Paying massively over the odds for a table at Mar a Lago
Tips. Gratuities. Pre-tips. Early gratuities. Unrelated gratuities that just happen to be paid right before a tax cut.
(excuse you, “gratuities.”)
MAGA!!!
Gifts.
Gifts are subject to tax. Gratuities are easier to hide.
Well, tips won’t be taxed soon.
Mike Lee wants to issue letters of marque to posses so they can hunt down drug cartels and seize their assets in prize court, which sounds like a really good way to get a lot of rednecks killed by the Mexican Army.
Or alternately, seeing as drug cartels’ assets mainly consist of drugs, a cool way to establish a bunch of new cartels.
Too risky for the military … but let’s have private citizens have a go at it?
Sounds like a plan to eliminate a basket or two of deplorables. Regardless of whether it’s the cartels or the Mexican army taking them out.
This is gonna REALLY piss off the pharma donors.
And a couple hundred million other people.
Nah, they’re going to sell ten times as much. Each company will create its own mix based on their own research, and then advertise which strains they cover. Since the public won’t have any good information on which ones they really need, they’ll have to get all the shots. $$$$$$
Vaccines are a net negative for drug companies, anyway. It’s a lot more lucrative to sell treatments after people get a disease than preventatives. Especially when you can sell treatments that don’t actually work, like ivermectin or quinine for covid, so people will stay sick (and paying for treatments) for longer.
Unfortunately, I had this one on my bingo card.
MASA
Make America Sick Again
On January 6, Republican Congress Critters Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chip Roy (R-TX) were texting with White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, begging Meadows to tell them what to do and say. Lee repeatedly pressed Meadows for the “talking points,” meaning: he was asking Meadows what he could possibly say that would justify and excuse what was happening on that day, and the White House’s failure to stop it dead in its tracks.
Trump supporters behave in the exact same way, begging Trump and his operatives to give them some answer … some defense … some excuse … for Trump’s endless and indefensible bad behavior and criminal acts. Like The Congress Critters above, it really doesn’t matter how viable, plausible, cogent, consistent, truthful, or valid those talking points are. They just need some way to perpetuate the charade – if only for one more day – that they weren’t used by one of the US’s most notorious con men.
TL;DR: the addicts continue to beg their dealer for just one more hit, so they don’t have to suffer through the misery of withdrawal and reality.
It’s like employers at the height of the “No one wants to work any more” crisis a couple of years ago. They’d do anything they had to to find new employees, except actually offering to pay them more.
The MAGAs are looking for any reason at all to explain Trump’s crazy actions, except for the one where he’s just doing exactly what we warned them he would do.
And they went with “nothing, nothing at all is happening, it’s just a group tour, why does everyone keep asking me that?”
The OOP for a flu shot is about $100. 45% of Americans get a flu shot every year. That’s a good $17 billion or so. No small chunk of change for executives who only care about Making Line Go Up.
Besides, as a matter of principle drug companies want people to live as long as possible, because the older you get, the more drugs you need. Dead people means fewer future customers.
Kash Patel wants the UFC to train the FBI, because apparently he thinks he lives in a '40s detective movie and the agents solve crimes by punching things.