BuT eMeRgEnCy PoWeRs ArE tEmPoRaRy. . . .(Meanwhile, in blue states)
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That's the way it always works. Government takes. It does not give back.
Taxes.
Shit was supposed to temporary......
Tolls.
They're always temporary.
Temporarily forever.
I kept reading that as trolls, trying to make sense of what you were saying.
Government builds a bridge
Government says you need to pay $1 to cross bridge to help pay for bridge until the initial cost is offset.
Industry props up to support the act of collecting (or legally bypassing the $1 fee)
Initial cost is offset and government forgot step 2
I’m in the Bay in CA, and I already hear rumblings of them adding on taxes to help fund stupid projects related to continued efforts to combat future instances of this and those affected by it. More hobo shelters, more money for schools with objectively bad performance that are loathed by kids, they’ll probably form some retarded ‘pandemic response team’ that’ll never go away and never actually do anything. They’re already doing rapid and costly construction in my area for things that are meant to help with vaccines, which you know they’re going to push to be made mandatory here of all places.
Everybody always sees that shit on the ballot and thinks “oh cool! I want that.” Then we have yet another stupid tax in the most expensive area on the planet to live because they didn’t realize things cost money. We already have minimum wage laws putting that at almost $16 an hour right now. You go into a restaurant and they’re making $16 an hour. Then you get the bill, and you’re charged a ‘low wage workers’ tax of 10% on top of a $20 plate at a low end place, then you’re supposed to tip on top of that.
Any time something happens here, there’s a new committee formed, staffed by randoms, whose conclusion is always to impose a new tax. Then nothing productive ever comes of it. Traffic’s a nightmare, subways are falling apart, nothing ever gets done. Fuck them getting more money for anything.
The Bay is an ever escalating series of taxes that pay for things that don’t happen or don’t need to be done, and when they are done, are done wrong or poorly.
It's a damn shame what has happened to the bay area. It seems like things are close to hitting a fever pitch there though. Between astronomical housing prices, high taxes, a homeless problem which is spiraling out of control, and an extremely unfriendly business climate, one really has to wonder just how much longer this can continue until the bottom falls out. This sort of thing is 100% unsustainable. It's only a matter of time.
It really depends on what happens with tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook. The tech boom in general ruined the Bay Area from the good old Full House days of the 90s and before. Things are so bad now that part of the reason those companies are basically making their own cities is because they can’t sustain living here, either. Every year there’s some more stupid shit. You can’t build more housing in most cases because of the endless red tape, taxes, tolls, and even income limits that prevent it. A lot of the culture’s been eroding over time because of it too. Small businesses can’t afford to stay open, and everything ends up being gentrified to look the same. Even the designated affordable housing options are hilariously over priced too, and usually have laws in place that make it so that you don’t actually own what you’re buying. Add to that a yearly property tax on a $2-3 million dollar building, or a $1 million condo with a $1-2k a month HOA fee, with $100 dinners at a restaurant and infinite taxes on local projects that never work, and you’ll understand why even people making $150k+ a year here are basically broke. I hear rent in San Jose now is $4-5k a month from friends that have to move there for work. If you make $100-200 an hour here it sounds nice, but most of that’s siphoned off immediately. They’re clearly not using it given that we’re knee deep in hobos and broken roads.
The entire area’s a fire hazard now too from all the people. Driving 3-5 miles can take you 2-3 hours during rush hour. Parking’s more than rent in other areas. It keeps seeping out into the surrounding areas too. Many areas here are old, and the roads aren’t meant for any real traffic, and can’t be rebuilt.
Your Speaker likes to fund her ice cream.
I can’t see why anyone would take Pelosi seriously on anything when her district is the worst managed in the nation. It went from a nice area to one filled with hobos, drug needles, and literal poop on the street. They don’t even prosecute petty crime. It’s this sick joke. If the Bay wasn’t flush with tech money, she’d have been eaten alive by now.
Hey man don’t forget your vehicle plate sticker tax, oh also your gas tax, and your drivers license renewal tax, so you can drive on the roads you paid for with tax money. Only then will you be able to go through the highway to the tolling booth to pay your tax to have the privilege of using the roads. Edit: you have a city sticker too right? Thanks for paying that tax.
They want to be able to deduct those different taxes automatically from your account while driving around, so your "city sticker" will be a virtual thing.
Probably they will use the "mandatory contract tracing app due to coronavirus" for that as it's "perfectly suited to make it easy to pay for (insert minority here)".
We're basically coming full circle to middle-ages Europe, where there were official toll bridges and highwaymen everywhere.
Haha--the way every time I see the name 'Didier,' I read, 'Didler.'
Didler Drogba
Had to look that one up--TIL.
I've never heard of that name outside of him.
To get into the boysoul.
"screw the bridge, let's go through the cave so we don't have to pay the toll... hey what's that noise... they have a cave toll!"
not to forget, should you be able to figure out a workaround, they'll just levy a workaround-the-bridge-tax tax, so you pay regardless
I mean... It still makes sense.
‘2 more weeks, please...’
Was just about to say this. They implemented a temporary income tax to make up for low funds or a deficit or something.
That was like a hundred fucking years ago.
16th amendment, fuck Woodrow Wilson. Worst president in the history of the country. He is who Obama wanted to be like.
Indefinitely temporary.
The 16th amendment completely fucked us.
We need a mod stickied post about how Woodrow Wilson is the ultimate wet dream dem president who completely fucked us. It’s been over a hundred years and that piece of shit is still fucking our country.
Taxation is theft.
The PATRIOT Act. Just until the threat of terrorism is dealt with, right guys?
Can only be one more year or so!
ISIS might have been defeated, Iran is a kindergarden threat, but yeah sure, IT'S REAL WE NEED IT TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS TERRORISM or so.
And as usual, with the "security argument", they can always say "see, thanks to us and our draconian laws, we kept you safe".
Nevermind that the TSA cannot prevent the smuggling of bombs on airplanes by their own security inspectors.
Or nevermind that FISA is being grossly abused using Russian-crafted Democrat-sponsored propaganda smear materials.
Nevermind that Schifty Schiff can run his own little intelligence agency and collect phone records of US House Reps (R).
What a sad shill.
That was the biggest scam of them all. Bush screwed us in perpetuity.
Bush was the worst president since Johnson. At least Obama played golf. That fucker did nothing but start wars, take our liberties, and elect Democrats.
Well, except that Clinton sold our top secret technology to the ChiComs. That was pretty bad also.
It's much more rare that we've had a good president than bad one.
Stone truth.
Yeah, but he gave us stuff. The internet, satellite TV, and cell phones all came on his watch.
Not sure to what extent it's remotely reasonable to say Bubba "gave" us any of that, but to whatever extent it is, to what extent was that stuff even good?
Democrats never credit good things that occur on a Republican watch. You are on the internet right now.
Were invented while he happened to be president
He and Gore introduced it themselves as the "information superhighway" in a press conference. It was their baby at the time. Let's not be like the Democrats, who pan anything good that happens on a GOP watch as being accidental. My point was that W Bush was horrible. Other people brought up Clinton.
I suspect Gore or Kerry might have set the bar lower, though.
They would have sucked. But Bush did it anyway.
Imagine a R version of Carter and you get Bush II.
Well said. Bush was a blundering idiot. Carter was a naive fool.
Bush Played Golf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZ3Tjohwqo
Wish he had played more.
The law was already mostly drafted almost 7 years prior, sponsored by Senator Joe Biden, his proposed law was the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995
https://ritholtz.com/2011/12/the-core-of-the-patriot-act-was-drafted-in-1995-%E2%80%A6-by-joe-biden/
I never thought about that before. DC can move like lightning when it increases their power and revenue.
Bush Senior was working on implementing the patriot act ever since he was director of the CIA.
The law was already mostly drafted almost 7 years prior.
The name of the sponsor of the bill was Senator Joe Biden, his proposed law was the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995, introduced February 10, 1995.
This was shortly before the Oklahoma City Bombing, which ocurred April 19, 1995.
Later Joe went on to say that he drafted the bill because of the OKC bombing.
https://ritholtz.com/2011/12/the-core-of-the-patriot-act-was-drafted-in-1995-%E2%80%A6-by-joe-biden/
It affected literally the entire world. Airports in Germany and Hungary are fucked too since then. Although in Hungary they are not as retarded to do body checks on every 8th white person... I think I never got one there. But in Germany they want to remain politically correct, so...
The t&a-sa at airports comes to mind
And the airlines wonder why people think flying sucks with the TSA being their ambassadors.
I once had a TSA agent refuse to get more gray bins as the line I was in rand out, they had to call a supervisor as their jib was to "tell people what needs to go in the bins" They legit stood their and radioed a supervisor to get someone as the normal guy was on break, instead of walking 20 feet to wheel over a huge stack. Idiots.
A fried of mine who flies often for work had the ID checker deny a US Passport when trying to go thru security for a INTERNATIONAL flight.
I had a guy pull me out of line on a power trip in Chicago once. He was black. I was white. It was showing me who the boss was. And an Arab family of eight whizzed right on by in full costume. People began to ask what I did. My daughter said, "Welcome to East Germany." I have flown exactly once since. I detest W Bush more than Obama.
Don't forget all the shit they steal.
EVERY DAMN TIME
This is how gummint grows ... small incremental steps that take your rights away "for your safety".
The left is consistent and persistent.
All true, of course.
But today I am anxiously awaiting muh arrests.
'This week,' was the scuttle.
But of course there was a "may," in there. Q's kind of prediction--one with built in wiggle room.
"Are your ready for arrests?"
First posted Oct 2018.
We may have to hAvE pAtIeNcE, tHeSe tHiNgS tAkE tImE.
Look shill, Durham only has one shot at this. He's got to get everything right. Do you think he can roll up a Cabal that's been in power for hundreds of years in a matter of months?
Think Titanic.
And trust the stans.
Isn't that interesting? How the script is the same for both operations . . . .
Good job! These things didn't take Mueller any time at all. Can you imagine a 4am swat raid on Hillary or Rosenstein (not even going to mention former CIA or FBI directors; I don't have enough imagination for that)? Those kinds of things only happen to Trump supporters.
I'm sure glad that I trusted Sessions, and now I'm glad that I am blindly trusting the B2 stealth bomber of justice . . .
Nailed it!
Fellow Senators, honored delegates. A tragedy has engulfed our system which started right here with the taxation of Trade Routes.
cough cough cough
If only there was a document that laid out a whole set of rights that the government could absolutely NEVER take away from the people. And perhaps even make it clear that anything not expressly given to the government as a right was reserved to the people. We could even make it an official bill, like a Bill of Rights!
Life in a postmodern world destroyed the constitution and the Bill of Rights.
They already can't stop.
First it was flatten the curve (same number of people die, just happen slower)
Then it was reduce the numbers
Then it was new normal
Then it was mail-in-voting (we are here)
Then it is "you don't really need a say, we'll take care of you"
Then it is "why are you not contributing to the motherland"
Then it is "the gulag is for your own sake, comrade."
Then it is "line up against that wall over there."
And then it wasnt real communism
Survivor: "My family fled from Russia...it was horrible. We lived in fear every day, we sometimes went without food for days, many people even in my family were taken away from us."
Leftist: "...None of that happened! And that wouldn't happen under real Communism anyway except maybe to criminals! You're not a criminal are you?"
Take my upvotes!!
Ppl have no excuse for falling for this shit, HISTORY ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF.
Don't forget to shut down the internet cuz of "misinformation" that goes against the WHO.
See Event 201 highlight reel, 6 min in, its next on their todo.
Lord Of the Rings is pretty based tbh
Tolkien based Mordor on the middle East/Islam (and Germany) at the time. The Shire represented England
That explains the behavior of the orcs...
Uruk-hai do not sleep, do not stop, and will rape and pillage every one and their infants === Islam
Not all Uruk-hai.
Underrated
(╭☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )╭☞
he stated explicitly that what he wrote is not allegorical whatsoever.
Yeah and every episode of South Park ever has said the characters are not based on real life people. Uh huh, yeah sure. It's called covering your ass.
It's gotta be sheer coincidence that the maps of Middle Earth and Europe line up so identically...with Shire/England in north-west, Middle East/Mordor in the south east! :p
And an unstoppable tide of fanatical animals trying to enslave the planet.
The hobbits the hobbits the hobbits the hobbits to Isengard! To Isengard!
Say what you want about the movies but that was my generation's Star Wars, shit blew my damn mind (i didn't even realize they were books when i saw the first)
How old were you when you saw Fellowship in theaters at Christmas? I think I was about 12. Phenomenal time, simpler days..
So glad it came out when it did. If it was even a few years later it would have been crammed full of SJW nonsense.
Allright, so we're gonna discuss how the Took family was white supremacist AND trans at the same time! Fuck you white people for the love of Satan almighty stop being so phobic about everything I'm telling you is phobic about you!!!!!
I’ll remind you, and maybe you already knew, they filmed Arwen fighting at Helms Deep. But fans were outraged for the addition and they backed down from her involvement in the battle.
But if you watch the Hobbit movies you’ll see lots of SJW. Just glad we got a pretty faithful adaptation of LOTR as that trilogy would have made a better movie trilogy than The Hobbit anyway.
I think 13 or 14? Dad took me and he had no idea what it was either. The wait for TT and RoTK was excruciating, especially back in the early 2000s internet. I've still never felt like I did when I first saw RotK, that was just so beyond epic i get chills just thinking about it
The booming theater bass as Gandalf rolls up, in the greenest of Shires, eyes crinkling, "A wizard is never late or early...he arrives precisely when he means to."
Also, the final charge on Mordor gates in ROTK..get chills up my spine. Good times!!
I remember seeing it on Christmas, i think i was almost 20 at the time. The last time i was in a movie theater was about 7 years ago when they did a back to back to back of the extended editions of the 3 LotR movies. It was about a 12 hour ordeal and they fed us and had gave away prizes.
This is actually the moral of LOTR and why its my favorite work of fiction. Nobody can resist that much power. Even the person who was supposed to be the most kind hearted incorruptible being in middle earth eventually succumbs to it. The only thing you can do is prevent any one person from having that much power.
Give it to a legally retarded vegetable person in a coma...
What could go wrong?
Joe Biden?
Top Kek
My preciousss....LISTEN FAT
Pretty sure he means Terri Schiavo.
F-fiction. What?
You could also build something better. However there's always the Arkancide problem.
My God. This may be the most succint, accurate memes I've ever seen. Mass hysteria and fear are driving people to throw away their most foundational freedoms and thank the government for the scraps of freedom it allows them to have.
Stinks like the "Patriot" act all over again.
You can vote yourself into tyranny, but you have to shoot your way out.
The left keeps shilling for this "new normal" because they think everything is a "lesson we have to learn". That "we've been bad as a species and this is our wake-up call." So they use this virus, in the latest sense, "as an opportunity to reflect on {something bad we did} and repent for it".
The "new normal" is trying to sell some form of Socialism and government intrusion into your life as a means of "saving us all from extinction". They believe you, as an individual cannot be trusted to make your own decisions and not "vote for the correct person", "make the approved decisions", etc. They've been doing it with muh Climate Change™ forever. Anytime theres more named hurricanes than usual in a given year, or snowstorms that dump feet of snow, especially in an area that doesn't usually get them (nut it's not 'unheard of')... "PROOF OF MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE! HERE'S MANKIND'S OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO EXPERTS AND REPENT TO MOTHER EARTH BEFORE SHE SMITES US ALL!"
What I find sad; The fact that the resist mental patients that were resisting our President b/c they thought he was literally hitler and wanting massive gov control are celebrating their idiot governors and all politicians that are doing exactly what they accuse President Trump of "doing". Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
For real though, at least out here in California, I keep hearing commercials on the radio about how coronavirus keeping people in and out of jobs is helping the enviroment so much...
It's pretty outstanding, because this is the lesson of the ring. Humans hearts are easily corrupted by the appeal of more and more power. They'll allow the soul to rot while focusing only on one thing: the power.
When the time comes to be rid of it, most of us would find it hard or impossible to leave it. Our fathers knew this, which is why they dramatically limited the power that government had. We've been losing that limitation for so long, and now we're seeing the price to be paid. Petty small tyrants who can't be touched dictating things down to the masses "for our own good." We're getting the monarchy back year by year.
It started a long long time ago, but they've incrementally abused the powers more and more... and each time they get our consent, it sets precedent. They write news laws, giving them the powers they already usurped, making it official - and still we say/do nothing. It's become normal. We already saw them used, in restraint. We trust - by nature...
But slowly, and surely, their abuses of power have resulted in offices with extremely broad powers and authority - like POTUS. They never intended for HIM to be there, so it causes some ruffled feathers. They know what they set up, and he's dismantling it. Giving the authority back to the people, by giving it first to the corrupt (and often ineffectual) Governor leadership. It's the classic "leave them alone in a room with enough rope to hang themselves" tactic. One of Trumps' favorites, in my opinion.
The People will revolt against their Local and State government, not the Federal Government, whom they see as protecting them and 'on their side'.
We need some kind of federal law limiting State Governors' "Emergency Powers".
No, you should NEVER have ability to curtail Constitutional Rights, I don't care what crazy law your legislature passed decades ago.
Stipulate they don't get paid as long as it's in effect.
You'll see record turnaround times in emergencies.
They can still cash those soros checks sooo...
Are you kidding? They make the vast majority of their money behind closed doors with people that no-body voted in. What they get openly from the public tax payer income is a facade. They'd drag things out as long as possible, all the while going on nightly news shows bemoaning the hard life they have without a paycheck.
Sometimes I think that Democrats enact the policies they do just to spread suffering and misery. Maybe they really are inter-dimensional psychic vampires that feed off of our misery.
It's easier to control people when they rely on you.
This is the one, right here, 100%
"Sometimes I think that Democrats enact the policies they do just to spread suffering and misery."
Now you are beginning to understand that they are not stupid, but, in fact, evil.
You presume that I didn't already know that.
The technical term is "sociopaths" and yes, they absolutely are. Our misery feeds their greed.
Time for an Underworld meme
I rooted for the vampires in that because I don’t like werewolves.
This is a great fucking meme, Hattie. Strong medicine.
I think it's originally from that Meme god we know, Carpe Donktum.
I like you both, and Master Donktum, so there
I like you too.
Shares Chicken nuggets
Nom nom nom. Lol
All the likes up in this mutha
All we need is rooftoptendie to weigh in and we're the tendy fellowship lol
I have always liken the FISA Courts with the Ring of Power. If only we could use it but just this once! We would only use it for good! Then, I promise, we will destroy it!
My greatest hope is to get 4 FISA abuses and a whistleblower in my honour.
I re-read the entire LoTR series every year... it gets more and more relevant as time goes on, right up until the last chapters of Return of the King which is basically a treatise against communism.
Never give an inch
Start taking back inches. Reverse the ground giving!
People who would give up liberty for security deserve neither.
Jabba the Hyatt illegally extended IL to May 30th even though his emergency powers expired April 9th.
There is a downstate Rep. who has filed charges against him.
This might be the best meme I’ve seen on this
Blue states aren't the only ones that do this, they just take their authoritarian overreach a lot further than the refs.
Still waiting for water rates to return to pre-drought levels like promised
Same here. During the drought (what was that, 2015? I don't remember anymore), our water rates increased to where our water/garbage/sewer collection averages just under $100/month.
At least one member of the city council tried and tried to get a temporary provision in the order, but it was of course shot down. They "promised" to lower it when the drought was over. 🙄
Yeah here it was the city asking us to conserve water, and then when we did they discovered that the water department wasn't bringing in enough money.
So they "temporarily" raised rates to compensate. When the drought ended, rates would go down. "We promise."
Now they use really loose definitions of "drought" to keep us paying more money.
What area?
If you don't mind me asking.
San Angelo TX
The local city/county council just decreed from upon high that, although non-essential businesses can open, all comrades . . . I'm sorry, citizens must wear a mask in public or face a $1000 fine starting tomorrow.
There was a provision given by our overlords that you can remove it while eating, but you have to put it back on as soon as you're done.
This is in Texas.
Perfect allegory
Which is why the 2nd amendment is one of the greatest things about the USA. The 2nd amendment is not at all sufficient, but it is 100% necessary.
"this i will have as weregild for my father and for my brother".
This is the most accurate meme I have seen in my life.
Then 6 months down the line "well we've had this as a rule for so long it's pretty much the law anyway so let's just make it official."
It's why socialists want your guns.
Time to vote the Supreme Chancellor more Emergency Powers.
What could go wrong?
Ah! Yes! ...just like the "war on terror"s Patriot Act.
4 years later
6 years later
4 years later
2 years later
2 years later
2 years later
the only way is through the court system
Fed Judge just allowed ammo shipments again in CA
Ha, ha......Marry me!! :D
When the courage of men failed.
Almost like it was an allegory of some kind.
Liberals in 2000: The government is corrupt! They can't be trusted with all this power!
Liberals in 2008: Obviously the government can do nothing wrong, we need to give them more power!
Liberals in 2016: The government needs all the power, except the people we don't like!
You know it's true
in MOST states, not just blue. Kentucky is red as it gets and we're in commie hell.
Nothing is more permanent than “temporary” arrangements, deficits, truces, and relationships; and nothing more temporary than “permanent” ones.—Nassim Taleb