Maybe Patel watches the long-running set of “documentary series” about the FBI , where they certainly do seem to shoot guns frequently.
I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but there’s a BIG catch to the “no tax on overtime” provision.
The only portion of the overtime pay that will be tax deductible is the differential between the regular pay rate and the overtime rate.
So if you make $20 an hour and work 10 extra hours at time and a half, your deduction is not the $300 you made in total overtime pay, but $100.
You can’t deduct the “time” only the “and a half”.
Monty
July 12, 2025, 11:42pm
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And I still don’t see how this is getting support. What about the other workers who have to work overtime? Why aren’t they getting a tax break on that differential? Is there job less valuable? Are there financial obligations less important?
Medical malpractice is OK for this administration
who was currently on trial for allegedly issuing fake Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 vaccination records cards to people who sought fake vaccine cards.
Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, whose criminal trial was currently underway in Utah, was indicted by the Justice Department in 2023. Moore, his medical corporation and three co-defendants were accused of allegedly destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided COVID-19 vaccines and distributing at least 1,937 falsely marked COVID-19 doses on vaccine cards in exchange for direct cash payments or donations to a charitable organization.
We should consider changing the wording in the title of this thread from Clusterfuck to Crimespree.
Monty
July 13, 2025, 1:20am
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GIGObuster:
2023, you say? That’s all that matters. Charges were levied during the Biden administration. Therefore they are invalid, weaponized government, lawfare, and nothing the current adminstration would ever lower themselves to doing.
I enjoyed watching the Carol Burnett show years ago. They had some rather funny very short musical numbers over the course of the show. One had the denizens who found themselves living on the border between countries. Not on either side of the border, but on the actual border lines–which, in the skit, were about three or four meters wide. They even had an anthem for those denizins to sing the praises of their flag, a white flag of course. The refrain was something like, “We raise the flag of white, white, and white!”
Superman is big in the news now and his big tagline was Truth, Justice, and the American Way . Under the felon now, we no longer have that in our country. We have Trump, Trump, and Trump . That’s all that matters for these criminals–from the top all the way down to the criminal voting for the felon.
And they’re all about making America White, White, and White!" Don’t believe me? I refer you to the recent Afrikaaner so-called refugees.
Superman these days had better hope he doesn’t get a call from the White House. If he’s true to his principles, he’s not gonna want to do what this President asks.
Monty
July 13, 2025, 2:27am
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Bigots are already freaking out about Superman being called an immigrant, an undocumented one at that!
Monty:
Superman is big in the news now and his big tagline was Truth, Justice, and the American Way . Under the felon now, we no longer have that in our country. We have Trump, Trump, and Trump . That’s all that matters for these criminals–from the top all the way down to the criminal voting for the felon.
And they’re all about making America White, White, and White!" Don’t believe me? I refer you to the recent Afrikaaner so-called refugees.
I prefer to riff on the ole Saturday Night Live sketch of Uberman , and say that the Trump admin is all for the Trumpian way:
Untruth, Injustice, and the Nazi-cosplayer way.
Monty
July 13, 2025, 2:52am
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Has anyone made a mocking alteration of the SS symbol but with DT instead in a font strongly.resembling the original? Or even a flag with crossed Ts resembling you know what but in orange replacing the red on the flag?
Spoons
July 13, 2025, 4:43am
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Johnny_L.A:
There’s this…
Beautiful, Johnny! Did you create that?
I did not. But I saw it a while ago, and remembered it.
Spoons
July 13, 2025, 4:53am
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Glad that you remembered it. Thanks!
Monty
July 13, 2025, 5:21am
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Thanks! I like it. But the bottoms of the Ts should touch to make the resemblance stronger.
You’re not looking at the negative space.
Monty
July 13, 2025, 8:12am
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Birthright citizenship–no matter how gained–is now in danger!
President Trump on Saturday lashed out against comedian Rosie O’Donnell, calling her a “threat to humanity” and noting that he is “seriously considering” revoking her citizenship.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote in a Saturday morning Truth Social post .
The felon’s comments are accufession central.
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“Rosie is a very unattractive person, both inside and out,” Donald Trump said in a decades old interview on “Entertainment Tonight.”
“She’s basically a disaster,” he concluded.
Co-conspirator Vance weighs in on who belongs in America.
Speaking at the conservative think tank Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award Dinner in San Diego last weekend, Vance rejected what he termed “the logic of America as a purely creedal nation,” contending that defining citizenship solely through agreement with founding principles is both “over-inclusive and under-inclusive.” He argued this approach would theoretically include “hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree with the principles of the Declaration of Independence,” while simultaneously rejecting Americans “that the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.”
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The vice president specifically targeted New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani , whose family fled Uganda when dictator Idi Amin ethnically cleansed the nation’s Indian population, criticizing his July 4th social media post describing America as “beautiful, contradictory, unfinished.” In his speech reflecting on Independence Day, Vance questioned whether the 33-year-old democratic socialist had “ever read the letters from boy soldiers in the Union Army to parents and sweethearts that they’d never see again.” Vance also accused Mamdani of showing a lack of gratitude, saying, “Who the hell does he think that he is?”
Yo, Vance! Your idol’s ancestors fought in neither.
Co-conspirator Kennedy is called to account for creating an epidemic.
And how’re the felon’s numbers regarding immigration lately?
Americans’ views on immigration took a massive positive swing this year amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing crackdown, according to new Gallup polling.
The share of Americans who thought immigration should decrease – 55% – reached a 5-year high point in 2024. This year, it has dropped to 30%, and positive views of immigration have hit a record high of 79%, according to poll results released July 11. The poll surveyed 1,402 Americans between June 2 and 26.
Courts keep stopping the felonials from sending people to third countries. Guess how the felonials react.
Border czar Tom Homan said the Trump administration hopes to forge deals with “many countries” to accept deported migrants from the United States — when their home countries can’t, or won’t, take them back.
Homan spoke with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for The Conversation in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for eight men to be deported to South Sudan, a nation that the State Department has warned Americans is too dangerous for all but essential personnel.
Homan said he was unsure of the status of the eight men — or whether they are detained there — saying that they are no longer in U.S. custody.
How long until a deportee detention agreement is signed with North Korea is the only question I have now.
The felon, ever the con, is back to “in two weeks” timeline. (The bolding is mine.)
“Diplomacy? Bipartisanship? Screw that nonsense. Vote the way I tell you or you’re toast” is the new normal. Especially when it comes to informing the public.
When news of Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump broke last week, industry veterans and other government officials were quick to warn that it would only spur on the president’s crusade against the media. It seems like that’s already happening. In a pretty naked display of The Way Things Work Now, Trump threatened to revoke his endorsement from any Republican who voted against his plan to slash billions in funding from public broadcasters like NPR and PBS in a post on Truth Social Thursday night.
The president specifically wrote that it was “very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions Bill [sic] and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSDNC put together. Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement.”
O Canada! (The bolding is mine.)
President Donald Trump plans to raise tariffs on Canadian imports by 35 percent, upending whatever progress the two countries had made on a trade deal, if any.
“As you will recall, the United States imposed tariffs on Canada to deal with our nation’s fentanyl crisis, which is caused, in part, by Canada’s failure to stop the drugs from pouring into our country,” Trump wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in a letter published on Truth Social Thursday night. “Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own tariffs. Starting August 1, 2025, we will charge Canada a tariff of 35 percent on Canadian products sent into the United States, separate from all Sectoral tariffs.”
Trump’s tariffs are more threats than actual tariffs right now and the letter itself looks like many others he has sent to foreign leaders and posted on social media. The August 1 deadline is also a significant extension from the initial July 8 one the president announced this spring. Nothing is final here, but Trump is further rupturing relations with one of the U.S.’s closest allies—and one of its most important trading partners.
Another difference in this letter—Trump is using fentanyl as a scapegoat for this destructive tariff, continuing to spread the often-debunked thinking that Canada plays some significant role in trafficking fentanyl into the U.S. when the opposite is true. Canada is not a major player in U.S. fentanyl trafficking, and the tariffs Trump is levying do not reflect the reality of the epidemic.
Any of y’all T-Mobile customers?
T-Mobile is facing less regulatory heat from the Trump administration two days after the company signed a letter committing to end its DEI practices.
The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it was closing an antitrust probe into T-Mobile’s proposed $4.4 billion merger with UScellular.
The news comes soon after T-Mobile told the FCC that it was ending diversity, equity, and inclusion policies — joining a long list of companies that have pulled back from DEI since President Donald Trump was reelected.
“T-Mobile is ending its DEI-related policies… not just in name, but in substance,” the company wrote in a July 8 letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, which was made public a day later on Wednesday.
I bet this next bit had a lot to do with their caving.
And a big “Thank you, Mates, well played!” goes to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (The bolding is mine; the 4D, 5D maybe, chess is the UK’s.)
President Donald Trump will once again be denied an opportunity to address the U.K. Houses of Parliament when he returns to Britain in September.
The Daily Telegraph
The paper says that, with Westminster dark, officials can claim there is simply no forum available—neatly avoiding the diplomatic headache of formally denying Trump the honor.
The maneuver means he will be denied the same Westminster podium enjoyed by a parade of political rivals, which is bound to rile the famously thin-skinned president.
World leaders who have addressed parliament include Bill Clinton , who preached “an age of possibility [and] peace” in 1995; Barack Obama , who drew a standing ovation in 2011; and Emmanuel Macron who, only this week, used the Royal Gallery to warn that Britain and France risk “growing apart” while promising to loan the Bayeux Tapestry.
Back on the west side of the pond, the felon’s still trying to install judges who don’t care about the constitution.
Washington — Emil Bove , a top Justice Department official who previously served as President Trump’s criminal defense attorney, declined to rule out the possibility of the president running for a third term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel considering his nomination for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.
Awesome!
Yeah, it’s a case of “Once you see it…”
I’m whiter that your average Afrikaaner. My family history is lost somewhat 200 years before one of my ancestors appeared in Cape Town from south England.
The typical Afrikaaner, unfortunately for their race rhetoric, is not 100% white. People got up to all sorts of shenanigans with slaves, sailors, visitors etc. I mean, I know a full blown proud Afrikaaner whose skin is darker than Obama.
So apparently the only qualification for Trump’s refugee status is being a self identified Afrikaaner. This means, I, as a lily white with (reasonably) recent European history and just a smattering of knowledge of the Afrikaans language should qualify well before those half-breeds. /s
I mean I am not looking for any logic in clearly discriminatory immigration practices, that ship has sailed, floundered and sunk with all hands.
