Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

US Income Tax Revenue: $2.2 trillion
US Imports: $3.8 trillion

This would be a $1 trillion annual handout to the top 1%, paid for by massive inflation in consumer goods, something like 55%-60%.

Breaking the economy to give the richest even more, that's the Republican way.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/trump-all-tariff-policy-to-replace-income-tax.html

One aspect of this story I haven't really let myself get angry about until just now: this particular SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk that dropped garbage on Sask. was from the Axiom 3 "private astronaut mission."

"Private astronaut" = billionaire space tourist.

Billionaires own companies that other billionaires pay for joy rides that drop potentially lethal garbage on us from orbit. This is fine.

I already knew billionaires are horrible, but this particular situation really lays it out starkly.

Clarence Thomas took 3 undisclosed trips on private jet provided by GOP megadonor, committee says

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clarence-thomas-private-jet-flights-harlan-crow-supreme-court/

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice

The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship

#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/

If you really cared about the state of the world, you’d take that stick out of your ass and use it to crack skulls instead of wasting both our time being a whiny reply guy.

This is #ClimateBreakdown

This heatwave also includes some very important growing regions in China. As the world warms, food production will decrease.

Is mass starvation a fair price for billionaire jets and super yachts?

Governments around the world need to ban them now.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/northern-china-braces-for-record-high-temperatures-in-major-heat-wave/1658614

It Appears Cowardly Trump Is Already Looking for a Way to Cancel the Debate With Biden at the End of the Month https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/06/it-appears-cowardly-trump-is-already-looking-for-a-way-to-cancel-the-debate-with-biden-at-the-end-of-the-month/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

White House for sale: Donald Trump is selling policies for a second term to the highest bidders

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-campaign-donors-corruption-tiktok-b2560838.html

"It Appears to be a Payoff": Expert Says Kushner's Saudi Cash an "Egregious" National Security Worry

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/12/it-appears-to-be-a-payoff-expert-says-kushners-saudi-cash-an-egregious-national-security-worry/

@GottaLaff
If the SCOTUS roles were reversed, republicans would have no problem in expanding the court no matter how much pushback there was by Democrats. I wish Democrats would lose their timidity in such matters.

Oklahoma Supreme Court sides with the white supremacists who mass murdered hundreds of Black people during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—and rules that the harm done to the survivors does not fall into a recognizable legal remedy.

The Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of the case altogether.

White supremacy thriving in 2024 America. Horrific.
https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/state-supreme-court-sides-with-tulsa-in-1921-race-massacre-lawsuit

Donald Trump admits he still has a gun, despite felony convictions - It is a violation of federal law for someone convicted of felonies to possess a firearm

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/12/donald-admits-he-still-has-a-gun-despite-felony-convictions/

Oklahoma Supreme Court says that the Black Tulsa Race Massacre survivors get $0 despite being victims of terrorism & mass violence.

Meanwhile, in 1996 the families of the Oklahoma City Bombing got $50M to assist them as victims of terrorism & mass violence.

This is America.

Was anyone else’s car broken into last night? Someone took my wallet that I left on the seat in my unlocked car parked under the broken street lamp…AGAIN!!!! I don’t know why this keeps happening to me, but this neighborhood is CLEARLY going down the drain with all the Radical Leftist Marxist Communist Socialist Elites moving in. Thanks for nothing, Biden!

(Inspired by actual posts in my neighborhood.)

#OddNextDoorPostingsAndComplaints
#HashTagGames @hashtaggames

Reading up on Lynn Conway, this woman is unbelievable.

Specifically, she (in order):

1. Worked at IBM and invented superscaler CPU architecture (ie, the thing that intel lives by for modern performance)
2. Transitioned and started over in 1968, when it was stealth or death
3. Joined Xerox PARC, where she invented VLSI and modern silicon design

Modern chips exist because of her.

The ultra wealthy do not see the preservation of democracy as significant a priority as eliminating taxes and regulations.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/billionaires-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-trump-00162219

People on social media saying Lauren Windsor shouldn’t have surreptitiously recorded US Supreme Court Justice Alito endorsing the idea of “godliness” and a Christian fascistic country. NO-maybe Sam Alito and his spouse shouldn’t be bigoted, fascistic, traitorous, misogynistic asshats.

MAGA Rep Worried About Great White Men Replacement Theory

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/grothman-worried-about-great-white-men?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=89568