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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:28 AM
Quote:I'm guessing you overlooked that the Walmart killer murdered 23 illegal aliens, but the killer is not facing the death penalty because they were Mexicans. Trump might pardon the killer for heroically stopping illegal aliens! Trump could do it. He started pardoning corporations and nobody knew Trump would do that until he did it. Why not pardon murderers? That's one cheap way to get millions of illegal aliens to self-deport because of the fear of being murdered and Trump pardoning the murderer.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. It's because it's terrorism.
You can't justify somebody executing somebody in public. You're a fucking lunatic.
Mangione needs to be made an example of, or you're going to have 1,000 psychotic Democrats doing it tomorrow.
We've got videos of the terrorism that you people do against your own people with Tesla cars today. Covid lockdowns fucked you up so bad.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump Just Pardoned … a Corporation?
By Matt Sledge | April 2, 2025
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/trump-pardons-corporation-bitmex-c
rypto/
The move surprised scholars of presidential pardons, which have traditionally been considered the domain of human beings. Several experts contacted by The Intercept said they were unaware of any prior instances of corporations granted full pardons.
Trump’s pardon of HDR Global Trading, the owner and operator of crypto exchange BitMEX, was issued at the same time as pardons for three of the company’s co-founders and one of its employees.
The company and the four employees, including influential Bitcoin booster Arthur Hayes, pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, which requires businesses to take steps to prevent money laundering.
Prosecutors said the company pretended to pull out of the U.S. market to avoid complying with the law, but knew its withdrawal was nothing more than a “sham,” even seeking out U.S.-based influencers to market its platform.
The company pleaded guilty last July. Two months ago, a federal judge handed it a $100 million fine and two years’ probation. The fine was supposed to be paid within 60 days of the judgment’s entry into the court record. The company said it had not paid the fine before receiving the pardon. The timing of Trump’s pardon means the company avoided the fine deadline by hours.
If the company had paid the judgment, legal scholars said, there would be no refund. Under 1877 Supreme Court precedent, the president’s pardon power “cannot touch moneys in the treasury of the United States, except expressly authorized by act of Congress.”
The first known corporate request for a pardon was in 1975, according to a report from the time. President Gerald Ford’s White House rejected the request.
To Stanford University law school professor Bernadette Meyler, Trump’s pardon last week evoked the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United.
“While we have seen the rise of a trend of treating corporations as persons in other areas of law, we haven’t seen that so far in the area of pardoning,” she said.
Worrying Precedent?
Several observers said they were worried about the pardon’s implications. “Putting corporate pardons on the table strengthens Trump’s corrupt and authoritarian power over corporations,” said Rick Claypool, research director for consumer advocacy group Public Citizen’s president’s office. “This has the potential to trigger a lobbying frenzy for any corporation that has faced federal enforcement.”
Claypool pointed to the crypto industry’s cozy relationship with the Trump administration. The Trump administration has already halted or dropped 14 cases targeting crypto companies. The pardon last week sent another message to the corporate world, he said.
“If you’re a corporation in a favored industry, you can break the law. You can get caught. You can be prosecuted and sentenced with a $100
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:41 AM
Quote:I guess you are unaware that business owners have absolute control over their reported income. If they want to cheat, they can cheat, following Trump's example. The man paid no taxes for decades! If he gets fined, he still doesn't pay! It is the Winds of Change Blowing. Can you feel it, 6ix?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Thanks to Donald Trump, there is a Taxpayer Revolt! The Winds of Change Are Blowing!
Why More People Are Avoiding Filing Taxes This Year
By Kelley R. Taylor | April 1, 2025
https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/why-people-are-avoiding-filing-taxes-t
his-year
If you feel less than enthusiastic about filing your federal income taxes this year, you're not alone. IRS filing data and a recent survey shed light on a growing trend: Many are hesitant to file taxes in 2025.
This tax season, the IRS has reported a notable downturn in tax return submissions compared to previous years.
Why? Possible reasons range from concerns about IRS workforce reductions to general economic uncertainty.
A March survey of 1,003 respondents conducted by Qualtrics on behalf of Intuit Credit Karma also revealed some interesting data points. Nearly a quarter of respondents felt less concerned about making errors on their tax returns this year, while almost half worried about receiving a timely refund.
Meanwhile, according to the survey, 17% of millennials have contemplated not filing at all. They reported a belief that audit risk has decreased due to recent downsizing at the IRS.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Good plan.
Don't file your taxes, Democrats. See what happens to you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+tax+cheating
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 2:24 AM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I guess you are unaware that business owners have absolute control over their reported income. If they want to cheat, they can cheat, following Trump's example. The man paid no taxes for decades! If he gets fined, he still doesn't pay! It is the Winds of Change Blowing. Can you feel it, 6ix?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Thanks to Donald Trump, there is a Taxpayer Revolt! The Winds of Change Are Blowing!
Why More People Are Avoiding Filing Taxes This Year
By Kelley R. Taylor | April 1, 2025
https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/why-people-are-avoiding-filing-taxes-t
his-year
If you feel less than enthusiastic about filing your federal income taxes this year, you're not alone. IRS filing data and a recent survey shed light on a growing trend: Many are hesitant to file taxes in 2025.
This tax season, the IRS has reported a notable downturn in tax return submissions compared to previous years.
Why? Possible reasons range from concerns about IRS workforce reductions to general economic uncertainty.
A March survey of 1,003 respondents conducted by Qualtrics on behalf of Intuit Credit Karma also revealed some interesting data points. Nearly a quarter of respondents felt less concerned about making errors on their tax returns this year, while almost half worried about receiving a timely refund.
Meanwhile, according to the survey, 17% of millennials have contemplated not filing at all. They reported a belief that audit risk has decreased due to recent downsizing at the IRS.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Good plan.
Don't file your taxes, Democrats. See what happens to you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+tax+cheating
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Good plan.
Don't file your taxes, Democrats. See what happens to you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:12 AM
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I'm guessing you overlooked that the Walmart killer murdered 23 illegal aliens, but the killer is not facing the death penalty because they were Mexicans. Trump might pardon the killer for heroically stopping illegal aliens! Trump could do it. He started pardoning corporations and nobody knew Trump would do that until he did it. Why not pardon murderers? That's one cheap way to get millions of illegal aliens to self-deport because of the fear of being murdered and Trump pardoning the murderer.
Say, who is the one constantly advocating shooting people they don't like??
I guess you don't like the taste of your own medicine!
BTW- before you start advocating a shooting war, you might want to check who's got the most guns.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:31 AM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
I'm guessing you overlooked that the Walmart killer murdered 23 illegal aliens, but the killer is not facing the death penalty because they were Mexicans. Trump might pardon the killer for heroically stopping illegal aliens! Trump could do it. He started pardoning corporations and nobody knew Trump would do that until he did it. Why not pardon murderers? That's one cheap way to get millions of illegal aliens to self-deport because of the fear of being murdered and Trump pardoning the murderer.
Say, who is the one constantly advocating shooting people they don't like??
I guess you don't like the taste of your own medicine!
BTW- before you start advocating a shooting war, you might want to check who's got the most guns.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
Yeah...
And check out this thread and tell me what side these lunatics terrorizing people in the streets are all coming from...
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=66665
You don't have to watch the whole of the videos. He shows the footage he's going to talk about in the first 10 to 30 seconds of all of his videos.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 6:03 AM
Quote:Signym, I have made crystal clear that the only workable method to control evil people, either drunken employees, embezzlers, contract breaking subcontractors, or Nazis during WWII or Confederate slave-owners is to harm them. The harm could be as simple as firing them, or more complicated as in terminating their contracts, or burning down their cotton plantations mansions with them inside. Sending in behavioral specialists, psychiatrists, philosophers, and mental health counselors is a fool's way to handle evil people, although those time consuming methods are the Democratic Party's knee-jerk reaction to handling people like Trump or 6ix or just about everything involving horribly defective people stealthily acting out their evil inclinations but mostly only when they think their evilness will not be examined closely.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
I'm guessing you overlooked that the Walmart killer murdered 23 illegal aliens, but the killer is not facing the death penalty because they were Mexicans. Trump might pardon the killer for heroically stopping illegal aliens! Trump could do it. He started pardoning corporations and nobody knew Trump would do that until he did it. Why not pardon murderers? That's one cheap way to get millions of illegal aliens to self-deport because of the fear of being murdered and Trump pardoning the murderer.
Say, who is the one constantly advocating shooting people they don't like??
I guess you don't like the taste of your own medicine!
BTW- before you start advocating a shooting war, you might want to check who's got the most guns.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
Signym, you are perverse in your misunderstandings. But then so is Trump. No, I'm not explaining what Trump misunderstands. Here are his words:
Trump delivers history lesson on tariffs
By Jennifer Bowers Bahney | April 2, 2025 5:04PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/reciprocal-tariffs-trump/
President Donald Trump claimed that a lack of tariffs caused the country to spiral into the Great Depression in 1929.
"In 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens rather than foreign countries would start paying the money necessary to run our government," Trump said. "Then, in 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy; it would have been a much different story. They tried to bring back tariffs to save our country, but it was gone. It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done."
Trump continued, "It took years and years to get out of that depression, far longer than even FDR — had that office right over there for a long period of time. The ramp system, it's rather intricate, was built because of him. And every time you walk up, you think of him. And he did a great job in many ways — but it lasted long beyond his terms, as you know. But it's not too late any longer, and we're going to start being smart, and we're going to start being very wealthy again."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 6:59 AM
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Signym, I have made crystal clear that the only workable method to control evil people, either drunken employees, embezzlers, contract breaking subcontractors, or Nazis during WWII or Confederate slave-owners is to harm them.
So, since YOU'RE an evil person ...?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 8:07 AM
Quote:I have never seen or heard of an evil person, corporation, or nation that believed they were other than "good," in their opinion. They are slightly aware of being imperfect but sincerely hope/feel/pray their grotesquely ugly lives are redeemable. The evil people remain convinced that deep inside, they are good. (If Malcolm Reynolds had killed The Operative in front of Inara in Serenity during their first encounter, thousands of people would not have died. But then there wouldn't be a two-hour movie. It would be a 42-minute episode. But Mal wanted to appear to be "good" to impress Inara when he should have scared her by being evil and guaranteed the Operative was dead, dead, double-dead.)
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
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Signym, I have made crystal clear that the only workable method to control evil people, either drunken employees, embezzlers, contract breaking subcontractors, or Nazis during WWII or Confederate slave-owners is to harm them.
So, since YOU'RE an evil person ...?
Personally, actual good is bland and unproductive. Those who know how evil works and use evil techniques are not bland and unproductive. I never wanted to be "good" myself. I was intending to write a Firefly story about that very idea called River Tam and the Problem of Evil. River has an admirable goal and will be fighting evil with greater evil. Her methods would not be approved by the Democratic Party or her brother, "Mr. Goody Two Shoes", but she does save millions of lives, which is a common trope in sci-fi.
There are obvious reasons why evil fucking fools who have no decent purposes like Trump or President Andrew Johnson can remain President. The reason is that the so-called "good" people feel it is wrong to kill or merely evict evil people from office. Both Trump and Johnson were impeached, but so-called Good people decided to save Trump and Johnson. Good people much prefer talking and more talking, and even more talking after that, rather than making an irrevocable decision to stop evil even if that requires removing the evil asshole from office right now as if you were channeling an imaginary character such as River Tam who can see the future once the evil asshole stays in office long enough to complete his plan.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 8:08 AM
Trump has made astronomical estimates about how much money tariffs can raise.
“We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before,” he said during his recent joint address to Congress. “Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again.”
Last Sunday on Air Force One, Trump was even more ebullient. “We’re going to become so rich, you’re not going to know where to spend all that money,” he said.
Trump says he’ll use revenue from tariffs to “offset” more big tax cuts.
Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations.
But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people.
It's another scam.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-economic-plan/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 10:40 AM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I have never seen or heard of an evil person, corporation, or nation that believed they were other than "good,"'
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND
Signym, I have made crystal clear that the only workable method to control evil people, either drunken employees, embezzlers, contract breaking subcontractors, or Nazis during WWII or Confederate slave-owners is to harm them.
So, since YOU'RE an evil person ...?
Hey, that describes you!
Or at least you keep telling us how good you are!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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