No cash on tips are for cash tips only. Nowadays, most tips are added to your debit/credit card. Those tips get taxed. Cash tips are hard to tax anyway because it's too easy under report. So it's all bogus BS.
The Republican Party has never - at least not since 1920 or so - been remotely populist. They have never cared about anyone but the business class and rich people. Never.
Trump Accounts. When the old goat finally departs this world, the US will face de-trumpification much as Khrushchev De-Stalinized the USSR following Stalin's death. In 1956 Khrushchev gave a speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences". From Wikipedia: The speech was shocking in its day as it lifted the veil from people's eyes.
What the "oligarchy" is doing is like the mob movies....you take over the restaurant, you and all your friends eat and drink for free until the place has borrowed every dime that it can at any rates and then you bust the place out, burn it down for the "insurance money" in this case Crypto and a "big short" on America and then you move on.
MAGA can most easily be defined in three words: White Nationalist Populism. The establishment GOP, which no longer has the power to determine who gets nominated to run for president, still retains ALL the money. And in the end, as I often have to remind my children, he who is payin' is he who is sayin'.
I have said this many times, and the passage of this bill, which will absolutely pass the Senate in a very similar, if not identical, form, is proof that while the people who are payin' may give Trump's trailer park trash their white nationalism, they will NEVER give them populist economics. NEVER! And, if they ever reach a point where the MAGAs are no use to them, The Money will burn the place to the ground, or go over and try to buy up the Democrats, before they accede to populism.
BTW, that includes Donald J. Trump as well. He is no more concerned about the financial needs of the white trash populist hordes that send him their last grocery money than he is the insects he drives his golf cart over. If Trump has ever wanted anything, it's inclusion with, and the approval of the blue bloods, and he won't get that by enacting even a "TINY" tax increase on the rich.
Agreed. I've observed trump from afar since the 1970s when he tried to break into the elite circle of Manhattan blue bloods. His money could not offset his rude, crude, and lascivious behavior; hence, the moniker "short-fingered vulgarian" bestowed by Graydon Carter. However, I think that he gets away with this behavior is what the hoi polloi love about him.
True bluebloods see Trump as beneath them, and always have. That includes political bluebloods like the Bushes, Cheneys and Romneys. As you allude to, his crass and boorish behavior, combined with his tacky white-trash-with-money taste, appalls them. He's Al Czervic at dinner in the clubhouse in Caddyshack.
This was never more evident than with his desire to bring a US Open to one of his golf clubs. His Bedminster course is worthy of one, too. The dignified, Old Money bluebloods who run the USGA were never going to give him that forum to grandstand and upstage a US Open. So, he bought Turnberry Resort in Scotland, because they already were in the Open Championship rota every 7-10 years. What he never anticipated was that the bluebloods who run the R&A are even snobbier than the USGA types, and they took Turnberry off the rota for as long as Trump continues to own it.
I don't think Trump came to DC in 2016 as the bitter, mean-spirited asshole he is now. I think he was just incompetent and inexperienced. His first term was a shitshow of trying awkwardly to appear to fit-in, when you are obviously miles out of your league. When the DC elites would not accept him, and his brand tarnished because he was ostracized (and denied re-election), he turned on everybody and became a vengeful monster. This time around, he has surrounded himself with lackies and "yes" men, and has given up on ever being accepted as one of the elite. That is why he has "governed" this time as though he has no f*cks to give..
"Republicans first rolled out a proposal last week to invest $1,000 on behalf of every American baby born over the next four years.... The money would now be deposited in a “Trump account.”
Here's a great birth control pill! No way I want to accept anything with his name on it. Which, come to think of it, with his name on it, does that mean he'll end up taking it as his???
Somebody here needs to be talking about an awful provision that was quietly included in this bill: a provision that makes it much harder for contempt charges to be enforced, when- not if - Trump's DOJ refuses to comply with an injunction or other court order. And so ends up as contempt. As in the case with Abrego Garcia. Judge Boasberg is teetering on issuing contempt, but is apparently unsure who in the administration is to be charged.
Plaintiffs will now have to post bond at the time the case is brought, pretrial. "Courts can't use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation due to a failure to comply with an injunction or TRO if no security was given." IOW, it's now incumbent upon the plaintiff to provide funds to enforce a possible contempt charge at the front end of the proceeding. Before a ruling has actually been issued. This has never been the custom in such cases against the government. But this provision has passed, folks. With its potential to have devastating effects on courts' ability to constrain the administration's illegal and unconstitutional acts. Worse, this provision also reaches back to previous cases that resulted in citations of contempt. And that may now become, at least theoretically, moot, and void.
As part of the Big Brutal Bill this now goes to senate. Hopefully, the senate will boot this thing out on its keister. And not include it in their final budget vote. But I don't see too many courageous patriots over there at the moment. DHYB. The ABA Journal writes about this yesterday. Easy to find online.
It's the BB bill, says my wife . Her brother was given a BB-gun. Their mother said she expected trouble. Their more optimistic Dad told the bro. he could practice down in the barn by shooting down the obnoxious birds only. Her father envisioned cawing birds sitting on bales of straw. Instead, hearing a different kind of racket, the Dad went out to investigate.
All the windows were shot out. (The noxious birds were good targets only when sitting on a window ledge.)
The Pres is also a poor judge of what to shoot down. Bond prices do not respond to political con man magic, but to reality. Interest rates will go up if foreign holders of US bonds dump tomorrow morning.
True fact: For at least the last 40 years it has *ALWAYS * been the Republicans who run up the deficit! The Dems might be “tax and spend” but that has always seemed more sensible and honest than “borrow and spend”. Especially when the Republicans then run on reducing the deficit, as though they had nothing to do with running it up in the first place! Why do the Dems NEVER point out this stuff and use it to their advantage??!?!
I love the Jewish people, and have had Jewish friends my entire life, even living in the South. I also appreciate the complex relationship between Judaism and my religion, Christianity.
But, how can we not understand the horrible situation in Gaza now for what it has become, a genocide? How can we not expect innocent Jews to now be targets everywhere in the world in the face of so many innocent Palestinian deaths?
These American deaths are our own fault as we continue to support a murderous regime under Netanyahu.
Nah, we're not fools. We warned you that this sort of full throated anti-Semitism would lead to more dead Jews. I wish I was surprised to see you openly double down with more textbook anti-Semitism. But I'm not.
I agree. The GOP is and always has been, the party of capital. Only a moron would believe the GOP will ever do anything truly helpful for the bottom 80%.
That said, there no longer is any "party of the working man". First of all, when there was one in the 1950's and 60's, it was really the "party of the white working man". Secondly, at least since the Clintons, the Democrats have been bought by the same corporate donors as the GOP. Finally, half the working class deserted the Democrats in the 1970's and 80's because of racial and cultural issues (see former party of the white working man, above).
Democrats raised the minimum wage, passed pro union bills, expanded health care to the working class, and brought new manufacturing in. I just don't agree they aren't the working class party. But they present as snooty college grads, of which I am one.
Other than Obamacare, which is really just Romneycare (and a windfall for the private insurance/medical industry), that stuff is mostly tinkering around the edges. And the working class already had healthcare through employer-provided plans.
Yet when they are in the majority, there are always one or two of them in the Senate to stop any real pro-worker policy from getting passed. Why do you think that is? The Manchins, Sinemas, Liebermans, Nelsons, etc. must be motivated by something? Could it be by the same people who motivate the Republicans? And if it wasn't them, my guess is someone else in the party would step up to make sure the spice continued to flow in the same direction it does when Republicans are in charge.
Trust me, this is not FDR/JFK's Democratic Party anymore.
Well, that tinkering led to the highest insured rate in the USA in our history. Very close to universal coverage, until after the Republicans get done decimating it. Democrats have a range, from Manchin to Bernie. We aren't monolithic because the country isn't monolithic. So sure, there will always be an outlier on the right. You can't judge the entire party by the outlier.
Regarding the murder of the Jewish couple, I am more angry than sad. Democrats like Chris Van Hollen and many in the media have been spreading false information about Israsel's war effort almost from the start. No one on the Left takes time to educate it's side about why Israsel is fighting the war that it is, and the numerous opportunities the Palestinians have had to accept a peace offer and each time they turn it down, preferring to murder Jews instead. There is no future for the Palestinians with Hamas in charge of Gaza. All the wild and false acusations only encourage people like the killer that gunned down two innocnent jews. Folks on the Left need to police their side.
No cash on tips are for cash tips only. Nowadays, most tips are added to your debit/credit card. Those tips get taxed. Cash tips are hard to tax anyway because it's too easy under report. So it's all bogus BS.
Calling everyone who criticizes Netanyahu an anti-Semite is a poorly designed strategy. It's also untrue.
The Republican Party has never - at least not since 1920 or so - been remotely populist. They have never cared about anyone but the business class and rich people. Never.
Trump Accounts. When the old goat finally departs this world, the US will face de-trumpification much as Khrushchev De-Stalinized the USSR following Stalin's death. In 1956 Khrushchev gave a speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences". From Wikipedia: The speech was shocking in its day as it lifted the veil from people's eyes.
What the "oligarchy" is doing is like the mob movies....you take over the restaurant, you and all your friends eat and drink for free until the place has borrowed every dime that it can at any rates and then you bust the place out, burn it down for the "insurance money" in this case Crypto and a "big short" on America and then you move on.
MAGA can most easily be defined in three words: White Nationalist Populism. The establishment GOP, which no longer has the power to determine who gets nominated to run for president, still retains ALL the money. And in the end, as I often have to remind my children, he who is payin' is he who is sayin'.
I have said this many times, and the passage of this bill, which will absolutely pass the Senate in a very similar, if not identical, form, is proof that while the people who are payin' may give Trump's trailer park trash their white nationalism, they will NEVER give them populist economics. NEVER! And, if they ever reach a point where the MAGAs are no use to them, The Money will burn the place to the ground, or go over and try to buy up the Democrats, before they accede to populism.
BTW, that includes Donald J. Trump as well. He is no more concerned about the financial needs of the white trash populist hordes that send him their last grocery money than he is the insects he drives his golf cart over. If Trump has ever wanted anything, it's inclusion with, and the approval of the blue bloods, and he won't get that by enacting even a "TINY" tax increase on the rich.
Agreed. I've observed trump from afar since the 1970s when he tried to break into the elite circle of Manhattan blue bloods. His money could not offset his rude, crude, and lascivious behavior; hence, the moniker "short-fingered vulgarian" bestowed by Graydon Carter. However, I think that he gets away with this behavior is what the hoi polloi love about him.
True bluebloods see Trump as beneath them, and always have. That includes political bluebloods like the Bushes, Cheneys and Romneys. As you allude to, his crass and boorish behavior, combined with his tacky white-trash-with-money taste, appalls them. He's Al Czervic at dinner in the clubhouse in Caddyshack.
This was never more evident than with his desire to bring a US Open to one of his golf clubs. His Bedminster course is worthy of one, too. The dignified, Old Money bluebloods who run the USGA were never going to give him that forum to grandstand and upstage a US Open. So, he bought Turnberry Resort in Scotland, because they already were in the Open Championship rota every 7-10 years. What he never anticipated was that the bluebloods who run the R&A are even snobbier than the USGA types, and they took Turnberry off the rota for as long as Trump continues to own it.
I don't think Trump came to DC in 2016 as the bitter, mean-spirited asshole he is now. I think he was just incompetent and inexperienced. His first term was a shitshow of trying awkwardly to appear to fit-in, when you are obviously miles out of your league. When the DC elites would not accept him, and his brand tarnished because he was ostracized (and denied re-election), he turned on everybody and became a vengeful monster. This time around, he has surrounded himself with lackies and "yes" men, and has given up on ever being accepted as one of the elite. That is why he has "governed" this time as though he has no f*cks to give..
I agree with everything you have said here, and I love the Caddyshack reference!
MAGA Sing Along
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Trump's congress, Trump's congress, riding through your hood
Trump's congress, Trump's congress, not doing any good
Steal from the poor give to the rich
We're all sons-of-bitch, ha, ha
Bad sons-of-bitch, ha, ha
Real sons-of-bitch
MAGA!
"Republicans first rolled out a proposal last week to invest $1,000 on behalf of every American baby born over the next four years.... The money would now be deposited in a “Trump account.”
Here's a great birth control pill! No way I want to accept anything with his name on it. Which, come to think of it, with his name on it, does that mean he'll end up taking it as his???
Somebody here needs to be talking about an awful provision that was quietly included in this bill: a provision that makes it much harder for contempt charges to be enforced, when- not if - Trump's DOJ refuses to comply with an injunction or other court order. And so ends up as contempt. As in the case with Abrego Garcia. Judge Boasberg is teetering on issuing contempt, but is apparently unsure who in the administration is to be charged.
Plaintiffs will now have to post bond at the time the case is brought, pretrial. "Courts can't use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation due to a failure to comply with an injunction or TRO if no security was given." IOW, it's now incumbent upon the plaintiff to provide funds to enforce a possible contempt charge at the front end of the proceeding. Before a ruling has actually been issued. This has never been the custom in such cases against the government. But this provision has passed, folks. With its potential to have devastating effects on courts' ability to constrain the administration's illegal and unconstitutional acts. Worse, this provision also reaches back to previous cases that resulted in citations of contempt. And that may now become, at least theoretically, moot, and void.
As part of the Big Brutal Bill this now goes to senate. Hopefully, the senate will boot this thing out on its keister. And not include it in their final budget vote. But I don't see too many courageous patriots over there at the moment. DHYB. The ABA Journal writes about this yesterday. Easy to find online.
It's the BB bill, says my wife . Her brother was given a BB-gun. Their mother said she expected trouble. Their more optimistic Dad told the bro. he could practice down in the barn by shooting down the obnoxious birds only. Her father envisioned cawing birds sitting on bales of straw. Instead, hearing a different kind of racket, the Dad went out to investigate.
All the windows were shot out. (The noxious birds were good targets only when sitting on a window ledge.)
The Pres is also a poor judge of what to shoot down. Bond prices do not respond to political con man magic, but to reality. Interest rates will go up if foreign holders of US bonds dump tomorrow morning.
True fact: For at least the last 40 years it has *ALWAYS * been the Republicans who run up the deficit! The Dems might be “tax and spend” but that has always seemed more sensible and honest than “borrow and spend”. Especially when the Republicans then run on reducing the deficit, as though they had nothing to do with running it up in the first place! Why do the Dems NEVER point out this stuff and use it to their advantage??!?!
I love the Jewish people, and have had Jewish friends my entire life, even living in the South. I also appreciate the complex relationship between Judaism and my religion, Christianity.
But, how can we not understand the horrible situation in Gaza now for what it has become, a genocide? How can we not expect innocent Jews to now be targets everywhere in the world in the face of so many innocent Palestinian deaths?
These American deaths are our own fault as we continue to support a murderous regime under Netanyahu.
Do we seriously expect no repercussions?
Are we fools?
Nah, we're not fools. We warned you that this sort of full throated anti-Semitism would lead to more dead Jews. I wish I was surprised to see you openly double down with more textbook anti-Semitism. But I'm not.
"Free Palestine" is the lefty version of the NRA. Lofty rhetoric about rights and justice clouding an excuse to kill people.
Republicans, party of the working class, never did make any sense. But you can fool enough of the people enough times I guess.
I agree. The GOP is and always has been, the party of capital. Only a moron would believe the GOP will ever do anything truly helpful for the bottom 80%.
That said, there no longer is any "party of the working man". First of all, when there was one in the 1950's and 60's, it was really the "party of the white working man". Secondly, at least since the Clintons, the Democrats have been bought by the same corporate donors as the GOP. Finally, half the working class deserted the Democrats in the 1970's and 80's because of racial and cultural issues (see former party of the white working man, above).
Hey, but morons gotta moron.
Democrats raised the minimum wage, passed pro union bills, expanded health care to the working class, and brought new manufacturing in. I just don't agree they aren't the working class party. But they present as snooty college grads, of which I am one.
Other than Obamacare, which is really just Romneycare (and a windfall for the private insurance/medical industry), that stuff is mostly tinkering around the edges. And the working class already had healthcare through employer-provided plans.
Yet when they are in the majority, there are always one or two of them in the Senate to stop any real pro-worker policy from getting passed. Why do you think that is? The Manchins, Sinemas, Liebermans, Nelsons, etc. must be motivated by something? Could it be by the same people who motivate the Republicans? And if it wasn't them, my guess is someone else in the party would step up to make sure the spice continued to flow in the same direction it does when Republicans are in charge.
Trust me, this is not FDR/JFK's Democratic Party anymore.
Well, that tinkering led to the highest insured rate in the USA in our history. Very close to universal coverage, until after the Republicans get done decimating it. Democrats have a range, from Manchin to Bernie. We aren't monolithic because the country isn't monolithic. So sure, there will always be an outlier on the right. You can't judge the entire party by the outlier.
Sarah for the win, as always!
Regarding the murder of the Jewish couple, I am more angry than sad. Democrats like Chris Van Hollen and many in the media have been spreading false information about Israsel's war effort almost from the start. No one on the Left takes time to educate it's side about why Israsel is fighting the war that it is, and the numerous opportunities the Palestinians have had to accept a peace offer and each time they turn it down, preferring to murder Jews instead. There is no future for the Palestinians with Hamas in charge of Gaza. All the wild and false acusations only encourage people like the killer that gunned down two innocnent jews. Folks on the Left need to police their side.