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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Hamilton Samuels]

 Trump received $21 million in 'highly unusual' payments in late 2016 — and then funneled $10 million to his campaign


 The New York Times obtained a slew of Trump's hidden tax records, including his returns from 2016, the year he won the presidency. They reveal a series of "highly unusual one-off payments" totaling $21 million from Trump's Las Vegas hotel, which he may have funneled to his cash-strapped campaign, the Times reports.

As Trump ran his so-called self-funded presidential campaign, he found himself short on money as Republican donors remained "leery" of supporting him, the Times writes. Deutsche Bank even denied him a loan for his Scotland resort, as "some bankers feared the money would instead be diverted to his campaign," says the Times. The wealth Trump had accumulated from The Apprentice was also starting to run dry.

So Trump turned to selling off stock — $38.5 million of it — over the first four months of 2016, his tax records show. Also during that year, the Times reports Trump "engineered a sudden financial windfall" in the form of payments from the Las Vegas hotel he owns with Phil Ruffin. The $21 million in payments flowed from Trump-controlled companies to Trump, all written off as a business expense.

If they didn't actually get used for business, Daniel Shaviro, a professor of taxation at the New York University School of Law, told the Times that claiming a deduction for them as such would be illegal.


https://theweek.com/speedreads/942858/trump-received-21-million-highly-unusual-payments-late-2016--funneled-10-million-campaign

Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion and died from the ravages of syphillis.

See barton's tagline.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/seventh-circuit-appeal-wi/index.html


Wisconsin - no ballots after 11/3

[Hamilton Samuels]

Trump White House is NOT PRO-LIFE.

Here's proof.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted a sweeping order last month requiring all passengers and employees to wear masks on all forms of public and commercial transportation in the United States, but it was blocked by the White House, according to two federal health officials.

The order would have been the toughest federal mandate to date aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, which continues to infect more than 40,000 Americans a day. The officials said that it was drafted under the agency’s “quarantine powers” and that it had the support of the secretary of health and human services, Alex M. Azar II, but the White House Coronavirus Task Force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, declined to even discuss it.

The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment, said the order would have required face coverings on airplanes, trains, buses and subways, and in transit hubs such as airports, train stations and bus depots.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/health/coronavirus-covid-masks-cdc.html


The Pro-Covid White House.

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/seventh-circuit-appeal-wi/index.html


Wisconsin - no ballots after 11/3

When your electoral strategy depends on fewer people voting it means you know your policies suck for most people.

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/seventh-circuit-appeal-wi/index.html


Wisconsin - no ballots after 11/3

When your electoral strategy depends on fewer people voting it means you know your policies suck for most people.

There has been NO such strategy.
Well, maybe you could make a case for the dems nominating Hillary.

[LarryBnDC]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/seventh-circuit-appeal-wi/index.html


Wisconsin - no ballots after 11/3

When your electoral strategy depends on fewer people voting it means you know your policies suck for most people.

There has been NO such strategy.
Well, maybe you could make a case for the dems nominating Hillary.

Sure.

[REDSTATEWARD]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/seventh-circuit-appeal-wi/index.html


Wisconsin - no ballots after 11/3

When your electoral strategy depends on fewer people voting it means you know your policies suck for most people.

There has been NO such strategy.
Well, maybe you could make a case for the dems nominating Hillary.

Sure.

Thanks

[kiidcarter8]

TRUMP - the dealmaker

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/stimulus-negotiations-latest/index.html

Overheard:  "Wait - should he be working?"

heh

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/seventh-circuit-appeal-wi/index.html


Wisconsin - no ballots after 11/3

When your electoral strategy depends on fewer people voting it means you know your policies suck for most people.

There has been NO such strategy.
Well, maybe you could make a case for the dems nominating Hillary.

Sure.

Thanks

Somebody is both a lying sycophant and a gullible fool.

It's you, Ward!

[barton]

LOL!
Red laughing at his own empty soul.

I have a new approach to trolling,  starting today.   Whenever someone trolls me,  I answer with this:  Why are you so afraid of democracy?

LOL!
Offering a differing opinion on your posts means that poster is opposed to democracy?

Of course not.   That's the point.   When you ask questions like that, or falsely spin what someone has said,  that is trolling.   My reply is simply in kind.   You troll me,  I troll you.

It's a joke,  son.   

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/south-carolina-debate-lindsey-graham-jamie-harrison/index.html

Graham refused to take a COVID-19 test. So, the SC folks changed the format of their next debate.

[barton]

Congress should convert the Thurmond Rule from an urban legend into actual legislation, settling on a specific set of criteria for closeness to a presidential election.  For example, ACB was nominated 38 days from the election (the shortest distance from the election in history).  One criteria could be to look at early voting dates.  In South Dakota, that was Sept. 18th, which means that I could have already voted before Barrett's nomination.  So one possibility would be to say that no nominations can be made after the earliest states begin voting, which would provide a fairly rational demarcation point.

LOL
Let’s just stop ANY action by Governments doing ANYTHING Barton doesn’t like once early voting starts....

Why are you so afraid of democracy?


(this troll-countertroll offered purely for pedagogical puposes)

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/us/florida-prosecutor-resisting-arrest-charges/index.html

This prosecutor's office is going to stop going after folks on resisting arrest charges.

Big step forward!

[REDSTATEWARD]

Congress should convert the Thurmond Rule from an urban legend into actual legislation, settling on a specific set of criteria for closeness to a presidential election.  For example, ACB was nominated 38 days from the election (the shortest distance from the election in history).  One criteria could be to look at early voting dates.  In South Dakota, that was Sept. 18th, which means that I could have already voted before Barrett's nomination.  So one possibility would be to say that no nominations can be made after the earliest states begin voting, which would provide a fairly rational demarcation point.

LOL
Let’s just stop ANY action by Governments doing ANYTHING Barton doesn’t like once early voting starts....

Why are you so afraid of democracy?


(this troll-countertroll offered purely for pedagogical puposes)

One more swing and a miss and you are out.

[oilcan]

Why have you not gotten treatment for your chronic public autoerotic asphyxiation?