Posts by Ace2

Re: Distraction tactics—that's all

My trans kid got to see a lot of those fucking ads.

You’re a true coward. Would be a shame if you offed yourself tonight.

Re: Putin will be pissing himself laughing

Post under your real account, coward.

Re: I’m just a little confused which way politically the author leans

Learn the difference between “wrong” and “fantasy.”

If I say unemployment was 4.3% last month, I would be wrong. It was actually 4.(whatever)%.

If I say unemployment was 17.8%, the highest it’s ever been in the history of the world, as opposed to 0% like when I was in charge…. That would be orange diarrhea.

The problem with today’s fact checking is that they call both of those things “untrue” or whatever.

Re: Insane troll logic budget

We forgive you / them. … Would you mind stopping by again?

Re: Amazon: The employer of last resort

Who said they solved it? AFAIK it is still fast approaching.

Re: Thank fortune that Musk was born in South Africa

You are assuming that there will be anyone left to enforce the plain meaning of the Constitution.

After the last 2-3 years of SCOTUS, it’s clear that they’re not just unbound by precedent - they’re unbound by the actual text of the thing.

Re: But does it have a purpose?

The tax code looks the way it does because of (A) giveaways like tax abatement for ‘certain shared-interest mining operations undertaken before 1985,’ and other legacy nonsense; and (B) closing loopholes found by people with expensive tax lawyers. Good luck.

Schools - “full stop”? Ok. When the low-tax-paradise states have to switch to 3 day school weeks to keep the lights on, we’ll see who’s happy and who’s mad.

Re: Hmm

That you would put those two things in the same bucket shows how utterly worthless you are. FOAD.

Re: Good luck getting through the mandatory drug testing Elon

Come now. You know those rules only apply to the little people.

Re: But does it have a purpose?

The biggest and growing expenses of the federal government are the mandatory entitlement programs - paying for old folks to eat (Social Security) and get medical care (Medicare).

After that, it’s our $1T/year military-industrial complex.

Good luck with cutting any of those things. They are defended ferociously by their constituents. We got rid of GWB thanks to his idiotic attempt to privatize Social Security; before that it looked like we would be stuck shifting to the right long-term.

Next up is the rest of it, the “discretionary” spending. You can try to nip and tuck things but it’s small potatoes. There isn’t $2T there to save because it doesn’t hardly amount to that in total. (I haven’t looked at the numbers in a while.)

Dept of Ed? Funds schools in rural areas all over America.

Dept of Commerce? Runs the census, which is specifically required by the constitution.

Dept of Energy? Mostly maintains the nuke stockpile. People against gov’t waste tend not to be in favor of nuclear disarmament.

IRS? Every dollar we give to the IRS produces something like $8 in revenue that rich people tried to dodge.

Want to cut regulations to save money? OK. Keep in mind that many of those regulations are there to keep vendors like Twitler from ripping off the government, by overcharging for faulty crap. Or from dumping poison in the river because it’s more profitable that way.

But sure, go after waste, fraud, & abuse. Have fun!

Re: Is it decent?

Decaf is what allows me to drink as much coffee as I want without my heart seizing up