Trump's Taxes

I have a hard time seeing the Times story about Trump's taxes changing any minds. Jim Geraghty notes an unsurprising gap between Trump's rhetoric and behavior. More shoulder shrugging from Reason - active real estate investors get plenty of tax breaks.

Whatever. It saves the media from wondering why the FBI relied on a possible Russian agent for the FISA requests backed by the Steele dossier.

Interestingly, Mr. Danchenko co-authored a paper with Fiiona Hill, a star of the Trump Impeachment Show.

Ms. Hill went on to join President Trump’s National Security Council staff as a senior European specialist in 2017. She also testified at his House impeachment hearing. She said she believed Mr. Steele, with whom she once worked while he was a British intelligence officer, was played by Russian disinformation.

Steele, duped?

Comments

[Old Lurker]

RSE, OL cannot stand much more. He might get pessimistic.

:-)

[rse]

OL--

didn't want you to miss this aspect--

Prepared in collaboration with Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC

So basically the accounting firms one needs to employ to audit financials if you are a public company are all on board with reimagining the nature of capitalism.

[Melinda]

Pulled from elsewhere:

"They are using the mail sort machines to locate the "bad ballots" and dispose of them, that's the only way so many that had been mailed in could have ended up in the same dumpster."

[rse]

And not to annoy iggy who did such a fine job directing me on going south from mendocino on cph without incident, but notice that a key component of that paper is the "Principles of Governance" and how it ties to these government set goals, metrics, and data gathering vision for us.

[joan]

$200 - $800 ... when bad people are millionaires and billionaires?

[Melinda]

rse-

Like Nikola's Auditor, E&Y?

[peter]

My favorite Beatles is the BBC tracks that they recorded- mainly covers of American rock and roll and girl group stuff recorded before they came to America. I'm piano-oriented musically, so I could always relate better to the more McCartney influenced songs on the later albums, the two (Lennon and McC) definitely needed each other to round out the other's quirks. Heard the entire body of work- all albums - way too many times to truly enjoy them at this point.

[Old Lurker]

RSE, that is interesting.

In construction, we count on Architects to be "artists" and Engineers to trust nothing until they do the math.

In business, we count on CFO-MBA types to be creative, but the Auditors to 'trust nothing until they do the math". Ledgers had to balance to the penny and all the debits had to sum to all the credits.

Those firms you list have just cut their own throats in the long run.

[BeastsEngland]

Are we doing predictions for the Sullivan ruling this afternoon? Has there been any speculation that he may drop the case today because the media focus on the debate outcome will provide cover for his malfeasance?

I’m predicting that he won’t dismiss the case, because he’s a piece of shit.

[Old Lurker]

Beasts "... provide cover for his malfeasance?"

For people like him, malfeasance is a virtue.

[BeastsEngland]

And that’s why he’s a piece of shit, OL. :)

[Extraneus]

I'm predicting that if he doesn't drop the case, Barr will get Jensen to release more damning stuff about Sullivan's allies in the DoJ and Special Counsel's office, and maybe the White House.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/09/29/hes-finished-the-nyts-2nd-article-on-trumps-taxes-discovers-his-delicious-sources-of-income/

The NYT is upset that he got paid money for endorsements!

Mike McIntire
@mmcintire

OUR NEXT STORY: President Trump’s tax records show the millions he made off endorsement deals targeting vulnerable consumers, as he rode his Apprentice fame all the way to the White House w/@russbuettner @susannecraig
=======================================
Boy the hatred and envy just ooze out of this tweet. "Targeting vulnerable consumers" like those people who bought Double-Stuff Oreos! He got paid $500,000 for that endorsement!

Could someone point me to the article and/or tweet in which Bill Clinton was paid the EXACT SAME AMOUNT for a speaking engagement in Moscow?

[Melinda]

Beasts,

More "stuff" got filed for Sullivan, last night.

[BeastsEngland]

On a lighter note: Lennon was a much better songwriter when he had McCartney around as a soundboard. The opposite was true to some degree, but not as pronounced.

[Melinda]

John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
What if ... a presidential candidate can’t make it across the finish line? | Just The News justthenews.com/politics-polic…

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1310914736394035201

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

What type of "stuff"?

[Melinda]

Way too much to post, beyond the Strzok lawyer filings. I'll try and find a decent link.

[MissMarple2]

Heather Retweeted
TheLeoTerrell
@TheLeoTerrell
·
14h
Chris Wallace: As the moderator, you are required to be fair and impartial. I expect you to ask @JoeBiden the tough questions @CNN and @MSNBC refuse to ask. The media has been after @realDonaldTrump from Day One. Mr. Wallace, your reputation is on the line. @seanhannity
==================================
I am afraid Mr. Terrell is going to be disappointed. I hope a physician is nearby in case he needs assistance.

[Melinda]

Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
Okay, this is hilarious! Peter Strzok's attorney is telling Judge Sullivan that @SidneyPowell1 is violating a court order by filing these additional disclosures. 1/

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney
JUST IN: A lawyer for Peter STRZOK says some of the agent's notes recently made ublic by the FLYNN defense team "appear to have been altered," including with at least one handwritten notation that is incorrect >>>

https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1310717272894451712

Thread.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--endorsement deals targeting vulnerable consumers--

Presumably it won't make a bit of difference to NYT advertisers to know the NYT thinks they're predatory, blood sucking leeches, nor to their readers to know the NYT thinks they're hapless, helpless bumpkins.

[Porchlight]

MM, my mom saw the Beatles in 1965 at Comiskey Park.

I agree with all of you about the Beatles and post-Beatles.

The great thing about the Beatles is that all opinions are true. They contain multitudes.

[Captain Hate]

Some of the Horde are reporting Iowahawk disappeared from Twitter. The Drumpf curse FTW. Good riddance.

[Melinda]

Muse Scry
@MuseScry
Replying to @MuseScry @ThunderB and 2 others
What’s this🤔

https://twitter.com/MuseScry/status/1310902935728029701

Covington atty "colluding" with SCO.

[BeastsEngland]

Maybe Trump will bring Hunter’s baby mama and the new grandchild to the debate...

[Another Bob]

Yep CH, account is gone.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

<--And not to annoy iggy... --

You're going to have to try a lot harder than that. :)

[James D.]

If I were Trump, I absolutely would. I'd have them backstage and start my opening remarks with something like "Before we start, my opponent's grandchild is waiting in the green room, and he wants to know why grandpa Joe doesn't care about him."

[Porchlight]

Iowahawk had diminished his twittering almost entirely to car posts. He didn't enjoy the blowback on his wrong opinions re: Trump, I imagine.

He's taken breaks before but I don't think he's ever deleted his account.

It's also possible he was doxxed. I figured out his real name a long time ago so I'm not surprised if others did too.

[Melinda]

“Doesn’t want to sniff him.”

FIFY

[Porchlight]

The car posts were fun, though. People sent him family snapshots and he tried to ID the car. Seemed successful at most of them too although how would I know.

[hrtshpdbox]

The great thing about the Beatles is that all opinions are true.

Wait, so Paul is dead?

[Captain Hate]

My husband says a favorite twitter guy has been disappeared -> iowahawkblog. Happened overnight.
Posted by: Liz at September 29, 2020 09:08 AM (Wv/W7)

That asshole went full retard over Drumpf. Good riddance.
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 29, 2020 09:11 AM (y7DUB)

just checked - looks like his twitter account is closed and all of his past tweets are erased. Interesting. He went full retard when he moved from Iowa from Austin to take a new job, and he had to adopt a liberal persona to keep his new social group happy. Another one with some intellectual wit but no deep convictions at all, who sold out just because his new friends expected him to.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2020 09:16 AM (V2Yro)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Thanks for the link to that book, Mel.
Looks almost interesting enough to buy.
Wall Street has become a drag on the economy second only to the government and since they're darn near a single entity anymore I'm not sure they aren't the same drag.

[Jane]

OL,

Regardless of the outcome of the election, Tucker is very very worried about the direction of the country. Has nothing to do wit Trump, but he can only last so long. 9not his words, mine). His final guest - long after I plunged into the abyss - was a Democrat Russian professor - who was concerned as hell that the democrats are marching to communism.

No one is trying to stop it.

Might be time to look at an island.

[Momto2]

It's 61 degrees and overcast here this morning. It feels like sweater-weather. I'm off to discuss Faulkner's "The Bear" with my students.

This might be a good line for the President ~ Kambree
@KamVTV
This made me laugh: Joe Biden is like a mechanic who has worked on your car for 47 years, and now he tells you he just needs four more years to fix it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Try applying the offensive concept of "stakeholders" to your own life.
Should the merchants you frequent, your neighbors, contractors and services you hire, local government and some guy walking his dog past your house have a say in or veto power over the decisions you make about your life?

[Jane]

Beasts, I think I read yesterday, Sullivan is prohibiting thr new evidence from Powell. Clarice would know,

[Melinda]

Ig-

Library ordering is all that your time for that is worth. I'd lend you my copy, but I want Sal to sign it.

[Porchlight]

Thanks for those Horde comments Cap'n. One correction to Tom Servo, Iowahawk moved to Austin from suburban Chicago, not Iowa.

[Melinda]

Brit PM has nominated JoeMEntia for Nobel Prize.

The Hill
@thehill
JUST IN: British Member of Parliament nominates Biden for a Nobel Peace Prize hill.cm/ncpfW8v

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1310930602099703809

[Melinda]

And in today's TWTR Humor column goes to she of the thin skin:

Republic Semper
@RepublicSemper
Our classy @RashidaTlaib doesn’t like the photo of her with Ernest Borgnine. Whoever’s doing this, just stop.

https://twitter.com/RepublicSemper/status/1310904801723588608

[Marlene]

Good Morning! Tucker mentioned the passing of Stephen Cohen at the end of his show last night. He (Cohen) was married to Katrina vanden Heuvel. I get the feeling that Tucker wants to live full time at his Maine cabin and he's waiting for the right moment.
I watched Maria B and Donna Brazile earlier and listening to Brazile, one of Joe's forced-fed lines tonight will be going after Hunter will be a *personal* attack. Maria rolled her eyes and said, huh,flying on AF2 on government business doesn't sound *personal*.

[Porchlight]

Someone posted that Salena Zito article from WashEx upthread. Turns out it's her birthday today. Timely. Happy birthday to a great reporter.

She was one of the first folks to feel the Trump rumblings in PA and took a lot of heat for it. She was accused of making it up.

[Melinda]

Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
EXCLUSIVE: Hospitalized Brad Parscale 'is under investigation for stealing up to $40M from Trump's campaign' trib.al/Ow03V35

https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1310926342628798467

Invoking 24 hour rule, I'll wait....

[Captain Hate]

Interesting that the blurb for the book says everything went to hell with the 2007 regulatory reform. Another gift from GWB.

[peter]

Porch @ 9:15, I'm sure you mean Kaminsky Field--that's where Obama saw the White Sox

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2010-04-12-bs-ed-reimer-obama-and-baseball-20100409-column-story.html

[Captain Hate]

Tlaib is as dumb as every other fatassed pali whore by illustrating her inexplicable vanity. Way to draw a target on your oversized caboose.

[Melinda]

Intelligencer
@intelligencer
Here's what to do in New York City if you received a mislabeled envelope with your absentee ballot: twitter.com/BOENYC/status/…

https://twitter.com/intelligencer/status/1310941811591049218

[peter]

I was going to write my prediction of tonight's debate outcome, but what the hell do I know. One thing I have noticed, I am not nearly so worn out by this election as I was in 2016, but there's a lot of October to go.

[Melinda]

CH-

H. Paulsen.

[Old Lurker]

Hrts "Wait, so Paul is dead?"

I tried and tried but could never play the CD backwards.

[jimmyk]

What book did Mel link? I missed it.

TK:Hopefully they are encouraging your dad to lay on his belly if possible.

Thanks. They are aware of positioning, as his O2 goes down when he's on his side. Not sure if they've tried that, will check.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Oh man, that pic of Tlaib next to Ernie Borgnine is almost as funny as her guaranteeing it will grow like a prairie grassfire by reacting to it.

[clarice]

Jane, I didn't see that. I don't see how the Judge could do that. The DOJ provided these documents as newly obtained under a continuing obligation to provide such things and certainly both DOJ and Flynn can refer to them. You may have been thinking about the large number of things in those documents the Judge has redacted .

[Porchlight]

LOL

majorpribluda 2 point 22 minutes ago +2 / -0

Meghan McCain is the poor man's Meghan McCain.

[Porchlight]

peter, heh. I'd forgotten that one. Candidate Obama was really quite bad, too bad the media hypnotized the voters.

[Captain Hate]

It makes me angry to think the GOP (uniparty) went
along with it. No one fought back. Ever. And why? because intl agencies
had dirt on everyone and had their own agenda and were behind the
election wins?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 29, 2020 09:26 AM (rjE57)

I don't even think that blackmail would be necessary. How many of the GOP (uniparty) establishment would go along with the results of a tainted election - simply to preserve the integrity of a tainted electoral process ?

This type of circular thinking is why a corrupt FBI is still defended - even by those that know of it's corruption. The same can be said for countless other agencies, systems, and institutions. People come to love the existence of an entity - even while the entity works against them.

Posted by: English Lycanthrope at September 29, 2020 09:31 AM (+hNEM

In case it's not obvious, I'm 100% committed to the dismantling of the FBI in the next four years.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

To whoever asked above Azerbaijan, is a predominately Muslim country that borders Armenia a predominately Orthodox Christian country squeezed between Azerbaijan on the east and the implacable Turks on tgheir West who of course have their own disgraceful history with Armenia. Inside Azerbaijan is the enclave of mostly Orthodox Armenians known as Nagorno-Karabakh[sp?].
There was a referendum around the time the USSR broke up and NK voted to unite with Armenia. A war was subsequently fought until the mid 90s which resolved essentially nothing.
I have a couple of friends who have been missionaries for years in Azerbaijan and who have raised their several kids there. I'll have to email them and see what their situation is.

[Old Lurker]

Thanks Jane. That, as you know well, is pretty much my take and has been for years now.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This book, jimmy.

[hrtshpdbox]

OL, to experience all of the mystical and mysterious Beatles secret messages, you'd need a player with a jog wheel.

https://www.amazon.com/Gemini-CDM-4000-Professional-Console-Anti-Shock/dp/B00HZA6EEY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=cd+jog+wheel&qid=1601388835&sr=8-1

[jimmyk]

Thanks, Iggy.

[Old Lurker]

:-) Hrts.

I need to go clubbing more often.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

My friend notes Azerbaijan is largely nominally muslim and it is a mostly secular-cultural islam, but the government is authoritarian and incredibly corrupt.

[jimmyk]

New Neo linked a piece yesterday on Trump's taxes that looked like fun, but I just get "Database Connection Error when I try to get to the site. Anyone else able to get it?

https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/09/28/no-you-idiots-thats-not-how-taxes-work-an-accountants-guide-to-why-you-are-a-gullible-moron/

[hrtshpdbox]

Tonight, how many times do we see Trump clearly po'd at Wallace? How many times does Trump correct Wallace's corrections? How many times does Trump roll eyes, sigh, or audibly laugh while Biden is talking? How many times does Biden lose the thread, answer a question he wasn't asked, say something indecipherable, insult entire ethnic/gender groups, or visibly exhibit hostility to Trump and/or Wallace?

[Dave (in MA)]

@RashidaTlaib doesn’t like the photo of her with Ernest Borgnine.

Never noticed the resemblance.

Now I can't not notice.

[GUS]

Has our gracious host expressed any disdain as to the NYT SLIMES publishing cherry picked crap that was illicitly obtained, or is that ok, so long as it harms TRUMP. Has this illegally obtained information shown any criminal activity or do the owners of the SLIMES have intentions of sharing their personal tax returns. It seems our gracious host has situational virtue. He could volunteer his tax returns to show his virtue.

[Old Lurker]

Anybody who is going to decide for whom to vote based on the "debates" should not be allowed to vote, period.

[GUS]

Here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul.

[GUS]

OL, a FEDERAL JUDGE in WISCONSIN, just ruled that everyone who watches the debate tonight, gets an extra 10 days to get their fraudulent ballot(s) to the CITY of MADISON.

[Jane]

OL,

Time for a revolution. Too bad we are all so damn old!

Clarice, my short term memory is toast, so who knows what I saw. Is the hearing today at 11? (Can someone remind me at 5 of? - just kidding - sort of)

[Buckeye]

In case it's not obvious, I'm 100% committed to the dismantling of the FBI in the next four years.

Roger that, CH.

If Trump wins and doesn’t go full Attila the Hun, I’m gonna be seriously pissed off.

[MissMarple2]

Well, I was on the phone with my local friend and then my former neighbor, the federal marshal, texted me to see if I was ready for debate watching.

She hadn't seen that Dan Crenshaw ad Texas Reloaded yet and was amazed.

She and her husband (a policeman) are Trump supporters and I am pleased to say are more enthusiastic than they were in 2016.

[Neo]

The Union of Catholic Asian News (UCA News) reported last week that a textbook produced for vocational students by the Chinese University of Electronic Science and Technology Press changed the ending of the famous Gospel story.

As in the original, the crowd cites law as their justification for stoning an adulteress to death. Jesus says "Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone." The accusers leave, one by one.

But then, according to the textbook, "When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death saying, 'I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead'."

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ethics-course-in-communist-china-has-jesus-kill-woman-caught-in-adultery

[lyle]

This is long but very much worth your time:

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-weak-leading-the-woke/

I kid you not.

[hrtshpdbox]

What are some recent FBI successes? They've been on borrowed time for a while.

[clarice]

Yes, Jane the hearing is at 11.
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/for-good-time-and-ballot-harvesting-call-illhan-omar/

[hrtshpdbox]

Fox says Biden is asking for a break every 30 minutes. Someone had said that Biden might be taking an alertness drug that causes incontinence, so...

[GUS]

Jane my dear???? You say you want a revolution. Well you know. We all want to change the world.

[Captain Hate]

There's no way that whatever they're dosing Sundown with isn't ultimately harmful to him. Not that I have any sympathy for the old fraud so much as I want whoever's orchestrating this disgrace revealed.

[GUS]

Did the COMMIES give A.G.Barr a lunch break when he asked for it??? Ironically because the incontinent Wadler was late to the hearing and Barr hadn't gotten to eat???? I would not agree if I was DJT.

[GUS]

Buckeye and Capn. Kind of like the NEW.....SCOTLAND YARD.

[henry]

Is the legal system just a fraud to keep us frogs in the pot while we boil?

@vickimckenna

SCOWIS takes up voter roll case (tens of thousands of people who no longer live here are on the registration rolls!). BUT....”attorneys for both sides don’t expect a decision before the election” So why even take it up then?

[clarice]

Is anyone listening to the hearing? I was unable to get it.

[henry]

TM has a nice Biden thread here:

https://twitter.com/tom_maguire/status/1310956293872660484?s=21

[rse]

lyle--

That's a good essay, but this part is simply not factually accurate.

For those of our readers with lives apart from their CRB subscriptions, can you summarize the import of these unconscionably thorough elucidations?

I conclude by endorsing the opinion of National Review’s Stanley Kurtz: the likeliest preview of a Biden presidency can be found in higher education, where college presidents say all the right things about academic freedom, and then do all the wrong things to protect it.

These presidents are not themselves radicals. They sincerely hope to facilitate enlightenment and concord in their small fiefdoms. They interact skillfully with donors and trustees, crafting sympathetic though non-committal reassurances that placate even the registered Republicans. Ultimately, though, the correlation of forces always argues for acceding, often preemptively, to the demands of left-wing students, faculty members, and administrators. These are the people who, more than any others, will determine whether a college president’s life is miserable or tolerable.

Most heads of the elite schools and much of public ed in place now are there precisely because they are radical change agents. It's why those individuals made the short list.

[mockmook]

No clarice, was unable to get a line in either -- and, I don't see any media covering it live

[henry]

Which leads to TM’s

NEW THREAD

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
34m
Our Great 1st Amendment, our Great 2nd Amendment, our right to worship God & so much more comes down to one vote on the Court. @TedCruz has a fantastic new book, “One Vote Away”, out today! It's the best book to read as we fight to #ConfirmACB to #SCOTUS.

[henry]

https://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2020/09/red-meat-for-the-debate-buffet.html

[Jane]

WHAT'S the link for the hearing?

[Porchlight]

Iggy, I have a friend who is interested in Azeri music (the new young kids who are influenced by folks styles there but not fully folk). He's visited several times. Baku is neck deep in oil money and yes, very very corrupt.

He says that parts of the country are like California must have been in the old days - small farms in the hills with beautiful orchards and vineyards.

[boris]

As Jim Sunnyvale might say ...

[CCGirl]

Right, Clarice. It is not a debate. I am not sure what to call it.