Arguing with Idiots, Part 2

Then we moved on to landlords. The left claims that, if landlords were prohibited, they would have to sell their homes, and housing prices would fall. Therefore, eliminate landlords, and everyone can afford a house.

My reply? OK, that’s the first year. What happens next year when no homes are built because prices are too low to make it profitable to build? This is no different than the “tax all billionaires out of existence, give their money away, and we can all be rich.”

If you taxed every billionaire, just confiscated 100% of their wealth over $1 billion, here is the math:

~900 billionaires, who have a combined net worth of about $8.2 trillion. So we take everything over $999 million. That’s about $7.3 trillion we can distribute. Each person in the US would now get $20,000 plus or minus.

Only now all of those companies are gone- Domino Sugar, Tesla, Facebook, Amazon, Meta, WalMart, Nike, M&M Mars, Hershey Co., Redbull, Keurig, ChikFilA, Subway, Tyson Foods, Archer Daniels Midway, thousands of companies. Essentially all of the large and mid cap businesses will be wiped out. All out of business because they needed to be liquidated to pay for the confiscation.

In all, about 60 million people just lost their jobs as billionaires liquidated to settle their tax bills.

Now what do you do next year?

Taxing billionaires, destroying landlords, killing your economic engine is the equivalent to eating all of your egg laying chickens, making flour out of your seed corn. Sure you eat well today, but your tomorrows will be lean and hungry.

Your leftist is a child-like moron with little concept of economics or money. To them, someone with money is someone to be robbed without regard for what disruptions the robbery will actually cause.

Tiring

One of the leftist claims going around sounds like this:

Buying and selling is NOT capitalism. That’s trade. Capitalism is an employee generating $1,000 of value an hour but being paid $16.

I reply that an employee selling $1000 of merchandise isn’t the same thing as generating revenue.

An employee doesn’t generate $1000 of value in an hour. Let’s say that employee works at an Apple store. That employee is the clerk who sells a $1000 phone. Did that employee generate $1000 in value? No.

That phone had value when it came into the store. The store had overhead and value.

The owner of that store provided the phone, the store, its operating expenses, the taxes, and the insurance. I point this out, and get this in return:

Awwww did someone never take a business or finance class? Is it hard being so stupid?

It just gets so tedious. Aren’t we at the stage yet where we can toss commies out of helicopters?

Projection

Antigun democrat former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who called gun rights activists extremists after they handed out standard capacity magazines at the Virginia State Capitol Building, has killed his wife and himself with a gun in front of their teenage children.

He pushed for “red flag laws” and a ban on “high capacity magazines.”

Leftists aren’t against guns. They are against guns for everyone but them. They fear gun violence because that is what they will do with them- it’s projection.

Do You See Where This is Headed?

They are “othering” the right so they can justify what they are about to do. Look, my wife and I made a quarter million last year. They already took more than a quarter of what I made through taxes, and that isn’t enough. It’s coming, and things are going to get ugly as hell.

I’ve been warning my readers for 6 years that this is a communist takeover in the making. I’ve been telling you to prep. They are coming. Trump was only a speedbump.

Violence

The left is turning up the heat because it’s an election year, because of course they are.

This is what they are using to justify committing violent acts. They want you to submit or die.

Washington

The Washington state legislature just passed a law making it a felony to possess digital files that can be used to make any part on a CNC or a 3d machine that could potentially be used as a part of a firearm.

Not only impossible to make work in any practical or Constitutional sense, it opens a huge can of worms.

That’s Some Soviet Shit

Remember when the left got their panties in a bunch when Florida prohibited teaching about gay sex? Papers were written, and the left’s chorus were all claiming it was a First Amendment violation. (pdf warning- not hosted here)

Proving once again that, if it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all, Virginia has passed a law that defies belief. It is now a crime in Virginia for a school to “state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.” 

Not only that, but the same law says that school instruction must “Describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

Not only is this law egregious, but CBS’ reporting of it is as bad. The reporting here would have made Goebbels or Zhdanov proud. First lie is in the headline:

Virginia passes legislation prohibiting schools from teaching falsehoods about Jan. 6 riot

Read the money quote:

The White House posted a series of lies about Jan. 6 on an official federal government web page on Jan. 6, 2026, including a bogus claim that police bore responsibility for the attack.

So is telling teachers to teach only one side of a story propaganda, or not? A First Amendment issue, or not? Wouldn’t it be better in a politically charged case like this one, to present both sides and let students decide for themselves? Are we teaching students how to think, or what to think?

  • “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
  • “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
  • “All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. I don’t think this matters so long as one knows what one is doing, and why.”

Who Said That?

“The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.”

The next liberal who complains about the Iran conflict, ask them if the above quote is an accurate description of Presidential powers. If it isn’t, what should happen to the President making this claim?

Then point out that the above quote was from Obama.

Experts

The left are experts on everything. Now they hit every wrong answer on use of force in the comments here:

  • Just shoot to wound
  • shoot/use club to knock knife out of hand
  • only shoot once, all he has is a knife
  • he is too far away to hurt anyone
  • he is outnumbered and the cops have body armor. The cops should Taser or tackle him

That’s as far as I could get before spraining my eye from rolling it so hard. This is a group of people who have never tried to deescalate a crazy or intoxicated person. This is why women and maggots shouldn’t be able to vote- they don’t reason, they emote.