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NowISeetheLight's JournalQuestion - Shouldn't This Be Considered Income?
I was watching Seth Meyers clip tonight on youtube. He said Trump had spent over $100m from his "Save America PAC" on his legal expenses.
My question is why isnt this considered income for him then? Like a gift tax or something? It should be taxed. It benefits him personally.
Im not a tax lawyer so i dont know. But it just seems wrong.
Abortion 2024 VIctory? I Have Hope
I was reading an article in Politico this evening about Flori-duh and their planned abortion ballot measure. It was basically an article about how DeSatans hand-picked conservative Supreme Court screwed him. The article featured a nice map showing the 12 states where Abortion could be on the ballot in 2024.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/03/desantis-just-lost-the-judicial-firewall-he-boasted-about-00150251
Looking at the map gives me some real hope for 2024. I expect Biden to win anyway because Trump is demented and deranged. However this map gives me a lot of hope for down ballot victories in some states that are often Red or Red leaning.
On Ballot in 2024 - Florida, Maryland, New York
Pending for the 2024 ballot - Montana, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Maine
Approved in a past election - California, Kansas, Ohio, Michigan
Some of these states like Arizona, Colorado and Nevada are very purple and could go either way. Abortion is a definite issue that could turn them nicely Blue. I can see the House turning Blue and picking up a couple extra senate seats if all goes well.
Corrupt SCOTUS? Yeah.
I was wondering. That Texas law that allows the state to arrest undocumented immigrants. Yet the Colorado case about removing Trump from the ballot was squashed. SCOTUS seems to be in direct contradiction. States cant remove Trump because its Federal, yet a state can basically enact its own immigration policy. It just confirms to me that SCOTUS is completely corrupted.
Incest... Not... Opps... Strike That
A new Kentucky Republican legislator had introduced a bill that included removing "first cousin" from the incest law.
Nothing like Talibangelical Family Values!
Anyway... After it went viral he quickly backtracked and put "first cousin" back in, saying it was a mistake.
SURE IT WAS!!!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article284338699.html
Unbelievable..
Wilson said he filed the bill to “combat a problem of familial and cyclical abuse that transcends generations of Kentuckians.” “I understand that I made a mistake, but I sincerely hope my mistake doesn’t hurt the chances of the corrected version of the bill,” he wrote. “It is a good bill, and I hope it will get a second chance.”
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article284338699.html#storylink=cpy
Austrian Heiress - She Gets It
An Heiress, set to inherit a fortune, has asked the people for help spending it. She's asking 50 people to help her spend $27m. It's her way of addressing wealth inequality.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/austria-heiress-marlene-engelhorn-chosing-50-people-spend-27-million-wealth-guter-rat/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
She has sent invitations to 10,000 randomly selected people in Austria, asking them to complete a survey. Out of those who complete it, she will narrow the pile down to 50 people of different backgrounds that she feels represent the Austrian population.
They will become Guter Rat – which translates to Good Council – and will help her develop ideas for how to distribute $25 million euros – more than $27 million U.S. dollars.
In her mission statement, Engelhorn says her wealth was accumulated before she was even born. "It was accumulated because other people did the work, but my family was able to inherit the ownership of an enterprise and thus all claims to the fruits of its labour," she writes on the project's website. "
It so recognizes the problem of wealth inequality. The right wing is so big on "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" while at the same time ignoring the fact some people have so much of an advantage THEY DONT DO CRAP (excuse my French).
She so seems to get it.
In her mission statement, Engelhorn says her wealth was accumulated before she was even born. "It was accumulated because other people did the work, but my family was able to inherit the ownership of an enterprise and thus all claims to the fruits of its labour," she writes on the project's website.
Engelhorn doesn't want the family we are born into to determine if we have a good life. Instead of just donating the money herself, which she says "grants me power that I shouldn't have," she wants others to help her redistribute the money.
So, the council of 50 will meet over six weekends between March and June to have moderated discussions about how to use her wealth to create change. She will pay for their travel and stay during the conferences and will also compensate them.
The wealthiest 1% of the population in Austria holds 50% of the nation's net wealth, according to the Guter Rat website. Most of that 1% inherited their wealth, like Engelhorn.
Austria has no estate, inheritance, or wealth taxes and yet more than 2/3 of Austrians are in favor of taxes on wealth, according to Guter Rat.
Investigate Rep Stefanik
Now that Rep Stefanik (R-NY) has celebrated the removal of Harvard President Dr Gay, maybe SHE should be subject to some scrutiny.
We can start with her vote to KEEP George Santos in Congress. So she's all for playing high and mighty by demanding Dr Gay be crucified for some "improper citations" on some papers. I wonder what a review of every school document Rep Stefanik authored would reveal? A review of every speech she has given and every story she has told.
You live in a glass house... so you want to throw some stones? Turnabout is fair play. I'm sure there is a chance there are a few skeletons in this person's closet.
China Balloon - The Real Story?
It appears the RepubQcan whining about the Chinese spy balloon might been a little premature. It looks like the Biden administration had secured a FISA type warrant and was tracking the balloon and the information it was sending via a US internet provider.
Looks like the Biden response wasn't so inept after all but rather highly strategic.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/us-intelligence-officials-determined-chinese-spy-balloon-used-us-inter-rcna131150
What say you RepubQcans? It looks like Biden was playing the long game. Surveillance and tracking. See what and where the information was going.
The Biden administration sought a highly secretive court order from the federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to collect intelligence about it while it was over the U.S., according to multiple current and former U.S. officials. How the court ruled has not been disclosed.
Salon Article Eviscerates Moms for Liberty
Salon magazine is running a series on the biggest losers of 2023. #1 Was SOTH McCarthy. #2 is Moms for Liberty.
This article is scathing!!!!! Apparently there are videos of their sexual threesome antics including one of MOM and the alleged rape victim in bed together. Same sex relations? Cover the kiddies eyes! OMG!
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/27/biggest-loser-of-2023-moms-for-liberty-has-us-asking-how-many-tapes-are-there/
Apparently a gay student actually confronted the board member at an open meeting and totally pwnd the hypocritical Christian bigot MOM. There's a video clip of the student. Give this kid a college scholarship.
She totally owns this fascist bitch! 
"You do not deserve to be removed from it for having a threesome," Moricz declared to Bridget Ziegler's face, in one of the most satisfying speeches of the year. "That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you, which is that a politician's job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives."
"Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job," he concluded. "Not because you had sex with a woman.”
Ouch! 
From the Salon article.
Since there's no limit to Christian right hypocrisy, readers will not be surprised to hear that the couple who would ban books for others allegedly felt no shame about creating hardcore porn for themselves. Police reportedly recovered a video of Christian Ziegler and the accuser having sex. Now sources say police have a second video, of Bridget in bed with the unnamed woman. She was doing this while also terrorizing teachers in for advertising non-explicit LGBTQ-affirming events.
Give this article FIVE STARS.
Wasnt Sure
I wasn't sure about this post. I guess I'm just very tired. I don't sleep well most nights. My husband and I have separate bedrooms because I have nightmares. PTSD and I'm 100% VA disabled and on SSDI.
I saw a news story today that for some reason just got to me. Being gay, married in CA, having money issues, a lot depresses me.
Then, this story.
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/5-from-alpharetta-including-2-children-killed-in-head-on-crash-in-texas/GXTDFWVWOBCZJG34Q3T7BT2B2E/
Five people killed because some impatient ASSHOLE decided to pass a slower car in a no passing zone. It was Texas, but it could've been anywhere. I guess I'm just a bit sad that it seemed society gas become so obsessed with ME ME ME and screw everyone else. I'm in such a hurry I have to kill some DAMN KIDS. I mean come on.
Sorry for the rant. I'm sitting in a bar having a drink and burger. My husband is here to drive me home, he just got his 12 year or something AA coin. So I'm going to get plastered.
FBI Investigates Threats to Colorado Justices
The FBI is investigating threats to Colorado Supreme Court Justices following their ruling to ban Trump from the ballot.
In typical uneducated Magat fashion, the fascist right immediately resorts to their barbaric caveman like nature. If you don't like something resort to violence.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/26/colorado-supreme-court-justices-donald-trump-threat-fbi
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/25/politics/colorado-supreme-court-threats-fbi-trump-ruling/index.html
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