Don’t overlook that Israel is running an apartheid state, btw. The great example of democracy in the Middle East!
You're almost as bad as the MAGAt I talked to on the street today.
It's pretty amusing. In mixed company - the MAGAs always waffle around and give dog whistles under their breath, thinly veiled.
At one point he said "you and I are both smart, and thinkers, trying to figure out which way to go", I said "I'm not figuring anything out, I already figured out what I'm going to do, and I've got the balls to say so".
Along the way I talked about how Trump was throwing all sorts of random BS against the wall, like "no taxes on tips" - I said that I think it's bullshit that if someone at McDonalds earns $20 in wages, and the Applebee's waitress earns $5 in wages and $15 in tips, the waitress gets a $15/hour tax deduction. Pay taxes on your income. Period. If the taxes are too high, lower them. If we need more taxes but want to tax McDonald's and Applebees workers less, lower the bottom bracket and raise the top brackets.
His response was "no taxes on tips was Harris' idea, they passed it, it was 50/50 in the Senate and she passed the tiebreaker vote!"
A lot to unpack here. He thinks it's a bad idea because supposedly Harris rammed it through. But Dear Leader wants it to happen, despite it apparently being a bad idea, one that has already happened. I mentioned that "no, tips are currently taxed" and he got all into a fit saying "he had researched it". I calmly noted that we haven't had substantial tax legislation since Trump's 2017 tax "cuts", at which point he told me that "you don't research things!"