Yup. The whole thing is a ruse to get rid of Income Tax in favor of Tariffs, which will essentially act as a national sales tax.

And this, my friends, are why tariffs are dumb.

Good.

Here’s a fun fact. Fox News makes more than $2 for every cable/streaming subscriber in the country (assuming Fox News is on the basic tier - which I think it almost always is).

So let’s take YouTube TV. It has 8 million subscribers. That works out to $16 million a month in carriage fees and $192 million a year.

The many of us, whoever never, ever watch Fox News and despise all they stand for, are helping fund the channel’s propaganda.

Now add the likes of Comcast (~$300 million a year), Charter (~$295 million a year), Cox (~$156 million a year) and we’re paying them a TON of cash each year to be the mouthpiece of those who want to destroy our way of life.

IMO it’s time to reach out to these companies, tell them you’re ending your service, and you’re doing so because you don’t want your hard earned dollars supporting Fox News.

https://www.commoncause.org/work/no-fox-fee/

And let’s not forget they can now spend $5 million of that on a “golden visa” to become legal US residents on the path to citizenship.

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.

This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.

Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.

This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.

Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.

This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.

Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.

He knows. They can smell their own.

Good.

Much like the appeasers that enabled Hitler, history is going to look back on Pelosi, Schumer, Kamala, Biden, Obama, Clinton, Jefferies, and other democrats who stood by and let all this happen on their watch without so much as a wimper.

Unconvinced, Linda and Kayla Nordquist asked New York State Police Troop E to file a missing person’s report. They said a state trooper declined.

“She said I need to stop watching so much TV, something about it not being a true crime episode,” Kayla said. “I need to stop watching so much TV and that they don’t pass out missing people flyers.”

To Serve, Protect and Defend the People of New York?

I feel like “later rescinded” makes it sound like all the other aid that just got cancelled.

This case is more egregious and frankly scary.

The funds were in the city’s bank account, and the Trump administration went into that bank account and took the money back without telling the city.

It’s almost like Trump when to a seminar on the incredible healing power of tariffs, and believed every word he heard.

Gee wonder where he got the idea from.

https://www.livemint.com/market/cryptocurrency/trump-meme-coin-investors-lose-2-billion-in-less-than-a-month-how-are-melania-bitcoin-performing-11739522934272.html

Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.

“Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?”

The answer was basically “rose colored glasses.”

I joined **Reddit **after the ‘deaths’ of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Now it’s bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.

Delete.

I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don’t see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.

Delete.

I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.

Delete.

So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The ‘social’ in ‘social’ media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.

After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.

It’s interesting that the Project 2025 text spells out diversity, equity and inclusion, while the executive order just says DEI.

I 100 percent thing folks need to push back on the blanket use of ‘DEI’ because they’re trying to make it mean the same as ‘woke.’

I’m sure there’s a number of mouthbreathers out there who’ll say they’re against DEI, but if you ask “you mean diversity, equity and inclusion?” they’ll back pedal.

Mercedes also includes a number of items as a subscription in some countries. Some stuff is app related. Others are things like getting full use of your rear-steering wheels and unlocking extra horsepower.

So the blue states don’t have a National Guard to respond?

… and we’re going to get those hard drives back, right? And figure out what they did with that data, right?

Just looked and sure enough it was installed on Jan. 22.

Nothing screams “spyware” like installing an app without notice and providing no context for what it does whatsoever.

Btw this has been installed by “More than 1 Billion” devices, so if you have an Android devices the odds are pretty flipping good you have this.

When your reasons for dismissal is being a black woman, you have a pretty good case.