Donald Trump is a proven liar. He lies often and effortlessly. He lies about the profound and the trivial. He lies to avoid guilt and invite glory. He lies when his pride is injured and when his pomposity is challenged.
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“I think there’s a lot more shoes to drop from this centipede.”
Sen. John McCain predicted Sunday that the public would learn more about the relationship between President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the Arizona Republican said there were “a lot of things about our relations with Russia that trouble me a lot.”
He cited the removal of a provision in the 2016 Republican party platform that supported sending lethal weapons to Ukraine, a move that was “not the will of most Republicans.”
Speaking of real estate, yes, real estate folks…here it is, your mentor on how you can make a buck being dishonest.
What we really need is an advocate for the working class who can bring together left and right as much as possible. A FDR New Deal style president. If that doesn’t follow Trump, we are in for more “democratic authoritarianism” and I don’t see that leading us anywhere positive in regards to human rights and freedoms.
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Right. Capitalists like me are very comfortable in the modern Democratic party. Maybe too comfortable. For Democrats to be relevant again they need to be more pro-labor, basically going the Bernie way. I have a feeling we are at an injunction point. The country is ready for a wholesale shift to the left on economic issues. That’s why I urge people to read that Salon article.
I don’t agree much with Bernie on economic issues. But compared with the GOP which has become increasingly crazy everyday I will hold my nose and vote for him, if he were the candidate.
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That mean, in absolute dollars it had ballooned. So is ok because of inflation or is it not good.
It’s a huge fire button that creates a ton of emotional response among voters. It’s common to blame the budget deficit and debts on military spending or the “Bush wars”… If you look at data, it’s obvious that isn’t true. Military spending as a percent of GDP was higher in the 60’s than it is today. The real explosion is in entitlement spending. The new deal programs weren’t sustainable long-term. They never adjusted the taxes required to keep funding them. Especially when you compare to 30-40 years ago. We’ve added 100M to our population, but we’ve only added 2M tax payers.
But, as we are relentlessly told by people who are whistling past a considerable graveyard, Donald Trump is different. He certainly is. Already, there are serious questions about his violations of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, about how and where he got his money, about how seriously we should take his claim to have divorced himself from his business interests, and about the precise relationship he has with kleptocrats the world over, especially in Russia. In that context, his decision all at once to decapitate the Justice Department at the local level takes on a more sinister character.
And then there’s the case of Preet Bhahara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the scourge of the money power in New York City, which definitely includes the current president of the United States*. The man was the swamp-drainer supreme. The situation with Bharhara already is stranger than usual. In the first place, a week ago, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III had asked Bhahara to stay on. Also, Bhahara has a number of investigations that may or may not hit too close to home at the White House, including one involving Fox News. And, as has become customary with this administration, the whole matter was handled with the delicacy of a monkey trying to fck a football. From The Washington Post:
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I keep hearing this alt-fact. What do you think of payroll tax, sales tax, gas tax, the government fees on cell phone bills that they don’t call tax, property tax, the list goes on and on. Everybody pays tax. Well almost everybody, except Trump.
As a percentage of income, the poor pays more.
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It’s a real fact. Payroll taxes existed back in 1970, so that’s not a new tax that replaced income tax for some people. Payroll taxes fund the social security and medicare benefits each of us will receive. They aren’t funding government operations. Oh, and only 10% of people actually pay enough payroll taxes to cover their benefits. That means the other 90% are being subsidized by either growth in work force or income taxes on the top earners. People are passionately against any cut in social security or medicare, because they paid in their money. Maybe we should give them back the money they actually paid. I think most would be shocked how much less it is than the benefits they receive.
State taxes fund different things from federal taxes. States and local governments set the state income tax, state sales tax, and property tax amounts.
So your claim is much narrower than your earlier statement of only 2M new tax payers.
Even the poor pays into payroll tax, and the bottom 20% pays more in percentage terms than the top 5%:
If your argument is that the poor gets more benefit than they pay for, then OK, that’s by design. That’s what redistribution is supposed to do. We help the poor by giving them more government resources. So it’s a feature, not a bug. But if your argument is that we should not do this kind of redistribution, that’s a different discussion altogether.
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I should have specified income tax. However, those 100M are also adding to the number of people that will receive more social security and medicare than they pay in payroll taxes. Does that sound sustainable in any way shape or form? I think the last few decades of deficits and debt prove it isn’t. As you can see, it’s the entitlement spending that’s increasing as a percent of GDP.
Anybody believing in the most pathological liar ever getting into the White house?
Trump aides have previously said Trump would donate his salary to the Treasury Department or a charity. <------------
President Donald Trump pledged to forgo a presidential salary, but as his second payday approaches, the White House is declining to say if the president has donated any of his earnings yet.
During the campaign, Trump promised he would take “no salary” if elected — a pledge he reiterated after he won.
“I’m not going to the take the salary,” he said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” in November.
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The Constitution, however, requires that the president receive a salary, and that it not be reduced during his term. Federal law mandates the president receive a $400,000 annual salary, paid out once a month.
Trump aides have previously said Trump would donate his salary to the Treasury Department or a charity.
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MSNBC requested details and documentation about any salary donations from the White House, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management, which all declined to say whether Trump has donated any of his salary to date. (OPM referred questions to the White House.)
Last month, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the website Politifact that Trump “will be giving” his salary “back to Treasury or donating.” <------- 
The site noted the White House “declined to answer several inquiries into whether Trump has gotten a paycheck already.”
Under the law, Trump would receive his first monthly paycheck for $33,333 in February, and another $33,333 on March 20.
Salary donations are not the only area where Trump’s pledges to donate revenue are lacking transparency.
During the transition, Trump also unveiled a plan to “donate all profits from foreign governments’ patronage of his hotels and similar businesses” to the Treasury Department. <---------- 
The plan was released by Trump’s private law firm, Morgan Lewis, but no system or accounting has been released for how or when such donations will be processed or disclosed.
I want you to stand in front of a mirror. <------It goes for all hypocrite people not seeing what the real danger is in denying the corruption permeating the white house.
Now I want you to imagine Barack Obama is 40 days into his presidency, and that during his campaign he repeatedly and inexplicably praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Next imagine that late in the campaign and in the weeks that followed the election that brought Obama into office, American intelligence agencies determined conclusively that Russia had hacked the Republican National Committee and released thousands of stolen emails that were damaging to Obama’s opponent.
And that Obama’s campaign vigorously denied any contact with Russian officials before or after the election.
Then, imagine that not long after the inauguration, Obama’s national security adviser was found to have lied about having contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He in fact spoke with the ambassador in December, the day the outgoing president issued sanctions against Russia for interfering with the election.
The adviser was fired.
Questions persisted. More evidence began to surface that people connected to Obama had been in contact with the Russians during the campaign.
Imagine that President Obama continued to deny there was any issue and brushed off reports as “fake news,” criticizing the intelligence community for leaking information to the press.
As calls for an investigation into the Obama campaign’s connections to Russia grew louder, news broke that Obama’s new attorney general had been less than honest during his confirmation hearing when asked if he had contact with the Russians. He said he hadn’t, but it turns out he had met twice with the Russian ambassador, one of those times during the Democratic National Convention.
Imagine the attorney general said his meetings were part of his work as a senator, but then news came out that the trip to the convention was paid for through the then-senator’s campaign fund.
Under pressure, Obama’s attorney general finally recused himself from investigations into issues surrounding the campaign and Russia.
Now imagine at this point, which again is in Obama’s first 40 days as president, you learn that the fired national security adviser actually met with the Russian ambassador at Obama’s house in Chicago, along with Obama’s son-in-law. **
(You also have to imagine that Malia Obama is married and that a staffer in Obama’s White House recently tried to push Malia’s clothing line in a nationally televised interview. I know this is hard, just keep that imagination going.)**
Next you learn that an Obama campaign official who made a change to the Democratic Party platform during its national convention, a change Russia would like — the only change that candidate Obama’s campaign requested — also met with the Russian ambassador during the Democratic National Convention.
Imagine all of these things. And remember that President Obama and members of his campaign all said specifically and repeatedly that there had been no contact with Russia.
Imagine.
Now look into that mirror in front of you.
If this were true, would you think there should be an independent investigation into contacts between the Obama campaign and Russia? Are you angry?
If you answered yes to either of those questions and you don’t feel the same way right now about the connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, you need to ask yourself: What is the difference between these two men?
Now look in the mirror again, long and hard. Because you have one last question to ask yourself.
And I think you know what it is.
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I mentioned Scott Adams in 2015…The guy has an amazing sense of destiny…
Seems that the cartoonist (from the BA), like Trump, used the attention generated from the election for his own profit. Trump boosted the careers of people like him most. Don’t like Dilbert after reading this 
Leave Twhitler in peace. He works so hard he needs another vacation, in the most crucial moments of his pfftt…administration. Another $3 million down the drain, golfing again? Wow!
Anybody still supporting this failure?
If you are fan of Obamacare you should be glad he is going on vacation …I don’t think he cares about healthcare reform. …just pandering to his base…same with immigration reform…His biggest favorite issues are trade, deregulation and tax reform.
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I was a Bill Clinton supporter…But this is how Trump supporters view history. …Good for coastal liberals to see how middle America thinks…
GREAT LETTER
by George Roof, Chief Master Sergeant (Retired), USA
Because I am a “lifer” in the military, I’ve seen the impact of a president more than many of you can imagine. I enlisted with LBJ and saw just what a Democrat clusterflock was all about. I went to Vietnam and saw how we were constantly and incessantly bombarded with micromanagement from Washington that got thousands of military people killed. I sometimes wonder if I’ll get to heaven, but if I go to hell, I’m sure I’ll still be a few hundred floors above that bastard Robert McNamara , LBJ, John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and yes, even the “hero” John McCain.
After Johnson “abdicated” rather than having his ass waxed, I lived through Nixon who was hawkish but allowed the generals (and there WERE a few real generals back then versus now) run the show. He was so out of touch that he never knew North Vietnam was about to surrender when the Paris Accord was presented.
Only God could help us after Gerald Ford was beaten by Jimmy Peanuts who’d been funded by Saudi money. The military was turned into Section 8, and even the Whitehouse suffered the austerity.
Then the light began to shine and Ronald Reagan swept into the fray. He not only loved the country and the military, they loved him back. Esprit d’corps was off the scale during his presidency. The Liberals were slowly turning into socialists, however, and about this time all the draft dodgers of the 1960’s who’d been given amnesty by Jimmy Peanuts were turning out college graduates with degrees in socialism.
Bush 1 was an enigma from the CIA, and though he never did much either way, he NEVER DID MUCH EITHER WAY.
Welcome to Bill Clinton. Clinton spent most of his two terms wagging the dog and creating the Oral Office, sending a bomber to blow up Quaddafi’s tent and killing a goat or two, while allowing the UN to set up the infamous Black Hawk Down situation. He made history by becoming only the second president to be impeached.
I actually felt sorry for Bush 2. He was doomed to infamy from the start. He thought most of America was still the rah rah patriots of WWII when they were simply socialists waiting to feed him to the sharks.
Then there came the Manchurian Candidate with a faked (OK Democrats, let’s say “of questionable origin” to assuage your PC brains) birth certificate, who’d gotten a free ride through college under a foreign student exemption, and whose college records and complete life history had been sealed. (We know more about Thomas Jefferson’s bastard children than we do about Obama, Michelle, OR their two kids.) From his inaugural address, he slandered America and within days had begun to encourage dissention of the races as well as slandering police who “acted stupidly.” That was mild to the crap that would come in doubling the national debt from what had been built by ALL THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED, feeding us bullspit about how Muslims built this country, and nationalizing American industries. Fueled by George Soros’ money and using the Air Force fleet as his personal charters, he appointed malcontents and traitors into positions of authority. He trashed the Constitution by installing “czars” (interesting he chose a title like that) to bypass Congressional authority. By that time, Congress was completely corrupt on both sides of the aisle. No one had balls to impeach this charlatan.
Mysteriously, the lone outspoken conservative Supreme Court Justice suddenly dies in his sleep at an Obama pal’s hunting lodge and the Supreme Court is evenly split. Finally, Congress shows some balls and rejects Obama’s nomination. The Libtards aren’t worried because the fix is in. Soros has paid demonstrators to cause turmoil at all the Republican gatherings, Obama concedes that illegal aliens should vote as they won’t be prosecuted, and Soros-manufactured voting machines are caught switching votes in certain precincts. Hillary has cheated her way to the nomination and her lies are completely ignored by the brainwashed minions of sycophants who follow her.
But a shocking thing happened on the way to the forum.
Middle America had had enough and although the pollsters and the pipers tried to convince them not even to bother to vote, they were fed up with the denizens of the swamp. It was time. Florida was designated a “swing” state ignoring that all those old retirees living in St. Petersburg, and the fed up Cuban Americans of Miami weren’t interested in their platform. Ohio and Pennsylvania, where coal production was blacklisted and where Obama had ridiculed them for “clinging to their Bibles and their guns,” lay awaiting this supposed “landslide” Hillary vote and creamed it.
The Socialist world of the Democratic Party disintegrated. An American who expressed unbridled love of country and respect for police, firemen, and military steamrolled across the heartland and the liberals realized their scheme was trashed. A CONSTITUTIONALIST would be nominated to the Supreme Court and if the hag who’d claimed to retire if Trump were elected would actually leave, the Supreme Court would have a massive majority of CONSTITUTIONALISTS for the next 40-50 years.
Now, the same party who’d ridiculed Trump on his comments about the election being rigged, started screaming that the election was rigged. They even advocated having the election repeated. They created mobs that burned and pillaged, stopped traffic, threatened murder, battery and rape of Trump supporters, and became the anarchists that the socialist dream thrives upon. They run like castrated pigs for safe zones and use diaper pins as their national symbol.
This is exactly what happens when political correctness takes over and participation trophies are awarded to everyone. They can’t conceive how disgusting and subservient they have become. Donald Trump may NOT be the best person for the job, but he’s such a welcome respite from the candy-assed whimps who’ve been running the swamp that it’s refreshing to see. At the very least, Donald Trump derailed the Socialist train and bought us precious time. If he only does half of what he’s promised, we’ll still be legions ahead of where Obama has dragged us. Already countries who held us in contempt are lining up to be found in the favor of America.
So for you liberal lurkers and you half-assed fence-sitters, kiss off. You had your big hurrah and now your party is over. For you staunch Republicans in office, don’t gloat so much yourselves. You’ve been put on notice by the American people that we’re fed up with ALL YOU BASTARDS and if you don’t start putting America first, you do so at your own peril. You might want to buy a copy of George McGovern’s autobiography and see how shocking and humbling it can be for a professional politician to have to try to find legitimate work once he falls from grace. This election was pure, unadulterated AMERICAN. Hillary got beaten and AMERICA WON THE ELECTION. You can claim he’s not “your president” all you want, but unless you forfeit your American citizenship, YES HE IS!!! Go cry a river some place they need water.
Every liberal politician should be required to run a business before being qualified to run.