Dear GOP: The solution to the coming SocSec shortfall is so simple that you'll be kicking yourselves for not having thought of it. Tax every penny of earned income, not just income up to $168K. Start accepting that people who benefit disproportionately from our unequal system have an obligation to pay into it tp a degree that reflects how much they benefit from it.
. . . . . . . . What's that, you say? You've thought of this but you've rejected it? Oh, riiiiiiiiight -- doing so wouldn't force the middle class and the poor to shoulder the fiscal burdens of this nation.
. . . . . . . . . And as for the massive social instability generated by the massive wealth gap that has afflicted us since the early 1980s (and to a greater degree with each passing year) -- aw, who the heck cares!
And:
SUNUNU: Everyone has a conflict of interest at some level.
Nope. Simply not true. And Bash should've pressed him on that ludicrous assertion but of course she didn't.
My understanding about Elmo is that he doesn’t have any kind of degree at all. He burned out of three universities in two years, partying and barely showing up for classes, all as a ruse to stay in the country and help his family’s illegal gem business.
Ta, MM. I never watch the Sunday news shows; that's your job and you do it well. fElon skuM has said, with his own fingers, that if Trump weren't elected he'd be going to jail (I think he meant prison). It's too bad Harris-Walz doesn't sue to see what happened with all those fucking bullet ballots, where TFG was the only vote and the rest of the ballot was blank.
And speaking of Republican fuckery, WHEN is the money going to be repaid to the "Social Security Lock Box," the raiding of which provided the funding for the Iraq war? Never? My guess is never. This Congress won't raise the income cap to something realistic; perhaps the next one will. Billionaires and multi-billion dollar corporations should be paying their taxes. I know that's a dream, and most likely one that will never come true.
To be clear, I agree with you 100% re: GOPs and their longtime, very dangerous use of dirty tricks. That said, there's no indication that the no. of bullet ballots cast on 11-5-24 was atypical. And, the state with the greatest % of bullet ballots was CA -- not a swing state.
The Sununu family has never been genuine. They’ll moderate when they need to, go ‘winger when they need the mouthbreather troglodyte vote, and do this, this “moderately conservative” mealy-mouthed, milquetoast wuss, when they want to keep all options open. Convictions?! What are those?
SUNUNU: Now, Elon, I think, is very unique, in that he's an engineer.
ME: Jimmy Carter was an engineer. It was a goddamn Republicans and the nation's press that called him a peanut farmer. That was his father's job. Jimmy only took it because his father died and his mother asked him to. Had things been different, a few of us might have known him as admiral James Earl Carter Jr, co-founder of the nuclear Navy. Jimmy went into politics because of the supreme frustration of finding himself forced by family circumstance to resign his commission in the United States Navy, and right back where he started, in the place he tried so hard to get out of, the tiny town of plains, Georgia.
Like any engineer, or committed tinkerer, (as you see it doesn't necessarily take a formal education to become an engineer. Although you'd better have a license if you want to build roads and bridges sewers) Jimmy was on afraid of new ideas. Like anybody who tries to figure out how things can be made better, isn't afraid of trying, and trying again, and trying yet again. Like any good engineer, Jimmy was interested in making a world that was cleaner, safer, more just, and more fun. Yeah he really did wear that Allman Brothers t-shirt. He really was a friend of Willie Nelson's. He was willing to entertain, on a contingent basis, and with the proper skepticism, that what he saw that night in Atlanta might be an unexplained aerial phenomenon. He reported it, and notably did not go running around with his head cut off claiming that the Martians were invading. He had a healthy curiosity about the entire world about him, you know reactions and behaviors that not only used to be considered normal were once very much considered to be essential, especially if a person wanted to be considered a human being.
Jimmy Carter was an engineer. And he knew that you didn't need to be an engineer to realize that in 1977 humanity was really close to figuring out how to make solar energy practical and affordable. What new engineer could figure out was how when Mount Pinatubo erupted a few years later, and through so much sulfur oxides into the atmosphere as to cool them off 20 years, that humanity would zombie like return right back to the era of big automobiles low fuel economy and heavy pollution. Engineers solve problems, they design systems and devices that make life better. And if they're a modern engineer, they do so in a way that's sustainable and non polluting.
Elon musk is indeed a member of our esteemed national academy of engineering. That election was obviously mistake. When it is all told, musk may be among the world's greatest polluters of the environment and of human minds. No one's life is better because of us so-called solution that Elon musk's so-called designed.
Jimmy Carter was an engineer. The best kind. One with a creative imagination, one who could write eloquently, and one who had an empathetic heart and a conscience. If engineering licensing boards required a conscience, musk would never win a credential.
Musk is not an engineer, but he is a dork.
Dear GOP: The solution to the coming SocSec shortfall is so simple that you'll be kicking yourselves for not having thought of it. Tax every penny of earned income, not just income up to $168K. Start accepting that people who benefit disproportionately from our unequal system have an obligation to pay into it tp a degree that reflects how much they benefit from it.
. . . . . . . . What's that, you say? You've thought of this but you've rejected it? Oh, riiiiiiiiight -- doing so wouldn't force the middle class and the poor to shoulder the fiscal burdens of this nation.
. . . . . . . . . And as for the massive social instability generated by the massive wealth gap that has afflicted us since the early 1980s (and to a greater degree with each passing year) -- aw, who the heck cares!
And:
SUNUNU: Everyone has a conflict of interest at some level.
Nope. Simply not true. And Bash should've pressed him on that ludicrous assertion but of course she didn't.
My understanding about Elmo is that he doesn’t have any kind of degree at all. He burned out of three universities in two years, partying and barely showing up for classes, all as a ruse to stay in the country and help his family’s illegal gem business.
Yes John, more money is the solution to greed just like more oxy is the solution to addiction.
Engineer? Musk??
Why, I'm sure he's never even tried to drive a locomotive!
𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ "𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔" 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝐽𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑙𝑦.
This made me laugh aloud. Thank you -- I needed that.
Ta, MM. I never watch the Sunday news shows; that's your job and you do it well. fElon skuM has said, with his own fingers, that if Trump weren't elected he'd be going to jail (I think he meant prison). It's too bad Harris-Walz doesn't sue to see what happened with all those fucking bullet ballots, where TFG was the only vote and the rest of the ballot was blank.
And speaking of Republican fuckery, WHEN is the money going to be repaid to the "Social Security Lock Box," the raiding of which provided the funding for the Iraq war? Never? My guess is never. This Congress won't raise the income cap to something realistic; perhaps the next one will. Billionaires and multi-billion dollar corporations should be paying their taxes. I know that's a dream, and most likely one that will never come true.
To be clear, I agree with you 100% re: GOPs and their longtime, very dangerous use of dirty tricks. That said, there's no indication that the no. of bullet ballots cast on 11-5-24 was atypical. And, the state with the greatest % of bullet ballots was CA -- not a swing state.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219738572
It didn't USED to be a dream, though
That's the part that makes me want to throw things 🤨😠
The Sununu family has never been genuine. They’ll moderate when they need to, go ‘winger when they need the mouthbreather troglodyte vote, and do this, this “moderately conservative” mealy-mouthed, milquetoast wuss, when they want to keep all options open. Convictions?! What are those?
Sununu is too a thing they do in Futurama.
I wish that were the only place they did it
"Now, Elon, I think, is very unique, in that he's an engineer. I'm obviously very partial to engineers."
And here is a musical rendition of Elon's career path from engineer to co-president!
https://youtu.be/OZV4yjLP7v0?si=XpjqsIdiknkw3Pj2
You can't be "very unique." You are either unique or you are not. (Thought Police.)
Respectfully suggesting "Grammar Police" rather than "Thought Police." (I've been an officer of the former since 1994.)
That wasn't me, that was a quote from Sununu
Death by Sununu...
#win
The American people were pointing at their crotches when they said “touch it,” Sunununununu.
smoking lamp is lit
This douchebag right here.
(can be Sununu or Phony Stark, or both)
Phony Stark is excellent
nice. He's getting closer everyday to introducing his new identity: Iron Cross Man
Triple bonus points and a footnote in the Honorable Mention Hall of Fame for "Phony Stark"!
To give credit where it's due, I stole that from a clever person on Twitter before Phony turned it onto a flaming dumpster fire.
SUNUNU: Now, Elon, I think, is very unique, in that he's an engineer.
ME: Jimmy Carter was an engineer. It was a goddamn Republicans and the nation's press that called him a peanut farmer. That was his father's job. Jimmy only took it because his father died and his mother asked him to. Had things been different, a few of us might have known him as admiral James Earl Carter Jr, co-founder of the nuclear Navy. Jimmy went into politics because of the supreme frustration of finding himself forced by family circumstance to resign his commission in the United States Navy, and right back where he started, in the place he tried so hard to get out of, the tiny town of plains, Georgia.
Like any engineer, or committed tinkerer, (as you see it doesn't necessarily take a formal education to become an engineer. Although you'd better have a license if you want to build roads and bridges sewers) Jimmy was on afraid of new ideas. Like anybody who tries to figure out how things can be made better, isn't afraid of trying, and trying again, and trying yet again. Like any good engineer, Jimmy was interested in making a world that was cleaner, safer, more just, and more fun. Yeah he really did wear that Allman Brothers t-shirt. He really was a friend of Willie Nelson's. He was willing to entertain, on a contingent basis, and with the proper skepticism, that what he saw that night in Atlanta might be an unexplained aerial phenomenon. He reported it, and notably did not go running around with his head cut off claiming that the Martians were invading. He had a healthy curiosity about the entire world about him, you know reactions and behaviors that not only used to be considered normal were once very much considered to be essential, especially if a person wanted to be considered a human being.
Jimmy Carter was an engineer. And he knew that you didn't need to be an engineer to realize that in 1977 humanity was really close to figuring out how to make solar energy practical and affordable. What new engineer could figure out was how when Mount Pinatubo erupted a few years later, and through so much sulfur oxides into the atmosphere as to cool them off 20 years, that humanity would zombie like return right back to the era of big automobiles low fuel economy and heavy pollution. Engineers solve problems, they design systems and devices that make life better. And if they're a modern engineer, they do so in a way that's sustainable and non polluting.
Elon musk is indeed a member of our esteemed national academy of engineering. That election was obviously mistake. When it is all told, musk may be among the world's greatest polluters of the environment and of human minds. No one's life is better because of us so-called solution that Elon musk's so-called designed.
Jimmy Carter was an engineer. The best kind. One with a creative imagination, one who could write eloquently, and one who had an empathetic heart and a conscience. If engineering licensing boards required a conscience, musk would never win a credential.
You are mistaken about Elon's engineering history.
Elon invented the electric car in 1899
Elon invented the liquid propelled rocket in 1926
Elon invented the train in a low pressure tunnel in 1824
Jimmy Carter saved the fucking nuclear reactor at Chalk River in 1952. LEGEND
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574
ETA: on reading the story again, I recognized the writer in the pictures as a J-skool classmate. Nice to see people still working in the field.
Exposed to radiation and still lived to 100. Superhuman.
Thank you. THANK YOU
I’m just waiting for that day when someone asks Elon
“What would you say you do here?”
First off, asshole, fix your stupid haircut.
Had to get that shallow observation off my chest.
Second: shave. Every day.