Tax unrealized capital gains at 25%? Democrats say "YES!"

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It’s a fun concept, and Harris/Biden supports it. Your IRA or investment account shows capital gains one year, and poof! — the tax man cometh to take a 25% bite. The next year, market fluctuations being what they are, those gains are reversed, and your account is worth less (or worthless); don’t expect the tax man to reappear at your door with a wheelbarrow of dollars to make up for it, because the New World Order is unburdened by what has been.

Of course, this new taxation system will only be applied to the “thousand billionaires” Harris and her fellow looters like to cite, won’t it? Well, to quote Will Rogers, “the difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets”. The 1913 income tax was enacted and intended to achieve “income redistribution” rather than just revenue; that is still the avowed goal of she who would be queen, and there’s absolutely no reason to think that the looters will stop at just billionaire victims. See, eg, income tax rates and applicability , 1913-2024.

When the unrealized gains tax becomes universal, and it surely will, I wonder how homeowners will feel about paying an additional tax each year on their home’s increased value?

Four more years? We won't last that long UPDATED — do the Bee editors ever grow tired of staying ahead of reality?

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what would you exeect from a department that hired this deranged thief?

Biden-Harris Department of Energy official calls for 'queering nuclear weapons' as part of radical DEI agenda

Biden-Harris official says, 'Queer theory is also about rejecting... the tenet that nuclear deterrence creates security and disarmament creates vulnerability'

Nair's DEI agenda envisions expanding America's deep secrets to people with foreign connections, claiming those individuals were discouraged from applying as an issue of race bias. 

She said, "U.S. government reports show that qualified applicants with foreign ties have been discouraged from applying to sensitive national security positions and faced barriers to obtaining a security clearance. This is in part due to preconceived confirmation biases held by investigators about certain racial or ethnic groups." 

"Considerable progress has been made in advancing DEI in the nuclear field, but the largest obstacle remains in ensuring that nuclear security practitioners understand how DEI can serve as a tool to strengthen nuclear security," she said in the article. "Greater focus on the intersections between nuclear security and DEI is essential." 

UPDATE: The Bee was on it almost three full years ago

Trump, 1 — flying monkeys, 0

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(Here’s the backstory)

Harris campaign, Whitmer and the media tar the small Michigan town Trump’s visiting Tuesday as racist

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Harris campaign — along with media allies — has made an extraordinary claim, implying Donald Trump’s Tuesday visit to discuss crime and safety in Howell, Mich., is motivated by racism.

And Howell residents are mystified.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also denounced the former president’s coming speech — and suggested the city in the state she represents is racist — Monday at the Democratic National Convention, telling ABC, “Anyone who’s doing a little bit of research might have said, ‘That’s really a bad idea, look at the optics.’ You’re showing up where the KKK was just at the same time you’re in Michigan.”

“The racists and white supremacists who marched in Trump’s name last month in Howell have all watched him praise Hitler, defend neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and tell far-right extremists to ‘stand back and stand by,” said Kamala Harris’ Michigan spokeswoman Alyssa Bradley.

“Trump’s actions have encouraged them, and Michiganders can expect more of the same when he comes to town.”

A Washington Post article boosted this narrative: “Howell has long been associated with the Ku Klux Klanbecause of the rallies Michigan-based Grand Dragon Robert Miles held on a nearby farm in the 1970s and 1980s.”

And Reuters headlined a piece “Trump to campaign in Michigan town with historic links to white extremism.”

By the way, as a former young rabble rouser and Abby Hoffman fan from way back, I know my street theater, and this is exactly what I’d have done were I trying to punk a politician I opposed; and, the media being as gullible back then as it is now, it would have worked:

Around a dozen pallid young men dressed in black held a racist protest July 21 in front of the Livingston County Courthouse. The motley crew held signs that read “White Lives Matter” and shouted through megaphones, “We love Hitler, we love Trump.”

Uh huh.

Oh, Joy! Steven Hayward's updated that classic (sic) Sunday School hymn just in time for the DNC's exit parade

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"I have not seen so many Democrats laugh, smile, sing. I mean, there is a song in the air. I don't know if you can hear me behind me, but there's like a little bit of music playing. People are literally dancing to the tunes in their own head," Reid said.

Powerline:

Feel the Joy

I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy from Kamala’s heart
Where?
Kamala’s heart!
Where?
Kamala’s heart!
I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy from Kamala’s heart
Down in my heart to pay

Chorus:

And I’m so happy, so very happy
With price controls in Kamala’ heart
In Kamala’s heart.
And I’m so happy, so very happy
With price controls in Kamala’s heart.

Verse 2:

And if Biden don’t like it he can sit on a tack!
Ouch!
Sit on a tack!
Ouch!
Sit on a tack!
And if MAGA don’t like it they can sit on a tack!
Ouch!
Sit on a tack and pay!

Sixteen acres too much for your landscaper to keep tidy now that gas leaf blowers have been banned?

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Well, now you can go for a more modest lot: after 410 days on the market, five of the sixteen acres at 38,48, and 58 Quaker Lane can now be purchased separately: No. 58, with house, can be yours for just $20 million, instead of $35 million for the whole package (which is still available as either an 11-acre horsey parcel or the full 16).

To my eye, it’s a pretty hideous house, with a pseudo-Jackson’s Hole feel, and since Jackson’s Hole itself is a pseudo-western ranch retreat for the connected, why duplicate it here? But that’s just me.

Of limited interest, probably, except to modern Greenwich history buffs, according to the tax card, the fraudster and failed real estate developer Andrew Kissell, who would go on to be murdered in his house at 8 Dairy Road (now 10 — the street number was changed for resale purposes) built this house back in 2004 and then, apparently, lost it to foreclosure in 2007.

the zebra's here

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Cat's still got my tongue

the zebra has foaled

and, finally, the orange makes an appearance