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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:41pm On Apr 21
In America it's more apparent thanks to Bernie Sanders and Co.


The Biden immigration law was disastrous. Trump never wanted those changes . Enumerate them I dare you ,and tell me how they help America.
.Trump got the border fixed without any law passed.Buden was a way of legalizing a steasy stream of democrat voters. Once Biden got his voters in , now courts and non profits are fighting hard to prevent their deportation. Liberals do this look no further than Spain last few days.


DeepSight:
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Why act as though this is not American politics 101? Nonetheless Dems are the generally more rational side by far.

I am sure you recall when Trump specifically told Republicans not to vote for a bill that would have delivered the immigration changes even he and Republicans wanted - simply because Biden was in power and would get the credit. And they obeyed him.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:22pm On Apr 21
GracieX3:
The reporter is an award winning journalist. She defended herself well.

Kash Patel is in hot soup. The FBI was contacted for a response before the article came out. They were silent.
Ok.
The reporter is an award winning journalist. Which award ?
She works for far left Laureen Powell the billionaire widow of Steve Jobs

Jeffery Goldberg is the editor in chief of TheAtlantic.
He was in the Hegseth Signal chat group after lurking there for some time only for him to publish the hit pieces . In other words he saw an opportunity to have Hegseth fired and timed his release.

Jeffery Goldberg also published that Trump had called soldiers suckers and losers. Same editor her boss

TheAtlantic makes a claim then you have to prove it's false . They do this with insider help knowing a lot of sordid detailsay come out
For instance John Kelly after being fired said Trump disparaged service members.

This journalist , she interviewed 25 anonymous sources but gave Kash Patel two hours to refute. As if she took 2 hours to collect and compile her hit piece.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:07pm On Apr 21
cococandy:
Yes as a billionaire but you can take tax payer loans (that you get forgiven for btw), corporate handouts and subsidies based on the value of your assets and never have to pay it back because you haven’t “sold” yet. And keep doing that year after year after year.

Never sell so that you never have cash to pay back. Fix your books so that you declare a loss and never have tax obligations. Communism for the billionaires and none for the people who fund them.

Pls don’t engage me next time with steupid questions when you know that your mind is already made up and you’re looking to be a troll as usual. Save it for those who you go around butt sniffing each other with.
Oh so it's now billionaire who do that. How about millionaires like Bernie Sanders and Eliza Warren?
If I been using my land as collateral then I should be paying more. What else.
Incase it hasn't occured to you,that would discourage wealth creation by entrepreneurs.

Everyone takes advantage of tax laws everywhere not just in America.

You make a claim, post evidence derived from 2017 then expect me to agree with you.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:58pm On Apr 21
You should pay taxes on your income,that's my position not on future incomes. A loan is not an income.
The far left fringe of the democrats is the one advocating for socialism and equity demanding money to advance their social utopia.

The irony here is that if Obama had made the same common sense tax relief proposal as Trump , all democrats would have voted for them.

cococandy:
if you can’t be taxed on the profit from those shares because it’s not cash yet and therefore not technically money at hand, then you shouldn’t also be able to use them as collateral to purchase anything.

So let me guess. You’ve moved from asking why congress doesn’t change tax laws to defending the tax laws because I’ve shown you the Republicans are the culprits?

This is why I don’t waste time with you people. Disingenuous down to your red blood cells. EuGH 🥴
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:41pm On Apr 21
cococandy:
America is not an autocracy so technically everything gets a vote. Joe Biden wasn’t a king and the houses still had to vote on any changes.

Guess who votes against any amendments to fix tax issues or help the masses? If you guessed republicans , then you guessed right.

I know this is the point where you either have to admit you’re supporting the wrong guys or you let cognitive dissonance take you away from the point.
But at least I’ve tried to point you in the right direction. What you do with the information is up to you.

You can read more on the issue or just copy and paste right wing jargon. It’s up to you!
I've held on to some shares for over a decade which have risen in value .
I have not sold them , why should I be taxed.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:21pm On Apr 21
Do these things have to go to supreme Court.
A school. District should notify parents what books they are using and allow parents to opt out .
Liberals want to force lbgtq material on young innocent minds.

SUPREME COURT DELIVERS MAJOR WIN FOR PARENTS — 6-3 RULING ALLOWS OPT-OUT FROM LGBTQ BOOKS THAT CONFLICT WITH FAITH

The Supreme Court just sided with parents in the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, ruling 6-3 that schools must notify them and allow opt-outs when books conflict with their religious beliefs.

Justice Alito’s majority opinion granted a preliminary injunction: “They said these parents have earned at least a preliminary injunction so while this case plays out they said the board has to notify them about a book in question or anything similar so their kids can be excused.”

The Court rejected the idea that parents should just homeschool or go private: “Justice Alito and others saying that’s not practical for a lot of people.”

The liberal dissent from Justice Sotomayor (joined by Kagan and Jackson) claimed the ruling “threatens the essence of public education” and that it’s “not about bringing kids together to learn about a particular faith new ideas.”

Parents’ rights just got a massive boost. Government schools no longer get to force LGBTQ propaganda on kids without giving families a say. Huge victory for religious liberty and common sense.


Ketanji, Kagan and Sotomayor always dissent on matters democrats and liberals push for.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:02pm On Apr 21
cococandy:
The border would have been fixed under the Biden administration, but Trump told Republicans not to sign anything. Trump had nothing else to run on, he killed that bipartisan bill purposely so that he could use the issue to whip up sentiments among his gullible irrational supporters !
How would have been fixed when it's Joe Biden who opened it. What was he fixing here.

Fiscal Year
FY 2025. 691,906
FY 2024 2,901,142
FY 2023. 3,201,144
FY 2022 2,766,582
FY 2021 1,956,519
FY 2020 646,822
FY 2019 1,148,024
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:56pm On Apr 21
cococandy:
That’s why you shouldn’t speak much and so authoritatively on a system you clearly don’t understand
Comments aside , , don't billionaires use the law to avoid paying tax or lessrn their tax burden
Congress is the law making body.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 2:51pm On Apr 21
Turns out the Iranian ship was carrying chemical precursors for Iran ballistic missile program.


The ship the US seized in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend was headed from China to Iran and is linked to chemical shipments for missiles. It refused repeated orders to stop. Another reminder that China is helping prop up Iran’s regime — a reality that can’t be ignored.”

The Touska is part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), a state-owned company already under heavy U.S. sanctions for serving as the preferred shipping line for Iranian proliferators and agents tied to Tehran’s ballistic missile program
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:36pm On Apr 21
raumdeuter:
Another leak from the Supreme court.
Several high profile leaks at the SCOTUS in the last 4yrs. Recall how the last leak led to attack on homes of SCOTUS judges especially the conservative ones
The leaks from 2022 onwards are considered more severe than historical ones because they shifted from leaking final results to leaking the entire internal deliberation process

They started after the judge who can't define a woman joined. I'm not suggesting it's her. It seems liberal staffers want to provoke Democrats to pack the supreme court .
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:27pm On Apr 21
Democrats.
Eric Swalwel gone because of immoral behaviour.
His best friend the Arizona Senator has an accuser already , wio says he violated her.He might be going home also

The House Ethics Committee with a handy list of the 25 ethics violations in the case of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick D-FL. Who stole $5 million from FEMA.

She will be expelled tomorrow, the vote is scheduled. It's not everyday you wake up and Lise a $170,000 job thats accompanied by other humongous perks and benefits.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:46pm On Apr 21
Obrigardo:
It's late stage cognitive dissonance. There was a time he would have switched, but he said he will go with the tyrant sexual predator.
It's mental illness, honestly speaking.
Me . Switch. Never. You must be dreaming
I will never support the liberals.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
GracieX3:
The reporter for the Atlantic has done a news interview. She said that she followed all protocols and has Sources from officials in FBI and white house
Kash Patel will have to prove she lied. It's not her to prove her case. He will get discovery from the magazine that they have to provide lest they are charged with contempt.
She doesn't have to name her dozen or so sources under the guidance of journalists protecting their sources.
That's why I said the case can knock Patel out of office , plus also depending on the judge neutrality.
As for him being MIA , she has to provide the dates he didn't show up at work or had a meeting postponed. Kash said he has only been away on leave for 17 days only and that he has a detailed log of his whereabouts every day.
Every other time he is at field stations. Note he could also be pretending to working outside when he is too drunk to go to work.
The magazine gave him 2 hours to respond before publishing the story.
Interesting case, I have a feeling it's about airing his dirty linen and forcing him out.
On top of it , I believe there is some news about to drop. This usually happens a lot when some big people are about to mentioned . 7
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:01pm On Apr 21
DeepSight:
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I hope you know Israel has since accepted the figures put out by the Gaza Ministry of Health. Belatedly.
How many Hamas militants are dead. That's my question.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:59am On Apr 21
bayelsaowei:
I don’t plan to go to heaven.

Id like to stay on earth and live forever.

😀

But in a world free from the likes of Satan himself, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and other wicked minded blood thirsty humans.

😂😂😂
Go and sin no more 😄😄😄
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:47am On Apr 21
EnlightenedUFO:
We just getting started but you should not forget.
It will haunt him and his family for life.
Even a nuclear destruction can cover it up.
I'll answer you and bayelsaowei.
Why are congress and senators who have seen this same claim unredacted not impeaching him.
It's an open and shut case.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:46am On Apr 21
bayelsaowei:
Which sin? 😄😄

Why do you want me to commit grave sin.. 😂😂
So if Jesus comes back today, you are heaven bound?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:40am On Apr 21
GracieX3:
Yet another incompetent Trump appointee.

Reports have come out that Kash Patel drinks on the job and is paranoid that he would be fired.


Kash Patel is now suing the Atlantic that released the report.......but the Atlantic is defending the report.
It's up to the writer to prove her claims. Should be interesting to see how it goes in court, If it's DC an Obama or Biden judge will likely be assigned the docket.
Kash Patel might not survive the claim, and the judge assigned I suspect jailed a lot of J6 protesters.
These are just my opinions, I can add that the extent of corruption could have made Bongino go back to his muliti million dollar podcasts.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:38am On Apr 21
GracieX3:
But you support Trump who attacks men of the cloth (eg the pope)

But you don't respect Muslim men of the cloth?
I said I don't generally attack them unless I'm very sure.
As for Muslims I quote extensively what they say and what their books say.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:37am On Apr 21
DeepSight:
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That translates to a steady 600+ people per day for two years steady and you say that is not mass killing. Well done.

25 people per hour for two years steady is not mass killing. Well done.

You will account for these hideous thoughts and utterances.
You never answered how many Hamas militants are included in that Hamas provided body count. Include the dead women who made and receive calls via their cellphones long after being declared dead.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:30am On Apr 21
EnlightenedUFO:
I haven't heard back from you, do you want to know what an evil grifter pastor Franklin Graham is or you want to act like we never had this conversation?
Tell me more about him. I generally don't attack men of the cloth unless I'm very sure.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 11:26am On Apr 21
Namaster:
EU Leaders are so DISGUSTING.

She mentioned THREE countries which have NEVER threatened the Europe, apart from Russia, but IGNORED the ONE country whose Leader has THREATENED to annex Greenland.

The PDFile INSULTS Europe and their Leaders EVERY SINGLE DAY of the week.

The PDFile even said BOLDLY that the EU was formed to SCREW the US.

Yet this SPINELESS woman thinks China and Turkey are GREATER threats to Europe than America.

Europe is America's BEETCH.
And it's leaders are making sure it stays that way.

PATHETIC!

That's why they have FAILED to criticise the MULTIPLE violations of International Law by the PDFile and his Epstein Regime.
Does the EU have the capacity to defend Greenland against China and Russia?
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 10:13am On Apr 21
smileysmiley
They are blaming UAE .They spent money on tunnels and missiles instead of setting up desalination plants and irrigating their crops .

Vic2023:
⚡️⚠️🇦🇪🇮🇷 Well-informed sources report that in the first days of the war, Iran also destroyed a secret UAE center for artificial cloud seeding and climate control:

❗️Anomalous changes began that same night.

❗️The devastating drought in Iran, which threatened to move the capital from Tehran, has ended.

❗️The destroyed facility served not science, but war: it caused artificial drought and desertification to destroy the agriculture of Iran and Iraq.

❗️This is a real-world application of HAARP-type technologies, previously tested in Vietnam for precipitation control.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:07am On Apr 21
And your congress can't fix such laws that allow billionaire entities not pay their just tax?

cococandy:
I guess I’m jealous of CVS.

All the people who depend on them for healthcare that now have to pay 20% more for same quality or even less care and those who lost their job are also jealous if they speak about it.

BTW CVS is a monopoly. They bought Aetna insurance company and immediately raised employee premiums while reducing coverage. I guess those employees are jealous if they don’t like paying more money for less coverage.

Especially since they have no real way of fighting back against a huge company like CVS.

The conservative dymwits on this app think this is what jealousy is.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
A good article of how the Intelligence Community Inspector General bent the rules to refer Trump to Congress , resulting in his first impeachment.

https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/the-biggest-political-setup-in-modern-history-gabbard-just-put-it-on-paper/

Notably the author leaves out Mary McCord. IG Atkinson was Mary McCord's chief legal counsel at the DOJ -NSD when the submissions for a FISA warrant to spy on Trump were made and approved by Judge Boasberg using the junk Steele dossier.

Mary McCord as Dep Asst AG and head of DOJ -NSD ( National Security Division) together with Deputy AG Sally Yates went to the WH in Jan 2017 to demand Gen Flynn be fired because he had spoken to Russia Ambassador. They had already seen transcripts of his call .She had him fired over the Russia hoax.

Mary McCord left DOJ as Deputy Asst AG and head of DOJ -NSD to work for Adam Schiff House committee. Atkinson left DOJ to work as Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. When Atkinson sent the CIA whistleblower Ciaramela complainty to Adam Schiff , it was Mary McCord who received it.

Gets worse. In 2021 ,Judge Boasberg acting on a report by outgoing head of FISA court opened a probe into how the warrants are generally granted to prevent abuses. He appointed Mary McCord as amicus curiae of the probe.😄😄.

Gets even worse. When the sham J6 Committee was formed by Pelosi , Mary McCord was appointed as it's lead legal counsel😄😄

Mary McCord's husband is Sidney Sheldon. Sheldon was the special assistant /counsellor to SCOTUS Chief judge John Roberts. When the Lou Dobbs ruling was leaked ,he quietly resigned shortly after.
Sidney Sheldon was the spokesperson of the FISA/FISC Court from 2004 -2017.
When Mary McCord presented the surveillance warrant to Judge Boasberg in 2016 ,her husband definitely hand a hand in it.

The deep state runs deep.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:14am On Apr 21
EnlightenedUFO:
Everyone is running away from him
I predicted this would happen but didn't expect it to be so soon
The only friends he has now are the grifting pastors and Larry loomer

So sad.
Franklin Graham would be a grifting pastor?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:11am On Apr 21
bayelsaowei:
Trump can’t inspire me. God forbid. You want me to start extolling pdf-Philia and running all over the place to support one who has been involved in sexual offenses?

Trump only inspires brainless and stewpid people. He said that himself.

Trump inspires you not me.
I know you are a sinner and I wonder why you don't understand what I mean. When you are sinning it's not the good Lord who makes you sin.. It's Satan . In your hierarchy of evil Trump sits one level below the devil. I'm wondering if it's Trump or Satan who makes you sin.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:07am On Apr 21
GracieX3:
To avoid paying income tax
It's not a republican thing if we can agree. They use the tax laws to pay as little tax as possible. Both parties have held trifecta majorities in the houses and executive and they never made a law.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:08am On Apr 21
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/kash-patel-defamation-lawsuit-the-atlantic-00880802

Kash Patel sues TheAtlantic for $250 million.
The author said she stands by her article ,should be an interesting case should a biased Biden or Obama judge preside over it.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:54am On Apr 21
bayelsaowei:
Trump can’t inspire me. God forbid. You want me to start extolling pdf-Philia and running all over the place to support one who has been involved in sexual offenses?

Trump only inspires brainless and stewpid people. He said that himself.

Trump inspires you not me.
His evil inspires you when you want to commit sins😄😄
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:42am On Apr 21
I believe Trump is your inspiration If you ever need to commit sin, his evilness inspires and encourages you .

bayelsaowei:
Trump?

That mü—/mú vile man. Himself and the Ayotella are going to the same place.

I would keep condemning Trump because he deserves nothing else but condemnation for his vileness and insanity.

Shey he is your god?
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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:18am On Apr 21
bayelsaowei:
The clown and scammer called Trump.
I suggest you have a meeting with yourself.
You hate Trump, I don't know whether he ate your goat.

Because you hate Trump , you want the Ayatollahs to win. Ayatollahs who slaughtered over 30,000 of their own people over protests

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