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Tag: Political
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-29-2026
Trump was actually 17-18 in this photo. His parents sent him to a military boarding school for behavioral issues & bullying. Now he uses the photo to pretend he was in the military.
Trump was in his 20s when the DOJ began investigating him for discriminating against Black renters
Bloomberg: Lutnick Forced Delay In Opening New Canada-US Bridge To Seek Bigger Cut Of Toll Revenue
The below is sickening. All slurs, bigotry attacks, and lies but not on discussion of policies. It is all culture wars misinformation to gin up outrage built on lies and misinformation. Hugs
‘Very traumatic,’: Texas women denied treatment for miscarriage under state abortion ban
These complete no exception bans have pretend exceptions that no doctor can trust. These paws and the people who push them do not see a woman as a whole real person, just a vessel for a possible offspring. Women are dying when there is no viable fetus to protect because these laws do not see women as people. Only men are human people. Plus these laws are pushed by religious fanatics and not doctors. Hugs
Texas resident Lynn Callaway filed a federal complaint against two Texas area hospitals that denied her treatment while she was having a miscarriage. “It has been a whirlwind, very traumatic,” Callaway said. In order to treat her miscarriage, she needed to receive the same procedure used in abortions. “I was someone who also did not realize that the abortion ban, particularly how it bans the pill, as well as the D&C, could also impact miscarriage care. That just never came to my mind, and that’s why it’s very important to understand these laws and understand how they impact everyone.”
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-28-2026
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-26-2026
Charge Jared Kushner with violating the Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953). He’s a corrupt PoS criminal just like his wretched father.
Why on earth does a 6’3” 239 lb man need a weight loss drug. I mean, look at these two specimens!
Religious rights for Christian nationalists only!
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-25-2026
“What confuses me most about all the parabolic advances with A.I. is that umbrellas are still the same.”
Conversation Starter: Property Taxes and the GOP
Hello Everyone. One of the things that I’ve struggled with over the years of doing various posts here and elsewhere is that I, quite frankly, am not an expert on anything. This makes me very self-conscious about my posting because I feel like I’m misleading people into making mistakes in their own thoughts and arguments. So, I’m going to try this new approach of calling my posts “conversation starter” with the hope that if I am wrong, or by shock and chance hit the mark a bit, readers can feel free to add opinion or correct me.
Any of us may be wrong by a long stretch or just a little bit, and I think we hold our opinions for fear of being made to look foolish or naïve. I would like to preface this with the reminder that these are my opinions, and much like assholes…., yeah. So… here goes.
One of the current position points for the GOP, and I’ve seen this especially in Indiana, Ohio and Florida, is the idea that property taxes are an unfair burden upon property owners (https://auditor.bcohio.gov/news_detail_T2_R36.php). I’ve heard them use the analogy that it is paramount to buying a meal from the resturant, paying for the meal, and then being required to return yearly to pay more for that original meal purchase.
The human mind is going to immediately gravitate to the idea that the removal of a tax is a good thing. This, of course, is the MAGA and GOP mode of operations: appeal to the unthinking and immature mental reflex of their base towards their own ends.
What the less wealthy MAGA likely hasn’t done, is recognize that this turns a tax burden upon the less wealthy, again. Here is my thinking:
If a wealthy person buys land, say, measuring 100 acres for his own home. Conceivably, a similar 100 acres would house 300-400 middle-class homes, or more if we consider apartments. In a simple math, because I know it doesn’t quite work this way but give me some latitude here, those two 100-acre portions of land would pay give-or-take the same tax. That means, by my simple measure, one family is paying the same tax as 300-400. Now, that doesn’t really seem very fair, and so the GOP/MAGA support the end of that tax.
But, as we all know, the bills never stop. The money for roads, schools, parks, police and fire, etc., has to come from somewhere. A great deal of that comes from property tax. If it doesn’t come from the property tax, where will it come from? I would guess an increase in sales taxes, gas taxes, payroll state taxes. In this case, now the food, gas, entertainment, police and fire and whatever else, is going to be payed by that 3-400 middle-class families at a similar rate as the 1-wealthy family — meaning the tax burden has shifted to the middle-class families. Further, the wealthy person is going to have an even better financial position, which he will likely use to buy more land.
Ok, this is my opinion. What do you think??
Randy
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
To me and hopefully to everyone this is horrific. But something I have been highlighting here that Israeli is a rouge terrorist government drying to genocide the Palestinian people. It is horrific that a people who experienced such actions would inflict them on others. But this show what can happen when right-wing movements turn into religious domination of the government. The Israel government is now filled with extreme Jewish religious extremists who feel their holy book grants them all the territory around then that is the sovereign territory of other countries. They feel their god gave it to them thousands of years ago so they have the right to take it. Regardless of laws or norms between countries. They want it so it should be theirs. Just like Putin in Ukraine. Israel talked our demented leader into going into war against their enemy which had no benefit for us but we took all the cost and risks. The military equipment and weapons used in the genocide of the Palestinians was paid for by the US taxpayer. Some quotes below. Hugs
The UN commission said in its report, released on Tuesday, that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the war, including after a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025.
“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission’s chair, in a statement accompanying the report.
“This indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional,” it said. It added that it believed children were targeted collectively because the Israeli security forces considered the civilian population as a whole to be associated with Hamas and other armed groups.
Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.
The inquiry also found that attacks on healthcare and reproductive facilities affected newborns’ survival and the reported increase in miscarriages, and that nearly all children in Gaza were reported to be in need of psychological support.
It said Palestinian children, especially boys, were subjected to systemic mistreatment in detention, including forced stripping, beatings and food deprivation.
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
A man plays with a baby as Palestinian children look on amid the rubble in Khan Younis, Gaza, in March.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesWomen mourn a baby killed in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis last year.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesChildren jostle for food at an aid point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Monday.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 6-24-2026
Gramps was deported to America after dodging the draft in Germany. Trump likes to lie and say gramps fought in WWI and killed hundreds of American, British, and French soldiers. Truth is Gramps was already running brothels in the US and Canada about ten years before that war even began.
Botched Wars Leave Trump Vulnerable | Heather ‘Digby’ Parton | TMR
I love watching Digby. I find she has incredible insite into the world of politics and the feelings of the country. Plus she knows her history. Hugs
