AuH20

After following the topic, on and off, I have seen you missed one important word in your writing education; concise. Verbosity does not win the point.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

If I had any respect for you whatsoever and your tortuous twisted convoluted reasoning, knowing unquestionably you full of more bovine scat than the holding pens at a Chicago abattoir, I'd destroy every one of your distortions. Instead, I desperately need to shower, a condition that occurs everytime I engage with you.

Justice101

I wouldn't let the ignorance of an atheist get me upset padre. He's got all of the far-left talking points down pat, doesn't know that Israeli Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and can be elected to the Israeli Knesset.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/arab-minority-israel-and-knesset-elections

So, it is a lie when they say there is "apartheid" or Israeli "oppressors". Many Gazans were allowed to go into Israel to work and they are being oppressed by their own Hamas government who used foreign aid to build terrorist tunnels instead of improving the Gazans' lives. They steal the food from the mouths of their citizens.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0314/Hamas-gambled-with-our-lives-Gazans-are-now-daring-to-speak-out

The UN is partly to blame for sending in teachers (UNRWA ) to teach false history and Jew hatred. Eliminating the supreme leaders of Iran would be a blessing, and there wouldn't be any tears shed from Egypt and Jordan, as they have peace treaties with Israel.
https://civicrm.unwatch.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=3142&cid=41725&cs=f933ceb807062fbbb67c4adcf43df166_1699311593_504

F.D.R.

I respectfully disagree, Obama and his people are still running the show with Biden as the fall guy. This way history will blame Biden and Obama will have plausible deniability.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Of course you're absolutely right and I'm very serious about feeling dirty, violated, anytime I engage him. Thank you for the soothing balm.

Justice101

I'm happy to help anytime.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Why are they still lying cheating and stealing elections ?

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

If you didn’t make $400,000
You got no worries!
They after the lying thieves at the top .

federally indicted mattoid

Did you pee yourself again?

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Nope. I'm more self-controlled than you. Get your hand out of your pocket.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

You Lie,
Trump donated portions of presidential salary to agencies, contrary to viral claim
The claim: Trump's tax returns prove he never donated his salary
A Dec. 23, 2022, Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a profanity-laced tweet about former President Donald Trump's annual salary while in the White House.
"all you d------ screamed at me for four years that DoNaLd TrUmP dOnAtEs HiS SaLaRy, well guess f------ what: his tax returns prove he never did," reads the tweet.
The post generated over 10,000 likes in less than three weeks. Similar posts have amassed hundreds of interactions on Instagram.
Our rating: False
Tax experts told USA TODAY that Trump's tax returns show only the charitable contributions he reported – not whether he donated his own salary or where the contributions went. Multiple federal agencies told USA TODAY they received donations from part of Trump's salary.

Trump's returns show charitable contributions, not the source of money
The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump’s tax returns to the public on Dec. 30, 2022. The report includes more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife and over 3,000 pages of returns on Trump’s business entities, as USA TODAY reported.

On Dec. 15, 2022, the Joint Committee on Taxation also released a report detailing Trump's tax returns.
Trump reported nearly $2 million in charitable donations in 2017 and a little over $500,000 in charitable donations in both 2018 and 2019, according to his tax returns and the report. He didn't report any charitable contributions in 2020.

Fact check: False claim that Donald Trump can be reinstated by Moore v. Harper SCOTUS ruling

There is no way to know from Trump’s tax returns whether the money he donated included his salary, as the post claims.
The tax returns show only how much was donated and claimed in charitable contributions, Jeffrey Hoopes, research director at the UNC Tax Center, told USA TODAY in an email.
“Since money is fungible, it is unknowable whether he donated his salary, or whether he donated any more than he otherwise would have had he not got the salary, etc,” Hoopes said. “I would not support the claim that we could know that from his tax returns.”
Daniel Shaviro, a tax policy expert at New York University, agreed the returns don't indicate where the contributions went.
Shaviro also told USA TODAY the returns don't confirm he made those contributions.
"He claimed sufficiently large charitable deductions in 2017-2019 ... but whether those deductions were actually made is not verified by the returns themselves," Shaviro said.
The Joint Committee on Taxation states in its report that it has inquired into whether Trump's cash contributions are "supported by required substantiation."

Trump did donate his salary
The Trump administration announced the donation of portions of Trump's salary to federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Park Service, and the Small Business Administration, according to White House briefings.
These agencies confirmed to USA TODAY that Trump donated part of his annual presidential salary of $400,000.
Cynthia Hernandez, a spokesperson for the National Park Service, referred USA TODAY to a 2017 press release that states Trump donated over $78,000 from his salary to the agency to restore two projects at the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.
Christina Carr, a spokesperson for the Small Business Administration, confirmed that the agency received Trump's 2018 second-quarter salary detailed in the White House press briefing.
Trump donated $100,000 of his salary to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2017, Kamara Jones, the department's acting assistant secretary for public affairs, told USA TODAY in an email.
Jones also said Trump donated $100,000 of his salary to the department in 2018, $300,000 of his salary in 2019, and $100,000 of his salary in 2020.
Trump did not report any charitable contributions on his 2020 taxes. Hoopes said no one is legally required to report any donation on a tax return.
USA TODAY reached out to the social media user who shared the claim for comment.
AFP Fact Check also debunked the claim.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/02/fact-check-partly-false-claim-trump-tax-returns-salary-donation/11132712002/

Big Kahuna

Hamas started the war with Israel, Israel needs to finish the war by taking over all of Gaza. The slackers in Palestine who voted for Hamas to run their country can flee to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Egypt. Let their Muslim brothers put up with their bs.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

US election 2024: Where Biden and Trump stand on key issues
Economy
The economic policy of President Biden has its own name - Bidenomics - and involves building the economy, in his words, "from the bottom up". That means investing in infrastructure manufacturing, clean energy, and expanding job opportunities.
The economic data shows strong growth and job creation under his leadership.
But voters feel the pain of high inflation, especially food and petrol.

Mr. Trump has blamed his successor's big spending for inflation and vowed a return to an agenda of lower taxes, and fewer regulations.
He also says he will look to replace Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, a man he appointed but now accuses of being too "political".

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Immigration
President Biden's promise of a more humane approach to immigration saw him suspend or revoke several Trump-era border policies, lift the refugee admissions cap, and expand humanitarian parole.
But a massive surge in illegal immigration and the ensuing public backlash has prompted the Democrat to shift in favor of more restrictive measures, including a recent cross-party bill that would allow him to shut down the border.

Mr Trump rallied his congressional allies to kill that bill, claiming it did not go far enough.
He is promising, if re-elected, to revive first-term policies that will "seal the border" and carry out "the largest deportation operation" in US history. The Republican has also pledged to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented migrants and to wage war on Mexican drug cartels.

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Abortion
President Biden has painted his opponent as the "architect" of an assault on reproductive freedom after a Supreme Court with three Trump-appointed justices overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that granted US women the constitutional right to an abortion.
With several states moving to restrict abortion access, he is promising to restore the rights afforded by Roe as the law of the land if Democrats win back Congress.

Mr. Trump calls himself "proudly the person responsible" for ending Roe but at the same time has criticized extreme measures in states like Arizona and Alabama.
After a muddled few months, he finally set out his position as supporting states' rights to determine their laws.
But he declined to show support for a national law or how many weeks in his view should be the limit.

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Ukraine aid
President Biden has repeatedly urged Congress to continue funding Ukraine, warning that a win for Russia's Vladimir Putin will endanger Europe and embolden another major US adversary - China.

Mr Trump warned in February he would "encourage" Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to Nato countries if those allies did not meet their financial obligations to the bloc - though he has since softened his rhetoric.

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Israel/Gaza War
President Biden remains "rock solid" in his support for Israel, providing billions of dollars worth in weapons and urging more aid to the US ally, but has ramped up public criticisms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his handling of the war in Gaza.

Often boastful of his support for Israel, Mr. Trump now says the country must "finish what they started" against Hamas militants in Gaza but "get it over with fast" because it is "losing the PR war".

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Taxes
President Biden supports raising the corporate income tax rate to 28%, bringing it closer to the 35% rate that prevailed prior to Mr Trump's term.
He has also proposed cracking down on tax avoidance by large multinationals and Big Pharma and restoring or imposing higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. Expanding tax credits for low earners and families is also a commitment.

Mr Trump wants to extend legislation he signed in 2017 so that the law's soon-to-expire individual income tax cuts as well as estate and wealth tax cuts are prolonged, possibly making them permanent.
He will maintain the corporate income tax rate at 21% and proposes a universal 10% tariff on all US imports and a 60% tariff on imports from China.

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Healthcare
President Biden and Democrats have taken action to lower prescription drug costs for older people.
As the "Obamacare" health insurance program continues to grow in popularity, he has fought to protect and expand coverage, and lower costs, moves that have pushed enrolment to an all-time high.

Mr Trump has often vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with "something better", but failed to detail an alternative.
He and his Republican Party are routinely fending off Democratic claims that he will chip away at the Social Security and Medicare safety nets for American seniors.

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Crime
President Biden credits investment in public safety for the significant decline in violent crime after major spikes during the first two years of the pandemic.
Recent FBI data supports this downward trend but many Americans, like those surveyed by Gallup a few months ago, feel that crime is rising. New York recently deployed the National Guard to the city subway in response to a rise in violence.

Mr Trump has often highlighted violent incidents involving migrants or singled out public safety concerns in Democratic-led cities to paint a picture of surging, out-of-control crime levels under his rival. He has called for the death penalty to be used on drug dealers.

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Climate
President Biden invested a historic $300bn (£239bn) into clean energy and climate initiatives through his Inflation Reduction Act. He has also set ambitious new goals for cutting greenhouse gas and vehicle emissions and spurred a boon in the green energy economy.
However, some climate activists oppose actions he has taken to boost oil and gas production, including the Willow oil project in Alaska.

Mr Trump, by contrast, has vowed to "drill, baby, drill" and unleash domestic energy production, in part to bring prices at the pump down.
Domestic production is, however, higher under his successor.

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Gun laws
President Biden signed into law the most significant gun safety legislation in more than two decades, which includes enhanced background checks for gun buyers and other protections. His justice department has also banned the manufacture and sale of "ghost guns". He has repeatedly urged Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Mr. Trump weakened US gun laws in office but also took action to ban bump stocks, the accessories that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more quickly.
He told members of the National Rifle Association in February "No one will lay a finger on your firearms" if he returns to the White House.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68790777

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Amerika... while trump may or may not have actually contributed some of his salary of $400 grand per year to this or that.. you used his position to rob the taxpayers.. that would include me, maybe you.. of 10s of millions for the SS riding in his golf carts at his golf resorts and many more for staying at his hotels.. add that to the vast amount of the vile nations who paid him off by renting entire floors of his hotels.. and his biz racked in 100s of millions while his fat orange ass sprued farts in Americas oval.. and now you fools are working all you can to have him again escape paying for his crimes against the citizens of America..

May all of you rot in a cell near him and listen to his crying each and every night for decades.. or until death do he part..

straightUp Loc: California

No, Hamas did not start the war. Oct 7th was a breakout to grab hostages to leverage in their bid for freedom. Netanyahu is letting them know it won't work by bombing the sites where the hostages are suspected to be.

WE need to finish the war by invading Gaza, forcing Israel to withdraw and installing a provisional government as the first step in a two state solution.