It's a comedy, not a tragedy.
#27 | POSTED BY FREEWILLY

It's a comedy AND a tragedy.

Bezos paid roughly $2.7 billion in taxes in 2024.
#9 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You sound so proud that you (or your AI) dug up that little factoid.

I can see you both are not very good with the Maths

So if Bezos wealth increased by ~$8 million dollars an hour or ~$70,176,000,000 in 2024 (based on his stock holdings with Amazon).

Then Bezos only paid a ~3% tax on the wealth he gained that year.

Still ok with that?

FFS the Biden Admin had 4 years to do something with it and they just sat on their hands.

#17 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

FFS were you cowering in a cave for those 4 years?

Really?

#13 | POSTED BY REDIAL

No.

Not really. 2 years at best.

Just another mags lie.

"Total control" of the Senate also requires 60 Democratic or Republican Senators to overcome a Republican filibuster to get legislation to the floor.

Dems also did not have that.

why didn't they change the tax code? you know the answer

#11 | POSTED BY MAVERICK

Because billionaires control congress now no matter which party wins an election.

You can thank the Supreme Court and Citizens United vs FEC for that.

"Billionaires don't pay taxes!" Dorky

Bezos paid roughly $2.7 billion in taxes in 2024.
#9 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Didn't read the article again?

FTA:

ChatGPT explained that the issue isn't necessarily the tax rates themselves, but how different types of income get taxed. This is where the system becomes genuinely unfair.

"Billionaires benefit from tax strategies that lower their effective tax burden compared to what ordinary income earners face on wages," the AI explained. "The current system taxes work more than wealth."

Here's what that means in practice: When I get my salary, taxes come out immediately. When a billionaire's stock portfolio increases in value by millions, they don't pay taxes on that growth until (or unless) they sell those stocks.

Billionaires know this and are laughing at the rest of us all the way to the bank and all the back to their luxury yacht and all the way to their private jets and all the way to their third vacation home and then all the way to their luxury resort vacations and even while in their multi million dollar bunkers while the rest of us wait to die in a nuclear Holocaust or a global pandemic.

Forgot the link for 115

She blatantly violated the Constitution at the very end of the video.

Always?

Whigs?

C'mon now.

#9 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

We've had a few. None could ever get enough traction.

Whigs.

Bull Moose

Green Party

Libertarians Constitution Party

Natural Law Party

Or an old maga favorite ... The Know Nothings.

"Personally, I hate that religion is even brought up when it comes to politics."

Then you Christians should not be doing that. But you are. Like forcing your religious dogma on children in Texas classrooms where Texas's law is REQUIRING the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Like MAGA Mike proselytizing from the House of Representatives. Or administration officials like Joni Ernst in this sarcastic video where she preached her beliefs in Jesus from a graveyard. You will have suffer her arrogance thru to the very end where she violated the constitution to endorse her personal religious beliefs while a government employee.

I have expressed my spiritual beliefs here many many times but I bet you can't tell me which religion I favor and adhere to and abide by.

As it should be for all government employees.

MAGAts love the victims of the undocumented. So they can use the story to gin up rage to justify their gestapo tactics.

The only concern they have about victims of American atrocities against Americans is whether the perpetrators were Dems or they were living in a blue city or not.

So they can gin up more rage to justify their gestapo tactics.

"There's literally no mechanism for doing that."

I agree with JPW.

That's just wishful thinking.

They will just DOGE it.

yet practically never heard they utter even one sentence about/for the victims of those POS illegal aliens.

#32 | POSTED BY MSGT

The voices in your head obviously don't care about the plight of other humans.

Real humans do. You should try listening to them instead of the voices in your head.

My smart phone stays as stupid as I can make it.

Corky

I don't think that will be the correct strategy moving forward.

I assume you and I are older and we won't be around for most of it. But not having it in your phone will only mean you will be at a disadvantage against those who are using it against you. (Which I personally believe is already happening)

And your personal AI will be on YOUR side. At least initially. Until the Singularity. Then all bets are off.

The weather service is a vital national security organization whose only mission is the protection of lives and property. And it has been underfunded for decades.

Not only have they been underfunded they have had to work with continuing resolutions and no budget at all for many years while Congress fights over the budget and closes the government. In addition to the constant anti science attacks from republicans in denial of climate change. And then Trumpy comes along and guts them like a fish.

This result was all predicted many times over. And expect more of the same while we continue to enjoy Mr Toads Wild Ride. (Ver 2.0)

The forecasters in the NWS offices are "community experts" who have close working relationships with emergency managers, school districts and other local decision-makers, Becker says. Without those proactive efforts, "you're basically watching the storm," Uccellini says.

Here's the reality which again proves that various libbie sources are doing nothing but lying: -- Fact is the warnings were put out in a timely manner.

The complaints are that the warnings were not accurate and did not go out in a timely manner. Issuing a life or death warning at 3am is ineffective and everyone including the weather service knows it. That's why communication with local Emergency Management officials is so important.

That's why they have to closely coordinate with local emergency management. This requires money and staffing for outreach programs to provide NOAA Weather Radios to key local managers all of which have been eliminated or severely restricted.

A warning does no good if no one gets it.

Now, you are back to infinity spending on infinity wars.

#4 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

WE are not "back to" anything.

It's Trumpy's World to screw up. If he wants to save a dime now to spend a billion later and then lie about why to the American People then that's his call.

Democrats are just organizing the gear in the janitor closet waiting for permission to clean the mess up again after the latest Trumpy Error.

As they do.

The Epstein client list mysteriously vanished as soon as they found Trump's name on it.

What you need to ask your self is how is the AC is gonna use AI against you? Or will it be used against him?

If you have it available on your smart phone then assume it is already being used. For you and against you.

Re 102

Got it.

Psychohistory, in its most common usage, refers to a fictional science from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, which combines history, sociology, and mathematics to predict future events based on large-scale human behavior. However, psychohistory also exists as a real, though controversial, field in the social sciences, using psychological and psychoanalytic methods to analyze historical events and the behavior of groups and nations.

Isaac Asimov was a pretty good predictor of how things work. AI changes everything.

Re 87

Psychohistory.

Re 85.

Oops! Wrong link.

Was thinking the Putin/apocalypse thread ...

Re 83

Great imagery!

Federal workers traumatized and demoralized?

Mission Accomplished.

-Russ Vought

Director of the Office of Budget and Management (OMB).