[Well, it all finally hit the fan yesterday. The video of Khamenei’s compound being destroyed by multiple missile impacts is quite terrific and impressive. That was, of course, the first target destroyed, else every raghead at the planning meeting would have high-tailed it out of there. Now we have to hope that we do put some surreptitious boots on the ground and help the Iranians get organized to take care of regime change. Rallying around Prince Reza Pahlavi is not a bad starting point for forming a temporary government before elections can be held. gjr]
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56 responses to “Sandbox – 1mar26”
Sorry for the comments here not to be enabled. They are usually automatically enabled, but this time they were not – go figure. gjr
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“The wealthy are not leaving. They are changing their permanent resident status to avoid taxes.”
Well from the perspective of the California State Legislature this is a distinction without difference.
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re fish’s post:
“Tax the Rich. They’re Not Going Anywhere”
https://time.com/7377597/tax-the-rich-millionaires-wont-flee/
Maybe do some research – talk to real estate agents in Florida. That Times article was riddled with false parallels, weasel words, and it ends with a question that clearly has nothing to do with the very wealthiest:
“The last time you moved to a new state or country, the decision was probably quite complex, not a mechanistic reaction to one specific event.”
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I am sorry fish, did the article say that the wealthy were selling all their properties in California or around the world just to be in Florida near Trump?
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Why do you suppose Bill Barr wanted New Mexico not to investigate the Zoro ranch?
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I imagine enough is being divested that California residency will no longer be an issue for tax purposes. Why are you so wet eyed about this?
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“Why do you suppose Bill Barr wanted New Mexico not to investigate the Zoro ranch?”
Same reason a lot of people didn’t want to investigate the Bidens or the Clintons?
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“…just to be in Florida near Trump?”
Yeah – even the wealthy Dems!
Florida has no income tax. Duh.
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Yeah, I already said that… wealthy are just looking to avoid taxes they’re not “leaving California” or other high tax states.
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Now we know why Iran had to happen…
“So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war. And although we obliterated their nuclear program, we had to do this because of their nuclear program. And although Iran was not planning any attacks on the US, they also might have been, depending on who you ask. And although we are not fighting this war to free the Iranian people, they are now free, or might be, depending on who seizes power, and we have no idea who that will be.”
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We all know which First Lady and which President should be called to testify…welcome to the Trump/Epstein Oligarchy…
“Conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly said Monday he was “appalled” that the House Oversight Committee deposed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of an ongoing probe into disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
“Hillary Clinton never should have been called. And that makes a farce of our federal government to call the woman…whether you like her or not, she was secretary of state, First Lady…to put her in a position to try to embarrass her over nothing,” O’Reilly told NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on “On Balance.”
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Fun Fact: Losing three U.S. fighter jets cancels out all of the money DOGE claims to have saved us
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Rh 260303 – you might want to double check your source of fun facts. In today’s dollars the F-15 costs $60M. DOGE saved billions and gave rise to more savings coming in daily.
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Yes, George, I think your numbers are more accurate.
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“…they’re not “leaving California” or other high tax states.”
And men can get pregnant, and the Dems aren’t against voter ID, and wealthy Dems are moving to Florida so they can be near Trump and Biden is sharp as a tack.
The world according to RH.
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Re: Iran…Just remember it took 2.5 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban
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Waiting to see how accurate the Iranian rockets are…the camel jockeys are heavily reliant on their desalination plants.
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“…to replace the Taliban with the Taliban”
You forgot to thank Joe Biden for that.
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Not my favorite but godspeed Michael Anderson…..
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One more time … The wealthy may be moving their ‘primary’ residence but that doesn’t mean they physically moved all their belongings and sold their property in the state they previously had designated as their primary residence. They are wealthy enough to maintain multiple residences in multiple states.
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Clueless clown Crusty Gnome, like your basic MAGA, cannot tell the truth….
https://www.facebook.com/reel/874409391857231/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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I love the smell of war in the morning…
Your typical MAGA ‘Call of Duty’ war hawk…
https://www.threads.com/@therussellshaw/post/DVZp9IWGqDJ?xmt=AQF0zpjd1ReMSuprUBrfnSSB0DJpw3abU7VDbxfHWrsTxZVALVVHhb94qd6BNqNSk7lhgdw&slof=1
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One more time … The wealthy may be moving their ‘primary’ residence but that doesn’t mean they physically moved all their belongings and sold their property in the state they previously had designated as their primary residence. They are wealthy enough to maintain multiple residences in multiple states.
Okay…as long as you and the legislature know that they’ll be taking the wealth that you guys want to confiscate with them.
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yada,yada,yada…Dems Bad…
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yada,yada,yada…Dems Bad…
yada,yada,yada…Dems Stupid…
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RH – not only do they take their taxable wealth with them (leaving less than the $1B taxable at 5% in California), they also take their contribution to the registered voter rolls to their new primary residence. This is reflected in California’s declining representation in Congress. Have no idea why you think that Dems should feel smug about the butt-stupid asset tax they are trying to push through. But it does bolster the fundamental truth that Dems know zero about economics and tax policy.
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“like your basic MAGA, cannot tell the truth….”
Noem was not lying:
“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: “Sae Joon Park’s extensive criminal history includes convictions for possessing, manufacturing, or selling a dangerous weapon, carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, assault, and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
“In 2010 an immigration judge issued him an order of removal. Park’s appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals that same month was dismissed by the Board in April 2011. With no legal basis to remain in the U.S. and a final order of removal, Park was allowed to self-deport to Korea.”
Further:
“Park said for a long time, citizenship was not a priority because he did not fully grasp the consequences of remaining a noncitizen. Although the U.S. offers expedited naturalization for those who serve honorably in the U.S. military for at least one year, or a single day during wartime, Park was discharged before he had served 12 months and the invasion of Panama was not classified as a period of hostility.”
Mr Park had years to get this cleared up and did nothing. He ended up leaving on his own.
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Are all y’all referring to something like this,
The Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) is a 3.8% IRS surtax on investment income (interest, dividends, capital gains, rentals) for individuals, estates, and trusts with Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) over certain thresholds—$200,000 (single/head of household) or $250,000 (married filing jointly). It targets high earners to fund Medicare, applied to the lesser of net investment income or the amount exceeding the thresholds.
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“Are all y’all referring to something like this,…”
RH – you’re coming right along as a lefty bobble-head. Got the new lingo going with the abbreviation of “you all”. It’s been the cool talk on DK for years, but you’re finally picking it up!
As to the type of tax we’re talking about that is driving the super wealthy folks out of California – no – that’s not it.
The well-to-do already pay far more than they are morally obliged to in this nation and the idea that the current socialist financial disaster we face can be solved by loading more financial obligations on them is just idiotic. You can take all of their wealth and it won’t do any good beyond buying more votes for politicians from morons like you.
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Geriatric Levi jeans model/stud muffin Health Sec is channelling former Mayor Bloomberg…
waiting for the pearl clutching MAGA here to meltdown….
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“waiting for the pearl clutching MAGA here to meltdown….”
Have fun waiting.
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Trump’s schizoid foreign policy negotiations –
Russia – talks going on for years, Trump TACOs to Putin constantly
Iran – talks go on for years, more Epstein revelations…Trump bombs Iran
Conclusion – Putin must have the Epstein files…
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Yep, figgered that you hate the idea if a Dem comes up with it, but magically you fawn over a road kill Health Sec if he comes up with it…
“Sugar is the original gateway drug”
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OMG! Typical Trump…he replaces Krusty Gnome with Markwayne Mullin…
These pawns will do or say anything to curry favor with Trump…
“War is ugly. It smells bad. And if anybody’s ever been there and been able to smell the war that’s happened around you and taste it and fill it in your nostrils and hear it, it’s something that you’ll never forget.”
– Must have got that from a video – Mullin never served…
RAJU: You’ll concede this is war?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven’t declared war. They declared war on us
RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war
REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war
MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.
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Whatever the failings of the outgoing sec’y, Mayorkas absolutely lied through his teeth about the border.
It wasn’t secure with Majorkas, it was under Noem.
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Yep, figgered that you hate the idea if a Dem comes up with it, but magically you fawn over a road kill Health Sec if he comes up with it…
I can’t imagine why that would be….the democrats™ have been responsible for so many good ideas….especially as of late.
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“…and as an impactful writer and advocate in Nevada County politics”
—a line in Michael Anderson’s obit.
I’d like to add my recollection of an “impactful” writing of mandersonation that left my wife fearing an internet axe murderer, shaking with fear that Mikey would be arriving with malice in his heart.
I’ve never forgotten his deciding his view of me as a “climate brownshirt” needing to be stopped on Broad Street. Fuck you, Mike.
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“Yep, figgered that you hate the idea if a Dem comes up with it, but magically you fawn over a road kill Health Sec if he comes up with it…”
Who are you talking to, RH?
You aren’t out in front of the house again with your bottle in one hand ranting and scaring the neighborhood children?
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Does Gavin J. Nepotism believe anything…?
“Gavin Newsom walks back calling Israel an apartheid state: “I was specifically referring to a Tom Friedman column where HE used that word.” “I can’t just sit back in terms of my values and beliefs,” he says.
Does Newsom believe anything?”
He really believes that he should be president and he believes the rest of the country is as stupid as California.
I guess we’ll see…..
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The plaque honoring the individuals who bravely fought off the MAGA horde at the Capitol on January 6th 2021 was finally installed at 4:00 a.m. last Saturday…
… why 4:00 a.m. on a Saturday in the midst of a war an Independent mind might ask…
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“Ted Lieu CATCHES Kash Patel’s Signature on the Order That CLOSED the Epstein Investigation
In the ritualized arena of congressional oversight, the most consequential moments often revolve around a single sheet of paper. During a tense exchange on Capitol Hill, Representative Ted Lieu zeroed in on what he described as a bureaucratic anomaly buried deep inside the FBI’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein financial network investigation. For nearly three years, the case had moved through the slow machinery of federal inquiry—subpoenas, forensic accounting, and inter-agency coordination designed to trace the funding architecture surrounding Epstein’s operations. Then, according to the document Lieu displayed during the hearing, the investigation ended abruptly. The authorization carried a single signature at the bottom: Kash Patel. The timing raised eyebrows across the committee room. The case closure reportedly occurred just eleven weeks after Patel assumed office, and the standard procedural markers—no final investigative summary, no public explanation entered into the oversight record—appeared absent. In Washington’s opaque world of national-security bureaucracy, those gaps are rarely ignored. And by holding the page up to the cameras, Lieu effectively turned an internal administrative action into a public political question.”
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…and our fearless leader wants to deny “Wag the Dog” Trump bomb, bomb, bombed Iran to bury the Epstein files.
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Trump lets Russia sell oil to India…to help Putin fight Ukraine…
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“Trump lets Russia sell oil to India…”
And here RH has been complaining that Putin controls Trump. Looks like he just admitted it’s the other way around.
I hope RH is aware that Russia has been selling to the Euros all along.
Just think if Trump could control Iran’s oil – I wonder if there could be some way for that to happen?
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“…honoring the individuals who bravely fought off the MAGA horde…”
Especially the one that shot dead an un-armed woman who was attacking no one.
Or the policewoman that was caught on camera beating a woman who was laying unconscious, dying on the ground.
Very brave!
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Republicanism is a big tent, groyper friendly? Would make sense.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-first-groyper-politician-james-fishback?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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“Republicanism is a big tent, groyper friendly?”
If RH had read the article, he wouldn’t have had to ask the question.
“Fishback will almost certainly lose the gubernatorial primary to Donald Trump’s favorite candidate, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.).”
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Gavin J. Nepotism really is just President Brainstem with 20 years fewer miles on his odometer…….
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article314907803.html
Fake tough guy douchebag!
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Welcome to the clown show! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1457654975716412&set=a.275795703902351
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But how can this be…..
Millions skipping meals, cutting back on utilities to afford health care…
Affordable Care Act….wha…..? Oh well….I guess I need to remember that everything the democrats do legislatively winds up doing the exact opposite of its initial billing in real life!
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