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Watch Jimmy Kimmel’s Monday monologue. Start at 6 minutes 20 seconds.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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For several years there’s been a kind of competition on the right to come up with a coherent intellectual or ideological framework to support Trump’s presidency. Every single one that comes out of the clouds of theory to get close to the reality on the ground has crashed. He’s a nationalist who puts America first but says we’ll await Saudi Arabia’s say-so on a military strike against Iran. He says he wants free trade but also thinks tariffs are good.
Just this week, the same people who insisted that Trump would never collude with a foreign nation for his political interest are now defending collusion with a foreign nation for his political interest. The people who turn crimson with rage when you point out Trump’s decades of corrupt business practices now insist his only interest in the Bidens is his concern about corruption. They say it’s outrageous that Biden’s son sat on the board of a Ukrainian company when Biden was vice president, but they also say it’s fine to have a daughter and son-in-law duo running vast swaths of foreign and domestic policy while also making a fortune from their business interests around the world. Enemies are sinful or decadent when they lie or cheat on their wives, but who are you to judge Comrade Trump?
There’s no halfway defensible ideological, intellectual or moral standard that Trump doesn’t violate, often routinely. A cult of personality that replies “Trump’s right” or “his enemies are worse” before the question is even asked is the only place to hide.
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Oh. And BTW... about Warren.
She just didn't double dip for the primary. She had a lot of donations from big donors left over from her senate bid that she rolled over into her presidential bid.
No new big donations for the primary, but a lot of old ones.
So her entire campaign was, in fact, kicked off by big donors.
Bernie might be a crazy old man and a socialist at heart, but at least he's not lying about anything. Hope his heart surgery went well.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
EDITED TO ADD:
Before somebody claims I'm not citing something, or I'm listening to fake news, here's something that is publicly available to everybody to do your own research, as to not have to rely on the Legacy Media lying to you one way or the other about it...
ELIZABETH FOR MA, INC WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY MA 01/02/2019 $7,000,000.00
ELIZABETH FOR MA, INC WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY MA 03/29/2019 $3,415,000.00
ELIZABETH FOR MA, INC WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY MA 02/02/2019 $105,000.00
BULLY PULPIT WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY DC 02/27/2019 $35,000.00
WEWORK COMPANIES INC. WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY NY 02/26/2019 $10,425.00
WARREN, ELIZABETH WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY MA 02/01/2019 $4,584.54
WEWORK COMPANIES INC. WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY NY 04/10/2019 $4,337.50
ACTBLUE WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY MA 04/30/2019 $3,000.00
MORROW, PATRICK WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. PRIMARY MA 04/30/2019 $3,000.00
This is a list of the highest donations all the way through the individual capped donations of $2,800.00 which are not being argued here.
So, on record so far besides whatever WEWORK COMPANIES INC., BULLY PULPIT and ACTBLUE WARREN FOR PRESIDENT, INC. AND MORROW PATRIC WARREN FOR PRESIDENT INC. are, she's not technically lying about any new money for big donors coming in for the primary.
What she isn't telling you (lying by omission) is the fact that she started her primary bid with a grand total of $10,520,000 of campaign funds that she rolled over from her senate bid.
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00693234&two_year
_transaction_period=2020&data_type=processed
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Quote:What is your fucking point, moron? That Warren's Senate Campaign gave millions to Warren's Presidential Campaign? Is that it? Bernie's Senate Campaign gave millions to Bernie's Presidential Campaign. Big deal. Never forget, 6ix, that although you are highly articulate, you are also incredibly stupid for such a smart person. You should try talking less and working more.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. And BTW... about Warren.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What is your fucking point, moron? That Warren's Senate Campaign gave millions to Warren's Presidential Campaign? Is that it? Bernie's Senate Campaign gave millions to Bernie's Presidential Campaign. Big deal. Never forget, 6ix, that although you are highly articulate, you are also incredibly stupid for such a smart person. You should try talking less and working more.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. And BTW... about Warren.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
My point being that Warren is a boldfaced liar.
She's still bought and paid for by big donors. She was in 2018, and they weren't going to forget the money they had previously given her even if she wasn't going to take a bunch of corporate money for 2020 for the general, which she fully admits that she will, making the point almost completely moot.
We know they all take money. Everybody. On both sides. It's a gross bastardization of the Democratic Process.
But Warren is the only one up there that's lying about it.
Do you argue that fact?
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Quote:fify
Originally posted by SECOND:
In general, correcting Democrats is a waste of time for Democrats. You're mentally impaired. Democrats need to fix what is wrong inside their own heads, but they ain't gonna do the work to get their heads aligned with reality. I'll give you an example of where reality does not match what is inside your head.
SECOND, you refuse to learn from reality.
Democrats had been losing ground for decades, until all they had left was a token presidency - and then Hillary lost, when by all your thinking, she was a shoe-in to win.
It didn't matter how MANY posts pointed out Hillary's MANY flaws, or the MANY flaws of the democratic party in general, you refused to even respond to them. You probably didn't even read them.
If you don't act on facts or the past, you are just like Trump. But you're even worse. He at least knows what he's rejecting. You actively REFUSE to even consider anything that doesn't conform to your Pavlovian conditioning.
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
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Jack
SECOND doesn't want a reformist democrat. He wants another bought-and-paid-for dino, just like Hillary. That's why he goes into refusal / denial mode about Warren, exactly the same way he did about Hillary.
He wants all the 'R' policies he really cares about, without the entirely superficial yet still displeasing 'R' tribal markings.
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
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Seems a reasonable assessment.
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Why is the IRS audit of Trump a joke?
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
Oh, and it is not the Democrats but the Republicans who are 100% responsible for the IRS not being able to audit Trump properly.
The IRS audits the working poor at about the same rate as the wealthiest 1%. Now, in response to questions from a U.S. senator, the IRS has acknowledged that’s true but professes it can’t change anything unless it is given more money.
ProPublica reported the disproportionate audit focus on lower-income families in April. Lawmakers confronted IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig about the emphasis, citing our stories, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked Rettig for a plan to fix the imbalance. Rettig readily agreed.
Last month, Rettig replied with a report, but it said the IRS has no plan and won’t have one until Congress agrees to restore the funding it slashed from the agency over the past nine years — something lawmakers have shown little inclination to do.
On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says.
On the other hand, auditing the rich is hard. It takes senior auditors hours upon hours to complete an exam. What’s more, the letter says, “the rate of attrition is significantly higher among these more experienced examiners.” As a result, the budget cuts have hit this part of the IRS particularly hard.
For now, the IRS says, while it agrees auditing more wealthy taxpayers would be a good idea, without adequate funding there’s nothing it can do. “Congress must fund and the IRS must hire and train appropriate numbers of [auditors] to have appropriately balanced coverage across all income levels,” the report said.
Since 2011, Republicans in Congress have driven cuts to the IRS enforcement budget; it’s more than a quarter lower than its 2010 level, adjusting for inflation.
Recently, bipartisan support has emerged in both the House and Senate for increasing enforcement spending, but the proposals on the table are relatively modest and would not restore the budget to pre-cut levels. However, even a proposed small increase might not come to pass, because it’s unclear whether Congress will actually pass any appropriations bills this year.
In response to Rettig’s letter, Wyden agreed in a statement that the IRS needs more money, “but that does not eliminate the need for the agency to begin reversing the alarming trend of plummeting audit rates of the wealthy within its current budget.”
www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-t
o-audit-the-poor
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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People need to stop thinking things happen in a week. The president of the united states is a very powerful position. Especially when that position is propped up by the inactions of cowardly politicians. It the republicans stayed true to the constitution, Trump would be gone already.
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