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I wonder if NYC DSA co-chair“union” Gustavo is regretting his consequential tweet that got him exposed for: - living in a $1.5M house that his dad gifted him - being a former union member who was booted for skipping out on dues and being a no-show to work - confirmed by the Yale
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This tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about what CNN thinks of their audience. And, they aren’t wrong. 
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🚨 NEW: Greg Gutfeld SLAMS CNN for criticizing RFK’s affordable $20 meal plan by heating up the costs: “This is a classic media trope. Strategic stupidity! Deliberate ignorance!” “They pretend not to understand or deliberately misread the mechanism or logic of an action and then
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Pretty much all presidents get a carrier named after them. That is the standard naming protocol since 1968 or there about. Next carrier is Clinton and the one after is Bush.
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JD Vance went on Newsmax this week and blamed Joe Biden for the $40 trillion national debt, apparently betting that nobody in the audience owns a calculator.
The number crossed $40 trillion on Wednesday. Vance's explanation: the country "inherited this debt bomb from the Biden administration," and not to worry, Treasury has a "very discreet plan" to grow our way out.
Here's the part he skipped.
The debt grew by $8.4 trillion under Biden's four years. It grew by $11.6 trillion under Trump, across his two terms. That's not a rounding error. Trump's administrations account for nearly a third of the entire $40 trillion pile, more than any president in history.
And $3.8 trillion of it landed in the last eighteen months. Vance's own eighteen months.
The centerpiece was the One Big Beautiful Bill, the tax-cut package Trump signed last summer. The Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan scorekeeper both parties agreed to hire, put it at $3.4 trillion added to the deficit over ten years. With interest, $4.1 trillion. You cannot slash taxes, jack up spending, and then act stunned when the bill arrives.
Someone said exactly that out loud. It wasn't a Democrat.
Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman from Kentucky, called the bill "a debt bomb ticking" and voted against it. This week he told his own side to sit down: if you voted for the Big Beautiful Bill, don't come online pretending to be outraged that the debt hit $40 trillion.
Anyone with a "room temperature IQ," he wrote, saw it coming. So the "debt bomb" Vance pinned on Biden is the exact phrase a Republican used for Trump's own signature law. That's the whole trick in one sentence.
Keep this fact in your back pocket. Interest on the debt is now bigger than the entire Pentagon budget. This year it passed Medicare too, running close to $1.2 trillion. We're paying more to service old borrowing than we spend defending the country, and the meter sped up the day Trump's tax cuts kicked in.
None of this is complicated. It's arithmetic. The people who lit the match are standing over the fire, pointing at the guy who already left the room.
Vance's plan to fix it stays "very discreet." The numbers aren't.
They're counting on you not to check. Massie already did, and he's on their team.
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The number crossed $40 trillion on Wednesday. Vance's explanation: the country "inherited this debt bomb from the Biden administration," and not to worry, Treasury has a "very discreet plan" to grow our way out.
Here's the part he skipped.
The debt grew by $8.4 trillion under Biden's four years. It grew by $11.6 trillion under Trump, across his two terms. That's not a rounding error. Trump's administrations account for nearly a third of the entire $40 trillion pile, more than any president in history.
And $3.8 trillion of it landed in the last eighteen months. Vance's own eighteen months.
The centerpiece was the One Big Beautiful Bill, the tax-cut package Trump signed last summer. The Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan scorekeeper both parties agreed to hire, put it at $3.4 trillion added to the deficit over ten years. With interest, $4.1 trillion. You cannot slash taxes, jack up spending, and then act stunned when the bill arrives.
Someone said exactly that out loud. It wasn't a Democrat.
Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman from Kentucky, called the bill "a debt bomb ticking" and voted against it. This week he told his own side to sit down: if you voted for the Big Beautiful Bill, don't come online pretending to be outraged that the debt hit $40 trillion.
Anyone with a "room temperature IQ," he wrote, saw it coming. So the "debt bomb" Vance pinned on Biden is the exact phrase a Republican used for Trump's own signature law. That's the whole trick in one sentence.
Keep this fact in your back pocket. Interest on the debt is now bigger than the entire Pentagon budget. This year it passed Medicare too, running close to $1.2 trillion. We're paying more to service old borrowing than we spend defending the country, and the meter sped up the day Trump's tax cuts kicked in.
None of this is complicated. It's arithmetic. The people who lit the match are standing over the fire, pointing at the guy who already left the room.
Vance's plan to fix it stays "very discreet." The numbers aren't.
They're counting on you not to check. Massie already did, and he's on their team.
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