he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.

Funny how the entire first four years he was in office all we heard was about the stock market and any stock market rise was an indicator of what a great job he was doing, but now the stock market indicates nothing when it comes to the health of the economy because he is tanking it

So if blue states act like red states, where will red states get funding??

Exactly

Very painful to see yet again how unimportant women are in this country. The fact that all these men have sexual abuse allegations against them, but it is not considered meaningful enough to stop their nominations, is hard to wrap my head around.

4. Hegseth published a column in college that claimed having sex with an unconscious woman is not rape

The piece published by Hegseth claimed that rape required both the failure to consent and "duress," and women who are passed out cannot experience "duress"