Just caught up on the thread- taxes good, don’t make more money cause you’ll get taxed more, rabbit stupid, CRNA rocks, district judges with more injunctions that aren’t constitutional, with one over international waters. I’m tracking.
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Problem with usage is multi-fold.
W. Bush was the first to use it, so did Obama, and Trump, so the illegal to use argument could be weak.
Biden may have used it almost100%, so the argument is did he know what was signed?
Was stuff signed without telling him?
Simple solution, pass a law making autopen signatures illegal on bills, e.o's, pardons, etc.
I can't possibly format this message like @Box (cause lazy), but I channeled His Holiness on this one.
I was working out at the gym this morning (legs, obv), and I was about to put more weight on. I thought, "Sheesh, the last set was tough; if I put more weight on, it's gonna tax me even more, but I want these big beefy legs. My dad never had big legs, he just never got to that next level."
A gym employee came over and said, "You know, if you just stayed at that weight, you'll never realize your full potential and that's ok. Grinding it out, never making gains is virtuous. We did the math, and we figured out that the top 10% of lifters here pay 75% of our total revenue, but 90% of the rest of the population doesn't use the gym as much, so we will give them a discount. If you get into that top 10%, we will have to charge you a little more. I'd recommend just staying at this weight, honestly. There's no real incentive to go higher; you'll get charged more, the rest of the population will get jealous and say you used steroids and cheated (even though you're here at 0400 6 days a week), and gym leadership will tell you you're not paying your fair share while simultaneously creating a class of lifting surfs destined to remain at their station... so just accept your position in the lower lifting class and keep paying your dues. Granted, you'll never lift more than your dad or his dad, and you'll never realize the LifeTime™ Athletic Dream- but we are a pretty progressive gym."
Then I put on 315 freedom units for a slick 5 spot (ass to grass, everyone clapped) because I was never meant to stay in the middle class of lifter, that's meant to be a transitory phase. The gym should be giving me every opportunity to rise to that 10% from my lowly beginnings. The guys that started LifeTime™ wrote that down in their founding documents, it turns out, but they recently dealt with 16 years of new management that seemed hell-bent on keeping their members down and stealing their money. They have a new GM now, and everything the guy does (even good ideas that benefit 80% of the gym) seems to make everyone mad for no other reason than they don't like the guy. It's Vegas, he probably does tan too much.
The folks who wanted to stay at their current weights were happy with the discount, and with the money they saved every month, they could invest in some supplements and a trainer, and it turns out a few of them used that investment to lift more, and now they're in the top 10% too. Every time I see one of them get into that top 10%, it makes me happy, and the gym makes way more money like that. I wish more people were like that, but the lifting community is super weird and fractious, and a sect of lifters (all doing some retarded thing called "CrossFit™") insist that the weakest people should pay just as much as the strongest people and that the weak people will actually be disincentivized to get stronger if you give them a discount. That doesn't make any sense to me, but I am positive that LifeTime™ is the best gym in the world, and why wouldn't I want the gym to help me, and why wouldn't I want to help the gym by my own success?
This is solely a story about a workout and not an allegory about taxation under $150k.
I was working out at the gym this morning (legs, obv), and I was about to put more weight on. I thought, "Sheesh, the last set was tough; if I put more weight on, it's gonna tax me even more, but I want these big beefy legs. My dad never had big legs, he just never got to that next level."
A gym employee came over and said, "You know, if you just stayed at that weight, you'll never realize your full potential and that's ok. Grinding it out, never making gains is virtuous. We did the math, and we figured out that the top 10% of lifters here pay 75% of our total revenue, but 90% of the rest of the population doesn't use the gym as much, so we will give them a discount. If you get into that top 10%, we will have to charge you a little more. I'd recommend just staying at this weight, honestly. There's no real incentive to go higher; you'll get charged more, the rest of the population will get jealous and say you used steroids and cheated (even though you're here at 0400 6 days a week), and gym leadership will tell you you're not paying your fair share while simultaneously creating a class of lifting surfs destined to remain at their station... so just accept your position in the lower lifting class and keep paying your dues. Granted, you'll never lift more than your dad or his dad, and you'll never realize the LifeTime™ Athletic Dream- but we are a pretty progressive gym."
Then I put on 315 freedom units for a slick 5 spot (ass to grass, everyone clapped) because I was never meant to stay in the middle class of lifter, that's meant to be a transitory phase. The gym should be giving me every opportunity to rise to that 10% from my lowly beginnings. The guys that started LifeTime™ wrote that down in their founding documents, it turns out, but they recently dealt with 16 years of new management that seemed hell-bent on keeping their members down and stealing their money. They have a new GM now, and everything the guy does (even good ideas that benefit 80% of the gym) seems to make everyone mad for no other reason than they don't like the guy. It's Vegas, he probably does tan too much.
The folks who wanted to stay at their current weights were happy with the discount, and with the money they saved every month, they could invest in some supplements and a trainer, and it turns out a few of them used that investment to lift more, and now they're in the top 10% too. Every time I see one of them get into that top 10%, it makes me happy, and the gym makes way more money like that. I wish more people were like that, but the lifting community is super weird and fractious, and a sect of lifters (all doing some retarded thing called "CrossFit™") insist that the weakest people should pay just as much as the strongest people and that the weak people will actually be disincentivized to get stronger if you give them a discount. That doesn't make any sense to me, but I am positive that LifeTime™ is the best gym in the world, and why wouldn't I want the gym to help me, and why wouldn't I want to help the gym by my own success?
This is solely a story about a workout and not an allegory about taxation under $150k.
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Well done, Aesop.... well done....
It's interesting, to say the least. Mike Johnson recounted a story about a talk with Biden having no clue about pausing LNG outputs; I think it's safe (now) to admit that Joe Biden was mentally compromised for the vast majority of his presidency.
Trump has used autopen (fun fact the first president to use an autopen-like technology was Thomas Jefferson, who used a polygraph to draft several letters at once), an autopen signature is legally binding; Biden vacillated between auto pen and physical signature, and the documents online are digital versions and not the original... there is just a lot of muck, as per our usual agreement.
I guess where the rubber meets the road is- was Biden actually involved in the signing? Was he aware of the action? Did he approve? If only he was alive, and as smart as the MSM told us for 4 years, he could clarify.
Alas. I am filing this in the "fun for about 24 hours, then memory holed with no outputs" box.
The real issue here is the pardons themselves, not how it was signed. A blanket pardon for a Mark Milley, the J6 committee and Anthony Fauci is egregious, not the way they were signed.
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