When the ACA was passed, the Nazis and Neo- Confederates howled that it was too big,
they couldn't read it all, it's NOT FAIR!!! And the Democrats arranged for the vote to be taken when as few trolls as possible were present to vote against. This was also much whined about, that kind of tactic is only allowed when fuckery is afoot and NO FAIR turning it around and using it for good.
Writing my Senator again: (Senators Budd and Tillis)- One of my students, who is about 40, with kids who all live at her parent's (rented) house. Hard workers, but do not have a lot of money just had Trump take away her mom's food stamps. The woman is a cancer patient and no longer is able to work. Under Trump's rule, and your watch, we now feed the rich and starve the poor.
I blame you, a United States Senator, who does not have the guts to stand up for what's right as you defend a coward and a felon who is kissing ass in the Middle East and shitting on the hard working struggling people of this country. You, and the rest of the Republican do-nothing party are looking out for yourselves when you were elected to help the people of North Carolina. I look forward to when you are up for election so I can vote you out of office and replace you with a Democrat, Independent, anyone else who is willing and actually will defend this democracy and the people of your state and nation.
Letting parents put $5,000 a year tax-free in a savings account for a childβs "education, a small business loan, or a house" sure is generous ... to rich fucks with $5k laying around unused, year after year. Sending junior to Harvard, or setting him up in business, or giving him a house, is SOP for those folks already, so making it tax-free is just frosting on the cake. (Their cake, not the one the peasants are supposed to eat.)
Spending $140bn to keep immigrants out is stupid squared, because immigrants commit fewer crimes than people already here, and boost the deficit more than people already here. We should spend zero, let every damn one of them in, and we'll all be richer for it.
Here is where I note that the Republican-Democrat difference on this question doesn't encompass what I just said above. They only disagree by degree of stupid.
I am waiting for Trump to try to declare bankruptcy for the country or use crypto to try to pay off bonds. You know he will try to make the US his 7th bankruptcy
There are Heritage Foundation writings about the U.S. not actually owing what everyone says we owe. Given the chance, I think they really would default on some pretext like this. They're idiot savants, where the savant part covers getting elected and doing things. Idiot things.
Why do working people keep voting for republicans when they when they want to cut Medicare and Medicaid to give huge tax breaks to the billionaires and corporations? VOTE BLUE
Because republicans give them someone else to blame for why their lives are so shitty. Instead of admitting corporations donβt want to pay a livable wage and insurance companies are keeping them from getting health care, republicans tell them that they are poor and unhealthy because of trans girls and immigrants.
I love your posts, but saying, β after Trump will either be gone or be president for lifeβ isnβt clever or amusing. Stating and restating ideas like this increases their impact and reality - makes them more of a potential reality. Itβs like saying, βDonβt think about a pink elephant.β
Iβm absolutely aware of the GOPβs core fantasy that trickle down economics is more than just Ronnie Raygunβs dementia-induced wet dream, if it can only be imposed CRUELLY enough. But itβs just really hard for me to believe that there arenβt at least a handful of them who live in districts with people who are smart enough to realize this shit will hurt them, and will take it out on their Representative who voted for it. It seems like the self-serving nature of all their decisionmaking would make them consider maybe opposing it, for no other reason that they like their cushy job.
But I guess Iβm not taking into account the fear factorβ¦fear of being primaried, and/or of their family being murdered. Both unfortunately very real fears. And the GOP has not exactly self-selected for courage as a personal trait since John McCain fucked off. Soβ¦weβre screwed?
Roger Ailes, may his tortures in hell never lessen, avowed that he was going to install a permanent Republican majority. Even he did not imagine a Chief Executive who unapologetically ruled through fiat. And we thought they were shameless back then- they have dialled it up to eleven.
I must say that this obsession the Rich have with taxes is so very out-of-date and old-timey and primitive that one wonders if we're dealing in fact with a group of evolution-avoiding Australopithecus.
It's almost as if the Republicans in Congress and the Administration have been assured they no longer need to worry about attracting votes in elections.
Bet they never have to worry about working againβ¦ they are wisely saving their govt βsalariesβ lolololol. Surely they are getting YUGE βbonusesβ for sticking it to their constituents, too.
Why not? They can just lie about it, like they did last time. That tax cut on tips and overtime is also going to be pointed to over and over by the media and MAGAts as proof that the GOP really is the party of the working class.
When the ACA was passed, the Nazis and Neo- Confederates howled that it was too big,
they couldn't read it all, it's NOT FAIR!!! And the Democrats arranged for the vote to be taken when as few trolls as possible were present to vote against. This was also much whined about, that kind of tactic is only allowed when fuckery is afoot and NO FAIR turning it around and using it for good.
No surprise here, exactly what we expected.
Writing my Senator again: (Senators Budd and Tillis)- One of my students, who is about 40, with kids who all live at her parent's (rented) house. Hard workers, but do not have a lot of money just had Trump take away her mom's food stamps. The woman is a cancer patient and no longer is able to work. Under Trump's rule, and your watch, we now feed the rich and starve the poor.
I blame you, a United States Senator, who does not have the guts to stand up for what's right as you defend a coward and a felon who is kissing ass in the Middle East and shitting on the hard working struggling people of this country. You, and the rest of the Republican do-nothing party are looking out for yourselves when you were elected to help the people of North Carolina. I look forward to when you are up for election so I can vote you out of office and replace you with a Democrat, Independent, anyone else who is willing and actually will defend this democracy and the people of your state and nation.
Letting parents put $5,000 a year tax-free in a savings account for a childβs "education, a small business loan, or a house" sure is generous ... to rich fucks with $5k laying around unused, year after year. Sending junior to Harvard, or setting him up in business, or giving him a house, is SOP for those folks already, so making it tax-free is just frosting on the cake. (Their cake, not the one the peasants are supposed to eat.)
Spending $140bn to keep immigrants out is stupid squared, because immigrants commit fewer crimes than people already here, and boost the deficit more than people already here. We should spend zero, let every damn one of them in, and we'll all be richer for it.
Here is where I note that the Republican-Democrat difference on this question doesn't encompass what I just said above. They only disagree by degree of stupid.
Immigrants commit fewer crimes than the Trump administration ... why can't we deport THEM?
can we lock some people in the closet so they can't vote? way to screw your people over!
I am waiting for Trump to try to declare bankruptcy for the country or use crypto to try to pay off bonds. You know he will try to make the US his 7th bankruptcy
Stiffing your creditors is his standard business practice. He can't turn a profit otherwise.
There are Heritage Foundation writings about the U.S. not actually owing what everyone says we owe. Given the chance, I think they really would default on some pretext like this. They're idiot savants, where the savant part covers getting elected and doing things. Idiot things.
[United States DOGE offices, day.
Inside, a detective reviews some reports on the boys' Internet activity.
Wonkette waits on the other side of the table]
Wonkette
Um, sir-
DOGE
Shut up!! You keep complaining about tax cuts!
Says here you even opposed
Reagan's tax cuts? That's hard time you
are lookin' at. You got anything to
say for yourself?
Wonkette
We d-didn't think it was that big a
deal.
DOGE
Not a big deal! You think tax cuts
for Billionaires are not a big deal?! Put
your coats on! I'm gonna show you something!
And I don't think you're gonna like it!
[A mansion, somewhere, day. DOGE has taken Wonkette for
a ride and arrived here. He leads them to the main gate]
DOGE
This is the home of Elon Musk, the
head of DOGE. Look. There's
Elon now, sitting by his pool.
[he's seen sitting on the edge of a chaise longue, his face in his hands, softly sobbing]
Wonkette
What's the matter with him?
DETECTIVE
This month he was hoping to have a gold-plated
shark tank bar installed right next
to the pool, but thanks to people opposing tax cuts
for billionaires, he must now wait
a few months before he can afford it.
[a close-up of Elon sobbing]
Come. There's more.
[leads them away. Next seen is a small airport at night]
Here's Ivanka and Jared's private jet. Notice anything?
They used to have a Gulfstream 747-800.
Now they had to sell it and get a 747-400 because people
like you chose to oppose tax cuts.
[Ivanka gives a heavy sigh and goes inside.]
The 747-400
doesn't even have a remote control
for its surround-sound DVD system. Still
think opposing tax cuts is no big deal?
Wonkette
We... didn't realize what we were doing,
eh...
DOGE
That is the folly of man. Now look in
this window.
[they are at another mansion, and they look inside a picture window]
Here you see the loving
family of Mark Zuckerberg. Next week is his
son's birthday and, all he's ever wanted
was an island in French Polynesia.
Wonkette
So, he's gonna get it, right?
DETECTIVE
I see an island without an owner. If
things keep going the way they are,
the child will not get his tropical
paradise.
Wonkette
We're sorry! We'll, we'll never download
music for free again!
DOGE
Man must learn to think of these horrible
outcomes before he acts selfishly or
else... I fear...billionaires
will be forever doomed to a life of
only semi-luxury.
Okay, I know you ripped that off from South Park, but Iβd totally believe Musk has a gold-plated shark tank.
Fucking bourgeois butthole. Platinum or gtfo.
Why do working people keep voting for republicans when they when they want to cut Medicare and Medicaid to give huge tax breaks to the billionaires and corporations? VOTE BLUE
Because republicans give them someone else to blame for why their lives are so shitty. Instead of admitting corporations donβt want to pay a livable wage and insurance companies are keeping them from getting health care, republicans tell them that they are poor and unhealthy because of trans girls and immigrants.
I love your posts, but saying, β after Trump will either be gone or be president for lifeβ isnβt clever or amusing. Stating and restating ideas like this increases their impact and reality - makes them more of a potential reality. Itβs like saying, βDonβt think about a pink elephant.β
Iβm absolutely aware of the GOPβs core fantasy that trickle down economics is more than just Ronnie Raygunβs dementia-induced wet dream, if it can only be imposed CRUELLY enough. But itβs just really hard for me to believe that there arenβt at least a handful of them who live in districts with people who are smart enough to realize this shit will hurt them, and will take it out on their Representative who voted for it. It seems like the self-serving nature of all their decisionmaking would make them consider maybe opposing it, for no other reason that they like their cushy job.
But I guess Iβm not taking into account the fear factorβ¦fear of being primaried, and/or of their family being murdered. Both unfortunately very real fears. And the GOP has not exactly self-selected for courage as a personal trait since John McCain fucked off. Soβ¦weβre screwed?
Roger Ailes, may his tortures in hell never lessen, avowed that he was going to install a permanent Republican majority. Even he did not imagine a Chief Executive who unapologetically ruled through fiat. And we thought they were shameless back then- they have dialled it up to eleven.
Would like a foul vile name for those greedy, soulless, cruel, psycho, mofo billionaires, thinking BBBβ¦ somehow tho, Bastard, Billionaire Bitches just isnβt awful enough for those greedy xPOSs. Same for corrupt congress POSs enabling thisπ©. And how about the South African maggots theyβve imported, jeeze, sure they will be helpful, they need a few more tats tho then the skyβs the limitβ¦ wondering if dRump is providing them with guilded toilets, tooβ¦ for class.
I must say that this obsession the Rich have with taxes is so very out-of-date and old-timey and primitive that one wonders if we're dealing in fact with a group of evolution-avoiding Australopithecus.
Doing "the people's business" late Sunday night while the people are asleep.
It's almost as if the Republicans in Congress and the Administration have been assured they no longer need to worry about attracting votes in elections.
Bet they never have to worry about working againβ¦ they are wisely saving their govt βsalariesβ lolololol. Surely they are getting YUGE βbonusesβ for sticking it to their constituents, too.
We suck.
They just canβt stand the laughter of a Black woman
Reducing the tax on tips and overtime is also enough for some people to look the other way on everything else, unfortunately.
There is always someone who can't see past the lure and take the hook. We are surrounded by people who have the minds of goldfish.
Watch the Investorβs Markets start using βtipsβ as their payment models to an avoid taxesβ¦
What small satisfaction to be had is that they won't be able to run on it.
Thatβs why they run on βtrans kids are taking over girlsβ sports and immigrants are eating your pets!β instead.
And it ALWAYS works.
Why not? They can just lie about it, like they did last time. That tax cut on tips and overtime is also going to be pointed to over and over by the media and MAGAts as proof that the GOP really is the party of the working class.