If All You See…

By William Teach July 5, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on being colonized by soft jihad.

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BBB Gives Not Taxes On Tips: Who Could Complain About That?

By William Teach July 5, 2025 – 10:30 am

For those working service jobs, the majority who get tips aren’t going to be people who make a lot of money. Some do, but, people who make tips average $8.94 to $28.89 including those tips (those making $8.94 an hour really need to up their service game). So, not taxing the tips is good, right?

Democrats certainly wouldn’t want to say that removing taxes from tips is bad, right? Oh, well

AOC Exposes Catch in “No Tax on Tips” Rule in Trump’s Budget

The no tax on tips provision of Donald Trump’s budget cannot be the pro-labor gift that the president has made it out to be while the rest of the bill slashes health care and other social programs for lower-income people. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shed some light as to why that’s the case.

“On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I wanna tell you a little bit about the scam of that text, a little bit of the fine print there,” she said on Wednesday. “The cap on that is $25,000—while you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,00 across the United States while taking away their SNAP, while taking away their Medicaid, while kicking them off of the ACA and their health care extensions.

“So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you? Losing all your health care? Not able to feed your babies? Not being able to put a diaper on their bottom, in exchange for what? This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy, and it strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation? We cannot stand for it, and we will not support it. You should be ashamed.”

It’s no surprise that this “woman of the people” is having a meltdown. Of course, she doesn’t worry about any of that, because she has gotten rich off of being in Congress, and rarely interacts with anyone but her rich and powerful Comrades. Peasants can pound sand. (there’s a longer discussion on funding being the same, not cut, just the rate of increase being cut, and working to reduce the graft, fraud, and abuse in spending of that money so more gets to the recipients)

‘No tax on tips’ sounds great until you explore the history—as many will soon discover

A few weeks ago Charles Rangel, the Lion of Lenox Avenue, was carried into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City with a full military guard. Rangel, a longtime U.S. congressman from Harlem, was the chair of the Ways and Means Committtee in the House of Representatives, the committee with authority over taxes, tariffs, and benefits; many consider it to be the most important committee in the House. Until the election of Barack Obama, Rangel was arguably the most powerful African-American politician in the history of the United States.

Um, OK? What does this have to do with taxes on tips?

Taxes have been the government’s most effective tool to create the society we prefer. In the middle of the 20th century, the richest people in the United States paid back more than 90% of their income to the government every year, and that was redistributed in ways that built a large and strong middle class. Since the 1980s, taxes on the rich have declined dramatically. The chasm between rich and poor and the consequent collapse of social trust in American society seem to have followed almost automatically from changes in tax rates.

Right, right. Moonbat World.

Watch out. This is not the tax reform you’re looking for. Just like tariffs, untaxed tips are an invitation to fraud. With tariffs, it’s fraud against the government (all of us) when importers buy off inspectors and underpay customs duties. With tips, it’s your bosses defrauding you personally. Tip-skimming. Violating the rules of the tip-credit (not topping you off, as required by law, when your tips don’t bring your $2.13/hour subminimum tipped wage up to the $7.50 normal minimum wage). Putting non-tipped workers in the tipping pool and underpaying them. Tax-free tips are a weak substitute for an end to the $2.13 subminimum hourly wage and a full minimum wage (or more, much more) plus tips. State by state, legislative reforms banning subminimum tipped wages have decreased poverty and harassment wherever they pass.

How dare Congress create a situation like this, where people are hiding their money from government! This never happened before…oh, wait, they’ve always attempted to hide tips from government. A lot harder to do when it is mostly not cash anymore, right? Forbes is really trying to dig in and manufacture a crime against Government due to Trump Derangement Syndrome. Democrats are not happy about this no tax on tips, because they want to tax everything.

What about workers?

(WTKR) Congress has passed President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which includes a tax break on tips. Outer Banks restaurants weighed in on what it will mean for their workers.

“I’ll be able to do a little bit more with my money. I might stash a little bit more away for having to pay for college or groceries, and just like helping out around with my parents and whatnot,” said Owen Reibel, a server at Dirty Dick’s Crab House in Nags Head.

I love that restaurant, always go there when I am in Nags Head.

Dirty Dick’s Crab House general manager Rob Barker shared his thoughts on it.

“The first thing that pops in my mind is the average mom who is a waitress who now is going to have a little bit more money in her pocket,” said Barker.

Barker and Hurricane Mo’s, owner and general manager, Arthur Richer, feels it will be a boost for their employees.

“It means a lot to my employees, clearly. I care a lot about them. So, I mean, if they’re happier, I’m happier,” said Richer.

Obviously, this is all a bad thing, right, Democrats?

(Fox5Vegas) It’s now up to agencies like the Internal Revenue Service to practically implement the bill language, according to Certified Public Accountant Kim Walker.

“I feel that it is a game changer for the average tip earner. Our average citizens who are tip earners are pretty much going to be under that $25,000 limit for the year. A large percentage of their taxable income now overnight becomes non-taxable. Especially for single mothers or families with some children, that difference could be really a benefit for them,” Walker said.

The limit on no tax is up to $25000 in tip earnings. Sounds like a good deal. Not to Democrats. They’re crazy.

Is opposing and demonizing not tax on tips really the hill you want to die on Democrats?

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Weird: Heatwaves Aren’t Causing People To Take Climate (scam) Action

By William Teach July 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s almost like people realize that heatwaves happen and they’re not willing to give up their money and freedom over a small increase in global temperatures

‘A war of the truth’: Europe’s heatwaves are failing to spur support for climate action

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

It’s just too much, isn’t it?” says Julie, a retiree in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, about the 42C (107.6F) heat that her brother had seen scorch Spain last week. The former local government worker has felt summers get hotter over her lifetime and says she “couldn’t stand” such high heat herself.

But like many who experienced Europe’s first heatwave of the summer, Julie does not sound overly alarmed. She worries about climate breakdown for young people, but is not concerned about herself. She thinks more climate action would be nice, but does not know what can be done about it. She does not have much faith in the government.

“It’s like everything else,” she says. “I think it’s all too little, too late.”

In other words, she can talk the talk, but, she’s not particularly interested in walking the walk.

Governments across the rich world continue to roll back policies to stop the planet from heating, while far-right parties that deny climate science lash out at environment rules even as disasters unfold. Their voters, while rarely climate deniers themselves, seem to tolerate their energetic attacks on environmental policy, if not support them.

Walk. Talk. Action in your own lives, rather than forcing others to comply.

Polls taken over the second-last weekend of June show most people in the UK found the previous week of weather too hot, are worried it will get hotter, and hold the climate crisis at least partly responsible. But the nonprofit also found the share of people concerned about climate change has fallen over the past year, dipping from 68% to 60%. Support for the UK’s target to hit net zero emissions by 2050 fell even further, plunging from 62% to 46%.

“The issue is really that there are so many other concerns now,” said Hodgson, citing the organisation’s data tracking the top issues that people face each week. “Three years ago you’d have the cost of living first, then the National Health Service, and then immigration and climate – those two would compete for third place. Now, when we do those polls, climate is near the bottom of the list.”

It usually is, when real world concerns come into play. And people are waking up to what this whole Net Zero scam will do, when they can actually see it in practice, via higher energy costs for less reliable energy. The government telling them what they can eat and what they can do. Taxing them. And so much more. It’s not theory, it’s actually in practice. And they do not like it.

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Crazy Liberal Judge Says Trump Can’t Deport Illegals After Supreme Court Said He Could

By William Teach July 5, 2025 – 6:45 am

At what point do this judges start getting impeached?

Judge backs Trump admin’s deportation push for 8 illegal migrants after another judge blocks it

Eight migrants were denied a request by a Massachusetts federal judge on Friday to have their deportation to South Sudan halted.

Justice Department lawyers said the men were scheduled to be flown to South Sudan on Friday at 7:00 pm ET after two courts considered their emergency request on July 4, a day when courts would otherwise be closed, Reuters reported.

The migrants, who are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Burma, Sudan and Vietnam, filed new claims on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court clarified that Boston federal Judge Brian Murphy couldn’t require the Department of Homeland Security to hold them.

Also on Friday, federal Judge Randolph Moss in Washington paused the Trump administration’s efforts to deport the eight migrants to South Sudan, the latest case testing the legality of the Trump administration’s push to ship illegal immigrants to third countries.

Moss had briefly halted the deportation after lawyers for the migrants filed the new claims in his court and sent the case to Boston, where Murphy denied the claim.

The eight men argued their deportations to South Sudan would violate the Constitution, which prohibits “cruel and unusual” punishment, Reuters reported. They have been convicted of various crimes, with four of them convicted of murder, the Department of Homeland Security has said.

I’m actually surprised that Mass. judge allowed them to be deported (Brian Murphy, the federal judge in Boston whose rulings led to the initial halt of the administration’s effort to begin deportations to the eastern African country), but, look at Moss: SCOTUS said the Trump admin could send him, and this pipsqueak judge thinks he can overrule the supreme court of the land. Murphy got the idea, plus kicking it from D.C. to Boston on July 4th was a shady attempt to gum up the works, something our federal judges should be above.

Of course, these illegals could avoid going to the shithole of South Sudan if they chose a place to go to and left. It’s really that easy.

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Causing More Home Runs

By William Teach July 4, 2025 – 4:04 pm

There’s nothing more American than mom, apple pie, and baseball, right? So, of course the climate cult has to dig its skeezy, cult fingers into America’s pastime

Climate change is causing more home runs. Here’s why

climate cowWhile most impacts of climate change tend to be negative, here’s one that most would agree is not. In fact it may be exciting!

According to a recent study, Major League Baseball now sees more homeruns than it used to because of a warmer, more humid climate. And as the climate continues to warm, home runs in outside parks will continue to spike.

Baseball season has warmed by a few degrees all across the US due to climate change. The Tampa Bay Area baseball season has warmed by 3 degrees. Moisture in the air has also increased – a feedback of a warmer climate.

As a result a study found we now see around 60 more home runs than we used to a couple of decades ago. That’s because warmer – more humid air is less dense, which creates less drag, and allows the ball to travel farther.

The world has warmed around 1.6F since 1850. Tampa Bay is certainly seeing more of the Urban Heat Island effect and land use to cause it to be warmer than the surround areas. Even so, that’s just proof of localized warming during a typical Holocene warm period, it fails to prove anthropogenic causation for the globe.

For every 10 degree increase in temperature, the ball can travel 3 feet further. The climate has warmed by a little over 3 degrees, so that means the balls are now traveling ~1 ft further than back in the 1970s and that does not include the extra moisture, which adds more.

But, um, couldn’t it be mostly due to bigger, stronger players with better conditioning using better training and bats in the same size parks? Because some of these guys have been crushing it.

In the future, as we continue to warm the Earth, it is estimated we will see hundreds more homeruns per season in the MLB by the 2nd half of the century. This applies – of course – to outside stadiums.

Still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation. But, this is a cult, they have to scaremonger everything

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 4, 2025 – 1:44 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled watercraft, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on irreconcilable differences.

Doubleshot, because it’s Independence Day, The Other McCain has declarations and independence.

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Bummer: BBB Set To Mess With Climate Cults Justice Drive

By William Teach July 4, 2025 – 7:45 am

I guess this really isn’t about “fixing” the climate

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive

In the end, President Donald Trump’s giant tax and spending plan rocketed past both fiscal hawks and social moderates in the House with no changes on Thursday.

The $4 trillion One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now ready to reach across the U.S. economy, slicing into every aspect of the national effort to address climate change and environmental injustice.

The 887-page legislation largely erases the landmark investment in cleaner energy, jobs and communities that a Democratic-led Congress made only three years ago in the Inflation Reduction Act.

It stomps out incentives for purchasing electric vehicles and efficient appliances. It phases out tax credits for wind and solar energy. It opens up federal land and water for oil and gas drilling and increases its profitability, while creating new federal support for coal. It ends the historic investment in poor and minority communities that bear a disproportionate pollution burden—money that the Trump administration was already refusing to spend. It wipes out any spending on greening the federal government.

Certainly, the BBB isn’t the most fiscally responsible bill, but, I’m loving what I am reading about killing off the federal government climate scam crap.

The bill also rescinds the Inflation Reduction Act’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program, which provided grants for community-based initiatives in disadvantaged communities.

That was all a scam for liberal authoritarianism. Glad it’s going away. Now, if Warmist states want to do things in their own states, have at it. If Warmists want to practice what they preach, and spend their own money, have at it.

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Happy Independence Day!

By William Teach July 4, 2025 – 7:34 am

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

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NY Times: Oh, Hey, Remember When We Said There Were No TDA Members In Colorado? Our Bad!

By William Teach July 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

Remember this from the NY Times because they, and the rest of the Credentialed Media, say the opposite of Orange Man Bad? (via Hot Air)

How the False Story of a Gang ‘Takeover’ in Colorado Reached Trump

surprise surprise surpriseMike Coffman, the conservative Republican mayor of Aurora, Colo., said he was at home on Tuesday night watching the presidential debate and bracing for the worst.

And then there it was again, before tens of millions of viewers: former President Donald J. Trump, describing Mr. Coffman’s Aurora, a sprawling suburb just east of Denver, as a city under siege, terrorized by migrants.

“They’re taking over buildings,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re going in violently.”

Mr. Coffman was contrite on Thursday as he told that story. After all, he had helped create the tall tale now sullying his city’s reputation.

So, basically, a long, long article from September 2024 about how it was all a Trump lie. There weren’t any Tren de Aragua gang members. Oh, about that, 10 months late, with Let’s Go Brandon gone

Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated.” 

(recitation of what happened originally)

Jurinsky and other Republicans pointed to the Romeros’ video as evidence that large numbers of Tren de Aragua members had come with the influx of migrants. Democratic politicians suggested they were crying wolf: “There is no gang takeover in any part of Aurora,” Representative Jason Crow, of Colorado, posted on X. A representative for Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, said that the “purported invasion is largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination,” condemning what he called “recent misinformation campaigns.” The Aurora Police Department did not say whether it had verified the authenticity of the video or if arrests had been made in connection with the shooting.

So, Democrats like the people at the NY Times who denied it? It’s an incredibly long piece, which they try and make complicated.

By that point, the department had suspected for many months that there might be Tren de Aragua members in the Denver area. According to The Denver Gazette, police officers concerned about recent shootings exchanged emails seeking information about the gang as early as September 2023. John Fabbricatore, a former ICE field-office director in Denver who was then running for Congress, publicly condemned what he saw as Morris’s failure to address Tren de Aragua. But in conversation he suggested to me, in her defense, that her predecessor, Art Acevedo, had also sat on the information, wanting to avoid alarms on the eve of his departure. “I believe that he left Heather with a bag of trash,” Fabbricatore said. (Acevedo called that characterization “ridiculous.” “Our department was understaffed,” he said, “but we started working on it right away.”)

So, basically, they all knew back a year before Orange Man Bad said anything that TDA was present in the greater Denver area. And all those trying to deny it to protect Biden and illegal aliens/migrants were lying. And the news media wonders why there is so little trust in them.

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Time Is Super Excited To Explain How You Driving A Fossil Fueled Vehicle Has Changed July 4th

By William Teach July 3, 2025 – 3:20 pm

Things were vastly different in 1776, and, no one should be shocked that the cult is trotting this out, right? It’s not news, it’s doomsday cult fearmongering

How Has The Climate Changed Since America’s First 4th of July?

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day to do their work. It was a Thursday, and the temperature at 6:00 a.m. was 68°F, going up to a warmish but still pleasant 76°F at 1:00 p.m., according to daily records kept by Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson.

The planetary metabolism at the time was set more for such balmy days than it was for the increasingly suffocating summers we experience in the 21st century. It was in 1867 that scientists would first define the epoch that includes the late 1700s as the Holocene—a period that began 11,700 years ago and is still ongoing. The Holocene was originally temperate, with atmospheric carbon levels measuring about 280 parts per million (ppm)—enough to keep the Earth warm but not stifling. About a billion acres of North America—or 46% of the continent—were covered in carbon-absorbing trees, further helping to regulate the climate. If anything, the planet was calibrated for cold. The first Independence Day occurred during the period known as the Little Ice Age, which ran from 1300 to 1850 and saw temperatures in North America falling 1°C to 2°C (1.8° F to 3.6°F) below thousand-year averages.

Hmm, so, Time mentions that it was a Holocene cool period, and what comes after cool periods? Warm periods. This has happened all throughout Earth’s history, including the last 8,000 year

“It was quite a bit colder [than average] in the 17th century,” says Kyle Harper, professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma and a faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. “The 18th century is a little less extreme, but it’s still part of the Little Ice Age. The 19th century starts to get even colder for a little bit. And then, of course, it turns around.”

That turnaround—a wholesale reshaping of our world’s climate—has been attributable in large measure to humans, and it’s what makes today’s Independence Day so different from the one 249 years ago.

Of course it was, in cult world. I guess we could go down the road of “what caused previous Holocene warm periods”, but, you already know this, and the cult will never listen to reason. Or give up their own use of fossil fuels.

Nearly 250 years ago, a small group of men on a little patch of that planet raised the flag of a new country. Today, that country—and the 194 others around the globe—face an existential peril the American colonists could not have foreseen.

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