Recent content by gtyellowjacket

Other than some of the absolutely terrible physical abuse that we already knew about, biggest Revelation from day one was probably that Puffy liked to watch Jerry Falwell Junior style while some other dude did his girlfriend. Obviously that's not illegal and probably prejudicial but the...

Thank you for finding those numbers. I assume all that is income and not capital gains? $40 billion/year won't get us there but it is a significant amount of money. Hope it passes.

Yeah. Trump hates it too which is weird. He spoke out against it in his first term. I wonder if some hedge fund guy stole one of his girlfriends or something. He doesn't mind getting capital gains treatment for his and others work in real estate development but he does not like private equity...

I had no idea. I googled it and its some sort of secret society. I did my grad school at UNC. I didn't have an undergrad experience there other than visiting friends a few times. I guess you could ask some ungoogleable kenan flagler question or you could just not care very much whether...

Trump is now telling Congressional Republicans to raise taxes on the rich. I think he's finally running into math. Trump tells Congress to raise taxes on the rich in budget bill One of Trump's proposals is "pushing to raise the top tax rate from 37% to 39.6% for individuals earning $2.5...

Trump is now telling Congressional Republicans to raise taxes on the rich. I think he's finally finished his math homework. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-urged-speaker-johnson-raise-top-tax-rate-source-says-2025-05-08/ Very little support from Congressional Republicans at this early...

Feel like it should be Pope Sue. Then let's see Martin Luther mess with him.

Any idea if they want British India pre 1947, which includes india, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and I think Myanmar? Or do they want India pre British East India company which was like 1000 different principalities and a few bigger entities with various levels of independence? I guess another way...

Doesn't upset me. I know that upsets you.

That young man is only 69 years old. Probably going to grow his hair into a mohawk and fill the Vatican with rock music.

Is he considered likely to continue Pope francis's liberalization policies or is he expected to go in a more conservative direction?

I think I conflated the sentiment of being really, really upset he pressed his legal rights with not wanting him to have those legal rights.

My understanding is that his argument was that the votes that he wanted to throw out were not properly cast because they didn't include certain things. I don't believe he was trying to change the rules so much as arguing a certain interpretation of the rules on what constitutes a legally cast...

You missed the subtle joke. Anyhow, I did write this earlier: "I think some people on here [want to deny him due process]. Or maybe they are just upset that he used his legal rights. Hopefully the majority of folks aren't like that."

Yes. That is bad behavior that is not the right thing to do.