Except that that robot does not then spend its wage at the local grocery store, or gas station, or clothes store. That income does not pay income taxes to a local community. It does not have a multiplier effect that creates more jobs in the economy. It goes to global stock market investors.

Brasso is testing a new message to see if it works.

Republicans ran on the release of the #EpsteinFiles. It's not Democrats this or that. Rs need to be called out on the reframing of the fact that girls were raped by powerful wealthy men. Not a political issue, it is a #Justice issue.

TACO sees 3 outcomes in this apparent reversal:

1…he’s confident the files are now somehow ‘edited’ to remove him;

2…he’s arranged a Senate filibuster to kill it; and/or

3…he knows DOJ will decline to release critical files citing “subject to active investigation”

In all 3 the coverup continues🤬

Every Mafiosa needs a cleanup guy, ideally a consigliere. The ghost of Roy Cohn is smiling, and the mobster still wouldn't be able to get a casino in Australia.

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