jmowreader
jmowreader's JournalNow that Joe Biden is no longer running for president...
Can he order Donald Trump be hauled in on suspicion of being a chomo without the Reds complaining he's weaponized the Justice Department against his competitor?
I suspect the JD Vance nomination isn't quite what it seems
We know Senator Vance isn’t the biggest fan of Donald Trump to ever walk the earth, and some of the things he has called Trump wouldn’t endear him to the orange man.
However, he’s an even worse fascist than Trump is, and Trump carries with him so much baggage he may as well go into town and get a Samsonite tattoo. If they’re going to get Project 2025 done they’re better off without him because they know Trump only acts in self-interest, but they need Trump right now because he’s the only one over there who can possibly win the election.
Here’s what I think may be happening.
First, the Heritage Foundation forced Vance onto the ticket.
After the inauguration, assuming Trump wins, they’re going to inform him that they know he’s a chomo who was selling classified information to Russia, and he’s got two choices: resign and flee the country, or get 25th Amendmented and handed over to the authorities. He’ll choose the first one because jail or firing squad doesn’t appeal to him, and the now-President Vance implements that program in its entirety.
The only way we stop this from happening is to get as many people to the polls to vote for Biden.
Teoscar Hernandez wins 2024 Home Run Derby
https://www.mlb.com/news/teoscar-hernandez-wins-2024-home-run-derbyHe is the first Dodger to win the Derby. He hit 49 total homers to win it - which isn't many by Home Run Derby standards but it's still more than anyone else did this year.
Let me guess: It's still too soon to talk about guns.
Columbine: "It's too soon to talk about guns."
Uvalde: "It's too soon to talk about guns."
Buffalo: "It's too soon to talk about guns."
Kenosha: "It's too soon to talk about guns."
Charleston: "It's too soon to talk about guns."
I'm pretty sure it's too soon to talk about guns even though a Republican-registered 20-year-old armed with a rifle tried to kill the person Republicans love most in the world.
Could he have been cut by the podium base when he was pulled down?
I'm not buying that he was hit by a bullet for a few reasons.
First, bullets don't just hit someone and stop. If he was hit by one it would have gone SOMEWHERE, and the somewhere it would have went is into the crowd of people behind him. I watched the video of the shooting, and after the crowd behind him ducked down they all got up like "move along, nothing to see here." If he'd really have been shot in the head someone behind him would have also been shot and the crowd behind him would be freaking the fuck out.
Second, when they got him up after the gunfire stopped he appeared about as rational as he normally is. Okay, we're talking about Trump here and there's not much rationality to be had, but if he'd been hit in the head by a bullet he'd at least have been dazed and he was not.
Third problem is that we're looking at a REAL strange angle for the shot to come in at that would nick his ear, not graze his scalp - and not enter his skull.
So, what it really looks like to me is that when the Secret Service got him on the ground to protect him from being killed, he hit his head on something - and the corner of the podium base seems like the most likely thing.
First court date set for GI who ran into North Korea last year
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-07-09/fort-bliss-soldier-korea-deserter-demilitarized-zone%C2%A0-14434820.htmlYou might remember Travis King.
Private King, who was not the best soldier the Army ever enlisted, was being brought back to the United States to face charges when he slipped away from his handlers, went to the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom, Korea, in July 2023 and ran across the border into North Korea. In September 2023, the North Koreans, after negotiations with the US and Swedish governments, decided they'd put up with him long enough and threw him back. (Just so you know: there is a Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission on the Peninsula. The North Koreans and South Koreans both chose two nations that didn't fight in the Korean War to represent them on it. The DPRK chose Poland and Czechoslovakia; after Czechoslovakia divided after the Cold War ended, the Czech Republic took over the duty. However, after the DPRK got pissed off at the Czechs they're kinda on the commission in spirit only. The ROK chose Switzerland and Sweden; both are still active members of the Commission.)
The Army is charging him with a count of attempting to escape custody, two of solicitation, one of desertion and two of disobeying a lawful order from a commissioned officer. He was given what his attorney describes as a thorough psychatric evaluation, which will be entered into evidence.
His preliminary hearing is next week.
Am I a terrible person...
...for having a countdown to the day Trump gets sentenced in my calendar?
Keeping Biden on the ballot is the only choice
First, he's been a fine president and deserves a second term.
Second: There's an old saying in the South that you "dance with the one what brung ya." If we don't dance with the one what brung us by replacing Biden on the ballot, we'd inevitably get stuck with a Trump Revenge Administration because A LOT of people would turn their backs on our new candidate. They might not vote for Trump, but them staying home or not marking their ballots for the new Democrat would cause Trump to win by default.
I'm not worried about Biden's bad debate. He's running against a convict who very well could be rotting in prison in November. We got this.
Rep. Troy Nehls removes Combat Infantryman Badge
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/26/texas-congressman-removes-combat-infantryman-badge-after-month-of-stolen-valor-criticism.htmlStill won’t admit he didn’t actually earn it.
Trump's tax-free tips proposal isn't what it seems
At Trump's recent campaign rally in Las Vegas he threw out a proposal to exempt tips from income and payroll taxes in an attempt to win over the community of workers who rely on tips to pay their bills.
Is this a good idea? Well...no.
1. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget believes that if there's no offsetting tax increase - which Republicans are allergic to - and employers aren't allowed to shift all employee compensation from "wages" to "tips" this will cost the country somewhere between $15 billion and $25 billion per year.
2. Trump would also like to allow workers to be paid strictly in tips - and if they're allowed to, that number rises to $50 billion per year.
3. A huge percentage of tipped workers don't pay taxes anyway; their compensation is too low.
4. One of the things tipped workers rely on to survive is the Earned Income Tax Credit. This is a refundable credit - meaning that if applying the credit reduces your tax bill below zero they pay you money...an example I've used is if you owe $100 in taxes but get a $500 EITC they zero-out your tax bill and pay you $400 - that requires you have taxable income to qualify. No taxable income means no EITC, so this is effectively a tax hike as zero dollars is more than -$400. Worse, getting rid of EITC for these impoverished workers won't zero-out the hit on government revenue that eliminating tips on taxes will cause.
5. Donald Trump is currently in the hospitality business and employs thousands of tipped workers in his hotels, restaurants and golf courses. Eliminating payroll tax on all those workers' tipped income also eliminates him having to pay the employer's share of the payroll tax. Trump does nothing unless there's something in it for him, and there's a lot in it for him in this proposal.
6. Trump also wants to eliminate the "80-20 rule." This is pretty complex, so bear with me. In current law employers are allowed in most states to pay $2.13 per hour to tipped employees. In exchange, the employer must track the number of hours each worker spends in customer-facing (like, say, pouring drinks at a bar) and non-customer-facing (like, say, unloading a shipment of liquor from a delivery truck and entering it into the bar's inventory control system) duties. An employee so treated may spend no more than 20 percent of the duty day in non-customer-facing duties. Under Trump's plan, as long as the employee gets SOME customer-facing time during the day the employee can be paid at the lower rate...so, if you decide to have the employee wait one table in a 10-hour shift and rearrange the stockroom for the rest of it, the employee can be paid $21.30 for the day's work.
7. Trump is also very, very likely to set it up so that workers can be paid only tips. You know how you go to a fast food joint to get a sandwich and the little card reading machine throws a tip screen up? Employers will go to their congressmen and tell them, "our workers are clearing minimum wage on tips alone, why should we have to also pay them wages?"
8. Tipping is rife with abuse. Many employers require tip pooling - each employee is required to deposit all the tips they receive into a container and the contents are equally distributed among the employees.
9. If patrons believe the employee no longer has to pay taxes on their tips they will reduce the amount they tip and by a greater percentage than the tax would have been.
10. This plan will also screw up the workers' futures. Eligibility for Social Security depends on the number of quarters you pay payroll tax...and if Trump manages to eliminate payroll tax for these workers they won't qualify.
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