The US lost 420,000 in WW2, China Bat Flu and Trump's lame response is close.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
380,000 American deaths and setting back things like the economy and race relations by who knows how long besides? No, I'm not at the point where I rebuke the government yet. Get back to me when it's 40 million.
We could say global warming is America's lebensraum, millions will die so they and the global 1% can burn the fat of the land to no useful purpose.Larssen wrote:
If we compare republicans to actual nazis, yes? I did reference all deaths in the European theatre though, not just the holocaust. However bad we think we have it at least we're not getting literally murdered in the millions for lebensraum.
I don't really understand what you're driving at. I've never said there weren't flaws. I've frequently brought up my opinion that the presidency is too powerful in the wrong hands. I'm not satisfied with the way the legislature has thrown its weight around either.Larssen wrote:
Well then figure out why so many, actually all of them, ended up being enablers. It's not just a sickness in the party here but a glaring weakness in your democratic system.
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Washington doesn't have a sales tax? That's weird. NJ has both on top of high property taxes.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Even if we were to magically replace all the Republicans tomorrow, imagine the looney gadflies we'd get in their place. Just thinking about some of the local/state personalities makes me squirm uncomfortably. It's not a party I'm likely to touch with a ten foot pole anytime soon. I wish Washington would abolish sales tax and institute an income tax in its place so our Republicans would no longer have the "we're keeping Washington from having both!" cudgel to wave about.Definitely cared more about the position than the integrity. So much for that stick.Dilbert_X wrote:
About six years too late.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
But all these career Republicans coming out of the woodwork with condemnations of Trump are very blatantly insincere after years of silence and allowing this transformation to happen without a peep.
I would extend that through years of disrupting 44 for the sake of it, and going along with Jr.'s fascistic-leaning decisions.
Man, NJ sounds like such a #*&hole. WA doesn't have an income tax. Some politicians want one on top of our existing sales tax, and various other taxes. Our property taxes have a penalty and an interest rate for anyone delinquent on them.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Washington doesn't have a sales tax? That's weird. NJ has both on top of high property taxes.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Even if we were to magically replace all the Republicans tomorrow, imagine the looney gadflies we'd get in their place. Just thinking about some of the local/state personalities makes me squirm uncomfortably. It's not a party I'm likely to touch with a ten foot pole anytime soon. I wish Washington would abolish sales tax and institute an income tax in its place so our Republicans would no longer have the "we're keeping Washington from having both!" cudgel to wave about.Definitely cared more about the position than the integrity. So much for that stick.Dilbert_X wrote:
About six years too late.
I would extend that through years of disrupting 44 for the sake of it, and going along with Jr.'s fascistic-leaning decisions.
Sales tax is still really unprogressive though. Much of a sharper sting annually for the have-nots than the haves. What does a millionaire care on a 10% sales tax for an $80,000 car? A poor person paying that on a $3,000 beater is going to suffer more.SuperJail Warden wrote:
I checked and NY state also has a tax trifecta. NJ and NY have a similar system where you can get your taxes fixed if you work across state lines. I don't know how that works though.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics … index.htmlStarting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News.
The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for “storming” state, local and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Donald Trump is removed from office prior to Inauguration Day. The group is also planning to “storm” government offices in every state the day President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated, regardless of whether the states certified electoral votes for Biden or Trump.
"The FBI received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on 16 January," the bulletin read. "They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment, a huge uprising will occur."
I stood in a merch line at a M's game once when an Oregonian was buying a single ballcap. He made the poor checker get out the paperwork (yes in paper) to do 10 minutes of extra work so he could get his Oregon tax removed. I think it was the checkers first day too because a second, more senior person had to keep coming over and helping, all the while the little team store in Safeco was filling with people eagerly trying to get their crap before the game started.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
AFAIK Oregonians shopping in Washington have to go through an annoying redemption process for sales taxes paid in Washington over a certain amount.
Can't they just put him in a box somewhere until his time is up? Tell him aliens are invading or something, and get Pence in on it.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Armed protests being planned at all 50 state capitols, FBI bulletin sayshttps://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics … index.htmlStarting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News.
The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for “storming” state, local and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Donald Trump is removed from office prior to Inauguration Day. The group is also planning to “storm” government offices in every state the day President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated, regardless of whether the states certified electoral votes for Biden or Trump.
"The FBI received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on 16 January," the bulletin read. "They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment, a huge uprising will occur."
That would be interesting television at least.
Well then I guess he wants to go out with a bang. This will not end well.President Trump on Tuesday showed no contrition or regret for instigating the mob that stormed the Capitol and threatened the lives of members of Congress and his vice president, saying that his remarks to a rally beforehand were “totally appropriate” and that the effort by Congress to impeach and convict him was “causing tremendous anger.”
Answering questions from reporters for the first time since the violence at the Capitol on Wednesday, the president sidestepped questions about his culpability in the deadly riot that shook the nation’s long tradition of peaceful transfers of power.
“People thought what I said was totally appropriate,” Mr. Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, en route to Alamo, Texas, where he was set to visit the border wall. Instead, Mr. Trump claimed that racial justice protests over the summer were “the real problem.”
“If you look at what other people have said, politicians at a high level about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places, that was a real problem,” he said.
A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.
‘As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,’ the document says. ‘An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.’
