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

[Narciso]

Certainly

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Or did the ozone hole change that? ;)

LOL. Some of the Qzoids get just a leeetle weird.

[Narciso]

Remember the arrival with charlie sheen or dont.

[Narciso]

Hamsters are back

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=390460

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That Michael Anton article was quite good.

[Melinda]

Vijay Goel, MD
@vijaygoel
A reminder that $3000 used to be a scary “high deductible” plan that came with that HSA thing.

Also a reminder that premiums doubled due to the provisions that made insurers assume you were high risk

AssocAmerPhys&Surg @AAPSonline
The Hill has it partially right. ACA is a wealth transfer. But it's a transfer from the pockets of the middle class to the bank accounts of insurers. Sure the insurers *might* pay for some care... after your $6000 to $12000 deductible is met. thehill.com/policy/healthc…

https://twitter.com/vijaygoel/status/1310712474086174720

Where was that in '10? Oh, right. We had to pass it to see what was in it.

[rich]

the old lurker question:

i am a current resident in an apartment complex with a lease expiring sometime june 2021. my dad is visiting me currently, and wants to stay in the area for health and personal reasons (friends and family are close to here and he has access to better doctors here than in florida) and we executed a lease on an apartment for him, with me listed as co-applicant, and both applications for him and me were approved. i am now told by the leasing manager they will not rent the apartment because it is "against the rules"? i can't find anything in my lease spelling this out (renting more than one unit in the complex) and if it is "against the rules" why was the application approved?

the location of the apartment is in montgomery county md.

this is a residential lease so might not be your wheelhouse, but any insight you might have would be helpful. you can send anything over to my email address if you prefer to keep it off the board.

and by-and-by my dad fell this afternoon and is in the hospital a few miles from here so any prayers would be appreciated.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You guys are so full of crap.
It's well known that the dinosaurs were warm blooded and therefore there is no reason that if the lizard people are descendants of the dinosaurs that they couldn't live in Antarctica and tunnel thousands of miles under the sea to battle the zombie hordes. Hey, birds are descendants of dinosaurs; maybe penguins are the lizard people wearing little tuxes!
Regardless, your irrational skepticism is pissing me off.

[rich]

and my condolences dr.j.

[Narciso]

Prayers for him, rich.

[rich]

thanks narciso.

[Melinda]

My prayers for your father, rich.

[Jane]

Hang tough RICH. sounds like a very tough time!

[henry]

Prayers Rich! Residential laws vary by state and local area. Can’t really help there (I lived in a rental in Montgomery County MD in the 80s).

Prayers for your father.

[GUS]

I've heard people ridiculing NADLER for his little "issue" the other day.
The fucker has a BROWN BELT. And a brown shirt tail, and brown grunderwear and pants, and shoe laces.

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

Please pass on my kudos to him for being so intellectual and cognizant to even understand the US tax code. Bravo Zulu. He probably drinks tea and loves cats.

[Captain Hate]

Prayers up for your dad, rich.

[Jim Eagle]

I am going to do an early bed and read.

Slaap lekker, tot Morgen.

[MissMarple2]

LORI HENDRY
@Lrihendry
·
6h
Virginia Governor Northam announced he tested positive for COVID-19.

Biden visited him just days ago.

Any bets on a cancelled debate?

[GUS]

I've heard people ridiculing NADLER for his little "issue" the other day.
The fucker has a BROWN BELT. And a brown shirt tail, and brown grunderwear and pants, and shoe laces.

[Momto2]

Praying for your dad, rich and for you!

[joan]

Prayers for you, rich, in the real estate matter; and especially for your dad, that the fall is a temporary set back.

[GUS]

Henry, I heard today that Vicki McKenna's dog is named CLARICE. I'll be she's a beauty.

[Captain Hate]

Not to belittle Mr. clarice but "understanding the tax code" is a stretch since often differing sections are at odds with each other, the IRS won't give directions they'll be bound by and the answer ends up being what a tax court judge says it is. In that particular case. Does it get more derp state than that?

He probably is up to date on tax court rulings, though...

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

From Insty: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/403360/
OMG so funny

Isn't John Oliver that guy (maybe on SNL?) who mocked PDJT and said "Please! Run! I'll write you a check!" because he was so sure Trump would lose?
"Be careful what you wish for"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlHo-F1z_aw

[Porchlight]

But presumably when you're worth billions playing it safe with $5 or $10 million chump change makes sense. That's just the keep the IRS at bay fund.

That sounds about right to me but Idk.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"U.S. District Judge Michael Watson wrote that while Ohio’s signature-matching requirements impose a “moderate" burden on voters" blah blah blah

Well, it is a surmountable problem. I will be an election volunteer this year, working for the County Registrar of Voters. I also took an "Election Observation" training class online with the Election Integrity Project and hope to be an election observer during the election.

One thing I learned about is signature verification.
Our training gave us the rules that the workers should be following (we'll see how closely they follow). But also, we learned that CA is already at 75% mail in ballots.
CA loosened the requirements for in-person voting years ago. So they must have solved the signature verification difficulty a long time ago. Unless they are ignoring signatures.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

John Oliver makes that grisly humorless, little, snoot-faced ermine Colbert look like the type of Kiplingesque man one might shoot some unruly Pathans with.

[Gentlejim]

Hello, Jane

[Melinda]

Catturd ™
@catturd2
Is everyone ready for the ...

President Trump vs Wallace/Biden debate?

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1310697269390442502

[Momto2]

Joe Biden store had t-shirts on Sept 14 - I PAID MORE IN TAXES THAN DONALD TRUMP

Two weeks ago - but not a surprise that this was coordinated.

Otherwise, how did his store know this would be released days before the debate?

[peter]

Prayers for Rich’s dad.

I heard Kamala today on MSNBC riffing today off the tax non-story. She is such a lightweight

[clarice]

FINGERS CROSSED FOR A SPEEDY AND FULL RECOVERY, RICH. Is there anything in the lease prohibiting a tenant from renting a second apt in the complex? It sounds as if the problem if that you are a co-applicant. Montgomery County surely has a housing authority you can run this by,

[Melinda]

Strzok injecting himself into the Flynn hearing:

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney
1h
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 >>>

These are the two pages of notes highlighted by Strzok's attorney. One has a handwritten notation of 1/4-5/17.

Another has a notation of 3/28/17. Unclear which is the one with the incorrect date, per Strzok's attorney.

STRZOK's attorney also points out somethign we've been noting recently: The disclosures by the Flynn team appear to violate a court order issued by Sullivan months ago, asking them to stop filing piecemeal documents until the DOJ review is complete.

Also of note: Sullivan granted Strzok's attorney leave to file his letter.

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1310711056902369291

That looks an awful lot like a fuse sizzling.....

[Melinda]

Yes, it looks like they're going to break him at the wheel:

Techno Fog
@Techno_Fog
More Flynn docs:

Potential issues w/ National Security Letters against Flynn.

12/23/16 Email from Clinesmith: "No further NSLs are authorized for Razor [Flynn]"

2/2017 - 3/2017: Strzok authorizes NSLs against Flynn.

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1310695210100367361

[Momto2]

Don't know what was going on with Parscale but this is a good point:

CHIZ Flag of United States
@CHIZMAGA

So Brad Parscale is allowed to be tackled while harmlessly standing in his driveway but BLM Protestors aren’t allowed to be touched after setting fires and looting stores?

[MissMarple2]

Gary
@KMGGaryde

“Four More Years!” – Trump Supporters Line Up to Greet Jill Biden in Wisconsin (VIDEO) ~

Trump signs everywhere! Looks Like Wisconsin is TRUMP COUNTRY!!!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/four-years-trump-supporters-line-greet-jill-biden-wisconsin-video/

[MissMarple2]

Gary
@KMGGaryde

“Four More Years!” – Trump Supporters Line Up to Greet Jill Biden in Wisconsin (VIDEO) ~

Trump signs everywhere! Looks Like Wisconsin is TRUMP COUNTRY!!!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/four-years-trump-supporters-line-greet-jill-biden-wisconsin-video/

[Melinda]

Wrapped version of TechnoFog's points:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310695210100367361.html

[Narciso]

You have a way with words ignatz

[rich]

thanks everyone. he just sent me a text about getting poked and prodded. i think they are going to scan his head.

clarice-

i'm looking through it and nothing is stated. the applications were approved about a week ago and i was walking the checks up to the office today.

[Jane]

Have you been away GJ, or am I just nuts?

[GUS]

"ermine"??

[Porchlight]

You got it, rich.

[Porchlight]

Nice to see you, Gentlemanjim. Good luck with the FOP.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--"ermine"??--

You may substitute 'stoat' or 'pasty white weasel' if you prefer.

[Melinda]

These apparently are the notes that Strzok says were "altered"::

Roscoe B Davis🎖⭐️⭐️⭐️
@RoscoeBDavis1
More heavily redacted under protective order more hand written notes on the Flynn case.

This is a little different being that these redactions are by Sullivan's Protective Order not DOJ/FBI classification.

Working on what's shown

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

https://twitter.com/RoscoeBDavis1/status/1310658529288691714

[GUS]

No Ig, I think ermine and vermin are quite good.

[clarice]

Rich, years ago I worked with this fine atty in Rockville:https://www.murphyslawmd.com/attorney-profiles/thomas-d-murphy/

You might want to ring him up and ask if you could have a brief consultation on the matter.

[rich]

thanks clarice.

[CCGirl]

Catching up. You people are keeping busy - so many posts!

Jimsc thanks for the funny sign about commas a few threads back! Kind of a strange sign for a lumber yard! My parents would roll over in their grave (they share ) if I ever raised a sign of that ilk outside of the store!

DrJ, sorry about your beloved cat. Rich, prayers for your father.

Re the taxes. Big whoop. Why are we all carrying on about what the NYT prints? I heard about it and thought “typical.” Whatever, it’s all within the wonderful tax laws passed by the morons in DC so big yawn. Plus reading about taxes gives me a headache. No offense intended to those who are debating it, but really why do we all get up in arms about the lyin’ NYTs?

Also there was a discussion that went over my head re light or some such. All I can say is I don’t like getting up for work while it is still dark.

One customer commented that she is done with the masks. SIL mentioned that Bill Gates says blah blah blah. I said, “Oh who cares what Bill Gates thinks. Just because he’s a gazillionaire he thinks he can dictate what we should be doing.” SIL said she hates him too, and then the woman says, “ I hate him too!” Best conversation I had all day!

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

I just realized that while FB 'fact checks' all kinds of shit, the one thing they haven't slapped a fact check on are all the Nadler crapped his pants memes. LOL

[CCGirl]

Agh, now Tucker is talking about the taxes! Please for the love of God please stop!

[Jane]

Rich,

Did you ask the guy why it was denied?

[Porchlight]

Hey, remember Bill Richardson?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8768695/Former-NM-Governor-Bill-Richardson-accused-using-bribes-fund-sexual-services-favors.html

Tabloid-y but who cares.

[Pinandpuller]

ACB’s family looks like a D Major Scale to me:

Black children being used as political “book ends”,

what a joke....

https://twitter.com/thasouth/status/1310738621859758081?s=21

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/elementary-school-teacher-loses-job-over-his-ink

School teacher says he lost kindergarten job over tattoos: Report

[Porchlight]

Schweikart on the Texas student vote which I can personally guarantee ain't materializing this year. This hurts Texas Dems bigtime and not just in statewide races.

My UT workplace was a polling location in 2018 and I believe easily recorded more votes for Beto than any single polling place in the state. If that's possible to check I'd love to know the numbers.

https://twitter.com/LarrySchweikart/status/1310743142698594304

[CCGirl]

That’s it for me. As my son said when he was a toddler, “I tired.” Have a good night!

[jimmyk]

Prayers for you dad, rich.

Looks like my dad will be discharged tomorrow. Could have been today, but they need to set him up at home with oxygen and a hospital-type bed to allow him to be semi-reclined. Hopefully that's all temporary.

[jimmyk]

Via Althouse, Sean Ono Lennon risking disinheritance:

Sean Ono Lennon @seanonolennon

Sincere and earnest question I don’t know answer to: Is there truly anything illegal or unconstitutional about either him nominating a judge for SCOTUS just before election, or him not paying a lot of taxes while essentially bankrupt? I can’t find real evidence. Please explain.

Not sure where his brains came from, I guess regression to the mean.

[GUS]

Jim nj, I wonder what his EXISTENTIAL CRISIS was.

[Porchlight]

Sean Lennon is quite the dude. He's been on this train for a long time. I never thought I'd see the day. If he votes I bet it's for Trump.

[jimmyk]

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

[Pinandpuller]

If Brad Parscale was day drinking Coors Lights I’m going to have to back the blue on this one.

[Porchlight]

jimmyk, I'd add that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were/are quite intelligent, even if they didn't always put it to critical thinking use. Family Ties effect.

Some people say Lennon was fairly conservative or at least reactionary in the years before he died, and maybe even supported Reagan. Idk. He was such a jerk, I disregarded anything that came out of his mouth.

[Porchlight]

Ouch, Pin. ;)

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

You know, we can rule out Nadler eating something that disagreed with him because he didn’t try to murder it.

[Porchlight]

Thanks for the update on your dad, jimmyk. Hope they can get it sorted out.

[Jane]

OL.

After watching Tucker, I’m falling into your abyss. Hopefully Laura can pull me out.

[jimmyk]

Porch, yes, I remember that now about Lennon maybe supporting Reagan, though I don't know if that was ever confirmed. I was half-kidding with the "brains" remark as I'm sure they both are/were fairly intelligent, but not always putting it to good use. It's good to see Sean using his brains.

[GUS]

As virtually everyone here knows. I loves me some BEATLES. I'm not in love with any of the members. I liked McCartney and his style MOAR, but I recognized how great John Lennon was in many ways, including the most under rated RHYTHEM guitarist in history. However. He and Joko were drug addled nuts.

SEAN HAS A NET WORTH OF $200,000,000.00
Definitely FUCK YOU MONEY.

[GUS]

Pin, I think the FUZZ took down Parscale, because he's black.

[GUS]

Jane, there is more to come. No one is changing their mind about TRUMP to vote for a DEMENTED CORRUPT PERV who couldn't raise his own kid right, in fact aided and abetted corruption with CHINA and UKRAINE.
We are in the openings of a civil war. The MEDIA is all in on the criminals.

[MissMarple2]

anonamom!!!!

ePearce4Q
@ePearce4Q
·
23h
DOCTORS ARE BAFFLED - THERE IS NO COVID-19 in AFRICA. Maybe because they ALL taken Malaria tablets HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE?

[Narciso]

You forgot vole as in 20th century, splunge.

[GUS]

I got a video of my GOD DAUGHTER/NIECE flying a jet today. Then she spoke at the debriefing following her flight. She's 21 years old. Senior USAFA.

[MissMarple2]

President @realDonaldTrump on Lordstown Motors in #Ohio: The area is "absolutely booming" now pic.twitter.com/BZ1Smy8mJT

— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) September 28, 2020

[rich]

>>>Did you ask the guy why it was denied?

Posted by: Jane | September 28, 2020 at 08:50 PM<<<

that is the thing. the applications have been approved. the leasing manager won't complete the leases because i am listed as co-applicant.

[GUS]

"government doctor/experts" are baffled.
Fraudski called a LID on the day.

[MissMarple2]

Heading to bed.

Good night, everyone!

[Narciso]

Is it a fifty five plus complex rich, but that shouldnt pose a problem

[Porchlight]

Yes, Sean definitely has fuck you money, GUS. I'm sure that makes his freethinking less onerous. But knowing nutballs are always out there...and his dad's fate...that's not nothing.

I gravitate more toward McCartney's work as I age. Post-Beatles Lennon is total crap IMO. Harrison and Ringo each showed notable genius here and there in their solo work. But McCartney is the musical master.

It's hopeless sorting their political opinions. The thought that Lennon might have had some sense is comforting. Ringo also seems like a pretty down-to-earth guy. McCartney, totally foolish in that department.

Since the Dakota and Trump International are practically next door to each other in NYC terms, I've come to associate them with each other. LOL.

[Gentlejim]

Jane,

I’ve been busy. Staying quiet here.

Porch,
Thanks. We’re trying to decide on purchasing an existing facility or property and build new. It’s been almost 3 years of headaches.

[Porchlight]

Hear you Gentlejim. My church also faced the same dilemma. I wasn't on the vestry then but I increasingly feel that their choice (building new, but on a comparatively remote property not visible from a major road) was not the correct one to grow the church.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Ah fer cryin out loud...another one of em;
'I care about this': Prince William calls for urgent action over climate change in new TV documentary.
If the queen can't live forever then long may regicide rule.

[Narciso]

Anyways the novel i referenced last hight the last ember involved a whole host of characters from flavius josephus to the grand mufti.

[GUS]

Thank you Porch. I was dismayed to find McCartney is as self absorbed and liberal as he is, but I try very hard not to let the interfere with my love of his music DURING and AFTER the FAB 4.
I actually had this discussion with MRS yesterday on a wee road trip. We listened to a lot BEATLES.
In fact my wife and I have played (piano guitar) and sang at all of our siblings weddings.
I actually played "Til there was you" on the altar just before she came down the aisle at our wedding. Of course I sang as well.

[Pinandpuller]

I don’t care about masks, but it is incredibly disrespectful for a senator to make a pilot carry her bag and her dog.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I've always been a Lennonist.
Can't think of one thing McCartney wrote post Beatles that didn't induce my gag reflex.
A lot of Lennon's was tripe too but a couple were passable.

[Narciso]

It would be something akin to when they wiped out the plantagenet line (i think the saxe coburgs have run their course)

[Pinandpuller]

Have you heard about Lennon’s controversial views about women?

https://youtu.be/xkdnQM81EnA

[Pinandpuller]

Maybe McCartney’s ex wife actually ate her own leg.

[Narciso]

One cant rule it out, of course theres that collaboration with michael jackson which seemed cheesy in 1985?

[GUS]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=another+day+paul+mccartney

Fantastic pop tune by McCartney post Beatles.

[Narciso]

See for your self

https://youtu.be/aLEhh_XpJ-0

[GUS]

I have that guitar Pin, I think I showed it to you.

I couldn't understand the LYRIC that LENNON was singing. Something about bLACK lies mattering.

[GUS]

Maybe she did Pin, but her "settlement" should pay for a new one. Or 2.

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-viral-loads-declining-us-patients-study

Coronavirus viral loads declining in US patients since start of pandemic, study finds
Study relied on nasal swab samples taken from April to June (from Detroit hospitalized patients)

It can't be a very large sample.

[Narciso]

Well how many cases did they have in the detroit area back then

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1310748727251021825