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Saturday, July 10, 2021 7:22 PM
Quote:I'm saving this. Trump is calling for RINO election officials to award the next election to Republicans, even when the Republican loses.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's why if you really want to save anything Second posts you need to archive it. He likes going back and changing things all the time.
I'm assuming that since this is just more of him spewing his daily bullshit that you didn't feel the need to archive it though.
Quote:With Trump, "get TOUGH and get SMART!" means cheat. He said the same about paying his taxes. Rather, not paying was SMART.
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-o
f-the-united-states-of-america-07.05.21
07/05/21
Seeing the record crowds of over 45,000 people in Ohio and Florida, waiting for days, standing in the pouring rain, they come from near and far. All they want is HOPE for their Great Country again. Their arms are outstretched, they cry over the Rigged Election—and the RINOs have no idea what this movement is all about. In fact, they are perhaps our biggest problem. We will never save our Country or be great again unless Republicans get TOUGH and get SMART!
"President Trump paid no income taxes for 10 of the 15 years before he was elected president, and just $750 a year in 2016 and 2017"
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, said the Times' findings "reveal absolutely staggering theft by Trump before and while he has been in office," and that "Trump must release his tax returns as is longstanding practice and is required by law to Congress instead of grandstanding and attacking the media."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/518510-trump-paid-no-incom
e-taxes-for-10-of-past-15-years-report
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, July 10, 2021 7:36 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I'm saving this. Trump is calling for RINO election officials to award the next election to Republicans, even when the Republican loses.
You don't have to declare to anybody when you're spouting bullshit dude.
That is already assumed whenever you make a post.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 7:38 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, said the Times' findings "reveal absolutely staggering theft by Trump before and while he has been in office," and that "Trump must release his tax returns as is longstanding practice and is required by law to Congress instead of grandstanding and attacking the media."
Nope. Not a law. That's another Democrat/Media lie.
P.S. The IRS already knows what is in his tax returns.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 8:24 PM
Quote:Like every Trumptard I know, you know far less about the law than you think you do.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, said the Times' findings "reveal absolutely staggering theft by Trump before and while he has been in office," and that "Trump must release his tax returns as is longstanding practice and is required by law to Congress instead of grandstanding and attacking the media."
Nope. Not a law. That's another Democrat/Media lie.
P.S. The IRS already knows what is in his tax returns.
The new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has pledged to conduct the kind of vigorous oversight of the executive branch that has been lacking for the past two years. As part of that oversight agenda, House leaders have said that they intend to invoke their authority under the law to obtain Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to review them. Trump’s Treasury Department is threatening to withhold the returns from Congress and take the issue to the courts, where his team reportedly hopes to bog down the request in a “quagmire of arcane legal arguments.”1 But the law could not be clearer: Congress’ tax committees have the authority to obtain Trump’s tax returns on request—and the U.S. Treasury Department has no basis for refusing. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin would be violating the law if he directs the IRS to stonewall Congress.
www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/04/01/468048/pres
ident-trump-cannot-hide-tax-returns-congress/
For the rest of his life Trump will talk about Democrats being Commies overthrowing America, same as Herbert Hoover ranted FOR 30 YEARS after losing to FDR, but he is dead history. Why hasn't the IRS given Trump's tax returns to Congress?
The Biden administration must decide how to handle House Democrats’ request for former President Trump’s tax returns. However, the Biden administration will not want to look like they’re too politicized in this. It’s a delicate situation for Biden because acknowledging Congress’s authority here weakens the power of the presidency.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/541317-biden-cautious-in-making-tru
mp-tax-returns-decision
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, July 10, 2021 8:27 PM
Fuck you Second. You don't know shit.
Trump, or any other presidential candidate, is under no obligation to ever release their taxes to the people so morons like you can look at them.
You're conflating issues again.
Go try that with somebody as stupid as you are. I'm sure Ted will love talking with you about it. He loves being wrong all the time.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 8:39 PM
Quote:I know Trumptards. They won't tell the truth or keep promises when they see some advantage to lie and cheat, especially when there is no enforcement. In that, Trump is no different than the average Texas Trumptard. Trumptards get really loud and upset when accused of lying and cheating. The only thing that will quiet and remind them to be slightly honest is being in a courtroom testifying under penalty of perjury. Even then the Trumptards try to mislead, but careful cross-examination by a hostile attorney will draw a little more truth from them.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fuck you Second. You don't know shit.
Trump, or any other presidential candidate, is under no obligation to ever release their taxes to the people so morons like you can look at them.
You're conflating issues again.
Go try that with somebody as stupid as you are. I'm sure Ted will love talking with you about it. He loves being wrong all the time.
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, July 10, 2021 9:01 PM
You don't know Trumptards because you don't know anything about yourself, Trumptard.
You work on you. Then when you feel like you're sufficiently fixed, you can start working on your broken party.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Saturday, July 10, 2021 10:56 PM
Quote:You've claimed to not be a Republican. Ha-ha! You never claimed to be Christian, either, so I expect you will falsely claim this article is not about you, but it is:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You don't know Trumptards because you don't know anything about yourself, Trumptard.
You work on you. Then when you feel like you're sufficiently fixed, you can start working on your broken party.
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It.
The movement is dangerous in decline. If they can’t own the country, they’re ready to defile it.
On Thursday, the Public Religion Research Institute (P.R.R.I.) released startling new polling data showing just how much ground the religious right has lost. P.R.R.I.’s 2020 Census of American Religion, based on a survey of nearly half a million people, shows a precipitous decline in the share of the population identifying as white evangelical, from 23 percent in 2006 to 14.5 percent last year.
In addition to shrinking as a share of the population, white evangelicals were also the oldest religious group in the United States, with a median age of 56. “It’s not just that they are dying off, but it is that they’re losing younger members,” Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the P.R.R.I. told me. As the group has become older and smaller, Jones said, “a real visceral sense of loss of cultural dominance” has set in.
White evangelicals once saw themselves “as the owners of mainstream American culture and morality and values,” said Jones. Now they are just another subculture.
From this fact derives much of our country’s cultural conflict. It helps explain not just the rise of Donald Trump, but also the growth of QAnon and even the escalating conflagration over critical race theory. “It’s hard to overstate the strength of this feeling, among white evangelicals in particular, of America being a white Christian country,” said Jones. “This sense of ownership of America just runs so deep in white evangelical circles.” The feeling that it’s slipping away has created an atmosphere of rage, resentment and paranoia.
QAnon is essentially a millenarian movement, with Trump taking the place of Jesus. Adherents dream of the coming of what they call the storm, when the enemies of the MAGA movement will be rounded up and executed, and Trump restored to his rightful place of leadership.
“It’s not unlike a belief in the second coming of Christ,” said Jones. “That at some point God will reorder society and set things right. I think that when a community feels itself in crisis, it does become more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other things that tell them that what they’re experiencing is not ultimately what’s going to happen.”
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210710100137/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html
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, July 11, 2021 4:17 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
You've claimed to not be a Republican.
I'm not.
TL;DR on the rest of your post. None of your bullshit is ever worth the time reading.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Sunday, July 11, 2021 6:10 PM
Quote:Then you won't learn a secret about one of the Republican Party's true motivations:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
You've claimed to not be a Republican.
I'm not.
TL;DR on the rest of your post. None of your bullshit is ever worth the time reading.
Texas is a world leader in clean energy, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to ruin that by Chris Tomlinson
Gov. Greg Abbott has made clear that he’s more interested in boosting fossil fuel burners’ profits than improving the electric grid or fighting climate change, and he’s rejecting new ways of generating clean, reliable and affordable energy.
Abbott is not letting lawmakers have a say in overhauling the wobbly Texas grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, known as ERCOT. Instead, he wants to dictate solutions that benefit coal and natural gas companies over clean energy.
Abbott ordered the PUC, which oversees ERCOT, to redesign the state’s wholesale electricity market to reward generators that can provide backup power. This is a break from the current, 20-year-old system that pays generators only for the energy they put on the grid, not their capacity to generate.
Critics of the system have correctly called on ERCOT to set up some version of a capacity market that pays generators to have readily available power in an emergency. But Abbott twists this good idea by calling for more “natural gas, coal and nuclear power,” not a more strategic approach.
Coal plants should have no part of Texas’ energy mix. They produce vast amounts of greenhouse gases, and they are more expensive to operate than other sources, including wind and solar.
Nuclear power does not release any emissions, but new plants are astronomically expensive and better nuclear technologies are not ready yet. The two existing nuclear plants in Texas already operate at almost full capacity; therefore, they do not require any additional incentives.
Natural gas plants, meanwhile, are great in emergencies, and ERCOT should encourage companies to have enough of them for the few hours every year when demand spikes. But Abbott should be ordering the PUC to incentivize renewable energy storage technologies, such as batteries and compressed air, instead.
Abbott’s more disturbing order is to pile additional fees and costs onto wind and solar generators. In a complete disregard for how the wholesale electricity market operates, he perversely wants to punish them because they cannot turn on the sun and wind at will.
The key to reducing wind and solar intermittency is to expand the geography where wind and solar energy are generated. If the PUC provided the right incentives, for example, wind companies could install turbines in the Gulf of Mexico, where the wind almost always blows.
Instead, Abbott intends on knee-capping renewables to give old, failing fossil fuel plants a few more years of profitability at the expense of Texas customers.
Lastly, Abbott ordered the PUC “to accelerate the development of transmission” lines to new natural gas and coal power plants, explicitly excluding wind and solar generation. He is using his power to appoint the PUC to pick and choose winners and losers.
Such huge policy decisions would typically fall within the purview of the Texas Legislature, which created ERCOT and the wholesale electricity market. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Abbott to put ERCOT market reforms on the special session’s agenda, but Abbott decided to rule by decree rather than allow the GOP-controlled Legislature to provide input.
Abbott’s policies are profoundly regressive compared with the innovation taking place on other major U.S. grids. Not to mention, Abbott could solve almost all of Texas’ electric reliability problems by simply connecting to the national grid rather than maintaining ERCOT as a separate island.
Another state that struggles with extreme heat, Nevada, is a national leader in high-voltage transmission lines that are adding more renewable energy, i
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