have bigger bang for stimulus buck
Based on the phaseout provisions in the House bill that increases max stimulus payments to $2000/person, a family of five earning up to $350k would get cut a check, per @BudgetHawks. crfb.org/blogs/how-much…
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