Shot in the Dark

#OneAbusedSpouse

You and your significant other each earn $60,000 a year. That’s a total household income of $120,000.

Your bills – housing, transportation, loan payments, food, everything you do – come to $10,000 a month. Your family budget is balanced.

You go out to the casino one night, and get the luckiest break ever; you walk out $80,000 ahead. 

You buy a bigger house, a newer car (and a bridge loan to finish paying off your old one), do some remodeling, put a couple of vacations and cruises and a whole lot of happy hours, on your capital one card. 

With the new mortgage, car loan, revolving credit and loans to pay for all the other goodies, your monthly expenses go up to $16,000 a month – requiring a $200,000 a year income between you and your significant other – who, remember, are still earning $120,000 a year between you. So when you’ve burned through that $80 windfall, you’ll be coming up $80,000 a year in the red.

Your options to avoid insolvency, foreclosure, and repossession are:

a. Downsize, quick – go back to a smaller house, cheaper car, etc.

b. Keep going back to the casino and hope for another big score, and hope your significant other isn’t too stupid to know what a longshot that is.

c. Browbeat your significant other into earning more money so you don’t go bankrupt, and hope he or she doesn’t leave you. As the significant other why they hate children if they don’t ratchet their income up, but fast.

That’s exactly what the state legislature and Governor Klink have done; the pandemic left the state with a one time windfall that they have spent, and much more. 

And you and I, the taxpayers of Minnesota, are the significant other. 

So what are they going to do about it?

Well, they’re going to hope that you’re a dumb spouse that thinks you can bank on casino winnings. But they are just going to hold out for option C, and demand you pony up more.

That’s exactly what just happened.

If this were a marriage, you would call the big spender an abusive spouse. 

So when you are the victim, what do you call the perpetrator? 

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66 responses to “#OneAbusedSpouse”

  1. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Pretty happy about being in the 12% tax bracket.

  2. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    They raised your taxes. They will raise them again next year, and the year after that. They will continue to raise your taxes until they are stopped. They will be stopped after y’all have sold your cars, downsized into habitrail rental units, and eat bugs.

    It’s like you looked into the Sun, and are now blinded to the neon signs.

  3. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    And boy oh boy, out of those “casino winnings” we get to keep $260/$520 (single/joint) per filer.

    I’m sure that Walz has a good reason for reducing the $1000/$2000 (single/joint) per filer that he promised on the campaign trail:
    Millionaires like Scott and Matt don’t understand that working Minnesotans need $2,000 checks in their pockets.

    They killed that deal for their self-interest.

    But when @PeggyFlanagan and I are reelected, we’ll push to get this done.

  4. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Gosh, I must’ve written something pretty darn good that it was “moderated” like those of the Bigman and MMP. High five to me!

  5. scotwolf Avatar
    scotwolf

    The Dems control the statewide ans city elections so they no longer fear the voters.

  6. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    A note to all those sticking around, willing to pay for the privilege of continually being abused: Vote Harder™.

  7. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    I don’t know what you’re complaining about.

    I’m happy to [have you] pay for a Better Minnesota.

  8. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    I’d call them my “ex”.

  9. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    I read somewhere, that you poor slobs are getting $200 rebate checks from your government.

    I’d have more respect for them if they put the check on your nose, and made you sit there until they say “OK” before you take it to the bank…

    Hell, that’s enough to pay your new sales and gas taxes, and delivery fees for at least 3 months! #Winning!

    lmao…what a fucking shitshow.

  10. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    The DFL acted decisively and unapologetically when the wielded the power to achieve some things. Just like the GOP does when they get power.

    Maybe the GOP should do some outreach and quit making up stories about kids using litter boxes.

  11. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    You know who else acted decisively and unapologetically when he wielded the power to achieve some things? That’s right, the big H. So that makes it all good, right?

    Hard to believe anybody would waste time posting such drivel. Sure hope it pays well, the cost in self-esteem would bankrupt me.

  12. TKS Avatar
    TKS

    Wow, who knew acting decisively and unapologetically makes abuse ok?

  13. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Minnesota Republicans need to consider the effects of nominating a gubernatorial candidate who was unelectable. They’re going to need a candidate who can poach a few conservative democrats and independents. Good luck with the base….

  14. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    Enlighten us, oh wise one. Who among Minnesota Republicans would win the approval of the Star Tribune, the teacher’s and public employees unions, the DFL vote harvesters assiduously collecting ballots and ‘helping’ mark them before stuffing them in the trunk of the car to be pulled out as needed?

    Who is this electable candidate?

  15. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    That would be an issue for the GOP primary attendees to address. I wish them luck ….

  16. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    Minnesota Republicans need to consider the effects of rampant vote/voter fraud, because that’s what has happened in the last 3 gubernatorial elections. The one before that was thrown by a petulant “Independent In Name Only”. The one before that, they didn’t cheat hard enough.

    In my lifetime, there will never be another Republican governor in the state of MN. The leftist cheats will ensure it. As a population of Minnesotans, too many Republicans have too high a sense of morality to cheat as hard as the Democrats are willing to do.

  17. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    BillC
    As I see it, the MNGOP needs to adopt the tactics of the commies; Ballot harvest, vote early and by mail.

  18. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    BH
    agreed, every Senior Center, Nursing Home, Cancer Ward, and Hospice needs GOP Outreach personnel busy harvesting votes. They’ll still win but only due to outright fraud. Force the DFL to Cheat Harder™

  19. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    When Democrat vote harvesters cheat, Democrat election officials are eager to county the ballots and Democrat county attorneys are uninterested.

    If Republicans try vote harvesting, Democrat election officials will throw out all those ballots and Democrat county attorneys will declare another insurrection.

    This is an elementary problem in game theory. When one side cheats, the solution is not for the other side to cheat as well. The solution is to knock over the game table and clout the cheater upside the head.

  20. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Mike Lindell is your man 👍

  21. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    You can go all Galt. Leave the state.

  22. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    It’s way, way too difficult to hold any form of discussion on this site because of the malconfigured Akismet, but my opinion is that the leading red state utopias are going to be slowly but surely overwhelmed just like those former red states like CA and CO. It’s happening in WY right now.

    MN sucks, I agree, for all sorts of reasons and it’s gonna suck more too, but lazy and apathetic conservatives in SC, FL, and TX are going to let their states go too. The DemoCommies are driven by a religious conviction that keeps them going day after day while the right just wants to be left alone. Which do you think is going to change things?

  23. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    jdm, you are correct, but our chances of enjoying “normal” lives for a longer period of time, before the hoard blots out the sun, are much higher. Unless you are into living in a cave.

    Speaking of blotting out the sun, are you guys following what’s happening in Mexico? ’91 Mt. Pinatubo redux? Some of us still remember what happened back then. Care to speculate how much more AGM cult will spin this to make all our lives even MORE miserable? And what about “humanitarian” tearing down of any border wall remaining? You ain’t seen nothing yet! Buckle up buckaroos, it’s going to be a wild ride! All in the name of science™!

  24. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Hey rAT!!

    How many Federal District courts are there?

    Look back at your law school notes.

    LMMFAO

  25. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    JDM, the repubs in SC are lazy, but whenever the rump Degenerate caucus proposes something really nasty, they crush it, and then go back to grifting.

    It’s not optimal, and yeah, they’re mostly fucking worthless, but there are no horror stories coming our way any time soon.

  26. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    The DFL acted decisively and unapologetically when the wielded the power to achieve some things

    Some degenerates did some things….

    I’m happy for you and your ER Nurse daughter, rAT. It should get a lot cheaper to yeet any little rATlets that you make during your Berkeley horse sessions.

  27. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    $17 Billion surplus, tax hike in the works, and we can’t get the darned potholes fixed. There is a lesson here somewhere.

  28. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    Re: The Emery Collective’s 3:03. Mike Lindell is not my guy. He’s content to point out the cheating, as if proving it will shame the cheaters into playing fair. It won’t. They’re shameless. They’re proud of getting away with it.

    The way to convince cheaters to play fair is to make it too costly for them to cheat. The question then becomes: how can we do that while minimizing violence? I’m open to suggestions.

  29. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    ^ Decline is a choice (Bill Glahn). People seem happy to pay – didn’t they say that?

  30. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    He’s content to point out the cheating, as if proving it will shame the cheaters into playing fair. It won’t. They’re shameless. They’re proud of getting away with it.

    This is far more important and astute than most people realize. It’s like “pour encourager les autres” (ie, as an example to the others): there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

  31. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Lindell did more than talk.He spent millions and put everything on the line…and lost.

    He lost, not because of lack of commitment, he lost because he was committed to playing the game by the reprobates rules, within the lines a deaf and dying country drew long ago.

    He wanted to save the system. He should have been helping to tear it apart.

  32. Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Minnesotans re-elected a supposed moderate DFL’r from rural Minnesota who became a radical once he was in office. This governor than mismanaged the George Floyd riots, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of immediate damage to the state’s economy & potentially billions in lost growth in the cities. His policies also gave Minnesota the HIGHEST covid death rate in care homes of all the fifty states.
    This governor was then re-elected by a wide margin.
    Minnesota is a democracy, it has the government it deserves.

  33. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Minnesota is a democracy, it has the government it deserves

    “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – HL Mencken

  34. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Speaking of being abused on federal level. Know what we need? Send more billions to Uke of course!

    Germany’s domestic equivalent of the FBI is considering leads pointing towards Ukraine being the author of last year’s explosions which destroyed a key energy pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

  35. Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    You may have noticed more chatter from the Dems about expanding the SC, accompanied by attacks on the ethics of conservative — and only conservative — court members.
    You may have wondered why, since the dems cannot expand the court w/o breaking a senate filibuster. Why waste the effort?
    The answer is that they intend to make reforming the court an issue in 2024. If Biden’s approval rating are in the toilet, and his re-election is threatened, make the election about something else. “Re-elect Slow Joe and he & senate majority will make the court democratic. We will then do to the US what the DFL trifecta did in Minnesota.”

  36. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Scott Jensen and Matt Birk was a ticket no independent was going to vote for. The GOP needs to get in touch with younger voters, not alienate them.

  37. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    “You may have noticed more chatter from the Dems about expanding the SC, … blah blah blah….~ Woolly

    Every lawyer that argues before SCOTUS should now ask opposing counsel if they or their firm has any financial ties to any of the justices.

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  39. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Where did you get your JD, rAT? What year did you pass the bar?

    How many Federal District Courts are there rAT? You must have argued before them all at one time, or another, right?

  40. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    “Speaking of being abused on federal level. Know what we need? Send more billions to Uke [Ukraine] of course!”

    This comment is built around the belief that the coming escalation of conflict (“the counteroffensive”) will continue to be some sort of attritional struggle. If it is, then both the nature of the casualties (a lot of them) and the timeline (prolonged conflict) will favor Russia. Russian belief that the West and in particular the US will “tire” of the conflict will remain in place. Putin’s will to persist will be rewarded. (Why would Biden even bother running for reelection?)

    However, the US probably possesses weapons of exceptional capacity and sophistication to completely disrupt Russian military operations and put the Russian military in a state of chaos which would allow the Ukrainians to eject all Russian troops from the legally bordered Ukraine. If so, has the US shared these weapons in sufficient quantities to permit a new phase of battle which would not be attritional but would represent highly mobile and deep strike capable battle that would change the entire nature of the conflict.

    If Ukraine possesses weapons of exceptional capabilities not yet fully revealed, then having Russian forces digging in on existing lines of conflict and having Russian forces concentrated on these lines with easily identifiable lines of communication from Russia itself would be highly desirable. Russian forces could first be cut-off in place and then destroyed from the rear to the forward lines. Can Russian forces hold cohesion when attacked from both rear and front? Are not Russian forces today just about where an aggressive new strategy would want them?

    Both Biden and European leaders have great incentives to end this conflict this summer or by the fall at the latest. They will take more battlefield risks precisely because they face heightened and uncertain political risks in the 2024 election season.

    If there is an adversary susceptible to being hit by a “rock ’em and sock ’em” military campaign, it is the Russians in Ukraine in 2024.

  41. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Blah, blah, blah ~rAT Emery

    …Save it, rAT.

    What we want to know is:

    1. Where did you earn your JD?
    2. How many Federal District Courts are there?

  42. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Judge dismisses Kari Lake’s final claim in election loss for Arizona governor
    https://apnews.com/article/arizona-kari-lake-election-challenge-3a72275e94ed966cd5051c41f44abb95

    (from the article): “County officials say everyone had a chance to vote and all ballots were counted because those affected by the printers were taken to more sophisticated counters at election headquarters.”

    It is true. Sorry Kari.

    I’ve used a prosumer level flatbad scanner to scan what appeared to be a completely sun-bleached paper white without any text on (ie the ink appeared to be gone) piece of paper and then use the scanner’s ability to discern the extremely small differences in reflected light which then were translated into 16-bit per R, G, and B values and some were different than others. Running some filters, like from within any version of even 1990’s Photoshop, to ‘expand’ the pixels numerical differences made the text magically reappear.

    No episode of “Forensic Files” knowledge necessary either, hehe. Only of photography, sensor optical dynamic range, numerical digitization, filtering, hit ‘print’ to print the result, and that is about it.

    Good luck to her in her future endeavors.

  43. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    rAT, stop wasting our time with your inane blather.

    1. Where did you earn your JD?
    2. How many Federal District Courts are there?

  44. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Oh it’s Tom 😂 how’s that 1000’ of swamp working out? Are are utilizing it to drain the effluent from your swine operations?

  45. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    I’ve used a prosumer level flatbad scanner to scan what appeared to be a completely sun-bleached paper white without any text on (ie the ink appeared to be gone) piece of paper and then use the scanner’s ability to discern the extremely small differences in reflected light which then were translated into 16-bit per R, G, and B values and blah, blah, blah.

    JFC

    When not working on Supreme Court Amicus briefs in support of pedophilia, cornering the stock market or consulting with brain surgeons, rAT Emery was the technical expert on the set of CSI.

    Many do no know this…

  46. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    rAT, stop wasting our time with your inane blather.

    1. Where did you earn your JD?
    2. How many Federal District Courts are there?

    tia

  47. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Say rAT? “Prosumer” is a generic term. There is no such thing as a “prosumer flat bed scanner”.

    You fucking idiot. Where ever you plagiarized that bit of inane twaddle from was speaking about a process that you copied and pasted without reading, or understanding.

    You are the stupidest man I know. And the worst liar.

  48. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    BTW, rAT. We own 11 wooded acres and 800′ of shorefront on one of the largest reservoir lakes in the upstate of SC. The deed is recorded; it’s public information. Use your fabulous G0ogle SkiLLz and look it up, asshole. 😎

    The cope and seethe in your shitty little 3 BR bungalow. 😂🤙🏻

  49. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Germany’s domestic equivalent of the FBI is considering leads pointing towards Ukraine being the author of last year’s explosions which destroyed a key energy pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

    Source, JPA? If true, my response is When Russia decided to invade Ukraine, they made every Russian asset in the world fair game for attack.

    Really, Russia and her apologists seem to have the notion that somehow, declaring war on a nation doesn’t allow the other nation to retaliate effectively. Or, put in other ways, Russia’s waged relentless war against targets like daycare centers, schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings. We should be overly concerned that somebody took out their pipeline….why?

    But that noted, I personally suspect Russia’s FSB did it, and tried to frame others for it.

  50. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    “Source, JPA?”

    JFC…you’ve gone 100% nitwit, Mr. Bubble. Thats the first thing every 80 IQ leftist dork posts upon getting triggered.

    Use the fucking Google, dork.

    “In a summary of the claims made by outlets including Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sweden’s Expressen, and Denmarks Berlingske published by German broadcaster Tagesschau it is reported a yacht rented from a Baltic port at the time of the blasts which was subsequently discovered to have explosives residue onboard is being considered in investigations.”

    “But that noted, I personally suspect Russia’s FSB did it, and tried to frame others for it.”

    Thats a lot of words to say “derp”, Mr. Bubble. Your boys are finished, Mr. Bubble. They used up all the ammo they had in Bakhmut, and lost. And the Ruskies blew up the reserves.

    Take the L

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