So, I got into it online in the comments about Trump’s tax plan.  According to the tax plan calculator I will save a good bit of money, about 9 months worth of car payments for a new truck.  I’m excited by it.

Some internet shit-weasel was arguing against me in this.

I said I pay a lot in taxes and getting a break like this will help me afford a new truck (my current one is 15 years old – yes I’m still driving the ’03 Chevy I got as a college graduation present from my dad).

In all the back and forth, my anti-Trump foil shot back with “even if it does help you now, it will expire in 2025 and you taxes will go up again.”

I was blown away by this.  “Your taxes will go up seven years from now” is his argument why this is bad?

Is this how these people really think?

I hope my taxes go up in seven years.  I hope my taxes double or triple in seven years.  I’m turning 35.  I am a well educated professional.  I hope by the time I’m 42 my income has made substantial gains.  If I am making marginally more at 42 as I am at 35, my life has taken a severe turn for the worse.

An MD should double his or her salary between being a resident today and being a doctor in private practice in seven years.

A lawyer should double his or her salary between being an associate today and being a junior partner in seven years.

Then it hit me, if this guy is a Pre-Colombian Mesoamerican Lesbian Art Studies major, he’s not going to see a great gain in his income at Starbucks.

For the rest of America that didn’t piss their college tuition away on bullshit, it should be a goal in life to go up a tax bracket or two seven years from now.

From Jezebel, Shut Up Taylor Swift, Everybody Hated 2017.

The thesis of their post was: but Trump.

I liked 2017.  I got a raise in a Job I love.  I bought a house.  I paid off most of my outstanding debts.  My second child was born.  It was a pretty good year.

If you believe that 2017 was awful and everybody hated it because Trump, seek help.  This is a sign of a severe emotional problem.

Maybe it is time that some of these Blue enclaves go all Brave New World and just start dumping anti-depressants into the water like fluoride.  It might actually make everything a little bit better.

Yesterday I posted my opinion about Cuomo’s out-of-touch-with-the-middle-class bitching about the NYC tax cut.

Tuns out that because of the reduction in federal tax deductions from state and local taxes, some of the super wealthy want to bail on New York for lower tax states.

I say Trump should build a wall around Manhattan and California and keep those fuckers there.

One: Make them suffer the cost of the high tax burdens put in place by the party they support.

Two: Keep them from infecting Red states with their stupid ideology.

They voted for total Democrat control, they should be forced to face the music for their decisions.  Nothing is more out of touch elitist than voting for the party of high taxes then having the privilege to move when those taxes get too high for their liking.

San Francisco is a city that is literally drowning in homeless people’s shit and disease infected drug needles, and were illegal immigrants have a free pass to murder US citizens.

No wonder the SPCA of San Francisco wanted to hire robots to roust the homeless people that were sleeping and shitting on its headquarters.

My problem at the time was that the robot was a wuss.

Well, the unarmed robot was treated just as you would expect someone unarmed, wandering around San Francisco after dark to be treated.  It was attacked, beaten up, and blinded.

However, according to SPCA president Jennifer Scarlett, within a week of the robo-narc’s first day on the job, residents of the homeless camp outside the SPCA had “put a tarp over it, knocked it over, and put barbecue sauce on all the sensors.” 

The news report didn’t say if the robot was sexually abused too, but knowing what I know about San Francisco, it probably was; and if it wasn’t that’s only because the homeless and illegals didn’t know which port to stick it in.

This is why security droids should be armed.  Nothing law abiding, living or robotic is safe in the Shit-hole by the Bay.

Maybe the robots of Knightscope need to put a call out to their cousins at Boston Dynamics to send over Atlas to go Kung-Fu the shit out of San Francisco’s homeless.

If San Francisco robots can’t carry guns, at least a flying titanium and carbon fire roundhouse kick to the face might keep Atlas from suffering the same fate.  After all, the Boston Dynamics robots know how to take care of themselves.

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.