Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/paul-manafort-daughter-trump-texts_us_59f748b6e4b03cd20b832fe0

Paul Manafort's Daughter Texted Friends About How Tight Her Dad Was With Trump

My favourite one:

Friend: Helleeew! I have an awkward favor/question to ask, so if you’re not down, I totally understand. I’m not sure how you and your dad are these days, and I’m gonna guess you’re overloaded with requests to get in touch, but if it’s do-able, could you help me get in touch with or pass on an email to someone in your dads office?

AMS: Sure, what’s your end goal?

Friend: It’s not an effort to help the campaign. My dad works for Lockheed Martin, and they want to essentially let Trump’s transition team know that they’re ready, available, and happy to provide info about defense acquisition and sustainment. So to discuss policy. But they can’t reach out to Trump’s team — the team would have to reach out to them. So I’ve got an email with info that would be amazing if passed on to the right people. Again — if this is not your cup of tea, totally forget I asked. I’m only asking bc it’s my dad.

AMS: I hear ya — it’s not a problem, I just think it’s probably a bit early.
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Draining that swamp, America!
 

Would be a lot easier to focus on these supposed tax cuts if a) there was a bill with details on who was getting them and b) we knew how they were going to be paid for.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/31/house-republican-tax-plan-244385
House Republicans postponed the much-anticipated rollout of their tax reform proposal Tuesday night, an ominous sign for a direly-needed legislative accomplishment for President Donald Trump and his party. House Ways and Means Committee members spent all Tuesday holed up in conference rooms trying to iron out last-minute disagreements. Senior committee staff worked through the night Monday and were expected to do the same on Tuesday to unveil the bill at a GOP conference meeting Wednesday at 9 a.m.

But in a move that foreshadows the difficulties awaiting the party of Reagan, GOP leaders and tax-writers postponed their big reveal to buy themselves more time. They now hope to release the bill Thursday, but privately acknowledge they have a number of disagreements to resolve first. The delay comes despite the half-decade Republicans have spent readying themselves for this very moment. The Ways and Means Committee for years has held tax hearings and working groups, but overhauling the code means creating winners and losers in a politically sensitive environment.

But it's the unresolved issues that caused Ways and Means members the most heartburn this week — and ultimately led to the delay. Those include: how to win over GOP lawmakers from high-tax states that are balking over curbing the state and local tax deduction, which their constituents rely on. There are also question about how to ensure wealthy individuals don’t take advantage of the lower 25 percent small business or “pass-through” rate.

Many of the unresolved items are hot-button issues, including what to do with 401(k) retirement plans. Trump asked Brady in a phone conversation last week to drop his plans to curb such tax preferred savings. And some senior House Republicans believe that doing so would incite severe pushback have been urging Brady to leave the matter alone. But Brady has refused to ditch the idea of imposing some limitation on the popular retirement plans. The reason comes down to basic math: Republicans want to lower the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, and collapse and lower individual rates into four brackets — and targeting 401(k) plans could help pay for those cuts.
 
this one's worth reading - some excerpts:

The Real Promise of the Manafort Indictment
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-31/the-real-promise-of-the-manafort-indictment

The indictment of Paul Manafort will be an enormous source of speculation for weeks and months to come. But Special Counsel Robert Mueller has already achieved something significant, if underappreciated so far: He opened a far more promising line of inquiry into the reasons why the U.S. political establishment is broken -- on both the Republican and the Democratic side. It would take substantial courage and political will to pursue it further.
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The Manafort case promises to lead a diligent investigator to stashes of dirty post-Soviet money that represent a bigger threat to U.S. democracy than any leaked emails or Russian-bought Facebook ads. It would be naive to imagine that, after working for years for Yanukovych and taking his tainted cash, the consultants didn't bring any of the cynicism and rule-bending prowess to U.S. politics. This is not the kind of baggage one can leave outside the door. The political operatives, spin doctors, lobbyists, and lawyers who have taken the Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Azerbaijani money have contributed to the poisoning of the U.S. political scene. Trump won the election last year on the promise to clean up the swamp they helped create -- but he himself is a creature of that swamp.

An investigation into the origins of the money that fed this toxic culture, and efforts to recover it and cut off its circulation, would do the U.S. a world of good by helping to clean up both major parties. Mueller’s mandate is by no means that broad. And it's hard to imagine a real estate billionaire who keeps his taxes secret and his business private leading the charge. It would be left to U.S. law enforcement agencies to take the lead. American voters and the U.S. political elite need to realize where the real "Russian threat" -- or, more broadly, post-Soviet threat -- lies, and start fighting it. It won’t be easy. But it'll be more productive than going after Russian propaganda and disinformation.
 
Ruairi77 said:
yup, there were times when I felt sorry for Spicer, you could see he was handed talking points and unconvincingly delivered them but not this one, she's 100% in on the kool aid, she's scary!
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Feeling sorry for him is a bit much as he lied through his teeth every time he went on that podium, but aye, at least he let his guard down now and then? Remember a clip where a secret service agent came out and said something to the reporters and Spicer giggled and said that that was awesome.

Sanders is cold, smug, condescending, overconfident. Pyar horrible.
 
LinekersLegs said:
Tax reform is going so smoothly Trump wants to add healthcare reform into the same bill, whatever could go wrong...

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The healthcare push is so cynical it makes me want to vomit.

Pump a load of ****ty plans into the market, remove the individual mandate... both of which will make premiums skyrocket for Obamacare plans... then say "LOOK AT THE WAY THOSE PREMIUMS ARE SKYROCKETING". Revolting.
 
BirkenheadBlue said:
The healthcare push is so cynical it makes me want to vomit.

Pump a load of ****ty plans into the market, remove the individual mandate... both of which will make premiums skyrocket for Obamacare plans... then say "LOOK AT THE WAY THOSE PREMIUMS ARE SKYROCKETING". Revolting.
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Combined with internal sabotage of the ACA that has already lead to insurers hiking rates due to uncertainty. They don't even have any decent ideas on how to replace it with anything better.
 
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