Samantha Bee Follows Trump’s Paper Trails [VIDEO]
Trump is hiding the Mueller Report behind Executive Privilege - a move he stole from hiding his bad businesses behind regular rich guy privilege.
Trump is hiding the Mueller Report behind Executive Privilege - a move he stole from hiding his bad businesses behind regular rich guy privilege.
Got CL’d on last thread.
re: #314 Dave In Austin
LOLOLOL!!
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Twin Cities-based MyPillow is laying off roughly 10% of its workforce at its manufacturing plant in Shakopee.
That means about 150 employees will be without jobs.
In a statement, CEO Mike Lindell says: “Exciting changes are happening at MyPillow. I am getting ready to launch my next venture, mystore.com.”
Lindell says the decision was difficult, but what’s best for the future of the company, to make room for the online store where inventors will sell their products.
He said employees have been informed of job opportunities outside of MyPillow if they choose.
Lindell said they anticipate hiring once the new online store is up and running.
Ah, yes. The “you can’t have your old job back but we’ll give you a new one that pays less” trick.
I’m a little surprised that there’s a grift so obvious even right wingers can see it. https://t.co/7IPF76RsC3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 10, 2019
Am I just bad, or what? When I see/hear the term “Trump’s Paper Trails”, I visualize them as bathroom tissue: trailing from his shoe, or pants…..
re: #2 Charles Johnson
How else will the grifters be able to have McCarthy Salads at the Polo Lounge every day?
He’s still going…
Mirroring and projecting are exactly the same thing. So, you are only debating and criticizing yourself, jackass.
— Kurt St. Angelo (@saintangelo) May 10, 2019
“Two cents out of every dollar of business loss reported in the United States.”
In 1992, @MADmagazine published this cartoon about @realDonaldTrump - “When should we believe Donald Trump?”
That’s almost 30 years ago. #BillionDollarLoser #TrumpTaxes
(Image by Mike Snider & Sam Viviano). pic.twitter.com/bbx4HFbKF6— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) May 9, 2019
re: #8 jaunte
“Two cents out of every dollar of business loss reported in the United States.”
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Most people who actualy paid attention knew he was a con from the get go.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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LOL.
So is the location of “The Wall” going to be kept “secret”, so that the hordes of illegal criminal taco-truck caravans won’t know where it is, and be able to avoid it?
Brilliant plan!
Blasting caps, too. The prevalence of these PSAs was incredible in the late 50s and early 60s.Youtube Video
The reason for this was that local TV stations were always short on content, especially free content, and the Institute of Explosive Makers put a lot of effort into making safety warnings on behalf of the industry. The warnings were intended for a limited audience around mines and quarries and the like but they soon spread everywhere, and a generation was convinced that the whole countryside and every vacant lot was littered with dangerous explosive debris.
Republicans have stopped pretending on abortion
By Paul Waldman
Opinion writer
Republicans realize they now have a chance they didn’t have before Mitch McConnell refused to allow Barack Obama to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat and Anthony Kennedy retired. There are now five justices on the court who are almost certainly opposed to Roe, so state Republicans are hoping to force their hand.
As I’ve noted before, if they wanted to be sneaky about it, the Supreme Court could make Roe meaningless without overturning it, by narrowing the notion of an “undue burden” on the right to an abortion (a standard established in another abortion case) so far that states would be free to impose even the most draconian restrictions, like mandating that all abortion clinics be built of solid gold, use medical instruments that have been to space, and communicate with their patients only in cuneiform. The outlawing of abortion wouldn’t be in the language of the bill, but it would be the inevitable effect.
Y’know, if it had been 666 pages, you’d have trimmed enough material or added enough padding to get it OFF that number. That you didn’t do it with an even MORE EVIL number tells me all I need to know about your beliefs.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 10, 2019
.@StarTribune: “[Polaris CEO] Scott Wine said new Chinese tariffs would be potentially ‘catastrophic’ to the Medina-based business, with the potential to erase one-third of the company’s net income.”https://t.co/VVdxgFAaRc
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) May 8, 2019
.@nbcsandiego Chinese Tariffs Bring Prices of Electronics, Groceries Up
↳ “You say groceries — I mean, it’s everything… we’re seeing prices jump on *all sorts* of products, and those tariffs could rise even more.”https://t.co/6Wly23RDgs— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) May 9, 2019
“OMAHA, Neb. — A new report says a nearly $200 million decline in Nebraska’s agricultural exports in 2017 was driven by President Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on U.S. trading partners.”https://t.co/T7woCpnmfk
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) May 10, 2019
Friday’s US-China trade talks come to surprisingly early end https://t.co/mr2aYG52kv by @owenschurchill and @RFDelaney
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) May 10, 2019
Tariffs will be going into effect.
re: #18 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Surprisingly early?
No.
It was entirely predictable. Trump has no clue what he’s doing on trade, but thinks whatever he’s doing is the only and right course of action.
Lost in the hilarity - Ben Shapiro actually defended jailing women for 30 years for having an abortion.
So as funny as today is, also FUCK THAT GUY.— Danny Boy (@Care2much18) May 10, 2019
I just ran this comment from Ben Shapiro through my Dipshit-to-English translator. Here’s what I got back:
“I behaved like a total dick because I thought this guy was a ‘Leftist.’ I was woefully ill prepared and acted like a jerk. That usually works in the U.S.A.” https://t.co/Y2UjYJRI8L— Ed Bott (@edbott) May 10, 2019
re: #21 jaunte
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Because the right wing here in America has always hated sex without consequence, and the religious types have been very specific about that.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 10, 2019
re: #26 HappyWarrior
He’s for small government and individual rights.//
Small enough to get into your lingerie drawer and investigate your panties.
re: #10 Jay C
LOL.
So is the location of “The Wall” going to be kept “secret”, so that the hordes of illegal criminal taco-truck caravans won’t know where it is, and be able to avoid it?
Brilliant plan!
Gee, I wonder where a Border Wall might be located. There’s just so many places to put it….
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Since I’m catching up on the last thread:
re: #291 DangerMan
4 Elementary School Teachers Suspended After Photo Emerges Of Them Holding Noose, Laughing
so once again…
we know exactly what we’re doing
we know exactly what it means
we didn’t think anyone would find out…and we’d be able to get away with being our racist selves
That parent quote, “It’s time to get out of this state,” makes little sense.
The “get out of this area” part is prolly a good idea; the teachers’ replacements in Palmdale are unlikely to be much less racist, after all. But California as a state is still the furthest-left, least-racist place in the US. If you have to leave the entire state to get to a place of tolerance, you have to leave the country too.
re: #27 Scottish Dragon
Small enough to get into your lingerie drawer and investigate your panties.
Shapiro-sized fascism.
re: #14 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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On top of that, the immigration policies are robbing dairy farmers in places like Wisconsin of workers—I just heard that over two hundred dairy farms have disappeared in the last two years.
re: #14 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
But they’ll vote for Trump anyway.
re: #29 Chrysicat
The state is, yes, but that area and pretty much anything east of the coast tends to be just as backward as the south. Get into the eastern part of Cali and it’s loaded with wingnuts, racists and other whackjobs. The state as whole is more left/tolerant etc because most people live on the coast or the western half. That’s been my experience living here anyway.
“Our new abortion bill bans the procedure across the board after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. However, we will allow for certain exceptions under extraordinary circumstances provided the patient can make a $3000 payment that will go to the state treasury.”
re: #29 Chrysicat
According to parents, the woman smiling on the extreme left of the photo is Jennifer Garcia. She was known for testifying at the Gabriel Fernandez abuse and murder trial. As his first grade teacher, she testified that as his teacher, she could tell the boy was being physically harmed at home. She contacted the authorities.
Fernandez was the 8-year-old boy who died after he was abused and tortured by his mother and her boyfriend. His mother pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence. Her boyfriend went on trial, was found guilty and sentenced to the death penalty.
Lil’ Benny losing this one, badly
If you watch only the one thing today, watch this.
An @afneil interviewing masterclass showing the rest of the media how to question one of the enablers of fascism walking among us.
We need more interviewers who aren’t scared the interviewee won’t come back next week. https://t.co/eE9iRkgnb8— Mike Cameron 🖋 (@mikercameron) May 10, 2019
re: #37 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Lil’ Benny losing this one, badly
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Now you know why he’ll never run for office. He can only hang out in his echo chamber that retweets him “destroying” other people. Tough questions aren’t for Ben because Ben lives in his own reality where everyone who doesn’t share his views is a leftist. The little sob was Milo’s best bud for years until he suddenly discovered the alt right was Anti-Semitic. He took a paycheck from Steve Bannon for years and has the nerve to attack the mainstream American left as Antisemitic.
re: #37 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Seems more appropriate. :P
re: #38 HappyWarrior
Can’t you just imagine AOC tearing him to shreds at a Congressional hearing?
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
Can’t you just imagine AOC tearing him to shreds at a Congressional hearing?
I can. He’d tuck tail and go back to Twitter and RT people claiming he destroyed her though because that’s his entire act. He’s one of the most gigantic phonies in a movement full of them.
NBC First Read on the Giuliani Ukraine report: “How isn’t this the biggest political story in America right now — Team Trump wants the help from another foreign government to dig up dirt on an opponent?” https://t.co/sIXT4BZHN5
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 10, 2019
They’re doing it again for 2020.
Benny’s fans really don’t like him being called fascist. Well he shouldn’t have worked for Bannon and championed Milo for so. He shouldn’t constantly use the same crap at immigrants that have been used at Jews for centuries that they can’t “integrate.” He’s a fascist weakling who finally got his ass handed to him by a fellow conservative.
Yes. Miller prolly thinks that somehow, this time, opening up the camps for the fags and the “Mohammedans” somehow doesn’t lead directly to their accepting Jewish residents. What he doesn’t get is that whenever a movement needs an “other”, eventually everyone but the leader>>>
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 10, 2019
We need a French revolution simulator game. Robespierre edition.
re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg
“Our new abortion bill bans the procedure across the board after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. However, we will allow for certain exceptions under extraordinary circumstances provided the patient can make a $3000 payment that will go to the state treasury.”
interesting that they dont care whether there’s an actual, you know, heart
what they’re hearing is not a ‘heartbeat’
re: #45 Chrysicat
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There were a small amount of Jewish fascists that were part of Mussolini’s movement. Jews can be fascist. Just because Ben has been targeted by even more racist and fascist assholes doesn’t mean he can’t be a fascist enabler himself. Shapiro fans just can’t acknowledge that their emperor has no clothes and his extreme views were called out by a conservative and Ben because he’s a stupid prick called the guy a leftist because everyone’s a leftist who doesn’t share Ben’s narrow worldview.
re: #34 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
The state is, yes, but that area and pretty much anything east of the coast tends to be just as backward as the south. Get into the eastern part of Cali and it’s loaded with wingnuts, racists and other whackjobs. The state as whole is more left/tolerant etc because most people live on the coast or the western half. That’s been my experience living here anyway.
IOW, 4 of the 5 people living in each of those enormous empty counties are racists.
re: #44 HappyWarrior
Benny’s fans really don’t like him being called fascist. Well he shouldn’t have worked for Bannon and championed Milo for so. He shouldn’t constantly use the same crap at immigrants that have been used at Jews for centuries that they can’t “integrate.” He’s a fascist weakling who finally got his ass handed to him by a fellow conservative.
dont wanna be called one?
dont be one
re: #43 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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They’re doing it again for 2020.
Because they’re convinced they can get away with it. Full stop.
re: #46 Amory Blaine
We need a French revolution simulator game. Robespierre edition.
I’m waiting for St Just expansion with the Danton module…
re: #49 Blind Frog Belly White
pretty much, it’s also hella white in the eastern parts.
re: #50 DangerMan
dont wanna be called one?
dont be one
Exactly. How many times have I seen him go out of his way to justify Trump’s racist policies? How many times has he defended racially based policies because “science.”? And that’s not even starting on his fucked up views on transgendered people. He really has no sense of perspective. He doesn’t deserve teh death threats he gets from even worse people but he helped create their culture by defending Milo constantly and going along with the racist bullshit. In short, he was fine with the alt right’s racism until they turned on him for being Jewish. If he had any decency, he would realize that alt right’s racism is wrong because it’s racist towards everyone not just Jews.
re: #14 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Didn’t all these states vote for the asshole? Enjoy the MAGA, dumbshits.
re: #49 Blind Frog Belly White
IOW, 4 of the 5 people living in each of those enormous empty counties are racists.
They’re also dead certain that the miniscule amount of tax they pay on their below-median income all goes to provide welfare, MediCal, and subsidized housing to millions of illegal Messicans in The Big Cities.
OT: Been chipping away at my book set on the day before 9/11. I’m up to 105 pages but as I reread some portions I realized my opening seemed to lack punch. So I wrote a new short introductory chapter. Each chapter is time stamped, the time representing when on 9/10/01 the described events occurred.
What do you guys think of this?
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1:11 AM
“Thousands will die.
Their blood will run through the streets like a river.
The cries of their families will echo from the cities.
A nation will be brought to its knees.
Crimes have been committed by America for decades. The evidence unmistakable and undeniable.
The trial was over. The verdict? Guilty.
The punishment would be brutal, but necessary. The executioners were ready. In less than 48 hours they would carry out the sentence.
And Allah would shower blessings upon them.”
The young man laid his pen down took a moment to reflect on what he had just written. He smiled. He was confident the plan would succeed. That he and his brothers would do what they came here to do.
And America would suffer greatly.
re: #48 HappyWarrior
There were a small amount of Jewish fascists that were part of Mussolini’s movement.
re: #43 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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They’re doing it again for 2020.
Because the American media doesn’t care, and isn’t there a royal baby story out there that needs wall to wall coverage?
The president all but confirmed today that he improperly asked the DOJ to prosecute John Kerry.
I’m now demanding that A.G. Barr answer what he refused to tell me last week - has the White House improperly pressured him to investigate the president’s perceived enemies?— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) May 9, 2019
*Narrator’s voice*
It is.— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 10, 2019
Turning Point USA Condemns UNLV Student For Filming Racist Video In Portrait Mode https://t.co/QzhSdQovzT pic.twitter.com/bQgB8NQHKu
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 10, 2019
“With hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from GOP mega-donors, there is absolutely no excuse for one of our members to be filmed shouting ‘White power!’ in a shaky cellphone video when there is plenty of professional recording equipment available for use,”
re: #46 Amory Blaine
We need a French revolution simulator game. Robespierre edition.
Have they not done an Assassin’s Creed for that?
re: #65 Belafon
Have they not done an Assassin’s Creed for that?
I don’t think tehy’ve had one set in the French Revolution but I am way behind the loop on gaming.
What’s with the idea that Jews can’t be fascists? How you define “The Nation” is not a rigid, universally applicable thing. It’s like how in the 18th and early 19th Century, the Irish in America were excluded from the majority, they weren’t “white”, in the sense of enjoying all the privileges of whiteness. By the end of the century, that division had largely faded away. Miller and Shapiro see themselves as part of “The Nation”, so, yeah, they can be fascist.
re: #67 Blind Frog Belly White
What’s with the idea that Jews can’t be fascists? How you define “The Nation” is not a rigid, universally applicable thing. It’s like how in the 18th and early 19th Century, the Irish in America were excluded from the majority, they weren’t “white”, in the sense of enjoying all the privileges of whiteness. By the end of the century, that division had largely faded away. Miller and Shapiro see themselves as part of “The Nation”, so, yeah, they can be fascist.
Because fascist= Nazi to the uneducated eye. It’s true all Nazis were Fascists but not all Fascists were Nazis. What Farrakhan believes can definitely be considered fascism and what Mugabe did as President of Zimbabwe definitely had fascist elemetns as well.
Same group already has spent $448,783.80 at the Trump Hotel D.C.
Via @1100Penn https://t.co/tKrAyYu8rR https://t.co/1y469VeQE6— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) May 10, 2019
He’s right behind me isn’t he pic.twitter.com/z8K4pEskWP
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 10, 2019
re: #66 HappyWarrior
I don’t think tehy’ve had one set in the French Revolution but I am way behind the loop on gaming.
yeah, they did.
re: #71 Scottish Dragon
Yeah, I think it was Assassin’s Creed Unity
Sammich Pr0n pic.twitter.com/6w2GwbF1CO
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) May 10, 2019
re: #72 jimmyvluv4u
yup, that’s the one.
Nice bouquet from my sons #mothersday2019 pic.twitter.com/FsZPWyNlRw
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 10, 2019
re: #71 Scottish Dragon
yeah, they did.
Ah yeah they have. Lost track after the Pirate one. I only played the first two.
To celebrate the birth of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, @Disney have created a special Winnie-the-Pooh animation as a gift for Harry and Meghan. The short was hand-painted in watercolour by Disney’s senior principal artist Kim Raymond. Really special🎨 pic.twitter.com/PrY5wlMeBQ
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) May 9, 2019
re: #75 The Vicious Babushka
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Beautiful!!
My Mom called me today crying over her card. I got the sappiest one to date (score!)
Tomorrow she gets a succulent garden delivered.
Sunday my brother is making her favorite-steak sandwiches.
Cheers to the Moms!
Making a rap video to try and push sales of opioids is absolutely insane pic.twitter.com/DHpDNrq4Lq
— Lesane Crooks (@NewportsnHenny) May 10, 2019
re: #79 Joe Bacon 🌹
That looks like it could be an SNL bit.
I made a meme…
re: #81 Teukka
I made a meme…
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This is a piece of a monologue HBO’s new “Chernobyl” miniseries begins with. Chilling and damn thoughtworthy.
I don’t know if it is attributable to the Valery Legasov (left), played by Jared Harris (right) in the series, or if it a piece of monologue the makers took liberties with.
What is known that he did make a lot of recordings on tape before he killed himself on the day exactly two years after the Chernobyl disaster, after having tried in vain to tell the truth about the accident. He was the chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster.
Together with Alexey Ananenko, Boris Baranov and Valery Bespalov, the three unsung heroes of the Chernoby disaster, I think these are heroes worth remembering. The latter three risked their lives feeling their way in the dark in radioactive water to open a gate to let out water which would’ve otherwise caused a massive explosion if the molten core reached it. The Chernobyl disaster was a horrific explosion in its own right, but it would’ve been orders of magnitude worse if they hadn’t volunteered.
Sorry if I got the attribution wrong. I make no claims on the meme itself, and hereby place the meme in the public domain (as-is, no warranties, do not inhale, etc. etc., you know the drill).
Imgur gallery: The Cost of Lies
It’s a great line.
This will be the end of the Republic. I don’t know what comes after…but I don’t see how we survive this kind of destruction of governing principles. If inviting foreign interferrence in elections is now in the open, nothing is off limits. Nothing.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 10, 2019
In memory of my mom, I made a donation to Planned Parenthood.
I stand with Planned Parenthood @PPFA because I believe everyone should have access to the care they need. #TheResistance #Resist https://t.co/jIXPs9mNFs
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 10, 2019
re: #82 HappyWarrior
It’s a great line.
Yep. And given the similarity to how he was portrayed in “Surviving Disaster: Chernobyl”, it wouldn’t surprise me if it is a legit Legasov quote, or an accurate paraphrase.
You did what you could Valery. Boris, thanks for most likely saving this Lizardims life.
*raises mug of coffee in honor*
This is an astounding self-own https://t.co/GGkiG3379C
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 10, 2019
re: #79 Joe Bacon 🌹
Making a rap video to try and push sales of opioids is absolutely insane
The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children who are all legal U.S. residents or citizens. @TracyJan https://t.co/uqJYxfu8O0
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 10, 2019
re: #87 The Vicious Babushka
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His fans claim he was “mocking” the left. Yet the book is basically about the “superiority “ of Western White civilization.
.@DonaldJTrumpJr allies have given senate Rs a stark choice to make, either supporting Burr or supporting him, and silence isn’t being seen as an option https://t.co/Tk9ydb21Vg
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 10, 2019
Rule of Law has been defenstrated. Somewhere, Ferdinand II and the Habsburgs are laughing.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 10, 2019
re: #92 HappyWarrior
I think they’ll throw Junior under the bus.
No. This is war for them. The family members of the autocrat enjoy the same deference as the autocrat.
re: #92 HappyWarrior
I think they’ll throw Junior under the bus.
Not if it’s a campaign bus, I’m thinking: wonder how many GOPers on the Senate panel are up for reelection next year?
re: #94 Scottish Dragon
No. This is war for them. The family members of the autocrat enjoy the same deference as the autocrat.
Yeah, but they have to choose either Jr or their GOP colleague.
re: #96 Belafon
Yeah, but they have to choose either Jr or their GOP colleague.
Right and is Jr worth it?
re: #95 Jay C
Not if it’s a campaign bus, I’m thinking: wonder how many GOPers on the Senate panel are up for reelection next year?
Hmmm Intel committee right?
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Cornyn, Sasse, Risch, Collins, & Sasse are up.
re: #100 HappyWarrior
Cornyn, Sasse, Risch, Collins, & Sasse are up.
You mentioned Sasse twice because he’s two-faced, right?
re: #101 sagehen
You mentioned Sasse twice because he’s two-faced, right?
Haha. I’m not that clever.
Trump’s tax hikes on American consumers.
Trump claims China is paying the tariffs. That is a lie.
Americans are paying the tariffs, because it’s added to the cost of the imported good into the US. Trump doesn’t know/care. He thinks this is winning. Same as his base.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 10, 2019
The Trump tax hike continues. Trump’s tariffs will cost everyone $500 this year on average.
So, when Trump claims you saw a tax break, the reality is quite different.
re: #104 lawhawk
Trump claims China is paying the tariffs. That is a lie.
It is not a lie because Trump does not understand how tariffs work. The tax is paid by the importer, not the exporter.
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not a lie because Trump does not understand how tariffs work. The tax is paid by the importer, not the exporter.
You can lie and not know you’re lying.
re: #106 Belafon
You can lie and not know you’re lying.
I really wonder if he is just too dumb to understand.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really wonder if he is just too dumb to understand.
I think it’s the Dunning-Kreuger effect: He knows so little that he thinks he’s smarter than everyone else.
It’s obvious the man’s never had to balance a checkbook.
re: #109 Belafon
It’s obvious the man’s never had to balance a checkbook.
and he has never done with a tax return except to sign it
re: #106 Belafon
You can lie and not know you’re lying.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really wonder if he is just too dumb to understand.
The worst effect of lying and being lied to is not that one loses ones trust in others, but that one gradually loses ones ability to discern truth from lies, as well as the compass which tells one what one can “get away with”. Liars also tend to begin looking down on those they lie to.
The effect is proportional to how long one has been lied to and how far from the reality the lies have been. The effect also affects ones perception of reality detrimentally.
One can also falsely identify truth as lies, and be more prone to so, feeling that truth is “boring” and suspect (“doesn’t feel right”).
It is for this reason some with this type of distortion of their perception of reality end up with psychotic episodes when confronted with their perception of reality being based on lies (a.k.a. a reality check), because they were essentially semi-psychotic to begin with.
This psychotic episode is usually temporary, but if one has been exposed to lies for long enough and they have been far enough from reality, it may become permanent.
Consider yourselves warned.
May be another contempt hearing coming up. Dems have just subpoenaed Mnuchin for Trumps tax returns.
re: #104 lawhawk
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The Trump tax hike continues. Trump’s tariffs will cost everyone $500 this year on average.
So, when Trump claims you saw a tax break, the reality is quite different.
I actually don’t think that Trump is lying here. He’s just that stupid.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really wonder if he is just too dumb to understand.
i dont
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
May be another contempt hearing coming up. Dems have just subpoenaed Mnuchin for Trumps tax returns.
adding another brick to the wall
re: #115 DangerMan
adding another brick to the wall
I see it more like knocking another brick out of the bottom row. Cohen’s in jail, Manafort’s in jail, Barr’s been indicted, Jr. was brought back for a repeat performance…
re: #115 DangerMan
adding another brick to the wall
All in all, he’s just another prick on the wall.
Friday night news dump:
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal has issued subpoenas for President Trump’s tax returns https://t.co/4vVgKJlEgv
— Roll Call (@rollcall) May 10, 2019
re: #120 lawhawk
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal has issued subpoenas for President Trump’s tax returns
These are turning out to be the moral equivalent of the White House tapes, except a lot less harder to defend using executive privilege
Or maybe Trump will try pleading the Fifth…
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But IF he plead the Fifth would he not basically be admitting he’s committed crimes while in office?
re: #118 wrenchwench
I see it more like knocking another brick out of the bottom row. Cohen’s in jail, Manafort’s in jail, Barr’s been indicted, Jr. was brought back for a repeat performance…
i was going with the wall = the case but if ya wanna go all physics and technical…. ;-)
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
But IF he plead the Fifth would he not basically be admitting he’s committed crimes while in office?
I was being facetious, but I can imagine that he has considered that option…
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
But IF he plead the Fifth would he not basically be admitting he’s committed crimes while in office?
he oughta know
re: #83 Scottish Dragon
>>>who had the most szlachta bought at any one time. And eventually, even that was no longer acceptable and the neighbouring monarchs wanted the territory for themselves.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 10, 2019
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not a lie because Trump does not understand how tariffs work. The tax is paid by the importer, not the exporter.
Well, you know that, and I know that: most Lizards reading this thread probably know that, but the real audience for this crap probably isn’t anybody who actually knows how tariffs work.
Like most things Trump, the actuality of programs is way less important (to the point of irrelevancy) than how they LOOK like they’re “working”, or (most importantly), how the “base” THINKS they’re working. Trump knows that the red-hatted rednecks whooping it up at his clownshow rallies are going to hear “$250 billion in tariffs on China”, and think only that it’s somehow sticking a quarter-trillion-dollar hit to the “cheating” Chinese - which they will hugely admire “tough guy” Trump for.
That most of that money will end up being paid out of the pockets of American consumers probably doesn’t occur to them. And if told, would probably just dismiss it as “librul lies” or “Trump Derangement Syndrome” or whatever BS they prefer to obviate reality with….
re: #129 Jay C
New thread I know. But my people are bitching about price increases at the grocery store & the walmart every day. They know.
But will they connect?
re: #56 Blind Frog Belly White
They’re also dead certain that the miniscule amount of tax they pay on their below-median income all goes to provide welfare, MediCal, and subsidized housing to millions of illegal Messicans in The Big Cities.
but none of their taxes pay anything for their benefit, like roads, water, electricity/gasoline/etc (fossil fuel subsidies, doncha know)
or *gasp*! Medicare, SSI, SS disability…
re: #99 mmmirele
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