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AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

Our Coast Guard is dangerously weak and DEI'd. The USCG no longer trains for nor is equipped with ASW weaponry anymore (barring a handful of ships retaining pre-21st Century capabilities)

Yeah, and Trump fired Admiral Fagan (Commandant of USCG) on his first day in office :-/

Must have been that bad for him to fire someone on his first day on the job

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also bigger military spending because why not. increased salt to 40k because rich people need more handouts. standard deduction unchanged so pay taxes plebs.

it’s a bad bill. huge too so ton of pork. no one read whole thing, it’s not been publicly vetted as it was in committees.

According to this senator....

The real reason so many hate this bill.


https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1940125139343208887

"Lo siento Senior Meatpacker, mi esposa y nos hijos no tienen seguro de medico no mas. Necessito mas dinero por hora, por favor"

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

"Sorry Senior Meatpacker, mi esposa no tiene seguro medico no mas. Necessito mas dinero por hora, por favor"

Yes, and the same would happen if the Dems won and the illegal was given amnesty. The amnesty guy would no longer fear deportation and demand higher wages. Then amnesty boy would be replaced with a new illegal. But now "uppity" illegals cannot be replaced with fresh blood.

The thing that will bankrupt this country more than any other policy is flooding the country with illegal immigration and then giving those migrants generous benefits.

The OBBB fixes this problem. And therefore it must pass.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1939889090654052772

HeadSet says

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

If your stocks go from $100k to $110k, you pay taxes on $10k on the gains that very year, just like somebody making $110k in salary pays taxes that year, not at some future of their choosing. Whether or not you sell the stock.

You do realize that the wage earner has an actual gain, while the stock is just paper? Sell that stock to get an actual gain and it will be taxed the same as wages. The be a valid comparison, have the wage earner tell his boss to defer that $10k increase until a future date when the wage earner decides to take it as a bonus.

You shouldn’t be able to borrow against it either then. This paper wealth stuff has really fucked up society.

I think I like Georgism.

Northbound and Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgUaFkpS3Y

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-cake-moments

the latest budget struggle represents a new and even more tone deaf escalation.

let’s play make beleive for a moment:

imagine threatening to shut down the government unless the american people fund free healthcare, housing, and food for illegals.

imagine thinking the public was with you on what’s probably damn near an 80/20 issue.

what kind of rabid weasels would need to be running around in your head to not only think this was a good idea but to think you could sell it to the american people as the economy falters for most outside of the upper classes?

how could anyone expect this to play among those struggling to make ends meet?

the charitible take is:

this is the terrible price of longterm life inside of echo chambers and having no idea what the rest of the country thinks.

the less charitable take is:

this party is a wounded, cornered animal that is 100% aware that if the illegals lose their goodies and self-deport, that the dems will lose voters and house seat/electoral college apportionment to blue states in such numbers as to be unable to contend for power.

my take is:

both are true and that the swamp donkey leadership knows that it is in existential extremis without USAID and imported voters and clout and at the same time that they have gravely miscalculated how unpopular the continued championing of such has become.

they know that they need to do this but have no idea how severe the backlash will be.

they are sure they can just “demsplain” it to you and moralize harder.

Patrick says

imagine threatening to shut down the government unless the american people fund free healthcare, housing, and food for illegals.

imagine thinking the public was with you on what’s probably damn near an 80/20 issue.

I'm excited for this if the Trump Admin goes on the offensive: "Democrats will shut the government down unless illegals get free shit!"

Usually Republicans respond to outrageous Dem claims, I suggest the opposite this time, make them defend funding illegals. "It's only a Hundreds of Billions!"

What is lacking is a sense of common purpose, of unity as Americans.

Deliberately divisive diversity is a disaster. It prevents us from unifying to demand a government which eliminates the debt.

This is why "diversity" is a religion relentlessly pushed on us from above. It protects power from being taken back by the people.

https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/

How can we re-achieve unity?

- Seriously secure the border and immediately deport all those who came in illegally.

- Actively oppose all praise for "diversity" and replace it with calls for unity as Americans and the Melting Pot.

- Declare English to be the sole national language, and eliminate all government documents and services in foreign languages.

- Make everyone coming into the country stand in the exact same lines in the airports, explicitly prohibiting private planes from getting special treatment. Same for all government services. The very wealthy must be obligated to use exactly the same government services as the poorest with no exceptions whatsoever, not even for the president. Then quality will surge, along with faith in our system.

- A year of obligatory national service at the age of 18, mixing young citizens in a provably random selection in camps which help build and repair national infrastructure.

The psychology of service is very important. Once people have put a year of work into literally building and repairing America, they will feel a greater sense of ownership in it. And meeting a large random selection of your fellow citizens and that age will cross-link all the strata of society.