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Thanks for re-starting your libel clock.
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Quote:That Independent Agency to check for tax cheating of politicians and judges could remove the names from each tax return before sending the return out to forensic auditors. The auditors would know only the numbers, not the political party, of who they are auditing. It would be like science, a double-blind experiment to see who has the disease of crookedness and who does not.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
That is why I think Trump, and GOP politicians in general, should be tax audited by an independent agency beyond political control.
ALL politicians should be tax audited by an independent agency beyond political control.
The only problem is, show me a single institution that is without bias, or free from outside monetary influences that could change the way they operate.
I look at the news media and I don't see a single one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trump has all the signs of crookedness: promises about his tax returns that are not kept; passing tax bills that benefit him; going to extreme litigation to keep his returns a secret; actually being caught cheating in the distant past when calculating the inheritance tax on his parent's estate. The main thing missing is Trump's most recent tax returns, the ones from his White House years and the years on the campaign trail.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:When will you be suing? I look forward to it, but my lawyer is less enthusiastic, saying: "I won't get any pleasure stomping 1kiki and Signym like they are roaches." (Houston has a cockroach and mosquito problem. You can have two libel cases: one against me for calling you a russian troll, another against my lawyer for characterizing you on the internet as a roach.)
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Thanks for re-starting your libel clock.
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:That Independent Agency to check for tax cheating of politicians and judges could remove the names from each tax return before sending the return out to forensic auditors. The auditors would know only the numbers, not the political party, of who they are auditing. It would be like science, a double-blind experiment to see who has the disease of crookedness and who does not.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
That is why I think Trump, and GOP politicians in general, should be tax audited by an independent agency beyond political control.
ALL politicians should be tax audited by an independent agency beyond political control.
The only problem is, show me a single institution that is without bias, or free from outside monetary influences that could change the way they operate.
I look at the news media and I don't see a single one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trump has all the signs of crookedness: promises about his tax returns that are not kept; passing tax bills that benefit him; going to extreme litigation to keep his returns a secret; actually being caught cheating in the distant past when calculating the inheritance tax on his parent's estate. The main thing missing is Trump's most recent tax returns, the ones from his White House years and the years on the campaign trail.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
So, with the names redacted, do you suppose that the independent organization wouldn't crack the case when "Trump University" or "The Clinton Foundation" pops up?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The difference between Nixon and Trump is Fox News
Nixon needed a Fox News, and he knew it. When he won the presidency in 1968, he was not in a strong position. He’d led the popular vote by less than 1 percent, Democrats held both houses of Congress, and Nixon was convinced that the press corps was against him. He believed two things were necessary to fully exercise the powers of his new office: a strong, loyal Republican Party and a pro-Nixon media.
Getting the party on his side wasn’t hard. Nixon had earned a reputation as a party man throughout the 1960s. After losing his bid for president in 1960 and California governor in 1962, he went back out on the campaign trail in 1964 and 1966, stumping for every Republican who would have him. He did the same as president — with one exception. In 1970, despite angling to support Republican candidates across the country, he turned on New York’s Republican Sen. Charles Goodell (father of NFL owner Roger Goodell). He instead threw his support instead behind James Buckley, who ran as a member of the Conservative Party and who ultimately unseated Goodell.
Goodell’s sin? Speaking out against the Vietnam War. Nixon wanted Republicans in office, but they had to be loyal.
The other thing Nixon wanted was his own media outlet. Believing most mainstream outlets were in the tank for the Democrats, he was keenly interested in developing an alternative Republican news source. His administration had explored the idea of GOP-TV with future Fox News founder Roger Ailes, who at the time was a political media consultant. GOP-TV would create pro-administration segments and mail them out to local outlets across the country (a model that was more like Sinclair Broadcasting’s than Fox News’s). At the same time, conservative activists were also developing a scheme for a corporate takeover of CBS, hoping to transform it into a right-wing network.
Neither of those projects worked, and as the Watergate crisis mounted, Nixon was in a precarious position. Yes, he had won reelection in a historic landslide. But his propaganda machine never had much power.
Conservative media, such as it was, aggressively supported Nixon throughout the crisis, but it was simply not powerful enough to reshape the emerging consensus around administration wrongdoing or to keep Republican officeholders in line. Outlets like National Review stood by Nixon’s side, spinning every possible defense against impeachment, but they made very little impact. The dam broke; Republicans jumped ship; Nixon’s presidency ran aground.
At the beginning of his impeachment inquiry, Trump is in a very different place. He has a powerful propaganda system and a devoted Republican Party, from the base to the leaders in Congress.
The major driver of that devotion is not Trump but Fox, which has spent two decades mediating the desires of the base and disciplining the actions of the party.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/7/20899169/geraldo-rivera-sean
-hannity-fox-watergate-trump-nixon-conspiracy-theories
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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What? Are you scared of Fox News when the rest of the Legacy Media propaganda machine is shilling for Democrats 24/7? Get real.
You didn't answer my question about your idea for taxes being investigated with the names redacted.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by second:Quote:When will you be suing? I look forward to it, but my lawyer is less enthusiastic, saying: "I won't get any pleasure stomping 1kiki and Signym like they are roaches." (Houston has a cockroach and mosquito problem. You can have two libel cases: one against me for calling you a russian troll, another against my lawyer for characterizing you on the internet as a roach.)
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Thanks for re-starting your libel clock.
Me too, I want to play as well. Hey kiki, fuck you you Russian troll. And seconds lawyer is correct. You are a fucking roach.
T
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:When will you be suing? I look forward to it, but my lawyer is less enthusiastic, saying: "I won't get any pleasure stomping 1kiki and Signym like they are roaches." (Houston has a cockroach and mosquito problem. You can have two libel cases: one against me for calling you a russian troll, another against my lawyer for characterizing you on the internet as a roach.)
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Thanks for re-starting your libel clock.
Me too, I want to play as well. Hey kiki, fuck you you Russian troll. And seconds lawyer is correct. You are a fucking roach.
T
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Thanks for doubling down.
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So, RUSSIAGATE!! / Mueller didn't work.
Trump's racism didn't work.
Trump's taxes didn't work.
Ukrainegate is starting to implode.
And I'm sure there've been many other anti-trump propaganda campaigns that I've forgotten about.
I wonder what's next.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
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