"Where's the tipping point where the 1% aren't triggered into tax flight?"

That happened around 1995.

#18 you don't help people up by tearing other people down.
#20 | Posted by BellRinger

When we let Blacks into Major League Baseball, it tore down the careers of many Whites.

IT'S LIKE THE BANKS ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON..
#22 | Posted by john_savage1

(Spoiler Alert: It's Jews.)

"Jacob Savage describes how U.S. media and academia in the 2010s closed their doors to millennial white men."

This is such BS.
I was in grad school in the 2010s and those doors were not closed.

Right wing voices and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) have been pitching "men not going to college" for a generation.
Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs for example.
The entire narrative arc of Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
Every time we glorify and glamorize the police and the military, both manly male dominated fields.

Going to college went from being something people aspire to achieve, to something most other (especially right-wing) people look down upon. It became an Us vs Them.

Kinda like being a billionaire.

Because what's become pretty evident is it's the right-wing billionaires and the right-wing politicians the back, who say college is the enemy.

#18 you don't help people up by tearing other people down.
#20 | Posted by BellRinger

Who said you do?
Who was torn down by DEI?

The great fallacy of DEI was that it was about race, NOPE it was about White Women, top of the victim hierarchy.
#3 | Posted by oneironaut

Like that woman with the dog, and the black comic book guy?

Bruised Hand Of The Market, Controlled By A Dementia Patient.

Trump is literally a dementia patient.

It would be nice if Republicans could acknowledge that fact.
Now sure, you can say, there's no public statement from the White House about this.
But there is no other medical regimen which would require weekly MRIs.
The drug can cause bleeds so that's what they're checking for.
And the drug is administered in a way that precisely matches Trump's bruised hands.

There is no other explanation. This isn't even as maybe-there's-two-sides-to-it as "did that woman really try to run over that cop."

independence of the central bank
whups there's your problem right there
#9 | Posted by john_savage1

Yeah, let's think this one through.
Here's a list of wealthy countries where the President sets the interest rate:
1.
2.
3.

Now here's a list of all the other countries where the President sets the interest rate:
1.
2.
3.

As a practical matter, you have to be Statist and a Communist to want the President to control the interest rate.
Like, controlling the interest rate is the single biggest lever we have to speed up or slow down the means of production.
I guess Republicans just have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about here, do they?
This is a madman's Centrally Planned Capitalism and it's the opposite of what Capitalism requires.

"Trump is totally out of control."

In more ways than one.

What was up with him looking out the window...
Anyone wanna check the side effects of that new dementia med he's taking?
Maybe some heavy steroids too, like when he had COVID.

And didn't Billy Graham's Satan Spawn or one of his other minions just put out a call for prayer for Trump's health?
Because that's not some camel ------ energy right there. Praise to Allah to keep the Trump alive!

Could it be you have no original thoughts of your own?
#52 | Posted by BillJohnson

Could be. Or maybe it just takes a few minutes to type them out.
Seriously, going and just bombing some things in Iran and hoping it leads to a good outcome isn't a good strategy.
You haven't proposed anything else, holler back if you have Concepts Of A Plan.

"How many killings before US should take military aggressive action to stop the leaders?"

Infinity, without coalition support from neighboring countries.
How is this hard to understand?

How is it where my taxpayer dollars need to go? Explain that.

"My point is what response could Trump take that Democrats won't complain about later?"

Trump has a good chance to pull a rabbit out of his hat on Iran.
Trump is friends with the UAE guy who is friends with Russia.
Trump however does not believe in multilateralism.

Trump could get his Nobel Prize if he manages to allow Iran to become the secular Westernized state most Iranians want. Or he could start WWIII. He's willing to roll those dice. You voted for that too.

"What is your number?"

Let's say I give you a number.
What's your plan?

You can't just go and do something, because something bad is happening, without a plan for what happens next.

No offense, but you should have learned this when you joined the Navy while being gay.

Anything the US does either in isolation or with the aid of Israel is not going to be well received, do you acknowledge that?
You need a plan, you need a multi national agreement, you need a world order where member states generally keep their word about top level responsibilities like not kidnapping each other's leaders.

You voted against all those things.

What's your plan, doofus?

"but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation,"

Boo hoo.
Their orders are not to de-escalate.
This is a bit like cops having to do marijuana busts on college kids. Most cops don't really see the point in that.

In this case, it's cops working under a policy where they are required to use as much violence as legally permissible when making an arrest on a civilian who is not resisting in any manner whatsoever.

This is Trump's policy of "get rough with them" in action, playing out before our very eyes, channeled into marching orders for ICE and DOJ.

I wonder if any Republicans can see it that way. Like having the SecDef personally intervene in Sen. Kelly's retirement because he was critical of the administration. Can Republicans connect that action to Trump promising to get rough with protesters? Are their brains that big?

what one of their writers says about this:
#9 | Posted by BellRinger

How about the part where you say it's Lawfare? What we really need is a link to that.

locked up the Japanese without due process.
#140 | Posted by Corky

Since we're invoking precedent, although that one's a stretch since we were at war:
The #1 Most Popular Republican President apologized for Japanese internment, towards the end of the 20th Century.

Their loss of trust is 100% self inflicted.
#17 | Posted by BellRinger

You mean like when Fox News sued for the right to lie?
What media do you consider trustworthy? Name a few.

Give us examples of DEI disseminating by skin color.

Mmmm, that's good Secret Police!
--Republicans

I would be interested in serious answers from Trump opponents they wouldn't complain about.
#37 | Posted by BillJohnson

Let the Iranian people decide for themselves what kind of country they want Iran to be.

Stop sanctions?
#37 | Posted by BillJohnson

What Trump should have done, is kept the Six Nations framework intact.
Instead, he scuttled it, allowing Iran to work on their bomb, and then he had to go bomb them.

I would be interested in serious answers from Trump opponents they wouldn't complain about.
#37 | Posted by BillJohnson

Answers for what?
Why is this America's problem?

That speaks to a pretty dang progressive income tax code.
#88 | Posted by BellRinger

No it doesn't.
It speaks to a progressive income tax.
#127 | Posted by snoofy

LOL.

Overall tax code is not progressive. Only the income tax is progressive. And the Estate Tax is technically progressive though it mostly serves to fatten up the oligarchs with the $13M tax exemption.

That's why Republicans never, ever talk about the other taxes.
These days, you can't even get Republicans to acknowledge tariffs are a tax.
Or who pays the tax, for that matter.

That speaks to a pretty dang progressive income tax code.
#88 | Posted by BellRinger

No it doesn't.
It speaks to a progressive income tax.

Payroll taxes: Regressive.
Sales taxes: Regressive.
Excise tax: Regressive.

Gavin Newsom has to distance himself from this kind of bill for the same reason any republican has to. The Oligarchs.
#124 | Posted by eberly

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Edited for clarity.