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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 1h

We are almost half way to convincing republicans of this obvious fact and the operating position of elite liberals has been to do their damndest to make everything seem fine

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 1h

Here's another example of how insane prop 13 in California is.

The property sold as renovated in 2023, check the jump in tax revenues because the increases were capped

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

Worse, they fear 1984 (The electoral year not the stupid book)

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

So there are Democrats fighting the last war and Democrats trying to fight the current war?

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

This is the most on brand thing since the Saudis bought EA... Which was like a couple days ago.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

The 60 minutes investigations Reingold leads are sure to be... Revealing

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

That seems well and truly gone now

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

"You have to understand those klansmen had FAMILIES!

Unlike the slaves who didn't have families to care for..." Ubisoft execs

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

Seeing way too many dems do what 90/2000s conservatives called "point and sputter"

Rather than take right wing arguments seriously and then dismantle them

Democrats think just point at the right and sputtering will be enough...

voters want to hear the argument!

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 2h

Can we drop the 'liberal media' line yet?

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

Extremely straightforward journalism ethics question.

Not even a close call.

The only way I could have believed the Atlantic allowed this to happen is if they didn't tell their bosses what they were doing.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

Been sayin'

This is literally the easiest politics has ever been since 2005/6 for dems and they are struggling to tread water...

This might be the easiest politics will ever be in any of our lifetimes...

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

YOU'RE DERANGED!

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

What makes this extra awesome is that Jerry takes the time to make sure the guy he's flipping off knows it because he points directly at him... Doesn't want to just flip off the whole crowd. Just wants to make sure he hits that one guy.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

Oh geez, lol.

Thanks for pointing that out

vermont, you are off my shit list

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes I run into young people who want " a housing crash like 2008 so I can buy a house"

And young man let me remind you that in 2008 nobody had jobs to buy the houses and that's why the prices were so low....

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot tell you how many real estate clients i have had to walk through "you really don't want prices to fall like you think you do..."

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

I get that there are special rules around the cops but why the f*** aren't the states and cities just arresting these camera guys?

Figure out what crimes they did later. Arrest them now.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

She's not beating the dunce allegations this way

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

Oh my God, I just busted out laughing in my living room with this. What a great tick tock.

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 3h

What? Vermont? Why???

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 5h

These people are desperate to justify why they "earned" the cash they quite clearly stolen and set on fire.

Now the genie they claim to control is going to magically fix everything.

Strip this man of every penny via taxation.

Abolish billionaires

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 5h

In theory that would be what is happening now with the shut down.

But that would depend on functional constitutional order in which the Congress control spending and the executive is duty bound by law to spend it.

How do we starve a beast that has no mechanisms for in and outflows of money?

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 5h

I saw that two.

But they can be authentic and not complete.

My take on kirk generally is he was a skilled political operator in his own world. That was his real skill and money making power.

So I'm not certain he's not fluffing the people in this text.

The same way he was fluffing netanyahu.

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 5h

I have taken in some content on this and.... Could we get any other source than Candice Owens?

I really just cannot go another step forward on any of this until it comes from someone who's not candice Owens....

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