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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.

https://genesiustimes.com/allowing-people-to-vote-for-anyone-besides-kamala-harris-is-a-threat-to-democracy/

https://genesiustimes.com/breaking-following-declining-poll-numbers-for-kamala-harris-the-who-declares-a-global-emergency-over-the-monkeypox-virus/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/coached-friday-august-22-2024-c-and

Thankfully, the DNC is almost over. ... DNC update as second half of Kamala comedy duo is ‘introduced’ to democrat delegates who don’t even care whether the VP candidate is breathing; the betting markets begin shifting as fast-food DNC delivers sugar and salt and no protein...

Writing for the New York Times, leftie author Matt Labash gave away the game, admitting that last night’s DNC proved a “keen reminder that Harris’s most appealing quality is that she’s not Donald Trump.” ...

Harris didn’t attend last night. The Democrat’s quarterback is at her best when she’s not playing.

Fake conservative David Brooks, who’s already endorsed the Cackler, was frustrated by the lack of substance at the Convention, warning “Democrats are making a big mistake by not talking more about how to create a growing economy, which is the No. 1 issue on voters’ minds.” David noted, as I have, that “this was another night when they seemed to have nothing to say about it.”

Patrick says

warning “Democrats are making a big mistake by not talking more about how to create a growing economy, which is the No. 1 issue on voters’ minds.” David noted, as I have, that “this was another night when they seemed to have nothing to say about it.”

Wait: a $20 Federal minimum wage combined with price controls don't create a growing economy? 🤡

Sorcha Faal cracks me up. KamalaToe basically a Globalist show of force that patent unqualified, perverted, illegally wrought frauds can be hoisted through election theft into our highest office. It's pissing on the Republic and the American People from a lofty height.

https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=245224

https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1826418439541448823

https://kamala2024policies.com/



https://notthebee.com/article/trump-team-creates-a-website-highlighting-kamala

Since Kamala won't highlight any of her policy positions on her own website, Trump made a website and did it for her

I might actually agree with her on eliminating private health insurance, lol. It seems they are part of the problem, jacking up costs for everyone.

The 'Baphomet Bunch'.

https://t.me/STFNREPORT/32200

There was something weird about her voice. Real time lip syncing vocoder?

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1826513047201944040

https://x.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1826379149990395956