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merrickgarland

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RE: Jeb Bush Still Resents Trump. Wants Republican To Challenge Him, As Long As It Isn't Him

The underlying notion that Trumps hate Bushes and that Bushes would support Democrats over Trump is standard MSM propaganda. It is neither deep nor accurate. What do we have to indicate that the statements

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merrickgarland

7y

RE: The DISASTER Of Minimum Wage Hikes! - Poverty And Unemployment SKYROCKET

There is no good data in this post to demonstrate that minimum wage increases reduce employment. But the word "emotion" appears a few times. it creates more unemployment (that will be hidden

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merrickgarland

7y

RE: Racism In Talk Radio

"my ratings are already good, this will make them go through the roof! Thank you, I really mean that." There we go. That's the explanation why the internet is so full of reactionary material.

merrickgarland

7y

RE: Climate objectives: let us apportion responsibility where it should be

Personal empowerment and personal consciousness are great messages, and those of us who choose to live by these concepts are free to do so to some extent. But the big system also needs to change or our

merrickgarland

7y

RE: Elizabeth Warren's idea of breaking up large firms is asinine.

The government-created internet has made so many goods so much more readily accessible. The vast majority of value goes to consumers (because that is almost always true with business-to-consumer transactions),

merrickgarland

7y

RE: The IRS is the largest gang of thieves!

There have been five major tax cuts since Ronald Reagan wrecked the economy in 1981. Each one has damaged the plight of regular people and helped the plutocrats gain greater percentages of the pie --

merrickgarland

7y

RE: AOC and Mass Disinformation Campaigns

1... PERSONALIZE ISSUE FOR POLITICAL EFFECT. AOC is not a part of your "spook chicanery." The media is propping her up to become the face of socialism, just like the way they put Al Gore out

merrickgarland

8y

RE: Fake News: Justice Kavanaugh Would Hardly Change The Supreme Court At all

Underlying your post is the substantive issue that Brett Kavanaugh will make no difference or that such differences do not matter. I contested that view two ways: The Court is already too conservative,

merrickgarland

8y

RE: Fake News: Justice Kavanaugh Would Hardly Change The Supreme Court At all

The chart shown here depicts relative ideologies. It does not show the overall Court ideology. The Supreme Court in total has become more conservative over time. It has gone so far that it is now reactionary.

merrickgarland

8y

RE: SPACE FORCE IS ONE BIG LIE!

"Space Force" is straight out of the George W. Bush think tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and its document from the summer of 2000, "Rebuilding America's Defenses."

merrickgarland

8y

RE: dTube: FBI Reconstructing Shredded Documents from Michael Cohen Raid

I imagine myself in my office with all my documents and a shredder. Documents currently in the shredder and going to be either the most current stuff I have or some old archive that I decided I no longer

merrickgarland

8y

RE: It's time to start buying votes in fascist America.

Voting is one of the tools in our toolbox. It is a pretty simple tool, and one we should all choose to use. As for the other tools, they are important too. We can mock one tool and pursue another (bogging

merrickgarland

8y

RE: Republicans Again Trying to Destroy Democracy By Shortening Voting Hours In Atlanta

As we talk so much about "corruption" and wars, there is not enough talk about the greatest crimes against America -- namely, those who would routinely game elections for the purpose of maintaining

merrickgarland

9y

RE: PNAC Agenda for Multiple Mideast Wars Resumes Under Donald Trump

Thank you. Not that things were good before, but 2016 really flipped things around. The corporate media became the "Democratic partisan" establishment, and Donald Trump became an

merrickgarland

9y

RE: Donald Trump's National Security Strategy of War Described in NYT is Full Establishment

merrickgarland

9y

RE: Hold Congress

@everittmickey You're on a role today with unequal representation posts. Why is the number 435? Probably for the simple reason that that's where they were when they froze it. It was like musical chairs.

merrickgarland

9y

RE: Property is violence.

You really hit the nail on the head here. Pure libertarianism is essentially property and police. A "principle" will not be followed unless it is enforced through threat and power. All those

merrickgarland

9y

RE: PNAC Agenda for Multiple Mideast Wars Resumes Under Donald Trump

merrickgarland

9y

RE: The Rich Get Richer, Richest 0.1% Of The Population Have Increased Their Wealth By As Much As The Poorest 50%

LEVERAGE. Wealth inequality increases this little thing called leverage. As fewer and fewer people control more and more of the economy, they can leverage the economy is ways to benefit themselves and

merrickgarland

9y

RE: I'm bringing some major creators to Steemit