That was my thought exactly.

That guy is younger than me but looks old enough to be my dad.

That’s not good enough because the vast majority of their wealth will never be spent. It will just be used to accumulate more wealth.

That’s why all of these billionaires have real tax rates in the low single digits (or less). Even with opulent spending habits they keep most of their gains unrealized, so they are never taxed.

Note that the inflation adjusted average rate of return on the stock market over the long run is ~8% (https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1980)

That means a 2% wealth tax on billionaires would not make them lose a single penny. Instead, it would just slow down the rate at which their wealth grows (while still growing exponentially).

If you assume 7% annual rate of return on that $230 billion, then 3 months “salary” would be a little over $4 billion.

That being said, as others have pointed out, the “3 months salary” guideline is just propaganda from DeBeers and no one in their right mind should ever spend that type of money on a piece of jewelry.

That was a mistake in my original post. I meant to say that you DON’T specify a political affiliation when you register.

Thanks for catching that, I edited the original post to fix it.

The bomb threats were real. I never said every item on the list was fake… it’s the list itself is B.S.

Mixing real voter suppression techniques along with easily debunked fake ones makes the real ones more likely to be dismissed.

That’s why I said these sorts of misinformation posts make it harder to fight back against voter suppression.

Texas doesn’t have registered Democrats because you don’t specify a party affiliation when you register to vote in Texas.

I’m not going to spot check the rest of the items, but this list is at least partially B.S. so the whole thing is suspect.

Yes, the Republicans cheat and voter suppression is the only thing that keeps them in power, but spreading misinformation about that voter suppression makes it harder to fight, not easier.

That’s encouraging to hear.

Can you share any links about the strategy changes you think will help?

We can’t control the American voters so complaining about them doesn’t actually accomplish anything.

We can, however, change the Democratic party to better align with the voters.

That should be everyone’s focus.

The democrats objectively were wrong.

They lost the election.

That’s the only measure of right or wrong that actually matters.

They literally had only one job and they fucked it up again.

No, not every woman, just the black and brown ones.

This is going to be enforced the exact same way the war on drugs is; selectively based on perceived race.

He actually did take the oath without putting his hand on a bible and they did try to make a big deal about it.

John Roberts messed up the oath during the inauguration and they had to redo it later.

During the do-over there was no bible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama

This is a bury-your-head-in-the-sand level of denial.

His legacy is genocide.

Nothing else… if you engage in genocide that’s the only legacy you get.

Everything else gets overshadowed and forgotten.

Their plan is to claim that the children of undocumented immigrants are somehow not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore not granted citizenship based on the 14th amendment.

Yes, it really is as stupid as it sounds; claiming that undocumented immigration gives your descendants the equivalent of diplomatic immunity.

@athairmor@lemmy.world is right; presidents cannot pardon state level crimes: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/

Specifically, the offense must be “against the United States”, and state level offenses are only against the respective state, not the United States.

It only applies if he took an oath to uphold the constitution prior to committing the treason.

I.E. government officials and ex military personnel who took place in the Jan 6 riots would be disqualified, but not every random yahoo that was there.

EDIT: Others have pointed out that he is ex-military, so it looks like the 14th amendment does apply to him after all.