vol71.bsky.social
My avatar is my late wife. Married 50 years before Alzheimer's took her from us. Our family and I miss her.
Now the DYK stuff:
"GOP is GOOP with an "O" removed."
"Asking about things MAGA would rather we not ask about drives MAGA nuts! Keep it up!
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None of the MAGA folk want due process until one of their teenage kids is forced to do a perp walk for shoplifting. Then they're all for Miranda Rights, presumption of innocence, burden of evidence as proof of guilt.
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It's the presumption of innocence that makes evidence of guilt the burden of enforcers and prosecutors.
Yeah, sometimes it's inconvenient, but as Judge Brandeis once said (or I think he said):
"Better for us that 100 guilty go free than one innocent man perish from misuse of the law."
Think.
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In boxing, instead of an eight count for a losing opponent, Trump wants to knock the winning fighter down and kick him in the head until unconscious, then count him out and declaring him the loser. All while holding the other fighter up with his arms around him, bleeding all over his white shirt.
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As the ripple effect of Trump's Tariffs and Threats play out in real-time, more people who pray to his statue will find themselves out of work, without benefits and wondering what happened to the glory they were promised.
"Sympathy" is found between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.
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The effects of "stupid" don't seem to be confined to "woke", liberal, homosexual, atheistic, Hispanic, non-white, non-Evangelical, pro-immigrant people they despise, and that pisses MAGA off to no end.
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Vladimir loves Trump. Nobody can text stupid shit better than him. "Hey, everybody, look what dumbass just texted!" In Kremlin circles, Trump is their version of Sam Kinison. Screaming insults, whining to get his way when it doesn't work. (Apology to Sam's family. I loved his performances).
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What? No MAGA hat? No "Fuck Fauci" t-shirt? No RFK Jr. autograph across the forehead? What kind of parents are these?
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Sounds about right. The US and states get zero from Tesla, while their employees pay taxes to both the state and Federal governments.
Point out the discrepancy, the company's owner gets bent out of shape.
Republicans go berserk. They say pointing out discrepancies is unfair to Tesla and Musk.
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All hat, no cattle.
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Every day you're going to be short $136,000,000 of a billion, which means at the end of 30 days, you're still $24.92 BILLION SHORT OF A TRILLION.
Now, the kick in the head: While everyone else pays income taxes, the tax on your trillion? ZERO. You've still got 25 billion, and it won't be taxed!
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24 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x 60 seconds/min
86,400 seconds @ $10,000/second = $864,000,000/day
That's STILL LESS than a BILLION.
A Trillion dollars is 1,000 billion
Though you've spent like a madman for 24 hours,
you still have $998,146,000,000 TO GO.
Keep it up for a month, what happens?
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If they were like most of us, they'd have spent most of it and had a little left at the end of the year. The fact is, they can't spend it all no matter how fast they spend it:
1 trillion dollars = 1,000 billion dollars
Take 1 billion dollars
Spend $10,000 a second
How long will it take?
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That's too slow. It'll be more like this:
Price: .59
Round up to nearest whole number: .60
Multiplied by 1.5 = .90
(To Trump's discretionary fund: .31)
State/local sales taxes on .59 price = .04
Total paid by consumer: $1.00
(.94 total paid rounded up to the nearest whole number divisible by 2.)
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Don Jr. and his latest squeeze put the beat from an oldie we loved (by Sonny and Cher) to the words of the Trump Family hymn "The Grift Goes On" to delight of their adoring fans.
🤢🤮
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SCOTUS hasn't said so, but it seems to be in favor of uniformity in state laws. Congress' Republican leaders are chaffing at the bit to pass laws that create uniform misery, degradation, and segregation nationwide.
SCOTUS won't object.
Stay tuned. It ain't over until the fat President sings.
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If you're Black, Hispanic, gay, lesbian, or transsexual, you have rights.
For now.
Marrying, being a foster parent, adopting, voting, buying a house, renting an apartment, starting a business, can be a little dicey depending on where they live.
Expect that to get worse: Republicans love uniformity.
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Associating ANYONE in the Trump administration with "honorable" creates an oxymoron unimaginable in other languages.
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They forgot the old admonisment:
"I wouldn't bet the farm on it."
There's a reason why it was true then, and even more so now.
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His reply caught them off guard. It did me, too:
"Tariffs cause empty shelves? You're upset with empty shelves? Are you nuts! Empty shelves and warehouses mean the tariffs are working! They're making you guys rich! Empty shelves! You should be thanking me for making American great again!"
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You left out Elon Musk, RFK Jr., and Mike Johnson. But that's OK. Glad to give you a solid.
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You left out Elon Musk, RFK Jr., and Mike Johnson. But that's OK. Glad to give youa solid.
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Trump: "El, shouldn't we tee up SCOTUS and put an end to this crap?"
Musk: "My people are all over it. Don't give it another thought. By the time you finish your round tomorrow, it'll be toast and the lower court judges will, as they say, been educated. Enjoy your round."
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Yeah, now's a good time for business leaders to worry about the things Trump is doing that are wrecking the economy, destroying lives, or bankrupting small businesses. After all,
It's not like he didn't say what he was going to do to wreck the economy EVERY FUCKING DAY HE RAN FOR OFFICE!
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Raise your hand if you're surprised.
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It's how Trump loyalists say "I voted for an idiot" without actually saying it.
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Can you imagine what it was like for NYC and NY officials to sit and listen to this kind of blabber? He'd keep it up until they got to the point where they'd rather give in than listen any longer. The aardvark of the deal.
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Why should Trump pay attention to a Constitution that allowed his parents to become citizens?
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If only Trump believed that.
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So does Facebook. But only heterosexual ass.
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Life's a bitch, Elon. FAFO.
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Republicans (like Nikki & Tillis) no going talk shows telling us how bad Trump is and how loathsome Putin can be, is an insult to our intelligence.
Fuck completely off.
NB: You get no profs from us. You made your choice in 2016 and 2024. Regret that decision for all eternity? See if we care.
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The price of freedom is never small, but its value cannot be underestimated! Slava Ukraine!
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Chicken plucking and cutting, pork butchering, and beef operations shall continue without interruption, per White House directives.
No fields of vegetables or trees bearing fruit, or vines laden with produce shall be investigated for illegal aliens by Homan.
Pizzerias? Gold baby.
Homan is a moron.
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Well, there's his name....
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That last sentence, about pushback from both parties? Democrats will cave to show their sincerity for bipartisanship. Republicans will do whatever Trum tell them to do.
Yes, the road to hell is littered with the wreckage of the well intentioned.
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But to his oligarch buddies, he is a most useful idiot, isn't he?
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WWII would have ended very differently under Trump, wouldn't it? Vodka and borscht on the Champs de Elyse, now known as Lenin Blvd. Going to the top of the Stalin Tower.
Whoever doesn't learn, AND learn from, history is doomed to repeat it.
Whoever repeats it may not get another chance.
That's us.
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Thanks for your likes!
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Not wrong. Tragically, you're right.
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Change it to read "If you repeat a lie often enough and in enough places by enough people, it becomes Republican Party Dogma and eventually, the law of the land."
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I agree. Now, what are we going to do about it? I mean, before planes fall from the sky, troopers show up to arrest DEI teachers, and anybody wearing uniform and a badge starts demanding to see your ID? Kinda in a hurry because that shit is happening now.