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

[jim nj]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8781647/COVID-19-patients-three-times-likely-highly-infectious-levels-virus.html

A more detailed article.

[GUS]

Any COVID data that I read or hear, I do not believe. Just another FULL COMMIE lie to gain control

PROVE ME WRONG.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Don't know if there are any Bob's Burgers fans here but in this episode Tina does an almost perfect imitation of Nads Nadler exiting, in extremis, stage right.

And just be thankful I didn't say in exstreamis.

[Porchlight]

Not feeling you Iggy.

Wings - Let Me Roll It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFehaQEMYI

It's just fine.

[Melinda]

Okeefe’s next drop is coming. He says it’s a MOAB.

[Narciso]

Rockhead johnson seems to in the black adam project for next year, they were also supposed to have been in the most recent fast and furiousm

[Jane]

Jimmy,

Are you still out there? Prayers for your Dad.

[clarice]

So steele and Halper were canoodling to frame Page-wow--the web is covering the whole capitol.

[Narciso]

Spy cohorts seem to be in atleast 3 if not 4,

[Melinda]

Oh my.....:

RichardGrenell's avatar
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
Dear God. @brianstelter couldn’t find Peter’s email and so he went with a story that other newsrooms were saying?

This encapsulates how far journalism has fallen. And how much @CNN has become like the game of telephone.

Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC
lol. Hugh Hewitt confronted Stelter with a possible inaccuracy about Peter Thiel in his new book, and Stelter's response was....he couldn't find a way to contact Thiel
Show this thread

[Melinda]

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@JamesOKeefeIII
JamesOKeefeIII's avatar
James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
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BREAKING: Omar Connected Harvester SEEN Exchanging $200 for General Election Ballot."We don't care illegal."..."We are taking the money and we'll vote for you" "@IlhanMN is the one who came up with all this"

#CashForBallots

[Melinda]

https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/1310768777345347584?s=21

[Narciso]

Tater is just dumber then dirt.

[Melinda]

narc-

Ben Rhoads Lazy, not dumb.

[Melinda]

Anyone else noticing that the information outflow is picking up pace? Almost like a car chase....

[GUS]

PORCH, Live and Let die is a fantastic song.
I could go on and on, and honestly, there are McCartney songs, fo shiz, that I don't like, but
WINGS OVER AMERICA is a GREAT ALBUM.

[Narciso]

It has a different tempo, and it was the saound track on a bond film so?

[Dave (in MA)]

Gerry Callahan@GerryCallahan ·
Do masks save nursing home residents when some asshole places a coronavirus positive patient in their room? The world needs to know

Andrew Cuomo@NYGovCuomo ·
Wearing a mask in public is not optional.

It’s the law.

[GUS]

MEL, Ben Rhodes is dumb as sheep shit. Lazy, because he's stupid. He has NOTHING that makes him important, other than his brother.

CREATIVE WRITING I THINK.

[Porchlight]

GUS, it's the general musicality that gets me. Even when it's cheesy (it usually is) it is lightyears more advanced than any post-Beatles Lennon composition.

I'm going against my own grain in some ways because most of the rock music I like the most isn't that musically sophisticated. I just love the talent that pours out of McCartney.

Absent George Martin you really see the difference in range/talent.

[GUS]

Hey MOBBED UP CATCHERS MASK FACE....

Andrew Cuomo@NYGovCuomo ·
Wearing a mask in public is not optional.
It’s the law.

Who wrote and passed that law Guido??

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You know, when I read a story like this I'm not sure the Occupy Wall Street poopers weren't on to something;

Meet The Mastermind Behind JPMorgan's Gold And Silver Manipulation "Crime Ring"
Wall Street is not too far off the 'criminal enterprise' state of the Dem party. Dimon is just a well spoken don.

And I have to ask Mel; do the HFT guys provide anything positive to the markets or is it entirely just a skimming operation?

[Porchlight]

Anyone else noticing that the information outflow is picking up pace? Almost like a car chase....

It's been impossible to keep up for a long time. I haven't even dipped into Q, and in 2016 I was able to keep up with the Wikileaks email drops, Pizzagate, etc.

But yes even more insane right now.

[Narciso]

Im not saying bane was not out of bonunds crushing daggwtts trachea but...

[GUS]

PORCH, I completely agree. McCartney was the son of a father who was POP before POP was cool. He had a piano in his home as a kid. POPULAR music and sensibilities were in his blood. Throw away tunes are part and parcel of that mind set. Mrs Gus hates........SOMEONE'S KNOCKIN' AT THE DOOR, ETC.
I don't hate it, but it's got nothing to do with why I love McCartney's skills. DESMOND HAS A BARROW in the MARKET PLACE..... Neat tune to carry in the back of your head, but, CANDY.
LET IT BE. McCartney has always written, for the most part, HAPPY TUNES, that didn't make him get naked in a hotel, to save humanity.
Porch, I sent a strum guard for my RICKENBACKER guitar to him, I included postage home. He signed the strum guard and sent my money back.

[Narciso]

I hadnt seen then in concert

https://youtu.be/RlNhD0oS5pk

[jim nj]

https://www.globest.com/2020/09/28/new-jersey-may-lose-wall-streets-data-centers/

idjits

[Narciso]

Come back stay puft you can keep your beach chair.

[GUS]

I think STAY PUFT is working as a SAILOR on the poop deck of the Good ship Bulwark.
Rove, has out lived his uselessness. The W and post W GOPe UNIPARTY leadership "crew" is EPIC.
Hanging on for ever loving life, Karl Rove still gets a paycheck. WHY?? He was the brains of WHAT OPERATION???

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Rush's comments re NYT story which he says is pretty much a nothing burger -They were convinced that Trump’s taxes would reveal evidence of collusion with Putin and with Russia. They were dead certain that Trump’s tax returns — this is why Trump didn’t want to reveal them — that Trump’s tax returns would show massive ties, humongous involvement between Trump and Russian oligarchs and their businesses and Putin. That Russia had basically underwritten Trump’s businesses. That without Russia, Trump’s businesses would have gone bankrupt years ago.

They thought all of that would be in Trump’s tax returns. And on that basis, it is a total bomb for them. None of the rest of the tax story is news when you get right down to it.

[Narciso]

That would be crispy cream christie gus.

[Narciso]

Hey tlg, yes its totally gornisch.

[Porchlight]

Porch, I sent a strum guard for my RICKENBACKER guitar to him, I included postage home. He signed the strum guard and sent my money back.

EFFING COOL. Wow!

I don't necessarily love the druggie stuff either, but whatever. It is what it is. Let 'em in.

[Dave (in MA)]

Congrats Tampa Fans 🏒

[Narciso]

She has a keen grasp of the obvious:

https://mobile.twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1310709401829945344

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I loved McCartney's early Beatles tunes like I'm Down and Since I Saw Her Standing There, but his post Beatle stuff just doesn't do it or me. To me he lost the simplicity that makes rock and roll rock and roll.
The Ballad of John and Yoko was late Beatles but nearly post and Whatever Gets You Through the Night and Jealous Guy [especially Roxy Music's version] just seemed like nice simple catchy tunes without pretense, overproduction or that sometimes cloying sound McCartney was prone to.
And that is my totally correct and entirely subjective factual opinion.
Disagree at your own peril. :)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wonder if Biden picked Harris to make him seem less senile by comparison.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You know what I've noticed the last couple of months out here in CA is, there are more firefighters where the fires are.
It's a puzzler, I tell ya.

[Narciso]

Well chris dodd probably has influence, so you do the math.

[jim nj]

https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/nyc-voters-wrongly-getting-mail-in-ballots-marked-for-military-use/

Fun and games.

[Ralph L]

Breaking news:
Meghan McCain gives birf
How could anyone tell she was preggers?

[Narciso]

She didnt look it

https://mobile.twitter.com/drvox/status/1310684312241537024

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Here's some Limey's who seem to enjoy playing together.

[GUS]

Ig, the biggest and best paying gig, that I ever played, I considered my bands strengths and weaknesses. I decided that we'd open with SAW HER STANDING THERE. If my bass player, could get out of the blocks with that song and bass riff, we would be in business. IT WORKED.

[jim nj]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/28/iraq-five-civilians-killed-in-baghdad-rocket-attack

"Iraqi armed groups fired two Katyusha rockets at a house in Baghdad, killing two women and three children while severely wounding two other children, the Iraqi military said on Monday. It was the first time in months an attack led to civilian casualties.

The three Iraqi children and two women were from the same family and were killed when a rocket targeting Baghdad airport, where US troops are stationed, fell on their home instead, the army said in a statement."

Close the embassy.

[jimmyk]

“Ringo also seems like a pretty down-to-earth guy.”

He’s pro-Brexit. Just saw that he turned 80 in July.

Each of the ex-Beatles managed to put out a couple of decent songs, but the average was not so great IMO. For McCartney it was “Maybe I’m Amazed” and “Just Another Day.” My favorite Ringo song is “It Don’t Come Easy,” but apparently that was actually Harrison’s, which he gave to Ringo.

[jimmyk]

Jane, thanks, I’m here. I posted earlier that he’s still in the hospital while they figure out what’s going on with his lungs. Right now just on oxygen. We’re not planning any heroic measures, but hopefully it doesn’t come to that.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Project Veritas' sources said Ilhan Omar's biggest financier in Minneapolis is Basim Sabri.
Sabri is a Palestinian developer who wants to control Lake Street and bribes Ellison's City Council to get what he wants. He owns the El Nuevo Rodeo where George Floyd & Derek Chauvin worked!

[GUS]

Jimmy , Maybe you saw my link to ANOTHER DAY. But THANK YOU, Maybe I'm amazed, was for many years my very favorite song. Especially the LIVE VERSION, with JIMMY McCULLOGH on the GIBSON SG and the scratchy leads. McCARTNEY did not have WOMAN issues. Lennon was in search of a permanent LOVE and some semblance of PEACE.
McCartney wrote about FUN.

[Threadkiller]

Oops, spoke to soon about my dad being discharged. He's still having significant oxygen issues, so they have to get that figured out.

Amom posted a breathing exercise early on in the scamdemic. I didn’t do the “cough” portion so much, but I did lay on my chest regularly when I was having trouble with oxygen. It helped dramatically.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HwLzAdriec0

I also figured out the hospital’s oximeter and would self monitor while laying prone. It was almost a game to see what particular position would yield the best results. Hopefully they are encouraging your dad to lay on his belly if possible.

[Threadkiller]

DrJ, I am sorry to hear about your cat. You have my best wishes.

[Threadkiller]

Rich, I am praying for your father.

Nytol.

[GUS]

Rich, your Father is in my prayers. God bless him.

[GUS]

Prosecutors said between Feb. 23 and Feb. 25, 2019, the pair killed Shana Decree’s children, Naa’Irah Smith, 25, and Damon Decree Jr., 13, both of Morrisville, her sister, Jamilla Campbell, 42, of Trenton, N.J., and Campbell’s 9-year-old twin daughters Imani and Erika Allen.

HOW INTERESTING.

[GUS]

I see JOE BIDEN a complete FRAUD campaign commercials, and I want the beat his FRAUDSKI ass into the pavement. There is NOTHING ABOUT BIDEN that is real. He's lived a fraudulent life and needs to be beaten like a DRUM.

[jim nj]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rural-pennsylvania-turns-more-red-but-is-it-enough-for-trump

BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania — Just a few short months ago, if you drove down Baptist Road in this middle-class southern suburb of Pittsburgh, it would have been hard to miss the Bernie Sanders shrine filling the yard of a tidy, yellow-brick ranch home in the neighborhood. There was the life-size cutout of the former presidential candidate, a large "FEEL THE BERN" homemade sign along the berm of the road, a few "Bernie 2020" and "Get Berned" signs, as well as a lively decorated mailbox plastered with Bernie bumper stickers.

Sometime between the Pennsylvania primary in June (when Democratic voters gave Joe Biden their support) and last week, the shrine came down, replaced by one lone yard sign reading "GIANT METEOR 2020."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--He's lived a fraudulent life--

That's an excellent observation. He and Barry are very similar in that 'synthetic' life scam.
People like that seem to be headed for a manufactured destination and life from the very start, whether it's Wall Street, K Street, Sunset or Skyline Boulevards.

[Barbara]

Wonder if Biden picked Harris to make him seem less senile by comparison.

Golden!

[GUS]

Biden, is a beta. There is not a chance that JOE BIDEN ever won a fist fight. CORN POP would have beaten BIDEN into nothing. I find BIDEN to be an ajbect BETA PUSSY. He got tough, when he had power. A pathetic LOSER.

[Dave (in MA)]

TuCa closed his show with a Steve Cohen remembrance.

[mockmook]

Post-Beatles, I've always favored "Uncle Albert" by McCartney -- a bit of a tour-de-force:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuOj4tBoOZ4

And, "Maybe I'm Amazed" is a wonderful little love song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdDPR8GzXy8

[mockmook]

However, I think Lennon tapped into a more primal vein pot-Beatles than McCartney and I think I favor that. I know "conservatives" are supposed to hate "Imagine", but it is a wonderfully constructed song.

Anyway, I like the atmospherics, like in "Mind Games":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVYXWVs0Prc

Or, the grit/earthiness of "Mother":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0nMzHjMR8

[mockmook]

post, not pot

[Barbara]

I wasn't much of a Beatles fan, although I did like some of their songs. The one song I really liked was "Come Together" which I understand was originally written as a campaign song for Timothy Leary and his failed campaign to run for governor of California against Ronald Reagan.

I like the laid back pace of the song with its bizarre, meaningless lyrics. I remember listening to it one cool, rainy day as I was baking cookies. Every time I hear the song, I think of that.

[MissMarple2]

Checking in.

My sister saw The Beatles in person at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum in 1955, when they had their first tour. She went with a girlfriend and my folks thought they were nuts. She had the last laugh, though, as the next tour they made the tickets were so expensive no one could afford them!

[MissMarple2]

1966

[jim nj]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/28/epa-warns-californias-2035-ban-on-gas-powered-cars-is-possibly-illegal/

Certainly impractical.

[jim nj]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/29/nagorno-karabakh

More troops killed as clashes rage in Nagorno-Karabakh

Fiercest clashes in more than a quarter of a century rage in Azerbaijan’s ethnic Armenian enclave.

I forgot to buy a program on my way into the stadium. Who's the home team? Who am I supposed to root for?

It's all Trump's fault, right? Just like the stepped up rocket attacks in Iraq.

I mean the man is a freaking warmonger.

[Melinda]

Ig-

Skim and skim only. Sal Arnuk wrote a great book about it, and the techniques used. Quite helpful in how to look at it, and attack it. Actually, the fact that it's a problem solved by knowing just one Linear Algebra matrix was the ironic part for me.

[Jane]

Good Morning! Beautiful 75 degrees with a breeze on the lanai this morning. Wow long time since it’s felt like this outside! Is it dark still where you are?

[Melinda]

Hmmm:

Cate Long
@cate_long
China and Germany decoupling > Good framework by @rhodium_group sorting out trade & foreign direct investment categories that impinge on 🇩🇪 security & should be reduced or ended. Germany detests Trump but they're aggressively copying his foreign policy bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/publication…

https://twitter.com/cate_long/status/1310894880349138944

[henry]

Nice breeze at 42 here, might close a window or two if this keeps up. Too overcast for aurora last night.

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

Chilly here, too.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Breitbart News
@BreitbartNews
·
8h
Tom Fitton: Americans weren’t generally aware of Joe and Hunter Biden’s shenanigans in Ukraine, but Obama’s State Department was, as was Ukraine.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/22/fitton-obama-official-notes-russians-trolling-joe-biden-on-son-hunter/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
7h
Now Fake News @CNN is actually reporting that I wanted my daughter, Ivanka, to run with me as my Vice President in 2016 Election. Wrong and totally ridiculous. These people are sick!

[sbwaters]

But McCartney is the musical master.

My credentials are modest but my opinion is not:

Post Lennon McCartney = pablum.

[Melinda]

O'Keefe 1 AM drop.

James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
pic.twitter.com/JBCX19G7Ul

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1310821170086846466

[joan]

Pablum is sometimes good -- :) -- just a joke, sbw. Invented to nourish and soothe new babies, the cereal also soothed new mothers.

My nominee for a McCartney song is one from The Lake House (another romantic bit of fantasy pablum), This Never Happened Before. There's something about that song that draws me back to 'endure' watching the wooden (but beautifully handsome) Keanu Reeves and (enjoyable) Sandra Bullock in The Lake House once a year or so when I want to escape. The song and the couple's romantic dance is sheer escapism, and I find I need it more and more as I grow old in this shitty world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SEWam-uEoU

I recorded/videoed the song for our granddaughter AJ during the quarantine. Posted it on here, and I think Extraneous and maryrose were the only people who watched it or mentioned it. Singing that song and making that video, for some obscure reason, made me happy during those few bad days. Lovely song.

[hrtshpdbox]

Post Lennon McCartney = pablum.

Post-Beatles, McCartney got to be his full goofy self, and some of it is wonderful "Junk" is dreamy and evocative and could never have been a Beatles song. "Monkberry Moon Delight" is wonderful and high-spirited and I doubt Lennon would've considered singing along. Sir Paul wrote "For No One", he's a cultural icon who walks the walk.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Some good news from Wisconsin. I can't share the link but I found this at Instapundit

U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled September 21 that ballots that arrive up to six days after Election Day will count as long as they're postmarked by Election Day. Sunday´s action puts Conley´s order on hold until the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals or U.S. Supreme Court issues any further action.

[MissMarple2]

Rudy W. Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
·
3h
Did #CrookedJoeBiden know his son got $3.5 million from a Russian oligarch close to Putin?

Why was it not disclosed when #LyinBiden was making false allegations of Russian collusion about @realDonaldTrump
?

What was it for?

[Melinda]

Daniel Chaitin
@danielchaitin7
"People need to be held accountable. We’ve got a whole bunch of more information that needs to come out. Transparency is not political."

"Locked safes, lost keys": Richard Grenell details "crazy" excuses about classified reports

https://twitter.com/danielchaitin7/status/1310903056960229377

[joan]

Speaking of a world gone mad and bad, Yaacov Apelbaum's latest column is reason enough to shake one's head and wonder how career criminals and convicted criminals prosper and help fill our government with evil people intent on destroying our country.

https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/for-good-time-and-ballot-harvesting-call-illhan-omar/

[Extraneus]

Is it believable that the harvesters really paid $200 - $800 each for votes? Seems high.

[hrtshpdbox]

Alright, listening to Eric Trump, who just said:

"The LGBTQ community, they are incredible and you should see how they've come out in full force for my father. Every single day. I'm part of that community and we love the man."

So, to me, this is a person who just said "I'm part of the LGBTQ community", but Mrs. hrt says he is speaking as a hypothetical LGBTQ supporter and that my quote, though accurate, is out of context.

[MissMarple2]

Extraneus,

Where does Omar get her money? It could be that she has a large campaign war chest.

Or, if there are people on the ballot running for state legislature or something, maybe she charges THEM for the votes and then pays the illegal voters with the money.

[Melinda]

Definitely high for Cook County, on a per vote basis, but if you're talking 5 or 6 ballots per person, which is the norm here, now you're in the ball park, adjusting for inflation, naturally....

[Melinda]

MM- Qatar.

Mel Q 🐸
@littllemel
Photos of Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein Maskless in DC Airport Emerge After She Called For Mandatory Airport Mask Mandate thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/photos…

https://twitter.com/littllemel/status/1310898536662339584

[Melinda]

Going to need a helmet today:

The Dirty Truth (Josh)
@AKA_RealDirty
FBI Records: The Vault — William J. Clinton Foundation vault.fbi.gov/william-j.-cli…

https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1310907965143216128

[Old Lurker]

When Papa Joe bought WV for JFK, the price was a pint of whiskey per vote.

[Melinda]

Cook County was ~$2/v.

[Old Lurker]

Jane when you wake up.

What did Tucker say that tempted you to join A-Bob and Buckeye and me at the Ledge Bar?

[Old Lurker]

Sounds about right, Mel. Rot Gut was cheap in our hollows.

[Melinda]

OL-

But remember that for most of The Machine members, if you didn't vote, you lost your job.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Nice here this AM. My little girl Beagle aka Lady got out. Forgot to put her fence collar on. Just have to wait her out. She is too clever and quick to catch outside.

Rich,

Sorry to hear about your Dad and all your apartment kerfuffle.

[MissMarple2]

MN GOP Rep. @stevedraz recounts why he went to @jamesokeefeiii w/Ilhan-tied election fraud after reporting to FBI: "I was not convinced that they were going to do an investigation...the only other organization that would do this & bring it to the surface was @project_veritas." pic.twitter.com/JilGKQcIby

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 28, 2020

Video at the link. ANOTHER black mark on the FBI's record. I am telling you guys, the entire agency needs to be disbanded!

[hrtshpdbox]

The Ballad of John and Yoko was late Beatles..

The b-side of the single, "Old Brown Shoe", is the better song and one of Harrison's best Beatles tracks.

[Melinda]

Cool!

Jeremy Vine
@theJeremyVine
The @GNairambulance now have a jetpack for mountain rescue!
Hear about it later @BBCRadio2

https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1310892984574136320

[Old Lurker]

Rich, Clarice and Jane gave you good suggestions on the lease situation.

"Approving the Application" is not the same as "Signing the Lease" in the usual leasing situation.

The property owner might have lender driven limits on "tenant occupants" vs "investor tenants" or some such that caused the Lease Signer to balk. I assume you were the co-applicant to help with the credit; sometimes offering to be the "Guarantor" and not the Co-applicant can get around the problem. My first step would be to just ask them outright.

[rse]

Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation WHITE PAPER SEPTEMBER 2020

From the davos crowd.

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_IBC_Measuring_Stakeholder_Capitalism_Report_2020.pdf is the actual link.

Because Ol wanted some morning reading.