The median is lower than the average because the top earners earn more than a normal distribution.
What’s even more fun is that billionaires and top “earning” millionaires won’t even be on this list because they record $0 income. The average would be even higher with total earnings.
They make their money (or just support their life style) from moving around assets and selling assets which is not taxable income, it’s “capital gains”. And a lot of times shell companies are used to avoid taxable events. It’s all a big “legit” scam.… Continue reading
It’s an absolute travesty they were able to delay this for as long as they did and it had to involve the Supreme Court to issue a ruling your average joe could have figured out.
SC never ruled on the merits per se, they just blocked a stay of the lower courts ruling, in effect not taking up the case. The lower court had essentially issued a scathing opinion that who is Trump to try and exert Executive privilege opposite to that of the current Executive branch. Roberts agreed at its ridiculousness. Trump never stood a chance and it only took a few months overall, which is lightning quick.… Continue reading
Right wing authoritarianism doesn’t creep. It’s overt.
Left wing version pretends to be something it isn’t. Either on purpose or lack of understanding. I think it’s mostly the latter, but there are certainly grifters on the left as well.
The authoritarian portion of both sides are non starters for me. The media amplifies these voices because it creates conflict.
Yeah. Left wing authoritarianism is just infantilization run amok rather than some strict desire to centrally control everything. Rent control, minimum wage, wokeness, gun control, it’s all very much like “you can’t seem to play nice so we’re going to make you play nice.”… Continue reading
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs.… Continue reading
To the many of us who have been paying attention none of these fascist tactics come as a surprise. President Trump’s words & actions over the summer months were horrifying. He has incited and supported violence several times.
He shared a video that said “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”[1]
He tweeted a video of a Trump supporter yelling “White power.”[2]
He tweeted that “when the looting starts the shooting starts.”[3] A saying that is historically tied to a racist Miami police chief from the 60’s.[4]
Police in Washington, D.C. brutally dispersed an entirely peaceful crowd exercising their first amendment.
he used to be a libertarian adjacent but as of recent seems to favor trump under the guise “Biden won’t fix anything, I want to see everything burn down and get rebuilt, at least trump will lead to that.” I’ve told him about climate change, SC seats, all the short term victories we really need for the long term. Didn’t seem too budged. It sucks. There are still many apathy voters who feel like nothing will get better, and I’ve felt that sentiment before but if we can do anything to slow down our collective car crash, I’m on board with doing that.… Continue reading
President Trump’s allies and those within his circle have come under criminal scrutiny. Some have been convicted of committing crimes including bank and tax fraud, misusing charity funds, obstructing investigations, lying, witness tampering, campaign finance violations, and foreign lobbying violations. Here are 8 examples from the last four years:
In 2019 the Trump Foundation was ordered to pay $2 million for misusing charity funds for personal use following an investigation.[1] The Trump Foundation dissolved following an investigation led by the New York Attorney General.[2] President Trump was ordered to pay $2 million for misusing charity funds.[3]
In 2019 Trump campaign adviser and long time friend of President Trump – Roger Stone was convicted and sentenced to prison.
Are you telling me that there aren’t people out there like this? Because I personally know several.
I’m sure there are, but of the two, the people who dismiss any criticisms of Trump as “orANgE mAN bAD” are worse. In the words of Dave Chapelle, regardless of whether you like his policies or not, you have to agree he’s having a terrible go at it.
Of course. This is just making fun of the people that base their beliefs currently on what the president supports/opposes, even if that is a 180 from their beliefs a couple of years ago. There are obviously very legitimate reasons to opposed Trump (and I assume a few to support him as well) but a lot of people screech about everything he does just because he did it.… Continue reading
like last 20-30 years new. Americans always had their disagreements but in the past most people could at least agree on the problems we needed to address. Now we can’t agree on the problems much less the solutions.
Polarization in the house:
There was always a lot of polarization and differences – they were just regional in the past. And not tied to party affiliation, either. A Democrat in Alabama would be quite different than a Democrat in New York City. Probably more different than Democrats and Republicans in the same state.
Now everyone is all mixed together, and identify more with groups they connect to online than to their neighbors.… Continue reading
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