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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
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"Mayayana" wrote: "android" wrote Woops. Not American. I didn't think of that. Your ship coming in means you're getting some kind of payday after a long wait. As wealthy merchants in earlier centuries would have had when their ship full of goods from elsewhwere finally arrived in home port. The cartoonist portayed Roy's "**** coming in" with a pickup truck arriving carrying an outhouse. The visual joke was a bit awkward. But it portrays the current US situation. Half the population believes Trump will make their ship come in, in one way or another. The other half are aghast at the inexplicable naivety of that assumption. And not only naivety. Another American expression is apropos he Cutting off your nose to spite your face. The Trumpians are celebrating bitterly as they work to harm themselves. The very people who will suffer most, the poor, are the ones who stand to lose the most. But as has happened ever since Reagan, a charming personality can fool most of the people most of the time. The cartoon also portrays something that's peculiar to the US. In contrast to most of Europe, we have a very large rural population. To some extent we're a rural nation that idealizes simple values. So we're generally less sophisticated than Europeans. We have a long history of resenting uppity types who use big words. Trump appeals to that vein of the American psyche. He grabs pussy. That's something any normal person can relate to. The cartoon is showing poor, rural Americans, living in a shack. Many of Trump's supporters clearly think his TV show is more real than the world where real politics and economics are playing out. They think they just elected some kind of hybrid magician, a cross between the good witch of the north and a mafia kingpin. (Sorry. More American references.) And Trump is not letting up. Yesterday he chatted with the leader of Taiwan. It looks like he might fire China on Monday. He seems to believe the TV show mythology, too. And he's not even actually the President for another month and a half! Thank's for your effort... -- teleportation kills |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
On 2016-12-03 16:20:14 +0000, Neil said:
On 12/2/2016 1:34 PM, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-12-02 18:13:54 +0000, "Mayayana" said: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/nq161201.gif Hillarious (*not* "Hillaryous")! Where do you find such things? The Internet can be a great source of delightful surprises. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
On 12/3/2016 10:54 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"android" wrote | | https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/nq161201.gif | | Clever. It took me a minute to get it. | | The crescent on a mobile loo... What's the joke? My understanding was a play on words. It was a good joke but it's hard to make the point in a picture. Roy's ship didn't come in. Rather, **** is coming in. Trump promised all the angry people that he'd make it all better for them. Now it's "hitting the fan". Interestingly, the Trump supporters are bending over backward to defend him. I suspect that when things really go south they'll blame "Washington insiders" for interfering with the Trumpian Golden Age. I'm very curious at what point, if ever, the Trump devotees might turn on him. So far there's just an odd celebration of crassness. I read awhile back that Trump was promising zero tax for anyone making under $25K. They could just file a form that says, "I win." http://time.com/money/4052714/trump-tax-plan/ But as the article points out, tax is already low or non-existent in that bracket. Someone making $25K is paying a lot for social security, but probably not much in Federal tax. And how will Trump pay for it? How will he get the change passed? The fools don't think about that. They just like his flippant manner. The bully's on their side. What could go wrong? In the last two days, Trump made some foreign policy blunders, because he has no clue as to what he is doing: His defenders are scrambling to justify what he did. Taiwan. Philippines. -- PeterN |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
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wrote: Interestingly, the Trump supporters are bending over backward to defend him. no different than supporters for any other candidate. that's what supporters do. |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
"J. Clarke" wrote
| You are conflating conservatism with anarchism. | Me? I thought that was what the Trump supporters were doing. To my mind conservative vs liberal is a battle between two ideologies: one leaning socialist and the other leaning monarchical. Trump isn't conservative. He's completely out of the loop. But the small gov't crowd do tend to be somewhat anarchistic. Remember the Tea Party and Grover Norquist? Another group of selfish servants of the rich who suckered the poor into supporting them: "I'm not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." | Some government is necessary. Right now we have | TOO DAMNED MUCH government. I work with people | who grew up in the Soviet Union. They do _not_ | like the direction that the US government has | been going for the past several decades You work with Russian immigrants and they've told you how the US should operate? Should I be impressed by that? I'm friends with a Russian couple who are both programmers. They say the thing that really strikes them about the US is that while Russia has very similar laws, those laws inexplicably work in the US. One can buy a house without fear of the mayor stealing it, and get a speeding ticket without having to pay off the cop who pulled you over. They think that's amazing. But it does nothing to address exactly what "TOO DAMN MUCH" we'd all agree to do without. |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
On 12/3/2016 10:05 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
In article , says... On 12/3/2016 3:10 PM, J. Clarke wrote: In article , says... On 12/3/2016 10:54 AM, Mayayana wrote: "android" wrote | | https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/nq161201.gif | | Clever. It took me a minute to get it. | | The crescent on a mobile loo... What's the joke? My understanding was a play on words. It was a good joke but it's hard to make the point in a picture. Roy's ship didn't come in. Rather, **** is coming in. Trump promised all the angry people that he'd make it all better for them. Now it's "hitting the fan". Interestingly, the Trump supporters are bending over backward to defend him. I suspect that when things really go south they'll blame "Washington insiders" for interfering with the Trumpian Golden Age. I'm very curious at what point, if ever, the Trump devotees might turn on him. So far there's just an odd celebration of crassness. I read awhile back that Trump was promising zero tax for anyone making under $25K. They could just file a form that says, "I win." http://time.com/money/4052714/trump-tax-plan/ But as the article points out, tax is already low or non-existent in that bracket. Someone making $25K is paying a lot for social security, but probably not much in Federal tax. And how will Trump pay for it? How will he get the change passed? The fools don't think about that. They just like his flippant manner. The bully's on their side. What could go wrong? In the last two days, Trump made some foreign policy blunders, because he has no clue as to what he is doing: His defenders are scrambling to justify what he did. Taiwan. What, offending the dear sweet wonderful Chinese by admitting that Taiwan exists as an independent country? It's about time the *******s got over themselves. Philippines. What "blunder" was that? I strongly suggest that you do some background reading on foreign relations with China, and learn how they can buffer with Russia, and why they are the only country that can prevent North Korea from blackmailing us. Next you'll ask how about the relations between two nuclear powers, Pakistan and India. You might also want to learn something about human rights and widespread government sponsored murder in the Philippines, and how our present government is dealing with it. . Do I hear the '50s calling? In the opinion of probably the majority of educated citizens, those items are essential to the well being of our country. -- PeterN |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
On 12/3/16 PDT 5:34 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2016-12-02 12:53, John McWilliams wrote: On 12/1/16 PDT 5:09 PM, PeterN wrote: My fave is the A-hole who honked, impatiently as I am making a right turn into a parking lot, and I am stopped because of the car in front of me. Of course the A-hole couldn't pass because he was right on my tail. I must admit that I gave the car in front of me a lot of room. Golly gee! You being inconsiderate of traffic behind you and you complain?! Really? As he said, the A-hole put himself too close to maneuver. I doubt I'd do different in taking my sweet time. Some time ago I didn't cross on a green light because it was jammed on the other side (a fellow doing an immediate left turn into a small store parking lot). Guy behind me (pickup truck of course) was going bananas on horn and high beams. The gods smiled, by the time the guy across cleared, I was able to go on the yellow leaving trucky boy behind on the red. Not like he couldn't see what was going on. That's a bit different, and Peter explained his situation better. My only point is if one has created a bottleneck, it's up to him to clear it as soon as possible, regardless of the boorish behavior to the rear. |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
On 12/3/16 PDT 8:39 AM, android wrote:
In article , "Mayayana" wrote: TV show mythology, too. And he's not even actually the President for another month and a half! Thank's for your effort... A grand explanation! Indeed, thanks on behalf of all halfwits and non-US residents. (Two separate groups to be sure, though there's some overlapping) (And plurals do not take an apostrophe.) |
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For the Netflix Subscribers Among Us - The Taxman Cometh
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John McWilliams wrote: On 12/3/16 PDT 8:39 AM, android wrote: In article , "Mayayana" wrote: TV show mythology, too. And he's not even actually the President for another month and a half! Thank's for your effort... A grand explanation! Indeed, thanks on behalf of all halfwits and non-US residents. (Two separate groups to be sure, though there's some overlapping) (And plurals do not take an apostrophe.) It was short for "Thank is given for your effort...", one and only one... :-ppp -- teleportation kills |
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