JOE BIDEN CHOOSES A HENCHWOMAN OF LOIS LERNER -- WHO DIRECTED THE IRS TO TARGET CONSERVATIVES -- TO LEAD NEW "SURGE" OF 87,000 IRS AGENTS

JOE BIDEN CHOOSES A HENCHWOMAN OF LOIS LERNER -- WHO DIRECTED THE IRS TO TARGET CONSERVATIVES -- TO LEAD NEW "SURGE" OF 87,000 IRS AGENTS

It's not Lois Lerner herself -- who retired, unpunished, with full pension -- it's just the toady who helped Lois Lerner target conservatives.

As the Biden administration continues its attempts to consolidate power within the federal government and among its leftist allies, there's a familiar face being tapped to lead Biden's effort to surge power, resources, and agents to the IRS -- and she has quite the track record of working to target conservative groups and organizations.
One of Lois Lerner's lackeys from the Obama-era IRS scandal -- one that saw the agency target conservative and tea party affiliated groups as a political arm of the Obama-Biden administration -- will be leading the Biden administration's expansion of the IRS and stated goal of hiring 87,000 new agents.
Nikole Flax, who most recently served as the deputy commissioner in charge of the IRS' Large Business & International Division, has been with the IRS since 2008....
Flax will play a role in spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars Congress handed to the IRS for, among other things, hiring tens of thousands of new agents for enforcement.

And the power to hire is the power to destroy. She'll be stocking the pond with highly partisan, conservative-hating fish.

In an agency-wide email sent to all IRS employees with the news, Flax excitedly said that the agency has "a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the IRS in a way to help taxpayers and fundamentally improve our tax administration work that is vital to the success of our country."
...
Back in the not-so-distant past, when Flax worked directly with then-Exempt Organizations Unit Director Lois Lerner as chief of staff to former Acting Commissioner Steven Miller, the IRS was caught engaging in the intentional slow-walking of tax registrations for conservative groups, even denying some explicitly because they would have undertaken activities hostile to the goals of the Obama-Biden administration.

The article points out that when Republicans started investigating this, several IRS officials directly involved in these partisan operations against political opponents conveniently reported their emails "lost" and therefore unavailable for FOIA, or lawsuit, or congressional investigation.

Lois Lerner's emails were among those that were "lost."

So were Nikole Flax's.

Posted by: Ace at 02:16 PM

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1 WTAF? This administration couldn't get any more blatant if it tried.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 30, 2022 01:17 PM (AiZBA)

2 unfucking believeable

but no really, i guess it's not with this administration...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 30, 2022 01:17 PM (WhsXQ)

3 I think this OK

Posted by: Kevin at August 30, 2022 01:17 PM (us2H3)

4 How may Republican senators will vote to confirm? The correct answer is: all of them.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 01:17 PM (nMx88)

5 Of course...of course....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:18 PM (V6f9+)

6 Top 20, maybe. And who's surprised at the choice?

Posted by: rustbucket at August 30, 2022 01:18 PM (r9Zj0)

7 I despise that whore.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 30, 2022 01:18 PM (lf83v)

8 GOPe, to the rescue!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:18 PM (yHsuS)

9 No shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 30, 2022 01:19 PM (HJDAV)

10 Well no shit, didn't see that coming just like the sun in the early morning

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2022 01:19 PM (k8B25)

11 Not partisan at all.

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2022 01:19 PM (AwYPR)

12 No...No...NO NO NO...

They're just trolling us, right?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:19 PM (BgMrQ)

13 Whoa! Top 6. Sweet. And read the content.

Posted by: rustbucket at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (r9Zj0)

14 WARNED

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (V6f9+)

15 Seeing as how traditional conservatives don't generally seek government jobs, this new batch ought to be completely homogenous, politically.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, recharging at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (jTmQV)

16 I saw where the IRS was going to use the $79 billion from congress to go after $4 billion in taxes.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (piaw5)

17 They are just laughing at us. That's half their existence or more.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (aPANY)

18 More unity from Biden.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (lf83v)

19 Just in time for FJB's Unity event next month.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (TNyrE)

20 Operation Mindcrime is a damn fine album

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:21 PM (V6f9+)

21 I should have a talk with my agent about Cartoon Skull Royalties, specifically the lack thereof

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:21 PM (aPANY)

22 Nikole Flex would be a good pornstar name.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 01:21 PM (Y5qcH)

23 Puddinhead that is a mighty Puddinhead to say on the blog.

Cleanup on aisle 10 please.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:21 PM (QSjkU)

24 Only shocked she seems white not a trannie

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2022 01:21 PM (k8B25)

25 No point in shooting a puppet.
_____________

At least then you can get to the bloody hand of the puppetmaster.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 30, 2022 01:22 PM (lf83v)

26 I pray to God that the video we saw last week was a spoof of the new IRS Agent training. Because they are going to get a lot of people killed.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:22 PM (piaw5)

27 Well, time to wander for a bit.

Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 30, 2022 01:22 PM (5pTK/)

28 Kill her. That's all you have to do.

Kill Mary?

She a risk. And get the priest as well......

*window rolls up*

*car drives away*
Posted by: Queensryche at August 30, 2022 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

Please use the title of whatever you're quoting from because some of us don't know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:22 PM (wvo9L)

29 I saw where the IRS was going to use the $79 billion from congress to go after $4 billion in taxes.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:20 PM (piaw5)

Sounds about the speed of government workers.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (yHsuS)

30 Puddinhead is banned.

Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (B3oWe)

31 These agents are for the targeting of Trump supporters.

The Occupation Regime has proven it is interested in little else.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (Ndje9)

32 It was only ever going to devolve into will-to-power.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (44ww/)

33 please stop repeating the shit I banned him for

Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (B3oWe)

34 Every 60 days or so Puddin plays with the piranhas

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (aPANY)

35 Please use the title of whatever you're quoting from because some of us don't know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:22 PM (wvo9L)

QR: Operation Mindcrime.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (yHsuS)

36 National Review is fine with this (it's totes OKAY!) and so am I.

/endsarc if it wasn't obvious.

Posted by: Scott_T at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (2waQ7)

37 Humiliation ritual. Just like having the Russiagate and Whitler "kidnapping" op perps involved in the MAL raid.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 30, 2022 01:23 PM (jubwE)

38 Deep State is really puttin' the pedal to the metal.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (Xrfse)

39 queensryche is now banned

Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (B3oWe)

40 o frack me

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (MkuC5)

41 We still collect taxes like it's 1942 so the politicians can hide behind withholding and deductions and earned income tax credits and blah blah blah.

Our tax system is as rotten to the core as the federal government is itself.

Abolish both.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (kweYR)

42 This really is the "prize" for liberals, more than any other worthless thing Biden did for them. They are genuinely excited at what can be accomplished with this, as the IRS basically has unlimited powers, just ask John Roberts.

You would not be paranoid to be afraid to donate to Republicans moving forward, I guarantee you it will make it more likely you get audited.

House Republicans better defund this shit, but I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (NibyB)

43 Being run out of the Philly office by any chance??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (yikp0)

44 QR: Operation Mindcrime.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at

Thanks. Maybe posters shouldn't assume we all watch the same shows or movies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (wvo9L)

45 queensryche is now banned
Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (B3oWe)

Oh shit. That was Sponge.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (DRSnL)

46 "lost" - check the god damn backup tapes that they all should have.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (eoQWY)

47 queensryche is now banned

Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (B3oWe)

Edit the mention at 14?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (yHsuS)

48 queensryche is now banned
Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (B3oWe

Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:26 PM (wvo9L)

49 39 queensryche is now banned
Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:24 PM (B3oWe)

So cruel...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:26 PM (V6f9+)

50 The Left does this all the time:

It is called failing up

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 30, 2022 01:26 PM (xDh35)

51 Think twice...hit post once.

#wordstoliveby

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:26 PM (BgMrQ)

52 I was one of the founders of the Tampa Bay tea party. It started out as a small band of Merry Patriots And I was part of the communications team. I did all of the press releases lol and those boogers in the local papers. Before long we were huge. I will never forget the day that the IRS came around. That’s when I became a cash donor.

Posted by: Linda Sina at August 30, 2022 01:26 PM (uzUyD)

53 LOL burning vegetable.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (nSdVr)

54 32 I pray to God that the video we saw last week was a spoof of the new IRS Agent training. Because they are going to get a lot of people killed.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:22 PM (piaw5)

That's the point.

The lethal audits will start with small Trump donors, transition to generalized Regime critics, and finally end with the NeverTrump cucks, who will be tapdancing and mouthing platitudes about Austrian economics and "who we are" as they are gunned down. Obviously the Regime will start with the more dangerous elements, hence the reason they will hire retards initially. That's a play out of McNamara's user's manual. He literally bragged about drafting retarded black folks to act as cannon fodder. Look at the recruits in that video.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (nMx88)

55 Oh, you mean the poster 'queensryche'. I thought you meant the band. I mean, Geoff Tate's voice isn't that bad.

I think that was Sponge, socking.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (V6f9+)

56 Thanks. Maybe posters shouldn't assume we all watch the same shows or movies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (wvo9L)

Music. It is opening dialog of a song that dare not be reposted.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (yHsuS)

57 Biden is incapable of deciding or hiring anyone. This has Barky and the Kalorama cartel written all over it. They're rubbing shit on our faces now.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (BdMk6)

58 Puddin done f'd around and found out.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (8Gb7w)

59 Then poor puddleglum shows up like clockwork and everyone asks what the hell he's still doing here.

Puddin always walks the line and has been banned more times than raimondo. It's canon. It's ace lore at this point.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (aPANY)

60 queensryche is now banned

When you decide to hate on a band, you go all in.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (Bd6X8)

61 no mean tweets, just weaponized federal bureaucracy and a belief that you are worser than hilter.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (OuH7W)

62 They'd put us in camps if they could get away with it. Jail for made-up tax bs is an ok substitute.

Posted by: brak at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (j5Tg0)

63 I thought you meant the band.
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Yes!!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (yikp0)

64 Greatest Domestic Terror Threat ... Tax Paying Conservative Christians.

Sign up now to fight the deplorables, Have Gun, will Travel.

Owners in general tend to be more conservative, especially small business owners. No doubt Google/FB have lists of who is conservative, not to mention all political donation lists ... have you been naughty or nice (politically, we don't really care about if you paid all your taxes)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (Cus5s)

65 Still need an edit @ 14.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (QSjkU)

66 queensryche is now banned

When you decide to hate on a band, you go all in.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (Bd6X

They are no London Boys.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (yHsuS)

67 Thanks. Maybe posters shouldn't assume we all watch the same shows or movies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:25 PM (wvo9L)

Not everyone has to get every post. Shit, I'm happy if one person understands my ravings. Even if that person is me. Especially if it's me.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (aPANY)

68 That's the point.

The lethal audits will start with small Trump donors, transition to generalized Regime critics, and finally end with the NeverTrump cucks, who will be tapdancing and mouthing platitudes about Austrian economics and "who we are" as they are gunned down.

Watch the training video. It won't be us.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (piaw5)

69

But Trump said pussy and DeSantis wants to kick Fauci across the Potomac.

Oh the humanity . . .

PS: We are all fascists now, or something.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (x0n13)

70 Not everyone has to get every post. Shit, I'm happy if one person understands my ravings. Even if that person is me. Especially if it's me.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (aPANY)

WTF are you even talking about?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (yHsuS)

71 The new Hyper-IRS should look into McConnell's finances.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (nSdVr)

72 4. This is not a confirmation needed position. She’s already in place hence her memo to her drones.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (UGuYD)

73 When the (R) controlled House had an opportunity to impeach the smug IRS head John Koskinen? I do, they didn't do shit.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (qH6FZ)

74 Now I am going to have to binge listen QR.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (yHsuS)

75 63 I thought you meant the band.
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Yes!!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (yikp0)

Oh, Gawd, MOAR roundabout!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (906pl)

76 Because I missed the last thread and better late than never: Stupid Huskies.

Posted by: LASue at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (Ed8Zd)

77 I checked, Nikole Flax isn't hot, but I'd bang her if it got me out of an IRS audit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (Y5qcH)

78 no mean tweets, just weaponized federal bureaucracy and a belief that you are worser than hilter.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (OuH7W)

Saying it - justifying your actions with it, and actually believing it are two very different things. They don't believe in anything but their own will to power. They believe their will must triumph.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (aPANY)

79 63 I thought you meant the band.
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Yes!!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (yikp0)

also cruel....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (V6f9+)

80 Not everyone has to get every post. Shit, I'm happy if one person understands my ravings. Even if that person is me. Especially if it's me.

Posted by: ...

Ravings are like food. Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (piaw5)

81 59
Puddinhead =/= Puddleglum

Posted by: Emmie at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (6RgRK)

82 Oh, Gawd, MOAR roundabout!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (906pl)

Tell the moondog. Tell the march hare.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (yHsuS)

83 75 63 I thought you meant the band.
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Yes!!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (yikp0)

Oh, Gawd, MOAR roundabout!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (906pl)

I guess "a rotary" doesn't work does it?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (BgMrQ)

84 62 They'd put us in camps if they could get away with it. Jail for made-up tax bs is an ok substitute.
Posted by: brak at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (j5Tg0)

They wouldn't bother with the camp facade if they could avoid it. After the Russians win the Ukraine war and humiliate the United States and Western Left, you can bet your sweet ass all bets are off because the facade no longer will be needed. We already see misdemeanor trespassers rotting in gulags for two years awaiting trial. That's the future, and you can blame the controlled opposition--which is being either openly humiliated or is openly collaborating at this point--for most of it.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (nMx88)

85 Lerner Lieutenant to Lead Manchin Army

I really want this pinned on Manchin. Using a new sig, since I am on a newly Minted laptop.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (c5HhF)

86 WTF are you even talking about?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:29 PM (yHsuS)

Listen, you.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (aPANY)

87 It's a win in 2024 or that's the end of the road to serfdom. We will have arrived.

They can do a lot of damage in 26 months even if we capture the House. And we need the Senate because of appointments and treaties because we have RINO'S we need more than a couple.

Posted by: torabora at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (Y274z)

88 Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:27 PM (yHsuS)

Or music. more than half the groups people name on here are bands are I only recognize by their names. I couldn't name a song if you paid me, although I might hear a song and say "Oh that song is by Flaming Pineapple Sideways."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (wvo9L)

89 This is why I can't take libertarians seriously. They are constantly telling us the left is no worse than the right, and REFUSE to recognize how modern leftism is fascism.

If the law is only enforced on some people, and deliberately ignored for others, there IS no law! There is only power and force.

One side is engaged in it. The other... mostly isn't. They keep insisting on pointing out how all of this is against the law.

What law?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (YV6PJ)

90

As I now refer to that agency, the Waffen-IRS.

They're all armed and being trained to use deadly force.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (x0n13)

91 74 Now I am going to have to binge listen QR.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (yHsuS)

Honestly, just do the first two albums. Stop before you get to 'Silent Lucidity' if you can....(though I do like some songs off 'Empire')

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (V6f9+)

92 Puddinhead =/= Puddleglum
Posted by: Emmie at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (6RgRK)

Right. Puddinhead likes Ghost Ship. Puddleglum likes golf.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (DRSnL)

93 I foresee sanctioned censoring, harassment and/or violence on anyone not a Democrat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (BFigT)

94 As I now refer to that agency, the Waffen-IRS.

They're all armed and being trained to use deadly force.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (x0n13)

I'm stealing that Waffen-IRS line.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (V6f9+)

95 This is the deep state laughing as it stomps on your head with their steel toed crocs.

Posted by: tr at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (flINI)

96 Because I missed the last thread and better late than never: Stupid Huskies.

Posted by: LASue at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (Ed8Zd)

Always appropriate.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (yHsuS)

97
If the GOP wins big in '22 and '24, what are the odds that they vote to defund this 87,000-man force?

SEE: Obamacare, McCain's thumb.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 30, 2022 01:33 PM (x0n13)

98 I think I only ever heard that one Queensryche song. It sucked so bad I didn't want to hear any others.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 01:33 PM (Y5qcH)

99
Sherlock Holmes' brother is named Mykok, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 30, 2022 01:33 PM (myK0K)

100 Another congenital Conservative hater. I would expect nothing less.

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:33 PM (Zzbjj)

101 Nikole Flax, is an excellent choice.

...the replacement of America’s constitutional republic
https://bit.ly/3wG3TjT

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (AfYvi)

102 I know the prevailing wisdom is that we won't be voting ourselves out of this.

Fun fact! We never had this ability.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (KbCG3)

103 I'm stealing that Waffen-IRS line.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (V6f9+)

***

You're welcome

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (flINI)

104 99 mycroft

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (Zzbjj)

105 'm stealing that Waffen-IRS line.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (V6f9+)

***

You're welcome
Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (flINI)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (V6f9+)

106 Thank you sir!
May we have another?

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (wReBR)

107 That skull has no hair for Joe to sniff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (atmen)

108 Is there a day that can go by without my rage building? I hate these people so much I would smile watching them getting ran over by a car and transforming into a parapelegic only able to eat thru a tube, I would bathe in the tears of their children as they went to see their “new” daddy whose shit they have to clean up for the rest of his miserable life. I’d laugh out loud child proofing their house so they wouldn’t even be able to pilot their wheelchair into a pool or down steps so they couldn’t even seek the sweet release of death from the misery that is their life.

Posted by: Giant Rage Boner at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (9VxPB)

109 Dave in SC..
If you cross paths with Graham tell him I said "fuck you" for me. Thanks in advance.

Posted by: torabora at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (Y274z)

110 pretty much what anyone would have expected.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (+eXoW)

111 I read yesterday the IRS audits folks who get the Earned Income Tax Credit. 43% of their audits from one year were EITC. That means basically poor, black (though whites get it, too) and Southern. Not someone earning over $400,000.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (tQL7r)

112

I think "cryptic currency" has a lot do with this move.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (myK0K)

113 torabora

Call the Capital Police and report him for inciting riots and insurrection against the government. I am not kidding.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (c5HhF)

114 A woman I know is still waiting on a $9k refund from 2021 taxes.

She's been in contact with the IRS many times, has certified receipt, all of that. Still no luck. She said she believes it's because she's Republican. I told her she was paranoid.

"no", she said. "I got a text from an 800 number. It said: You're Republican. Correct it."

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (dCxaZ)

115 This is why I can't take libertarians seriously.
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@disclosetv · 5h
JUST IN - Google has not approved Trump's Truth Social app yet -- the big tech giant alleges "policy violations" and insufficient content moderation, a spokesperson told Axios.

[Note: its app not the site, still...]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (yikp0)

116 ...the replacement of America’s constitutional republic
https://bit.ly/3wG3TjT

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 30, 2022 01:34 PM (AfYvi)

Good article

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (V6f9+)

117 Owners in general tend to be more conservative, especially small business owners. No doubt Google/FB have lists of who is conservative, not to mention all political donation lists ... have you been naughty or nice (politically, we don't really care about if you paid all your taxes)
Posted by: illiniwek

And that's where there's a huge amount of "gray" that aggressive three letter agencies can make life hell.

There's really not much "cheating" if you're a W-2 as there's just not much debate about what earnings are.

But there's so many "jump balls" on a small business owners tax return.

Its the same reason why ObamaCare really screwed business owners, they know who their enemies are.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (NibyB)

118 I don't hate you. I'm just not necessarily excited about your existence.

Feel free to steal.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (piaw5)

119 Queensryche is now banned. - Chuy

Enjoy the silence and lucidity in this thread/site while it lasts.

Posted by: Scott_T at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (2waQ7)

120 So why aren't Republican candidates in the midterms promising to repeal the IRS expansion?

Posted by: Brett at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (2ndRB)

121 Apparatchiks will be embedded by the thousands, like ticks, Unfireable, accountable to the Democrat Party and with nearly unlimited power to harass, investigate, and prosecute in IRS Star Chambers

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (4/pAP)

122 Graham is McCain's thumb. It's not obvious mostly because he keeps it inserted up his ass most of the time.

Posted by: torabora at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (Y274z)

123 "Oh that song is by Flaming Pineapple Sideways."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:31 PM (wvo9L)

and NOW i need to start a band.

that's a great name...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (WhsXQ)

124 98 I think I only ever heard that one Queensryche song. It sucked so bad I didn't want to hear any others.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 01:33 PM (Y5qcH)

I remember someone telling me how awesome they were, then played a "song." It literally sounded like a drill trying to go through a difficult object, and I thought, is this a joke? Are you putting me on? This isn't music.

And I'm a guy who loved the Sex Pistols.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (YV6PJ)

125 PSA: Lucky Gunner has some good Labor Day sales on ammo.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (nSdVr)

126 I’d laugh out loud child proofing their house so they wouldn’t even be able to pilot their wheelchair into a pool or down steps so they couldn’t even seek the sweet release of death from the misery that is their life.

I think this goes in the "What is best in life?" category.

Posted by: kallisto at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (dCxaZ)

127 Okay, this qualifies as "rubbing our noses in it." This was the most offensive possible choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (WWh8n)

128 I read yesterday the IRS audits folks who get the Earned Income Tax Credit. 43% of their audits from one year were EITC. That means basically poor, black (though whites get it, too) and Southern. Not someone earning over $400,000.
Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (tQL7r)

What is that?

Posted by: LASue at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (Ed8Zd)

129 Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM ,

Not everyone has to get it. It is helpful if they explain what it's from especially if it's a statement that sounds reactionary and violent, but is not from them but from some obscure band. Otherwise people should perhaps keep journals.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (wvo9L)

130 So why aren't Republican candidates in the midterms promising to repeal the IRS expansion?
Posted by: Brett at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (2ndRB)
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Because no one would believe them

Posted by: Obamacare at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (4/pAP)

131 >>>125 Ace, can you unban (Zz0t1) please?
It's a lyric I've used a thousand times, but won't going forward.

No. Take a break from the blog.

Posted by: Chuy at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (B3oWe)

132 Bitch can't even spell her name right how is she going to manage 87, 000 agents?

Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (CqUXU)

133 120. They hate us too

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (Zzbjj)

134 The House will repeal both the IRS expansion AND Obamacare. Because they know it will be vetoed.

Posted by: torabora at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (Y274z)

135 125 Ace, can you unban (Zz0t1) please?

It's a lyric I've used a thousand times, but won't going forward.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 30, 2022 01:36 PM (KWbVO)

*Holds up offering burrito*

Sponge is a good boy, he's just turning his life around....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (V6f9+)

136 I read yesterday the IRS audits folks who get the Earned Income Tax Credit. 43% of their audits from one year were EITC. That means basically poor, black (though whites get it, too) and Southern. Not someone earning over $400,000.
Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (tQL7r)
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Perversely, it's easier for them to collect from lower-income taxpayers because the victims cant easily afford the time and expense of counsel to fight the IRS.

Posted by: Revenant at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (TZivQ)

137 Queensryche is now banned. - Chuy

Anyone seen Sponge???

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (piaw5)

138 There was talk of a SC meetup. It was me that started the talking.

I'd be game to have lunch or dinner with some friends in the Charleston or Columbia or Greenville or Charlotte.

I am in the middle of the state.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (c5HhF)

139 *Holds up offering burrito*

Sponge is a good boy, he's just turning his life around....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:37 PM (V6f9+)

Sponge is a good boy. A very good boy.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

140 Steps to fix the problem:
1. Defund and fire every single one of the 87k
2. Adopt Federal Flat Tax to be collected by states
3. Abolish IRS
4. Demolish every GSA property associated with the IRS
5. Salt the earth where they once stood
6. Banish the former IRS administrators, employees, and contractors to wander the desert until they find G-d.

Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (O8sQ4)

141 138 There was talk of a SC meetup. It was me that started the talking.

I'd be game to have lunch or dinner with some friends in the Charleston or Columbia or Greenville or Charlotte.

I am in the middle of the state.
Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (c5HhF)

Just outside of Columbia here. I'm down.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (KbCG3)

142 There was talk of a SC meetup. It was me that started the talking.

I'd be game to have lunch or dinner with some friends in the Charleston or Columbia or Greenville or Charlotte.

I am in the middle of the state.
Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (c5HhF)

CC: TJM

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (V6f9+)

143 It for these reasons that I changed by registration to Democrat when InCali.

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (ep37o)

144 Ohio Supreme Court denied Oberlin College's appeal in that yuge Gubson Bakery case.

They are fucked.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (Gda1b)

145 (Zz0t1)
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ZZ Top??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (yikp0)

146 I go off to do a 10 minute workout, and I come back to Sponge getting a ban?

I'll never work out again...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

147 I am in the middle of the state.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (c5HhF)

I'm in Spartanburg...I'd make Columbia or G'ville.

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2022 01:40 PM (AwYPR)

148 137 Queensryche is now banned. - Chuy

Anyone seen Sponge???
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:38 PM (piaw5)

He's gone???

That's a first...(swidt)

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:40 PM (BgMrQ)

149 The Washington Post is on track to lose money this year, sources say. It been unable to boost subscribers back to the 3 million it had in 2020 -- and CEO Fred Ryan has floated cutting 100 newsroom positions.

Posted by: SMOD at August 30, 2022 01:40 PM (RHGPo)

150 https://bit.ly/3wG3TjT
............
Good article
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,
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Been hawking it all day, it's very clarifying.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 30, 2022 01:40 PM (AfYvi)

151 144. Good. They deserve it

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:40 PM (Zzbjj)

152
We like Sponge.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (myK0K)

153 People are policy. And organizations.

On my silver bullet list is to physically move all agencies to blood red areas of the country. Stops their kids from comingling and the cocktail parties etc.

Treat the swamp as an ecosystem and decouple it.

Posted by: Jaw Jaw at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (95sdB)

154 The flat tax would be great, but it will never happen. It's an easy argument to make. "Yes, I agree that the rich shouldn't get extra tax breaks - 15% for everyone, no deductions, no bribes for votes."

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (ep37o)

155 They are fucked.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (Gda1b)

I think they'll just keep refusing to pay.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (wvo9L)

156 Actually when the WaffenIRS audits the mostly poor it will invent reasons to hand them MORE FREE MONEY. SO TO BUY THEIR VOTES.

Posted by: torabora at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (Y274z)

157 " ... They don't believe in anything but their own will to power. They believe their will must triumph.
Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:30 PM (aPANY) "

they believe that with good reason, decades of "not the hill to die on" from their supposed opposition will do a lot for morale and confidence.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (+eXoW)

158 152 Sponge was banned?

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (Zzbjj)

159 I despise this man and everything he stands for. I sincerely hope he has much to answer for when it comes his time before God.

Sadly, I don't even know if that will happen, since these horrible semi-humans never get their comeuppance.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (XSRBF)

160 Justice first thread, same bad apples show up in every basket

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (k8B25)

161 Paying off the IRS during an audit is exactly the same as settling a nuisance suit, under a certain dollar figure I pay them to go away. It's cheaper than fighting. They know this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (2nXUK)

162 Sherlock Holmes' brother is named Mykok, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 30, 2022 01:33 PM (myK0K)
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In the Pornhub version, yes

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (4/pAP)

163 Sponge is first on the DL

Posted by: polynikes at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (CqUXU)

164 158 152 Sponge was banned?
Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (Zzbjj)

========

Elaine Benes is going to have to start being careful with who is spongeworthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (LvTSG)

165 Why not ? They can do whatever they want...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (bs+z0)

166 >>>How may Republican senators will vote to confirm? The correct answer is: all of them.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat

Let them vote before midterms so i know who not to vote for.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (XSRBF)

167 Friend, with everything on fire and the economy in shambles, 2022 is shaping up to be the Most Important Election of Our Lives.

If this November, you fail to stop Duly and Fairly Transparently Elected Biden and Beautiful Amazing Intelligent Strong Empowered Harris, there is no telling us where on the path to tyranny they will take us.

87,000 new IRS agents is a bridge too far. Help put parliamentarian fighter Mitch McConnell back in power and he promises to have no more than 75,000 IRS Audit Troopers added to the payroll each year starting as early as FY26, when his plan can be implemented. We cannot afford this madness any longer.

Donate today!

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (aPANY)

168 So many thoughts many of us would like to express in an unvarnished manner regarding this monumental collapse into tyranny. I've decided that *types* *deletes* will just have to suffice, for now. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (Xrfse)

169 I read yesterday the IRS audits folks who get the Earned Income Tax Credit. 43% of their audits from one year were EITC. That means basically poor, black (though whites get it, too) and Southern. Not someone earning over $400,000.
Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (tQL7r)

I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (wmDcS)

170 On my silver bullet list is to physically move all agencies to blood red areas of the country. Stops their kids from comingling and the cocktail parties etc.

Treat the swamp as an ecosystem and decouple it.
Posted by: Jaw Jaw at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (95sdB)

More importantly, somewhere where a jury would convict. Ain't happening in DC.

Posted by: Golfman at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (U39Xy)

171
How about you blow any talk about "unity" out of your diaper-rashed ass, Pants Shitter?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (pNxlR)

172 Anyone is welcome to email me anytime, and I am happy to meet for lunch and dinner in SC at the time and place of your choosing.

I have a proton. clockmath @ proton

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (c5HhF)

173 111 I read yesterday the IRS audits folks who get the Earned Income Tax Credit. 43% of their audits from one year were EITC. That means basically poor, black (though whites get it, too) and Southern. Not someone earning over $400,000.
Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (tQL7r)

There's a tremendous amount of EITC fraud, so a legitimate IRS correctly would audit that area. Since that also is a key "Biden" constituency, that will end and the focus will be on political enemies. What do you think, the Republicans will stop if, and that even assumes they can at this point?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (nMx88)

174 The Washington Post is on track to lose money this year, sources say. It been unable to boost subscribers back to the 3 million it had in 2020 -- and CEO Fred Ryan has floated cutting 100 newsroom positions.
Posted by: SMOD at August 30, 2022 01:40 PM (RHGPo)
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Whaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (4/pAP)

175 They're going to invent a scheme to permanently register voters as Democrats and automatically vote a straight Democrat ticket without any voter input.

I don't know what they are waiting for.

Posted by: torabora at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (Y274z)

176 I am amazed at the speed in which the IRS cashes one of my payment checks when I mail one in.

3 maybe 4 days tops...boom....cashed....money gone to buy votes.

In every other area, it's months if not years to get the feds to acknowledge you have any dealings with them and to respond or conclude their business with you.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (kweYR)

177 "queensryche is now banned"

How about Bruce Springsteen next?

Posted by: Bosk at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (v4L7Y)

178 On my silver bullet list is to physically move all agencies to blood red areas of the country. Stops their kids from comingling and the cocktail parties etc.

Treat the swamp as an ecosystem and decouple it.
Posted by: Jaw Jaw at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (95sdB)

Trump tried, but it's basically impossible without Congress' support.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (wmDcS)

179 You thought that other shit was something

Hold my beer

Posted by: FBIden at August 30, 2022 01:43 PM (Wv2po)

180 Wtf is this demented assclown going to talk about on Thursday

He has hired eric holder for unity outreach to GOP

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2022 01:44 PM (tKntl)

181 Queensrÿche played the local casino last Saturday night.
I didn't go. Like 1 or 2 original members. No Geoff Tate.

no thanks

Posted by: Doyle Hargrave at August 30, 2022 01:44 PM (2cfUo)

182 How many times I've typed inflammatory shit and then stopped and thought "this is a bad idea" and hit "refresh" instead of "post". Tis good to stop and reconsider when posting angry.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:44 PM (QSjkU)

183 Anyone is welcome to email me anytime, and I am happy to meet for lunch and dinner in SC at the time and place of your choosing.
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Duelling is still allowed in SC??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (yikp0)

184 We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (ai/gj)

185 I think they'll just keep refusing to pay.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (wvo9L)

Fen-

Oberlin had to post a bond. The Bond issuing company is responsible for making payment to the heirs of the Bakery as decreed by the court.

Then the Bond issuer will go after Oberlin for restitution.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (BgMrQ)

186 He has hired eric holder for unity outreach to GOP
Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2022 01:44 PM (tKntl)

Tell me that's a joke. Lie to me if you must

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (bs+z0)

187 ... Flax excitedly said that the agency has "a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the IRS in a way to help taxpayers and fundamentally improve our tax administration work that is vital to the success of our country."

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Fundamentally transform? Hmmm, that sounds familiar ...

What could go ~~wrong~~ right? I smell the stink of a DogEater ... with the fascist ShitMidas touch "

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (SUzFC)

188 After Lois's and the IRS's malfeasance was exposed, the only punishments doled out were to the taxpayers, who footed the settlement payments to the abused. Sessions secured that for them.
Take consolation in knowing that True the Vote is using that settlement to expose election corruption.

Posted by: Coki at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (G7Avm)

189 182 How many times I've typed inflammatory shit and then stopped and thought "this is a bad idea" and hit "refresh" instead of "post". Tis good to stop and reconsider when posting angry.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:44 PM (QSjkU)

See my post #51...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (BgMrQ)

190 Why would anyone be upset by this hire? She seems nice.

Posted by: Squid at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (GCQcp)

191 (though I do like some songs off 'Empire')

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 30, 2022 01:32 PM (V6f9+)

Same here.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (yHsuS)

192 Make a list of the top ten cities in per capita homicides Move your federal agencies there.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (rJ48h)

193 Where are going to put all of these agents? Are they going to share office space with all of Joe Biden's illegal migrants?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (8hPud)

194 I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Uber drivers are screwed.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (piaw5)

195 See my post #51...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (BgMrQ)

yep

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (QSjkU)

196 Has President Dying Brain actually filed for re-election? Is he so far gone that he doesn't know far gone he is?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (eGTCV)

197 I worked at a family estate that the male and a IRS guy got caught in a bribery to get off taxes, spent time in Egland AFB for it.

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (k8B25)

198 >>>I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

And blacks will still vote Democrat. Always.

I can't wait until they come to my home as I head for work. Oh, you want my gun? Good luck with that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (XSRBF)

199 This looks super dope. Gonna buy it for my kids.

https://inventr.io/product/ adventure-kit-30-days-lost-in-space/

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (rHhP2)

200 Where's that guy who always thinks it's beginning when we need him?

Posted by: Stacey Abrams, Topless at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (CkFy6)

201 Then the Bond issuer will go after Oberlin for restitution.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:45 PM (BgMrQ)
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The bond was secured with cash and securities, I believe. Oberlin ling ago put $36 million in an account with ZA to cover the bond.

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at August 30, 2022 01:48 PM (HfrqO)

202 189 182 How many times I've typed inflammatory shit and then stopped and thought "this is a bad idea" and hit "refresh" instead of "post". Tis good to stop and reconsider when posting angry.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:44 PM (QSjkU)

See my post #51...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:46 PM (BgMrQ)

Say it, forget it. Write it regret it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2022 01:48 PM (2nXUK)

203 We like Sponge.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (myK0K)

We are not spongeworthy.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:48 PM (yHsuS)

204 On topic; banana republic status confirmed.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 30, 2022 01:48 PM (rHhP2)

205 >>>Queensrÿche played the local casino last Saturday night.
I didn't go. Like 1 or 2 original members. No Geoff Tate.

no thanks
Posted by: Doyle Hargrave

My daughter - she's 13 - begged me to take her to the Anthrax concert Sunday night in Philly. We went and it was an amazing show. Her first ever concert.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:48 PM (XSRBF)

206 Just the Flax, ma'am.

Posted by: I've got nothing at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (h5TKJ)

207 204. Have to start working in a banana flag

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (Zzbjj)

208 Sarc of the day:

Jon Gabriel @exjon · 1h
If WaPo wants to boost readership, especially with the young female demo, the answer is obvious: More Max Boot.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (yikp0)

209 > I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.

Lots of people think it's only the rich that cheat on taxes.
Poor people cheat like hell on taxes. One extremely common tax dodge is buying a fairly expensive item like a car for cash, and the seller writes a receipt for several hundred or thousand dollars less than the actual price.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (kDGvA)

210 Mad yet, assholes?

Posted by: Clear Eyed Killer at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (5mIZs)

211 The bond was secured with cash and securities, I believe. Oberlin ling ago put $36 million in an account with ZA to cover the bond.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at August 30, 2022 01:48 PM (HfrqO)

That's what I thought, but wasn't sure.

Bottom line was that Oberlin has no recourse in terms of a payment being made.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (BgMrQ)

212 "Audits" for EITC happen when the name of the dependent does not match IRS records, the SSN does not match the SSA database, or when 2 taxpayers claim the same dependent as a qualifying child. Black illegitimacy rates being 65% it is much more common for both parents, or sometimes custodial grandparents, to claim the same child on separate returns. It's a computer that catches these.

The IRS rarely catches actual tax cheats. That would require work.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (vN+oL)

213 This looks super dope. Gonna buy it for my kids.

https://inventr.io/product/ adventure-kit-30-days-lost-in-space/
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (rHhP2)

I love that Mission 21 is "Hello World!"

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2022 01:50 PM (DRSnL)

214 182 How many times I've typed inflammatory shit and then stopped and thought "this is a bad idea" and hit "refresh" instead of "post".
Posted by: Xipe Totec

I feel like I missed some drama.

Usually I refresh because a comment is boring, or unfunny when it's supposed to be ununfunny. Like this one.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 30, 2022 01:50 PM (g1EEm)

215 That sound you hear are Republicans rushing to say they'll defund the IRS, and set their budget to the previous level before Democrats weaponization bill.

Nah, just kidding.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 30, 2022 01:50 PM (voHIS)

216 There is no such thing as a lost email at IRS. Deleted maybe, but not lost. IT backs up all emails for at least 20 years. TIGTA should investigate such "loses" as either illegal or grossly incompetent activities but won't.

Posted by: Harvey G Hohmann at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (Z3Lee)

217 The IRS rarely catches actual tax cheats. That would require work.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (vN+oL)

Especially when it's easier to just get their political affiliations...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (bs+z0)

218 210. About what? Lindsey wants riots so the feds can kill conservatives. He did fuck all about BLM, ad did Barr.

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (Zzbjj)

219 Donate today!
Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (aPANY)
-------------------

Yes sir, absolutely, just not McConnell or any organization they're pulling money away from conservatives.

Pick your specific needy candidate and send him money. Help the Macs fail.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (AfYvi)

220 I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile
***
With 87,000 new agents, we are all screwed.
One call, one mouse click, your savings: frozen, your Checking:frozen, your 501k: frozen.
And you will likely have done nothing wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (anj39)

221 Mad yet, assholes?

Posted by: Clear Eyed Killer at August 30, 2022 01:49 PM (5mIZs)

Well, not all the time...you were speaking to me, right?

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (AwYPR)

222 >>>As I now refer to that agency, the Waffen-IRS.

They're all armed and being trained to use deadly force.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

>Because middle-class citizens are sleeping on piles of untaxed cash hidden in their homes and should be raided.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (8hPud)

223 65 Still need an edit @ 14.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 01:28 PM (QSjkU)

Might be better to cite the hash instead of the comment number as other cob-loggers might not see the deleted comment and mistake the reformatted comment as a target for removal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (IyrhE)

224 You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (6TxNR)

225 I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

No way in hell. That's a "Biden" constituency save the side gigsters for the most part. There will be targeted zip codes, racial clusters, and economic clusters. Since the only constituency the GOP cares about, the Corporate Donor Class, will not be impoverished and harassed, they'll squawk a little about it and increase its funding every year lest The Government Get Shut Down and My Ukraine Grift Ends!

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (nMx88)

226 217 like Tim Geithner?

Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (Zzbjj)

227 No worries. This is a surefire sign of the left panicking. Their desperate. When the Republican Party is realigned after midterms we will begin chipping away at their power. Time is on our side and things will continue to go our way with the occasional hiccup or two.

Posted by: JROD at August 30, 2022 01:52 PM (0jZnq)

228 Tis good to stop and reconsider when posting angry.
---
Thus, I remain unbanned. So far.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 30, 2022 01:52 PM (sWM8x)

229 With 87,000 new agents, we are all screwed.
One call, one mouse click, your savings: frozen, your Checking:frozen, your 501k: frozen.
And you will likely have done nothing wrong.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (anj39)

Phew...my 401k is sage now!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:52 PM (BgMrQ)

230 Puddinhead’s banning didn’t have anything to do with his eating egg salad from 7-11 and throwing up last week, did it?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2022 01:52 PM (atmen)

231 fvck me...

"safe now"

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 30, 2022 01:52 PM (BgMrQ)

232 I don't know what queensryche is.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:53 PM (eGTCV)

233 Checked an image: Flax =/= spinner.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2022 01:53 PM (EhrjC)

234 No one just walks across the border -- they wade, haters!

https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/
1564350363955646464

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 01:53 PM (yikp0)

235 >>>The IRS rarely catches actual tax cheats. That would require work.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

There are politicians and former politicians in Philly who owe millions in taxes and they brag about it, because no one in the city will force them to comply.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:53 PM (XSRBF)

236 Poor people cheat like hell on taxes.
Posted by: bonhomme

Yup. Too many poverty traps. Depending on the state and your circumstances, declaring income might see it taxed at over 100% as benefits are withdrawn.

Not saying it's right, but it's pretty understandable.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 30, 2022 01:53 PM (g1EEm)

237 This looks super dope. Gonna buy it for my kids.

https://inventr.io/product/

adventure-kit-30-days-lost-in-space/

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 30, 2022 01:47 PM (rHhP2)

That is cool. Thanks for the tip.

Although if you are looking for more introductory stuff, we've have good luck with Snapcircuits stuff.

https://www.elenco.com/snapcircuits/

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:54 PM (yHsuS)

238 Chances of this blatant move succeeding? Nearly 100%

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 30, 2022 01:54 PM (52YaC)

239 I don't know what queensryche is.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:53 PM (eGTCV)

80s hair band.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2022 01:54 PM (DRSnL)

240 Somewhat related (assuming Nikole is of the female persuasion), Dennis Prager has a new column out entitled "Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country."

tinyurl.com/ybwy8zw7

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 01:54 PM (SUzFC)

241 I've been saying for a while that this is going to hit poor and lower-middle class folks, especially blacks, hard. Ever took a questionable deduction? Ever work a side job for cash? They're going to come for you.
Posted by: Colorado Alex

////

Exactly the point. Especially if they're conservatives. And don't
have the means to fight it legally. Small business owners will also be hard hit, too.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:54 PM (tQL7r)

242 Is this position subject to Congressional approval?

Will there be hearings?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (2W+1k)

243 I think it would be best if the typedeletes were typedeleted in a typedelete of typedeletes so big that their typedeletes typedelete in their typedelete and then we all laugh and laugh and laugh as their typedeletes typedelete for typedelete.

And that my friends is how it's done.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (HZMS+)

244 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

245 The best thing about this is a Gope congress will allow it to continue.

Tee hee!

Posted by: Manchin at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (9FBGz)

246 Chances of this blatant move succeeding? Nearly 100%

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 30, 2022 01:54 PM (52YaC)

--------

The humiliation is part of the kink.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (SUzFC)

247 225 No way in hell. That's a "Biden" constituency save the side gigsters for the most part. There will be targeted zip codes, racial clusters, and economic clusters. Since the only constituency the GOP cares about, the Corporate Donor Class, will not be impoverished and harassed, they'll squawk a little about it and increase its funding every year lest The Government Get Shut Down and My Ukraine Grift Ends!
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (nMx8

=========

Ask blacks who live in places like Ferguson, who are the primary target of traffic tickets for funding police departments, how well that works out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)

248 You know how I keep saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at August 30, 2022 01:51 PM (6TxNR)

I seem to have heard that around here before.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (yHsuS)

249 This is the value of being a lurker. I know I'm a guest in someone else's house.
I leave my shoes at the door. I say please and thank you.
And nobody notices me.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (eGTCV)

250 Yeah they are totally desperate and stuff guys.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (OalnH)

251 Oh many time write, look and think this will be trouble and refresh

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (k8B25)

252 I don’t understand how twisted sister is still in good standing

Posted by: Kratwurst at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (nIRE6)

253 >>>I want a flaming skull with good news for a change

Posted by: It's me donna

Like Kate Upton's boobs? Pretty sure that's a flaming skull.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (XSRBF)

254
Silent Lucidity.

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (+oR7L)

255 Yeah, they're not going to give up power in January, as I keep digressing...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (QYPq3)

256 123 "Oh that song is by Flaming Pineapple Sideways"

and NOW i need to start a band.

that's a great name.
===================•

You could title your first album "Wrapped in Barbed Wire".

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (zfAML)

257 I look forward to Trump saying something like, "Fire all Schedule F employees," and the GOPe trying to respond to anything since they generally ran on nothing in 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

258 Behold Dividin' Biden, The Great Uniter, Restorer of Norms.

Is a "First!" now a "Queensryche!"?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (XhxLj)

259 249 This is the value of being a lurker. I know I'm a guest in someone else's house.
I leave my shoes at the door. I say please and thank you.
And nobody notices me.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (eGTCV)

========

Who?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (LvTSG)

260 "One call, one mouse click, your savings: frozen, your Checking:frozen, your 501k: frozen. And you will likely have done nothing wrong." Posted by: Diogenes

yeah, that is a bit scary. Given they chose a henchman to lead the battalions of new gun toting agents, seems likely they are serious about that "you will own nothing and (pretend to be) happy" thing.

And looking at social credit scores, and how farmers were treated in Canada and now the Netherlands ... sure seems like the junta/regime does not intend to give back any ground.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (Cus5s)

261 As has been noted, isn't amazing the same Deep State creeps keep getting assigned to different projects and occupations.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (VQbgM)

262 >>>And nobody notices me.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens

Who are you again?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (XSRBF)

263 JOE BIDEN CHOOSES A HENCHWOMAN OF LOIS LERNER
........

Of course he did.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (v0R5T)

264 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the 2018 Gulf of Mexico oil lease sales were invalid. If you're keeping track, that means there have been no "valid" lease sales in the past 4 years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (UuD2k)

265 And nobody notices me.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (eGTCV)

That's what you think.

NSA Bob

Posted by: BignJames at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (AwYPR)

266 >>>As has been noted, isn't amazing the same Deep State creeps keep getting assigned to different projects and occupations.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

I fully expect Hilary to have a position before 2024. I truly believe that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (XSRBF)

267 Love the flaming plugs.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (v0R5T)

268 Grover Dill instead of Scut Farkas.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (TgBWG)

269 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

so... pudding cups.

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (WhsXQ)

270 Who are you again?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022

That's what I'm saying.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

271 269 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

so... pudding cups.
Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (WhsXQ)

Sigh... The good old days

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (bs+z0)

272 read yesterday the IRS audits folks who get the Earned Income Tax Credit. 43% of their audits from one year were EITC. That means basically poor, black (though whites get it, too) and Southern. Not someone earning over $400,000.
Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 01:35 PM (tQL7r)

Why is this a bad thing? There is a ton of fraud with eitc.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (OalnH)

273 Oh many time write, look and think this will be trouble and refresh

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (k8B25)

It is the way.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (yHsuS)

274 @240 ShainS-Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson are about five years behind people that have been saying this for awhile.
I like them both but on some shit they are and have been utterly clueless. Glad to see Prager slowly catching up.

Posted by: JROD at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (0jZnq)

275 >>>D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the 2018 Gulf of Mexico oil lease sales were invalid. If you're keeping track, that means there have been no "valid" lease sales in the past 4 years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Look at it this way, we'll be kissin' cousins with Europe, because they won't have heat or electricity this winter either.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:58 PM (XSRBF)

276 Ask blacks who live in places like Ferguson, who are the primary target of traffic tickets for funding police departments, how well that works out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)

Sympathy meter at zero.

They vote for those that implement those policies.

Fuck em.

Posted by: Golfman at August 30, 2022 01:59 PM (U39Xy)

277
877 Type Delete

Delete Your Types Today

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 01:59 PM (HZMS+)

278 I realize this is pure fantasy, but were the Republicans to take the House (at least), the first thing is to fund these new agents at ten dollars for then entire agency. (Zero doesn't work.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 30, 2022 01:59 PM (TgBWG)

279 There is now no doubt in my mind that Biden was behind sicking the IRS on the Tea Party.

Just like he was behind the Op to use the Logan Act to go after Flynn.

This f**king guy is easily the worst of the worst of the swamp.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2022 01:59 PM (VQbgM)

280 I'm sure all this will be repealed, just like Obamacare.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 01:59 PM (v0R5T)

281 208. Sarc of the day:

Jon Gabriel @exjon · 1h
If WaPo wants to boost readership, especially with the young female demo, the answer is obvious: More Max Boot. - andycanuck

Hilarious! Is Boot still wearing that fedora on television? As a wearer of fedoras myself (before I retired), I can say with some authority that he's doin' it wrong. You have to set it for "jaunty", and forget about it - that way, you look natural in it. The way he wears it is so obviously a self-conscious affectation that it tends to discredit fedora-wearers as a class among the hatless. Another reason to despise him.

Posted by: Paco at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (njExo)

282 278 I realize this is pure fantasy, but were the Republicans to take the House (at least), the first thing is to fund these new agents at ten dollars for then entire agency. (Zero doesn't work.)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 30, 2022 01:59 PM (TgBWG)

========

They have more power to do this than to punish anyone with jail sentences in the administrationg.

They won't do the former, but they're going to imply the latter a whole lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (LvTSG)

283 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the 2018 Gulf of Mexico oil lease sales were invalid. If you're keeping track, that means there have been no "valid" lease sales in the past 4 years.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (UuD2k)
++++
That sounds like a big deal. What was the rationale?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (WWh8n)

284 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

You'll get nothing and like it.

Posted by: Judge Smails at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (yHsuS)

285
If there isn't a red wave coming this fall the size of the Sears Tower, then there is no hope left. With all the shit the Biden/Anti-Trumpers have pulled in the last 2 years, and economy the way it is, there is no way the dems hold anything this fall.

But people might go down into hukerdown mode and want to go down slowly, hoping they'll get destroyed last.

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (+oR7L)

286 244 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

Good news comes with a pudding cup.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (QSjkU)

287 And that my friends is how it's done.

Uh...*types*...*deletes*...huh?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (Xrfse)

288 Somewhat related (assuming Nikole is of the female persuasion), Dennis Prager has a new column out entitled "Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country."

////

Thanks for posting link. I mentioned that article in the last thread, but couldn't get the link to post here.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (tQL7r)

289 What, was Nina Jankowicz unavailable?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (bNf8H)

290 Nikole Flax
.......

can't even spell her own name right.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (v0R5T)

291 I fully expect Hilary to have a position before 2024. I truly believe that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:57 PM (XSRBF)

---------

Embassy Security Czar.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (SUzFC)

292 271 269 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

I met a girl who sang the blues
I asked her for some happy news
but she just smiled and turned away

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (trdmm)

293 Ask blacks who live in places like Ferguson, who are the primary target of traffic tickets for funding police departments, how well that works out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)

There is no need to discriminate at the local level because, like Willy Sutton's banks, that's where the money is and the financial incentive overrides the political concerns. At the federal level, think "who/whom."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (nMx88)

294 >>>I realize this is pure fantasy, but were the Republicans to take the House (at least), the first thing is to fund these new agents at ten dollars for then entire agency. (Zero doesn't work.)

Posted by: Eeyore

They will all get behind McCarthy and McConnell and claim Biden deserves his appointees. No one, NO ONE, in Congress is going to fight for us. Literally no one.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (XSRBF)

295 I'm starting to think the government is working against Republicans.

Posted by: WSJ Editorial Board at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (pt+Xr)

296 All Federal agencies should be dismantled and all employees fired. Those agencies worth saving (maybe 10%) should be reassembled in Linton ND with staffing 10% of what it was in DC. No unions. Pay should be the standard rate for central ND.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (flINI)

297 How many times I've typed inflammatory shit

if you're going to type inflammatory sh** just sa ysomething like "I have a really bad urinary tract infection " or "I have the worst case of poison ivy ever" not stuff that will make the FBI want to knock down your door and clean out your closets. And no, I am not wishing that you have a UTI or bad poison ivy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (wvo9L)

298 Embassy Security Czar.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (SUzFC)

Fuck.

Posted by: ... at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (HZMS+)

299 >>>Embassy Security Czar.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty

Commissar of Vodka.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (XSRBF)

300 Lois Lerner perjured herself repeatedly in depositions regarding her targeting of conservative political groups. The courts have hidden her testimony all of these years, relying on her contention that making her testimony public might endanger her life.

The courts knew she lied all along, and facilitated and covered for those lies.

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (VDbGO)

301 >>>Somewhat related (assuming Nikole is of the female persuasion), Dennis Prager has a new column out entitled "Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country."

Thanks for posting link. I mentioned that article in the last thread, but couldn't get the link to post here.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (tQL7r)

Wife mentioned that to me this morning with approving commentary.

Posted by: Judge Smails at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (yHsuS)

302 "Embassy Security Czar."

Head of the FBI.

Posted by: Bosk at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (v4L7Y)

303 He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

I have more, if you want to hear them.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (PRe6f)

304 I don't see how this type move is a surprise, or skullworthy

Posted by: DB at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (geLO8)

305 I'd like for the IRS to send a few of those agents over to Congress and the White House. I suspect there are more than a few people there that owe back taxes.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (5HBd1)

306 What, was Nina Jankowicz unavailable?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 30, 2022 02:00 PM (bNf8H)

---------

She's the power under the throne over at the NSA.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (SUzFC)

307 I think it would be best if the typedeletes were typedeleted in a typedelete of typedeletes so big that their typedeletes typedelete in their typedelete and then we all laugh and laugh and laugh as their typedeletes typedelete for typedelete.

And that my friends is how it's done.
Posted by: ...

Let me guess. You're a redactor at the FBI?

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (piaw5)

308 283 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the 2018 Gulf of Mexico oil lease sales were invalid. If you're keeping track, that means there have been no "valid" lease sales in the past 4 years.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Yeah, what is up with this?

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (tQL7r)

309 I find it best to threaten to kill people who are already dead.

Minimum effort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

310 "D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the 2018 Gulf of Mexico oil lease sales were invalid. If you're keeping track, that means there have been no "valid" lease sales in the past 4 years."

this is simple sabotage of the country ... possible genocide if so many shutdowns due to energy costs start causing starvation and deaths from cold and heat. ... if not here, in poorer nations.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (Cus5s)

311 40 Steps to fix the problem:
1. Defund and fire every single one of the 87k
2. Adopt Federal Flat Tax to be collected by states
3. Abolish IRS
4. Demolish every GSA property associated with the IRS
5. Salt the earth where they once stood
6. Banish the former IRS administrators, employees, and contractors to wander the desert until they find G-d.
Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at August 30, 2022 01:39 PM (O8sQ4)

First: Repeal the 16th Amendment. Then work from that point. Otherwise, taxes will always be the "commoner's" burden.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (BdMk6)

312 295 I'm starting to think the government is working against Republicans.
Posted by: WSJ Editorial Board at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (pt+Xr)

WSJ could care less because this will not target the upper middle class or the wealthy, save, maybe, a guy who owns an electric car company.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (nMx88)

313 >>>Lois Lerner perjured herself repeatedly in depositions regarding her targeting of conservative political groups.

It's why her henchbeyotch is being hired. This new twat will lie again and again for this dementia-addled dope.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (XSRBF)

314 Just think about how politically unpopular this is, with Democrats already in a precarious position in November. But they did it anyway.

That shows you they know they hit pay dirt and they know it will pay dividends long in the future.

Someone like Marjorie Taylor Green will probably have her whole family audited. Everybody fudges a little on their taxes and its a way to intimidate people.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (NibyB)

315 There is now no doubt in my mind that Biden was behind sicking the IRS on the Tea Party.

..

He wasn't alone.

Posted by: McConnell at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (9FBGz)

316 260 "One call, one mouse click, your savings: frozen, your Checking: frozen, your 501k: frozen. And you will likely have done nothing wrong." Posted by: Diogenes

----

Yup. It is a good idea to move as much as possible to cash. Oh wait, the government is also doing its best to destroy cash at the rate of 10% per year.

Posted by: WSJ Editorial Board at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (pt+Xr)

317 Silent Lucidity.

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (+oR7L)

That from Empire

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (OgrpQ)

318 And no, I am not wishing that you have a UTI or bad poison ivy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (wvo9L)

I have poison ivy in my urinary tract.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (Y5qcH)

319 166 >>>How may Republican senators will vote to confirm? The correct answer is: all of them.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat

Let them vote before midterms so i know who not to vote for.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 01:42 PM (XSRBF)

They will make sure it's a voice vote. No way to trace.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (E5N4Q)

320 As I now refer to that agency, the Waffen-IRS. - J.J. Sefton

Excellent!

Posted by: Paco at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (njExo)

321 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (wvo9L)

I swear I got the worst case of clap I've ever had. Got a drip that won't quit.

How's that? Heh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (QSjkU)

322 They are trying to do as much damage as they can now with the possibility with the loss of the House and maybe the Senate.. They are still going after Trump people.... Like caged animals they are dangerous... We could see a Kristallnacht if they believe they are going to actually lose power

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (bs+z0)

323 309 I find it best to threaten to kill people who are already dead.

Minimum effort.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 30, 2022 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

Smacks of voter interference.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (nMx88)

324 That from Empire

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (OgrpQ)

Yep. And Della Brown.

Posted by: Judge Smails at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (yHsuS)

325 >>>40 Steps to fix the problem

Defund the FBI and the CIA. Give them menial tasks, but cut their funding. Like 90% of their funding and left state and local law enforcement run things.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (XSRBF)

326 There is now no doubt in my mind that Biden was behind sicking the IRS on the Tea Party.

But David French promised decency.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (eGTCV)

327 Or I guess mentioning Irritable Bowel Syndrome would be "inflammatory sh**" and no, I'm not wishing anybody has that either, because it's nasty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (wvo9L)

328 The 2022 gop campaign is the equivalent to having paul ryan speaker of the house with gop senate and president trump. Its all just for show and nothing gets done. Fuck the gop and mcconnell specifically

Posted by: Eli Cash at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (tKntl)

329 Wife mentioned that to me this morning with approving commentary.
Posted by: Judge Smails

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I agree -- Prager is right, when you think about it. And that is scary to me.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (tQL7r)

330 So you couldn't keep it, could you?

Posted by: Ben Franklin at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (WmGrA)

331 Congress and the Supreme Court should be via zoom and the legislators given a salary that is mid range middle class in their particular locales. SC justices need to be paid like lawyers from their areas.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (flINI)

332 269 I want a flaming skull with good news for a change
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (bs+z0)

Good news gets cowbell.

Of which there has not been much here for a WHILE.

Posted by: blaster at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (6TxNR)

333 314 Just think about how politically unpopular this is, with Democrats already in a precarious position in November. But they did it anyway.

It’s unpopular with people who had no intention of voting Dem anyway. If anything this is a boost for Dems as they tell their voters, yep we will keep on kicking the shit out of them if you keep electing us.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (OalnH)

334 Wow, on top of everything else....now I gotta figure out who I want as friends in the camp.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (r1z5A)

335 Doesn't look like Trump fudges on his taxes. They've looked hard enough for it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (5HBd1)

336 We could see a Kristallnacht if they believe they are going to actually lose power
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (bs+z0)

The summer of 2020 says "hi."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (nMx88)

337 >>>They will make sure it's a voice vote. No way to trace.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

Probably. Although there may be a smart conservative to release the list. They almost always do so.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (XSRBF)

338 I liked Lerner when she was writing musicals with Loewe. Then she went to the IRS and lost her mind, and became evil.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (atmen)

339 There is now no doubt in my mind that Biden was behind sicking the IRS on the Tea Party.
.....
He wasn't alone.
Posted by: McConnell at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (9FBGz)

Somebody's been paying attention. This is just more of the UniParty at work. As usual, the DNC is doing the heavy lifting. I wonder if they ever just get sick of carrying their sorry ass partners in the GOP.

Posted by: Class A at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (1hEUI)

340 There is now no doubt in my mind that Biden was behind sicking the IRS on the Tea Party.

But David French promised decency.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (eGTCV)

Uniparty team effort.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (yHsuS)

341 Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (QSjkU)

Sounds very inflammatory.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (wvo9L)

342 >>>>>Embassy Security Czar.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty

Commissar of Vodka.

Undersecretary for the Department of Delirium Tremenssszzzzzzzz...

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (bNf8H)

343 Not only were the emails lost.. hard drives became unrecoverable... like a bunch of them all related personel.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (53oGX)

344 I'm starting to think the government is working against Republicans.
Posted by: WSJ Editorial Board at August 30, 2022 02:01 PM (pt+Xr)
........

Too bad the GOPe can't figure that out.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (v0R5T)

345 The President can remain in DC and the WH still used as his/her office and residence. The rest of DC needs to be turned into a museum.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 30, 2022 02:07 PM (flINI)

346 if you're going to type inflammatory sh** just sa ysomething like "I have a really bad urinary tract infection " or "I have the worst case of poison ivy ever" not stuff that will make the FBI want to knock down your door and clean out your closets. And no, I am not wishing that you have a UTI or bad poison ivy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Excellent advice!

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 30, 2022 02:07 PM (tQL7r)

347 Yep. And Della Brown.

Posted by: Judge Smails at August 30, 2022 02:05 PM (yHsuS)

Huge QR fan growing up in eastern WA. Love Geoff Tate. Dude had, and might still have, a 4 octave voice.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:07 PM (OgrpQ)

348 @314

>>Just think about how politically unpopular this is, with Democrats already in a precarious position in November. But they did it anyway.

Because the Democrats know that no matter how badly they f**k up, they are only ever "temporarily" out of power and that they can inveigle a moral panic, create a crisis that they can leverage or now, straight up steal elections to get back into power.

The GOP is an illegitimate political party and has no effective way of dealing with Democrat treachery or malfeasance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (VQbgM)

349 Too bad the GOPe can't figure that out.
Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (v0R5T)

Actually, they have, and they agree.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (QSjkU)

350 343 Not only were the emails lost.. hard drives became unrecoverable... like a bunch of them all related personel.
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (53oGX)

Which even people not in IT know that e-mails are stored on redundant and backed up servers and not on peoples personal hard drives.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (Y5qcH)

351 I thought Lois Lerner married Clark Kent.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (v0R5T)

352 It says everything (redundantly) about the electorate, the civic culture in general, and the GOP that the Dems could launch an *IRS* expansion (the most widely disliked federal agency for generations) during *an election year* (where they already were at "normal" mid-term risk, and specifically at great risk due to a disastrous economy and hyperinflation).

How is the GOP capitalizing on this astonishingly imprudent political move (well, in an American apparently nearly completely gone)? Are they even bothering to utter the standard mouth-noises about it?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (OTzUX)

353 But Federal student loan borrowers won't pay income tax on any debt forgiven through Dec. 31, 2025. ...

And the states that don't follow the federal government's tax forgiveness program might be pressured to not include the forgiveness in their residents' taxable income.

"Timing is everything."

Posted by: Lola at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (NIYa7)

354 Huge QR fan growing up in eastern WA.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:07 PM (OgrpQ)

Same here from the commie side of the hump.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (yHsuS)

355 "If we passed a budget/continuing resolutions that actually cut funding for the FBI or IRS, the Biden Administration wouldn't sign it and soon we would be at an impasse, then certain parts of the government would have to shut down. Forcing us to cave anyways." - The GOPe

Posted by: lowandslow at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (qH6FZ)

356 Silent Lucidity.

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (+oR7L)

That from Empire

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:04

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Yes. That song got all the girls off the sidelines and slow dancing in High School. A lot of ass grabbing to that song. Memories.

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (+oR7L)

357 It’s unpopular with people who had no intention of voting Dem anyway. If anything this is a boost for Dems as they tell their voters, yep we will keep on kicking the shit out of them if you keep electing us.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
__

I dont think the IRS is broadly popular, even with people that vote Democrat.

Again, people tend to fudge on their taxes, even those that ironically vote for more taxes. The idea of more audits is scary to most rational people.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (NibyB)

358 I'm starting to think the government is working against ~~Republicans~~ Americans.

FIFY

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (Bd6X8)

359 Flax will play a role in spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars Congress handed to the IRS for, among other things, hiring tens of thousands of new agents for enforcement.

And you can bet not a single one will be a top third graduate of what ever school they attended. Some will be a middle third, and most will come from the bottom. I suspect the antifa goons at the kiddie drag show this last weekend in Texas will be first in line...and likely management material.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (anj39)

360 He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

I have more, if you want to hear them.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at August 30, 2022 02:02 PM (PRe6f)

------------

"All that's necessary for the Tree of Liberty to be permanently uprooted is for good men to do nothing."

-- "Stuff You Said, Vol. 1"

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (SUzFC)

361 OBAMA!!!!!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (ytSiK)

362 The GOP is an illegitimate political party and has no effective way of dealing with Democrat treachery or malfeasance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (VQbgM)

Consider that they are in on it.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (yHsuS)

363 The Congress was somehow able to block Nina Jankowicz from heading up the Ministry of Truth; maybe they can give Nicole the same treatment.

Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (HeHbe)

364 Joe can't pick his ass!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (ytSiK)

365 berrhhh nerwhern ifffs aboves the lawzzz

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (OuH7W)

366
It says everything (redundantly) about the electorate, the civic culture in general, and the GOP that the Dems could launch an *IRS* expansion (the most widely disliked federal agency for generations) during *an election year* (where they already were at "normal" mid-term risk, and specifically at great risk due to a disastrous economy and hyperinflation).

------

Sure - people hate the IRS. But Dem voters think this expanded IRS will only target Republicans, so they will love this.

They don't know that once the regime has silenced the last dissent, the agency will still be hungry for meat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (uaLxw)

367 @343

>>Not only were the emails lost.. hard drives became unrecoverable... like a bunch of them all related personel.

Emails, were lost, devices were intentionally destroyed, near line backups erased, offline backups erased, archival backups erased.

Lawlessness on a breathtaking scale, that is, until the lawlessness that was unleashed on Donald Trump and his followers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (VQbgM)

368 How is the GOP capitalizing on this astonishingly imprudent political move (well, in an American apparently nearly completely gone)? Are they even bothering to utter the standard mouth-noises about it?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (OTzUX)

Not a peep, of course. McConnell and McCarthy are having some of their folks meet with the Biden folks to make certain corporate America and the MIC will not be touched, but beyond that, they are fully onboard.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (nMx88)

369 Yes. That song got all the girls off the sidelines and slow dancing in High School. A lot of ass grabbing to that song. Memories.

Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (+oR7L)

Prime got to for me senior year in high school.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (OgrpQ)

370 man, biden doesn't give a fuck about nothing except being a conduit of pure political power

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:11 PM (OuH7W)

371 They don't know that once the regime has silenced the last dissent, the agency will still be hungry for meat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (uaLxw)

Funniest thing about obamacare was lefties whining when they found out that they had to pay for the free healthcare.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 02:11 PM (yHsuS)

372 if they're doing this with a 50-50 senate and like 7 congress seats...imagine what they'd do if they could really do what they want.

Then again, they already bankrupted the country and did the green new deal

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:11 PM (OuH7W)

373 Smiles, gives one of those significant nods and gabs shovel.

Posted by: Jack Begley at August 30, 2022 02:12 PM (eGTCV)

374 Haven’t you figured it out yet? Dems use power when they have it. If they lose the next election, so be it. They know what they implement will never be rolled back by the spineless GOP and eventually they will win agin and continue where they left off. See Obamacare. They knew it would lead to a mass los in 2010. And a decade later, nothing changed. Obamacare not only didn’t go anywhere it has been growing every year. And why did the gop do with the 2010 win? Absolutely nothing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 30, 2022 02:12 PM (OalnH)

375 One thing we can be sure of with the 87,000 new agents and federal employees. They will not be forced to attempt to justify their existence based on tax revenues.

Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2022 02:12 PM (HgGBT)

376 so, really, what's left to loot except for their next logical steps to basically hand the country over to somalia, installing local warlords, and legalizing intertribal murder

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:12 PM (OuH7W)

377 there's going to be a lot of camel debt

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:12 PM (OuH7W)

378 346 if you're going to type inflammatory sh** just sa ysomething like "I have a really bad urinary tract infection " or "I have the worst case of poison ivy ever" not stuff that will make the FBI want to knock down your door and clean out your closets. And no, I am not wishing that you have a UTI or bad poison ivy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

This a bad time to talk about Monkeypox?

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 30, 2022 02:12 PM (53oGX)

379 375 One thing we can be sure of with the 87,000 new agents and federal employees. They will not be forced to attempt to justify their existence based on tax revenues.

///

they are obama's civilian army thingy dingy he mentioned. Just another antifa.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:13 PM (OuH7W)

380 Not only were the emails lost.. hard drives became unrecoverable... like a bunch of them all related personel.
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 30, 2022 02:06 PM (53oGX)

Try that with your receipts from 5 years ago.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2022 02:13 PM (anj39)

381 372 if they're doing this with a 50-50 senate and like 7 congress seats...imagine what they'd do if they could really do what they want.

—-

Because Dems are team players. There is never a maverick among them. A 1 vote majority or a 100 vote majority is basically the same thing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 30, 2022 02:14 PM (OalnH)

382 This is fine.

Posted by: Todd at August 30, 2022 02:14 PM (4I/2K)

383 man, biden doesn't give a fuck about nothing except being a conduit of pure political power
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:11 PM (OuH7W)
.........

and the sacks of cash.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2022 02:14 PM (v0R5T)

384 Nood.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 30, 2022 02:14 PM (yHsuS)

385 Think of the many, many mega-scandals since the Clinton years onward that, all by themselves, constituted some of the biggest (and most important) scandals in US history.

None - *none* - of which have ever resulted in punishment, reform, OR political consequences for the Dems.

And Trump has facially absurd "RUSSIA!" *"investigations"* - really soft coup attempts - and two absurd impeachments to deal with.

But, but ..... Trump missed a spot when he was painting the ceiling.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2022 02:14 PM (OTzUX)

386 363 The Congress was somehow able to block Nina Jankowicz from heading up the Ministry of Truth; maybe they can give Nicole the same treatment.
Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (HeHbe)

Congress didn't do shit. It was the public's relentless mockery of the whole MiniTru idea, and of the Harry Potter fan-girl in particular, that scuttled the project.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at August 30, 2022 02:15 PM (UDFeH)

387 368 How is the GOP capitalizing on this astonishingly imprudent political move (well, in an American apparently nearly completely gone)? Are they even bothering to utter the standard mouth-noises about it?

///

"oh my, this biden chap has failed to reach across the aisle when he had us murdered in the court yard by his ba'athist freaks, how rude. Imagine if the sides were reversed"

meanwhile, the leftist ba''athists complain they're victims the whole times. Next decade's republicans start practicing "democrats are the real anti-ba''athists"

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 30, 2022 02:15 PM (OuH7W)

388 @352 rhomboid-Stop looking at shit through the prism of reality. Try being more "positive" and stop sounding like you just want to roll over and quit. It brings people down around here.

Posted by: JROD at August 30, 2022 02:15 PM (0jZnq)

389 They don't know that once the regime has silenced the last dissent, the agency will still be hungry for meat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 30, 2022 02:10 PM (uaLxw)

They always need strawmen.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 30, 2022 02:15 PM (ai/gj)

390 Again, people tend to fudge on their taxes, even those that ironically vote for more taxes. The idea of more audits is scary to most rational people.
Posted by: Blago

I was about to say that self-employed are more likely to be (R) and also have more opportunities to come up with "novel" interpretations of the tax code.

But with the coof and WFH, a lot of laptop-jockey W-2 earners have almost certainly been claiming dubious home office deductions.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 30, 2022 02:16 PM (g1EEm)

391 @rhomboid-.....and thanks for saying things a lot better than I can.

Posted by: JROD at August 30, 2022 02:16 PM (0jZnq)

392 374 Haven’t you figured it out yet? Dems use power when they have it. If they lose the next election, so be it. They know what they implement will never be rolled back by the spineless GOP and eventually they will win agin and continue where they left off. See Obamacare. They knew it would lead to a mass los in 2010. And a decade later, nothing changed. Obamacare not only didn’t go anywhere it has been growing every year. And why did the gop do with the 2010 win? Absolutely nothing.

/////

Sadly, THIS. ^^

Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 30, 2022 02:16 PM (HeHbe)

393 How are they going to pay all of those agents on $1 a year?

Posted by: Fantasy Republican House at August 30, 2022 02:17 PM (rjXaW)

394 re: the previous thread.

If you allow your son to "transition", you get a twofer: a dead son, and a live murderer. And no potential for grandchildren, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 30, 2022 02:18 PM (PcC2O)

395 All I can say about LL is choke and die.

Posted by: sidney at August 30, 2022 02:18 PM (Uy/WF)

396 Silent Lucidity.
Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 01:56 PM (+oR7L)

That from Empire
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 30, 2022 02:04

Yes. That song got all the girls off the sidelines and slow dancing in High School. A lot of ass grabbing to that song. Memories.
Posted by: portlandon at August 30, 2022 02:09 PM (+oR7L)

Brickhouse from the Commodores. Got to do the bump with the girls. Firm but squishy, a nice combo.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 30, 2022 02:18 PM (4I/2K)

397 Good day at work dear?

Well, $299 cheated. The culprit ran and I got to shoot him.
I saved The Party so much money.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 30, 2022 02:18 PM (tK0ya)

398 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 30, 2022 02:19 PM (yikp0)

399 Everybody fudges a little on their taxes and its a way to intimidate people.
Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2022 02:04 PM (NibyB

I don't. I pay the full amount due. I don't like it, but it has tended to give me a lot less stress in life.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2022 02:19 PM (BdMk6)

400 >>152 Sponge banned?
Posted by: CN at August 30, 2022 01:41 PM (Zzbjj)

Pornstars devestated.

Posted by: Caliban at August 30, 2022 02:19 PM (HgGBT)

401 Congress didn't do shit. It was the public's relentless mockery of the whole MiniTru idea, and of the Harry Potter fan-girl in particular, that scuttled the project.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at August 30, 2022 02:15 PM (UDFeH)

So relentless, mean-spirited public ridicule works. Hey, I know this website…

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 30, 2022 02:20 PM (rjXaW)

402 I wonder if they ever just get sick of carrying their sorry ass partners in the GOP.
Posted by: Class A
----------------------

No, they're fun, they squeal every time just like they've never given it up before.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 30, 2022 02:22 PM (AfYvi)

403 A move like this demonstrates Biden's genuine good faith in attempting to "heal the soul" of the nation this Thursday. Nah, I'm just kidding, he's just going to rub our noses in it even deeper.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 30, 2022 02:23 PM (MSc9D)

404 How is the GOP capitalizing on this astonishingly imprudent political move (well, in an American apparently nearly completely gone)? Are they even bothering to utter the standard mouth-noises about it?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 30, 2022 02:08 PM (OTzUX)

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AlI hear is a giant sucking sound.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 30, 2022 02:23 PM (SUzFC)

405 This is the value of being a lurker. I know I'm a guest in someone else's house.
I leave my shoes at the door. I say please and thank you.
And nobody notices me.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 30, 2022 01:55 PM (eGTCV

Oh?
We know you meet a lot of good looking women in bars during the day, so you're either a drunk or a Bartender.

Or a gigololol

Posted by: Buddy at August 30, 2022 02:27 PM (FCbAQ)

406 Because Dems are team players. There is never a maverick among them. A 1 vote majority or a 100 vote majority is basically the same thing.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 30, 2022 02:14 PM (OalnH)

Manchin and Sinema beg to differ.

Posted by: blaster at August 30, 2022 02:33 PM (6TxNR)

407 To borrow a phrase from Ace mainstay ArthurKimes, it's getting close to being Chippity Chop time

Posted by: Rbastid at August 30, 2022 02:33 PM (KpSfS)

408 I'm pretty shocked at how much pull Biden has with the FBI, CIA, US military etc. He's obviously the boss, which blows me away. He can't even get a hard on without a dick injection and can't complete a full sentence without shitloads of drugs.

Posted by: Joe fingerblaster at August 30, 2022 02:42 PM (W+TLY)

409 They hate us, they are at war with us. They view us like we view ISIS. Just ask them.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at August 30, 2022 03:56 PM (hLd9H)

410 I'm going to apply for a job at the irs and see if I get an interview.

Posted by: sidney at August 30, 2022 04:00 PM (Uy/WF)

411 Joe Biden keeps the worst of the worst for his Cabinet of Fiends and Scoundrels

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