Category: Socialism American Style
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Not The Babylon Bee
So much that feels like parody but, sadly, is not, in this tweet from Senator Fateh: When I said the left hates Lauren Boebert because she could beat all their men at armwrestling, you can see what I mean, now. Right?
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A Hell “We” Can Make Happen
I came across this tweet last week. At first blush, I thought it was parody, and not especially good. I moved from there to Assumption B – a chuckleheaded sophomore political science major from Austin, or Seattle, or maybe the University of Saint Thomas. It can be hard to tell parody from reality with them,…
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Utopienfergnügen
I caught this Twitter thread last week, and wanted to make sure I got a chance to talk about it. It’s by Andrew Hammel, an American living in Germany. The first people to pass it around to are all of your friends who still think Angela Merkel was the real leader of the free world…
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Renters Remorse
A friend of the blog emails: These amendments wouldn’t have changed my vote, but I wonder if it would have even passed if rent control as defined through the council’s amendments had been on the ballot? Not likely, which is how it should have been in the first place – not passed. I ask, as…
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I’m Curious
Is there someone out there, anywhere, who read this: …and thought “Hmmm – government is clearly not working for my family, and the “Inflation Reduction Act is clearly a turd that will raise prices… …but he ended it with the word “Period”. Hmmm. He must be onto something”?
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Antisocial Contract
Serve: Volley: Here’s something that should be even less controversial: if you’re going into the job market with skills that nobody will pay you a living wage for, you’re not ready to “adult”.
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Your Lying Eyes
Most of the hard, empirical realizations I’ve had as a result of this blog started as satirical, sardonic or otherwise flippant remarks that turned out, to my amazement, to be true. The canon of “Berg’s Law” is the closest I’ve got to a “famous” example. Less flippant? My ever-more-frequent observation that Democrat politicians can tell…
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Script
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’ve been working on a movie script for an action adventure film. I made sure to be Woke and Diverse to avoid rejection for those reasons. *** The top 100 richest people on the planet are mostly old straight White men who hate women, minorities, LGBTQ+ and want them…
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Think “Walz Checks”, Only Gassy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Modern Monetary Theory says the government can borrow and spend as much as it likes without consequences. If we can afford a gas tax holiday, why not an income tax holiday, a social security tax holiday, a liquor tax holiday? Or is MMT a lie and the gas tax…
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Days Of Future Past: Obama’s Fourth Term Edition
Production: US currently run by an administration imposing a “radical restructuring” that will make society a dystopian droog state (for all but the oligarchs who will sit at the top. See also the USSR, or China). Staging: Justin Trudeau’s Canada, where the next steps of the dystopian vision are trialed on a “western” population. Experimental…
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Unintended Consequences
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Excellent example of second-order effects never considered by the Lesco Brandon Administration. Joe Doakes Wait – did I call them “unintended consequences? “
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Lesko Warranty
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Lesko Brandon took bold decisive action to help me with rising gas prices. There’s just one catch: he wants to void my vehicle warranty. I drive a 2017 Hyundai Sonata. The owner’s manual says I can use gasoline with a maximum of 10% ethanol. In Minnesota, that’s ordinary 87…
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School Days!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I need to go back to school so I can take out$10,000 in student loans and never pay them back. I’m thinking Gunsmith School sounds good. Saw it on a matchbook cover. Probably be lots of demand for my services and get paid in cash, after Democrats ban legally-owned…
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India First
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: India not shipping much wheat to other nations,they’re keeping most of it to feed their own. They are hoarding wheat! The tiny amount they grudgingly sell costs too much. They are price gouging! Poor people in other nations will go hungry. They are playing politics with food, women and…
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Modern Monetary Theory
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, when gold and silver were currency, there was only so much metal so there could only be so much money. The government couldn’t create more money out of thin air, it had to tax citizens to obtain the money to run the government. Lesko Brandon…
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Lest It Be Forgotten
Government is the things we do together, stupidly and incompetenty. Case in point – the formula shortage. Which is – you guessed it – the fault of big government.
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Digital Theft
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The US government seized funds without notice or hearing and doesn’t plan to give the money back. It plans to spend the money. “Good,” you say. “That person deserved it. He lives in a country we don’t like. He belongs to a religion we don’t like. He believes in…
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Coming soon to a state near you
Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky produced a sobering report for Chapman University on the plight of California and its prospects for the future. It might be more accurate to refer to “the Californias”, plural, as the report describes two Californias. The state is blessed with immense natural resources and generates riches that make Croesus seem…
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Task And Purpose
“Every once in a while, a politician slips up and tells the truth“ “Lieutenant“ Governor Flanagan did that Monday on Twitter: She’s right. After three generations of actively creating dependence on government, they have… created dependence on government. It’s a feature, not a bug. To the DFL, anyway.
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Wrong
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: I’ve been thinking that donations to politicians were buying access. If some front company in Ukraine donates a million dollars to Hillary’s Haitian Relief Fund, she’ll return their calls so they can express their concerns about US foreign policy. But thinking about it more, that’s gotta be wrong. Everybody…
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Resetting The Reset
Green, “sustainable” energy policies that make middle class live unsustainable. Transitioning from houses to apartments, from cars to mass transit. Moving from meat to vegetables, with maybe some insect thrown in as a treat. Hyperinflation, which serves mainly to make common savings and investment worthless, but does wonders for the wealth of the plutocrats, “futurists”…
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Costs
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I used $20 of electricity but my bill is nearly $50 because of the taxes and extra fees, including an “affordability” charge. If you’re trying to make my bill more affordable, shouldn’t that be subtracted instead of added? Joe Doakes It’s not about making your bill, or any of…
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Sometimes Paranoia Is Just Perfect Awareness
I’m not sure that the Biden administration, like the Obama administration before it, is undertaking multigenerational effort to destroy this nations “red” heartland. But if they were, I wonder what they would be doing differently?
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The Sound Of Someone Who Has Never Spent One Day In The Private Sector
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden said the key to controlling inflation is for businesses to “control costshttps://”:for businesses to “control costs” “We have a choice. One way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poorer. I think I have a better idea to fight inflation:…
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Memory
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember this thread jack fr Emery on February 4, 2022 at 4:07 pm said: The previous two months was revised up by 709,000. This was a strong report — and surprising given the surge in Covid-19 cases in January. Remember my response? I was right. I concede that government…