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Hard for me to see how Trump’s actual policy agenda is more dangerous than the current agenda.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)America loves a comeback. His bandwagon may fill up more still.
People easily forget that, despite the gnashing of teeth once Covid and the Floyd riots were in full sway, Trump was viewed as likely to be reelected.
Hard to believe that this is where we are now, but there is a swelling “anyone but Biden” vote as well.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s shocking, shocking that the proprietors of the plantation don’t want the slaves to leave it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Dotard
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Did Kamala ever report on the root causes? I seem to recall that was her responsibility early in the administration.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Sotomayor is “tired,” “traumatized” and “fighting.”
The language of a leftist never leaves us.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The judge thought so too. She complained about the prosecutors only bringing one count.
The smugness of the perp with his “wrong thing for the right reasons” rationale is sickening. He abused a position of trust in order to advance his political motives.
And, the press that went right along with it can bite me, too. Rachel Maddow waving Trump’s illegally obtained tax return comes to mind. I believe in a free press, and a free press should be a restraint on state power not a conduit of it!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)13+ percent state income tax. That is just shocking.
I’m in my “prime earning years” and would really struggle with a state that taxes income that highly. If nothing has changed, CA still has no long term capital gains rate either.
I guess you really have to love it. And, I know plenty of people who do. They would tell me that they can make way more money in California than elsewhere. I get that, or used to.
Meanwhile I partially operate through an S-Corp that my state taxes income from at a flat 3%. that’s a full 10 percentage points below the CA marginal rate. I’m small fry when it comes to business and that delta is the equivalent of roughly a year earlier retirement for every year I work.
My in-laws live in Southern California and I have had to explain to them that it would be massively costly for me to move our family there. Not to mention I would be a felon because I do stuff that California hates like paint my own cars, change my own oil, and own firearms with detachable magazines and things that go up.
And, yes I love the weather in the Bay Area when I visit.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Fad? I don’t think so.
I do think EVs are way over specified currently. The use case for EVs is way narrower than for ICEs and hybrids. If you want an EV you have to understand the use case and the limitations.
People have been surprised that the Ford F150 lightning EV truck crashed and burned so quickly, but anybody who looked at the use case knew that the customer base for that truck was really really narrow. The use case for a pickup truck that has limited range that diminishes substantially while towing is narrow. Some people bought them, some people love them I’m sure, but if you like to take your truck camping with a camper in tow, and you like to do it more than a hundred miles from home; you aren’t buying the EV.
The EVs out there sound like really great cars. They are just really great within a narrower envelope of duty than what ICEs can currently cover.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)spend billions of dollars to “stop” anything and you are bound to get more of it.
[quote quote=8031]Despite billions spent, new data shows almost a third of the nation’s homeless now live in California. That’s 181,000 people, folks.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When all we do is sow distrust in our fellow citizens, this is the obvious outcome.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think I’m going to go get a shot of laphroaig from my stock after reading your post, mick. I’m on the EC so it’s way past time. 🙂
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Thanks for sharing that video GR.
Good to see you here as well.
Gay’s resignation is the least that could be done. My hunch is it won’t change much as to the culture that Gay represented and espoused.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The releases from the SPR were probably political and deeply cynical given the administrations stance on new drilling.
However I think it’s probably overly political to gripe about the average cost basis (at least to me it is). I know they could have refilled at a lower cost but don’t really have a lot of insight into it.
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