This is my shocked face.

Yah, but Biden had the worst economy ever, and Pedonald is just trying to dig out from all the terribleness.

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It’s like letting the mafia write their own rules for how they are to be treated.

They should throw them in the collection plate when that is passed around.

I’m not familiar. What is that?

I do think that her not being exactly, ahem, all that telegenic/photogenic does not help.

I see things like Mennonites getting blamed, and even if they are 100% unvaccinated, it seems like they would not really be a factor if vaccination rates were kept up for the general pop?

I think even that population would be given some protection if nearly 100% of the general population were to be vaccinated, no?

This was back in the early 90s. I’m assuming now that Republicans like Pedonald and Nick Fuentes are now going mask-off with their fascism, and creating a permission structure for assholes, wingers are probably upping the ante to show how “edgy” they are. Back then flying a Confederate flag north of the Mason-Dixon line was just a way of signaling what a dickhead you are w/o just putting up a swastika outright, because it had deniability, at least to other assholes and the rather clueless (“heritage”, lol).

But now, I would not be surprised if a few dickheads are putting up a few swastikas now because the flag of Southern losers is probably quite basic bitch stuff.

In the Netherlands, I’m assuming flying that flag was much the same kind of reverse-virtue signaling. I know parts of Europe also (used to?) ban Nazi things, so I’m assuming this was a way of not violating the law, while still showing what a tool you are.

It’s almost expected that these people are raging hypocrites. It’s fairly standard Karen behavior.

Ever wanted to see the Confederate flag flown in the most Northern part of the continent possible? cool, go to Dryden Ontario.

Fuuuuuck, that’s next-level stupid. I remember some stupid redneck I had the displeasure of knowing had one hanging up in his room in Pennsylvania. I asked him if he knew he was born and also now living ABOVE the Mason-Dixon line and WTF is that flag even hanging up there for?

Dude stared at me like a dog trying to comprehend calculus. Mumbled something about “heritage”. I asked what that could even mean since he was born in York, PA.

But FFS, flying that traitorous flag of losers up in Canada? What. The. Actual. Fuck.

The audacity of Karens everywhere, ugh. So many of them. All of these smug little Karens think they have to personally approve all aspects of their job, instead of, you know, shutting the hell up and doing their JOB. Without any protest and any comments, thank you very much.

It’s like those entitled and self-important male pharmacists in some states thinking they get to be a moral check on decisions made by a patient and a doctor. Count out the pills and ring it up, FFS.

Even if they are head of household? Or is that for single filers only?

I don’t know how often working people might start with a million dollar mortgage, but it’d be fairly easy to find yourself in a million-dollar house. You could have bought something in the ~500K range back when things softened up during the end of the W term when the real estate market crashed. And now find that it’s worth over a million…I could also see two fairly highly-paid professionals that still have to continue working to make ends meet qualifying for a 30 year fixed loan on a million dollar+ house.

A million dollars definitely is not what it used to be…at least when it comes to the housing market in the Boulder/Denver area.

So painfully true. A million dollar house is not what people might imagine it is. I think a carve-out for primary residences certainly should be made, at least below some cut-off, let’s say something like 20 million. Property taxes already went through QUITE a re-adjustment, back in 2022, as-is.

I feel really bad for people that actually paid off their house, might be on a fixed income, then get hit with a 40% increase in tax, FFS. I mean, at what point can people really call themselves financially secure?

Yeah, but even if 90% of the country wants that to happen and the elites do not, it won’t happen.

I could not agree more. One of the very worst things about the “modern” web.

https://xkcd.com/1174/

Yeah, I’m pretty sure my state (Colorado) took special measures to not even require some “precondition” that you or your doctor have to make up. Last I looked, in Colorado, at least with certain vendors, you don’t even have to lie and say you are overweight, etc., and you can just go to Walgreen’s, Krogers, etc…and get the vaccine, although you probably (?) have to pay for it?

While I have zero problem with lying because a corrupted government came along and required it, I don’t know with 100% certainty that insurance companies won’t use that against me later, so for that reason alone, I’d rather not make up some phony precondition.

LOL. But did anyone throw a sandwich?

Duh. Why else was their budget increased by multiples?

I think a whole lot of idiot Republicans vote R because at least some part of them expects the Democrats to be able to restrain R’s from doing the very worst/stupidest of things. And so they file that vote as a performative/team sport kind of thing, because what else are they going to do? Vote for a DEMONcrat? How could they vote for babykillers who want to turn your son into a girl?

And, probably, for many decades, yeah, the Democrats were able to be a counterbalance to the craziest shit the most rightwing member of the Republican Party might want to do…but for decade upon decade, both parties have been trending to the right, and so it’s no longer the case…