Not on the unlimited firepower and diplomatic cover for Israel issue.

To be fair, surpassing Tesla in quality is a very low bar.

Not really - seems like a pretty accurate description

One step less extreme - hair bleach kills them, and you get to keep the (somewhat damaged) hair. Ask me how I know.

Dehumidifier if it’s wet or you have a basement. Washing machine. Clothes dryer on a timer if you don’t hang dry. Dishwasher if you have one (uses more power than you think - they start with cold water and electrically heat it even if you have a water heater). Pump water to a cistern if you have a well (or lake if you’re on a bit of land - good for irrigation and even pumped hydro). Any tool that uses a universal motor. EV charging (including bikes).

Look around your house - anything that you only do once a day or less is fair game.

Or storing it. That’s the ideal time for EV charging.

It’s called [Philosophical/Religious/Metaphisical/Leibnizian] Optimism, was seriously argued by Leibniz, and was the satirical subject of Voltaire’s Candide, and definitely persists as a lay Christian belief.

Ah, misunderstood. You’re right then, as far as it goes. The Democrats could theoretically filibuster any other bills, but I’ll believe it when I see it. So far they’ve demonstrated the spine of a flatworm.

The GOP threat was to primary anyone who voted no. They did it to be yes men and not get primaried.

That’s the only thing that matters. The rest is neither justification nor excuse.

No, they can’t. It passed the senate before this house vote.

A suitcase?

Every bit as sad (and true) today as it was in 1978.

Be the second teacher you want to see in the world!

But buying it did.

On the bright side, they can now be court martialed.

Paywall bypass for the article’s link on the hackers that exfiltrated message contents: https://archive.is/8kaQQ

It’s where you pay someone to give you money if you burn your inn down.

As long as that infant happens to be a cow

At which point they stop being nazis

I was skeptical of your numbers, so I did the math:

Taking the first article I found newer than 2022, US billionaires have about $6.22 trillion of wealth ± recent stock market changes. UBI of $1000/month is most commonly estimated to cost $4 trillion/year.

US budget in 2024 was 6.8 trillion, but 1.87 trillion is in social security and income security programs UBI would replace, so the net change would raise the budget by 2.17 trillion to 8.39T. So 8.896 months - more like nine months than eight, but surprisingly close.

Of course, that assumes all other taxes are wiped out, which nobody has ever proposed. I can’t find a number anywhere for total income tax paid by billionaires, so we’ll be generous. OMB estimates billionaires pay an average tax rate of only 8.2%. Their wealth increased 2.9 trillion over 7 years, so ignore compounding and call it 414B/yr. And pretend it’s all taxed (which it isn’t - most isn’t considered income). That’s 33.9B in income taxes the IRS doesn’t collect after wiping out the billionaires. That reduces IRS revenues collected from 5.1T to 5.06T (being generous again with the rounding). That buys us another 7 months of government funding.

Alternatively, doubling the effective tax rate on the top 1% earning over 3.3M/yr from 26.09% to 52.18% would balance the budget including the new UBI. Get the effective tax rate on billionaires to match and you can start paying off the national debt. All without touching the middle class or even lowering anyone’s income below 1.65M/yr.

Don’t get me wrong - taxing billionaires out of existence is certainly a moral imperative - it just isn’t necessary to fund UBI.

Staple it to job applications too. I suspect many blue state and private schools would see it as a commendation.