It sounds like they know this, but their donors have told them it’s tax breaks or goodbye, and they’d rather have the donors. Really, they’d have a lot more flexibility if they were willing to cut the corporate rate but not all the way to 20%.
Because it won’t be immediately awful, and by the time it is, people will have forgotten the why and republicans will tack to screaming about the deficit and how we’ll need to cut programs like social security and welfare to make it up.
“Chuck and Nancy,” as the president refers to them, backed out of a government funding meeting with Mr. Big Boy Dealmaker today after he said prior to the meeting, on Twitter, that “I don’t see a deal!”
I think they know full well what they’re doing - they’re just gaslighting the rest of us. It’s a whole world of wannabe-Regina George poseurs. “What? I said her outfit looked really nice considering how fabric she needs to wrap around her huge butt. It’s a COMPLIMENT!” It’s the logic of a schoolyard bully who…
I’ve fucking had it up to here with all the people looking around incredulously, pretending to be stupefied that the word “Pocahontas” is now somehow off-limits. It’s not the word itself, you nitwits, and you damn well know it.
Yes, like this.
Oooh! I heard another good one. Apparently the actual earth is massive and covered in ice. The part we live on is just a small hole surrounded by ice walls and there may be other holes. Here, I found a diagram:
Yeah, we’d need more than one edge though. If it is disc-shaped, there’d be tons of edges. Even if you assume square-shaped, that would mean 4 edges. If Antarctica is the only edge, that would mean Antarctica is all around us? WTF?
Yep, it was Mark Kelly, the astronaut who is Gabby Giffords’ husband. “I’ve seen Earth from space and it’s clearly round. The other question I would have for people who think the Earth is flat is that if the Earth was flat, wouldn’t the edge be a really popular vacation spot? I know I would want to look over that…
Way it was told to me, if Earth was flat then all the cats would have knocked everything off the edge of the planet out of spite and we’d be left in this shitty life saying “those cats have since just zapped us up on out of existence.”
People believe what fits into their emotional worldview- once they completely jettison things like facts. You have to find fantasy more compelling than reality. So yeah, I absolutely believe this variety of truther exists.
I know that reason and logic mean nothing to these stupid people, but how do they interpret the sun and different time zones? Do they not believe that it’s sunny in Beijing when it’s dark in New York? That if they call someone in a far away time zone and ask them what time of day it is, that they are lying? Or do they…
The funny thing is they did make it into a movie a few years ago, but people really do believe this.
I’ll see your gif and raise you a video.
I have a friend who’s stepfather believes in Moon Nazis. As in, The Third Reich never fell because they somehow managed to send a rocket to the dark side of the moon where they have been lying in wait, raising an army at their secret Moon Nazi Base. You can’t counter with “Well didn’t the astronauts see them during…
Boy oh boy, where was I flying all those years I traveled? You can see the curvature of the earth from a plane. These people stupid.
Oh wait the best bit is saying she wished she had called DT a creep during the debates! Book purchased.
Reposting my tale of my almost-murder from last year.