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37 percent Biden approval
Meaningless. With the current state of politics, the streets could be littered with gold nuggets and the MAGA Morons would be angry about all the litter on the streets.
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@Swagnarok
Bullocks
Bullocks? What are you, British?
Don’t tell me you aren’t a real American. A foreigner. An immigrant
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More low-energy trolling.
You even adopted the language of your Dear Leader.
Remember “Low Energy Jeb” and “Sleepy Joe”. Have you also started using orange spray tan?
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Today, relying on the government means you will be out of business very soon.
How many convicted felons did Trump pardon?
Trump granted 237 acts of clemency during his four years in the White House, including 143 pardons and 94 commutations.
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I don't watch Trump news. You can hate both Tromp and Biden
Bullshit. You never say anything against Trump. You are a MAGA Moron.
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@Swagnarok
No genius. There’s a big difference between gross income and taxable income.
The standard deduction for a married couple is 28k now. That takes them down to 12k Add in a refundable child tax credit and they are actually being paid by the government rather than paying taxes.
Do you understand this now, how poor Americans pay zero federal income tax, or do I need to draw you a picture?
Do you understand the difference between gross income and taxable income now?
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@Swagnarok
Highly productive people can very easily be underpaid in the US economy. Such as, for example, if you live in an area where the cost of living is low and you can afford to work for a lower salary, which most locals do, making that lower salary the accepted local average and making it harder for any one person to demand substantially more for their services.
Gee, maybe if they unionized they would get paid for their productivity. But Republicans don’t support unions do they? And the MAGA Morons are too dumb to recognize this so they just plod along making low wages, supporting right to work laws and blaming immigrants for their failure to improve their own personal economies.
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@Swagnarok
But if, purely for the sake of argument, I accepted what you're claiming your salary to be, you would be an outlier in Massachusetts or any other state, blue or red. Which is to say this still wouldn't be a narrative of "blue states subsidizing red ones". Only rich individuals, wherever they happen to live, subsidizing poor individuals, also wherever they happen to live.
The point is genius, the people who are in the top 2% of incomes live and work in blue states. California, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey.
These are the states with the highest earners.
The poorest states - Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, are red states where all the MAGA Morons live. The Trump supporters who are too dumb to know why they are struggling or what to do about it.
And yes as an airline pilot, I make a minimum of 350k a year not including the company contribution to my 401k which is probably more than what you earn each year.
My wife makes another 130 a year and we have 75k in rental income. Sucks to be you.
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@Swagnarok
red states are some of the most hard working statistically speaking.
So people in the south work long hours but don’t generate much revenue.
Another way of saying that is workers in the south are not productive. Because they lack education or skills.
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@Swagnarok
In 2020 the top 10%, defined as those who earn at least $152K a year, paid 73 percent of federal taxes.
My household gross income is a half million a year. So yes, I am paying for you and people like you.
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@Swagnarok
For most of their income, then, a person making $40K would pay a federal income tax of 12 percent. To claim they pay zero federal income taxes is a patent lie, which doesn't in the least surprise me coming from you at this point.
No genius. There’s a big difference between gross income and taxable income.
The standard deduction for a married couple is 28k now. That takes them down to 12k Add in a refundable child tax credit and they are actually being paid by the government rather than paying taxes.
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Woo. Trump is a billionaire ( well he pretends to be one) and you love him even though he is an idiot.
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No, believe billionaire media, not the polls. Because billionaires really care and can be trusted. lol.
The polls are conducted by billionaire media. Who do Libertarians trust? Jimmy Dore and poor people? Are there any successful Libertarians? I can’t think of any.
They seem to all be losers.
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So funny the Biden cult can't even take Biden's best numbers and beat Trump's worst numbers.
So funny Trump’s best numbers (on gasoline) are a result of the country being in a terrible recession with 16% unemployment and a massive federal bailout of the economy.
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lol, no recession prediction anymore? What happened?
I thought MAGA Morons didn’t believe in polls.
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That also assumes people pissed off at Biden are ONLY Republicans.
Ya, all this prosperity, with low unemployment and an expanding GDP, and people not dying from COVID really pisses people off.
How’s that recession doing that you have been predicting for 2 years? I haven’t heard about it much lately.
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@Swagnarok
The absolutely overwhelming majority of Republican voters are not farmers.
Bullshit. All the states in the farm belt vote Republican. From North Dakota down to Texas and places like Iowa and Indiana. These states get 2 Senators each even though there are hardly any people living there. So they vote themselves a bunch of welfare paid for by blue state Americans who do all the earning in this country.
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@Swagnarok
Just apply this to taxes more broadly.
People who make 40k a year, an income you say is very common in areas with a low cost of living, pay zero federal income taxes. That’s why people from red states don’t contribute any income tax revenue to this country. They are free riders. Yet these are the people bitching about taxes and voting for Donald Trump.
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@Swagnarok
paying more at the grocery aisle
You know what keeps grocery prices down without tax payer subsidies from blue state Americans who pay all the taxes? Immigrant labor.
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@Swagnarok
I'm not a farmer. The absolutely overwhelming majority of Republican voters are not farmers.
Farmers. MAGA Morons. All the same. They all watch FOX News and think that is reality. Too dumb to use critical thinking skills.
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Gas was an average of 2.97 per gallon in April 2019. It’s 3.35 today. So much for “massive” inflation
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That also assumes people pissed off at Biden are ONLY Republicans. Recent polling suggests 2/3 of independents and 1/4 of Democrats hate Biden right now.
Recent Polling from the MAGA Moron Research Center for Idiots? The MMRCI?
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@Swagnarok
Also, it wasn't a "stupid" trade war.
Oh it was stupid. And Trump thinks that China pays import duties when in reality it’s the importer (Americans) who pay the tax on goods coming from China.
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@Swagnarok
Farmers need the government to survive. Yet they rail about social programs for “other” people. Translation…not white people.
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@Swagnarok
“The spending surge began in mid-2018 when USDA started writing checks to farmers and ranchers to pay for the damage from Trump’s trade war, which brought about higher tariffs that crushed agricultural exports and commodity prices. Farm sales to China plummeted from $19.5 billion in 2017 to just $9 billion the next year; as producers continued to hemorrhage profits in 2019, farm bankruptcies jumped nearly 20 percent last year”
Yeah Republicans. You were so wise to elect Donald Trump. Farmers are welfare queens
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@Swagnarok
The highest number touted in this article was $32.8 billion during Covid
Wrong. 32 billion in direct aid, just free money, not related to free crop insurance and the payments that go with it, or the subsidies offered farmers for their crop.
The direct aid began before COVID and was caused by Trumps stupid trade war.
“Direct farm aid has climbed each year of Trump’s presidency, from $11.5 billion in 2017 to more than $32 billion this year — an all-time high, with potentially far more funding still to come in 2020, amounting to about two-thirds of the cost of the entire Department of Housing and Urban Development and more than the Agriculture Department’s $24 billion discretionary budget”
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@Swagnarok
Yeah no, it's clear you're an uneducated idiot who hates millions of people he's had minimal real-life interaction with.
Ya, your backstory is so pathetic you choose to hide who you are. Because you know what a hypocrite you are.
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@Swagnarok
The US spends about $30 billion a year on farm subsidies,
Bullshit. Trump spent more than that on direct aid to farmers.
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@Swagnarok
Maybe if you import enough illegals, but not otherwise.
The immigrants are the only people who work hard in the south. The whites are all fat and suffering from diabetes or some other chronic disease that blue state Americans have to pay for.
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@Swagnarok
that wouldn't mean squat if there were no expenditures. It's because of pressure from Dems that said social programs remain intact
Most of the money goes to take care of poor, uneducated whites in their old age. Especially farmers. Nobody gets more welfare in this country than farmers.
Crop insurance, crop subsidies, outright handouts to keep them afloat. Then rural areas need to be subsidized for everything from 911 phone service, to high speed internet, to scheduled air service.
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@Swagnarok
This is a pretty common salary in America,
Only for uneducated, unproductive MAGA Morons living in poor red states who rely on blue states to take care of them.
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@Swagnarok
Joke's on you. The President doesn't decide the budget. That's Congress's job.
I see, when Trump borrows money it’s the Congresses fault.
When Biden borrows money it’s the president’s fault.
And people call you a MAGA Moron
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@Swagnarok
What? The plebs can't see how great conditions are
Because the plebs are morons who watch FOX News and don’t have the ability to exercise critical thinking skills.
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@Swagnarok
Didn't workers get a huge pay increase when Biden/Congressional dems started "stimulating" the economy with trillions in debt added? Why not?
Trump added 8 trillion in debt in just 4 years. By far the worst record in American history.
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Woo more WAPO
Woo? Is that a word? I expect more from a hundred dollar a day substitute teacher.
Facts = spam to MAGA Morons
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@Swagnarok
Oh, what's that? Your 40K a year job now has the buying power that a 35K job did two and a half years ago,
What kind of loser makes 40k a year? Didn’t job creators give workers a huge pay increase when Republicans wisely cut their taxes by billions of dollars?
Are you saying the Trump tax cuts didn’t do what he said they would do? Plus abortion has been banned in half the states. Certainly that made things better for the average worker. Thanks Republicans!
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@Swagnarok
Oh yes, the economy is humming along so well that Trump and Biden are currently locked in a tight race
They are locked in a tight race because MAGA Morons would still vote for Trump if he raped their sister.
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@FLRW
I know, I know, Reported for unwarranted Adhom !
lol
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The judge, a Republican nominee, declared the separations unlawful and ordered the families reunited in June 2018, after President Donald Trump halted the policy amid widespread condemnation.
Trump’s zero-tolerance policy ran from May to June 2018. Later, investigations determined that officials separated migrant families throughout Trump’s four-year term, which ended in January 2021.
Biden administration officials said the Trump administration separated more than 4,000 children from their parents, though past estimates have put that figure as high as 5,500. Lawyers for the ACLU, which represented the migrant families in court, estimated that as many as 1,000 children may still be separated from their parents. Advocates are trying to track them down”
Trump and his idiot minions are reprehensible.
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Oh no, bad news for Republicans and other idiots who don’t live in reality.
“the Congressional Budget Office isn’t alone in understating where we would be by now. The International Monetary Fund says that U.S. gross domestic product is higher today, in inflation-adjusted terms, than it had expected at the beginning of 2020. The IMF ran these calculations for countries around the world, and found the United States was an outlier in beating the organization’s pre-covid forecasts:”
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Yeah yeah yeah...
Facts…blah blah blah…more facts
Facts are just trolling to MAGA Morons
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You guys need to try harder to get the message out. More doomsaying.
This is a post about how good the economy is because people like you live in an alternative reality.
Somehow you believe 3.7% unemployment is worse than the 16% unemployment we had under Trump.
You think 5% annual GDP growth is worse than 3% GDP growth
“In the years since the COVID-19 recession of early 2020, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have recovered quicker than ever seen in modern history”
Manufacturing in this country began its decline with the policies of Ronald Regan.
“The 1980s kicked off with dual recessions—not unlike today's trying economic conditions stoked by a war of resources abroad and tightening monetary policy aimed at combating high inflation. Where manufacturing work represented almost 1 in 3 jobs in America at the time, by 1982, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression had devastated goods-producing jobs”
“Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021 and the CHIPS and Science Act in 2022. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs act will infuse the manufacturing sector with an unprecedented $550 billion in capital through 2026 to build and repair bridges, roads, highways, rural internet infrastructure, and water treatment facilities”
“The CHIPS and Science Act aims to rejuvenate the U.S. manufacturing sector to compete with foreign nations like China and keep the supply of critical goods like computer chips stable for American consumers. A shortage of computer chips at the start of the pandemic stymied manufacturing supply chains for everything from computers to automobiles”
JOE DID THAT! THANKS JOE!
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Reported for unwarranted Adhom.
lol
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Shit jobs are counted the same as a normal job using only "employment" data.
Some people are only qualified for shit jobs. Mostly people living in red, “right to work” states.
Republicans and conservatives do nothing to create good jobs. They are anti labor, anti union, they cut regulations (like mine safety) and they cut taxes for corporations and wealthy business owners.
Biden has created way more construction and manufacturing jobs than Trump or any other “conservative” president.
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Reported for unwarranted Adhom.
If you had a good job you would be working right now.
lol.
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I suppose Democrats will learn in 2024 that poor people also vote.
Ya, the poor are going to vote Republican so they can end, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC and cut taxes again for the wealthiest Americans.
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The unemployment rate is a widely used economic indicator
You have a crappy job and I’m sure you consider yourself employed
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Too bad unemployment numbers don't always translate to less scarce goods
Oh ya, unemployed people are big, big spenders.
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I am OK with that. It's a lot cheaper than the current system.
That’s coming from someone who doesn’t earn enough to pay Federal income taxes.
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Oh no! Record low unemployment! This is terrible…if you’re a MAGA Moron
Unemployment is at 3.7 %. Remember when we had 16% unemployment under Trump?
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