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19 hours agoReally? Source? And I was imagining a glorious cascade of creative malicious compliance landing right in old man Leon’s rickety lap.
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AGGRESSIVELY, the way she likes it.
23·10 days agoIf US citizens and US businesses choose to operate there, they should be footing the entire bill for their own private protection services. Just say “no” to Socialist military spending.
Watch for the prices on goods+services to go up 2x-3x that rate, with manufacturers citing “Covid” (of course, that’ll never get old, they’ll be blaming their gouging on that in 2100AD if anyone is still around) and “inflation” (again). Along with the price gouging, there’ll be plenty of shrinkfllation too, blamed on the same factors, and also on “for our customers’ convenience, we’re proud to announce the Super-sized Product”, in a smaller package, at twice the unit price. And that’s if unit prices continue to be displayed to the public at retail locations. Retailers will most likely remove unit prices altogether, for “our customer’s convenience”, because customers want less information about pricing, yep.
My email service provider just jacked up the price I pay by 46%, for no substantial change in service, and justified (of course) by Covid and the usual twaddle. I’m dumping them, because I can. The only way to fight back is to stop spending money.
I would think it would be helpful to use a VPN and switch locations over and over, use servers all around the world as well as all around the country while Googling. Really
poisonenhance the precision of the dataset.
Nazi Musk, lock him up.
And for those who didn’t click the link, the ‘visceral fury’ is that of the judges. Not of Cheeto, which is the way I first read it. It sounds like a headline mean to provoke fear of Drumpf, 'Oh no, daddy is mad, really mad, quick, hide under the bed!". No. Pity, it would be all the better if it was Orange Diaper Baby’s visceral something or other (probably filling his diaper), it’s fun to watch a spoiled brat rage. Muskrat is already coming unhinged at not being able to play with ALL the toys he wants.
That many Vermonters dying in Brussels?
I’m really hoping the MC is turned up to 110% thrust. The results are going to be hilarious and tax dollars well-spent.
These are almost all small consumer goods. Where are the tariffs on big-ticket industrial goods and services? On Teslas? On datacenters and cloud computing services (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, M$FT Azure, Oracle Cloud)? Hit American BigCorps where it hurts. Make the execs and shareholders feel the pain.
“woke”, used in a US political context (and not as the past tense of “wake”, as from sleep), doesn’t have any meaning in the first place. It’s made-up propaganda noise invented by the far-right. I refuse to parse any sentence containing the word, from the media, because that sentence is guaranteed to contain right-wing propaganda, if only obliquely. I certainly won’t utilize the word in any political way myself - that would mean that I accept as legitimate the propaganda machinations of the right-wing. And they are pure festering slime, so no.
citizens of another country
Or another planet. Back in the day we addressed the alien problem with style, advanced technology, and a cool theme song. Nowadays it’ll be just MAGA bumfucks running things, people who can barely put two coherent thoughts together, and that’s on a good day.
Loser incels are so pathetic.
If this becomes law the charitable-giving industry is going to be slammed. Right now there are lots of ways that you, a donor, can give to your favorite causes via an intermediary, taking a current tax deduction for doing so but (possibly) having the intermediary pay out in the future (an endowment), possibly forever (if endowment growth exceeds charitable outflows). If all of a sudden a large chunk of the nonprofit space are deemed anti-Trump “terrorists” then these intermediaries (public and private foundations and donor-advised funds (DAFs) for example) will suddenly have far fewer recipients to write checks to, and may have no recipients at all in the case where funds are directed to just a few recipients or areas-of-interest by the terms of the donation. Oh sure, the money will be disposed of one way or another, but it might very well not be disposed of in the way the donor intended at the time of the donation, and might well end up being disposed of in a way the donor would never have agreed to. Tough luck donor, you took the tax write-off, you can’t get the donation $ back and you can’t have it disbursed to non-charities either.
These intermediaries, the foundations and charitable-fund managers, are themselves charities. Their job is to disburse donor funds to a myriad of charities more or less according to the wishes of their donors. So what happens when, say, Fidelity Charitable is deemed a “terrorist” org for sending donor money to the ACLU? If it’s stripped of its nonprofit status, it can no longer be a DAF manager, so what then? What happens to the donors and all the assets under management? I suppose there will need to be a follow-on bill that will compel the fund managers under such circumstances to cut checks to Trump and Trump-affiliated orgs (nonprofit or not). I read recently that the sum of DAF assets under management alone is around $250B (2023 numbers I think) so if a substantial amount of those funds are deemed “terrorist” funds, then it’ll be mighty tempting for “somebody”, somebody bad at business yet well-known for criminality to see about doing some confiscation.
Also, right now, if one is, say, a DAF donor, many of the managers (most?) allow you to make anonymous donations out of your account. But if you are (or were) having checks sent to newly disfavored (i.e. not regime-aligned) orgs, will the manager have to turn your name over to the government? After all, you’d then be a “terrorist” yourself wouldn’t you?
I could really see this decimating the charitable-giving industry. Charitable foundations and fund managers have got to be losing sleep over what these laws could entail. As a donor, unless I was already MAGA-aligned and really wanted that tax deduction, why would I bother with all this uncertainty and risk?
Good. From another article posted here today, regarding NC domestic terrorists:
In the summer of 2024, before Hurricane Helene, Veterans on Patrol was active in Spokane, Wash. In Telegram message from July 2, 2024, Veterans on Patrol announced to the police that it “would no longer be safe” for one of its officers “to work his beat.” The channel also posted the home addresses of city council members.
The assault was one of at least 439 mass shootings in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that defines mass shootings as incidents involving four or more victims.
Ah, a @YourChildhoodRuined moment. Just great. :-(
King County Juvenile Court Judge Joe Campagna found probable cause for five counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder and ordered the teenager be held in secure detention.
Well, you have to understand, she’s much, much, younger than he is, nearly a child, she can’t possibly know what she really wants. She’s 17, he’s 50, just the arrangement Jesus approves of, ask any Republican geezer and he’ll tell you.