International POLITICS - ongoing shitshow edition

[MarquisInSpades]

:/ how so?

[MarquisInSpades]

this dude straight up insulted everyone.

I'm still going through his posts, lol.

[ilikeplanets]

oh god i remember that kid!!

[MarquisInSpades]

...in a good way? o.O

[ilikeplanets]

no!!

[Shallowed]

Originally Posted by MarquisInSpades

:/ how so?

By going through the archives. He did it in such a way as to pretend like he knew people a lot better than he did.

[MarquisInSpades]

I'm not trying to pretend like anything, for the record. He just made an absurd statement (a lot, actually), and I found it funny and pointed it out.

[MarquisInSpades]

I do not like this kid.

[MarquisInSpades]

oh wait, although he's probably older than I am now. Sigh.

[MarquisInSpades]

a straight up "fuck you" to everyone, commenting about people living in their parents' basements, and whatnot. lol.

[MplsTaper]

[MplsTaper]

[FoolofaTook]

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[MarquisInSpades]

Donald Trump to drop climate change from list of national security threats

Ugh.

[buzzard]

Finally, incontrovertible proof that Trump is either suffering from some degenerative neurological condition, being poisoned by elites to whom we should all be rather grateful, or else he's just a giant baby doing giant baby things.



Thanks and all, sweet elites, but do you think you could maybe switch to a faster poison?

[Disco King]

"And I just want to thank you, because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although, we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago... they call her... Pocahontas... But you know what, I like you. Because you are special."

"Uh, General Kelly, just come up for one second. I wanna just have you say what you told me, a little bit about the Code Talkers. Because it really has been -- learning about you and learning about what you've done has been something that I'd like General Kelly to, uh, say to the press."

[buzzard]

Incompetence truly does breed incompetence and Trump proves his once again with the nomination of a would-be federal judge with virtually no relevant experience at all and even less knowledge.



Though the White House hilariously maintained their support of this candidate, keeping with the pattern of pigheaded stubbornness over any form of sense, he's since withdrawn from consideration with the claim that he wouldn't want his "two worst minutes on television . . . to be a continued distraction from the important work of [Trump's] administration."

[Disco King]

Another guy Trump nominated to be a federal district judge is a ghost hunter.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/before...a=twitter_page

Oh yeah, and also he said the KKK wasn't that bad.

[buzzard]

Perhaps they were only planning to drain the swamp of paranormal activity?

[FoolofaTook]

Actually the KKK were pretty badass.

The Katipunan was a Philippine revolutionary society founded by anti-Spanish Filipinos in Manila in 1892, whose primary aim was to gain independence from Spain through revolution.

Their flag was three white Ks on a red field. The more you know.

[buzzard]

Sounds like they lost to the Americans, though.

That's pretty weak.

[butthurt]

[FoolofaTook]

They were betrayed. Aguinaldo made a deal with some US general (I forget exactly who) that if the Pinoys helped during the Seige of Manila the US would grant them independence. They supplied the US with info and scouts and were the front line in the assualt on Manila. Then after victory the US fucked them over.

[FlamingGlobes]

Originally Posted by butthurt

Looks much more elegant and lifelike than the original. I'd vote for RoboTrump if he ran against the real thing in 2020.

Alternately, when Trump's health really starts dipping, the deep state could replace him with this highly convincing cyborg. No one would notice, except TOC. But no one would believe him!

[LaBelle]

Ew, robotrump running against trump?

Suicide is a duty.

[buzzard]

Draining the swamp for all it's worth.

President Donald Trump, who won the White House on a wave of populist promises, will likely save millions of dollars thanks to Congress' approval of a tax plan he pledged was designed for the middle class. Trump, who said he would be a "big loser" if the bill passed, stands to gain immensely from the Republican tax overhaul, including through a lower top tax rate and lucrative deductions for top-earning households, according to attorneys and tax experts who reviewed the final bill.

Trump could also take advantage of benefits that will lift specific business sectors, including a last-minute tax deduction that helps many owners of high-value commercial real estate, the industry where he first made his fortune.

"I'm not even aware of a single provision in the bill that disadvantages him or his family, other than the change to state and local tax deductibility," said Daniel Shaviro, a tax professor at the New York University School of Law who worked for Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation during the country's last major tax overhaul in 1986. "It's so clear that he is financially much better off than previously," he said, adding, "I'd be at a loss as to how they could even dare to argue [otherwise]."

Exactly how much the president could save under the plan is unknown, since Trump has broken with 40 years of White House precedent by refusing to release his tax returns.

A half-dozen tax attorneys, professors and former congressional tax drafters told The Washington Post that Trump would undoubtedly benefit from the legislation, which Congress passed on Wednesday and sent to his desk for a final signature.

[MplsTaper]

All of which leaves us with the overriding question: Why? Why would Republicans pass a bill so wretchedly unpopular to benefit such a small slice of Americans? Some lawmakers, like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Chris Collins, have bluntly admitted that their donors simply demand it. Others, like House Speaker Paul Ryan, may be true believers in conservative economic dogma. And others could be self-interested: The Senate originally planned a smaller pass-through cut, until Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson threatened to kill the whole effort unless it was expanded, an expansion that may benefit his family’s own business interests.

But the overarching reason is the same: The Republican party answers to the interests of wealth. Lawmakers listen to their donors. They listen to conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation or Hoover Institution, which are funded by the wealthy to create an intellectual justification for deeply regressive policy making. And sometimes, they just listen to their own accountants. The result is a tax code that favors the interests of entrenched money. After three decades of rising wealth inequality, business owners and investors are finding new ways to extend their run. The question now is how the rest of us can stop them.

Weissmann may be on to something here.

Source

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by MplsTaper

lol, "BAH-BEL"
fucking hell

[qwerty sp]

Trump is succeeding BIGLY...HUGELY

[qwerty sp]

9/11 was an inside job