- Talarico should be saying that instead of dramatizing an insignificant benefit to Musk.

What he said was he knew Musk was a humorous example, but that studies show that in other states like AK and LA, 75 to 95 percent of the benefits were transfers of money from avg working people to the wealthy who already had kids in private schools.

Perhaps you missed that part.

Oh, and 1Nut teaching us American history? That's just SO precious!

My only question is how long did 1Nut have to pose for that?

Ah... now Eberly denies the reality of political donations (ie; Bribes) being used by Oligarchs to purchase their own lawmakers and their own laws and Gov contracts.

Still in OZ, I see, Dorothy.

- The US school systems don't need more money. They need to teach.

People don't need more food. They need to eat. (still stupid)

- you covet what they have.

No, little Timmy, as I will repeat, I expect American oligarchs not to preempt the Constitution by purchasing politicians to write laws for them... and making said purchases legal

What you accuse me of is your own projection, not the reality of what happens in our system now.

- I am only holding you to your standards.

You are only being an obnoxious more-liberal-than-thou attention troll on a Yellow Dog Democrat political site.

- or who wins those contracts?

They aren't being 'won' they are being bought with bribes.

Try not to be a 1Nut... one is more than enough.

- we're talking about creating a

a way to keep voters from exercising their rights to vote because a better educated vote is much more likely to vote for Dems than Republicans.

He obviously digs his reputation here as a witless troll deeper with every post.

- covet Musks money?

Let's explain this to you one more time; Oligarchs buy politicians to write favorable tax laws for them and give them Gov Contracts, which is common in China, but against everything in our, "we the People" Constitution.

Now, since this is apparently too complicated for you, we will totally expect you to stay just as ignorant as ever.

DJT drained the Swamp... into his diaper.

Who's joking?

But, yeah, his ear is a real survivor! I bet you would vote for it if it ran.

#6 loves living in a monarchy... it goes with his 17th century wig.

Lying liars lie... anyone who believes anything this Admin says about... well, anything at all, will obviously believe anything.

1Trumpnaut for the Mr. Oblivious Award effort.

What you know about America could fit in a thimble. (look it up)

Republicans have been wholly-owned by the Gun Lobby and other corporate interests for longer than you've had a green card... much longer, while some Dems are also complicate because it's difficult to hold any office since Republicans made Money Speech and invented Corporate Personhood, giving us Corporate Super Citizens that bribe their way into tax cuts and gov contracts.

What we know about you is you'll never be seen standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square.

Driving it, perhaps, but not defying crony capitalist corruption, which now controls your homeland while pretending communism.

"And Now a Word From Our Monster - by Mr. Fish"

article is a good read

"The case " which appears to be one from Lake County " and others like it were detailed by the grand jury in a scathing report that concluded DCF was "failing catastrophically" in its duties to protect the vulnerable.

The agency's "systemic inaction" led to severe trauma and the preventable deaths of children and the elderly across a five-county region in north Central Florida, it said."

"The most recent grand jury, sitting in Marion County, detailed seven "heartbreaking" cases in its report where DCF had been called to investigate but took little to no action. Six of the cases resulted in death and the seventh in the arrest of the father on sex abuse charges.

The deaths included that of a toddler who died from skull and spinal injuries, and whose mother " who had a 17-year history with DCF " was charged with his murder.

Another was that of an elderly women who was regularly found on the floor naked and covered in human waste but who remained with her caretaker, though DCF knew that person had been using illegal drugs.

"Children were exploited, abused, neglected. Children died," said Sen. Don Gaetz, a Panhandle Republican, at a press conference a few days after the report's release.

"The department delayed, denied, lied and then did nothing."
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Also see, 'Republican Family Values'.

Kirk was a grown man who liked to bully college students into believing that JC was white nationalist rwinger who did the bidding of Oligarchs.

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." - JC

The punishment is the point... how dare people not be able to feed their family on $7.25 an hour!

If that was good enough in 2009, it's good enough today!

He's going down with the Trumptanic!

1 min video

If he has to die, everyone and everything else should go with him... this is an extreme sort of narcissism; really he's a Dark Triad Personality.

Someone's political bribe, er, donation, is werking out quite well for them.

Crony Capitalism Forever!

"Trump Has Bonkers Excuse for Why He Won't Just Give Out $5,000 Now
And that's why he has to bribe people ahead of the midterms.

Speaking to Fox News's Laura Ingraham Thursday, Trump offered a baffling excuse for why he couldn't distribute the $5,000 dividends he'd promised the night before.

"Why not just give the money now? If you have the money, why not give it now?" Ingraham asked.

"Because they can't. I'll tell you what, because the Democrats can't do it, because with them it's negative growth," Trump said. "With us, it's so positive."

In reality, Republicans are simply not on board. Even Fox News hosts balked at the hypothetical handouts' estimated $1.3 trillion total price tag. If Republicans were the least bit interested in moving forward with these checks, then they already control Congress. They could just make it happen.

It's increasingly clear that Trump is hoping he can pay Republicans' way through the midterm elections by dangling cash in front of voters.

But the president has promised to deliver cash payments multiple times, including $2,000 stimulus checks of tariff revenue and $5,000 stimulus checks for the bygone "DOGE dividend." excerpts

MB... the Stormin' Mormon?

'Asked about President Donald Trump's proposal to dole out $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans win both chambers of Congress during the midterm elections, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that borrowing to spend would cause more inflation.

"What I would say is, if you are getting surplus revenue, you should cut people's tax and return it to the people," DeSantis said on Thursday.

"What I don't think you wanna do is borrow another ... trillion and a half dollars and then just try to flood that into the economy, because that will lead to more inflation. That will lead to more debt," he said, "and more inflation."

"Empty seats, socialism and Trump dominate the Republican midterm convention

One of the more common pleas was for Trump supporters to support other Republicans.

"I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot," the president implored the first day.

"You know what happens if you don't vote? You go to hell," he said on the second night."

"Both days, there were thousands of empty seats, including almost all of the upper level, even as Trump insisted the arena was "packed" with "thousands" more waiting outside."

"Wednesday, Trump said that America "has beaten communism before and we will beat it again."

"In state after state, the Democrat establishment has been overthrown and replaced by crazed lunatics and radicals," Trump said.

"They call themselves Democrat socialists, but actually they're communists. They're not socialists. They're long beyond socialists."

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And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence"