Buffalo_Gal

The leader of the House of Commons resigned. Theresa May has not (yet). She "faces pressure", "could resign", and it "clinging on" - well those are the headlines anyway. Theresa May faces pressure after Andrea Leadsom resigns Theresa May is continuing to face pressure from her own MPs to resign after one of her senior ministers quit the cabinet. The Leader of the House, Andrea Leadsom, stepped down on Wednesday night over the PM's Brexit policy. </snip>

2) You must not be on social media. 3) Is he audited yearly? That I cannot know. Is he audited? You betchya. The IRS LOVES to audit high net-worth people. 4) Nope. Not in the Constitution as a requirement, so it is not a requirement to run for President.

There ain't nuthin' rattling around in Nancy's brain except for a few old dust bunnies.

First, why did my misspelling make your quote when I had fixed them almost 10 minutes ago? Second, he's audited. You don't make that kind of dinero (and deductions) without the IRS combing your returns. Third, none of this... absolutely none of it, is anyone's damn business. They asked for returns from a private citizen (prior to the years he was elected President). How about you give all your earning information to be plastered all over the world so people can pick through it and decided (without knowing *****) that you did something wrong? Fourth, you had mentioned above his 2016, 2017, 2018 returns. His 2018 returns are unlikely to be completed yet. Ours are not. He has until October. Fifth, the Democrats will rue this one. It will get ugly if "pawing through tax returns for possible political gain" is now going to be a standard. Ever notice how many people arrive in Congress with $12.57 to their name, and leave multi-millionaires on (what is now) $174K a year? How about we pick through those returns instead!?

I always thought the Rs in the NYS Senate were worthless. Little did I know that they held back the crazy. The flip in November 2018 has lead to some egregious abuses of power by the Democrats in NYS (they control the Senate, Assembly, and Governorship, so all this insanity is on the Ds alone).

M'kay... so I've written here before how complicated our little holdings make our tax returns. There is a reason there are permanent hires (CPAs and tax attorneys) constantly working on Trump's taxes, and it ain't something you, me, or the MSM can understand without the underlying documents and in a "release". As far as "offshore companies" and "interest at foreign banks" ... holy *****, go read the damn tax laws. We have a gold holding in Switzerland- that we have to report every stinking year whether or not it has changed. Forms and more forms. We have a foreign bank account - which are almost impossible for Americans to get anymore due to IRS hassling, and if you said due to more reporting and forms, you would be correct. Anyone who has any assets of any worth is now tracked constantly. Trusts can't avoid some things (we have trusts, again, paperwork). His taxes are NONE of our business. The super friendly IRS /snark has made very certain President Trump and his companies are paying every single nickel the IRS thinks he should pay. If this succeeds, I wonder if a hard look at some Democratic leaders taxes should happen- with a public release, of course!

@Deranged Rhino posted in another thread about Theresa May being expected to resign today (EU election-related?) Here's a tad more:

Carter Page: Obama’s FBI, DOJ May Have Spied On Trump Admin, Not Just Campaign Carter Page’s revelation that he remained in touch with Steve Bannon and others during the transition period and following Trump’s inauguration raises a much larger question. Recent statements to The Federalist from former Donald Trump campaign advisor Carter Page suggest the Obama administration, and later career Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation employees, used the Page surveillance orders to spy, not just on the Trump campaign, but also on the Trump transition team and the Trump administration. Over the weekend, Page told The Federalist that after he left the Trump campaign in late September 2016, he continued to communicate with individuals officially connected to the campaign. “Yes, I stayed in touch with them – including during the transition months and after the start of the new administration,” Page said. While Page refused to identify all of the individuals with whom he maintained a relationship in order to protect their privacy, he confirmed that he remained in contact with Steve Bannon. </snip>

This kid will go far!

It isn't just me ... @Deranged Rhino and @plenzmd1 also have this glitch (I am sure there are other, "lucky" ones).

Holy ***** this thread!! Long, long story but OMG this guy...

Yeah, yeah, distance photos, airbrushed, and collagen... she's 65!! I think she looks phenomenal. I should look so good, and I am many years younger. I'm not sure what people expect... she's 65!!!

Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, the EPA is too powerful and eliminating whole industries based on feelz and kick-backs should not be allowed. On the other hand, elections have consequences and I am not certain that future administrations should have a difficult time implementing their agenda. That is a slippery slope that can lead to nowhere good. This should lead to a few new jobs though: (thread)

I'm kinda surprised a few haven't already. (Pretty sure Tony Podesta is somewhere difficult to reach.)

My biggest concern is what they do with Obama, and possibly Hillary. That will have to be handled with kid gloves (possibly a proactive presidential pardon ? - which would piss off many, but maybe for the best). The way the finger pointing is going it looks like all the bad actors (Brennan, Clapper, etc) want Comey to be the fall-guy. He has few friends on the D or R side, and takes creepy, esoteric photos amongst the trees - he's the perfect guy to set-up for the most jail time!

The indictments are going to drop. It is not the AGs problem that the MSM has been lying/complicit in the "Get Trump" narrative for the last 2+ years. Are you suggesting there should not be indictments because the Democrats won't like that!?

I guess when you have two liars (Comey and Lynch) the third person is the tie-breaker? ?‍♀️ From 2017. Looking back though, the context is somewhat different after all we know today.

You do not think what the Obama administration did to candidate/president-elect Donald Trump, and what the head of the CIA and FBI continued to do to President Trump was ugly? Sedition is an ugly, ugly act.

I get the sense that Kim doesn't care for Joe Biden. I am sure it is because he'll be lots tougher on North Korea, so they fear Creepy Uncle Joe. North Korean Media Lashes Out at ‘Reckless, Senseless’ Biden As the 2020 U.S. presidential race heats up, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency has jumped into the fray, calling aspiring Democratic contender Joe Biden a "snob bereft of elementary quality as human being". "He is self-praising himself as being the most popular presidential candidate. This is enough to make a cat laugh," the agency writes in a commentary piece that also denigrates Biden for his university grades and for falling asleep at a speech by President Barack Obama in 2011. KCNA also called the former vice president a "fool of low IQ" and said he "had the temerity to insult the supreme leadership" of North Korea at a recent campaign event. </snip>

Well, you're a better person than I am.

This may have been posted here since the original WaPo article ("Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's Election Assault" Oy vey. ) they are quoting was from 2017, but nevertheless worth reading. Link to article </snip> Deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017, the newspaper detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark. According to the newspaper, in the summer of 2016, CIA Director John Brennan convened a “secret task force at CIA headquarters composed of several dozen analysts and officers from the CIA, the NSA and the FBI.” The Post described the unit as so secretive it functioned as a “sealed compartment” hidden even from the rest of the U.S. intelligence community; a unit whose workers were all made to sign additional non-disclosure forms. The unit reported to top officials, the newspaper documented: They worked exclusively for two groups of “customers,” officials said. The first was Obama and fewer than 14 senior officials in government. The second was a team of operations specialists at the CIA, NSA and FBI who took direction from the task force on where to aim their subsequent efforts to collect more intelligence on Russia. The number of Obama administration officials who were allowed access to the Russia intelligence was also highly limited, The Post reported. At first only four senior officials were involved: Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey. Their aides were all barred from attending the initial meetings, The Post stated. The newspaper continued : Gradually, the circle widened to include Vice President Biden and others. Agendas sent to Cabinet secretaries — including John F. Kerry at the State Department and Ashton B. Carter at the Pentagon — arrived in envelopes that subordinates were not supposed to open. Sometimes the agendas were withheld until participants had taken their seats in the Situation Room. Adding another layer of secrecy, the newspaper reported that when the closed Cabinet sessions on Russia began in the White House Situation Room in August, the video feed from the main room was cut off during the meetings. The feed, which allows only for video and not audio, is usually kept on so that senior aides can see when a meeting takes place. The paper reported: The blacked-out screens were seen as an ominous sign among lower-level White House officials who were largely kept in the dark about the Russia deliberations even as they were tasked with generating options for retaliation against Moscow. The compartmentalization may help to explain why it was only Brennan’s CIA, Comey’s FBI and the NSA that penned the January 6, 2017 U.S. Intelligence Community report alleging Russian interference in the presidential race. Numerous news media reports originally falsely claimed the report was authored by all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. </snip>

Block 'em (ignore). It doesn't help when people quote the two or three largest offenders all the time **grumble**grumble**swear**swear** but it does help avoid at least half the stupid posted down here.

I'm not sure "most Americans" know what "FISA" is. Still, if the Hill is printing this, the internals taken vis-à-vis people who have had enough of government corruption, overreach and spying may be telling the Democrats and/or Republicans something they cannot ignore (although some are trying!).

What a coincidence, so do I! It is called stop getting Gender Studies degrees and get a STEM degree instead! This old trope is ridiculous. If women were paid 20% less than men at the same job, no publicly held corporate would hire a man. The stockholders would revolt as an easy way to save 20% off the bottom line would be to hire only women. There are plenty of studies that show male/female wage scales are the same (or skew slightly higher toward women) within a field; simply look at nursing, medical doctors, civil engineering, etc to see that women with the same experience and same degree, make the same amount. Now if the discussion is why do women disproportionately put their careers on hold and take over childcare, well that is a different conversation.