BEARS!!! IYKYK

An old term for people of diminished mental capabilities.

Vance – that’s the hillbilly guy, yeah?

Agreed. More like Ghostbusters, less like Scandinavian literature.

I don’t think so.

Politics can sort of be like playing a cross between chess and chicken. Strategic moves to see who blinks first. It’s a constitutional challenge that will need to be addressed by the federal government, taking their time and resources from their own unconstitutional efforts.

Or not. I’m just an Internet person who as far as anyone knows has zero expertise in these sorts of things.

Me llama Han Solo y quiero jugar videojuegos de Switch2. Además, no me gusta pagar Trumpiffs. Theoretically.

ELI5 smuggling a Switch2 over the Mexico or Canadian border. Not that I would recommend that or anything. For science. And fanfic.

The dumb idols of the right wing gods are angry and demand human sacrifice.

What a stupid timeline.

“Yeah, gee, it’d be a real shame if someone came in and messed up your nice place of business here. But you know what? We can protect you from those sorts of lowlifes. We sell, you could say, a type of insurance to protect you against that happening.”

No, no, the black sharpie on the maps clearly indicated encirclement. /s

There are already too many deserving charities for my pocket book. Giving money to an unrepentant Trump voter who got exactly what he voted for gets my sympathy, but not a dime.

Please please please

Officially, no, but I bet they’ve had some choice words about Boeing executives in their private communications, and “stranded” would likely have been the least extreme terminology used.

I love this plan.

Where’s the Trump “I did this” stickers like I saw at gas pumps with Biden, anyway? At least this one would have some semblance of truth to it, with the bird flu mismanagement.

Exactly. Every vaccinated person is another unlikely vector to pass the disease along further, and we’re all better for it.

Not to argue with the article headline, but the stupidest line was crossed long ago. The administration is just padding their stupidity score at this point.

Good trouble

Why are the Democrats making everything so expensive?!

/s

I’ll take “How to raise taxes for the lower classes without them noticing?” for $1200, Alex.

For an over-simplification, let me present 2 people living in a world where most everything is imported and most everything has a 25% tariff applied.

Steve lives paycheck to paycheck. Every penny he earns is spent. On top of his income tax, sales tax, and whatever other tax he pays for the right to purchase or use something, he also pays that extra 25% on everything for tariffs, which goes to the federal government. Just like a tax, but with a different name. On more or less 100% of his income. So, effectively, the tariff is an additional 25% tax on Steve.

Thermadore III, however, is a trust fund type of guy. He flits back and forth between the beach and the golf course, with no real job, and no real contribution to society. He pays a lower income tax rate than Steve on most of his income, because it’s from long term investments rather than money he had to work for. But because he only spends 10% of his income, he only pays the additional 25% tariff on a fraction of his money. 90% of his income is allowed to grow, tariff free, until such time as he decides to pull some extra cash out for another yacht. Which his accountant will probably advise him to purchase through a shell company registered with some country in the Caribbean, thus avoiding the extra tariffs, anyway.

Again, it’s an oversimplification. But placing large tariffs on vast amounts of stuff that normal people must buy is absolutely raising taxes on the little people.

Edit: grammar isn’t supposed to be this difficult