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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Ronny Chieng: What the hell is Space Force up to?

WaPo: How a string of big wins shifted Biden’s presidency

Trevor with Alex Wagner: We haven’t given up on democracy

Robert Reich: How crypto could take your savings

AJ+: Why millions of Americans can’t afford water

Mark Fiore: Steal back the news cycle

Treason Трамп and His Traitorous Trogs:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

WaPo: Liz Cheney’s rise, fall and future

Alex Wagner: How does Utah’s anti-trans law work? Secret investigations of kindergarten records

Winlar: ♫ Safe. Legal. And None Your God-damned Bus’ness! ♬:

The Daily Show: Eating ice cream—The Worst Scandal in Presidential History

Vox: How US corporations poisoned this Indigenous community

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  2. 2

    Cheneys defeat shows Tgey just want a lock step. Didn’t she vote with Trump most of the time,anyway?

  5. 5

    How to paste a smiley face on their morose leader (Moscow Mitch) and his glum November Senate prognostications:

    “Republican voters … have chosen a slate of extremely interesting candidates, many of them non-career politicians.”

    Gotta hand it to this babe (Mollie Hemingway), that’s putting a HAPPY FACE on things, and there’s not a single lie in there. (There was one, but I replaced it with ellipses.)

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/19/come-on-mitch-mcconnell-republicans-need-you-to-step-up-and-lead/

  6. 6

    @1 you know that being concerned that something nefarious happened and it actually happening are two different things.

    Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. Lock her up!!!

    Gman sniffs butt and had sex with 17 wivesguys last night.

  8. 8

    Steve calls himself a Nazi hunter. He never mentions that it’s because he’s searching for his biologic father.

    This Iowa Democrat Says She Worked as an Engineer. It Was an Internship.
    Christina Bohannan interned at Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection

  9. 9

    @8

    “Interns don’t actually do any work. That’s why they’re unpaid”

    -Free Beacon

  10. 10

    The girls are coming to have their vengeance!

    data showing a huge surge in women registering to vote since the 6/24 Dobbs decision.

    Starting in PA, where women have accounted for >56% of new registrants in that time period. Those women new registrants are 62%D to 15% R and 54% are under the age of 25. Compare that to men new registrants at 41% <25 and 43% D, 28% R.

  11. 11

    I’m washing my hair…

    Wait no, I have a prior engagement that’s been on the calendar for weeks.

    Shit, My Grandpa died and I’ll be out of town.

    I only debate on the Sabbath!

    (into the still hot mike) I don’t want to try to come up with sentences on the fly.

  12. 12

    Nefarious Troll.

    Lock her up!

    Gman

    We’ve already concluded that degenerate is a better fit for a low IQ Nazi traitor known here as Degen.

  14. 14

    It Was an Internship.

    So you’re not a “physician” during or after completing a medical residency and you may not call yourself a “doctor” or “former doctor”.

    Got it. The nurses are going to fucking love this.

  15. 15

    11,
    Y’all better rig the shit out of the November vote if you hope to be remembered as anything more than a very successful race hustler targeting cancervative white nationalists.

  16. 16

    Steve calls himself a Nazi hunter.

    I’ve never actually called myself that, but it kind of fits, doesn’t it? The hunt starts by identifying the prey and its location. Next is pulling the trigger and killing it.

  17. 17

    Liz Cheney is 56.

    She may survive this politically. But for at least the near term her political future does not exist.

    Wyoming is both a very small state and a very Republican state. So while that means that right now and for the near future it will remain a very hostile environment for Liz Cheney, that could change more quickly in Wyoming than in some other places. She could begin to rebuild her political career immediately and in six to ten years stage a comeback in some kind of statewide race.

    The sense of mourning and regret the corporate media are expressing upon finally realizing all this is very telling. Make absolutely no mistake, Cheney is a very, very conservative politician. Her voting record speaks for itself. And it is particularly significant that she is a very reliable vote for enormous tax cuts for hyper-wealthy individuals and global corporations, for increasing global warming emissions, for more and better machine guns in schools, for massive cuts to social security, and for the end of taxpayer supported public education in America.

    These expressions of hand-wringing, loss, regret, and waste by big media companies about her political fate tell us all a great deal about their political interests, without their intending to tell us. It’s something to pay attention to and to learn from.

  18. 18

    4,
    It’s fun to see and laugh at.

    But I’m not sure I want Christian Nationalism to realize how badly they are being ripped off by the Grift-For-Life schemes of team KILL HIM WITH HIS OWN GUN quite so soon.

    It’s true that they can’t get back on television or radio in these races if they ever find the missing $80 million. But they can still make better use of the money then buying Brioni suits for consultants or giving $50,000/week make-work salaries to Trumpland refugees. Once that money is pissed away on Yacht/Cocaine/Hookers it can never be clawed back. We all need to keep quiet about this for a few more weeks.

  19. 19

    What is Space Force doing? Getting paid, saying the sky is falling and generally doing their best to increase their size, scope and power. That’s the general nature of government employees everywhere.

  20. 20

    @6 I agree with you that it’s kind of impressive.

    A) 17 men? That’s some serious stamina. I see you admire him for that. Most men are not up to the task.

    B) If they are practicing Safer Sex, it’s doable, and relatively safe. It just takes planning, testing and some self discipline. I know a lot of straight people who don’t have that.

    C) But how do you know this? Were you stalking Gman? Were you one of the 17, or were were you just looking from the back of the room? I hope YOU were practicing safer sex, like Gman was.

  22. 22

    No Kennedys. No Bushes. No Clintons. And soon, no Cheneys.

    No US political dynasties for the first time in more than 70 years.

  23. 23

    @ 20

    I hope YOU were practicing safer sex, like Gman was.

    To Gman, safer sex is

    1) asking the dude’s first name before bending over him
    2) wiping, once, between partners, ’cause Santorum is messy stuff.

  24. 24

    @23. By what you post, you obviously do not know what safer sex means. I can send you links.
    You constantly post how you psychically know g-man’s sexual practices or rabbits wealth, you do realize that’s a sign of schizophrenia? There’s help for that but you got to be willing to work with the doctors.

  25. 25

    One thing Space Force is doing, that could have continued to be done without a new agency, is monitoring and maintaining the GPS Satellite network developed by the US Military principally to create evasive maneuvers for ICBMs and the like.

    Now a billion dollar industry with Garmin, whatever fitness tracker millions use daily, worldwide shipping, Amazon warehouse logistics, phone maps, truck fleet tracking…

    None of those ‘private industries’ paid for that but they’ll tell you the low low taxes are needed for R&D or they’ll take the ball and go home.

  26. 26

    25,
    But if we keep giving votes to Friends of Putin like Rand Paul he’ll be sure to fix all that, right?

  27. 27

    Christina Bohannan @ 8 is the Darcy Burner of the 2022 election cycle.

    So I guess this makes Luis Miguel the Timothy McVeigh of the 2022 election cycle.

  28. 28

    4,
    At least Fat Midget is gwine do his part.

    He’s in Pennsylvania this whole weekend to support making an openly avowed White Christian Nationalist, who supports criminalizing the practice of Judaism and the death penalty for doctors, that state’s Governor.

    Democrat’s greatest risk is that global warming may affect the popcorn harvest.

  29. 29

    Radical anti-abortion incumbent who won a 2020 special election by six votes.

    Sponsored a Life at Conception bill and advocates criminalizing crossing state lines to receive care.

    Yeah, the intern thing is moving the electorate.

  30. 30

    A private school in Florida is expelling all LGBTQ children.

    Republicans would like to give such schools tax money to help them do this kind of thing more effectively.

  31. 31

    Kari Lake is obviously insane.

    But in this case it’s not entirely clear if she is insane or simply a fantastic liar.

    https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1561034478629167104

    There are still perfectly good reasons for any Democrat to refuse to debate a crazy person. Not the least of which reasons would be that you can win easily without doing so. But I’m guessing the reason Hobbs might refuse this offer is because Lake is lying. She won’t “allow” her opponent to write the debate rules. She won’t “allow” her opponent to choose any moderator. She won’t “allow” her opponent to select all the questions.

    But if she’s really insane enough to do all that, I think it would be tremendous fun to watch. And Hobbs should give it some thought.

  32. 32

    Lindell has touted the event as his most significant yet, since before details were announced. He previously called it “the most important event in our lifetimes.” Invites were sent to “grassroots” individuals and groups around the country, he said, and the weekend’s events are being livestreamed on Lindell’s website.

    “The only way this weekend fails is if nobody watches,” Lindell said in his opening remarks Saturday.

    A few hundred people filed into the Springfield Expo Center to hear from Lindell.

    At one point the livestream hit over 50 but fewer than 60 viewers. Also I went to a WalMart the other day and the “MyPillows” were on a shelf under the inflatable unicorn pool floaties in clearance. I bought a floatie. What’s it like to piss away a wildly successful business through your own stupidity?

  34. 34

    In Republican Florida, the “christian” school bans LGBTQ students and the state public schools are banned from showing any form of support of LGBTQ kids. Republicans seem hellbent on destroy LGBTQ kids as much as possible.
    Voting for republicans is voting to support this kind of hate politics. Please vote better.

  35. 35

    The other day it was ask, “Why do so many Republicans want to have sex with children?”

    The war on LGBTQ kids dovetails into this question. There will never be a majority of LGBTQ to get over 50% and out vote republicans. LGBTQ are weak politically and are a safe target to hurt and fuck over. Children have are generally voiceless in conservative society and are a safe target to fuck and fuck over. Republican politicians get votes by punching down, by hurting the Others who do not have the power or the numbers to defend themselves. Their base loves it and rewards them.

  36. 36

    Lest you think all I post about is LGBTQ culture wars, the republicans want to rob every American’s retirement plan.
    Sen. Ron Johnson says Social Security ‘was set up improperly’ and would have been better invested in the stock market
    https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/opportunity-wisconsin-icymi-milwaukee-journal-sentinel-ron-johnson-says-social-security-was-set-up-improperly/

    You mean that same Stock Market that collapsed and brought on the Great Depression, ultimately leading to the origin of Social Security program in the first place?
    That Stock Market?

    It’s better for investors. More of other people’s money to lose and still profit off. Except now when the market crashes, you don’t just lose your pension, you lose your SS as well, while the investors just shrug and buy another yacht.

    Last year, nearly 65 million Americans received Social Security benefits. Yet, the Extreme MAGA Republican Study Committee, which represents 157 out of 211 House Republicans, holds slashing Medicare and Social Security as a core tenant of their proposed budget, regardless of the fact they would be leaving their own constituents high and dry.

    No wonder the greedy racist incel is terrified to leave socialist WA state.

  38. 38

    @8 She worked 4 years as a water quality licensed intern while attending engineering school. It follows that she knows nothing about water quality or engineering. Same-same your medical internship.

  39. 39

    @16 These days finding Nazis doesn’t require any hunting. They’re all over the place, like earthworms after a rain.

  41. 41

    @36 Yeah, the GOP senate candidate in Arizona is campaigning against Social Security, too. In retiree haven Arizona. He’s trailing in polls by close to double digits. Would that GOP primary voters would give us more gifts like him.

  42. 42

    10,
    Most are being filtered out of any poll results because they have not previously voted, they don’t have landline phones, they have not lived at their current address long enough, they don’t care to participate in polls.

    It will be interesting.

  43. 43

    Also I went to a WalMart the other day and the “MyPillows” were on a shelf under the inflatable unicorn pool floaties in clearance. I bought a floatie.

    Not even a flinching consideration to see how soft the pillow was? I know, those types of floaties can demand all the attention, such drama queens they are.

  44. 44

    You constantly post how you psychically know g-man’s sexual practices or rabbits wealth

    When all other attempts to find a ‘safe space’ elude the low IQ Nazi traitor, he always returns to those.

    I find the low IQ Nazi traitor to be monumentally fucking boring. I’d lynch the fucktard fascist for that alone.

  45. 45

    37 On what ground to lock her up?
    It doesn’t matter their god did so much worse.
    She was liberal.
    She was a woman.
    She was powerful.
    She had an annoying laugh.
    She made incels feel inadequate.
    They don’t need legal reasons.

  49. 49

    Back in March, when it was “affordable”, Cortez Masto locked down $10 million of air time from Labor Day to Election Day.

    Until just this second, Degen did not know that. Because way back in March fucktards like Degen we’re too busy casually declaring triumphs over Maggie Hassan, Raphael Warnock, and Mark Kelly.

    The aerial bombardment of Laxalt begins in two weeks. And Rick Scott spent all the bomb shelter money on Yacht/Cocaine/Hookers.

  51. 51

    @ 49

    Back in March, when it was “affordable”, Cortez Masto locked down $10 million of air time from Labor Day to Election Day.

    I’m reading $8.4M, and you neglected to mention that the GOP locked down $3M of air time in the state at about the same time.

    When the GOP shifts money from other races the NV funding gap will narrow – the GOP probably won’t spend $9M in New Hampshire, for instance.

    Something tells me that Laxalt – whose family name means he’s got lots of friends who will contribute when it’s time – won’t be hurting for ad money, McHillbilly. Oz, on the other hand…

  52. 52

    Ad reserves in late April:

    The DSCC is reserving $8.4 million in Nevada, $7.5 million in Arizona, $7 million in Georgia and $4 million in New Hampshire, according to a DSCC aide. The party is also going on offense in two states, reserving $3 million in Pennsylvania, which is an open seat due to the retirement of Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, and $3 million in Wisconsin, where GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is running for reelection.

    That is about $33M. A fourth of it is to prop up a really weak senator from NV.

    The GOP has reserved $53M, including money to hold the NC seat.

    The NRSC has reserved its ad time in the small group of states that will likely determine control of the Senate — $9.5 million in Georgia, $9 million in Wisconsin, $9 million in New Hampshire, $8 million in Arizona, $8 million in Pennsylvania, $6.5 million in North Carolina and $3 million in Nevada, according to a plan provided to POLITICO. The committee will spend another $2.6 million in Wisconsin on hybrid ads jointly funded by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s campaign.

    The GOP has more freedom to move money than do Democrats, as the Fall campaigns begin to close.

    [Both quotes are Politico; GOP from May 12, Dem from April 29.]

  53. 53

    When the GOP shifts money from other races the NV funding gap will narrow

    Might do. If they also build a whole new bunch of local licensees with available air time.

    But they aren’t shifting into Nevada. They are shifting out.
    Five days ago Rick Scott canceled $1.5 million of his Nevada book.
    Would be totes cool if some other superPac snatched it all up. But too late now. Dems got to it first.

    Rick got overheated and shot his wad early. He was proud of it. That sort of thing is probably common among Florida swingers like him, Roger Stone, Matt Gaetz, and Cheetolini. But it’s gonna cost ’em in this case. They got on the air early this year and used that air time to define their “important” issues about swimsuit inspections, killing FBI agents, and teaching the real truth about how much the slaves loved their white masters. That’s all gone now. For all the good it did.

  57. 57

    56,
    Don’t look now but he’s already fleeing scared like a pussy back into the safety of his distant past:

    Hillary v. Mitt

    Degen’s fantasy three-way. Especially the snowballing and the part where he and Willard get to cross swords.

  58. 58

    @ 55

    Noted. She’ll need it. Incumbents who have a hard time breaking 45% approval generally do.

  59. 59

    35)Some might not like this scene from For All Mankind. Tge President, a former Astronaut, coming out. Die hard fans had been expecting this scene for the last 3 seasons since the character was introduced. Turns out, that’s where the writers were, all along. Btw, she beat Bill Clinton in 1992(in the show).

    https://youtu.be/Y4Y7MZaUaXw

    Season 3 ended with with science denying conspiracy theorists attacking Johnson Space Center. Mission Control was in ruins, plus a death toll in the hundreds, with shades of the OKC Bombing, One of those killed was a a former astronaut, and tge US’s first woman in space, which happened much earlier than in real life, thanks to the Soviets following up Leonov with a woman, while Apollo 12 was on the launchpad. I thought that the Ellen Wilson character was based on Sally Ride but in Season 2, they added a story arc that included her.

  60. 60

    I click on one of the Darryl’s vids for fun and I see someone I haven’t seen for a while:

    Joe DeGenerate (diGenova)…

    Haven’t seen that hack babble on the tube for a long time… Last I remember drumpf didn’t like DeGenerate..

    Prolly insisted on munee up front..

  61. 61

    @49 “The aerial bombardment of Laxalt begins in two weeks.”

    Carpet bombing or laser guided?

  64. 64

    She’s kind of a chickenshit

    Fox News has Hobbs +3

    We’ll see soon enough whether or not a batshit insane fascist suck-up to Trump can beat a courageous leader and defender of democracy who has a triple digit IQ.

  65. 65

    This is what happens when taxpayers learn that their taxdollars are being used to aid the educations of the children of dumb twats like YLB.

    The share of the electorate who identifies as “very liberal,” “liberal” or “somewhat liberal” on a seven-point scale has dropped over the past five years, from 34% to 27%, according to extensive annual Morning Consult survey research conducted among more than 8.6 million U.S. voters since 2017.

  66. 66

    @65 Delusional take on things. It’s not like the middle is flocking to fascism. There must be something about fascist authoritarianism that democracy-loving Americans in the middle just don’t cotton to and likely never will.

    We know what you’re voting for, you fascist POS traitor.

  67. 67

    When are we going to see GE and the butt stuff?

    Not to mention that this thread is sorely in need of at least a score of GRU-generated Pro-Putin hashtags.

  69. 69

    America Has Become Less Liberal, but Not Necessarily More Klownservatic…

    The data paints a crisp picture of asymmetrical polarization, as Democratic voters drifted toward the middle and Republican voters shifted further to the right.

    uhhh.. interesting the effect klownservatic “butt stuff” has on the repukes… increases their “buttness”.. we see it here every day with our pet degenerate troll.

  70. 70

    Louisiana’s GOP attorney general, Jeff Landry, blocked flood control money to New Orleans because the city council passed a non-binding resolution asking local law enforcers to not enforce the state’s abortion ban.

    “The officials in New Orleans took an oath of office to support and enforce the laws of our State, yet they have decided that some laws are not worthy of enforcement,” he said.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/us/louisiana-delay-flood-funding-city-abortion-stance/index.html

    This is the same Jeff Landry who refused to enforce his state’s mask mandate, closure of bars, and 50-person gathering limit.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/us/louisiana-delay-flood-funding-city-abortion-stance/index.html

    We are going to see much more of this speechmaking about “enforcing laws” by Republican hypocrites who won’t honor election results, enforce gun safety laws, or comply with Covid mandates.

  73. 73

    She’s kind of a chickenshit.

    In just over one year’s time the presumptive 2024 nominees will command the RNC to exclude Rep. Liz Cheney from the GOP primary debates.

    A few months later Degen will vote for him again.

    How chickensht is that?

  74. 74

    Fat Midget is preparing to order his state’s CPS to investigate parents who accompany their children to public entertainment events featuring gay or trans performers or depicting gay or trans lives. Apparently there has arisen an organized cottage industry of Karen’s “reporting” neighbors and relatives as “groomers” because they took their kids to see tick, tick… BOOM!

    Mind you now, Fat Midget isn’t proposing to spend one single penny more on protecting Florida children from actual abuse.
    Matt Gaetz is said to have been very pleased by the move.

  75. 75

    Another “midget”, Mitch Daniels, interviewed for Politico:

    Wren: This isn’t a political question because you’ve said you don’t answer those, but a biological one. Is 80 too old to be the president of the United States?

    Daniels: I think it probably is. I haven’t been 80, so I can’t say for sure. I know there are people who think it is a very iffy thing. You know, the first president I worked for, Ronald Reagan, his detractors told him he was too old at 69.

    It’s too old for at least one guy.

  77. 77

    @70. If republicans overrule democracy (or try to) whenever republicans get results republicans don’t like, is it even a democracy anymore?
    If republicans don’t like Americans not upholding their laws, stop giving examples to copy.

    Recently Kansas people voted to keep abortion *LEGAL. Now republicans are trying to fight the results.

    The republican West Virginia Governor heard about this and now refuses to make the issue a referendum up to the people of that state.

    South Dakota voters passed a referendum that tightened campaign finance laws. It was mostly passed by low income Black and Indigenous people of color. The republican legislature overruled them.

    Florida voters passed a law allowing medicinal cannabis. The republican state legislature essentially tried to overrule that and made smoking medicinal cannabis illegal.

    Maine voters passed a measure to expand Medicaid. The republican Governor simply refused to implement it even after ordered by a court to do so.

    Missouri voters passed a statewide referendum to expand Medicare. The republican legislators refused to fund it.

    Arizona voters passed an initiative in 2015 to form an independent redistricting commission (to prevent gerrymandering) and the Republican legislature attempted to overrule it. The US Supreme court stepped in and made the republicans follow the law.

    Republican Governor of Maine Paul Lepaige again tried to overrule voters, who this time approved rank choice voting

    Republican Arizona legislature overruled the will of voters to increase minimum wage.

    I can provide links if you don’t believe me.

  78. 78

    Ignoring the Voters: Alabama commission dissolves judicial seat won by Black woman
    https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/08/19/ignoring-voters-alabama-commission-dissolves-judicial-seat-won-black-woman
    “Hudson was on track to be the first public defender to serve as a judge on the Jefferson County circuit court, and the first Black woman with a background as a public defender to serve on the bench anywhere in Alabama.”

    Rather than have a black female judge, republicans redistricted that jurisdiction, giving control to a majority-white judgeship in the next county.

  79. 79

    3rd resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election
    https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/19/3rd-resident-of-the-villages-admits-to-voting-twice-in-the-2020-election

    I suspect that those 20 people who Desantis announced as voter fraud violators a couple days ago will not receive the same lenient treatment for attempting to vote just one time. They were all felons who all probably misunderstood that they are not allowed to vote once by state law, but they didn’t vote twice and everybody knows that’s wrong.

    Republicans hunt minorities and ignores republicans in their hoped for Republican Apartheid State. Lets work to make it not happen.

  80. 80

    Is 80 too old to be the president of the United States?

    Donald J. Trump will turn 80 seventeen months after the next inauguration day.

    This is a laptop.

  83. 83

    Out of fairness I think it would be reasonable to exclude Rep. Cheney from some or all of the 2024 GOP primary debates based upon some rationally related criterion that is applied to all prospective candidates.

    But we all know that ain’t what’s going to happen.

    I don’t even think the GOP will bother to be deceptive about it. Which candidates are allowed onto the state party primary ballots is up to the party. So the word can simply go out from the private sex club in Florida to all the state party orgs and Cheney will be out. But there are other ways it could be accomplished. They could make a rule that the nominee may not have been born in the same state as the nominating convention, for example. I would not, however, suggest any physical tests. I think Cheney is probably taller than Fat Midget and she’s almost certainly stronger than Trump.

  84. 84

    …watching the gap between an intelligent leftist on HA and Tulsi Gabbard grow narrower with each passing day.

    Democrats have grown increasingly more moderate while Republicans have grown increasingly violent, irrational, authoritarian, and politically extreme.

    What’s even more “fun” is seeing the alt-Wrong GOP face-raking themselves on “controversial” culture wars “wedge issues” that became “moderate” and “bipartisan” while they were too busy building pipe-bombs to notice.

  86. 86

    What it all amounts to is 87,000 MORE government employees on the payroll, voting for Democrats out of gratitude for those nice government jobs with nice salaries and benefit packages.

  87. 87

    What it all amounts to is…

    …more losing for turds like you.

    TFW the normal processes of an orderly and rational society result in your humiliation and defeat.

  88. 88

    Hey idiot @86, my brother whom is fond of The FuckHump and the repuke party who works for State government is really happy too. He was unemployed many times throughout his life, and he looks forward to taking FMLA to stay home and work in the backyard or go fishing.

    Im sure he’s the exception of your rule (sarcasm), but always thought he was a Democrat up-to The FuckHumpster era. Funny how things evolve.

    Im probably more conservative than my brother, the former pot smoking Greatful Dead head.

  89. 89

    87,000 MORE government employees

    tasked to chasing down tax cheats so the budget can be better balanced. Consider the following:

    The number of IRS revenue agents is down by 43% since 2010 due to budget cuts. Fewer agents means fewer audits.

    Even though the number of taxpayers reporting over $1 million has doubled in the past eight years, audits of millionaires have fallen to just 25% of their previous number. Fewer than 2% of taxpayers reporting over $1 million are audited.

    IRS audits of millionaires recovered $4.8 billion in 2012, but only $1.2 billion in 2020.

    Eight years ago, nearly all companies reporting more than $20 billion in assets were audited, which recovered $10 billion in unreported taxes. In 2020, only a third of those companies were audited, recovering only $4.1 billion.

    Just 533 cases were prosecuted for tax crimes in court in 2020—the lowest on record.

    https://news.syr.edu/blog/2021/04/27/irs-budget-cuts-cost-us-government-billions-in-tax-revenue-each-year/

    I saw one video on youtube that blamed Obama in part for that but repukes controlled the Congress for most of his term. Congress has the power of the purse.

    Nothing wrong with having more rich people in this country. They just shouldn’t cheat on their taxes.

  90. 90

    They were right. Liberal tolerance resulted in the death of Seattle.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/downtown-seattle-tourism-nearing-pre-pandemic-levels/281-11504ad6-f004-4373-8599-9c280c596351

    It’s all gone now. Just completely gone. Where entire city blocks were not leveled by arson and vandalism they have been overrun by slow zombie mobs of homeless gimmee-gimmees eating their welfare lobster rolls and openly masturbating to porn on their Obama-phones. The Space Needle has fallen. The CHOP zone has now expanded to cover the entire city south of the ship canal, and walls are going up around the stadium area to protect the sports fans traveling in from the adjacent suburbs. The outnumbered occupying army of SPD only rarely venture out of their fortified compounds. And when they do it is in fast moving convoys of highly armored MRAP type troop carriers with orders to stop for nothing and to shoot anything that impedes their movements. The sounds of automatic gunfire are continuous in the midst of an acrid haze of eye-burning smoke from all the burning tire barricades set up by the ANTIFA rulers who gaze down from the Belltown penthouses where they squat and deal drugs.

    https://youtu.be/XvuM3DjvYf0?t=74

  91. 91

    Interesting election strategy by the GQP this year, stoking their voters to threaten the lives of RINOs. election workers, school board members, judges, doctors, nurses, patients, lawmakers, law enforcement and educators. Oh, and to kill their families as well, even 5-month old babies.

    All while proclaiming that they’re the ones who are pro-life.

  92. 92

    The sounds of automatic gunfire are continuous in the midst of an acrid haze of eye-burning smoke from all the burning tire barricades set up by the ANTIFA rulers who gaze down from the Belltown penthouses where they squat and deal drugs.

    Seattle is that much closer to PDX the epicenter of lord kreepshit’s most paralyzing fears..

    It claims that its greed compels it to bilk marks at a pricey downtown Seattle steak house but after the spencers are scarfed and the bourbon is downed, it is so addled by spasms of fear it can never find “NEMO’S”…

  93. 93

    @90

    Spent almost all of yesterday in from the suburbs at Seattle Center, walked to the market, walked up to Monorail Espresso and light rail up to Capital hill.

    Homeless people viewed, 14

    Additional possible homeless lacking obvious context clues, 13

    Drug Deals witnessed – 0

    Drug use witnessed, not including ‘normies’ using weed near the fountain or at sidewalk tables in Belltown – 1 (4 including ‘normies’)

    Violent behavior witnessed – 0

    Public Urniation/Defication witnessed – 0

    People shouting random shit on a street corner not including the Evangelicals with the screechy megaphones, 1 (including the Evangelicals, 5)

    Sketchy shit near the 3rd/Pike bus, definitely but no more so than any other time in 20 years.

    The folks at ‘Safe Seattle’ and ‘Next Door’ paint a picture that you are literally likely to be killed or assaulted in the downtown core and you are DEFINITELTY going to step on a needle or some human waste. General longstanding Urban rules apply. Stay at about Defcon 4, elevate to 3 in some parts of town, carry on about your business.

  94. 94

    Why right-wing sites like Fox News love liberal defectors like Tulsi Gabbard
    Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and Andrew Yang may represent a new partisan vanguard. But unlike many never-Trumpers, these reformed Democrats are damaged messengers.
    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fox-news-tucker-carlson-loves-tulsi-gabbard-elon-musk-n1298057

    While guest hosting, Gabbard told the Fox News audience that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tactics have “all hallmarks of a dictatorship.” She also accused Biden of wanting to bring “about a ‘new world order.’” Gabbard has, in other words, morphed into a kind of (sort of) never-Democrat.

    We are not the only ones who are seeing the fake democrats like her, rise in red media.

  95. 95

    You’d do well to have more Democrats like Tulsi and a lot less Democrats like Bernie Sanders.

  96. 96

    In Texas, resentment builds as border crackdown ensnares local drivers
    NBC News data analysis shows big jumps in citations in Latino-heavy border counties where troops have been deployed.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-lone-star-latinos-citations-border-abbott-rcna42022
    >> The greedy racist incel crows about Latinx republican voters in texas. I’m sure this will have convert hearts and minds.
    “Vote for republican, no abortion, no gays, and we will harass you a whole lot more for living in our white state while brown. It’s a fair tradeoff”

  99. 99

    Those Neanderthal Heteros on Faux News really are a bunch of nutjobs.

    You’d think they’d put a Log Cabin freak on as a token so that they could cloak the failings of their sexual orientation

  100. 100

    Those Neanderthal Heteros on Faux News really are a bunch of nutjobs.

    You’d think they’d put a Log Cabin freak on as a token so that they could cloak the failings of their sexual orientation

  101. 101

    93)I have few problems myself when on LINK. Well for the next two weeks, may ride it sparingly. Tge 20 minute headways. I take the 48 if I miss LINK,, both go to U-District station where I catch my connecting crosstown bus. Nobody bothered me when I went to return a few books to the Library., went to the central branch. First time I’ve checked out books since daily fines were abolished. I was against that, even though I paid a lot. The SPL actually outsourced collection of outstanding fines to a collection agency. May still do that, for the replacement fees for books kept one month passed the due date.

    I stopped to use the Chase ATM at Uwajamaya(thought the library charged for replacement cards), and they were busy.

  103. 103

    Who said this now?

    Many believe that trading for hostages makes bad policy. It encourages America’s enemies to take more Americans as prisoners.

    “Look, I don’t agree with that premise. You can’t be lily-white and lily-perfect. It’s going to take something,” *soandso* retorts. “We have to stand by our Americans. We can’t leave Americans behind, and there’s often a price to pay.”

    https://www.abajournal.com/columns/article/bad-people-like-him-an-interview-with-master-negotiator-bill-richardson/

    Oh one of lord kreepshit’s favorite Dems said that – Bill Richardson..

    If Richardson stood by Bowe Bergdahl, would kreepshit sing a different tune? or just parrot the same old horseshit spewed by its beloved always wrong wing liars?

  104. 104

    @75 Why be so vague? Why not just say “anyone born before June 14, 1946, is too old to be president”?

    @76 Next question: Should candidates be precluded from participating in debates from prison cells?

  107. 107

    @94 She also accused Biden of wanting to bring “about a ‘new world order.’”

    Well at least a different one than her pal Putin is working on.

    @95 You’ve got to be kidding. The Bernie part I can maybe understand, but the FBI would do well to keep Tulsi under surveillance.

  108. 108

    I think we’re going to see extremely aggressive efforts by Republicans to enforce abortion bans. DeSantis removed an elected prosecuting attorney for simply saying he wouldn’t enforce an abortion ban, and Louisiana’s attorney general blocked New Orleans flood prevention funding because the city council passed a non-binding resolution asking law enforcers to not enforce that state’s abortion ban. When Republicans do stuff like this, anyone who thinks they’ll only go after abortion providers, and not women and girls who have abortions, is dreaming. I think we’re going to see a great deal of thuggery by Republican zealots who see themselves as fighting an uphill battle to impose their will on a country where two-thirds of the public supports abortion rights. If they get control of Congress, I won’t be surprised to see them condition all sorts of federal funding on state abortion ban compliance and other coercive actions.

  111. 111

    @110 Accepting a speaking invitation at CPAC probably ensured that nobody will consider her a “Democrat” again. At least no Democrats. It’s hard to say what constituency she represents, besides Putin and Assad, so she probably doesn’t have a political career ahead of her.

    Maybe she can become Doctor Dumbfuck’s love interest after he tires of the horse (or the horse tires of him). He seems interested in her.

  112. 112

    @110 What’s “so crazy” about our “ilk”? Giving Native Americans their land back? Feeding all the salmon (what’s left) to the Orcas? Keeping you from cutting down the last tree? Making you run your car with electricity? Handing your ilk over to black criminal gangs? Taxing you for your indigent little sister’s abortion after you and your buddies gang-raped her? Be specific.

  115. 115

    Since Rudes has already been disbarred, and probably will go to jail, he has nothing to lose professionally by turning states’ evidence against the former client who stiffed him on $2.5 million of legal work.

  116. 116

    If you didn’t know better, you might think the FBI raided DeSantis’ house and found chained-up children in the basement:

    “The polling shows, a Politico/Morning Consult poll shows he increased his punitive or potential lead over [Ron] DeSantis, Florida governor DeSantis, his closest potential rival, by 10 points. There was a private poll he was shown, which was shared with us, in a Florida congressional race. Before the raid, Donald Trump was tied with DeSantis, 38/37 in a crowded primary. After the raid, Trump’s lead grew to 52 percent to 20 percent over DeSantis.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-crimes-2657895799/

  117. 117

    Given how Republican voters reward bad behavior, DeSantis would do better in the polls if there actually were chained up black and brown girls found in his basement.

  118. 118

    95,
    A Republican believes Democrats would “do well” to choose a candidate who gets far fewer votes.

    Also believes the 2020 election was “stolen”, bleach cures COVID, and Matt Gaetz would make a wonderful girl’s swim coach.

  119. 119

    …if there actually were chained up black and brown girls found in his basement

    You mean there aren’t?

    What? Does he think he’s better than the rest of them?

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