(06-22-2023, 11:25 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]MTG pinning Boebert down on the House floor with her knee while taunting her. Hears the squad cackling, looks over her shoulder and says, ‘You [BLEEP] want some of this??’
![[Image: Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-GettyImages-1326337525.jpg]](https://am13.mediaite.com/med/cnt/uploads/2021/07/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-GettyImages-1326337525.jpg)
Bobert is hotter, but my money would be on Greene. She's got more rage.
That said, either of them could take down any member of the 'Squad' in a millisecond.
(06-25-2023, 11:00 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]For months these Wagner soldiers have been told that the top of the Russian army is corrupt and incompetent. Now that they are being integrated into the Russian army, how are they going to feel about taking orders from the very people they have been told are corrupt and incompetent?
I can see a lot of different scenarios.
What happens when they are ordered to the front and they feel like they are being sacrificed because it is just inconvenient to keep them around? If entire Wagner units are kept together, we could see a rebellion at some point.
I'm just saying, integrating these units into the Russian army could lead to some rather unpredictable situations.
I don’t know if you read the link I posted earlier about Prigozhin. He’s an ex-con who served 12 years for assault and burglary. When he became leader of the Wagner group, he recruited convicts within the prisons in the understanding their sentences would be commuted if they served so long. My wild guess is Russia is leveraging this to force compliance.
Who knows. I’m speculating we haven’t heard the last of it.
What’s better than Russian drama?
(06-25-2023, 11:41 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: [ -> ] (06-22-2023, 11:25 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]MTG pinning Boebert down on the House floor with her knee while taunting her. Hears the squad cackling, looks over her shoulder and says, ‘You [BLEEP] want some of this??’
Bobert is hotter, but my money would be on Greene. She's got more rage.
That said, either of them could take down any member of the 'Squad' in a millisecond.
I don’t know. Rashida Tlaib looks pretty tough and is a little cray cray.
(06-25-2023, 12:28 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ] (06-24-2023, 04:46 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]Now, supposedly Prigozhin is going to Belarus and his troops are going to be enrolled in the Russian army.
It sounds like Prigozhin just wimped out.
Very strange.
Enrolled?? Unless these soldiers are signing up for some brainwashing, limp-wristed college, the correct term is enlisted. Got that, you grabastic amphibian piece of filth?!
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R. Lee Ermey was a national treasure.
(06-25-2023, 11:00 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]For months these Wagner soldiers have been told that the top of the Russian army is corrupt and incompetent. Now that they are being integrated into the Russian army, how are they going to feel about taking orders from the very people they have been told are corrupt and incompetent?
I can see a lot of different scenarios.
What happens when they are ordered to the front and they feel like they are being sacrificed because it is just inconvenient to keep them around? If entire Wagner units are kept together, we could see a rebellion at some point.
I'm just saying, integrating these units into the Russian army could lead to some rather unpredictable situations.
Don't put the beer and snacks away!
(06-25-2023, 01:40 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: [ -> ] (06-25-2023, 12:28 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]Enrolled?? Unless these soldiers are signing up for some brainwashing, limp-wristed college, the correct term is enlisted. Got that, you grabastic amphibian piece of filth?!
R. Lee Ermey was a national treasure.
(06-25-2023, 11:00 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]For months these Wagner soldiers have been told that the top of the Russian army is corrupt and incompetent. Now that they are being integrated into the Russian army, how are they going to feel about taking orders from the very people they have been told are corrupt and incompetent?
I can see a lot of different scenarios.
What happens when they are ordered to the front and they feel like they are being sacrificed because it is just inconvenient to keep them around? If entire Wagner units are kept together, we could see a rebellion at some point.
I'm just saying, integrating these units into the Russian army could lead to some rather unpredictable situations.
Don't put the beer and snacks away!
You can still find old episodes of Mail Call on demand.. Great show!
I loved watching Mail Call. Gotta look for that one.
This is an interesting issue. Can Congress tax the gain in an asset's value? In other words, if your asset, whether stocks or real estate, have a gain in market value, even if you don't sell that asset and realize a gain, can Congress apply a tax to it? If so, it opens the door to a whole new class of taxes, not based on actual money received, such as in a sale of a stock or other piece of appreciated property, but rather, on the theoretical or market value of the asset. For example, can Congress tax you on the gain in the value of a stock you own even if you don't sell it?
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-dec...36912.html
"The Constitution does not allow Congress to point at any pot of money and call it ‘income’ and then income-tax it,” said Andrew M. Grossman, the Moores’ lead counsel. “‘Income’ means the same thing now that it did when the 16th Amendment was ratified: gains that have been realized by the taxpayer."
(06-27-2023, 05:08 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]This is an interesting issue. Can Congress tax the gain in an asset's value? In other words, if your asset, whether stocks or real estate, have a gain in market value, even if you don't sell that asset and realize a gain, can Congress apply a tax to it? If so, it opens the door to a whole new class of taxes, not based on actual money received, such as in a sale of a stock or other piece of appreciated property, but rather, on the theoretical or market value of the asset. For example, can Congress tax you on the gain in the value of a stock you own even if you don't sell it?
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-dec...36912.html
"The Constitution does not allow Congress to point at any pot of money and call it ‘income’ and then income-tax it,” said Andrew M. Grossman, the Moores’ lead counsel. “‘Income’ means the same thing now that it did when the 16th Amendment was ratified: gains that have been realized by the taxpayer."
It’s naked attempt by the government for a wealth grab.
But not for long.
It would result in a whole new tax code, lobbied by the wealthy (and rightfully so), for loop holes to protect their unrealized gains. This is how smothering bureaucracy is created.
(06-27-2023, 05:08 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]This is an interesting issue. Can Congress tax the gain in an asset's value? In other words, if your asset, whether stocks or real estate, have a gain in market value, even if you don't sell that asset and realize a gain, can Congress apply a tax to it? If so, it opens the door to a whole new class of taxes, not based on actual money received, such as in a sale of a stock or other piece of appreciated property, but rather, on the theoretical or market value of the asset. For example, can Congress tax you on the gain in the value of a stock you own even if you don't sell it?
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-dec...36912.html
"The Constitution does not allow Congress to point at any pot of money and call it ‘income’ and then income-tax it,” said Andrew M. Grossman, the Moores’ lead counsel. “‘Income’ means the same thing now that it did when the 16th Amendment was ratified: gains that have been realized by the taxpayer."
It's bizarre to me. The government leaves a lot of revenue on the table when they give a tax discount for "long term" capital gains as opposed to short term.
If you were going to try to get more revenue from the rich, seems that would be the place to look, before you tried to create this new possibly unconstitutional category of taxation.
(06-27-2023, 07:17 AM)mikesez Wrote: [ -> ] (06-27-2023, 05:08 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]This is an interesting issue. Can Congress tax the gain in an asset's value? In other words, if your asset, whether stocks or real estate, have a gain in market value, even if you don't sell that asset and realize a gain, can Congress apply a tax to it? If so, it opens the door to a whole new class of taxes, not based on actual money received, such as in a sale of a stock or other piece of appreciated property, but rather, on the theoretical or market value of the asset. For example, can Congress tax you on the gain in the value of a stock you own even if you don't sell it?
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-dec...36912.html
"The Constitution does not allow Congress to point at any pot of money and call it ‘income’ and then income-tax it,” said Andrew M. Grossman, the Moores’ lead counsel. “‘Income’ means the same thing now that it did when the 16th Amendment was ratified: gains that have been realized by the taxpayer."
It's bizarre to me. The government leaves a lot of revenue on the table when they give a tax discount for "long term" capital gains as opposed to short term.
If you were going to try to get more revenue from the rich, seems that would be the place to look, before you tried to create this new possibly unconstitutional category of taxation.
I don't think they're trying to get more revenue, mostly just trying to create more bad guys and Twitter moments for guys like ole Bernie.
(06-27-2023, 08:09 AM)KingIngram052787 Wrote: [ -> ] (06-27-2023, 07:17 AM)mikesez Wrote: [ -> ]It's bizarre to me. The government leaves a lot of revenue on the table when they give a tax discount for "long term" capital gains as opposed to short term.
If you were going to try to get more revenue from the rich, seems that would be the place to look, before you tried to create this new possibly unconstitutional category of taxation.
I don't think they're trying to get more revenue, mostly just trying to create more bad guys and Twitter moments for guys like ole Bernie.
Makes sense.
Very little of what is said in Washington is meant in Washington, anymore.
(06-27-2023, 09:07 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/pen...r-AA1d5IaQ
…De Piero's direct report – Naydan – similarly "instructed her writing faculty to teach that White supremacy exists in language itself, and therefore, that the English language itself is ‘racist’ and, furthermore, that White supremacy exists in the teaching of writing of English, and therefore writing teachers are themselves racist white supremacists," the suit said...
The “logic” is dizzying.
Hilarious. And yet the rest of the WORLD has been teaching English as a second language for years. When are these pinheads going to go after Europe? And India? Japan? Etc, etc.
Its notable that there are a large number of African countries that recognize English as an official language, and yet the wokies here in Amerika have issues with it. Ozzy was right in regards to the Crazy Train.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world