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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Ivanka notably was paid as a consultant while simultaneously having a job there, which is just part of the many outright examples of fraud in Trump's taxes.
Trump's haircuts are not actually able to be written off the way they were too.
Trump owns the property but...he doesn't own the property. A huge chunk of his businesses are collateral to the massive billion dollar loans that Trump takes out regularly to keep up his lifestyle.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-and-deutsche-bank-loans-2019-3
Deutche Bank loaned him two billion dollars over twenty years (and two of its Presidents involved in the loan committed suicide under mysterious circumstances).
Imagine the interest on that.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 28th 2020 at 3:56:06 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Never mind the extreme probability that these loans were influenced in some way by the Russian government, presumably as a way to influence Trump as well as gain leverage over him.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"More details from the Indy on the Parscale incident.
Seems like he's been spending much of his time since July drinking, collecting guns, and beating his wife.
Oh yes, because no one would have loaned him 2 billion dollars otherwise.
And while I don't think Trump could have killed those bank Presidents, we know Putin can and does kill people via assassins.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.The Text Formatting Rules cover everything I believe.[1]
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Chuck Schumer was on Pod Save America the other day and he talked about the Supreme Court.
Step 1 right now is to contact everyone, show them what will happen if a Republican court is in power, and get them to call, protest, picket, whatever Republican senators and try to get them to change their minds.
Step 2 is to do whatever they can to delay the confirmation hearing. Schumer talks about how they're already doing this by by stalling committee hearings. Though he admits Moscow Mitch has changed the rules to make this not much of a hurdle anymore. Interestingly, he mentions they have "other tools" they plan to use but didn't want to say what exactly on air to prevent Republicans from knowing what was coming.
Favreau, the host, raises the option of Democrats boycotting the confirmation hearings altogether to protest how wrong the whole things is.
A Politico article is brought up where three senators have raised questions about Dianne Feinstein's leadership ability as the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and if Schumer still has faith in her. Schumer maintains that he still does and he's not worried about Feinstein. It's Graham he says we should be worried about since he's been so blatant about lying and going back on his words, and points out he's doing the same thing on off-shore drilling; totally for it and taking money from oil companies to get it done, but suddenly opposes it now that the election is putting his record in the spotlight.
There are places we've lost. At one point, to show you how things change, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska had six Democratic senators now they have six Republican. My prediction is if you look in the West and the South, particularly if we can do strong things on voting rights and making sure poor people, people of color, are allowed to vote then I think you're gonna find that map changing. Look at Arizona! It was a Republican state now it's likely to be a Democratic state. North Carolina, the rural population used to be the largest vote, now the Raleigh-Durham area is 35% bigger than the Charlotte area which is not as progressive as Raleigh-Durham. So it's chaning. I'm not sure we would ever get to 60, but the bottom line we have to bring real change. We cannot get this majority and not bring the kind of change that's needed. The three big areas we'd focus on are climate, economic inequality, and democracy, broadly defined. Meaning making it easier to vote, getting rid of Citizens United, getting rid of the Shelby decision, stuff like that. And we're going to figure out the best way to get all that done. Because not doing things, not getting things done is not an option. That's the worst way to lose.
Schumer goes on to say he would definitely approve of of statehood for DC and Puerto Rico and reassures the listeners that Trump's plan to make Republican legislatures appoint pro-Trump electors even he doesn't win the state is a pipe dream because of state laws or governors who will oppose any attempt to do so.
I'm currently doing my absentee vote. Aside from straight Democrat, we have three law adjustments with the first two being page long descriptions meant to confuse you on what the vote is about ("victims rights" and "expanding term limits" respectively). You can tell which ones the Republicans want to obfuscate because the third is simply, "Do you support the sale of alcoholic beverages in Boyd County?" [It is not presently].
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 28th 2020 at 4:40:14 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.A couple of judges are ideologically competing.
1. The term limits one is actually important because it is designed to extend term limits for Federal employees and circuit judges (uniformly red) to eight years, allowing Mitch and the GOP to get a stranglehold on the state even further.
2. The second is to add Marsy's Law to Kentucky in order to make the state even harsher on "criminals."
https://ballotpedia.org/Kentucky_2020_ballot_measures
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 28th 2020 at 5:00:14 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.First debate is going to be tomorrow at 9PM Eastern Time
Well if nothing else, it's great that the two are finally going to speak to each other instead of trading barbs in interviews multiple states away. Here's hoping that people actually care about the points that'll get brought up and not just mindlessly cheer about their guy as if it's a football game.
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