Now that it’s confirmed that Trump

[SevMax2]

....didn’t pay federal income taxes, he should resign and let the Republicans pick a new nominee, presumably Pence. Democrats finally have indisputable grounds for impeachment. This close to the election, it’s too late for that. America must not re-elect this tax cheat to the Presidency. I am still disgusted with many Democrats for their corruption, coziness with Wall Street, and warmongering, but this is downright criminal. Nobody is above the law, including tax laws.

 

[SevMax2]

Notable is the complete absence of Russian payments, I would add. Trump is a crook, but not a traitor, just as I said.

 

[NG1274]

....didn’t pay federal income taxes, he should resign and let the Republicans pick a new nominee, presumably Pence. Democrats finally have indisputable grounds for impeachment. This close to the election, it’s too late for that. America must not re-elect this tax cheat to the Presidency. I am still disgusted with many Democrats for their corruption, coziness with Wall Street, and warmongering, but this is downright criminal. Nobody is above the law, including tax laws.

Question: has it been shown he failed to pay taxes he owed, or did his accounts pull the type of shenanigans we've heard about in the past from big corporations, so they pay next to nothing?

I think we should pause everything, run everyone's finances in all three branches, then clean house. Term limits would be a plus as well. Everything is such a mess already, why not go through it all for once?

 

[KeithD]

Notable is the complete absence of Russian payments, I would add. Trump is a crook, but not a traitor, just as I said.

The records haven't been researched in depth yet and that is only one aspect of the proof right out there in front of us all that Trump is a Russian asset. The records show he's been laundering money for "someone" for decades through the leasing of the Trump name for buildings and that he has benefitted financially to a ridiculous amount from real estate sales--to Russian oligarths. The "someones" who hold Trump's balls are going to turn out to have Russian and/or Saudi names. Also that he got Russian-backed Deutsche Bank loans based on empty air. And to top that off he hasn't done or said a damn thing that did not benefit Russia more than anyone in the United States. His campaign staff was riddled with people with Russia connections.

It's beginning to dawn that SevMax2 might be a Russian asset as well.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Notable is the complete absence of Russian payments, I would add. Trump is a crook, but not a traitor, just as I said.

Why would there be payments? That has nothing to do with his hotel in Moscow or political influence.

 

[SevMax2]

Given Trump’s recent pull away from the INF Treaty as well as the Iran Nuclear Deal, not to mention that he finally did send aid to those Nazi militias in Ukraine, he’s not exactly Putin’s errand boy. If he was an investment by Vladimir Putin, he was a piss poor one and the old chekist is losing his edge.

 

[SevMax2]

Question: has it been shown he failed to pay taxes he owed, or did his accounts pull the type of shenanigans we've heard about in the past from big corporations, so they pay next to nothing?

I think we should pause everything, run everyone's finances in all three branches, then clean house. Term limits would be a plus as well. Everything is such a mess already, why not go through it all for once?

I’m all for purging the entire upper strata of the federal government. Tabula rasa. That’s Latin, not Russian, so exhale, McCarthyist warmongers.

By the way, I have been a member as SEVERUSMAX and as SevMax2 since 2005. Hardly a suspicious newcomer. I’m a hillbilly born in West Virginia, have been a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, anarchist, and independent. I’m 43 years old and my first language is English. I’m a skeptic of all mainstream media, right and pseudo left alike.

You should all tune out CNN, Fox, and MSNBC in favor of independent media. Stop being misinformed. Maddow and Hannity are both lying to you.

 

[Comshaw]

Notable is the complete absence of Russian payments, I would add. Trump is a crook, but not a traitor, just as I said.

Did you really expect a "payments from Russians" explanation line on the tax forms?

....didn’t pay federal income taxes, he should resign and let the Republicans pick a new nominee, presumably Pence. Democrats finally have indisputable grounds for impeachment. This close to the election, it’s too late for that. America must not re-elect this tax cheat to the Presidency. I am still disgusted with many Democrats for their corruption, coziness with Wall Street, and warmongering, but this is downright criminal. Nobody is above the law, including tax laws.

After reading your posts it strikes me that you always give Trump and the conservatives the benefit of a doubt, tag unsubstantiated allegations against those as just that yet when it's reversed, you claim such as "proof" of Democratic misbehavior. Why is that? A true centerline moderate would apply the same criteria to both sides equally.

One of the best explanations is that you aren't the centerline moderate you try to project yourself to be, but a hard right-winger masquerading as such.

You might as well come on out of the closet; You've been outed. Not that anyone with a tiny bit of brains couldn't tell to begin with.

Comshaw

 

[LLCox]

Notable is the complete absence of Russian payments, I would add. Trump is a crook, but not a traitor, just as I said.

The Times did not post everything they have to protect their source. Neither You nor I know the whole sad affair.

 

[SevMax2]

Did you really expect a "payments from Russians" explanation line on the tax forms?



After reading your posts it strikes me that you always give Trump and the conservatives the benefit of a doubt, tag unsubstantiated allegations against those as just that yet when it's reversed, you claim such as "proof" of Democratic misbehavior. Why is that? A true centerline moderate would apply the same criteria to both sides equally.

One of the best explanations is that you aren't the centerline moderate you try to project yourself to be, but a hard right-winger masquerading as such.

You might as well come on out of the closet; You've been outed. Not that anyone with a tiny bit of brains couldn't tell to begin with.

Comshaw

I’m left of the Democrats. I just want a real progressive party. Not these McCarthyist warmongering neoliberal corporate sellouts.

In case you missed it, I called for the resignation of Donald Trump for tax evasion. Scarcely a Republican talking point. I never claimed to be a centrist or moderate. I’m a leftist independent disgusted by the corruption and tribalism of both parties. We need a populist party. A real Left.

 

[Lazaran]

Did you really expect a "payments from Russians" explanation line on the tax forms?



After reading your posts it strikes me that you always give Trump and the conservatives the benefit of a doubt, tag unsubstantiated allegations against those as just that yet when it's reversed, you claim such as "proof" of Democratic misbehavior. Why is that? A true centerline moderate would apply the same criteria to both sides equally.

One of the best explanations is that you aren't the centerline moderate you try to project yourself to be, but a hard right-winger masquerading as such.

You might as well come on out of the closet; You've been outed. Not that anyone with a tiny bit of brains couldn't tell to begin with.

Comshaw

You noticed that too huh???

 

[Fermina_Daza]

His base does not care. He could shoot Mike Pence in the middle of Times Square and they’d be okay with it. And Mike Pence is the whitest guy we ALL know.

 

[FescueFan]

I’m left of the Democrats. I just want a real progressive party. Not these McCarthyist warmongering neoliberal corporate sellouts.

In case you missed it, I called for the resignation of Donald Trump for tax evasion. Scarcely a Republican talking point. I never claimed to be a centrist or moderate. I’m a leftist independent disgusted by the corruption and tribalism of both parties. We need a populist party. A real Left.

Why??

What's good about the left?

 

[Rightguide]

His base does not care. He could shoot Mike Pence in the middle of Times Square and they’d be okay with it. And Mike Pence is the whitest guy we ALL know.

Why should they? Nobody found any illegality, or wrongdoing. What's with the race bit? How is that relevant?

 

[KeithD]

Given Trump’s recent pull away from the INF Treaty as well as the Iran Nuclear Deal, not to mention that he finally did send aid to those Nazi militias in Ukraine, he’s not exactly Putin’s errand boy. If he was an investment by Vladimir Putin, he was a piss poor one and the old chekist is losing his edge.

Bullshit. He's an asset of Vladimir Putin. (And perhaps you are too.)

 

[KeithD]

His base does not care. He could shoot Mike Pence in the middle of Times Square and they’d be okay with it. And Mike Pence is the whitest guy we ALL know.

Wouldn't most of us be OK with that?

 

[Fermina_Daza]

Wouldn't most of us be OK with that?

Trump likely shoots like Cheney.

 

[Rightguide]

Bullshit. He's an asset of Vladimir Putin. (And perhaps you are too.)

^^^
Crazy talk, but typical.

 

[SevMax2]

^^^
Crazy talk, but typical.

When you are the voice of reason, Pilot needs psychiatric help. To accuse a long-standing member of Lit of being a Russian asset and repeat his claims without answering my rebuttals...folks, this is your brain on MSNBC.

 

[Rightguide]

When you are the voice of reason, Pilot needs psychiatric help. To accuse a long-standing member of Lit of being a Russian asset and repeat his claims without answering my rebuttals...folks, this is your brain on MSNBC.

I've been the voice of reason since 2017, though some simply cannot be reasoned with. The entire Russian collusion narrative concerning Trump and his supporters is simply garbage. We've seen more actual Russian collusion with the Clintons and the DNC, than with trump. The Democrat message to the contrary is projection, their own psychological defense mechanism.

 

[Lazaran]

I’m left of the Democrats. I just want a real progressive party. Not these McCarthyist warmongering neoliberal corporate sellouts.

In case you missed it, I called for the resignation of Donald Trump for tax evasion. Scarcely a Republican talking point. I never claimed to be a centrist or moderate. I’m a leftist independent disgusted by the corruption and tribalism of both parties. We need a populist party. A real Left.

If this were true you would be fully behind Biden right now, because the Democratic Party is a lot closer to your "ideal" than Trump and the republicans.

To an outside observer it appears that you're trying to portray both major parties as being basically the same, and that is where you exposed yourself as a fraud.

As much as you want a repeat of 2016, where the TRUE left wing of the Democratic Party abandoned Hillary and handed the presidency to Trump, it isn't going to happen in 2020. The 2018 midterms should have taught you that and Trump wasn't even on the ballot.

I'm guessing you're a TRUE religious right winger based on your suggestion that the republicans replace Trump with Pence.

SAD!!!

 

[KeithD]

When you are the voice of reason, Pilot needs psychiatric help. To accuse a long-standing member of Lit of being a Russian asset and repeat his claims without answering my rebuttals...folks, this is your brain on MSNBC.

So much for having me on ignore, right?

On Trump and the Russians, if you walk like a Russian apologist, talk like a Russian apologist, and post like a Russian apologist . . .

 

[SevMax2]

For the record, these are my areas of agreement with Donald Trump:

Guns...somewhat
Trade...at least on the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China, both disastrous, anti-working class policies.
Pulling out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria...if he ever goes through with it.

These are the areas where I disagree with Trump:

Pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords
Pulling out of the WHO
Pulling out of the INF Treaty
The transgender military ban
The Muslim travel ban
Immigration
LGBTQ rights in general
Abortion (at least his rhetoric...the man is a hypocrite and flip-flopper on this issue big time)
The pandemic policies
Economic relief
Health Care
Taxes
Environmental policy
His Supreme Court picks
His coddling of Israel and Saudi Arabia
The war in Yemen
"Shithole" countries.
His empowering Betsy DeVos to gut public schools and favor more student loan servicers and private, for-profit colleges.
His massive war budgets...for a supposed dove, he doesn't act like it, not with the largest American military budget ever.


That's just off the top of my head.

So, yeah, not a conservative, not even a moderate. Not even a liberal. I'm a left-libertarian, social democrat, populist, and independent. I'm far to the left of Biden on many issues. Hell, I'm to the left of Bernie's current positions on some things. I want tough anti-trust enforcement and laws. I want tough environmental regulations. I want high marginal tax rates on the one percent. I want single-payer health care. I want to legalize pot and fully decriminalize sex work and hard drugs. I want to cancel student loan and medical debt. I want campaign finance reform. I want a UBI, a living wage, a federal jobs guarantee, national rent control, and the nationalization of the entire energy and utility sectors of the economy. I want postal banking and post office reform. I want to abolish the Social Security income cap and thus make SOcial Security solvent for much longer.

My biggest issues right now, though, are foreign policy and national security. I want to bring the troops home, cut the bloated war budget, and de-escalate with both nuclear-armed powers. I want a proper criminal investigation into those who lied to Congress and were exposed in the Afghanistan Papers. And I want a full pardon for Assange, Snowden, and Manning..and Reality Winner. Whatever she found, however broad or limited in scope, she was thrown under the bus and never got her day in court, either. I want the Gitmo inmates freed at last and the illegal NSA metadata program to end, as it should have never begun.

While my economic stances have changed, my foreign policy largely hasn't. I want war to be a last resort, not a Presidential whim. I want to restore Congress's full power to prevent reckless adventures like Libya, Syria, Kosovo, Somalia, and Iraq. want peace instead of a new Cold War against either or both of the other nuclear-armed powers. The anti-China rhetoric is every bit as toxic and dangerous as the anti-Russia rhetoric. Both countries are rivals, yes, but not inherent enemies.

We must have normal relations with both countries, treating them as neither friend nor foe.

 

[KeithD]

For the record, these are my areas of agreement with Donald Trump:

This is what I find the most amusing about you--that you seem to think you matter on these issues and post like these folks have to negotiate anything with you. You're a political dingaling. No one gives your crazy half-baked Libertarian notions credence.

 

[SevMax2]

So much for having me on ignore, right?

On Trump and the Russians, if you walk like a Russian apologist, talk like a Russian apologist, and post like a Russian apologist . . .

I took you off ignore for a moment. It was a mistake. You're impervious to reason. You cannot be persuaded with logic, facts, or evidence. You repeat your mantra with the fanatical commitment of any cultist, despite arguments based in reality and reason. Back to iggy you go. I'm writing you off as a lost cause for any kind of common sense. You're pathological...clinically paranoid.

As Obama once told Romney, "The 1980s called. They want their foreign policy back."

Actually, in your case, it's 1941. Nazi Germany's foreign policy, near as I can tell. Invade, invade, invade...and fear the Red Peril above all else. I half-expect some crazed anti-Semitic rant from you, but I won't be taking you off ignore to hear it from you. Stick to your bunker, Herr Chancellor.