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That's good stuff, man! That's good stuff!

Kamala's honeymoon - if there ever was a real boost in the polls - is now gone.

AmericanKulak says

Kamala's honeymoon - if there ever was a real boost in the polls - is now gone.

Get ready for Honeymoon 2.0!

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Brit royal family is a regular clown show for useful idiots in UK. The budget was around $350m and expected the clowns bring in $500m mostly through tourism!
White House is US equivalent, every thing is scripted, reviewed before starting show every day.
No working official of any significance would live at stone throw distance where every useless and crazy stop by.
That whole setup is to bring tourists to make money at the same time potus pretending living just like any other Joe ;)

Patrick says

https://nypost.com/2024/08/15/us-news/nearly-three-quarters-of-americans-believe-kamala-harris-knew-about-bidens-mental-decline-poll/

Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe Kamala Harris knew about Biden’s mental decline: poll

Patrick says

Patrick says

https://nypost.com/2024/08/15/us-news/nearly-three-quarters-of-americans-believe-kamala-harris-knew-about-bidens-mental-decline-poll/

Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe Kamala Harris knew about Biden’s mental decline: poll

... and the rest must be themselves senile.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/rumors-swirl-that-kamala-harris-is-being-influenced-by-russian-agent

Patrick says

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/rumors-swirl-that-kamala-harris-is-being-influenced-by-russian-agent

Smirnoff vodka hasn't been connected with Russia since the latter ceased to exist in 1917.

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1825264655172051316

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Relax, Joey, POTUS is not a king and Kummala cannot siglehandedly do that even if she wins.

Walls At The DNC Work. But Not At The Border.




https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1825536692733796616

Eric Holder says

Relax, Joey, POTUS is not a king and Kummala cannot siglehandedly do that even if she wins.

No, but if enough down ballots win, that can get done. Like how Trump was able to raise the Standard Deduction so high and end the SALT deductions above $10k.

HeadSet says

No, but if enough down ballots win, that can get done. Like how Trump was able to raise the Standard Deduction so high and end the SALT deductions above $10k.

IF!

Patrick says

Imagine buying a house and having to pay property tax! Now imagine you rehab the house and add a swimming pool and then your property tax gets reassessed as well!

Same thing. It's a wealth tax.

The only real problem is that at the federal level, it would have to be levied according to apportionment, which is why we don't have a federal property or land value tax.

Patrick says

This is truly insane but worth noting it's for people with net worth 100MM and up

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Patrick says

Imagine buying a house and having to pay property tax! Now imagine you rehab the house and add a swimming pool and then your property tax gets reassessed as well!

Same thing. It's a wealth tax.

The only real problem is that at the federal level, it would have to be levied according to apportionment, which is why we don't have a federal property or land value tax.

Again, for individuals with net worth over 100MM only. Still insane shit. Plus we all know the threshold will be lowered each year once instated

mell says

Again, for individuals with net worth over 100MM only. Still insane shit. Plus we all know the threshold will be lowered each year once instated

True. When the Income tax first came out, it was only for the folks with robber baron level wealth.

mell says

Imagine buying a house and having to pay property tax! Now imagine you rehab the house and add a swimming pool and then your property tax gets reassessed as well!

Same thing. It's a wealth tax.

Not at all the same thing. Taxing capital gains is a tax on income, not wealth, so taxing an unrealized capital gain is a tax in phantom income.

Yeah, well come December 31 I will pay $1 for a single grain of sand from the supporters' yard.

They loose everything to phantom Bullshit when the entire property is valued at that rate.

https://genesiustimes.com/on-day-1-kamala-harris-promises-to-fix-everything-that-is-so-great-and-perfect-right-now-because-of-her-administration/

https://kamala2024policies.com/

Kamala's policies (finally)

HeadSet says

mell says

Imagine buying a house and having to pay property tax! Now imagine you rehab the house and add a swimming pool and then your property tax gets reassessed as well!

Same thing. It's a wealth tax.

Not at all the same thing. Taxing capital gains is a tax on income, not wealth, so taxing an unrealized capital gain is a tax in phantom income.

Capital sitting in stonks doesn't require anything from local government to support it, whereas a house totally does: roads, schools, police, etc. Also there is no way for stonks holder to enjoy them in any way w/o selling and using the proceeds (except maybe as a collateral for a margin loan), whereas one can live in the fucking house or rent it out. So while I hate property taxes they can at least be somewhat justified. Tax on unsolds stonks, on the other hand, has no justification (except "you have it and I don't, let's redistribute the fuck out of it from you to me" if one's willing to accept such thing as valid).

Building Walls And Fences Around Chicago - Miles From The DNC - To Prevent
Mass Protests Against Kamala



https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/1825990861206835633

https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2024/08/18/the-democrats-are-gifting-donald-trump-the-white-house-n2643502

Anyone with a pulse would bring more excitement to Democrats than Joe Biden would. But in either choosing Harris or having her forced on the party in Joe’s revenge on Pelosi and Obama, they could not have selected a worse candidate. She is not popular by any standard. She comes off as smug. When she talks, she makes every second grader seem like a Nobel laureate. She has avoided taking a single question or doing a press conference for nearly a month since her installment by fiat. All of those around her know that if she has to speak extemporaneously, the stock market might drop 800 points, World War III might start, and the English language might sue Harris for acts of violence. ...

Nearly every week we learn that our digital overlords have played some tricks with their algorithms, always to the detriment of Trump and advantage of Harris. ChatGPT still doesn’t believe that someone tried to kill Donald Trump. Google would not let you look up the subject. Google let Harris’s people modify news headlines to her benefit. Whenever they are caught with all 20 fingers and toes in the cookie jar, they claim that it was a glitch, a mistake, a one-off event. One has to remember that around 30 percent of each party will vote for its candidate no matter what. The remaining 40 percent, primarily those in around five or six states, can go either way and their voting patterns may determine who wins. The more that they see big tech once again putting its sloppy paw on the scales, the more that they will feel that Donald Trump is getting a raw deal. We saw it in the polls after each legal filing against the former president. Most felt that the legal attacks were political and Trump’s popularity only went up. The digital games get exposed and the public knows that they are getting played. ...

Vice presidents do not do very much in office, but their selection is like a Rorschach test for the presidential nominee. Kamala Harris chose a governor who let his largest city burn down over three days of BLM mayhem. She selected a fellow who clearly has lied about the exact nature of his military service. She chose a guy who put tampons into boys’ bathrooms. It’s one thing to weakly support trans-mania; it’s another thing to push it to the extreme. They thought that they would get a folksy Midwesterner to pull the wool over the eyes of the rubes in Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. Instead, they have another lefty extremist who makes Trump and JD Vance look like the founding members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Politicians generally rejigger their policies prior to elections in order to win. Biden tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to shamelessly drop gas prices prior to the 2022 midterm elections. But Harris is changing nothing. The border is wide open and each week one reads of another American harmed or killed by an illegal alien or gang. Inflation continues northbound and Trump is hammering the change in prices since he left office. Harris promises to make things better when she is elected, but everyone knows that she is in the White House today and could bring change if she truly wanted to. She doesn’t and Americans are figuring this out. Nothing will get better if she is elected, only worse. ...

This is the place where I think that Trump will get pushed over the finish line with the gold. Everyone knows that if Donald Trump had chosen not to run, there would be zero legal cases against him. Once he announced his candidacy, the Democrats invented new crimes and bent misdemeanors into felonies to get him. On September 18th, Judge Merchan in New York will pronounce sentencing on Donald Trump in Alvin Bragg’s case. The smart move would be to give him a suspended sentence and berate the president for not being a perfect boy scout. Judge Merchan has done everything to harm Donald Trump, and he will not stop now. He knows that Trump will get out on bail and that his ridiculous circus masquerading as a court case will get thrown out down the line. But for his moment to gain eternity, he will give Trump a significant sentence. The media will go crazy. But those independents mentioned above will not be impressed. They will know that the president has been railroaded, and the sentencing might be close enough to November to get people to vote for the hounded former president who was also nearly assassinated.

There is much that the Democrats could have done to help their cause for keeping the White House. There are Democrats who know more than 300 words. Josh Shapiro would have been a smart VP pick. Big tech could be a little less blatant in its anti-Trump efforts, and the Department of Justice could have left Trump alone. But the Democrats are so obsessed with winning that they are making mistakes at every turn.

Found a new one to follow on X:

Now that puppet Joe's brain has been exposed as senile for the whole world to see, Obama gets to control Kamala. Except word is that they don't like each other.