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Mike in Houston (Tariffs are taxes on consumers)
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35 year veteran of the energy industry. Firmly left-of-center. Fluent in sarcasm, adept at Boolean searches, bringer of receipts & champion eye-roller.
Houston, Texas
Joined September 2011
- Replying to @joshtpm and @erichhartmannAs someone who works for big oil, I see this as multiple safety (& regulatory) violations that could lead to injury, death and/or environmental disaster.
- Replying to @MalcolmNanceText STOP to unsubscribe from war plan updates
- Replying to @notcapnamericaGive neighbor the opportunity to purchase the area that he wants to keep and if he doesn’t want it, put the fence on your property line as marked… but use metal fence poles in concrete to deter vandalism.
- Replying to @OrganizerMemesHer name is Emily Wilson - I won't post her TikTok address, b/c I don't believe in giving her anymore clicks.
- Replying to @CV__PoliticsMusk & DOGE cut cancer research funding, so spare me.
- Replying to @FmrRepMTG @RepMTG and @elonmuskElon is an unelected bureaucrat with (checks notes) arguably more power than the President.
- Replying to @RachelBitecoferLeo XIII was Pope during the McKinley era that Trump is so enamored with and he fittingly promoted social justice, the rights of workers and care for the poor.
- Replying to @McGeeReportsTFW you get caught out in a lie about going to A&M and are going to a small-town junior college instead...
- Replying to @StupendousGrav1 and @andreivkozyrevTo quote Heinlein: “Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.”
- Replying to @notcapnamericaShe's a Republican "influencer" that honestly comes across even dumber on her own TikTok channel.
- The humorless MAGA-sphere is getting upset at President Biden "saluting" Martin Sheen. They don't get the joke - nor do they want to. They just want to be miserable in their caricature of an America as hellhole. So to them, I give you a reminder photo:
- Replying to @quendergeer and @EverTomorrowAnd of course, Elon - a scion of Apartheid - would make a black face robotic slave, er servant.





