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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
Repeal the tax law that allows the wealthy to transform interest earnings into long term capital gains that are taxed at about half the rate. This is the law that allows Mitt Romney to pay only 20% in taxes every year when his actual tax bracket is 39.6%. I can see Trump developing a renewed interest in this one. As long as somebody reminds him that
This is the law that allows Mitt Romney to pay only 20% in taxes every year when his actual tax bracket is 39.6%
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jar Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Today il Donaldo addressed the State Governors as reported in the NY Times.
We’re doing a lot of things that are good including waste and fraud, Mr. Trump said Monday. Tremendous waste and tremendous fraud.
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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I agree with everything you say but have a comment on this:
Hyroglyphx writes: As I suspected would happen from the jump, Trump has been acquitted. I attribute this mostly to the lackluster allegations and sloppy job legitimizing a case against him. I thought the Articles of Impeachment were very shoddy and very weak. I assume you mean that had Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani and Perry testified that there would have been at least the possibility that twenty Republicans would vote for conviction. I'd like to think so, but congressional Republicans are solidly unswerving in their support for Trump. The justification most gave for their acquittal vote is transparently ludicrous, that any action the president believes is in the national interest is not impeachable. More thoughtful Republicans said they believed what Trump did wrong but not impeachable, perhaps deserving of censure, though no censure proposal has been put forward as yet. Perhaps the testimony of those individuals would have pried away a few more Republicans than just Romney, but twenty? I don't know. After more than a year McGahn's challenge to the subpoena to appear before the House is still wending its way through the courts. Subpoenas of Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani and Perry would have suffered the same fate and continued the House impeachment hearings on into the summer and beyond the election. But I wish the House had subpoenaed them and just let the process drag out through the election summer. It would have kept this important issue before the public's attention. --Percy
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JonF Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
The Rude Pundit: #Wattlegate: Is the President Digitally Touching Up His Neck? An Investigation
quote: Edited by JonF, : No reason given.
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vimesey Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
He seems to be following in the footsteps of at least one of history's oh-so-illustrious leaders:
Forbidden - Stack ExchangeCould there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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Taq Member Posts: 10085 Joined: Member Rating: 5.1
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Hyroglyphx writes: I attribute this mostly to the lackluster allegations and sloppy job legitimizing a case against him. I thought the Articles of Impeachment were very shoddy and very weak. I have never understood this view. Using public money to leverage attacks against your political opponent is a heinous act. How is that not impeachable? Using public money for personal gain is the very definition of corruption. There is also zero doubt that Trump did it. The cover up was done in broad day light through the denial of subpoenas. If Trump was a Democrat and there were 67 Republicans in the Senate, Trump would have been thrown out of office. The only reason he is still in office is because Republicans put their party before country.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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And the excuse is that the President can just decide his re-election is in the national interest and that makes it alright. Need I point out the obvious conflict of interest ?
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jar Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
This is the significant point and absolutely renders the US Constitution null and void. If the President feels it is in the best interests of the Nation he can run for reelection a third time. Or simply remain in office if his Party controls the Senate and SCOTUS.
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
Well, you have to remember how the contemporary US conservatives interpret the Constitution:
"We win every time, all the time. Those other people should just shut up and go away."The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
For all practical purposes the last 2 years has made the US Constitution null and void. donnie can do anything he wants and neither the Courts or the Congress are willing to stop him. The final bulwark against tyranny will be the states. The states that rise in opposition will in actuality be the Pro-Constitution side.
I fully expect the GOP and donnie to make some sort of call for a constitutional overhaul which they will market as a revival. A dissolution of The Republic is on the horizon. The question is how violent. Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9201 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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This is what happens when you fire all the experts and appoint sycophants to positions of authority. We are so totally and utterly screwed.
Looks like this administration is intent in spreading the virus not containing it. Maybe it is just rank incompetence. quote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/...ees-hhs-whistleblower-saysFacts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie? |
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JonF Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 6174 Joined:
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Dem Rep Skewers Betsy DeVos: 'Strike This Racist Research'
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Of course, Cadet Bonespurs would never have had any training in nor any clue about leadership. And it shows. Every single day!
The US military takes leadership very seriously for obvious reasons. Every level of Professional Military Education, Leadership School, PO and CPO Indoctrination, Senior Enlisted Academy, officers' schools at all levels, etc, directly address leadership, what it is, how it functions, and how to develop it. The US military takes leadership fucking seriously. Oversimplifying it for this discussion, there are two basic principles in leadership:
To reduce it to a sound-bite: "You delegate authority, but never responsibility." The moment that Trump starts whining that he's not responsible for what his administration has done, he announces his complete and utter failure as a leader.
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Today the Trump administration charged Venezuelan President Maduro with drug trafficking, putting a $15 million dollar bounty on his head.
Can you say Noriega redux? Why is Trump adding to the history the US's misbehavior and misadventures in Central and South America? Doesn't he have enough to worry about at home? Or was this just all he could think of to grab the news cycle on a day when the US is going to pass China to take the world lead in number of coronavirus infections. --Percy
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