Trickle Down

Posted on July 31, 2018 by gumbywan

The Munchkin seen here with Eva Braun’s granddaughter and some money from the Reichsbank. Other Party member unidentified.

Well dear friends, I’m here to discuss another of the Comb Over’s underqualified ubermensch. Today’s victim is Oberfuhrer of the Treasury Stefan Mnuchin, a previously convicted felon, investment banker, and overpaid Wall Street insider. All these are synonyms for crook but I don’t expect you to know that or even know what a synonym is. Trust me. Even though said Party Member is purportedly six feet tall, I can’t help but use the moniker of Munchkin for the Oberfuhrer, so onward.

The Munchkin’s latest idea is to give the uber-rich even more money from the already debt ridden U.S. Treasury. $100 billion. If this wasn’t a bribe for the already uber-rich semi-Libertarian Koch Brothers who have decided they don’t really like the Comb Over because of his onerous trade and immigration policies, well then I don’t know what a bribe is. The details of this is a capital gains tax break driven by discounting the cost basis of assets to inflation. Now I know you aren’t going to understand this, and it is complicated. Your underfunded school system couldn’t possibly have prepared you for this kind of mind bending concept, but I went to a big city private university so you know you can trust me. Stay with me here.

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The long and the short of this is 2/3 (two-thirds) of this $100,000,000,000 tax windfall would go to the upper 0.1% of the uber-rich. Almost zilch will go to you my freunde since you don’t have any, or little, capital gains. Only rich people have a lot of capital gains. Have you ever heard the phrase: “It takes money, to make money”? That’s what rich people do instead of going to work. It gives them time to host reality shows, which we all know is not real work. You or I however, have to work for a living, or you have a pension, or a Social Security “entitlement,” or a 401K. None of these are “assets” that you can claim capital gains on so no candy for you. Pension funds are likewise pretty screwed since they tend to be invested in income generating assets like bonds. I know, your head is going to explode. Let’s boil it down to: only rich people are going to benefit from this proposed capital gains tax cut, not you untermensch.

Now to justify this charade the Munchkin mentions the dreaded “Trickle Down.” Think back. Think back real hard. When was the last time anything besides piss trickled down from a rich guy, hmm? This Laffable economic theory has been shown to never work. It’s been debunked more times than you’ve taken a shower. Nothing ever trickles down from the rich, not money, not jobs, not healthcare anyway. Do uber-rich guys start new businesses? Do they employ gobs of people? Usually not, poor and middle class persons start businesses and a few become uber-rich. Rich people just collect capital gains on real estate, stocks, bonds, options, annuities, etc. Do they build a single factory? No. They don’t have to work, so why give them more money to stuff in an offshore account that benefits no one besides the uber-rich? They don’t need it, but you could sure use it my poor freunde.

Lastly, the Comb-Over stands to benefit the most from this capital gains tax swindle, so think about that. He also says that collusion is not a crime. Why would he say that? Did he collude on something, so I looked up collude: come to a secret understanding for a harmful purpose; conspire. Secret, harmful purpose, conspire. I think we should all collude to make the Comb Over go away.

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Fake News

Posted on July 29, 2018 by gumbywan

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The Comb Over must be reading a chapter of Mein Kampf every night before he goes to bed. Actually I don’t think the Comb Over ever read a book in his life. He’s probably got the abridged Audible version which he pirated so he doesn’t have to give Jeff Bezos a nickel. Nix that, he probably doesn’t even realise that Audible is owned by Amazon unless he saw it on the State Media Fox & Freunde.

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Anyway the reason I say this is he seems to add a new facet to his already revolting personality each day in order to make him look even more like Adolf Hitler, or his alter ego and uck buddy Party Secretary Josef Stalin, sorry I mean “President” dictator Vladimir Putin. Today’s Comb Over Twitter rant involves targeting the Media (whatever that means, I guess it would include me too) as the “enemy of the state.” Is he just cutting and pasting these Tweets straight out of Mein Kampf or is he thinking about it at all? Strike that, he never had an original thought in his life.

The Comb Over apparently asked for an “off the record” meeting with the editor of the New York Times on July 20th about the hostility of the Times to the Fourth Reich which the orange-lidded lying weasel subsequently put on the record by referring to the meeting in a Twitter rant about the “fake news enemy of the state dying newspaper media.” The Times was left with no recourse except to rebut the lies the Comb Over spread about the meeting and state its own view that it would continue reporting the truth as it sees it and welcomed the Comb Over to attack the Times in any way he felt inclined short of censorship. The editor of the Times apparently stressed in the meeting that the Comb Over’s vitriol (he’ll have to look that one up) towards the media was possibly whipping up a hateful and dangerous frenzy among the gun toting brown shirted confederate flag wavers, bigots, gay baiters, knuckle draggers, ignoramuses, and racists that form the base of the Nazi Party, er, Republican, I mean Comb Over’s support (my paraphrase, not the Times).

One final note, a sort of aside. I’ve got some fake news, the confederate flag is now the new swastika.

The Big Lie

Posted on July 26, 2018 by gumbywan

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Josef Goebbels was actually the mastermind behind selling the Final Solution to the world. After WWII started for real Hitler rarely appeared in public. He didn’t want to take any questions. He didn’t want the media attention. He was so popular, he didn’t want to get his head blown off. He didn’t like “fake news” about Germany.

“All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.” – Mein Kampf

Basically, ignorant people will believe the big lie because it is so outrageous they couldn’t imagine themselves telling the same, or another equivalently outrageous, big lie. Goebbels thought that he could not only sucker his own people with the Big Lie, but also the British and they would come around to the Nazi way of thinking about the Jews. But the Brits didn’t buy the Big Lie, well they actually did once, but fool me twice, I don’t think so.

Now add fifty pounds, lose the hat, add a string of pearls, lipstick, and a dress to Goebbels and we have the current Propaganda Minister Sarah Sanders Huckabee. Huckabee. Ring a bell? Former Propaganda Minister Sean Spicer (SS) couldn’t keep telling the big lies with a straight face, or admitting that he didn’t have a clue about what to say, so we got SSH. SS, remember that. Oh wait, that was HH, Heinrich Himmler. Never mind…. There are so many parallels it is uncanny. These people claim to be good Christians and they lie, lie lie. What about those Ten Commandments?

Anyway, apparently certain reporters aren’t going to be allowed in the Rose Garden anymore because they ask the Comb Over questions he doesn’t want to answer, or can’t answer, or he can’t sell the Big Lie effectively anymore. So, Propaganda Minister SS Huckabee is now going to be more the face of the Reich since she can regurgitate the Big Lie effectively with a straight face, argue with reporters, expel the media, stomp on the First Amendment, etc. Today the Comb Over supposedly took the limo instead of Marine One to Air Force One because of the weather. Fog. No reports of fog in DC today. Remember when I told you about helicopters and the Comb Over way back in 2013? The Big Lie.

The Comb Over (Part 2)

Posted on July 6, 2018 by gumbywan

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Yes blessed friends I’m back. And better than ever. It is my sad duty to have to exercise my First Amendment Rights as an American in order to inform you that The Comb Over is Adolf Hitler with orange hair. 45th President of the United States. If there ever was a sign of the decline of western civilization Donald Trump is it. I told you the parallels were eerie: a leader treated by the political and media establishment as a buffoon, a dimwit outsider and an “it can’t happen here,” lazy intellectual attitude on the part of an ignorant electorate due to a shabby school system kidnapped by Tea Party Christian Right Wing White Republicans in favor of charter, voucher, home school, and just plain minimal investment in the education of our future (our children). Then there is the Big Lie. Then there is the manipulation of liberal democracy by Billionaires and the Soviet Union, er, I mean Russia. I will prove to you in these bitter pages that to vote for a Republican now is to vote for the Nazi Party, Der Fuhrer. Wait and see. It will all become crystal clear.

Where to start? Maybe at the end. The separation and caging of refugee children was the last straw. Where was the last place we saw families divided and sent off to “detention” camps when they came to a new country? Do I have to spell it out for you? You watch the History Channel, right? My father fought to liberate people from concentration camps. Almost died in The Battle of the Bulge. Am I gonna sit here and watch the same thing happen to the Red, White, and Blue? I’m disgusted, appalled. Crying children. My country? Cages. I’m ashamed to call myself American.

ICE. Jack-booted storm troopers. Sometimes you just walk away from your job because it is too repulsive, inhumane. You say “I won’t be a part of this.” Patriots just doing their jobs? So were the SS men in Dachau. Study the banality of evil. They say they’ll use DNA to match the right children with their families. What’s that about? Like parents won’t recognize their own children? Why do we need to match DNA? If this doesn’t sound creepy to you, you aren’t paying attention.

How many times have you heard someone ask “if you were back in Nazi Germany would you have participated in the Holocaust?” The answer is inevitably, “No I would have resisted.” Liars, every one of you.

The time for conversation is over. There is no such thing as “good people on both sides” when the Confederate flag is displayed. How would you feel if they put up a statue honoring Erwin Rommel and you were Jewish? Stone Mountain, Georgia. How does an African American feel about that monument?

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On today’s menu is Scott Pruitt Gauleiter of the Environmental Protection Agency. He resigns after disemboweling 50 years of environmental protection for the planet. Talk about putting the fox in the hen house. A lifestyle considered lavish even by Imperial Roman standards on my/your dime while you scrabble to get health insurance, he resigns not in shame, but in having done a “good” job. I’m sure there is a CEO/Lobbyist job he doesn’t need waiting for him in the Energy Sector somewhere. Probably the Koch brothers. Who knows. Presidential Pardon.

Enough for today. I’ll get back to you tomorrow. I have so much more to say….

Shut It Down

Posted on October 3, 2013 by gumbywan

Well they say the government is shut down but you couldn’t tell by me. The television is still on and my internet still works so I can still download those “short” films I need. I even got some junk mail today Some guys were repaving a road near my house and the cops were still looking for speeders. The Affordable Care Act was up and running although a little clogged up by all those people that didn’t want affordable health insurance. So what’s the big deal with the federal government shutting down? Maybe we should take an extended holiday. I hope the tax man is sitting at home saying: “I’m screwed because people didn’t send in enough taxes.” That’d serve him right. Somebody told me the National Parks are closed now. So what? Give ’em back to nature or better yet the Indians they stole them from. Just pack up and throw the keys to the nearest reservation and say, “sorry we ruined part of it.” Nobody really ever wanted to hike or bike or raft or camp in them anyway. People just say they want to do that kind of stuff to impress their friends but they really wanna watch TV. I bet the Indians would take better care of it than the federal government did anyway. Pull up all the asphalt and make it nice again.

I read that the Post Office is $6 billion dollars in the hole too. I don’t get this. First why didn’t they already shut down like yesterday with a debt like that? They were already out of money before the federal government was. They could just pile all the stuff behind the post office and you could wade through it to find your stuff, your credit card apps and such.

Nobody who actually wants to get something ever mails it anyway. They use those UPS or FedEx outfits. I know that only the post office can deliver a letter but not if you put it in a little box first. Then anyone can deliver it. You can just say you’re sending some paper to your grandmother and off it goes. Besides people like getting a box to open instead of just an envelope. It’s more exciting. These other outfits can’t put anything in a mailbox because you don’t own it, the Post Office does! Did you know that? So the UPS dude has to come to your door just like the Post Office used to, that way it’s kinda like the good ol’ days anyway.

Nobody is gonna miss the junk mail either and and it saves a lot of trees.

Anyway the federal government looks like it’ll be shutdown for awhile and that’s not necessarily bad. Think of the traffic in D.C. that will free up. Everyone can go on vacation before it gets too cold. A lot of people like me probably won’t even notice for a long time. Eventually things like the Hoover Dam and stuff will fall down if no one takes care of it but I bet some savvy power company will buy it. The War on Drugs will have to be sidelined and eventually the military will have to come back to the US just to save a few bucks. Who’s gonna pay for that one way ticket home? I guess they could just tell everyone, “you’re on your own, do the best ya can.” The people in the military could probably get enough money by selling their weapons and stuff for a ticket home, especially if they shared. Embassies would be a little more difficult but they are usually in the better neighborhoods so you could sell them and probably get everyone home even from crappy countries. The immigration problem will take care of itself because when all the illegals realize the government is shut down they’ll leave because they can’t get any benefits anymore.

I dunno, the more I think about it the more I think we should just leave the federal government shut down. Those guys we all voted for never did anything we really wanted anyway.

Welcome to my dreary life…

Hide the razorblades…

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