TaxAct: Skank Capitalism in Action

So, as I was doing my taxes today on TaxAct I learned something that I didn't know: the skanks and slags at TaxAct charge you before a transaction is complete and before one's taxes are submitted to the IRS and New York state. I also learned something I already knew: TaxAct has never, though I tried three years to do this, been able to submit my taxes via efile to the IRS and NYS. Finally, I relearned another lesson that I previously knew: Intuit Turbo Tax was able, with the same information, to submit my taxes to both the IRS and NYS. I will, to say the least, be contacting the NY AG about TaxAct's practise of charging one for a TaxAct job not well done, hell not at all done.

Sarah Palin, Attention Whore

So that narcissistic attention whore Palin thinks she has the right to dine in New York City restaurants despite being unvaccinated putting others at health risk in the process. I am not sure anything better encapsulates right wing me me me America with its delusions and tenuous grasp on reality better than Palin's sense of smug, self righteous, and self centred sense of royal entitlement.

Mike Lindell, Smeghead of the Day...

You gotta love it when a delusional smeghead like Mike Lindell goes on TV, you know the TV millions watch, whinging and whining about cancel culture and not even realising the absurdity of such flim flamming. But then he is a snake oil salesman of the skankiest sort.

Musings on Meat Loaf

Probably my most salient memory of the pop rock musician and actor Meat Loaf (yet another anti-vaxxxer and anti-masker who, according to some reports, succumbed to covid) involves Munice, Indiana. At the time, I was attending Ball State and living in a big multi-story apartment block stretching into the heavens around University and Jackson. One morning at 2 am I was awakened in my ground floor flat by the blaring sounds of "Bat Out of Hell" coming through the paper thin walls of my bedroom and my next door neighbours whatever. It wasn't the best introduction to the Texan but I ended up kind of liking the song.

When Old Joe Went to Sin City: Musings on DixiePublicans Masquerading as Democrats

One never expected much from old Joe Manchin beyond the Corporate Inquisition. One suspects he would sell out his own mother for BigCorporateAmerica. It is sad to see that SinCity is a kind of clone of old Joe, however, a clone with a bit of a difference. While old Joe, no doubt, would have sold out Jewish citizens to German Nazis for BrotherCoal, SinCity sells American citizens out to a utterly moronic idea, the idea that macchiavelian our way or the highway DixiePublicans (definitely tipsy) will "get along" if we simply look the other way while they, who don't trust their own ideas in the marketplace of ideas, manipulate voting and gerrymander their way toward Theocratic America. SinCity, get thee to the increasingly fascist Dixiepublican Party. That is where you truly belong. Bah humbug.

In the Land of Cotton: Musings on Contemporary Dixiecrats...

Now this is priceless. You can't dream this crap up. For someone like Sinema, who refuses to make Congress work again and who supports voting dispossession, to celebrate service on MLK Day is an astounding example of tone deafness. But then Sin is a politician without apparently much of a social ethical consciousness or a sense of history.

Well here is some real authentic history for you. Using the filibuster to block a voting rights bill and undermine, in the process, the civil rights of Americans (something the illegitmate Supreme Court in all their theorcratic and authoritian Christian lackeysism supports), does that sound familiar? Well it should because that is what the Dixiecrats did in the 1960s. That is what they, the Republicans cum Dixiecrats, along with their good old time Dixiecrat felllow travellers (It's the Sin), are doing today. The difference is that in the 1960s there were Republicans who supported the bill and who supported the right of all Americans to vote. Now that the Republicans have been dixiefornicated, theocraticised, and authoritianised, all they care about is power, their power. And, as a result, once again, the Republicans are displaying for those with eyes to really see that which is truly and fully disgusting about human beings, their fake American oligarchic "democracy" (Jolly Joe Manchin is, of course, a running dog lackey for the Big Corporation that really runs the US; I suspect the Sin is too), and their fake Mammon worshipping Dollar Bill and White Race Christianity.

There the Right Wing Blowhole Blows...

The news headline blares: Governor of Virginia bans Critical Race Theory. You can't make this shite up. First off, CRT isn't generally taught in primary and secondary schools in Virginia so there is literally nothing to cancel. But then these right-wing loops love to blow fictional spew through their blow holes for political fun and economic profit. Second, to ban CRT at Virginia Tech or UVA raises free speech issues, you know, the free speech guarenteed in the US Contsitution right wing morons like the governor of Virginia claim to think was handed down by god in white gloves from golden heaven. It also points up the fact that right-wing anti-intellectual nuts who have been bathed in rivers of mythic fiction that they mistake for fact and simply can't handle historical fact or methodological validity. Finally, "brainiacs" like the governor of Virginia claim to hate cancel culture while simultaneously cancelling culture. What more can you say about these  gumby's other than that they are gomerian morons? Uh, that they are slimy, slaggy, and skanky Macchiavelian demagogues with delusions of righteousness and delusions of messiahood who think that their way is the only way. I suppose that one might say that in all this they truly do represent the worst in religion.

By the way, I can't wait for the Abbey Lincoln v. Freddy Douglas debate...