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[Huntn]

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.

www.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Some of the US’s most profitable corporations, including General Motors, Citigroup, and Netflix, have slashed their tax bills in the years since the passage of the Trump tax cuts, with nearly a quarter paying rates in the single digits and 23 paying nothing, a report has found.

The 2017 law cut the top corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. But the new assessment of corporate tax avoidance, published today by the non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (Itep), found that during the first five years the law was in effect, many profitable public companies in the US paid a far lower rate in practice.

Together, the 342 corporations studied by Itep paid an average effective tax rate of just 14.1%. Eighty six companies paid an average of less than 10%; 55 of those firms paid less than 5%; and 23 corporations, including T-Mobile US and Xcel Energy, paid zero (or less) federal income tax over the five-year period – even though they made a profit each year.


Among the lowest taxpayers were companies including Netflix and Nike, as well as several corporations whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility and “stakeholder capitalism”, such as Salesforce and Bank of America.

In the five years since the Trump tax law took effect, “the biggest and most profitable companies don’t appear to be paying anywhere close to that 21% rate”, said Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at Itep and the lead author of the report. “What Trump described as a big tax cut turned out to be just that.”……

Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report

Among lowest taxpayers were companies whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility

www.theguardian.com

 

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In the five years since the Trump tax law took effect, “the biggest and most profitable companies don’t appear to be paying anywhere close to that 21% rate”, said Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at Itep and the lead author of the report. “What Trump described as a big tax cut turned out to be just that.”……

and as we have seen they still lay off employees and cut costs. Because it's all about growth and profit and screw product and employees.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Dear Leader doing business as usual.

 

[Taurus]

and as we have seen they still lay off employees and cut costs. Because it's all about growth and profit and screw product and employees.

We really, and I mean as an existential necessity, really need to redefine what a corporation is, what it's for and what rights it has...once and for all. Because this piecemeal one-case-at-a-time thing we've been doing is a freakin' disaster for us meat beings.

 

[fooferdoggie]

We really, and I mean as an existential necessity, really need to redefine what a corporation is, what it's for and what rights it has...once and for all. Because this piecemeal one-case-at-a-time thing we've been doing is a freakin' disaster for us meat beings.

I cant imagine that happening. constant growth is impossible but its the most important thing.

 

[Taurus]

I cant imagine that happening. constant growth is impossible but its the most important thing.

It's not just the fallacy of infinite growth. It's the practical ways in which corporate people are treated as superior to physical people.

Not to mention how we're going to have to rigidly and fully define "people", both fictitious and real to AI since it won't intrinsically know the difference. And the way it is now, HAL will absolutely think of us as second-class creatures.

 

[LA - L.A.]

It's not just the fallacy of infinite growth. It's the practical ways in which corporate people are treated as superior to physical people.

Not to mention how we're going to have to rigidly and fully define "people", both fictitious and real to AI since it won't intrinsically know the difference. And the way it is now, HAL will absolutely think of us as second-class creatures.

The law behind incorporating is a way for real flesh and blood people to avoid personal accountability for anything wrong that that they have their flesh and blood employees do or that they allow their flesh and blood employees to do.

People can exists without corporations, corporations can not exist without people, so it's insane that we defer to corporate rights over human rights.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Trump Media cofounders accuse Trump of cutting them out of Truth Social shares

United Atlantic Ventures alleges that Trump Media & Technology Group engaged in ‘wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering’ to dilute UAV’s minority stake in the media company

www.independent.co.uk

 

[fooferdoggie]

Trump Media cofounders accuse Trump of cutting them out of Truth Social shares

United Atlantic Ventures alleges that Trump Media & Technology Group engaged in ‘wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering’ to dilute UAV’s minority stake in the media company

www.independent.co.uk

these guys were ones trump kicked out of his tv show. Anyone stupid enough to do business with trump in the last several years deserve what they get.

 

[MT15]

I haven’t had a chance to read up on it - but am seeing people speculating that what Trump did amounts to fraud (again) and that the SEC should be investigating it.

 

[Huntn]

The law behind incorporating is a way for real flesh and blood people to avoid personal accountability for anything wrong that that they have their flesh and blood employees do or that they allow their flesh and blood employees to do.

People can exists without corporations, corporations can not exist without people, so it's insane that we defer to corporate rights over human rights.

Drum roll… SCOTUS and Citizens United.

 

[Taurus]

Drum roll… SCOTUS and Citizens United.

It's been going on since before then, though.

Corporations are immortal. They have no morality, the concept doesn't apply to them. They can be any race or none. The can exist in multiple places simultaneously and choose the most advantageous one for any given situation. Somehow, they have religious beliefs and the protections afforded them. That's before the ruling that they can spend infinite amounts to influence elections.

The list goes on, but the upshot is that US law treats corporations as so much better, so superior to us meatbags it's not even funny.

 

[fooferdoggie]

I haven’t had a chance to read up on it - but am seeing people speculating that what Trump did amounts to fraud (again) and that the SEC should be investigating it.

everything trump does is illegal. the man is a walking scammer.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Greg Abbott, the hard-right governor of Texas, is “absolutely” on Donald Trump’s shortlist for vice-president should Trump as expected win the Republican nomination to face Joe Biden.

Calling Abbott a “spectacular man”, Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox News the three-term governor, an anti-immigration extremist, had “done a great job”, adding: “Yeah, certainly he would be somebody that I would very much consider.”

“So he’s on the list?” Hannity said.


“Absolutely, he is,” Trump said, as Abbott listened.

Abbott has engineered showdowns with Democratic authorities, sending undocumented migrants to Democratic-run cities, and with the federal government, blocking border patrol access to the Rio Grande river at a common crossing point for migrants, then refusing to comply with orders to back off.

“He really stepped it up,” Trump said of Abbott on Thursday, during a visit to the spot in question, a park in Eagle Pass, part of a Texas trip the same day Biden visited the border elsewhere.

Abbott, Trump said, had “been amazing”.

Abbott, however, told CNN last week “there’s so many people other than myself who are best situated” to be Trump’s running mate, adding that he would help Trump pick. On Wednesday, Abbott told CBS he intended to run for a fourth term in Texas.…..

Trump says Texas governor Greg Abbott ‘absolutely’ on vice-president shortlist

Ex-president tells Sean Hannity that three-term, anti-immigration extremist governor of Texas had ‘done a great job’

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

There’s no list, there is just Trump spouting off nonsense like he always does.

 

[Optimus Prime]

……..Rallygoers wait all day to see him. Supporters dismiss video evidence of his inconsistencies and echo his grievances and falsehoods. Competitors have long written off as much as a third of the GOP electorate as set on Trump and utterly unpersuadable.

A majority of Republicans believe Trump’s disproven claims that he actually beat Joe Biden in 2020, and in interviews, some Trump supporters appeared unwilling to accept a loss in 2024. In Trump, many see a movement leader giving voice to their struggles and settling scores on their behalf.

That fealty to Trump has alarmed some in the GOP and beyond. Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that, amid sinking trust in democratic institutions, millions of Americans believe “the use of force” is justified to prevent Trump’s prosecution and to return him to the White House.

Such “radical” support for Trump is on the rise, said political science professor Robert Pape, who directs the group behind the surveys. Many people who study political violence are worried about a 2024 repeat of the kind of chaos that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in outrage over Trump’s loss.

“What we have and what we can measure is the raw kindling that is combustible,” Pape said. “What we can’t predict are the matches that political leaders can throw on that kindling.”…..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/21/trump-supporters-republicans-presidential/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Project much?

Accuse them of doing what you’re doing
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GREENSBORO, North Carolina (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday further escalated his immigration rhetoric and baselessly accused President Joe Biden of waging a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America” as he campaigned ahead of Super Tuesday’s primaries.

Trump has a long history of trying to turn attack lines back on his rivals in an attempt to diminish their impact. Biden has cast Trump as a threat to democracy, pointing to the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Those efforts culminated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as his supporters tried to halt the peaceful transition of power.

Trump, who has responded by calling Biden “the real threat to democracy” and alleged without proof that Biden is responsible for the indictments he faces, turned to Biden’s border policies on Saturday, charging that “every day Joe Biden is giving aid and comfort to foreign enemies of the United States.”…….

Trump escalates his immigration rhetoric with baseless claim about Biden trying to overthrow the US

Former President Donald Trump has further escalated his immigration rhetoric, baselessly accusing President Joe Biden of waging a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America” at the border as he campaigned ahead of next week’s Super Tuesday contests.

apnews.com

 

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