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American Mask, a Flag in the Shape of a Ku Klux Klan Hood, Shows in Wynwood

 

Anybody here seen Michael Flynn lately? Maybe you've gone boating on the Potomac and run into some submerged object?

 

Seeing Through Republican Tax Cut Lies | Crooked Media

We know we’re 16 years out from the first round of regressive Bush tax cuts, 14 years out from the second round of regressive Bush tax cuts, and 10 years out from those tax cuts failing to secure substantial near-term or long-term growth. After that, the entire economy collapsed. We’re five years out from the 2012 election, which Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan lost on a platform of stigmatizing people who don’t make enough money to pay federal income taxes. We’re four years out from a substantial tax increase (thanks, Obama) that has accompanied a steady economic recovery. We’re two years out from Kansas’ experiment with regressive tax cuts that bottomed out the state’s revenue base and left its finances in ruins. We’re one year out from Trump winning the election despite lying constantly, and one month out from donors threatening to cut Republicans off if they don’t make haste with tax cuts.

There is literally nothing in the recent historical record to undergird the claim that supply-side tax policy is a magical economic elixir. And there’s nothing to suggest Republicans are deluded about this either—after all, even in this golden age of Trumpian deception, Republicans don’t go around gaslighting reporters about the economic miracle in Kansas, or the George W. Bush boom. That doesn’t mean Republicans are knowingly propagating what they believe to be bad policy, but that the things they like about it aren’t strictly economic or populist in nature, and that they use economic and populist tropes to sell policy they like for other reasons.

 

“There is literally nothing in the recent historical record to undergird the claim that supply-side tax policy is a magical economic elixir.”

LOL. That there is one sick burn.

 

I’ve been on record for a long time in agreement with the belief that our corporate tax levels should be lowered to a globally competitive level.

Every other aspect of this tax legislation appears to be a pure money grab by the wealthiest people in our country.

It will illustrate very vividly the extent of the commitment our fiscal conservatives in Congress have to reducing the deficit, though, so there’s that.

 

Jenna Abrams, Russia’s Clown Troll Princess, Duped the Mainstream Media and the World

 

Creosote is hands down the best pic/gif poster I've ever encountered. A master at pulling just the right image at the right time.

 

This family disagrees...
Family of Soldier Slain in Bowe Bergdahl Search Blasts Prisoner Swap - NBC News

 

Yet another person who had no contact with the Russians who now remembers contact with the Russians.

Carter Page Told House Committee He Met With Russian Gov’t Officials In 2016

"Page told the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin in September 2016 that he had briefly exchanged pleasantries with [Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady] Dvorkavich, one of a handful of deputy prime ministers in Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s Cabinet, during the graduation ceremony of the New Economic School in Moscow.

But an email from Page to “at least one” Trump campaign aide, according to the Times’ report, suggests Page’s meetings could have been more substantive than he’s said in the past.

After the trip, the Times reported, citing an unnamed person familiar with the email, “Page sent an email to at least one Trump campaign aide describing insights he had after conversations with government officials, legislators, and business executives during his time in Moscow.”

On Monday, Page told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that he had been on email chains with George Papadopoulos, another former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who, according to recently unsealed court records, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his efforts to bring together Russian government officials and Trump campaign officials.

Page told Hayes, asked if any of the email chains with Papadopoulos discussed Russia: “It may have come up from time to time, again there was nothing major.”

Then, on Friday, Page confirmed to CNN’s Jake Tapper that he was “one of many people” on the email chain in which Papadopoulos suggested, according to Papadopoulos’ unsealed court record, “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss U.S.-Russia ties under President Trump.”

 

Trump probably approves:

US woman faces 20 years in jail for 'insulting' Mugabe | Daily Mail Online

 

More support for my tinfoil hat theory that Page has already been turned by Mueller, who's just letting him run to generate fear within the Trump camp.

 

(Looks at picture of woman)

I'm going to go out on a limb that he fully supports this act of brave political defiance.