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Patrick says

Nonsense. The 37% on wages for a single filer does not kick in until over $600k, and even then, only that potion of wages over that $600k. Hardly an impoverished dude. Also, that 20% is only for long term capital gains. Cash in stocks in less than a year and it is taxed the same as wages.

HeadSet says

Nonsense. The 37% on wages for a single filer does not kick in until over $600k, and even then, only that potion of wages over that $600k. Hardly an impoverished dude. Also, that 20% is only for long term capital gains. Cash in stocks in less than a year and it is taxed the same as wages.

From a self-employed standpoint, you gotta factor in that 12.4% social security tax. That makes that effective 37% tax rate middle class.

Misc says

From a self-employed standpoint, you gotta factor in that 12.4% social security tax. That makes that effective 37% tax rate middle class.

If you want to include extraneous items keep in mind that SS tax tops out at about $168k. Also, self-employed can pay a low wage to themselves and take dividends from their S corp and have the company own their vehicle, and so on. Plus, unlike the income tax, SS is something you collect on later, the more you pay in the more you collect (mostly).

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/political-alchemy-saturday-march

To set the stage, so to speak, consider this Reuters headline from a little over four years ago, which ran one week after Biden’s inauguration:

Fact check: Debunking claims that
Biden's Oval Office is a fake movie set
By Reuters
January 26, 2021

Having established corporate media’s position on the matter, now let’s take a look at the video uploaded this week by Trump’s personal attorney Alina Habba:

https://x.com/AlinaHabba/status/1899502744236335266



Alina turned the camera around the green-screened studio and revealed Biden’s giant teleprompter. In contrast to President Trump, who is busily wearing out reporters daily with all his unscripted remarks and open-ended pressers, Joe Biden occasionally showed up in an Eisenhower building studio, where he read off short scripts that were undoubtedly written for him by someone else.

And, lest you feel tempted to forgive Reuters’ diligent ‘fact-checkers,’ remember that the media participated in propagating this unreal fakery— because it was right there, filming the so-called president. The years of unreality.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1906339939756704153

Democrats are completely unaware that they’re being filmed when they attack Teslas because the drive-by media isn’t covering the attacks.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/liberated-wednesday-april-2-2025

Maybe it’s just me. But it sure seems like the corporate media universe glitched early this morning, when the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post ran eerily nearly identical headlines about the disappointing Wisconsin election results:

Odd that Wisconsin Supreme Court election is a "Rebuke to Trump" when that same Wisconsin just referendumed for Voter ID and Trump won those 2 Florida seats in the special election.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/vigilant-saturday-april-5-2025-c

The New York Times tried to pull a fast one yesterday, but we won’t let them get away with it this time. It began with a very strange and often revolting feature story headlined, “Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral.” Unsurprisingly, the Times framed the story as almost sympathetic to the “victims” — meaning the men caught by independent sting groups for soliciting underage boys and girls for sex.

Vigilantism! Most bizarre, the story was in the Times’ long format, magazine-style, multimedia-dazzling articles. The Gray Lady invested a metric ton of column inches, technology effects, and rhetorical effort into portraying predator-catching groups as grifters, click-baiters, conmen, and violent criminals.

It spent no effort condemning the predators themselves. Instead, it thematically hinted —without saying so— that they, the predators, were the real victims here.

“In the past two years, a growing number of pedophile hunters have gone a step further and violently attacked the targets in their videos,” the Times complained. Some of “the footage shows hunters chasing their targets through retail stores, beating people bloody on public streets, and shaving the heads of their targets.” Citing only a single example, the paper generalized, “In the most extreme cases, people have been hospitalized with serious injuries.”

Awkwardly, no predator hunters have been convicted for assault or battery. This is partly because pedophiles usually eschew pressing charges, which the Times satanically characterized as a kind of legal disability that the sting operators exploit to take advantage.

But one particular sentence, pregnant with patent meaning far beyond its words, betrayed the awful reality of the situation and the Times’ co-conspiring culpability: “The Times reached out to more than two dozen people targeted by violent pedophile hunters,” the paper reported, “but none were willing to speak on the record.”

Lol, good. Pedophiles should be afraid.

Patrick says

Yes, and his defense fund now has over $150k in donations.

https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1911651476507959536

People sometimes ask me why call it "the cool kids table" of media and I can't think of a single recent example better than this.

A person fired for lying to her editors at Washington Post (amongst other things) and a CNN dude trying to fit in while ignoring her assassination fantasies.

O'Sullivan isn't interested in journalism or extremism. All he wants to do is fit in. And getting on camera with Taylor Lorenz and giggling along with her like a Bumble date over commies murdering people in public is how he does it.

All he wants is to belong.