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Imagine Seeing This and Not Being a Bit Suspicious
The media no longer pretends to be impartial. Neither does the FBI. Neither does the tech oligarchy. Neither does the educational establishment. Neither does the unelected bureaucracy. And yet, we’re still expected to pretend to believe all this stuff. Despite evidence like that listed in Alex’s Tweet, we’re still expected to believe that Republicans are greedy and selfish, while Democrats are nice. You believe that, right?
It’s getting harder. So the consequences of reluctance to assimilate become more and more draconian. But still. Despite the consequences, it’s getting harder to pretend to be stupid.
Joe Biden won 81 million votes. He didn’t campaign. While running against a very successful incumbent President. And Biden won millions and millions more votes than Barack Obama. You believe that, right? You’re not an election denier, are you? Of course not. You’re nice. Right?
Donald Trump spent only four years of his life as a public servant, and is now a private citizen. The most thoroughly investigated American in history. But now, after he leaves office, his tax returns are suddenly very important to the security of the United States. Even though his net worth has declined substantially while he was in public service. Unlike the Clintons, the Obamas, and the Bidens. But it is Trump that must be investigated further. Obviously.
You believe that, right? Of course, you do. You’re nice. Right?
Right. No problem.
You can even keep voting. If you’d like.
President Biden likes ice cream! Just like you do!
Everything is ok! Really!
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One personal flat tax rate. One deduction for procreating more tax slaves. No business income tax.
The rest of it is just friction and legalized crime in some form.
He’s claimed that he earned $600,000 in royalties from his two books. But even subtracting this from his income between 1014 (the year he first ran for Senate) and 2018, he still doubled his net worth. Something like a 14% annual increase. Not too bad.
Strangely, books about Augustine don’t seem to earn royalties like that.
They would if they were about you.
Unlikely.
Well, I guess a chapter on my name being on a list in the possession of an ISIS affiliate might be worth a chapter. Doesn’t seem as interesting when I already lived it six and a half years ago.
Useful phrase.
The woke did the impossible – they made the military brass into the liberal arts facility at Columbia University. And they wonder why they are not going to meet recruitment needs
Uh-huh. 😒
You mean Jonah’s love child, Mr. Sasse? A new, young, fresh voice for change in the Senate? Quitting after 2 years of “service”?
This is exactly right.
I will never forget this. Sasse always goes on and on about everything that’s wrong, and “little platoons”, civility, blah blah blah. It was the only politician he would let on his podcast. Totally cut him loose every time. Then Jonah asked him some simple public policy questions and he looked like an idiot on all of them. It was like six questions. He moves nothing forward in any sense except for himself.
A term someone I know has used is “job-hopper” – jumps from job to job, justifies the change, but never stays long enough in any one gig to accomplish anything substantive.
This might be a great idea, in terms of employment. A politician selling crap about sacrifice and doing the right things, then slathering himself in Trump outrage, etc, earning him a top seed on Jonah’s pod, well, that’s all I need to know.
Hasn’t he been in the Senate since January 2015?
Yes. He was the least bad option in the primary that year. Probably got the idea that being a “moderate” was a successful formula, when it really was “don’t be a (shameless) crook.
Seems longer.
The tax code is so complicated that there is no 100% right way to do anything. It is one huge “gotcha” code.