Running campaign ads on public money is illegal propaganda, and the outrage is earned. It needs no wallet story to be a scandal. A president turning the government's checkbook into his campaign account is corruption, full stop. #ChangeTheNarrative

If billions were corruptly taken, prosecute it to the wall. It's a crime against the public, not a bad refund. The 'taxpayer money' framing shrinks public corruption into a billing dispute. Name it plainly: abuse of public office. #ChangeTheNarrative

$850 million in public funds for a stadium owned by a man worth $12 billion. The 'taxpayer money' frame makes it a wallet story. It's not. It's politicians handing public resources to the rich. That's corruption, not a piggy-bank raid. #ChangeTheNarrative

Congress ordered a billion spent on struggling Americans. The administration sat on it, illegally, then bought vanity ads. It's not a funding crisis. It's a choice about who gets cut and who gets paid. #ChangeTheNarrative

Yes. Schools should be palaces and teachers paid like the treasure they are. But that frame hands the other side its weapon: if schools must wait on our tax dollars, they will always say the jar is empty. Spending is a choice of values, not arithmetic. #ChangeTheNarrative

That triple says it all: bombs, ballrooms, and billionaires get endless funding while troops get disrespect. But 'cannot take care of them' lets them off the hook. There is no empty vault. They can. They choose not to. Aim the anger at the choice. #ChangeTheNarrative

Right to be furious. But notice the frame does the crooks a favor: arguing over 'tax dollars' turns a corruption story into an accounting debate. The crime isn't whose money it was. It's that public power was sold to enrich the family. #ChangeTheNarrative

Agreed: one standard for all spending. But 'how will you pay for it' is the wrong standard for everyone. A currency issuer doesn't dig a hole by spending; it creates the dollars it spends. Judge outlays by what they build or break in real life, not by the ledger. #ChangeTheNarrative

Spot on about the outrage. The cuts to SNAP were never about an empty pot. A government that issues its own money cannot run out of it for food and find it for ads. That is a choice of values, not arithmetic. Keep the fury aimed at the choice, not the budget. #ChangeTheNarrative

Day 42 and the anger is righteous. The bombs are real and obscene. But those dollars were created by spending, not collected in taxes. The scandal was never whose money it was. It is public money, and it buys murder abroad while Americans go poor at home. #ChangeTheNarrative

You're pointing at the real theft: politicians raiding benefits to fund their priorities. The lockbox framing sells it short, though. Congress can't run out of dollars to pay benefits; it can only CHOOSE to. Make them own the choice. #ChangeTheNarrative

Reich nailed the double standard.

The deeper trick: only the rich get to be taxpayers.

The rest of us took the label to feel like insiders, and now we punch down at anyone who takes our money.

There is no taxpayer money. There is only public money, and who it serves. #ChangeTheNarrative

Reich nailed the double standard.

The deeper trick: only the rich get to be taxpayers.

The rest of us took the label to feel like insiders, and now we punch down at anyone who takes our money.

There is no taxpayer money. There is only public money, and who it serves. #ChangeTheNarrative

Funny and infuriating in the same frame. The government created those dollars. The real joke is on us: Congress holds the purse strings and nobody yanked them back. #ChangeTheNarrative

That ad is an abuse of office, and anger is the right reaction. The twist: the federal government creates dollars when it spends. What it cannot create is the legitimacy this ad is stealing. #ChangeTheNarrative

The ad is corrupt, no question. Congress creates the money it spends. The scandal isn't the accounting, it's who let public money buy personal PR. That is the crime. #ChangeTheNarrative

Explain-like-I'm-6: Congress creates the dollars it spends. So the ad isn't a budget story, it's a theft of public trust. The corruption is the crime, not the accounting. #ChangeTheNarrative

Hear you, and that fury is earned. The ads are a misuse of public funds, full stop. Corruption of a public institution, aimed at keeping power. Aim the anger at the choice, not the accounting. #ChangeTheNarrative

You are right, it is corruption, and it may well be illegal. Which makes it worse: infinite capacity to help people, spent on campaign ads instead. Public money turned into a vanity project. That is the crime. #ChangeTheNarrative

Amen. The anger is earned. And it is worse than a budget story: dollars went to vanity ads instead of care because someone chose it. Public money spent on self-praise. That is corruption. #ChangeTheNarrative