From Steve Kruiser:
“Trump is also aware that there is no guarantee that the GOP will continue his work when this term is done, so he knows that he has to assume that making America great again is all on him. It would be nice to believe that he’s getting things moving in the right direction for years to come, but we have all met the Republican Party.”
As any fule kno, when a government is strapped for cash they will perforce come up with new ideas for “tax revenue streams” (a.k.a. “innovative methods to steal money from the public”). Needless to say, they can’t just come out and say “we’re going to steal more of your money” because that might lead to public hangings…
…sorry, I went off to a warm and happy place there for a few moments.
Anyway, the theft has to be concealed beneath a maskirovka of some sort, and the best one (apart from “national interest”) is “public health”, which shouldn’t fool anybody but it does, repeatedly and regrettably.
Examples of this abound, the latest being that of Head Thief, U.K. Division — sorry, I meant Chancellor of the Exchequer — Rachel Reeves, who wants to tax (wait for it) milkshakes.
The Chancellor has drawn up plans to impose a sugar tax on milk and yoghurt-based beverages for the first time, after concluding that they are damaging public health.
The levy will drive prices up by as much as 24p per litre, with officials expecting 93 percent of drinks on the market to be affected unless they change their recipes.
I think the British public should express their rage profound disappointment at this proposal by reverting to an age-old mechanism:
But they won’t, because as long as it’s for people’s health, you see, it’s acceptable. (That sound you hear in the background is the bleating of sheep.)
Seen SOTI:
…and according to the headline, only a “maths genius” can solve it in under 30 seconds.
WTF? I’m no math genius, and it took me about 5 seconds to solve it:
x = 2, y = 1; ergo 4xy = 8
This is not to show off my mathematical prowess, but to decry the fact that so simple an algebraic puzzle apparently requires “genius” to solve it.
Are we truly getting more stupid as a species?
Sent to me by Reader Mike L., this lovely example of responsible parenting:
Mom arrested for giving Jell-O shots to kids at elementary school Christmas party
Much as I would have laughed myself sick at watching a roomful of rug rats falling all over the place and getting into fistfights over who gets the last piece of cake, this is just plain irresponsible. I mean, what made her think that this would be a good idea?
Giving your own kids booze: just idiotic. Giving other people’s kids booze: slapworthy (by the parents of each kid, consecutively).
My biggest problem, though, is what actual punishment should be meted out to Mommie Dearest.
Suggestions in Comments.
“In essence, we note there are two large demographic bodies that resemble one another in the extent of their cognitive impairment: brain-dead politicians and brain-dead electorates. They are not necessarily coterminous. In some nations, one predominates; in others, another. Sometimes the two dispensations are found in sync.
In European nations such as the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, and Romania, and of course in the higher echelons of the EU itself, the political class is plainly suffering from an access of both mental impairment and historical ignorance, receding into the very totalitarian past they were reconstructed to avert…”
The word he intended to use was “excess” and not “access“, a mistake which kind of undercuts his verbose use of words such as “coterminous” and “dispensations” (“conditions”, surely?).
I quit reading the piece after that, because I couldn’t trust that the writer (and the editor) understood the topic.
I quote, and not for the first time, the late Roger Moore’s excellent statement:
“The point of language is to communicate your thoughts in the shortest possible time and in the clearest possible way.”
This writer fails on both counts, repeatedly. No wonder A.I. is taking over.
Well, here’s some fun — and it took place in Britishland of all places, where more stupid laws have recently been passed than in any country outside the ‘Stans or California.
The Supreme Court in London has ruled that, for the purposes of judging matters of equality, terms like ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ refer to biological sex, not gender.
Campaigners have hailed the “death” of self-identification as the UK Supreme Court in Westminster ruled on Wednesday morning that the UK’s Equality Act 2010 refers to “biological women and biological sex”.
The court has ruled: “The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.”
Judge Lord Patrick Hodge said in the ruling that the body of five judges had unanimously agreed that a man with a Gender Recognition Certificate, a UK legal paper that recognises that person’s assumed gender when it is other than their biological sex, could not be counted as a woman when it came to equality legislation.
Excuse me for a second…
Oooooh the trannies are going to go apeshit — but nobody of right mind is going to care.
Frankly, I’m just appalled that it took fucking lawyers to state (unanimously, even!) the obvious fact that right-thinking people have always known.
I love the pic that Breitbart used:
I kinda feel the same way.
Elsewhere:
The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary officially recognized the scientific fact that there are only two genders, in the nation’s constitution.
The 15th amendment to the Hungarian constitution was overwhelmingly ratified by Budapest’s Országgyűlés parliament this week by a margin of 140 votes in favour to 21 votes against, Magyarnemzet reported.
But wait! There’s MOAR!
The 15th Amendment will also impact other areas of civil society, for instance, enshrining the right for Hungarians to pay for goods and services with cash money.
It comes amid increasing efforts within Europe and elsewhere to institute Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCS), which opponents warn would enable more state controls on how people spend their own money.
I’d like to see that enshrined here too, purely as a prophylactic measure. Because I don’t trust government, any government and even the one we’ve got here at the moment.
And I have the Founding Fathers on my side.