Wingnutties out of control!

[JTA]

They want to:
- significantly lower the 401k cap from 18k down to 2.5k
- eliminate the state and local tax deduction
- eliminate the mortgage interest deduction

I don't know, but this sounds like a massive reaming of the middle class.

Granted, they've discussed bumping up the standard deduction significantly, but for most, we're still going to get massively screwed.

[rstrong]

Like 9/11 witnesses and Sandy Hook massacre family members, survivors of the Las Vegas massacre are facing death threats and abuse from conspiracy theorists claiming that they're "crisis actors."

[Vrede too]

If I was a Sandy Hook parent or Las Vegas massacre spouse, I would be tempted to 'false flag' those bastards with a bump stocked rifle.


Remember that 8 years of whining about the Obama debt?
Remember that they started counting on 1/20/09, which is stupid?
Remember that Obama had to rescue us from the Shrubcession, and had to deal with one mucked up war and one war based on hundreds of lies?
Remember that Obama reduced the deficit each year in office, something that Shrub only managed 3 years out of 8 after turning the Clinton surpluses into deficits?

Well, they were joking about the Obama debt, anyhow.

House backs $4T budget, faces challenges on Trump tax plan

... "These tax cuts will not create an economic boom, but will instead lead to a higher concentration of wealth among the rich, while dramatically increasing deficits and debt," said Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky. ...

Trumpettes, Repugs and other cons are soooo gullible!

[rstrong]

Remember that 8 years of whining about the Obama debt?

The worst of it - including their false claims that he rang up more debt than all previous Presidents combined - was that they included fiscal year 2009. By far the biggest deficit.

But that budget was passed by Republicans before Obama took office. Sure, the additional stimulus act was passed in February 2009, but both the bank bail-outs and auto-industry bailouts started under Bush II. You may remember McCain "suspending his campaign" to go to Washington to introduce his own economic bailout package to compete with Bush's $700 Billion bail-out. Which turned out to be just theatrics.

[Vrede too]

That's what I meant by:

Remember that they started counting on 1/20/09, which is stupid?

Bastards.

[billy.pilgrim]

That's what I meant by:

Remember that they started counting on 1/20/09, which is stupid?

Bastards.

They also can't help but include 2001 in the bush numbers.

Honesty means nothing to them

[Vrede too]

Kudos to Price (gone) for working so hard to compete with DeVos, Carson, Zinke, Perry and Pruitt for WORST agency head!

I forgot to mention Mnuchin, and we have a new contender, Dolt .45's nominee to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Rep. Tom Marino, R-PA (nomination withdrawn)

We have a new contestant!

CIA chief makes incorrect claim about Russian meddling

What, a Tea Party Dolt .45 appointee from Kansas with no Intel management experience lied? Say it ain't so!

Not an agency chief, but White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly wants in on the action:

Video undermines White House attack on Rep. Wilson over condolence calls

America thinks that Sessions (how did I neglect to mention him? ) and DeVos are "winning".

How Betsy DeVos Became The Most Hated Cabinet Secretary
Meet the new Democratic boogeyman for 2018.

[Vrede too]

Former House Speaker John Boehner Unloads on Ex-Colleagues: ‘A--holes,' 'Nazis’ and 'Terrorists'

Comment:

I like ex-politicians far more than politicians.

[JTA]

Damn. Looks like there was a terrorist attack in NYC. An Islamic extremist supposedly proclaiming allegience to ISIS rammed a car through a crowd of people, killing 8.

[bannination]

Damn. Looks like there was a terrorist attack in NYC. An Islamic extremist supposedly proclaiming allegience to ISIS rammed a car through a crowd of people, killing 8.

Don't worry, Trump's on it. He's gonna increase his extreme vetting to the extremist vetting.

[rstrong]

The reports said he came to the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbekistan, and now has an address in Tampa, Fla.

Will Trump invade Uzbekistan?

Bush II would've invaded. Armenia.

[Vrede too]

I blame Florida. Build a wall.

[billy.pilgrim]

I blame Florida. Build a wall.

Fine, as long as you keep the big cheeto on your side.

[rstrong]

I blame Florida. Build a wall.

No doubt there are lawsuits on the way blaming Home Depot. (It was a Home Depot rental truck.)

Which is the first place I'd visit if I wanted to build a wall.

[JTA]

Trump on terrorist attacks:

Muslim guy murders eight people with a truck in NYC: Trump immediately goes off on twitter rants, starts calling out Schumer and pointing fingers. 7+ tweets.

White guy murders 50+ people with a machine gun, injuring many more: one tweet offering condolences to the victims.

[rstrong]

House backs $4T budget, faces challenges on Trump tax plan

... "These tax cuts will not create an economic boom, but will instead lead to a higher concentration of wealth among the rich, while dramatically increasing deficits and debt," said Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky. ...

Trumpettes, Repugs and other cons are soooo gullible!

PolitiFact has a good overview of the latest Trump tax plan. There *is* a middle class tax cut... at the beginning. But it turns into a tax *hike* a few years later. (The tax cuts for the wealthy are permanent.)



Assuming a Democrats wins in 2020, Republicans will no doubt blame *them* for the middle-class tax hike half-way through their first term.

[rstrong]

The tax plan also kills the electric vehicle tax credit. Naturally.

[rstrong]

An alt-right Tweeter with 70k followers is a fictional entity created by Russian troll farm

Abrams, who at one point boasted nearly 70,000 Twitter followers, was featured in articles written by Bustle, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, several local Fox affiliates, InfoWars, BET, Yahoo Sports, Sky News, IJR, Breitbart, The Washington Post, Mashable, New York Daily News, Quartz, Dallas News, France24, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, The Telegraph, CNN, the BBC, Gizmodo, The Independent, The Daily Dot, The Observer, Business Insider, The National Post, Refinery29, The Times of India, BuzzFeed, The Daily Mail, The New York Times, and, of course, Russia Today and Sputnik.

[rstrong]

Canada's Conservative Party is having a hissy fit because our head of state, Governor General Julie Payette, criticised climate skeptics, astrologists, and believers of "divine intervention." Because how dare an engineer specializing in computational linguistics (a field of artificial intelligence) who also speaks six languages, who was an astronaut on two Shuttle missions and CAPCOM on several more, and who is an accomplished musician and member of the Aviation Hall of Fame, talk about science or anything else.

[Vrede too]

She's a girl, what do they know?