@rbreich Yes. But what about Willie Horton and gay marriage?

@rbreich what’s stopping the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee from demanding a copy of Thomas’s tax returns and having public hearings on its contents?

@pbump it’s interesting to play that scenario out. Send the TX guard into New Jersey - for example- while Biden is President. When they arrive, have the Gov request that DoD federalize the guard and have them remain on TDA (Temporary Duty Assignment”) there for an indefinite period of time. Anyone who then tries to leave NJ is then subject to court martial for desertion.

@pbump I, too, am alarmed by the intellectual vandalism and rhetorical violence of ‘naturalized’ citizens from Australia and their evil spawn.

@rbreich for the same reason that Richard Nixon, Strom Thurmond, Tom Delay, Spiro Agnew, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, David Duke, Jesse Helms, Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, and Ed Meese were considered ‘heroic’ - they’re Republicans

@Eddiethebulldog @pbump exactly right. And, as this guy says …. https://youtu.be/OkcmOyXcLZw

@pbump the problem with the Republican Party is not Trump - its beating soul and its heart - the problem is the Republican Party. Has been since Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party in 1948 and migrated (along with the rest of the Klan - e.g. David Duke) to the Republicans. Just like the antebellum plantation owners, the plutocrats who inhabit offices in DC enjoy their power there by harnessing the racist energies of “the base” - not because of their tax policy

@pkrugman so is the takeaway from this data that increases in real wages are being driven by labor supply scarcity as opposed to political action (e.g. legislation increasing the minimum wage)?

@pbump great piece Phil. Very perceptive and thought-provoking. Thanks

@MichaelTBacon @pbump make no mistake. I loathe the Murdoch’s nihilistic politics. It’s why I won’t watch ANYTHING (including the Super Bowl and the World Series) on FOX let alone anything on FIX News