Tuesday Open Thread

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1. AOC schools Meghan McCain: What is socialism, anyway? To McCain's and AOC's credit, the conversation was civil and enlightening.

   Ocasio-Cortez brought up how our current paradigm means that people are dying because they cannot afford insulin due to big pharma greed and zero regulations. Here, McCain asked how this would be paid for. It’s obvious around these here parts that a $2.1 trillion tax cut doesn’t pay for anything and the bill is being footed by those of us not getting the tax cut, but I digress.

   Before Ocasio-Cortez could begin to answer, McCain, looking at her conservative think tank-provided notes, pointed out that free public college tuition would have a large-looking cost over 10 years. Ocasio-Cortez then made the observation that “It's funny because progressive policies are always talked about in 10-year price tags and conservative policies always talk about one-year price tags.” The dais, sans McCain, laughed at that fact, and then Ocasio-Cortez explained we don’t seem to worry about how we are going to pay for the $100 billion our military budget has increased duringa couple years of Trump, nor do conservatives seem to fear the apocalypse when “big government” controls women’s bodies.

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2. I thought this line came from Joe Biden.

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3. Another day, another SCOTUS Justice property-dealings ethics scandal: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

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   1. But they must be ethical by default – they're Supreme Court justices!

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4. Noel Casler is slaying it on the bird…

   I’m gonna tell MAGA a secret. Trump didn’t make it down to the Oval Office everyday until noon. They called it ‘executive time’ what it was is Adderall induced infirmity. He was unmanageable on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and required a man servant (Schiller) to change his f’n diaper.

   — NoelCaslerComedy🌙 (@caslernoel) April 25, 2023

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