BTW, Trump is an under appreciated reason why we need a real estate tax.
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Itâs what happens when you get involved with someone that has NPD. You get sucked into their destructive orbit. Itâs like when a woman keeps getting beat up from DV and refuses to leave the relationship. Itâs the same concept. I wouldnât be surprised if 50+ people go to prison when all is said and done. Guys like Barr, Pence, Rudy probably wonât face jailtime but their underlings will.
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I believe I posted this on 2+2 and I think itâs what you are looking for:
Meet the Eastern European Mystery Donors Behind the Trump-Allied Super PAC
Global Energy Producers LLC is one of the biggest givers to America First Action. Figuring out where that money is coming from, however, is not easy.
Iâm realizing that Citizens United was even worse than I thought. Apparently in addition to giving mega-corps and rich Americans vastly inflated influence in politics, it also opens up a giant backdoor for crooks and foreigners to get involved. Should I have been aware of this the whole time?
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Please go all in on winning MN. Feel free to ignore MI, PA, and WI. You won them last time, Iâm sure you will win them again next time. Try to run up the score.
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Yeah like that was the entire point of it.
Obama mentioned it in a state of the union and Kennedy shook his head no.
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Thatâs the thing that went away with no further charges as far as I know (probably killed by Barr). Cohen was pretty pissed that he was the only one who got wrapped up in this.
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if he wins MN he wins WI too and then dems path narrows considerably. Glancing at it quickly, dems would have to win FL.
It is farcical supreme court ruling. A publicly owned corporation can have a foreign controlling interest and speak unlimitedly in our elections via a 501c3. There are very few limitations like that the politician whos 501c3 is asking for donations cannot be openly controlled by the politician. It encourages backdoor dealings and blatant corruption. The justices who voted for this are enemies of democracy.
Iâll freely admit to being ignorant about the scope of the badness. Iâm also a bit surprised how quickly we got to this point. Although maybe I shouldnât be since the decision was all the way back in 2010âŚ
Just had to look this up, turns out it was Alito who shook his head. Amusingly that was enough to make Justice Roberts troubled. Seems quaint by modern standards.
Also found a PolitiFact article from then, declaring Obamaâs statements about the decision âmostly false.â How well has this aged?
Until test cases proceed and further rulings are handed down, Obamaâs claim about foreign campaign spending is a reasonable interpretation, and nothing more.
âSome people think that Kennedyâs opinion in Citizens United logically leads there,â said Robert Kelner, who chairs the election and political law practice group at the law firm Covington & Burling. âMaybe it does, maybe it doesnât. We donât know for sure.â
Fast forward to 2018, they are called out for this and do they take the L?
Given what was known at the time, we disagree that we were âwrongâ in our conclusion nine years ago.
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Yeah I saw that earlier. It is absurd.
Someone should ask PolitiFact if they would say Obama was right. If so, then its hard to conclude they were ânot wrongâ. They were wrong under the current interpretation of what being wrong means.
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1182481848515121152
Uh⌠move over âReality Winnerâ, you have been supplanted by âFraud Guaranteeâ as the most too absurd to be true name at this point in the simulation
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This is batshit insane. Welcome to our new allies, Russia, Syria, Iran and sometimes Turkey.
Trump talking about all the economic sanctions or taking actions but canât do this. He is full on Russian.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1182513924463321088
Definitely going to make us all safer.
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i really hope the next dem president just does the most blatent shit you could ever think of like owning a company that sells bottled air for $10,000 a piece or just buy a motel 6 in washington dc and charge $100,000 a night. i promise i wonât even care in the slightest. you can literally bribe the president completely 100% legally right now by just spending money on any of his businesses.
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