Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law:
Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%
Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%
AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%
Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%
FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%
This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.
BREAKING: In a stunning admission, one of the most conservative Senators, Senator James Lankford, admits that it was Donald Trump who sabotaged the toughest border security legislation proposed in decades. Retweet to make sure every American sees this.
BREAKING: Corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gets devastating news as Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe explains how the government could prosecute him for his countless crimes.
This is MAGA's worst nightmare...
"What they need to open an investigation is information that a federal crime has been committed," McCabe said during a podcast conversation with legal analyst Allison Gill.
"There's no law or policy that prevents DOJ from doing that," he continued. "In fact, they are tasked with investigating and prosecuting violations of federal law. This could easily be that. So, it would fall well within their authority to do it, but it would be very, very, very controversial."
The two were discussing the FBI's standards for opening a case as it relates to the shocking revelation that Thomas has been accepting bribes for years in the form of luxury trips, sweetheart loans, and gifts worth millions in total from wealthy Republicans.
Gill pointed out that the FBI should be able to investigate any branch of government. Since they have no problem investigating members of Congress, they should be able to probe the court as well.
The two discussed the "loan" that Thomas received for a luxury RV that was then forgiven, amounting to an out-and-out gift. As Gill explains, Thomas would have owed taxes on the gift and if he failed to pay them it "could be a violation of the law."
"So, the tax case is both good and bad," said McCabe. "It's a little bit tough to work through the hypothetical because of the IRS's investigative jurisdiction, which is actually statutory in nature."
McCabe said that if information emerges that Thomas received the bribe “in return for making a particular judgment or taking an official act on behalf of the person who gave him money" then the FBI "would have the information necessary to meet that low threshold of having information that violates federal or criminal law has occurred or will occur."
Clearly, a full investigation is necessary. Thomas is selling our democracy out for pennies on the dollar and making a mockery of all of us. It's high time that he was investigated, prosecuted, and held accountable for his crimes.
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BREAKING: New reporting shows a massive rise in the unfavorable rating of Project 2025 from 19% to 43% in the last three weeks. More Americans are learning about Donald Trump’s devious plans and are speaking out against them.
Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but if a grown-ass man simply refuses to abide by a judge’s order to keep his mouth shut when it comes to attacking the witnesses in his criminal trial, he’s probably not fit to serve as President of the United States.
I mean, right?
BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll hits Donald Trump with terrible news in the wake of her massive $83.3 million victory over him and vows that she will do everything in her power to prevent Trump from winning in 2024.
She hit Trump right where it hurts and is ready to do it again...
During an interview on CBS Mornings, Caroll was asked if she has any interest in joining President Biden's reelection team to defeat Trump.
"I’ll do anything I can," said Carroll.
"Well, Hans Christian Andersen’s great fairytale, ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes?’ That is written about Donald Trump," she added. "It’s just we’re the ones who clothe him in all this power. He has none himself; it’s his followers. It’s his hangers-on."
"In the court, they were strutting back and forth and handing him messages," she added.
In another interview, Carroll predicted that Trump will ultimately lose the election.
"Oh, please. I can’t think of that. I can’t think of that. I don’t think... I don’t think it’s gonna happen," she said.
It falls to all of us to make certain that it doesn't happen. Donald Trump belongs in prison, not the White House. Carroll has shown her courage, it's time for us to do the same.
Vote blue!
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's defamation trial goes completely off the rails as the judge slaps him down with some of his harshest words to date — causing Trump to lash out at him.
This is one surefire way to ensure that the judge rules against you...
Judge Lewis Kaplan — who is presiding over the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit and who already had to chastise Trump's lawyer today — gave the disgraced former president a blunt warning.
"Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive, which what has been reported to me consists of," said Kaplan. "And if he disregards court orders, Mr. Trump, I hope I don't have to consider excluding you from the trial."
Reacting like an angry child, Trump threw his hands up in frustration.
"I understand you're probably eager for me to do that," said Kaplan, who by now is fully aware of the way in which Trump has been exploiting the trial for political messaging.
"I would love it," said Trump, unable to control himself.
"I knew you would," said Kaplan. "You just can’t control yourself in this circumstance apparently."
No, he can't. Trump has the self-control of a rabid dog and it's time that the court held him accountable. We can't wait to hear Kaplan's ruling...
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@nicksortor If trump is re-elected it would be really nice if Canada would start offering political asylum to all the US citizens he has sworn to go after: liberals, journalists, LGBTQIA people…it’s a scary long list.
BREAKING: A televangelist in Oklahoma says if Donald Trump is convicted in any of his criminal trials and goes to prison, it will be obvious God doesn't exist and nothing matters anymore so he "might as well quit church and start being gay."
BREAKING: Beloved former First Lady Michelle Obama sounds the alarm about the 2024 election, says that she is "terrified" of what might happen if Donald Trump wins again.
She hit the nail on the head and this should send a chill down all of our spines....
"I am terrified about what could possibly happen," said Mrs. Obama on the On Purpose podcast.
While she didn't mention Trump by name, it was clear that she was talking about the deranged MAGA cult leader.
"Because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit — it affects us in ways that sometimes I think people take for granted," she said.
"The fact that people think that government, does it really even do anything? And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, does government do everything for us.’ And we cannot take this democracy for granted. And sometimes I worry that we do," she went on.
"Those are the things that keep me up," she added, stating that there are wars "in too many regions" and that we have the serious problems of artificial intelligence, education, the effects of smartphone proliferation, and voter engagement to tackle..
Michelle Obama is absolutely correct. All of these issues are deadly serious — to say nothing of climate change — and with a lunatic criminal like Donald Trump at the wheel we could drive the entire planet off a cliff.
"The tone and tenor of the message matters. We can’t just say what the first thing that comes to our minds," said Mrs. Obama, an apparent reference to Trump's hateful stream-of-consciousness rambling.
"That is not authenticity to me. That’s childish, and we see childish leadership right before us — what that looks like and how that feels, where somebody is just base, and vulgar and cynical in a leadership position," she went on.
"It doesn’t trickle down well. That just begets more of that. I think we are obligated to model, for those of us that have a platform, because it resonates. And I want to resonate good. I want to resonate reason, and compassion and empathy," she added.
Well said.
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do I have this right? Hunter Biden should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for paying his taxes late, but Donald Trump deserves a free pass for violating the 14th Amendment?
and we should also let Trump skate for stealing classified war plans and hiding them in the unspeakably ugly shitter of his tacky vermin-infested Florida golf motel, and then later waving them in the faces of randos at his cheesy New Jersey ex-wife cemetery?
and we should give him a mulligan for being the head of a massive criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud in Georgia?
and that thing where he sent a mob of angry dipshits to overrun the Capitol and obstruct the certification of the election that he overwhelmingly lost, we should just give him a pat on the head for that?
nice try, but we're not fucking idiots over here