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The work an unknown good man has done is
Bruno Mars, "When I Was Your Man"
Quote of the Day
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.I recently dropped the GML podcast but hinted I might start clipping their signature DBOTW episodes
Baauer, "Harlem Shake"
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A friend is one who sees through youMACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, "THRIFT SHOP" FEAT. WANZ
Careless Whisper
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
Tell me again, who voted the PPP program into law? What stupid President signed the extension into law? Why aren't you blaming these leftist losers, you hypocrite?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
Rubberneckers always look at wreck scenes like criminal Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
Well, when Trump decided to come, Jesus bowed out. https://t.co/ZNRb1CytWR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
"Michelle" was never released as a single in the US.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
Margaritaville
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
I remember people saying Sinatra was too old to perform at 80.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 25, 2023
"Debbie Harry"
Something
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
MacArthur Park
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Who is Pope Francis to judge Bishop Strickland? #sarasm https://t.co/2u8s6JRHep
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Employers should make reasonable accommodation of employee religious/moral beliefs. That being said, I'm sure Walgreens can find an available pharmacist to accommodate the customer https://t.co/yF3ho6CdJU
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Stupid economically illiterate leftist memes. Before the Trump tax reform, American business taxes were globally noncompetitive. Tax rates for individuals remained highly progressive. Lower tax rates encourage income realization. Social welfare schemes are morally corrupt. https://t.co/ch97J8GxSc
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
The Beatles
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Led Zeppelin
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Leftist politicians are desperate now they've lost they've lost their judicial backdoor to public policy. https://t.co/FaaMPIBjTP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
She's a Rainbow
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
When I was a Boy Scout, there wasn't a merit badge for espionage. #sarcasmhttps://t.co/MMcHEbd4LF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
I'll Be There
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Foreigner
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Campaign debt is not personal debt. Failed analogy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
VSt. Onge explains how last year's profits were not the result of "corporate greed" but a flood of federal-stimulated currency chasing suppressed supplies, accounting treatment of inventory, and short-term cost containment.https://t.co/e2GGQXqn0v
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
No, this is pretty stupid. Section 3 "or as an officer of the United States". POTUS is NOT such.https://t.co/jGVDFN983I
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
A lot of corrupt politicians are raving about how the unconstitutional "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law" will steal from our grandchildren. In 2022, "about 89% of Americans have access to fixed broadband internet, while mobile internet coverage is at 99%."https://t.co/2xA4dmCP53
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 26, 2023
Nope. Have you looked at your 401K lately? Tried to buy a house? Bought groceries or gas under BidInflation? https://t.co/DmsWH7u67m
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
One Tin Soldier
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Space Oddity
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Take Me Home Tonight
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Total Eclipse of the Sun
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Blessed
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Not as ex-President, which he admits in the tape. And he explicitly notes he did not declassify it--which contradicts his lie he declassified all the files he stole. You're also not smart enough to realize Trump misrepresented the nature of the contingency plan.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
The kerfuffle of Trump and Milley is, as usual, distorted by lying Trump. Remember, Trump assassinated Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian government member. There were concerns about an Iranian response, including missile attacks on US bases in Iraq. No doubt the Pentagon needed a plan
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Well, you knew Hayes wasn't going to be booked over Balor since Balor has to be a credible challenger to champion Rollins in Saturday's PLE.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
#WWERaw
Interestingly, Elton co-wrote some of his hits without Bernie, e.g., "Little Jeannie", "Blue Eyes", and "The Lion King" songs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
"Bernie Taupin"
Taxpayers don't mind refunds. Their money was stolen in the first place.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Cherokee Lizzie isn't so Native American, but like any respectable progressive, she's got a slaveowner in her family tree.https://t.co/19egKkWtWb
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
If you take a short-term view, the leftist troll is correct: the program in funding benefits doesn't use general revenues, on which we have deficits. The problem is the reserves are being depleted. When the GOP talks reforming entitlements, they are trying to stretch reserves
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
The troll implies that Treasury debt doesn't have to be repaid because he doesn't agree with some policies. Why cut SS program spending? Basically, senior entitlement spending exceeds payroll taxes. Right now, the program can liquidate reserves to make up the difference.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 27, 2023
Heart of Gold
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
Like a Prayer
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
Unconstitutional.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
Trump's suggestion to other criminals: run for public office and you'll be treated as above the law. https://t.co/sM6gaN6ksh
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
Leftists never understand that taxpayers don't oppose the return of stolen property.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
"You voted against it" https://t.co/9oYrosd0L5
Gaslighter-in-Chief Trump said "I did nothing wrong" in the 2021 taped conversation over Iran contingency plans. State of denial like his "perfect" phone call with Zelensky. Trump was trying to impress people by using a classified document to which others, also no need to know
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
I really don't care about the political opinions of celebrities like Roseanne Barr. I never know whether to take what a comedienne says seriously, including her state of denial over the historical facts of the Holocaust. Don't give ignorant people the attention they seek.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
It's amazing that Democrats have a new word for old-fashioned tax and spend: Bidenomics
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
Apparently, turning letters manually is a highly specialized, in-demand skill. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
If robots can cook my burgers, they can turn my letters.
"Vanna White"
I sometimes think a gross, unfiltered Trump says unspeakable things just because he's an attention-seeking narcissist junkie and he doesn't think the same rules apply to him. It takes one sick puppy to objectify one's own daughter.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
"John Kelly"
Imagine Trump on his deathbed knowing he lost to Biden twice. Nominating Trump again is a GOP death wish. Trump will never exceed 46% of the vote. There are no real undecided voters on Trump, and people will hold their noses and reelect Biden.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
Paul Ryan https://t.co/16wLe9oMZR
Sorry to hear about Madonna's bacterial infection; thoughts and prayers. We have some things in common: we are 1 of 7 siblings, and our mothers were Franco-American. Unlike me, she's talented and popular. I generally like her hits like "Frozen" and "Like a Prayer".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 28, 2023
She flirted with my female co-worker's date. (True story.)
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
#WhyThereWontBeASecondDate
No, I don't think Trump can win, despite Paul Ryan's fears. But Dems have to turn out their base in swing states. Trump is no outsider, he has sky-high negatives, and voters have already made up their own minds about him. https://t.co/a7J9yxajwl
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
Bob Dylan's "Hurricane"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
Congratulations to NY Yankee Domingo Germán for throwing just the 24th perfect game in MLB history.https://t.co/vfgXFW0joC
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
The anti-vaxxers are continuing to spread misinformation on covid-19 and vaccines on the Amish. There are known challenges on getting comparative statistics. Communal living and multigenerational households are especially vulnerable to disease spread.https://t.co/1X5Ml59q1g
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
I'm amused someone's (Fall Ou Boy) updated Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". But what I'm really waiting for is the sequel to Neil Diamond's "Done Too Soon".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
I'm sure the affirmative action industrial complex is infuriated by the 6-2 decision in STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, which correctly argues against discrimination in other forms, e.g., Asian Americans.https://t.co/NBpUuDJmrG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
Justice in Name Only Sotomayor is an incompetent hypocrite who totally fails to understand the construct of equal protection. The fact that Sotomayor personally benefited from affirmative action makes her failure to recuse morally corrupt.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
Progressives furiously and desperately try to hang on to their judicial backdoor precedents as if they are "legitimate". They still want Civil Rights Act subjugation of southern states 2 generations after black representation at the local level. They hold onto abortion & schools.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
Liar. Congress has the power of the purse. There has been no reserve for student loan cancellation.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
Federal educational loans are unconstitutional. It is morally corrupt to steal other people's money to pay your own debts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
How stupid are you? No money is going from the government to taxpayers in tax cuts. People pay taxes from their income. Read the law of supply and demand, economically illiterate loser. Taxes are a cost of income. Guess what happens when you increase the cost of income?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
You're an economically illiterate mentally disabled leftist troll. Of course, you don't understand. Go to debtors' prison, fool.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 29, 2023
It's not just your pathetic, blatant hypocrisy; you're also ignorant of history on election-year nominations. Biden himself in 1992 warned no Bush nominee would get a vote. The only likely confirmation is if the Senate is controlled by the POTUS' party
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
I agree. We need a Republican to take back the seat.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Anyone who thinks RFK Jr. is a stealth Republican is in a state of denial. He believes in single-payer healthcare, he's anti-business and defends the social welfare net.https://t.co/ycRCIHmkeb
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Yes, given shorter lifespans at the time, it was common for a Jewish maiden to get married by 12-13. But no, in the whole Bible, you won't find a single figure with 2 moms.https://t.co/NdIYCRtS4Z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Candy's Room
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Apples and oranges. State-sponsored discrimination is an equal protection issue.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
What the hell? There are two justices of color: Thomas and KBJ. "The use of the phrase person of color to describe white Hispanic and Latino Americans and Spaniards has been criticized as inaccurate." https://t.co/brL0Xfm4nI https://t.co/jquLiLcCwX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
In Your Eyes
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Yeah, KBJ's rhetoric is histrionic, vacuous, and lacking persuasiveness or substance. Hypocritically engaging in discrimination as the remedy to past discrimination is an abomination. https://t.co/AsJ2LAvyr7
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
This histrionic response to SCOTUS reversals on abortion and affirmative action is totally disingenuous. You had an increasingly convoluted unsustainable subsequent Ptolemaic patchwork of cases for decades. It was time to rip off the Band-Aid.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Hunter Biden's daughter from a former exotic dancer will not be allowed to use daddy's surname. (Personally, I would go to court to strip it.) Loser Gramps Joe Biden still refuses to acknowledge his 4-year-old granddaughter. https://t.co/BnHn5DbM7W
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Listening to CNN legal "experts" discuss the SCOTUS decisions is a reminder that lawyers are predictable and not all that smart.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Listening to yet another indignant Sotomayor rant is a reminder of the proverb that shit floats to the top.https://t.co/CC4fV18Nsq
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
The one thing I worried about Biden v Nebraska is whether SCOTUS would sidestep the elephant in the room, Biden spending money Congress never appropriated, and instead rule on a legal technicality like standing.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
The utter stupidity of Sotomayor's domino theory of services being denied universally to gays or other "protected" because of religious accommodation of a Chrisian web designer cannot be understated. We just had a ruling on a postal worker not wanting to deliver on Sunday.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
What gives any government authority enabling a consumer to impose his contract on a vendor? That's not a free market. It's arbitrary conscription. There is a large pool of web designers, assuming you don't have the skills yourself, and I suspect most will take the money.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
Some basic notes on real student loan reform:
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
1. Privatize student loans. There is no constitutional basis for the USG to monopolize the market and transfer risk to taxpayers.
Reforms on student loan reform:
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) June 30, 2023
2. Do not forgive loans for students with marketable, in-demand, well-paying employment prospects, like physicians
Was that finally the long-awaited heel turn by Bianca?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 1, 2023
#SmackDown
I didn't realize Chia Pet came out with a Stephen Miller model. https://t.co/91rkrGpT1S
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 1, 2023
Biden's attempt to steal taxpayer money to bribe votes of college loan deadbeats was a deliberate abuse of power, ignoring the Congress' power of the purse. The fact is Dems bear responsibility for PPP passage and funding but unlike student loan forgiveness, it was constitutional https://t.co/I2yXrrBtdg
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 1, 2023
"The vast majority of the estimated fraud [more than $200 billion in Covid relief loans and grants], 86%, occurred in the first nine months of the pandemic under President Donald Trump in 2020." Heck of a job, Donnie! https://t.co/YujpmZcCbf
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 1, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. Timw for vintage ELO: https://t.co/x6JaCWtJsl
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 1, 2023
#TwitterDown
Well, there had been rumors of an eventual Ronda/Shayna feud, but I didn't expect Shayna to turn on Ronda during the championship defense. There was no storyline motivating it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 1, 2023
#MITB
"Discrimination" refers to voluntary exchanges and association. You don't have the "right" to impose your authoritarian preferences on the conduct of others. I don't mind Christian professionals focusing on traditional events or gay professionals on their communities, https://t.co/F7Ryq9nyPN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
PPP "loans" were not loans in any conventional sense. Stop making apples and oranges comparisons of a Congressionally funded program to a corrupt vote guying gimmick by a lawless POTUS never authorized by Congress,
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
The issue isn't whether loan forgiveness is worthy. Even Pelosi conceded Congress hadn't authorized it. And only the Congress has the power of the purse. And Pelosi realized she didn't want a precedent which could be used by a GOP POTUShttps://t.co/j6utikLpSQ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
Deadbeat rubbish. (See the link for details.)
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
Unlike student or other loans, these were funding to qualifying small businesses affected by pandemic shutdowns to maintain payroll. The qualifying payroll data and expenses had to be documented.https://t.co/8aTt5QNIEG https://t.co/XTliB7dngI
It's Still Rock N Roll to me
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
I've been boycotting this overrated leftist loser all his career before he publicly revealed he's an intolerant asshole. https://t.co/Y2jJ6zR3lw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
You're not smart enough to understand that regardless of whether or not you approve of loan relief, our Constitution gives the power of the purse to Congress, not Biden. Even Pelosi understands that,
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 2, 2023
Quote of the Day
She had lost the art of conversation,Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven". And that's a wrap on 2012.
The latest stats from CDC:
The latest subvariant of interest is EU.1.1, a more distant descendant of the XBB.1.5 variant that had surged earlier this year, tle subvariant having manifested itself in Europe.
On COVID-19 public policy, the SBA inspector general has estimated nearly 20% of the $1.2 trillion released under the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan from March 2020 to January 2022 was lost to potentially fraudulent bad actors, mostly under Trump (86%).
Quote of the Day
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there isRihanna, "Diamonds"