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1. about 4 hours ago on Reality Check

   So who is going to get Leia.

   Fisher got a Ford in the real world.

2. about 4 hours ago on Reality Check

   Too punny for words.

3. about 5 hours ago on Doonesbury

   What you need is some coke and a crushed blue pill chased down with an energy drink and you can go all night. —- Matt Gaetz

4. about 5 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Wine when it is its time is the most divine.

5. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   DEMENTIA

   “Trump is not long for this world. His Alzheimer’s is pretty far along now, and getting worse. If he lives to see the end of this term, he will be so far gone he won’t know whether he is president or not.”

   If Article 25 is implemented then we are stuck with J-VD who is walking-redneck-diseased-cruelty. Hopefully it’s a long shot because the ones who can do it most likely want to retain unchecked power along with their compatriots who want unhindered corruption so they can depart very wealthy. They need the figurehead.

   In fact they may find a demented fat orange clown doppelgänger as a substitute to pose in rare public outings. He won’t even have to make sense when he talks. If the real FOCer croaks they probably will have him stuffed and mounted sitting at the Resolute Desk holding a KFC bucket.

6. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   Continued…

   Academic and governmental studies find the Trump-Biden tariffs have raised prices and reduced output and employment, producing a net negative impact on the US economy.

   —————-My wife and I have decided to move our big ticket items related to imports earlier than scheduled originally. We think that if the demented FOCer’s plan is implemented then the inflation and unemployment rates will increase by at least 50% by the end of 2025.

7. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   TARIFFS- Findings from the Tax Foundation

   The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, and in May 2024, announced tariff
 hikes on an additional $18 billion of Chinese goods, including semiconductors and electric vehicles, for an additional tax
 increase of $3.6 billion.We estimate the Trump-Biden tariffs will reduce long-run GDP by 0.2 percent, the capital stock by 0.1 percent, and employment by 142,000 full-time equivalent jobs.Altogether, the trade war policies currently in place add up to $79 billion in tariffs based on trade levels at the time of tariff implementation and excluding behavioral and dynamic effects.Before accounting for behavioral effects, the $79 billion in higher tariffs amounts to an average annual tax increase on US households of $625. Based on actual revenue collections data, trade war tariffs have directly increased tax collections by $200 to $300 annually per US household, on average. Both estimates understate the cost to US households because they do not factor in the lost output, lower incomes, and loss in consumer choice the tariffs have caused.Candidate Trump has proposed significant tariff hikes as part of his presidential campaign; we estimate that if imposed, his proposed tariff increases would hike taxes by another $524 billion annually and shrink GDP by at least 0.8 percent, the capital stock by 0.7 percent, and employment by 684,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Our estimates do not capture the effects of retaliation, nor the additional harms that would stem from starting a global trade war.
8. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   When discussing what he might do for the government, Musk said in a Pittsburgh town hall that major cuts to government spending would be necessary: “Step No. 1 is to spend a lot less of it,” Musk said. “Let’s start from scratch.”

   “That necessarily involves some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity,” said Musk.

   The mouth breathing knucklewalkers probably believe that the demented fat orange clown and the multi-billionaire abused-as-a-child also will experience the disruption and loss in their lives “for the greater good”. Again, many of us will have to conserve our resources to try to survive the next four years and hope we see another fair and free election.

9. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

   Nice thought but if they rejected an intelligent experienced Black/Asian female I doubt that they will vote for a gay guy. The only way to make it happen is if the quality of life deteriorates so badly as we are expecting that even the mouth breathing knucklewalkers can see the light.

   Then we face another reality. Will we have another fair and free election in this country again?

10. 7 days ago on Doonesbury

    Yep. Each year from here on the whining and angst from those who voted for the demented fat orange clown, as they blame anyone and everyone else for the worsening of their lives, will increase…as if I care.

    Unfortunately there will be collateral damage to the sane and informed who tried to protect democracy. As someone else said, take a screenshot of the inflation and unemployment rate this month. It will be quite some time before we see them again.