Imagine a political party that deposes and defames a former federal special counsel by condemning subpoenas for republican members of congress toll records and then crickets* when a democratic congresswoman’s home is invaded and searched. All while saying the former was partisan tactics due to the proximity of charges filed to the elections but again, not a peep about the latter.
I thought the FBI’s responsibilities were domestic. Like what is the rational, he’s going to go and confirm verbally that they didn’t collude or interfere lol? Clowns.
You know the moral compass of off when even Mitch McConnell has qualms.
I think this rant is very relevant and I feel inclined to follow suit!
Unfortunately the Republican Party does an exceptional job at pandering to the self aggrandizing rhetoric that their base holds so dear. The rhetoric that gives them the very clearly defined notion to believe they are superior to the left without actually doing ANYTHING to support any superiority. Humans have a hard time with self esteem and it appears a large group of Americans (MAGA) need an enemy (citizens of color, immigrants, the left) to feel any sort of self-worth all while their “leaders” lead in the most reprehensible way possible; in their own self-interest, from the rear, without regard for the people they are “leading”.
I’ve said it in other rants but from my perspective how could the western world be surprised that we’ve reached a time when almost every capitalistic country is at a point where the most savage, morally reprehensible, and self-interested people are leading the rest of us when the entire system rewards people who succeed the best at accumulating money (power) by any means necessary? Like these dudes both sides of the aisle may be interesting to talk to, in a clinical setting, but explain to me how a snake oil salesman like Trump can be reported as succeeding in life by any other metric other than accumulating capital?
When the entirety of human culture is geared toward who can be the most “competitive” within the confines of the law (which these people constantly challenge anyway) should we expect anything different than the main beneficiaries to be people who just generally suck? People who are most likely terrible to interact with personally. Dudes who literally probably don’t have a single friend that isn’t transactional because their entire being is dedicated to the pursuit of capital that they misidentify as legacy. I guess it might be easy to sleep with silk sheets, a penthouse view, and all the ketamine; but god must that existence be empty.
How dare you! The data centers in Prineville supports dozens of families! /s just don’t ask where the reservoir went…
*Chevron CEO explains they have reached the appropriate amount of “justification” to further war profiteering price adjustments.
Because you are a person and a business is not.
If I buy a house for 100$ then that house is now worth 100$, as that transaction set the market value at the time of purchase. 5 years later an assessor from the AHJ comes by and informs me it’s worth 150$ because “market”. My property tax burden has now increased as its percentage based on the market value of the house. I now owe higher taxes on unrealized gains.
If it works in property why not stocks? Is it the risk that makes the difference?
The risk the American tax payer has been forced to burden since we’ve bailed major institutions out of insolvency since 2008 (and before).
We are/have been allowing the ultra wealthy to create a system where they mitigate all their personal financial risk and then the people philosophize why it would be “unfair” to level the playing field. I don’t get it.
Yes, it might appear silly in the above hypothetical to be taxed on the same dollar 5 times but that isn’t the discussion. We are talking about a one time set rate tax on billionaire assets because it’s obvious that this game is rigged and something needs to be done.
Unfortunate, this didn’t pass as it might have been a proof of concept for the rest of the nation.