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Wednesday, February 20, 2019 9:50 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Smaller tax refunds put GOP on defensive

The Trump administration and key GOP lawmakers are playing defense after early data showed Americans are getting smaller tax refunds in the first filing season under the GOP tax law.

The average refund size through Feb. 8 was 8.7 percent smaller than the same period last year, according to IRS figures. Democrats have seized on the numbers, arguing they prove that the 2017 tax-code overhaul by Republicans was a "scam" designed to help the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/smaller-tax-refunds-put-gop-on
-defensive/ar-BBTLUKe?li=BBnb7Kz


Told ya

T





We've already talked about this.

These people had less taken out of their paychecks based off of information provided in their W4's because the process has been streamlined.

I'll only argue that it was a dumb move on the part of the Trump Administration to fix this because people are so fucking stupid they just don't get it. The Liberal MSM knows that they're fucking stupid so they can run this story and make stupid people angry about it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:49 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

We've already talked about this.

These people had less taken out of their paychecks based off of information provided in their W4's because the process has been streamlined.

I'll only argue that it was a dumb move on the part of the Trump Administration to fix this because people are so fucking stupid they just don't get it. The Liberal MSM knows that they're fucking stupid so they can run this story and make stupid people angry about it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:

www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-toda
y-compares-with-prior-generations
/


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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THG
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:53 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:

Any one of these stories would have dominated the news — for days and weeks — in any other administration. But in our current era, it was just Tuesday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/ethically-challenged-t
hree-different-scandals-rock-trump-administration-one-day-n973461?cid=public-rss_20190220
]



So true reaver, so true.

T


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Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:46 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:




That's kind of an unfair comparison.

You could probably count on your fingers and toes how many households in the country are run by somebody who is between 25 and 37 in 2019.


Not really getting your point here though. Are you saying that Millennials as a whole are more stupid than Gen X'ers?

Or are you confusing "higher" education with intelligence again?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, February 23, 2019 2:20 AM (P)


DONALD TRUMP 'THINKS HE’S IN GERMANY EIGHTY YEARS AGO,' SAYS FORMER WHITE HOUSE ETHICS LAWYER
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-thinks-hes-germany-eighty-years-
ago-says-former-white-house-1340110


"A newspaper is the “enemy of the people”?," Painter asked in his retweet. "What does he want, a propaganda ministry? He’s nuts. He thinks he’s in Germany eighty years ago.
Amendment 25."

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Saturday, February 23, 2019 7:38 AM (P)

I don't believe that Mr. Painter is at all qualified to be giving mental health diagnoses.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, February 24, 2019 12:45 AM (P)

Trump already has a propaganda ministry. The Russian trolls post their crap here all the time.

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Sunday, February 24, 2019 1:42 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:




That's kind of an unfair comparison.

You could probably count on your fingers and toes how many households in the country are run by somebody who is between 25 and 37 in 2019.

In 2018, only 15% of Millennials (ages 25 to 37) were living in their parents’ home. What universe are you living in, 6ixStringJack, that you only know a handful of people "between 25 and 37" who are not running their own household? In Texas, men are expected to act like adults before they are 25 years old, and certainly before 37, and that includes starting your own household. Is it different in your state? Do you know a lot of people who are poorly educated and aren't paid well? There is a very strong connection between low education and low pay. It might be a law of nature that even Trump cannot veto, no matter how much Trump voters desire to be highly paid, yet think and act and live like ignoramuses.
www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-toda
y-compares-with-prior-generations
/

(And for Trump voters out there, if you think Trump can, or ever wanted to, fix your money problems, you aren't just ignorant, you are stupid. Your employer knows that about you and will adjust your income downward.)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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THG
Monday, February 25, 2019 11:56 PM (P)

More than 50 ex-national security officials tell Trump his national emergency is not justified. In a letter, the former officials said redirecting funds to build the border wall could hurt national security by pulling resources from programs that keep the U.S. safe.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/more-50-ex-national
-security-officials-tell-trump-national-emergency-n975701


T

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 5:23 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:




That's kind of an unfair comparison.

You could probably count on your fingers and toes how many households in the country are run by somebody who is between 25 and 37 in 2019.

In 2018, only 15% of Millennials (ages 25 to 37) were living in their parents’ home. What universe are you living in, 6ixStringJack, that you only know a handful of people "between 25 and 37" who are not running their own household? In Texas, men are expected to act like adults before they are 25 years old, and certainly before 37, and that includes starting your own household. Is it different in your state? Do you know a lot of people who are poorly educated and aren't paid well? There is a very strong connection between low education and low pay. It might be a law of nature that even Trump cannot veto, no matter how much Trump voters desire to be highly paid, yet think and act and live like ignoramuses.
www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-toda
y-compares-with-prior-generations
/

(And for Trump voters out there, if you think Trump can, or ever wanted to, fix your money problems, you aren't just ignorant, you are stupid. Your employer knows that about you and will adjust your income downward.)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



I bought my house with cash when I was 32.

I'm not a millennial.

Care to try again.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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THG
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:24 PM (P)

Donors to the Trump Inaugural Committee Got Ambassador Nominations. But Are They Qualified?

At least 14 people without diplomatic experience who made major donations to President Donald Trump's inaugural fund were later nominated to become ambassadors to foreign countries,

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Trump-Inaugural-Committee-
Donors-Ambassador-Nominations-508048051.html


T

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:52 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


I bought my house with cash when I was 32.

I'm not a millennial.

Care to try again.


Anecdotal.

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THG
Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:45 PM (P)

Can you say Trump is a moron? He threatens to close the border last week. He says over and over again he really means it. Today he says he'll give Mexico one year and if they don't change he'll close it. What a fucking dipstick.

T


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Friday, April 5, 2019 1:21 AM (P)

Does a seven-page memo by a far-right Steve Bannon protégé explain everything about Trump’s dangerous and erratic policies?
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/seven-page-memo-far-right-steve-banno
n-protege-explain-everything-trumps-dangerous-erratic-policies
/

Trump has claimed that there was an attempted coup against his presidency and by extension the United States. His critics in the news media and Congress are to be silenced, blacklisted and sued for libel and slander. Trump has drawn up enemies’ lists. Trump and the right-wing media continue to engage in stochastic terrorism and scripted violence. The Democrats, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are enemies of the people. Clinton and Obama are in fact “traitors” who lead a “deep state” conspiracy against Donald Trump.

This is bad for America, but in many ways good politics for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Public opinion polls and other research show that Trump’s proverbial white working-class supporters and other Republican voters actually believe that they are “oppressed” by liberals, black people and other nonwhites, gays and lesbians, immigrants and Muslims.

For Trump’s political cultists the calculus is simple: They are Trump. Ergo, when Trump is attacked they are also attacked. The personal is political in this most crude and literal example of white identity politics, where Trumpism is not merely a set of political positions but a lifestyle and way of being in the world.

In some ways, Trump and the right-wing movement’s pugilistic attacks are a decades-old strategy.

The “paranoid style” and its belief in victimization and in enemies around every corner and under every bed has been a fixture of American conservatism since the 1950s.

Wrecking the machinery of democratic governance through show trial hearings and a blatant disregard for standing rules and procedure and precedent have been used by conservatives since the era of Joseph McCarthy, and then against the Clinton administration.

White racial resentment and overt racism allowed and encouraged Republicans to amplify their obstruction against Barack Obama.

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THG
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 5:35 AM (P)

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, for the years 1985 to 1994 — represents the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president’s taxes, information he has kept from public view. Though the information does not cover the tax years at the center of an escalating battle between the Trump administration and Congress, it traces the most tumultuous chapter in a long business career — an era of fevered acquisition and spectacular collapse.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trum
p-taxes.html


T

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 5:08 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

Trump is 17% worse than that:

1985-1994 tax data: Trump lost $1.17 Billion

By the time his master-of-the-universe memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” hit bookstores in 1987, Donald Trump was in deep financial distress, losing tens of millions of dollars on troubled business deals.

Trump was propelled to the presidency, in part, by a self-spun narrative of business success and of setbacks triumphantly overcome. But 10 years of tax information obtained by the New York Times paints a bleak picture of his deal-making abilities.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 6:25 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


I bought my house with cash when I was 32.

I'm not a millennial.

Care to try again.


Anecdotal.




LOL. That's a hoot, coming from you Marcos.

Don't you have some dumpsters to set on fire?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 7:35 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:


That's kind of an unfair comparison.

You could probably count on your fingers and toes how many households in the country are run by somebody who is between 25 and 37 in 2019.


Not really getting your point here though. Are you saying that Millennials as a whole are more stupid than Gen X'ers?

Or are you confusing "higher" education with intelligence again?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 7:58 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

JSF, it is not news you are stupid, but we didn't know that Trump lost $1.17 Billion. Yet, he is smarter than you.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 8:03 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

JSF, it is not news you are stupid, but we didn't know that Trump lost $1.17 Billion. Yet, he is smarter than you.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




Are you sure that is the story you want to go with, Second?

Maybe he didn't lose $1.17 Billion and he just made it look that way so he could massively cheat on his taxes?

Think hard before you decide which way you want to spin this story.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9:24 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

JSF, it is not news you are stupid, but we didn't know that Trump lost $1.17 Billion. Yet, he is smarter than you.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




Are you sure that is the story you want to go with, Second?

Maybe he didn't lose $1.17 Billion and he just made it look that way so he could massively cheat on his taxes?

Think hard before you decide which way you want to spin this story.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

To make it plain, I know he is both incompetent at business and a tax cheater. Trump is so full-of-shit:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!
3:56 AM - 8 May 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126078422797602816

Replying to @realDonaldTrump

here we go: President Billion Dollar Loser is going to whine all day about how inheriting 400 million dollars from his father and turning it into a $1.2 BILLION dollar loss is actually an amazing genius accomplishment. cool story, President Billion Dollar Loser, tell it again

He's going to admit tax fraud. Just wait.
37 replies 26 retweets 929 likes


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:27 AM (P)

The Next Plague

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits
/561734
/

Anthony Fauci’s office walls are plastered with certificates, magazine articles, and other mementos from his 34-year career as National Institute of Infectious Diseases director, including photos of him with various presidents. In one picture, he stands in the Oval Office with Bill Clinton and Al Gore, pointing to a photo of HIV latching onto a white blood cell. In another, George W. Bush fastens the Presidential Medal of Freedom around his neck. Fauci has counseled every president from Ronald Reagan through Barack Obama about the problem of epidemics, because each of them has needed that counsel. “This transcends administrations,” he tells me.

And Donald Trump? “I haven’t had any interaction with him yet,” Fauci says. “But in fairness, there hasn’t been a situation.”

There surely will be, though. At some point, a new virus will emerge to test Trump’s mettle. What happens then? He has no background in science or health, and has surrounded himself with little such expertise. The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, a group of leading scientists who consult on policy matters, is dormant. The Office of Science and Technology Policy, which has advised presidents on everything from epidemics to nuclear disasters since 1976, is diminished. The head of that office typically acts as the president’s chief scientific consigliere, but to date no one has been appointed.

Other parts of Trump’s administration that will prove crucial during an epidemic have operated like an Etch A Sketch. During the nine months I spent working on this story, Tom Price resigned as secretary of health and human services after using taxpayer money to fund charter flights (although his replacement, Alex Azar, is arguably better prepared, having dealt with anthrax, flu, and sars during the Bush years). Brenda Fitzgerald stepped down as CDC director after it became known that she had bought stock in tobacco companies; her replacement, Robert Redfield, has a long track record studying HIV, but relatively little public-health experience.

Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, a veteran malaria fighter, was appointed to the National Security Council, in part to oversee the development of the White House’s forthcoming biosecurity strategy. When I met Ziemer at the White House in February, he hadn’t spoken with the president, but said pandemic preparedness was a priority for the administration. He left in May.

Organizing a federal response to an emerging pandemic is harder than one might think. The largely successful U.S. response to Ebola in 2014 benefited from the special appointment of an “Ebola czar” — Ron Klain — to help coordinate the many agencies that face unclear responsibilities. In 2016, when Obama asked for $1.9 billion to fight Zika, Congress devolved into partisan squabbling. Republicans wanted to keep the funds away from clinics that worked with Planned Parenthood . . .

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Thursday, May 9, 2019 6:04 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Nothing new in this thread since 20 February.

JSF, it is not news you are stupid, but we didn't know that Trump lost $1.17 Billion. Yet, he is smarter than you.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-info-show-money-lost-over-a-decade-2
019-5


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




Are you sure that is the story you want to go with, Second?

Maybe he didn't lose $1.17 Billion and he just made it look that way so he could massively cheat on his taxes?

Think hard before you decide which way you want to spin this story.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

To make it plain, I know he is both incompetent at business and a tax cheater. Trump is so full-of-shit:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!
3:56 AM - 8 May 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126078422797602816

Replying to @realDonaldTrump

here we go: President Billion Dollar Loser is going to whine all day about how inheriting 400 million dollars from his father and turning it into a $1.2 BILLION dollar loss is actually an amazing genius accomplishment. cool story, President Billion Dollar Loser, tell it again

He's going to admit tax fraud. Just wait.
37 replies 26 retweets 929 likes


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



lol

Well I figured that would be the case, but I find it pretty funny that Trump would bother posting that online for all the "geniuses" to talk about.

I'm going to go ahead and put a mark in the gaffe column for that post.

Half of Americans ranted and raved about how evil Trump was that the new tax code fixed, at least somewhat, a long standing intentional flaw in income tax withholdings that gave the Government a much larger personal loan from every working American than they should have been giving. None of these idiots realized they were getting more money per paycheck, but boy did they notice that their returns were smaller.

These are the same idiots he's trying to explain basic accounting 101 for rich people too? Probably not among his wisest tweets. I'll admit that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, May 9, 2019 4:36 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

These are the same idiots he's trying to explain basic accounting 101 for rich people too? Probably not among his wisest tweets. I'll admit that.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Trump's $1 billion loss defense debunked by tax expert Richard Pomp. The expert starts about 2 minutes in.

www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/05/08/trump-tax-loss-new-york-times-a
ccountant-crn-vpx.cnn


The expert says that if Trump wants his old stories from the 1990’s about being a real estate genius, rather than an idiot, to be believed, he needs to release his tax returns from those years.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, May 9, 2019 6:06 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:

The expert says that if Trump wants his old stories from the 1990’s about being a real estate genius, rather than an idiot, to be believed, he needs to release his tax returns from those years.



Do you honestly, for a single second, think that Trump gives two shits what you or I or this guy thinks about his old stories from the 90's, or whether or not he's an idiot?

He's already sold 1 million copies of Art of the Deal, whoever actually wrote it and, much to your chagrin, he's president of the United States.

He's under zero obligation under any law to ever have to show them to anybody outside of the IRS. He knows it. You and I know it. I kind of doubt some of the other uneducated chucklefucks here in the RWED actually know it.

You aren't ever going to see his tax returns. Period.

I think it's funny that some people honestly believe they could try to shame him into showing them. I'd advise a different tactic. That's a road to nowhere.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, May 9, 2019 7:54 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:

The expert says that if Trump wants his old stories from the 1990’s about being a real estate genius, rather than an idiot, to be believed, he needs to release his tax returns from those years.



Do you honestly, for a single second, think that Trump gives two shits what you or I or this guy thinks about his old stories from the 90's, or whether or not he's an idiot?

He's already sold 1 million copies of Art of the Deal, whoever actually wrote it and, much to your chagrin, he's president of the United States.

He's under zero obligation under any law to ever have to show them to anybody outside of the IRS. He knows it. You and I know it. I kind of doubt some of the other uneducated chucklefucks here in the RWED actually know it.

You aren't ever going to see his tax returns. Period.

I think it's funny that some people honestly believe they could try to shame him into showing them. I'd advise a different tactic. That's a road to nowhere.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

If Trump doesn't care, that means Trump doesn't learn. This is something you should care about. I saw an example of Trump not learning from experience:

Trump Has Just One Trick — And It’s Not Working Anymore

The president has a single negotiating move: Take an aggressive position, and then retreat when the bluff is called.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/north-korea-resumes-missile-
testing-disregarding-trump/589081
/

Hillary Clinton often warned that Donald Trump would do to the United States what he had done to his businesses. She was thinking of his record of debt, failure, and bankruptcy — about which The New York Times offered grim new details yesterday.

But there is an even more disturbing way that Clinton’s warnings are being fulfilled. North Korea has resumed missile testing, disregarding both Trump’s wooing and his threats of “fire and fury.” It has taken the U.S. president’s measure — and found him weak and empty.

The Times’s story of the tax returns showed how stock markets found Trump weak and empty in the 1980s. Between 1986 and 1989, Trump earned $67.3 million from short-term stock speculation. His method? He would acquire a substantial position in a company, then boast of his takeover intentions. Trump’s words would drive the stock price up. He would then sell at a profit.

The trick worked as long as Trump’s credibility lasted. Which was not long. Then he started losing big and constantly.

Realizing you won't read the article, I'll quote the major blunder Trump made this month:

The big question in a trade dispute is which side can stand more pain. At the same time as Trump has threatened China, he has pleaded with the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. The Chinese have noted the juxtaposition. The Wall Street Journal quoted an analyst at Chinese government-backed think tank: "“Why would you be constantly asking the Fed to lower rates if your economy is not turning weak?”

The world is absorbing the lesson that Wall Street learned in the 1980s. Trump has only one negotiating move: take an aggressive position, try to deceive others and maybe yourself about your own strength, issue threats you cannot fulfill, and then retreat amid losses if the bluff is called.

But whereas once those losses were denominated in the millions, today they rise to the hundreds of billions. Where once he troubled only those investors credulous enough to take seriously his tycoon image, today he troubles the peace of the world.

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Friday, May 10, 2019 6:27 AM (P)

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The expert says that if Trump wants his old stories from the 1990’s about being a real estate genius, rather than an idiot, to be believed, he needs to release his tax returns from those years.



Do you honestly, for a single second, think that Trump gives two shits what you or I or this guy thinks about his old stories from the 90's, or whether or not he's an idiot?

He's already sold 1 million copies of Art of the Deal, whoever actually wrote it and, much to your chagrin, he's president of the United States.

He's under zero obligation under any law to ever have to show them to anybody outside of the IRS. He knows it. You and I know it. I kind of doubt some of the other uneducated chucklefucks here in the RWED actually know it.

You aren't ever going to see his tax returns. Period.

I think it's funny that some people honestly believe they could try to shame him into showing them. I'd advise a different tactic. That's a road to nowhere.

Do Right, Be Right. :)






If Trump doesn't care, that means Trump doesn't learn.



Learn what? I already told you that, at least in his mind, he's already won.

There is zero ROI for him if he were ever to release his taxes to the public. Nada. Zilch.

What could he ever stand to gain by releasing them?

People who were going to always vote for Trump are still going to vote for Trump. People who were never going to vote for Trump are still never going to vote for Trump.

The only two undecideds in this race in 2020 are the undecided voters themselves, and the amount of people on either side who are fed up and just stay home on election day.

After two years of RUSSIA!!! failed, it's back to the old tax thing. Those voters against Trump are licking their wounds and are just tired and depressed right now, clinging on to any potential idea to get Trump out as if it were the last hope in their lives. Everybody else in the middle is just tired of all of it.

Nobody will ever shame Trump into releasing those taxes, and just like it's too late to do anything about the Electoral College until the Democrats inevitably run the entire show again and completely forget about the issue, it's too late to change any laws to force him to comply with any such order in the next 6 years either.

My condolences to AOC.

"We didn't ask you"...



lol



https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-on-trumps-claim-his-taxes-are-under-audit-w
e-didnt-ask-you-234010906.html


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Friday, May 10, 2019 4:53 PM (P)

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Learn what? I already told you that, at least in his mind, he's already won.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Trump hasn’t learned how to bluff an opponent.

He is always backing down first. That is how he lost that $1 billion. He wasn’t in a strong enough position, despite his big mouth saying that he was.

I was trying to recall what Trump wanted, but won’t get done because he doesn't know what he is doing or he is too disorganized or he pisses off Congress just because it feels fun for him:

1) A replacement for Obamacare that is better
2) Build a beautiful, tall Texas/Mexico Wall (remember the government shutdown?)
3) Keep Mexicans from crossing the border (remember the border shutdown?)
4) Deport 24 million Mexicans living in the USA
5) Close Chinese factories and reopen in the USA ('Trade wars are good, and easy to win' www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/trump-trade-wars-are-good-and-easy-to-win.html )
6) Disarm Iran's nukes (he is sending the aircraft carriers to Iran)
7) Disarm N Korea's nukes (remember fire and fury?)
8) Build $2 Trillion worth of new infrastructure (this time he really means it!)
9) Stop the opioid epidemic
10) Balance the federal budget so that the national debt stops increasing

None of it will happen because Trump is a loudmouth who can't, or won’t, run a large organization. Instead of working at his job for 40 hours per week, he spends his days campaigning to be in charge for another four years in a job he couldn't do right even if Congress was 60% Republican and Trump increased his working hours to 55 per week.

Is Trump running in a primary for the nomination of the Republican Party?

I’m pretty sure somebody should tell him he doesn’t need to, but he does need to be at work from 9 to 5 on weekdays, exactly like his White House staff and his Cabinet and all the other paper pushers working for him:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Just landed in Panama City Beach, Florida for a rally beginning at 8:00 P.M. Eastern. Will be live on @FoxNews! #MAGA @tuckercarlson @seanhannity
4:13 PM - 8 May 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126264006988181505

ON A WEDNESDAY, instead of working, Trump is campaigning for the nomination of the GOP because campaigning is more fun than working.

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Friday, May 10, 2019 6:39 PM (P)

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Learn what? I already told you that, at least in his mind, he's already won.

Do Right, Be Right. :)



Trump hasn’t learned how to bluff an opponent.



Okay. Fine. Whatever.

You're having a completely different conversation than we were having before.

You're never going to see his taxes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, May 10, 2019 7:01 PM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Learn what? I already told you that, at least in his mind, he's already won.

Do Right, Be Right. :)



Trump hasn’t learned how to bluff an opponent.



Okay. Fine. Whatever.

You're having a completely different conversation than we were having before.

You're never going to see his taxes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

We are not jumping around and having different, simultaneous conversations. It is always the same talk: Trump is erratic. The guy is the human equivalent of the random walk on Wall Street or Brownian motion. We have a Magic 8-Ball for President who always has the same few simple answers to all complicated questions.
www.ask8ball.net
www.indra.com/cgi-bin/spikes-8-ball

The President's shoot-from-the-lip interventions have made current world dramas worse. Trump often freely admits he doesn't know what's going to happen next with his risky global bets.

Trump just laid another risky global bet -- escalating a trade war with China by imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods in the midst of ongoing trade talks -- and neither he nor anyone else can be sure of what happens next.

The confrontation comes at a time when anxiety is already growing over Trump's stewardship of several other foreign policy crises, including with Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.



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Friday, May 10, 2019 7:07 PM (P)

Well, for two days now, the only conversation I've been having in this thread is surrounding Trump and his tax returns.

I know you're always bouncing all over the place and talking about whatever the hell you want. I'll leave you to it if we're not talking about his tax returns anymore. Enjoy.

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Friday, May 10, 2019 7:11 PM (P)

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Well, for two days now, the only conversation I've been having in this thread is surrounding Trump and his tax returns.

I know you're always bouncing all over the place and talking about whatever the hell you want. I'll leave you to it if we're not talking about his tax returns anymore. Enjoy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Trump has cheated on his taxes. He has used every excuse not to do what every President does, share his tax returns. Every excuse but one: "I don't want to be caught cheating. Is that such a big crime?"

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, May 11, 2019 1:36 AM (P)

For several years, Trump reported larger losses than any other person in the United States. And in 1990 and 1991, Trump’s reported losses were double the losses that anyone else reported to the IRS. It’s certainly possible that Trump and his team of lawyers and accountants were simply a lot more clever than anyone else working in the tax field. But it’s also possible nobody else was claiming losses on this scale because there was no actual legal way to do so, and Trump just happened to get away with it.

The statute of limitations has expired.

Some shrewd people noticed, however, that there is no statute of limitations on judicial ethics investigations and filed a complaint against Trump’s sister Maryanne, who until recently was a federal appeals court judge. This would have launched an investigation of her that could, were she found guilty of wrongdoing, have implicated the president as well. But she cut the investigation short by retiring as soon as court officials announced that they were going to look into the complaint.

The Trump family has thus seemingly avoided legal accountability for the scam simply because this went down almost 30 years ago. But it raises the possibility that Trump is trying to keep his more recent returns hidden for the slightly banal reason that he’s been getting away with cheating on his taxes and doesn’t think his returns can bear public scrutiny.

www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/10/18537282/trump-tax-returns-c
ongress-irs


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Saturday, May 11, 2019 6:38 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well, for two days now, the only conversation I've been having in this thread is surrounding Trump and his tax returns.

I know you're always bouncing all over the place and talking about whatever the hell you want. I'll leave you to it if we're not talking about his tax returns anymore. Enjoy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Trump has cheated on his taxes. He has used every excuse not to do what every President does, share his tax returns. Every excuse but one: "I don't want to be caught cheating. Is that such a big crime?"

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



lol. Prove it.

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Saturday, May 11, 2019 7:14 PM (P)

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lol. Prove it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I can't use Trump's tax returns to prove it, but Trump gave circumstantial evidence that he did cheat:
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/10/18537282/trump-tax-returns-c
ongress-irs


The Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday issued subpoenas to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig for six years of President Trump’s personal and business tax returns.
www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrat-subpoenas-mnuchin-irs-for-trum
ps-tax-returns



The Ways and Means Committee won't be publicizing Trump's return. They are only looking for recent tax evasion. Trump and his sister have been caught cheating in the distant past. Have they recently stopped? No one can tell without the tax returns. Trump ordered the IRS to not release the tax returns. The reason the IRS gave for denying the request is fatuous. Mnuchin said that it lacked a “legitimate legislative purpose.” But that is the Committee's purpose. The Committee is looking for tax evasion so that they can decide for the need to write a law requiring future Presidential Candidates to reveal their tax returns. If Trump didn't evade taxes, there is no need to pass a new law and no need for Trump to keep his returns a secret from the Committee.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Two hours later, I realized that 6ix and Trump voters in general have impractical ideas about "proof" and law enforcement. Here is an extremely garish case where the privacy of a man in a wealthy neighborhood was invaded without "proof", only a tip. I will give you a tip: Trump has cheated on his taxes. It is time to kick down his front door and get the proof.

www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-saenz-arrest-gun-investigation-20
190509-story.html


“This is a big stash,” Ramirez told reporters at the scene. “It’s beyond comprehension that somebody can have so many weapons in a residence like this, in a neighborhood like this.”

Authorities launched the investigation into the cache after they received an anonymous tip about a person manufacturing and selling guns at the Bel-Air home.

The ATF said in a statement that its agents searched the house after discovering Saenz was illegally selling firearms outside the scope of the federal license he possesses. Law enforcement has not specified how any weapon sales were conducted.

Maybe Trump didn't cheat on taxes in the last 6 years. But who knows until you kick down his front door and look for proof? The Ways and Means Committee does have the law on their side against Trump and his secret tax returns kept safe behind a locked door. It is a door the Ways and Means Committee ought to force open. Maybe they will, but Trump will be on the other side, holding the door closed with all his strength like he has something to be ashamed of.

Gun dealers can overlook the correct paperwork and run afoul of the law. Sometimes sensational search warrants with piles of guns often end up without charges. Maybe that is what happened to Trump and his taxes. Maybe not.

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Saturday, May 11, 2019 11:52 PM (P)

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lol. Prove it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I can't use Trump's tax returns to prove it



You are correct.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, May 12, 2019 1:28 AM (P)

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Originally posted:
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lol. Prove it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I can't use Trump's tax returns to prove it

You are correct.

Do Right, Be Right. :)


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Thursday, June 13, 2019 3:16 AM (P)

Art installations blast audio of sobbing, detained children across New York City

It is a pop-up art installation of the most dystopian kind: Small kids curled up underneath foil survival blankets in chain-link cages, with audio of crying detained children wailing through speakers, dropped onto sidewalks throughout New York City.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/art-installations-blast-audio-of-sob
bing-detained-children-across-new-york-city/ar-AACMoUr?ocid=spartandhp


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Thursday, June 13, 2019 6:17 AM (P)

Yeah. Because that's what the already highly agitated people need to be seeing and hearing on their daily commute to work.

What the hashtag should say is #ComingToASanctuaryCityNearYou

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Sunday, July 28, 2019 11:30 PM (P)

Baltimore paper blasts Trump after his attacks on city: ‘Better to have a few rats than to be one’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/baltimore-paper-blasts-trump-a
fter-his-attacks-on-city-better-to-have-a-few-rats-than-to-be-one/ar-AAEYtEL?ocid=spartandhp


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Sunday, July 28, 2019 11:42 PM (P)

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“We would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing. The White House has far more power to affect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land.”


Bullshit. It's not the job of the President to govern Baltimore anymore than it's the President's job to govern Gary, IN.

Baltimore is a shithole. Most Democratic strongholds in the country are shitholes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, July 29, 2019 1:30 AM (P)

Having lived for a few years in Maryland I can tell you that Baltimore is a great city. It is beautiful and historic. The Inner Harbor area is amazing. Sure there are some problem sections of the city, but I've yet to visit any large city in the U.S. that didn't have some of those. I don't think Trump ought to have engaged in a battle over this with Cummings, but then he wouldn't be Trump. Seems to me that he's played right into the race baiters' hands, giving them a lot of material to try to use against him and his supporters. Yanno …. it's enough already.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2019 5:15 PM (P)

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‘No Evidence’ Trump DNI Pick Ratcliffe Prosecuted A Terrorism Case




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Tuesday, July 30, 2019 8:26 PM (P)

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Most Democratic strongholds in the country are shitholes.



If you believe that then you must believe the US in general is a shit hole. Chicago, Columbus, New York City, LA and San Fran... to name a few. Another ridiculous Angry Jack statement.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2019 11:33 PM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Most Democratic strongholds in the country are shitholes.



If you believe that then you must believe the US in general is a shit hole. Chicago, Columbus, New York City, LA and San Fran... to name a few. Another ridiculous Angry Jack statement.



No. Not America in general. Just the Democratic strongholds. Your list is a great start in naming them off.

Sure, it's fine if you're well to do. People who've got the money to spend $75 on the family for a day at the museum aren't likely to notice.

They are the most heavily taxed areas in the country by a longshot, yet at the same time they are the filthiest places with the highest crime rates.

Chicago is a big place. New York is even bigger. Make sure you know what streets your walking down. Especially at night.





I find all of this quite hilarious. Trump has everybody on the left not only defending politicians they shouldn't be defending, but crazy beliefs like there being no problems in urban areas.


Case in point...

Bernie Sanders (2015): Of West Baltimore: "Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation. You would think that you were in a Third World country."

https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-sanders-baltimore-20151207
-story.html


Bernie Sanders (2019): "It's unbelievable. Trump attacks American cities".

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/politics/bernie-sanders-trump-attacks-s
otu-cnntv/index.html





At least some people still have their heads on straight and know what Trump is doing here. Those that don't are going to be shocked that the Democrats get slaughtered in 2020 and have absolutely no idea how it happened.

Quote:

The president is right about Baltimore. Are Democrats really prepared to defend failure?

Baltimore is one of the least livable, most dangerous cities in America. It's not racist to point that out.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/30/trump-baltimore-sun-
rats-elijah-cummings-mayor-bernie-sanders-column/1856666001
/




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Friday, August 2, 2019 3:50 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Most Democratic strongholds in the country are shitholes.



If you believe that then you must believe the US in general is a shit hole. Chicago, Columbus, New York City, LA and San Fran... to name a few. Another ridiculous Angry Jack statement.



Steelmaker that praised Trump tariffs now suing US for relief

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/steelmaker-that-praised-trum
p-tariffs-now-suing-us-for-relief/ar-AAFbuBX?ocid=spartandhp


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Saturday, August 3, 2019 12:11 AM (P)

Appeals court fast tracks Trump border wall funding case

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday is fast tracking a challenge to President Trump's use of military funds for the construction of a border wall.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/appeals-court-fast-tracks-trump-bord
er-wall-funding-case/ar-AAFdOab?ocid=spartandhp


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Saturday, August 3, 2019 12:58 AM (P)

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Appeals court fast tracks Trump border wall funding case

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday is fast tracking a challenge to President Trump's use of military funds for the construction of a border wall.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/appeals-court-fast-tracks-trump-bord
er-wall-funding-case/ar-AAFdOab?ocid=spartandhp


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Great. Then it will get fast tracked to SCOTUS and become the law of the land before the election.

Win.

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Saturday, August 3, 2019 1:29 AM (P)

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Great. Then it will get fast tracked to SCOTUS and become the law of the land before the election.

Win.

Can SCOTUS fast track rule on a promise Trump broke? Trump signs budget bill as experts warn he's on track to add trillions to U.S. debt
USA TODAY Published 1:23 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2019

Donald Trump promised during his campaign that if he won the White House, he would wipe out the national debt in just eight years.

But in his first 2½ years in office, he has gone in the opposite direction.

Trump’s total contribution to the national debt is projected to top $4.1 trillion, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/02/federal-budget-trump-a
dds-4-trillion-national-debt-watchdog-says/1893228001
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Saturday, August 3, 2019 1:31 AM (P)

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Can SCOTUS fast track rule on a promise Trump broke?



Honestly, I'd love if they did.

No more broken promises by political candidates?

Sign me up.

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Saturday, August 3, 2019 6:40 PM (P)

Trump says media is part of vetting his nominees: 'We save a lot of money that way'

President Trump on Friday defended the vetting process at the White House, telling the news media that he allows it to do much of the heavy lifting while simultaneously blaming it for the withdrawal of his nominee to lead intelligence agencies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-media-is-part-of-ve
tting-his-nominees-we-save-a-lot-of-money-that-way/ar-AAFfEL9?ocid=spartandhp


What a complete moron. As are the trolls who've posted here for years complaining about perceived corrupt elected officials behaviors, and who not only continue to act as those Trump isn't the worst of the worst. But try and pass off that he is doing a good job.

It saddens me to admit that our trolls here at firefly fans are the dumbest of the dumb.

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Saturday, August 3, 2019 6:42 PM (P)

John Ratcliffe (R-Loser) Gets the Full Trump Treatment

The resume-padding backbencher raved at Mueller on camera and found himself at the peak of Trump’s regard. But like a gram of pure coke, there are consequences when the fun stops.

The rule holds: Everything Trump touches dies.

From standing on the verge of one of Washington’s most powerful offices to a tweeted shrug of dismissal from the President, Congressman John Ratcliffe (R-Coffeeboy) is the latest, inevitable victim of the career-ending, reputation-shattering career curse that is Donald Trump.

As the two-term Congressman’s flimsy resume hit the light of day, the petty, easily discovered lies and contractions in his record exploded in his face like Trump 20 seconds into a lapdance. Far from being the terrorist-fighting superstar federal prosecutor, Ratcliffe turned out to be a bog-standard U.S. attorney. His sins were little beyond the usual campaign resume fluffing, but it turned out he was about as qualified to be the Director of National Intelligence as Hope Hicks is to pilot the next SpaceX flight into orbit. If Ratcliffe walked off the street to apply for a job at the Office of National Intelligence and told the same lies about his record he told to his constituents, he’d be laughed out of the room.

www.thedailybeast.com/john-ratcliffe-r-loser-get-the-full-trump-treatm
ent


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, August 3, 2019 6:59 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Trump says media is part of vetting his nominees: 'We save a lot of money that way'

President Trump on Friday defended the vetting process at the White House, telling the news media that he allows it to do much of the heavy lifting while simultaneously blaming it for the withdrawal of his nominee to lead intelligence agencies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-media-is-part-of-ve
tting-his-nominees-we-save-a-lot-of-money-that-way/ar-AAFfEL9?ocid=spartandhp


What a complete moron. As are the trolls who've posted here for years complaining about perceived corrupt elected officials behaviors, and who not only continue to act as those Trump isn't the worst of the worst. But try and pass off that he is doing a good job.

It saddens me to admit that our trolls here at firefly fans are the dumbest of the dumb.

T





“We save a lot of money that way.” No they don’t and he wouldn’t give a shit if they did. What a lying sos.

Agree completely T.

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Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:26 PM (P)

The press offers the least coverage to the most predictable things politicians do. Barack Obama didn’t get much coverage for boilerplate comments about tax fairness or how Obamacare was working pretty well. There’s little attention paid to Mitch McConnell’s daily fulminations against regulations and socialism. Perhaps offense and bigotry should be understood as Trump’s baseline — newsworthy, just as the central projects of other leaders are newsworthy, but not worthy of blanket coverage upon every utterance.

Perhaps Trump should only get the coverage he seeks when he acts like the president rather than an internet troll. In this theory, a new health care proposal released by the White House might deserve coverage, but the latest round of insult comedy at a rally gets ignored. Perhaps, to receive the coverage he seeks, Trump should have to normalize himself.

Maybe that strategy would leave more room, too, to cover everyone else in politics, so people could more clearly see and debate possible solutions to actual problems the country faces.

From "The media amplifies Trump. Should it stop?"
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/2/20702029/donald-trump-racism-
squad-tweets-media-2020


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, August 3, 2019 9:36 PM (P)

lol,
lol,
lol,

annnnnnnd.....

lol

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, August 4, 2019 6:39 PM (P)

T

Trump used the oldest, lamest game in the book



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Monday, August 5, 2019 3:51 AM (P)

Trump was pictured kicking back at his New Jersey golf club over the weekend in the midst of mass shooting fallout

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/breakingnews/trump-was-pictured-kicking
-back-at-his-new-jersey-golf-club-over-the-weekend-in-the-midst-of-mass-shooting-fallout/ar-AAFks0X?ocid=spartandhp


T

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Monday, August 5, 2019 5:08 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Trump was pictured kicking back at his New Jersey golf club over the weekend in the midst of mass shooting fallout

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/breakingnews/trump-was-pictured-kicking
-back-at-his-new-jersey-golf-club-over-the-weekend-in-the-midst-of-mass-shooting-fallout/ar-AAFks0X?ocid=spartandhp


T




So what? What were you doing this weekend?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019 4:25 AM (P)

IS 'resurging' in Syria as US pulls troops: watchdog

The jihadists -- who suffered major territorial losses at the hands of Iraqi and Syrian forces backed by a US-led international air campaign -- are exploiting weaknesses in local forces to make gains, the report from the Office of Inspector General said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-resurging-in-syria-as-us-pulls
-troops-watchdog/ar-AAFr0Og?ocid=spartandhp


T

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019 4:46 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
IS 'resurging' in Syria as US pulls troops: watchdog

The jihadists -- who suffered major territorial losses at the hands of Iraqi and Syrian forces backed by a US-led international air campaign -- are exploiting weaknesses in local forces to make gains, the report from the Office of Inspector General said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-resurging-in-syria-as-us-pulls
-troops-watchdog/ar-AAFr0Og?ocid=spartandhp


T




So do you guys want more or less war?

I can't remember what day it is.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, August 9, 2019 4:23 AM (P)

A man assaulted a boy for ‘disrespecting’ the national anthem. His lawyer says Trump told him to do it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-man-assaulted-a-boy-for-disresp
ecting-the-national-anthem-his-lawyer-says-trump-told-him-to-do-it/ar-AAFxjTD?ocid=spartandhp


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Friday, August 9, 2019 5:08 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
A man assaulted a boy for ‘disrespecting’ the national anthem. His lawyer says Trump told him to do it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-man-assaulted-a-boy-for-disresp
ecting-the-national-anthem-his-lawyer-says-trump-told-him-to-do-it/ar-AAFxjTD?ocid=spartandhp


T




David Berkowitz swore his neighbor's dog Harvey told him to kill people.

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Saturday, August 10, 2019 6:39 PM (P)

Trump’s not exactly a 9-to-5 president — especially on Fridays

As he has dozens of times as president, Donald Trump cut out of work a bit early on Friday, walking out of the White House to board Marine One before flying to one of his private company’s resort properties for the weekend.

This Friday, Trump’s departure was a bit earlier than normal. He usually heads out to the helicopter at about 4 p.m. or so, forgoing that final hour of the typical American workweek. Why he has to leave at 4 isn’t clear. He takes a helicopter to catch a plane to New Jersey or Florida, depending on the season. In other words, he’s not tying up rush-hour traffic or anything, so why not just stick around until 5 like the rest of us?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/09/trumps-not-exactly-
to-president-especially-fridays
/

T

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Saturday, August 10, 2019 6:43 PM (P)

T

This is from Aug. of 2017 folks. Two years ago. His trips to the golf course has only increased since this video was posted.

President Trump is heading on a 17-day vacation to Bedminster, N.J. Here are five times he attacked Obama for doing the same. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube:


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Saturday, August 10, 2019 6:50 PM (P)

No. Do not subscribe to the WaPo on YouTube.

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Saturday, August 10, 2019 8:05 PM (P)

Las Vegas man accused of plotting to bomb synagogues, gay bar

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/las-vegas-man-accused-of-plotting-to
-bomb-synagogues-gay-bar/ar-AAFAVO7?ocid=spartandhp


T


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Saturday, August 10, 2019 9:33 PM (P)

Funny stuff, especially the last line:

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Saturday, August 10, 2019 9:56 PM (P)

Pentagon report blames Trump for the return of ISIS in Syria and Iraq

www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-blames-trump-for-return-of-isis-syria
-and-iraq-2019-8


The Pentagon inspector general found that President Donald Trump’s decision to rapidly pull troops out of Syria and divert attention from diplomacy in Iraq has aided the Islamic State’s regrouping in Syria and Iraq.

The Department of Defense’s quarterly report to Congress on the effectiveness of the US Operation Inherent Resolve mission said that “ISIS continued its transition from a territory-holding force to an insurgency in Syria, and it intensified its insurgency in Iraq” — even though Trump said ISIS was defeated and the caliphate quashed.

Many officials and experts have repeatedly warned Trump that a rapid US withdrawal from Syria would enable ISIS to regroup into an insurgency after their battlefield defeats by the US-led coalition.

The Inspector General’s report also explicitly said the troop drawdown in Syria, which Trump announced at the end of last year, contributed to instability in the region. The drawdown, which prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left the US’s Syrian partners in the lurch, without the training or support they needed to confront a resurgent ISIS. In Iraq, the Iraqi security forces lack the necessary infrastructure to fight off ISIS for sustained periods.

Trump campaigned in part on a promise to withdraw the US from conflicts in the Middle East, as part of his "America First" policy. But his shortsighted decision-making based on that premise doesn't just destabilize Iraq and Syria, it also has the potential to do the same in Afghanistan, where the US is negotiating with the Taliban to withdraw from the country.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, August 10, 2019 10:21 PM (P)

Trump has been caught in adultery many times. This study applies to him:

CEOs Who Cheat In Bedroom Will Cheat In Boardroom (or White House), Study Shows.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/ceos-who-cheat-on-spouse-tw
ice-as-likely-to-cheat-at-work-study


Finance professors at the University of Texas at Austin and Emory University found a strong correlation between adultery and workplace misconduct by corporate executives and financial advisers. "[The researchers] were able to examine customers of Ashley Madison, a dating site for married people looking to have affairs, or 'discreet encounters' as it puts it," reports Bloomberg. "That's because a computer hack in 2015 exposed the names and personal data of more than 30 million users." From the report:

Researchers examined four groups of users specifically -- a total of 11,000 brokers, corporate executives, white-collar criminals and police officers. Cross-checking against public records, they found that those Ashley Madison customers generally were more than twice as likely to have violated professional codes of conduct compared with a control group, according to authors John Griffin, Samuel Kruger and Gonzalo Maturana.

The results were fairly consistent across the four occupations. For example, the study found that 4.1% of individuals accused of violating securities laws by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 2010 and 2015 had paid accounts at Ashley Madison. That compared to 1% of the control population, which consisted of people with similar work histories but no misconduct charges. CEOs and CFOs who had accounts were twice as likely to have engaged in a financial misstatement or be the focus of a class action securities lawsuit between 2008 and 2014. Cheating brokers were more likely than the control group to have black marks on their records maintained by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

The findings are to be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:16 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:

CEOs Who Cheat In Bedroom Will Cheat In Boardroom (or White House), Study Shows.

Dang! There goes my hero, Jack Kennedy.


And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:33 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:

CEOs Who Cheat In Bedroom Will Cheat In Boardroom (or White House), Study Shows.

Dang! There goes my hero, Jack Kennedy.

Remember Vietnam? That was JFK. Bay of Pigs? That was also JFK. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? JFK, again. The building of thousands of H-bombs? JFK. Who decided to drive in a convertible down the streets of Dallas, against the advice of the Secret Service? JFK. He died because he was terrible at his job, making ridiculous decisions. Unsurprising, he was also an adulterer, as was LBJ, who really screwed up Vietnam. I forgot that LBJ had a perfect opportunity to stop Nixon from being elected, since LBJ knew of Nixon's treason, but LBJ did nothing. LBJ was a fool, liar, coward, and blowhard, much like Trump.

More on Nixon's treason at
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-con
spired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:01 AM (P)

JFK died because he was terrible at his job. ~ Second, August 10, 2019

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:12 AM (P)

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JFK died because he was terrible at his job. ~ Second, August 10, 2019

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I bet you didn't click on the link:
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-con
spired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461


"The fact that it took nearly 50 years for Nixon’s secret to emerge also offers vital lessons for today. It shows how hard it is to find definitive proof of collaboration with a foreign power when officials are determined to hide the truth. It illustrates why a president might hesitate to call out such malfeasance by a candidate from the opposing political party. And it demonstrates the lengths an ambitious politician will go in the pursuit of power—even at the expense of his own country’s interests."

6ix, it is pretty unlikely you'd see the link between Nixon/Vietnam and Trump/Russia, but it is there. It is even more unlikely that you'd see the link between JFK's extraordinarily bad judgment as President/his adultery and Trump's extraordinarily bad judgment as President/his adultery. Adulterers, in my experience with employees, also have very poor judgment on their day-to-day job. The guys who can't keep their dick in their pants can't keep their mind on their job.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:22 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:

CEOs Who Cheat In Bedroom Will Cheat In Boardroom (or White House), Study Shows.

I guess by that metric, dubya and Obama were terrific presidents!!


HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha ha ...


And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:52 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:

CEOs Who Cheat In Bedroom Will Cheat In Boardroom (or White House), Study Shows.

I guess by that metric, dubya and Obama were terrific presidents!!


HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha ha ...


And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

Besides adultery, there are other ways for a President to demonstrate he is not in command of himself. Do you remember Bush's alcoholism and cocaine abuse? I do. He was never again fully in control of himself. Unsurprisingly, his Presidential decisions reflected his lack of self-command. Dick Cheney could push Bush around to whatever felt best to Cheney.

www.huffpost.com/entry/the-bush-cocaine-chronicl_b_37786
www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/bush-admits-past-drug-use-in-interview
s-with-author-65801
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 2:13 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
CEOs Who Cheat In Bedroom Will Cheat In Boardroom (or White House), Study Shows.

Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I guess by that metric, dubya and Obama were terrific presidents!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha ha ...

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Besides adultery ... alcoholism and cocaine abuse

So it's NOT about adultery, SECOND? It's about drugs! Make up your mind, will 'ya?


And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

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Monday, August 12, 2019 10:23 PM (P)

Trump administration overhauls U.S. wildlife protections over objections of conservationists

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday finalized changes to provisions of the U.S. Endangered Species Act it says will streamline the decades-old wildlife protection law but which conservation groups say will threaten at-risk species.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-overhauls-us-wi
ldlife-protections-over-objections-of-conservationists/ar-AAFHJ2b?ocid=spartandhp


T

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Monday, August 12, 2019 11:40 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Trump administration overhauls U.S. wildlife protections over objections of conservationists

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday finalized changes to provisions of the U.S. Endangered Species Act it says will streamline the decades-old wildlife protection law but which conservation groups say will threaten at-risk species.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-overhauls-us-wi
ldlife-protections-over-objections-of-conservationists/ar-AAFHJ2b?ocid=spartandhp





Hey T., this is the stuff going on behind our backs so-to-speak. While the headlines chase Trump's mindless tweets, his admin is busy deregulating just about everything that holds big companies responsible and accountable.

He's showed himself to be more Pro Wealthy & Big Business than anything else so far - trillion $ tax cut for example. Another thing that makes the profile of his typical supporter so laughable.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rol
lbacks.html


83 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump

"President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration, with help from Republicans in Congress, has often targeted environmental rules it sees as burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses.

A New York Times analysis, based on research from Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and other sources, counts more than 80 environmental rules and regulations on the way out under Mr. Trump.

Our list represents two types of policy changes: rules that were officially reversed and rollbacks still in progress. The Trump administration has released an aggressive schedule to try to finalize many of these rollbacks this year."

Just the first 40:

1. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions.

2. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations.

3. Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters.

4. Stopped enforcing a 2015 rule that prohibited the use of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases, in air-conditioners and refrigerators.

5. Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles traveling on federal highways.

6. Reverted to a weaker 2009 pollution permitting program for new power plants and expansions.

7. Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities.

8. Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the “social cost of carbon” that rulemakers used to estimate the long-term economic benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

9. Withdrew guidance that federal agencies include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews. But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews.

10. Lifted a summertime ban on the use of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol. (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.)

IN PROCESS
11. Proposed weakening Obama-era fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks. The proposal also challenges California’s right to set its own more stringent standards, which other states can choose to follow.

12. Announced intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. (The process of withdrawing cannot be completed until 2020.)

13. Proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan, which would have set strict limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants. In April 2019, the E.P.A. sent a replacement plan, which would let states set their own rules, to the White House for budget review.

14. Proposed eliminating Obama-era restrictions that in effect required newly built coal power plants to capture carbon dioxide emissions.

15. Proposed a legal justifi

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Tuesday, August 13, 2019 5:57 PM (P)

Bond market close to sending biggest recession signal yet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bond-market-close-to-sending-b
iggest-recession-signal-yet/ar-AAFHZ3A?ocid=spartandhp


T

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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 3:56 AM (P)

Agreed buddy...
T




Quote:

Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Trump administration overhauls U.S. wildlife protections over objections of conservationists

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday finalized changes to provisions of the U.S. Endangered Species Act it says will streamline the decades-old wildlife protection law but which conservation groups say will threaten at-risk species.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-overhauls-us-wi
ldlife-protections-over-objections-of-conservationists/ar-AAFHJ2b?ocid=spartandhp





Hey T., this is the stuff going on behind our backs so-to-speak. While the headlines chase Trump's mindless tweets, his admin is busy deregulating just about everything that holds big companies responsible and accountable.

He's showed himself to be more Pro Wealthy & Big Business than anything else so far - trillion $ tax cut for example. Another thing that makes the profile of his typical supporter so laughable.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rol
lbacks.html


83 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump

"President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration, with help from Republicans in Congress, has often targeted environmental rules it sees as burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses.

A New York Times analysis, based on research from Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and other sources, counts more than 80 environmental rules and regulations on the way out under Mr. Trump.

Our list represents two types of policy changes: rules that were officially reversed and rollbacks still in progress. The Trump administration has released an aggressive schedule to try to finalize many of these rollbacks this year."

Just the first 40:

1. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions.

2. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations.

3. Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters.

4. Stopped enforcing a 2015 rule that prohibited the use of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases, in air-conditioners and refrigerators.

5. Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles traveling on federal highways.

6. Reverted to a weaker 2009 pollution permitting program for new power plants and expansions.

7. Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities.

8. Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the “social cost of carbon” that rulemakers used to estimate the long-term economic benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

9. Withdrew guidance that federal agencies include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews. But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews.

10. Lifted a summertime ban on the use of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol. (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.)

IN PROCESS
11. Proposed weakening Obama-era fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks. The proposal also challenges California’s right to set its own more stringent standards, which other states can choose to follow.

12. Announced intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. (The process of withdrawing cannot be completed until 2020.)

13. Proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan, which would have set strict limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants. In April 2019, the E.P.A. sent a replacement plan, which woul

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Tuesday, August 20, 2019 4:44 PM (P)

Trump’s 5-year moon landing plan has gone off the rails

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/trumps-5-year-moon-landing-p
lan-has-gone-off-the-rails/ar-AAG1LQf?ocid=spartandhp


T

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019 4:31 PM (P)

Trump cancels Denmark trip after PM says Greenland isn't for sale

President Donald Trump is calling off an upcoming trip to Denmark after its prime minister rebuffed his interest in buying Greenland, a Danish territory, the White House announced on Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-cancels-denmark-trip-after-
pm-says-greenland-isnt-for-sale/ar-AAG5gX0?ocid=spartandhp


What a fucking moron...

T


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Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:35 PM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Trump cancels Denmark trip after PM says Greenland isn't for sale

President Donald Trump is calling off an upcoming trip to Denmark after its prime minister rebuffed his interest in buying Greenland, a Danish territory, the White House announced on Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-cancels-denmark-trip-after-
pm-says-greenland-isnt-for-sale/ar-AAG5gX0?ocid=spartandhp


What a fucking moron...

T





Sounds like a waste of gas if he did go.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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THG
Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:23 PM (P)

Trump at G7: US President arrives for summit as global disputes threaten unity

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-at-g7-us-president-arrives-
for-summit-as-global-disputes-threaten-unity/ar-AAGgBxZ?ocid=spartandhp


What will he fuck up now...

T


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THG
Thursday, December 5, 2019 10:59 PM (P)

Mocked Abroad and Assailed at Home, Trump Returns to Face Impeachment

Mocked by peers behind his back at a NATO meeting in London, Mr. Trump abruptly canceled a news conference and bolted early, only to fly home to a capital in the throes of judging whether he is fit for office. After hobnobbing with the queen, the president now faces the daunting likelihood that by Christmas he will become the third president impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mocked-abroad-and-assailed-at-
home-trump-returns-to-face-impeachment/ar-BBXMbV0?ocid=spartandhp


tick tock

T


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Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:39 PM (P)

lol

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Friday, December 6, 2019 12:14 AM (P)

If NATO is mocking Trump, Trump must have done something right.

When I think of NATO I think of a cluster of foreign powers, unelected by anyone in the US, with no US Constitutional authority, running US foreign policy in Europe, northern Africa, and beyond.

"NATO Names China As New Enemy, Alongside Russia"

Fuck NATO.

A billion flies eat shit.

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THG
Friday, December 6, 2019 3:08 AM (P)

That's exactly what Putin said kiki. He'd be pleased with you.

T


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THG
Friday, December 6, 2019 3:11 AM (P)

T

Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

When people are laughing at you, you're the joke

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Friday, December 6, 2019 3:44 AM (P)

Quote:

That's exactly what Putin said kiki. He'd be pleased with you.

I just LOVE how you constantly make shit up and think it proves something.

Let's have that quote of Putin's, with links ... or expose yourself as a liar.

Flies shit.

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Friday, December 6, 2019 4:56 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
T

Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

When people are laughing at you, you're the joke





T: Says that people he doesn't like are racists.
Also T: Posts videos with Don Lemon, the most racist newscaster who ever lived.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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THG
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 4:36 PM (P)

Trump threatens Iran after embassy attack, but remains reluctant to get more involved in region

President Trump on Tuesday was pulled toward the kind of Middle East tinderbox he has tried to avoid, as he blamed Iran for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq that further damaged U.S. relations with Baghdad and appeared to put Trump’s hopes for diplomacy with Tehran further out of reach.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-threatens-iran-after-embass
y-attack-but-remains-reluctant-to-get-more-involved-in-region/ar-BBYvq0D?ocid=spartanntp


T

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Friday, January 3, 2020 3:37 AM (P)

I keep hearing MSM claim the reason for the massive increase in the major Stock Market indexes are because of the China Trade Deal from Trump.


You clowns believing this thread title must have not gotten the memo from your lemming leaders in the MSM.

Get on the same page, already!

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THG
Friday, January 3, 2020 4:25 PM (P)

Top Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Killed on Trump’s Orders, Officials Say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/top-iranian-general-qassim-suleim
ani-is-killed-on-trumps-orders-officials-say/ar-BBYz0Zs?ocid=spartanntp


This is an act of war. Here we go folks.

T


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Friday, January 3, 2020 7:35 PM (P)

Sounds like everybody was in agreement that he was a piece of shit.

They attacked the Embassy first.



Quote:

Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to end American entanglements in the Middle East, insisted that he did not want war.

“I don’t think that would be a good idea for Iran. It wouldn’t last very long,” Mr. Trump said. “Do I want to? No. I want to have peace. I like peace.”



No president before has said something like that. GWB said it would basically be a never-ending campaign, which so far it has turned out to be. Obama ran partly on pulling us out of the wars, subsequently didn't, and even started a few new ones himself.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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THG
Monday, December 20, 2021 11:28 PM (P)





T

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Saturday, December 25, 2021 9:34 PM (P)

Roger Stone Is Desperate for Cash and Still Selling Autographed Rocks

Last-minute holiday shoppers can breathe easy: Roger Stone’s one-day auction of rocks, NFTs, and private phone calls with his friends has been extended indefinitely.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/roger-stone-is-desperate-for-cash-an
d-still-selling-autographed-rocks/ar-AAS867Q?ocid=msedgntp




Too funny. All Trumps cronies are sucking every dollar they can from Trumps uneducated supporters. They’re even buying rocks from convicted felons.

T


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THG
Friday, December 31, 2021 11:42 PM (P)

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Friday, January 7, 2022 1:37 AM (P)

Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations.

NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Sean Hannity has skirted ethical boundaries with his role on a television network with “news” in its name. Yet it's never been as stark as now, with the committee investigating last year's Capitol insurrection seeking his testimony.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hannity-fox-face-ethical-issue
s-over-trump-text-revelations/ar-AASttbI?ocid=msedgntp




T

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Friday, January 7, 2022 4:44 AM (P)

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations.

NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Sean Hannity has skirted ethical boundaries with his role on a television network with “news” in its name. Yet it's never been as stark as now, with the committee investigating last year's Capitol insurrection seeking his testimony.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hannity-fox-face-ethical-issue
s-over-trump-text-revelations/ar-AASttbI?ocid=msedgntp




T




Do keep us up to date on this, Ted.

My prediction is that absolutely nothing comes of it.

Just like everything else you've posted in my now 5 years of sobriety.



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