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1 minute ago, Andy1 said:
1. Renewal of the soon expiring Trump 1.0 tax cuts which mostly went to the wealthy.
2. Whenever he talks about no tax on tips, there is never an upper income limit on his proposal. If that happens, the wealthy will figure out how to claim their income as tips.
3. See below.
Millionaires and billionaires are going to report "tip" income? I'm dying to see that.
Extending the tax cuts is not a cut. And given 50% of Americans don't pay any federal taxes how do you cut their taxes? Send them more free money?
As for the IRS I have no insights into the working of the agency. Its hard to evaluate the impact of these staff cuts because for starters we don't know what they were doing? 38% of how many people? 100 or 1,000 or 10,000.
What I also find preposterous is the idea Trump and Musk are in this for self-enrichment. I don't know about anyone else,but I'm not going to get shot at, charged with a bunch of bogus "crimes" just to make more money when I have enough money to live on forever. And Musk doesn't need more money and if he did there are other more direct ways to generate more income for the guy than getting involved in the headache of government.
The idea Trump and Musk are pulling off some get richer caper is a narrative the opposition likes to peddle because they can't say, hey, we support fraud, waste, and abuse in government spending because we're the people committing fraud, waste, and abuse and a lot of that money is funding our causes and ending up in our pockets.
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21 minutes ago, Andy1 said:
These tariffs will hurt the working middle class the hardest. Those young working families that are struggling, are the customers for low cost items sold at Walmart etc. A lot of them voted for Trump to lower inflation. Their standard of living is about to drop. They will either go further in debt or go without. Trump and Musk don’t give a crap about them. Let the pain begin. Now I bet it won’t be long till they start talking about a tax cut for the wealthy.
The tax cuts I'm hearing about are excluding tips and overtime pay from taxation along with eliminating the tax on social security benefits. Unless the "wealthy" are waiting on tables and catching some extra hours in the warehouse or depending on SS for their existence what exactly is the proposal on the table for cutting rich people's taxes?
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6 minutes ago, Roundybout said:
MAGAs voted for this, not sure why you’re confused.
Populism inherently leads to violence and instability.
Populists aren't attacking people and committing criminal acts here. When these socialist/leftists ass holes can't get their way through the ballot box they resort to violence and lawlessness all while claiming the other side is threatening democracy while they ignore democracy and resort to street violence and criminal behavior.
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This tariff thing is a 2nd step in a reset of the global financial system. The first step was central banks allocating more of their reserves to gold. It would be wise for investors to follow the bankers actions. They're always properly positioning themselves to mitigate risks. Instead of moaning and groaning about the impact of tariffs adjust to a new set of arrangements. Or lose your ass going forward.
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3 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Roundy, has it ever been right?
These NGO's need to be exterminated. Cutting off their access to free taxpayer money was the first step. Stripping them of tax-exempt status is another. They are partisan political organizations that don't qualify for tax-exempt status. Next, arrest their leadership and donors for inciting violence and criminal activity. Harass the crap out of them and their legal representatives. I say this knowing it might cross the line but its a line the opposition has crossed already. There can be no compromise with them here. Time to play hardball.
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On 3/4/2025 at 3:32 PM, Roundybout said:
How am I wrong? The MAGA Supreme Court made the decision.I might ask why are tree hugging California libs dumping raw sewage into the water in the first place? It sounds like something they should be dead-set against and assigning blame to the court ruling regulators over-stepped their authority in imposing limits seems misplaced. Shouldn't the ire in this case be focused on the city government of San Francisco?
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21 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
We live in a global economy. We can't survive as an island. No one outside the US is going to buy American manufactured goods after our competitors apply tariffs to goods hat are already relatively expensive due to expensive labor. The US market alone is not big enough to sustain, much less grow, many businesses.
I agree. So where does that leave us as a nation? We consume more than we produce incurring big trade deficits year after year. Our businesses are not cost competitive as other nations have cheaper labor and business costs aided by things such as weaker environmental and work safety rules. One conclusion is eventually there needs to be an adjustment in our overall standard of living. A downward adjustment to re-balance the economic and business realities of global trade..
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I think raising taxes to cover the government's entire fiscal year budget and eliminating borrowing is a great idea. I also think the 50% that don't pay any federal income tax should start paying their fair share. Getting 100% of the benefit with 0 costs doesn't seem fair. Make rich people pay more too. And the middle class. Higher corporate and business taxes too.
Because getting American's to pay for the entire federal budget instead of pushing the costs off onto younger workers and future generations through massive federal debts to the tune of 2 to 5 to 7 trillion dollars each year will wake everybody up to the obscene cost of government. Hitting them in the wallet for the entire annual tab might suddenly convince everyone of the idea we need to get control of out of control spending. And free health care, free housing, free food, free education, free everything, is not free.
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1 minute ago, 4th&long said:
Identity of Democrats 2028 Presidential candidate revealed!
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2 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:
I’m not sure it has anything to do with Trump directly. But has any Russian player said anything vaguely anti-Putin? That’s the kind of fear Putin strikes in any would be opponent. You’ll end up falling out of a window or grabbing a radioactive doorknob.
I think a lot of players simply see no upside in expressing their political and social opinions.
If I look at the Bills and Sabres, and other NFL and NHL teams I have no clue player views. Nor do I care to hear them.
A Russian player criticizing Putin will most certainly be viewed by his countrymen as parroting American narratives. Kind of the opposite treatment of what anyone critical of the war gets here.
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1 hour ago, Andy1 said:
Cult members can’t say a bad thing about Putin. That’s Commandment #1 issued by the orange prophet.
Liberal myth and folklore absent any tangible evidence but still repeated today because they continue believing Russian disinformation defeated Hillary in 2016.
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I expect a good deal of Zelensky's reluctance to accept any type of "peace deal" is the difference between the public nature of this conflict and the "secret" activities and drivers under the covers. In essence, Pentagon/CIA war planners were running the show and using Ukrainian forces to execute the plan. Given the war in such a scenario belongs just as much if not more to the US and its objectives (not the support for democracy theme many continue to fall for), why should his country that bore cost of casualties and lost territory agree to Trump's demands for mineral rights and other concessions for US support. In reality, the war was the child of America.
Some excerpts from the NYT story (and interesting timing on this revelation too!).
Americans overseeing "kill chain"
One European intelligence chief recalled being taken aback to learn how deeply enmeshed his N.A.T.O. counterparts had become in Ukrainian operations. “They are part of the kill chain now,” he said.
The partnership’s guiding idea was that this close cooperation might allow the Ukrainians to accomplish the unlikeliest of feats — to deliver the invading Russians a crushing blow.
Biggest battlefield feats were actually the CIA/Pentagon
An early proof of concept was a campaign against one of Russia’s most-feared battle groups, the 58th Combined Arms Army. In mid-2022, using American intelligence and targeting information, the Ukrainians unleashed a rocket barrage at the headquarters of the 58th in the Kherson region, killing generals and staff officers inside. Again and again, the group set up at another location; each time, the Americans found it and the Ukrainians destroyed it.
Farther south, the partners set their sights on the Crimean port of Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet loaded missiles destined for Ukrainian targets onto warships and submarines. At the height of Ukraine’s 2022 counteroffensive, a predawn swarm of maritime drones, with support from the Central Intelligence Agency, attacked the port, damaging several warships and prompting the Russians to begin pulling them back.
Overreach
The Ukrainians sometimes saw the Americans as overbearing and controlling — the prototypical patronizing Americans. The Americans sometimes couldn’t understand why the Ukrainians didn’t simply accept good advice.
Where the Americans focused on measured, achievable objectives, they saw the Ukrainians as constantly grasping for the big win, the bright, shining prize.
Failed 2023 counteroffensive actually hatched at American HQ
Yet at arguably the pivotal moment of the war — in mid-2023, as the Ukrainians mounted a counteroffensive to build victorious momentum after the first year’s successes — the strategy devised in Wiesbaden fell victim to the fractious internal politics of Ukraine: The president, Volodymyr Zelensky, versus his military chief (and potential electoral rival), and the military chief versus his headstrong subordinate commander. When Mr. Zelensky sided with the subordinate, the Ukrainians poured vast complements of men and resources into a finally futile campaign to recapture the devastated city of Bakhmut. Within months, the entire counteroffensive ended in stillborn failure.
Biden banned clandestine operations in public, while crossing red lines in secret
Time and again, the Biden administration authorized clandestine operations it had previously prohibited. American military advisers were dispatched to Kyiv and later allowed to travel closer to the fighting. Military and C.I.A. officers in Wiesbaden helped plan and support a campaign of Ukrainian strikes in Russian-annexed Crimea. Finally, the military and then the C.I.A. received the green light to enable pinpoint strikes deep inside Russia itself.
In some ways, Ukraine was, on a wider canvas, a rematch in a long history of U.S.-Russia proxy wars — Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s, Syria three decades later.
Task Force Dragon
The defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, and General Milley had put the 18th Airborne in charge of delivering weapons and advising the Ukrainians on how to use them. When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed on to the M777s, the Tony Bass Auditorium became a full-fledged headquarters.
A Polish general became General Donahue’s deputy. A British general would manage the logistics hub on the former basketball court. A Canadian would oversee training.
The auditorium basement became what is known as a fusion center, producing intelligence about Russian battlefield positions, movements and intentions. There, according to intelligence officials, officers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency were joined by coalition intelligence officers.
The 18th Airborne is known as Dragon Corps; the new operation would be Task Force Dragon. All that was needed to bring the pieces together was the reluctant Ukrainian top command.
Debate over plausible deniability
Soon the Ukrainians, nearly 20 in all — intelligence officers, operational planners, communications and fire-control specialists — began arriving in Wiesbaden. Every morning, officers recalled, the Ukrainians and Americans gathered to survey Russian weapons systems and ground forces and determine the ripest, highest-value targets. The priority lists were then handed over to the intelligence fusion center, where officers analyzed streams of data to pinpoint the targets’ locations.
Inside the U.S. European Command, this process gave rise to a fine but fraught linguistic debate: Given the delicacy of the mission, was it unduly provocative to call targets “targets”?
Some officers thought “targets” was appropriate. Others called them “intel tippers,” because the Russians were often moving and the information would need verification on the ground.
The debate was settled by Maj. Gen. Timothy D. Brown, European Command’s intelligence chief: The locations of Russian forces would be “points of interest.” Intelligence on airborne threats would be “tracks of interest.”
“If you ever get asked the question, ‘Did you pass a target to the Ukrainians?’ you can legitimately not be lying when you say, ‘No, I did not,’” one U.S. official explained.
CIA and assassinations of Russian top officers
The White House also prohibited sharing intelligence on the locations of “strategic” Russian leaders, like the armed forces chief, Gen. Valery Gerasimov. “Imagine how that would be for us if we knew that the Russians helped some other country assassinate our chairman,” another senior U.S. official said. “Like, we’d go to war.” Similarly, Task Force Dragon couldn’t share intelligence that identified the locations of individual Russians.
The way the system worked, Task Force Dragon would tell the Ukrainians where Russians were positioned. But to protect intelligence sources and methods from Russian spies, it would not say how it knew what it knew.
US operations room directly oversaw HIMARS strikes
Wiesbaden would oversee each HIMARS strike... HIMARS strikes that resulted in 100 or more Russian dead or wounded came almost weekly. Russian forces were left dazed and confused. Their morale plummeted, and with it their will to fight. And as the HIMARS arsenal grew from eight to 38 and the Ukrainian strikers became more proficient, an American official said, the toll rose as much as fivefold.
“We became a small part, maybe not the best part, but a small part, of your system,” General Zabrodskyi explained, adding: “Most states did this over a period of 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. But we were forced to do it in a matter of weeks.”
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Its like a Rugby scum and I wonder if some football guy watching a match got the idea for it there?
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1 hour ago, Roundybout said:
Your side was free to go to any other social media platform.
Imagine being proud that your social media site platforms neonazis.
Truth about the "sides" is the only difference between Nazi's and far-left organizations like Antifa is the uniform. Neither are desirable.
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8 minutes ago, Roundybout said:
Don’t do crimes, B word!Interesting in the Le Pen case the court stated per the misuse of EU funds. "It was found that all these people actually worked for the party, that their deputy did not commission them any tasks,” said the judge. Assistants then “passed from one deputy to another.”
A violation that sounds awfully similar to what the US Democratic party has done with putting party workers and political activists on the Federal payroll. No arrests here though. Yet....
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4 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Last night 60 Minutes did a lengthy and detailed story on cuts at VOA. It would be nice to see them commit the same amount of time and effort to laying out the case for what appears to be billions in systemic fraud, waste, and abuse going on at SSA. But I suspect the bosses at CBS network have no desire to give Trump anything close to a "win".
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12 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Please tell us what you have your 401k and IRA's in...sounds like treasuries might be your thing. boring but entirely predictable. kinda like the maga's here...
Not treasuries. Energy stocks like CNQ, SU, XOM, some funds, recently PR. Gold miners like AEM. NEM, GDX, NGD. Royalty streamers WPM, RGLD, OR. Utilities fund. Hard asset funds. Solid dividend payers. Growth and income funds. Emerging market funds. And sure some SP500 and NASDAQ exposure. Raised cash to about 20% to take advantage of opportunities like Friday.
The theme, higher and longer inflation is here to stay. We went through a 40+ year deflation phase, that's over. The reverse of that started in earnest in 2021. The street with few exceptions hasn't caught on yet. They think it's transitory. It's not. It's permanent.
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43 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
I'm well aware.
Others who live under a green sky are not.
Not wanting to influence the election means withholding the truth from the American public and robbing them of the ability to make up their own minds armed with facts rather than inaccurate and false opinions.
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22 minutes ago, Westside said:
That easy huh? Why didn’t biden do that? Or kamala, she should have run on that instead of doubling down on stupid.
Because those leftist maniacs controlling the party wouldn't allow it.
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10 minutes ago, Albwan said:
You mean like republicans didn't have to do much with all the commie bs, sleepy joe,
kamala and all the clowns LOL @ you. Nobody listens or cares about your sore loser crying.
Go wreck a tesla or something.
Whining posters don't care about a recession. They're upset that their personal investment portfolios loaded up with overvalued stocks trading at huge multiples to earnings are taking a hit.
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Just now, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:
It was about the stupid tariffs which are hurting consumer confidence, increasing inflation and disrupting trade
That's pretty straight forward, unless you rely on MAGA "logic"
No I rely on expert market sources and my own experience and knowledge of the financial world and economics.
You just want it to be about Trump so bad to the point of an obsession that your mind can't process or consider alternatives or other factors. Its hatred driven by pure emotions.
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1 hour ago, Mikie2times said:
Crazy that the markets prefer some idea of what to expect vs the on / off Tariff game.
I believe today's sell off was about the PCE number coming in hotter than expected. Being what's been stated, the Feds favorite indicator of future inflation the market experienced the consequences of a new expectation of fewer rate cuts.
Fact is the markets are one big speculation on the number and size of Fed rate cuts rather than a proxy for economic activity.
Why else do stocks growing at single digit rates trade at huge multiples. There's severe overvaluation problem that will eventually be resolved with either lower rates and higher profits or lower PEs and lower stock prices.
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1 hour ago, Andy1 said:
Typical MAGA response. For anyone in the intelligence community, this is a huge deal. Russia, Iran and China now know that our military and intelligence officials communicate on Signal. They were probably using personal phones. They have their personal contacts lists. They can use those contacts to hack administration officials phones. They know the lack of competence of these people. The cyber division of their militaries is working overtime now with this treasure trove of information.
Our government has secure communication platforms to use. Trump officials are likely not using them because those communication channels are subject to records preservation laws. Instead, they obviously prefer Signal since the messages disappear, thus erasing a communication trail for accountability. They will continue to use Signal because of this. Our enemies now know this.
Russia, Iran and China now know that our military and intelligence officials communicate on Signal - like they didn't know that already? Come on. They hack us, we hack them. That's the game. This incident doesn't change the rules of the game or how its played. And yes, some adjustments in tactics are needed.
And for the record, I am not MAGA. I'm a disenfranchised Democrat that the party forgot about when the nuts took over and the agenda shifted far-left. People such as me, formed the core of the party in the past. And the abandonment of voters that share my views and the dumping of the traditional core values of the party are the main reason Trump won and Harris didn't. She was too far out there and a real dummy to boot.
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59 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:
Nothing burger. Of course. What a crock. Who might have been tipped to the strike that we missed? What intelligence methods might we have revealed? We'll never know. Loose lips sink ships. Unless there DUI Pete's lips. In which case it's cool, because he's MAGA and has some weird tattoos. But keep talking about a few trannies here and there, Pizzagate, and Hunter Biden's laptop. What a joke.
Don't forget losers. Lots of losers there.
Most of your ramblings are irrelevant to my assessment. And your questions about tipping off the target or intelligence methods could be asked of any operation or plan. Known risks without answers.
The state of politics in America today.
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Then maybe she's really a democrat? Because the majority of them are the definition of ugly unless you're into lesbians with crew cuts dressed in flannel shirts and combat boots.