… reducing the deficit.

You can’t give tax cuts and maintain or increase spending. Yet this is the very thing Trump has promised.

If you think it will work, feel free to explain it to me.

… expendable income.

These short-term tax cuts are bogus. They do not help the economy and reduce what Congress can spend which results in MORE borrowing.

BTW this is why REPUBLICANS increase the deficit. They want to give tax cuts but keep expenditures high. In other words they use other countries as a credit card while avoiding paying it back. That ALWAYS ends well, right?

Democrats at least WANT to pay (hence taxes). This is why NOT A SINGLE REPUBLICAN has managed to come close to…

3/

Everything is flat again? Why, because companies adjust to the new normal. If you recall, there was sporadic growth after Trump’s tax cuts but not SUSTAINED growth. This is the same thing we saw under Reagan. Like getting a raise, your salary goes up, you may feel better, but it quickly goes back to sameo-sameo.

In order for businesses to get juiced, you need another tax cut. You should be able to see where this is going.

The REAL solution? Higher wages for workers (which increases

2/

“While some business tax proposals can make the economy grow faster, economists say many of the individual tax cuts being contemplated would do little to expand investment, gross domestic product or tax collections. And they caution against banking on growth fueled by tax cuts to address the nation’s fiscal challenges.”

This actually isn’t true. What it is based on is the following: in the year tax cuts occur, businesses see growth, etc. This is true.

HOWEVER, in the following year…

I didn’t realize that the GOP wanted to save young girls from Boko Haram so they could give them to Matt Gaetz.

It all makes sense now.

“President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly and infamously been accused of sexual assault and misconduct, is now filling his Cabinet with multiple men who have allegedly committed the same type of violence.”

The GOP is the sex slave party.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-is-filling-his-white-house-with-men-accused-of-sexual-misconduct_n_673cb647e4b024dbac5b82c2

Yeah, history.

Why do Republicans think bathrooms are for sex? ESP men’s bathrooms? Ew!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/11/174030793/former-sen-larry-craig-argues-his-bathroom-antics-were-part-of-his-work

https://www.complex.com/life/a/amanda-wicks/republican-legislators-arrested-for-bathroom-misconduct

Republicans don’t seem to understand WHY you use the toilet.

“Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride, elected this month as the first openly transgender member of Congress, called U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace's attempts to keep her out of women's facilities at the U.S. Capitol a distraction.”

This is who America voted for: people who don’t understand restrooms, to the REST OF US, are for peeing and pooping.

Only Republicans think they are for sex.

https://inquirer.com/politics/nation/sarah-mcbride-nancy-mace-transgender-bathroom-20241119.html

Orwell had nothing on Florida:

“In yet another case, Florida's government is arguing that book removals in public schools are "government speech," meaning they are unrestricted by the First Amendment.”

Censorship is free speech.

Wow.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/19/florida-government-argues-first-amendment-does-not-prohibit-book-bans/76407329007/

Also, I don’t think this writer understands what “eye of the needle” allegory means—it’s not that one CAN’T get through the “eye of the needle” (a tricky passage through a rock formation) it’s that it is difficult.

Microsoft shows it’s not even that difficult.

“Normally, these kinds of emails are supposed to get caught by spam filters, but because they’re being sent via an official Microsoft address, they’ve managed to get through the eye of the needle. It’s not entirely clear how these hackers managed to send the extortion emails as of this writing, but according to BleepingComputer, the incident is currently being investigated by Microsoft.”

So… again, after the fact, Microsoft investigates. Does MS do ANY testing?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2524078/hackers-are-exploiting-microsoft-365-to-send-extortion-emails.html

#ffxiv #Gaming

Well, got all my crafters, EXCEPT Culinarian to Level 90 for one character (I have five). Fisher, likewise is in the 80’s. Meh. Both are relatively boring classes. Food is literally given away after quests so it’s not like there is great demand (and what buffs it gives you are lame). And fisher? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think I’m crafted out.

Inside of you are two wolves:

Both are deciding how to procrastinate and make the other do the work.

How to monetize a bogus government probe. Republican politicians believe in one thing: you are idiots and we can steal your money back running bullshit “investigations” then writing lies about the “investigation”—it’s a win-win for them.

“House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s impeachment probe into President Joe Biden may have fizzled, but at least he might get some cash out of it by launching a tell-all book.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-comer-tries-money-off-142256048.html

If people are wondering why I’m not posting as much, is because when this clusterfuck was only a possibility I trusted America to not be a bunch of racist sexist rapey people who want to make Handmaids Tale look inspirational. I truly believed the younger generation would make a good decision. They complained when we were in charge of things.

Now I realize their complaint was we were TOO centrist and not right wing enough.

This saddens me. But they get the world they wanted.