ReeferMadness
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Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup
US allies are reporting that they're aware this was an attempt at a coup.
QuoteA law-enforcement official who trains with US forces believes someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress
People who support this guy would normally lose their shit about stuff like this. But the fact that people are still sticking up for him just shows there is no bottom to the level of hypocrisy.
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8 hours ago, Argus said:
Pictures of protesters who entered the Capitol with zip ties, presumably to use on the politicians they got their hands on.
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That guy is wearing tactical gear and a face mask obviously worn to conceal his identity. He's not one of the "yeehadi" patsies that comprised most of the mob. The question is whether he was there of his own volition or was he sent in.
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21 hours ago, WestCanMan said:
They used the word sedition wrong on CNN yesterday (I saw a clip of Joke Yapper), no surprises there because they're dolts at the very best, and you just copied them.
For your edification:
se·di·tion/səˈdiSH(ə)n/noun-
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
I didn't use the noun sedition, I used the adjective seditious. Most people would double-check before they correct someone so they don't look foolish. Good on you for not caring.
QuoteDefinition of seditious
1 : disposed to arouse or take part in or guilty of sedition2 : of, relating to, or tending toward sedition -
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2 minutes ago, DogOnPorch said:
Trumpism...now there's a term coined by the Communist Left. We used to call them Americans.
Well, Trumpism is about a racist, anti-science, anti-government, pro-conspiracy theory strain of malignant stupidity.
If you say that's American, I'm not one to argue.
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4 minutes ago, Petros said:
It's clear that the line was drawn in the sand in the aftermath of the attempted coup by Trump supporters on the Capitol. You either favor democracy, or you favor fascism. There is no middle ground at all, going forward.
Elaine Chao just announced her resignation. Coward. Cabinet should be invoking the 25th amendment, not running away and hiding.
It must be so humiliating to be American right now.
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Yesterday, in the midst of watching a seditious mob casually walk past an unprepared capitol hill police force, I came across a brilliant tweet:
QuoteThe USA is invading the USA to overthrow their own democratically elected government. Makes you wonder about all those other governments the USA has overthrown, doesn't it?
After spending the 20th century undermining democratically elected governments that commit the unforgivable crime of failing to be sufficiently deferential to US business interests, the US became a snake trying to devour it's own tail.
Much attention was paid to Trump and his gang of sycophants. However, Trumpism is only marginally about Trump.
For decades, across the western world, right wing ideologues (starting with Reagan and Thatcher) have been trashing anything remotely resembling collective action. Governments have been discredited (conservatives are people who are so convinced governments are incompetent, they elect people who will prove them right) and taxes slashed. The predictable results have been a diminished sense of individual security as wages stagnated; and healthcare and education retreated towards their traditional roles of being the exclusive preserve of the wealthy. Even among people doing relatively well, there is a heightened sense of precariousness as these days, anyone can lose their livelihood overnight. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the US, where education and healthcare are most expensive, worker protections are weakest and corruption is rampant.
Having been thoroughly inculcated with anti-government ideology, conservatives looked for others to blame for their problems and Trump supplied them with plenty of others - immigrants, Muslims, the media, and, most of all, Democrats. Hyped up on conspiracy theories, people will now automatically discredit anything that comes from "official" sources and believe whatever they find on the internet that confirms their beliefs.
Many people assume that things will be OK as soon as Trump is out of office but this is far from evident. Seventy-five million lost souls voted for an evidently delusional, lifelong-crooked failed businessman who has never taken responsibility for anything. Those people will still be there once Trump leaves.
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22 hours ago, WestCanMan said:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-sues-philadelphia-mail-in-ballot-offices
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/detroit-chaos-republican-vote-challengers
Election rules are simple: both parties get to have campaign representatives overseeing the ballot counts.
Not so in places like Detroit and Philadelphia where no oversight of ballot counting has been allowed in ballot-counting rooms by Republican representatives. Not surprisingly there were just enough Dem votes mailed in to save the day for Biden.
Interestingly enough, CNN was already verifying the legitimacy of this year's election on the night of the election, because somehow in their heart of hearts they just knew that everything was a-ok. But how's that even a thing? Aren't they the ones who were convinced that the whole 2016 election was illegal? In all honesty, they were kind of right, because one party caught cheating 3 times during the last election. The Dems. [Rigging a primary against Bernie, getting debate questions fed to them before the Presidential debates, and it's well-known that they were caught colluding with Russians for election dirt against Trump via Perkins Coie -> Christopher Steele -> dirty sneaky Russians]
The Dems were the party of the southern states who fought for secession so that they could keep their slaves, they fought against the blacks legally gaining the right to vote, after the blacks won that right the KKK was one of the Dems' paramilitary groups that used violence to stop blacks from voting, and in 2020 they were caught working to disenfranchise voters again.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Tighten up your tin hat.
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The White House just announced that Trump and Melania tested positive for COVID.
I can't wait to see how his supporters spin this, given how his mishandling of the pandemic has caused the deaths of over 200,000 Americans. This is the virus he called a hoax and he promised the pandemic would be over months ago.
US has one of the worst leaders in the world right now.
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1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:
And so we have it. The liar and colossal loser who owes hundreds of millions, who made deficits that should have made the Tea Party melt... well... he is still their hero.
They literally don't care. He doesn't pay taxes - who cares? He's a raving hypocrite who literally does everything he criticized others for - it's fine! He used his daddy's wealth and privilege to skip out of the Vietnam War - that's OK. He went bankrupt more than anyone else I know - that just makes him a smarter business man! He spent his life stiffing contractors and employees? Proves he's so smart! He's a serial liar? No, that's just the way he talks. He uses his office to enrich himself - it's Biden's fault!
These people will excuse anything. They're trapped in worlds of their own making. And that's where they'll stay. Half of them are Qanon so they're probably beyond reach anyway.
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14 minutes ago, Shady said:
Yep, the tax code is filled with carve outs that Trump isn’t responsible for. He paid the legally required amount in taxes.
Only he is responsible for making them worse.
QuoteThe law became even more beneficial to them after Trump's Republican allies in Congress pushed through his $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, which took effect in 2018.
You guys don't give a shit about corruption. Just owning the 'libruls'.
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10 minutes ago, Infidel Dog said:
And maybe you gullible TDSers might want to read the things you find on the internet before you start bragging about what you think is in there.
Here's the Intro to your article:
How is that not what I said?
QuoteStill, Wamhoff noted, Trump claims “the special breaks and loopholes that are available in the tax code and sometimes just takes them to a whole new level."
In other words, he's a tax cheat.
QuoteThe law became even more beneficial to them after Trump's Republican allies in Congress pushed through his $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, which took effect in 2018.
Oh, and look at that. Your corrupt president signed a tax bill that provided a huge benefit to him personally.
But hey, drain the swamp, right?
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3 minutes ago, Infidel Dog said:
Nonsense. The rich find tax breaks. You're not breaking any groundbreaking news by telling people this. It's one of the arguments you hear when they talk about how at one time there was a 90% income tax. The rich were able to hire the people to find them tax breaks and could pay less than they did before the tax hikes. Much less. Remember Warren Buffet pretending to complain about paying less than his secretary on tax while his company fought in court to have billions in tax debt expunged?
Yeah. Not so much.
I know you Trump supporters aren't so big on "librul" stuff like "reading" or "thinking". But maybe before you talk BS, you could think that the rest of us have the internet as a resource.
QuoteThe richest 400 Americans paid an overall tax rate of 23%, including federal, state and local taxes, compared with 24.2% for the bottom 50% — and compared with Trump's effective 0% federal income tax
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56 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
Wow. Money laundering. Can't say I'm surprised. BTW this is Forbes magazine...
I don't know if it will hurt him. Maybe the best bell weather is the response from his cult on here.
It's only $170 million. I'm sure over the years, Trump has ripped people off for a lot more than that. Which of his businesses haven't been scams of one sort or another?
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No doubt each one of his supporters on this board paid more than $750 in income taxes. They'd be in prison for pulling the crap he's gotten away with. Does it bother them?
I suppose when you're a true believer, you can swallow anything.
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As with almost everything about Trump, he shows rampant hypocrisy for repeatedly criticizing Obama for not paying enough taxes.
Will this bother his supporters? Probably not. They've shown the unique ability to tune out everything negative about him (and that's quite a trick given what a vile history he has).
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I don't expect Trump supporters to really care that the hundreds of millions of dollars of personally guaranteed debt owed to entities unknown make their president vulnerable to leverage.
Because, really, by now, they've demonstrated they care about nothing except "owning the libruls".
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36 minutes ago, scribblet said:
If writing off massive business losses is so wrong, why haven't Democrats changed the tax laws....
Trump has made his name on how great he is at business. He's a damned fraud. His main accomplishments are an unbroken string of bankruptcies.
You guys are all victims of the big con.
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In other news, Trump's recent campaign manager, Brad Parscale was arrested and is on suicide watch amid reports of campaign money laundering. His wife was sporting bruises.
Does Trump know anyone who isn't a criminal?
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Oh. And writing off $70,000 for hair styling. Don't all Trump supporters do that?
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Trump's popularity has been remarkably immune to things that would have ended most presidencies. Open racism? It doesn't matter. He's caught on tape expressing misogynistic thoughts? "Locker room talk". He uses the presidency to line his pockets? He's a "smart business man". He rips off his contractors? Everyone does it.
Will the revelation that he pays basically no income taxes hurt him? Will his supporters finally see themselves as chumps for backing him? It's too soon to say. But this could be the thing that finally hurts him. Ordinary people collecting paychecks have neither the tax loopholes nor the army of accountants and tax lawyers to do what he does. How can anyone see Trump as being an "ordinary guy" now?
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Even by Trump's standards, going on TV and suggesting that people inject disinfectant or stand in front UV light strong enough to affect this virus is a stunning display of sheer stupidity.
Almost as bad a supporting a guy who would do that. Can't overstate how much faith I've lost in people after this. How pathetic it must be to be a Trump supporter. smfh.
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Below is a link to Trump calling Covid 19 a "brilliant enemy" and claiming that it's too smart for antibiotics. How did people become so stupid as to vote for a man who doesn't even know that antibiotics are used against bacteria, not viruses?
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By time this is over the deaths of perhaps 10s or even 100s of thousands of people will be the fault of an unintelligent egomaniac who somehow was given the presidency.
US wasted months failing to prepare for Coronavirus
QuoteAs the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment.
QuoteTrump spent January and February playing down the threat from the new virus. He derided warnings of pandemic reaching the U.S. as a hoax perpetrated by Democrats and the media. As the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global public health emergency on Jan. 30, Trump assured the American people that the virus was “very well under control” and he predicted “a very good ending.”
He and every last one of his supporters who can't come clean on this deserve nothing but derision and contempt.
Why hasn't America ever experienced a coup and a dictatorship?
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Well, this topic seems quaint now, doesn't it?