We should allow people who ordinarily would simply file their W2 and not worry about the taxes they are having deducted from their paychecks - take those monies and invest them with a trusted Wall Street brokerage firm. The average American is smart enough to know what he or she wants to do with their investments. No sense in letting the government take those taxes year after year after year with no actual promise of ever seeing any of those monies in terms of a social security check.

Nah, let's go gamble our SS & Medicare at the Wall Street Casino!

There would be a churning epidemic inside of 4 months.

The best sci-fi sequel which most people never actually watched.... now, free with commercial breaks on youtube.

https://www.rawstory.com/proposed-budget-offers-horrifying-vision-of-what-republicans-would-do-if-they-could/

https://www.rawstory.com/house-gop-unveils-budget-with-trillions-in-cuts-to-medicaid-food-benefits-and-more/

Literally... When the tobacco firms got into the mega-mergers of the 1980s, they ended up owning the largest of the processed food manufacturers as a result. This is an eye opening article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-todays-unhealthy-foods-were-205419762.html

Quote by Justlooking51

Arizona courts declared the 2020 and 2022 elections were illegally counted.
Today.

Which standard bearer of online news has this as its headline or in searchable format? I've looked for admittedly only the first 2 pages of Google results when searching specifically - your first and most important sentence, followed by todays date.

This is the nearest to your statement which could be found. Dated Sept 6, 2023.

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2023/09/06/arizona-judge-rules-common-practice-of-validating-ballot-signatures-illegal/

I didn't invent this but, I did modify it.

Have you ever put a stranger's immediate needs ahead of your own? ( could be sexual! )

https://www.rawstory.com/outstanding-judge-says-all-court-proceedings-in-trump-rico-case-will-be-live-streamed-on-youtube

This should get you the stream if it's not rebroadcast via air/cable/satellite: *note - you will have to select LIVE streaming - when it's actually occuring.

** nevermind, this site still not playing 100% nice with youtube.

The Sun is not a thermo nuclear reaction - burning through millions of tons of hydrogen per second.

Who the fuck ever put their names to such ridiculous statements, is what I wonder. Where they name Chesebro or Clarke, or Trump?

(Don't lock the thead, please).

The moon has been pulling away from Earth, since it was 'captured' by gravity, billions of years ago. By modern measurements it's creeping 1 centimeter a year, farther away from Earth - it's point of reference.

What are biilions of centimeters, in terms of distance? Who wants to do the rudimentary maths? 4.7 billion years x 1 centimeter per year, equals how many miles..?

There's a pretty good theory about how the moon has influenced LIFE on Earth via the tidal waves which the moon has imparted to this planet.

There's a pretty good theory about how that is all bullshit.

I quit believing in the bullshit when I was about 20 years old and public libraries were still a thing in 'murica.

You jealous fucks are really only concerned with why some people have gained a perceived advantage over you, through no fault of your own, you find you are a minority class - unable to access the same offset-benefits the oppressed minority enjoys.

This is how you think you're going to wipe out affirmative action. Culture warriors. Another term invented by misogynistic racists and spoken often enough - maybe you can get a dictionary to officially recognize the slang as something legitimate.

Quote by Ironic

Your example shows that the free speech right is "bigger or "larger" than the anti-discrimination laws. The free speech right applies to everybody in the society, but the anti-discrimination laws only apply to parts or groups of the society.

Those anti-discrimination laws apply primarily to those being discriminated upon and those doing the discriminating. The latter has greater incentive to hide this activity from interested agencies. It lessens the importance by simply calling them: parts or groups of society

One down...

One to go.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group-founder-yevgeny-prigozhin-among-passengers-on-crashed-plane

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-debate-2664187535/

Just days before the Republican Party holds it's first 2024 Presidential debate, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) took the pages of the New York Times to urge contenders for the party's nomination who stand no chance of winning to drop out and back one candidate who stands a chance of defeating Donald Trump as the party's nominee.

"If Mr. Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, Republicans will lose up and down the ballot," he added, "Donald Trump is beatable, and it starts in Iowa and New Hampshire. Ignore the national polls that show he is leading — they are meaningless. It’s a reflection of the national conversation, name ID, and who is top of mind — not where the momentum is headed."

I can't hear her whining from under the bus MAGA Inc parked on top of her.

[Edited: Unnecessary antagonizing]

True Friends of the Supreme Court - https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

Much more Supreme dirt inside...

Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy when your president was large in charge and bellowing daily. Biden's economy has been pretty good for me and mine.

Quote by ElCoco

How's it doing now that it's out of Chapter 11?

Hell, I figured you Trump fanatics appreciated bankruptcies. How many has the Grifter in Chief filed for himself and his businesses over the last 40 years?

Makes him imminently qualified to manage and guide a dollar behemoth, doesn't it?

Always trying to make it as difficult as possible for Americans to cast a vote in an election. GQP doctrine

https://www.rawstory.com/van-tran-council/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=1&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s

A Georgia city council member who promoted bilingual ballots for an upcoming election was censured by her colleagues just a week after the council agreed to allow residents to vote on her proposal, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

The Morrow City Council in a 4-1 special session vote Tuesday censured Councilwoman Van T. Tran on allegations of “unacceptable behavior and inappropriate actions towards city employees,” according to a document cited in the report.

“The city has received multiple complaints against and grievances from the city of Morrow regarding Councilwoman Tran’s unacceptable behavior and inappropriate actions taken toward city employees in violation (of the) city’s charter and city’s policies,” the censure document reads.

Trump has a similar media flair, modis operandi and magnetic fate awaiting him as did John Gotti. With extra kraut and ketchup.

Quote by DonnaCupcake

Thirty-five counts from what i hear. Yes, he is going to be arrested, convicted and imprisoned. And this is just the warm up for what is going to come. If there is a God, Donald J. Trump will die in a prison cell next to a MS19 lifer.

A doctor decapitated a woman's baby during a "nightmare" delivery in Georgia, a legal case has claimed.

Dr Tracey St Julian is being sued for gross negligence by Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor, whose son died at Southern Regional Hospital during a complicated birth.

Several nurses are also being sued for concealing the incident.

Their lawyers claimed Dr St Julian had been too forceful with the baby during the delivery.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66467437

The Right keeps winning in MAGA world. All of this winning gives hope to a chronic masturbater addicted to online porn, who is running for office in 2024. And he's not the orange baboon.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2023/08/18/a-gop-challengers-frank-talk-about-sexual-sin-00111808

Pennsylvania Republican Mark Houck, who is challenging Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick from the right in a battleground district, revealed during a 2020 interview that he “struggled” with exposure to pornography and the “sexual sin, masturbation and stuff” that resulted.

“I struggled with pornography and being exposed to it at a young age,” Houck told host Jeff Garrett. “Of course, that leads to, you know, sexual sin, masturbation and stuff. And so, that was a chronic habit that I had that just became a bad habit. Ultimately it was self-medication, I can say initially, and then it became a bad habit.”

Houck’s previously unreported remarks about his behavior are not his first open acknowledgment of his interest in porn — a 2011 report on a Catholic-centered group that he co-founded connected its work to his “16-year pornography addiction.”

Sounds like they haven't figured out the new economy very well and are looking to cast blame everywhere except at those who are not managing very well.

Let me know when Neiman Marcus blames the pandemic, the homeless, and everything else under the sun for their declining sales.

Someone's starting up that proverbial lawn mower -

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html

Quote by WellMadeMale

Anti-Press Hatred Is Alive and Well in Kansas

The assault on the Marion County Record is another reminder that Trumpism is a threat to press freedom.

I wonder if those stupid SOBs actually attempted to gain access to said computers while in their custody.

Someone's ass is grass in this debacle.

That lawnmower is being rolled out of storage in preparation for a good mowing.

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html

This is a good place to start.

The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence.

Judge Laura Viar, who was appointed on Jan. 1 to fill a vacant 8th Judicial District magistrate seat, was arrested at least twice for DUI in two different Kansas counties in 2012, a Wichita Eagle investigation found. She was the lead prosecutor for Morris County at the time.

Viar’s DUI history could face scrutiny because the warrant she approved for the controversial raid came in response to the Marion County Record digging into the DUI history of restaurant owner Kari Newell. The Viar-authorized raid came after Newell complained about the newspaper’s investigation into her criminal background.

That judge has gotten some official help at many points in her career since 2011 (during another failed Republican CHRISTIAN administration which was burying Kansans in future debts.

She shouldn't even be a magistrate judge - as reporters will eventually find how she managed to hide her own two separate DUI incidents from the authority which would later promote her up the ladder to her current position. How in the fuck did THAT happen?

MAGA in its infancy (Tea Party) is how that happened.

It's a petty irritation that I can't post this in the Free Speech thread where it literally should be placed, because...

The assault on the Marion County Record is another reminder that Trumpism is a threat to press freedom.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/15/marion-county-record-raid/

...things have gotten much worse over the past few years. Hatred of the press has deepened on the extreme right, stoked by Donald Trump and his paranoid acolytes.

Trump labeled the press the “enemy of the people,” a fascist slogan that has now seeped into common usage on the right. Physical attacks on journalists in the United States are becoming more common and are now a signature of right-wing extremism; reporters who covered the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were assaulted and had their equipment damaged.

Eric Meyer, the owner and publisher of the Marion County Record, was stunned by Friday’s raid, which involved the town’s entire five-member police force and two sheriff’s deputies. He told the Kansas Reflector that the message from police and the local political establishment was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”

It is probably not surprising that the local establishment that is attacking the Marion County Record is at the same time supporting an extreme right-winger like LaTurner, who has not commented on the raid on his Twitter account. Meyer told the Associated Press that “this is the type of stuff that, you know, that Vladimir Putin does, that Third World dictators do.” 

(The Intercept and other news organizations signed a letter from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press condemning the raid.)

The unjustified assault on the Marion County Record is another reminder that press freedom is one of the most important democratic traditions under threat from Trumpism. 

Right wingers started the culture wars over 40 years ago during the 1st term of Grandpa Reagan - gradually warping and folding this vocal mayhem into battle cries against POLITICAL CORRECTNESS & they amplified that in the run-up to the 2nd gulf war against Iraq (Dixie Chicks) and they've perfected it's abuse every year since then - while managing (in some circles) to convince their base - that the left WOKE liberals invented and routinely practice cancel culture.

I was curious what the recent kerfuffle in Marion Kansas was about - now we know. Conservatives using the local police force to illegally raid a small-town newspaper because the newspaper was investigating rumors to see if there was any truth involving illegal activities and they scared the feels out of the local GQP majority in the town. Who then sicced a judge and law enforcement upon them to seize computer equipment.

I wonder if those stupid SOBs actually attempted to gain access to said computers while in their custody.

Someone's ass is grass in this debacle.

https://nj1015.com/fact-check-did-trump-bury-his-ex-wife-at-nj-golf-course-to-reap-tax-break/

The first ex-wife of Trump wanted to be buried in such a lovely location where her family would never have an excuse to not come and visit her in memoriam. Look how her children's father displays his true sentiments.

All of this MAGA/Right Winning since 2015, how are the libs still standing after getting pummeled for four straight years?

She and her staff have connected the dots, painted within the lines and by-the-numbers. They've stated their findings and (for those who bother to read and can understand big words and simple concepts) are attempting to shame the other states (where illegal electors in each state, also were employed) to get with the program or be seen as complicit to continuing the hiding of facts as well the secret nationwide conspiracy hatched by Trump and his thirsty lawyers.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/15/the-various-kinds-of-georgia-crimes-in-the-rico-indictment/

There’s so much good reporting out of Georgia that I’m going to mostly leave close coverage of the Georgia case to them going forward.

But the Georgia prosecution will interact with Jack Smith’s ongoing investigation in interesting ways.

To explain how, I want to first show that the indictment is, fundamentally, about protecting the integrity of Georgia’s government and elections. To see that, it helps to read counts 2 through 41 before reading the RICO charge, which is laid out in 70 pages describing 161 overt acts, many of which took place outside of Georgia.

Those counts fall into the following groups:

'Conservative Judge' - Requires attorneys for the defendant in a case before him - to attend and 'complete' religious 'liberty' training before proceeding with said case. (This is considered the new normal plateau to achieve - under a MAGA fueled regime).

https://nordot.app/1064230182650315213?c=592622757532812385

(Reuters) - A judicial reform advocacy group on Tuesday filed a complaint accusing a Texas federal judge of engaging in misconduct by taking the "strange" step of requiring three attorneys for Southwest Airlines to attend "religious liberty training" by a prominent conservative Christian legal group.

The head of the group Fix the Court in a judicial misconduct complaint filed with the 5th Circuit Judicial Council accused U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr in Dallas of violating the judicial code of conduct by assigning a sectarian organization to carry out the attorney sanctions he ordered in a religious bias case brought by a flight attendant against the airline.

That organization, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), is a well-known conservative legal group previously not involved in the case that advocates for religious liberty and has brought cases challenging LGBTQ rights and the ability of women to secure abortions.

Jim Campbell, ADF's chief legal counsel, in a statement called it "baseless and intolerant to suggest that people of faith cannot provide legal instruction simply because their religious beliefs might differ from their audience's."

Starr, a former assistant Texas attorney general, was appointed to the bench in 2019 by former Republican President Donald Trump.

He is the nephew of Kenneth Starr, who spearheaded the investigation that led to the impeachment of former Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1998 and was a member of ADF's Supreme Court Advisory Council before his death in September 2022.

Starr did not respond to requests for comment.