January 6th Commission investigating coup attempt.
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Quote:What? 6ix, the orangutan, didn't sling its poo-poo at Warren Buffett for being a virtue-signaling multi-billionaire? Buffett had more to say in his 2021 annual report about not hiring jerks. Jerks is code for the kind of people who would vote for Trump. I hired many jerks because I got my start in the military and construction. I falsely believed I had to hire jerks because those jobs attract a majority of jerks. Buffett made it clear that his successful businesses avoided placing jerks into positions of authority. The result was that his businesses prospered. I sure wish I had learned that lesson sooner from Buffett about jerks and orangutans.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol
It thinks it's deep.
It's not.
Another thing Buffett pointed out -- his taxes get paid, unlike Trump, and unlike tax cheating Trump voters I know who either brag about not paying or how little they pay, orangutan 6ix, for example. I've had dozens of employees whose problems with the IRS I unfortunately get to know about. The awful thing about those jerks is all those tax cheaters were Trump voters. I don't think that correlation is an accident.
It all makes sense that the jerks who would riot on Jan 6th and would lie about anything, cheat on anything, including taxes and voting and business deals, would also vote for Trump.
Warren Buffett Paying Taxes
Every year, Berkshire-Hathaway makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid $3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. “I gave at the office” is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.
Berkshire’s history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.
The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that “The combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.” That upbeat view was endorsed by the company’s advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).
I’m sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.
In the nine years following the merger, Berkshire’s owners watched the company’s net worth crater from $51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshire’s struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.
During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshire’s troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period - a pathetic $100 per day.
Early in 1965, things changed. (Buffett took control in 1965) Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.
Berkshire’s owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their “silent partner,” the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to t
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I don't care what anybody you have to quote says, because you don't understand anything that anybody says and you always make it about you.
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Quote:January 6 committee says Trump committed fraud and obstruction of justice
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't care what anybody you have to quote says, because you don't understand anything that anybody says and you always make it about you.
In a court filing seeking access to emails between President Trump and attorney John Eastman about the 2020 election, the January 6 Committee tipped its hand.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220303102354/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/03/02/us/politics/trump-criminal-charges-jan-6.html
It will be the Department of Justice that ultimately decides what to do with all this evidence, which means a trial is a long way off even if they decide to go ahead with the charges against Trump. But where are they going to round up 12 impartial jurors? The moon?
In other trials run by America, Hermann Goring’s trial for one, justice operated very slowly. The Goring trial took 218 days because Goring pleaded Not Guilty. It is difficult to convict when the defendant won’t admit guilt. The prosecution had to submit numerous movies about the Death Camps. Göring found the contents of the films shocking; he said that the films must have been faked. Göring claimed to know nothing about what had happened. This didn’t work for the Nazi, because the jury wasn’t going to let a Nazi go free just because evidence was fake, but at least one juror in 12 would let Trump go free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#Trial_and_death
6ix, Trump will be fine, especially if you consider how hard the prosecution had to work in order to convict Hermann Goring. Goring avoided execution by bribing an American, 6ix. These things happen when so many Americans are easily corrupted by money. Trump has unlimited cash, while Goring only had a gold watch and cigarette case for a bribe.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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There was no coup attempt. There was no insurrection.
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Here we go folks.
tick tock
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House Select Committee Files Court Pleading Saying Evidence Shows Trump committed Crimes Against US
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Originally posted by THG:
Here we go folks.
tick tock
Oh. NOW the tick tock's start.
Nothing is going to happen, Ted. Just as nothing ever happens.
There was no coup attempt. There was no insurrection.
Trump will be fine.
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Meme of the day: Trump is a dangerous stain on humanity, but of course I’d still vote for him
Asked by NBC News' Lester Holt whether he considered Trump "responsible" for the violence at the Capitol, Barr said: "I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, in that it appears that part of the plan was to send this group up to the Hill. I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress. And I think that that was wrong."
....But asked if he would vote for Trump if he wins the party nomination in 2024, Barr suggested he would. “Because I believe that the greatest threat to the country is the progressive agenda being pushed by the Democratic Party, it’s inconceivable to me that I wouldn’t vote for the Republican nominee,” he said.
https://jabberwocking.com/meme-of-the-day-trump-is-a-dangerous-stain-o
n-humanity-but-of-course-id-still-vote-for-him/
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The 20 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump’s letter to Lester Holt
8. “Now he is groveling to the media, hoping to gain acceptance that he doesn’t deserve.”
On Monday, Barr told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that he would vote for Trump if the former president ran again in 2024. So, yeah.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/politics/trump-lester-holt-letter-bill-
barr/index.html
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:Trump tells fans to "lay down their very lives"; Flynn orders them to "charge the machine gun nest."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump will be fine.
Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Michael Flynn and the other leaders make their escalating threats of violence, insurrection and other forms of mayhem in public.
Last Saturday at a rally in Florence, South Carolina, Donald Trump continued with his threats of violence. He suggested called for an existential battle against "critical race theory":
"Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it's also a matter of national survival. We have no choice…. The fate of any nation ultimately depends upon the willingness of its citizens to lay down — and they must do this — lay down their very lives to defend their country…. If we allow the Marxists and communists and socialists to teach our children to hate America, there will be no one left to defend our flag or protect our great country or its freedom."
At recent rallies in Arizona and Texas, Trump made similar hints at a "race war". His threats are becoming ever clearer and less veiled: His suggestion that his followers must be willing to die in order to stop the imaginary threat of "critical race theory".
Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser and U.S. Army general, threatened violence against educators who resist the Republican moral panic over "critical race theory":
"We need you to charge the machine gun nest…. Maybe I'm just asking you to dig a little bit deeper there or hold this side of the line, or form up cause we're gonna counterattack over here, and that counterattack is, we're gonna go after school boards."
Election board members and other public officials, particularly including school board members, find themselves under siege by threats of violence and intimidation. Public opinion and other research has shown that millions of Trump supporters are willing to support political violence and terrorism in order to "save" their notion of "traditional" America.
The American political class, most of the news media and other elites remain committed to denial and happy-talk fables about the dire realities now facing the country. That applies to most of the public as well. But because of their experience with slavery, Jim Crow and other forms of white supremacy and violence, Black Americans know to take these threats seriously.
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/17/donald-trump-michael-flynn-call-for-v
iolence--theyre-not-kidding-but-the-media-doesnt-care/
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