First of May posted:

Change the tax rate on stock sales to whatever it would be as if your income was equal to your wealth. Have 10 billion in stock value? Your tax rate on selling stock is 75%, or whatever.

kazil posted:

also thread needs a title update

redshirt posted:

Ya think Trump has ever pumped gas?

Projection, always.

nine-gear crow posted:

I watched the Biden segment of Jay Leno's Garage just a few minutes ago because of this and you can practically hear the Secret Service detail making GBS threads razor blades as he hauls rear end away, and this was back when he was Veep, let alone POTUS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-hyDSlmUs&t=145s

pixaal posted:

Short term (held less than a year) it is taxed as normal income.

nine-gear crow posted:

There's a picture of him in his dumpy fat Florida attire pumping gas into a sports car in the 90s, but that was like 30 years ago now. So no.

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E2: Oh he's at a Full Service pump, so someone else is pumping it for him lol

InsertPotPun posted:

tiktok rewards lazy content and it just so happens bigoted and stupid humor are the easiest.

i was acquainted with an 8 and 9 year old and their content started with a baby who swore. it was just a baby that sat on some guy's lap and would shout "BITHCH!!" and the guy would react as WILD as possible. "BITHCH!!" "OOOOH MY GOAAWWDD!!" and that was it. that was the entire act. and he has dozens of these videos. "gently caress!" shouts the baby, "OH MY GAAAWDD!" screams the man. the end. dozens of videos just like that.
and so so many that were just "are you GAAAAAAYYY???!!" just the dumbest and laziest bigot poo poo because that kind of "OHMYGAAAAWD!!!" type humor is easy. but it lead to the children legitimately saying homophobic stuff. they were too scared to swear too much, but they would readily label things "GAAAAYYY!!"
and it's no different than the other content they watched on any other platform. it's a slide greased by laziness and it's legitimately hard to describe if you haven't witnessed it. just the slide from "casual bigotry" as a punchline to "casual bigotry" being the entire point

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Republican Suggests Vaccines May Be Getting Injected Into Vegetables

A Tennessee state lawmaker said during a recent legislative session that various companies and medical entities are capable of injecting vaccines into lettuce, tomatoes and tobacco.

Republican state Representative Scott Cepicky said during a House Health Committee hearing on Wednesday that the public should be wary about vaccines being intentionally put into foods commonly found at grocery stores, much to the chagrin of Democratic chairman John Ray Clemmons.

Cepicky said that the University of California, Riverside, has "perfected" vaccinating lettuce, adding that the University of California, Berkeley, has conducted similar tests on tomatoes and that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has mimicked that with tobacco products.

Clemmons asked Cepicky if it is legal, to which Cepicky replied, "I'm not arguing that point"—adding that no current law exists deeming that a head of lettuce at a grocery store includes vaccines. He said such vaccinated plants should be listed as pharmaceuticals "so people can get the proper dosage."

Cepicky responded that it's more of a consumer protection bill, providing the example of someone going to buy tomatoes and being aware of the fruit containing a polio vaccine.

"The problem you have is if it's not treated as a pharmaceutical, being the size and difference between you and me, how many tomatoes do I have to eat to get the proper dosage versus how many tomatoes you have to eat, and if you eat too many, you get an overdose," Cepicky said.

"If you eat too less, like we had in the cattle industry with Aureomycin—we weren't dosing our cattle properly and the horn flies were developing an immunity to it. If we don't have the proper dosage of the vaccine, it could lead to the efficacy of that drug not working anymore," he continued.

jokes posted:

Cruz can, unfortunately, debate really well (as a skill/technical matter) and is reasonably intelligent. Unfortunately he doesn't give a gently caress about anyone liking him (because nobody in the entire world likes him), has no scruples, and is entirely unloved by his family. You'd hope that would gently caress with a guy, but he exhudes a fine layer of slime so nothing ever actually affects him through this layer of slime. Slime has a place in the GOP but it never elevates them to the top so he'll just meld into the middle layers of the GOP like one among a fistful of worms in a can until he dies/retires hopefully sooner rather than later.

Waffle House posted:

Is he the first to do anything whatsoever about Gaza?

Rod Hoofhearted posted:

His CUMS are TOO BIG!!!

nine-gear crow posted:

Serious_Cyclone posted:

It looks like his license plate is LOSR 1

Three Olives posted:

Look into the guy he is running against, Collin Allred. J.D. from UC Berkley, former pro football player, charismatic as all hell, polls already have him neck and neck with Cruz and he hasn't even started campaigning yet.

This is going to be a fight for Ted.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Meanwhile in Tennessee

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The manifesto then states that, pursuant to Scripture, these “civil magistrates” have “lawful authority to punish civil crimes like assault, murder, rape, theft, fraud, man-stealing, and false witness, and to ensure proper due process through the civil courts, payment of liability for verifiably proven harm, and proportionality of punishment.”

Continuing down this same Christian Nationalist trajectory, William Wolfe’s manifesto purports to “affirm that the Church is to instruct civil authorities regarding their identity and duties as servants before the throne of Christ. We affirm that this duty is a Great Commission issue.”

Under the heading, “Big Picture,” the manifesto claims to “affirm that this Christian Nationalist project entails national recognition of essential Christian Orthodoxy (Article II) as a Christian consensus under Jesus Christ, the supreme Lord and King of all creation, and the establishment of the general equity of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

The manifesto also claims to affirm that, “All truth, claims and ethical standards must be tested by God’s final Word, which is Scripture alone.”

And it promotes a literal interpretation of the Bible: “We affirm that the Bible is clear in all essential matters.”

The manifesto denies that “civil authorities have the right to coerce or command obedience to the dictates of men apart from God’s Word.”

The manifesto further denies “the authority of rulers to squelch civil disobedience if [in the authors’ opinion] the free and necessary worship of and obedience to the True One God is being hindered.”

It also strives to invalidate public education: “We deny that civil authorities are tasked with being the caretakers of citizens or educators of children, as these duties belong primarily to the Church and to families, respectively.”

At the same time, the manifesto aims to “affirm” that Christians are entitled to beat their children into submission: “We affirm that parents, as the authority in the home, have been given the ‘rod’ for instruction, training, and discipline in wisdom and righteousness.” (So now we know what they mean by “parental rights.”)

In addition to opposing same-sex marriage and classifying abortion as “homicide,” the manifesto declares that life begins “from the moment of fertilization, which is conception,” a position that renders IVF unfeasible, as we recently saw in Alabama.

Three Olives posted:

https://twitter.com/KrisKobach1787/status/1765935595702919299

Is drinking lead even bad for you? Who can say?

Three Olives posted:

https://twitter.com/KrisKobach1787/status/1765935595702919299

Is drinking lead even bad for you? Who can say?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Manifesto by christofacists is as bad as you’d think

Failed Imagineer posted:

*Goons seeing a clean suburban kitchen that isn't full of pissjugs*:

Is this Skinamarink?

Mr. Nice! posted:

Trump posted his bond in the Carroll case. He got Federal Insurance Co. to give him a bond for $91m.

Glimm posted:

Does his license plate mean LOSER 1? lmao

Three Olives posted:

https://twitter.com/KrisKobach1787/status/1765935595702919299

Is drinking lead even bad for you? Who can say?

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

This is the best thing Oscar Wilde has ever said

Jake Gittes posted:

legit considering cancelling my Chubb policies after reading that news. makes me seriously question their internal decision making processes.

hope they got some kickass collateral

Lord Harbor posted:

How's that going to work in practice though? If, say, a CEO gets millions of shares of stock, then uses that stock to take out loans which they use to cover all of their expenses, are they going to be taxed anywhere? Currently they wouldn't really. Stock isn't taxed until it's sold, loans aren't taxed as you aren't actually increasing your net worth. Will Biden's plan actually change any of this?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Manifesto by christofacists is as bad as you’d think

Waffle House posted:

Social media is full of bad faith child groomers OP, and we should have nuked 4chan from orbit a long time ago

nine-gear crow posted:

There's a picture of him in his dumpy fat Florida attire pumping gas into a sports car in the 90s, but that was like 30 years ago now. So no.

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E2: Oh he's at a Full Service pump, so someone else is pumping it for him lol

Ninurta posted:

I love the "LUSA 1" vanity plate. Yes, sir, you are the #1 Lusa.

LifeSunDeath posted:

you know he just rented that poo poo