Mic Drop, Bitch

... like 3 or 4 times.

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• Get together
• Get busy
• Get shit done

It's Not Just A Dream

Today's Politics Girl

We need people who wanna do the job, not people who just wanna have the job.

Today's PG

The GOP is not the party you used to know. There's no such thing as a "Moderate Republican" anymore.

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I have no idea how it would work - how we'd go about putting it in motion - but it's worth considering.

Vote Riders

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Remember also that Mike Meatstick's wife - er - beard - uhm - Mrs Meatstick runs a consulting business that pushes conversion therapy for gay kids.

It's Real

See it

Recognize it

Fight back

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Leigh McGowan was once a leader in the "Yeah, but the Democrats" / "Why can't they message better?" gang.

Happy to report she seems to be on a much better tack.

1. Democrats are not to blame for the shitty behavior of Republicans
2. Biden's "Got 'Er Done List" is not hard to find - here's more
3. Nobody is obligated to spoon-feed any of it to us

Quitcher bitchin'. And work the problem - not each other.

democracy is not something we have

if it's not something we do

One Of These Is Not Like The Other

Put It On Blast

Leigh McGowan

It's not glee. It's relief.

Dear White Women

Women will save us all if they decide to stand up and save themselves.

Today's Tweet

We have to stop Republicans from continuing to cheat their way into unchecked power. That starts with #Ohio on August 8th. Let’s shut this undemocratic power grab down. #VoteNo @swingleft pic.twitter.com/2msgq3c3Fl

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Today's PG

Leigh McGowan - Politics Girl

In government, the budget is a statement of public morality.

In a weird, only-in-American-politics kinda way, Republicans are trying to impose a national Stockholm Syndrome on us.

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Leigh McGowan - your party is killing us

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Leigh McGowan gets it. She spent some time not long ago complaining about how Democrats kinda suck at messaging. But she's come to understand that most of what was "wrong with the Dems" was a problem with Republicans lying their asses off and media outlets repeating what they said instead of telling us what horseshit was constantly pouring out of their faces.

Tis is good advice.

Today's PG

Leigh McGowan

We're not allowed to become desensitized to police violence.

One Dumb Idea

... after the next.

Republicans keep trying to move the Plutocracy Project along no matter what you or anybody else says.

Leigh McGowan

Because my entire income is Social Security, I don't pay income tax unless I work a regular job and earn an additional $15-20K per year. It would suck something awful if suddenly everything I buy goes up 30%.

I'd have no choice but to work just to try to stay even.

So let's take a look.

Currently, at $50,000 per year, about $14,500 goes to taxation - about $1200 per month.

• If your groceries run about $600.00 per month, you'll pay $780.00
• Instead of $250 per month for Gas & Lights, you'll pay $325.00
• Gasoline: Your 3-dollar gallon of gas goes down to $2.72 (no more DOT road tax), but then goes back up to $3.55 because of the new sales tax. At 1,000 miles per month, at 25 miles per gallon, at $3.55 per gallon, you're paying an extra $33 every month in taxes - and of course, we can absolutely count on the price of gas never going up, right?
• Buy a house at $300,000.00, and pay $390,000.00 - and then pay tax on top of the finance charges for the privilege of borrowing the money - plus you get to pay another $200,000 because you'll probably have to include that sales tax in your 30-year mortgage - which boosts those monthly payments by about $500
• Same with buying a car

And one of the kickers - if they wipe away the property taxes everybody pays on real estate, then the schools have practically no funding at all.

Add it all up, and you're paying more - at least $5,000 more per year. And that's just for the essentials of food, housing, and transportation.

So, staying with "just the essentials":

at $50,000, you'll pay about 39% of your income in taxes

at $100,000, you'll pay about 20% of your income in taxes

at $ 250,000, you'll pay about 8% of your income in taxes

This is nothing but a variation on "Flat Tax" - it's what dog-ass Republicans call "fair" - and I think we can count on the GOP to go back to the old bullshit of a flat tax, so they can pretend they're being reasonable.

But they're not. They're playing with the numbers, trying to set it up so they win either way.

With this "Value Added" shit, they win on percentages. With the "Flat Tax", they win on absolute dollars.

A progressive tax plan is what works. Everything the Republicans are proposing only works to put more yacht money in their pockets, while putting more debt, more hardship, and more misery on everybody else.