For the first time in my last forty years I awoke to feel that the Republic is dead. If we no longer have fair trials, no longer have separation of powers, no longer have a final ultimate check on executive overreach, we live under a totalitarian. I've never felt less free.
Talk about insanity... throw the "overdue library book" at each of those treacherous clowns.
How does someone even have a law license if such a flimsy, hyperbolic, pathetic defense as this is the best they can argue? 🤯
“We’ve characterized it at times as an overdue-library-book scenario where there’s a dispute — not even a dispute — but ongoing negotiations with NARA that has suddenly been transformed into a criminal investigation.” —Trump lawyer Jim Trusty
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Wonder why inflation is high, equities markets bubbled, and interest rates have gone parabolic? Look to our previous President, his drunken spending prior to COVID, and stimuli to kick the poison pill of economic pain to Biden. Let's try the same again. It'll work well this time!
Justice Thomas, I don't know if your wife's political activism has perverted your mind, or if you've lost your mind.
Any student of The Constitution is aware that Justices shall not be demagogues. It's 'egregiously wrong,' Sir.
#ClarenceThomasMustResign
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I figured out what MAGA means:
Make
America
G- Gut rights
R- Rescind legal protections
E- Eviscerate the Constitution
A- Assuage extremists
T- THEOCRACY FOR ALL
A- At last
G- Government mandated
A- Assimilation to Christianity
I- In pursuit of
N- Neverending tyranny
@sportingnews@elonmusk says he wants to own Twitter to propel the mission of promoting free speech in the world.
Now his buddies are already asking for special favors?
@Tesla beware. He'd have to leverage 100% of his stock or sell much to finance it. That's just what you want from your CEO 🙄
@dafantasywriter I try, but as I don't know where the words come from, I read and distract myself until they cry out to be heard again. It's all that has ever worked for me
I'm a progressive independent (former elected D). Let's all get real. The reason the wealthiest don't pay taxes is that they own YOU and your colleagues. They bought the best tax policy they could afford through campaign contributions. Nothing more than bread and circuses here.
@Poeticearthling It's also highly dependent upon the source of the income. Investment income can be put into a corporation, or trust, and taxed as dividends taken over time, only as those distributions are withdrawn. These strategies are familiar to me, as I have benefited from these instruments.
@Poeticearthling It's relatively simple to gift vast sums/skirt estate tax exemptions entirely. Ask any tax attorney. Not only that, but even the charitable dodges pay the person dodging taxes a salary for life. Some are even revocable. The tax code was written by lobbyists for the wealthiest.
@Poeticearthling I must disagree. It would be true, in theory. But most individuals don't make enough money to itemize deductions, or pay a "creative" CPA to use the tax code to their advantage. Some tax dodges can benefit nonprofits though, like a CRT, or DAF, or a foundation. 1/