Hi Neera, why do you lie so much?
1. I tweet about/attack you?? Just a couple of days ago, you, unprovoked, came to dunk/quote-tweet on me when I wasn't talking to you, or tweeting at you, and kicked off a long back and forth that you didn't let go. You have retweeted people in the past 72 hours calling me a racist and a misogynist. But only I'm attacking you?? Why do you lie so much?
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2. I tried not to tweet at you at all after our Al Jazeera interview, and said nothing, but you tweeted at me incessantly, demanding I respond to you and debate you. So I did. Now you play the victim. Why do you lie so much?
3. 300 tweets? Lol. I know you and Matt Yglesias hate me counting tweets, but anyone can use Twitter search to see that in the past week you've tweeted about me as much, if not more, than I've tweeted about you. Why do you lie so much?
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4. Block me? I didn't tweet at you or tag you or even mention you in the tweet below; I was responding to a clip, to the substance of the clip. You searched for yourself and came looking for a fight and to play the victim. Why do you lie so much?
5. Isn't this really all deflection? From the question I have asked you six times - where is the tweet that you claimed to have posted on the day of the llhan Omar house raid in which you claim you condemned it as "outrageous"? - and that you got caught lying? Why do you lie so much?
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6. Per you logic, shouldn't @hasanthehun take out a restraining order against you on this platform?
It's actually pathetically easy to debunk the idea that the midterms were somehow "stolen."
Oh, like in Texas?
Where Republicans control every lever of state government that oversees elections?
Why would they "steal" the election for Democrats? Why would rigged results like Rep. Brandon Gill winning his district, but that same district voting for Paxton, happen?
It could actually just be that your candidates suck and your policies are unpopular.
The 🇺🇸 IRS just released the new tax brackets for 2027
Single filers (2026 in parentheses):
10%: $12,800 or less ($12,400)
12%: over $12,800 ($12,400)
22%: over $52,025 ($50,400)
24%: over $109,125 ($105,700)
32%: over $208,325 ($201,775)
35%: over $264,550 ($256,225)
37%: over $661,375 ($640,600)
Married filing jointly (2026 in parentheses):
10%: $25,600 or less ($24,800)
12%: over $25,600 ($24,800)
22%: over $104,050 ($100,800)
24%: over $218,250 ($211,400)
32%: over $416,650 ($403,550)
35%: over $529,100 ($512,450)
37%: over $793,650 ($768,700)
THE IRS JUST RELEASED THE NEW 2027 🇺🇸 TAX BRACKETS. HERE'S HOW THEY WORK IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Every bracket got a little bigger to keep up with inflation, so you can earn a bit more before moving into a higher rate.
Step 1: Take what you earn and subtract the standard deduction. That part isn't taxed at all.
- Single: $16,600
- Married: $33,200
Step 2: Whatever's left gets taxed in layers.
Single filers:
- 10% on your first $12,800
- 12% on income up to $52,025
- 22% up to $109,125
- 24% up to $208,325
- 32% up to $264,550
- 35% up to $661,375
- 37% on anything above that
Married couples: the cutoffs are roughly double ($25,600, $104,050, $218,250, $416,650, $529,100, $793,650).
Example: You're single and earn $76,600. Subtract $16,600 and you're taxed on $60,000.
- 10% on the first $12,800 = $1,280
- 12% on the next $39,225 = $4,707
- 22% on the last $7,975 = $1,755
Total: about $7,742 in federal income tax, or roughly 10% of what you earned.
Even though you're "in" the 22% bracket, only your last $7,975 gets taxed at 22%.
All income taxes should be abolished!!! ALL OF IT!!! I don't give a fuck about who's rich or who's poor. The Government DOES NOT deserve a cent of our money. They have proven time and time again to be corrupt and wasteful with our money.
Under Biden we had over 10,000 people crossing our borders every day with violent people being released into our streets. But most voters thought Trump, with Miller driving the policy, went to other extreme and was inhumane. Hispanic voters supported Trump 2 years ago but largely abandoned the GOP Tuesday. It cost us many seats in TX, AZ, and beyond.
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I’m ‘mad’ because your shtick is maddening. Even people who agree with your politics are fed up with your incessant posting since Tuesday and endless snarky attacks on progressives, and nonsense about moderation and elections.
And it’s not irrelevant to point out that candidates who shared your politics lost two out of 3 times to Trump. Have some humility when it comes to lecturing others on electability and posting endless context free graphs about ‘performance.’
I had an experience last night that I think perfectly sums up our political moment…
I play basketball a couple times a week with a group of about 30 guys. I try really hard not to talk politics there…ball is life and my true escape…but one way or another it always comes up for a few minutes.
Last night though, to no surprise, everyone was talking about the election results. Pretty much all the guys I play with are conservatives or Republicans, or just people who love America and end up voting Republican. Basically just normal people.
There’s one liberal in the group. He was saying he hates how extreme both parties have become, but that Republicans are even worse, and we need more moderate, centrist options.
As we were warming up, I asked him: “Okay, what’s Donald Trump’s most extreme position?”
He paused and started talking about Trump’s attitude and tweets. I said, “No, what’s his most extreme *policy*?”
He said, “I’d have to get back to you,” and started walking away.
I kept poking at him a bit while we played. (Nothing like hardcore political trash talk, right?) And he didn’t have much to say. We set it aside and the friendship will live to see another day.
But the point is this: Trump, despite what they say, is actually a moderate. He’s a former Democrat, old-school liberal who governs sensibly, thus conservatively. He would have (and still would) negotiate with Democrats on almost anything. But all the Democrats want to do is destroy (and eventually jail) him.
If you think closing the border is extreme, fine. If you don’t like how ICE operates, say that. But picking up people who are here illegally isn’t extreme. You can dislike the methods without calling the basic idea far-right or racist.
I’ve seen this over and over: you ask people what Trump has actually done that’s extreme, far-right, or racist, and they usually can’t answer. They just scurry away.
The bigger issue now , especially after the results of midterms, is what comes *after* Trump on the right. A lot of people will say, “We tried it with the New York real estate guy who wanted to be liked and was willing to make a deal. It didn’t work. So now we go harder.”
Then we could end up with an actual extremist, and even the TDS inflicted liberals will be looking back on the Trump years as the good old days.
So if you know a confused liberal, this might be a good time to ask them to look in the mirror before it’s too late.
Pro Tip: They probably won’t listen to you, but then just hit a couple threes in their face and it’ll still be time well spent.
There’s a book here. Someone in Osborn’s campaign leaked generously.
Pete Ricketts thanked his campaign for tracking Dan Osborn, as they were "able to expose" Osborn as "the fraud that he is."
Osborn has dealt with multiple audio leaks throughout the campaign.
"While we're not going to go into the names of the people who were there tracking him, they played a pivotal role in this," Ricketts said.
South Carolina flipped to the Democrats because Trump endorsed a Republican candidate who had no qualifications, no experience, no political skills, no resume at all, and whose only pitch to the voters was "I'm the sister of Lindsay Graham." Just a staggeringly idiotic strategy that failed exactly as any reasonable person knew that it would.
Dems will get 55 Senate seats and 250+ House seats. Looking at the Senate map and considering such a massive House margin, it is very unlikely Republicans will recapture the Congress in 2028. Might not have a shot at Senate control until 2032.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in politics, it’s that when you win, it’s never as good as it seems (thank John Thune for blocking all our best bills).
And when you lose, it’s never as bad as it seems (we survived full Democrat control of DC under Biden).
Obama got destroyed by the tea party wave in his first midterm and still won re-election 2 years later.
The Democrat party has been hijacked by Islamic socialists and America is about to get a front court seat to their extremism.
Trump has always done better with a worthy enemy to fight. For 2 years he had no one big enough to punch.
Now he’s got 2 - the communist House and the Senate.
It always blows my mind how every major urban city in our country votes democrat...it's as if it's by design, which I believe it is. You look at the wide open spaces of Texas, they're conservative, free, and private. Major urban centers with people packed like sardines, they're liberal...I'll never understand it.
The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.
Florida is coming down to the WIRE.
1.6M+ votes left to count in the Senate and Governor races.
Our reinforcements are arriving. Count EVERY legal vote! 🇺🇸🔥