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  • Beto, the philanthropist...



    I think even Bill Clinton was more generous.
    "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
    "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
    "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
    GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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    • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
      Beto, the philanthropist...



      I think even Bill Clinton was more generous.
      Holy crap. That is shameful.

      When are we going to see the returns for your man trump?
      "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
      "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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      • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
        Holy crap. That is shameful.

        When are we going to see the returns for your man trump?
        Drumpf is dumb... but not as dumb the Chucotown Latino, Beto.
        "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
        "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
        "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
        GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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        • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
          Holy crap. That is shameful.

          When are we going to see the returns for your man trump?
          I really want to see Trump's returns if only because I'm certain they'll reflect very poorly on him. Can anyone imagine him withholding information that would be helpful or praiseworthy? He is not withholding the returns because his lawyers have advised him not to do so (they may have so advised, but that wouldn't restrain him if he thought the public would be favorably impressed by the returns).

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          • Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
            I really want to see Trump's returns if only because I'm certain they'll reflect very poorly on him. Can anyone imagine him withholding information that would be helpful or praiseworthy? He is not withholding the returns because his lawyers have advised him not to do so (they may have so advised, but that wouldn't restrain him if he thought the public would be favorably impressed by the returns).
            Yeah, Drumpf's returns might even show that he donates more* than Skateboard Jesus and the rest of Dems put together...

            Tax returns show many 2020 Democrats have one financial habit in common

            • Democratic presidential candidates have started releasing their tax returns, and most of them give small amounts of their income to charity.
            • For instance, Beto O'Rourke gave just 0.3% of his income to charity last year, or $1,166 of the $366,455 he and his wife made, according to his tax return.

            [...]
            Like O'Rourke, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders gave relatively little to charity compared with other Americans, despite writing a book that made him a millionaire in 2016.

            Sanders, who for years resisted releasing several years of his tax returns, earned $1,073,333 but gave $10,600 to charity — or just less than 1% of his income. Based on 2014 IRS data, people who made more than $1 million that year took an average charitable deduction of $382,953, or 5.6% of their income.
            [...]
            https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-...charity-2019-4

            It seems that the dems are just a bunch of greedy basturds that don't like to share their money, only other people's money.

            *Why the hell did Drumpf donate $10K to the Clinton Foundation?
            "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
            "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
            "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
            GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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            • Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View Post
              I really want to see Trump's returns if only because I'm certain they'll reflect very poorly on him. Can anyone imagine him withholding information that would be helpful or praiseworthy? He is not withholding the returns because his lawyers have advised him not to do so (they may have so advised, but that wouldn't restrain him if he thought the public would be favorably impressed by the returns).
              My guess is they will show he’s not nearly as wealthy as he has claimed.
              PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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              • Originally posted by creekster View Post
                My guess is they will show he’s not nearly as wealthy as he has claimed.
                Hopefully it's just that and that there is nothing in there that would show a nice link between where he gets his money and how he's shaping US foreign policy.

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                • You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
                  Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski

                  Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
                  You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst

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                  • Uncle Pat, feeling the Bern...

                    https://www.theamericanconservative....ue-from-trump/

                    “The president has said that he does not want to see this country involved in endless wars…. I agree with that,” Bernie Sanders told the Fox News audience at Monday’s town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

                    Then, turning and staring straight into the camera, Bernie added: “Mister President, tonight you have the opportunity to do something extraordinary: sign that resolution. Saudi Arabia should not be determining the military or foreign policy of this country.”

                    Sanders was talking about a War Powers Act resolution that would have ended U.S. involvement in the five-year civil war in Yemen that has created one of the great humanitarian crises of our time, with thousands of dead children amidst an epidemic of cholera and a famine.

                    Supported by a united Democratic Party on the Hill, and an anti-interventionist faction of the GOP led by Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee of Utah, the War Powers resolution had passed both houses of Congress.

                    But 24 hours after Sanders urged him to sign it, Trump, heeding the hawks in his Cabinet and National Security Council, vetoed S.J.Res.7, calling it a “dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities.”

                    [...]

                    The center of gravity of U.S. politics is shifting towards the Trump position of 2016. And the anti-interventionist wing of the GOP is growing.

                    And when added to the anti-interventionist and anti-war wing of the Democratic Party on the Hill, together, they are able, as on the Yemen War Powers resolution, to produce a new bipartisan majority.

                    Prediction: by the primaries of 2020, foreign policy will be front and center, and the Democratic Party will have captured the “no more wars” political high ground that candidate Donald Trump occupied in 2016.
                    You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
                    Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski

                    Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
                    You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst

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                    • The force in this one is strong... He may even beat the DNC's attempts to rig the election against him this time.

                      Sanders dares Democrats to stop him – but is he the man to beat Trump?

                      Raging against the machine has taken Bernie Sanders a long way. In 2016, his disdain for “the establishment” and the “donor class” gave progressives a near-perfect foil to Hillary Clinton, who was cast as the “anointed” Democratic candidate for president.

                      Sanders was beaten in the primary but the senator and his allies clamored for and won changes to party rules they said were “rigged”. Now, the party’s role in choosing its nominee has been limited and a Sanders nomination is a very real possibility. At the top of early polls, the increasingly confident senator from Vermont is daring the “political establishment” to stop him.

                      “They are terrified of our movement – as they should be,” campaign manager Faiz Shakir wrote in an email to supporters as part of an “emergency 48-hour fundraising drive” to counter what he called a “serious threat to our campaign”.

                      The appeal was sent out after a New York Times report revealed a series of private dinners in which Democratic leaders, strategists, donors – and even a presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg – had met to discuss “the matter of What To Do About Bernie”.
                      [...]
                      After Sanders launched his 2020 White House run, tensions between the camps flared. The senator drew an unusually sharp rebuke from Clinton’s spokesperson when he said he had no interest in seeking advice from the former nominee, citing “fundamental differences”. The dust-up followed a Politico story in which loyalists traded insults.

                      “An internal civil war helps only one person and that’s Donald Trump,” said California congressman Ro Khanna, a co-chair of the Sanders 2020 campaign. “We need to avoid that at all costs.”
                      [...]
                      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ats-trump-2020

                      Too bad the socialist hates poor, brown people.
                      "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                      "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                      "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                      GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                      • Uncle Bernie says that the Boston Marathon Bomber should have the right to vote...



                        Why not? He should have the right to vote just like his brother.
                        "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                        "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                        "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                        GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                        • Warren is trying to out-Bernie Bernie with her roll out of not only free college for practically everyone but also student loan forgiveness. Nice to see her fully embrace the modern liberal platform of solving problems by throwing gobs of money at them.
                          "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                          • Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                            Warren is trying to out-Bernie Bernie with her roll out of not only free college for practically everyone but also student loan forgiveness. Nice to see her fully embrace the modern liberal platform of solving problems by throwing gobs of money at them.
                            This is because Pocahontas is much more charitable than Bernie. Out of her $905,742 of income she donated $50,128 to charity (5.5%). Bernie only did less than half of that. Come on Bernie... Feel the Bern!

                            "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                            "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                            "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                            GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                            • Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                              the modern liberal conservative platform of solving problems by throwing gobs of money at them.
                              FIFY.
                              You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
                              Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski

                              Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
                              You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst

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                              • Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
                                Word. This is not an unhinged alt-right rambling

                                We're going to spend ourselves to oblivion either way. Might as well do it with a clean conscience and take care of more people who really need it. Socialism-lite FTW!
                                "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                                "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                                - SeattleUte

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