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President Donald Trump
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He finally made America great again! Yay!
Because he treated someone with a little respect?
It's only news because it’s so out of character.
Obama would never!
Except he talked and shook their hands all the time..
Many supposed logically thinking members of the MBTI still cannot see things from another point of view whatsoever to the point that is a neurosis.
Your every post is both insulting to others/exaltation of yourself and how much smarter, and/or intelligent (in this case intuition) you are/posses than everyone else is/has.
Why is everything a put down man?
Did someone in your life call you stupid all the time growing up or something?
That is a serious issue that you should see a shrink about...or at least think about a little bit.
If you think you are so far above everyone else then why the constant need to reaffirm that in almost EVERY post?
Someone who is intelligent and is confident in their intelligence doesn’t need to constantly put down others to make themselves feel bigger, that’s Jr. High shit...very unnecessary and causes anger and contempt.
People especially don’t need the insults thrown at everyone and anyone...groups, individuals....basically anyone who has an opposing viewpoint that doesn’t acknowledge how much smarter you are than them.
Any facts presented are swept off the table by you with the dismissal of not liking the sourcing.
So of course what you end up with on the table is a strange doublethink consisting of a bunch of half-truths and flat out BS.
Not all the time...but a good portion.
There are people on this forum who are smarter than you.
Smarter than me too.
Same goes for the real world....you aren’t in some special class of super-minds.
Are you a card carrying member of MENSA?
Did you have to Google that?
Imho you have no social intuition at all...zero.
Feel free to disagree.
Cheers.
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The NIIT is a 3.8% tax levied only on individuals with net investment income above $200,000 (or couples jointly filing taxes with incomes above $250,000), and exclusively targets unearned, passive income such as rental income, interest, dividends and capital gains. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the repeal of the NIIT would cost $172 billion over 10 years. Just 2.6% of taxpayers are affected by the NIIT, according to the Tax Policy Center.
ATF’s estimates, available here, and summarized in the table below, are based on Trump’s public financial disclosure form filed with the U.S. Office of Government ethics, which reports his assets and income for the period from January 2016 to April 2017.
According to the disclosure, which reports income amounts in ranges, Trump has annual income between $38 million and $74 million that would immediately be subject to the NIIT. Applying the 3.8% tax to these amounts, we estimate that Trump’s tax cut would be between $1.4 million and $2.8 million.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswi...get-28-million-annual-tax-cut-gop-health-plan
Trump would make money from the tax cut.
ATF’s estimates, available here, and summarized in the table below, are based on Trump’s public financial disclosure form filed with the U.S. Office of Government ethics, which reports his assets and income for the period from January 2016 to April 2017.
According to the disclosure, which reports income amounts in ranges, Trump has annual income between $38 million and $74 million that would immediately be subject to the NIIT. Applying the 3.8% tax to these amounts, we estimate that Trump’s tax cut would be between $1.4 million and $2.8 million.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswi...get-28-million-annual-tax-cut-gop-health-plan
Trump would make money from the tax cut.
The tax breaks that are in this 12-17% approval rating bill would mostly effect those earning far more than the middle class here makes.
Not only that but the tax breaks would be for capital gains taxes, which basically taxes paid on the earnings of stocks...the majority of our society will be unaffected by changing the capital gains tax except for the already very wealthy.
The bill even wants the capital gains exemptions to go retroactive to before the ACA was implemented...giving huge returns to the wealthy while millions of Americans get a notice in the mail telling them they have no health insurance.
Trump himself would stand to gain over $2 million personally.
And this is the “healthcare” plan we are talking about here....not even the Trump tax cuts he wants to implement...which are like the Reagan tax cuts only on steroids.
Further funneling more and more money from the shrinking middle class....until we have just rich and poor.
And though the rich can afford to buy whole police forces, there will reach a breaking point if some concessions are not made.
Firstly the states could gather together and withhold any state taxes collected supposed to go to our Federal govt.
This is pie in the sky....but who knows with today’s political climate?
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After seeing these twitter posts of his it made me really angry. I've felt on the fence about the whole thing and I still do, but the more I hear about some of Donald Trump's past actions it just makes you think he's putting on a act or show.He pretends he's on the people's side who but knows what his own agenda's are. I imagine it's nothing that extreme, but he's just a typical fat head or demagogue.
I think he does sort of care about his country though, but either way it seems like they want to keep spying on us and I despise them for it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...information-to-russia/?utm_term=.cb1444be7e44
I think he does sort of care about his country though, but either way it seems like they want to keep spying on us and I despise them for it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...information-to-russia/?utm_term=.cb1444be7e44
So are we just screwed either way?
Because the people themselves are not really taking the proper initiative and the electoral system hardly seems to have are best interest in mind.
But see, when it comes to economics and such, it doesn't really matter what we're producing or not producing, it's basically who controls the federal reserve, and thus the prices of consumer goods, and food etc.
A lot of it's also the global banks who are in charge of a lot of what goes on. I wonder how long places like China will continually be motivated to produce consumer goods though. If you want capitalism to keep going, there's always going to be winners and losers.
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*sigh*
I wish we could at least be nominally socialist a bit and have a universal income of some sort, and have some kind of social base for everyone to just live their lives how they see fit, and they are able to have access to clean running water and some portion of food that is at least somewhat sustainable. Perhaps these can be small communities somewhere, where things are primarily communal and then everything else can be as capitalist/business as everyone wants, if they really must get there thrills some where, I mean I just don't get how people like to feel that elation so much they endanger the lives of others, as if real repercussions must be on the line, and lives be at stake or in danger for them to feel any sort of thrill, like gamblers must feel I imagine.
It's not that different then the idea of "classical" liberalism, but only more expounded on, and it would rely primarily more on socialist, with taking some bits from communism I guess.
I mean you even have the fucking big businesses controlling how our food is produced. We have for a long time, progresses technologically enough to where we can feasibly produce enough food in abundance to feed most of the world. But yet, obviously there's like, a lot of fascists in power or something. They are the void. They think they can control human "evolution" or something and "keep the human race strong" and I imagine that's their predominate motives, but of course so many of these people come from long lines of aristocracy and old money so they have no actual idea of what it's like out there.
I've read some of the thoughts and theories by Hitler and Mussolini and they propose that constant strife and warfare is what keeps the human race strong, but honestly there reasoning for it is pretty brutish, and savage. I honestly don't think the way they see things is true at all, it's very limited and kind of archaic, and primitive.
It's pretty much still going like this. I don't want to say they're used to be the barbarians, but it makes you wonder who they are and where they come from. Hey, did the neanderthals ever really go extinct? lol, LIKE CANNIBALS FROM THE GRASS. STEALING LIVES.
I wish we could at least be nominally socialist a bit and have a universal income of some sort, and have some kind of social base for everyone to just live their lives how they see fit, and they are able to have access to clean running water and some portion of food that is at least somewhat sustainable. Perhaps these can be small communities somewhere, where things are primarily communal and then everything else can be as capitalist/business as everyone wants, if they really must get there thrills some where, I mean I just don't get how people like to feel that elation so much they endanger the lives of others, as if real repercussions must be on the line, and lives be at stake or in danger for them to feel any sort of thrill, like gamblers must feel I imagine.
It's not that different then the idea of "classical" liberalism, but only more expounded on, and it would rely primarily more on socialist, with taking some bits from communism I guess.
I mean you even have the fucking big businesses controlling how our food is produced. We have for a long time, progresses technologically enough to where we can feasibly produce enough food in abundance to feed most of the world. But yet, obviously there's like, a lot of fascists in power or something. They are the void. They think they can control human "evolution" or something and "keep the human race strong" and I imagine that's their predominate motives, but of course so many of these people come from long lines of aristocracy and old money so they have no actual idea of what it's like out there.
I've read some of the thoughts and theories by Hitler and Mussolini and they propose that constant strife and warfare is what keeps the human race strong, but honestly there reasoning for it is pretty brutish, and savage. I honestly don't think the way they see things is true at all, it's very limited and kind of archaic, and primitive.
It's pretty much still going like this. I don't want to say they're used to be the barbarians, but it makes you wonder who they are and where they come from. Hey, did the neanderthals ever really go extinct? lol, LIKE CANNIBALS FROM THE GRASS. STEALING LIVES.
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Yay, someone answered me. I am not alone.
I don't know if I believe that stuff, basically to me a lot of it's just scientific jargon. When I've read about current understanding of the brain, they just use scientific terms to basically just point out observations and they "this is what it is" and that's it or used generalized terms and descriptions for certain behavior and then just equate them to the brain vaguely and make it sound super scientifically accurate.
I mean I think there's terms that are overly complicated ways of saying "gray matter" an whatever compound they consider the brain to be made up of. Glucoses matter? lol.
Anyway, I was just saying that because even though generally I desire or want peace, and am a fairly peaceful person, I've struggled with my whole life, this whole other side to me, and I used to think that there was something seriously wrong with me and I couldn't figure out why I was so troubled and then I've come to realize that it's probably slightly innate and simply the result of my nature.
As much as I hate capitalism and all of the stuff, all of the fighting, greed in the world, there is a part of me deep down that sort of likes it, I sort of get a thrill form it as well, or at least opposing and fighting against it. I deep down, have all of these kind of strange urges that kind of frighten me sometimes. I in all honestly, probably in some instances like or am drawn to power as well.
I felt like, with things like Devil May Cry, that's sort of what they are symbolically trying to get at.
He's part demon/human. He carriers on like a regular person and works to defend the human race, but he can go to "hell" and become or transform into a demon too, like all the other demons and monsters. That's sort of what it feels like sometimes. It scares me sometimes because it's a separate part of me that's so far removed from my regular self that is different all together.
It's also Jin Kazame, the "devil gene" wherein, basically yes it's the same thing.
(it might just be repressed anger though, because everyone else is like that)
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Ten days?
Two working weeks to do what exactly?
That has to be the shortest lived Chief of Staff ever
Two working weeks to do what exactly?
That has to be the shortest lived Chief of Staff ever
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Priebus has the record for shortest term as Chief of Staff and Scaramucci now has the record for shortest term as Communications Director.