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Mavenmaven's avatar

In today's America, idiot convicted fraudsters can successfully buy pardons for other convicted fraudsters for cash.

https://www.threads.com/@lawyer_oyer/post/DRdmEroDELb

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Thomas B.'s avatar

If the Canadian government throws in a cool toque, I'd sign up. I'm a little on the seasoned side (ahem), but I'll give it a go. Take off, eh?

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Louise James's avatar

I actually think this is a good idea. We all need to be ready for anything up here in the True North.

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Miss Grundy's avatar

Keir Starmer suggests that Randy Andy should have a transcribed meeting with the House Oversight Committee that is reviewing the Epstein case:

https://apnews.com/article/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-prince-epstein-808239319d507fdb4334ae24f3b73341?

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tek's avatar

CNBC headline:

𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝

OTOH, Bessent also believes that immigrants are bringing their sick cattle with them, so...

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Stulexington's avatar

Because we can totally separate the economy into sectors, and only the poor sector will have a recession, the rich part, the part that matters will be a okay!

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NatalyaResists's avatar

He believes he's a soybean farmer too, so...

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Schmannity's avatar

Argentine lenders expected to prosper.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Is he the dumbest of them?

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MRobtheMathSnob's avatar

My vote goes to our little Real World alum.

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tek's avatar

Hard to tell, but he's certainly in the running..

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Fog of Jen's avatar

So there's gonna be a recession

Will be fun to read how the press accepts how it is Biden's fault. Probably because he was too old and should have stepped down sooner so that we could have had a convention and magically saved us from Trump being elected without a single mention about how they themselves kept propping Trump up as a better choice every chance they got.

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Stulexington's avatar

It's Biden's fault for letting them vote for this shit and not trying harder to win. He should have stopped them!

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

“Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. “Drink from me Love."

😵😵😵🤣

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R. Riddle's avatar

I just puked in my mouth a little bit.

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JCfromNC's avatar

Man, it's too fuckin' early to make me lose my appetite like that. I miss Disqus letting you hide things behind spoiler tags.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Did you see the next part?

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JCfromNC's avatar

I did, and that's when I left my non-comment.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

It is GRAPHIC!

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MRK's avatar

Just click the vertical grey line under Diane's name.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

He continued, “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Dont spill a drop’. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”

😥😫🤢🤮

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Whale Chowder's avatar

Hey, I'm eating lunch here!

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Bobathonic's avatar

It's like reading Shakespeare!

< emoticon for barfception >

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Just in time for the shopping season, this delusion is recharged and ready...

𝗔𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘀, 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 '𝘀𝗸𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁'

President Donald Trump early on Monday said the "full benefit" of his tariff policies would take effect soon, bringing "unprecedented" wealth and national security.

He argued in a social media post that foreign buyers stockpiled inventory before his sweeping tariffs were put into place, allowing them to delay payments to the U.S., but, he said, that inventory will run out shortly and make way for record-setting revenue...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=127815197

The Project 2025 "Fundamental Reforms" includes eliminating federal income taxes and replacing the income with the most regressive taxes and fees they can imagine...

He's burning the stupidity candle at both ends and trying to get the middle lit...

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Stulexington's avatar

oh yeah, everyone's overbuy is about to run out so they have to start buying tariffed goods and then the economy will just skyrocket because all those tariff revenues!

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Sure, sure, any day now. *insert old dude with dollar on the end of the fishing line here*

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coco lurks from home's avatar

Two weeks.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

oh oh oh but today we are getting the big beautiful healthcare plan!

How much you wanna bet it is gonna be crap?

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coco lurks from home's avatar

Fifty year mortgage crap.

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tek's avatar

I'm expecting barely the concepts of a plan.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

I am expecting a flex account, which we already can got, but this one is for your healthcare, and the rich people as top earners will be qualified for more than anyone else.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Safest. Tech. EVAH!

𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗨𝗦 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 — AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/ai-is-too-risky-to-insure-say-people-whose-job-is-insuring-risk/

And in case anyone is wondering: https://www.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed

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Fog of Jen's avatar

This, and the credit default swap thing, just inspire all sorts of confidence. No bubble! No bubble! You're the bubble!

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Well good lord, I forgot to take my meds yesterday, including my allergy pill and I work up in the night from a dream I was suffocating, egads. I took it and felt better about 10 minutes later, but whoa doggies, I hate that dream. I take a zyrtec (off brand) daily year round because I'm allergic to something, but I don't know when it emits its allergens and I seem to have allergies year round without it.

I am so ready for the short week. I am planning to take Wednesday off, I think, just because. I might take a few more days at The Holidays. Making a trip down to Austin Saturday morning to spend a day and night with kink partner. I'm excited to hear about his last trip home to Mexico. I was so worried about him getting through immigration.

We got a good rain last night so I'll be able to tell if I am stuck with the stain on my ceiling or if the new roof stopped the leak. I believe the hole in the wall needs one more layer of putty, so I'll do that today, and then sand it and paint tomorrow. I literally ran out of work to do last week at the office, so this week will be lots of organizing and tidying.

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Bobathonic's avatar

Hey, take your meds.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 is an acute worsening of a person's mental health symptoms, leading to a loss of their coping mechanisms and a significant decline in their ability to function in daily life...

𝙀𝙭𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 / 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 — 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙮-𝙘𝙤𝙥 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙚

“...a wave of classically male-driven movies with mentally tough, traditional, courageous, confident heroes. Maybe even a tad cocky, but dedicated to honor and duty. Plus, of course, a few explosions, gun battles, helicopters, fistfights, and car chases!”...Now, the president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.

Trump appears to want to revive the raucous comedies and action movies of the late 1980s to late 1990s. He’s passionate, for instance, about the 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme sports flick Bloodsport. A person directly familiar with the conversations told Semafor that the president of the United States has personally pressed the Paramount owner to revive another franchise from Ratner: Rush Hour, a buddy-cop comedy starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker that blended physical comedy, martial arts, and gags about racial stereotypes..."

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/23/2025/how-trump-is-trying-to-remake-american-culture-starting-with-rush-hour?utm_medium=media&utm_campaign=flagshipnumbered1&utm_source=newslettercta

I suppose, what with the 𝘗𝘢𝘹 𝘍𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 keeping all the world's armies idle, nobody starving at the end of a gun barrel or climate disaster, damn near 100% employment, not a single person in the US concerned about healthcare or even paying their bills, he's got time on his hands...

Plus, sleeping during official proceedings frees up his nights for TV!

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Asphalt-Type Person's avatar

Who the hell goes to movie theaters for anything anymore, let alone MAGA propaganda???

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C&A Bongo Man's avatar

The new red hats will have Obligating Belgian Actors Massive Again on them.

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RandomNameAllocated's avatar

Cue one of my favourite jokes:

Two men on a plane, one says to the other: The name is Bond, James Bond

The other says : Damme, van Damme, Claude van Damme, Jean-Claude van Damme

I don't know why, but this just tickles me

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Fog of Jen's avatar

My sister and I would do a joke where if one said Jean-Claude Van Damme, the other had to say Dolph Lungren.

Like gesundheit after a sneeze

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MRK's avatar

Bloodsport is one of the few watchable Jean Claude Van Damme movies, but 'passionate' about it? Leave that to 14 year old boys discovering the film for the first time, please.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Universal soldier was better I thought. Not that it is a good movie, although Dolph makes a very very very good bad guy. But the story was interesting and held interest past the action sequences

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JCfromNC's avatar

I keep confusing "Universal Soldier" with Kurt Russell's "Soldier"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeW9sflsdg

(trailer)

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Fog of Jen's avatar

I like how you can tell who the bad soldiers are cause they are all bald

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Fog of Jen's avatar

edit: course if I recollect correctly, the story is basically apocolypse now with a little scifi and a lot of fighting scenes for fun

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MRK's avatar

You are probably correct.

I've seen Bloodsport and Timecop more than that one, though, so my memories of it aren't reliable.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

I mostly remember Dolph ending up with a string of human ears XD

Think I have seen any of those once and only once so it's my memory that is suspect on these

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Bobathonic's avatar

Still, it's legally distinct and that's what matters.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

True. And Dolph was actually a super good bad guy in that and Jean Claude was almost an actor.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Hence Orangini's fascination. He's a mental 14 year old.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

creative input

Make them the same as they were!

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Schmannity's avatar

Good news for Steven Seagal.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

The good news he's been receiving lately has been limited to "Dinner is ready!"

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The Wanderer's avatar

And fabric is cheap in Russia so he can afford to up-size his muumuus.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

The top story on Tech Meme. There are many, many different links to choose from to read. We all know this and this is not a surprise. But, the wide spread reporting of this across all the various new media outlets may help to get this type of political propaganda ignored and/or banned.

𝗫'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 — ROLE PLAY — A new feature on Elon Musk's X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

https://www.techmeme.com/251123/p11#a251123p11

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Fog of Jen's avatar

It will never be banned XD If it were a bunch of lefty "influencers" the right would go into a screaming fit, but other than american magats whining someone else is honing in on their grift, nothing will change

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

*nods* It will help, though, when those ex-MAGAs begin to publicly display their buyer's remorse for voting for the dipshit perv ... "I was brainwashed by them bots!"

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Fog of Jen's avatar

yeah, help them on their rehabilitation tour to swear they have changed and gone moderate unlike those lefty radicals.

And the press will eat it up.

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Bobathonic's avatar

Everyone can pretend it's an off ramp.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

So they'll start getting invited to family functions again.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Duped by unwashed foreign troublemakers and their filthy AI bots.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

The real autopsy will be finding out who PAID for all those bots and disinformation people.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

We already know. Vlad, Xi, and the GOP via the american taxpayer

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

I'll add Musk and AIPAC, also too. Both invested around $300 million in Felon47's re-election but we don't know exactly how.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Figure direct payments to Trump XD

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

I'm betting AIPAC hired a LOT of those bots to do the anti-semitic talk track for the Gaza protests, etc.

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Morning all. ☕️

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Bobathonic's avatar

Good morning, Diane!

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Zyxomma's avatar

Good morning, Diane.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Hi Diane!

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Zyxomma's avatar

Good morning, The Wanderer.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Good morning, Zyxomma!

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freakishlystrong's avatar

I do not, will not ever, have never understood why anyone would give trmp, a felon, a con man and a fraud, and anyone who aligns with him the benefit of the doubt on anything. Ever. The shitshow that is the Ukraine "Peace plan" is nothing but an exercise in bad faith. Everything they do is in bad faith. Start from there in dealing with them.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Putin's piece plan

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Well, sometimes it's bad faith and stupidity. Oh, and ignorance. Wait, wait ... and bigotry.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Calling it a "Russian wish list" enables The Homunculus to play Santa to Pooty.

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JustPixelz's avatar

AOL: The IRS quietly released new tax brackets for 2026. Some Americans will save thousands while others won’t be so lucky. What about you? [https://www.aol.com/finance/irs-quietly-released-tax-brackets-200000069.html]

This is STUNNING news: AOL is still around.

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MRK's avatar

Something about that doesn't add up. $12,400 is, if I'm remembering correctly, about as much as the standard deduction for 2025. That doesn't get taxed, because it doesn't even count as income.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

That's your estimated income after the standard deduction.

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MRK's avatar

That would make more sense, but it should be reported in a way that makes things more clear, since many people will just look at the table and nothing else.

0-12,400: No tax.

12,400-24,800 10% etc.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

quietly released new tax brackets, at the end of the year.

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JustPixelz's avatar

I worked on payroll systems. The end of the year is kinda too late. Payroll changes need to made, tested, signed off and rolled into production. While a lot of people are out for holidays and to use up their vacation allotment. The employer can be liable for any gaps in withholding. Of course, Crooked Donnie will tell affected employees to sue Joe Biden.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Anything past april or so is way too late. We pay our taxes mostly by paycheck installments.

Imagine suddenly owing thousands instead of a hundred or so

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InMyRoom's avatar

This is for 2026 income taxes.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

the article seems to imply it is for filing in 26, cause they mention the big beautiful fuck america act and what not

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