Monthly Archives: March 2021

Mar042021

Episode 308 – Same Old, Same Old

Elizabeth Warren unveils her wealth tax proposal. It sounded nonsensical last year it sounds nonsensical this year.

The new Education Secretary thinks education has to be reimagined. I’d just like to imagine our kids know how to read and do math.

In a blockbuster hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray unleashes the beast about the January 6th Capitol riots. Just kidding! The hearing was garbage but we’re going to cover it anyway.

 

Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money

You know what the problem is with spending $1.9 trillion bill that has nothing to do with running the government? The government begins to run out of money. Then, we need to get more money from those that produce and give the most in our society.

On Monday morning, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (D) proposed a new tax bill, alongside Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal (D) and Pennsylvania Representative Brendan Boyle (D), that would reportedly place a tax on “ultra-millionaire” net worths and households. It is also co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders so you know it is going to be a special proposal.

The tax would reportedly place a 2% yearly tax on the net worth of households and trusts above $50 million. Any households and trusts that have a net worth over $1 billion would have to pay another 1% annual surtax. This would leave billionaires with a total tax of 3%.

Here is Elizabeth Warren talking about the tax on CNBC:

Here is the problem.

This is double-taxing the rich. They already pay taxes now they have to pay more? This may prove to be unconstitutional in the end. They also pay payroll tax, corporate, property tax, sales tax, state taxes and personal taxes. They are paying their fair share of taxes. They just have more money.

She wants to tax speculated wealth. If I own property (which I already pay taxes on) or stocks, that is not liquid cash. It only has speculated value, no real value. If she taxes stocks, I have to sell those stocks to pay the tax. This may also prove to be unconstitutional.

She wants to tax investments and businesses not in this country. Again, I’m not sure this is legal and could be double-taxing.

She also said that the rich pay far less as a percentage in taxes than the lower 99% of the taxpayers. This is a problem when dealing with percentages. The ultra rich also pay 80% of all taxes collected. Warren never bothers to bring that up.

Also, the reason the rich pay less in taxes as a percentage is because they have so much in investments, business and personal wealth that they qualify for bigger tax breaks. But they are paying more money as a whole than most of the country.

As Bloomberg Wealth points out, the real amount paid through Warren’s plan:

“Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, would face an extra tax charge of at least $5.4 billion in 2021 if the bill became law, while Elon Musk would pay $5.2 billion, according to a Bloomberg analysis. The measure would cost Bill Gates an additional $4 billion and Mark Zuckerberg would have to fork over $2.9 billion to cover the tax.”

When one talks about the actually money these people would pay, suddenly it looks like a lot. Talking percentages is what Warren is doing to make it look like this is not much of a tax increase. Actually it is. I also find it amazing that Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and AOC think they know more about business and how to handle money better than businessmen who have made their wealth. Mostly by hiring thousands and paying them. Warren, Sanders and AOC have never created or run a business and never hired anyone. Damn, AOC never had a full time job before becoming a Congressman.

What these politicians are doing is trying to make the population jealous of people who have innovated. I would personally think it would be better if we celebrated these people and not demonized them. Jeff Bezos created a business that gets me my toilet paper in two days for a better price. Elon Musk created the first successful electric car and is helping the United States land on the moon and, eventually, Mars. Bill Gates created the best business Operating System that is used throughout the world. Mark Zuckerburg invented social media.

Ophrah Winfrey created a media empire. I thought it was important to throw a black woman in there.

These guys should be celebrated. They have innovated and created something that has made society better. It also shows the wonders of this country. None of these guys was rich. They became rich because they provided something people wanted to pay for.

Finally, the government socks at everything. Just because they make a law doesn’t mean what they are doing is moral and right. Taxes is immoral. It is legislated theft. Demonizing people that have made America and the world better is also immoral and those who create to generate a jealous the population are also immoral. Those who do it are going to have a lot to answer to in the next life.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-proposes-ultra-millionaire-wealth-tax

 

Leaves A Lot to the Imagination

This is where I think Republicans need to force things. And Republicans should have voted against guy being who was confirmed for Education Secretary.

The Senate confirmed Dr. Miguel A. Cardona to lead the Education Department on Monday. The final vote was 64 to 33. Why there were 33 Republicans to confirm this guy, I don’t know.

Cardona said when he was nominated:

“There are no shortages of challenges ahead, no shortage of problems for us to solve. But by the same token, there are countless opportunities for us to seize. We must embrace the opportunity to reimagine education – and build it back better. We must evolve it to meet the needs of our students.”

Looking at what Biden has deemed as his priorities, one can see what “building back better” and “reimagining education” means. Race. Cardona has made that very clear during his push for his nomination.

“The American public school system has been phenomenal. However, it also has its flaws. Zip code, skin color in many cases, are still determinants of success.”

You know what I think is a measurement of the success of our children? That the know math, know how to read and write, know history, know science and can speak intelligibly. Yeah, I’m weird and a white supremacist.

Cardona is just another who is more concerned about the narrative, race and equity. Education, you know, kids knowing things, is secondary. He is also for jerking off the teacher’s unions, which is something has been doing since being elected.

Sen. Tim Scott thinks the same thing which is why he didn’t vote for him. He said:

“Unfortunately, it is not his Connecticut policies that he will be championing as Biden’s education chief, it is the president’s union-focused progressive policies. If Cardona follows the Biden plan to pit teacher unions against parents and students, our kids will never get the education they truly deserve.”

In an interview with Connecticut Public Radio on WNPR in January, Cardona said he was “totally in support” of President Biden’s plan to call on Congress to cancel $10,000 of student debt for all borrowers, of which 1 in every five are in default. Taxpayers would cover student loans that are forgiven.

He believes in transgender rights but is afraid to directly answer the question from Rand Paul about men competing with women.

I find it amazing that everyone believes in trans rights but no one, including the trans health secretary, refuses to actually answer any questions during the public confirmation hearings.

This guy is going to push the Left’s narrative onto our students. One thing I am sure, nothing in schools is going to change as far as education. Our kids will continue to get indoctrinated to the Left’s belief system.

No Republican should have voted for this guy.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-education-secretary-confirmed-asks-america-to-reimagine-education

 

Long Hearing, Few Answers

FBI Director Christopher Wray defended the bureau’s handling of information warning of the prospect of violence on Jan. 6 by Trump supporters and described an increasingly complex extremist threat landscape in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Wray said:

“The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now, and it’s not going away anytime soon,” Mr. Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee at a Tuesday hearing, adding that the ideologies motivating a variety of extremists were proving difficult to pinpoint.

“In some cases, it seems like people are coming up with their own sort of customized belief systems—a little bit of this, a little bit of that—and they put it together maybe combined with some personal grievance or something that’s happened in their lives. Trying to get your arms around that is a real challenge.”

Mr. Wray said the FBI currently has roughly 2,000 open domestic-terrorism investigations, double the number the bureau was actively probing when he became director in 2017.

Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois said:

“For too long, our federal government has failed to address the growing terrorist menace in our own backyard,” calling the rioters the “latest incarnation of a violent white supremacist movement that has terrorized fellow Americans.”

Wray said the FBI viewed some of the defendants as militia-affiliated violent extremists and cited a “couple of instances” of racially motivated extremists. He said the FBI was building out a fuller picture of the motivations of the alleged members of the mob as the investigation unfolds.

Several of the Republican Senators pointed out that white supremacy, though terrible and evil, is hardly the only example of domestic terrorism. He was referring to the antifa and BLM riots over the summer and the five that have occuerred since the January 6th riots.

Chuck Grassley from Iowa said:

“A narrow view of these matters would be intellectually dishonest. We’re not serious about tackling domestic extremism if we only focus on white supremacy movements, which isn’t the only ideology that’s responsible for murders and violence.”

Fact check: True! We reaally can’t focus on a single domestic terrorist group. We must work to prevent them all.

Wray did say that there was no evidence that there was anyone from any Left-wing terrorist groups.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

A report from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism released Tuesday found that 142 of the 257 federal defendants it examined could be characterized as “inspired believers,” or those who “were neither participants in an established violent extremist group nor connected to any of the other individuals who are alleged to have stormed the Capitol.”

There was also questions about how Capitol Officer Brian Sidnick died. We were told by the media that he was hit over the head by a fire extinguisher. That was a lie. Wray said they did not know what caused Sidnick’s death and that he could not say during the hearing. The investigation was still pending.

It was a BS hearing. The Democrats tried to make it that this was all about the scourge of white supremacy. The Republicans wanted this to be about antifa and BLM and about how Nancy Pelosi calling off the Capitol Police. None of this happened. No answers.

Once again, a lot of this was just a lot of political posing and a huge waste of time. Does this sound like something you’ve heard me say before?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-director-to-testify-on-capitol-hill-about-jan-6-riots-11614681004?mod=hp_lead_pos7

 

Cancelled

Dr. Seuss’ first six books have been pulled from shelves and cannot be sold on Ebay because it has been determined the books are not racially sensative.

Dr. Seuss, you have been…CANCELLED!

The Washington Football team, formerly Redskins have replaced their cheerleaders with a male/female dance team.

Washington Redskin cheerleaders, you have been… CANCELLED!

Conservative actress Amanda Ensing has been banned from Twitter for “copyright” violations.

Amanda Ensing, you are hot and… CANCELLED!

Amazon has taken down the documentary about Justice Clarence Thomas because…well, no one knows. It happened during Black History Month. Justice Clarence Thomas, you have been… CANCELLED!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-cheerleading-squad-in-nfl-replaced-by-men-women-dance-team
https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-beauty-guru-amanda-ensing-suspended-from-twitter
https://www.dailywire.com/news/prices-of-dr-seuss-books-skyrocket-after-6-are-canceledhttps://www.dailywire.com/news/six-dr-seuss-books-to-stop-being-printed-day-after-biden-left-out-author-from-read-across-america-dayhttps://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cancels-dr-seuss-wont-mention-him-in-read-across-america-day-proclamationhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/six-dr-seuss-books-are-dropped-after-review-finds-imagery-offensive-11614711623?mod=hp_lead_pos11https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-correspondent-pulling-dr-seuss-not-cancel-culture-your-culture-is-just-garbage
https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-not-streaming-clarence-thomas-doc-during-black-history-month

 

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Mar022021

Episode 306 – That’s A Lot of Money

The House has decided it is time to spend tons of money.

Smart kids are banned in Boston.

And books are burning on Amazon.

 

That’s A Lot of Money

On Saturday morning, the House of Representatives passed Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus. The vote went right down party lines:  219-212.

The stimulus bill passed with unanimous Republican opposition, and two Democrats — Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Kurt Schrader of Oregon — also voted against it.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed the stimulus bill. He said:

When you add it all up, the price tag of Democrats’ bill is jaw-dropping. At $1.9 trillion, it is the single most expensive bill in history. But don’t call it a rescue or relief bill. Call it a Pelosi Payoff. Because the amount of money that actually goes to funding public health is less than nine percent. This is not a serious attempt to fix the real problems of the American people.

The solution America needs is one that will get us on a path back to normal. We need blue state governors to lift their non-science-based lockdowns. We need schools to reopen, students back in the classroom and breadwinners back to work.

We need to continue to increase our vaccine distribution, so we can continue to control cases and ultimately destroy the virus.

That is what the American people need, what they want, and what they deserve. But the Democrats’ bill won’t accomplish this, and instead will result in families, children and small businesses continuing to get left behind, saddled with a debt they cannot afford, all for the sake of an agenda they never voted for.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has called it a “spectacular piece of legislation,” according to NBC News. That’s enough reason for me to believe that this bill sucks.

Here’s what the bill does:

Raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour. This is the tough one.

Will extend unemployment benefits from $300 to $400 through August 29th.

Will send a $1400 check for those earning $75K or less or a couple earning $150K or less. This is a tough one. I would have limited those checks. Also, the Republicans should ask for $2000 checks. That’s how heavy this bill is.

The House plan would extend the 15% increase in food stamp benefits through September, instead of having it expire at the end of June.

The legislation would send roughly $19.1 billion to state and local governments to help low-income households cover back rent, rent assistance and utility bills.

In an effort to combat poverty, it would expand the child tax credit to $3,600 for each child under 6 and $3,000 for each child under age 18. Currently, qualifying families can receive a credit of up to $2,000 per child under age 17.

The bill would provide nearly $130 billion to K-12 schools to help students return to the classroom. What’s controversial about this is that the payments for the teacher’s union will go over the next four years and goes way above what they used to get.

The House bill now includes nearly $40 billion for colleges. Institutions would be required to spend at least half the money to provide emergency financial aid grants to students.

The bill would also provide $39 billion to child care providers.

The bill would make federal premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act policies more generous and would eliminate the maximum income cap for two years. This is trying to fix Obamacare and has nothing to do with COVID.

The bill would provide $15 billion to the Emergency Injury Disaster Loan program, which provides long-term, low-interest loans from the Small Business Administration. Severely impacted small businesses with fewer than 10 workers will be given priority for some of the money. It also provides $25 billion for a new grant program specifically for bars and restaurants. Eligible businesses may receive up to $10 million and can use the money for a variety of expenses, including payroll, mortgage and rent, utilities and food and beverages. The Paycheck Protection Program, which is currently taking applications for second-round loans, would get an additional $7 billion and the bill would make more non-profit organizations eligible.

Another $175 million would be used for outreach and promotion, creating a Community Navigator Program to help target eligible businesses.

The House legislation would provide $350 billion to state and local governments, as well as tribes and territories. States and the District of Columbia would receive $195.3 billion, while local governments would be sent $130.2 billion to be divided evenly between cities and counties. Tribes would get $20 billion and territories $4.5 billion. This is a bail out for democrat run cities and states who ran their states into the ground.

The House bill provides $14 billion to research, develop, distribute, administer and strengthen confidence in vaccines. It would also put $46 billion towards testing, contact tracing and mitigation, including investing in laboratory capacity, community-based testing sites and mobile testing units, particularly in medically underserved areas.

It also puts a crap load of money into infrastructure including libraries, schools, roads, bridges, art centers and museums.

It’s a crappy bill that takes out a lot of money that our kids and grandkids are going to have to pay off. It’s a disaster. This bill is definitely going to have issues getting through the senate as it is.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Thursday that the minimum wage hike could not remain in the proposal as written if it were passed through the reconciliation process, which Democrats will have to do in order to ensure a veto-proof simple majority. Basically, the Democrats need to prove that raising the minimum wage can be reflected in the cost of the bill. Of course, it can’t. The Republicans can filibuster this to require 67 votes to pass. They do not have anywhere near 67 votes.

Another problem, even if it gets through the reconciliation process, the Democrats cannot lose one vote. They need a 50-50 vote to have Kamala Harris be the affirming vote. We know of at least one Democrat, Joe Manchin, who is against the bill. I think there is another but am not sure.

This would be a big win for Biden. I find it sad to hear that this bill would be OK with the Republicans if it weren’t for the minimum wage increase. I also find it sad that the best way our politicians think to fix this problem with the economy is not a $1.9 trillion bill but just opening the economy.

Why doesn’t anyone just do that?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-controlled-house-passes-1-9-trillion-stimulus-bill-two-dems-vote-against-it?utm_source=Jeeng
https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-dem-who-voted-against-1-9-trillion-stimulus-says-process-should-have-involved-republicans
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-reject-gop-stimulus-amendment-to-move-100m-from-silicon-valley-subway-to-childrens-mental-health
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/politics/stimulus-house-democrats-proposal/index.html

 

We Don’t Want Any Smart People 

Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders will not be accepted into advanced classes in Boston for the next year because a majority of students in those classes are white or Asian.

GBH News reported that the selective program, called Advanced Work Classes, will suspend enrollment in part because of the pandemic but also because of “concerns about equity.”

The school district analyzed the demographics of the program and found that “more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black,” GBH reported.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius said:

“There’s been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address. There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”

School committee member said:

“This is just not acceptable. I’ve never heard these statistics before, and I’m very, very disturbed by them.”

The suspension of the program comes as schools across the country have begun teaching radical critical race theory, creating more classes insisting white supremacy can be found everywhere and denouncing merit-based systems as racist.

So being smart is racist. We can have people with more capacity than others. We must be a collective and in order to have a collective we must all be the same. Comrade.

We are going to have a lot of stupid people in the future.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-public-schools-will-suspend-advanced-classes-because-too-many-students-in-them-are-white-or-asian

 

Let the Book Burning Begin

Last week, Amazon decided to kill a biopic for Justice Clarence Thomas, on Black History Month, Great timing. But they also banned a book called When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement. The book is a scientific look at transgenderism and how people can gain an understanding on how to deal with them. It is not a book that disparages transgenders but teaches us how to understand them.

When asked, Amazon just pointed to their policies:

” Under a section labeled “Offensive Content,” Amazon states that they “don’t sell certain content including content that we determine is hate speech, promotes the abuse or sexual exploitation of children, contains pornography, glorifies rape or pedophilia, advocates terrorism, or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive.”

Amazon most recently added the “hate speech” portion of their policies. You know what the problem is with hate speech? What is hate speech? If the book mentioned earlier was an example of hate speech, what was said that was “hateful”?

No answers.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech

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Mar012021

Episode 305 – He’s Back!

He’s back and showed up at the Coderivative Political Action Conference.

 

He’s Back!

Donald Trump held his first speech since becoming a private citizen. It was held at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) conference in Florida on Sunday. He was the keynote and final speaker for the conference. It was a pretty good speech but it was very long, about 90 minutes.

Here’s what he said:

  • He committed to the Republican Party and denied starting a third party.
  • He talked about his successes during his administration.
  • He contrasted his successes with the radical policies of the current administration.
  • He attacked the culture directly:
    • He talked about Cancel Culture.
    • Defunding the police. Law and order.
    • The embrace of globalism. No one cares about us but us.
    • The embrace of socialism.
    • The Equity Act and how it will destroy women’s sports.
  • His talk of culture is important because this is what Conservatives are worried about.
  • Finally, at the end of his speech, he made clear that America was great, exceptional and an example for the world.
  • He said that the that America is great because of the people.

 

One of the things I was really worried about was that Trump would ponder too long on how the lection was stolen from him. This speech needed to be about the country, not him. He did well until the last half hour of the speech where I thought he did go off on the subject for too long. Good news for the speech, it was at the end and I don’t think many people were listening hard, including me, anymore. So it didn’t have the impact.

The speech appeared very well organized. Some had said most of the speech was on the teleprompter. And those always work well for Trump.

Trump, ever the troll, hinted that he might run again in 2024. He didn’t say he would, he didn’t say he wouldn’t. He just threw it out there. Don’t think that wasn’t on purpose. He’s just giver the news media a month of topics.

It was also a very positive speech.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-speech-cpac-2024-straw-poll
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unloads-on-biden-he-has-sold-out-americas-children-to-teacher-unions
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-debunks-claims-he-is-creating-new-party-were-not-starting-new-parties-we-have-the-gop
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-cpac-straw-poll-shows-one-candidate-dominating-gop-field-if-trump-not-on-ticket-in-2024

 

Should Trump Run Again?

Here’s the thing: We are in a civil war.

For the most part, it is not a violent war where we are shooting each other. It is not a war between Florida and New York. It is a civil war of culture. Cancel culture, censorship, anti racism, socialism vs. capitalism, the destruction of the family are all part of the culture war. Right now, no one on the Republican party is fighting the Culture War. They are worried about taxes and spending but not pushing back on whether boys are boys or girls are girls. They aren’t pushing back on cancel culture or censorship.

Donald Trump has proven he is going to fight this civil war. He says things that the Left hates. He does things that the Left hates. He represents things that the Left hates.

But should he run again?

No:

  • He will be 78 years old when he runs again. We haven’t been great with Presidents that old.
  • He creates his own conflicts. He’s clumsy. January 6th is an example of this.
  • He creates a moral argument against himself.

 

The problem with these arguments is everyone knew about these deficiencies before he won in 2016. We knew he was married a billion times. We knew he cheated on his wives. We knew he uses brash language. But he’s always been a fighter.

What if he does run?

  • He will have no competition. No one will run against him.
  • He continues to fight the Culture War. He is the only thing between us and the Left.
  • His successes will be used as a campaign benefit and then contrasted with Biden failures.

 

Do I think Trump will run? No. But if no other Republican can step up and take the reigns from Trump, Trump might run.

The Republicans need to find a new fighter. Someone who will counter the Cultural Civil War. Someone who is not afraid to be criticized and attacked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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