Unseen

Here is another post on the Christian cops at the Ark Encounter. I wonder if the K9’s showed up in pairs?

Yesterday I played a gig at a fish camp, primarily a large restaurant/bar in the swamp with many customers arriving by airboat. The stage is adjacent to the water, and we could see several large gators stalking around the reeds. Somebody remarked “look, is that RFK Jr swimming between those two gators?

Fact is, you are not even safe in a canoe…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!!

re: Why does God’s forgiveness end at Death?

Alex exposes the mental gymnastics horse crap that resides in the brains of apologists.

Have a great week!

Social Security is the kind of thing a caring society that fends for its frail individuals will do. Perhaps you are happy to have people using walkers working in stockrooms. How ’bout trying just a little bit not to be a nation full of greedy assholes?

For that matter all profit businesses are Ponzi schemes as their present value depends on…[Read more]

High earners only pay Social Security on earnings up to a capped value and the rest of the income is not taxed for SS. Raising that cap alone could fix the coming shortfall. Instead, they will likely raise the retirement age and maybe even slash everyone’s check. When dear old grandmama has to move in with the family; smelling like Vick’s Vapor…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

I’m well aware of all of the arguments about disincentives and creating dependencies when it comes to taxation. I haven’t been living under a rock. I’m also aware of the “rising tide floats all boats” which can also be used in favor of taxing the rich, who would benefit from a society made more stable by reducing…

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“And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.” (read the comments too).

Descent into madness or Trump’s America?

It is surreal. I think Bannon described it as a strategy in which there is literally an enfilade of shit from Trump that is so constant that we the people are inured to it and so it is normalized. The bar is so low you can’t see a bar. Think back not too distant to Watergate. Politicians on both sides put…[Read more]

Trump only understands who is kissing his ass at the moment. The man knows nothing about geopolitics, economics, science or history. He will instantly turn on you. The fact that so many Americans fell for his vile bullshit heartbreaking.

When I look around, many boomers are on board the MAGA train, but surprisingly it is the mid-life crisis set.…[Read more]

When my brokerage portfolio first hit the $2M mark, it was like some sort of trigger. I had all these financial tax advisors calling/emailing me about having consultations to reduce my future taxes. I ignored all that. Then I got hit with an IRS audit, LOL. I think they are satisfied with paperwork, but who knows, DOGE was firing a bunch of them,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@ Enco I asked an AI how much does the average middle-class person pay in Federal Income Tax as a percentage and received this answer: A middle-class married couple filing jointly might fall into the 12% bracket (taxable income between $23,851 and $96,950) or the 22% bracket (taxable income between $96,951 and $206,700). Now what…

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I wonder what survivors of 9/11 have to say about all this?

That was one of my first thoughts today when I heard the rambling speech he made.  I also thought about what the family of the WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi must be thinking. Of course Trump would not mention that. He does not care about what happened him. Or maybe he really does…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert,

I do have hope that when slimy gen z and boomers die off, they will take most of the racism and religious- inspired hatred with them.

That’s just a step away from Antifa wanting to accelerate the process. I believe you once said you were 45, clearly within the Gen-X timeline. Are you sure you want to add i…

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Enco, i am searching, looking under rocks and in caves for someone who is not that way!

So i had the Silver part right. Weird how the recesses of our mind we can’t always access or only fragments from the depths of our consciousness.

I am hearing more and more recently about the woke right. And i would have bet my life against a dollar that if…[Read more]

Minnesota runs a serious trade deficit on Mangos with Mexico. They should put a tariff on Mexican mangos.

Robert,

I have read about that MSG rally. What it does not say is how there were bad assed Jews from Murder Incorporated who showed up and disrupted it. There was also a Nazi movement in California. Silver something or other. Can’t remember the name. What is interesting to me is not the fact that a too high minority of German Americans were not…[Read more]

Jews have been leading liberals in America for decades, of course. Afterall, the extreme right 1930-40s Christians were either gassing them with Zyklon B, turning them in to be gassed, or on this side of the pond, having Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden.

Using the term “woke” is just a label…[Read more]