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  • Mar 30, 2021, 10:02 PM
    paraclete
    April Fool's Day
    It apparently comes early this year.
    Volkswagen has changed it name to Voltswagen.
    The WHO now thinks the virus escaped from a lab.
    Joe Biden is alive somewhere,
    The Suez canal is open to ships under 200,000 tonnes.
    Iran wants to dig a canal through Iran,
    Australia will invest in hypersonic rocket technology
    Joe Biden has sent a fleet to oppose China
  • Apr 1, 2021, 04:56 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Australia will invest in hypersonic rocket technology
    not foolish at all but a little late to the game . Still the Quad will need all hands on deck to contain China's global dominate ambitions .

    Quote:

    Joe Biden has sent a fleet to oppose China
    All Presidents do Freedom of Navigation exercises to demonstrate our commitment to keep the vital sea passages free for all nations to transverse
  • Apr 1, 2021, 05:07 AM
    tomder55
    btw April Fools day is cancelled . So sayeth Google .

    Google cancels April Fools - The Verge
  • Apr 1, 2021, 02:39 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    not foolish at all but a little late to the game . Still the Quad will need all hands on deck to contain China's global dominate ambitions .

    I think it was a April Fool's Day prank, just a lone news article


    Quote:

    All Presidents do Freedom of Navigation exercises to demonstrate our commitment to keep the vital sea passages free for all nations to transverse
    another prank; a lone news article announced the sailing of 100 vessel american fleet

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    btw April Fools day is cancelled . So sayeth Google .

    Google cancels April Fools - The Verge

    the biggest April Fool's Day prank

    and I know they are a little behind a but another news article announced a Chinese version of the B1 bomber and a secret airfield
  • Apr 1, 2021, 03:10 PM
    jlisenbe
    Another article announced Joe Biden is pres. What a snort!!
  • Apr 1, 2021, 03:18 PM
    tomder55
    Project Javelin is fake news ?

    BAE Systems Australia Invests in Hypersonic Weapons Capabilities (iconnect007.com)
  • Apr 1, 2021, 03:38 PM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Another article announced Joe Biden is pres. What a snort!!
    And he is proposing reckless infrastructure spending with money we don't have.
    He had a VERY slim margin of victory . Less than 25,000 votes 0.01% of the voting age population could have changed the 2020 Presidential outcome, and less than 8,000 votes in one of the Georgia Senate races could have changed the Senate outcome as well.

    Yet on top of the covid give away ; his infrastructure proposals alone would rank among the most comprehensive changes in decades if passed .
    His tax increase proposal is the 2nd highest after the Revenue Act of 1951 and far exceeds any tax increase since.

    Doesn't matter ;you can't tax enough to settle a debt that is 120% of GDP and rising . Quid will keep those monopoly money printing presses doing over time .
  • Apr 1, 2021, 04:55 PM
    jlisenbe
    Even with the tax increases, we’ll still have an enormous deficit.
  • Apr 1, 2021, 04:59 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    And he is proposing reckless infrastructure spending with money we don't have.
    He had a VERY slim margin of victory . Less than 25,000 votes 0.01% of the voting age population could have changed the 2020 Presidential outcome, and less than 8,000 votes in one of the Georgia Senate races could have changed the Senate outcome as well.

    Yet on top of the covid give away ; his infrastructure proposals alone would rank among the most comprehensive changes in decades if passed .
    His tax increase proposal is the 2nd highest after the Revenue Act of 1951 and far exceeds any tax increase since.

    Doesn't matter ;you can't tax enough to settle a debt that is 120% of GDP and rising . Quid will keep those monopoly money printing presses doing over time .

    Beats the repub proposals...oh wait, they don't have one, nor ever had one. Repubs are all do nothing dufuses.
  • Apr 1, 2021, 06:16 PM
    jlisenbe
    When one party proposes doing something foolish the other party is under no obligation to come up with something a little less foolish. It is frequently a wonderful thing for this fat, bloated, ponderous, foolish, WASTEFUL federal government to do nothing.
  • Apr 1, 2021, 06:26 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    Even with the tax increases, we’ll still have an enormous deficit.

    hey it is only OPM question for the uninitiated, how does reversing Trump era tax reductions constitute the highest tax increase ever?
  • Apr 2, 2021, 04:17 AM
    jlisenbe
    Sadly, not an April Fool's prank.

    "Mr. Biden plans to finance that spending, at least in part, with tax increases that could raise upward of $2.5 trillion in revenue if his plan hews closely to what he proposed in the 2020 presidential campaign. Aides suggest his proposals might not be entirely paid for, with some one-time spending increases offset by increased federal borrowing."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/b...ness-rich.html
  • Apr 2, 2021, 05:15 AM
    paraclete
    But it sure is April Fools day

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