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Nov 9

https://twitter.com/phillippepayant/status/1987571251515109413

Correct. Something that radicalized me on this recently was the woman cutting my hair, and to whom (as with other service workers) I always give a generous tip, letting slide that things are tough at the moment because with government closed she may not get SNAP payments. 1/

https://twitter.com/phillippepayant/status/1987571251515109413

I have sat through appointments of this woman telling me about taking her kids to Disney World and how she went out drinking with friends on weekends. She’s wearing an Apple Watch. She has a full-time job. She goes out partying. She takes the family to expensive amusement parks. And part of my paycheck each week goes to paying for her kids’ food because ostensibly she can’t afford to feed them.

That stuck with me for like a week.

I’ve never opposed and do not oppose helping out people who TRULY need it. People who literally cannot eat at the moment without my help.

But that’s not the reality for 1 in 8 Americans. That’s not the reality for these people who just choose to spend their limited income on more fun things than buying food for their kids.

Too many function from a premise of “I have very little money and so if I spent that on food I’d have no disposable income for me to have a little fun or buy things I want”. Like the starting premise is that of course we need to set aside part of your income for fun stuff and then if there’s not enough left for food then you’re poor and I need to help.

No, bitch. I’m not financing your food so that you can have fun or be comfortable as a priority. That’s not what food stamps are supposed to be for.

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Oct 17

There's a foreign country that has more than 28 firms registered to lobby on its behalf, spends billions of dollars buying influence in DC and academia, and gets more in-person lobbying meetings with US officials than any other foreign country.

Can you guess which it is?

I'm guessing that 80% would say Israel, and maybe 20% would say Ukraine.

It's not either one.

In fact, it's a country that sponsors Islamist, anti-American terrorism and shelters international Islamist terrorists.

It's Qatar.

quincyinst.org/research/soft-…

Qatar has 28 registered lobbying firms, including some which have agreed to exclusively represent them.

The country has spent billions of dollars buying influence in top American universities, including $2.1 billion at Cornell alone.

When Congress considered legislation pointing out Qatar's financial backing and support for Hamas, Qatar's lobbyists got the bill defeated.

quincyinst.org/research/soft-…

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Oct 15

The people on the left and MSNBC "Republicans" disingenuously screeching over idiot randos saying stupid crap, will next month elect as top law enforcement officer a man who fantasizes about the murder of children based on the politics of their parents.

The only people I want to hear from on this are people who were likewise outraged and wanted career consequences for Jay Jones.

If you were doing "we still need to elect Jay Jones" two days ago, you can have a seat about idiot groyper randos saying stupid shit in a group chat.

Relatedly, if you were excusing or defending people facing career or personal social consequences for cheering the literal murder of a man over his speech, you can have a seat.

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Jul 23

Opposition to deportation on grounds of supporting continued cheap labor is either amoral or insincere.

The reason illegal aliens are such cheap labor is because they’re an exploitable underclass who can’t complain about abuse and illegality.

1/

The moment you legalize them, you remove the fear of them reporting their employers for illegal wages and exploitation. Our laws even financially incentivize such reporting.

So the moment they gain legal status, your slave-wage-cheap-labor argument goes up in smoke and they become about as costly as any other legal resident to employ.

2/

So this leaves us two options:

1) You do in fact want to keep them here to exploit and abuse them forever as artificially cheap labor caused by their fear of reporting abuse and illegality

or

2) You don’t want to keep them in that status, you want to grant them legal status, and your “but we need cheap labor!” argument was nonsense for what you wanted all along: amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

3/

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Feb 14

I missed the mass performative resignations when Joe Biden undid the years-long work of dedicated federal prosecutors by extending corrupt blank pardons to his own son, right?

Or when the White House attacked the special counsel for being honest about Biden forgetting things?

Seems to be a very selective sense of when the president's lawful but corrupt intervention in federal law enforcement work, benefiting allies at the expense of the rule of law, warrants outrage from the bureaucrats.

Or, for instance, when people working for Joe Biden decided not to prosecute Joe Biden for the same crime for which they were prosecuting Joe Biden's chief political opponent.

Or when the people working for Joe Biden tried to cut Joe Biden's son a sweetheart plea deal so corrupt it blew up in federal court under light questioning.

Surely that prompted loud resignations from outraged masses of bureaucrats upset about such unconscionable behavior perverting the rule of law.

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Dec 30, 2024

Curiously, the media outlets which rush to label the political affiliations of any judges who rule in favor of conservatives, are uninterested in the specifics of the judges who heard this appeal.

They were two Obama appointees and a Biden appointee, the latter of which joined the bench in 2021 after having never been a judge before and her previous job experience having been as a left-wing activist openly attacking Republican politicians.

Judge Perez, who sits on the Second Circuit and heard this case, has zero previous judicial experience and spent her career at the left-wing Brennan Center for Justice, where she published conspiracy theory pieces about Republicans wanting to destroy freedom

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_P%C…

Judge Chin, one of the Obama appointees, you may remember as the judge who authorized the anti-First Amendment opinion that the Supreme Court unanimously overturned in National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_…

Chin had held that it was fine for NY officials in their official capacities to demand that banks stop doing business with right-wing political groups like the NRA.

It was a decision so heinous that the ACLU represented the NRA, and the pro-NRA opinion at SCOTUS was authored by Sotomayor.

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