The GOP is still morally corrupt, even if Discourse breaks

[ShivaX]

But they’ll stop creating jobs, Mitt Romney told me so.

/s

[antlers]

At the same time it seems weird to tax someone because someone else is making money speculating on stock in their company.

[ShivaX]

YS

[scottagibson]

@antlers

At the same time it seems weird to tax someone because someone else is making money speculating on stock in their company.

…or because the market value of their house went up!

Oh. Wait…

[gruntled]

@ShivaX

But they’ll stop creating jobs, Mitt Romney told me so

Time to remind people that Romney made his fortune by killing jobs?

How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich? Robert Reich Explains

[John_Doyle]

@scottagibson

…or because the market value of their house went up!

Oh. Wait…

Indeed. I’d feel more outraged about taxing billionaires, but I don’t have time because I need to go pay my property taxes.

[Pyperkub]

@Strollen

@RothdaTheTruculent

If you are in the wealth class these people are, you just keep doing debt-financing until you die, at which point a new set of loopholes kick in. There’s no need to ever sell stock or pay a cent in taxes.

Margin calls. At least that’s what happened in 1929, 2008, and number of other bear markets in history.

“My partner Charlie says there is only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage ,” Warren Buffet.

Note that Buffet doesn’t include taxes or the government taking one’s money.

[Timex]

Burr’s Brother-in-Law Called Stock Broker, One Minute After Getting Off Phone...

After Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina dumped more than $1.6 million in stocks in February 2020 a week before the coronavirus market crash, he called his brother-in-law, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

They talked for 50 seconds.

Burr, according to the SEC, had material nonpublic information regarding the incoming economic impact of coronavirus.

The very next minute, Burr’s brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, called his broker.

[Menzo]

It’s just locker room insider trading. Nothing to see here.

[scottagibson]

A tweet!

Mitt Romney

For context, the tweeter is a guy who got rich by destroying companies and jobs, then pretended to be a moderate and a Massachussetts resident to become governor, then pretended to be a conservative in a failed bid to be President, then pretended to be a Utahan to be elected Senator, then pretended to be anti-Trump, then sucked up to Trump when he got the nomination, then became anti-Trump again, then became anti-Biden, then became pro-Manchin-and-Sinema to help kill good legislation. The subject of the tweet is a woman who used to be a progressive, then became the Democratic Senator from Arizona, then became opposed to any Democratic legislative initiatives in the Senate. The tweet also features the author, apparently wearing a fake mustache, giving a box of cookies to the female Senator, while calling them biscuits, as some sort of homage to her conservative street cred, which she earned by helping him shit on the poors. Or something.

(Enough context? Too much?)

[Thrag]

Well, it is a perfect motif since Sinema is trying to destroy the team.

[Wallapuctus]

Why is Romney wearing a hitler mustache?

[KevinC]

@scottagibson

pretended to be a Utahan

Now, if he ever referred to himself as a Utahan, that would surely have lost him the election! I know the spellcheckers are all use that, but it’s a term I have literally never anyone in the state use. It’s Utahn.

Completely unimportant and unlikely to ever come up in your life again, but Mitt Romney insisting he was a Utahan made me chuckle because it’d be the most Mitt Romney thing ever. :)

[rrmorton]

Ted Lasso is also important context for those who don’t know! That explains the mustache and whistle and biscuits with the boss and basically the whole thing.

[Thrag]

And the sabotage.

[rrmorton]

Ha! Indeed.

[Scotch_Lufkin]

@scottagibson

The tweet also features the author, apparently wearing a fake mustache, giving a box of cookies to the female Senator, while calling them biscuits, as some sort of homage to her conservative street cred

I assume it’s a Ted Lasso reference.

[scottagibson]

@KevinC

Now, if he ever referred to himself as a Utahan, that would surely have lost him the election! I know the spellcheckers are all use that, but it’s a term I have literally never anyone in the state use. It’s Utahn.

Completely unimportant and unlikely to ever come up in your life again, but Mitt Romney insisting he was a Utahan made me chuckle because it’d be the most Mitt Romney thing ever. :)

This is information not available in the tweet thread, though, so nobody could know it.

[scottagibson]

@rrmorton

Ted Lasso is also important context for those who don’t know! That explains the mustache and whistle and biscuits with the boss and basically the whole thing.

So you’re saying not enough context? I blew it?

[inactive_user]

Someone’s having a case of the Mondays!