Lots of bad stuff happening. I think we all look around at the world and can’t really believe this nightmare is reality. Lockdowns. Censorship. Stolen elections. Retribution. Fear. Panic. Violence.
I’m not a very emotional person but when I think of the attempts to silence millions of people in our fair country I’m brought to tears. This is the only reason that I become remotely political. When you strip away all of the issues – judges, tax rates, healthcare, race – all of the bullshit, you’re only left with the divine gift of free expression. Either we have it or we don’t.
The beauty of America is (was – hotspur) the belief that we can work out ideas, discuss difficult issues, fight over them, and ultimately come to conclusions that are objectively true and also moral. If all topics that the Left doesn’t favor or won’t benefit them are off limits then the compact is broken. They are attempting to achieve power by silencing their political opponents, which is just another attempt to reduce the divinity of man and subjugate him.
And now a musical break to appeal to your better nature. I heard this song during a workout (it was an all request music kind of thing) and really liked it. Good beat, a really nice message, and boy am I a sucker for a choreographed dance sequence. Dance you nutty Christians, dance.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to use their language as a political weapon. Rather than fighting directly on the front of free speech I’ve been noodling how to wrap politically toxic issues in their vernacular. This is obviously a bit tongue and cheek, but I’m not sure all would be discounted straight away.
Taxes –
Millionaire’s Tax: Tax rates fall disproportionately on working Americans. In order to fix this imbalance I propose a 95% income tax on all individuals with over $5M in wealth. The wealth would include all short and long term assets.
Vice Tax: Social media has been shown to be addictive and harmful to people, especially the young, black and brown people, and historically marginalized groups. Because of this, a vice tax of 75% will be placed on all employees working in the social medial industry. They are harming black and brown bodies with their work.
Carbon Tax: The vast majority of CO2 is produced in cities. The residents of cities will be required to pay an additional 75% carbon tax for the luxury of polluting our environment which also harms minorities and those with preexisting conditions.
Electric Vehicles: The tax credit for electric vehicles went primarily to wealthy, white families. All owners of electric vehicles will be required to pay back their tax break and also pay an additional carbon tax of $15,000 per year over it’s useful life. The supply chains for electric vehicles aren’t mature and require more carbon to produce than traditional combustion vehicles. Until that imbalance is corrected the tax will remain in place.
Wall St: A tax of 95% will be placed on all profits of firms that employ a lobbyist.
Congress: A tax rate of 100% will be placed on all profits made on investments. All investments made by congress will be to small business owners through a trust. The small business loans will prioritize underserved communities without access to credit.
Please feel free to add ideas in the comment section. Next week we’ll look at a different area of public policy!
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Roomy and fresh.
Instead of a tax code, take it a few steps further and do Constitution 2.0
I get to return to work today, been layed off since before turkey day. To say that this fucked up my holidays would be a massive understatement.
There is no working with the communists. They intend to steamroll. You can kill the machine or be flattened. This shit is surreal, a dystopian nightmare being acted out live.
“Lithium Recycling Tax” on the electric cars would be fun. Lithium mining is every bit the pollutant they lie about frakking being, so we really should be recycling the lithium batteries to reduce the amount we have to mine.
Which will take more energy than mining it in the first place and increase the total carbon footprint of a “zero emission vehicle” well beyond a standard Mack truck, since “electricity” is shorthand for “burning coal somewhere else” and recycling metal takes a lot of it.
So we’ll get brownouts, and blackouts, and grid failures.
Physics, my friend, is not just an idea. Find out what physics can do for you!
Thanks for posting Emjay. I’ve got to run to do some stuff and I’ll read/listen later. I gave it a Preemptive Like and after processing it hopefully I won’t need to edit that out
Tax companies selling products made overseas. Base it on the percentage discount on labor.
why aren’t we recycling lithium? must not be any money in it.
It’s hard to take the article Jimbro linked seriously, when they misspell their OWN NAME IN THE FIRST SENTENCE!
Tax companies selling products made overseas. Base it on the percentage discount on labor.
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That’s a fantastic idea.
Ooh, I do like that song. Genre isn’t usually my vibe…maybe I should give that band a closer look…
Jay, it’s cheaper to buy more from Bolivia, at least for the moment. Lithium is a particularly troublesome metal to work with, particularly after it’s been a battery long enough to not be one anymore. It might be being piled up somewhere for after an inflection point occurs, but right now, making a new battery from mined lithium is much, much cheaper than refurbishing an old battery.
Not my type of music either but I really liked that song in particular. I was really surprised I heard it in the work out.
I wish there was an effective way to impose a nihilism tax, that would be perfect. Oh well, that’ll get handled after this life.
I’m glad that everyone is finally seeing the light, and choosing me.
Bolivia has lithium, and it has labor without union safety rules, I imagine. Once that company insures their workers, then recycling will become more viable.
Tax companies selling products made overseas. Base it on the percentage discount on labor.
It’s just another form of tariff, should be easy. I could see ways to skirt it by incorporating the overseas entity as a separate company that the domestic one “buys” labor from, but then you go back to a standard tariff on imported manufactured goods.
Ending “h1B” and “h2B” for tech workers should be one of those bi-partisan issues, but every manner of Washington pig eats at that trough. You’d have to get a leftist populist to push it.
probably God getting even with Bolivia for giving us Che.
Trump had started that tariff system, but everyone called him a racist.
I had never heard the music from that “A Star Is Born” remake before this morning. I heard “Shallow” on the radio on the way to work, considered it crap, wondered what it was, why it was getting air play, and what jackhole ever thought it was worthy of corporate investment. Then I search the lyrics, find out what it was, and my mind boggles even further.
I mean…damn. That’s some garbage music right there. Makes the contrast with the song above that much clearer.
Yes, lithium miners must have a safe working environment and a living wage. For San Francisco.
Ditto for Apple and Nike assemblers.
[i]Ending “h1B” and “h2B” for tech workers should be one of those bi-partisan issues, but every manner of Washington pig eats at that trough. You’d have to get a leftist populist to push it.[/i]
You’d find more than a few willing. The left-populists may be even more marginalized than we are, sadly.
The beauty of America was (WAS) you leave me the fuck alone to do what I want to do. If I break a law, that’s on me, and I deserve the consequences. Otherwise stay out of my life, my bedroom, my yard, and my car.
Republicans are guilty of violating this sentiment. Democrats don’t just violate it they hump it like the soldier in MJ’s cartoon.
Fuck all of you. Just let me be.
Tim, we aren’t in pixyland here. HTML tags work.
Government pensions taxed at 95%.
I think Mare is in pixyland. Or Maui. Or some shit.
I bet the white population on Maui is probably like 98%.
Fucking bunch of racists.
the howlies in Maui are all white, the indigenous people of that tiny island nation will not stand for that.
Yeah, my brain doesn’t always switch between HTML and pixy smoothly. Give it about #twoweeks.
Government pensions taxed at 110%.
Vet says Richard passed the apple into his stomach and is up and eating/drinking, so that’s good.
Flying monkey tax.
Lauraw needs to pay her fair share.
Glad to hear he’s doing better, Leon. Sounds like it was rough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9P_2HqWRhU
This is pretty fun. Very appropriate today.
It was. Wasn’t easy on Donnie, either. He needs Richard like your mom needs HBIs.
Heh: BREAKING: GOP Rep. Greene to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Joe Biden on January 21
Biden on impeachment of Trump:
“Last week, we saw an unprecedented assault on our democracy,” Biden said in a Wednesday statement. “It was carried out by political extremists and domestic terrorists, who were incited to this violence by President Trump. It was an armed insurrection against the United States of America. And those responsible must be held accountable.”
what does this mean?
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/13/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats-rules-cripple-republicans/
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made headlines for a part of the rule changes passed Jan. 4 that eliminated gender-neutral language. However, scrapping “mother” or “father” from House rules may ultimately pale in comparison to Pelosi’s decision to alter the “motion to recommit.”
I think we should impeach Bush for Iraq and Obama for executing Americans oversees.
damn, trying to enter a pickup order at Sam’s Club, and it won’t let me pick 5pm pickup, only 7.
I sort of thought everyone knew that was the globalist plan all along. The motivation of avoiding nuclear war is just a canard, though, it was the “appeal to reason” that got buy in from dipshits that the lizard people needed as useful idiots and planners.
In case you don’t read everything Sarah Hoyt links at Insty:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8600
“Lizard People”
What happens if I delete the gmail addy underpinning my wordpress account?
I’m about to jettison a bunch of stuff.
What happens if I delete the gmail addy underpinning my wordpress account?
Oh God.
what?
*sigh* I keep vacillating about the worth of doing this.
you can change the supporting account for WordPress, I believe.
https://wordpress.com/support/email-address/
I have gmail accounts. I use them for nothing, they’re decoys.
The only thing I use my gmail account for is your mom’s dirty emails.
$5 a pop, $3.50 for shipping. Dehydrated.
Organic Sourdough Starter Yeast, Vigorous. Gluten-Free or Regular Available
$5 · In Stock
Did you finally set up your etsy store, Jay, or is that some other guy charging for well-fed wild yeast?
And speaking of home-grown fungus, I’m almost ready for second harvest here.
some other guy, I should start though.
You could call it “Jay’s Yeasty Loads”.
ewww
although, it might sell more if it had an onlyfans page.
Open multiple stores with different logos.
If “Yeasty Loads” outsells “Artisinal Sourdough Starter” you owe me a bottle of Maker’s.
Yeasty loads killed it.
Everyone must be digging out from under a yeasty load
Well that’s just totally gross.
By the way, how’s this for outside the box: How about instead of just going completely off the grid, we maintain a presence to create bad data to foul their models and intel?
More than one way to fight, yo.
All good things must come to an end. Ben just got a job at our local supermarket, Hannaford’s. Chick Fil A is gone after the 2 week notice. He’s been there 2 years and wanted to move on. Eh, it’s closer to home and his school and there’s no late shifts so I think he’ll have fun with it.
I love chick fil a.
It’s the best fast food ever. Tell Ben good luck with his new job and that I hope he bags more than groceries.
I haven’t been inside my grocery store in 9 months. I recall a number of nubile young ladies amongst the cashier crew, even a couple of MILFy types.
Good luck, Ben.
our grocery store has lots of cute young ladies. The current crop is exceptional.
Both boy1 and boy2 have worked in grocery. And yet I still have 0 grandchildren.
*shakes fist at internet porn vigorously*
Fist. Sure, ok then.
*shakes fist at internet porn vigorously*
It’s seriously awful. I can’t imagine being one of the young guys who had pr0ntube.com before their voices dropped. Completely rewired to get turned on by pixels over real bewbs.
Of course pixels don’t get mad and set your car on fire. 😜
well it could if its on Amazon Web Services
Of course pixels don’t get mad and set your car on fire
True, and most girls now don’t even know what’s in a cake, let alone how to make one.
This is why sex bots will destroy civilization.
Wait, sex bots make cake?
Might have to reconsider…
Cake Making Sex Bots … ARISE!!!
treacher is still beating the never-trump drums on FB. Getting tiresome.
Wait, sex bots make cake?
Anime features this often enough that I’m pretty sure Top Men are working on it even now.
https://tinyurl.com/y2rklsdl
Shot in a single take with no sex bots
I didn’t see any women or flaming homos or black people, so that’s a bad movie that is neither stunning nor brave.
I look forward to The Drinker recommending it.
Women are being encouraged to wear pearl necklaces on Inauguration Day to honor our first female VP.
Kamala got hundreds of those from Willie, didn’t she?
If comedy were still legal, this would be a fucking goldmine.
someone will point that out, and be pilloried.
Kamala got hundreds of those from Willie, didn’t she?
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👏👏👏 😆 You’re on a roll!
If that didn’t originate on 4chan, they should disband.
In honor of the first female vice president I’m going to just go over and shit on John McCain’s grave. Wasn’t he supposed to make this happen?
Or at least stand gracefully, slowly clap, and build to thunderous applause.
OTOH, the bitch apparently does wear pearl necklaces basically all the time. As a sort of trademark.
It’s like she’s screaming that this is how she got where she is, as a way of taunting the onlooker.
I could send along a bottle of urine to pour out. Can’t make it to the grave myself.
did you know that John McCain and Ted Kennedy died on the same day, Aug 25th? Maybe there will be a holiday.
I don’t get it.
Pupster, do I need to link Urban Dictionary for you or can you do it yourself?
She wears a Tahitian black pearl necklace. I’m dying. Can’t stop laughing.
Pupster, do I need to link Urban Dictionary for you or can you do it yourself?
How is Mrs Pupster?
Why is
I thought Treacher left FB because he couldn’t take criticism and flounce off like a little bish.
I just fixed the fridge.
All it needed was one well placed punch.
He flounce off. He flounce back. Grifters gotta grift. I used to feel sorry for him.
Mrs. Pupster is slowly recovering, she still has no energy and naps a lot, has to take a break after coming upstairs or spending more than a few minutes on her feet. She goes back for more blood work and a chest X-ray next week. She still has a couple of coughs per hour, but not as bad as last week.
Maybe you should come over and punch her.
Improving is good.
Penelope found a new fridge. Unfortunately, they only deliver in a 40 mile radius, so I get to move it in tomorrow.
The Thursday evening cigar is smoked.
We don’t care about your sex life.
Take the dozer Pepe.
Today I worked in the lab (broke a nail turning bolts, need to trim the nails and work more in the lab, working from home is making me soft), delivered samples, argued with the test lab, had some awesome Thai food from a restaurant that reopened, got my hair cut, bought groceries, paid the water bill, then went home and cooked Brunswick stew, chicken and rice, wings, and crash potatoes, set up beef jerky in the dehydrator, and finished making Oreo truffles. Mini-me heads back to college tomorrow with a lotta home cookin’.
It was almost a normal day except for wearing the stupid mask. The day was seized.
JFC on a PS. I would have had to take a nap right after the groceries.
I’m hoping for a decent night’s sleep. I figured if I exhaust myself, maybe I can get past the 3 AM wake-up-and-lie-there-for-hours-thinking-about-stuff-that-I-can’t-do-anything-about.
This is a very, very, common form of insomnia. I have it, on and off. I believe it’s actually a normal process that is misunderstood and eventually becomes piggybacked by an anxiety disorder. Literally; because you worry about it, it gets worse. Otherwise in the normal process you’d wake up, look around, have a sip of water and fall back asleep quickly.
Lately I wake up a little later, running hot and cold, and then toss and turn, and then sleep til 11. Fun!
Diego excluded Roberto permanently.