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Greased lightnin,' I tells ya!

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Bein' alive is pretty awesome.

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As Agent 86 said-- "And loving it!"

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Smile, agree w/everybody, and if you get a chance? Help 'em move. Don't put yer back out, or anything- you'll be in like Flynn!

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So you certainly must know about it, but you aren't privy to it because it's "invite only", and it's the IRS's secret enforcement group which he, a non IRS employee, was invented to by letter.

Well, I'm convinced.

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Dude, half the IRS workers I know are congenitally blind. (Though they are outnumbered overall; I just know them through DH & the beepball team) And the teensy kind-hearted grandmother among them is the most physically fit. Terrifying. Teensy grandmom can definitely keep up with her toddler grandchild but she's not gonna make much of a commando.

I can't say if there are no IRS employees who go armed at work, but certainly most of them work in offices in federal buildings and aren't allowed to bring so much as a pocketknife in without permission from the security folks.

DH is periodically a beta tester of how well new tech works for the blindies. They *are* trying to upgrade, but they can only do it in tiny steps.

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What use is there for being a raving wingnut politician if you can’t generate panic with lies about dystopian America? And since when doesn’t the right like guns? It’s all so confusing.

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For some reason I was just thinking today about how DeMisery, among other ratfuckery, had all the sorting machines dismantled to deliberately slow down the mail. For some reason that one really got me. Not just "turn them off and don't use them" orders, but dismantling them so it would cost the UPS millions to replace them once he got his walking papers. Is he ever going to get his walking papers?

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My brother retired from the IRS 5 years ago and for years before, all I heard was how budget cuts and worker cuts were keeping them from doing their jobs. How, to compensate, for that they tried giving workers ridiculous numbers of cases they had to deal with per hour. He'd argue with them that you can't in many many cases help correct someone's return in less than several minutes and the idea that you should take almost nanoseconds and do it right was ridiculous.He was also enraged by them closing the Philly office and moving everything to Kansas or some other heartland state.

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Yeah, Mr Demi (who calls me on his afternoon break every day) is sometimes late, once or twice over an hour because of a long call

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I have a friend who is an IRS Agent. The cases he gets are generally for wealthy business owners who intentionally avoid paying taxes and I mean they simply don't pay taxes for years. These are not simple accounting errors and they are for lots of money. Auditors generally try to figure out if errors are out of ignorance or fraud.

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The Ukranians could show them how to adapt off the shelf drones to drop grenades without spending a lot of money.

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We got a letter from the IRS last year concerning our 2020 return... They got and cashed our check but somehow misplaced our return. They wanted us to send them a new one. On the advice of an accountant, we did not.

After reading the report in WaPo about how antiquated the IRS is, including the photo of thousands of returns covering every square inch of their cafeteria, I can understand how they lost our return.

Still not sending them a new one, however.

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Of course the IRS needs armed enforcers. You think they could have taken in Capone without guns?

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Two thumbs up for you, Queen Meabh!! ;-)

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I know Boebert is somewhat inexplicably in a protected class on account of how she works for that same gummint she so loves to complain about. But goddam Kilmeade and Ingraham that I know of have both blatantly and specifically stated the Biden administration is plotting to kill citizens. Seems to me that's the sort of thing the FCC should be getting complaints about (not whether punk rock music made swears on the airwaves ha ha). I am old and currently overworked, but if there are any retired or otherwise at leisure Wonketteers who'd care to look into such a thing, I would sign my name to it. It's one thing to mutter about FEMA camps. It's quite another to openly state the opposition has murder plans. As long as TFG is being held accountable, can we start doing the same with Faux?

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