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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-09-08 at 1:05 AM UTC
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2021-09-08 at 1:33 AM UTCLooks like Fauci is going to prison for treason and lying to Congress.
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2021-09-08 at 2:31 AM UTC
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2021-09-09 at 12:20 AM UTC..
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2021-09-09 at 12:39 AM UTCI like how these mindless clowns actually expect an intelligent person to believe it's perfectly safe to inject stainless steel fragments.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-09-09 at 1:38 PM UTC
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2021-09-09 at 1:59 PM UTCMaking yet
Another
Grift
Again
Business Insider
A pro-Trump group organizing a DC rally for Jan. 6 defendants lost its tax-exempt status - but is still claiming donations are tax-deductible
cdavis@insider.com (Charles Davis)
Matt Braynard worked as a data analyst on the 2016 Trump campaign.
His group, Look Ahead America, was founded in 2017 as a nonprofit.
But the IRS revoked the group's tax-exempt status after it repeatedly failed to disclose spending.
A group founded by a former Trump campaign staffer that is organizing a rally this month on behalf of January 6 defendants is soliciting "tax-deductible" contributions despite losing its tax-exempt status last year.
According to its website, Look Ahead America is a "non-profit organization" founded by Matt Braynard, a former data analyst on the 2016 Trump campaign. Although ostensibly "non-partisan," it has clear and avowed sympathies: On September 18, it is organizing what it calls a "#JusticeForJ6" rally at the US Capitol, conflating those arrested for taking part in the pro-Trump January 6 riot with "political prisoners."
At least 638 people have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters sought to prevent the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election. But while claims of mass voter fraud have been readily debunked, Braynard, like others, has raised a substantial sum of money to prove that it existed.
In the weeks after the election, Braynard raised more than $675,000 on a Christian fundraising platform to pursue amateur audits of the November vote. That campaign left him with what he described as a "surplus" of $84,000, which would go toward a "relaunch of Look Ahead America." None of the money would benefit Braynard personally, he insisted. "That should be clear on the public 990 we file at the end of this year," he wrote in a January update, referring to the mandatory spending disclosures that nonprofits are supposed to file with the IRS.
A month later, the group had already raised another $75,000, Axios reported, with part of the money going to a new treasurer who was said to be resolving its issues with the IRS.
On its homepage, Look Ahead America - now boasting of a dozen-strong leadership team - is asking for more money, saying it is needed to help "organize and guide patriotic citizens in lobbying their state legislatures and local governments on America First initiatives."
Despite no longer enjoying tax-exempt status, however, potential supporters are promised that their donations will constitute a "tax-deductible contribution."
Visitors can also purchase copies of "Otoya: A Literary Journal of the New Nationalism," edited by Braynard. The magazine's cover features an image of Otoya Yamaguchi, a member of the Japanese far-right who assassinated the head of his country's Socialist Party in 1960 - and who is today an inspiration for extremists here in the United States, according to the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.
'The answer to that is no'
Despite promising one, Bryanard's group has never actually filed a 990 form, that would, among other things, reveal just how much he and others are paid. After three years of failing to disclose such spending, the IRS automatically revokes a nonprofit's tax-exempt status; for Look Ahead America, that happened in May 2020.
Braynard told BuzzFeed he's working on it. He reapplied for exempt status in January 2021, he said in August and was still waiting to hear back.
On Twitter, however, he suggested that already should have happened. And the former Trump staffer event insisted that his group can continue to operate as a nonprofit - and receive tax-free contributions - despite losing its tax-exempt status. "Per IRS rules, we are allowed to operate as a [501(c)(3)] while our reinstatement status is pending. We expect it to be resolved this month," he wrote in July.
Is that true, though?
"The answer to that is no," Rick Cohen, chief operating officer at the National Council of Nonprofits, told Insider. "From the time their status as a 501(c)(3) is revoked until such time that it is reinstated, donations are not deductible."
As of August 9, Look Ahead America has still not been reinstated, per the most recent IRS list of active tax-exempt organizations in Washington, DC. And until it is, the IRS too says it should not be acting like it has been.
According to the agency, there is no exception: "a section 501(c)(3) that loses its tax-exempt status can't receive tax-deductible contributions." -
2021-09-09 at 2:10 PM UTCMake
All those rich Republicans
Give
A fair amount
The Guardian
US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds
Martin Pengelly
The wealthiest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160bn of lost tax revenue each year, according to a new report from the US treasury.
Natasha Sarin, deputy assistant secretary for economic policy, said: “A well-functioning tax system requires that everyone pays the taxes they owe.”
According to the treasury report, the wealthiest 1% of US taxpayers are responsible for an estimated $163bn in unpaid tax each year, amounting to 28% of the “tax gap”.
Sarin said that tax gap – “the difference between taxes that are owed and collected” – amounted to “around $600bn annually and will mean approximately $7tn of lost tax revenue over the next decade.”
The Biden administration proposes closing the tax gap by empowering the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to more aggressively pursue unpaid taxes, at a cost of $80bn and in the process helping fund the president’s ambitious domestic economic agenda.
Republicans in Congress and lobbyists for business are united in opposition to the proposal to beef up tax enforcement.
“The sheer magnitude of lost revenue is striking,” Sarin wrote. “It is equal to 3% of GDP, or all the income taxes paid by the lowest earning 90% of taxpayers.
“The tax gap can be a major source of inequity. Today’s tax code contains two sets of rules: one for regular wage and salary workers who report virtually all the income they earn; and another for wealthy taxpayers, who are often able to avoid a large share of the taxes they owe.”
The Treasury report may also focus attention on Americans outside the top 1% but still well off. According to the report, the wealthiest 5% of US taxpayers account for more than 50% of lost tax revenue annually. For the top 20%, the figure is 77.1%.
Sarin said that “for the IRS to appropriately enforce the tax laws against high earners and large corporations, it needs funding to hire and train revenue agents who can decipher their thousands of pages of sophisticated tax filings”.
Former treasury secretary Robert Reich, now a Guardian contributor, called the report a “bombshell” and said: “The IRS must have the funds to beef up enforcement. Every additional $1 of IRS funding yields $3 of tax revenue, mostly from the very rich who illegally avoid paying taxes owed.”
The treasury says closing the tax gap would raise $700m in public revenue over 10 years.
The Congressional Budget Office has said reinforcing the IRS would not raise that much, putting the figure at approximately $200bn.
But the CBO also said that if Biden’s proposals were enacted, “tax compliance would be improved, and more households would meet their obligation under the law”. -
2021-09-09 at 2:33 PM UTCtl/dr x2
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2021-09-09 at 2:47 PM UTCYeah, I should probably only post cartoons for you.
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2021-09-09 at 3:43 PM UTC
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2021-09-09 at 6:30 PM UTCMay
All the Republicans
Go
Away
Kellyanne Conway is seriously complaining about a 'break from presidentiasl norms'
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
On Wednesday, the Biden administration requested that all Trump appointees appointed to boards at the nation's military academies -- a group that includes longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway -- resign. Conway, in a letter rejecting Biden's request, said that his call to resign would constitute a "break from presidential norms."
Yes, she really said that. "A break from presidential norms."
This is, to be kind, a little rich coming from Conway, who spent years by then-President Donald Trump's side as he smashed every presidential norm possible.
There was the travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries.
There was time he said that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia.
There was the time he pulled the United States from the Paris climate accord.
There was the time he told the Proud Boys, a white supremacist organization, to "stand down and stand by."
There was the time he referred to some African nations as "s*** hole countries."
There was the time when he told four freshman Democratic lawmakers -- three of whom were born in the United States -- to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came."
There was the time that he suggested to the president of Ukraine that America had done a lot for the country and all he was asking in return was that they investigate Joe Biden, his likely 2020 rival.
There was the time he publicly scoffed at the need for mask-wearing to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic -- and his ongoing refusal to make a clear call -- without hedging -- that every eligible American should be vaccinated.
There was the time when he helped incite a riot at the US Capitol that left five people dead and more than 100 police officers wounded.
And was the time post-presidency that he decided to offer ringside commentary for a fight on the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
There were a lot of other times, too, when Trump bent -- or flat-out broke -- "presidential norms."
And he reveled in it.
"My use of social media is not Presidential - it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL," Trump tweeted in July 2017. "Make America Great Again!"
At a campaign rally in 2019, Trump expounded on his view of the presidency -- and how he was changing it.
"It's much easier being presidential, it's easy," he said. "All you have to do is act like a stiff... And everybody would be out of here so fast! You wouldn't come in in the first place!"
Conway, like so many other political pros who had been in and around Washington long before Trump came to disrupt the presidency, went along with every last bit of this revolution. In fact, she coined the single most memorable -- and telling -- phrase of Trump's entire presidency when in response to false claims made by White House press secretary Sean Spicer about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration, Conway said this: "You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving -- Sean Spicer, our press secretary -- gave alternative facts."
Alternative facts, indeed.
Conway's comments are part of a broader attempt by the former president and some of his closest advisers to gaslight the country into believing that how they remember the last four years is not, in fact, how the last four years actually were.
Just last month, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, straight-faced, that "when President Trump was president, you didn't see crisis after crisis. You just didn't see it."
And, in May, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to re-frame a phone call he had on January 6 with Trump. "What I talked to President Trump about, I was the first person to contact him when the riots was going on, "McCarthy said, in a major flip flop from his previous comments on the riot and the President's role in it. "He didn't see it. What he ended the call was saying -- telling me, he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did, he put a video out later."
This is all consistent with Trump's infamous pledge to supporters that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
The thing is, we remember what happened. We remember the norms that Trump gleefully smashed -- and the damage done. And that means that the likes of Conway, McEnany and McCarthy can't gaslight the country -- no matter how hard they try. -
2021-09-09 at 6:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 May
All the Republicans
Go
Away
Kellyanne Conway is seriously complaining about a 'break from presidentiasl norms'
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
On Wednesday, the Biden administration requested that all Trump appointees appointed to boards at the nation's military academies – a group that includes longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway – resign. Conway, in a letter rejecting Biden's request, said that his call to resign would constitute a "break from presidential norms."
Yes, she really said that. "A break from presidential norms."
This is, to be kind, a little rich coming from Conway, who spent years by then-President Donald Trump's side as he smashed every presidential norm possible.
There was the travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries.
There was time he said that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia.
There was the time he pulled the United States from the Paris climate accord.
There was the time he told the Proud Boys, a white supremacist organization, to "stand down and stand by."
There was the time he referred to some African nations as "s*** hole countries."
There was the time when he told four freshman Democratic lawmakers – three of whom were born in the United States – to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came."
There was the time that he suggested to the president of Ukraine that America had done a lot for the country and all he was asking in return was that they investigate Joe Biden, his likely 2020 rival.
There was the time he publicly scoffed at the need for mask-wearing to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic – and his ongoing refusal to make a clear call – without hedging – that every eligible American should be vaccinated.
There was the time when he helped incite a riot at the US Capitol that left five people dead and more than 100 police officers wounded.
And was the time post-presidency that he decided to offer ringside commentary for a fight on the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
There were a lot of other times, too, when Trump bent – or flat-out broke – "presidential norms."
And he reveled in it.
"My use of social media is not Presidential - it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL," Trump tweeted in July 2017. "Make America Great Again!"
At a campaign rally in 2019, Trump expounded on his view of the presidency – and how he was changing it.
"It's much easier being presidential, it's easy," he said. "All you have to do is act like a stiff… And everybody would be out of here so fast! You wouldn't come in in the first place!"
Conway, like so many other political pros who had been in and around Washington long before Trump came to disrupt the presidency, went along with every last bit of this revolution. In fact, she coined the single most memorable – and telling – phrase of Trump's entire presidency when in response to false claims made by White House press secretary Sean Spicer about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration, Conway said this: "You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving – Sean Spicer, our press secretary – gave alternative facts."
Alternative facts, indeed.
Conway's comments are part of a broader attempt by the former president and some of his closest advisers to gaslight the country into believing that how they remember the last four years is not, in fact, how the last four years actually were.
Just last month, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, straight-faced, that "when President Trump was president, you didn't see crisis after crisis. You just didn't see it."
And, in May, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to re-frame a phone call he had on January 6 with Trump. "What I talked to President Trump about, I was the first person to contact him when the riots was going on, "McCarthy said, in a major flip flop from his previous comments on the riot and the President's role in it. "He didn't see it. What he ended the call was saying – telling me, he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did, he put a video out later."
This is all consistent with Trump's infamous pledge to supporters that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
The thing is, we remember what happened. We remember the norms that Trump gleefully smashed – and the damage done. And that means that the likes of Conway, McEnany and McCarthy can't gaslight the country – no matter how hard they try.
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2021-09-10 at 3:40 AM UTClets try to get 10,000 posts before the new world order kicks in in 3 weeks
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2021-09-10 at 4:41 AM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT lets try to get 10,000 posts before the new world order kicks in in 3 weeks
I thought the results of the Arizona audit were supposed to come out today? What’s up with that?😂
And if the new world order doesn’t kick in….will you realized that you are believing a load of lies? C’mon Pole, you have to have a smart brain cell left. I’ve fried some of mine being a pot head, but not to the point that go against my core values. -
2021-09-10 at 4:56 AM UTCwell you stupid cunt if you opened your eyes you would see Biden stomping on our rights more every day trying to switch us into the new world order by instigating an uprising of patriots so they go off and start waring against him so he can call in the UN to stop us from saving America he hopes to push us into action before the audit info comes out.
My core Values are AMERICA FIRST, fuck commies, fuck anyone trying to end America, or our constitutions fuck anyone trying to discredit god and or the Bible and fuck youThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-09-10 at 5:05 AM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT lets try to get 10,000 posts before the new world order kicks in in 3 weeks
https://twitter.com/wong_d0_mein/status/1435791184425750536
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2021-09-10 at 5:13 AM UTC
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2021-09-10 at 5:25 AM UTCMan,
All these QAnon
Goofballs
Are fucking nuts
California QAnon follower indicted on charges of killing his 2 kids with speargun in Mexico
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — A California man, who authorities say claimed to be a devout QAnon follower, was indicted Wednesday on charges of killing his two children with a spearfishing gun in Mexico.
A US father charged with killing his two children with a spear fishing gun claims he was "enlightened" by QAnon and other conspiracy theories and was saving the world from "monsters" who had "serpent DNA," a federal complaint said. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, told authorities in California he knew he was doing wrong, but that "it was the only course of action that would save the world," the complaint prepared by federal agents said.
Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, a surfing instructor from Santa Barbara, California, is accused of taking his 2-year-old boy and 10-month-old girl last month from the home he shares with his wife and traveling to Mexico to kill them, according to a criminal complaint.
He admitted to the killings when questioned by authorities and said he had to because he believed his children were "monsters" and that his wife "possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children," a 10-page criminal complaint filed by federal authorities details. Coleman said he knew his actions were wrong but believed "he was saving the world from monsters," the complaint adds.
Coleman was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Diego Wednesday in the killings. He faces two counts of foreign first-degree murder of U.S. nationals, charges that are eligible for the death penalty under law, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of California.
“There are no words to describe the profound grief that envelops an entire community when a child is murdered,” acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in a statement. “The Department of Justice is determined to achieve justice for these victims and their loved ones.”
Coleman and his wife, Abby, founded a surfing instruction company in Santa Barbara. A website for the school includes photos of the children at the beach and playing on a skateboard. It also details Coleman's love of spearfishing and sailing and his 25 years of surfing experience.
The detailed criminal complaint outlines Coleman's wife calling authorities on Aug.7, worrying about her husband and children because he had left without giving any notice. The complaint adds Coleman wasn't answering his phone and didn't have car seats for their children.
She helped authorities track Coleman's location using the Find My iPhone app, discovering he'd been in Rosarito, Mexico. The app helped authorities stop Coleman on Aug. 9 when he reentered the U.S., where they found blood in the van he was driving and discovering the children were no longer with him, the complaint states.
Authorities detained and questioned Coleman and he admitted to killing his children with the spearfishing gun and dumping their bodies in a ditch, the complaint and indictment said. Mexican police found the children's bodies, both of which had large wounds in their chests.
Coleman saidhe dumped his clothes and the spearfishing gun after he disposed of their bodies, the federal complaint said.
He later told authorities he was "enlightened" by QAnon and the Illuminati, the complaint states. -
2021-09-10 at 5:50 AM UTCDaily Mail
Trump's 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell asked to pay $200K in legal fees
Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com …
Michigan officials are demanding more than $200,000 in legal fees from pro-Trump lawyers led by Sidney Powell who unsuccessfully tried to overturn the 2020 election result with a lawsuit dismissed as full of conspiracies, it emerged on Thursday.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ruled that state and local election officials could claim reimbursement of their legal fees.
The judge will now review the $200,000 in requests submitted to the court on Wednesday.
In an August ruling, Parker laid bare her anger about what she said was a sham lawsuit intended to deceive the court and the public.
'Despite the haze of confusion, commotion and chaos counsel intentionally attempted to create by filing this lawsuit, one thing is perfectly clear: Plaintiffs´ attorneys have scorned their oath, flouted the rules, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way,' Parker wrote in a blistering 110-page opinion.
'Sanctions are required to deter the filing of future frivolous lawsuits designed primarily to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged and our democratic institutions cannot be trusted.'
It was brought to the court on behalf of six Republican voters who wanted Parker to decertify Michigan's results and impound voting machines. The judge declined in December, calling the request 'stunning in its scope and breathtaking in its reach.'
It was one of four legal actions by Powell collectively known as the 'Kraken' lawsuits, including allegations that George Soros, Venezuela and China among others tried to tamper with US voting machines.
Parker ordered that each of nine pro-Trump lawyers - including Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Trump, and prominent litigator Lin Wood - receive 12 hours of legal education, including six hours of election law.
They also face possible disciplinary action in the states where they are licensed.
Parker also ordered the attorneys - including Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Trump, and prominent litigator Lin Wood - to pay back the legal fees the city of Detroit and Michigan state officials spent while seeking sanctions.
Most of the $200,000 was requested by the City of Detroit, which said it spent about $180,000 on a private law firm - which charged $325 an hour for its senior partners - to help fight the case. The office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel also for about $20,000.
L. Lin Wood, Donald Trump are posing for a picture: (© Provided by Daily Mail (
Powell made clear she would fight the costs.
'The fees sought against us by the City of Detroit were completely self-inflicted. The City was not a party in the case but intervened to create litigation,' she said in a statement to the Detroit Free Press.
'We will indeed appeal. The judge's opinion is riddled with error of fact and law.'
It is the latest blow to the rag tag band of lawyers who tried to overturn Trump's defeat.
Rudy Giuliani had his law license temporarily suspended in New York and Washington D.C. for his election fraud lawsuits.
Giuliani, Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell are being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for 2020 fraud claims centering around their equipment.
Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion from each of them in separate lawsuits.
Last month, all three Trump allies lost a bid to dismiss those suits in a US district court.
'But it is simply not the law that provably false statements cannot be actionable if made in the context of an election,' Judge Carl Nichols said in a statement.
