“Only little people pay taxes”

for D’ump, when stiffing people like not paying/receiving one’s fair share, family comes first it seems

wapo:

Donald Trump was facing financial disaster in 1990 when he came up with an audacious plan to exert control of his father’s estate.
His creditors threatened to force him into personal bankruptcy, and his first wife, Ivana, wanted “a billion dollars” in a divorce settlement, Donald Trump said in a deposition. So he sent an accountant and a lawyer to see his father, Fred Trump Sr., who was told he needed to immediately sign a document changing his will per his son’s wishes, according to depositions from family members.
It was a fragile moment for the senior Trump, who was 85 years old and had built a real estate empire worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He would soon be diagnosed with cognitive problems, such as being unable to recall things he was told 30 minutes earlier or remember his birth date, according to his medical records, which were included in a related court case.
Now, those records and other sources of information about the episode obtained by The Washington Post reveal the extent of Fred Trump Sr.’s cognitive impairment and how Donald Trump’s effort to change his father’s will tore apart the Trump family, which continues to reverberate today.
The recent release of a tell-all book by the president’s niece Mary L. Trump and the disclosure of secret recordings of her conversations with her aunt reflect the ongoing resentment of some family members toward Donald Trump’s attempt to change his father’s will.
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Trump’s sister Maryanne Trump Barry was recorded by her niece in January 2019 expressing outrage over her brother’s efforts to change the will as their father’s mental capacity was declining. “Dad was in dementia,” Barry said.
Barry said that when she was asked by her father in 1990 to review the proposed changes, she consulted with her husband, John Barry, an attorney familiar with estate law who died in 2000. “I show it to John, and he says, ‘Holy s–t.’ It was basically taking the whole estate and giving it to Donald,” Barry said.
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tony, memories of this line from your post above still make me angry:

“The same press corps that had largely given Trump a pass on his taxes was simultaneously creating a new transparency standard and hounding Hillary Clinton about releasing transcripts to paid speeches she’s given.”

am afraid same thing is gonna happen to joe (about gaffes, hunter, anita hill or his age especially) giving D’ump a pass on worse stuff. 

BiD, “cheap whore” – yeah, but on a sunnier note, sometimes in the end one gets what one pays for, a bad case of crabs or syphillis for example.  in this case karma has a lot worse than STD for him.

bipartisanreport:

The returns indicate that Trump is either a terrible businessman or he’s committing tax fraud, and The Lincoln Project, a group of Republican political strategists and Never Trumpers, have been trolling him over it since the story went public.

wapo editorial board endorses joe:

In order to expel the worst president of modern times, many voters might be willing to vote for almost anybody.
Fortunately, to oust President Trump in 2020, voters do not have to lower their standards. The Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, is exceptionally well-qualified, by character and experience, to meet the daunting challenges that the nation will face over the coming four years.
[long endorsement continues]

while impatiently waiting for a good “i fell pretty” parody, we’ll have to do with the snarks, slings and arrows of social media to make fun of D’ump’s taxpayer subsidized $70,000 hair do

meawww:

After the report came out, former director of Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, tweeted: “Remember the reaction when John Edwards was caught paying $400 for a haircut? Trump paid $70,000 on hair care. How is that even possible? Does that thing sitting on his head eat Pangolins and colossal squid eggs?” Others also soon weighed in on this. “Im an electrician. I can’t deduct tools or fuel. Trump can deduct $70,000 for the world’s worst haircut,” one wrote, while another remarked, “Does @POTUS realize that the $70,000 for haircuts so he can preen in front of a mirror is just shy of the median family income last year at $75k? His hair bill could fund an average American family for a year.”
A fourth said, “Teachers have a maximum tax credit of $250 for buying classroom supplies. Supplies they’re forced to buy because schools are underfunded. Donald Trump wrote off $70,000 in haircuts. The tax code is rigged to help the wealthy pay as little as possible while we pick up the tab.” A fifth noted, “Please enlighten me as to which tax code would ever legally allow a $70,000 deduction for haircuts and styling… Sidenote: unless DJT asked for a hairstyle that resembles roadkill, that stylist might very well be a bigger crook than him…”
This was followed by an endless range of memes and gifs on Twitter. One said, “Pays $750 in Taxes, buys a $70,000 Haircut and the results shows…” Another said, “This twat paid $70,000 in haircuts? What a tool!” One more wrote, “Would not have picked this out of a lineup as the $70,000 haircut.” One posted a picture of Trump and wrote, “$70,000 in haircut expenses for this…”

new tactic in PA to insure your vote counts

foxnews:

A local lawmaker in western Pennsylvania wants voters in the key battleground state to know the “naked truth” about mail-in voting.
Bethany Hallam, an Allegheny County councilwoman, and other local elected officials stripped down to make sure Pennsylvania voters who cast their ballots by mail place them in the mandatory secrecy envelope. They stressed: Don’t send a “naked ballot,” which would invalidate a vote.

In a viral ad campaign, the female lawmakers are topless with graphics of mail-in ballots “tastefully draped across their chests.”

“Desperate times call for desperate measures!” Hallum tweeted. “So your favorite elected officials got naked so that you remember to make sure that your mail-in ballot is NOT submitted without its secrecy envelope!! #nonakedballots #dressyourballot”
The campaign came about after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled mail-in ballots had to be rejected if not enclosed in the proper envelope.

According to some estimates, more than 100,000 mail-in ballots cast in the Nov. 3 presidential election in the state could be tossed out because they were not sent in the proper envelope.

Fueled by concerns over the pandemic, more than 3 million voters in Pennsylvania are expected to cast ballots by mail in the Nov. 3 election. That’s more than 10 times as many mail voters than in the 2016 presidential election, when Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton by slightly more than 44,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

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today’s gold stars (shall we call them the “trailies”) go to

“the welfare queen who wanted to be king”

and

“loan spurs”

wonkette dredged this up for our entertainment.  be sure to catch the end where they reference charity

“And just for those keeping score, Trump paid $750 in taxes and $130,000 to a porn star, which means if the I.R.S. wants to get money from Trump, you guys know what you got to do.” 

Trevor Noah