Is This a Gotcha Moment?
Stoopid D-Hoomans (snort!)
Poetrooper sends us the following article from American Thinker.
My only response to it is “Well, du-u-uh!”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/deferred_disease_disaster_dawning_on_democrats.html
From the article:
A huge problem is coming soon. Authoritarian blue-state governors and mayors thought they could conduct lockdowns without dire consequences. But all that these fools have done is deferred disaster. That disaster is the reduction in city and state taxes due to the business shutdowns that they ordered.
State and local government officials are starting to hear about this lack of income from their finance teams, and they are mighty concerned. As a result, all across the country, panicked conference calls have been conducted and are probably still going on this weekend.
Specifically, the problem is balancing state and local budgets. Sales taxes from closed businesses are way down, and expenses due to precautions for the coronavirus are way up. There is no way to make these numbers balance. As a result, governments are burning through their reserves, safety funds, slush funds, and rainy day set-asides that they had managed to squirrel away in better times. But within weeks, if not months, the situation will become dire.
What will happen? – article
Yes, what will happen? Did any of this occur to the state governments ahead of time, or did they think it would just “go away”? The recent spike in CV-19 down there in the hinterlands is the result of those southern “party states”, where the college kids go for Spring Break, not paying attention and thinking everything was okay.
Well, it ain’t. Won’t be for a while. Vaxxes are still in the testing stage. And if you’ll recall those two financial projections that I posted links to a short while ago, the second financial projection indicated this recession (which had also been forecast in 2018) will stretch out to 2024 to 2025. How these losses will affect the rest of the world remains to be seen, but when our own political animals don’t “get” the connection between state and local taxes and the huge loss of those incomes due to this CV19 shutdown, the only finger pointing should be at themselves.
And just to tell you how truly stupid political animals can be, Kamala Harris wants to give everybody $2,000/month until the pandemic is over. Fine – but where is the money going to come from, Ms. Cheezwizz-for-brains?
To be clear, there are still people working and businesses still open, all paying taxes, but they are those businesses that are considered a necessity (grocery stores, hardware stores, etc.) and people who fix broken stuff like refrigerators and stoves and air conditioners.
Thanks, Poe. Please keep sending stuff.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", COVID-19, Darwin Awards, Democrats
ah cause and effect, basic principles. Any wonder the concept was lost on bureaucrats?
They’re not responsible for what they do, everybody else is.
Easy. They will tax anyone 1) with money 2) lacking the political “pull” to protect themselves.
Then, when that has the utterly predictable disasters impact, they will demand that other folks elsewhere pay “their fair share” to support their dystopian dysfunction.
Because “it’s not our fault!” say the destroyers of worlds and otherwise predictable mayhem, the “Dirty Pair”, er, the Democrats.
Isn’t there a sci=fi cartoon-y character who destroys worlds, or something like that? I have to find that image. Any feedback is appreciated.
Marvin the Martian. Google will find him for you. 🙂
OK, I’ve got Marvin on my list, but there were some real nasty buggers besides him.
Thanks!
Galactus comes immediately to mind. Not sure if that’s who you were thinking of, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactus
Thanks, Hondo. I had not heard of Galactus, but he’s an interesting sort of fellow. There’s something in mythology somewhere, sort of like ‘when Ra devoured the Sun’.
I’ll find it. Thanks again!
Cthulhu? Lord Krishna? Kali?
Ex-PH2,
There are plenty of Comic book characters that are out to destroy the world, and also fiction writing.
As Hondo pointed out Galactus (Marvel Comics) is known as the destroyer of worlds. He send his herald, usually the Silver Surfer but he has had others before him and after, to find and prepare a world. He likes ones with lots of life.
There is also the recent main character from the Disney’s big hits of the Marvel universe Thanos the Mad Titan. He isn’t quite as big as Thanos (physically), and he only wants to limit the population so we don’t destroy ourselves. He would concur worlds and execute half of the population. Then he got the idea depicted in the movies and did it all in a snap (again physically).
There is also my favorite Cthulu (not Lars). He is also known as the devour of worlds, and H.P. Lovecraft is credited with his creation. H.P. wrote a series of books depicting creatures of unspeakable horror destroying worlds, and in one describes one that rules over them all who is trapped in a city beneath the waves. Some say that H.P. Lovecraft did not invent Cthulu, but only learned about him and wrote it down. He went insane, like both his parents, and so we will never truly know.
You mentioned Ra of Egyptian lore, and there is also Ptah.
Norse had Ragnaruk (umlauts and accent marks missing), which is sort of depicted in Marvel’s movies. It is brought on by Loki and Surtr.
And of course Christianity talks about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I think Marvel and DC comics both use them as Characters as well in various forms.
I went into Greek mythology, too, and the closest I could come to “he who swallows whole worlds” was Kronos, the King of the Titans, who swallowed all four of his own children.
There’s a huge connection those myths have to each other. I’ll find it, but sometimes, it’s fun just making up that kind of thing.
The Doomsday Machine on Star Trek. It would use a phaser to cut up a planet and consume it for fuel.
They had to overload the engines of the USS Constellation and get ship inside to destroy it.
Release the Kraken!
Shiva…The Destroyer!
Cylons…But they gotta get past Me & the other door gunners on the Galactica.
We are Borg…Resistance is futile…You WILL be assimilated.
I think you might be going about this the wrong way. Cylon chicks are hot!
https://woondu.com/sexy-cylon-girls-from-battlestar-galactica/?fdx_switcher=true
TOW, those Cylons would become POWs, tho the smart money would be to kill them all and let the Gods of Kobol sort them out. Remember that whole “never stick your d^@k in crazy” thing?
Had never seen much of the 04 series and only about 1/2 of the 78/79(?) Galactica. Avoiding the heat yesterday kept me in and as luck would have it, the local sub-channel UHF digital broadcast was running a marathon of the -04 from the very FIRST one. Burned up about 6 hours of what life I have left lusting after that devil woman in a red dress. AND Lt Kara “Starbuck” Thrace. I gots a seegar she can smoke.
Ah! I remember that one. (Really, I remember all of them, partly because they show up online now.)
The Doomsday Machine! “It had a MAW!!!”
Pinky and the Brain…World Domination
“After awhile, you run out of other people’s money to spend.”
We wouldn’t be in this mess if only that skrunt, THE Bitch of Benghazi, dasHitlerbeast had of gotten “her turn!” /s/
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
AOC thinks defunding police = suburbs:
Well, Governor Cooper in NC has done his best to lead his blind minion followers and drive our economy into the ground.
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AW1
I’ll see your Cooper and raise you a Whitmer.
Up,
Its been nauseating watching Cooper regurgitate the same info, press conference after press conference…then watch him go out and link arms with protesters…all the while chastising gym owners for having the AUDACITY to reopen.
James: where you at in NC?
Up & Jay,
Yes, the spineless Roy Cooper doesn’t have a leadership bone in his body. He is way out of his league as governor. See
Seeing him at a press conference is like watching a clown on fire, sad but funny. Mary Ann Baldwin as Raleigh mayor is equally clueless. Hopefully Dan Forest sends Roy packing in November.
Cooper knows all the real country folk here will not comply with a Whitmer type mandate. Most of the NC sherriffs have already said they will not enforce most of the asinine Michigan type BS. Coopers days are numbered.
I find it charming that their herd mentality kept them from thinking of the consequences ahead of time.
They’re not real bright, are they?
I think the suits in DC and local government are still looking at it like the ‘two front war’….i.e. the BLANK CHECK. Just keep writing checks, they won’t bounce until AFTER we are out of office!
Even Gov Abbott of Texas has been bitten by the shutdown bug.
These morons don’t understand that the latest counts on the Chicom Flu are proof that masks obviously don’t friggin’ work….
Instead, they double down.
At this point in time it’s much safer and better to just get the damn thing, take good care of yourself and realize that most people are completely asymptomatic and that the chances of dying with this remains incredibly low. Below one tenth of one percent at my last reading…
It’s not about the virus, it’s about getting rid of us by getting rid of Trump.
Period…
Amen Thunderstixx. Notice how the red states are suddenly erupting with cases? Texas and Florida? The donkey-asses are working overtime preparing the election fraud.
In fairness, at least in NE Texas, any time you go out the percentage of people actually wearing masks.is well below 50. Who knows if they work?
Not only are municipalities taking a hit on decreased revenue generated from sales tax, but due to people working remotely and curtailing their trips into the cities, revenue generated from speed camera fines are down dramatically. It’s a good thing that they have only installed those cameras as a safety measure and are not reliant upon those traffic fines as a revenue stream.
https://www.governing.com/topics/finance/gov-addicted-to-fines.html
You should all come to New Mexico were
They have destroyed the oil and gas industry
It provides 70-80 percent of the state revenue
And they have done after it with a vengeance
Now we have a billion dollar deficit on top
Of the 3/4 billion dollar deficit because of there
Green new deal
Skip, as I’m sure you know, even indirectly New Mexico benefits greatly from the “Oil Patch.” A very large percentage of the State’s tourist trade comes from the oil and gas producing areas of West Texas. In resort towns like Ruidoso, many of the more expensive homes and condos are absentee-owned by folks from the same areas with a very large percentage of those owners involved in the energy industry in some aspect.
When Miz Poe and I would go to the clubhouse at Cree Meadows for drinking or dining, you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting several “oilmen” and their diamond-dripping wives, which included my in-laws.
The witless Democrats in Santa Fe are crapping where they eat…
Ruidoso is one of my favorite places. Didn’t care much for Cree Meadows, though (It’s probably mutual); little too ‘uptown’ for me. I’ll stick to BBQ and Mex. Problem is I can’t breathe too well there. And I damn sure ain’t making that drive up Sierra Blanca again.
My Brother in law lives there, and he has mostly part-time neighbors because, as you say, most of the houses belong to Texans.
Drove up from El Paso once, about midnight. Full moon. Just about bright enough to see colors. Didn’t really need headlights (except that the wife was command driver in the right seat). Got to where the mountains rose out of the desert and it was one of the most awesome sights I have ever seen. I wanted to pull over and just stare at the scenery for awhile, but wifey was in a hurry.
Oh, no, fascism costs! (Gee, Democrats, one would think y’all are stupid or something… )
Well, you see, they think money just appears out of thin air. None of them have ever made the connection between the paycheck world and government taxes.
It’s like the evil Bishop in “Ladyhawke”: I raised the taxes only to be told there were no more taxes to be had! Can you imagine?
Local and state governments can’t just print money like the federal government. Oh, wait
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hard-currency-one-washington-city-prints-its-own-money-on-wood/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiegilbert/2014/09/22/why-local-currencies-could-be-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-why-it-matters/#5ee4c9e24e95
Also, maddeningly, this may not be true:
“Next to go will be the consultants, contractors, and temps.”
In reality, many of these contracts were obligated and paid in advance, meaning that in many cases, contractors are still getting paid even though their government counterparts are sent home…
I was an eebil government contractor for 3 years, before I became an eebil double-dipping government employee. Our contracts were pain an advance, but not as far out as you’d think. For example. during the sequestration shutdowns, if the government employees stopped getting paid, I was still good for up to 4 weeks max. Never came to that.
They announced two weeks ago that our salary and benefits were being “re-evaluated” (so much for binding arbitration…) due to the state’s budget crisis. Our procurement budget has already been frozen since the end of April. Buying food for station subsistence now requires itemized pre-approval. We’re losing most of our inmate hand crews because the state wants to release them all early—they’re saying they’ll just staff the hand crews with firefighters (because firefighters with salary and benefits are sooooo much cheaper /sarc). No cuts to the governor’s salary or to benefits for illegal aliens, though!
They also can’t seem to figure out how to make the whole “social distancing” thing work in fire camp, but that’s another story.
Another “gotcha”.
How come HCQ cocktail therapy, used prophylacticly, worked to protect the absurdly high-density slum in the article, but is widely condemned here?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/what_made_asias_largest_slum_a_success_model_for_treating_covid19.html
None of this lockdown lunacy had to happen. Tens of thousands of deaths were avoidable.
Gotcha, indeed.