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There Are No Good Billionaires (Bill Gates edition)

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 59 minutes ago

So, Elizabeth Warren has a 2% wealth tax plan with 3% on people with more than a billion dollars. She’s suggested raising the over a billion percentage to 6%… And Bill Gates says…. I’m all for super-progressive tax systems,” he said. “I’ve paid over $10 billion in taxes. I’ve paid more than anyone in taxes. […]

I am not so absolute.
I know of no good billionaires.

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Hurricane Tweet That Angered Trump Wasn’t About Trump, Forecasters Say

Lisa Friedman and Mark Walker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

Meteorologists were addressing public concern, not the president's tweets, when they assured Alabamians that a hurricane would not hit them, according to new documents.

let it go.
Trump is foolish.

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Hillary Clinton on Medicare for All: ‘The Goal Is the Right Goal,’ but It Won’t Pass

Alexander Burns at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

The 2016 Democratic nominee said she viewed two central policies embraced by the left in the 2020 primary — single-payer health care and a wealth tax — as unworkable or politically impractical.

Sadly it is so.

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Bill Gates Objects to Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax, and She Offers to Explain

Jacey Fortin at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

The Democratic presidential candidate addressed Mr. Gates on Twitter after he questioned whether “she’d even be willing” to sit down with someone “who has large amounts of money.”

Bill Gates has proven that he is narrow minded.

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The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest Updates

NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

An aide to Vice President Mike Pence is testifying privately as House impeachment investigators wrap up their fact-finding and release transcripts of their interviews so far.

Some progress is made.

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Bernie Sanders Is Flush With Cash. Here’s How He Plans to Spend It.

Reid J. Epstein and Sydney Ember at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

As he steps up his efforts in Iowa, Mr. Sanders is using a traditional media platform to try to bring new voters into the political system to support him.

Sanders needs all the support he can get.

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Republicans Claim Trump Closed a 17-Point Gap in Kentucky. That’s Not Quite What Happened.

Jeremy W. Peters and Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

Public and internal Republican Party polls suggested the race had been extremely close before President Trump arrived.

The Trump campaign is known to lie.

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Powerful Coalition Pushes Back on Anti-Tech Fervor

David McCabe at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

The movement to reinterpret or change antimonopoly laws is running headlong into a legal community and interest groups just as invested in defending the status quo.

The group does not know what technology means.
Get the words right.

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Nonvoters Are a Source of Hope for Democrats. But Maybe a False Hope.

Nate Cohn at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

Demographically, they seem like people who’d want to vote out Trump. Yet at least in the battleground states, many favor Republicans.

More hope may be required.

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In Louisiana, Trump Attacks ‘Deranged’ Impeachment Inquiry and ‘Radical’ Governor

Katie Rogers and Richard Fausset at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago

Ahead of another election, the president sought to tie the state’s Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, to the party he has repeatedly painted as “delusional.”

Trump is deluded.
He may not be wrong on all points.

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Trump’s Twitter War Room Aims Its Punches at Decorated Colonel

Mike McIntire and Nicholas Confessore at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago

The president and his allies have used the platform to frame his defense and attack key witnesses, including Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman.

Trump is not allowed to influence his impeachment for past events.
Indictment is not an occasion for defense.
He must wait for trial.

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Attorney General Declined Trump Request to Declare Nothing Illegal in Ukraine Call

Michael D. Shear, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

President Trump asked Attorney General William P. Barr to hold a news conference stating that no laws were broken in his call with Ukraine’s president. Mr. Barr declined.

Mr Barr is acting properly this time.

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Behind the Deal That Put Giuliani Together With a Dirt-Hunting Partner

Kenneth P. Vogel, Ben Protess and Sarah Maslin Nir at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

Rudy Giuliani wanted $500,000 to help a venture started by a man who would go on to help him in Ukraine. A Republican donor from Long Island put up the money.

Trump will be impeached.

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White House Plans to Add 2 Aides to Fight Impeachment of Trump

Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

The two officials are Tony Sayegh, a former Treasury aide, and Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general.

Trump has no input into the impeachment process after it begins.

These aides are employed for fraud.

 

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Appeals Court Nominee Shaped DeVos’s Illegal Loan Forgiveness Effort

Steven Menashi is disqualified as a judge.

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Trump Is Fighting So Many Legal Battles, It’s Hard to Keep Track

Peter Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 18 hours ago

Yes.

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What the 2019 Election Means for 2020

Lisa Lerer at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago

Trump's hold is unstable.

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E.P.A. Watchdog, Citing ‘Open Defiance’ of Inquiries, Rebukes Top Agency Aide

Coral Davenport at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago

The agency's inspector general assailed the official for refusing to cooperate, calling his actions a “flagrant problem.”

It is a proper action.

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Jeff Sessions Will Run for His Old Alabama Senate Seat. Trump Does Not Approve.

Jeremy W. Peters and Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago

The former attorney general and four-term senator risks reigniting attacks from President Trump, who could undermine his standing in the primary race.

I wish Sessions no good luck.

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Visclosky, Longtime Indiana Democrat, to Retire as Centrists Exit Congress

Trump has left no center.

 

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