i’d be mad, but i know it’s just a few bad apples–and even that tiny fraction is just a little too vigilant about protecting minority-owned businesses
we should appreciate these brave heroes for getting into shootouts with dillingeresque figures on a daily basis just to keep us safe
They don’t have political opinions when it comes to decision making. They judge on the letter of the law. They don’t change the law to suit their rulings.
this is absurdly naive
However, as a reasonable approximation of what the ordinary citizen sees, it makes sense. If you know how a justice is going to adjudicate because they were chosen because they would do so, the process of justice is probably not really happening - it is another form of legislature.
I can swim to a Supreme Court justice’s dock from my summer place, I could not even begin to tell you about what her partisan identification would be, if any. In the US, it may as well be tattooed on their foreheads.
Wouldn’t it be great to live in normal times, where the revelation that the president of the United States only paid $750 of tax would have some kind of impact.
It appears in most years, he doesnt even pay that.
The bigger piece of the story is the near half billion dollars in personal debt he owes. Even with full disclosure of to whom this is owed this would be a huge problem. Given the lack of transparency over this, the considerable amount of shadiness over the situation and his son’s own comments about the money coming from Russia, this is a 5 alarm fire.
I heard that debt is due next year. Is that right?
I also heard the accounts included some questional payment to consultants and Ivanca but I didn’t quite catch the deatail sorry.
What I have read is that most if not all is due within the next 4 years. As I’m sure this is multiple notes, I’m sure somel come due sooner, but the relevance is this would all come due during a second term.
Yes, multiple notes. Saw a tweet this morning indicating $1.1bn dollars of debt falling due between 2021 & 2025. Can’t find it just now, but i think it was saying at lest $500m coming due next year or 2022.
Jesus. That is just not not tenable for a president as the conflict of interest for everyone, not just perceived but incredibly real, is enormous for everyone involved.
Apparently the IRS time limit on an audit is 3 years. There is only an extension if there is clear evidence of ‘egregious issues’. Trump claims to have been under audit since 2016 and thus is admitting to wrongdoing. Just saying…
It is funny, I have though his ‘tycoon’ image was bullshit for years, his asset portfolio did not grow as quickly as New York real estate or the stock market. But I had no idea how inept he was, he has actually evaporated an enormous amount of value over the past 20 years.
Which is not a bad summary of his presidency either.
Multiple times. This is by all accounts the third separate time he has got himself into this sort of hole.
The first time was when he pissed away the handouts from his dad and survived by going after the share of the Fred Sr estate otherwise owed to other family members. After taking that one he then went and pissed away that fortune in the 80s and 90s as well.
If Charlie Chaplin did Atlas Shrugged…
This is the link i was referring to - it’s written by a reporter for Forbes.
In normal times this sinks a President without trace. Unfortunately, we have already had perhaps half a dozen such instances in his Presidency so far, and I don’t think anything can sink him… apart from people going out to vote him out.
Even then, the groundwork is being set in place whereby he will claim victory on the night and then litigate all the postal voting. I’m going to vote early, in person, in my State, and hopefully millions more will get the memo to vote early, so Trump has a deficit to overcome on election day.
Russia (dragged out forever, but ultimately verified by the Senate, didn’t touch him).
Ukraine (impeached, but protected by the Senate)
Grab em by the pussy revelations (locker room talk)
Paying off pornstars (fake news)
Massive corruption to bring business to Trump, hotels, golf courses (no big deal)
Not paying taxes (fake news, that’s what he said when the story broke, and people will believe him… well enough of them anyway)
It would be easy to go and on. So many egregious things that would sink a normal Presidency, yet he just keeps going. I live in a State that usually votes Republican, and the trickle down effect of his Presidency is a vile poison, and it is just tearing people apart. I’m not even talking the serious stuff, that is going to erupt in violence and we’ve already been seeing that. But just everyday stuff, even among friends, family, professional people… he has divided and must not be allowed to conquer again.
My hope, though it is naive to expect it will happen, is he is soundly defeated and some norms begin to return. My hope is that as more and more comes out about what he has been doing, a certain healing happens in the nation, one or two amendments are added to strengthen the Constitution… which functions on the basis of assuming good will, so it doesn’t function for a guy like Trump.
I have never known anything like this, and it feels very ominous.
‘the apprentice’ saved his dumb ass. jeff zucker is as responsible as anyone for this shitshow
I could only get to 24/40 in that thread and then cant find where the rest of the tweets are