https://mobile.twitter.com/nedprice/status/1167551854093504514
https://mobile.twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1167586001167847424
Yeah thatâs because itâs a classified image from a keyhole satellite with annotations from intelligence analysts. Itâs probably a post action assessment after either us or the Israelis launched some kind of air strike at Iran.
This image is bad for us, bad for Iran, and just generally bad for the whole world. It literally makes open war more likely.
Iâm sorry but this is one of the dumbest things heâs done to date. Iâm actually shocked and I honestly didnât think I could still feel that way anymore.
And the most obnoxious thing is that the picture is literally nothing more than Trump bragging to the whole world âLook what I can make happenâ. Thatâs probably the only thing that was going on in his tiny tiny brain when he tweeted this image.
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IMO heâs clearly taunting and saying âwe did thisâ, the truth of which is beside the point.
Pretty good Twitter thread with details on this:
https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1167512690975227904
including
https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1167824109906141185
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If you are the leaders of Poland and Ukraine are you
A) upset that Trump skipped out on your meetings in order to play golf or
B) happy that instead of having to deal w/ Trump nonsense, you got to have (apparently productive) meetings w/ Pence and Rick Perry (!?!)
I find it amusing he thinks there is anything that his personal assistant could leak that would be damaging or surprising.
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I think you meant heel.
Oh man, the Madeleine tweet is amazing. Sheâs gonna get called to testify, and sheâs gonna do it. Confidentiality agreements in the WH are absolutely not enforceable.
Presidents can do anything they want in relation to classified information. He just declassified it. Itâs horrible for national security, but is definitely not impeachable.
I saw something about the Ukraine thing last night that was very interesting.
Some of this might be in nitâs article, but the trip to Poland was supposed to also have a meeting in Ukraine. I didnât listen closely to the details of the story, but there is some sort of $250m aid package that has been approved to go to Ukraine by the U.S. but has not been given. Obviously Putin doesnât want this money given to them, or for Trump to meet with them.
This trip was the last time that Trump would have been able to get there for this diplomatic meeting by the end of September. Those $250m will expire at the end of September if theyâre not distributed. Convenient that a hurricane showed up so that this will happen.
The stated goal of the tax benefit â tucked into the Republicansâ 2017 tax-cut legislation â was to coax investors to pump cash into poor neighborhoods, known as opportunity zones, leading to new housing, businesses and jobs.
The initiative allows people to sell stocks or other investments and delay capital gains taxes for years â as long as they plow the proceeds into projects in federally certified opportunity zones. Any profits from those projects can avoid federal taxes altogether.
âOpportunity zones, hottest thing going, providing massive new incentives for investment and job creation in distressed communities,â Mr. Trump declared at a recent rally in Cincinnati.
Instead, billions of untaxed investment profits are beginning to pour into high-end apartment buildings and hotels, storage facilities that employ only a handful of workers, and student housing in bustling college towns, among other projects.
Many of the projects that will enjoy special tax status were underway long before the opportunity-zone provision was enacted. Financial institutions are boasting about the tax savings that await those who invest in real estate in affluent neighborhoods.
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The tax benefit also is helping finance the construction of a 46-story, glass-wrapped apartment tower â amenities include a yoga lawn and a pool surrounded by cabanas and daybeds â in a Houston neighborhood already brimming with new projects aimed at the wealthy.
Farmers are against socialism so they dont want the farm welfare money.
Suck it commies. Gas is low on our holiday. The working white man.
Work in commercial real estate, can confirm opportunity zones are a complete scam. Real estate developers ALREADY donât pay any fucking taxes on cash flow, this lets them sell stuff and not pay taxes.
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Lol. People have some strange takes on what is and is not impeachable. You donât have to break a law to be impeached. In a sane world straight up compromising our satellite capabilities would get any POTUS impeached. Obviously nothing matters and Dems arenât going to vote on articles of impeachment prior to the 2020 elections, but if they did this should be part of it.
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