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1. https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-apologizes-after-being-accused-of-asking-teen-boys-for-sexual-pics

    

   Local Loveland Nazi was in gay relationship with Ali Alexander 

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   1. from the article "In 2017, Aidan Duncan—a 15-year-old boy in Colorado interested in right-wing politics—sent Alexander nude pictures after the MAGA activist asked him for them, according to an account Duncan gave in a March 2023 podcast appearance."

       

      Sorry, but texting 15 year olds isn't a "gay relationship." Requesting nudes and receiving them probably falls under a variety of criminal offenses. It certainly falls into the "stupid" zone. But, of course, it doesn't fall far enough to be in a "Shame" zone for many Republicans.

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2. Chris Hayes (twitter)

   Republicans understand better than anyone that running fiscal deficits boosts growth and austerity hurts growth. They have a completely consistent record on this: they favor large deficits under Republican presidents and huge cuts and austerity under Democratic presidents.

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   1. Brad DeLong:

      Back before 2000 the Trump administration, the Paul Ryan House, the Mitch McConnell Senate, and the entire caucus of professional Republican economists united behind a tax cut for the rich that created no net incentives for investment in America. They claimed they were doing it to boost America’s capital stock—by an extra 40% when the economy would have arrived at its steady-state, according to Robert Barro. And Mike Boskin signed on to that forecast. In actual fact it had zero effect.

      And now the Biden Administration with CHIPS (opposed by 2/3 of Senate and 9/10 of House Republicans) and IRA (opposed by all Republicans), has actually done something, and set things in motion:

      "Amanda Chu & Oliver Roeder: ‘Transformational change’: Biden’s industrial policy begins to bear fruit: ‘Companies have committed roughly $204bn in large-scale projects to boost US semiconductor and clean-tech production as of April 14, promising to create at least 82,000 jobs. While not all these projects were a direct result of the passage of these bills, they will probably be eligible for the tax credits. The amount is almost double the capital spending commitments made in the same sectors in 2021 and nearly 20 times the amount in 2019…. “The industrial policy that’s being put into place hasn’t been seen for generations,” said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. “This is a generational, transformational change that we’re seeing in America and our productive capacity.”… More than 75 per cent of all investment is headed to Republican-held Congressional districts, where it will create 58,000 jobs, according to FT data. The surge in spending pledges in Republican areas comes despite the GOP’s votes against both the Chips Act and IRA in Congress…"

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