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Post by aj2hall on Feb 2, 2024 9:55:16 GMT
If the $50 million in legal fees for Trump wasn't enough, look at these frivolous expenses. And Melania was out of the public eye for most of 2023. On top of that, the GOP's fundraising for 2023 was abysmal How is this legal? I thought there were strict laws regarding what this money could be spent on. What a joke this has become. I think since citizens united, PACs can pretty much do what they want and spend what they want. If it was Trump’s campaign itself, the rules might be stricter |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 2, 2024 9:57:55 GMT
MAGA Republicans control the party. They’re not even trying to govern, they’re just obstructing, grandstanding and creating sound bites for Fox. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2024Yesterday the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, which is firmly on the right, warned House Republicans that “Impeaching Mayorkas Achieves Nothing” other than “political symbolism,” and urged them to work to get a border bill passed. “Grandstanding is easier than governing, and Republicans have to decide whether to accomplish anything other than impeaching Democrats,” it said. Today in the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin called the Republicans’ behavior “nihilism and performative politics.” On CNN this morning, Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) identified the increasing isolation of the MAGA Republicans from a democratic government. “Here we are both on immigration and now on this tax bill where President Biden and a bipartisan group of Congress are trying to actually solve problems for the American people,” Goldman said, “and Chuck Grassley, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson—they are trying to kill solutions just for political gain." |
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 2, 2024 17:57:30 GMT
Irony at its best….
Politico….
“Lindsay Graham laid into Zuckerberg and the other tech CEOS at the Senate Judiciary hearing on online child sexual exploitation.
"You have blood on your hands," he said. "You have a product that's killing people."
So ok, Senator what about this little fact? And the longer politicians ignore this even more blood will on their hands then is already there.
Shannon Watts…
”So…. Democrats and Republicans all agree that social media companies are bad because they’re harming kids?
The leading killer of kids in the US is gun violence. Guess we’re lucky the tech industry hasn’t (yet) lured Republicans with money the way the gun industry has.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 2, 2024 19:14:04 GMT
That's a sad like ^ ^ ^ ^ from me!
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 2, 2024 20:07:24 GMT
If the Republicans in Congress spent this much time on what really matters, like gun control, as they do on this stuff this country would be better off and safer. Especially our schools.
From the Hill…
”The House passed a bill Thursday strengthening laws to prevent noncitizens convicted of driving under the influence from immigrating to the country — or to deport them.
The bill passed with a 274-150 vote, with 59 Democrats joining all 215 Republicans in backing the legislation.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 2, 2024 20:22:52 GMT
ABC News.. Multiple targets hit in Syria in retaliation. More sites will be hit! Drone that hit our base in Jordan was fired from Iraq. Update. Not US FORCES until word from White House **** Pentagon confirms US launches retaliatory strikes on Iran-backed sites in Iraq and Syria.. CNN — The US has begun conducting airstrikes on targets in Iraq and Syria, the start of what will likely be a series of larger-scale US strikes on Iranian-backed militias who have carried out attacks on US troops in the Middle East, according to two US officials. www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/politics/us-strikes-iraq-syria/index.html |
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 2, 2024 20:25:56 GMT
Those who go and on and on about “closing” the Southern Border tend to ignore the fact this country has three other borders. Those idiot trump supporters think if they build dumpster don’s wall no one will come or “get in”.
A headline from The Hill…
”Suspected illegal migrants land boat on San Diego beach and flee into wealthy village”
This is exactly why we need comprehensive immigration reform done by law and not executive order.
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Post by sunshine on Feb 2, 2024 21:20:49 GMT
ABC News.. Multiple targets hit in Syria in retaliation. More sites will be hit! Drone that hit our base in Jordan was fired from Iraq. Update. Not US FORCES until word from White House Wow-they must have been really surprised and caught off guard. |
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 2, 2024 21:43:28 GMT
Oh oh!
From SF QuakeBot….
This one came first from
”A 3.4 magnitude earthquake occurred 3.11mi WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA. Details: eqbot.com/ZZT Map:”
Followed by this one a few minutes later….
“A 1.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 3.11mi WSW of San Francisco Zoo, CA. Details: eqbot.com/ZZM Map:”
Karl the Fog…..
“Weekly agenda:
✅ Atmospheric River 1
✅ Earthquake
⬜️ Atmospheric River 2
Yup another atmospheric river is suppose to hit this weekend.
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 2, 2024 21:53:54 GMT
Good….
The Recount….
”The U.S. has struck dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria that Iranian-backed militias use, officials say, in retaliation for a drone attack that killed 3 U.S. service members in Jordan.”
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 2, 2024 21:58:16 GMT
I noticed countries in Europe have been buying a lot of F-35s.
My thought was they don’t trust the American People to keep trump out of office. A man who will empower Putin to go ahead with his plans to bring back the USSR regardless of whether the countries involved want to or not.
Washington Post Opinion…
”“America’s closest allies in Europe are warning that Russia could initiate a new war on the continent as soon as this decade — and that they are chillingly ill-prepared,” Lee @hockstader writes.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 2, 2024 23:18:48 GMT
Also with the US out of NATO... Per TFG...
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 0:10:50 GMT
When are people going to understand this guy is nothing but a con artist? He is a phony. The only genuine thing about this guy are his cons. Ron Filipkowski…. ”New campaign finance reports reveal Trump paid $20k to stage a rally of fake striking union auto workers last September, with non-union people holding up ‘Union Members for Trump’ signs. Story …” x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1753538477818298757?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nw |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 0:19:15 GMT
Another Senator needs to take American history, sooner then later. Like NOW!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 0:48:27 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 3:19:01 GMT
No, just NO!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 6:12:52 GMT
TFG didn't even hirer union workers for his construction sites!! Didn't pay them either!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 6:22:42 GMT
More power to Mr Castro for taking Justice Thomas on!! Exclusive: Republican Hits Clarence Thomas With Lawsuit Over His TaxesPublished Feb 02, 2024 at 2:42 PM EST Updated Feb 02, 2024 at 4:45 PM EST Republican John Anthony Castro is filing a lawsuit against Clarence Thomas, accusing the U.S. Supreme Court associate justice of failing to file his income taxes, Newsweek has learned. Castro, a long-shot Republican presidential candidate and tax attorney who filed a flurry of lawsuits seeking to remove former President Donald Trump from the GOP primary ballot, told Newsweek that he is filing suit against Thomas in a Virginia court under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (VFATA). Although he mailed the complaint to the court on Friday, he expects it to take two business days for the court to process and file the case. The complaint, which was shared with Newsweek, alleges that in violation of VFATA, "Clarence Thomas knowingly presented or caused to be presented a false and fraudulent claim (i.e., his 2005 Virginia State Income Tax Return) to the Virginia Department of Taxation on or about April 15, 2016, that failed to report income from discharge of indebtedness." Thomas has faced immense scrutiny and calls for his resignation after it was reported that he failed to disclose several transactions, including a $267,230 loan that he received from wealthy friend Anthony Welters. Last year, an investigation from the Senate Finance Committee revealed that Thomas never repaid a "substantial portion" of that loan, raising concerns about whether the justice properly reported it in his tax filings. Clarence Thomas Republican Lawsuit Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Thomas is being sued by Republican John Anthony Castro for allegedly submitting false or fraudulent tax filings. Castro said that once the report was released, he began looking into federal and state tax laws. "Under Section 108 of the Internal Revenue Code, he would have had a legal obligation to report [the loan] as taxable income and the tax alone would have been, probably $40,000 or $50,000. That's a third of his annual salary," Castro said on Friday. "And that's when I was like, 'There's no way he reported that because that'd be financially disastrous for him.'" Castro is suing Thomas under VFATA, which allows private citizens anywhere in the country to bring a claim against a Virginia resident for making a knowingly false or fraudulent claim to the commonwealth for money or property, essentially empowering regular Americans to take on the role of a de factor agent of the Virginia attorney general. "It basically allows you to bring a tax enforcement action against a taxpayer," Castro said of the law. Clarence Thomas feud heats up Castro said he had planned to file the suit last year but claims that Trump coordinated with the Internal Revenue Service in retaliation against his activities "undermining the political objectives of the Trump Administration."
"Right when I'm going to level these accusations against Clarence Thomas for filing false and fraudulent returns, what happens to me? I get accused of false and fraudulent returns," Castro said.
"They intentionally devised this plan of, 'Let's accuse him of what he's about to accuse Clarence Thomas of, it's going to completely discredit him. And if he brings this claim, nobody's going to believe him," he continued. "But, of course, I still want to go forward with it."Asked about whether he thinks his lawsuits against Thomas and Trump will fuel speculations about whether or not he was a conservative, Castro insisted he was still a Republican. "I'm a very, very stubbornly principled person and if I feel that somebody broke the law, I'm going to hold them accountable," he said. "Just like Trump for January 6 and Clarence Thomas for this sham loan." www.newsweek.com/exclusive-republican-hits-clarence-thomas-lawsuit-over-his-taxes-1866488 |
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Post by lindas on Feb 3, 2024 10:51:34 GMT
Do your Homework, The Hill published January 10, 2024. Castro isn’t the innocent victim he pretends to be. This statement alone should have given you a clue, “Castro said he had planned to file the suit last year but claims that Trump coordinated with the Internal Revenue Service in retaliation against his activities "undermining the political objectives of the Trump Administration.” Trump and the IRS working together has got to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. A Texas man who filed more than two dozen challenges to former President Trump’s ballot eligibility was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he filed 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS. John Anthony Castro was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government. Castro would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers,” prosecutors said in court documents. “In order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer’s knowledge.” Castro was busted by an undercover police officer, prosecutors outlined, who posed as a customer for his tax services. While a reputable tax preparer promised the undercover agent a $373 tax return, Castro instead claimed he could get $6,007, and offered to split the difference in extra cash. The tax forms Castro then filed on behalf of the undercover officer contained nearly $30,000 in fraudulently claimed deductions, prosecutors said. |
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Post by mollycoddle on Feb 3, 2024 11:40:23 GMT
OMG. I almost feel sorry for her. 😳 |
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 3, 2024 14:21:26 GMT
Do your Homework, The Hill published January 10, 2024. Castro isn’t the innocent victim he pretends to be. This statement alone should have given you a clue, “Castro said he had planned to file the suit last year but claims that Trump coordinated with the Internal Revenue Service in retaliation against his activities "undermining the political objectives of the Trump Administration.” Trump and the IRS working together has got to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. A Texas man who filed more than two dozen challenges to former President Trump’s ballot eligibility was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he filed 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS. John Anthony Castro was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government. Castro would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers,” prosecutors said in court documents. “In order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer’s knowledge.” Castro was busted by an undercover police officer, prosecutors outlined, who posed as a customer for his tax services. While a reputable tax preparer promised the undercover agent a $373 tax return, Castro instead claimed he could get $6,007, and offered to split the difference in extra cash. The tax forms Castro then filed on behalf of the undercover officer contained nearly $30,000 in fraudulently claimed deductions, prosecutors said.  perfect. Thanks for sharing that. |
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Post by lindas on Feb 3, 2024 15:24:31 GMT
So she had some fun at a party, why would you even care. Oh I forgot, her last name is Trump so even having a little fun is offensive. Get a life! |
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 20:58:31 GMT
I got nothing anymore….
“13-year-old boy fatally shot man whose leg was blocking aisle of bus, Denver police say”
“DENVER (AP) — A 13-year-old boy is accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a Denver public bus, police said Friday.
The boy, whose name has not been released because he is a juvenile, got into a “verbal exchange” with the 60-year-old victim before shooting him on the bus in southwest Denver on Jan. 27, police said in a statement.
A second person suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization.
The suspect was arrested Thursday and was being held for investigation on suspicion of first-degree murder.
No other information was released, and the probable cause statement was not publicly available because the suspect is a minor.”
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 21:13:02 GMT
So she had some fun at a party, why would you even care. Oh I forgot, her last name is Trump so even having a little fun is offensive. Get a life! You do understand those people at this “party” paid to be there right? And you know about this right? “ First, you should know that copyright protection exists from the moment an original work is “fixed” in a tangible medium. For example, fixation occurs when a song is recorded in an audio file or when a musical work is notated in sheet music or a digital file. You don’t need to do anything else for your work to be protected by copyright. As the owner of your music, copyright gives you the right to make and sell copies, distribute those copies, make new works based on your work, and, with some limitations explained below, publicly perform or display the work.”So what do you think the chances are she contacted the Petty Estate to get permission to sing the song at what amounts to a paid event? Personally I don’t she did because trump is always getting called out by artists for using their songs at his rallies that he didn’t get permission to use. |
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 21:21:18 GMT
How did we end up with a Putin Caucus in the House?
Jake Sherman…
“🚨BREAKING NEWS -- IN A REVERSAL, @speakerjohnson will put a bill on the floor to send $17.6 billion to Israel with no corresponding spending cuts, a reversal meant to preempt the Senate's border-and-national-security supplemental.
Here's a letter from Johnson to the House GOP: pbwl.news/xx3
This plan is a shift for Johnson. The House passed a bill that tied Israel aid to domestic spending cuts.
Senate leaders plan to release their supplemental spending bill this weekend. In the letter, Johnson said the House would not give "swift consideration" to that legislation.”
A response - No shit Sherlock…
Brett Meiselas….
”Abandoning Ukraine is a gift to Putin, which is of course, why Johnson is doing this. Republicans are making the world a more dangerous place, and their actions could lead to a global conflict involving American troops. So dangerous and irresponsible.”
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 21:59:52 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 22:14:13 GMT
There is a coalition US and UK doing the bombing.. supported by Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Barain(?)...
The attacks on Yemen are not related to the strikes yesterday. They are against the Houthis' attacks on the commercial ships in the Red Sea.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 3, 2024 23:09:28 GMT
Enjoy!  |
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 23:26:38 GMT
Wow!
ABC News…
“This Just In: Storm arriving late tonight has been upgraded to a Level 4. Here's what that means.”
”He says the storm will push into the Bay Area overnight, bringing periods of very heavy rain, powerful and potentially damaging wind gusts, and the threat of flooding, downed trees, power outages, and shallow landslides.
A Level 4 on the SIS is defined as:
"Number 4 is a major storm with two to three inches of rain, moderate flooding, widespread mudslides, and widespread power outages all likely."
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Post by onelasttime on Feb 3, 2024 23:34:18 GMT
After this President Biden may have a point… ”President Biden correctly stated this was the weirdest campaign he has ever been involved in during his life.” Here we have dumpster don posted a picture on truth social claiming that for years people claimed he looked like Elvis Presley. The picture is half him and half Elvis. The picture is in the link. x.com/meiselasb/status/1753921976354103792?s=61&t=j45uMgNk1i8O0YllKF58nwA response to the picture…. “Just normal presidential stuff” |
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