SnoopRob
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It doesn’t matter what research you do when you lack the intelligence and knowledge to understand what you read/hear.
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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)
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UNCRx85
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Well fuck me, then. This is all so bonkers.
lawtig02
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I will never underestimate the venality of today's GOP, but even accounting for that, I can't imagine Congress getting anywhere close to repealing the income tax. Trump could, and likely will, jack tariffs way up, and I don't think he needs congressional approval to do that. But the tariffs will be on top of income and other taxes, not in place of them. Which means, as the Dems have been saying for years now, the tariffs will be a massive tax increase on Americans, and will send inflation through the roof.
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He claims everything is a figure of speech when called out on his absurd statements.
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Well, they also think brietbart is research.
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Fair, and you're not wrong.
ChileG
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I discovered a while back on Twitter that the MAGAs don’t believe Google. I mean they literally will tell you that.
JCTarheel82
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Bingo. For most MAGAs, "do your own research" actually means "find sources that support what you want to be true" and the right wing disinformation ecosystem provides that for them. Confirmation bias is their lodestar.
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Srsly, just IMAGINE the magnitude of apoplexy which would erupt from the right if Joe Biden had said "I wish I had obedient generals like Hitler" or something to that effect. But Trump? "Ahhh...much ado about nothing!" "Chill out - it's what he does!" "TDS!!" Mmmmkay, GFY 
lawtig02
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Yeah, the multi-volume anthology of "Can You Imagine if [ ] Did What Trump Did???" is about to need a new building.Srsly, just IMAGINE the magnitude of apoplexy which would erupt from the right if Joe Biden had said "I wish I had obedient generals like Hitler" or something to that effect. But Trump? "Ahhh...much ado about nothing!" "Chill out - it's what he does!" "TDS!!" Mmmmkay, GFY
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“Long before he became one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors and campaign surrogates, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States as he launched his entrepreneurial career after ditching a graduate studies program in California, according to former business associates, court records and company documents obtained by The Washington Post.
… What Musk has not publicly disclosed is that he did not have the legal right to work while building the company that became Zip2, which sold for about $300 million in 1999. It was Musk’s steppingstone to Tesla and the other ventures that have made him the world’s wealthiest person — and arguably America’s most successful immigrant.
… Musk and his brother, Kimbal, have often described their immigrant journey in romantic terms, as a time of personal austerity, undeterred ambition and a willingness to flout conventions. Musk arrived in Palo Alto in 1995 for a graduate degree program at Stanford University but never enrolled in courses, working instead on his start-up.
Leaving school left Musk without a legal basis to remain in the United States, according to legal experts.
Foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company, even if they are not immediately getting paid, said Leon Fresco, a former Justice Department immigration litigator.
“If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” Fresco said. …”
JCTarheel82
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I fervently hope he is correct.
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Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday blasted the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan law aimed at reducing America’s reliance on Asia for semiconductors by providing billions in subsidies to encourage companies to manufacture more chips in the United States.
“That chip deal is so bad,” Mr. Trump said during a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “We put up billions of dollars for rich companies.”
Mr. Trump argued that the federal government could have imposed a series of tariffs to make chip manufacturers spend more of their own money to build plants in the United States. He also argued that the law would not make the “good companies” invest in the United States.
“You didn’t have to put up 10 cents,” Mr. Trump said. “You tariff it so high that they will come and build their chip companies for nothing.” …”
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Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday blasted the CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan law aimed at reducing America’s reliance on Asia for semiconductors by providing billions in subsidies to encourage companies to manufacture more chips in the United States.
“That chip deal is so bad,” Mr. Trump said during a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “We put up billions of dollars for rich companies.”
Mr. Trump argued that the federal government could have imposed a series of tariffs to make chip manufacturers spend more of their own money to build plants in the United States. He also argued that the law would not make the “good companies” invest in the United States.
“You didn’t have to put up 10 cents,” Mr. Trump said. “You tariff it so high that they will come and build their chip companies for nothing.” …”
Trump Attacks Bipartisan Semiconductor Law on Joe Rogan Podcast
Former President Donald J. Trump’s comments came during a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”