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Friday, March 30, 2018 10:09 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by THGRRI: Hey SECOND, how is it people still don't understand that Trumps financial ties to anything Russia, which may be revealed in Trumps taxes, is important because it may show if Putin has his hooks in Trump. Hey jack, if you don't have any trusted reputable sources of information, than you are ignorant and need to realize your thoughts and concerns are groundless, or not based on any good reason or reality. T
Saturday, March 31, 2018 7:12 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by THGRRI: Hey SECOND, how is it people still don't understand that Trumps financial ties to anything Russia, which may be revealed in Trumps taxes, is important because it may show if Putin has his hooks in Trump. Hey jack, if you don't have any trusted reputable sources of information, than you are ignorant and need to realize your thoughts and concerns are groundless, or not based on any good reason or reality. T The IRS already knows what is in them. They have from the beginning. Does the IRS not work for the US Government now? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Now, the argument could be made that there might be transactions that aren't traceable because they weren't properly filed and that money could be involved with Russia that wasn't on the books... But the problem with that is two fold. 1) The tax returns would not show any of this. 2) An IRS audit of his finances should discover this, in theory. This is all in the IRS's court now. Releasing thousands of pages for Maddow's team to sift through isn't going to do anybody any good except for Maddow and the MSM ratings. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Saturday, March 31, 2018 7:30 AM
Saturday, March 31, 2018 9:05 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by THGRRI: Hey SECOND, how is it people still don't understand that Trumps financial ties to anything Russia, which may be revealed in Trumps taxes, is important because it may show if Putin has his hooks in Trump. Hey jack, if you don't have any trusted reputable sources of information, than you are ignorant and need to realize your thoughts and concerns are groundless, or not based on any good reason or reality. T The IRS already knows what is in them. They have from the beginning. Does the IRS not work for the US Government now? I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Now, the argument could be made that there might be transactions that aren't traceable because they weren't properly filed and that money could be involved with Russia that wasn't on the books... But the problem with that is two fold. 1) The tax returns would not show any of this. 2) An IRS audit of his finances should discover this, in theory. This is all in the IRS's court now. Releasing thousands of pages for Maddow's team to sift through isn't going to do anybody any good except for Maddow and the MSM ratings. Do Right, Be Right. :)6ix, you could be a spokesman for the GOP because you are very good at appearing to give explanations that stop the critics in their tracks. But you are faking knowledge you don’t have. And sometimes you simply write things that are the opposite of factual. I point you to a table showing $3.44 trillion of unpaid taxes. You might think that is a mighty powerful motivation for the IRS, even more powerful than making sure the President is not a tax thief. You’d be wrong, even if you say the ball is in the IRS court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion_in_the_United_States#Estimates_of_lost_government_revenue Why did the IRS not collect $3.44 trillion? It is the same reason as why the IRS has not discovered Trump is a tax cheat. The IRS does not have a budget large enough to find the tax cheating. Income tax audits plummet as IRS loses agents to budget cuts www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-irs-audits-budget-cuts-20170305-story.html Trump Budget Continues Multi-Year Assault on IRS Funding Despite Mnuchin’s Call for More Resources www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-continues-multi-year-assault-on-irs-funding-despite-mnuchins IRS income tax audits plummet as agency faces budget cuts www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0306/IRS-income-tax-audits-plummet-as-agency-faces-budget-cuts “I think there are a certain group of people that will always try to push the envelope to get away with things that they think they can get away with.” I think Trump is in "a certain group of people". Remember the $3.44 trillion? Some of that could be in Trump's $10 billion fortune. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Saturday, March 31, 2018 11:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: lol... Jesus Christ. Trumps got you Lefty Loony Tunes so messed up right now that you're calling for an increase in the IRS budget? I've heard you idiots say time and time again that he wont' show his tax returns because it would show that he's broke. Now you're trying to argue 3.44 trillion in unpaid debt that the IRS won't go after, as if to say that a large part of that would be his? There is no reason to release it to the public, other than to farm out their job to the likes of Rachel Maddow's team. They aren't Trump's dirty little secret. The IRS has them. He's one man. All it would take is a Woodward and Berstein in the IRS department doing a little overtime to pull a Nixon on him if there's anything damning in there. Don't hide behind a lack of funds. That's such a bullshit cop out and you know it. There's going to be a sharp drop in job duties around there in a couple of weeks. I'm sure they can come up with something. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Saturday, March 31, 2018 11:55 AM
Saturday, March 31, 2018 12:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: lol... Jesus Christ. Trumps got you Lefty Loony Tunes so messed up right now that you're calling for an increase in the IRS budget? I've heard you idiots say time and time again that he wont' show his tax returns because it would show that he's broke. Now you're trying to argue 3.44 trillion in unpaid debt that the IRS won't go after, as if to say that a large part of that would be his? There is no reason to release it to the public, other than to farm out their job to the likes of Rachel Maddow's team. They aren't Trump's dirty little secret. The IRS has them. He's one man. All it would take is a Woodward and Berstein in the IRS department doing a little overtime to pull a Nixon on him if there's anything damning in there. Don't hide behind a lack of funds. That's such a bullshit cop out and you know it. There's going to be a sharp drop in job duties around there in a couple of weeks. I'm sure they can come up with something. Do Right, Be Right. :)I see precisely why you are poor; too bad for you that you won't see what I see. The National Debt is $3.44 trillion higher than it should be because the biggest, smartest taxpayers know the IRS cannot penetrate their cheating. The IRS needs to hire more forensic accountants to go after the tax evaders, but it can't pay for more accountants, thanks to Congress. I could prove this with my own tax returns, but then I would have proved I don't deserve to be in that highly selective group of the biggest, smartest taxpayers, which Trump has been a leading member for the last 50 years. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Saturday, March 31, 2018 2:34 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I'm not poor. I'm one of the few people in this country who own their house free and clear. Idiot. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Saturday, March 31, 2018 3:20 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I'm not poor. I'm one of the few people in this country who own their house free and clear. Idiot. Do Right, Be Right. :)You are bragging about your shack in a flood zone, 6ix. I remember what you wrote about not knowing because by law nobody had to tell you. I've traveled all through Central and South America and have seen a million proud homeowners that can brag exactly the same as you about their dirt floor shack that could be destroyed in next hard rain, but it is free and clear of any mortgage! Which reminds me that neither you nor Trump have any detailed ideas about how a business really works. He tweeted something stupid this morning, and he has been told repeatedly that he got it wrong, but he can't learn: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars. If the P.O. “increased its parcel rates, Amazon’s shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion.” This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now! 5:45 AM - 31 Mar 2018 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/980063581592047617 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/980065419632566272 Many have already pointed out that Amazon isn’t ripping off the Post Office. “The conventional wisdom is that Amazon has actually been a rare boon for the financially battered Postal Service,” wrote Slate’s Jordan Weissmann. Even Trump allies have reportedly tried to explain to the president why his views are misguided, but he’s having none of it. “The whole post office thing, that’s very much a perception he has,” a source told Axios earlier this week. “It’s been explained to him in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon.” Although some analysis have claimed that the Postal Service undercharges Amazon, they reach that number “by re-allocating the Post Office’s benefits costs—not the costs specific to package delivery,” notes CBS News, which points out that package delivery is one of the few lines of business that is actually growing. Plus there’s the pesky detail that it would technically be against the law for the Postal Service to lose money on delivering packages. CBS News explains: The 2006 law also mandated that each line of business within the postal service cover its attributable costs. In other words, for the postal service to lose money on package delivery would be against the law. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/trump-blasts-amazon-for-post-office-scam-says-washington-post-should-register-as-lobbyist.html
Saturday, March 31, 2018 5:40 PM
Sunday, April 1, 2018 8:54 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: It's not a shack. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. So... yeah. Not poor. Care to try again Second?
Sunday, April 1, 2018 8:58 AM
THGRRI
Sunday, April 1, 2018 9:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by THGRRI: Think Archie Bunker T
Sunday, April 1, 2018 9:27 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: It's not a shack. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. So... yeah. Not poor. Care to try again Second?Shack offended? May your house be as good as Rosenne's. Remember the show Roseanne? The hardships facing working-class America? It's back! It's Trump! There is a Roseanne tweet about Trump is the next Lincoln freeing the Child Sex Slaves tied to the Deep State and the Democratic Party. This is NOT a parody of a news story: Roseanne Barr faced heavy criticism on social media this weekend after posting a tweet apparently indicating support for an online conspiracy theory claiming President Trump is involved in combating a global trafficking ring tied to the "deep state." In a tweet posted Friday night, the "Roseanne" star alleged that Trump was breaking up human trafficking rings and freeing "hundreds" of children in sex slavery around the world every month. "President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt - 4 now," the actress wrote. "i thought today was a good day to talk about freeing kids from sex slavery, since it is Passover. I didn't realize that so many were not aware of it. Anyway, no more opinions from me on twitter, it invites bullying. Moving on," Roseanne wrote in a tweet. Roseanne, an outspoken supporter of the president on social media, spoke with Trump as recently as Wednesday when the president called the actress to congratulate her on the ratings success of the reboot of her show, "Roseanne." The show prominently features Roseanne's politics as a Trump supporter. “We just kind of had a private conversation but we talked about a lot of things and he’s just happy for me,” Roseanne later told ABC’s “Good Morning America" of the call. The Trump/Roseanne story continues at http://thehill.com/homenews/media/381123-roseanne-barr-faces-social-media-backlash-over-trump-conspiracy-theory-tweet For Trump supporters who won't click the link, the bottom line is there is no truth to the rumors that Trump freed the slaves, unlike Lincoln freeing slaves. When Joss Whedon worked for Roseanne www.newsweek.com/joss-whedon-265403 The show was in chaos behind the scenes because of Roseanne’s faults. The White House is in chaos behind the scenes because of Trump’s faults.
Sunday, April 1, 2018 10:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Is there a problem with Rosanne's house? We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.
Sunday, April 1, 2018 2:10 PM
Monday, April 2, 2018 7:12 AM
Monday, April 2, 2018 7:15 AM
Monday, April 2, 2018 7:52 AM
JO753
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Monday, April 2, 2018 9:52 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: GOP TV stations warn of the danger to democracy from watching TV not controlled by GOP Nearly 200 television stations in the U.S. forced their news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The TV stations owner is a big fan of Trump and wanted his news people to repeat Trump’s words attacking all other stations that are not working for the Republican Party. What was the owner's reward from Trump for serving the GOP? Permission to buy 40 more TV stations. The script and the video are available at: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490 Sinclair regularly runs disinformation segments favorable to President Trump: one of its staples is a recurring pre-taped segment featuring Sinclair’s chief political analyst, Russian-born former Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn. As ThinkProgress previously reported, those segments frequently include misleading talking points and misinformation from the Trump administration, packaged as actual political analysis and news coverage. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, said in 2016 that the Trump campaign had agreed to a deal with Sinclair where Sinclair would get more access to Trump in exchange for more Trump-centric coverage. www.dailydot.com/layer8/sinclair-fake-news-supercut/]
Monday, April 2, 2018 9:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: Silly to giv advise az if Trump iznt perfectly aware uv how much trouble he iz in. If therez anybody hoo knowz more about the crimez he can be charjed with than Mueller, its Trump.
Monday, April 2, 2018 12:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Is there a problem with Rosanne's house? We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.6ix, why are you not planning a better future for yourself? Are you waiting for your luck to spontaneously change because this America, the land of freedom?
Monday, April 2, 2018 3:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second:Trump is unaware. Do you really think Trump is competent? He might actually believe what he said: Trump has publicly and privately said he should sit down with the special counsel.
Monday, April 2, 2018 7:56 PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:18 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Is there a problem with Rosanne's house? We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.6ix, why are you not planning a better future for yourself? Are you waiting for your luck to spontaneously change because this America, the land of freedom? I'm good. I'm not going to post again what I have been and what I am currently doing to improve my situation. I will once again say that I'm the only one in here that seems to be doing that though, while the rest of you don't seem to have grown at all. To be fair, I was quickly on my way to hitting rock bottom when we met. I had nowhere to go but up or death. And yes, I would have been dead by now if I hadn't started changing. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:32 AM
Quote:This is a special year. Our country is doing great. You look at the economy, you look at what’s happening. Nothing’s ever easy, but we have never had an economy like we have right now, and we’re going to make it bigger and better and stronger. Our military is now at a level, will soon be at a level that it’s never been before. It’s, you see what’s happening, and you see what’s happening with funding, the funding of our military, which is so important. And so many military people are with us today, so, just think of 700 billion dollars, because that’s all going into our military this year.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Is there a problem with Rosanne's house? We all can't live in Ivory Towers like you do in your mind from your mom's basement.6ix, why are you not planning a better future for yourself? Are you waiting for your luck to spontaneously change because this America, the land of freedom? I'm good. I'm not going to post again what I have been and what I am currently doing to improve my situation. I will once again say that I'm the only one in here that seems to be doing that though, while the rest of you don't seem to have grown at all. To be fair, I was quickly on my way to hitting rock bottom when we met. I had nowhere to go but up or death. And yes, I would have been dead by now if I hadn't started changing. Do Right, Be Right. :)6ix, if you are living in Indiana, a failing state, this is for you. Keep in mind there are 49 other states you could move to in order to avoid the failure of your local environment: www.chron.com/news/article/Express-lane-to-death-Texas-seeks-approval-12799384.php
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:05 PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:23 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: LOL. A failing state? That's not even worth a reply. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THGRRI: http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/is-trump-s-corruption-the-key-to-stopping-him-1200826947833 New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait argues that it's not Russia or Stormy Daniels that can stop the president, but rather the disconnect between his campaign promises and his presidential corruption.
Quote: My father, a staunch conservative Republican, continued his support for Richard Nixon through all of the revelations about his lies, corruption and obstruction of justice. In the end, dad finally abandoned him when the Oval Office tapes were published in book form because he couldn’t abide the frequency with which the president swore.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 7:42 AM
Thursday, April 5, 2018 8:29 AM
Thursday, April 5, 2018 2:34 PM
Friday, April 6, 2018 6:36 AM
Friday, April 6, 2018 6:43 AM
Friday, April 6, 2018 2:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Nothing Trump has said or done since taking office has put to rest any of the doubts that pushed people away from him had — he still seems impulsive, disrespectful, and extremely casual about the line between his personal finances and the public’s business. But at least some people were convinced to vote for him because he seemed “different” from earlier Republicans on important policy grounds. As president, he’s shown no sign of that “different” heterodox campaign persona, driving Trump-curious Democrats back to the fold. Republicans appear to have no answer to this. They are neither distancing themselves from Trump and his erratic persona nor embracing the occasionally moderate economic policy ideas he ran on two years ago. And no number of electoral losses seems able to deter them from this course. - from The Wisconsin Supreme Court election shows the blueprint for a Democratic wave www.vox.com/2018/4/5/17201374/wisconsin-supreme-court
Saturday, April 7, 2018 8:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Shirley [Surely] the Statewide Hazardous Weather storm, where the populace was urged to stay off the roads, had no possible effect on this Election.
Saturday, April 7, 2018 8:38 AM
Saturday, April 7, 2018 9:49 AM
Saturday, April 7, 2018 2:38 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Are Republican voters afraid of snowflakes, more so than Democrats?
Sunday, April 8, 2018 8:07 AM
Quote:The United States may be dividing into two increasingly polarized cultures: an increasingly secular-rational and self-expression oriented “post-materialist” culture concentrated in big cities and the academic archipelago, and a largely rural and exurban culture that has been tilting in the opposite direction, toward zero-sum survival values, while trying to hold the line on traditional values.
Sunday, April 8, 2018 11:06 AM
Sunday, April 8, 2018 4:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Two Increasingly Polarized Cultures There is evidence from the social sciences that as a society becomes wealthier, its values tend to drift toward self-expression and secular rationalism, away from traditionalism and survival values. The US has long been something of an exception among developed democracies — it has been drifting (mildly) in the direction of traditionalism. The explanation for this, Wilkinson hypothesizes, is that the small aggregate movement is hiding an extreme divergence underneath: Quote:The United States may be dividing into two increasingly polarized cultures: an increasingly secular-rational and self-expression oriented “post-materialist” culture concentrated in big cities and the academic archipelago, and a largely rural and exurban culture that has been tilting in the opposite direction, toward zero-sum survival values, while trying to hold the line on traditional values. On this theory, globalization has effectively split the US into two countries: an economically booming urban country (albeit with plenty of poor people inside it) and a stagnant or declining rural and exurban one. The fate of midsize towns and cities seems to depend on which of those two currents they catch. Like economic activity, Democrats are increasingly concentrated in cities. In a paper last year, Mark Muro and Sifan Liu at the Brookings Institution found that the fewer than 500 US counties that went for Hillary Clinton in 2016 represent “a massive 64 percent of America’s economic activity as measured by total output in 2015.” The other 36 percent of the nation’s economic output is Donald Trump country spread out in 2,600 counties. These two Americas have experienced diverging fortunes and have consequently been diverging in values, ideology, and even personality. Increasingly, cosmopolitan risk takers flock to cities while traditionalists remain in rural and exurban areas. The economic sorting has been both a driver and a consequence of the extraordinary polarization of US political life. www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/14762030/donald-trump-tribal-epistemology The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Sunday, April 8, 2018 5:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: You realize that article just said that non-Democrats are the ones that are keeping the country intact, right? If we were any other successful country in history, we would have imploded in under 200 years by excessively indulging in ultra-liberal behaviors. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sunday, April 8, 2018 7:17 PM
Sunday, April 8, 2018 9:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: You realize that article just said that non-Democrats are the ones that are keeping the country intact, right? If we were any other successful country in history, we would have imploded in under 200 years by excessively indulging in ultra-liberal behaviors. Do Right, Be Right. :)6ixStringJack, the USA imploded several times. The most famous occasion was the Civil War, where ultra-liberals were opposed to the perfectly biblical, time-tested for thousands of years, economically important institution of slavery.
Monday, April 9, 2018 7:57 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote:6ixStringJack, the USA imploded several times. The most famous occasion was the Civil War, where ultra-liberals were opposed to the perfectly biblical, time-tested for thousands of years, economically important institution of slavery. The Phantom of the make-believe Ultra-Liberal Republicans rises yet again, in the delusions of the Freedom-Hating Democraps.
Quote:6ixStringJack, the USA imploded several times. The most famous occasion was the Civil War, where ultra-liberals were opposed to the perfectly biblical, time-tested for thousands of years, economically important institution of slavery.
Monday, April 9, 2018 8:07 AM
Monday, April 9, 2018 8:12 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: The end product joins an elite series of similarly blackhearted comedies about the reptilian impulses that drive men in power: "Dr. Strangelove," "Apocalypse Now,” “Catch-22," "M*A*S*H" and (lower mammal division) "Animal Farm."
Monday, April 9, 2018 9:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: The end product joins an elite series of similarly blackhearted comedies about the reptilian impulses that drive men in power: "Dr. Strangelove," "Apocalypse Now,” “Catch-22," "M*A*S*H" and (lower mammal division) "Animal Farm." You view Animal Farm as a comedy? Seriously. WTF is wrong with you? Do Right, Be Right. :)
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