Grandma, Grandma! What did you do when we started to find out that people were dying in US custody?
Well, sweetheart, I was very concerned. It was a difficult time. So I thought that I would spend my time and talent on the most important thing. I decided that if I didn’t nitpick the people opposing them, who would. So I went online, and I pretended that concentration camps was a phrase only used by Nazis. I, as you can see, was the real hero.
I doubt the Nazis used the term “concentration camps,” at least not publicly. As I recall, they called them “resettlement” camps.
Don’t overlook the big difference between Nazi and Trump concentration camps, though. Hitler used them to kick people out of the country. Trump uses them to keep people from coming in.
“President Donald Trump’s former aide Hope Hicks refused to answer questions Wednesday about her time working in the White House as she testified behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/hope-hicks-testifies-house-committee-behind-closed-doors-n1019246
Roger Rabbit Commentary: She had her chance. Subpoena her ass, and if she still refuses, enforce the subpoena.
Damnit! Who talked?
The secret 100 year plot by Democrats to destroy the American way of life is now out in the open.
We had them fooled. Axis of evil, NK, Iran, Iraq (didn’t notice the Democrats.)
“The only thing we have to fear is Clean Water, Equitable division of profit between capital and labor and reasonably priced higher education!”
“There’s no Red America, There’s no Blue America there is only an America under the Deep State authoritarian boot heel of higher minimum wages.”
Who said the silent parts out loud?
Loose lips sink ships.
The same people who call David Hogg and Emma Gonzales “Professional Victims” are rallying around gun rights racist Kyle Kuschev.
Just a bit from his media blitz on losing his Harvard spot due to repeated use of N***er on social media (“I was only 16. I had no idea that word was bad and now two years later I’m a changed grown man…”) complaining online that a girl he liked only goes for “N****rjocks” (“I mean, cmon. I was only suggesting if I hit the tanning salon she might be interested in me”)
translation, My close friends in high school said racist shit all the time, bro. It was nothing. We were just having a laugh at the darkies. All my friends hated the ni****s.
Pointed out by Trevor Noah, the entire point of College admissions is to determine if what kind of person a student was in high school fits into their mission as a community. So what should an admissions office make of a social media post,
Don’t judge me on my high school record for University admission. Judge me on my getting over being a victim of a mass shooting WHILE being a racist piece of shit in High School. The important part is I AM A VICTIM! I’m being judged for my behavior and politics and that simply isn’t FAIR!
@ 2
Subpoena her ass, and if she still refuses, enforce the subpoena.
Enforce it just like it was enforced when Holder ignored a House subpoena.
I miss Keith
XEllison.2,
Media speculation notwithstanding, I don’t think the committee expected any differently.
It’s possible that part of the strategy here is to set the stage and the agenda for what follows from a binding court order later on. Getting this on the record now, from as many of the participants as possible, and yes including a subpoena refusal, can make things proceed rather efficiently later on. It might not be the preferred course of action. But it’s the only one they’ve got.
As to when or from where that binding order emerges it looks to me like the committee chairs are all acting in concert to open up as many legal channels as possible and then to choose and prioritize among those for the most favorable outcome. They have multiple cases each from Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, Intelligence, Ways and Means, Banking, Taxation, and Financial Services, among others.
As well as holdover cases from civil suits out of the previous Congress that are still working their way through the courts.
A judge’s assessment of a party’s demeanor and legal position is greatly influenced by the history of the litigation. Building out a massive record of bad faith arguments on the part of the administration with respect to Congressional oversight authority makes it more likely that more nuanced or narrowly crafted arguments in later proceedings will be swept aside. And building multiple case and opportunities in multiple courts and jurisdictions for the pursuit of such an outcome allows the leadership legal team to shop for the most favorable venue and timing.
It’s safe to assume that the chairs of each of these committees are well acquainted with the political history behind these kinds of confrontations between the branches. And it would be naive to think that at least some of them are not hoping to elevate their own political stature on a national stage as a result. So part of the behind the scenes scrum has involved the Speaker and the senior leadership negotiating the order and typeface in the playbill with each of those committee chairs. It’s going to be more complicated than it should be. And it might not always be what’s best for exposing the GOP’s corruption in an open proceeding. But nevertheless it does have to follow a methodical and calculated process to achieve the best outcome.
@4 I’m surprised he didn’t walk up to the shooter and shake his hand.
The other day, I posted that he should be given a second chance. Youthful mistake, remorseful, changed person, etc.
That was before I learned he also wrote, “Kill all the fucking Jews.”
Harvard is right, and you’re right, he doesn’t belong in that school. Somebody will take him, though. I’ll bet Liberty University will. Then, after he graduates, he can work for a Republican congressman. But he’ll have to change “kill the Jews” to “kill the Palestinians.”
@5 The Holder subpoena was enforced, dumbshit.
@6 Did he go missing?
Five innocent men and one asshole.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/us/central-park-five-where-now-trnd/index.html
8,
“Somebody will take him, though.”
Thanks to how he chose to respond to this, I estimate that pool of opportunities is now significantly reduced in both size and quality.
I’m not sure if he’s an idiot-savant, or just being used and influenced by a bunch of sociopaths. But bear in mind that prior to this episode, his grades, his history, his scores, and his resume were good enough for Harvard. Timing aside, he could have gained acceptance into a massive universe of top notch academies for entrance in 2020 if he had not chosen to make this into a media circus. Even assuming that his ugly, pathological racism came out, a good percentage of those schools would have been willing to forgive it.
But not now. Not now that he’s turned the question into this ponderous millstone of identity politics on the far right. Every admissions year is different. And every year is a new process. So any school who previously extended an offer can now politely invite him to re-apply and then subsequently decline. And most will. For most admissions committees at private schools their decision to decline will remain entirely private. Most will have no difficulty avoiding the controversy and the hassle. And that was all entirely foreseeable for any kid smart enough to get into Harvard. He’s doing this to himself. He is unworthy of anyone’s sympathy.
#owngoal
Rage tweeting about Congressional investigations.
Rage tweeting about her emails.
A guy who has ‘A great relationship with the blacks.” nothing about Juneteenth.
11,
Not exceptional. Entirely routine.
How the system is designed to operate.
Had the actual perpetrator not been in the system, and had he not entirely by chance come into contact with Wise, the truth would have never come out. Never.
And all of America would still be looking back at all those “radical, angry, minority protesters” demonstrating outside the courthouse and shaking our heads in disgust. Because that’s who we are.
It’s all for show, the opposition to the Hyde Amendment.
Democrats to pass spending bill with Hyde despite 2020 uproar
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/449219-democrats-to-pass-spending-bill-with-hyde-despite-2020-race-uproar
Go Mayor Pete! Tell theses guys how much of a jackass they are!
Racial battle explodes among 2020 Dems as de Blasio, Booker attack Biden https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-cites-segregationist-senators-he-recalls-past-civility-senate-n1019211
Essentially a cut-and-paste of a Steve spew directed at me:
Bill de Blasio
Verified account
@BilldeBlasio
7h7 hours ago
It’s 2019 & @JoeBiden is longing for the good old days of “civility” typified by James Eastland. Eastland thought my multiracial family should be illegal & that whites were entitled to “the pursuit of dead n*ggers.” (1/2)
Buncha Dems about to find out that when everyone’s a racist, no one’s a racist.
Goldy found out in 2015, when he insinuated that Seattle BernieBros were racist because they didn’t stand silently by while Bernie’s downtown Seattle rally was hijacked.
That was before Goldy found out in late 2016 and early 2017 that the same thing applied to calling everyone a Nazi.
Are there a lot of Africans in Mexico and Central America? There are sure a lot of them showing up at border crossing areas in Texas at such places as Eagle Pass and Del Rio. Who is funding their trip from Africa to the Americas?
Buncha Dems about to find out that when everyone’s a racist,
no one’s a racist.racism has nowhere to hide.When elderly conservative white dudes decided to declare the word “racist” as mere invective, rather than as a meaningful descriptor, they permanently abandoned their capacity to grow and change around the issue of race.
I’m a racist. So are you. Figure out what to do about that. Or don’t. But until you do, and until Joe Biden does, you and he will never be in any position to even comprehend how demands for “civility” by anyone belonging to the “master race” have become an insult to those who don’t.
White men in America who can’t get over their “hurt feelings” need to grow the fuck up. You’ve run out of time and that shit is played out.
Exciting news!
Susan Collins has already raised almost as much for her 2020 re-election campaign as the crowd funded candidate fund waiting for her unnamed opponent.
#winning
@ 21
HRC outspent DJT 2:1.
How’d that work out for y’all?
And then there’s this one:
Campaign filing reports released this week show Ossoff raised about $6.3 million in the final three weeks of the vote and pumped in another $300,000 of his own money – $50,000 from a contribution and $250,000 in loans – in the last stretch. All told, he raised $29,959,740 and had about $13,000 left.Republican Karen Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, earlier filed paperwork showing she raised $6.3 million throughout the campaign and has $430,000 left for what could be another grueling election bid to represent the suburban Atlanta district.Campaign records show spending in the race, which pitted 18 candidates competing to succeed U.S. Rep. Tom Price, hovered beyond $60 million to become the most expensive election of its kind. The contest set one spending record after another as it became a nationally-watched proxy fight over Donald Trump, the healthcare overhaul and the battle for suburbia.Ossoff’s final fundraising tally puts him in a unique orbit.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/final-tally-ossoff-raised-nearly-30m-6th-district-race/C94XkPhTSvYzIyFvr0un7H/
If y’all run a POS as your candidate, y’all gonna lose. In Hillary’s case she lost to another POS, but c’mon, libbies. Y’all knew what a POS she is and gave her the felching pucker, anyway.
Think on your sins.
@18 the world is about to find out, if not already apparent, that everyone is a bigot and dislikes freedom, and a Nazi
@19 probably getting that money from the conservative missionary evangelicals
Hubba, Hubba, Hubba. Pizza! Porn! Ohhh my. Probably a Hump supporter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pizza-deliveryman-who-called-911-after-seeing-naked-child-man-n1019396
22,
So what you’re saying is Collins can turn New England bright red, get the state of Maine to adopt the Electoral College model for statewide elections, or get Hillary to run.
We’ll have to keep a sharp eye out.
Maine is basically Montana with lobster. And like Montana the GOP should not have to struggle for it. Shes incumbent so she should be able to line up the funding she needs in time. But it has to come from somewhere.
@18 “when everyone’s a racist, no one’s a racist”
I’d like to see your mathematical proof for that assertion.
@ 27
It’s like your claim of milliionairism, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. You place yourself in a group and try to make it seem special. The mere placement of yourself into said group instead makes clear that an incredibly low bar to entry exists, and nearly anyone can accomplish it.
In your case, you saved some money in your 20s and 30s ’cause you were too stupid for women to want to date you. So it went into your retirement fund. BFD. Ditch-diggers with a bit of self control become millionaires.
The word means nothing to the rest of us. For you it’s a plea for relevance.
@19 Wow, all 700 of ’em!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/us/border-africans-congo-maine.html
63 million Trump voters are shaking in their boots because 700 African refugees are seeking asylum in the U.S.! These snowflakes melt faster than Himalayan glaciers.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/world/himalayan-glaciers-melting-climate-change-scn-intl/index.html
@22 “If y’all run a POS as your candidate, y’all gonna lose.”
Y’all ran a POS as your candidate, and y’all didn’t lose, although granted your candidate had (and will have) Russian intelligence agencies at his back, and our candidate won’t have that advantage.
Still, I’d rather be a dead patriot than a live traitor.
@ 30
Still, I’d rather be a dead patriot than a live traitor.
Yeah, I could live with that, too. But you’d be a dead dumbfuck patriot.
Just like CJ doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7H_L5cYkg8
The Jackal on The West Wing, all the HA libbies love it when Cz-252 does the militia thing. gman blows smoke rings out his anus.
Here’s his next verse:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2019/06/19/suspects-arrested-two-killings-5-year-old-boys/1503444001/
Make sure to be funny, Cz-252. We’ve come to expect it from you.
@28 “It’s like your claim of milliionairism, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. You place yourself in a group and try to make it seem special.”
I never said there’s anything special about being a millionaire. Take you, for example. You’re an insignificant nobody.
The reason for including Hyde is simple: The broader spending package cannot pass the GOP-controlled Senate and would not be signed into law by President Trump if it did not include language banning the use of federal funds for abortion.
But if Forced Birthers make sure the unwanted babies are born
Elizabeth Warren has a plan to help the children.
“Elizabeth’s Plan for Universal Child Care: We’re the wealthiest country on the planet – high-quality child care and early education shouldn’t be a privilege that’s only for the rich. I’m fighting to make high-quality child care from birth to school age free for millions of families and affordable for all.”
@35 But you see, the whole point of being rich is to be different from the poor, and that’s not possible if there are no poor.
Oh, Redddddddddddd @ 35
8) It is important to emphasize that our computations assume that the wealth tax base is
comprehensive with no major asset classes exempt from wealth taxation.
http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files.....warren.pdf
So Red, what happens to tax-free municipal funds when it turns out they’re subject to a 2% tax on principal each year, hmmmmmmmmm?
The Berkeley dude who ran numbers for Warren didn’t game out the higher interest rates municipalities and states would have to pay once tax-free investments become taxable investments.
Who’s gonna invest in short-term paper paying 2% when the tax on the principal used to make that investment is……
wait for it……..
2%?
Pull your head out of your asshole every now and then, Red.
At the bottom of the analysis the Berkeley dudes point out that the federal taxes on the wealthiest individuals subject to the Warren surcharge would increase, on average, a whopping 34%.
You think there won’t be serious repercussions to the economy when Warren initiates class warfare, Red?
Oh, Red, I have one final question. How are you going to get this through the Senate, asswipe?
Here’s an example, Red:
One of the recent recommended investments in US News and World Report is this one:
VanEck Vectors AMT-Free Short Municipal ETF (SMB)
For more conservative investors, Pfeffer suggests SMB. He says it’s appropriate for people who want less risk because it holds shorter maturity bonds. The ETF tracks a market-weighted index of tax-exempt municipal bonds with maturities of one to six years, with a weighted average of 4.45 years. The fund holds a mix of revenue bonds, which comprise 58% of the holdings, with general obligation bonds making up 37%. Bonds from New York, California and Texas are among the top three holdings. Because the duration is shorter, the yield is a bit smaller at 1.75%.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/buy-and-hold-strategy/slideshows/8-best-municipal-bond-funds-to-buy-and-hold?onepage
So you have $50 million in assets and you’re subject to the tax Warren wants to apply. Do you invest in medium-duration munis paying an average of 1.75% if you are going to lose 2% each year to the Warren tax?
No? Well, then I guess municipalities will have to pay higher interest rates to attract investment, right, Red?
Where will the money to pay those higher interest rates resulting from the Warren tax come from, Red?
@ 36
…the whole point of being rich is to be different from the poor…
Actually, it’s to know when those who claim to be rich but are not are trying to bullshit you, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Rich people don’t try to convince others of their wealth. You fail the first test right there.
Jeezus. Red triggered Teh Dumbfuck.
“Class warfare” is the tell.
Fortunately Teh Dumbfuck had a devoted father who was always available to tell him when his feelings were stupid.
And lucky for him he has HA for therapy.
88 Typically republican argument. There is a problem with a tiny element therefore the whole premise is invalid. Come back when you are willing to compromise.
There will all ways be richer people and poorer people. Income inequality keeps the poor from ever becoming not poor. We want to structurally change the rules to allow more people to have wealth mobility. You got a problem with that?
Joe Arpaio ran a self-proclaimed ‘concentration camp’ for years. Where was GOP outrage?
“…a very, very highly respected …”
… president?
Not so much.
Sometimes I think that explains part of Trump’s success with many Republicans. His appeal, at least in part, is that they don’t feel any obligation to respect him.
It’s as if they are saying to all the Obama voters “For electing a President we can’t respect, we will punish you by electing a President no one can respect”.
@ 42
You got a problem with that?
When it affects the municipal bond market and interferes with the abilities of cities and similar entities to raise money, yeah. I do.
You need to think about the consequences of soaking the rich. We’ve already got one HA commenter with kneepads and no frontal lobes. You probably didn’t read the UC Berkeley analysis, did you, Red? Most cheerleaders worry about how to swallow, not that there might be gonorrhea along for the ride.
@ 41
There is a problem with a tiny element therefore the whole premise is invalid.
Hey, Red, today the 10-year Treasury note yield dropped below 2%. If people subject to Warren’s tax would be underwater on their Treasury note investments after the tax is applied, do you think that’s a tiny element, or do you think there might be a bigger issue if the wealthiest class of Americans no longer wants to buy US government paper because Warren made it a loser investment from the point of issuance?
Think it through, Red. Plenty o’ cheerleadin’ already goin’ on here. We don’t need another.
So Donald’s Justice Department argued in Federal Court that overcrowding, lack of basic supplies like soap and no beds for incarcerated children is just fine and they don’t have to provide such things…. for CHILDREN.
It did not go well.
So let’s talk about if AOC was a mean poopie head when calling out these facilities.
“At the bottom of the analysis the Berkeley dudes point out that the federal taxes* on the wealthiest individuals subject to the Warren surcharge would increase, on average, a whopping 34%.”
From 3.2% of wealth to 4.3% of wealth. An increase of 1.1% of wealth for those affected.
But what the hell. He’s on a roll.
*Plus… also… Teh Dumbfuck is lying here. The analysis is for all taxes, including state and local. But saying that makes is sound less like FEMINAZIBITCHCLASSWARFARE!!!!!. So…
47,
GOP has reliable data that performs consistently showing that AOC makes Ben Shapiro and Teh Dumbfuck angry and motivated (in a vaguely sexually aroused way). So they plan to continue to deploy her image whenever and wherever they can.
It’s almost like they work for her.
@47. Don’t worry about a thing. This is the bestest economy ever! It’s soaring like never before. Gas prices never this low. Plus any war with Iran will help it get better
@49 no sure why. She seems mor fuckable than Sarah Palin. And she doesn’t come with all the baggage that Sarah comes with.
Are horse diseases transmittable to humans?
“Think it through, Red. Plenty o’ cheerleadin’ already goin’ on here. We don’t need another.”
Speaking of “cheerleadin'” I left a little bit out.
That 1.1% increase in taxation of wealth for billionaire families, bringing their total tax burden as a percentage of their wealth to 4.3%, is still 40% less than the burden on wealth paid by the lowest 99% of families, which according to the authors is 7.2% .
7.2%!!!! And yet civilization manages to plod onward.
Why do I get the feeling that Bob knows as little about how the economy works as he does about being a doctor.
I know the conservative incel who obsesses over artificial penises won’t let anything involving rich people and their money go. I won’t try to change his mind. I will point out he dips into his shallow bag of homophobic and misogynistic slurs to distract from his feeble arguments.
What’s the republican plan for better Child Care? Oh that’s right. They don’t have one.
The ‘offended observer’ concept took a hit in the Supreme Court Bladensburg Cross decision today.
Good.
So after Donald’s tax cut netted the company over $2B WallMart is laying of workers.
The HQ in North Carolina will be closed and the jobs outsourced to independent contractors in Arkansas.
Hmm…NC was close in 2016. SCOTUS is likely to give the A-OK to gerrymandered map AND the GOP was caught rigging an election in 2018.
I wonder what the fake internal polls that no longer exist in Donaldland said about North Carolina.
56,
Fuck me. What you don’t comprehend about the law is breathtaking. It’s seems practically obvious that you let National Review, FedSoc, Heritage and similar lead you around by that chastity ring in your nose.
Lemon stands.
A principle relating exclusively and narrowly to standing in establishment clause cases, and one that was seldom applied but nevertheless became a ceremonial whipping post for the religious right, is narrowly restricted. And you think you’re about to get tax money for bible study?
Good.
“Those that are already there, likely will be able to stay; it’s a question of removal, not putting them up. It could still be contested, however, if someone wanted to construct something new, because the purpose would be better known than something historic.”
>> So when an Islamic group, or satanist group or giant spaghetti monster group wants to put an historic religious marker, they don’t get to. But the old christian symbols of religion, those get to stay. Conservative Christian bias.
@57 Who care about workers? The dow is up.
59,
Actually, that’s just Nina Totteburg’s opinion.
Still not binding.
In this decision the court relied on so many qualifications and ruled so narrowly with big differences in reasoning that it’s going to be hard to predict and it will probably have to play out further in lower courts. We really just don’t know. In this case, the courts applied the Lemon Test and found that the cross complied. A 7-2 vote with strong dissent and differences in concurrence suggests anything but finality. When Alito specifically argues that the symbol in question is secular in nature, it’s not much of a home run for the compulsory prayer crowd. And declaring a monument like this one to be “secular” could actually deprive it of some protections it might otherwise enjoy.
But like I said earlier, he’s on a roll.
@ 58, 61
I realize the limited scope of the decision. I think it’s inappropriate for a new cross to be planted in someone’s face the same way it’s inappropriate for a crescent moon and star to be planted in someone’s face.
The value of the decision is that things with historical significance and value should remain. In 2027 when the MLK FBI files are released and the calls for the removal of the Washington DC MLK memorial begin, you’ll understand the value better, perhaps.
The other value is that there is a concurring opinion that people do not have a right not to be offended. Suck it up, Buttercup.
Hospitalized while black. What was he thinking? He could have been shot!
“Illinois cops arrest man for being hospitalized while black”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/illinois-cops-arrest-man-for-being-hospitalized-while-black/
I seriously have yet to hear an acceptable response to the question. “Can you actually tell me something positive trump has done that you support and tell me why?”
@ 64
Gorsuch
Kavanaugh
Trump and McConnell are remaking the judiciary with many, many conservative appointees, who will serve for decades.
A couple more appointments and the Ninth Circuit will flip.
I don’t give a shit whether you consider the response acceptable, Red. You’re quickly becoming a Fucking Moron. With your question you’ve become Pauline Kael.
I know it’s hard for you. But try to keep in mind that not too long ago human slavery had “historical significance and value”. Hell if that were all it took, the GOP MOOSLIMBAN might still be in effect. The Lemon Test is entirely undisturbed by this decision. The mere presence of “historical significance and value” isn’t even in the ballpark.
Conjured limited protections for a filthy crumbling smog stained monument to non-denominational christianity in the middle of a freeway median surrounded by used Huggies and beer cans.
Good. (Don’t laugh. It’d be “uncivil”.
@37 Whiner.
America has huge unmet needs for infrastructure, health care, child care, etc. The rich scarfed up virtually all the economic growth of the last 40 years, and gave themselves huge tax cuts through the agency of the Republican Party, so they’re the logical ones to pay for it. Nobody else has any money because the billionaires took it all for themselves.
P.S., a millionaire is not rich, so you don’t have to worry, dumbfuck. Warren et al. aren’t talking about you.
@39 “Actually, it’s to know when those who claim to be rich but are not are trying to bullshit you, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.”
You’re not rich, and I never said you are. I did say you’re a stupid dumbfuck, which requires no proof, because you demonstrate that every day.
Did somebody say something abut “buttercups” “sucking it up”?
Brave patriots in a life or death struggle to keep pork-free options off the public school lunch menu. Thoughts and prayers.
@42 Several years ago, when the lingering effects of the Great Recession were still fresh, The Atlantic published an illuminating article detailing how the top 10% have used their wealth and political power to stack the deck in their favor at every level:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/308600/
The upshot is that America has developed a hereditary privileged class (of which Doctor Dumbfuck is a member) and everybody else can go fuck themselves.
That, not Hillary Clinton, is how we got Trump.
Ironically, Trump is bent on perpetuating and reinforcing that system to the detriment of his followers, but that’s another story.
@31 “Yeah, I could live with that, too. But you’d be a dead dumbfuck patriot.”
You’re a Republican, and I don’t need to be told how Republicans feel about veterans. My fellow veterans know, too.
We know how many of you, including the current leader of your party, were draft dodgers.
We know how disrespectful many of you have been toward those who served and made sacrifices, e.g. John McCain, John Kerry, and Max Cleland, including the current leader of your party.
We know all about your ilk’s propensity to start wars in which neither you nor any of your children will ever serve or sacrifice. Instead you send other people’s children, many of them black and brown, to their deaths.
You talk about “bullshit.” I, and my fellow veterans, know bullshit when we see it. It kinda speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
@45 “When it affects the municipal bond market and interferes with the abilities of cities and similar entities to raise money, yeah. I do.”
Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river.
I’m now at a place where I feel like showing people like you exactly as much consideration as you’ve shown us. In other words, none.
Your tribe has forgotten basic principles, such as, What goes around, comes around. Get back to us when you and your ilk decide to rejoin civilized society.
@46 “If people subject to Warren’s tax would be underwater on their Treasury note investments after the tax is applied” then they’ll have a tiny inkling of what it feels like to be a middle class family bankrupted by medical bills after their insurance company denied coverage for a pre-existing condition.
Your party doesn’t give a shit about those people, so why should we give a shit about people who making their living by clipping tax-free municipal bond coupons?
Isn’t one of the trade-offs of our capitalist system the fact that investors aren’t guaranteed a profit and can lose money on their investments?
If someone loses money on an investment, maybe they should have chosen their investments more wisely. You frequently say so yourself. Are you reneging on that now?
Every homeowner pays a wealth tax. I play roughly 1% of the value of my home to tax authorities every year. Why the hell should municipal bond coupon clippers be exempt from a similar tax? What makes them special and privileged? When middle class housing is not? Fuck that, this whining will get no sympathy from me.
“Isn’t one of the trade-offs of our capitalist system the fact that investors aren’t guaranteed a profit and can lose money on their investments? ”
Silly Rabbit. Risk is only for little people, the rich get socialism to protect them from risk.
There’s a good opportunity in the SCOTUS October 2018 term to see in action how obsessive genuflecting to the Court’s ideological balance can have very mixed results.
Take a look at Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck published a couple of days ago. I don’t wan’t to give away the plot. But First Amendment protections apply differently depending on what is at stake and where they are being applied. And though it’s been a struggle lately to keep this in mind, the guarantees against abridging “protected expression” only apply to the state (government). This is a 5-4 vote along the so-called “ideological” split in The Court, the “conservative” majority holding that the petitioner, a privately owned and operated cable public access provider, was acting as a private entity when it told a couple of filthy stinking smelly community activists they could fuck right off with their socialistic propaganda. Private entity means they are not bound by Constitutional restrictions and they can do as they like. And superficially and without further analysis that might seem like really sticking it to the damn hippies.
But see, the thing is, Google, Facebook, etc are all clearly private companies. And nothing about what they do or the products and services they sell is in any way intended to form a nexus to public services or the state (government). So while it may please Crazy Uncle Freedumb to hear his favorite AM HateRadio “personality” describe how the hippies cried lots of real tears when the CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY gave them THE SHAFT, it’s crucial for him to quickly move on and not think much more about it.
Because thanks to this decision MILO, Ben Shapiro, and other social media celebrities whose livelihood depends on dancing with violent white supremacy just lost big time. And it makes it conceptually that much harder when the League of Aggressive Church Ladies wants to use the law to prevent a private satellite entertainment service from programming a few hours of explicit Tijuana donkey shows after midnight.
Not all property is taxed. Only tangible property — real estate, cars, etc. — is subjected to what you might call “wealth taxes,” i.e., taxes based on the value of the property. I’m not against these taxes; they pay for necessary state and municipal services, such as schools, roads, police and fire, etc.
But our federal government is running large and unsustainable deficits, and our society as a whole has huge and unmet spending needs. At the same time, you can’t expect the broke, indebted, and financially stressed working classes to pay more taxes.
Financial assets are a huge and untapped potential tax source. There’s no legal or logical reason why financial wealth shouldn’t be taxed, when the houses and cars owned by ordinary wage earners are taxed.
But at the very least, if you insist on exempting the 10% who own 86% of the financial assets from paying property taxes on that form of wealth, stop complaining about deficits.
Rabbit, Thanks for destroying the conservative incel obsessed with fake penis’s argument, in so many ways.
Roy Moore has announced. Susan Collins has not.
Some kind of fitting, modern GOP symmetry there.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit is wrong. Again. In @ 78 he claims
Not all property is taxed. Only tangible property — real estate, cars, etc. — is subjected to what you might call “wealth taxes,” i.e., taxes based on the value of the property.
And yet (link above) the Berkeley analysts clearly state that no wealth category is untaxed. Again,
8) It is important to emphasize that our computations assume that the wealth tax base is
comprehensive with no major asset classes exempt from wealth taxation.
Bonds and stocks are tangible property, too. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit would admit that if he would pull his head out of his rectal catheter long enough to give it some thought.
It is important to emphasize that Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has failed as an attorney and as an investor. He just showed you one of the reasons for his failures.
Nice to see the DJIA within 1% of the 27,000 milestone.
And six-plus months left in which to achieve it in 2019.
Gotta credit the Dems for their role in widening income inequality.
Hats off to ‘froggy, too, for populating the far left side of the bell curve.
@79 No thanks necessary. I’m simply serving my country.
@81 “Bonds and stocks are tangible property, too.”
Not for tax purposes,
https://realestate.findlaw.com/owning-a-home/types-of-property-for-tax-purposes.html
… and I’m talking about taxes.
How you might use the terms “tangible” and “intangible” under various esoteric accounting definitions intended for other purposes is irrelevant.
But you’re not even doing that. You’re merely cherry-picking a definition in a vain attempt to salvage your bullshit argument, in the same way that you cherry-pick facts to support your bullshit arguments on other topics, and not dissimilar from how pork sauce cherry-picks crime reports to attack immigrants. You’re not fooling anyone. All the regular HA readers are onto your game.
Of course.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408
Not a question of if. Only a question of when.
I don’t buy it. I bet he thought he’d get tough and someone told him to tone it done.
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/20/18693371/trump-iran-war-mistake-drone-tweet
Hey doc, since conservatives have neither facts nor logic going for them, why don’t you come over to our side? You’d have a chance to win an argument or two, instead of being a chronic loser.
“Gorsuch
Kavanaugh”
Putin, Kim Jung-un and Mohammad bin Salman are tickled fucking pink that you would sell out your country so cheap.
doc you might be right once a while but your woman-hating, gay-baiting and racial slurs that you lace every other post along with your cherry picking of tiny half truths that support your arguments ruin your credibility.
Because a statue to honor MLK implicates the Establishment Clause. Mmkay.
Wanna go for two? Do Masterpiece Cakeshop.
See Red. He’s not right once in a while.
He’s always a Republican. He’s always a Dumbfuck. He’s always wrong.
My phone just vibrated with another news flash. Slate. Headline – What could happen if Trump deported a million immigrants – there would be a food shortage.
I wish I could reply to Slate and tell them that if it caused a meteorite to crash into earth that they would give two shits. Don’t they get it?
Enough of Trump. Forget about him. Slate needs to start asking or making this a Republican problem and not a Hump problem
You can bet that the Dow drops a thousand or so points in the next week or so now that Bob put his Pom Poms back on. What color is your skirt Bob?
@89 not sure he’s right even once in a while. He’s never been right about me. He never will be. But I still love the guy. He and that sexy judge that the Hump just appointed to the bench for a lifetime – what a cutie!
Go Mayor Pete!
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Russia Hoax & Hate America News–Demorats Naturally Back Iran Over America, Move To Stop Military Action After Iran Downs American Drone. Schumer (D-ISIS) To Iran; “Good Shooting, Do It Again.”
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“We told the room that the Democratic position is that congressional approval must be required before funding any conflict in Iran,” Schumer said. “One of the best ways to avoid bumbling into war, a war that nobody wants, is to have a robust, open debate, and for Congress to have a real say.”
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/schumer-pushes-vote-make-clear-trump-needs-congressional-approval-iran-war
95,
Why the fuck are you pussies asking for our permission in the first place?
Two years of unfettered total authority and two and one half years into your populist Norwegian-American Revolution and you still can’t get hard?
WALL!!!!???????? MUCH???? YET??? EVER?????
You people are just sad.
I am surprised republicans are ginning up a war with Iran so soon, I was expecting it start 4 months before the election. If they start it now, there is a good chance it will have tanked the economy AND gone so badly it hurts republican reelection chances.
95,
Do you guys need war porn? A fluffer dressed like Rambo? What the fuck does it take to get those soldiers standing at attention?
EWWWWWW!
If you aren’t dominant males what the fuck are you?
Looks like the GOP has truly become a refuge for incels and cucks who can only get hard for Guatemalan toddlers.
Grandma! Grandma! The Repuke Child molester is running again! He’s in it to win it and grab some young poon tang!
95,
I know! Why don’t you tough guys take Iran’s soap away?
Is that something you could manage?
Or is that not “measured”enough?
This was fun, PorkSauce! Don’t stay away so long next time, k?
@97 I’m surprised it’s taking them so long.
@95 Get a grip.
In the last 24 militias have:
Committed a mass shooting outside an Allentown PA club.
Allowed a 2 year old jr recruit access to a firearm who is now dead from a self inflicted gunshot.
(Mental health history) militia shot a Sacramento police officer then held several more off in a domestic violence incident. The officer is dead.
Killed a Santa Cruz area recruit before disbanding by self inflicted gunshot.
Allows a five year old Kenosha recruit to get a hold of a gun and in trying to get it away from the young private shoots him. The five year old is dead.
Carries an antique pistol in a backpack then drops or tosses the backpack after a bike ride shooting his Wyoming coworker.
Accidentally fires his weapon in his home in Tennessee. The bullet exits the house and is stopped by the body of a stranger walking down the street.