Showing posts with label Populism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Populism. Show all posts
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Hey Look! Labor's Share of Business Income has never been LOWER than under our lord and saviour, king and high muckety muck, Uniparty Poopulist President Donald J. Trump

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 The Golden Age . . . for business, not for you.  3Q2025, updated Jan 8, 2026:

If Trump had any true populist balls, he'd push for permanent 10% credit card interest rate caps

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  Trump calls for one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%   ... Independent U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a fierce Trump c...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Populist taxes to match Trump's populist rhetoric

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 The original personal exemption from the income tax was $3,000 in 1913. The equivalent of that in September 2025 is $97,440. For married fi...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Trump is a phony populist and his tax code continues to make chumps of Americans who work

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In 2026 a single filer making $97,000 in salary or wages will pay an effective tax rate of about 12.9%.   About 83% of the country earns no...
Monday, July 28, 2025

I wonder how much Heritage Foundation paid National Review to publish this populist-conservative fusionist screed in the pages of the magazine infamous for purging dissenters

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 ... As Heritage Board Chairman Barb Gaby and President Kevin Roberts wrote in their note to staff, alumni, and the many friends gained ov...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The White House's Stephen Miller attacks libertarians for opposing the reconciliation bill's immigration enforcement spending

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 ... the White House deputy chief of staff — and chief architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — is taking a sledgehammer to what remains of...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Nigel Farage's UK Reform Party won new majorities in ten regional councils across England in the May 1 elections, stunning Labour and the Conservatives

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 ... The races were local. But Reform UK’s unprecedented surge has recast political trends nationwide, sparking panic in Britain’s two major...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Populism means speaking fifty words of English: Pete Hegseth joins Marco Rubio in his own more welders, less philosophers moment

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Take courage people! You too can become populists just like Pete and Little Marco. Just get your degrees from Princeton and Harvard and the ...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Billionaire Marc Andreessen loves him some plutocracy, which his beloved Thomas Jefferson would have taxed into oblivion

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Trump's so-called party of populism has given us a cabinet teeming with billionaires. Welcome to rule by the rich. We deserve them, good...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Iraq combat vets wondered why National Guard member Pete Hegseth showed up in Iraq in 2005 leading a platoon

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  “I showed up in the 101st Airborne Division, in one of the most storied units in our nation’s history, with a bunch of combat vets who’d...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

German party Alternative für Deutschland wins in Thuringia, comes in close second in Saxony, still frozen out of governance by CDU member who heads German intelligence

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  For the first time ever, the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a state election. In Thuringia, the party gained 32.8 p...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

Another salvo at Kamala Harris: WaPo editorial board calls her anti-big business proposals populist gimmicks, says her first-time home buyer $25,000 down-payment plan will increase housing prices

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   The whole thing makes sense, which is surprising coming as it does from The Washington Post, which ends this way:  [Even] her [good] id...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

British conservatives are still blind to Nigel Farage's truth, which is identical with Henry Kissinger's long-held position that Ukraine should not join NATO

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 Western civilisation is being destroyed by its own decadence Zoe Strimpel, UK Telegraph Last week, Nigel Farage outed himself as deeply unf...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Who needs FreedomWorks 1984-2024, its mission accomplished by BIDEN letting in 10 million illegals ha ha ha ha ha

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The libertarian political action organization FreedomWorks is calling it quits effective immediately as funding evaporates and it is no long...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The world is drunk on debt: Global debt at all levels reached $307 trillion in 3Q2023

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IIF CEO Tim Adams sounded the alarm on rising levels of debt while speaking to CNBC’s Silvia Amaro at the World Economic Forum in Davos, S...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

For a good time, call Angela: The Libertarian Party is very interested in RFK Jr for Election 2024 but not Justin Amash lol

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  In July, Mr. Kennedy met privately with Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, at a conference they were both attending in Me...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Lolbertarian says the worst possible thing which could happen to the economy (i.e. "to me") is higher future taxes

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More self-absorbed than your average tranny. Scott Sumner, here : The consequence of the reckless fiscal policy will not be a financial cris...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Four true words

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 Trump lacked the discipline.        Stated here . That's still the fundamental problem, but that's been the case from the beginning...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

The Fed was supposed to tighten its balance sheet starting Jun 15th: Nearly three months later it's down a measly $110 billion to . . . $8.822 TRILLION

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 The Fed is all talk about combating inflation, no action. Because the top 10% of the country has 89% of the money that way, dummy. True pop...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Joel Kotkin has come around, now calls it what it is: Global fascism

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In 2018, Kotkin was still tip-toeing around the obvious, but not anymore: Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant in ...