"My first thought reading this? It's not that billionaires would suddenly stop being billionaires.

They'd still be unimaginably wealthy, but lower-middle class families would finally feel like the system was a little ChatGPT explained that billionaires grow their wealth at lightning speed while paying relatively little tax.

;;

"If they were taxed like a household making $50,000 to $70,000, the gap between them and the middle class would start shrinking.

And honestly, this makes sense. Billionaires would still have private jets and mega-mansions, but the climb for the rest of us wouldn't feel quite so impossible."

"ChatGPT suggested it would force billionaires to rethink how they store and grow their wealth instead of just relying on loopholes and tax shelters."

;;

"This one surprised me. ChatGPT pointed out that if billionaires had less untouchable wealth, their ability to dominate politics, media and lobbying might weaken.

It's not that billionaires would suddenly lose all influence.

But they wouldn't have quite the same grip on shaping policies that often benefit them more than the average voter."

more at the link

from John Lennox, two 1 min shorts:

finishing well

- go to Hell.

#8

Yet another lame Whataboutism, different day... ok, prolly same day.

Trae Crowder Rant - On Trump Deploying Troops to US Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (or Whatever).

"Let me be clear, Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities," Pritzker said during a news conference.

To support his point, Pritzker played a video of an ICE raid conducted last week on an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, which he claimed was filmed by federal authorities with high-definition cameras for social media purposes.

He said it was the same video that Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted on social media on Saturday.

"They brought Black Hawk military helicopters and more than 100 agents in full tactical gear," Pritzker said."

- people who take scripture serious.

Don't but Chinese bibles with Trump's name on the cover.

Trump has 10's of thousands of Documented Lies more than he has instincts.

And his guts hang WAY over his belt.

Bondi Deflects Questions About Epstein, Homan Bribery Probe, National Guard And More

Oct 07, 2025, 04:29pm EDT

Bondi has faced bipartisan criticism since the Justice Department said in July it would not release details of its probe into Epstein, despite repeated promises from Trump on the campaign trail to do so.

Bondi did not answer directly when asked (by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.) if the FBI found photographs of Trump "with half-naked young women" that Epstein allegedly showed people, if her agency planned to probe Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about his recent allegations that Epstein had blackmailed people (by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.) or when asked (by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.) who ordered the DOJ to note anything related to Trump while reviewing the documents related to its Epstein investigation."

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RFK, Jr. has likely been tasked with the job of modifying Gay Conversion Therapy into Democrat Conversion Therapy.

A man for this very hour!

4 mins w/ Transcript

Evidence, shmevidence... the RW SC don' need no stinking evidence.

We are in the Post-Factual, Evidence-Free stage of this Fascist takeover.

"The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the German parliament building in Berlin on February 27, 1933.

The Nazi Party, which had been in power for less than a month, exploited the event by blaming it on communists and framing it as the start of a violent uprising. This enabled Adolf Hitler to seize absolute power in Germany and dismantle the democratic structures of the Weimar Republic."

#4

Number Two Son still hold title of Most Perfect Reverse Barometer!

Congrats!

This is not at all like the 1930's takeover of the gov by a far rwing cult leader financed by billionaires and corporations, and voted in by the rwing populist base. Nuh-uh.

#1

Glassdoor is a great source to check out companies that you may be considering dealing with; my goto stat is the percent of employees who would recommend a friend to work there, lol.

Last one I checked was 50 percent, and I said no thanks.

That's gotta hurt Orange Adolf.

- You didn't detect the sarcasm?

Methinks she doth protest too much.

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MAGA calls for Trump to overrule judges on National Guard deployments

MAGA influencers erupted over the dual rulings, declaring that "activist judges" were subverting Trump's constitutional authority as commander-in-chief.

"We have long reached the point where Trump needs to openly defy these judges. Some random federal judge has no authority to decide how and if troops are deployed," The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh posted.

"At some point in time, the administration is going to have to tell these judges to go pound sand, or else we're not going to be seeing the promises fulfilled," MAGA enforcer Laura Loomer said in an interview with Axios.

So much for, "Stand down, stand by."

You called evil progress... own it.

#9

When the President is a compulsive Liar, his minions are too.

"Nothing says EVIL like a population reduction plan with a built-in marketing strategy."

ft/nc

John Prine - "Souvenirs" - Live from Sessions at West 54th

He's always one or t'other. Sometimes both.

He's paired the old saying down to 'a sucker is born every' second now.