Trump invents new tax

[TC Talks]

This is why you like Trump? He decided this week to demand a tax that breaks Federal Corruption Laws...

WASHINGTON — If he were still running casinos in rough-and-tumble Atlantic City, N.J., President Trump’s demand about Microsoft’s possible purchase of TikTok might be translated this way: I want a piece of the action.

In exchange for blessing Microsoft’s acquisition of the Chinese-owned social media platform, Mr. Trump has said the United States Treasury should receive a “very big proportion” of the sale price. If he follows through, it would signal an effort to carve out an entirely new role for the federal government in exerting its powers to approve or thwart business deals with national security considerations.

In essence, the president is promising to orchestrate the kind of pay-to-play bounty that the United States prohibits companies from making to governments of other countries under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

NY Times

[audiophile]

I don't think Trump should have said that, but we all know it's not going to happen.

[TC Talks]

He ain't no NeoCon

[TC Talks]

78 in 8 years? That's incredible. At least you have someone who tells you like it is..

It’s no longer a question as to whether President Trump will exceed 20,000 false or misleading claims by the time his current term is completed. Instead, we have to ask: Will he top 25,000?

As of May 29, his 1,226th day in office, Trump had made 19,127 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement he has uttered. That’s almost 16 claims a day over the course of his presidency. So far this year, he’s averaging just over 22 claims a day, similar to the pace he set in 2019.

With 235 days to go in his current term, that would leave him just short of 25,000. But we have also found that October is a dangerous month for the truth, especially if an election is nearing. In October 2018, the president tallied 1,205 claims and in October 2019, 1,159 claims. That’s a pace of 40 claims a day.

[Honeyman]

TCS:

Pull'er out buddy. The lack of oxygen to your brain has obviously caused a severe lack of understanding and knowledge.

You keep spewing the same ole DNC talking points;

If USA had a dollar for every time you post the same stupid menu, they could finance the entire Cobid relief fund.

[screen glare]

Trump bad. According to Donald Trump.

Nobody reveals Donald Trump consistently and more clearly than Donald Trump.

Dangerously Deranged. A lifetime of aberrant behavior. Zero ability to feel remorse, shame, guilt, empathy. A serial con artist and law breaker. A mesmerizing magnet for the weak-minded, and like-minded sadists. Inflicting is their release. Power is their tonic to thrive. Vanity is their art. Applause their high. And worship of self - their only god.

Such an individual might live and die without doing much harm to others if confined/constrained in some way. Mental institution. Prison. Unchartered island with no way off.

However - if enabled to exert reign over others - those unsuspecting souls will suffer in ways they never imagined.