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  On 5/6/2024 at 12:37 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Pffft. So you prefer thin lips to pouty, succulent lips. To each his own.

Molly was better looking then.

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And she’s better looking now.

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Ally Sheedy is seven years older than Molly Ringwald too.

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  On 5/6/2024 at 3:30 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

They are shameless.  
 

 

1) Biden's promising that nobody who makes less than 400k will see their taxes increase

2) The Trump tax cuts for the middle class are expiring because that's the way the law that Trump signed was written. The corporate tax cuts are permanent, also as written.

3) As a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith had a role in writing and passing the Tax Cuts and Job act. 
 

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It was intentional so they could blame the next (assuming it would be Democratic) administration for letting them expire. We all saw this coming. Trumpkins were told. Of course they didn’t listen. 

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And the grift goes on. The grift goes on.

Right-Wing Nonprofit Paid Millions to Companies With Ties to Insiders
The Conservative Partnership Institute’s three highest-paid contractors had connections to the group’s leaders or their relatives, raising concerns about self-dealing.

The Conservative Partnership Institute, a nonprofit whose funding skyrocketed after it became a nerve center for President Donald J. Trump’s allies in Washington, has paid at least $3.2 million since the start of 2021 to corporations led by its own leaders or their relatives, records show.

In its most recent tax filings, the nonprofit’s three highest-paid contractors were all connected to insiders.

One was led by the institute’s president, Edward Corrigan, and another by its chief operating officer. At a third contractor, the board members included the group’s senior legal fellow Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who supported Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Last year, the Conservative Partnership Institute hired a fourth company connected to an insider: a fund-raising firm run by Mr. Corrigan’s brother, Patrick Corrigan. Public filings show the company received a contract three weeks before the firm was legally formed.

The Conservative Partnership Institute applied to the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt nonprofit, and the agency approved. That means donations to the group are tax deductible, like gifts to a food bank or the American Red Cross. It also means that, by law, its money must serve the public good rather than private interests.

The nonprofit has pushed those limits by entwining itself with only one faction of American politics. It pays high salaries to some of Mr. Trump’s former officials, hosts retreats for Republican lawmakers at a rural compound and funds efforts to vet people and ideas for a second Trump term.

Legal experts say these insider transactions also raise concerns about self-dealing. While hiring insiders is permitted when certain safeguards are in place, the payments moved money out of daylight and into opaque entities that the nonprofit’s leaders helped control.

“There’s no checks and balances,” said Michael West, a lawyer at the New York Council of Nonprofits. Because there is no real third party to determine whether the insider-led companies were charging the nonprofit a fair price, Mr. West said, “the potential for overpayment here is epic.”

Mr. Corrigan, the institute’s president, did not respond to questions about what steps the group took to assure that it was not overpaying the insiders’ companies. The companies did not say what rates they charged.

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  On 5/6/2024 at 5:34 PM, bolverk said:

And the grift goes on. The grift goes on.

Right-Wing Nonprofit Paid Millions to Companies With Ties to Insiders
The Conservative Partnership Institute’s three highest-paid contractors had connections to the group’s leaders or their relatives, raising concerns about self-dealing.

The Conservative Partnership Institute, a nonprofit whose funding skyrocketed after it became a nerve center for President Donald J. Trump’s allies in Washington, has paid at least $3.2 million since the start of 2021 to corporations led by its own leaders or their relatives, records show.

In its most recent tax filings, the nonprofit’s three highest-paid contractors were all connected to insiders.

One was led by the institute’s president, Edward Corrigan, and another by its chief operating officer. At a third contractor, the board members included the group’s senior legal fellow Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who supported Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Last year, the Conservative Partnership Institute hired a fourth company connected to an insider: a fund-raising firm run by Mr. Corrigan’s brother, Patrick Corrigan. Public filings show the company received a contract three weeks before the firm was legally formed.

The Conservative Partnership Institute applied to the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt nonprofit, and the agency approved. That means donations to the group are tax deductible, like gifts to a food bank or the American Red Cross. It also means that, by law, its money must serve the public good rather than private interests.

The nonprofit has pushed those limits by entwining itself with only one faction of American politics. It pays high salaries to some of Mr. Trump’s former officials, hosts retreats for Republican lawmakers at a rural compound and funds efforts to vet people and ideas for a second Trump term.

Legal experts say these insider transactions also raise concerns about self-dealing. While hiring insiders is permitted when certain safeguards are in place, the payments moved money out of daylight and into opaque entities that the nonprofit’s leaders helped control.

“There’s no checks and balances,” said Michael West, a lawyer at the New York Council of Nonprofits. Because there is no real third party to determine whether the insider-led companies were charging the nonprofit a fair price, Mr. West said, “the potential for overpayment here is epic.”

Mr. Corrigan, the institute’s president, did not respond to questions about what steps the group took to assure that it was not overpaying the insiders’ companies. The companies did not say what rates they charged.

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  On 5/6/2024 at 9:56 PM, 4th&Five said:

I don’t think he even knows what he’s saying anymore. 

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I was going to say, is it just me, or are his lies becoming even more ridiculous. 

"Every legal scholar in the country says my trial is a sham!". 

Or maybe he's losing his shit and just isn't as good at this stuff anymore.

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Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry says KKK is the military wing of the Democratic Party: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/scott-perry-closed-door-comments/index.html

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GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic party” and that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” according to audio of Perry’s comments shared with CNN.

Perry, a right-wing Republican who has repeated elements of the anti-immigrant and antisemitic replacement theory before, said this during the House Oversight Committee’s member briefing entitled “the Origins and Implications of Rising Antisemitism in Higher Education.”

The briefing comes ahead of the Oversight panel’s hearing on Wednesday about the District of Columbia’s response to the pro-Palestinian protests and encampments occurring on college campuses, as House Republicans attempt to crack down on the demonstrations making waves across the country and attempt to unify around a firm position against antisemitism. That hearing was canceled Wednesday morning after the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment on George Washington University’s campus early Wednesday and arrested 30 protesters there and three others in a separate altercation, Metro Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said.

“The KKK in modern times, a lot of young people think somehow it’s a right-wing organization when it is the military wing of the Democratic Party. Decidedly, unabashedly, racist and antisemitic,” Perry said according to the recording.

The KKK is not affiliated in any way with the modern Democratic Party.

Perry then defended replacement theory, which is the idea that white people are being slowly and intentionally replaced by minorities and immigrants.

“Replacement theory is real” Perry said according to the recording shared with CNN. “They added white to it to stop everybody from talking about it.”

While Perry said he is happy to accept people “that are here legally,” pointing to his ancestors who migrated to the US, he has an issue with migrants that are “un-American.”

“What is happening now is we’re importing people into the country that want to be in America … but have no interest in being Americans, and that’s very different and to disparage the comments is to chill the conversation so that we can continue to bring in more people that we never met that are un-American,” Perry said, according to the recording.

Perry claimed his words were twisted when presented with his closed-door remarks.

“Once again, the radical Left twists facts in order to silence conversation about its own crimes and Biden’s intentional failures to enforce laws and close or regulate our borders. My point is proven yet again: when the Left loses an argument, it debases and smears instead of engaging in debate on merits,” Perry said in a statement provided to CNN.

Replacement theory is the idea that white people are being slowly and intentionally replaced by minorities and immigrants. The xenophobic and racist rhetoric associated with the theory has found its way into the mainstream of American politics and elements of it appear to have motivated some of the most heinous recent mass murders in the US and around the world. There are specific antisemitic elements of the unfounded theory as well, that Jews specifically are organizing a flood of non-white immigrants.

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  On 5/8/2024 at 5:44 PM, C-Man said:

“Once again, the radical Left twists facts in order to silence conversation about its own crimes and Biden’s intentional failures to enforce laws and close or regulate our borders. My point is proven yet again: when the Left loses an argument, it debases and smears instead of engaging in debate on merits,” Perry said in a statement provided to CNN.

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Every accusation.  Again.

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I just realized the scene from Seinfeld where George is explaining how he wasn't pushing everyone down and running out of the fire is the blueprint for how the dotard (and republicans in general) lie about everything.  Obviously and absurdly.  The difference is in the scene, everyone continues to not believe George and at the end, ask him how he can live with himself.  In real life, 70 million people believe the lie or just don't care.

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  On 5/8/2024 at 10:35 PM, Biff Tannen said:

I just realized the scene from Seinfeld where George is explaining how he wasn't pushing everyone down and running out of the fire is the blueprint for how the dotard (and republicans in general) lie about everything.  Obviously and absurdly.  The difference is in the scene, everyone continues to not believe George and at the end, ask him how he can live with himself.  In real life, 70 million people believe the lie or just don't care.

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Man, you're obsessed on some clown from the 70's man!  Oh wait, you're literally talking about a guy with orange facepaint who first became famous in the 1970's with fake hair and cartoonishly oversized clothes? 

Got it.  ISWYDT

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Apologies for sharing a Hanania tweet (he's a total piece of shit), but the content is incredible. Vivek's cuck face is built-in apparently. 

 

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  On 5/8/2024 at 5:44 PM, C-Man said:

Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry says KKK is the military wing of the Democratic Party: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/scott-perry-closed-door-comments/index.html

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  On 5/8/2024 at 7:49 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

Ah yes, the famously woke Ku Klux Klan.

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So Perry and MAGA in general should be cool if the KKK is canceled, right?

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I think it means something related to how India is experiencing so much demand for hydrocarbons because of their growth in population and cheaper energy requirements.  But I'm likely overthinking it and it's just another right-wing, racist dog-whistle.  

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  On 5/9/2024 at 5:05 PM, mchookem said:

what the actual fuck... isn't CBP doing exactly what those types want them to be doing?? i'm so confused 😳

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"There must be in-groups (wypipo) whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups (meskins) whom the law binds but does not protect."

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