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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

[josh]

Doesn't say that much of the money wasnt also going to proper use

The wording of the piece makes quick jumpers like yourself think Trump used every cent for personal items/giving.

Thus when I said "Letitia is shutting down charities" - yes - in this case the good of the Trump Foundation gets eliminated - at least for the time being.  And some of you smarties will be first to note how little Trump and his family give to others if the post shutdown numbers come out.

You are a fool.

We've been following this story for years, Kid!

Most of the money in the Trump Foundation from 2001-2014 did not originally come from Donald Trump. Between 2001 and 2008, the president donated a total of $2.8 million, or 0.08% of his $3.7 billion fortune, to his own foundation. From 2009-2014, Trump gave $0 to the group.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/02/09/where-did-trumps-foundation-donate-its-money-irs-documents-reveal-surprising-answers/#4baed7617b52

"The good of the Trump Foundation" is mostly not due to Trump's money at all and those folks will find somewhere else to donate their money to. Comedy Central and NBCUniversal don't lack for places to put their charitable funds.
At what point of corruption do you say enough is enough, Kid? At what point do you say "what you are doing with this charity is breaking the law, we have warned you, but you keep doing it," to the perps?

Or do you keep letting them use it for personal purposes like an extra piggy bank?

[josh]

And some of you smarties will be first to note how little Trump and his family give to others if the post shutdown numbers come out.

Only if his taxes come out!

But given the $0 that Trump gave to his foundation for years and his only giving the money to the military (after running the event ostensibly for them) when he got caught, if he gives *anything* it will be a noteworthy year!

[josh]

[josh]

I can almost hear Jon Lovitz going, "Yeaaaah, a budget process thing! That's why I held up the money. That's the ticket!"

The GOP has released their newest lame excuse for why the money was held up.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/politics/white-house-budget-office-memo-ukraine-aid/index.html

[Hairy Lime]

Trump had Robert Jeffress speak at his White House Hannukah celebration Wednesday. Presumably to tell the celebrants that they would be spending eternity in Hell.

[LarryBnDC]

Pastor says Jews gonna  burn in hell... he was invited to speak at the White House Hanukkah service as a “great faith leader!”




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-jeffress-white-house-hanukkah_n_5df1b1a1e4b01e0f2959c43d

[barton]

 If you were reading a novel, a few years ago, in which there was a fictitious Trump administration, stuff like that would seem sufficiently incredible that you would classify the book as satirical fantasy.   

[oilcan]

Guess which person on the shortlist for Time's Person of the Year angrily tweeted an insult at the person selected for PotY?

  Following the President's tweet, Thunberg updated her Twitter bio to reflect Trump's comments: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend."   

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/trump-greta-thunberg-time-person-of-the-year/index.html

[bodiddley]

What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan?

In a nation of 35M people, spent the equivalent of $5,700 per person per year for a decade.  Could have just given every Afghani a one time $28,500 and spent half the money.  A family of 5 getting $140K, not bad.

Of course most of the money went to bombs and fuel and housing US military personnel.  A good chunk towards training the Afghan army.  And a helluva lot being grifted and skimmed and defrauded.  My guess is a fairly small percent trickled down to regular folks, while a lot went to the elite and was transferred out of the country as personal fortune.

Think about wasting $1T per decade for two decades in Afghanistan.
You don't need to wonder much how a great power starts to decline.

[LarryBnDC]

Guess which person on the shortlist for Time's Person of the Year angrily tweeted an insult at the person selected for PotY?

  Following the President's tweet, Thunberg updated her Twitter bio to reflect Trump's comments: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend."   

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/trump-greta-thunberg-time-person-of-the-year/index.html

Remember the right wing OUTRAGE because a law professor had the audacity to say the prez could name his kid Barron but he couldn’t make him a Baron?

Yeah. Conservatives are full of shit!

[barton]

What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan?

In a nation of 35M people, spent the equivalent of $5,700 per person per year for a decade.  Could have just given every Afghani a one time $28,500 and spent half the money.  A family of 5 getting $140K, not bad.

Of course most of the money went to bombs and fuel and housing US military personnel.  A good chunk towards training the Afghan army.  And a helluva lot being grifted and skimmed and defrauded.  My guess is a fairly small percent trickled down to regular folks, while a lot went to the elite and was transferred out of the country as personal fortune.

Think about wasting $1T per decade for two decades in Afghanistan.
You don't need to wonder much how a great power starts to decline.

Our country keeps illustrating how humans don't have any natural skill for forming and maintaining large nation-states.  Both ends of the spectrum of governance, free market Capitalism and Communism, end up relying on highly centralized control and concentration of power, albeit in different ways.  You either get oligarchs, or party apparatchiks and bureaucrats.  The reason nations like Denmark seem to do so well, in all the measures of happiness and quality of life, is because they're SMALL.  To really make their model work, we would need to balkanize the whole world. The UN would have about 700 members and include the nations of Missouri, Dakotabraska, and The Basque Republic. 

[LarryBnDC]

Is This your King?

[facilitatorn]

http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/why-the-democrats-only-wrote-two-impeachment-articles.html

New king, old religion

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[bambu.]

Pastor says Jews gonna  burn in hell... he was invited to speak at the White House Hanukkah service as a “great faith leader!”




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-jeffress-white-house-hanukkah_n_5df1b1a1e4b01e0f2959c43d

Oh dear.

[bambu.]

Guess which person on the shortlist for Time's Person of the Year angrily tweeted an insult at the person selected for PotY?

  Following the President's tweet, Thunberg updated her Twitter bio to reflect Trump's comments: "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend."   

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/trump-greta-thunberg-time-person-of-the-year/index.html

LOL
Time can do whatever it likes with its own award/s.
Greta can do and say whatever she likes in the world as long as it's legal.
So can those who oppose her actions and words.