CaptainThugwash

"President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." The United States of America is on the verge of achieving pure idiocracy.

I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon. Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.

Half black/half Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka held a dinner party exclusively for black tennis players before the French Open She defended the party by claiming there have been segregated white-only parties (Without proof, of course) This woman is insufferable.

Hating communists doesn’t make you special or smart, it just means you have the same opinion as every billionaire that has ever existed.

I, too, was surprised that an MP took at face value a man recounting how he wet himself in public three times because he was too fearful of using public toilets following the Supreme Court judgment. It suggests either male sexual fetish, or v serious mental health issues.

This is where the “tax the rich” crowd lose me. Say I earn 90k a year and in 2027 I inherit $200,000 I invest that $200k and after 10 years in the stock market it’s now worth $400k If I sell it and realise the $200k capital gain, what the govt and the “tax the rich” crowd are saying is that I should be taxed as if I make $290k every year. Now if I try and split that CGT income across 2 people I’m “greedy” and avoiding tax But if I sell down in 4x $100k lots over 4 years and minimise my tax, that’s ok and nobody bats an eyelid - but it’s the same principle.

Memorial Day began as a tribute to the Union soldiers who died for a new birth of freedom in America's second revolution. Many more have died in the wars since. Some just, most not. No matter why the politicians sent them overseas, we remember them and their families.