Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Trump "calling judges names"? Hardly a reason for impeachment. After all, how many politicians and deep-staters called Trump a "Putin pupppet" and conspired to drive him from office on false charges?
Now, if Trump conspired with the DOJ and FBI to cook up fake investigations on judges he didn't like, and they conspired with Congress, and the media to organize a defamation campaign leading to false charges ... THAT would be grounds for impeachment.
Wouldn't you say??
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Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump Must Be Impeached
By Andrew Latham | April 8, 2025
Go ahead and do it pussy. See where it gets you.
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Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Beijing's 'Nope' Trumps Bessent's Hope
Appeals Court Clears Way For DOGE To Access Data At 2 Agencies
IRS To Provide Illegal Immigrants' Data To ICE Under New Agreement
New Research Confirms Standardized Tests Are Predictor Of 'College Success - Without Bias'
US Supreme Court Sides With Trump (For Now) In Fired Federal Worker Case
Trump Set To Sign Exec Order Boosting Domestic Coal To Meet AI Power Demands [that's what you get for insisting that any new gas-fired plant must have 100% carbon capture]
Dismal, 3Y Auction Has 3rd Biggest Tail On Record, Only Covid, SVB Worse
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Trump "calling judges names"? Hardly a reason for impeachment. After all, how many politicians and deep-staters called Trump a "Putin pupppet" and conspired to drive him from office on false charges?
Now, if Trump conspired with the DOJ and FBI to cook up fake investigations on judges he didn't like, and they conspired with Congress, and the media to organize a defamation campaign leading to false charges ... THAT would be grounds for impeachment.
Wouldn't you say??
You write to Second as if he has the neurological capability to decipher the meaning of any of your words.
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and just when the US film industry thought it could make money again?
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To be clear: No official word or reliable source says or suggests China has considered banning US films in the aim of countering U.S tariffs.
https://x.com/gavinincinema/status/1909553786697154837
A local blogger gave the suggestion on social media, but I don’t know why presses from both China and US take it as official thoughts.
Full on Global Trade War might kick off btw
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Full on Global Trade War might kick off btw
*meh*
Ain't going to wreck nothing for me. Good luck everyone.
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Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
By Glenn Kessler | April 8, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/08/vance-social-securi
ty-fraud-false/
“You look at people who are 150 years old who are fraudulently collecting Social Security payments. You see our Social Security system — 40 percent of the people who are calling are actually committing fraud. That means the 60 percent who need their Social Security checks are waiting in line.”
— Vice President JD Vance, during an interview on Fox & Friends, April 3
In the lexicon of the second Trump administration, “fraud” often translates to “programs we dislike.” The administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development based on specious examples of alleged fraud.
Now, we would be the first to admit that foreign aid is an easy target for disdain, as many people dramatically overestimate how much money the United States distributes to other countries. But Social Security is one of the most beloved government programs in the U.S. Even Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint the administration is using to target government agencies for cutbacks, offered no suggestions for cutting Social Security, despite efforts by Kamala Harris’s campaign to claim as much.
So why is the Trump administration attacking Social Security as being fraudulent? As Willie Sutton supposedly said when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Social Security is 22 percent of the federal budget — and that’s more than 20 times the funds spent on foreign aid.
But administration officials are going to have to come up with better lines than this — both of which have been debunked by the Social Security Administration itself.
The Facts
First, a quick refresher. Social Security was created in response to the pervasive poverty during the Great Depression. It is designed to provide workers with a basic level of income in retirement, as well as disability pay and life insurance while they work.
About 80 percent of the 68 million beneficiaries are retired workers and their dependents; the rest are disabled workers or survivors. The benefits are progressive, meaning lower-income workers get a relatively better deal than higher-income workers; however, workers making above a certain salary ($176,100 in 2025) don’t have to pay as much of their income into the system, though their benefits are capped too. (About 6 percent of workers earn above the taxable maximum.)
About 96 percent of workers must pay a certain amount of their paycheck, generally 6.2 percent. That amount is matched by their employers, for a total tax of 12.4 percent. (Some state and local workers don’t participate in Social Security.)
The benefits are inflation-adjusted after initial receipt, a feature that is almost impossible to find in the U.S. annuity market. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, which means that payments collected today are immediately used to pay benefits. Because Social Security was not prefunded, it depends heavily on the contributions of current workers. The baby-boom generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) will have fully hit retirement age by 2031, reducing the number of workers per retiree. Meanwhile, before the coronavirus pandemic, people had been living longer and thus will collect benefits longer, while people are not having as many children, which limits the pool of new workers.
All of that means that there is a crunch coming in less than 10 years. If Congress does not act to either raise revenue or change benefits — both politically perilous positions — then benefits would automatically be cut by 23 percent in 2033. The administration appears to be looking for ways to find savings through the shortcut of exposing supposed fraud.
Trump, in his speech to Congress last month, also claimed that people as old as 150 years had been getting benefits. But The Washington Post had reported in February tha
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Originally posted by second:
Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
Nothing false about it. At least not anything presented in this article. He stated what he stated above. You're boy Glenn is trying to frame it as if Vance said that 40 percent of people getting social security involve fraud.
You are an idiot.
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Moreover, SSA had announced in 2022 that benefits automatically cut off when someone reaches 115 years of age. So it is simply impossible for “people who are 150 years old who are fraudulently collecting Social Security payments,” as Vance put it.
But notice the pattern: The Post debunked it in February, Trump repeated it anyway in a major speech in March, where it was debunked again, and then Vance repeated it one more time in April. Officials presumably believe repetition of falsehoods will make them sound more real.
Anybody can say whatever they want. It doesn't mean that it's true. Especially when there was zero oversight.
I trust Vance a lot more than I trust anybody working inside the government circa 2022 who were saying anything that would reflect positive on Joe Biden*'s shitshow of a presidency that you inflicted upon the world.
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Quote:The Trumptards at work are always confident that they have correctly diagnosed a machine malfunction. They are right if this is a frequently seen problem, but when it is infrequent, the Trumptard's diagnosis seldom has any connection to the final fix. Trumptards only slowly get better at what they are doing. They plateau early in their careers because of their excessive self-confidence. I'd tell them, or 6ixStringJack, to rethink their diagnosis, but they come up with the same one even after whatever it is going on in their heads labeled "rethinking".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
Nothing false about it. At least not anything presented in this article. He stated what he stated above. You're boy Glenn is trying to frame it as if Vance said that 40 percent of people getting social security involve fraud.
You are an idiot.
Anybody can say whatever they want. It doesn't mean that it's true. Especially when there was zero oversight.
I trust Vance a lot more than I trust anybody working inside the government circa 2022 who were saying anything that would reflect positive on Joe Biden*'s shitshow of a presidency that you inflicted upon the world.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The end of IRS enforcement
Joel Eissenberg | April 8, 2025 5:14 pm
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/the-end-of-irs-enforcement
Don’t like income taxes? Next year, don’t pay ‘em. Who’s gonna force you to?
“DOGE is also in the process of essentially closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.
“Since the Tax Division is a statutory creation, it can’t literally be shuttered. As DOGE has done at numerous other offices and agencies, the entity is kept notionally alive in a zombie state of suspended animation: a few employees, a desk lamp and a couple workstations. That’s the legal fig leaf that allows the White House, with a compliant judiciary, to say that it hasn’t violated any congressional statute or terminated one of Congress’ creations. It’s simply choosing a new strategy of enforcement.
“What they plan to do is essentially “reform” and “reorganize” the Tax Division out of existence. The plan is to dramatically reduce the number of Tax Division staff attorneys and then take the great majority of those that remain and disperse them out to the country’s 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices. Only a small managerial layer is to be left working from Washington, DC.”
It’s the 1% who make their money through complex schemes that require government tax accountants to figure out. Get rid of those folks and you have an IRS in name only. Only the little people pay taxes under Trump.
DOGE ends tax enforcement https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-to-shutter-doj-tax-division
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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