Senate Passes $740 Billion 'Inflation Reduction Act' That Will Probably Make Inflation Worse
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The U.S. Senate passed the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday before senators adjourned until September. The bill—which allocates around $740 billion—passed with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris; it will now head to the House of Representatives, which is expected to vote on it Friday.
Democrats say the bill will curb inflation by lowering energy and health care costs for some Americans. But inflation—which is now impacting prices across the U.S. economy— isn't actually reduced just because the government artificially lowers the consumer cost of a few items. And whether it will even succeed in bringing down things like health care costs is questionable.
An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the law will have a "negligible" effect on inflation. And more government spending will only make inflation worse in the long run: 230 economists have signed an open letter saying the proposed law will "perpetuate the same fiscal policy errors that have helped precipitate the current troubling economic climate."
"If we want to stop inflation, then the federal government needs to stop excessive spending, and the Federal Reserve needs to stop excessive money creation," tweeted former Rep. Justin Amash (L–Mich.). "Price controls and subsidies cannot stop or reduce inflation, but they will further harm the economy and make people poorer."
The behemoth bill is full of questionable spending, including $80 billion in increased funding for the IRS. Democrats say more money will mean that the tax agency can focus more of its audits—which currently disproportionately burden low-income taxpayers—on very wealthy Americans. Republicans reply this is spin, and that giving the IRS more money will mean it spends more time snooping on and auditing everyone.
The IRS "is an agency that only succeeded in answering about one out of every 50 phone calls during the 2021 tax season," Sen. John Thune (R–S.D.) said last week on the Senate floor. "Yet 4 percent of the $80 billion is going to taxpayer services; 57 percent goes to enforcement, so that the IRS can spend more time harassing taxpayers around this country."
Thune and other Republicans—along with Arizona Democrat Kirsten Sinema—also objected to a 15 percent corporate minimum tax rate for businesses making more than $1 billion in income annually. (Democrats say this part of the bill will bring in more than $300 billion in revenue for the government.) The Republicans and Sinema succeeded in getting an exemption for some businesses owned by private equity.
The bill contains many components of this administration's previous spending plans. It includes $300 billion for energy- and climate-related programs, and it creates tax credits for individuals buying electric vehicles or making energy efficient home improvements. It extends Affordable Care Act subsidies and introduces a $35 per month price cap on insulin for Medicare recipients.
But it's also missing many items on Democrats' wish list, including funding for child care programs and paid family leave, an extension of the child tax credit, and a cap on insulin prices for private insurance plans.
The package "was far smaller than the party's original $3.5 trillion vision, but larger than the slim health care legislation that lawmakers were considering just two weeks ago," notes Politico. "It's probably the last big party-line bill Democrats will be able to deliver for years, with the House expected to flip to Republicans in the November elections."
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The U.S. Senate passed the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act…
The Fix Putin’s Economy and Give Everyone a Free Lunch Act.
The U.S. Senate passed the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act…
Misleading? Outright lies with this administration.
Putin? They have obviously been the the Zelensky school of propaganda. For a political class that has never been very honest, we are seeing them go full-tits on the lies and obfuscation.
Yes, it’s awful when either a Republican or Democratic administration lies to the American people. Do you agree?
You are allowed to blame solely the dems when they lie directly to the people about the bill under discussion. Do you agree?
The Republicans make the dems lie, haven’t you heard?
The current propaganda war is definitely the Republicans’ fault. They suck on their own, but idiots like Mike think it’s a valid defense to how fucked up the D’s are.
Caw caw!
Jesus fuck people are so easily propagandized. Money printing has NOTHING to do with this inflation. The dollar cannot be at an all time high if it was the case. The increase in value of the dollar indicates scarcity not over abundance. Good grief.
Fuck Joe Biden
Fuck Joe Biden
“The U.S. Senate passed the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act”
Indeed it is misleadingly named. Because Reason’s leading economics expert has explained dozens of times that there has been literally zero inflation since January 2021. Only spittin’ tobaccy has increased in price — by a mere 10 cents per pouch.
#DefendBidenAtAllCosts
That’s still 70 dollars more in spittin’ tobaccy costs a day for average users, such as myself.
$70 more a day? That’s a shit ton of dip. I’ve seen my tins up from $5 to $8 (including a +/-$.50 tax increase around 2021) with my 2 tin a week habit – costing me an extra $300+ a year.
A heartbreaking story in The Atlantic looks at forced migrant family separations.
The United States government has been doing that to its own citizens for decades. Foreigners can get the American experience.
It’s not happening. Trump’s out, AOC hasn’t cried at all lately and Joe swore he’d put a stop to it.
This was the reason that they called Trump “racist”. They wouldn’t let it continue.
The grown-ups are in charge, which means we don’t need to ask any more hard questions.
Time to put your mask(s) on and go back to unionized public schools.
And it never happened before Trump either!
Taking bets on if the story bothers to mention that the separation policy originated from activists lawsuits against the immigration system?
???
Youre unaware that kids don’t get sent to jail with their parents?
And sometimes I worry that my references are too obvious.
Don’t worry. Dee’s a fucking idiot.
Just think. If those families had not illegally immigrated to the United States, they would not have been separated. Shame on us for failing to keep them out! Build the wall!
Afro Latino man calls 911 after white man pulls a gun on him.
That white man is elected to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate.
Abolish the Senate!
I’ve heard it’s a threat to democracy.
Welcome to reason the libritarian racial essential ism websight
The actual case is all kinds of fucked up, and it doesn’t seem race has anything to do with it.
A lot of the time it really doesn’t. It’s sad. We probably cover up actual racism with race baiting more often then we highlight actual racism.
misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act
1984 is now.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
California uber alles.
Chemjeff and Buttplug smile:
Metro Atlanta couple charged with using adopted kids to make child porn
and
“they’re liberal activists”
It was “age appropriate “ porn.
A husband and wife who work for the circus go to an adoption agency looking to adopt a child, but the social workers there raise doubts about their suitability.
So the couple produces photos of their 50-foot motor home, which is clean and well maintained and equipped with a beautiful nursery.
The social workers are satisfied by this but then raise concerns about the kind of education a child would receive while in the couple’s care.
The husband puts their mind at ease, saying, “We’ve arranged for a full-time tutor who will teach the child all the usual subjects along with French, Mandarin, and computer skills.”
Next though, the social workers express concern about a child being raised in a circus environment.
This time the wife explains, “Our nanny is a certified expert in pediatric care, welfare, and diet.”
The social workers are finally satisfied and ask the couple, “What age child are you hoping to adopt?”
The husband says, “It doesn’t really matter, as long as the kid fits in the cannon.”
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““they’re liberal activists””
I guess they are as activist as anyone who changes their photos to have a rainbow flag or BLM symbol.
They are definitely not conservatives, but none of what Ngo posted suggests to me that they are “activists” like someone who organizes or even heavily participates in the “cause”.
The picture in front of Domino’s Pizza is pretty fucking creepy though.
I guess they are as activist as anyone who changes their photos to have a rainbow flag or BLM symbol.
At the same time, as I point out in the “FBI Revolutionary Images” article. It sure as shit should get the Rainbow Flag put on the list if the Betsy Ross flag is on there.
Even then, eh. I don’t like this type of argument of finding an abusive person in a large group and trying to cast the group in the pallor cast by those individuals. Maybe if we had statistical evidence that it was rampant with it and not just a series of anecdotes. Maybe that does exist, I’d love to see it.
I just think it doesn’t matter much though. The progressive types are openly advocating something pretty heinous. There’s no reason to look for conspiracy when they’re openly stating such things.
Agreed.
“What you want the authoritarian govt interfering in how people choose to raise their kid? You Fascist!” – Tony and Jeff
“YoU’rE jUsT sAyInG All gAyS aRe cHiLd rApIsTs!”
Don’t Say Gay!
Can I still say fag?
Faggot is the more PC version
Afro Latino man calls 911 after white man pulls a gun on him.
Skin color is the most important thing.
Yeah, and it’s getting ridiculous.
Like, green with glitter?
Asking for Captain Kirk…
Either way, you can rest assured she’ll probably end up dead if she’s trying to date Kirk.
Coincidence, or is he just really good at covering his tracks?
I assume Kirk is tight with the Clinton family.
#BidenBoom update!
In 2022 Democrats have raised the minimum wage by: $0.00 / hour
In 2022 Reason.com benefactor Charles Koch’s net worth has increased by: $6.62 billion
So can we please drop the vapid talking point that “Reason writers hate Drumpf because of mean tweets”? That’s not why Koch-funded libertarians hate Drumpf. They hate him because they know Biden (or basically any Democrat) will be better for their benefactor’s bank account.
#VoteDemocratToHelpCharlesKoch
Every time I see “Biden Boom” I think of something else that is a low point in his personal care assistant’s day.
Not only has he made the min wage increase 0 but made those dollars worth less. Don’t forget the latter part.
The problem is prices are rising. Clearly the solution is to raise corporate income taxes because those taxes would never be passed onto consumers or something. To call Democrats retarded is an insult to retarded people. There needs to be a new word invented to describe this level of self destructive stupidity.
You don’t understand. They aren’t destroying themselves. Just everyone else.
They are going to destroy themselves too. They are just too stupid to understand that. The people running Shri Lanka thought they were just destroying others. How did that work out?
The people running Shri Lanka aren’t as smart as American Middle Class White Progressives, who cannot fail because they are So Smart.
Top men.
S-M-R-T.
D’OH!
Bidenism?
They aren’t that dumb, but their voters are.
The problems the Biden regime have created are not bugs created by destructive stupidity; they are intentional features of a plan to erase small business, individual rights, and American middle class prosperity. A century ago, one might have been forgiven for believing that the Marxist-Leninist movement, however Godless, aimed to improve the lot of the worker. Ample evidence proves only that lust for power strengthens the hand of oligarchs and their irresistible impulse is to steal wealth from everyone while bribing their enforcers to carry out their plans. That is what is at work with Congress and the Executive branch in our faltering republic today.
The Coming War on Agriculture
Grind the serfs into obedience and make them eat the bugs.
They are going to starve tens of millions of people to death. Luckily, our federal system will likely keep our agriculture sector in tact and ensure that it isn’t Americans who starve and American farmers will get very rich for lack of competition. The people who starve are going to be brown people. Leftists love starving brown people to death. It is the one thing they do well.
Ya mean pushing to extend a war between two major wheat/fertilizer exporting countries, then taking a bunch of farmland out of production has consequences?
As they kids say “big if true”. In the same way these idiots think electricity comes from the light socket, they think food comes from the grocery store. Global Warming is a death cult. It is a no kidding case of mass psychosis that occurs every once in a while. There is no reasoning with these idiots. It is terrifying.
The famine is being created by people who think there are too many people on Earth to begin with. Its deliberate.
They think that but I don’t think the famine is deliberate. They really are just that stupid. They are so stupid they think there are too many people on earth but that problem can be solved by means other than mass murder. I am not kidding. They really are that irrational.
It’s the same with the collectivization policy in the Soviet Union. They didn’t set out to start a famine (though when they did, they blamed the Ukrainian farmers and stole the food to send back to Russian urbanites). They really thought they could centrally control, plan, and micromanage food production in ways to make it more efficient.
And they weren’t about to let people know they’d failed by cutting food exports during the middle of a famine! There’s the Greater Good to consider. The people who survive the famine will thank them later.
They can’t ever admit fault. So, every failed program gets taken to its maximum effect. I think something similar is going on China with the zero COVID policy. For a while I thought China was locking down because they were worried about civil unrest and using COVID as an excuse. Now I don’t think that is what is happening. China can’t admit that zero COVID is an insane policy that will never work. So, it just keeps locking its cities down and destroying its economy and anyone’s faith in its ability to be a part of the world supply chain because to do otherwise is to admit failure and the party can’t do that. If it does, then it will end up having to admit to its other failures and it will be game over.
“They can’t ever admit fault.”
You are exactly right. It applies to China today exactly as it did to the soviets before.
Lots of citizens second guess the govt. They are potential rebels. Therefore the govt cannot admit it failed. The more authoritarian the govt, the more important it is to continue a blatantly bad, failing policy. They cant give an inch of ground to the potential rebels. If that means starving and killing a bunch of them, then all the more strength will be shown in doing so.
True zealots can’t connect any undesired outcomes with their doctrine and grand plans. Anything that goes wrong is always blamed on the opposition, even before it happens.
For that matter, when has our own government ever admitted their policies were wrong? Maybe ending Prohibition?
The people supporting climate change may be that stupid, but the powers that be see a reduction of humans a positive event. If they find a way to famine target political enemies, even better.
Any evidence you can cite that “the powers that be see the reduction of humans a positive event”?
World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, United Nations…google it.
So, maybe some influencers, but no cites for anyone with actual power.
If you’re saying that the World Economic Forum and the United Nations don’t have any political power, then you’re probably lying. Nobody’s that dumb.
Dee’s plenty dumb, but yeah, this is her being dishonest.
It’s the Jeffy Tribe way.
Not irrational, evil. There is great evil afoot these days, in the Kremlin, in Kyiv, and in the District of Corruption. When people turn their backs on the God who created them, they invite the Father of Lies to replace Him.
Putin thinks God is on his side and Patriarch Kyrill of the Russian Orthodox Church tells him so too. So who’s right, picnic basket man?
Yup – reducing the headcount is just one of their ideas.
“Ya mean pushing to extend a war between two major wheat/fertilizer exporting countries”
This is just the convenient excuse. The war on Agriculture is happening in many countries and at many levels of government. And when there is a shortage, it will be blamed on Ukraine, not on these environmentalists playing god with our food supplies.
Ukraine’s largest export is Corn (Maize), of which they export around 50 Million Metric Tons a year. But that is a pittance- 3.5% of global trade, not including domestic production. For example, India- not known for their Corn consumption- domestically produces 31 Million metric tons of Corn each year. The United States produces 350 Million Metric tons each year. Ukraine’s big “unique” crop is Sunflower products (seeds, oil, meal) and represents 30% of global trade. It is demanded, obviously, but not irreplaceable. It is a niche crop. Ukraine matters, but only enough to be a plausible scapegoat.
The war on nitrogen and the war on meat hit every single country in the world. Make it hard enough to grow corn that the US has a 10% reduction in production, and you have now accounted for almost all of the Ukrainian export market.
For decades, the Leftists have sneered at meat production as wasteful and as causing world hunger. Why, if Americans would just cut meat out of their diets, we could feed the world with surplus grains. But this gets the causes of hunger 100% backwards, as has been discussed 10000 times before. Nevertheless, now under the guise of environmentalism, these activists are at it again. They will make it impossible to grow enough grain to feed meat. But this won’t cause the grain to magically go to people in Africa. Instead, the grain will (marginally) not be produced, and all of us will see the costs of our food go up.
Don’t let the war in Ukraine be a distraction. The real battle is being lost in every government in the world as these activists work to undo one of the greatest miracles in the history of humanity.
This is just the convenient excuse. The war on Agriculture is happening in many countries and at many levels of government. And when there is a shortage, it will be blamed on Ukraine, not on these environmentalists playing god with our food supplies.
Yeah, it’s not exactly an accident that a lot of these Paris Accord-type policies ultimately end up targeting food producers. Hence, you get protests and riots in France prior to COVID, and the same in Netherlands. You get resentful geek oligarchs like Bill Gates buying up millions of acres of farmland, so the means of production can be controlled–whether he leases the land to farmers or just lets it lie fallow, it’s ultimately up to one man how all those acres are used.
Gates bought thousands of acres sitting next to my old house in Colorado. They have not been using the water rights, and so an official there told me the land is about to lose them.
So the Gates Foundation is nominally growing on the land, as some crops can grow without irrigation, but by choosing to lose the water rights, they will ensure that this land can never be used for high margin crops again (like barley and corn). Instead, the it will only exist as farm land as long as non-irrigated crops are profitable, at which point it will be sold for development.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like the shady-ass crap they’d do.
“Don’t let the war in Ukraine be a distraction. The real battle is being lost in every government in the world as these activists work to undo one of the greatest miracles in the history of humanity.”
And your solution?
Eliminate activists on sight. Works every time.
“But this won’t cause the grain to magically go to people in Africa.”
Sure it will. It’ll go to the kleptocrats who run African countries, who will sell it to starving people at a huge profit.
They love starving dark brown people to death even more thn they love starving light brown people to death.
Thank God jeff assured us there are no remaining communists anywhere just yesterday. They are now critical thinking professors. Ignore the origins of critical theory. Not communists says jeff.
im sure through the same “no true scotsman” argument that always gets used
Essentially
A True Scottish Socialist has no kilt, no porridge to put sugar in, no sugar to put in it, and cribs poetry from Ewan McTeagle:
“Could you lend me 50£ until Tuesday? I’m expecting a postal order from The World Bank…” 😉
Ewan McTeagle The Great 🙂
https://youtu.be/R62giN_56z0
Indiana has passed an abortion ban that starts at conception.
Even the babies that will be born non cis male?
Wonder why that didn’t get a full writeup like the Kansas vote did.
theyll just be subjected to a life of torture by their more woke, more eductated betters
The cis-male babies have been banned from abortion since conception since forever. Equality Achieved!
Their lives are, of course, not worth as much, but even women have some value to society.
two hour drive from Illinois
230 economists have signed an open letter saying the proposed law will “perpetuate the same fiscal policy errors that have helped precipitate the current troubling economic climate.”
Needs just a couple more “p” words in it if it wants to sound like it was authored by Daffy Duck.
“230 economists have [penned] an open letter saying the proposed law will “perpetuate the same fiscal policy errors that have helped precipitate the [present] [perturbing] economic [position].”
And if reading as a native Tagalog speaker, fiscal also starts with a p-sound.
Somebody send for Dr. Pfauci!
Madison County, North Carolina, is putting AR-15s in all of its schools.
Those rifles are going to graduate at a disadvantage to the homeschooled ones.
Newest, best school metric: Student to AR ratio.
Black guns matter!
No trained marksmen to go with them?
Sounds like gun control logic in reverse, the assumption that good guns with life can counter bad guns with life.
along with Arizona Democrat Kirsten Sinema—also objected to a 15 percent corporate minimum tax rate for businesses making more than $1 billion in income annually.
Sinema’s objection is obviously very weighty since she voted in favor of the bill.
A Mormon and an Irishman are on a plane.
A Mormon was seated next to an Irishman on a flight from London to the US.
After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Irishman asked for a whiskey, which was promptly brought and placed before him.
The flight attendant then asked the Mormon if he would like a drink. He replied in disgust, “I’d rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips.”
The Irishman then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, “Me, too, I didn’t know we had a choice.”
Thank you for this.
In Ireland, it’s only a few minutes walk to the nearest pub, but the trip home takes hours. The difference is staggering.
tax credits for individuals buying electric vehicles or making energy efficient home improvements.
The electric vehicle market is so great! That’s why the government has to reward you for buying an electric vehicle!
And the prices won’t go up to match the incentives.
Obviously they won’t. Pete ButtPlug assured us a couple weeks ago that after incentives, electric cars are a bargain.
We all *know* it won’t because they told us it wouldn’t happen.
What’s the price of a Mean Deal at McD’s? $6.95, $7.95? If government sets up a booth outside the McD’s handing out vouchers for one Meal Deal, up to $10.00 cost, two things are going to happen.
At first, people who normally would have gotten a lower-priced meal deal will splurge and go ahead and get the $9.95 double quarter pounder with bacon deal or whatever. Why not?
But quickly the McD’s will simply set the price of every mean deal to $9.99. Why not?
You act as if college costs have risen as the federal government has underwritten college student loans. Say it isn’t so!
and making more cars and more home appliances electric will stabilize the power grid!
You betcha. When the grid has failed completely, it will achieve stasis, the truest state of stability.
A heartbreaking story in The Atlantic looks at forced migrant family separations. These were, it shows, an explicit strategy, no matter how much the Trump administration asserted otherwise. “Separating children was not just a side effect, but the intent,” writes Caitlin Dickerson
I’m sure this is a complete unbiased, fair representation, and isn’t motivated at all in a spin to try to make people look bad. I’m looking forward to the definitive, nuanced take, in an attempt to inform people so they can make up their own minds without trying to direct them toward the author’s conclusion.
Maybe making it so having a minor meant that you couldn’t be deported was a bad idea? Perhaps there is such a thing as moral hazard.
Ya mean that we don’t necessarily believe every smuggler when they say “sure, this is my kid, honest”? Ya mean there are issues with putting kids and adults in the same holding facilities? Ya mean its more complicated than a sob story?
Tugging on the heartstrings is effective, but also, difficult situations make for difficult policy.
I find it interesting that the article is focused entirely on Trump and not on the fact that this program started under the prior administration to that. Maybe the author takes explicit care to show how things changed to make sure Trump is extra evil, while Obama is probably the well-intentioned saint who never imagined his program would be misused like this.
I wonder if the narrative on Obama is ever going to shift. Like seriously, if the predominating narrative in 150 years is still going to be how saintly and pure his administration was, and the corruption and authoritarian bullshit remains suppressed. The predominating narrative on FDR is still insanely positive, despite the fascistic approach he had with his presidency.
But the legacy of Democrats is tugging (and yanking) on heartstrings, so what else should official party publications write about?
It took 100 years for the narrative on Wilson to shift from being one of the greatest Presidents ever, to being a racist sack of shit that needed to be cancelled.
What the wokel yokels don’t realize is that they’re going to be looked on with the same level of contempt 100-150 years from now that they look on those from that same time difference.
I don’t think it will take that long for the current woke crowd to be viewed as racist pieces of shit. That’s already happening. Also, most people of color aren’t woke at all. My evidence for this is anecdotal, true, but abundant. Many black and Hispanic people I meet, work, and am friends with are gun owners, they don’t like political correctness, they find gender woo to be baffling to repulsive in varying degrees, and they are disgusted by the state of public education. Among people like this, I definitely think the perception is growing (or often has already solidified) that white progressives have only a performative interest in their affairs. It’s just the weirdest and most off-putting white people making everything about themselves, as per usual.
Thanks for expressing my own cynicism so well.
One must have a heart of stone to read the separation of little Jose without laughing.
Afro Latino man…
Bullshit. Mexicans and blacks don’t have kids because they’re afraid little Jesus (Hey-soos) or Jamal will be too lazy to steal.
What fucking racism. I know you pride yourself on being in a whites only enclave, but what the fuck?
Says the guy is so wrapped up in partisan politics that he hates black people because most are Democrats.
Are you projecting again? Because I’ve defended against the lefts use of uncle Tom and house n to declare any black conseevaticr adult a race traitor. I treat them as individuals.
You dont.
You defend your token blacks, but assume the rest are Democrats and hate them for it.
I mean even you assertion is weird. Your attack is i dislike people for their ideas and not their skin color. Which is true. O don’t base my thoughts on skin color but on their behaviors and beliefs. So agree with you.
Nice use of calling all blacks that are conservatives token though. Totally not racist.
Keep back peddling.
The sad thing is you don’t even realize how embarrassing this is for you.
What did I back peddle on?
Your own assertion is I dislike people based on their beliefs.
Good lord, man. You went full racists cringe with this one.
WTF is wrong with you?
By the way nice racism. Assuming all true blacks are democrats.
I’m not the hater. That’s all you.
Back to the self delusion again i see.
Nobody’s talking about Anne Heche? C’mon!
When did they ever?
She’s in the ICU after burns from an apparent DUI crash that burned down a house. Didn’t hear?
I did see the story a couple of days ago. Apparently, she crashed into one house, backed out, drove a mile or so, then drove almost completely through another house. I guess she severed a gas line, and caught herself on fire.
Best “celebrity gone wild” story in quite some time.
Anne Heche, Schrödinger’s Lesbian.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/08/08/actress-jessica-chastain-is-the-latest-celeb-to-have-extremely-valuable-meeting-with-ukraine-president-zelensky/
Actress Jessica Chastain is the latest celeb to have ‘extremely valuable’ meeting with Ukraine President Zelensky
Who?
Would not.
Would, but I’m not very smart.
I’ve seen her in a couple of big movies, and I’m still trying to figure out what makes her so fucking special that she has the level of stroke in the industry that she does. She has negative screen charisma and thus you’re already inclined to root against her even when she’s the protagonist.
zero dark thirty gave her Fonda-level hollywood cred and yes she’s insufferable
Like fonda?
She was ok in that movie lying about the skier’s sister who ran a poker game.
“I was wrongfully convicted, my game never took a rake!”
First clause: sure, it’s bullshit that unlicensed poker/gambling was/is illegal.
Second clause: bullfuckingshit, you can’t host a game like that without taking a rake. It’s literally the point of running your own home game as a business. Tips go to the dealer and waitresses/hostesses/eyecandy (but mostly the dealer). Unless she was the only one working all those jobs herself, just food and drink is unsustainable without a rake, let alone renting out a freaking penthouse.
That chick was definitely taking a rake. Otherwise she’s not a “business woman” she’s a philanthropist running a charity that dedicates 100%+ of its revenues to operating costs.
Also, PSA: never pay attention to the Hollywood trope of reading physical “tells” if you find yourself in a real game. That’s not really a thing. Too inconsistent and easy to manipulate.
Depends on how you define rake, possibly. If you charge people to get into the door, that’s technically not rake. The fee is unrelated to the game. If food/drinks are included, this ‘door fee’ could be a semi-legit way to get paid for hosting a game.
And she’s kinda like the Leo DiCaprio of female actresses. Always plays the same character (overachiever striving against the constraints of stubborn old order, maniacally competent and focused on her work – though, unlike with Leo, her characters don’t face a downside to those traits) the same way, but really enthusiastically emotional. She’s textbook good.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/08/06/heres-a-report-on-what-percentage-of-us-military-aid-sent-to-ukraine-doesnt-make-it-to-the-front-lines/
The new CBS Reports documentary, “Arming Ukraine,” explores why much of the billions of dollars of military aid that the U.S. is sending to Ukraine doesn’t make it to the front lines: “Like 30% of it reaches its final destination.” Stream now
So you are telling me the Ukrainian Pentagon is about as efficient as the US version. Good to know.
Comrade commissar has already addressed the issue with the network
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1556444605012385793?t=B2PKwSBIHJE0-U2euCaYHg&s=19
We removed a tweet promoting our recent doc, “Arming Ukraine,” which quoted the founder of the nonprofit Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman’s assessment in late April that only around 30% of aid was reaching the front lines in Ukraine.
Since that time, Ohman says delivery has improved. Additionally, the U.S. military has confirmed that defense attaché Brigadier General Garrick M. Harmon arrived in Kyiv in August for arms control and monitoring.
We are updating our documentary to reflect this new information and air at a later date.
sounds like somebody ‘educated themselves’
Any updates on the chocolate ration?
The ration of two quarters is smaller than we expected but though the growth in the ration appears negative, we are not calling it a rational recession as of yet.
It was increased from 20 grams a month to 6 grams a month.
Additionally, the U.S. military has confirmed that defense attaché Brigadier General Garrick M. Harmon arrived in Kyiv in August for arms control and monitoring.
Uh, is there a reason we didn’t have someone doing this from the start?
At least 10% of a reason
People already forgot about the Ukrainian charter plane flying arms to Sri Lanka that was shot down? Someone has a lucrative side business going.
” The Republicans and Sinema succeeded in getting an exemption for some businesses owned by private equity.”
OBL, I hope you and the guys down at the club raise a glass to Kirsten this morning.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11089803/Elizabeth-Hurley-57-showcases-incredible-figure-blue-bikini.html
Elizabeth Hurley, 57, showcases her incredible figure in a blue bikini as she poses up a storm while enjoying the British heatwave
Her son is prettier than she is.
You are totally fucked in the head.
Jeff is grooming him in all aspects.
You ever seen her son? He’s prettier than the actor who played the bad guy in the latest season of Stranger Things. For his sake I hope he’s gay because no girl will want to date a guy who is that much prettier than she is. Poor guy.
Is this the son she had with the rich guy who killed himself?
Yeah. The pretty one who lives with her and is her personal photographer. Not creepy. No, not one bit.
This makes sense given all your concert bathroom stories.
Tulpa made the correct decision.
She puts most women half her age to shame.
Aye. Hubba hubba.
Well, yeah, genetics help, but she also has access to an army of personal trainers and nutritionists that the average person doesn’t. Same with celebrity MILFs in their 50s like Demi Moore and Heidi Klum.
…she also has access to an army of personal trainers and nutritionists that the average person doesn’t.
Thank goodness for that.
Even if you have access to trainers and nutritionists, you should get credit for doing the training and healthy eating.
Those trainers and nutritionists don’t have any big secrets.
Those of us with a normal 9-5 can’t realistically do what she and other celebs do. For them looking good is their job.
Nobody believes you have a 9-5 job.
I saw some celebrity swap show one time where a guy traded lives with David Hasselhoff. One of the more hilarious parts was when they guy had to go to the Hoff’s gym and do a workout session with his personal trainer; the trainer nearly worked him out in to a heart attack because the most exercise he’d done was lifting a pizza slice to his mouth.
I will say also that, to be fair, even if you don’t have good genetics, you don’t need a celebrity fitness regimen to at least be healthy. All it takes is not shoveling crap in to your mouth and exercising a few times a week. My wife and I still manage to at least get some exercise every day even with multiple kids to worry about; she runs and I do yoga, and we’re both pretty careful now about watching what we eat because once you put on that adipose tissue when you’re older, it’s a hell of a lot harder to burn it off than it was when you were in your early 20s.
I remember Uma Thurman saying that exact thing when asked how normal women can look like her. She said it was her full time job.
LOL, further proof that White Mike doesn’t actually mute my posts.
Please don’t analyze the eye candy. Just enjoy it.
No she doesn’t. She puts some women half her age to shame. Her social media guy’s photoshop skills put the skills of some people half-their age to shame too.
I wonder what it takes in life choices to stay the good looking, are those choices worth it
It depends. Giving up being ugly *and* asking stupid questions was *totally* worth it. 🙂
As Saint Rush of Palm Beach said, “Politics is show business for the unattractive.”
The IRS “is an agency that only succeeded in answering about one out of every 50 phone calls during the 2021 tax season,” Sen. John Thune (R–S.D.) said last week on the Senate floor. “Yet 4 percent of the $80 billion is going to taxpayer services; 57 percent goes to enforcement, so that the IRS can spend more time harassing taxpayers around this country.”
That leaves $31 billion for what? Parties and cool new uniforms?
They are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to collect tens of billions in unpaid taxes. That is what Democrats call “efficiency”.
Gotta collect taxes on those eBay sales of used junk.
Squeeze every penny until Lincoln bleeds.
Look, they might lose money on each transaction but they’ll make it up in volume.
it’s because it’s not a “service” despite the name.
Guns and bullets.
Struggling to move their computer systems out of the 1980s.
Back in the 80s they actually did provide taxpayer service.
Political prosecutions.
At first I read this as political prostitutions. Which is about the same. 🙂
Ammunition.
All of these advances took place in mice…
Yeah, like the world needs more mice. Stupid eggheads.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/08/04/ny-times-say-this-influx-of-migrants-to-washington-dc-is-quite-taxing-n487543
It turns out the New York and Washington DC don’t like having illegal aliens turn up by the busload anymore than the border states do. It is funny how reason hasn’t touched this story. According to reason, no immigrant ever is a strain on social services. Only lazy native born Americans ever use social services. Illegal aliens come here to do “jobs Americans won’t do” like start “delicious food trucks”. The mayors of Washington DC and New York City must just be racist Christian nationalists or something.
I believe they initially covered it as a silly political stunt.
Oddly, they don’t seem to want to talk about the mayors in the receiving cities not being happy about it.
They have touched the story. They called it an expensive PR stunt by Abbot.
According to reason, no immigrant ever is a strain on social services.
According to certain reason commenters, immigrants both are so lazy that they come here just for the welfare, and also so industrious that they manage to steal jobs away from hardworking Americans.
Who?
It would seem that the mayors of Washington DC, Chicago and New York agree with that sentiment. Are they racist or are you a lying sack of shit or both?
Both.
Comical. It’s as if they have no sense of reality. How out of touch is this section?
A political tactic by the governors of Texas and Arizona to offload the problems caused by record levels of migration at the border is beginning to hit home in Washington, as hundreds of undocumented migrants arriving on the governors’ free bus rides each week increasingly tax the capital’s ability to provide emergency food and housing.
With no money and no family to receive them, the migrants are overwhelming immigrant nonprofits and other volunteer groups, with many ending up in homeless shelters or on park benches. Five buses arrived on a recent day, spilling young men and families with nowhere to go into the streets near the Capitol…
“This is a crisis created by Republican leaders in other states, however, unfortunately it’s fallen on the mayor to allocate resources locally,” said Brianne Nadeau, the council member who prepared the letter.
Really? Overwhelming resources? Fallen on the mayors to allocate resources locally? Crisis created by (insert party here) leaders? The nerve of those border towns! We are aghast. Aghast I tell you.
I would agree the IRA has a misleading name but that is not new for Congress. Both major parties use misleading names for bills.
What is interesting is that my financial advisers have said that they believe inflation peaked in June and that we are seeing reductions. Most notably gas prices. They pointed out that most supply chains have rebounded leaving demand the major driver of inflation. They pointed out that the Fed has tools to slow demand.
None of this means that inflation will end, but if we begin to see prices fall after this bill is passed the Democrats will score points. And whether this bill deserves the credit will not matter.
Wait, the IRA is involved? We’re really fucked now.
Yeah, the economy is going to be car-bombed.
Is it the Real IRA?
You will not see falling prices.
Why not? Gas prices are falling already and that will reduce shipping costs. The Feds actions to raise interest rates will slow demand.
I am not suggesting inflation will be gone, what I am suggesting is it may be trending downwards and the bill will get credit whether it deserves credit or not.
Do you understand how a reduction in the rate of inflation will not mean that your prices go down?
Sure we will. A recession tends to do that.
“my financial advisers have said that they believe inflation peaked in June and that we are seeing reductions.”
Get new advisors. Yours are idiots.
You don’t dump more money on the market than has ever been created in human history, and only expect a few quarters inflation a couple of years later.
Please note that I did not suggest inflation would be gone only that it would be lessening. As you noted the problem is that money was dumped into the market. The only solution is for that money to work its way through the system. The question is are we entering an equilibrium, because even an equilibrium will appear to be a reduction from the peak.
Ok, so it peaked at what 9.1%? If it lessens all the way down to 8.9% is that really a good thing?
What I will say is if it peaks at 9.1% and goes to 8,9% the Democrats call it a reduction and if it goes to 9.3% the Republicans call it an increase.
Most financial advisors are retards. The two or three that I know were the most vehement in denying that inflation was even happening until it became undeniable.
Well the last thing they want is for you to take your money away from them a put it into something inflation proof like land. Hence M4E’s advisors.
Are your financial advisors the welfare agents?
I would agree the IRA has a misleading name
It’s not just a misleading name on par with the PATRIOT act and such.
It’s pure orwellian double speak on par with “the chocolate ration has been raised to 15 grams”
I was thinking more the 2017 Jobs Creation Act.
Yeah, they believe it peaked in June. Just like they believed it was transitory back in February.
Senate Passes $740 Billion ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ That Will Probably Make Inflation Worse
You’re stupid. Of course inflation and unemployment, GDP growth and budget deficits, gas shortages leading to rolling blackouts, food shortages, etc. are going to be much worse, yet the Democrats are going to cheer because just imagine how much worse it would be without all the additional taxing and spending!
It would have been worse without this and would have been so much better had the obstructionist Republicans let us raise taxes and spending more. This is what they will claim. And yes, their supporters like ChemJeff, Shrike, Sarcasmic and the rest of them will actually believe it.
Oh look. Another retard ignores what I say and replaces it with the voices in his head.
This inflation is being caused by a one-two punch of creating money while restricting production. More money chasing less stuff.
It’s a product of government stupidity, and more government stupidity is not the cure.
But keep on reciting what the voices in your head say about me. Shouting emotional platitudes is more entertaining than my boring analysis.
In your case sarcasmic it will be “but the Republicans would have done something just as bad.” So, yeah I stand corrected. You don’t defend Democrats directly. You just engage in false equivalence and straw man fallacies. You do, however, end up at the same place as the rest of the; let the Democrats win.
He defends the left.
sarcasmic
August.4.2022 at 11:46 am
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That means that libertarians now have more in common with the left than with the right. Not because libertarians have drifted left. Rather its because the conservative right has abandoned support for liberty in general.
Your reading comprehension is terrible if that’s your take on what I said.
No. Your take was completely idiotic. You state the right is anti liberty but the left allows some social liberties, even given the last 5 years of their behavior. It was a completely retarded take where even Maher doesn’t agree with you when he compared Florida to California.
Also you ignore economic attacks effect social ability. Firing of those who refused vaccines as an example, cancel culture as another.
Your defense of the left as being pro liberty was laughably retarded. I understood your idiotic take, but it was idiotic.
Wrong again. I want the government to stop “doing something” and get out of the way. I’d like government to actually cut spending. That doesn’t mean a smaller increase in spending. I mean actually cut it. That’s why I reject both your precious Republicans and the asshat Democrats. Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich. I choose none of the above.
Yes you want government to be cut. So, both sides are equally wrong if they don’t do that. As I said, “the Republicans are just as bad” would be your response.
You literally did exactly what I said you would do. Wow.
“the Republicans are just as bad”
Democrats are definitely worse. But that doesn’t make Republicans good. Makes them less-bad. When you support the lesser of two evils you are still propping up evil.
The Democrats are worse? Really?
sarcasmic
August.4.2022 at 11:46 am
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That means that libertarians now have more in common with the left than with the right. Not because libertarians have drifted left. Rather its because the conservative right has abandoned support for liberty in general.
You didn’t seem to think that on August 4.
You didn’t seem to think that on August 4.
Wow. If you think that comment is some sort of “gotcha” then that’s pretty pathetic. I was chastising Republicans for straying off the path of liberty, and your takeaway is I support the left.
The Democrats are worse? Really?
Yes. Really. With regards to government spending, Democrats are worse than Republicans. I think that’s a fact that most people can agree on.
You literally said the left is more aligned with libertarians you retarded shit.
I can’t tell if you’re deliberately obtuse or just stupid.
Regarding personal liberty there is more of an intersect between the left and libertarians than with the right. The right likes laws against things that are icky.
Regarding economic liberty there was a large intersect between the right and libertarians, but as of late the right sees that as icky as well.
Libertarians and the right still agree on guns and taxes, but that’s about it.
And Democrats are still worse on spending.
Now please go fuck off.
Your words are clear to everyone sarc. Stop lying.
What is posted is your concluding paragraph sarc. You had prior discussed economic and social liberty. Your conclusion was overall the left was more aligned with libertarians. That is what is posted. And you said this even despite covid and lockdowns. Which is hilarious.
I just posted above where you said the left was better. Odd. Just a chronic liar I see.
Yet you attack the right who has recently pushed for deregulation and tax cuts while defending against the left which continues to get in the way.
Which party is increasing spending? Which party did you say aligns woth libertarians just last week? You can’t actually blame the democrats after your open approval of them.
What Team Red will claim is that Biden’s policies and this bill will be the harbinger for the end of the Republic. The very existence of America is in peril because Democrats passed this one bill! Therefore you must vote for Team Red to restore the Republic and stop those nation-destroying traitors. If you don’t vote for Team Red, then you are opposed to America. Period, the end.
And that is of course contrasted with Team Blue explaining how the world was literally (and I’m using literally correctly here) going to come to an end if this bill did not pass.
Hmmmm, it’s like both sides use histrionics and hyperbolic language.
Hmmmm, it’s like both sides use histrionics and hyperbolic language.
ayup, and about 90% of the time, they don’t even believe in their own bullshit, it’s just for the purposes of scaring people into voting for their team
All they did was steal about a trillion dollar from the public and waste it giving it to their cronies. It will also make inflation much worse and the economy much worse.
But the problem is that Republicans object to it. You are the most worthless dishonest piece of shit the entire planet Jeff. You are just worthless garbage.
A heartbreaking story in The Atlantic looks at forced migrant family separations. These were, it shows, an explicit strategy, no matter how much the Trump administration asserted otherwise. “Separating children was not just a side effect, but the intent,” writes Caitlin Dickerson. “Instead of working to reunify families after parents were prosecuted, officials worked to keep them apart for longer.”
Hey, Atlantic, now do public school officials who advocate for displacing parents as the moral and practical guides of their own children.
“Separating children was not just a side effect, but the intent,” writes Caitlin Dickerson.
Cite? lol
Afro Latino Man sounds like a superhero in the new CRT-Marvel universe.
Still just a sidekick, though. Not enough CRT credits for top billing.
Afro Latino [pregnant-trans] man? Who is also 1/8 cherokee?
I think we have the plots for the first three issues.
Is the villian Florida man?
Death-santis, who masquerades as Florida man.
“Artificial eggs created using skin cells, sperm generated from implanted stem cells, and synthetic embryos are all recent breakthroughs made by different teams of researchers in the field of reproductive science,” reports Reason’s Ron Bailey. “All of these advances took place in mice, but the researchers believe that their findings can eventually be applied to human reproduction.”
When there are not enough natural conceptions to satisfy abortion quotas.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/senate-democrats-vote-against-defining-pregnancy-biological-females
Every Senate Democrat votes against defining Pregnancy as unique to biological females. I don’t want to hear anymore about “moderate reasonable Democrats”. They don’t exist. Every one of them is beholden to the lunatic trans movement and the lunatic left at large.
They’re the political wing of a cult.
This is pretty insane. If you had gone back fifty years and predicted this – hell go back FIVE years – you’d be laughed out as a madman.
I eagerly await the Dem head explosions if they get the gun control they want and realize the only way to enforce it is to seal the border with Mexico to keep guns from being smuggled in.
Seal the border and arrest a shit ton of blacks and minorities. They are all about defunding the police and ending the mass incarceration of minorities in this country, but want to do nothing but pass laws that will ensure more minorities end up in prison.
The laws will be selectively enforced against their political opponents, which is much safer for regime enforcers than going after actual criminals.
Yes, there will be a lot of that. But, this country is too big and its justice system too large for that to be universal.
They’ll be used to bolster “terrorism” charges.
They’ll start going after social media posts and investigating users, then their targets’ ownership of firearms will be used as evidence of guilt and to increase charges.
That is how it’ll be selectively applied. It won’t start with door to door confiscation, the confiscation will come along the way as thoughtcrime is further persecuted.
That is likely how they want it to work. I don’t think they will be able to do that in more than a very few cases. But, yeah, that is the plan.
Maybe you haven’t met some of their political opponents, I wouldn’t describe going after their guns as “safe”. There’s a reason they haven’t gone door to door yet and it’s got nothing to do with legislation.
Lol. Don’t be silly. They will start offering cash payments to people who sneak in without any guns.
The behemoth bill is full of questionable spending, including $80 billion in increased funding for the IRS.
Meta-law: One-topic, one-page bills only.
https://consentfactory.org/2022/08/06/the-unvaccinated-question-revisited/
But let’s be clear about what’s happening in Germany.
What is happening is, a new official ideology is being imposed on society. It is being imposed on society by force. And now, those of us who refuse to conform to it will be ordered to walk around in public wearing visible symbols of our non-conformity.
I’m sorry, but the parallels are undeniable.
“…passed with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris…”
1) Hey, the finally found something she can do without fucking it up.
2) “Bipartisan” right?
The vaccine of course doesn’t work. It doesn’t prevent the spread of COVID. Everyone knows that. At best, and even this is hardly certain, it makes the effects of getting COVID less severe.
The government knows that. They also know that masks don’t prevent the spread of the virus. Yeah, the whole thing is about creating a sub class of people and marking them for oppression and if things don’t stop eventually death. It is terrifying.
An assistant football coach at the University of Oklahoma, catches a player on his iPad rather than taking nots during a film session. He goes over and picks up the iPad and reads what the player was texting aloud to the rest of the room. The text included a “bad word” (presumably N*gger). The assistant coach, a guy who had been there for decades and was a former star quarterback at the school is forced to resign. I am not kidding. Read the article.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34367434/long-oklahoma-sooners-football-assistant-cale-gundy-resigns-reading-aloud-shameful-word-player-ipad
Leftism is a fucking cult. There is no other way to describe it.
this one crossed the line.
When I read these articles they never mention what severance package they received. My guess is they are being payed a big wad of cash to make these statements and go quietly…otherwise I don’t see any advantage to making the propaganda speech if you know you are out the door anyways.
truth.
Just part of the plan to feminize football.
About 5 years ago, a Clemson position coach overheard one player call another player some like “he’s my [n-word]” (the actual quotes have never been repeated in the media as far as I know). The coach overhearing it said something along the lines of “Did you just call him your [n-word]? NO ONE SAYS [n-word] ON THIS TEAM!”
One player–the one who was called out in front of his teammates–complained to the head coach. The position coach was forced to apologize for “using the n-word” even though all the players, including the original complainer do not dispute the sequence of events and insist that the coach did direct the word at anyone. He’s simply not allowed to say the word under any circumstances, apparently?
Because the position *wasn’t* fired, the media still try to paint the head coach as condoning racism.
The sports media are the worst sorts of woke scum.
Remember when Rush Limbaugh was on ESPN’s NFL show for about three weeks?
Donovan McNabb was overrated.
And the punishment for the player who had those words on his I-Pad was what?
How do you have a coach resign in this circumstance without doing anything to the player?
Well, you see, some animals are more equal than others.
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1556643697940467715?t=2YD4Hw3yCX8WdruaGck4Dg&s=19
I never thought I’d see an America where half the country cheered on 87,000 armed IRS agents stealing more of our money.
They all think it is going to be someone else who gets screwed. There is a certain breed of bourgeois idiot throughout history who sides with the left because it makes them feel superior and smug and believing that being a loyal member of the party will save them from the draconian measures the left always wants. Being a loyal member of the party has never saved a single person once the left got power. Yet, these idiots continue to believe it will.
From the French Revolution to the modern Democrats the left has always been run by the haute bourgeoisie. Despite it’s rhetoric it’s never been a grassroots working class movement.
Never. Even the Nazis were not a working class movement. They were lead by the same sort of bourgeoisie failed artists and intellectuals that lead every revolutionary movement.
I did. They’ve been like this for a long time.
Not an accident
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1556500563839569920?t=VQjgDvg0BXLRIdW9mWeJUQ&s=19
A Biden staffer tried to make Dark Brandon a thing but copied a meme off of 4chan with a Reich Eagle in the background
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>> the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office
lol nope
Money printer go brrrrrrr
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1556653687795322881?t=cCBjHwl5OdyNWbtVUDC5vQ&s=19
More evidence of accused rapist’s illegal drug scheme to send hormones to children surfaces
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So?
— Pedo Jeffy
>>Afro Latino man calls 911 after white man pulls a gun on him.
23&Me results from all parties involved or it didn’t happen.
Does Neanderthal count as oppressed minority or super-MAGA? Asking for an extinct friend.
Sub-Saharan Africans have essentially no Neanderthal or Denisovan ancestry compared to Eurasians, so I’ll let you guess.
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/08/06/report-naked-80-year-old-protests-a-biological-male-in-her-ymca-shower-gets-banned-for-bigotry-n608170
Woman protests man using the women’s showers at a YMCA and gets banned from the facility. A man doesn’t even have to have his dick cut off to be a woman and shower with other women. If this society allows this shit to stand, then it deserves whatever it gets.
Jeff said yesterday that it didn’t matter, because the intact male who was watching the little girls undress, was called a swear word by the 80 year old woman.
Yeah, that totally makes it okay. It is a good thing I don’t have a daughter. If I had a daughter and some pervert claimed to be a man and demanded to shower with her, I would just break his legs and he could use the showers for the disabled then. I am serious. That is what some father should have done to that asshole swimmer at Penn. He won’t be competing with two broken legs now would he?
Sadly, since the government and sick fucks like Jeff are forcing this stuff, people are going to have to take matters into their own hands to put a stop to it. Yeah, the media and everyone else would make a big deal about what a hate crime breaking one of these fuckers’ legs would be. But the rest of them would get the message and decide that maybe they could get their freak on in other ways than watching little girls shower.
Apparently the girls on the Penn swim team were fine with it.
Or didn’t have the backbone to refuse to compete. One of our presidents had a prize-winning ghost – written book called “Profiles in Courage.” Just like those profiled, it is time for us all to stand up and speak out against the nonsense.
They were not fine with it. They were just bullied and threatened into going along. Penn told them if they said anything, they would lose their scholarship and be kicked out of school. They should have stood up anyway, but since I am not the one who faced losing my athletic career and chance to graduate from college, I can’t judge them for not doing so.
She wasn’t banned for merely protesting. She was banned because she publicly slandered the trans-woman as being a pedophile, AND the trans-woman was also a YMCA employee.
You are going to have to acknowledge at some point that the Bostock decision actually happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County
Trying to enforce traditional gender roles through sheer violence is what losers do.
The solution here, it seems to me, is to make places like locker rooms more private. That way 80-year-old women and trans-women get to use the facility and they don’t have to see each other naked.
Shorter: Society needs to cater to the crazy as opposed to limiting the crazy itself.
Jeffy doesn’t even acknowledge that trannies are crazy. They’re just as normal as everyone else.
Perhaps we ought to accept people for who they are.
Particularly pedophiles.
Which you claim is just who they say they are. On that day.
Yes. That is who they are. What is complicated about this?
There’s no such thing as a trans-woman here, you lying fuck. That was a guy with his dick and balls intact watching little girls change.
Your creepy language games don’t change reality.
In a sane world he should’ve been punched in the face, immediately fired and promptly arrested, you creepy groomer fuck.
again, sex and gender are different
people like Caitlyn Jenner are living proof of this
Schizophrenic people are proof invisible people exist.
Are you saying Caitlyn Jenner is mentally ill?
No. He’s a pervert living his kink.
Doesn’t make him evil. I like the guy, and am fine with him enjoying his fetish.
But I don’t feel like I have to play along with his game, and I certainly wouldn’t approve him going into the ladies room and watching little girls change.
No. He’s a pervert living his kink.
He inadvertently revealed that when, after he got his breast implants, his first reaction wasn’t “Wow, this is awesome!”, it was “Oh God, what have I done?”
I like the guy
only because he’s a Republican. any other transgender individual you would be denouncing as a pedophile and a pervert.
ha, just noticed you did actually call him a pervert. so I take it back, they’re all perverts in your head.
Uh, yeah. Well, some are crazy instead.
I happen to like a lot of harmless perverts, but don’t expect me to play along with their kink.
I’ll go with “yes”.
So it is mental illness to defy the social conventions associated with one’s reproductive biology?
Are “tomboys” and “fairies” mentally ill?
1. Fuck you for trying to sneak in tomboys, you dishonest fuck. Who are you trying to trick.
2. Some “fairy’s” are. Most are just perverts.
“again, sex and gender are different”
No they aren’t, you lying fuck.
And even if I played along with your insane rhetorical game that doesn’t excuse letting a biologically intact male ogle prepubescent females in a changing room.
Where is the ogling?
You know it’s in the complaint. You already tried to obfuscate it.
Who do you think you’re tricking?
Yes, sex and gender are different. At least the concepts are.
There is a difference between “a person born with a specific set of biological reproductive equipment conforming to the social expectations of other people with the same set of biological reproductive equipment”, and “a person born with a specific set of biological reproductive equipment conforming to the social expectations of other people with a DIFFERENT set of biological reproductive equipment”. It is just tedious to write that out every time and so we have words like “sex” and “gender” to distingush between biological reproductive equipment and social expectations associated with that equipment.
Not a word of that babble was fucking true.
From the very inception of the word in the fifteenth century ‘gender’ has always meant biological sexes and ideas related to those biological sexes. Your dishonest horseshit was recently invented by deviants to justify their perversions, and it conflicts with reality.
Yes, if “proof” is just what a person (with questionable sanity) says is true. This must be some of that new woke science.
They are people who act and live in a manner different than the social expectations associated with the biological reproductive equipment they were born with. And they are doing so successfully. Why is this difficult to understand?
It’s not difficult to understand, it’s just not true.
She wasn’t banned for merely protesting. She was banned because she publicly slandered the trans-woman as being a pedophile, AND the trans-woman was also a YMCA employee.
It is not slander if it is true. He is a pedophile. Why else was in there staring at naked young girls.
It is not okay to fuck kids Jeff. Get over it.
It’s not okay to fuck kids, no kids were fucked at the YMCA, and it’s also not okay to falsely accuse people of fucking kids.
You’re a pedophile. I’m not being hyperbolic, nobody could excuse that behavior and not be.
I’m no pedophile. I just stan for them, bigot.
Love is love.
I’d like to know if the We Believe yard-sign peeps believe that.
Well, you also think I am a racist and a Nazi. So sure, whatevs.
This is just you virtue-signaling to your tribe with even more blistering denunciations of hatred against your tribal outsiders.
I’ll tell you what tribe I’m not a part of. One that lies about the meaning of words and plumps for pedophilia, gender dysphoria and child maiming.
Oh, and I really do hate those guys.
And I’m not excusing the behavior. If anyone is to blame here it is the YMCA for not being more considerate of the needs and concerns of *all* of their patrons.
We live in a post-Bostock world, which means that discrimination based on gender identity is now illegal. So the YMCA has to try to accommodate the trans-women as well as the 80-year-old women as well as the little girls who all want to use the facilities there. I think a better solution is to make the public locker room areas more private so that no one has to see anyone else naked if they don’t want to. That should solve a lot of problems right there.
A guy with a dick is not a woman whether you stick ‘trans’ in front or not.
The only accommodation he should have received is a punch in the nose and a trip in the back of a cop car.
Afro Latino man calls 911 after white man pulls a gun on him. Minutes later, the same white man shows up in uniform with another cop, and writes him a ticket. Luckily the entire encounter was captured by 911 dispatch.
does anyone else find it weird that Reason links to a tweet by a rando (not even a blue checkmark) instead of linking to the Boston Globe story? This is like the worst game of Telephone ever.
ENB can’t read more than 280 characters anymore.
It seems like ENB is in fact reading the comments, and is just trolling the commentariat at this point.
I would
I really believe that we should just not ever link to Twitter. I understand this means I can’t link Iowahawk, but I accept that cost. I know he couldn’t give two shits.
1/ I’ve spent the last 18 months investigating how our government reached the point of taking children away from their parents as a way to discourage migration to the United States. Here’s
So, like harm reduction policies, it didn’t work. In fact, it appears to have encouraged immigration.
Caitlin Bernard, the doctor who performed that abortion in Indianapolis, tweeted Saturday that she was “devastated” by the legislature’s action. “How many girls and women will be hurt before they realize this must be reversed? I will continue to fight for them with every fiber of my being,” she wrote.
I’m sure a steady stream of pregnant 10 yr old’s can be uncovered and handed to you.
She is just devastated she won’t be earning a really lucrative living murdering children anymore.
She now has to make the terrible decision between doing what she truly believes in, or staying with the reasonable cost of living one finds in America’s smaller cities.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/yet-another-poll-shows-hispanics-going-republican
The biggest political story of 2022, perhaps as big as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, is the sudden shift of the Hispanic vote away from Democrats toward the Republican Party. And yet another poll, this time the CBS/YouGov poll from last week, confirms the movement.
Overall, the poll shows, Hispanics disapprove of President Joe Biden 55% to 45%. On the economy, 64% disapprove of him. On inflation, 74% of Hispanics disapprove of him. On gas prices, 72% disapprove of him. On the issue of guns, 59% of Hispanics disapprove of Biden. On whether Biden is a unifying political figure, 62% say he is not. On whether Biden is competent, 51% say he is not.
Hispanics have a different culture than the dominant leftist white culture in this country especially when it comes to guns, traditional masculinity, gays, and self defense. Things like gun control, de fund the police, abortion, and gay and transgender “rights” are things that old white people like. As the country becomes more brown, Catholic, and yes Muslim, and less white, secular and leftist, old white people are going to have to get used to no longer dominating the culture.
Telling white leftists this basic truth is never going to get old. It is never going to stop being funny.
“things that old white people like.”
I beg to differ. Those are things young white people like. Old white people like their Social Security and Medicare benefits and
“standing up to commie dictatorships.”
You don’t know the old white people I know. The bumper sticker covered Prius block, is a big part of the money and energy in the Democratic Party. The real gentry left is not young. They are middle aged and old. Whose basements do you think the under 30 left is living in?
They’re a big part of the money, but not a big part of the old people. I’d say they’re about as big of chunk as the Bernie-loving youngsters. They are a bigger chunk of funding it, but not by sheer numbers.
The question isn’t so much why Hispanics are favoring Republicans during this cycle, but whether it’s actually going to stick like what happened in the 60s when the Democrats fully secured the black vote.
I’ve actually seen some rumblings from normie Hispanics that they do feel that the Democrats take them for granted, but it’s also rooted in the perception that, as the nation’s largest minority group, they should have far more cultural and political authority than they think they possess. Some have actually said that too much attention is being paid to black issues and not to Hispanic ones. They also are starting to reflect the late 90s attitude about race that, as long as you can do the job and don’t cause problems, your skin color or ethnicity shouldn’t be seen as relevant, versus the idea that it defines you from birth and should be the entire foundation of your worldview.
So I don’t think this is so much a shift to Republicans, as it is a level of frustration among Hispanics that they aren’t appreciated as much as they think they should be, and in some cases don’t fully fit in with the neo-marxist obsession with being a victim group because they’ve made a life here despite whatever hardships or limitations they had to experience. I suspect that’s why media figures like Charles Blow have floated some trial balloons arguing that light-skinned Hispanics need to be mindful of their “privilege” over dark-skinned Hispanics, using a divide-and-conquer strategy.
Yes, the Democratic party is leaving them. Hispanics are not going to buy into the Charles Blow victim bullshit or the transgender bullshit or any of the other new left insanity. They are all working class and vote based on economic issues. They may not be small government libertarians but they are not cultural leftist. The left doesn’t have any economic ideas anymore beyond just stealing and destroying things. Cultural things like transgenderism and victim politics are the only animating forces in the left today.
They are all working class and vote based on economic issues. They may not be small government libertarians but they are not cultural leftist.
More than the issues surrounding immigration policy, the GOP really needs to just accept that “small government” is never going to happen and just lean in to the current structure to figure out how it can be exploited to promote their own cultural policies. If the house rules are that the team which controls the government controls those policies, then you don’t argue that it shouldn’t exist that way, you take it over and use it to enact your policies and hurt your political opponents, the same way the Democrats do.
Most Hispanics are simply never going to be Chamber of Commerce Republicans or embrace economic conservatism. That was something the neocons never understood even when calling Hispanics “natural conservatives.” Sure, in some social areas they are, but it’s not universal, and support for government welfare programs is always going to be high–the difference is that Hispanics typically don’t expect to get paid to sit on their ass all day like white and black progressives do. They’re fine with social welfare as long as the people getting help are contributing to the community in return in some way, such as running a neighborhood daycare service, helping on a landscaping crew, or mending clothes for people who can’t afford to buy new ones.
All of that and more. And the truth is that the chamber of commerce small government conservatism is basically just low taxes and endless cheap labor for big corporations and total surrender on cultural issues.
The other thing that the chamber of commerce and neocon right don’t understand is that you can’t have a free economy or even a free society if the left wins the culture. The left wants to destroy the culture because doing so is how you destroy freedom and destroy the capitalist system.
The chamber of commerce gets in line with every spending bill. They are the Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney’s of the lobbying squad.
“More than the issues surrounding immigration policy, the GOP really needs to just accept that “small government” is never going to happen and just lean in to the current structure to figure out how it can be exploited to promote their own cultural policies.”
In other words, Compassionate Conservatism 2.0?
No Thank You.
I don’t think what RRWP has in mind would be very compassionate.
No, there’s nothing “compassionate” about it. You’re not doing it for the purposes of some Bushite noblesse oblige pretense, you’re doing it because that’s what gets you votes and ensures you have support for a broader political slate. Hispanics in particular are some of the most conservative voters you can imagine, meaning that they’ll pull the lever for incumbents even if they don’t particularly like them, unless that politician has REALLY screwed up somehow and there’s really no choice but to get them out of there. Once you have their vote, Republican or Democrat, they tend to stay very loyal. That’s how Pete Domenici, for example, was able to stay in office for so long, even though New Mexico is really a majority Democrat state.
Pandering? Buying votes? Better fucking believe it, because that’s the world we’re in. Arguing that it shouldn’t be that way is fine, and I’d agree, but if it’s not going to change, not turning those institutions to your advantage when you have control of them, for some gauzy pretense at “civility” that your opponents would never follow anyway is political and cultural suicide.
I should add that this attitude also flies in the face of white-hating Hispanics like Gustavo Arrellano who, despite his pretenses as being a “Mexican whisperer” to dumb Anglos, as an American doesn’t really have much in common with a lot of the immigrants who’ve come here since the most recent big wave started around 2000. Arrellano’s career has been propped up by white progressives for a very specific reason, and it isn’t because he actually loves this country.
Well, he once gave effusive praise to Sonoran style tortillas in his articles, and has given praise to Arizona’s Mexican food several times.
To me, that makes up for any possible flaws he might have.
I’m pretty sure his weird foodie pretensions were a keystone for his career. If it’s one thing that left-wing “independent” periodicals love, it’s self-indulgent epicurianism.
I love Sonoran hot dogs.
Madison County, North Carolina, is putting AR-15s in all of its schools.
Get your kids out of the camps.
Let’s go Biden!
PS and thanks the Trump for Georgia!
Fuck off and di, Asshole loser.
Warning! The following may make your head explode.
https://notthebee.com/article/heres-what-you-do-if-the-atf-shows-up-at-your-door-asking-to-see-your-guns
I love it he called the cops.
That was the funniest thing I’ve watched in weeks. That seriously made my day.
Awesome.
ATF agent suffers the indignancy of what seemed a pretty typical arrest and….
“Burk has since moved to an administrative role within ATF because of the incident and injuries, both physical and psychological, Burk says he suffered.”
lulz.
I doubt he actually suffered, but if he did he deserves it.
In case, here’s the youtube link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb1MVFDy_tw
“”Yet 4 percent of the $80 billion is going to taxpayer services; 57 percent goes to enforcement . . . ”
100 – 61 = 39
So 39% percent for firearms training and spiffy new black uniforms with jackboots?
I think the FBI should add themselves to the FBI watchlist.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1556350493756166144
Reason needs better examples of police bad behavior.
If you get out of your car at a red light and walk up to my car window, I might point a gun at you and tell you to get away from me.
Not surprised that virtually no one here read that Atlantic article about the child separation policy.
It IS very long, it will take a while to get through it all. But it is worth reading.
Yes the article absolutely acknowledges that the policy started under Obama. But Trump weaponized it and ramped it up to eleventy.
The real villain here is Stephen Miller. He circumvented all the people who told him it was bad policy and a bad idea, not just because it was immoral and cruel, but because it was logistically not feasible. It was the high-level people who were the barriers to child separation, not the supposed ‘deep state’. But Stephen Miller circumvented them all.
Yes the article absolutely acknowledges that the policy started under Obama. But Trump weaponized it and ramped it up to eleventy.
It wasn’t separation separation under Obama. You are just garbage Jeff. You are just a broken toy. No normal person or anything but just a sociopath could be as pathologically dishonest as you are. It is just laughable pond scum you are.
It was not the exact same policy.
Obama’s admin separated kids from their parents only in certain circumstances. Trump’s admin separated kids from their parents in every case. That’s why it was “Zero Tolerance”.
Furthermore, Trump’s policy was specifically about using child separation as a deterrence strategy. That was not the case with Obama’s policy.
They both did it, they both should be criticized for it, but they did not both do the exact same thing.
That lack of deterrence has created a wonderful situation for everyone at the border, especially the kids
The real villain here is Stephen Miller. He circumvented all the people who told him it was bad policy and a bad idea, not just because it was immoral and cruel, but because it was logistically not feasible. It was the high-level people who were the barriers to child separation, not the supposed ‘deep state’. But Stephen Miller circumvented them all
But Obama is the greatest despite pursuing the same policy. You lie so much, you don’t even realize how stupid you sound.
Obama is not “the greatest”, and it wasn’t the exact same policy.
Maybe you ought to read the article to be more well-informed.
Are you saying the commenter who made this comment didn’t read the article before commenting?
https://reason.com/2022/08/08/senate-passes-740-billion-inflation-reduction-act-that-will-probably-make-inflation-worse/?comments=true#comment-9637275
I can’t tell. The article definitely says the idea for family separation started under Obama. It doesn’t spend a lot of time on Obama’s admin, though, because that is not when the policy was weaponized and specifically used for deterrence.
Tell us again how the bond and direct oversight of children by their parents is sacrosanct for immigrants, but not for American families with kids in public schools.
He’s being consistent. Some kids are being molested by the coyotes, some by teachers and trannies.
Well, when the public school teachers start literally physically ripping children out of the arms of parents, as the Border Patrol agents were doing to migrants in 2018, then we will talk.
Still don’t get it? Or are you such a shill that you “can’t”?
Lying Jeffy is inherently dishonest.
Well, this is awkward.
The Republican AG candidate allegedly tampered with voting equipment, which is a felony.
And the Democratic AG, the incumbent, is trying to prosecute him for that, in the middle of the election campaign.
https://archive.ph/WGnwM
allegedly tampered with voting equipment
You clearly have never taken an class on ethics. He allegedly accessed the machine looking for evidence the vote had been altered, which wouldn’t normally be characterized as tampering, but you go right and create your own narrative by insinuation like a good little Blue-baller.
I hope you fall backwards down the stairs next time you go up to get another bag of cookies, you fat fuck.
He allegedly accessed the machine looking for evidence the vote had been altered, which wouldn’t normally be characterized as tampering
Yes yes, let’s give Team Red the benefit of the doubt and take their claims at face value.
https://archive.ph/88ChY
Seriously, if you read that and 1) believe it says the Rs were trying to cook the election and 2) can’t see the extreme D spin in the reporting, then you are fucking irredeemable.
Back on mute, you delusional proggie.
For you:
“Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is alleging that her Republican political opponent in the November elections orchestrated a conspiracy with a state lawmaker and a lawyer to break into voting equipment in a hunt for evidence to prove former president Donald Trump’s false voter-fraud claims.”
Looks like trying to mount a cover-up through false charges to me.
Of course Reuters/DNC gives the assist: “Trump’s stolen-election falsehoods”
Looks like trying to mount a cover-up through false charges to me.
lol
https://archive.ph/88ChY
Yeah, I read that. It was a link in your link. That’s why I think that.
Another political prosecution against Republicans in Michigan, and Lefty Jeffy cheers!
Well, this is awkward.
It’s only awkward if you think elections shouldn’t be investigated.
Or if you think they shouldn’t be investigated until someone else investigates them and then *you* investigate them for investigating the election that it’s your job to investigate.
Dear Citizens,
The GOVERNMENT OWNS all energy and healthcare resources and that is why they can willy-nilly make it all affordable…. /s
“Democrats say the bill will curb inflation by lowering energy and health care costs for some Americans”
As the Nazism keeps growing… Gov-Gun enslavement of all industries and citizens thrives.
Holy shit!!! The breaking news is that the FBI just raider Mar-a-Lago.
Look, I disdain Trump, but they had better have a solid case for raising the home of a former President.
This could touch off some really awful partisan violence.
Oh dear.
We know you support political prosecutions against your enemies.
Hail Mary from the FBI/DNC going into the last three months before the election.
There needs to be a Nuremberg Trial on the bureaucracy when all this is done.