Today in Trump

[TitoFan]

Great to read that the Proud Boys' former leader Enrique Tarrio has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66712589

From incels to in cells. Sentenced towards the lower end of the possible sentence length by a Trump-appointed judge. It should have been a lot longer.

Would Trump release this guy if he became president?

Absolutely. I put nothing by this individual. Nothing.

[Kirkland Laing]

Great to read that the Proud Boys' former leader Enrique Tarrio has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66712589

From incels to in cells. Sentenced towards the lower end of the possible sentence length by a Trump-appointed judge. It should have been a lot longer.

Would Trump release this guy if he became president?

On his first day back. He'll pardon every single person who got a conviction.



https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ro...ns-if-elected/

Not just Trump either. Pardoning people who tried to overthrow the government is a popular position with Republican voters ffs.

[Kirkland Laing]

Great to read that the Proud Boys' former leader Enrique Tarrio has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66712589

From incels to in cells. Sentenced towards the lower end of the possible sentence length by a Trump-appointed judge. It should have been a lot longer.

Would Trump release this guy if he became president?

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ke...th-defendants/

Being a law and order guy is a minority position now in the party of law and order. This kind of attitude will probably get him primaried by a Trumper and kicked out of office. Meanwhile fact free bullshit is in with the base. Theydon't even care if it's true or not most of them. They just want their daily dose of anger heroin and there are endless people who will give it to them. So tyranny and denial od due process it is.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

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[Master]

Former Trump aide Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.

Prosecutors said Navarro acted "above the law" by ignoring a subpoena from a congressional investigation.

He faces up to a year in prison for each of the two contempt counts.

Another key Trump ally, former strategist Steve Bannon, was convicted last year of contempt of Congress.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66744592

[TitoFan]

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[NoSavingByTheBell]

Never gets old

https://youtu.be/fMvO9lqhoCU?si=ShsMQO-jBB_H7Dmz

[NoSavingByTheBell]

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[Spicoli]

Talk about living in the past.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Statin' facts and living in the past.... Apples n oranges but nice try lmfao

[Master]

Statin' facts and living in the past.... Apples n oranges but nice try lmfao

I take it apples are Hillary and oranges are ....

[NoSavingByTheBell]

https://youtube.com/shorts/i_xycprfq...rwuzF4IoDUtyIY

[TitoFan]

I used to like it back when people wrote more.

[Kirkland Laing]

Trump’s Economic Plan: Raise Taxes on the Middle Class, Cut Them on the Rich

Republican populism remains extremely fake.


The discourse of the Trump era has been dominated by a conceit that the two major parties have swapped economic identities. The Democrats have supposedly abandoned their historical role as spokespeople for the working class to represent the neoliberal global elite, while the Republicans have been transmuted into scruffy populists. On the left, a mood of self-flagellating agony has prevailed, even as the party has won several elections in a row. On the right, the Republicans’ populist credibility has intensified their long-standing paranoia, “proving” that everything from the culture wars to Donald Trump’s endless crime spree is in fact a plot by the powerful to control them.
Yet, funnily enough, the two parties remain stubbornly attached to their traditional distributive goals. The Democrats still want to tax the rich and spend on the non-rich. Republicans still want very badly to do the opposite.
The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump’s campaign brain trust is working on a new economic plan to anchor his campaign. The leading idea is to pass another huge tax cut for the wealthy (a cut in corporate tax rates), paired with a tax increase on the middle class (a 10 percent tariff).
Trump’s brain trust believes current economic conditions indicate the U.S. economy is being harmed by excessively progressive taxes. To be sure, they have consistently believed this for more than 30 years through every conceivable combination of economic circumstances: high inflation, low inflation, recession, boom, war and peace,
Supply-side economics is a religion masquerading as an economic theory, and Trump’s brain trust, as it were, is a collection of the high priests of the supply-side cult: Arthur Laffer (who first began promoting supply-side economics nearly 50 years ago), Stephen Moore, Lawrence Kudlow, and Newt Gingrich.
The same crew wormed its way into Trump’s inner circle in 2016, probably because most legitimate Republican economists were too grossed out by Trump. Despite intermittently promising to make rich people pay higher taxes, Trump’s first-term accomplishment centered on passing a tax cut that disproportionately benefited the rich:






The putative goal of cutting taxes for business owners was to incentivize them to plow more money into domestic investment. That did not happen. However, the Trump tax cuts also didn’t have any obvious or immediate costs. At the time, interest rates were very low and the labor market had not yet fully recovered from the 2008 recession. A deficit-financed tax cut, combined with a general spending spree, injected more demand into the economy and helped produce full employment and rising incomes until the pandemic struck.
The economic situation Trump would inherit in 2025 would be very different. Higher deficits and interest rates mean that borrowing money to fund a regressive tax cut would have an immediate economic cost. That’s why his advisers are planning to pair the next Trump tax cut for the rich with a 10 percent tariff, the revenue from which would, presumably, offset the cost.
The political trouble with this plan is that it exposes rather than hides the trade-offs inherent in giving rich people a huge tax cut. (Consumers would pay higher prices for a lot of goods right away.) The long-standing Republican formula, one employed by Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump, is to pair huge tax cuts for the rich with small tax cuts for everybody else. Democrats complain the rich are getting a disproportionate share, Republicans lie about it and then make a lot of noise about some other, more easily digestible wedge issue (the war on terror, gay marriage, the caravan, etc.).
The supply-siders are not concerned about this cost because they really, really care about the issue. To them, cutting taxes for the rich is the main purpose of politics. They’re not doing it to get elected; they’re trying to get elected to do this, and they are willing to bear whatever cost comes along with pursuing their central objective. The sheer depth of their commitment is, in a way, admirable, if you overlook both the total objective failure of their economic model and their promiscuous dishonesty about it.
But where that leaves the rest of the party is another matter. The supply-side wing’s strangehold on the Republican policymaking apparatus is a historical marvel, one I studied in my first book two decades ago. The party’s voters don’t share this priority at all. Increasingly, Republican-aligned intellectuals also reject it. Trump has allowed the conservative intelligentsia to develop a deep fantasy in which they represent a barefoot movement of the soil. Many of them truly seem to believe their own pseudo-populist rhetoric; they are motivated by team loyalty more than any specific policy, to which they generally pay little attention.
But Trump is a crook, not an enemy of the rich. And the next Trump term, should there be one, will be even more oligarchic than the last.



The IRS is launching an effort to pursue 1,600 millionaires who owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.The agency's leader says a boost in federal funds and help from AI tools offer new means of targeting wealthy people who "cut corners."


https://twitter.com/AP/status/1700233877569118718



1,600 millionaires.75 of the largest partnerships in the U.S.500 partnerships with over $10 million in assets. Hundreds of possible FBAR non-filers with average account balances of over $1.4 million.All targets in the IRS’ new compliance initiatives.


https://twitter.com/taxgirl/status/1700141680811266392



WATCH: “Truth” banner falls on top of Vivek Ramaswamy. Perfect symbolism for his campaign of lies.



https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/sta...19097899979098

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Trump 2024 and he should also get 2028 because the 2020 elections were rigged and stolen and there was no insurrection and there was no Russia collusion