So, Trump gets a pass on what happened to the Kurds?
So, Trump gets a pass on what happened to the Kurds?
Totally related to the issue.
The issue is that the IRS is underfunded because big GOP contributors don’t want to have to go toe to toe with an agency that can make them pay taxes.
That’s why Trump got a surge of money after his New York City trial lose; rich folks hate the idea that the law might be used against them.
Nancy Reagan was personally soft on abortion, but she knew it played to the base, so she was gung ho to overturn Roe V. Wade. That was until she found out stem cells might be able to help Ronnie’s dementia, then she was all for using corpses to make medicine.
tl, dr = Every dollar spent investigating the richest means another $12 in taxes. This is with no new tax laws, just enforcing the one’s on the books.
low effort post
Exactly what effort did you put into your [I use the term loosely] joke?
I mean, if you want to talk about effort, you could take the time to repudiate all the Trump pardons and show how they benefitted the country.
Talk to anyone who was old enough to vote for Clinton.
It wasn’t a big dramatic floor fight in Congress. People started talking about doing away with the ATF, and the idea seemed to be gaining momentum, and then it just…vanished.
This is one of my favorite stories.
The ATF completely screwed up the raid on the Branch Davidian Church in Waco back in 1993. It was indenfesnable and a lot of people started saying that the Agency should be abolished and its responsibilities moved to the FBI.
“Small government” GOPs blocked any mention of the idea, because they were worried about having the FBI looking into gun crimes.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-nra-blocking-obamas-surgeon-general-nominee/
Obama wanted to do this, but the NRA blocked his choice for Surgeon General.
MAGoo logic. Our program is perfect. If there are failures, it’s because we didn’t work hard enough.
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Right after absolutely nothing happened at Tianinmen Square 06/04/1989 someone suggested that all Chinese students in the US be given Green Cards.
Guess who opposed that?
As with so many things, you can blame Ronald Reagan.
Prior to Reagan, there was a thing called "the Fairness Doctrine.’ A company could only own two local radio stations [AM and FM] and one VHF television station. If a station ran an editorial, they had to allow the opposition equal time for rebuttal. And half hour commercials like “The Transformers” and “GI Joe” were not allowed.
Wonderful. I can remember 2012, [when dinosaurs walked the Earth] and all election disputes could be covered by a retired school teacher with a clip board. Thank God we have armed military taking over!
Back in 1960, the US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the price of the average home was $11,000.00 In those days.
note =if you feel the need to say that houses are bigger today, or we have better technology, please add how inflation was the driver that made that stuff happen.
Here’s what you’re ignoring.
A good executive has a staff that reminds him of these things. Even if it was a brief meeting, Trump should have been aware that he’d had a sit down with them before.
Either Trump was reminded and forgot, or he’s too incompetent to set up a basic system like this.
I saw that coming a mile away.
There was a documentary.
“Sharknado”
So, you’re saying we need to build a much, much bigger bomb.
/s because its’ 2024 and sarcasm is dead
He also wrote “…All You Zombies” which is about a transman; “Tunnel In The Sky” with an African woman hero; “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” which is considered a Libertarian classic: and “Stranger In A Strange Land” which is considered a counter-culture classic and about a hundred other books with different themes.
More like, he had a wide ranging mind and could handle several ideas at once without bowing down to any.
Agreed.
I see people posting questions about life in the 1970s and wonder, “Don’t you know any one who was around then?”