She/They, 29 Hey there! I reblog stuff I like, stuff I want to remember, stuff that makes me happy, just...stuff. Please enjoy! Majority will be Star Wars of course. Also, I am a bit of a writer. Hope you enjoy your time here!
Can anybody give these old-ass Democrats protest lessons? They’re acting like they’re still living in pre-2015 politics when the GOP gave a shit and wasn’t deranged.
A member gets up and starts shouting: All get up and shout with him.
Don’t walk out: MAKE them carry you all out, not shutting up the entire time. I’m serious, go limp, be dead weight.
Putin’s Puppet says a provable lie: Everyone chant “LIE” in unison for a solid minute instead of holding pitiful little signs in front of a man who can’t read above a 3rd grade level.
Have someone who knows ASL sitting with you, interpreting everything in full view.
If you’re gonna hold signs, make them BIG like you’re actually trying to do something. Have them in multiple languages.
Make other signs that say clever or cutting things that will make him rage for days. “DOESN’T OLD TRUMP LOOK TIRED?” or “PUPPET PRESIDENT” or “EVERYONE IS FACT-CHECKING THIS SPEECH TRUMP DIDN’T WRITE” or “THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES” or his current tanking approval rating next to a laughing emoji.
Make a stink every day in congress, throw as many bills as you can on the floor even if they go nowhere, look like you’re trying.
Have someone, idk maybe someone you actually want to boost for President in 3 gd years, be your voice of opposition in the media, loudly complaining and telling the facts, every single day. Let the people know you’re there!
How hard is this? There’s probably better suggestions than mine if they actually hired seasoned protestors or behaviorists/psychologists or even the biggest teenage troll they can find on a messageboard.
The Emperor Has No Clothes. So fucking act like it.
Under the “has cleared its orbital neighborhood” and “fuses hydrogen into helium” definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.
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“Earth has fused hydrogen into helium (cuz we have) and so it’s now a star” is a hilarious addition to this
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don’t get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don’t get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
‘This won’t work, this isn’t widespread, nobody knows, we’re in a bubble, blah blah blah’ my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.
The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS’s Free Tax Filing system.
Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn’t have that.
President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he had dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program—suggesting that he effectively fired the staff who worked on the popular program.
The billionaire revealed that he “deleted” the group of individuals who oversaw the system that allows Americans to easily file their taxes for free on the IRS website. The IRS-run free and simplified tax filing option had 76% approval from registered voters based on a 2023 poll by Navigator. […]
If you have the time to burn, and a bit of financial cushion -
File your taxes by hand. Fill out the forms with a pen. Overpay by about $50. (You will eventually get that back. It is likely to take several months.)
It will take longer to get any refund you’re due. But I promise you the entire federal bureaucracy has been cutting as many corners as they can for as many years as they can, and the current set is going to cut even more corners, and…
they don’t have the staff on hand to process a huge number of paper claims anymore. They expect everything that came in digitally last year, to continue to be filed digitally. And they expect more digital filings every year. They’ve planned for that. They’ve staffed for that.
One of the only acts of protest we have available is “comply, but slowly.”
File on paper if you can.
If you have the software to file digitally because doing the math & forms is such a nightmare for you?
If you’re up for it: Print the final form, and then fill out a new blank form by hand. With your lousy handwriting. Send it in the post, by mail.
Does that stop them? No, but every bit of sand we can throw in the gears slows them down and pulls resources away from the other horrific rights violations they’re trying to codify into law.
You likely still do not have to pay an accountant even if the IRS’s Direct File service goes down because Free File will still work.
While Direct File is an IRS-hosted program, there is also Free File, which is government-subsidized and hosted by third parties:
You need to use THESE SPECIFIC LINKS in order to access the Free File programs, fyi - they are hosted by tax preparers who also often order paid services which may have deceptive names like “TurboTax Free” that make them sound like they don’t cost anything, so be sure to only use the IRS links. Don’t just Google them, you will not find what you’re looking for.
It is not possible for Elon Musk to access these programs directly because they are not hosted on government servers. You are eligible for Free File for your federal taxes if you make less than $84k, as well as for your state taxes if you make less than $48k, as well as some other situations such as if you are active-duty military or if you live in certain states (for your state return).
If you want to throw sand into the works and file these as paper forms instead of e-filing, you absolutely can do that by printing them out after completing the program, but PLEASE do not pay a tax preparer if you are eligible for Free File!!! It’s a ripoff!!!!!!!!
Direct File is a great program that saves the government money (they do not have to pay third parties if they keep the program in-house) and helps protect taxpayer data security, but you DO NOT need to pay an accountant or risk filling out your return incorrectly just because it goes down.
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