Debunk or Straw Man? Debunking shows that an idea is not true or is misleading by challenging its misconceptions. Straw manning deceptively misrepresents or distorts the idea to make it easier to challenge and attack. PSA: Beware the straw manner masquerading as the debunker.

What defines today’s Republicans better than conditioning one’s vote on larger cuts in assistance for the poorest, most helpless, most desperate Americans?

“It's a big club, and you ain't in it.”

Greedy, cruel, cult shit.

Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social John ‘John’ Morrison David McNab @[email protected] Bill Goggin w////am ❗️ Patricia Dr. Steve Keen Diets Tweets selise Clonal Antibody 🌹 Relearning Economics Ole Peters Sometimes the extremes are informative. Export everything/import nothing= you die. Import everything and export nothing= the life of a trust baby

“… the issuance of government securities, far from financing government spending, serves no other purpose than to set a positive interest rate on government liabilities and offer a risk-free asset to the private sector.” mmt-france.org/2025/07/01/rem…

It’s the most consequential product of capitalism: manufactured and marketed relentlessly 24-7 by the wealthy and powerful to maintain the status quo.

Hakeem Jeffries is still speaking but eventually Republicans are going to pass their megabill. And it hasn't been discussed much, but that is going to force $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Not just Medicaid. Medicare. Here's why:

It's Trump's dementia speaking again. FWIW, even a quarter century ago, when the estate tax hit more people, the National Farmers Bureau could not find a single family that lost their farm because of the tax nytimes.com/2001/04/08/us/…

Mad TV 30 years ago.

“And what is more, and let's be clear about this, the government would even balance its books …” No.

The Great Pretenders Together we don’t need to tax or borrow to spend. But we pretend “we must” and erect Rube Goldberg schemes to show “we do.” Then pretend to be broke if we don’t — too broke even to save ourselves. Hard to deny that we deserve what we get. Simple as that.

Highly recommend. darrenquinn.substack.com/p/mmt-on-inter…