US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror"

xp yeah i agree with you aimless. that's a warren quote from the hayes show today. i could only think "i think if there is one, i don't think this one should be one," but mainly because i see trump and his bros as actually v dangerous tho clownlike.

Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” ......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019

....you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019

'yeah i committed tax fraud but everyone was doing it and anyway the story is all lies kthxbye'

It was sport? That seems like an unfortunate phrase to throw in there.

"for tax purposes"

He seems like an unfortunate person to exist xp

Why would someone want to be president of the government they disdain paying taxes to? Stupid

Because the scope of his thinking is limited to 'guess I'll take me another bite of that there sammich'.

Did anyone actually listen to McConnell’s recent senate speech (the “case closed” one)?

The way he actually speaks the words is incredibly evil. Mitch McConnell is an evil fuck. “They’re grieving. (Long pause). They’re grieving.” he says, describing the democrats

, which would, if one was actively building,

Just listened to The Daily segment on the taxes, recorded before trump’s tweets, and they asked about whether or not it was possible that all the losses were just a very clever accounting trick.

The reporters answered that it could be plausibly be an accounting trick if the losses were only in the low millions, but that the losses (in the billions) were orders of magnitude larger and could only be the result of real, massive losses of money

I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 11, 2017

you can tell how much his business was booming by the fact that he lost more money than any other US taxpayer

he keeps doing this but nothing ever happens so why not ?

Duh. You get more money from your dad.

I never understand why people are impoverished. You just ask dad for money, duh

Oh, you meant why he keeps telling everybody exactly how bad he sucks. He does that because his supporters don’t care how he got his money. I thought you meant why he kept going bankrupt throughout his life

Thing is, does it even matter anymore?

not convinced it would ever have mattered tbh

Uber and lyft lost similar amounts of money last year.

Thing is, does it even matter anymore?

It doesn't seem to have brought Qualmsey back so I'm inclined to say no.

If he was losing the *most* money of *anyone* how did he not go under?

Fucking weird

It does sincerely matter to me to know exactly how much of a charlatan the president of my country is. The value of a piece of information is not tied to how much it affects someone's approval ratings IMO.

meanwhile, this morning as the house judiciary committee meets to hold barr in contempt, trump has asserted full executive privilege over the redacted mueller report

the case is so closed that they refuse to talk about it ever again

When given the chance to review the Mueller report before it was publicly released, the White House and the president’s lawyers declined to assert Executive Privilege over any part of it. Once publicly released, it lost any privileged character—the cat is out of the bag. https://t.co/SzcDYhcBNm

— Ted Boutrous (@BoutrousTed) May 8, 2019

just a continuity error

even if Trump is the world's shittiest businessman, how is it even possible to lose that much money in real estate in the 90s?

I think they’re fake numbers and he was cheating on his taxes

NO WAY!

To an extreme degree. Which he basically admitted to this morning

It's because he's smrat.

I've forwarded this theory before but I think for his most ardent fans, Trump has taken on the nature of a GTA avatar. People are living vicariously through his shittiness, watching him sink to depths they themselves could scarcely even imagine (the dude has pissed away more money than I'll see in a lifetime!) and getting away with every last bit of it. He's like a folk hero for people who see no value in life or society.

That can't be a majority of voters though, can it?

Can it?

he's got the support of the voters that really count (senate republicans)

hayooooooo! see what i did there

That can't be a majority of voters though, can it?

Can it?

― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie

It isn't.

here is what his tv friends think:

The hosts of “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday weighed in on a blockbuster New York Times article on Trump’s old tax returns — reporting that showed Trump lost $1 billion over the course of a decade.

The reaction on the Fox couch? Well, it actually makes Trump look good.

“They realize he’s a billionaire,”Ainsley Earhardt said of voters’ possible reaction to the story. “He was campaigning on the trail with his plane behind him that’s as big as a Delta jet, with his name on it. We can’t even fathom that kind of money. So I’m sure — if you have that kind of money you look at tax laws. You buy things to take a loss so that you make more the next year. But that’s not how most of us think.”

She added: “If anything, you read this and you’re like, wow, it’s pretty impressive all the things he has done in his life. It’s beyond what most of could ever achieve.”

He was campaigning on the trail with his plane behind him that’s as big as a Delta jet, with his name on it.

every time he campaigned with his jet behind him i thought it was the tackiest fucking thing possible, but i guess it's really impressive

most of us could never achieve the loss of so much, where would we not put it?

Pretty impressive losses!

Ainsley Earhardt on the NY Times story about Trump's $1 billion+ in business losses: "If anything, you read this and you're like 'wow, it's pretty impressive, all the things that he's done in his life.' It's beyond what most of us could ever achieve." pic.twitter.com/H4QQOWJewm

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019

fucking bazro world that show is ! it's transmitting from another dimension of hell

The dude on the far right (heh) looks like he ate too much cauliflower last night.

bizarro fuck

I mean...it literally is Bizarro World. They're recasting epic failure as monumental achievement. It's like being jealous of someone who stepped on a landmine because you're unlikely to ever lose quite that many limbs.

i can't even imagine being near a landmine. pretty amazing

let me see if i can make sense of this "bizarre" take:

- more money more problems
- haters gonna hate

have i missed anything?

- very old fake information

the Piers Morgan line of "he bounced back from this to become Prez, it's inspirational" will probably be the standard one from here on out

the Baltimore Orioles ought to hire some of these guys...."the fact that you even got 62 ABs to go hitless in is actually really impressive...most of us would've been benched"

bizarro fuck

trying not to take this personally

lol youre our bizarro fuck tho

*slowly and dramatically counts the number of fucks he gives*

...well actually, i do give one bizarro fuck