“…..recalled being forced to sit in a chair wired with electricity. He said he was shocked so often that, after initially urinating uncontrollably, he then stopped urinating for several days. He, too, had been forced to wear nothing but a diaper, to stop him from soiling the floor….”l

“…A leaked draft of the UNRWA report detailed an interview that gave a similar account; Interrogators “made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,” and also said that another detainee “died after they put the electric stick up” his anus….

“..The difference, explained Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst and modeling manager at the Tax Foundation, is largely due to the expiration of the expanded child tax credit after 2025. As we said, Biden has proposed **extending** the expanded child tax credit…”

“..In other words, if one considers the “typical American family” to be among the middle 20% of earners, those taxpayers would see a small increase in incomes (after tax) in 2025 (0.5% on average) and a slight decrease (0.2%) by 2034, according to the Tax Foundation.”

“The budget would redistribute income from high earners to low earners. The bottom 60 percent of earners would see increases in after-tax income in 2025, while the top 40 percent of earners would see decreases.”

To be more precise, that's only an argument an authoritarian movement can make when it's emerging in a democracy where they can be assured that their opponents won't engage in the same sort of authoritarian actions that they are contemplating.

And that was hardly even plagiarism.

Gay's "plagiarism" was a ginned-up list of 41 instances that included cases where she re-used *single words* from her sources. A few paragraphs maybe weren't as paragraphrased as they should been but the idea that this constitutes a firing offense (or that Rufo gives a shit about ethics) is absurd.

But it isn’t.

For freaking real ya’ll