patrick.net

Exactly.

@ arm hk now

After age 65 you can use the HSA money for anything you wish. It is taxed like a regular IRA.

After age 65 you can no longer contribute to the HSA. At age 65 you go onto Medicare.

HSA is a fantastic investment; I ran into a Fidelity store and put the max in last April ($4450) I think it was. Fidelity allows you to invest the HSA in anything so I bought Fidelity Contrafund.

The reason I bought the HSA was primarily for tax avoidance; if you are on Obamacare and you have just a bit too much income, you pay your premiums back 100%.

The trigger for this is having an AGI that is 401% of the poverty level.

The HSA reduces you AGI no matter what your situation is; my primary goal was to get my AGI down so I owed less for my Obamacare (I still got screwed=$8000+)

Luckily in 2019 you are 1. not required to have health insurance 2. there is no penalty for not having health insurance.

You may decide to drop your health insurance if the premiums are high; mine were $924/month in 2019 so I dropped it after 4 months.

So, I can only contribute $1500 in 2019 to my HSA (since I didn't have insurance for the entire year)

Tim Aurora says

That is very much debateable. Let us have the same ethics rules for everyone.

Please show me the video where Trump bragged to a think tank that he got a prosecutor looking into Jared or Eric's business dealings fired in another country, or he'd withhold US Aid.

Also, isn't it time Obama weighed in on his VP, who he put in charge of Ukraine policy?

Tim Aurora says

That is very much debateable.

"That is very much fake-able."

There, fixed it for you.

clambo says

@ arm hk now

After age 65 you can use the HSA money for anything you wish. It is taxed like a regular IRA.

After age 65 you can no longer contribute to the HSA. At age 65 you go onto Medicare.

HSA is a fantastic investment; I ran into a Fidelity store and put the max in last April ($4450) I think it was. Fidelity allows you to invest the HSA in anything so I bought Fidelity Contrafund.

The reason I bought the HSA was primarily for tax avoidance; if you are on Obamacare and you have just a bit too much income, you pay your premiums back 100%.

The trigger for this is having an AGI that is 401% of the poverty level.

The HSA reduces you AGI no matter what your situation is; my primary goal was to get my AGI down so I owed less for my Obamacare (I still got screwed=$8000+)

Luckily in 2019 you are 1. not required to have health insurance 2. there is no penalty for not having health insurance.

You may decide to drop your health insur...

It basically sounds like IRA for people who don't get any tax advantage from IRA because their income is too high. With added benefits of being able to spend the money tax-free on healthcare if the need arises before 65. Awesome vehicle, totally agree.

Tim Aurora says

Next thing you will complain about "no Trump kids have the name Hunter" Crap argument. Straw man

Tim Aurora says

No video is needed for the same ethics. You are after Biden because Hunter had a job which gave the impression that he was using his father's influence. Let be the same rule for Trump kids.

Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka, and Jared were all involved in various businesses long before Trump ran.

There is no proof (not even a firm allegation) that any of Trump's relations profited from his presidency.

Where as we have Biden bragging about getting a prosecutor fired who was looking into the company his completely inexperienced son was a Board Member of. This is confirmed by Shonkin, the former prosecutor, who unlike his successor, doesn't drive a Bentley and is by all accounts not well off. Additionally, Biden lied claiming he never discussed Burisma with his son; there is a pic of him, Hunter, and Devon Archer (another Burisma Board Member) golfing together in the Hamptons. Finally, Hunter literally has no plausible reason for either being appointed to the board of a foreign energy company OR how he managed to get over a billion in investments from China in a week. That's a deal most superpowered Wall Street veterans with massive international connections and a great track record of decades, would have a hard time getting.

OccasionalCortex says

No, he is after Biden because we have HARD PROOF that is what was going on, no 'impression' necessary. You are just trying to frame it otherwise in order to nullify the video and it is impact as said HARD PROOF.

Exactly. Democrats are comparing a non-actually existent hypothetical with something that happened and is public record.

Tim Aurora says

There is no proof that Hunter Biden did anything wrong either. It is just an ethics question. Do not deal with any foreign entity.

Nope. If JOE Biden threatened to withhold Congressional-approved Aid to Ukraine to prevent an investigation into his son, it's definitely misconduct at the least. It's something the public should know BEFORE electing him President.

Joe Biden has a history of character issues, including misrepresenting his education and plagarism.

www.youtube.com/embed/QBlahhX0e4Y

Biden isn't going to be the nominee anyway. His numbers are collapsing anywhere there aren't enough people who respect him for being the White Guy who stood up to Corn Pop.

Now two Quinnipiac, and the latest IBD and Economist/YouGov have their most recent polls with Warren ahead.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

Tim Aurora says

You are after Biden because Hunter had a job which gave the impression that he was using his father's influence.

fixed it for ya.

Obama/Biden gave Ukraine millions in exchange for "heavy consulting fees for Hunter Biden", and somehow liberals think that kind of shit is ok. Yeah, I guess other peoples tax dollars aren't valued. It's not like it's my blood sweat and tears that go into making money so some rich liberal fucks can just give it away. Mother fuckers!!!!

I get it. Everyone BUT fucking white males is a victim. They are quite efficient oppressors!

The working class are the victims. For some stupid reason, our propaganda keeps insisting these people are exclusively white. :)

And it's not "white rage", this is justifiable working class rage. They've been screwed by NAFTA and their government. They want to make this a "white issue", because, damn, can't get the working class co-operating, they'll overthrow the entire rotten system.

Lol@washington Post

I like how receiving $50,000 a month "working" at a job which he's entirely unqualified for, in a nation he doesn't speak the language, when he's a known cocaine addict - is now "work". That's work apparently.

Hey, I could probably learn to enjoy cocaine, and I don't speak Ukrainian either, also I do have SOME experience in the energy industry (but electrical), but I wasn't thrown out of the Navy and my dad isn't vice president, nor has he ever been.

Can I get the "job"? I'll do it for only $25K a month :)

I wonder why R's are suddenly so successful? Population tired of GLOBOHOMO OPPRESSION circus? Jobs in fracking/oil industry lead to understanding that green deal D's will kill the (considerable) prosperity that goes with oil? People tired of ORANGEMAN IS WORSE THAN HITLER nonsense?

There is the issue of affirmative action, which is the only legislative discriminatory system left. It is not an issue of past like Indian genocide, or even an issue which relates to individual behavior (like murder rate differences between races where a law-abiding black person does not have anything to do with it). Affirmative action demonstrably discriminates agains whites and Asians as evidenced by school admission scores.

6rdB says

I wonder why R's are suddenly so successful? Population tired of GLOBOHOMO OPPRESSION circus? Jobs in fracking/oil industry lead to understanding that green deal D's will kill the (considerable) prosperity that goes with oil? People tired of ORANGEMAN IS WORSE THAN HITLER nonsense?

1 data point doesn't indicate a trend. Also, the governor is very likely to remain a Democrat. Also, how many turn overs in seats where there?

Seems like they just kept the status quo to me, honestly. The headline doesn't match the article.

Tim Aurora says

One can crib how the British corrupted the whole world by destroying very wealthy countries such as China and India. Or how America destroyed Vietnam or how whites killed the American Indians or how the blacks kill more whites than whites kill blacks. Or how the Asians cannot get into Harvard since they are discriminated against. Or how the capitalist pigs suck blood from poor communists.

Or who White People ended the tearing of children's still beating hearts out by the hundreds (sometimes thousands) to feed the Sun or Rain demon by Aztec Barbarians.
Or the White People who are responsible for at least doubling the lifespan of every African, and more than doubling that of Native Americans, Indians, Chinese, etc.
Or the White People responsible for the greatest expansion of living standards in human history.
Or the White People who created the first Civilization to ban the Slave Trade, and then Slavery itself.

That's funny, on Washington Post, they are asking for $1 a month for an electronic copy. I wonder if anybody pays for it?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

I think that's kind of funny, that they dare to ask for money for propaganda. Does anybody not realize what they are by now?

Tim Aurora says

That is just hearsay and right wing acquisitions. On the other hand Trump kids are doling out favors for money

Evidence, on the level of Biden bragging to a think tank seminar that he got a prosecutor looking into them from another country fired or he'd not disburse aid money?

This is the video. Liberal media is literally talking about these videos, talk about liberal priorities.

https://patrick.net/post/1327897/2019-10-14-fake-news-is-like-an-angry-wasp-nest-over-this-video

liberals don't denounce violence against Republicans, Americans, Conservatives, Religion, Families, etc...

OccasionalCortex says

Looks like you didn't even read the article.

No, I didn't. I read this though

"Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards, a pro-life moderate, was unable to avoid a runoff, attracting just 46.6 percent of the 'jungle primary' vote. The two leading Republicans in the contest racked up 51 percent of the vote, with the top GOP vote-getter, businessman Eddie Rispone, advancing to directly challenge the governor in November."

OccasionalCortex says

Gaining a super-majority isn't 'keeping the status quo'. Winning seats with 60% - 80% majorities isn't to sneeze at either.

What was the PREVIOUS percentage? Keeping the status quo just means keeping roughly the same demographic. If it changes by 20%, that is a major change - 10% not so much although it's significant. If it's swung from Democrat to Republican, that would be a pretty big change if it was done by a moderate margin.

OccasionalCortex says

Perhaps you are confusing the Soft Dictatorship in Cali with the far more competitive political environment in Gumboland for some reason?

This isn't a soft dictatorship, it's run by a mafia. Heck, I went to the California Republican straw poll in 2007, and when it became obvious Ron Paul was sure to win it, they just cancelled the straw poll. The vote didn't technically matter, but they wouldn't even allow it.

Tim Aurora says

Not correct info. Asian life expectancy dropped precipitously after British invasion.

Let's see your source. Here's mine





Capitalism and Science (99% from the West, from geology to chemistry to biology and modern medicine) For the Win.

Tim Aurora says

And the point is - that rest of all the people should consider themselves inferior to whites. I could go on and tell you about the Asian contribution or that many of the world religion were from Asia and that China and India were the richest countries for the longest time. What does that achieve?

Should thank Whites and learn from Western Civilization, which is a whole package. Chemistry, the Combustion Engine, etc. did not arise out of a vacuum or arise by chance. Nor was it dependent on Babylonian/Indian/Chinese shit.

In fact, Chemistry came about BECAUSE Europeans tossed out everything that came before and started afresh without the Lead to Gold or Four Humours Bullshit.

Tim Aurora says

Or how the capitalist pigs suck blood from poor communists.

When did that ever happen? Where do you learn these bizarre talking points? I think you’ve been miseducated.

Tim Aurora says

Look up the world GDP share of China and India over the centuries.

That's not informative. India and China didn't shrink, but rather Europe leaped ahead.

That's like saying because Apple and Microsoft boomed, they stole everything from Commodore, TI, and Colecovision.

An example: Chinese ceramics were nice, but the French and the Dutch figured out "Delftware" which was just as pretty and study and was made in larger quantities by a much smaller workforce. They beat the Chinese fair and square by using empiricism and other advantages like widespread wind- and water- (later steam) power.

The myth is that there is something magic about tea or saffron that the Europeans stole to become great, which is just silly (for starters, it was the Europeans who got there and were able to engineer a takeover; how could they have done so without creating their own advantages over Asians to begin with?)

NoCoupForYou says

That's not informative. India and China didn't shrink, but rather Europe leaped ahead.

Exactly! Our poorest citizens (and even illegal residents) live in unimaginable luxury with access to technology that can do things which would be regarded as pure sorcery by people only two hundred years back. Wealthy Chinese of yore would be considered paupers by any normal AMERICAN today, considering they had few entertainments, extremely substandard health care, and had to shit in a pot. Western civilization enabled such a Great Leap Forward in wealth that old empires appeared to be beggars by comparison. This isn’t the same thing as ripping their wealth away.
It’s more like a neighbor who suddenly wins the mega bucks lottery and is so much richer than you are that you’ll never catch up.

Tim Aurora says

And what hard proof do you have against Hunter ( and do not tell me the old story ) . None

Give me a break. OK, name anybody else that has a similar lack of qualifications that has no connection to any politician at all, that ended up on the board of directors of any corporation on the PLANET in a nation that they don't even speak the language of to the tune of more than $20,000 a month.

ONE Anywhere on the planet, and any point in time.

Good lord, how much more obvious can it possibly get? Yeah, maybe in a PARALLEL UNIVERSE, somebody so completely unqualified could land this job for $50K a month, maybe even if they weren't the son of the Vice President of a nation that just fucking engineered a coup in the other nation.

God, I swear you remind me of the dimwits that called themselves "conservatives" back inn 2007 still insisting that maybe Bush and his administration didn't lie us into the Iraq War, the weapons were smuggled out into Syria, see? Yeah.. ok. I'm that gullible.

Look, I'm certain you're not this stupid, but stop being this gullible. It makes you appear stupid. Both parties are TOTALLY corrupt, don't whine and moan just because "your side" got caught - great, your party will have one less pile of shit in it, it will improve. You should celebrate every time some pile of garbage is removed from your party. Kamala Harris is corrupt as hell, Elizabeth Warren used her "minority" status to climb the power ladder, the Clintons are as corrupt as the Bush family. Push for their removal. These people are AWFUL people. If they were removed from government, and everybody like them was, think of how great it would be - but instead, you are tenacious in protecting anybody that is a "democrat". Pavlog couldn't train a better dog than you.

The Republicans at least admit corruption in their party, that's what a RHINO is. It's some asshole that claims to have "republican values" (whatever they are), but doesn't, and is just in government to enrich himself, and has ZERO values or principles. Like John McCain, or Mitt Romney. At least they know they have total garbage politicians. How come Democrats always deny this. Hey, Pssst - I got a hot tip for you, the Clinton Foundation wasn't REALLY a charity.. Of course you know this, but you won't even acknowledge it. McCain was doing the same thing until the mother fucker hopefully had the worst most painful death ever.

Is Elizabeth Warren white?

OccasionalCortex says

Looks like GLOBOHOMO isn't selling in the Bayou, either.

You know what the loneliest Bayou is?
All bayou self.

The US doesn't have 5G, and it became known that Merkel's phone was tapped by our intelligence agencies under Obama.

Gee whiz, I wonder why the Germans would go with the Chinese when all of Silicon Valley's devices are backdoored and compromised? Gee whiz.. Who could have seen this perfectly obvious outcome?

OccasionalCortex says

If a NATO 'ally' is a such a hardcore trade whore of Communist China & Putin's Russia, then why are we still in NATO?

By allowing the reunification of Germany, the replacement of the EEC with the EU dominated by Germany, and neglecting the mandatory contribution from Germany to NATO, we broke the most important rule to making sure Europe doesn't go to the birds:

The Americans In, the Russians Out, and the Germans Down. - Lord Ismay, first NATO Secretary General

Tim Aurora says

And the point is - that rest of all the people should consider themselves inferior to whites.

No - Europeans stumbled upon the right set of ideas at the right time. So you ended up with modern medicine, sanitation, electronic communication, gasoline cars, artificial fertilizer, a bunch of stuff - because they happened to have the right ideas at a time it was needed.

And a lot of it was luck, it would have stopped at about 1950 if the US just got it's ass handed to it in WWII and the USSR beat Germany, then took over Europe. We go real lucky, the whole world di.

My state assembly member openly hates white people. What can possibly be wrong with that...

Envy is a bitch.

Look at the Arabs and Africa. The least "Colonized" for the least length of time, but the ones with the biggest whinge.

Mostly, the French and UK simply made sure rulers friendly to them were put in charge so their trade and later, coaling stations, weren't interrupted. They also forced the Arabs and Africans to give up slavery at gunpoint (something White bashers hate to acknowledge).

In fact, the UK and France did ditto in India too. At first they were welcomed because they broke the Arab monopoly; the Arabs were also interfering, especially in Southern india, to protect their trade. It was only after a century or so, when a mix of circumstances occurred, like dying dictators leaving their estate to the British, that Britain began to administer parts of India directly. Let's also remember that Northern India was an imperialist conquest of a Mongolian Empire successor state run mostly by Persian Muslims. Hence the word "Moghul" for a trust creating stinker.

At no point did any Europeans rule over China directly. Their worst "Conquest" was gaining a series of Treaty Ports for free trade, part of which they administered directly. And in the process, educated thousands of Chinese in Administration, English, Science, etc. Chinese wealth actually expanded faster in the European Treaty Ports than it did in the rest of China, due to fair rules, and much more interest in creating a just environment for contract enforcement and commerce, rather than the whim of a commerce/industry hating Confusian Mandarin.

richwicks says

Gee whiz, I wonder why the Germans would go with the Chinese when all of Silicon Valley's devices are backdoored and compromised?

Because Chinese phones aren't compromised???

OccasionalCortex says

Even The Hill calls this a disaster for Democrats:

Well, the proof is in the pudding. If things improve great, if they stay the same... Maybe guillotines need to be built. I don't want to see that happen.