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Post by Elvado on Apr 25, 2017 9:51:44 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/money-talked-loudest-at-trumps-inaugural.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1Money Talked Loudest at Trump’s Inaugural Mr. Trump, as a real estate mogul campaigning for president, often bragged about buying political influence. In office he has dutifully done the bidding of donors who have been brazen in demands for regulatory favors, while failing to make any progress on the health insurance, jobs and middle-class tax cuts he promised to his working-class base. AT&T gave more than $2 million in cash, plus in-kind donations; Verizon and Comcast pitched in smaller amounts. They’ve been rewarded with efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to scuttle net neutrality and other rules they don’t like. The pharmaceutical companies Amgen and Pfizer kicked in a total of $1.5 million. After Mr. Trump’s White House meeting with Big Pharma, he backed off his campaign promise that government would negotiate lower drug prices for Americans.Mr. Murray’s contribution was puny compared with the $1 million apiece from other coal industry giants, including J. Clifford Forrest, who owned Freedom Industries, the company charged with leaking a coal-processing chemical into a river in Charleston, W.Va., poisoning the water supply for thousands of residents. Days after his inauguration, Mr. Trump named Scott Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general friendly to fossil fuels and skeptical of climate science, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, and announced plans to gut its budget. He has taken aim at the clean water rule protecting American waterways, and the clean power rule limiting harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Dow Chemical, whose chief executive, Andrew Liveris, is chairman of the president’s panel on manufacturing jobs, gave $1 million. One of Mr. Pruitt’s first moves at E.P.A. was to reject its scientists’ findings that chlorpyrifos, sold by Dow and banned from homes because of its dangers to the brains of children, should be banned from use on farms.Last week, Thomas Barrack Jr., a financier who chaired the inaugural committee, maintained that the $107 million was given “to commemorate the cornerstone of our American democratic process.” If the cornerstone of our American democratic process is influence-peddling, he’s right _______________ If you didn't get an opportunity to pay for access at the Inauguration there's always Mar A Lago abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-undisclosed-meeting-colombian-presidents/story?id=46938452Trump had undisclosed meeting with former Colombian presidents President Trump had an undisclosed rendezvous with two former Colombian presidents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last week, and in the process injected himself into a contentious political battle over Colombia’s peace deal that seeks to end the Western hemisphere’s longest-running war. The previously undisclosed encounter was confirmed today by the White House, with deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ saying that former Presidents Andrés Pastrana and Álvaro Uribe “were there with a member from the club and briefly said hello when the president walked past them.” “There wasn’t anything beyond a quick hello,” Sanders said.
She declined to answer why the meeting was not publicly disclosed. It’s unclear when it occurred.
Asked about the meeting during the daily White House press briefing Wednesday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, “I don't have anything for you at this time.” _________ Shocking the Colombians have a different story... Translation: Thanks to @potus @realdonaldtrump for the cordial and very frank conversation about problems and prospects of Colombia and the region.
Although even those closely involved declined to discuss the matter, former Colombian vice president Francisco “Pacho” Santos, who is close to Alvaro Uribe, said that the Venezuelan crisis was discussed, as well as the concerns that the opposition in Colombia has about the agreement between the government and FARC. Santos described the meeting as short, but with a clear message as outlined by El Nuevo Herald.____________ And this Icymi.... Your tax dollars hard at work promoting Trump's businesses... Yes that's from a .Gov. Just the State Department and multiple U.S. embassies promoting Mar-a-Lago.. Disgraceful.
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Post by TC on Apr 25, 2017 11:39:51 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 25, 2017 12:20:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 6:50:05 GMT -5
Remember when Trump said he knew the deductions and loopholes rich guys used and he would fix it?? Fixed: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/26/trump-tax-cuts-proposal-deductions-brackets?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_TweetAs well as slashing costs for his own businesses, the new proposals will also cut the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a tax designed to stop the super-wealthy from taking so many tax deductions that they avoid paying anything. Leaked documents have shown that in 2005 Trump paid $31m in tax thanks to the AMT.Mnuchin and Cohn were pressed on how Trump would benefit from the proposals, but they avoided the questions. “What this is about is creating job and economic growth,” Mnuchin said. He described the proposals as “the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country”. (For Trump ...) __________ The proposal also gets rid of almost all tax deductions, including those for state and local taxes. This creates a significant increase in tax for residents of high-tax states such as California and New York. It does leave in place existing tax dedications for charitable donations and home mortgage payments. (A tax increase for middle class families. Also eliminates the student loan tax deduction.) ________ Mnuchin refused to commit as to whether the tax cuts would end up being revenue neutral, saying the administration was “working on a lot of details”. However, he said he felt confident that the tax cuts would “pay for [themselves] through growth, reduction of deductions, and closing loopholes”. The treasury secretary did insist, though, that “the deficit is a problem and the president is concerned about that”. (Trickle Down is back, psst it still doesn't work. The icing on the cake, it will add between 3 trillion to 7 trillion in debt...) ___ At least three of these changes would almost certainly benefit the president or his family ― the elimination of the alternative minimum tax or AMT, the repeal of the estate tax, and a reduction on the tax rate for small business owners.___ Odd Trump found a way to cut small business taxes that would be a huge windfall for himself and his kids..
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 27, 2017 7:00:46 GMT -5
Two Goldman Sachs guys telling us about tax reform. Way to drain the swamp!
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Post by Elvado on Apr 27, 2017 7:38:33 GMT -5
Just a thought. Since the "2016 Presidential Election" is long over and Hillary still managed to lose (a reverse Midas of epic proportions, but I digress), can this thread be renamed something more timely, like "All the Reasons Trump is Actually Lucifer"?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 7:45:14 GMT -5
Odd how their number 1 objective is being addressed after all the giveaways for the Trump and the wealthy are already in place...
TaxFoundation said Trump campaign tax plan, even with "dynamic scoring," would expand deficit $390- per year. Basically 4 trillion in ten years is the best case scenario according to this analysis. Middle class might not get much of a break but on the bright side they do get to pay for that..
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Post by tashoya on Apr 27, 2017 8:19:52 GMT -5
Two Goldman Sachs guys telling lying to us about tax reform. Way to drain the swamp!
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Post by EtomicB on Apr 27, 2017 8:28:27 GMT -5
Just a thought. Since the "2016 Presidential Election" is long over and Hillary still managed to lose (a reverse Midas of epic proportions, but I digress), can this thread be renamed something more timely, like "All the Reasons Trump is Actually Lucifer"? Is this really your only thought about this thread? None of the info being posted here moves you in any way? Smh...
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Post by Elvado on Apr 27, 2017 8:37:58 GMT -5
Just a thought. Since the "2016 Presidential Election" is long over and Hillary still managed to lose (a reverse Midas of epic proportions, but I digress), can this thread be renamed something more timely, like "All the Reasons Trump is Actually Lucifer"? Is this really your only thought about this thread? None of the info being posted here moves you in any way? Smh... It all moves me...mostly toward vomiting. That said, accuracy in titles is a good thing. This thread has zero left to do with the election. Right?
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Post by EtomicB on Apr 27, 2017 9:32:34 GMT -5
Is this really your only thought about this thread? None of the info being posted here moves you in any way? Smh... It all moves me...mostly toward vomiting. That said, accuracy in titles is a good thing. This thread has zero left to do with the election. Right? LOL!! You are that dude Elvado, no doubt about it.. I think the thread title is fine, folks are discussing the candidate that was ELECTED.. The consequences of the 2016 election is what's being talked about, seems appropriate to me,,
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Post by Elvado on Apr 27, 2017 9:46:44 GMT -5
It all moves me...mostly toward vomiting. That said, accuracy in titles is a good thing. This thread has zero left to do with the election. Right? LOL!! You are that dude Elvado, no doubt about it.. I think the thread title is fine, folks are discussing the candidate that was ELECTED.. The consequences of the 2016 election is what's being talked about, seems appropriate to me,, I will agree to most respectfully disagree with you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 11:44:24 GMT -5
Nevertheless he persisted..
WH: Documents? What documents? We don't keep documents... Especially on registered foreign agent like our handpicked former NSA Director..
Spicer "We trust that when you are cleared the first time... that your background check is still clear."
It doesn't work that way if you left government service for two years.... Appears they are blaming Obama for them not doing their job and vetting the guy Obama fired... Pence was in charge of Vetting Flynn.
Friendly reminder everybody knew Flynn was shady, we talked about here in this thread.
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Post by tashoya on Apr 27, 2017 23:49:20 GMT -5
YaBoy, you're missing the point. Once again, it's President Obama's fault. You're supposed to stop reading/listening/thinking after that completely ridiculous assertion.
This group is setting new records for misdirection, lying and stupidity. I've come around to SS's well-stated points that Spicer knew what he was getting into and chose his fate. I no longer have any sympathy for him having to regurgitate the moronic messages this administration continues to attempt to peddle. They lie about what they've done, what they haven't done and why they haven't, what they're going to do and who it will hurt and benefit. They take credit for successes that aren't theirs and blame others for failures that are. And they tie a nice bow on it by being some of the most patently ignorant people I've ever seen in the roles in which they've assumed while being insanely sensitive about being called ignorant when it's completely warranted to have been called ignorant.
Sadly, that's only part of the list. That's not even considering the misogyny, racism, xenophobia, nepotism, inexperience, etc., etc., etc. It's truly stunning. I used to be concerned that I'd become numb to a lot of this and that this would somehow become more "normal" somehow to me as we tend to adapt to new versions of normal pretty quickly. Thankfully (in a twisted way) they keep ratcheting up the ridiculousness such that I don't even have time to assimilate the previous sets of lies and blames before they have a brand new, shiny set. It's like having Bizarro Christmas every 3-5 days. You thought got something you hated for Bizarro Christmas on Monday and, by Thursday, you've unexpectedly gotten something you hated even more.
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Post by tashoya on Apr 27, 2017 23:51:23 GMT -5
LOL!! You are that dude Elvado, no doubt about it.. I think the thread title is fine, folks are discussing the candidate that was ELECTED.. The consequences of the 2016 election is what's being talked about, seems appropriate to me,, I will agree to most respectfully disagree with you. Agree. It's not at all about the election itself any longer and hasn't been for a good while. We're not discussing the election any longer. We're discussing Trump's presidency. Semantics.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 9:46:07 GMT -5
The education of Donald Trump The White House remains on a collision course between the president's fixed habits and the demands of his new job. www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/the-education-of-donald-trump-237669"Sounds good, how do you think it will play on Fox and Friends?. Bring Drudge in here let's ask him." The man has no core beliefs and no intellectual curiosity. Anybody with a good story and a solid sales pitch can direct policy
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 10:06:47 GMT -5
Being President is harder than his previous job of professional grifter and reality tv host? Who knew being President was so complicated?... It's like watching a young child discover new things.
More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump's mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.
"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us."
He had copies for each of the three Reuters reporters in the room.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 28, 2017 15:31:31 GMT -5
I am appalled that Trump referred to Senator Warren as Pocahontas when discussing 2020.
It is Faux-cahontas.
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Post by TC on Apr 28, 2017 15:49:59 GMT -5
Funny how the guy who always excuses his own crass and hypocritical statements with "I'm just a guy on a message board" doesn't seem to hold this President to a higher bar.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 28, 2017 15:58:02 GMT -5
Right you are. I just called him on not properly identifying her for the fraud she is.
Oh and lighten up , Francis.
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