Tips have always been taxed. She did not cast a vote to legislate taxing tips.
Sweet no sequitur rant though.
There’s nothing non-sequitur about my rant. Fact checks like that are part of an easily-observable pattern of deception that is a core feature of the modern Democrat party from the federal to local level.
That’s why they don’t participate in anything resembling a conversation, whether it’s the Democrat candidate for president or your local councilman or school committee member. These insane ideas cannot hold up to even basic scrutiny, so everything and I mean EVERYTHING has to be scripted. My local democrats can’t give a straight answer to anything, whether it is in person or online. They are still forced to tolerate public comment at meetings and online, but they are hard at work at eliminating those opportunities to be heard as well through rule changes and embracing political censorship whenever possible.
Meanwhile, President Trump can have a 2 hour long unscripted conversation about public policy and do it in front of the world, like he has for his whole life. He just did it a few days ago with Elon Musk.
You will never, ever see a Democrat do the same in 2024.
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Me too. He swears he isn’t though.
But the original claim was not that she cast a vote to legislate tips. Rather, it was that she “voted in 2022 to pass legislation that allowed the IRS to track down workers’ tips so that they could be taxed.”
The fact check is the non-sequitur. It subtly changes the goalposts to disprove something that wasn’t claimed. As @twojarslave said, this type of fact-checking is an observable pattern. Right wing claims will be labeled false based on strawman arguments, subjective distinctions, or, my personal favorite, “lacking context.” “Lacking context” is simply code for technically true but the fact checkers would like to talk about something else as the truth is inconvenient. The “fact checking” standards are not objectively applied and show huge bias.
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The implication is that she voted for and passed a new regulation. That is a false implication. And it leads stupid people to believe a falsehood. Too many stupid people in this country.
The non sequitur is bringing drugs and voter fraud in small town maine into the conversation out of the blue.
I think the implication is that she believes that tips should be taxed because she supported a system to make sure that they would be. You may disagree, but either way “the implication” is not something that can be objectively fact checked.
Again, it isn’t a non-sequitur to point out the pattern of deception that extends from Washington to wherever one might happen to live. It pervades the entire party and the local issues I speak of are at the core of the Democrats’ policies.
These fact checks have been happening for years now, taking on all kinds of silly forms. It reminds me of the poor spelling and incoherent mush-words found in phishing and telemarketer scams. They, like “fact checks”, seem designed to appeal to people with low intelligence, poor reading comprehension and vulnerability to deception and manipulation. These sort of filters are very good at weeding out anyone with critical thinking skills, leaving only those ready for manipulation as targets. It seems like it could be a real time-saver.
Illegal immigrants being empowered to vote like they are in my town is EXACTLY what the Democrats want at all levels, they just don’t always come out and say it in those terms. Most aren’t ready to say that they don’t like the concept of US citizenship, nor are they prepared to actually hold a conversation or a debate about it.
Instead they play little word games designed to appeal to low-intelligence people who find them convincing. These ridiculous mental gymnastics often take the form of fact checks like the one you posted. Sometimes they take the form of a local city councilor explaining, with a straight face, that the Church of Safe Injection isn’t a safe injection site at all or that the untraceable affidavit you have to sign a few minutes before you can vote in our elections is “secure” and qualifies as “voter identification”.
Some people eat that stuff right up.
Tips were first taxed in 1982, after the Tax Equity and Financial Responsibility Act was passed. At the time, TERFA was the largest peace time tax increase in US History.
Madonna released Like a Virgin in November, 1984.
Based on these dates, I believe Reservoir Dogs takes place in mid 1985.
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Double talk and other forms of fuckery are absolutely relevant in a thread about Joe Biden & Co.
The right winger dudes are spreading the narrative that Kamala is a lush and is drunk half the time, hence the way she sounds, talks, and acts except when in front of a teleprompter.
Crazy as that sounds, it would at least explain her behavior…LOL.
My one over-riding thought wrt KamalalalaDingDong is -how can anyone act, and sound, so effin’ stupid.
Benzos. All the happy and stupid of booze, without the cumbersome clanking of bottles and stench of a high BAC. 
That sounds spot on actually.
Would explain her cackling, which reeks (pun intended) of someone ridden with anxiety (due to stupidity, knowledge of being an imposter, etc.) relieving stress.
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If there’s one thing I know, its drugs and how to abuse them. 
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And I appreciate the knowledge LOL.
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What planet have you been living on?
A mediocre, middling one.
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In a world of marginally stupid, being exceptionally stupid is still exceptional.
So she has that going for her.
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You’re being generous.
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Nicole Shanahan said it out loud -Harris/Walz no bueno:
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/20/rfk-jr-nicole-shanahan-2024
“we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency because we draw votes from Trump”
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Yesterday I saw a Harris/Walz sticker on a car. I guess it wasn’t all a nightmare.