#fiscally

[calicomarie11]

So I know we all assume Buck and Eddie have keys to each other’s houses, but we are sleeping on all the other things they have keys to.

I want someone to realize that Buck just has a key to Eddie’s truck and Eddie has a key to the Jeep.

They share a storage unit, because it’s cheaper that way.

There’s a safety deposit box at the bank with both of their important docs (cough, Eddie’s will, cough).

They share a note file with all the passwords for their streaming services and Chris’s school apps.

Just, sometimes I think we don’t make them codependent enough.

[bixels]

Always an experience watching the leftism leave FNAF fans when someone mentions that Scott Cawthon financially backed fascist politicians.

The switch from posting hardline leftist tweets about boycotts and signal boosts and critical takedowns of politicians and celebrities to ‘ohhh, well. everyone makes mistakes. who can blame him, listen he. he donated money to gay charities too. that makes it ok! a millionaire in his forties is allowed to have political beliefs. does it even matter? just let it go!’ is whiplash inducing. The antivaxxer celebrities have got to go, but this one horror dev who quietly handed wads of cash to antivax lawmakers? He’s chill, he can stay.

The charity thing is so funny too because suddenly utilitarian positive-negative point counting is the way to go. Maybe an abacus would help calculate the net good of donating to the Trevor Project minus donating thousands of dollars to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. -10 points if I push a kid in a lake but +11 points if I help an old lady across the street, so I’m chill. You can’t judge me. Hey, maybe. Just don’t push a kid in the lake period. How fucking low is the bar when we’re excusing maxing out the possible dollar amount of donations to Mitch fucking McConnell. That should be like. Default you’re a bad person.

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[contemplatingoutlander]

Although Congress averted a government shutdown, Hakeem Jeffries' remarks about the attempt by a couple of "puppet masters" to overturn the bipartisan funding bill & GOP hypocrisy are still worth repeating.

"In our nation’s 248 year history, 25% of our nation’s debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president. 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever."

—Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), House minority leader

Below are some highlights from the transcript of Hakeem Jeffries' remarks before the House on 12/19/24, including his comments on:

The attempt by the "puppet masters" (i.e., Musk and Trump) to overturn the bipartisan government funding bill.

The history of how Democrats repeatedly had to clean up the fiscal messes that Republicans (the so-called party of "fiscal responsibility") created time and again because of their unfounded belief in tax cuts for the wealthy (i.e., "trickle down economics").

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: [Democrats and Republicans in Congress] reached a bipartisan agreement to fund the government, prevent a shutdown and meet the needs of the American people. We reached a bipartisan agreement to provide disaster assistance to people who had their lives turned upside down by extreme weather events hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and wildfires all across America. We reached a bipartisan agreement to be there for farmers and families, children, seniors, working-class Americans all across the country, the men and women who serve this country in uniform and our veterans.

House Republicans have abandoned that bipartisan agreement that we entered into in good faith. A bill that House Republicans negotiated, gave us your word that we were going to move forward together on behalf of the American people.... And then one or two puppet masters weigh in and the extreme MAGA Republicans decide to do the bidding of the wealthy, the well-off, the well-connected millionaires and billionaires, not working-class people all across America. The bill that is before us today is just part of an effort to shut down the government unless we, as representatives of the American people, bend to the will of just a handful of millionaires and billionaires because the provisions in this bill, particularly as it relates to suspending the debt ceiling for two years, are designed to bring about a massive tax cut unpaid for wealthy donors and for wealthy corporations for millionaires and billionaires who, clearly, some in this Congress are working for. And this bill is validation for it.

[added color is mine; all emphasized text is from Hakeem Jeffries' Congressional website]

[See more excerpts below the cut.]

HAKEEM JEFFRIES (Continued): Now, what’s been interesting to me is that for decades, the Republican Party has lectured America about fiscal responsibility, about the debt and the deficit. It’s always been phony. This bill proves it. One thing we do know is that every time a Republican president comes into office, the one thing we can count on Republicans to do is to pass a massive tax cut for wealthy Americans and, in the process, stick working-class Americans with the bill by raising the deficit and the debt. That’s what happened in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president. The biggest thing that he did was pass a massive tax cut for the wealthy and the well-off paid for by working families and middle class folks all across the country. Didn’t do anything for middle class Americans. Didn’t do anything to stimulate the economy.... I’ve come to the conclusion that trickle down economics simply means that middle class families, that working-class Americans may get a trickle, but they’re guaranteed to stay down. That’s what your economics are all about. Massive tax cuts for the wealthy and the well-off under President Reagan continued into President Bush. Bill Clinton comes to office, inherits a significant deficit, and under his stewardship, President Clinton turns a deficit into a surplus and passes that surplus to President George W Bush. The so-called party of fiscal responsibility.

And once again, we see the same exact playbook. Republicans inherit a surplus and they immediately blow it to pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected, not provide relief to working-class Americans. A tax cut in 2001, unpaid for, and then a tax cut in 2003, unpaid for. And they continue to run up the debt and the deficit prosecuting two failed wars. The so-called party of fiscal responsibility. Want to lecture America, but your record speaks for itself.

President Obama comes in after mismanagement related to the prior administration, including helping to trigger the Great Recession, inherits the deficit from a Republican president of $1.5 trillion, as well as the Great Recession. And working under the leadership of President Obama, Democrats in the House and the Senate, the situation turned around and over an eight year period of time reduced the deficit by $1 trillion. From $1.5 trillion to $500 billion. Progress under Democratic leadership as it relates to getting America’s fiscal house in order. And then Donald Trump comes to office and again follows the same exact playbook... Republicans turned their attention to the GOP tax scam, where 83% of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1%. Why? To subsidize the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. And in the process of doing that, borrow $2.3 trillion added to our debt. Explode the deficit. So-called party of fiscal responsibility. In fact, this debt that we’re dealing with... that’s what this two-year suspension of the debt ceiling is all about. In our nation’s 248 year history, 25% of our nation’s debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president. 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

And then President Biden comes to office. Gets big things done for the American people on infrastructure, on the CHIPS and Science Act, standing up a clean energy economy, rescuing America from a once-in-a-century pandemic. Gets all of these big things done... and in the process, in his first two years, reduces the deficit by $1.7 trillion. And so we see a very clear pattern. The facts speak for themselves.... which bring us to this very moment. Because this bill is designed to set up the GOP tax scam 2.0. To stick the American people with a bill so you can continue to cut taxes for wealthy donors and well-connected corporations and jam working-class Americans. That’s what this bill today fundamentally is all about. That’s why Republicans are suspending the debt ceiling for two years, the so-called party of fiscal responsibility. And in addition to these massive tax cuts, we know how you want to pay for it. Many Republicans have said this in the public domain, that we want to end Social Security as we know it, end Medicare as we know it, end Medicaid as we know it, end nutritional assistance as we know it, not support our veterans. These are all the reasons why Democrats are opposed to this legislation. [...] Why would you eliminate funding for community health centers? That impacts the heartland of America, urban America, rural America, suburban America, small-town America, Appalachia.... Why would you cut funding for nutritional assistance for children in America? For seniors in America? For veterans in America? Why would you do that?.... This legislation actually cuts a program that was designed to help children and their parents detect cancer. Cruelty is the point. Why would you eliminate that program? We’re going to fight for the children of America.

And so, the reasons are too numerous to articulate.... But we’ve laid out the challenges with this bill, the phoniness in claiming that extreme MAGA Republicans are about working-class Americans or are the party of fiscal responsibility. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you run up the debt and the deficit, middle-class families pay, working-class families pay, and we are going to defend them. House Democrats are going to continue to fight for working families, middle-class families, all those who aspire to be part of the middle class, for the children of America, for the seniors of America, for the unions in America, for the veterans of America, for the least, the lost and the left behind, for the poor, the sick and the afflicted. We are going to continue to fight for everyday Americans. That is why we are voting no on this bill. And to stop this reckless, regressive and reactionary Republican shutdown. Vote no.

[added color is mine; all emphasized text is from Hakeem Jeffries' Congressional website]

[annabelle--cane]

I know my occasional blackwoodow posting usually has a somewhat glib or meme-y tone, but listen to me. why did annabelle deliver "but can you handle me?" and "I was so looking forward to filling you with spiders" Like That. why is annabelle set up as a parallel to jon to the point where she implies she was deliberately trying to act more like him to make martin comfortable. why is martin's choice to go with her placed directly after a huge fight with his partner, which jon feels as a personal betrayal before talking it through together afterwards. why is the language in mag 196 so sexual. why does she tie him up like a damsel in distress. she fucked that young man.

[lenbryant]

Dump this cult and get serious people for a change.

[eggnogtoast]

javi doodles

[mythicalmage]

I can just see Opeli holding her Advanced Fiscal Exercises class and Soren showing up in tiny little gym shorts that show off his thunder thighs and a muscle tank because he thought it was Advanced Physical Exercises. The entire time, Opeli tries to ignore that, but Soren sits front row and keeps asking questions. She thinks it’s because he’s engaged with the lesson, but really he’s just confused and has no idea what the hell is going on. He doesn’t know what fiscal means, or what taxes have to do with exercise.

[buggachat]

crying in the corner because my checkmarks are boring and lame now

[davidaugust]

“‘There is reporting at other federal agencies [in addition to the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service which handles the U.S. Government’s payment system] indicating that DOGE members have performed unauthorized changes and locked civil servants out of the sensitive systems they gained access to,’ the ‘Recommendations’ portion of the email continues. ‘We further recommend that DOGE members be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting after their access to payment systems is revoked. Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even “read only,” likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.’”

https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

[moiraimyths]

I want... to give young Flan a leetol kiss...

That's fair.

[queerliblib]

So the question about books not available on Libby raised another question in my mind. If one of us following you on social media has one of those books that’s unavailable on Libby could we scan it and submit it to you as a PDF somehow so others could access it? I don’t have the several hundred dollar book that was mentioned, and I know this could be dipping my toes into copyright law territory, but it could be beneficial to try and crowd source some of our history, Zine style

ah. okay, love the crowdsource-y punk vibes. however we are NOT in a position to play fast and loose with copyright laws. we can’t even take pdf’s directly from the authors! we have formal non-profit status* and for us, it’s really important that we maintain access nationwide to as many folks as possible, for as many books as we can (and we’re still buying more as fast as our budgets allow - we’re not close to being done yet!)

we’ve got lots of plans to keep growing and expanding our catalogue, but what you’re suggesting is not one of the feasible options for us.

in the meantime, some other great options are to keep requesting queer books from your local public libraries, to use InterLibrary Loan if you (or a friend) has access to a university system, and explore some (legal) Open Access or Public Domain projects that are out there (queer zine archive project, directory of open access books, project gutenberg, etc..)

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[birdstudies]

October 21, 2024 - São Tomé Fiscal or Newton's Fiscal (Lanius newtoni) These shrikes are found in rainforests on the island of São Tomé off the western coast of Africa. The details of their diet are not well known, though they probably feed on small beetles and other insects. Little is known about their breeding behavior, but they are believed to be monogamous and birds in breeding condition and those with some juvenile plumage have been observed in November and December. They are classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to their extremely small population and range and may face threats from habitat destruction and invasive predators.

[vaguely-concerned]

of course the thing that kind of gets lucanis on board with the whole necromancy thing is contemplatively reflecting that it creates job opportunities and is vital to the nevarran economy (as the crows are to antiva. just dealing with the post-mortem part instead of getting someone there). he really is like ah I get it now that's pretty cool actually fhdskjfhsa. never ever change lucanis

[itswilliamleonard]

in our Almost-Next-Year amelia comic special, will kronii let there even BE a next year???