Two Dead After Night Club Shooting: A security guard and another man were shot and killed outside Capri Bar and Restaurant, a hookah lounge in Rainier Beach. A different shooting occurred at this same lounge just a month ago. The recent violence draws fresh attention to new city council legislation that seeks to crack down on after-hours lounges that operate as private clubs, stay open past 2am, and aren’t regulated the same way as typical bars and restaurants. Several recent Seattle-area shootings like the December International District shooting have occurred outside similar establishments.
Shooting Near House Party: In the Tacoma area, two people are dead and four are injured after an early Saturday shooting near a house party. Multiple people called 911 when a fight broke out at the party. Police arrived about 30 seconds before the gunfire started. The victims were between 16 to 21 years old.
Local Jurisdictions Need New Revenue: That’s the subject line in the open letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson signed by 68 local officials across the Evergreen state. The letter calls on Ferguson to seek new progressive revenue options as budget deficits grow and federal cuts become imminent. Washington’s regressive tax code means there isn’t enough “funding for infrastructure, housing and human services, public health, and public safety” investments. The signers then list the measures they support including current bills in Olympia that would lift the 1 percent property tax cap, expand the sales tax to fund public safety programs, and more. Outgoing King County Executive Dow Constantine signed the letter, as did KC Exec hopeful Girmay Zahilay. King County Council Members Teresa Mosqueda, Rod Dembowski, and Jorge L. Barón also signed. The only Seattle City Council members to sign were Alexis Mercedes Rinck and Dan Strauss. Mayor Bruce Harrell, unsurprisingly, did not sign on.
The Weather: I’ll wager it’ll rain today. And, you know what? I wager it’ll rain tomorrow, too. April showers and all that.
Must Be Nice: France’s far-right party leader, Marine Le Pen, was barred from seeking office by a court due to embezzlement. The judge ruled Le Pen, as well as eight other people in her party and 12 who served as parliamentary aides, were embezzling public funds. Le Pen, the judge said, was “at the heart of ‘a system’ that her party used to siphon off EU parliament money,” reports the Associated Press. Some worry this ruling is an overstep. I dunno, I think it’s a good thing to prevent criminals from taking political control of a country and burning it to the ground for their own gain.
France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) March 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Musk Gives Out His Million Dollar Checks: Ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, which could change the makeup of the highest legal body in a battleground state, Elon Musk gave two $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters at a rally for the conservative candidate. Musk and groups he’s affiliated with have spent $20 million to get this guy elected ahead of a year where the Wisconsin Supreme Court—where liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority—will consider legislation on “abortion rights, congressional redistricting, union power, and voting rules.” The current Supreme Court declined to hear a case that objected to Musk’s political interference ahead of the event.
Myanmar Quake Kills Over 1,700: Friday’s quake in Myanmar and neighboring Thailand caused devastation. Though the death tolls are already high, prediction models expect deaths could exceed 10,000. Buildings collapsed throughout Myanmar. Many people are believed to still be trapped under the rubble. A woman was pulled out from under a collapsed hotel after 60 hours. She was alive.
The Stock Market Hates Trump: Trump’s beloved stock market keeps on plummeting. In the wake of his recent announcement that he would level tariffs on imports from all countries, the stock market hit its lowest point since 2022. The value of the US dollar also decreased 3.5 percent this month thanks to Trump’s global trade buffoonery. Meanwhile, the value of gold keeps on climbing as investors look for something—anything—safe to invest in. Goldman Sachs believes there’s a 35 percent chance that the US enters a recession in the next 12 months.
See? You Don’t Need Musk’s Blood Money: All you need is 88 cents and a dream. Last week, a gambler at the Mardi Gras-themed Orleans Hotel & Casino about two miles off the Las Vegas Strip bet 88 cents on a slot machine and won $19,627.01.
Tensions are high: The Pistons and the Timberwolves got into a tussle last night. Five players and two coaches were ejected from the game. In case you want to watch seven minutes of grown men fighting each other, here you go:
International Students Asked to Self-Deport: An email from the Department of Defense to certain student-visa holders in the US notified them that their F-1 visa had been revoked and that they should voluntarily leave the country. Allegedly, the students getting these emails participated in campus activism or showed social media activity—things as small as liking a political post the Trump administration considers unsavory—critical of those in power. Immigration attorneys say impacted students should seek legal representation.
Aide Worker Mass Grave in Gaza: Last week, aide group Palestine Red Crescent Society said nine of its emergency medical technicians had been missing for days after Israeli forces opened fire on ambulances and fire trucks near southern Rafah. Israel said the ambulances and fire trucks were “being used as cover by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants.” The United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs unearthed the missing humanitarian aides alongside their missing vehicles and six other aide workers using bulldozers and heavy machinery. They had been buried in what the UN called a mass grave.
Seems Like a Red Flag? Trump keeps refusing to say whether he’ll leave office after his second term—which, you know, is unconstitutional. He said he wasn’t joking about seeking a third term and that there are “methods” to make it happen.
I’m sorry to report we are actually not saving the bees. Honeybee deaths in the US have reached record highs. Scientists don’t know what’s causing it.
A Song for Your Monday: Do you like 1970s German electronic music? Good, I have just the ditty for you.
If only that bar had two security guards instead of one the shooters would have been deterred. Imposing more costs on an already-suffering industry is sure to solve our gun violence problem (or at least, is sure to help certain city officials be seen as doing something to solve that problem)!
Aid workers, not aide workers.
“I dunno, I think it’s a good thing to prevent criminals from taking political control of a country and burning it to the ground for their own gain.”
Yet The Stranger champions convicted felon Representative Tarra Simmons every chance they get, particularly when she proposes legislation to make it easier for more felons to vote.
So let’s see if I have this right?
When its a state legislator with politics they like, The Stranger is all for felons in elected leadership, making it easier to get more felon voters eligible to vote in more felons.
When its an elected leader with politics they don’t like, they are opposed to felons holding elected office, and having more of their felon supporters elect more of them.
Did I get that inconsistency right?
@1, If a business can’t make enough money to meet their common law duty to provide reasonable security on their premises, its not a viable, responsible business. It covers all its costs of doing business, pays taxes to contribute the common good, and returns a small, competitive profit to its owners, or it shouldn’t exist.
3 doesn’t sound like it, no
@3 I think the key phrase was meant to be “burning it to the ground for their own gain,” but I agree that it’s distasteful for people left of center to now demonize cRiMiNaLs because a politician they don’t like was convicted of felonies. Anyone who’s served their debt to society, like Rep. Simmons, should be as welcome to participate in our democracy as any other member of the community.
@6 Also, the key phrase in your response is “served their debt to society.” When does Trump do that? Oh, yeah, never.
@1, A business that doesn’t meet all its social obligations and costs is anti-social by definition, whether those costs are disposal costs for the pollution they create or the security problems they cause.
Customers who won’t pay enough for the service or goods the business provides for the business to cover all its costs, including social ones, are also anti-social. They also show how little they value what the business provides when they vote their discretionary dollars at a different business instead.
Are you advocating for socially irresponsible businesses. It pays better doing it as a hired gun for some business, rather than in comment threads on The Slog.
@1 They did have two security guards. One of them literally ran away as soon as the shots were fired. They’re just doormen. Aint worth dying for $20 an hour.
@7, An elected Judge in NY, ruled Trumps debt to society paid in full under the laws and authority granted to him by the democratically elected Legislature of New York.
I don’t happen to agree with the Judge, but I am not a NY voter. Standing in the way of the democratic majority of NY voters, even if I was a NY voter, as they created the Trump outcome, would be antidemocratic.
Are you democratic when it suits you, and antidemocratic when it doesn’t?
Then there is the matter of the national voters, that I disagree with, that elected Trump in spite of being a 34 times convicted felon. It’s a feature of democracy, not a bug, that the folks who won the last election get to cram their candidate and priorities down the throats of those that didn’t.
So democratic when it suits you, and antidemocratic when it doesn’t?
@6, @7, Representative Simmons sponsored legislation to allow sentence serving felons the right to vote with a supportive right up from The Stranger.
I haven’t seen TS champion Tarra Simmons “every chance they get”. I don’t remember seeing her name here before. Prob not my district.
The shooting at the house party in Tacoma happened AFTER the cops arrived? That kid must have been really mad. Teens and guns are a bad mix.
No one needs Shisha after 2 am. Go home.
Electing felons and felons having the right to vote are completely different things, as are felons “taking control of the country to burn it down for their own gain” and any felon at all. I don’t think a throwaway line in a morning news blog post should be taken as a declaration of an editorial stance but if you want to nitpick you need to have your assumptions in order.
hey
Wait a sec
that pic looks sus.
like a sun-Set. What gives?
“In the Tacoma area, two people are dead and four are injured after an early Saturday shooting . . . The victims were between 16 to 21 years old.”
when
neolibs
and Cons
Rule the Roost
“life” gets Cheapest
REPEAL
“Citizens
Fucking United.”
“,,, the open letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson signed by 68 local officials across the Evergreen state . . calls on Ferguson to seek new progressive revenue options as budget deficits grow and federal cuts become imminent.”
Excellent.
Like FDR* once
said: ‘MAKE Me Do IT.’
“I dunno, I think it’s a good thing to prevent criminals from taking political control of a country and burning it to the ground for their own gain.”
very
Bold,
Natty!
Thedjt’s
Gonna put
you on his shitlist
meetchya
@the Gilag!
“Honeybee
deaths in the US
have reached record highs.
Scientists don’t know what’s causing it.”
‘science’!
have Faith in
America, gottdammit!
and never~Mind Microplastics
forever Chemicals (unlike the E.U,)
pesticides herbicies and Genocides
we’ve got
Profiteering
on Our little minds.
*President.
Progressive.
Electd FOUR
Fucking Times
(so Sorry,
sleepyjoe!)
Good
Mourning!
@8 well shoot, sounds like Kettle’s proposed ordinance (with important input from Davison) is totally pointless then
A minor point, but the DoD has nothing to do with visa issuance or revocation. And the article linked to makes clear in the first graf that the emails came from the DoS.
dead man walking says, “I will live FOREVER!!!
Any chance y’all know who and where to send the most effective constituent feedback on fairly distributing income & sales taxes to include the top 20% of the incomes in the state? The Gov., then my State Congressional reps??
Churches should be, too. Give them various “rebates” to reflect what actual services they provide as charitable, but tax them.
Good work, again, SLOGger Team!
Are these hookah lounges operating as private clubs as required if they permit indoor smoking? If so, their membership records should be readily available for review by police with a valid search warrant. And that should help identify any shooters. If these hookah lounges are not maintaining accurate membership rosters, shut them down. We voted for smoke free bars and restaurants. Being a member of a favored minority group doesn’t allow you to break the law.
Local jurisdictions absolutely do not need more revenue. Tax revenue has climbed consistently with population. Local jurisdictions need spending reductions. Regular taxpayers are broke and the taxpayers with means are moving out of Washington to avoid capital gains / future wealth taxes.
Musk has spent a bunch of money to influence elections. And while it’s completely legal, one might be worried if that is within the spirit of “one-person-one-vote”. But then one remembers $400 million Zuckerbucks and moves on to other more pressing concerns.
The plummeting stock market is clearly a result of Biden’s policies. Or Obama’s. Or maybe FDR’s.
“Allegedly, the students getting these emails participated in campus activism or showed social media activity—things as small as liking a political post the Trump administration considers unsavory—critical of those in power.”
The linked article quotes Sec. of State (as @14 noted, not Defense) Rubio at length as to the rationale behind these attempted visa revocations. From a State Department transcript:
“And so there may be other movements, but that’s partly the movement we’ve seen on college campuses. Let’s be clear: It is a movement that is supportive of the group that just slaughtered babies, like deliberately targeted and slaughtered babies and civilians and took hostages and killed hostages. That’s the group they’re aligning with.
“But beyond that, they are spray-painting buildings. They are taking over buildings. You must have seen these reports in campus after campus where students can’t go to class and can’t function and the universities don’t know what to do about it. When you look at it and you realize that some of the people involved in this are here on student visas, it’s crazy.”
(https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks-to-the-press-3/)
While I have little illusion this administration will act with any consistency, competence, or good faith, last year’s abusive protests alienated many Americans, and now those protests and alienation get used by wonderful folks like Sec. Rubio, to deny visitors access to the United States. Great work all around.
@19 what does Horseshoe Theory have to say about you being low key excited Trump is deporting Gaza protestors?
@20
it Says
someone
once bounced
an Horseshoe off
of his poor cranium
and took his
Empathy
bone
out.
I will make my point to the fact that Israel made a mass grave for aid workers. So Israel is as much of a terrorist as Hamas. It’s pretty disgusting. And drumpf can call that antisemitism, I guess? And I also guess I have earned my way to Gitmo because I am calling the obvious murder of aid workers terrorism, well cold blooded murder is really what it is. No doubt that Israel has joined the realm of war criminals. They are just another kill crazy, irresponsible and savage tribe of mad people. I still don’t like Hamas, but I have no sympathy for Israel’s government any longer. Whatever comes of this after Israel kills or displaces all the Palestinians is the result of criminal enterprise. The state of Israel is forever stained in evil acts and the innocent blood those acts have shed.
I’m sorry for the aid workers and their families and their friends that have endured their loss and subsequent disrespect by way of covering up their murders.
As I believe another mentioned above:
A correction needed on your “International Students Asked to Self-Deport” — if you check your original source, it is the “Department of STATE” the letters are coming from, not the “Department of DEFENSE”. (If the WERE coming from the DoD they’d be highly sus!)
@12: Great catch! I think that a sunset v. sunrise faux pas happened in the final scene of ‘The Green Berets’. The storyline is (Wikipedia) “At Da Nang, Beckworth watches as Ham Chuck runs from helicopter to helicopter, desperately searching for Petersen. Eventually, Kirby tells him of Petersen’s death and comforts him, before the two walk along the beach into the sunset.”
But the sun setting is really the sun rising as it’s over the ocean in Vietnam.
@9 As usual, you do the sophistry while deliberately missing the point.
Trump continues to avoid all responsibility for the felonies he’s committed. Not just the NY one (which he avoided responsibility by getting re-elected), but also all of the other criminal acts he’s committed. No, he hasn’t been convicted, but both the Jan 6 and classified documents crimes were committed in plain sight and stopped only by his re-election. And as I said in 7, Trump will not see any consequences for any of those.
It’s not anti-democratic to recognize that the rich and powerful don’t always get held to account for their crimes. But you knew that already too.
@20: Yes, to the absolute best of your demonstrated reading comprehension skills, my final sentence, “Great work all around,” contained absolutely no sarcasm. At all.
But there’s no point in anyone arguing this with you, now is there? Your reaction to protestors at UCLA blocking Jewish students from entering their classrooms, unless the Jews denounced Israel, was to wonder why the Jews didn’t simply knuckle under to this harassment.
All last year, protestors were warned — including many, many times, by commenters right here — that their abusive tactics were alienating the very persons whose support they supposedly needed. In response, we were told that prancing performances of purity poutrage were more important than caring about what anyone thought. Now we see the entirely predictable result of such abusive indulgences.
And as you mentioned Horseshoe Theory, can you name another country which once allowed harassment of Jewish students on university campuses?
bibi’s
little Keep-
Outta-Prison
Gambit’s done
More to make Jews
UNSAFE Planet-wide
than
good
Gawd
I don’t
Know what
but it’d be quite
the Feat to somehow
make it even fucking Worse
bibi’s little
Genocide’s
a Bane to Jews
and a Boom to
Armageddonites
btw
is That
your wish?
@26 “can you name another country which once allowed harassment of Jewish students on university campuses?”
Sure: Israel.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjshlzgxr
“Washington’s regressive tax code means there isn’t enough “funding for infrastructure, housing and human services, public health, and public safety” investments.”
No this is not due to WA regressive tax code. The primary reason we have a budget deficit now (after having a $20B surplus just a few years ago) is that the legislature took one time funding from the Feds for covid relief and used it to start up ongoing programs without a continuing source of revenue. The legislature also ignored the advice of their economics advisers and assumed a growth rate that was much much higher than forecasted and then spent the money (akin to taking a payday loan). When their wishing upon a star didn’t work it made the deficit even worse. Revenue is growing. We are forecasted to grow $4.5B in the next 4 years however the state spending is growing even faster. This doesn’t include the indirect tax from the CCA. This whole thing is a joke and the taxpayers are the punchline.
I think it’s waaaaaay obvious that it’s time to tax the wealthy in our state. When the fed tax cut will only benefit the rich, the states have the obligation to extract the rich people’s dues. If WA can get ahead of that reality by instigating the wealth tax earlier than waiting for the sting from the destruction of the federal gov the better off we will be.
“…..Marine Le Pen, was barred from seeking office by a court due to embezzlement.”
Just another example of how correct the far right is in their disdain for the French.
(That’s sarcasm.)
Just one more reason that, if Soc Sec would pay for medical care outside the US, I’d move to France in an instant.
Phoeb, as Michael Herr pointed out, “The Green Berets” wasn’t about Vietnam, it was about Santa Monica.
@32; The Australians are the only ones who really get war songs right.
Try Listening to I Was Only 19
To each and all, how long before WBB claims to have a house in Italy?
@28: So, where in that article does it say students were denied access to their classrooms unless they said what the protestors demanded? It seems everything went peacefully:
“The university protests ended without major incidents. Hadash activists were escorted into the university to avoid confrontations. Police separated the groups with a large presence.”
@34 where in any article does it say anyone whose visa was revoked denied anyone access to classrooms?
@35: Good luck chasing your own tail, dude.
@35: Since you obviously didn’t see it, it was in the remarks Secretary of State (not Defense) Rubio made, which I quoted @26: “…where students can’t go to class…”
@37 yes I see you and Rubio, and his boss, are perfectly aligned on this issue
their
Infiltration’s
reached Peak Nazi
@33 – of course I don’t have a house in Italy. I thought my disdain for Europe came through loud and clear. I may have to step it up a bit.
I can offer a travel tip for Tuscany however, don’t try renting a house. There is absolutely nothing available.
Now, as for war songs, Goodnight Saigon was pretty good. Written and expertly performed by one of my favorite Americans.
from the Guardian
Israel killed
15 Palestinian paramedics
and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues
were buried in mass grave in
southern Gaza, says
humanitarian office
Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.
According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan district.
A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied.
The shootings happened on 23 March, one day into the renewed Israeli offensive in the area close to the Egyptian border. Another Red Crescent worker on the mission is reported missing.
“Seven days ago, civil defence and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene,” the head of Ocha in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said in a video statement.
“One by one, [the paramedics and civil defense workers] were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.
“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,” Whittall said.
“These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”
–by Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem,
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, and Julian Borger
Mon 31 Mar 2025
oodles: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un
tell us
Wormtongue
tell us All
how they were
All “hiding behind Hamas.”
@1, The single security guard caused the apprehension of the murder suspect. He perhaps save lives by wounding the suspect and causing him to flee.
Two security guards might have saved the first by dividing his focus and aim or neutralizing him with more hits before he cuod get a single shot, not just two into the single guard.
The suspect in question is a Federal felon who was banned from owning a gun. See how well that firearms ban.worked.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/judge-orders-south-seattle-double-homicide-suspect-held-on-5m-bail/
Ignore everything tensor and not myopic post.
???
Profit
“Washington’s regressive tax code means there isn’t enough “funding for infrastructure, housing and human services, public health, and public safety” investments. The signers then list the measures they support including current bills in Olympia that would lift the 1 percent property tax cap, expand the sales tax to fund public safety programs, and more.”
So the solution is more regressive taxes? When will these folks get serious about addressing our upside tax system (this means actually proposing replacing regressive taxes with progressive taxes).
This is not rocket science.
@12 Good catch, kris!
That is clearly a sunset in these parts.
Good evening, Christian Parroco.
@21 kris +1 for the WIN!!
@43 CDizzle: Thanks–I’m already doing that. I have also added Baby Doofus (a.k.a. WereBackBaby) to my automatic scroll down list.
@44 Buddhamat: I’m ready to tax the rich already, especially now that Bill Gates, Jr. basically said ‘Fuck the 99.9%’ and joined the rest of the billionaire$ in the global race to the bottom.
@38: Evidence contradicting your assertions, sitting right there on the screen in front of you as you deny its very existence, simply cannot come as a surprise to you by now, so you have no excuse for getting pissy when caught. Again.
Whether anyone here ever admits it or not, Sec. (of State) Rubio’s action exploits the very negative experience Americans had of last year’s pro-Palestine protests. Warnings came loud and clear — some of them right here in the Stranger’s comments — that spoiled children flaunting bad behaviors for their social-media ‘friends’ did not bring support to their stated cause, but rather a resentful opposition. If a foreign student comes here to study on a student visa, then denies other students access to their classrooms, there’s no small amount of poetic justice in sending that foreign student home. That’s the reality last year’s protests have now created, and everyone here who supported those protests should think about the actual lasting effects those protests have now created.
keep Silent
America. protesting
only leads to Fascism so
listen to the Wormtongue
from Caitlin’s Newsletter:
“Free Gaza From Hamas”
Really Means “Free Gaza
From All Palestinians”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist that Israel will carry out Trump’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, saying the following on Sunday about “the final stage” of his agenda:
“Hamas will lay down its weapons. Its leaders will be allowed to leave. We will see to the general security in the Gaza Strip and will allow the realization of the Trump plan for voluntary migration. This is the plan. We are not hiding this and are ready to discuss it at any time.”
Netanyahu’s suggestion that Trump’s plan for the migration of Palestinians out of Gaza would be “voluntary” is misleading in two separate ways.
Firstly, it is nonsensical to deliberately and systematically make a place uninhabitable and then claim that anyone who leaves that place would be leaving voluntarily.
Israeli spinmeisters have been pushing this narrative since the early days of the onslaught, and it’s transparently bogus; telling people they can leave or starve to death is exactly the same as forcing them out at gunpoint.
Secondly, Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is not “voluntary” on its face. Trump has explicitly said “all” Palestinians are to be removed from the enclave and would not be allowed to return, which of course necessarily means that anyone who wants to stay will not be permitted to.
Netanyahu says he wants to realize Trump’s plan,
and Trump’s plan is forcible ethnic cleansing.
A Knesset member from Netanyahu’s Likud party named Amit Halevi was just on Israeli radio saying that the plan is “to occupy the territory to cleanse it of the enemy,” adding that Israel needs “to return to Gaza permanently and control this space, because it is part of our homeland.”
I mean, how much more explicit do they need to be?
When Israel apologists respond to chants of “Free Gaza” with “Free Gaza from Hamas,” what they really mean is “Free Gaza from all Palestinians.”
The agenda they are cheerleading has ultimately nothing to do with Hamas — it’s about purging a Palestinian territory of Palestinians and replacing them with Israeli Jews.
It’s yet another Israeli land grab
and yet another drive to eliminate
Palestinians from their historic homeland.
–by Caitlin Johnstone; Mar 30, 2025
Oodles:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/free-gaza-from-hamas-really-means
@44, FTW!
The key is “replacing”. In the past political Progressives in this state have rejected “replacing”. They want to keep the regressive taxes and add to progressive taxes to them.
Shorter @43, @45. “Stay in your bubble.”
Didn’t that approach give us two rounds of DJT, at the expense of the entire nation.