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Quote:Until this year, Trump was running a $1 trillion budget deficit per year, which just so happens to be about how much the wealthy don't pay because they cheat on their taxes and the IRS does not know it because Congress is under-funding auditing by the IRS.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Funny how the IRS has NOT collected about $1 trillion per year in taxes owed. Why not collect the money? IRS is not capable of auditing rich people.
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Originally posted by second:
Where are Trump's income tax returns?
They're with the IRS, retard.
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On the other hand, the New York Times is very capable of finding tax cheating by the wealthy.
Maybe the NYT should do the taxes going forward.
They're really bad at doing news.
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www.cbpp.org/federal-tax/depletion-of-irs-enforcement-is-undermining-t
he-tax-code
Enforcement of Tax Laws - High Risk Issue
Addressing the tax gap—the difference between taxes owed and those paid on time—could help improve the government’s fiscal position
www.gao.gov/key_issues/tax_laws/issue_summary
Every wealthy person in America knows the IRS can't catch them cheating and most take advantage of the IRS's weakness. Trump does. He bragged about it!
"Donald Trump Is a Criminal Tax Cheat"
https://web.archive.org/web/20200822133002/https://www.thenation.com/a
rticle/archive/donald-trump-is-a-criminal-tax-cheat/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Evil Geniuses The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
By Kurt Andersen
Andersen sets out to narrate a complex, many-layered history of how a band of rich people, corporate executives and political right-wingers, aided and abetted by gullible “useful idiots” in the media and the political left, transformed the nation into a casino where only they ever win.
Book review at
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/books/review/kurt-andersen-evil-geniuses.ht
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With his own complicity in mind, one place Andersen does break some new ground is in the portrayal of the shameful liberal complicity that was essential to the long plutocratic hijacking. It is head-spinning to be reminded how much of the nation’s turn to the right and to the rich the Democrats enabled. The Democrat-controlled House voted to cut taxes on the richest Americans, to a rate lower than at any time in the previous half century. Ronald Reagan couldn’t do it without them and, in the Senate, one Joe Biden voted for the cuts, too. As the tide turned against antitrust regulation, writers in The New York Times (oh yeah, this newspaper) and Newsweek cheered.
Voting for cable deregulation? Hiring Goldman Sachs bankers as advisers? Praising Charles Murray’s advocacy of punishing mothers on welfare? Each time, Democrats were #OnIt. With Democrats like these, do we even need a second party representing the plutes?
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Looks like Stephen King is no longer on my read/watch list.
Pity.
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Quote:You are years late noticing what King tweets about Trump:
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Looks like Stephen King is no longer on my read/watch list.
Pity.
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Stephen King @StephenKing
When Blabbermouth Don talks about who has the bigger nuclear button, I think we all know what he's talking about. It's your basic dick-measuring contest. Sad!
8:15 PM Jan 2,2018
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Stephen King @StephenKing
Legislators, you need to impeach Blabbermouth Don or force him to resign before he kills us all. He is no longer competent to serve as Chief Executive, if he ever was.
6:33 AM Jan 3,2018
37 of the most brutal Trump burns tweeted by Stephen King in 2018
More at https://mashable.com/article/stephen-king-donald-trump-twitter-burns-2
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Of course, AOC's seat is incredibly safe. Her district loves her. She's got it for as long as she wants it.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You are years late noticing what King tweets about Trump:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Looks like Stephen King is no longer on my read/watch list.
Pity.
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I'm not a twitter whore. That's no surprise to me.
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Republicans Declare Their 2020 Platform Is Supporting Whatever Trump Wants.
Less than 24 hours before their national convention begins, the Republican National Committee has released a “Resolution Regarding the Republican Party Platform” explaining their decision not to draft a party platform this year. It’s a remarkable document and well worth reading because it is a blank check for Trump to fill in with whatever he wants:
WHEREAS, The RNC enthusiastically supports President Trump and continues to reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration, as well as those espoused by the Democratic National Committee today; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.
RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention.
RESOLVED, That any motion to amend the 2016 Platform or to adopt a new platform, including any motion to suspend the procedures that will allow doing so, will be ruled out of order.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/republicans-declare-their-
2020-platform-is-to-support-whatever-trump-wants-to-do.html
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Originally posted by second:
Republicans Declare Their 2020 Platform Is Supporting Whatever Trump Wants.
Less than 24 hours before their national convention begins, the Republican National Committee has released a “Resolution Regarding the Republican Party Platform” explaining their decision not to draft a party platform this year. It’s a remarkable document and well worth reading because it is a blank check for Trump to fill in with whatever he wants:
WHEREAS, The RNC enthusiastically supports President Trump and continues to reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration, as well as those espoused by the Democratic National Committee today; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.
RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention.
RESOLVED, That any motion to amend the 2016 Platform or to adopt a new platform, including any motion to suspend the procedures that will allow doing so, will be ruled out of order.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/republicans-declare-their-
2020-platform-is-to-support-whatever-trump-wants-to-do.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Good.
We don't want any RINOS or NeoCons trying to take back control.
There were only four "RESOLVED" lines. Why did you leave this line out?
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RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention calls on the media to engage in accurate and unbiased reporting, especially as it relates tothe strong support of the RNCfor President Trump and his Administration; and
And yes, that question is rhetorical.
I actually figured that Slate did so and you were just copying and pasting, but no... You brought up the document yourself, which is only one page long, and chose only one of the six "WHEREAS" lines, and omitted one of the four "RESOLVED" lines.
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/RESOLUTION_REGARDING_T
HE_REPUBLICAN_PARTY_PLATFORM.pdf
The Media is Democrat run and owned and we all know it.
They hate Trump because he's not afraid to say it on national TV.
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What do Republicans believe? What does it mean to be a Republican?
“Owning the libs and pissing off the media,” shrugs Brendan Buck, a longtime senior congressional aide and imperturbable party veteran if ever there was one. “That’s what we believe in now. There’s really not much more to it.”
With Election Day just a few months away, I was genuinely surprised, in the course of recent conversations with a great many Republicans, at their inability to articulate a purpose, a designation, a raison d'être for their party. Everyone understands that Trump is a big-picture sloganeer—“Build the wall!” “Make America Great Again!”— rather than a policy aficionado. Even so, it’s astonishing how conceptually lifeless the party has become on his watch. There is no blueprint to fix what is understood to be a broken immigration system. There is no grand design to modernize the nation’s infrastructure. There is no creative thinking about a conservative, market-based solution to climate change. There is no meaningful effort to address the cost of housing or childcare or college tuition. None of the erstwhile bold ideas proposed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan—term limits, a balanced budget amendment, reforms to Social Security and Medicare, anti-poverty programs—have survived as serious proposals. Heck, even after a decade spent trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Republicans still have no plan to replace it. (Trust me: If they did, you’d hear about it.)
When I called one party elder, he joked that it’s a good thing Republicans decided not to write a new platform for the 2020 convention—because they have produced nothing novel since the last one was written. Trump and his party have relied more on squabbles than solutions in delivering for their base. Even some of the president’s staunchest supporters concede Buck’s point in this regard: The party is now defined primarily by its appetite for conflict, even when that conflict serves no obvious policy goal.
The result is political anarchy. Traditionally, the run-up to a convention sees a party attempting to tame rival factions and unite around a dynamic vision for the future. Instead, Republicans have spent the summer in a self-immolating downward spiral.
On Capitol Hill, several House Republicans berated a member of their leadership for defending the integrity of the nation’s top infectious disease expert amid a raging pandemic; one of them, days later, accosted a young Democratic congresswoman on the steps of the House, allegedly calling her a “fucking bitch,” while another one, who had proudly refused to wear a face covering around the Capitol, contracted Covid-19. Things weren’t much sunnier on the Senate side, where one Republican touted a new investigation that would “certainly help Donald Trump win reelection” while his GOP colleague concluded that a separate probe exonerated Trump’s campaign of wrongdoing in 2016 when it did precisely the opposite. Meanwhile, as party operatives worked feverishly to win ballot access for Kanye West, a bipolar Black celebrity who could ostensibly draw votes from Joe Biden, emerging victorious from at least three GOP primaries were congressional candidates who have expressed support for QAnon, the psychotic conspiracy theory that accuses Democrats and Hollywood elites of trafficking and cannibalizing young children. Given a chance to disavow this nascent movement, the president pleaded ignorance and, along with other party officials, embraced these candidates, even the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has fantasized about immigrants dying en masse.
More at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/24/republicanmeltdown-t
rump-convention-400039
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MAGA
Fuck Politico.
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