Last night, the hosts of several of my favorite podcasts (i.e. Cognitive Dissonance and the Puzzle in a Thunderstorm crew) got together to do a live stream โHumanists for Harrisโ fundraiser for the Harris/Waltz campaign. Along with a few skits and Trumpโs expense, they did a comedic reading of the introduction of Project 2025.
At last count, they raised over $79,000!
Hereโs a recording of the stream for those interested:
Round here the usual empty tracts of land by the four lane roads and isthmuses between shopping centers are being bedecked with their usual clown pile of oversized gop signs. I even saw one for Hung Cao yesterday.
From NYT sanewashing article about Trumps โplanโ for taxes that they led off with this nugget
โWith slogans and in social-media posts, the former president has dribbled out ideas that, together, would fundamentally change how taxes are collected in the U.S.โ
Then they just wrote policy for Trump while admitting in the article that he has no idea whatโs going on. Seriously just North Korean level sanewashing here.
His ideas โ if they all became law, far from a sure thing in Washington โ would in effect move the United States closer to a taxation system used in many other countries. Most advanced economies, including Canada, Germany and Japan, collect value-added taxes, essentially a national sales taxes on goods and services. The United States is unique for not having such a tax. Many economists generally support so-called consumption taxes, which they view as an efficient and hard-to-evade way of collecting money for the government.
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โWhether he knows it or not, or intends it or not, itโs a shift from taxing income to taxing consumption in some fashion,โ Michael Graetz, a tax scholar at Columbia Law School, who has argued that the United States should adopt a consumption tax.
European countries have value added tax. In the US it's sales taxes by states, which they do not have in Europe. But they also have income taxes on top of that, generally higher than in the US. So the whole article sounds like something a fifth grader with little understanding of taxes or how other taxes and the economies in other countries operate would write. Using only one Wikipedia search.
His ideas โ if they all became law, far from a sure thing in Washington
which ideas, NYT? If it is ALL his ideas, what it will do is create chaos because they fucking contradict each other all the time. Cherry picking his "ideas" to create a narrative is some new ground
IKR? Texas, for instance, has no state income tax (which would be progressive) but makes up for it with consumption and use taxes, which are regressive.
When I lived in PA, it was based on if they were hot or not.
Did a stint in a convenience store deli, and if the sub was hot, we taxed em, and if not, we did not tax em.
OH and food stamps could not go for prepared (hot) food because the idea is that they take food home and make it. Which...is not how food stamps should fucking work dear lord do people not need lunch while at work?
I've got so much shit to do today, we have friends coming over tonight. But there's a sweet dog snoozing in my lap. Guess our friends will enter a very messy house....
I love the Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix. Not only does it come together so freaking easily, the cookies also come off the pan super easily too! Almost no mess beyond washing the bowl you made the dough in!
Trump's always been a racist asshole, so that's ok with Cotton
"Tom Cotton's defense of Trump preemptively blaming the Jews for his election loss is that he's been saying stuff like this for a long time, so what's the big deal?"
Which is why Robinson will still probably get 40% or more of the vote for governor. The MAGA cult would cut their throat if they thought it would own the libs. Better a racist, misogynistic Nazi than a Democrat. BTW, his opponent is Jewish. I'm surprised Robinson hasn't commented on that.
Other than the porn deal all this information about Robinson was known when he won the lieutenant governor seat in 2020. Running against a well qualified Black woman with years of work in government offices and several years in the legislature.
I see Republicans are mad about Harris saying she's a gun owner
on Fox News ...
"Comer: "I don't think anyone believes that Kamala Harris is a gun owner, but if she is she needs to tell the American people what type of gun she has.""
Honestly, it's more disappointing to me that she feels a need to advertise this fact to reassure gun owners, when she's got security and gun ownership actually is more likely to harm than save you.
idk, even your more middle of the road republicans tend to spout the gun grabbing thing as a fact.
And for good reason: I think most of us on the left would LIKE to grab the goddamned guns. Cause they are killing us at movie theaters and schools and concerts and night clubs and farmers markets and churches and....
Did she, though? Were there a bunch of people who thought Democrats were going to ban and confiscate all guns who now think otherwise?
It's a minor nitpick, really, but this campaign has been run so well that I'm sure she could have found some other way to re-direct the media's attention, so if that's all it was it seems a bit excessive.
I don't see it as some sort of play. I don't see it as an attempt to change hearts and minds. I see it as an honest answer to an inevitable question that WILL help her cred in small ways.
Next Saturday's Movie Night selection is ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-sept-28-warm?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Whee! I like that one.
A reminder today is ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ on my Substack. Watching ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ ๐: ๐๐๐ฒ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง today at 4pm ET. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/series-sundays-firefly?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Just started the NYT Crossword - I knew the answers to Prison drama released September 23, 1994.
My neighbors have a Harris/Walz banner up. I decided to reply to them!
https://substack.com/profile/155618292-ziggywiggy/note/c-69927141?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knfuc
My reply sign would have said โI agree with youโฆand fuck Dipshit Donnie and Couchfuckerโ
"Dipshit Donnie and Couchfucker"
Worst Shanana tribute band of all time, or so I'm told.
My God. Bullet proof school supplies for children advertised in newspaper.
https://bsky.app/profile/tobiasharris.bsky.social/post/3l4qpoy4vst2s
But the backpack has to be clear so as not to conceal weapons, right?
I don't think that is true of schools yet.....
It's not the school supplies I'm really concerned about...
What a terrible sign of the times, though. Sigh.
Last night, the hosts of several of my favorite podcasts (i.e. Cognitive Dissonance and the Puzzle in a Thunderstorm crew) got together to do a live stream โHumanists for Harrisโ fundraiser for the Harris/Waltz campaign. Along with a few skits and Trumpโs expense, they did a comedic reading of the introduction of Project 2025.
At last count, they raised over $79,000!
Hereโs a recording of the stream for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/live/R3skyySEOuE?si=GTSuxNIFEvNc0m-1
Now past $80,000
Check out Sunday's NYT crossword. Must be a Wonkette reader over there. :-)
dick jokes?
Trumps lack of ground game.
Think that's gonna bite him in the ass?
https://news.yahoo.com/news/republicans-swing-states-see-scant-120433800.html
That is a face of a man basking in adoration.
Presuming he ever gets up off of it, yes.
Round here the usual empty tracts of land by the four lane roads and isthmuses between shopping centers are being bedecked with their usual clown pile of oversized gop signs. I even saw one for Hung Cao yesterday.
Is Devin Nunes back?
Dunno, but Hung Cao is a real senate candidate in Virginia.
I would predict that polls would reflect strength for Trump, but that "intent" does not adequately translate into his voters showing up to vote.
They are looking to win by having the results thrown out by pet lawmakers.
Joan Jett and her bad reputation are 66 years old today. Here's to more years of crimson and clover for her bad self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhnZ19sbxps
From NYT sanewashing article about Trumps โplanโ for taxes that they led off with this nugget
โWith slogans and in social-media posts, the former president has dribbled out ideas that, together, would fundamentally change how taxes are collected in the U.S.โ
Then they just wrote policy for Trump while admitting in the article that he has no idea whatโs going on. Seriously just North Korean level sanewashing here.
His ideas โ if they all became law, far from a sure thing in Washington โ would in effect move the United States closer to a taxation system used in many other countries. Most advanced economies, including Canada, Germany and Japan, collect value-added taxes, essentially a national sales taxes on goods and services. The United States is unique for not having such a tax. Many economists generally support so-called consumption taxes, which they view as an efficient and hard-to-evade way of collecting money for the government.
โฆ
โWhether he knows it or not, or intends it or not, itโs a shift from taxing income to taxing consumption in some fashion,โ Michael Graetz, a tax scholar at Columbia Law School, who has argued that the United States should adopt a consumption tax.
European countries have value added tax. In the US it's sales taxes by states, which they do not have in Europe. But they also have income taxes on top of that, generally higher than in the US. So the whole article sounds like something a fifth grader with little understanding of taxes or how other taxes and the economies in other countries operate would write. Using only one Wikipedia search.
omg I missed it the first go round
As proof, they bring on a guy who has been pushing that very thing for his entire career? FOR REALLY????
We should bring back Eisenhower era income tax brackets, scaled for current value of dollar.
like
"Whether he knows it or not..."
At this point, the notion that he knows anything at all about governance is just ridiculous.
Whether he knows it or not.
Jesus
They are claiming he has a policy, with points, that make a statement, but he might not even know it.
Jesus fuck
Only five States do not have a sales tax.* In all other States, we are effectively paying consumption taxes, just not to the Feds.
* Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon
Luxury goods only, please
Who gets to decide what is luxury though?
I do. I'll make a list.
I am DOWN for that.
His ideas โ if they all became law, far from a sure thing in Washington
which ideas, NYT? If it is ALL his ideas, what it will do is create chaos because they fucking contradict each other all the time. Cherry picking his "ideas" to create a narrative is some new ground
Yep. They literally just wrote a specific policy that Trump has never mentioned once.
And are saying it IS his policy, whether he knows it or not. They even used those exact words.
But noooooo there is no sanewashing going on. Heaven forfend
Mechanically, how do we tax things like school lunches or Medicare?
Ah, consumption taxes, nice and regressive in that they afflict the poor the most
It's what the right has wanted for a very long time now.
AHHH so that explains why the NYT is pretending this is totes more like The Good Countries.
Cause it is not
Like almost all our states have that. How can they sit there and pretend the US does not?
IKR? Texas, for instance, has no state income tax (which would be progressive) but makes up for it with consumption and use taxes, which are regressive.
Ridiculously high residential property taxes are what we have.
Delaware also too.
Though in their case, they have income tax, but not sales tax
And South Dakotans have fought for years to get their sales tax off of groceries.
Up Here we have taxes on some groceries, but not all. I think it's based on how processed they are.
When I lived in PA, it was based on if they were hot or not.
Did a stint in a convenience store deli, and if the sub was hot, we taxed em, and if not, we did not tax em.
OH and food stamps could not go for prepared (hot) food because the idea is that they take food home and make it. Which...is not how food stamps should fucking work dear lord do people not need lunch while at work?
I remember when Washington state briefly had a sales tax on groceries. It did NOT go over well here at all.
Even the UK doesn't charge VAT on food, because that would be crazeballs.
Christ, even Texas doesn't tax food.
My dad always though it was funny that Americans charge sales taxes on books.
Feels like a first amendment violation to me.
Of course, forget all about a progressive tax system with consumption taxes...
I've got so much shit to do today, we have friends coming over tonight. But there's a sweet dog snoozing in my lap. Guess our friends will enter a very messy house....
Well, the sun has crossed the earthโs equatorial plane, Happy Han Solo season!
https://x.com/yreichardt/status/1443836725915234313
I love the Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix. Not only does it come together so freaking easily, the cookies also come off the pan super easily too! Almost no mess beyond washing the bowl you made the dough in!
Trump's always been a racist asshole, so that's ok with Cotton
"Tom Cotton's defense of Trump preemptively blaming the Jews for his election loss is that he's been saying stuff like this for a long time, so what's the big deal?"
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1837847474246996251
I love how the tough talking Repubs always bend a knee to Trump.
So he is saying Trump always quoted Hitler?
Tom Cotton has been a pencil necked geek for a long time also
Neck like a stack of dimes
"Head like a soccer ball on a popsicle stick"
"We all know he's a shitwitted racist asshole - it's part of his allure to voters"
Which is why Robinson will still probably get 40% or more of the vote for governor. The MAGA cult would cut their throat if they thought it would own the libs. Better a racist, misogynistic Nazi than a Democrat. BTW, his opponent is Jewish. I'm surprised Robinson hasn't commented on that.
Other than the porn deal all this information about Robinson was known when he won the lieutenant governor seat in 2020. Running against a well qualified Black woman with years of work in government offices and several years in the legislature.
I am sure he has commented on that. I am sure he has at least mentioned the "Globalists" trying to "Destroy America" at least one time
That and the free License to Hate.
Nice sunrise this morning.
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-69917980?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=19n7td
So THAT'S where the "purple mountains' majesty" is.
I see Republicans are mad about Harris saying she's a gun owner
on Fox News ...
"Comer: "I don't think anyone believes that Kamala Harris is a gun owner, but if she is she needs to tell the American people what type of gun she has.""
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1837865206862459367
You first you assholes. What do you have? Oh wait - don't bother, I'll just dig out last year's Christmas card that you sent out.
James Comer is not quick-witted enough for live interviews.
He's not quick witted enough play "eat the lettuce" against a tortoise
I know that other career prosecutors would believe that sheโs a gun owner.
Someone in that occupation would be wise to do so
Kamala. Guns. Stolen valor, is what it is.
Sheโs a prosecutor. A lot of prosecutors carry a weapon.
That's a good point
GUNGATE!
Just as soon as they tell US what guns maga owns.
You first you assholes. What do you have? Oh wait - don't bother, I'll just dig out last year's Christmas card that you sent out.
Well, Trump doesn't have any... What with being a convicted felon and all.
With those tiny hands he'd need a derringer or a purse gun.
AOT,K
โTheyโre Getting Shot,โ Kamala Harris Warns Home Intruders, Burglars, Litterbugs, Slow Walkers - The Onion
https://theonion.com/theyre-getting-shot-kamala-harris-warns-home-intruders-burglars-litterbugs-slow-walkers/
But not Bogarts of joints?
Oh, fuck off.
Honestly, it's more disappointing to me that she feels a need to advertise this fact to reassure gun owners, when she's got security and gun ownership actually is more likely to harm than save you.
It was to defang the "she will grab your guns" talking point the right likes to spew.
Worked too. Cause they are whining about what kind she has.
Obviously she has a pair of Gold Plated 50 Caliber Desert Eagles given to her by Deadpool.
Yeah, but it's annoying that she has to play that game, when it's clear to anyone who doesn't consume propaganda all day that no one is grabbing guns.
That is only like half the country though
It's not half the country. That they're half the country is just more of their propaganda, that for some reason the rest of the media goes along with.
idk, even your more middle of the road republicans tend to spout the gun grabbing thing as a fact.
And for good reason: I think most of us on the left would LIKE to grab the goddamned guns. Cause they are killing us at movie theaters and schools and concerts and night clubs and farmers markets and churches and....
If the game has to be played - and it does - best to play it well. And she did.
Did she, though? Were there a bunch of people who thought Democrats were going to ban and confiscate all guns who now think otherwise?
It's a minor nitpick, really, but this campaign has been run so well that I'm sure she could have found some other way to re-direct the media's attention, so if that's all it was it seems a bit excessive.
IDK. You got maga stalking Obama's home. Breaking into Pelosi's house. I might do some defense telegraphing. Just saying.
I don't see it as some sort of play. I don't see it as an attempt to change hearts and minds. I see it as an honest answer to an inevitable question that WILL help her cred in small ways.
Iโm with you. Iโve felt the same way about candidates genuflecting before the altar of religion to appease the Teabangelicals.
A deadly one. That's what you need to know.
Well put.
Why?
Tell us about your guns, ol' Pigfuck.