Archive for 2023
August 11, 2023
AT THIS POINT THEY SHOULD PROBABLY JUST RETIRE THE BRAND AND BRING IT BACK AS A NOSTALGIA ITEM IN A FEW YEARS: Budweiser Humiliated at Sturgis After Company’s Stunt to Win Back Fans Backfires.
LET’S HOPE: Kurt Schlichter: Angry Young Men Are Going To Disrupt The Garbage Paradigm. “Remember, if you grew up male in the last ten years or so, every institution has been deployed against you. You’ve been told you are bad and horrible and evil and worthless. In contrast, every girl is an empowered girlboss ready to take her rightful place at the pinnacle of society. And to facilitate that, they must displace the dudes. And it’s no secret – that displacement, that consignment of men to second-class status, is not merely admitted but celebrated by our trash ruling class.”
TRUTH:
Our country is divided in many ways, but one of the most difficult places to heal that divide can be in our own family. Sometimes, the only thing a family member can hear is, "I love you." pic.twitter.com/8qhSM40v6L
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 10, 2023
MAYBE NOT EXACTLY THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY: Zuckerberg suggests August 26 for cage fight with Musk.
FLASHING BACK ON THE INSTADAUGHTER’S SWITCH FROM FOIL TO SABER: “It’s cooler than foil, and more fun than epee.”
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Joe Rogan Shares Oliver Anthony’s ‘Rich Men’ Battle Cry. “This song is worth ALL the hype.”
FORGET BIDEN, INVESTIGATE DESANTIS: That’s the demand of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.).
Committee Republicans should forget the Biden Family Bribery Scandal and instead immediate launch investigations of the “shocking trends of anti-democratic abuses of power in the state” by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Why? Because of the “disturbing laundry list of anti-democratic abuses taking place across the State of Florida and metastasizing throughout the United States.” No, this is not from The Babylon Bee.
“IT’S A GAG ORDER”: California Threatens Researcher Who Testified That Pandemic Closures Hurt Poor Kids. “Thomas Dee, who has studied academic outcomes for 11 years at Stanford, submitted testimony last month in support of the families’ claims in a 2020 lawsuit that the state harmed vulnerable children when they shut down classrooms and effectively stalled instruction. Within days, the California Department of Education sent him a letter claiming that because he works with taxpayer-funded data from the agency, he could not criticize the state in court.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: How to Do the Wrong Right Thing With a Stolen Porsche. “Florida Man Friday is your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a preternaturally self-aware shoplifter, Tampa’s super-mayor, and Nevada Man’s toe-curling crime spree.”
OH MY: Historic Supreme Court case could imperil the entire US tax code.
Unless the justices take a middle road and define the 16th Amendment according to the history and traditions of the U.S. tax system, the case will result in bad law and worse outcomes.
The case (Moore v. United States) concerns the constitutionality of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA). The act imposed a mandatory repatriation tax on pre-2018 profits that companies and some U.S. shareholders stored abroad. Previously, foreign business profits went untaxed until they returned to U.S. shareholders. But under mandatory repatriation tax, passed as part of Republicans’ comprehensive international tax reform, profits were taxed even if shareholders never received the income.
The revenue from the mandatory tax helped raise an estimated $339 billion that contributed to offsetting other individual and corporate tax cuts, as well as broader international tax reform in the 2017 tax cuts.
The court faces a difficult question: Is this mandatory tax on foreign profits that shareholders never actually received constitutional under the 16th Amendment? The Supreme Court has maintained since 1920 that income must be “clearly realized” for it to be taxable. Yet the U.S. tax code is riddled with taxes on unrealized income.
It’s clear that the income tax is unsalvageable — repeal the 16th Amendment!
MAYBE HE’S READING MY SUBSTACK? MAYBE GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE. Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25, unless people serve in military or pass a test.
From my most recent Substack essay:
Reading this explains a lot about why the left, in particular, relies on the politics of age, even to the point of occasionally trying to lower the voting age to 16.
And beyond voting, it helps explain why the left is always promoting youth culture, notwithstanding that its leaders, from Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to the likes of Noam Chomsky, are mostly so old. Leftist politics, as noted above, is something that the manipulative old sell to the gullible young. Hence leftists’ nonstop efforts to produce more gullible young people.
25 is good. I wrote a column about that myself a while back.
THE MEDIA HAS ASSURED ME INFLATION WAS OVER: Inflation Ticks Up in July. And That’s Not the Worst of It.
I also couldn’t help noticing Biden’s belated narrative backflip on the Inflation Reduction Act.
DON’T BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE, THAT WOULD BE A REALLY SAD REMAKE OF JURASSIC PARK. Study details parasites preserved in dung of ancient reptile 200 million years ago.
THE MAFIA IS SMALL-TIME COMPARED TO THE BIDEN CABAL: ‘Strong-arming:’ Appeals court judges compare Biden social media pressure to mafia.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Bidenomics: Food prices went up 4.9% in July.
I TAKE VITAMIN K ALONG WITH FOLATE FOR HEART HEALTH, BUT GOOD: Vitamin K may help keep lungs healthy, study suggests.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Suicide rates rise among Americans.
AND THEN THERE ARE THE UNELECTED CROOKS: ‘Criminals Are Running This City’: Veteran Seattle Cop Resigns With Scathing Letter.
“Their absurd policies have turned Seattle into a playground for anarchists and criminals, and they seem utterly unconcerned with the devastating consequences of their actions,” wrote Jessica Taylor, who joined the force in 1998 and resigned last week. “If you haven’t noticed, the criminals are running this city.”
Taylor refused to fill out a standard exit form and instead submitted the 15-page letter to chief of police Adrian Diaz, who she says “has brought this department and this city to its knees,” adding that the department “has transformed into a cesspool of corruption.”
Diaz and other city leaders prioritize “playing politics and pandering to radical ideologies rather than genuinely serving the city’s and its residents best interests,” Taylor said.
The worse, the better.