The Biden Presidency 2021

Quote: petroglyph

I've been long impressed of how well our forefathers understood the terms "Monarchy, aristocracy" etc.

Quote: From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814

Dear Sir
In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous Patricians, mangled and bleeding Victims of popular Fury.” and gravely counts up several Victims of democratic Rage as proofs that Democracy is more pernicious than Monarchy or Aristocracy.”

Is this fair, sir? Do you deny any one of my Facts?

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.

Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

… Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history.

Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.

When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

Quote: ams288

I screwed up and already filed my 2020 taxes, my AGI was too high last year for me to qualify (thanks, Joe Manchin!). It was that Pai Gow 7 card straight flush that pushed me over the top. 😂

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If you miss out this year

If you receive no $1,400 payment or a reduced check, but your income changes, you may be able to claim the money you are due when you file your taxes next year.

"Any change, either a slight reduction in earnings or even just putting more money in a traditional IRA or a 401(k) could yield a much bigger total payment when they do their 2021 taxes," said Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation.

Quote: fleaswatter

....P.S. How is your administration's meeting with the Chinese in Alaska going? LOL LOL

Quote: petroglyph

https://thesaker.is/for-leviathan-its-so-cold-in-alaska/


"After all, Leviathan is congenitally incapable of accepting a “win-win”; it only runs on “zero-sum,” based on divide and rule" Pepe/

I hate to see what is probably happening in the backdrop. Alaska had a terrible year in the fishery's. I think the Chinese will probably suck up a whole lot of fishing permits on the cheap, maybe even buyout the Bristol Bay salmon fishery, the largest wild salmon run in the world. The Japanese already bought out most of the land based processors. Won't be long and the only salmon available will be "farm raised, color added".

Quote: fleaswatter

Russian President Putin Challenges Biden To A Public Debate

Quote: terapined

If there are criminals among the immigrants, its the same % as our population.

Quote: odiousgambit

It's nonsense to think it is ok to have the percentage be 'about the same'