Tuesday, February 18, 2025

GOP the party for the people giving tax cut to the rich

 GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid

House Republicans unveiled a draft budget resolution on Wednesday that calls for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy while proposing $2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other programs.

Is it trickling down yet?

Is it fucking trickling down yet?

We have had 40+ years of this horse-and-sparrow economics and so far all we have had to show for it is eating shit in front of obese horses.

Now they are telling us that the fat horses need to be fed even more than they already are, when many of the rest of us will literally starve for it.

So when do our tax dollars that we have been handing over to the rich, to make our food more expensive, our housing more expensive, our healthcare more expensive, trickle back down to us? 

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Unelected South African Immigrant is threating defy judicial rulings

 Musk’s Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury

Rage is mounting among President Donald Trump’s allies over the losses that Trump’s agenda has suffered in court, which are clearly becoming a serious obstacle to him. It’s gotten so bad that Elon Musk shared a tweet from someone who suggested that it may be time to defy the courts. Musk also boosted Trump allies who are seething over these rulings. All that amounts to a pretty dark threat from Musk: He and MAGA appear to be steeling themselves to defy judicial rulings. 

 Definitely worth noting that person is Vice President J.D. Vance.

Vice President of the United States is suggesting defying judicial rulings.

The fact that the vice president is ready to go full autocrat is probably more news worthy than Musk being ready to seize power. Musk is the unelected defacto president, of course he is all for shattering any checks on his power.

Vance has been ready for that for a while. In 2021 he said:

"I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"


https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1ine2x1/to_be_the_only_actual_elected_president/

Friday, February 14, 2025

The party of fiscal conservatism everybody.

House Republicans unveil blueprint to extend $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and lift the debt ceiling 

House Republicans released a budget plan Wednesday that sets the stage for advancing many of President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities, providing for up to $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit so that the U.S. can continue financing its bills.

Turns out it was social conservatism and fiscal shell games all along.

They say they want to cut shit so America can use that money to pay off its debt.

Then they cut shit while raising the debt limit and extending tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy.

And this isn't new. This is a pattern with them. They do this shit every time they get Congress.

And yet, somehow, so many very stupid people who are unable to recognize patterns couldn't shut up about how it was Harris who abandoned the working class. 

Transgender sex changes in jail for illegal aliens tricked millions into voting against their interests. It's unreal...

Also Republicans: "The national debt is too high!" (Whenever there's a Democrat in office.)


Fuck all of them.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Trump did that


Trumpers are gonna see how annoying that shit was.

Apparently Trump’s plan to bring down prices and inflation is to start trade wars to increase prices? How does that work?

Trump said he would lower prices, blamed groceries including bacon on Biden.

 

South African Apartheid Immigrant Musk some things I say will be incorrect


My boss would fire me if i spoke like that...

Who’s going to fire him, Vice President Trump?

So he gets to cut departments and fire people because he finds "mistakes" but it should be understandable if he makes mistakes while doing because "not everyone bats a thousand"?

And brain rotted MAGA applauds this idiot?

Then he said that we still shouldn’t be sending condoms. Then later he said that preventing the spread of diseases like Ebola or AIDS is something that USAID should be doing. The dude literally does not think one sentence ahead.

AOC called him the dumbest billionaire she's ever met. The more he's in front of a camera, the more that statement makes sense.

Look at Trump’s posture. Bought and paid for.

He’s Elon’s bitch.

There's never been a more weak President.


Monday, February 10, 2025

Art of the Trade and Trump blinked

 In the face of a trade war with America’s neighbors, Trump blinked

Trump’s classic political method is already on full display in his second presidency and helps explain the baffling chaos, brinkmanship and posturing of his tariff showdown with Canada and Mexico.

Punishing 25% levies on imports from America’s closest neighbors were due to come into force at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday, but Trump put his two-front trade war on hold, claiming he’d scored two big wins and major concessions.

But despite a White House victory lap, there’s a more convincing case that it was really Trump who backed away from a fight that could have caused severe economic pain.

Tremendous job at alienating your best friend and closest ally.

Lots of US states will notice this summer when the tourists don’t come. I came across some “Come visit X state!” ads on Facebook recently from various US state government tourist agencies and the comments were littered with Canadians saying (rather politely thankfully), “Yeah, No, Not happening” in many different ways.

The US pissed off the entirety of Canada. They pissed off the Quebecois and Albertans so badly that they became friends.

The Journal de MontrĂ©al has a great article about a food distributor canceling orders Monday morning and his suppliers in the US freaking out. Canada didn’t bend the knee, the US lobbyists representing farmers, construction companies , car makers, etc. all called to President they voted for and told him to cave. Putin’s agenda is all nice and all until it costs money. 

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Trump emptied California reservoirs

 2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump’s order to open dams

The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California.

Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, “the water is flowing in California,” and adding the water was “heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.”

There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.

You'll want to check back in the summer when California has no water reserved. 

Wonder how the farmers react to this. They, more than anyone else, should know how big of a waste this is. We LA residents already know.

It’s economic sabotage.  Farmers are going to need that water this summer and it is gone.

All family farms will go under and corporate farms will buy them all out. Although they voted for this, whether they knew it or not…

Trump is both vindictive and not very bright.