AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND AFFORDABLE HOT DOGS. Costco’s new innovation is to build high-density housing above Costco warehouse stores. Imagine the freakout in Poway from NIMBYs if Costco built apartments on top of their warehouse in the Poway Business Park. It’s blocking my view! Not enough parking! No setbacks! Too much traffic! Sheesh.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR. Jesus didn’t say to feed the hungry and help the poor by taking those resources from other people. He encouraged voluntary cooperation and free will.
EAT THE RICH. If the rich get rich by providing products and services to people that better their lives, then what’s the problem?
POLITICAL VIRTUE SIGNALING. If it is not Karoline Leavitt’s Christian cross necklace, then it’s AOC’s Tax the Rich gown or Nancy Pelosi kneeling wearing a Ghanan scarf. Politicians play the game of signaling to their base to prove they care. It’s how they retain support and trigger their opponents. The funny thing is that tribal political groupies can only see the shallowness of the virtue signal when the opposing party is doing it.
JESUS IS JUST ALRIGHT WITH ME. Which is more hypocritical? Devout conservative Christians hating their neighbor, or anti-religious progressives invoking Jesus’ name to justify their social programs?
NO TAXES UNDER $150,000. Add this latest Trump idea to the list that includes no taxes on tips, no taxes on Social Security or replacing income taxes entirely with tariffs. Trump is a con man. Did he end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours?
GOP HATES THE POOR. How often do we hear Democrats claiming the GOP wants to eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, environmental regulations, and consumer protections? There is no serious plan to eliminate any of it. GOP supports Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, environmental regulations, and consumer protections, just in varying degrees when compared to Dems. Bush expanded Medicare. Reagan expanded Social Security. Nixon started the EPA. Even Trump radically increased social spending in his first term. Let me know when Social Security is privatized. I’ve been hearing this Chicken Little shriek for decades and it has never happened. Instead the opposite happens. Taxes are raised for Social Security and benefits are expanded. Personally, I would be overjoyed if it was privatized.
AMAZON TRUTH TELLER. Jeff Bezos’ Amazon has announced that they are going to display the added cost due to tariffs. It’s an effort to be transparent on price increases. It’s also evidence that Trump lies when he says foreign nations pay the tariffs. Republicans are aghast. Meanwhile, this is very similar to when some restaurants adding a line item for added employee costs when the minimum wage rose. I like both cases. Govt policies typically make products more expensive.
THEY ARE GUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY TO GIVE TAX CUTS TO THE RICH! Please note that Social Security is funded by payroll taxes, not income taxes. Cutting Social Security benefits has no impact on income tax rates for the rich. Plus, have you ever heard of politicians actually cutting spending to match tax cuts in the first place? Of course not. They just add it to the debt. There is no balanced budget requirement. There is no pay-go requirement.
IMMIGRANTS UNDERSTAND AMERICA’S GREATNESS BETTER THAN MAGAS DO. Have you seen the video of Congressman Shri Thanedar (D-MI) discussing his 7 articles to impeach Trump? He cites examples such as violating the Constitution, abuse of power, subverting justice system, and violating separation of power. Thanedar was born in India into a low income family. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry by age 18 and then completed his PhD at the University of Akron. He’s calling out violations of America’s core founding documents. This immigrant understands what America is supposed to be. Will we hear calls from MAGA to deport him?
SAME PEOPLE. “Trump has a history of reneging on deals and screwing others over!” “Federal govt should forgive student loans!” Same people.
DEPORTER-IN-CHIEF. MAGA wants to know why it is OK for Obama to deport 5.3 million, but not okay for Trump to deport 100,000. Has either side considered that deporting peaceful people is un-American?
POOR, POOR PITIFUL ME. Imagine if workers had the choice to put their 12.4% SS payroll taxes into an index fund in their name which can’t be cashed out until retirement. The poor would be building wealth over 4 decades. It would be their wealth and could be passed down to their children. This could greatly reduce poverty while at the same time offering 2-3x greater monthly benefits during retirement. Weird how so many Americans claim they care about the poor, but deprive them from using the same wealth building strategies and tools as the rich.
YOU’RE A RICH GIRL. It’s remarkable how so many people think that the rich mostly inherit their wealth. The book “The Millionaire Next Door” argues that a significant majority of millionaires in America are self-made, meaning they built their wealth through hard work and smart financial decisions rather than inheriting it. The book found that nearly 80% of millionaires were self-made, with only a small percentage inheriting their wealth or receiving a windfall.
WHO IS THE MOST EVIL WOMAN ON THE PLANET? Only Jeff Lynde knows.
SHOW ME YOUR LIGHNING BOLT! It’s weird to me when an NFL team’s logo is their helmet. That makes no sense. The Chargers and Rams used to do that and the Browns still do. At least the Rams and Chargers have wised up and have good logos now. I love sports for many reasons beyond just the game itself. Uniforms, color schemes and logos are always fun discussion topics. Same with history, legends, myths, GOATs and the impact of sports in society. I can even include statistics and scorekeeping. Was it just me that learned my multiples of 3 by watching football players on Schoolhouse Rock?
AMAZON PAYS NO TAXES! How often do we hear Bernie Sanders and AOC make this claim? I see Bezos’ Amazon trucks all over my community. They pay gas taxes and registration taxes to fund the roads, bridges, etc. Amazon has huge warehouses where they pay property tax (or pay the property owner rent who in turn pays property tax) to fund infrastructure and education. What do you mean Amazon pays no taxes?
SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS! If someone enters your country illegally, finds work, has children and contributes to society, then should they still be deported? No. Just give them a form and make them legal. Problem solved. We need to make legal immigration easier, faster and cheaper. Sure, we can make citizenship (and thus voting) more difficult to achieve.
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY. I was pleased to discover that 4-star SDSU basketball recruit Tae Simmons has a passion for history. Love it. Make your college experience fulfilling. Go get it, young man!
HE’S TELLING THEM TO SHUT UP. Robert Reich says “We believe in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, separation of powers, and checks and balances. What the Trump regime is doing is the antithesis of the values this nation was founded upon.” Sorry to break it to you Bob, but supporting Bill of Rights and opposing Citizens United is a contradiction. The 1A does not grant free speech rights only to people and not to corporations. Instead the 1A limits govt from abridging speech.
GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS! The amount of money spent in politics is obscene. I think we can all agree on this. Money can be a corrupting influence in politics. After all, those big cigar donors expect a return on their investment by having laws and regulations passed that benefit them. But why should politicians have such massive power over the economy in the first place? A better strategy is to get politics out of money. Strictly limit government’s ability to centrally plan the economy.
YOU’RE THE BEST GODDAMNED HITTER I EVER SAW. I always loved The Natural. But I have a good friend who is a huge baseball fan who hated that movie. He didn’t like the Hollywood theatrics like the lights exploding on the Roy Hobbs home run. That’s one of the best parts of the movie. Goosebumps. LOL
PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE! There it is. That undefined term that is used as a political weapon to attack corporations and the rich. Shouldn’t college students pay their fair share too?
CHILDREN WORKING IN FACTORIES. Nobody likes seeing little kids working their little fingers on assembly lines, even in foreign countries. What people often don’t understand is that as wealth builds in those nations, they will have the resources to send their children to school while automating many of those work functions. It’s the same process that America went through in the 19th century. If you deny them the ability to go through this process, then you doom 8 year olds in Asia to working their little fingers doing subsistence farming.
TRUMP AND ELON WANT A BABY BOOM. It’s no wonder that birth rates are declining in America. As people get wealthier they require less children to work on the farm. As medicine gets better, less children die at a young age. We don’t need to increase the birth rate. If we are concerned about having a labor force, then it’s better to let in immigrants instead.
GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY. Some Americans are convinced immigrants will destroy what makes America great. Have they ever considered that immigrants are coming to America for a reason… likely the same reason that our ancestors wanted to come to America…. To seek a better life. America’s founding values make America great. We have inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Let’s celebrate these values while giving immigrants an opportunity to assimilate. It can take a generation or two to fully mesh.
OUR RIGHTS ARE INALIENABLE. So are theirs. Immigrants also have inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
TAKIN’ CARE OF BUSINESS. Markets lift the poor out of poverty, if you just let them work. The evidence is overwhelming. Over 1 BILLION people have risen out of abject poverty over the past 30 years due to an expansion of global markets.
WE COME FROM THE LAND OF ICE AND SNOW. So much loathing of immigrants in America, both legal and illegal. The illegal ones particularly are made to be scape goats for the broader “immorality” in society. This is history repeating itself. A moral majority finds it fitting to castigate some minority group whether it be slaves, Jews or immigrants. We’ve fought wars against this sort of thing, right?
FLOOD THE ZONE WITH MAGICIAN TRICKS. Once you properly understand Trump as a con man, then the irrationality and distractions become more obviously part of the charade.
BUT HE’S A MEMBER OF MS-13! A tattoo is no reason to be sent to an El Salvador gulag.
EVERYBODY WANTS YOU. Billy Squier is very under rated… It’s weird how that one video just crushed the guy. I don’t get it.
ZERO SUM ETHICS. It’s strange to me how some people can only “feel good” about themselves by disparaging others. I admit I have done so. The older and wiser I get, the more I realize this is a reflection of negative self-esteem. Now apply this idea to the topic of immigration.
DO THE RIGHT THING. Due Process makes America Great. Due process keeps those in power in check. Due process protects our rights from tyrannical politicians.
DIET COKE ADDICTION. Drinking Diet Coke is a defeating experience. These are the rankings: 1. Properly balanced fountain drink on ice in a glass. 2. Properly balanced fountain drink on ice in a plastic container. 3. In a very cold can. 4. In glass bottle. 5. In a plastic bottle.