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You need to stop whatever you’re doing and watch this.

“We are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks. We are going to be the last mass shooting.”

- Emma Gonzalez
These kids from Parkland are everything that’s right in this country standing up to everything that’s wrong.
This fight over guns pits American families, freedom of speech, concern for your fellow human being and common sense vs. entrenched power, institutional violence, corporate interests and propaganda.
If all our government can do is send “thoughts and prayers,” then it’s time for the victims to be the change we need to see.
- Emma Gonzalez
You can watch the whole speech here.

Absolutely stunning.

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99.9% of Americans earn less than $10 million a year.

Taxing 0.1% of the population 70% on every dollar AFTER their first ten million would NOT harm the economy.

What other countries spend on health care & infrastructure, we spend on low taxes for the super wealthy.
This type of spending is GOOD for the economy since accumulated wealth doesn't circulate while the economic benefit of improved infrastructure, education and health care is MASSIVELY beneficial to productivity (not to mention quality of life for 320 million people).
I'm seeing this argument in conservative circles that taxing the rich is "unethical."

What utter horseshit.

What's unethical is letting people die in the street from inadequate health care just so some banker can afford a second yacht.
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Right now in America people are donating money they don’t have to build a wall they don’t need to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
The GoFundMe for the Wall has raised about $3 million in 3 days.

At this rate, the Wall will be fully-funded by...2086.

Racists are bad at math.
My favorite part of all this,

Cost of border Wall:
$25,000,000,000.00

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FOX NEWS: Flynn's offenses were no worse than jaywalking.

JUDGE SULLIVAN (TO MICHAEL FLYNN, IN COURT): This crime is very serious. You can't minimize that. You sold your country out.

🔥🔥🔥
FOX NEWS: What Flynn did is like getting a parking ticket.

JUDGE SULLIVAN (to Michael Flynn, in court): You were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the National Security Adviser to the president!

This undermines everything this flag stands for!
Speaking of Fox News, @JudgeJeanine recently called Judge Sullivan, “A jurist unafraid of the swamp, a judge who has a track record of calling out prosecutorial misconduct, a man who does not tolerate injustice or abuse of power."

For once, I agree.
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