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Percy Member Posts: 22492 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Here are a couple of precious interactions between Trump and reporters from Trump's Monday coronavirus campaign rally from Paula Reid and Kaitlan Collins pop the toddler king's balloon and he melts down | Salon.com. Reid is CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid:
Reid: What did you do with that time that you bought? The argument is that you bought yourself some time. You didn't use it to prepare hospitals. You didn't use it to ramp up testing. Right now, nearly 20 million people are unemployed.
Trump: You're so disgraceful. It's so disgraceful the way you say that.
Reid: Tens of thousands of Americans are dead. How is this rant supposed to make people feel confident in an unprecedented crisis? What did your administration do in February for the time that your travel ban bought you?
Trump: A lot.
Reid: What?
Trump: A lot, and in fact, we'll give you a list. We did a lot. Look, look, you know you're a fake. In this exchange Collins is CNN White House correspondent Kaitlin Collins:
Collins: You said when someone is president of the United States, their authority is total. That is not true. Who told you that?
Trump: You know what we're going to do? We're going to write up papers on this.
Collins: Has any governor agreed that you have the authority to decide when their states
Trump: I haven't asked anybody because. You know why? Because I don't have to .
Collins: But who told you the president has the total authority?
Trump: Enough! Nice to see some reporters actually challenging Trump in real time in front of the cameras instead of in a later report. --Percy
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 761 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
It’s past time now for several reporters, congresscritters, and advisory staff to all as one voice yell BULLSHIT at this two-bit wannabe tyrant when he starts on this crap. On live TV. This is ridiculous and needs to stop.
We really do have a 25th Amendment.
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jar Member (Idle past 420 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The issue with 25ing 45 is two-fold.
First, Pence is a bigger threat than the Orange Menace and unfortunately, more effective. Second, 25ing is similar to impeachment. And the Senate with the Chief Justice presiding determined that if the President believes some act is in the Best Interests of the Nation, then that act is lawful and does not rise to an impeachable offense.
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JonF Member (Idle past 194 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
He wants us to think he's responsible for the payment. And nothing else.
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1431 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
We got ours, direct deposit, so don't have to see nasty signature.
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JonF Member (Idle past 194 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Trump Launched a Coronavirus Economic Council Without Telling Members They Were on It
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Percy Member Posts: 22492 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
It is apparently in human nature when seeing some qualities they like to ignore dishonesty, duplicity, cruelty and inhumanity. This is an except from a WWII diary by a Nazi-supporting citizen of the Netherlands as the Nazis occupied her country as published in the NYT in The Lost Diaries of War - The New York Times. The Nazis invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940:
quote: Just as many people saw in Hitler qualities that clearly were not there, so today do many people see in Trump qualities that are just as clearly absent. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22492 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
RAZD writes: We got ours, direct deposit, so don't have to see nasty signature. We got this at the website:
The referenced Frequently Asked Questions webpage says:
In certain cases, the Get My Payment app will be unable to tell you the status of your payment. You may receive this message for one of the following reasons:
You can check the app again to see whether there has been an update to your information. Get My Payment data is updated once per day, so there’s no need to check back more frequently. None of these cover our situation. We're just standard "work for a salary with federal taxes automatically deducted, sell a little ESPP stock, and file our tax return on time every year" type of people. The only thing out of the ordinary is that we usually end up owing a small amount of money every year instead of getting a refund. --Percy
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jar Member (Idle past 420 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
No one I know who is on SSA has received a check and there has been no notification of when that might happen. And it is certainly not that SSA does not have our banking information.
For many of us a delay is not a major catastrophe but for some it would really really make a difference in their lives.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I am on SS and I received a direct deposit yesterday.
However, I also filed my income tax for 2019 with a refund. DFAS takes out income tax withholding from my military retirement, so I do get a refund for which I provided IRS with my banking information for direct deposit. That would also be the case for SS beneficiaries 70.5 or older who have to withdraw a certain percentage of their IRA and 401(k) accounts each year -- account managers should withhold for taxes, plus the withdrawal is not only taxable but it also makes part of one's SS benefits taxable as well. Oh, and the deposit entry when I looked at it online mentioned IRS. So we have a few different scenarios which center around our tax returns:
So then the plan for SS beneficiaries covered by scenarios #2 and #3 is for the SSA to issue those payments, I take it. The delay in getting those payments out would depend on how late the SSA was informed of this.
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JonF Member (Idle past 194 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Trump’s effort to enlist private companies to reopen economy derided as an utter failure
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1431 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I am on SS and I received a direct deposit yesterday. Oh, and the deposit entry when I looked at it online mentioned IRS. So we have a few different scenarios which center around our tax returns:
Because we also get Canadian Pension and disbursements from Canadian "401k" we pay taxes in Canada, and they take a big chunk because we are non-residents. These always right off US taxes so we get refunds, which we have direct deposit to our bank. Enjoyby our ability to understand RebelAmericanZenDeist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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JonF Member (Idle past 194 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
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jar Member (Idle past 420 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
you know that none of your tweet posts show anything but "Tweet with this ID was deleted or is invalid: 1251188815886200833 "
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1431 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I can see them.
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