World Citizen Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 On 1/7/2023 at 11:01 AM, DBP66 said: I honestly don't know....I guess I'm hoping for a "breakthrough" moment?....maybe one day one of these clowns will say..."you may be right....maybe Biden did win fairly since I have no proof otherwise"....but I'm not holding my breath...It just kills me that anyone would believe Trump's constant lies...I hate being lied to...I don't know why/how others can write it off as business as usual...Trump and his "alternative facts" have set this country on a backwards course and it kills me. Long story short...I'm a dope and glutton for punishment I guess for dealing with the Kool-Aid clan....😉 I get it. I thought for sure they could not be serious but they were and the breakthrough moment never came. Troll? No way he has breakthrough moment. If he does he would need to post in clear English for anyone to know and haven't seen him do that yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 So this is the top issue the republicans can rally around??...trying to cut IRS agents??..why? as I watched the debate for a while....they claim the IRS will target "small businesses" and they will get audited...that's the plan. The plan is to target the little guys who pay their fair share...they were the good guys helping the struggling small businessmen??....The IRS agents are going to target high income filers who rarely get audited...that's who the republican party is trying to save...their fat cats like Trump who don't pay any taxes. IRS agents are one of the few Gov't employees who actually earn their salaries by doing the audits that they do. So they passed this ceremonial bill to have the Republican party cheer them on for "getting something done"...only to have this silly bill die in the Senate...it's just a "nothing burger" for the republican voters...wonk...wonk. House GOP passes repeal of IRS funding boost as its first bill in the majority Emily Brooks Mon, January 9, 2023 at 9:32 PM EST House Republicans fulfilled a key campaign promise on Monday, passing legislation to rescind the bulk of an IRS funding boost signed into law last year, marking the first bill passed by the GOP-controlled House this Congress. The bill, which is unlikely to see action in the Democratic-controlled Senate, passed in a party-line 221-210 vote on Monday evening. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced that the first bill for a GOP-controlled House would be to repeal the new IRS funding in September, when House Republicans released their “Commitment to America” midterm policy and messaging platform ahead of the election. A boost of about $80 billion in IRS funding over a decade generally aimed at upping high-income enforcement was included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats’ sweeping tax, health and climate bill. The Republican bill, formally titled the “Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act,” is barely longer than one page. It directs any “unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available” to the IRS from the Inflation Reduction Act to be rescinded. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Monday that the legislation would eliminate about $71 billion of the total $80 billion that was allocated for the IRS but would reduce tax revenue by about $186 billion, translating to a $114 billion increase in deficits over the next decade. Republicans have repeatedly falsely claimed the 87,000 new IRS employees, who would be added over the course of a decade, would be “agents.” The 87,000 figure comes from a May 2021 Treasury Department compliance report estimating new hires over a decade with the $80 billion funding boost. But only a small portion of the department’s current employees are agents, and the department has said the figure accounts for other workers such as customer service representatives and computer scientists as well as replacements for the 52,000 employees expected to retire or resign within the next six years. IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in an August letter to members of the Senate that the funds from the legislation would be used to up examination of large corporations and high-net-worth individuals and were not designed to raise enforcement for households making less than $400,000. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has also said that the agency would not increase audit rates for those taxpayers making less than $400,000. Republicans, however, argued that the directives did not prohibit increased enforcement activities directed at middle- and low-income taxpayers, and pointed to a CBO analysis that said the funding boost would mean audit rates “rise for all taxpayers.” They also criticized the legislation for not allocating a larger portion to taxpayer services. The bill stand little chance in the Senate, and the White House said in a statement on Monday that President Biden would veto it if it came to his desk. “With their first economic legislation of the new Congress, House Republicans are making clear that their top economic priority is to allow the rich and multi-billion dollar corporations to skip out on their taxes, while making life harder for ordinary, middle-class families that pay the taxes they owe,” the White House said in a statement. Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) — the sponsor of the bill who lost a race on Monday to become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee — touted the measure during debate on the chamber floor Monday, calling it a “first great step” in reforming the IRS to become an agency that works for the public. “There are numerous reasons to support this bill. It protects families and small businesses. It ensures agencies are funded appropriately. Most importantly, it stops autopilot funding for an out-of-control government agency that is perhaps most in need of reform,” Smith said. “IRS needs to fix its customer service and return processing problems, not focus on auditing families and small businesses. Americans want an IRS that works for them, not against them. This bill is a great first step in that direction,” he added. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, brought attention to the CBO report, saying the bill would lead to a $114 billion surge in deficits over the next 10 years. He also argued that the changes in the bill at hand would make matters worse for the middle class and small businesses. “They don’t want a fairer tax administration. They think it’s bad for some of their supporters. But you know what? This is — what they’re attempting to do tonight — is bad for middle-class families, it’s bad for small businesses, who then are asked to pay more when the people at the top don’t pay their fair share,” Neal said. “The American people are wise to what’s being presented here tonight. We live in a two-tier tax system. Wage earners follow the rules. Wealthy billionaires, they get to skirt their responsibilities. And that’s what we’re being asked to vote on tonight,” he later added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 Kevin McCarthy KICKS Democrats from powerful committee positions: Republican speaker boots Squad member Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs and removes Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from Intelligence "Progress" 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 President Tapioca Brain in action yet again... Moment Biden confuses a uniformed member of the Salvation Army for the Secret Service during his visit to El Paso migrant center telling him: 'I spent some time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine' 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTerrapin Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 3 minutes ago, concha said: President Tapioca Brain in action yet again... Moment Biden confuses a uniformed member of the Salvation Army for the Secret Service during his visit to El Paso migrant center telling him: 'I spent some time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine' Well... he does have a big S on his collar..👴 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 2 hours ago, concha said: Kevin McCarthy KICKS Democrats from powerful committee positions: Republican speaker boots Squad member Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs and removes Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from Intelligence "Progress" excited Don?...large font and bold red?!...lol..🤡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I AM IRONMAN Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 4 hours ago, concha said: President Tapioca Brain in action yet again... Moment Biden confuses a uniformed member of the Salvation Army for the Secret Service during his visit to El Paso migrant center telling him: 'I spent some time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine' Look at those age spots…being 90 shows 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 We need to go after these assholes and right the ship. BREAKING: House Republican Files Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – After 5 Million Illegals Cross Open Southern Border 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I AM IRONMAN Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 10 hours ago, concha said: We need to go after these assholes and right the ship. BREAKING: House Republican Files Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – After 5 Million Illegals Cross Open Southern Border Of course DBP gives the worried emoji…he was planning on housing a few hundred in his barn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 Biden Declares The Southern Border As Secure As America's Elections U.S.·Jan 9, 2023 · BabylonBee.com 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Will Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 22 hours ago, concha said: Kevin McCarthy KICKS Democrats from powerful committee positions: Republican speaker boots Squad member Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs and removes Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from Intelligence "Progress" Really? Watch what follows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
On2whls Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Wildcat Will said: Really? Watch what follows. It only takes one Congressman to initiate a vote to unseat the speaker. But, to do so, just creates an un-necessary time wasting shit show which we all know is something lefties are above. Which lefty is willing to commit political suicide for the “greater good”? You sure could use a sacrificial Cheney or Kinzinger from the other team about right now. Tactical error sacrificing both on the bi-partisan Jan 6 committee? I mean 11 lefties and 1 righty is still bi-partisan right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Will Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 On 1/11/2023 at 2:25 PM, On2whls said: It only takes one Congressman to initiate a vote to unseat the speaker. But, to do so, just creates an un-necessary time wasting shit show which we all know is something lefties are above. Which lefty is willing to commit political suicide for the “greater good”? You sure could use a sacrificial Cheney or Kinzinger from the other team about right now. Tactical error sacrificing both on the bi-partisan Jan 6 committee? I mean 11 lefties and 1 righty is still bi-partisan right? The ineptitude is incredible. Rules created by the Repubes are for their benefit. The norm does not exist in America government. They died, their power, their credibility is shot after Roe. That is why there was no red wave. The next 2 years will result in total gridlock. That is the foreseeable future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belly Bob Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Wildcat Will said: The ineptitude is incredible. Rules created by the Repubes are for their benefit. The norm does not exist in America government. They died, their power, their credibility is shot after Roe. That is why there was no blue wave. The next 2 years will result in total gridlock. That is the foreseeable future. Do you mean red wave? In whose eyes did their credibility take a hit after Roe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 🤣 🤡 SECOND batch of Biden classified documents found at a another location: White House faces even more questions - after Karine Jean-Pierre refused to say if there was an investigation into other stashes of sensitive files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I AM IRONMAN Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, concha said: 🤣 🤡 SECOND batch of Biden classified documents found at a another location: White House faces even more questions - after Karine Jean-Pierre refused to say if there was an investigation into other stashes of sensitive files Ohhhhh boy. Can Tapioca brain use dementia for an excuse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 🤡 🤣 Second batch of Biden documents found in the GARAGE at his Wilmington home: President struggles to read off script when asked: 'Classified materials, next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Will Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 23 hours ago, Belly Bob said: Do you mean red wave? In whose eyes did their credibility take a hit after Roe? Yes I did. In Americans eyes Why do you think there was no red wave? The women voted Democrat because of Roe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 'Trump far dumber and immoral and ignorant and lazy' than staffers knew before they worked for him: report Story by Travis Gettys • Yesterday 7:56 AM John Kelly didn't have high expectations about Donald Trump when he joined the White House as chief of staff, but he was still shocked by what he found after joining the administration. Donald Trump addresses crowd in Sioux City, Iowa in 2016.© Raw Story The retired U.S. Marine Corps general joined the White House halfway through Trump's first year, and New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about what Kelly learned about the former president and his abilities. "So when Kelly came in as chief of staff, he thought that the problem around Trump was that he was not staffed properly and they needed to create a process around him, and that's what the chaos of the first six months of the administration was about," Schmidt said. "But when Kelly comes in as chief of staff, what he realizes is that the problem is not just the fact that there's not a process and that he's not being staffed as well as he could, but that Trump himself was the problem, that Trump was far dumber and immoral and ignorant and lazy than he ever thought he was." "Within a few days, he becomes terrified because here he is, the top staffer to the president of the United States, and he's realizing that the president of the United States is far more limited and potentially dangerous than he ever thought, and at that point, there was no one else to call," Schmidt added. "He was -- it was just him and Trump, and he basically spends the next 18 months trying to manage Trump as much as he could." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 Paul Ryan Delivers Ominous Prediction For 'Proven Loser' Donald Trump Ed Mazza Thu, January 12, 2023 at 11:35 PM EST Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says his party is done with Donald Trump. “He’s fading fast,” he said Thursday on CNN. ”He’s a proven loser who cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us the Senate again and again, and I think we all know that.” Ryan said he believes Republicans are “moving past” the former president, who has already announced his 2024 candidacy to return to the White House. “I can’t imagine him getting the nomination, frankly,” Ryan said: Trump’s political demise has been predicted repeatedly since he first threw his hat into the presidential ring in 2015. However, he remains popular with his party’s base ― and though recent polls show that’s slipping, he’s still considered the favorite for the 2024 nomination. A CBS News poll released earlier this week found that two-thirds of GOP voters believe loyalty to Trump is either “very” or “somewhat” important. Ryan was House speaker for the first half of Trump’s term, and the two often clashed. Since leaving office in 2019, he has spoken out against Trump and last year said “anybody not named Trump” is more likely to win the White House for the GOP in 2024. He currently sits on the board of directors of the Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belly Bob Posted January 14, 2023 Report Share Posted January 14, 2023 On 1/12/2023 at 6:07 PM, Wildcat Will said: Yes I did. In Americans eyes ↳ Why do you think there was no red wave? ↳ The women voted Democrat because of Roe. ↳ It's one thing to say that it helped the Democrats. It's quite another to say that the credibility of the Republican Party has been "shot" in the eyes of Americans as a result of it. According to the Pew, public opinion on Roe vs Wade hasn't changed since the reversal. It probably galvanized some women to vote who might not have otherwise. But other than that, I don't see the evidence that the Republican Party is shot bc of the SCOTUS decision. The fact that the red wave didn't materialize as expected doesn't mean that the Republican Party is dead. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans were declaring that the Democratic Party was dead when Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/07/06/majority-of-public-disapproves-of-supreme-courts-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Will Posted January 14, 2023 Report Share Posted January 14, 2023 56 minutes ago, Belly Bob said: It's one thing to say that it helped the Democrats. It's quite another to say that the credibility of the Republican Party has been "shot" in the eyes of Americans as a result of it. According to the Pew, public opinion on Roe vs Wade hasn't changed since the reversal. It probably galvanized some women to vote who might not have otherwise. But other than that, I don't see the evidence that the Republican Party is shot bc of the SC's decision. The fact that the red wave didn't materialize as expected doesn't mean that the Republican Party is dead. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans were declaring that the Democrats were done when Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/07/06/majority-of-public-disapproves-of-supreme-courts-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/ The Repubes have been working their way to this for some time. They are becoming the underbelly of American society by failing to govern. Their propensity for conspiracy theories does not bode well for the future of the party as the American public changes with time. A more accepting of equality is their biggest enemy because the base has an inherent prejudice that they can't shake. The continued fighting against the will of the people, which in the scheme of things, is not in their favor. Neither in numbers nor attitude do they hold the majority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2023 Rudy Giuliani says Trump once advised him to take top-secret files home Rudy Giuliani says Trump once advised him to take top-secret files home Cheryl Teh Mon, January 16, 2023 at 3:05 AM EST Altaffer/Associated Press Rudy Giuliani says Trump once told him to take top-secret documents home. Giuliani said the incident occurred just after Trump became president, when he was working at Mar-a-Lago. Giuliani said he did not bring the documents home. Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's one-time personal lawyer, says Trump once advised him to take secret documents home. Giuliani said he was at Mar-a-Lago, working on "vetting" some "very rich" people — specifically, going through their tax returns for Trump. The incident occurred right after Trump became president, Giuliani said. "When I was his lawyer, I mean, there was a period of time I was there like, uh, 10 straight days," Giuliani said on a Sunday episode of the WABC77 radio show, "Uncovering the Truth with Rudy Giuliani & Dr. Maria Ryan." - ADVERTISEMENT - "I didn't take, listen to this, this is my training on 'top secret:' I didn't take them out of Mar-a-Lago," Giuliani said, describing how he handled the documents. "He told me, 'Oh, take them home with you,'" Giuliani said of Trump. "I'm not going to take Wilbur Ross' tax returns home with me. I could misplace them!" "I — you know, I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, knowingly, and I never got caught — but I don't remember ever taking a doc," Giuliani added. He said he would place documents in a small safe at his desk in Mar-a-Lago to be worked on the next day. Giuliani also said top secret files are "very, very strange the way they're put together" and "often are very small, but they contain a lot of information." Giuliani and a spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment. During its raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago property on August 8, the FBI seized batches of classified documents, including some marked "top secret." The Department of Justice is now investigating whether Trump broke any of three federal laws — including the Espionage Act — by keeping the documents at his Florida residence. Trump has baselessly claimed the documents found were already declassified — and that he has the power to declassify documents just by thinking about doing so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I AM IRONMAN Posted January 16, 2023 Report Share Posted January 16, 2023 1 hour ago, OldTerrapin said: hehe Wrong President if you’re talking about sniffing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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