Biden Proposes $7.3 TRILLION Budget But Don't Worry -- He Wants to Raise Taxes by $5.5 TRILLION, Too

Biden Proposes $7.3 TRILLION Budget
But Don't Worry -- He Wants to Raise Taxes by $5.5 TRILLION, Too

NeverTrumpers must be so proud to support this fiercely principled economic conservative.

President Biden's proposed increase in the corporate tax rate to 28% is projected to result in significant job losses, starkly contrasting with the job growth seen under President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Key Details:
The proposed hike to a 28% corporate tax rate could lead to an immediate loss of about 1 million American jobs in the first two years, with ongoing losses of 600,000 jobs annually over the next decade.
Under President Trump, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, aligning the U.S. more closely with other OECD countries and boosting competitiveness.
The planned increase to 28% would elevate the U.S. combined state and federal corporate tax rate to 32.8%, one of the highest globally and triple that of China.
Diving Deeper:
The Biden administration's proposal to increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% marks a sharp departure from the pro-growth policies of the Trump era, which prioritized job creation and economic expansion. This shift not only threatens to reverse the gains made but also positions the United States unfavorably in the global economic arena.
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In stark contrast, Biden's proposed tax hike, by elevating the corporate tax rate to 28%, threatens to impede economic progress. Analysis suggests that such an increase would result in a loss of approximately 1 million jobs in the first two years, with a continual decline of 600,000 jobs each year over the subsequent decade.

🚨 Biden's brain completely breaks mid-sentence pic.twitter.com/D3d1tPRfhB
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 11, 2024

BIDEN: "Am I allowed to take any questions? Anybody here?"

Biden's handlers IMMEDIATELY kick the press out of the room and end the feed. pic.twitter.com/VgIyewvQNz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 11, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at March 11, 2024 05:30 PM (aJxr8)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:30 PM (QNSds)

3 And it's not like it's "trillions" trillions.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:31 PM (QNSds)

4 Hi Ace

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)

5 In an election year? Bold plan, Brandon. Let's see if it works.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2024 05:31 PM (Wnv9h)

6
well if that doesn't Restore All Of The Norms I don't know what will!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 11, 2024 05:32 PM (PFYt9)

7 Hit the wrong key and ended up 4th instead of first. Sigh...
Went for a walk. Windy but really nice.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:32 PM (t/2Uw)

8 Why bother raising taxes? Money is just an artificial construct, we can just print more, right Fed?

also fuck the Fed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 11, 2024 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

9 And all of the new taxes center on increased corporate taxes. It's important to remember that corporations do not pay taxes, they collect taxes from their customers to give them to the government.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (QNSds)

10 ace: "My dick just whistled."

**********

He's a little teapot
Short and stout
Grab him by the handle
Not by the spout!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (991eG)

11 8 Why bother raising taxes? Money is just an artificial construct, we can just print more, right Fed?

also fuck the Fed
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 11, 2024 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

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100%

Like I said before the budget is a money suck of the middle class. The left hates America.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (JeYYB)

12 All the corporations who donated to these grifters must wonder if their "investment" reaped any dividends.

Posted by: kathysaysso at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (yACxx)

13 Called the others in the thread below, just after jim (in kalifornia) did.

Posted by: gdgm+ at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (w0+ZH)

14 Well that should straighten out our economic malaise toot sweet.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 05:34 PM (WXNFJ)

15 Why not a gajillion?

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 11, 2024 05:34 PM (nIRE6)

16 so, that's what, 7 nice new solid platinum Trillion Dollar Coins?
I hope they're as big as dinner plates, the archaeologists digging up the remains of our civilization six millennia from now will be super impressed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (PFYt9)

17 Biggest budget cutter ever, jack!

Posted by: joey biden at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (2yu8s)

18
alternate post subtitle:

But I Can Tell You Right fucking Now, Amazon & Google Will Not Pay a Dime In Higher Taxes

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (DbiLk)

19 Evil Brandon wakes up with another demented idea.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (qZdIZ)

20 So what happened to angry, Fiery, Feisty "Get off my lawn " Joe from Thursday..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (Akjoo)

21 "Am I allowed to take any questions? Anybody here?"

The color bars at the end celebrate Pride.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (MvF+J)

22
Oh, FFS!

Can somebody just give Biden a chicken to fuck?

That ought to keep him busy, and maybe we can make it to the election without hyperinflation.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (nFnyb)

23 I'm okay with the corporate tax hike with one caveat. Any business that earns ALL revenue in the US AND solely hires American citizens in the US is exempt from the tax increase.

Destroy all those global nationalist companies that hate us, but use and abuse us while doing so. And help all the mom and pops trying to survive.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (exHjb)

24 Every video I've seen of Biden in the last two days is like this. He is not making any sense. It's 7 months til the election. I don;t see how he makes it. I agree with you Ace, that best chance of winning with Trump the nominee is to run against Biden. I just don;t see how he makes it til November.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (t/2Uw)

25 joe biden has had a stroke. That video of him reading the teleprompter, getting confused and having to use his finger to help him sound out the words it the exact same behavior that I see with my BIL. He had a stroke some years ago and still struggles with reading and forming sentences to this day.

Some days he is good and but other days he is lost and can't form a simple sentence without help.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (QNSds)

26 Joe blowing fart bubbles in his bath tub. Is he capable of doing anything?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (rWwta)

27 Why not a gajillion?
Posted by: Kratwurst at March 11, 2024 05:34 PM (nIRE6)
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Or a Brazilian.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (DeFcY)

28 Exactly like the Walter puppet but who's hand is up his ass?

Posted by: steevy at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (FQmDC)

29
Remember the Trump Tax Cuts?

Yeah, those END in 2025.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (DbiLk)

30 I consider myself to be somewhat tone deaf and brain dead, but dayum. FJB and his junta handlers are out there.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (IFDwa)

31 5 In an election year? Bold plan, Brandon. Let's see if it works.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2024 05:31 PM (Wnv9h)

It's the old tried and true "Tax the rich" which the public never thinks is them

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (Akjoo)

32 And Biden will do the classic Democratic trick of providing extra subsidies to favored companies and industries to offset the new taxes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (YAtuc)

33 Who will be holding the bag?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (5qlC4)

34 Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
Video resurfaces showing U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband, Chasten, instructing children to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag
https://tinyurl.com/yc4c6aj5
26 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (2yu8s)

35 PS - I would also put in a minimum tax rate of 10% of all revenue or 28% of all profit, whichever is higher, for all those companies who do not meet my US by US standard above. I damn well will hit Google and Amazon...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (exHjb)

36 For every tax dollar the gov brings in it spends between $1.30-$1.50. Yay!

Posted by: Blutarski at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (Cp1vk)

37 Biggest budget cutter ever, jack!
Posted by: joey biden

I had to talk everybody down from $10 trillion!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (oOgyw)

38 American voters are the worst. I mean they are the dumbest people in the world.

Posted by: Redenzo at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (V/pbu)

39
Looks like biden's chief campaign strategy is to talk like bernie sanders and re-parrot bernie's stupid Rich vs Poor ideas.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (7EpZj)

40 Okay, 10% revenue may be high - maybe I'll negotiate to 5% of all revenue as my minimum tax...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (exHjb)

41 Muldoon!

Dammit, man. You're going to get me fired!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (VeowK)

42 I'm having a rather stressful day. Maybe I need to watch cat videos.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (rWwta)

43 Has anyone ever asked these assholes how much is enough?

Damn them. Damn them all to hell.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (W/lyH)

44 they are just grubby little people who want jobs, the real money is in hedge funds after all.

Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 05:38 PM (D7oie)

45 Terrible economics but I'll sit this one out. Corporations, like Never Trump, laid down with dogs. We will all get poorer but some who richly deserve it will be destroyed, too.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (KSNKu)

46 That's 7.3 trillion of a 28 Trillion GDP... for just teh FED Gov is 1/4th of the economy.

Now add State, and Local spending... you know, the shit that actually pays for Police, and Firemen, and Roads???

We're well north of 40%... which as government makes no wealth... makes no product... produces nothing but friction and some semblance of order?

Unsustainable.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (xaFKb)

47 Framatawitz wethings ecan cut.

Posted by: Biden Transcriber at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (vFG9F)

48 Biden's brain completely breaks mid-sentence

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So, another minute ending with a digit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (HkMrk)

49 Or a Brazilian.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

I mean that might be ok depending on the subject/snizz but with this asshat we’d probably get Jill’s.

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (vzewd)

50 How could those far-right MAGA professors leave him out of the top 5 presidents? They should have to answer for that.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (1bNHn)

51 How’s the sick leave usage at the White House going? Thats what I thought.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (5qlC4)

52 To Arms, Citizens!

The three core principles of True Conservatism are:

--Endless wars

--Unlimited immigration

--Corporate tax cuts

Biden's doing great on #1 and #2, but we won't let him backslide on #3!

Posted by: GOPe! at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (YAtuc)

53 The return of funemployment

Posted by: Bete at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (LX4y3)

54 Tax the rich and screw the poor.
We'll do that and so much more.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (gZ9hV)

55 But I Can Tell You Right fucking Now, Amazon & Google Will Not Pay a Dime In Higher Taxes
Posted by: Soothsayer

Not Panera either.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (FVME7)

56 I ordered ammo at noontime and it's already been shipped.
Some people get it.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (t/2Uw)

57 Breaking911 @Breaking911 29m
AUDIO: Biden "absolutely did not apologize" for calling Laken Riley's alleged killer "an illegal" during State of the Union, says principal deputy press sec. Olivia Dalton.

https://tinyurl.com/4aexzry2
1:28 minutes; audio only, from Air Force One; Beau also makes an appearance.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (2yu8s)

58 "voters", LOL, yeah, right ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (PFYt9)

59 I expect Joe to go on a late night walkabout wearing nothing but his black dress socks.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (rWwta)

60 I just don;t see how he makes it til November.
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I don't either. But then, I didn't think he'd make it through the 2020 election without stroking out. Ever the optimist, I am.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (woPEM)

61 #57 Great reply...

時期赤 @Jekred2 1h Replying to @Breaking911
He apologized so hard that suddenly illegals built America

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (2yu8s)

62 "With about two-thirds of federal spending made up of mandatory entitlements such as Social Security, the big fiscal fight will center on Biden’s request of nearly $1.7 trillion in discretionary funding." rollcall.com

Ummm, the unsustainable part is the entitlements and interest. For 2025, they make up $5.6T of the $7.3T budget.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (exHjb)

63 How DARE you make fun of Joe Biden's stutter!

Posted by: The Media! at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (YAtuc)

64 24 Every video I've seen of Biden in the last two days is like this. He is not making any sense. It's 7 months til the election. I don;t see how he makes it. I agree with you Ace, that best chance of winning with Trump the nominee is to run against Biden. I just don;t see how he makes it til November.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (t/2Uw)
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My guess is that the permanently fried his brain getting him ready for the SOTU.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (1bNHn)

65 We all know Hunter Biden had no concept of money - he just spends whatever is in his account ASAP on drugs, strippers, whores, whatever.

Pretty obvious he learned this from dad - but now when dad runs out of cash he just prints more, then maybe a new tax.
W
T
F
Is wrong with these people?!?!?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (Hkcdp)

66
I don't see anything wrong with Biden here. Do you see anything wrong with Biden here?

Oh, the stutter.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (j4U/Z)

67 Muldoon!

Dammit, man. You're going to get me fired!
Posted by: nurse ratched

It's OK

He's a Doctor

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Chikoadinaka Wnankpa, Healer Of Herbalist Knowlewdges at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (v+0wn)

68 Pretty soon you're talking about real money...

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (pgwxJ)

69 But obviously we can't afford a $5 billion wall on the southern border.

Bitch Pelosi, burn in Hell.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (++4z6)

70 To be fair, a trillion dollars doesn't go very far nowadays.
What with inflation and all.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (KCQLM)

71 I know they’re trying to take advantage of the feisty SOTU Brandon but I cannot believe they’re putting him in front of people.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (Cp1vk)

72 "How DARE you make fun of Joe Biden's stutter!
Posted by: The Media!"

I call 'em as I hear 'em.

Posted by: Biden Transcriber at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (vFG9F)

73 BIDEN: "Am I allowed to take any questions? Anybody here?"

Biden's handlers IMMEDIATELY kick the press out of the room and end the feed.

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Roh, roh ... F. Joe's gonna only get one scoop of ice cream, one diaper change, and both hands cuffed to the basement radiator tonight.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (HkMrk)

74 I am beginning to think that Vidkund Quisling was less of a traitor than these Never Trump mewling qwims.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (+kwJ5)

75 Tax the rich and screw the poor.
We'll do that and so much more.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 05:40 PM (gZ9hV)

These asshole.live by the tax...keep this shit up and they may die by the tax as well.
Metaphorically speaking of course.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 05:43 PM (W/lyH)

76 "My guess is that the permanently fried his brain getting him ready for the SOTU.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (1bNHn) "

my thought exactly.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 11, 2024 05:43 PM (PFYt9)

77 Cultural Marxism never was going to stop at economics' edge. Hey, Mitt and Mitch, you are going to love the world you have created.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 11, 2024 05:43 PM (KSNKu)

78 This story bums me out because it reminds me I have to do my taxes, a task I despise. Then on top of that there's the procrastinator's guilt.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (MvF+J)

79 Dammit, man. You're going to get me fired!
Posted by: nurse ratched

*******

Why, did you snort out loud during Diversity Training?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (991eG)

80 Joey handcuffed to the radiator?

Kinky.

Bet the ice cream will be paste.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (+kwJ5)

81 And all of the new taxes center on increased corporate taxes. It's important to remember that corporations do not pay taxes, they collect taxes from their customers to give them to the government.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (QNSds)
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Thank you. I was just about to point that out. Few people grasp this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (YqDXo)

82 72 "How DARE you make fun of Joe Biden's stutter!
Posted by: The Media!"

I call 'em as I hear 'em.
Posted by: Biden Transcriber at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (vFG9F)

Yeah.... they gave...gave... gave.. brother Joe the same program as me...

Posted by: Max Headroom.... at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (xaFKb)

83 Cats truly are natural comedians I must say. The hijinks they get up to.

Posted by: steevy at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (FQmDC)

84 "I buried Paul" at the end of "Strawberry Fields" freaked me out as a kid.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 11, 2024 04:42 PM (9yWhg)

It's "cranberry sauce"

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (lX8VI)

85 38 Well, Venezuelan voters were pretty stupid, but thanks to Biden they are here and can bolster Dem numbers by voting with our idiots for the same type of handouts that that caused them to have to flee their homeland.

Posted by: Bete at March 11, 2024 05:44 PM (LX4y3)

86 Eh these million job lost numbers are the right’s version of scaremongering. It’s like when the left said millions would die from tax cuts.

The corp rate was 35% for 25 years. Before that it was over 40%. Then it went to 21
In 2017. If it goes to 28 will it be the end of the world? Probably not.

I’m not in favor of higher taxes but all these doomsday predictions are also bullshit.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (YofvK)

87 >>> The planned increase to 28% would elevate the U.S. combined state and federal corporate tax rate to 32.8%, one of the highest globally and triple that of China.

Effectively a punative tax on domestic goods and services.
It's main reason I support a flat sales tax (in lieu of everything else).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (cOq4q)

88 Can I complain about Daylight Savings Time on this thread? I have a comment about Daylight Savings Time.

Posted by: Guy who comment about Daylight Savings Time at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (vFG9F)

89 If biden gets another term, we might all be making trillion dollar salaries!

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (KCQLM)

90 Why bother raising taxes? Money is just an artificial construct, we can just print more, right Fed?

also fuck the Fed
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 11, 2024 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

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100%

Like I said before the budget is a money suck of the middle class. The left hates America.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 11, 2024 05:33 PM (JeYYB)

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And as Mark used to say -- to come full circle: "... they want us dead."

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (HkMrk)

91 ITS A STUTTER!!!!

Posted by: David Axelrod at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (CqK30)

92 Muldoon!

Dammit, man. You're going to get me fired!
Posted by: nurse ratched

It's OK

He's a Doctor
Posted by: Prof. Dr. Chikoadinaka Wnankpa, Healer Of Herbalist Knowlewdges at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (v+0wn)
***

Doctor! It hurts when I snort out loud.

Well...don't snort out loud.
That'll be $27,568.98 p!ease.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (W/lyH)

93 What does it mean to pledge allegiance to a pride flag?

Are you pledging to take it up the chute?
I am still not clear of the purpose of having flags for your special brand of kink? Like, why do you need this??

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (Hkcdp)

94 Joe needs to switch to the Republican Party so comedians can get back to work.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (rWwta)

95 Nothing to worry about, we're going to print *8* trillion new dollars!

Posted by: Brandon at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (llON8)

96 After trillion , comes quadrillion.

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (V13WU)

97 We're well north of 40%... which as government makes no wealth... makes no product... produces nothing but friction and some semblance of order?

Unsustainable.
Posted by: Romeo13

After 1989 in formerly communist East Europe, The US government defined a "free-market economy" as one in which, at a minimum, the government counts for less than 50%.

Posted by: Miklos so recalls at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (v+0wn)

98 I know they’re trying to take advantage of the feisty SOTU Brandon but I cannot believe they’re putting him in front of people.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 11, 2024 05:42 PM (Cp1vk)

they may not have a choice, if he hides in is basement bunker then the only thing noteable about him leading to the election is the tax increases, wars, invasions, massive "events" and inflation. If the rumor gets out that he is dead or had a stroke it becomes impossible to get anyone adjacent to the administration to get any purchase anywhere.

Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (D7oie)

99 If biden gets another term, we might all be making trillion dollar salaries!

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (KCQLM)

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Long wheelbarrows.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (HkMrk)

100 Who doesn't want wheelbarrows full of cash?

Posted by: steevy at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (FQmDC)

101 Can I complain about Daylight Savings Time on this thread? I have a comment about Daylight Savings Time.

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Go ahead....

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (V13WU)

102 "One is a lonely number" - theme song for Joey's last brain cell.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (+kwJ5)

103 Can I complain about Daylight Savings Time on this thread? I have a comment about Daylight Savings Time.
Posted by: Guy who comment about Daylight Savings Time at March 11, 2024 05:45 PM (vFG9F)

Wait an hour.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (W/lyH)

104 60 I just don;t see how he makes it til November.
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I thought Kalorama didn't want him to run. If he runs and wins it will be implausible that he completes his term. Therefore Kalorama has a plan, right now, for his replacement.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (gZ9hV)

105 Damn good thing they don't teach economics in schools anymore otherwise everyone in the government would be getting beat to death with shovels right about now.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (U1NaE)

106 Sundowner is a old Communist, pay what you can, tale what you need

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 05:47 PM (fwDg9)

107 Wheelbarrow?

You gonna need a Ford F-350 Super Duty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (+kwJ5)

108 Best economy ever!

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (xT7BI)

109 7 Hit the wrong key and ended up 4th instead of first. Sigh...
Went for a walk. Windy but really nice.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:32 PM (t/2Uw)
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Hi Sharon, did you figure out the Reacher books a couple of weeks ago?

Posted by: Ciampino - No, hard water is not ice ! at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (qfLjt)

110 Who’s watching Harris? Haaaaa haaa haaaaaaa!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (5qlC4)

111 Does Joe need to get drugged up to meet a member of his cabinet?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (rWwta)

112 "Unsustainable."

And yet, it persisted. The fiscal recklessness, like this infernal presidency, chugs along. The music never stops.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (MvF+J)

113 Sounds like we need to find eight of those trillion dollar coins

Posted by: nckate at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (eVFg2)

114 If only our system of government allowed for some kind of opposition.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (iziT8)

115 >>> 107 Wheelbarrow?

You gonna need a Ford F-350 Super Duty.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (+kwJ5)

with at least one cargo trailer, hopefully you don't have to double or triple up like FedEx trucks on the highways.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (llON8)

116 111 Does Joe need to get drugged up to meet a member of his cabinet?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (rWwta)

I read he rarely meets them

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (Akjoo)

117 It's the old tried and true "Tax the rich" which the public never thinks is them
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (Akjoo)

So true!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (OX9vb)

118 "$7.3 trillion? We just need eight trillion dollar coins, and then we're even $300 billion to the good!" - Nanzi Pelosi

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (YqDXo)

119 Well...don't snort out loud.
That'll be $27,568.98 p!ease.
Posted by: Diogenes

*********

Crikeys, they're onto us....

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (991eG)

120 OMG! Now they've gone too far!

New York Post
@nypost
NYC burns pizzerias with new rule cutting smoky pollutants by 75%: ‘You’re going after pizza?’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (FVME7)

121 Kalorama has a plan: Depends

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at March 11, 2024 05:50 PM (5qlC4)

122 111 Does Joe need to get drugged up to meet a member of his cabinet?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (rWwta)
_____________

I'd want to be on drugs to meet them, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 11, 2024 05:50 PM (YqDXo)

123 Biden or whoever runs the WH knows this has a zero chance of happening. But it’s a good election year thing to beat up Republicans with.

We want to give you all these freebies paid for by evil rich people. Republicans won’t let us. Vote for us so we can make it happen.

Democrats know how to do politics. Republicans are clueless.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 05:50 PM (YofvK)

124 "Can I complain about Daylight Savings Time on this thread?"

Are you going to talk about the transition just gone by, or prep us for the next one?

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (MvF+J)

125 Does Joe need to get drugged up to meet a member of his cabinet?
Posted by: Northernlurker

No, they just put him in his playpen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (FVME7)

126 We're well north of 40%... which as government makes no wealth... makes no product... produces nothing but friction and some semblance of order?

That is only two workdays a week.
You still have three days to take care of your own needs.
So not a slave-slave.... yet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (cOq4q)

127 Admiral Levine and Mayor Pete in the same room?

I wanna be sedated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (+kwJ5)

128 If the rumor gets out that he is dead or had a stroke it becomes impossible to get anyone adjacent to the administration to get any purchase anywhere.
Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 05:46 PM (D7oie)

Well there is always VP Kamala Harris oh I see what you are saying.

Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (IFNME)

129 What happens if Joe's veins collapse?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (rWwta)

130 113 Sounds like we need to find eight of those trillion dollar coins
---------
Check the sofa cushions.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (2yu8s)

131 "Pete Buttigieg's husband, Chasten, instructing children to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag"
**************
I'd like to shove that flag where the sun doesn't shine but Chastie would enjoy it too much.

Posted by: Cosda at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (aZBZS)

132 Our financial advisor told us if we keep spending like our past history shows, we'll have as much when we die as we currently have. Of course, it won't be worth shit.

We're upping our game and spending it. Might as well spend it down and enjoy what it can buy before it's worthless.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (WXNFJ)

133 ‘You’re going after pizza?’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (FVME7)

First they came for stromboli....

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (lX8VI)

134 Yes , we want to become less competitive and have corporate rate triple that of our major economic foe (China).

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (V13WU)

135 >>>> @nypost
NYC burns pizzerias with new rule cutting smoky pollutants by 75%: ‘You’re going after pizza?’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
-----------------

Italians, obviously, are not the political force they once were.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 05:52 PM (gZ9hV)

136 Does Joe need to get drugged up to meet a member of his cabinet?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:48 PM (rWwta)
_____________

I'd want to be on drugs to meet them, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 11, 2024 05:50 PM (YqDXo)
-----------
Well, you've got Deranged Sommelier Austin, Gay AF Buttplug, the harridan who is SecTreas - and that's just three of them...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 05:52 PM (DeFcY)

137 No, they just put him in his playpen.

And I just got this image of Joey in the playpen from Back to the Future

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:52 PM (+kwJ5)

138 I thought the House was in charge of budgeting?

Posted by: Ciampino - But then what do I know? at March 11, 2024 05:52 PM (qfLjt)

139 Democrats know how to do politics. Republicans are clueless.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 05:50 PM (YofvK)

Republicans are Democrats

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2024 05:52 PM (lX8VI)

140 "Pete Buttigieg's husband, Chasten, instructing children to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag"
**************
I'd like to shove that flag where the sun doesn't shine but Chastie would enjoy it too much.
Posted by: Cosda at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (aZBZS)

Chasterbate

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2024 05:53 PM (NtVYv)

141 And of course the GOPe will say "no joe , we'll give you $2 trillion in new taxes and not one cent more". It's an election year don't you know , new taxes aren't the hill to die on.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 05:53 PM (CAwN0)

142 "A stroke? A mere hindrance." - Woodrow Wilson's wife.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2024 05:53 PM (+kwJ5)

143 Ciampino, I only found one short story I hadn't read and none of the plot descriptions of the novelsmatched my memory. The plot description of the short story actually sounds familiar. I have it on reserve at the library so maybe will know by Sunday. It is such a vivid memory of Reacher in the London countryside. The description of the hedgerows along the road was just like i remembered from my travels so got into the plot right away. Tough being 29.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:54 PM (t/2Uw)

144 The proposed hike to a 28% corporate tax rate could lead to an immediate loss of about 1 million American jobs in the first two years, with ongoing losses of 600,000 jobs annually over the next decade.
.......

Don't worry. We'll just hire a few million IRS agents.

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2024 05:54 PM (v0R5T)

145 Doctor! It hurts when I snort out loud.

Well...don't snort out loud.
That'll be $27,568.98 p!ease.
Posted by: Diogenes

Insurance allows $1000.00
The Dr.'s billing 'adjusted' $20,000 away.
You owe $6,568.98.

Call the office for a payment plan.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 05:54 PM (WXNFJ)

146 What the fuck are they blowing all of this money on?

I'm guessing that by now, or soon, every politician and friend of every politician in Washington is going to be a billionaire

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 11, 2024 05:55 PM (U1NaE)

147 The Rich need to get it good and hard, though I say that as shouldn't.

BUY GOLD!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 05:55 PM (aD39U)

148 Jill is probably already making day to day decisions

Posted by: steevy at March 11, 2024 05:55 PM (FQmDC)

149 If we're going into full hyperinflation, can we please wait until we close on a new house? I'd like to pay off my entire mortgage with some New Zimbabwe / Neo-Weimar Republic dollars.

Posted by: PabloD at March 11, 2024 05:55 PM (FGseK)

150 The President does up the budget, then submits to the House so they can say it is dead on arrival and then do what they want.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 05:55 PM (t/2Uw)

151 Well there is always VP Kamala Harris oh I see what you are saying.
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM (IFNME)

I was wrong when I predicted that President Yellen was going to be impeached for the second time in the first quarter of 2024.

Third quarter I think.

Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (D7oie)

152 If the rumor gets out that he is dead or had a stroke it becomes impossible to get anyone adjacent to the administration to get any purchase anywhere.
Posted by: Kiindltot

People thought he was / invalid during the last election.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (cOq4q)

153 Give him his budget with a caveat.

For every $100 above and beyond the requested amount, FJB must go to Congress in person and kiss the naked, bare ass of every Republican Congressman while on his knees.

Make it humiliating.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (BpYfr)

154 RIP Karl Wallinger from The Waterboys and World Party. Good musician.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (CAwN0)

155 I'm not sure tax rates matter any more. It's beginning to look like the real plan is for WWIII to make all domestic policy disputes moot.

And like all wars before it, WWIII will be used to expand federal power EXPODENTIALLY.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (woPEM)

156 Sounds like we need to find eight of those trillion dollar coins
Posted by: nckate

Aw, man! I missed snagging one of those behind the secret door in level 7. Just had to try for the special armor... *kicks rocks*

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (Rz1LH)

157 Trivia: Last time the corp tax rate was below 21%
Was in the year…

Don’t Google it.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (YofvK)

158 Our financial advisor told us if we keep spending like our past history shows, we'll have as much when we die as we currently have. Of course, it won't be worth shit.

We're upping our game and spending it. Might as well spend it down and enjoy what it can buy before it's worthless.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 05:51 PM

The wife and I have been talking about that very same thing. We have a bunch of money in a 401k that is just sitting there that we don't need but it is losing value every month. We are thinking about emptying it out, taking the tax hit and buying tangible goods. Now we just have to find something worth buying that isn't ridiculously inflated.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (QNSds)

159 In all seriousness, is the $7.3T to pay for all the SOTU promises? It seemed like everything was going to be free for Democrats.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 05:57 PM (aD39U)

160 Friend's 16-year-old son just broke his arm in an ATV rollover accident -- and required surgery with titanium braces & screws.

She showed me the final bill: over $56,000.

Fortunately her only cost (she's a veteran and now works for the VA) was a $49 copay. I believe that since DeathCare was enacted, medical bills have been the leading cause of personal bankruptcies. Thanks DogEater!

[A sobering thought for my wife and me, as we refuse to participate in DeathCare, so have no healthcare insurance; three years to Medicare, which likely won't be much better ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 05:57 PM (HkMrk)

161 When Trump was making a bid to buy Greenland I honestly thought that he had realized we were due for an inevitable dollar crash, and figured to spend as much cash as possible because it was about to be worthless.

That is my fear - that the political class will all try to cash out, only making the disaster much much worse for people like us who don't have bunkers in New Zealand.

I think that is what is happening here. It is all a Hail Mary to win and then take control of the ruins they created. If he (and his puppeteers) lose, then it is not his problem, and if he wins, he has license to go full FDR (or Stalin.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 11, 2024 05:57 PM (KCQLM)

162
Biden doesn't seem to have any interest in going after the wealthy for money. But those at the very bottom of the chart between poor and impoverished? Watch out. Inflation just pushed you into a tax bracket and he has nearly a hundred thousand new IRS agents hungry to get you.

But our 'betters' on the right fought valiantly on your behalf.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 05:57 PM (RKVpM)

163 ‘You’re going after pizza?’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (FVME7)
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Trying to come up with a funny pizza pun, but the delivery is troublesome.

Posted by: scampydog at March 11, 2024 05:58 PM (2bFN5)

164 Northernlurker one can only hope so

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 05:58 PM (fwDg9)

165 157 Don’t Google it.

Are we talking about “pegging” again?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 11, 2024 05:58 PM (9yWhg)

166 This is the way you cut the inflation rate. Bidenomics to the rescue.

My6 bet is the republicans will only give Joedolph Krugman a $7.15 trillion budget. After hard fought budget battle it will come out as an $8.25 trillion dollar budget.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (17s+e)

167 Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
Video resurfaces showing U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's ~~husband~~ co-sodomite, Chasten, instructing children to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag
https://tinyurl.com/yc4c6aj5
26 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 05:37 PM (2yu8s)

FIFY

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (tkR6S)

168 Don’t Google it.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (YofvK)

I see you have been reading Newsweek for your economic facts again.

Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (D7oie)

169 Of course the budget has to be over $7 Trillion. Depends, Diaperene, and Balmex are WAY more expensive under Bidenomics.

Posted by: By The Barrel at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (V5BDR)

170 Now we just have to find something worth buying that isn't ridiculously inflated.
Posted by: Mister Scott

tangible goods, that's the ticket

NO YELLOW

Posted by: Hunter B. Short Term Capital Management at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (v+0wn)

171 The old farts in the audience laugh like Joe made a funny when he was quite serious in asking his handlers if he could take questions.

Those folks in the audience are what is wrong with this country. Dumb and selfish.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (R/m4+)

172 My MiL was in the hospital for 15 days. The bill was $89K. The Medicare adjusted bill was $28K. Her share was $1,2500.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (aD39U)

173 What the fuck are they blowing all of this money on?

++++

We not only send money to third world countriesd but to First World countries. Why the hel are we funding biolabs in China? Why do we sent money to India, Pakistan, for ridiculous woke projects that do nothing to change anything. Shit, we sent pallets of money to Iran! Left rooms full of money in Afghanistan. We are the main funding for UNWRA, for the UN, for NATO. We are the sugar daddy to the world.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (t/2Uw)

174 Now we just have to find something worth buying that isn't ridiculously inflated.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Look into buggy whips. At the rate we are going, they'll be no gas powered anything for transport. We be lucky to have draft animals to pull us along in two-wheeled carts. They might, and I mean might, be able to forage among the vast wastelands for sustenance.

But not the Indians - they never could figure out wheels.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (WXNFJ)

175 "Trying to come up with a funny pizza pun, but the delivery is troublesome.
Posted by: scampydog "

It's liable to be panned 'round here.

Posted by: Guy who comment about Daylight Savings Time at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (vFG9F)

176 DJT wanted to buy Greenland!?!?!

fkn lol. That so Trump.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (iziT8)

177 Please, somebody wake me up from this nightmare.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (w316J)

178 ‘You’re going after pizza?’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 05:49 PM (FVME7)
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Trying to come up with a funny pizza pun, but the delivery is troublesome.
Posted by: scampydo

Salami tactics

Posted by: Miklos from where the term originated at March 11, 2024 06:01 PM (v+0wn)

179 1939 was the last year. Top corp rate was 19%
Since then it’s been above the current 21%.

Somehow the republic survived for 75 years. If it goes to 28% I think it’ll be OK. lol.

Come on peeps put shit into perspective. Yeah higher taxes suck. But for fucks sake it’s not Armageddon.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 06:01 PM (YofvK)

180 "Her share was $1,2500."

Do you even money, bro?

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:01 PM (iziT8)

181 My favorite is how they start blasting the music to push him off stage like a over-time limit award winner.

Cause that is totally normal

Anyway, I was thinking the other day how crazy it was in 2020, all the blue cities banning Trump from holding rallies.
How he had to resort to airports outside their jurisdiction.
How the media would darkly intone every rally was a "superspreader" of Covid deaths.

I mean, it was insane: Banning the President of the United States from campaigning? Denying him the most basic campaign strategy, the excitement and enthusiasm, the connection and community?

All to make the obvious hiding of Biden seem normal.
How are they going to do that this time?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (yikga)

182 Buy bullets and beans

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (U1NaE)

183 DJT wanted to buy Greenland!?!?!

fkn lol. That so Trump.
Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (iziT

Denmark refused to sell us Trumpland. We will just have to take it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (aD39U)

184 I won't try topping any of these pizza puns.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (lX8VI)

185 Now we just have to find something worth buying that isn't ridiculously inflated.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 05:56 PM (QNSds)

----------------

Just imagine how much Hunter Biden's painting will be worth after he succeeds Papa Crock as Dear Leader for Life.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (HkMrk)

186 Remember how bloated the federal budget back was in the 90s?

Shrub, Obama, and Biden have exploded that by 4X

Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (ibTVg)

187 "Her share was $1,2500."

Do you even money, bro?
Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:01 PM (iziT

Heh, yeah, one too many zeros.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:03 PM (aD39U)

188 172 My MiL was in the hospital for 15 days. The bill was $89K. The Medicare adjusted bill was $28K. Her share was $1,2500.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 05:59 PM (aD39U)

That’s how it works. Hospitals send an outrageous amount to insurance companies.
Insurance companies say fuck that we’ll pay 1/3 of that. Hospitals say OK deal. And then the patient pays a couple of thousand depending on their deductible.

Nobody ever pays $89k. Even without insurance the bill is $35k, which is why the actual cost is and what insurance actually pays.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 06:03 PM (YofvK)

189 I won't try topping any of these pizza puns.
Posted by: ...

Think outside the box.

Posted by: Miklosian Management Consulting at March 11, 2024 06:03 PM (v+0wn)

190 So what happened to angry, Fiery, Feisty "Get off my lawn " Joe from Thursday..
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2024 05:35 PM (Akjoo)
.......

He came down hard and had to sleep for a few days.

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2024 06:03 PM (v0R5T)

191 re #161. On Trump's Greenland play.

I think his plan was to sell the debt to Denmark. It's the "greater fool" theory common in real estate where the plan is to overpay and find a greater fool.

Trump seems to have done this kind of thing a lot in business where he over leverages and disavows the debt. The fact that he was willing to exchange massive US debt for Greenland made me think he knew that the debt was now worthless. Find a greater fool to take it in exchange for a hard asset while we still can.

If he knew, it meant all world leaders and central bankers knew and they are just playing along for now to give themselves time to get hard assets and delay the upcoming global economic crash. A crash like we have never seen before.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (KCQLM)

192 I mean, it was insane: Banning the President of the United States from campaigning? Denying him the most basic campaign strategy, the excitement and enthusiasm, the connection and community?

All to make the obvious hiding of Biden seem normal.
How are they going to do that this time?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (yikga)

That's what I think they planned to run an incumbent Hillary against during the coof op which was coming at us either way. A Republican who wasn't allowed to campaign.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (lX8VI)

193 That's some real campaigning there. An incumbent speaking to maybe 50 people.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (syiaM)

194 She showed me the final bill: over $56,000.

Posted by: ShainS

My heart ablation and assorted meds/stay/etc. was over $100K. I can't tell you how, but I only paid about $300 out of pocket. I was covered by Medicare at the time.

There is no sorcery so black as medical billing.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (WXNFJ)

195 Don't forget the Panera Bead carve out.

You can bet some corporations will be exempt.

Though, most likely, this corporate tax hike will adversely affect smaller corporations who barely survived covid.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (tT6L1)

196 If we go to pre-Reagan tax rates, I will bet the money I won't have that we won't get all our deductions back.

I remember when I could deduct the cost of my phone service because it was a condition of employment.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (aD39U)

197 Denmark sold us the Virgin Islands, so why not try and buy Greenland?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 06:05 PM (CAwN0)

198 Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Leader of the Free World:

"Am I allowed to take any questions?"

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 11, 2024 06:05 PM (w316J)

199
"Her share was $1,2500."

Do you even money, bro?

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:01 PM

LOL, I was thinking how to 'comma shame' someone and thought I'd be as bad as the apostrophe guy who appear's's here once's in a while's. I do likes' to torment him.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 06:05 PM (RKVpM)

200 Today Greenland, tomorrow San Francisco!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (FVME7)

201 Today Greenland, tomorrow San Francisco!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (FVME7)

We're talking glaciers, right?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (aD39U)

202 I won't try topping any of these pizza puns.
Posted by: ...

Think outside the box.
Posted by: Miklosian Management Consulting

Pretty cheesy there ...

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (WXNFJ)

203 Joe's bed probably has rails and a belt to hold him down.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (rWwta)

204 Just that picture of those dolts listening to Biden is enough to remind me that they are not my countrymen but enemies.

Harsh but that's where I am now.

Posted by: Cheri at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (oiNtH)

205 I expect Joe to go on a late night walkabout wearing nothing but his black dress socks.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 05:41 PM (rWwta)
.......

Don't worry. They'll find him in the morning stuck in a hedge.

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (v0R5T)

206 I won't try topping any of these pizza puns.
Posted by: ...

Think outside the box.
Posted by: Miklosian Management Consulting

Pretty cheesy there ...
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (WXNFJ)
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I don't give a toss.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (DeFcY)

207
I remember when I could deduct the cost of my phone service because it was a condition of employment.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:04 PM (aD39U)

You still can still deduct non-reimbursed employee expenses

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (YofvK)

208 I would be grimly amused to see Chicago and New York under a mile of ice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (aD39U)

209 ace: "My dick just whistled."

**********

He's a little teapot
Short and stout
Grab him by the handle
Not by the spout!
Posted by: Muldoon

Also scans if "teapot" is "ewok."

Posted by: mikeski at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (DgGvY)

210 It's 6 pm and I'm supposed to be hungry, right?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (t/2Uw)

211 Insurance companies say fuck that we’ll pay 1/3 of that. Hospitals say OK deal. And then the patient pays a couple of thousand depending on their deductible.

Nobody ever pays $89k. Even without insurance the bill is $35k, which is why the actual cost is and what insurance actually pays.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 06:03 PM (YofvK)

Broke an arm a few years back, needed surgery and was in the last month or so of insurance from a previous job. Just paid it out of pocket it was like 6000. Doctor even threw in a carpal tunnel procedure.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 11, 2024 06:08 PM (eoQWY)

212 "The collective fortune of America’s 741 billionaires has grown to $5.2 trillion at the end of November 2023, the highest amount ever recorded according to an analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF). "

The US government spent $6.1 trillion in fiscal year 2023.

It's going to be an interesting time to be a government worker when the 50 round box of 9mm replaces the US dollar.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 11, 2024 06:08 PM (wb1YC)

213 DJT wanted to buy Greenland!?!?!

fkn lol. That so Trump.
Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:00 PM (iziT

Denmark refused to sell us Trumpland. We will just have to take it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:02 PM (aD39U)

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If Trump gets back in as CiC, he'll have to raise a Viking Brigade.

I wonder if they'd take a fit graybeard?

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 06:08 PM (HkMrk)

214 " It's 6 pm and I'm supposed to be hungry, right?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)"

Don't you hate being manipulated like that?

Posted by: Guy who comment about Daylight Savings Times at March 11, 2024 06:08 PM (vFG9F)

215 Joe's bed probably has rails and a belt to hold him down.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 06:06 PM (rWwta)
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Darn right it does. Think I want creepy old goat in my bed?

Posted by: Doctuh Jill at March 11, 2024 06:08 PM (tT6L1)

216 46 That's 7.3 trillion of a 28 Trillion GDP... for just teh FED Gov is 1/4th of the economy.

Now add State, and Local spending... you know, the shit that actually pays for Police, and Firemen, and Roads???

We're well north of 40%... which as government makes no wealth... makes no product... produces nothing but friction and some semblance of order?

Unsustainable.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2024 05:39 PM (xaFKb)

————

As a reminder 2019 Federal expenditures were about $4 trillion.

So this $7.3 trillion truly reflects the inflation over the past 3 years.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (++4z6)

217 If Trump gets back in as CiC, he'll have to raise a Viking Brigade.

I wonder if they'd take a fit graybeard?
Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 06:08 PM (HkMrk)

Can you handle an oar?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (aD39U)

218 Trying to come up with a funny pizza pun, but the delivery is troublesome.
Posted by: scampydo

*********

There are no funny pizza puns.

But didja ever take a bite of pizza when it is so hot that it scalds the roof of your mouth so you try to take it out of your mouth but it's still connected to the slice but only by a thin strand of melted cheese so the piece you spit out is dangling and starts to pull the entire toppings, sauce and cheese off the crust and it all falls in your lap and scalds your crotch so you need a skin graft, and then you say, "Dough!!!" like Homer Simpson?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (991eG)

219 @chiIIum
·
2m
BLOODBATH! More than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be FIRED. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (LkLld)

220 187 Heh, yeah, one too many zeros.

there are plenty more where that one came from. zero means nothing to us.

Posted by: wisdom from pbs at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (v3pYe)

221 [A sobering thought for my wife and me, as we refuse to participate in DeathCare, so have no healthcare insurance; three years to Medicare, which likely won't be much better ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident
==================

Medicare's OK. but you should consider something in the interim or you and your wife may end up sleeping in a ditch.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (gZ9hV)

222 If we had Greenland we wouldn't even need daylight savings time.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (iziT8)

223 It's 6 pm and I'm supposed to be hungry, right?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 06:07 PM (t/2Uw)
.......

Eat now, citizen.

Posted by: wth at March 11, 2024 06:10 PM (v0R5T)

224 But didja ever take a bite of pizza when it is so hot that it scalds the roof of your mouth so you try to take it out of your mouth but it's still connected to the slice but only by a thin strand of melted cheese so the piece you spit out is dangling and starts to pull the entire toppings, sauce and cheese off the crust and it all falls in your lap and scalds your crotch so you need a skin graft, and then you say, "Dough!!!" like Homer Simpson?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (991eG)
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That's weirdly specific.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 06:10 PM (DeFcY)

225 Or a Brazilian.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 05:36 PM (DeFcY)

I'm bringing in as many as I can, Jack

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 06:10 PM (cHOHf)

226 Video resurfaces showing U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband,
_____

I assumed Pete was the wife in the 'marriage', now it's confirmed!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2024 06:10 PM (fs1hN)

227 So is Biden also planning an exit tax, to catch those companies who just on-shored, because of the Trump tax cut, who want to off-shore again because of the Biden tax stupidity?

Or maybe he'll just tax all the companies based overseas, because WTF are laws to a Democrat?

Posted by: mikeski at March 11, 2024 06:10 PM (DgGvY)

228 217 Can you handle an oar?

embrace the healing power of and?

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:11 PM (v3pYe)

229 If the tax rate did increase, what percentage of all tax revenue would come from the highest earners? It was already skewed against them…

Posted by: Introverted Elephocentric Hypochondriac at March 11, 2024 06:11 PM (8P1Ur)

230 Well there is always VP Kamala Harris...

Posted by: blaster

Together, we will work together, and together we will work to do the work, together....togetherly.

Posted by: Ksmaluuuh at March 11, 2024 06:11 PM (qNruN)

231 "There are no funny pizza puns."

Ain't you a crusty one?

Posted by: fd at March 11, 2024 06:11 PM (vFG9F)

232 ·
2m
BLOODBATH! More than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be FIRED. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Sounds Trumpian. You're Fired!

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:11 PM (gZ9hV)

233 224 But didja ever take a bite of pizza when it is so hot that it scalds the roof of your mouth so you try to take it out of your mouth but it's still connected to the slice but only by a thin strand of melted cheese so the piece you spit out is dangling and starts to pull the entire toppings, sauce and cheese off the crust and it all falls in your lap and scalds your crotch so you need a skin graft, and then you say, "Dough!!!" like Homer Simpson?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (991eG)
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That's weirdly specific.

there's probably a code for it.

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:11 PM (v3pYe)

234 231 "There are no funny pizza puns."

Ain't you a crusty one?

i sauce what you did there

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:12 PM (v3pYe)

235 Every video I've seen of Biden in the last two days is like this. He is not making any sense. It's 7 months til the election. I don;t see how he makes it. I agree with you Ace, that best chance of winning with Trump the nominee is to run against Biden. I just don;t see how he makes it til November.
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Consider what September and October looks like, as Trump runs an ad called "Where's Joe?" just of clips from Trump rallies, listing that city and state, with a counter on the right side spinning like a taxi meter.

While on the left, a counter of Biden rallies ticking slow like months on a calendar.

To break Biden as he's forced into making more than one "event" a week.
$10 says Biden does a previously recorded acceptance speech this year. Or at least 20+ minutes of video intro.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2024 06:12 PM (yikga)

236 Mouth burn sucks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (R4t5M)

237 Come on peeps put shit into perspective. Yeah higher taxes suck. But for fucks sake it’s not Armageddon.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 06:01 PM (YofvK)

I was wrong, you were reading Krugman. You are referring to a period when there were 24 different tax brackets and even then the Treasury was still only taking below 20% of the GDP!!
But we have 4 brackets now, I think, and fewer loopholes, and the proposed budget is 30-40% of the economy, in a recession.

I mean, aside from the legalized theft, and open plunder that people should complain about, there is the problem of taxing consumers out of the market and taxing business out of production. No gains, no earning our way out of this, just drudgery like Germany, France and the UK have been staggering under for 40 years.

Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (D7oie)

238 Mitch Mconnell would pass this budget for the promise of a sack of beans at some point in the future.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (KRfYs)

239 Can you handle an oar?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I heard that in a think British accent.

I was standing in queue for a bus once on a corner in London. A sudden gust of wind blew in and a woman standing next to me had her dress raised over her head. Glory be! She wasn't wearing any panties. I said to her: "A bit 'airy, isn't it?"

She sniped back "What were you expecting? Feathers?!"

Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (WXNFJ)

240 My favorite is how they start blasting the music to push him off stage like a over-time limit award winner.

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I'm watching a 1961 James Cagney screwball comedy set in divided Berlin. The commies torture a false confession out of a guy by playing Itsy Bitty Teeny Weenie Polka Dot Bikini.

Bonus! The movie, One Two Three, features a young General Burkhalter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (FVME7)

241 Mouth burn sucks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (R4t5M)

Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (aD39U)

242 woohoo, don't even have to invoke the "somewhere" clause!

New Glarus Back 40 Bock, and a shot of ice-cold Svedka

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (PFYt9)

243 Or at least 20+ minutes of video intro.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2024 06:12 PM (yikga)
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I read the last part as 'in vitro.'

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (tT6L1)

244 "There are no funny pizza puns."

Saucy one, are you ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (NtVYv)

245 Only the government and its’ dependents would appreciate this budget… the question is… more of them, or us?

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (PCK5/)

246 There are no funny pizza puns.
Posted by: Muldoon

There's an apeeling one you can use to shift to fruit puns, then.

Posted by: mikeski at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (DgGvY)

247 BLOODBATH! More than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be FIRED. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM

About friggin time. All those idiots were doing was throwing parties and spending millions of $$$$ of donation on hotels, rental cars and private jets.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (QNSds)

248 I'm honestly surprised Joe is still in the land of the living.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 06:15 PM (rWwta)

249 Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

o_O

.....not enough lube?

Posted by: mikeski at March 11, 2024 06:15 PM (DgGvY)

250 Mitch Mconnell would pass this budget for the promise of a sack of beans at some point in the future.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM

In his defense they are magic beans.......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 06:15 PM (QNSds)

251 "There are no funny pizza puns."

Ain't you a crusty one?

i sauce what you did there
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:12 PM (v3pYe)

But some can be pretty cheesy.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 06:15 PM (W/lyH)

252 248 I'm honestly surprised Joe is still in the land of the living.
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 06:15 PM (rWwta)

The jury is out on that…

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2024 06:16 PM (PCK5/)

253 "Scalded Penis" sounds like a really unfortunate Sioux name.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 06:16 PM (DeFcY)

254 >>>> drudgery like Germany, France and the UK have been staggering under for 40 years.

Posted by: Kiindltot
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Speaking of Germany, I read that they are going to chop down the ancient forest that Grimm's fairy tales were based from in order to... build a wind farm.
citizens are upset

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:16 PM (gZ9hV)

255
BLOODBATH! More than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be FIRED. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM

I gotta feeling their soul job was to transport tens of thousands of floral arrangements from the Mormon florist to some event. I think I know how this shit works. Cults aren't tough to figure out. You're out or you're in.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 06:17 PM (RKVpM)

256 Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

o_O

.....not enough lube?
Posted by: mikeski at March 11, 2024 06:15 PM (DgGvY)

Let's put it this way; naked groggy recently wed, boiling hot cowboy coffee, shaky cheap table.

I have never had a cup of coffee wake me up so fast as that.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:17 PM (aD39U)

257 Dem have decided to go with biden and lose the presidency but steal the house and senate

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:17 PM (owbyL)

258 Mouth burn sucks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (R4t5M)

Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (aD39U)

This is one of those rare Horde moments where no pictures are required.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 06:17 PM (W/lyH)

259 60 staffers fired is a good start.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2024 06:18 PM (syiaM)

260 Pizza just isn't funny not matter how you slice it, I'll show myself out.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:18 PM (iziT8)

261 Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

The advice thread told you to wait for the waffl iron to cool

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:18 PM (owbyL)

262 LOL Diogenes, too true!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 11, 2024 06:18 PM (PFYt9)

263 250 Mitch Mconnell would pass this budget for the promise of a sack of beans at some point in the future.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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You forget, Elaine's hand is up his ass and pulling all his strings.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:18 PM (gZ9hV)

264 240 I'm watching a 1961 James Cagney screwball comedy set in divided Berlin. The commies torture a false confession out of a guy by playing Itsy Bitty Teeny Weenie Polka Dot Bikini.

indeed. and for particularly tough cases, the record has an off-center spindle hole.

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:19 PM (v3pYe)

265
an incumbent Hillary

Posted by: ...

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You just brought a smile to my face, thinking of the vanity of those plans.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at March 11, 2024 06:19 PM (I87yH)

266 A sociopath politician with a 2-year life expectancy will only care whether it can pump up his numbers in six months.

Posted by: Zek at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (5FPX4)

267 But we have 4 brackets now, I think, and fewer loopholes, and the proposed budget is 30-40% of the economy, in a recession.

I mean, aside from the legalized theft, and open plunder that people should complain about, there is the problem of taxing consumers out of the market and taxing business out of production. No gains, no earning our way out of this, just drudgery like Germany, France and the UK have been staggering under for 40 years.
Posted by: Kiindltot at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (D7oie)

———

It’s less about total income rather income distribution.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (++4z6)

268 What is a spindle hole, precious??

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (PCK5/)

269 My Engineer in the Navy made the messenger wake him up with a fresh cup of coffee just how he liked it. Only fell back asleep and spilled it on himself about half the time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (KRfYs)

270 261 Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Too rubbery

Posted by: Haitian at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (KCQLM)

271 Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:18 PM (gZ9hV)

264 240 I'm watching a 1961 James Cagney screwball comedy set in divided Berlin. The commies torture a false confession out of a guy by playing Itsy Bitty Teeny Weenie Polka Dot Bikini.

What is funny is that when they renade that movie they tortured the guy by running the original.movie over and over

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (owbyL)

272 255 I gotta feeling their soul job was to transport tens of thousands of floral arrangements from the Mormon florist to some event. I think I know how this shit works. Cults aren't tough to figure out. You're out or you're in.

they were on a mission from god

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (v3pYe)

273 We live in a world where Emma Stone has two best actress academy awards, so anything is possible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2024 06:21 PM (XV/Pl)

274 Emma Stone is one of the Undead, looks like…

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2024 06:21 PM (PCK5/)

275 271 What is funny is that when they renade that movie they tortured the guy by running the original.movie over and over

isn't that how they got noriega?

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (v3pYe)

276 Say what you want about cocaine mitch, but we're mitch not made of stern stuff we would have justice garland

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (owbyL)

277 Best cure for scalded penis is to slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: Dr fd at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

278 >>> 254
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Speaking of Germany, I read that they are going to chop down the ancient forest that Grimm's fairy tales were based from in order to... build a wind farm.
citizens are upset
Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:16 PM (gZ9hV)

We need that for our fireplaces.

Posted by: Germans at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (llON8)

279 Can you handle an oar?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:09 PM (aD39U)

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Heh, I do the rowing machine at the gym vigorously for a good 30 minutes!

My swordsmanship and drinking capacity would definitely need some work as well ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (HkMrk)

280 About friggin time. All those idiots were doing was throwing parties and spending millions of $$$$ of donation on hotels, rental cars and private jets.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2024 06:14 PM (QNSds)

———-

Sheesh. Can’t anyone appreciate their phony baloney jobs?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (++4z6)

281 What is funny is that when they renade that movie they tortured the guy by running the original.movie over and over

isn't that how they got noriega?
Posted by: anach

Blasting the captain and tenill over the walls of the Vatican enbassy

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (owbyL)

282 "Corporate Tax Hikes" to get to those "billionaires" ends up taxing small corporations, with 10-20 (or less) employees who don't have a team of tax lawyers on hand.
The purpose of this is not as dumb as it appears.

The really big corporatist oligarchs will likely pay no more, while the small-fry competition will be crushed with higher taxes.
And really, this big tax increase will end up not increasing revenues at all, and it will be used to justify his even bigger budget, a bigger deficit, and a highway to Hell.
Nice going, and it's the cadre of shitheads that surround Biden and tell him what to do.
And Trump will denouce this stupidity, and the News Mouthpieces will have more fodder to attack Trump with the low-info voter, of which there are legion.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (vcOmj)

283 shift to fruit puns, then.
Posted by: mikeski

********

there are no funny fruit puns.

But didja ever bite into an apple that was so crispy that the bite you took lodged between the floor of your mouth and your hard palate so that it became stuck and you couldn't push it out with your tongue and then you sneezed and the piece of apple along with your upper dentures flew across the room and landed in your wife's bowl of chicken soup? 'Cause that would be kind of funny.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (991eG)

284
they were on a mission from god

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM

I make no typos. Irregardless of what you may read.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (RKVpM)

285 Say what you want about cocaine mitch, but we're mitch not made of stern stuff we would have justice garland
Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (owbyL)

Considering that that is the only thing he ever did for our side, I have to suspect an ulterior motive, though I can't see what China had against Garland.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (aD39U)

286 Divide by Zero @ 255 Laid off?
I hope they laid off that crowd that keeps texting me for ‘campaign’ money.

Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (NxC5+)

287 No gains, no earning our way out of this, just drudgery like Germany, France and the UK have been staggering under for 40 years.
Posted by: Kiindltot

90% of our economy is waste
9% is just keeping everyone alive and happy
1% is producing something of value to future generations. Like buildings that last more than 30 years, or technology, art, knowledge.

What will we leave behind that will compare to the Romans or other great civilizations?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (KCQLM)

288 Considering that that is the only thing he ever did for our side, I have to suspect an ulterior motive, though I can't see what China had against Garland.
Posted by: G'r

All the same he did a solid there

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (owbyL)

289 I can't wait to see what's in that budget. You KNOW there are hefty $Billions for the sanctuary states to shut up the mayor's in NY, Chicago and San Fran. It's how they shut them up last month. Let's see if Cocaine Mitch leaves us a parting gift.

Posted by: Orson at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (dIske)

290 Speaking of Germany, I read that they are going to chop down the ancient forest that Grimm's fairy tales were based from in order to... build a wind farm.
citizens are upset
Posted by: Braenyard

What will happen to the witch's cottage?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (rWwta)

291 Geez (legitimate scrabble word), I go away for a minute and there's 100 new comments. Some of them are even funny. Slow down.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (t/2Uw)

292 "We live in a world where Emma Stone has two best actress academy awards, so anything is possible."

Well someone had to win the stupid thing.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (iziT8)

293 I'm watching a 1961 James Cagney screwball comedy set in divided Berlin. The commies torture a false confession out of a guy by playing Itsy Bitty Teeny Weenie Polka Dot Bikini.

indeed. and for particularly tough cases, the record has an off-center spindle hole.
Posted by: anachronda

"One, Two, Three"; Cagney was an executive for Coca-Cola. And it is a really funny movie.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 11, 2024 06:25 PM (vcOmj)

294 Too rubbery
Posted by: Haitian at March 11, 2024 06:20 PM (KCQLM)

OMG

Lord, forgive me for laughing at that...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 11, 2024 06:25 PM (OX9vb)

295 Pretty cheesy there ...
Posted by: Tonypete

Make a bad pun here and you'll get shredded.

Posted by: Miklos has the scars to prove it (but chicks dig those) at March 11, 2024 06:25 PM (v+0wn)

296 All the same he did a solid there
Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:24 PM (owbyL)

Hitler built the autobahn, and killed Hitler.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:25 PM (aD39U)

297 You just brought a smile to my face, thinking of the vanity of those plans.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at March 11, 2024 06:19 PM (I87yH)

A beautiful thing.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2024 06:26 PM (lX8VI)

298 Chastened is a Cultural Marxist

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 06:26 PM (fwDg9)

299
Hitler built the autobahn, and killed Hitler.
Posted by: G'r

Which is just making my point for me, nobody is all bad

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:26 PM (owbyL)

300 285 Say what you want about cocaine mitch, but we're mitch not made of stern stuff we would have justice garland
Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (owbyL)

Considering that that is the only thing he ever did for our side, I have to suspect an ulterior motive, though I can't see what China had against Garland.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at M
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They thought Hillary was going to win and make the nomination.
That's the same way they do the voting on the floor.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 11, 2024 06:26 PM (gZ9hV)

301 But didja ever bite into an apple that was so crispy that the bite you took lodged between the floor of your mouth and your hard palate so that it became stuck and you couldn't push it out with your tongue and then you sneezed and the piece of apple along with your upper dentures flew across the room and landed in your wife's bowl of chicken soup? 'Cause that would be kind of funny.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (991eG)

Then she takes a sip of soup and sighs....delicious!
And you are depressed because it was a granny smith.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 06:26 PM (W/lyH)

302 285 Say what you want about cocaine mitch, but we're mitch not made of stern stuff we would have justice garland
Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:22 PM (owbyL)

Considering that that is the only thing he ever did for our side, I have to suspect an ulterior motive, though I can't see what China had against Garland.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:23 PM (aD39U)

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Yeah, Turtle’s whole career is boiled down to one thing and the bare minimum expectation from a Senate Leader (which in reality was him doing nothing).

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 06:27 PM (++4z6)

303 298 Chastened is a Cultural Marxist
Posted by: S

Better than chaffed

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:27 PM (owbyL)

304 Yeah, Turtle’s whole career is boiled down to one thing and the bare minimum expectation from a Senate Leader (which in reality was him doing nothing).
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 06:27 PM (++4z6)

He did help to get tax cuts that expire.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:28 PM (aD39U)

305 the piece of apple along with your upper dentures flew across the room and landed in your wife's bowl of chicken soup? 'Cause that would be kind of funny.
Posted by: Muldoon

It wasn't

Posted by: Mrs. Muldoon (marry him, they said, he's a doctor, they said) at March 11, 2024 06:28 PM (v+0wn)

306 there are no funny fruit puns.

...

There are, however, funny fruits.

Like jackfruit--largest of the breadfruits!

Posted by: TexasDan at March 11, 2024 06:28 PM (z/ifB)

307 "But didja ever bite into an apple that was so crispy that the bite you took lodged between the floor of your mouth and your hard palate so that it became stuck and you couldn't push it out with your tongue and then you sneezed and the piece of apple along with your upper dentures flew across the room and landed in your wife's bowl of chicken soup? 'Cause that would be kind of funny."

That's ridiculous. But I did get my tongue stuck in a film projector once.

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:28 PM (iziT8)

308 But didja ever bite into an apple that was so crispy that the bite you took lodged between the floor of your mouth and your hard palate so that it became stuck and you couldn't push it out with your tongue and then you sneezed and the piece of apple along with your upper dentures flew across the room and landed in your wife's bowl of chicken soup? 'Cause that would be kind of funny.

Posted by: Muldoon

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This is too suspiciously detailed to be passed off as a hypothetical.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 11, 2024 06:29 PM (8AONa)

309 But I did get my tongue stuck in a film projector once.

My scalded penis story isn't sounding so bad now.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:29 PM (aD39U)

310
Yeah, Turtle’s whole career is boiled down to one thing and the bare minimum expectation from a Senate Leader (which in reality was him doing nothing).

Dwiw, his career is not any different than anybody else's in gov.

Besides, nobody had ever told the scoamf no before mitch

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:29 PM (owbyL)

311 He did help to get tax cuts that expire.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:28 PM (aD39U)

———

Also I forgot that great maneuvering that got Obamacare repealed.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 06:29 PM (++4z6)

312 293 "One, Two, Three"; Cagney was an executive for Coca-Cola. And it is a really funny movie.

and at the very end of the movie he gets a pepsi from the coke machine.

Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (v3pYe)

313 I sure hope Panera bread doesn't have to pay any more tax.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (z/ifB)

314 "Hitler built the autobahn, and killed Hitler.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) "

Second look at Hitler?

Posted by: eleven at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (iziT8)

315 @292

>>Well someone had to win the stupid thing.

I think they gave it to her for having sex with Mark Ruffolo in Poor Things, nothing else makes sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (XV/Pl)

316 But I did get my tongue stuck in a film projector once.

My scalded penis story isn't sounding so bad now.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Well Doc, I was making a salad in the shower and

Posted by: This one is an ER Classic at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (v+0wn)

317 I sure hope Panera bread doesn't have to pay any more tax.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (z/ifB)

We'll get crumbs.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (aD39U)

318 238 Mitch Mconnell would pass this budget for the promise of a sack of beans at some point in the future.
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I will gladly reblow you Tuesday for your vote to-day!

Posted by: John Thune at March 11, 2024 06:30 PM (woPEM)

319 Mitch Mconnell would pass this budget for the promise of a sack of beans at some point in the future.
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Rice

Posted by: N at March 11, 2024 06:31 PM (owbyL)

320
When The Horde's on a run
With some Big Pizza pun
That's Amore

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 06:32 PM (HkMrk)

321 Biden's always 'taxing the billionaires,' as is the DNC. Until it actually comes to billionaires and other non-profit organizations (and so much more that doesn't fall into his ongoing corporate tax scheme).
--
In part, "Within a one-mile radius in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sit Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — academic institutions that together boast $74 billion in endowment funds. Based on the size of these “rainy-day funds” alone, the two universities, with a combined student body of 37,000, have enough wealth to rival Ghana, with a population of 35 million.

The kicker? These private universities are educational institutions, meaning that for most of their history, they have been exempt from federal and state income taxes."
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Or: Is equity funding taxed? While debt is taxed once, equity funding is taxed twice: once at the business level, and once at the shareholder level through dividend and capital gains taxes. Successfully classifying funding as debt as opposed to equity produces tax advantages for the corporation.
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Taylor and Jay-Z, both billionaires, wait.

Posted by: L - Confidence they're working on their rope-a-dope tactics. at March 11, 2024 06:32 PM (GshMh)

322 I doubled McConnell's estates in Macau. Paul Ryan turned ... for much less.

Posted by: Xi Jinping at March 11, 2024 06:32 PM (aD39U)

323 My scalded penis story isn't sounding so bad now.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Never order the Purple Helmet coffee at the Starbuck's drive thru.

Posted by: Miklos so advises at March 11, 2024 06:32 PM (v+0wn)

324 Nood!

Posted by: Dr fd at March 11, 2024 06:33 PM (vFG9F)

325 Mouth burn sucks.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (R4t5M)

Scalded penis is no treat either. I know.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 06:13 PM (aD39U)

This is one of those rare Horde moments where no pictures are required.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 06:17 PM (W/lyH)

For the sake of sanity I hope it safe to assume those events were not connected.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 11, 2024 06:33 PM (z/ifB)

326
Posted by: Mrs. Muldoon (marry him, they said, he's a doctor, they said) at March 11, 2024 06:28 PM

I gotta neighbor, almost past tense neighbor, a Doctor. I suspect some nurse set him onto the straight and ~~narrow~~ engorged.

Saw comcast shutting down the cable today. Four kids. Damn.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 06:33 PM (RKVpM)

327 Is Scalded Penis similar to Spotted Dick?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 11, 2024 06:33 PM (rWwta)

328 he doesn't have to have a working plan. All he has to do is the common Demo-commie tactic since 1932.....tax a lot and spend a little on some crap socialist project.

Posted by: vic at March 11, 2024 06:34 PM (A5THL)

329 We are so proud of him.

Posted by: Robert Mugabe School of Economics at March 11, 2024 06:34 PM (8sMut)

330 327 Is Scalded Penis similar to Spotted Dick?

maybe

Posted by: richard the leopard-hearted at March 11, 2024 06:35 PM (v3pYe)

331 New York Post
@nypost
NYC burns pizzerias with new rule cutting smoky pollutants by 75%: ‘You’re going after pizza?’
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Another one bites the crust.

I just watched my local pizza restaurant make the world’s largest pizza base – I’d like to see someone top that!

Posted by: Ciampino - My mind is so messed up right now. I desperately need pizza of mind at March 11, 2024 06:35 PM (qfLjt)

332 Let me explain how medical billing works. A procedure costs $100. Medicare or Medicaid will only pay $30. The Doc then charges the next person with private insurance $170 to make up for the loss.

Only there are far more Medicare patients (old people) and Medicaid (illegals) than privately insured, so Docs have to charge a multiple of $170 to the insureds just to break even.

Capisce?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 11, 2024 06:35 PM (wBaIH)

333 of course nood, I made an entry here.

Posted by: vic at March 11, 2024 06:35 PM (A5THL)

334 Daily Wire
@realDailyWire
DEI Office In Biden’s VA Is ‘Hostile, Toxic’ With Rampant Sexual Misconduct, Internal Probe Finds

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As was intended.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 06:37 PM (FVME7)

335 332 Let me explain how medical billing works. A procedure costs $100. Medicare or Medicaid will only pay $30. The Doc then charges the next person with private insurance $170 to make up for the loss.

It has been my experience that in that case the other $70 would be paid by the patient unless they had a supplement F policy.

Posted by: vic at March 11, 2024 06:39 PM (A5THL)

336 No gains, no earning our way out of this, just drudgery like Germany, France and the UK have been staggering under for 40 years.

Posted by: Kiindltot

I'd rather be in those countries than the uS.
Israel has a similar tax model to western Europe but I bet you just love our greatest ally

Posted by: Ubiquity at March 11, 2024 06:58 PM (zQ+aL)

337 I'd rather be in those countries than the uS.
Israel has a similar tax model to western Europe but I bet you just love our greatest ally
Posted by: Ubiquity at March 11, 2024 06:58 PM (zQ+aL)

Some has Jews on the brain.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 07:07 PM (aD39U)

338 I want to ask how dumb can you be ? But this is evil not stupid.

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Biden Proposes $7.3 TRILLION Budget
But Don't Worry -- He Wants to Raise Taxes by $5.5 TRILLION, Too