Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Trump ups the ante with Democrats, proposes eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits paid by senior citizens, which about 40% of them now do, contrary to the original intention of the reforms in 1983
About 40% of people who get Social Security must pay federal income taxes on their benefits.
More.
As originally intended in the 1983 reforms, taxes were designed to affect just 10% of recipients:
By the time the law was first amended in 1993, about 18% of Social Security beneficiaries had some tax liability (compared to about 10% when the law was originally enacted).
Meanwhile, back in the everyday world of what's for breakfast this summer, let's talk about eggs
In June 2019 a dozen eggs averaged $1.20 vs. $2.72 now . . . up 127%.
In other words, the price has more than doubled in five years.
Yesterday I paid $3.39 at my local grocery, for one of the last two cartons available. The place was cleaned out!
I save 50 cents on a dozen there, if I remember to download their coupon. But that's still $2.89/dozen, not $2.72.
Sam's Club's equivalent is $2.19/dozen . . . but they're . . . ALL OUT.
So I pay a fat membership fee at Sam's for the privilege of paying 83% more for eggs than I did in 2019.
But not this week.
This illustrates why half of the country, which makes less than $41,000 per year, is still PISSED.
Biden's radical, Supreme-Court-packing, power-grabbing proposals sound like somebody else entirely wrote them, because he once opposed them all quite publicly and vehemently
Is Biden another "Body Snatchers" president?
Speaker of the House Johnson says Biden's Supreme Court proposals are DOA in the House, President Biden says the Speaker is DOA
The Party of Violence, ladies and gentlemen.
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was on July 13th.
If Republicans talked this way about Democrats it would be non-stop news.
"One law for me, another for thee".
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Oh gee, what a surprise, Kamala Harris has a radical black anti-American, anti-semitic pastor named Amos Brown, just like Barack Obama had Jeremiah Wright
The guy's so bad Senator Diane Feinstein walked out on him, as did Governor Gray Davis, both Democrats:
At a memorial service for victims of the 9/11 terror attacks held just six days after al Qaeda murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, Brown used the occasion to point the finger at the United States in remarks that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "set a lot of people’s teeth on edge" and "left politicians stunned."
"America, is there anything you did to set up this climate?" Brown asked the audience. "Ohhhh—America, what did you do?"
"America, what did you do two weeks ago when I stood at the world conference on racism, when you wouldn't show up?" Brown continued, referring to his participation in the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, which the United States and Israel boycotted citing concerns about anti-Semitism.
Brown’s diatribe jarred a mostly liberal audience, the Chronicle reported, noting that the late California senator Dianne Feinstein (D.) and former California governor Gray Davis (D.) left during his remarks. ...
Brown’s radical politics have also veered into anti-Semitism. He served as a delegate to the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, and best known for equating Zionism with racism. The United States and Israel walked out of the conference over that resolution, expressing dismay that a conference ostensibly devoted to combating hatred had devolved into a hate fest. ...
He serves on the California Reparations Task Force and has called for cash payments to the descendants of slaves from "billionaires in San Francisco," according to the New York Times. The pastor held a "Solidarity for Reparations" event at his church in 2022 and told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2021 that "America is a racist country." ...
He has visited Harris at the White House at least twice and told Religion News Service this week Harris remains a "dues-paying member" of his church. "For two decades now, at least, I have turned to you," Harris said of Brown in her remarks to the National Baptist Convention 2022.
The story is here.
Canadian pollster no one ever heard of headlines Drudge lol
https://angusreid.org/game-change-invigorated-young-democrats-give-harris-slight-lead-over-trump/
Democrats still excelling at white-identity politics after all these years lol: White Women for Harris raised ~$11 million, White Dudes for Harris . . . not so much
"Only we get to be racist".
Imagine the firestorm over "White Dudes for Trump".
This story wants you to know lol:
Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, are both white.
Meanwhile . . .
Grassroots organizers raise millions online for Harris in first week
The back-to-back calls motivated activist and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts to follow suit. She organized a group, dubbed "White Women: Answer the Call." The impromptu effort, sparked by a 5 a.m. X post last Tuesday, broke a record for the largest Zoom call in history. It crashed the site with nearly 200,000 women and raised more than $11 million. ...
"I am here tonight embracing myself, in your incredible, profound white women midst, because we got a f***ing job to do y'all," said actress Connie Britton on the call.
Monday, July 29, 2024
The global total fertility rate has fallen to 2.25, just above the 2.1 rate considered replacement level for developed countries, because the world has grown wealthier
I don't know why it shocks some people that as people get wealthier they have fewer children, but it does.
Global tfr is down 53% since 1950 to 2.25 in 2023 as global gdp per capita is up 80% since 1990.
The developed world (just 17%) replacement rate is 2.1 vs. ~1.47 actual tfr.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper
Trend for peak performance
1950: 24.0%
1959: 16.6% (9 years)
1984: 11.3% (25 years)
1997: 7.8% (13 years)
2010: 6.3% (13 years)
2021: 4.7% (11 years)
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Democrats' biggest problem is loss of trust: 73% of independents believe Kamala Harris was central to the cover-up of Joe Biden's deteriorating faculties
According to a YouGov/Times of London poll of 1,170 registered voters . . . Overall, 68% say she had ample knowledge of Biden’s deterioration,
with 78% of Republicans, 73% of independents, and 82% of self-identified
conservatives believing the VP was central to the coverup . . . A staggering 92% of respondents who believe there was a coverup think
Harris knew at least a little bit about the president’s progressive
deterioration . . ..
More.
The MedBed quackery, straight out of chiropractic: As long as you believe, and your mind and body are in alignment with the right frequencies
“Wow, it can really correct all this?” Michael asked.
“Over time, it’s possible,” Andrea said. “As long as you believe, and your mind and body are in alignment with the right frequencies.”
Here.
Idiotic US Sun calls US Senator J. D. Vance a state senator for Ohio
Here:
Vance currently is a state senator for Ohio and beat out many others for the position as Trump's running mate.
The conventional wisdom of Democrats 18 months ago was that Kamala Harris was a failed vice president
David Brooks, here:
Because the Kamala Harris of 2020 was a terrible, terrible candidate. and, frankly, if you go back to the Democratic conventional wisdom about Kamala Harris 18 months ago, it was failed vice president. How do we get her off the ticket? And so the Democratic Party has shifted.
Saturday, July 27, 2024
CNN October 2020: Mike Pence correctly noted that Senator Kamala Harris favors a fracking ban
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/business/ban-fracking-biden-trump-job-jobs/index.html
Now Harris has reversed herself, just in time for the election:
Vice President Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she’s elected president, an official with her campaign told The Hill on Friday.
Harris’s position not to support a ban on fracking differs from where she stood when she was running for president last cycle.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4795337-kamala-harris-fracking-ban-stance/
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