According to the deep thinkers marks on Twitter, Trump is a Nazi.

Yes, it’s getting worse. It’s not just Trump-he has installed a regime to deconstruct the agencies they run, strip away rights and regulations, and make science and educational information disappear. He is tearing apart our fragile democracy and seizing power. Wake up America!

— Amy Siskind ?️‍? (@Amy_Siskind) December 16, 2017

We're less safe than ever thanks to @realDonaldTrump: Terrorist-in-Chief #Nazi https://t.co/bu2eNa4gzB

— Amy Kate (@amykate19) December 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/politicangst/status/942453256633991168

https://twitter.com/PicsByGB/status/939975671505330176

When the Hitler and Nazi party of Germany formed, the first paramilitary unit created were the the Sturmabteilung (SA) – also known as the Brown Shirts.

They were eventually superseded by the Schutzstaffel (SS).

Both the SA and SS were military units.  They had specially designation to separate them from the Wehrmacht (Defense Force) which was the official German army.

The breakup of WWII era German military units this way was a paperwork way of getting around the limitations placed on the size and offensive capabilities of the German army per the Treaty of Versailles.

The point is, Hitler and the Nazi party had control of the military of Germany, both for war with other nations (Wehrmacht) and for political oppression (SA, SS).

If Trump is Hitler or Goebbels and the GOP is a bunch of Nazis, than logically the US Army would be his SS, in this analogy.

This brings us to Trump hating, Left winger, Andy Richter.

So our troops, then? You’d shoot at our troops? https://t.co/RlfuCKlbjf

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 17, 2017

(In response to this Tweet)

Our right to keep & bear arms is our last line of defense against our own government.

That's why we have the 2nd Amendment.

But you knew that.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) December 16, 2017

So, if Trump is Hitler, the GOP are Nazis, and they are using the military as their own personal SS to oppress people, it’s still wrong to take up arms against our own troops…

I really don’t think the Left thinks these things through all the way.

Then again, do they ever?

From the New York Post: GOP tax plan is a ‘dagger at the economic heart of New York’: Cuomo.

Why?

WASHINGTON — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday called the GOP tax overhaul a “dagger at the economic heart of New York” and predicted dire consequences for New Yorkers from tax hikes to mortgage foreclosures under the plan.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if home values drop, if you saw mortgage foreclosures go up… The economic consequences are going to be a major issue for us going forward,” Cuomo told John Catsimatidis on his 970 AM radio show.

What’s a huge concern for residents of high tax states like New York, California and New Jersey is capping state and local tax deductions to $10,000 and lowering the mortgage interest deduction on new homes from $1 million to $750,000.

“It’s devastating to New York State and 12 other states,” Cuomo said. “What they did here was reprehensible. I call it an economic civil war. They just divided the nation. They’re using 12 states, which happened to be blue states … to finance the tax cut in the other states.”

Let’s talk housing.

I lived in the suburbs outside Chicago.  I was a consulting engineer.

I started that job with a salary of $85K/yr.  I bought my first home there with a minimum down payment of $7,000.  It was a graduation gift from my grandmother (she used to be a real estate agent and wanted to give me a gift that would be useful).

I lived in a town home, roughly 1,600 sq-ft, 3 bed 2.5 bath, end unit.  My mortgage and escrow was $1,450/mo, which was what I could budget from my income.  My property tax from Will County, Illinois, was over $7,000/year.

I bought a new home in Alabama this year after changing jobs.  It is in a nice development, just under 2,900 sq-ft, 4 bed, 3 bath, fenced in 0.25 acre yard.  I paid the minimum down payment of $9,000 with some money I inherited from my dad.  My mortgage and escrow is $1,450/mo.  My salary got bumped up a little to tad over $90K, so my housing budget stayed pretty much the same.  Madison County, property tax was $2,400 this year because my seller screwed me and the house was not homesteaded, next year it will drop to $1,200.

I went to Zillow and looked for homes for sale in Manhattan and San Francisco roughly comparable to what I am in now.

In NYC, 4 bed, 3 bath, 2,800 sq-ft gets you a condo for $2.5 million and over $9,000/mo in mortgage.

In SF, 4 bed, 2.5 bath, 3,000 sq-ft gets you a house for $2.9 million and $10,600/mo in mortgage.

I found one apartment for rent in Manhattan at roughly my price point.  It is a one bath studio that is so small it doesn’t list the sq-ft.

In San Francisco that gets me a 1 bath studio that is 230 sq-ft, or smaller than my living room.

These places are unaffordable by – to use their language – the 99%.  People like me, educated professionals, are priced so far out of the market it is insane, let alone working class Americans.

I think housing prices in these areas can take a little dip, that might actually help most of the people in NYC.  But more importantly, why does he want to make it more difficult for an engineer in Alabama to get a tax break to protect the millionaires and billionaires in his impossibly expensive hyper elitist cities?

Unless he’s a fucking hypocrite who hates everybody outside his bubble?

Oh yeah, there’s always that.

Doug Jones breaks with top Democrats on Trump

WASHINGTON – Senator-elect Doug Jones is already breaking with some prominent Democrats by refusing to call for President Trump to step down over ongoing sexual harassment allegations.

“I don’t think that the president ought to resign at this point,” Jones (D-Ala.) told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

In his first round of Sunday show interviews since securing a stunning victory in red state Alabama over accused sexual predator Roy Moore, Jones said he doesn’t want to get bogged down in Trump’s sexual harassment allegations and would rather work on “real issues.”

“I think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues,” Jones added. “Let’s get on with the real issues that are facing the people of this country right now.”

That’s at odds with some high-profile Democrats like Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Cory Booker (NJ) who believe the president should step down because at least 19 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct.

Unlike other politicians who have stepped down, like Sen. Al Franken and Rep. John Conyers, Jones said the difference is the voters knew about these allegations and still elected Trump to the highest office.

“Those allegations were made and he was elected president of the United States,” Jones said. “I think the American people spoke.”

Jones said he’s willing to work with Republicans on passing some of Trump’s priorities like infrastructure investment said the sexual harassment allegations are not reason to get on Trump’s bad side.

Well fuck me sideways, this is a dude who knows on what side his bread is buttered.

I guess Doug Jones realized his election was a long shot and he barely squeaked by a Republican garbage candidate and knows that if he wants any chance of winning reelection in 2018 he better represent the people and Alabama and not be a Pelosi puppet.

It’s a good start but he needs to keep this up.

What I want to see is how national Dems respond to this.

If you are willing to put children in jeopardy so you can enjoy free Japanese midget Porn, you need to be taken outside and canned upon your backside at least 20 times.

Hat Tip Mal Roadkill

I have the firm belief that people never look up. Anything about 20 degrees up from their horizontal visual plane simply does not exist. And if they look, they simply do not process what they saw unless is some naked supermodel doing cartwheels on a self.

And when you add stupidity and greed to the mix, you get a funny news item involving crime:

A person came into the store, pointed a gun at the clerk, and demanded money. After taking cash, the person ran away.

The clerk was not hurt.

Officers set up a perimeter around the area of the store following the robbery but did not find the suspect.

As officers carefully reviewed surveillance video of the robbery, they saw that the clerk, Terry Hopson Jr., age 43, of Roanoke, removed additional cash from the register after the suspect had left and put the money in his back pocket.

Hopson was arrested for embezzlement and taken to the Roanoke City Jail.

Clerk arrested for embezzlement following armed robbery in Roanoke

Keywords: Surveillance video.

Really Junior? The cameras? You never thought about the damned cameras?

God Bless his little heart.

Hat Tip John R.

Dear people freaking out about the end of net neutrality,

I have seen your Tweets and Facebook posts.  I have read how the internet is now going to bankrupt us all because of “the corporations*” or something.  That is if net neutrality doesn’t kill us all.

If, in your caterwauling about net neutrality, you have no idea what the phrase “last mile monopoly” means, let alone have no desire to fix it, your opinion is ignorant dog shit.

The core of the problem is that a huge number of people have access to only one Internet Service Provider.  Even in major cities, what ISP a person has is depending on what neighborhood they live in.  In more rural areas, whole regions have only one ISP.

Consider that for a lot of these people, the only provider is Comcast.  Its customer service is known to be horrible.  It is the most hated company in America.  Comcast is downright evil, and it can be, because it is effectively a regional monopoly.  I’ve had Comcast and cancer.  Given the choice of having either one again, I’d take the cancer.

There are things we can do to end the ISP monopoly in America, that will improve internet for everyone.  If the goverment was going to be involved in the internet at all, it should be as trust buster, just as it did to Standard Oil, Bell telephone, and Microsoft.  The later two being critical, as if it were not for the breakup off Bell and changes made to Microsoft, the cellphone and internet industry as we know it today would probably not exist.

If you are screeching about net neutrality but you know nothing about ISP monopolies, and have not protested for or demanded change to this system, than what you are saying is “I want the goverment to control how one infrastructure monopoly provides consumer access to another service monopoly.”

If that is the case, I invite you to follow this handy guide.