Elections; 2024
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Quote:Trump's favorite defense is claiming the Truth is a Lie. Trumptards have taken the same strategy for their personal use. Try it on these two almost identical observations:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The US government's books are pretty voluminous and transparent, and anyway,
You spot one lie in the article, the entire article is a lie.
There it is.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
A) You elected a billionaire that is appointing other billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires?
You're a special kind of stupid aren't you?
https://x.com/CarlosP95095856/status/1865734063379579313
B) But you think electing a multi-billionaire who has been part of building that system for thirty years was going to change it?
Guess that makes you a super-sized version of stupid.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Republicans ask Trump to kill the IRS’s great new Direct File app
I've been waiting for this shoe to drop:
NEW: Reps. Adrian Smith and Chuck Edwards wrote Trump a letter today urging him to terminate the IRS’s new free tax filing service, otherwise known as Direct File, on “day one” through an executive order.
It’s co-signed by 27 House Republicans. https://t.co/jEsifotrbd
— Benjamin Guggenheim (@ben_guggenheim) December 11, 2024
After years of resistance from tax software companies, the IRS finally introduced Direct File in 2024. It replaced Free File, a partnership with tax prep software companies that had been operating for 20 years. But Intuit had been caught trying to trick eligible taxpayers into paying for extra services, and by 2021 both Intuit and H&R Block had withdrawn from the program. For obvious reasons, none of the tax prep partners had ever been enthusiastic about the program anyway, and it was limited to taxpayers with incomes under $80,000. Because of this, almost no one used Free File.
Direct File stepped into this mess with a very nice, direct-from-the-government tax app that was free with no tricks and served anyone with an income up to $200,000. It was a hit even though it was pretty limited, but the 2025 version is considerably more capable and is being rolled out to more states. It's likely to be even more of a hit.
In other words, it's a rare thing: a really good IT project rolled out at moderate cost and benefiting millions of taxpayers. But the tax prep companies hate it and would love to see it die. Their MAGA minions in Congress are eager to help.
There's no reason to kill Direct File. If you click the tweet and read Adrian Smith's letter to Trump, you'll see that it's just a tired stew of complaints about how we should leave everything to the private sector and not entrust tax prep to Deep State bureaucrats acting as "tax assessor, collector, preparer, and enforcer." All made worse, of course by Joe Biden's history of "wielding the IRS as a tool to silence political opponents and control private citizens" and the IRS's own "long record of abusing its authority to target political opponents."
This is all stale conservative BS, part of their decades-long jihad against the IRS in service of rich donors who obviously want the agency hobbled. None of it is true, but it's sure phrased in a perfect way to appeal to Donald Trump. Will he bite?
https://jabberwocking.com/republicans-ask-trump-to-kill-the-irss-great
-new-direct-file-app/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Middle East adviser pick is a small-time truck salesman in Nigeria. He once sold ‘erotic drinks’
December 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East adviser, Massad Boulos, has enjoyed a reputation as a billionaire mogul at the helm of a business that bears his family name.
Mr. Boulos has been profiled as a tycoon by the world’s media, telling a reporter in October that his company is worth billions. Mr. Trump called him a “highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the international scene.”
The president-elect even lavished what may be his highest praise: a “dealmaker.”
In fact, records show that Mr. Boulos has spent the past two decades selling trucks and heavy machinery in Nigeria for a company his father-in-law controls. The company, SCOA Nigeria PLC, made a profit of less than $66,000 last year, corporate filings show.
There is no indication in corporate documents that Mr. Boulos, a Lebanese-American whose son is married to Mr. Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is a man of significant wealth as a result of his businesses. The truck dealership is valued at about $865,000 at its current share price. Mr. Boulos’s stake, according to securities filings, is worth $1.53.
As for Boulos Enterprises, the company that has been called his family business in The Financial Times and elsewhere, a company officer there said it is owned by an unrelated Boulos family.
Mr. Boulos will advise on one of the world’s most complicated and conflict-wracked regions — a region that Mr. Boulos said this week that he has not visited in years. The advisory position does not require Senate approval.
More at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/africa/trump-massad-boulos-mi
ddle-east.html
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump's favorite defense is claiming the Truth is a Lie. Trumptards have taken the same strategy for their personal use.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The US government's books are pretty voluminous and transparent, and anyway,
You spot one lie in the article, the entire article is a lie.
There it is.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
I pointed out a lie, written by one of the most hyper-partisan shills out there.
Once again, you are projecting your own behavior onto other people.
Quote:
Try it on these two almost identical observations:
A) You elected a billionaire that is appointing other billionaires to fix the system that made them billionaires?
You're a special kind of stupid aren't you?
https://x.com/CarlosP95095856/status/1865734063379579313
B) But you think electing a multi-billionaire who has been part of building that system for thirty years was going to change it?
Guess that makes you a super-sized version of stupid.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
How is this any different than Democrats obeying the commands of the billionaires that donated to their campaigns?
If your party didn't destroy the economy and people were doing good now, maybe you'd have a leg to stand on in this argument. Instead, because reality trumps your fantasy, you just witnessed the largest portion of the black and Latino pools vote against the democrat.
Just like I told you that you would.
You'd better hope that the people actually in charge of the Democrat party are a lot smarter than you are, or you won't live long enough to ever see a Democrat President again.
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He is also your current President.
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Public revolt against corporate greed: Author Jay McInerney x Ari Melber
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Quote:The Trumptard next door says his brilliant and hardworking son has financial problems because of Biden. His son is a stupid, lazy, obnoxious little prick hated by his ex-wife. Biden didn't make the son that way so why is the father blaming Biden? The son did it to himself. Trumptards do it to themselves then fail to blame themselves for their failures. Trump tells them they are not failures. It is the Democrats' fault. (Certain twisted personalities love being told it is not their fault when they fail. Nazis who failed at life blamed Jews and followed Hitler, the man reinforcing the little Nazis' prejudices. Trumptards who failed at life blame Democrats and followed Trump, the man reinforcing Trumptards' prejudices.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
How is this any different than Democrats obeying the commands of the billionaires that donated to their campaigns?
If your party didn't destroy the economy and people were doing good now, maybe you'd have a leg to stand on in this argument. Instead, because reality trumps your fantasy, you just witnessed the largest portion of the black and Latino pools vote against the democrat.
Just like I told you that you would.
You'd better hope that the people actually in charge of the Democrat party are a lot smarter than you are, or you won't live long enough to ever see a Democrat President again.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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G Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures — like Glass Steagall — were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Oh hell yes, let's absolutely get rid of the FDIC. Would love to have re learn all the lessons of the New Deal again.
Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators
Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3ld5nhz
l5vs23
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters
Donald Trump’s support in rural America appears to have virtually no ceiling. In last month’s election, Trump won country communities by even larger margins than he did in his 2020 and 2016 presidential runs. But several core second-term policies that Trump and the Republican Congress have championed could disproportionately harm those places.
Agricultural producers could face worse losses than any other economic sector from Trump’s plans to impose sweeping tariffs on imports and to undertake what he frequently has called “the largest domestic deportation operation” of undocumented immigrants “in American history.” Hospitals and other health providers in rural areas could face the greatest strain from proposals Trump has embraced to slash spending on Medicaid, which provides coverage to a greater share of adults in smaller communities than in large metropolitan areas. And small-town public schools would likely be destabilized even more than urban school districts if Trump succeeds in his pledge to expand “school choice” by providing parents with vouchers to send their kids to private schools.
Resistance to such measures in deep-red rural areas could represent one of the few obstacles Trump would face from a GOP-controlled Congress over implementing his agenda. Still, the most likely scenario is that elected Republicans who represent rural areas will ultimately fall in line with Trump’s blueprint. If so, the effects will test whether anything can loosen the GOP’s grip on small-town America during the Trump era, or whether the fervor of his rural supporters provides Trump nearly unlimited leeway to work against their economic interests without paying any political price.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-about-to-betray-his-r
ural-supporters/ar-AA1vO1Mg
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Grow up.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The Trumptard next door says his brilliant and hardworking son has financial problems because of Biden. His son is a stupid, lazy, obnoxious little prick hated by his ex-wife. Biden didn't make the son that way so why is the father blaming Biden? The son did it to himself. Trumptards do it to themselves then fail to blame themselves for their failures. Trump tells them they are not failures. It is the Democrats' fault. (Certain twisted personalities love being told it is not their fault when they fail. Nazis who failed at life blamed Jews and followed Hitler, the man reinforcing the little Nazis' prejudices. Trumptards who failed at life blame Democrats and followed Trump, the man reinforcing Trumptards' prejudices.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
How is this any different than Democrats obeying the commands of the billionaires that donated to their campaigns?
If your party didn't destroy the economy and people were doing good now, maybe you'd have a leg to stand on in this argument. Instead, because reality trumps your fantasy, you just witnessed the largest portion of the black and Latino pools vote against the democrat.
Just like I told you that you would.
You'd better hope that the people actually in charge of the Democrat party are a lot smarter than you are, or you won't live long enough to ever see a Democrat President again.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Then, using the same logic right back at you, I look forward to you not complaining one single time about anything for the next 4 years. Yanno... because you are a saint, you've got everything figured out, and everything you've ever said or done in life is God's work.
Looking forward to the next time you post in 2028.
See Ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
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