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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 1h

She supported Rosanne Barr and Jill Stein???? Whatever she's been smoking, I do not want.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 2h

rapists deserve a medieval punishment that leaves them scarred for life just like their victims.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 5h

It's only "free money" when it goes to those "other" people (wink wink nudge nudge), but when it comes to you and me, it is the perfection of laissez-faire capitalism for those who do not understand definitions or economics or socio-political theories. You know, MAGAts. The Master Race, y'all.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 6h

The problem is that the fascist cult conflates Trump with America as though they were one and the same thing. So how do we know it is a cult? What do you get when you cross a riddle with a rhetorical question?

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 7h

How cute to think that authoritarians will ever give up one scintilla or even a soupcon of power. Cute!

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, I've got admit, that's really funny. To think that Democrats will suddenly become vertebrate after they have spent the last 60+ years giving away the candy store in the name of bipartisanship and "not wanting to set bad precedent". It would be laughable if not so sad.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 7h

Great grieving Ganesh! I just learned that the wife-unit thinks that "they" are monitoring our poop to be sure we aren't "on drugs". Srsly- "they" have some kind of device attached to our sewage line. She learned this from an online friend. How do you deal with paranoid delusions?

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 8h

I have a handful of t-shirts that have variations on "veterans against fascism" or "veterans against Trump", and they confuse the hell out of locals who are convinced that everyone military supports Orange Chomo and not just the right wing but left wing whackos.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 8h

I forgot to include "who were not going to get promoted because they were incompetent, inept, and self-aggrandizing". sorry.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 8h

accused, arrested, tried, or convicted? You know, because "guilty until proven innocent," amirite? To be accused is to be guilty; a founding principle of autocratic minds and autocratic states. why is this sofa king hard?

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

I worked the Guard/Reserve Liaison Office for three years, and so got more familiar than I wanted to be with Guard personnel. Hic*seth is the epitome of all of the majors who were not going to get promoted ever, and there were a LOT of them.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 20h

but only when they say "daddy" ew

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What are we doing? It's obvious. We are turning into a police state, with "laws" (that are arbitrary and change moment to moment) enforced by terrorists. Your tax dollars at work.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Fox people do not realize that they are advocating for government control of the economy. I wonder what the word is for "government-controlled economy"? I thought they were opposed to that. Oh, yeah. That's right. They're idiots.

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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

TRUMPY PUTTING THREE NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS BLOCKING A LEGAL BALLOT DROP BOX IS CLEARLY ILLEGAL. THEY DOING THI ALL OVER DC? DC NEEDS TO GET THEM MOVED, EVEN IF MEANS ARRESTING THEM AND PUTTING THEM IN JAIL/

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, that "again" suggests that they have raped girls multiple times before this incident. There is no punishment I can think of that would be sufficient.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oligarchs and aristocrats and "nobles" never learn that you can't eat money.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Given that Putin's "aspirations" are the restoration of Russia's almost mythical empire that would include several East Europe countries. It's kind of similar to Hitler's "aspirations" that gave us "peace in our time". Those who won't learn from history...

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He's just playing word games to trigger the MAGAts. In this case, JV Dunce learned well from Pavlov-- use the right words and phrases and the ijjits will slobber at the mouth and gibber about evil socialisms! They are simple people. Very simple.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

simplistic, binary thinking. The venue for extremists and toddlers and the demented

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

J.Carville still has not figured out that Orange Chomo does not think. There is the same level of thinking as a wild dog. It's all just lashing out and seizing the most immediate. It may vaguely resemble thinking, but it isn't. J.C. is kind of slow. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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Carville asks if Trump is ‘trying to lose’ midterms or if there is ‘some other explanation’

Democratic strategist James Carville questioned President Trump’s midterm strategy as Republicans face a rocky political road this election cycle. On a Thursday episode of his “Politics War Room” p…

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just a reminder: Mr. Talarico has repeatedly called Paxton. Paxton has yet to answer or return calls. Paxton is the one refusing to debate. Given his record, that's understandable. Given Orange Chomo's record, it's not surprising that he is lying again.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...) Most of us leave behind when we get to be about 5- 6 yoa.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again, for those hard of hearing in the back rows, executive orders are not law. Executive orders apply to the executive branch offices and only to the executive branch offices. www.freightwaves.com/news/red-dye...

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Red dye diesel break is being greeted with a big yawn

So far, nobody in the trucking market is racing to embrace the tax break from using red dye diesel.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gee, maybe that should be 60 billion double dollars! Let me check with Vash just to be sure.

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Bob @bobwheeler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't forget what Gymn Jordan did to an generation of little boys. People like Jordan are completely without a sense of shame.

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