Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Pro Trump Political Pundit Rachel Maddow has the scoop!

Obama and Sanders paid less in taxes than Trump!

Rachel Maddow has the scoop. She tweeted it out in advance of her big show. Exposure at the highest levels of which politicians are paying taxes and which ones are not. Leave it to MSNBC and "The Rachel" for coming to Donald Trump's aide in an area where he has been unfairly maligned.

Apparently in the biggest scoop since that one thing about the Duck Dynasty cast, Rachel Maddow exposed the fact that Donald Trump paid 38 million in taxes in 2005. That's actually a 25% tax rate, and shows that he pays more in percent than either Barack Obama (19.5%) or Bernie Sanders (13.5%).

Maddow went on to talk about the hypocrisy of those politicians on the left who demand big Government, but seem unwilling to personally pay for it. She also attacked Hillary Clinton for making the false accusation during the campaign that Donald Trump had paid nothing in taxes.


84 comments:

opie said...

Obama and Sanders paid less in taxes than Trump!


Another bullshit headline that the completely dishonest CH puts forth so his weak minded followers like rat and loretta feel big. Yes he paid 25% effective tax rate vs obama's 18% . BTW idiot, that was a rather surprisingly good amount he paid which makes me want to believe, if other years were similar....I would say he paid his fair share. JMO. But me thinks other years involved zero federal taxes which would really annoy me. That's why he's hiding like the child he is.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Here are Trump's major sources of income:

Interest income: $9 million
Business income: $42 million
Capital gains: $32 million
Rental income: $67 million
Miscellaneous: $2 million
Total: $152 million
After a writeoff of $103 million, his adjusted gross income clocked in at $49 million. His taxable income came in at $31 million and his tax bill for this was $5 million. That's a tax rate of about 3 percent. Bingo!!!

The Alternative Minimum Tax kicked in, which meant he had to pay $38 million in taxes. I guess it's no wonder that Trump doesn't think very highly of the Alternative Minimum Tax. For a whopping 28% rate.

I wish we had the schedules.

Loretta said...

LOL.

Anonymous said...

I wish we had the schedules.
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why? so you could conflate 'income' vs. 'wealth' and intentionally misinterpret the entire issue for political gain?

that's what this has always been all about rog. and ralphie strap-on proved it last night.

caliphate4vr said...

why? so you could conflate 'income' vs. 'wealth' and intentionally misinterpret the entire issue for political gain?

he's not bright enough to get that

Anonymous said...

he's not bright enough to get that
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indeed. but maybe there's a cut n' paste out there that could help him understand it.

Anonymous said...



If you subscribe to the theory that Trump’s tax returns include all kinds of evidence of nefarious criminal activity… what has the Internal Revenue Service been doing all these years? They had time to target all of those small-time Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, but they ignored the criminal mastermind who lives in a giant golden tower in the middle of Manhattan?

The new conventional wisdom this morning is that Trump or someone close to him mailed them to get the media on a wild goose chase, or to fool them into breathlessly touting a tax return that shows Trump obeying all appropriate tax laws and paying quite a bit of tax.

“Almost as if somebody selected the single year and the precise 2 pages that would do Trump least harm- and found a way to release only those,” says David Frum.

“The Trump camp released one positive tax return to distract from Russia hearings and the Trumpcare meltdown. That’s painfully obvious,” declares Joe Scarborough.

This is all entirely possible, but think about what had to happen here. Trump (or more likely, some associate with his blessing) anonymously mails copies of the pages to David Cay Johnston. He doesn’t know for certain that Johnston will go to Maddow. Johnston’s an experienced reporter, and could have looked at the tax return (from twelve years ago!) and concluded he had a story, but not a particularly shocking or scandalous one. It’s Trump’s “luck” that Maddow chose the treat the tax return with the wildest hype since Geraldo Rivera opened up Al Capone’s vault.

- NRO's Jim Geraghty

Anonymous said...



Democrats urge one another not to get distracted by Trump's taxes

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/democrats-distracted-trump-taxes/index.html


huh, so democrats who have been in a hysteria over trump's taxes now seem not so interested.

okey dokey.


Anonymous said...



ny times bombshell report:

trump filed his 2005 tax return LEGALLY:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


ho-lee fucking shit.

this trump fella is more of an evil genius than i could have ever imagined. the sonofabitch actually COMPLIED with the tax law and filed in accordance with said law.

i don't know about you guys but i want to go on the record right here right now as demanding a very, very special prosecutor and a joint session of congress to open a full blown investigation into trump's LEGAL activity.

if this isn't grounds for impeachment then i don't know what is.

and furthermore, i'm calling on maxine waters to issue a statement condemning trump's LEGAL behavior.

who's with me???


KD, said...

why? so you could conflate 'income' vs. 'wealth' and intentionally misinterpret the entire issue for political gain?"


RRB you know he is not bright enough to get your point.

I notice Roger Krugman had to all of a sudden run.

He has a bad case of wealth envy, he has been that way with me ever since he found out that I have more Wealth, more income and more investments then him.

Madcow is a dumb ass, she does not know what the 1st Amendment is, she said it allows her to publish his stolen tax filings, no it does not.

opie said...

Anonymous caliphate4vr said...
why? so you could conflate 'income' vs. 'wealth' and intentionally misinterpret the entire issue for political gain?

he's not bright enough to get that

The great pretender puffs out his overinflated worth while adding ZERO to anything other than taxes on alcohol.....

opie said...

If you subscribe to the theory that Trump’s tax returns include all kinds of evidence of nefarious criminal activity

IDIOT!!! It will show us the sources he is deriving the income from which may include some questionable sources like the russian fertilizer mavin or other russian sources. That's all I want to see, don't you?????

KD, said...

Trump will lower MPG per car for the UAW and for them to be more competitive.

Oil Production in the US Will rise under Trump, making the sand sissy's of OPEC cry and that is a very good thing for the USA.

Oil will be flowing within days thru the Dakota Access pipeline, now that the interlopers have been removed and property rights have been restored .

KD, Good Morning Opie said...

IRS laws keep all returns private and protected.

Do I want to see anyone's tax return, nope, none of my business.

opie said...

Madcap is a dumb ass

Worse than you.....her creds are impeccable, a graduate of Stanford and a Rhodes scholar while you nothing but service goats and post here.

opie said...


Do I want to see anyone's tax return, nope, none of my business.

But you did look at hilllaries and complained about the speaking fees she earned. Idiot

Loretta said...

"He doesn’t want the American people...to know that he’s paid nothing in federal taxes.”
--Hillary Clinton, 9-26-16

Commonsense said...

Well the hear Joe Scarborough tell it. The "Rhodes Scholar" just got punked by an alumni from the Wharton school for business.

opie said...

The type of congressman pauline and the fakers like to support. Brilliance is their middle name, dying is the way to get out of poverty and off the tit of government.....read lower taxes. Such brave men they are.


Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall went biblical to explain why we shouldn’t be overly concerned about making sure the poor have access to doctors. In an interview with STAT, a medical-affairs website, he opined as follows: “Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us. There is a group of people that just don’t want healthcare and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”

Meantime, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz said poor people need to get their priorities straight. “Rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that,” he told CNN, “maybe they should invest in their own healthcare.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article138527008.html#storylink=cpy

opie said...

just got punched by an alumni from the Wharton school for business.

And you get punked by your cult leaders. LOL!!!! Watching MSNBC.....that's encouraging for a very perverse reason.

Commonsense said...

Poor Opie, that open maw of his is incapable of uttering coherent sentences.

It can only intake mass quantities of pie and expel gaseous noise.

Commonsense said...

this trump fella is more of an evil genius than i could have ever imagined. the sonofabitch actually COMPLIED with the tax law and filed in accordance with said law.

How diabolical.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

24 million people losing insurance is roughly equivalent to the population of:

VT
AL
ND
SD
DE
MT
RI
ME
NH
ID
WV
NE
NM
KS
WY

**combined**.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

She has a PhD.

Not dump..You are

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

She has a PhD.

Not dump..You are

Commonsense said...

Dump?

C.H. Truth said...

24 million people losing insurance is roughly equivalent to...

the population of the city of Agrabah...

Loretta said...

I don't care who you are, that's funny.

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...
She has a PhD.
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which makes her masterpiece theatre in liberal asshattery last night even more cringeworthy.

i could see it if some clueless uneducated rube from a flyover state came off looking that ridiculous last night but a verified Pile it High & Deep?

she's supposed to be a card carrying member of the elite, rog. someone SO much smarter than us common folk.

yet here we are laughing at her.

Loretta said...

"yet here we are laughing at her."

I never did like him.

Anonymous said...



Apparently some in the White House Press Corps are not familiar with taxes or economics. When the forms were released, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks, April Ryan, tweeted:

So in 2005 @POTUS was not a Billionaire. He made in 2005 over 100 million dollars.


Anonymous said...



The White House released President Trump’s tax return from 2005 on Tuesday, which showed that he paid $38 million on $150 million in income. This disproves the premise of a major New York Times story in the lead-up to the November election.

The Oct. 1 Times story was headlined: “Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found.” The New York Times reporters wrote: “Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.”

This report was so substantial that Trump was asked about it at a presidential debate and responded that he used tax deductions in order to not pay federal income taxes, but did not say for how many years.

The tax return released Tuesday shows that the most time Trump could have deducted money from his 1995 tax return to avoid paying taxes is nine years. This is half the amount of time the Times implied was the case.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/14/nyt-eats-crow-after-trump-tax-return-proves-major-story-wrong/#ixzz4bQ35pj2X

Anonymous said...




liberals set to go full-on apeshit in 3, 2, 1...


President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, according to a person familiar with the administration’s plan.

The order, which could be signed this week, goes far beyond a targeted assault on Obama-era measures blocking coal leasing and throttling greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that has been discussed for weeks. Some of the changes could happen immediately; others could take years to implement.

It aims to reverse President Barack Obama’s broad approach for addressing climate change. One Obama-era policy instructed government agencies to factor climate change into formal environmental reviews, such as that for the Keystone XL pipeline. Trump’s order also will compel a reconsideration of the government’s use of a metric known as the "social cost of carbon" that reflects the potential economic damage from climate change. It was used by the Obama administration to justify a suite of regulations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/trump-said-to-drop-climate-change-from-environmental-reviews



is it possible to get tired of all this WINNING?

LOL.

opie said...

It aims to reverse President Barack Obama’s broad approach for addressing climate change

Climate change is a hoax, just like trump cares about america.

opie said...

his disproves the premise of a major New York Times story in the lead-up to the November election.

The single year proves for that year he paid federal taxes. Nothing else. Daily Caller is about as reliable a source as CH Truth. LOL

KD< UAW Loves Trump, and more they love job creation said...

Apparently some in the White House Press Corps are not familiar with taxes or economics. When the forms were released, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks, April Ryan, tweeted:

So in 2005 @POTUS was not a Billionaire. He made in 2005 over 100 million dollars."


LOL, my god just how stupid are they, I mean I really thought only Opie and Roger Krugman where this stupid.

Good thing Mizz April controls so little wealth.


CS **** Note ***

Roger Krugman use of the word "Dump" is his new attempt to insult President Trump.

is it possible to get tired of all this WINNING?
" RRB


Nope, the UAW loves this kind of winning as do I. We are going to regain our USA competitiveness as long as Trump keeps winning over so called science.



KD said...

One by One the Obama lost years are ever more becoming less painful as we clean up the MESS.


UAW is having a great time with Trump, funny thing about work and pay checks , they really are wealth builders.

KD said...

Keystone XL pipeline is going to be built and more oil will flow, Canada is such a great trading partner.



Dakota Access Pipe line is about to start flowing wealth from oil sales to the people that invested.


UAW will continue to add workers and Unions will continue to add membership, after the Lost years saw such a decline.

Commonsense said...

Apparently some in the White House Press Corps are not familiar with taxes or economics. When the forms were released, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks, April Ryan, tweeted:

So in 2005 @POTUS was not a Billionaire. He made in 2005 over 100 million dollars.


The scary part is that she's suppose to have a college education.

Anonymous said...

The single year proves for that year he paid federal taxes.
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and DISPROVES the ny times claim that trump had not paid taxes in 20 years.


your stroke recovery is not going very well, is it d0pie?

Anonymous said...

The scary part is that she's suppose to have a college education.
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degrees in race baiting from schools like morgan state do not prepare an individual for much outside the world of al sharpton-esque troublemaking.

KD said...

Opie, share with us what you are invested in.

Thanks.

KD said...

Madcow is a clam lover, go figure.

Loretta said...

Like a boss, TRUMP just killed it in Michigan.

Loretta said...

"UAW will continue to add workers and Unions will continue to add membership"

I wouldn't put very much money on that one....

Anonymous said...

Climate change is a hoax, just like trump cares about america.
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i just spent the past two days clearing about 30 inches of climatey changey from my and a few of my elderly neighbors driveways and walkways.

and like i've explained to a couple of my liberal co-workers -

i believe in climate change.

i just happen to call it "winter, spring, summer and fall."

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't put very much money on that one....
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me either. foreign automakers with plants in the US have watched the unmitigated disaster that is the UAW. and they've learned the lesson. the UAW attacks an automaker like cancer attacks the human body. death by parasite is a matter of when, not if.

KD, HI Ette, f-3 Tornado hit Oak Grove, sad said...

Back to real news .


Madam Yelling thru a grenade at the Trump Motorcade and raised rates 25 basis points and threatened to raise them more IF the US Economy starts to out pace the lost years in GDP.

Loretta said...

"me either. foreign automakers with plants in the US have watched the unmitigated disaster that is the UAW. and they've learned the lesson."

He welcomed foreign automakers, he said they're employing Americans h the crowd cheered, LOL.

It was great.

KD, Pres Trump in MI, winning said...

He really is good with the rank and file , a real man talking about real life with those that have struggled to over come the last "8 lost years"

I may be wrong on the UAW adding jobs after concideration of your points.

opie said...


It was great.

Great that they applauded to the most obvious thing he could say. WOW, how great is that?????

opie said...

According to spicer, kellyannes microwave camera was a joke. The only joke here is spicer lying for another unforced stupid comment made by blondie. Not very bright... Maybe trump was joking when he said Obama tape's his phone.....yeah, should be so easy, but ...

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway sitting nearby in the briefing room, press secretary Sean Spicer insisted she was joking when she made her infamous comment about microwave surveillance.

“I will just say the president has tweeted about this,” said Spicer when asked to clarify whether Trump thought he had been betrayed by his microwave during Tuesday’s briefing, “he’s pretty clear there was surveillance, conducted during the 2016 election; going to wait for the conclusion of that. I think there’s pretty sound evidence that the microwave is not a sound way of surveilling someone, and I think that has been cleaned up; it was made in jest, so I think we can put that to rest.”

Commonsense said...

Trump is speaking to the things most Americans care about (not necessarily the things the media care about).

That is why he won in November.

And that is why he has a better than even chance of having a successful eight-year administration.

opie said...

I'm sure CH will have some impeccable data proving otherwise.....If not, he'll just make something up like kellyanne and the microwave. Jokers, all of you.



Devin Nunes confirms it: The evidence of Trump Tower being wiretapped doesn’t exist WP headline

The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who has been one of the few defenders of Trump's claims, made clear that there is zero evidence to suggest Trump Tower was wiretapped. Here's a list of others who have said the claim is not true.

Commonsense said...

According to spicer, kellyannes microwave camera was a joke.

You didn't get the joke?

Not surprise.

opie said...

That is why he won in November.

He won because of idiots like you who will soon be paying up the nose for health care. Not sure they voted for that, menstral child.

opie said...


You didn't get the joke?

Neither did you until you were told. Idiot. Just like her joking about buying ivanka crap on air. How'd that work out?????

Commonsense said...

For Ivanka, very well.

KD, President Trump Winning in MI said...

Agreed

Hillary talked to her base, assured them that IF they felt like a guy that day or a girl that they could choose what potty to use.

Trump was talking with real Americans and how he could help them live better and get jobs and wealth and a better life.

We know which one Trumped.

Remember , with liberals it is always easy to see how they are going to act IF they loss, look at those funny little. Love Trumps HATE.

Liberals lost and all they do is HATE.

Gorebal Warming as an issue does not show up in the top ten issues real Americans care about.

Top Three Hillary was a No Show

1, Jobs
2, Terrorism
3, Health Care

Source: CNN

KD said...

buying ivanka crap on air. How'd that work out????? "


Very Well, in fact CNBC posted that Ivanka is racking up record sales .

Want a do over on that one Odopie

opie said...

Now something CH thinks is a hoax.....the heat goes on and on and on....those models need to be recalibrate if you ask me..

February 2017 was the second warmest February in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

Last month was 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean February temperature from 1951-1980. The two top February temperature anomalies have occurred during the past two years.

February 2016 was the hottest on record, at 1.3 degrees Celsius warmer than the February mean temperature. February 2017's temperature was 0.20 degrees Celsius cooler than February 2016.

Global map of the GISTEMP land-ocean temperature index anomaly for February 2017, relative to the 1951-1980 average
Global map of the February 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly shows that North America and Siberia were again much warmer than the 1951-1980 base period, and that Europe was relatively warm. — View larger image
The monthly analysis by the GISS team is assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 meteorological stations around the world, ship- and buoy-based instruments measuring sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research stations.

opie said...

Very Well, in fact CNBC posted that Ivanka is racking up record sales . Link or do you just make shit up????

Is that before or after dropping the jewelry line. Maybe you can outfit your goats and help that poor girl get richer......idiot

opie said...

Commonsense said...
For Ivanka, very well.

Can't even answer a simple question, can you Mr. .2% Try again maybe you can get your head from your ass and tell me how it worked out for the blond bitch.

Loretta said...

"And that is why he has a better than even chance of having a successful eight-year administration."

Not sure our unhinged liberal lunatics will be able to handle TWO terms....

Commonsense said...

Opie is so angry when he loses. The next eight years are going to be unmitigated hell for him.

♫ Happy days are here again. ♫
♫ The skies they all are clear again. ♫
♫ Let's sing a song of cheer again. ♫
♫ Happy days are here again. ♫

caliphate4vr said...

Fatty has lost it

LMAO

Loretta said...

LOL

opie said...

Blogger Commonsense said...
Opie is so angry when he loses. The next eight years are going to be unmitigated hell for him.
♫ Happy days are here again. ♫

still no answer, menstral???? Why is that Mr. .2% loretta got your tongue?????

March 15, 2017 at 3:14 PM
Anonymous caliphate4vr said...
Fatty has lost it

LMAO

March 15, 2017 at 3:21 PM
Blogger Loretta Russo said...
LOL

Our flutist once again showing pauline how she swallows....As for being mad, I am thoroughly enjoying the spin lies and BS being spewed from the right and am especially happy how the 3 of you will be paying lots of money for trump care. Couldn't happened to a nicer group of idiots. As for califat head, still waiting for him to post something profound, but all we get is drivel. Big man he is and its fun reading his sparkling wit, especially for the man child he is. Very impressive and it sure hurts!!! BWAAAAAAA!!!!

Loretta said...

LOL

Commonsense said...

still no answer, menstral?

You got an answer fat boy. Just not the answer you want.

Now squeal like a pig. Oink Oink.

opie said...

Commonsense said...
still no answer, menstral?
You got an answer fat boy. Just not the answer you want.
Now squeal like a pig. Oink Oink.

Gee, almost as impressive as pauline, except he's a graduate and you ain't. If brains were tnt, you couldn't blow your nose. Just remember, evolution says we are all related to pigs......like loretta. Go back to your cult and tell us the world is 6000 years old

KD, Opie is the poster child of special kind of stupid said...

Very Well, in fact CNBC posted that Ivanka is racking up record sales . Link"

sure I have a link, and like other conservatives we post them, for you, and in the end is your opinion changed?

Do you admit your wrong?

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/ivanka-trump-brand-is-ringing-up-some-of-its-biggest-sales-in-history.html

KD said...

So President Trump, towed the ObamaEconomy used , tired and out of tune car to the Capitalist Garage, did the body work, painted it, put new tires on and tuned it up.

But then little janet yelling broke into the shop and pour sugar in the tank. She threatened to continue doing it until she is kicked out in 2018.

She is not about to let The Trump Effect grow the economy .

Commonsense said...

Opie is the poster child of special kind of stupid

Only a special kind of stupid would walk right into it like Opie did.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...


(CNN)A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump's new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the ban was set to go into effect.
This ruling means that travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees will be able to travel to the US.

The Trump administration took over a month to rewrite the travel ban order after multiple federal courts blocked its implementation last month.

Unlike the previous executive order, the new one removed Iraq from the list of banned countries, exempted those with green cards and visas, and removed a provision arguably prioritizes certain religious minorities.

Despite this changes, US District Court Judge Derrick Watson concluded that the new executive order still failed to pass legal muster.

The courts are going to make the wannbe Dictator took a month to prepare this. I can't wait to see what the anger tweet says. FAKE JUDGE

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump is having a terrible day. I don't think it will get any better. The Republican party is so divided that they can't even repeal ObamaCare, let alone repeal and replace. The President make comments several time that he would give everyone health care. Now the 24 million number, that our esteemed host is bogus, but most Republicans dispute the CBO report, in fact they are in panic mode.

The Republicans are saying the wire tap accusation is false. The White House is trying to spin their way out of it. It's not working, his popularity remains at 40%. The ACA is more popular than ever.

Federal judge halts Trump travel ban hours before it was to take effect,

The night isn't over with daylight savings time, what can hap;pen again????

I'm laughing my ass off.

It's starting to look like the anti-government Party can't govern. I told you so.

Loretta said...

Spam by the drunkard

Loretta said...

"Federal judge halts Trump travel ban hours before it was to take effect,"

I'm good with this. Hawaii has a lot of money and it's beautiful. It's the perfect state to absorb immigrants, especially Niʻihau.

Commonsense said...

The judge admitted he rule the order was unconstitutional because it was issued by President Trump.

If allowed to stand, it continues the destruction of the rule of law.

opie said...

Do you admit your wrong?

Asking for a link????? I don't think so.

Commonsense said...
Opie is the poster child of special kind of stupid

Only a special kind of stupid would walk right into it like Opie did.


And you are going to be specially screwed by trump care. Another chuckle at your intellectual void.

Anonymous said...

It's the perfect state to absorb immigrants, especially Niʻihau.
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indeed. at 70 sq mi you can pile a lot of ragheads up there.

Loretta said...

It's a win win.

Anonymous said...

Despite this changes, US District Court Judge Derrick Watson concluded that the new executive order still failed to pass legal muster.
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heh.

we have reached the point that one need not possess a law degree, but only a modicum of common sense to understand just how flawed these TDS-fueled rulings have become.




"The net result is that Trump has been stripped of his constitutional and statutory powers to protect the nation through control of who is permitted to enter the country."


http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/hawaii-tro-and-9th-circuit-en-banc-denials-effectively-strip-trump-of-executive-powers/



Obama-Appointed Hawaiian Judge Freezes Trump Travel Restrictions Before They Take Effect

Of course.

This Twitter thread by a lawyer associated with CATO notes this judge did not write much about the POLICY at all -- instead, he spends almost all his time arguing about Trump's MOTIVES that animated it.

He can't find anything unconstitutional about the actual policy, so he just says "But this guy is motivated by anti-Islamic bigotry so the policy, somehow, becomes unconstitutional."

Which puts us in the Alice in Wonderland situation of one president not being able to enact a policy, whereas another president -- one who has all his Social Justice Warrior Wokeness boxes ticked -- CAN enact the very same policy.

He also notes the people who brought the lawsuit (nominally -- I'm sure this was really a case of an interest group recruiting potential plaintiffs) didn't even apply for a waiver, which they could in fact do, meaning they did not exhaust all possible alternatives before filing to enjoin the executive order. He says this is a very easy reversal, based just on that.

Of course, that assumes the Ninth Circus justices care about the law when they issue their rulings -- which is very much in doubt.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/368870.php


so yeah, i'm inclined to laugh my ass off too alky. but for the reason that we are witness to a legal theatre of the absurd, with so many liberal asshats motivated by their seething blinding hatred of president trump. TDS stage 11.

remember when "elections had consequences?"

they still do, alky. they still do.

worse case scenario - trump has to wait until gorsuch is confirmed, then this mockery of the rule of law goes before the USSC and trump emerges victorious.



wphamilton said...

One tax return from 12 years ago, "leaked" so that we don't even know whether it is fake or not, and we're supposed to conclude exactly what from that? That some stupid speculation about Trump in a NY Times story is wrong? That's not exactly a "stop the presses" revelation.

It could still be true, and probably is, that Trump has paid an embarrassingly small amount of taxes over the last two decades.