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Blake Allen Profile picture
@Blake_Allen13
May 9 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
If we ever come to a grand bargain on the budget to try and resolve the US’s debt issues one Republican proposal I hope Dems embrace is this: Mitt Romney’s idea to have the IRS be the main distributor of entitlement benefits funds
It would save the federal government a ton of money on the administrative side of these programs by centralizing disbursal. It also dovetails perfectly w/ the IRAs staffing/funding provisions for the IRS
Obviously we would still need to find a solution to the biggest problem with the plan - those who don’t file taxes with the IRS. But I don’t think that’s insurmountable

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May 7
If Russia actually mobilized 25M men that would represent:

- 17% of its total population
- Roughly 50% of its male population between ages 15-64
- 40% of its entire working age population

It’d entirely tank Russia’s economy and cause a massive recession
Russia is at this point openly considering wrecking its country (even more) while pursuing a failed invasion of a country 1/28th its size and with 1/3rd its population
And for everyone saying: equip and train them with what? Yes. You’re correct. I think (?) Russia could still afford to equip them as light infantry - because this would be over many successive waves of conscription - but obviously as Motorized/Armored formations? Not a chance
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May 3
I think what’s being said here - that there is a lane for explicit discussion on personal faith in the Democratic Party - is true and oft ignored. I don’t necessarily think it’ll lead to some breakthrough w/ evangelicals but it is a way of approaching them esp. on policy
And beyond just the purely strategic, being a party of free speech is directly tied into allowing ourselves to voice our religious convictions and harkens back to the earliest days of our Republic. This somewhat dovetails with another issue I’ve harped on post-2016:
The Democratic Party needs to become the party of consistent and vocal patriotism. It was an arena that we ceded far too often, and with constant attacks on our nation’s institutions is somewhere Republicans have in-turn given us a space to step into. Be a party of the positive
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May 1
Ukraine trying to join the CPTPP and we aren’t even considering trying to get back in
Fwiw - I understand the political realities of why we aren’t. And that’s partly incumbent on previous administrations (both Dem and Rep) for not fully engaging on the benefits of trade nor assisting communities legitimately hurt by swings in fortune due to trade
The reality is though, the US abandoning trade has left us comparatively weak to our competitors everywhere but especially in the Indo-Pacific/sub-Saharan Africa. A major thing those regions want - FDI and trade liberalization - are things we quite simply aren’t able to do rn
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May 1
The continuing dumbest thing on this website is people acting like the BRICS are some sort of proto-alliance system rather than a group of emerging (or in Russia’s case vanishing) economies with unaligned domestic/FP goals
The easiest example of this is India and China. Every year these two have medieval style battles on their line of contact with wide Chinese claims on Indian territory (including China occupying parts of Bhutan to get a strategic foothold over them)
And that’s nothing to say about latent Russian fears over Chinese irredentist claims over its far east (which is why RU’s military specifically had pushed back against over reliance on China up to Russia’s disaster of an invasion of Ukraine$
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Apr 29
Stories like this are - one - reason I think we need to seriously explore the idea of granting green cards to foreign-born grads of US colleges and universities. Not only does it help retain talent but helps fill a large gap in our family immigration schemes
People who spend most of their remembered lives in the US then “aging out” of their parent’s status is a real problem
Although admittedly you could narrowly tailor the policy to fix that hole (as opposed to making a roundabout partial fix like here)
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Apr 14
Whatever you may think of the bill itself, it really cannot be denied that signing this bill will cripple his presidential aspirations. A six-week abortion ban is underwater across most of the country and this in effect takes MI and potentially PA off the map for a DeSantis nom
It’s really an all-in bet on WI, AZ, and GA. DeSantis has done a horrible job - imo - of being able to distinguish himself on any singular issue for a GE audience. A nat con/soc con profile may be okay for a Republican primary but for a GE it just makes you a Ted Cruz
And once again - despite its defenders - the man really does have the charisma of pickled herring
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