If you enjoy watching weird hypocrisy in action, you’ll love this.
Draft-dodger “patriot” hugs and kisses flag and calls American war dead, “suckers” and “losers.”States Move To Force Sports Teams To Play the National AnthemThree states have advanced constitutionally questionable laws.JASON RUSSELL | 6.16.2021 5:20 PMFor the first time, some states are moving to turn the decades-old cultural norm of playing the national anthem before a sporting event into a legal requirement.
Remember that these are the same Trumper conservatives who claim that the government intrudes too much on our freedoms. (Or does that apply only to guns?)
Right-wing “patriots” bearing flags while attempting a coup against the American government.On Wednesday, Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill (S.B.) 4, which will require professional sports teams to play the national anthem at the start of each preseason, regular season, and postseason game hosted in Texas.
Hey, what about amateur sports teams? Why are they not required to be “patriotic.”
Why doesn’t this apply to checkers and chess? Kids playing tag in the schoolyard?
And why only at the start of games? What about during and after games?
And why only sports? What about all TV and radio shows? Plays and concerts? Every workday?
Chief of staff John Kelly and Gen. Joe Dunford were there. Not “patriot” Trump. Too rainy.
We mandatory patriots need to know.
And by the way, does singing the National Anthem make one a patriot? Hmmm . . . If only Benedict Arnold had sung, “Oh, say can you see . . . “
The law requires all financial agreements between pro sports teams and state and local governments to include written verification that the team will play the anthem.
What instruments must be used? Will a harmonica do? Drumming on a garbage pail? Are undocumented immigrants excused from playing?
And how much of the National Anthem will be required by law. Just a couple of notes? Or all four verses?
Anyway, must it be sung, or just played without the words? Are we required to look at a photo of Donald Trump holding a Bible, while we sing?
This very religious man, who never attends church, and breaks with the Ten Commandments at every opportunity, is showing you the Bible
A similar bill was signed into law in Louisiana on Monday that would require the playing of the national anthem before all sporting events at venues that were subsidized by state or local governments.
Does receiving unemployment or working for the DMV count as “subsidized” by state or local governments? Public school teachers running a spelling bee contest?
Hey, how about requiring everyone to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before and after every game? Now that would be patriotic.
The right-wing Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation nearly identical to the Louisiana law, but it has since sat dormant in the Wisconsin Senate for more than a month.
So does the Wisconsin GOP seem to be kicking the can down the road? Does can-kicking count as a sporting event?
The Supreme Court has, time and time again, set precedents that the government can’t compel speech, even as a condition of doing business with the government.
Now that we have a super-majority conservative SCOTUS, will it ignore precedent as it is predicted to do with Rowe v. Wade?
Three QAnonesque Questions:
What is the secret reason why the freedom-loving politicians of Texas, Wisconsin, and Louisiana voted to require teams to play the National Anthem before games?
Why is Trump hugging the flag and showing you the Bible?
In one word, what do all these patriots have in common?
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
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The people who claim the USA isn’t racist are the worst racists?
When one member of a group fails, the bigots will hate the entire group for this failure? If a group succeeds, the bigots will despise it for its success.
Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.
It takes two things to put people in chains: The ignorance of the oppressed and the treachery of their leaders.
Hatred and fear are evil twins. It is impossible to hate someone without fearing them.
The brainless are too brainless to understand how little they know. The intelligent are smart enough to understand how little they know.
Dictators always claim that patriotism is obedience to them. Their disciples agree. Fake, hyperpatriots “love America,” but hate the Americans who disagree with them.
Loyalty, like obedience, usually is a one-way street. Divorce and dog leashes are proof.
A liar believes everyone is lying; a cheater believes everyone is cheating; a hater believes hatred is normal.
The more federal budgets are cut and federal taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes. No economy can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Many people expect the Federal Reserve to control inflation. But inflation is not a financial problem. Inflation is a scarcity problem that only Congress can fix.
It is easier to have sympathy than empathy. Actually, no one has empathy. “I feel your pain” is a lie.
We wish to distance ourselves from those below us on any social scale, while coming closer to those above. This is Gap Psychology.
Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor.
Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive always involves the Gap between the richer and the poorer.
The Gap is what makes the rich, rich. To widen the Gap, the rich can obtain more for themselves, or make sure the poor have less.
Everyone lies. Most of our lies are to ourselves.
No life form in the universe is less knowlegable than a voter.
Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
To survive long-term, a monetarily non-sovereign entity must have a positive balance of payments.
Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
Where reality differs from belief, those who question least choose belief.
The more we learn,
the more we begin to see,
if we were tasked with building a universe,
this is the only way it could be.
In politics, people tend to support those who most resemble them. Women tend to support women. Blacks tend to support blacks; Jews tend to support Jews; Evangelicals tend to support Evangelicals; New Yorkers tend to support New Yorkers, Latinos tend to support Latinos; and stupid, immoral, close-minded, bigoted liars tend to support stupid, close-minded, immoral, bigoted liars. Know yourself by whom you follow.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Ten Steps To Prosperity:
Those who understand Monetary Sovereignty are familiar with these basics:
The federal government, being Monetarily Sovereign, has the unlimited ability to create its sovereign currency, the U.S. dollar.
Thus, unlike state and local governments, which are monetarily non-sovereign, the federal government cannot unintentionally run short of U.S. dollars.
The federal government pays for all its spending by creating new dollars, ad hoc.
It creates dollars by sending instructions, (“Pay to the order of”) to each creditor’s bank, instructing the bank to increase the balance in the creditor’s checking account.
The instant the bank obeys those instructions, new dollars are created and added to the M1 money-supply measure.
So, even if all federal tax collections ceased, the federal government could continue spending, forever.
In fact, no form of income, whether taxing or borrowing, provides spending dollars to the federal government.
Tax dollars sent to the federal government leave the economy. They leave the M1 money-supply measure and effectively are destroyed upon receipt.
The purpose of federal taxes is to control the economy, by taxing what the government wishes to discourage, and by giving tax breaks to what the government wishes to encourage. That is why the very rich, who own Congress and the President, are given such generous tax breaks that the richest pay little or no taxes at all.
In essence, you might as well throw your tax dollars into a bonfire, for all the good they do to prevent federal government insolvency.
In return for your obeying the law, the Treasury does you the service of throwing your dollars into that federal bonfire, so you don’t have to bother.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), in bemoaning the lack of tax-payment compliance in America, has published the following graph.
Presumably, the graph is meant to make you feel outrage about so many people having refused or neglected to throw their dollars into the IRS bonfire.
PERCENT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAILED TO THROWTHEIR DOLLARS INTO THE FEDERAL BONFIRE
In reality, the outrage you feel should be directed at the politicians and groups like the CRFB.
They are the ones who claim that the federal government either can’t afford to, or must raise taxes to, provide free Medicare for All, Social Security for All, College for All, reduced carbon emissions, improved infrastructure, air, water, and land, narrowed Gap between the rich and the rest, etc.
The U.S. Congress, having unlimited disposable dollars, could and should be doing so much more to improve your life.
Instead, they argue about whether spending by the federal government has exceeded the government’s “means” (It has no “means” to exceed), or whether federal spending is “socialism” (It isn’t), or whether the poor will refuse to work if given financial aid (They won’t refuse if the aid is on top of, rather than instead of salaries).
President Richard Nixon, a Republican, gave us Monetary Sovereignty by eliminating the last gold standard, so it is a special disgrace that the current Republican Party now refuses to use the most valuable asset any nation can have: Unlimited money.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO IMPROVE AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Ten Steps To Prosperity:
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